Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 220 "You kid...have grown taller."

Historia smiled slightly, and the huge golden pendulum slowly rose to the sky from behind her, swinging violently from side to side, like Big Ben at noon, spreading out the ringing sound that resounded throughout the world.

As the pendulum swayed, circles of ripple-like mercury light spread across the entire volcanic valley, covering all stationary things, including the Anson deer.

His face was cold, his body could not move, but his mind was thinking non-stop.

……pendulum.

...Historia is the name of the principal's time traveling chess piece.

Her abilities are related to the pendulum.

I must write it down, maybe I will draw related chess pieces in the future.

Ansenlu had previously judged through super intuition that the time traveling chess piece was the principal's "infinite advanced chess type".

Now that he has selected the Queen's Stone Statue as the "Infinite Advanced Chess Type", he is naturally not sure whether he will be able to obtain the ability to travel through time like the principal.

No matter what, Anson Deer did not intend to leave a way out for himself.

For him, this timeline is the only chance left for him.

If you lose, the world will be destroyed.

Winning brings new hope.

While Ansonlu was thinking, his body was gradually engulfed by the mercury light scattered by the pendulum, as if he was immersed in a deep silver ocean, and his mouth and nose were blocked by the solidified liquid.

[The chess type "Anson Deer" has released the skill - Time Backtracking. 】

So annoying...

So what is this chess piece used for...

Anson Deer quickly lost his breath, his eyes went dark, and his consciousness fell into drowsiness.

After an unknown amount of time, he raised his heavy eyelids.

What came into view was a rooftop. Ansonlu held his swollen forehead, and a pain that seemed to be about to tear filled his mind, forcing him to cheer up.

He stared blankly ahead, unable to take his eyes away.

There is no doubt that he is very familiar with this rooftop. This is the high school teaching building of Shangshi High School. When the union stronghold was still in Shangshi, he often chatted with Crow and the others here.

It was dusk, the sky was a mixture of light yellow and ultramarine, and a thick gray fog floated in the town, blocking most of the things in Ansonlu's field of vision, allowing him to only see clearly the interior of Shangshi High School.

The school seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, with lizard-like moss crawling everywhere. The steel school sign at the entrance was covered with a thick layer of black rust, and the rust spread ferociously, even on the walls around the school sign.

Infected by it, it was an exaggeration as if it was submerged in the soil. At this time, the four large characters "Shangshi High School" on the plaque, which were framed with special materials, were completely blurred. They were either blurry and almost transparent, or covered with rust.

.

"...What is going on?" Ansonlu murmured in a low voice.

This scene didn't feel like an illusion or a scene woven by the system. Every detail impacted his senses, constantly reminding him that this was real and definitely not false.

Every time Ansenlu comes back from the dungeon, he will confirm the situation in Shangshi City immediately. He is very sure that the school cannot become like this overnight.

Intuition and thinking complement each other, allowing him to quickly come to the conclusion that this place...may be the distant future.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind, interrupting Ansonlu's thoughts.

He turned back sharply and stared intently at the principal and the girl next to the principal - Historia. Both of them looked very calm, and the girl moved her mouth with a playful smile on her face.

The corner of Ansonlu's mouth twitched slightly, and he remained silent for a long time before asking:

"Old principal, what are you doing here?"

"Dead." The principal said calmly. He touched the pocket of his suit jacket as if he wanted to get a cigarette, but the pocket was empty, with no cigarette or lighter.

Sistoria took out a cigarette from somewhere and handed it to the principal with a smile: "The last cigarette in your life, enjoy it..." After a pause, she said quietly: "Oh no, strictly speaking

, we are no longer human.”

Dead?

No longer a human?

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?" Ansonlu said incoherently, "You are standing in front of me, you are standing in front of me, you told me that you are dead, the smelly old man is used to pretending to be mysterious, right?"

Now that the principal is dead, who is standing in front of him? Why does he have the ability to drag him into the future? This is too bizarre, and the development of things is far beyond his imagination.

"The me you see now is just an individual constructed by the system based on my previous 'thought and behavior patterns'."

The principal took the girl's cigarette, put it in his mouth, and then explained: "She is the same, just treat us as machines."

"...Then what are you going to do?" Ansonlu lowered his head.

"We have two minutes left. In these two minutes, you can ask us anything you want to know." The principal said slowly.

At this moment, the dragon's roar that could shatter the eardrums resounded through the sky, and the earth trembled violently. The king standing at the top of the biological chain slowly lifted the thick fog, revealing its majestic body like the Tower of Babel.

Its wings were like a vast curtain, covering almost half of the town's sky. The entire Shangshi High School was covered in deep shadows, and not a single ray of light could penetrate the dragon's wings.

It blocked all the light, and just a slight vibration of its wings was enough to set off a burst of crackling sound in the air, shaking out all the clouds and mist that were hanging inside the town. Even the sky trembled, and the space was shattered. Shangshi City seemed to have become

In the air battle between the two great powers, countless missiles exploded in the air, and strong winds roared across the ground.

It is getting closer and closer to Shangshi City. The face with its back to the sun is shrouded in gloomy shadows, and the huge erect pupils are shining in the darkness. Its expression is as ferocious as the devil king on the eighteenth floor of hell, and as arrogant as

The king who rules the world is like Pangu who created the world in Chinese mythology, Zeus, the supreme god who rules all things in the world in Greek mythology, and Odin who created the earth and mankind in Nordic mythology.

The entire city was collapsing. With the snow dragon's body as the center, tens of millions of violent steam poured out one after another. The airflow from the wings pushed the steam to sweep in all directions.

In front of such behemoths, all things lose their proper color, and all living creatures must meet the King of the World with the most humble and sincere attitude.

Only the Anson deer was too lazy to look back.

He knew what was behind him... it was the snow dragon that would come to Tokyo, Japan in June 2026. It was a monster that would destroy the principal's world into a mess.

For decades, it trampled on human civilization day after day, leaving no grass growing wherever it went. Now Shangshi City in China will become its playground.

"Chess player, I haven't seen it for a long time." Sistoria smiled, "Our old friend."

"Yes... it has become bigger, even bigger than before." The principal raised his head, his deep eyes reflected the snow dragon that was higher than the sky, and used a lighter to light the cigarette in his mouth.

As the snow dragon landed on the ground, a loud noise like a nuclear explosion was heard, the air suddenly cooled down, and the loud noises of buildings collapsing continued one after another, followed by the thunderous roar of the dragon.

An Senlu's ears were shaken to the point of almost losing consciousness, but he still did not look back. He just raised his brown eyes and stared angrily at the principal's face, unable to say a word.

He clearly knew in his heart that the person in front of him was not the principal, but just a data body generated by the system based on the principal's information, but his mood was still very complicated.

"Don't worry, we know no less than our own bodies. The similarity between me and the 'principal' is at least 99%. Both our memories and personalities are highly overlapping." The principal said unhurriedly.

Said, "The remaining one percent is beyond the reach of the system."

"Isn't your skill about going back in time? Why did you drag me into the future?" Ansenlu asked in a low voice.

"Some permissions and loopholes were exploited. There is no need to ask about these. It would take too long to explain and time is limited."

"I still have many things to ask you."

"I know."

"Why did you do what you did to Yuri?"

"I was doing an experiment at the time, trying to see if I could artificially create a 'sequential player'."

"...You are such a bastard."

"At least I succeeded. Yuri and Asuka Uesugi are both serial players created by me, and they should have died early in the first round of dungeons as ordinary people."

"Tell me, how can you save Yuri?"

"I don't know, maybe I'll have a chance after defeating that snow dragon."

"...don't you feel disgusted?"

"From a spectator's point of view, the chess player did nothing wrong. It's just that with your subjective emotions, it's difficult to objectively and rationally judge what he has done." Sistoria explained with a smile on his face as the acting principal.

The principal took a deep breath of his cigarette and said nothing, his suit jacket slowly swaying in the wind.

"Then tell me, what about the other two Icelandic girls who died? They were just guinea pigs you used for your experiments?"

"To be precise, there are three. The other one has no father or mother. She is in the orphanage and no one knows that she is dead."

"So, you should explain it." Ansonlu's voice was hoarse and weak.

"I originally came to London in 1888 to experiment with my ability to travel back and forth. As you know, I did some wrong things. I shouldn't have killed Jack the Ripper in advance." The principal said, "No matter what, since I committed it

Wrong, then I need to make up for it. The deaths of those three girls were the sacrifices I made to prevent the 'Law of Space and Time' from getting out of control."

"Ha... I know that in a sense, you are really a bastard. Do you think you haven't killed enough people? Cousin, Crow, those sequence players, they all..."

The principal interrupted him: "That's enough. Is there anything else you want to ask? There's no point in just venting your emotions. There's not much time left." At this point, the principal glanced at his watch. There were more than thirty seconds left. They had to

Get out of here.

"In the past three months, you were acting with me?" Ansonlu's eyes were obscured by strands of dark hair.

"That's right..." the principal said angrily, "You still have to wear contact lenses, grow a beard, and do some facial adjustments in the hospital. Otherwise, with your powers of observation, I might be exposed right away."

The time is approaching zero, and the world around the three people is falling apart. The roar of the snow dragon is so majestic, like an indelible epic song. Every time it lifts the city, every time it crashes into the building, it seems to tear apart the human race.

’s last glimmer of hope.

Historia disagreed and hummed softly, "London bridge is falling down...falling down...falling down, My dy."

The sweet and light singing voice and the cruel and ferocious dragon roar mixed together, making Anson Deer unable to tell which was reality and which was illusion, or whether both were real.

This world... is simply too contradictory.

"After so many years, you still like the song "London Bridge Falls" so much." The principal sighed and turned to look at her.

"After all, the first time I met a chess player was at that copy in London." Historia put his hands behind his back and smiled slightly, "I heard this song there."

"If I had known you were so annoying, I wouldn't have taught you how to sing."

"Chess player, I'm not so stupid that I can't learn a song."

With the last six seconds left, Ansenlu's face became more and more complicated, and his hands were shaking slightly. He didn't know whether it was because of himself or under the influence of the snow dragon, because the whole city was shaking really hard.

"Answer me..." He looked at the principal and said almost word for word: "I mean, the bullshit you tell me every day to play chess with me... are all lies?"

The principal was silent for half a second, then slowly raised his head, staring at Anson Deer with his deep eyes.

He took off the cigarette from his mouth, and there was a flickering light in the depths of his cloudy eyes. He seemed to have a lot to say, but time did not allow it, so in the end... he just left a faint sentence.

"You kid...have grown taller."

At this moment, the snow dragon waved its tail, and the violent wind passed by, completely submerging the figures of Anson Deer, the principal, and Historia into the cruel deep ocean of snow.

When Ansenlu opened his eyes again, he saw Noboribetsu Hell Valley in Hokkaido.

The principal has disappeared, and the Crimson Tide level chess game "Lorenzo" controlled by the computer AI Hu Qiu is still murderous and staring at him.

[According to the skill "Back Time" of the chess type "Anson Deer" - the scene returns to three rounds ago, and you gain the right to draw two chess pieces. 】

The system beep fell, Lorenzo disappeared, and in his place, the Ghost General and Killer Donald Duck who appeared in the first round appeared again.

There was no chess piece left in Hu Qiu's hand.

The same is true for Anson Deer, because he has returned to the initial round, so of course he does not have any pieces in his hand.

However, under the influence of the principal's "Time Backtracking" skill, An Senlu was able to draw two more chess pieces compared to Hu Qiu, and these two chess pieces determined the victory.

"According to the effect of 'time retrieval', extract two chess pieces from the chess library." Ansonlu said in a deep voice.

As he finished speaking, two chess shadows appeared around his shoulders, and the shadows glowed with crimson light.

Ansenlu didn't even look at it, and directly ordered:

"Place two red tide level chess pieces, Asuka Uesugi and Yuri."

The next moment, when the Ghost General and the violent Donald Duck were fighting, a meteorite made of ice suddenly appeared in the sky, and it violently crashed down, crushing their bodies.

Bang——

At the same time, the red dragon descended from the sky and flew in front of Hu Qiu with its majestic wings. It swung down its flaming claws and easily crushed Hu Qiu's head, exploding a ferocious mist of blood.

[Congratulations, you defeated the computer AI "Hu Qiu" in the chess game. You have passed the third-level trial of the old chess players and are about to return to reality. 】

The heavy rain in Noboribetsu Hell Valley slapped the boy's cheek. Anson Deer slowly raised his head and looked at the gray sky with a gloomy face, the principal's last words still echoing in his mind.

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