Chapter 200: Unlimited Advancement Qualifications, Countdown to Decision
March 3rd, at dusk, inside a small town in the Kingdom of Baifoya.
"I have to say..." Jiang Yiji looked around and sighed, "This scene is really spectacular."
As the sun sets, the earth turns yellow, and countless stone statues stand lonely and sad in the cold November wind.
Mo Xiaoyuan and Tong Muli were stunned. They arrived on the island before these people turned into stone statues. If Jiang Yijie had not acted quickly enough, they might have also been caught up in this "petrification disaster".
"Speaking of which, where is Senior Anson Lu?" Tong Muli asked in surprise, her eyes wide open.
"Who knows? But it's impossible for that guy to slack off in his own sequence copy." Mo Xiaoyuan yawned and said casually.
Jiang Yijie observed the nearby stone statue and answered casually, "He said he was going to find someone."
"Huh? Looking for someone?" they both said in unison.
Jiang Yijie put on his gray gloves and said thoughtfully, "Mr. Anson Lu has an intuition, an intuition that goes beyond logic, so just let him go."
"But this sounds too outrageous." Mo Xiaoyuan said in a low voice.
"He is the best in the world!" said Tong Muli.
Jiang Yijie stroked the arm and shoulder of a stone statue with his gloved right hand. He sighed and said slowly, "Don't worry about him for now. We still need to continue investigating and fill out the information form later."
"Filling out forms...I feel a bit like going to school. I'm starting to feel sleepy." Mo Xiaoyuan said unhappily.
"I heard that your grades have always been very good?" Tong Muli asked curiously.
Mo Xiaoyuan put on his gun bag and said expressionlessly, "Imagine the book as a gun, and you will remember everything. The rest is just to apply the formula and deduce it casually."
"Oh, what a weird ability this is. No wonder the system judged you as the 'world's best gun talent'." Tong Muli shrugged.
"What kind of gun talent? If you can't remember it, don't talk nonsense." Mo Xiaoyuan said indifferently, "My sequence characteristics are obviously much more advanced than this."
"It's just too advanced that I can't remember it."
"Let's not talk about whether my academic performance is good or not, your grades must be bad, right?"
"Hey, I've been discovered." Tong Muli tilted her head nonchalantly, raised the corner of her mouth, and said teasingly: "By the way, Xiao Yuan, you won't have to marry a gun in the future, right?"
"It's better to marry a gun than to stay with an idiot like you." Mo Xiaoyuan smacked his lips.
Tong Muli hummed happily: "I'm so sorry, my sister has already made an appointment to marry Senior Anson Lu, you little brat should just forget it."
"He has a girlfriend." Jiang Yiji said dimly.
Tong Muli's playful smile froze in mid-air; Mo Xiaoyuan turned his cheek away and whistled.
After a while, Tong Muli came back to her senses and asked hurriedly, "What? Captain, you actually said Xiao Yuan already has a girlfriend, how is that possible?!"
Mo Xiaoyuan put his arms behind his head and said sarcastically with an expressionless face:
"Ah, so the blow to you is so great? Are you already losing your mind? Also, why would I need a woman? Guns and games are enough for me."
"Don't talk!" Tong Muli bit her lip unwillingly and ruffled Xiao Yuan's hair fiercely: "After all, after all, Senior Ansen Lu is the world's number one, it's normal for him to be popular."
"He may have changed girlfriends several times."
"Then maybe it will be my turn next!"
"Oh, then you can continue to dream."
"Anyway, even if it's not my turn, it's not your turn either."
"I'm not gay, get lost."
The three of them strolled around the Baifoya Kingdom. Jiang Yiji investigated along the way, while the other two chatted in the back, occasionally taking some time to observe the stone statues in the streets and alleys. Time flew by.
"You two should calm down for a moment. We have basically done all the necessary investigations." Jiang Yijie took off his gloves, put them in his coat pocket, turned his head and looked at the two of them: "Let's go. Anson Lu should be getting better soon."
Not long after, the system prompt sounded in their ears.
[The investigation project for the "Blue Flame Stone Statue Island" has been completed. Please return to the hot air balloon airship within 12 hours. The investigation phase will begin only after all players return to the airship. ]
At the other end of the island, on the edge of a cliff.
Anson Lu stared at Natasha in a daze. The stone layers on the statue had completely collapsed. The dark gold skirt fluttered in the autumn wind. The delicate and flawless face and body seemed like a dream.
"I'm leaving," she said.
"What do you mean?" Anson asked.
Natasha lowered her cold eyes and turned to look at the slowly swaying silvergrass. "I remembered something... the time I spent with you, which was a long time in the future."
Anson Deer scratched his cheek and said with a headache: "Actually, I don't quite understand."
To him, this was really just a chess-type task, but the investigation task required not only observing the stone statues on the island, but also finding the queen's statue, otherwise it could not be completed.
Following his intuition, he made his way through the barren land and came to the forest, where he found the stone statue of the queen right on the edge of the cliff.
Anson Deer tilted his head and sighed softly: "By the way, I still haven't figured out what's going on, but you must be the statue of the queen, I'm sure of that."
"Maybe," Natasha whispered.
"What's next? You want to come with me?"
"I hope so."
"Will we meet again?"
"It would be nice if we did." Natasha said softly, "Although it seems like we have never met before, thank you... for giving me that time."
In just a few seconds, many new memories appeared in her mind:
In Anson Lu's room, she flipped through the book under his pillow; on the passenger ship named "Titanic", he invited her to have afternoon tea together; when Anson Lu tossed and turned in sleep, he called out the name "Queen Statue" and asked her to chat with him. She saw his childish side and saw him complaining while holding his pillow.
Anson Deer looked at Natasha who was gradually disappearing, opened his mouth, and said:
"I still don't quite understand, but bye."
"goodbye."
[The investigation project for the "Blue Flame Stone Statue Island" has been completed. Please return to the hot air balloon airship within 12 hours. The settlement process will begin only after everyone returns to the airship. ]
[The "King Stone Statue", "Knight Stone Statue", "Pawn Stone Statue", "Bishop Stone Statue" and "Cannon Cart Stone Statue" in the "Blue Flame Stone Statue Chess Set" have been destroyed, and this chess set will be permanently removed from the stage of history. ]
"Huh?" Anson Lu was stunned for a while after hearing the prompt sound in his ear.
When he came to his senses, Natasha had turned into a phantom and disappeared.
Anson Lu looked at this scene, but he was not very worried. After all, the system destroyed the other five chess pieces of the "Blue Flame Stone Statue Chess Set" and did not mention the "Queen's Stone Statue".
"Please... other chess groups have completed their tasks and directly completed a set of chess types, but how come everything is destroyed here?" He murmured in disbelief.
Seeing Natasha, the queen's stone statue, suddenly disappear, Anson Lu tried to call her in his heart: "Set up the queen's stone statue in front of me."
The order was given, but there was no response from the chess library.
"Queen statue, come to me."
"Natasha, come out."
Anson Lu tried over and over again, but there was still no response. He brushed his index finger across his lips, opened his eyes slightly, and a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes.
It wasn't until he opened the chess library panel and saw the name of the queen's statue that he felt at ease.
"Anyway, at least I can't call her that on this island," said Anson Deer.
He didn't think much about it and simply rode the Christmas sleigh into the sky, looking down at the yellow earth.
The whistling autumn wind blew across Anson Deer's cheeks, lifting his messy black hair high.
Looking from above, all the stone statues on the entire island have disappeared, as if they had never existed.
However, he did find three members of the Chinese national team - they were on their way back to the hot air balloon. Jiang Yiji seemed to have noticed Anson Deer in the sky, raised his head and looked back at him.
Anson Lu opened his friend list and sent a message.
Jiang Yiji waved his hand, indicating "Just go ahead."
After that, relying on the sled's strong maneuverability, Anson Deer was the first to return to the edge of the island. He quickly got off the sled, climbed up the gangway to the airship, and went straight to the top-floor cockpit.
[The second investigation task - "Investigation of the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island" has not been completed yet. You still need to fill in the required information on the data sheet. The system will score you based on the accuracy of the information.]
Anson Lu picked up the pen, opened the information form, and filled in all the necessary information. However, the questions on the form were very detailed and he could not answer every one of them.
The ability of super intuition is very powerful, but at most it can allow him to connect some thoughts or nouns that already exist in his mind. It cannot allow him to create something out of nothing and deduce the true answer based on intuition alone when there is insufficient information.
Therefore, this work still has to be done by Jiang Yiji.
Jiang Yiji came back very quickly and he was the first to come to the cab. The other two did not follow him.
Anson Lu sat on the sofa and handed the information sheet to Jiang Yiji: "There are still some questions missing. See if you can do it. If not, it's time to hand it in. I don't need that little reward."
"Okay, I'll take a look."
Jiang Yiji smiled, reached out to take the information form, picked up the pen on the table, crossed his legs and sat next to Anson Lu.
Anson Lu held his chin and looked out the window. The dusk mist was flowing outside, and the window also reflected Jiang Yiji's profile. The scenery and the mirror image overlapped, hazy and unreal.
The pen was moving quickly across the data sheet, and Jiang Yijie could tell that Anson Lu was a little anxious for some reason. So he tried his best to meet Anson Lu's needs and speed up the process of filling in the data.
Jiang Yiji's writing became slower and slower, and he tapped the pages lightly with the body of his ballpoint pen, as if confirming the answer.
"What do you mean?" Anson asked.
"Well, basically these are questions that can be answered as long as you observe on the spot." Jiang Yiji stopped writing and handed in the paper.
[According to the standard answers, the accuracy of the data table is being scored - the accuracy of the data filled in this time is: 99%. ]
[The general rewards for the second investigation task "Investigation of the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island" are: each player will receive 28,000 experience points, 20,000 evolution coins, and 20 legendary materials "Blue Rainbow Holy Fire". ]
[Your level has been raised to Lv30, all attributes have been improved, and the "Level 3 Old Chess Player Advanced Trial" has been unlocked. Advanced trials are prohibited in the dungeon. ]
"Finally, I'm level 30." Anson Lu put his hands in his pockets, stood up from the sofa, and slowly walked out of the cab. "It's a pleasure to work with you."
"Haha, it's a pleasure working with you." Jiang Yiji slumped on the back of the sofa and rubbed the Tianming acupoint with his hand.
Anson Lu walked into the corridor and the system prompt sounded again.
【The following are prompts that only you can hear. 】
[Sequence player "Old Chess Player" additionally receives:
1. Unlimited advancement qualification of "Queen's Stone Statue" (optional)
(Please consider carefully. In the sequence copy, every time you complete the four investigation tasks you choose, you have the opportunity to make the corresponding "protagonist chess type" obtain unlimited advancement qualifications - however, only one chess type can enjoy "unlimited advancement qualifications". Once decided, the subsequent "protagonist chess type" will no longer have the opportunity to obtain qualifications)]
【Please make a decision within one minute. 】
"She only has one chance to do it." Ansen Lu nodded and pondered, "Then, the principal chose the chess piece that can travel through time, so she is so powerful that she can take the principal through time many times."
The chess piece that the principal chooses to give qualifications should at least be of the Black Moon level.
Infinite advancement is basically equivalent to providing a stable supply of a late-stage 'End-level chess piece'... Do I really want to use this precious opportunity on a rare-level chess piece?
Putting aside the emotional factors, Anson Lu believes that leaving the qualification for unlimited advancement to the queen's statue is indeed an irrational behavior.
Because, even if a rare chess piece obtains this qualification, how high can its potential be?
Not to mention, the rest of the chess pieces in the Blue Flame Stone Statue chess set have been destroyed, and it is estimated that they will not be available for drawing in the future - in other words, the Queen Stone Statue has lost the matching chess piece ties, and its strength may be greatly reduced.
It would be better to save the qualification for chess advancement for the next two investigation tasks - the investigation of the Dragon Sail Pirates and the investigation of the Fantasy Christmas. The "protagonist chess types" corresponding to these two chess tasks are at least the legendary "Captain of the Dragon Sail" and "Christmas Sleigh", not to mention the term "Santa Claus".
The "Santa Claus" in the "Christmas Legend Chess Set" may be a Red Tide-level chess player. So after completing the Dream Christmas investigation mission, giving him the qualification for unlimited chess advancement is the most powerful choice.
However, the image of the girl named "Natasha" waving goodbye to him on the cliff was still deeply engraved in Anson Lu's mind.
Anson Lu's intuition told him that if he gave up the qualification to advance this time, he would most likely never see her again.
It was obviously just a "parallel world body" of the queen's stone statue. Logically speaking, she was just like the "another alien kangaroo" encountered on the animal island, and was completely unimportant.
However, the tools a system uses to perform chess tasks will disappear after use.
But for some reason, Anson Lu was always somewhat concerned about her presence.
He turned his head and looked out the window. Night slowly enveloped the sea. The tide beat against the black cliffs and then broke into white waves. The wind blew across tens of thousands of hectares of forests and then brushed across Anson's deer's cheeks.
The hot air balloon has taken off and the scenery is getting farther and farther away.
[There are 10 seconds left. If the player does not make a choice, the second investigation mission's advanced permissions will be abandoned by default.]
The countdown continues.
10 seconds.
9 seconds.
8 seconds.
Time is a very cruel thing, it never stops. Anson Lu remembered a lot of things. From the bottom of his heart, he hated countdown - whether it was the countdown of the Icelandic girl or the countdown in front of him.
Every countdown he faced seemed to be a warning that someone was about to leave him.
Every time I face the countdown, it seems to be saying:
Run.
Run.
Run a little faster.
This is the only way to keep the people around you.
Finally, Anson scratched his hair like a deer with fury, and cursed: "The idiot principal knows to reserve the 'advanced qualification' for high-quality chess pieces. I am really worse than an idiot."
"But... sometimes I want to be willful."
At the last second of the countdown, he made up his mind and said, "Get the qualification to advance infinitely in chess, and use the object - the Queen's stone statue."
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