Global Games: Old Chess Players

It’s noon on this day, December 21st.

Ansen Lu accompanied the principal to eat baked rice cakes outside the school, and also inquired about the situation in Shangshi City.

On the streets where people usually come and go, there are now many fewer visible figures. Although the citizens now know the person "Anson Deer", not many people know what he looks like. After all, the system only reports his name.

With his excellent hearing as a top player, Ansonlu recorded the tiny chatter on the street one by one.

"Have you heard that Chicago, Los Angeles in the United States, and Rochester in the United Kingdom have all been declared occupied in the past two days and were completely destroyed by those monsters..."

"Stop talking, if it weren't for our good luck, Shangshi City would have fallen by now."

"Is that Japanese girl a dragon or a person?"

"I don't know, at least that Japanese girl saved our Shangshi City, otherwise we would all die now."

"Speaking of which, what profession did Lao Li's son choose? I heard that 'archers' are the most popular nowadays and they can protect themselves. Although I don't understand this, but..."

"Just shut up, his son has..."

Ansenlu's mood was a bit complicated. Shangshi City was not like this in the past. People were panicked. Everyone looked pale and haggard, as if they would collapse in the next second.

The cemetery is crowded with people, but each tombstone is just an empty shell recording the name. The land under the tombstone does not contain the soul of the deceased.

Some people don’t even know where their family members, relatives, lovers, and friends are buried. Whether they died under Big Ben in London, in Mount Fuji in Japan, or drowned in the deep sea of ​​Siberia, or even He froze to death on an Antarctic glacier...

In the rice cake shop, under the warm light, Ansonlu and the principal were sitting opposite each other.

The waiter brought out a plate of hot rice cakes, fried chicken, and sauces. It was a delicious junk food that Anson Lu was familiar with.

Ansonlu put on his gloves and joked: "Haha, it would be great if the fried chicken restaurant could pay with evolution coins, so you wouldn't be asked to pay."

"The shop owner is not a player, so what's the point of asking for evolution coins..." The principal took a sip, "You find a shop opened by a player and give him 5 evolution coins. He is not allowed to book the place directly for you to enjoy your meal."

"Come on, which player still has the heart to open a store after returning from the dungeon."

"That's not necessarily the case."

"Speaking of which, old principal, why didn't anyone from the government come to see me?" Ansonlu dipped the roasted rice cake in the sauce and said, "Logically speaking, they should have come to me as soon as I came back."

"You don't have to worry about these things. Just study outside school, and enter the dungeon when you need to." The principal held a cigarette in his mouth.

"Don't worry about it?" Ansenlu took a bite of the rice cake and said in surprise: "Let me go, principal, are you so awesome? You can hide it so much that even the government can stop you?"

"Just listen to what I say." The principal looked at Ansonlu with his deep eyes, "Also, remember to trust your intuition, it can help you go further."

"intuition?"

The principal dusted off the cigarette ashes and said calmly: "Yes, if you encounter special occasions in the future, you have to believe and stick to your own judgment."

"Isn't that too arrogant?"

"This is your unique talent. Just like in a chess game, you can always make the right choice."

"Okay, old principal, just say so."

Anson Deer shrugged and continued to eat the rice cake.

Although he remained calm on the surface, in fact, there was a commotion in his heart.

He didn't expect that the principal would have such power. Logically speaking, now that there are no hot weapons, special-sequence players are the strongest combat power in the hands of the country. There is no way the upper management can just leave Anson Lu alone.

Seeing Ansenlu's perfunctory response, the principal just smiled and said nothing more. After eating the rice cake, the two separated, and Ansenlu went straight back to the small apartment he rented near the school.

Anson Lu opened the apartment with the key, took a shower and then returned to the room, looking out the window with his peripheral vision.

There were geese flying over in the ashes of the sunset, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the surrounding streets and alleys warm and cozy. The children were still chasing and playing, and their laughter was particularly sweet at dusk, as if they didn't know that the end of the world was coming soon.

He closed the curtains, lay on the bed, and turned on his phone.

Both my uncle and aunt were on business trips to other provinces. They were probably stranded in other cities right now, so they could only send messages to inquire about the safety of Anson Deer.

Ansonlu scanned their messages, replied to them one by one, and then turned off his phone.

It's strange to say that even though humans are locked up by invisible walls and cannot leave the city, all communication signals can still be transmitted out and in, so the use of the network is not affected.

Turning on the TV, a piece of news was playing on the TV - [Los Angeles, USA, has been declared occupied. The US government has summoned special-sequence players from all over the world, using evolution coins as bounties, and imploring them to use "travel coupons" to go to Los Angeles to eliminate monsters.]

Ansen Lu just heard the principal say on the road - outside of the dungeon time, you will not get experience points and evolution coins by killing monsters.

Therefore, these fallen cities are miserable. Basically no players will fly there with travel coupons and help fight monsters unconditionally. However, since the US government offers evolution coins as a bounty, there is a high probability that some players will appreciate it.

"I just had a vacation. You can't let me fly over to save the world again..."

Ansonlu turned off the TV, put his hands behind his head, and whispered the instructions.

"Evolution Coin Store."

In an instant, a dark blue panel popped up, with nearly 40 kinds of products on the first page.

He took a quick glance and saw that the items sold in the mall included:

——Weapons used by the five major professions, additional skill cards that can be learned by the five major professions, one-time skill cards that are not limited to professions, health recovery props similar to "Nano Quick-acting Healing Spray", etc...

Of course, the categories of these products are messy because they have not been filtered.

Ansenlu was not interested in any of this. He entered the filtering condition [former chess player] in the filtering interface, and the mall started filtering, and finally only one page of search results was displayed.

On this page, there are only three products, namely - [Low-level extraordinary chess package], [Extract low-level chess board], [A random chess type creation scroll].

“What is a roll build?”

The first two were easy to understand, but Anson Deer pointed directly to the introduction of the last product.

[Product name: A piece of chess type creation volume]

[Product price: 1000 evolution coins]

[Product introduction: After purchasing, you will randomly get a creation scroll, which will record the creation method of a specific chess type. By gathering the materials to create the scroll, you can create the entity of that chess type. 】

[Product Note: There is no upper limit or lower limit on the quality of the drawn creation rolls.]

"Oh." Ansonlu closed the introduction, "In other words, this is also drawing chess pieces, but after drawing them, you have to collect the materials to build them yourself, but where did I get so many materials, it's almost done."