Chapter 3: The King Dies and the Game Ends
The game has already begun.
Anson Lu closed his eyes. From a bird's-eye view, he could see that the classroom was divided into a chessboard, with a vertical line and a horizontal line at the left edge and the bottom edge of the chessboard respectively.
The vertical lines record the numbers from 8 to 1, and the horizontal lines record the letters from A to H.
These can be used to tell where the pieces are.
[You are the white player, please make the first move and give instructions within 10 seconds, otherwise it will be considered as giving up. ]
【You represent the 'King' of the White chess player. If you want to move the King, try to move to the corresponding square. 】
Anson Deer was silent for two seconds and then gave the order.
"Soldier E-2, move to E-4."
After the order was given, the student in medieval uniform at the E-2 grid moved forward like a machine, walked two grids accurately, and arrived at the E-4 grid.
Rumble, rumble—
The stone statue directly opposite the classroom moved slowly, making a heavy sound like an earthquake.
The pawn of the stone statue at E-7 now moves to E-5, opposite to the pawn of Anson Deer.
"Soldier F-2, move to F-4." Anson Lu still had his eyes closed, but his voice was unusually calm.
After the order was given, the female student at F-2 slowly moved forward and stood at F-4 as indicated by Anson Lu.
"Let's start! The game begins!" Xiong Haodong shouted.
The corridors were extremely noisy and crowded, even more so than Paris at night. Even the stairs leading to the third floor were packed with students. No teacher could control these curious students.
In this day and age, who hasn't read a couple of novels? Students all know what the situation is now. If they were to awaken superpowers, the first thing they would probably do would be to destroy the school.
At this time, the Go club's teacher, Wang Jianghan, squeezed to the position closest to the window.
He adjusted his glasses, stared at the classroom with his sharp eyes, and said in a low and warm voice: "I can explain the game. Although I play Go, I know a thing or two about chess."
"This is..." Wang Jianghan opened his eyes wide: "King's Gambit? This is a move that has been eliminated for a long time. What on earth is this bastard doing?"
The King's Gambit is an ancient opening that was popular in the 19th century.
Later, due to the in-depth research on Black's defensive technology, by the mid-to-late 20th century, this opening was basically no longer used in grandmaster-level chess games.
What Wang Jianghan didn't know was that Anson Lu had never studied chess systematically. He only knew some basic rules of chess, and the rest depended on his improvisation.
Anson Lu relied on his outstanding intuition and planning ability to win a league championship. The tricks he thought were unconventional were actually used by others many years ago.
"The black pawn at E5 captured the white pawn at F4." Wang Jianghan observed the chess game intently, with cold sweat running down the back of his hands. "Black accepts the surrender."
He thought anxiously: How strange! Why would Anson use this opening? Has he ever played chess? This is simply gambling!
Talent... Yes, that voice only selects people based on talent, which means that Anson Lu may only have talent in this area, but is not proficient in chess at all?
Wang Jianghan made a quick judgment and his expression became increasingly solemn.
The game of chess continues.
The stone statue symbolizing "soldier" in the classroom raised the cold stone sword high up and slashed at the girl in the F-4 grid without hesitation.
A solemn sound was heard and blood splattered onto the floor of the classroom.
Everyone stared at the bloody scene in amazement; no one could catch their breath.
Deathly silence briefly enveloped the entire corridor.
The next moment, a shrill scream broke the silence.
"ah--!!!"
The sophomore girl held her head and screamed with red eyes.
"Sister, that's my sister!!!"
Xiong Haodong was stunned for a long time before he reacted... someone was dead, really dead, right in front of him.
He stared at the scene in a daze. It felt like a thousand cnidarians like earthworms were wriggling back and forth in his stomach, trying to flow upstream through the esophagus.
"Just like that... a person died like this?"
Teacher Wang Jianghan stared at Anson Lu who was surrounded by students, pursed his lips tightly, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
"Anson Lu...you must fight for your place. We must not lose this game of chess."
Anson Lu's expression remained calm, as if he was speculating on the chess game with a pure mindset and didn't care about anything outside the game at all.
From his perspective, it was just a chess piece being eaten.
The game has just begun.
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"F1 Bishop, move to C4."
From Anson Deer's God's perspective, he seemed to stretch out an invisible hand, pick up the chess piece with his index and middle fingers, and place it in the position he expected.
As the white chess piece falls, the opponent moves the "queen" from D8 to H4.
"G1 horse, move to F3." Anson Deer only thought for half a second.
Soon, the opponent gave instructions again.
The stone statues seemed to have no time to think at all. They took quick action the moment Anson Deer made his move.
"D2 soldier, move to D3." Anson Deer said.
The atmosphere on the chessboard was bizarre. Every time the stone statue moved, it would cause a slight earthquake that shook people's hearts. Everyone outside the classroom was nervous, and the timid students had already left the corridor.
However, Anson Lu remained so calm from beginning to end, and his voice continued to echo in the silent classroom.
"F3 Knight, move to H4."
“………”
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"H4 Knight, move to F5."
“………”
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"G2 soldier, move to G4."
The chess game evolved silently, and so far, many white pieces had become simple victims.
Anson Deer, holding chess pieces in his hands, is like an indifferent tyrant, a general who rules over thousands of soldiers. He makes choices calmly and gives up necessary pieces.
People kept dying, and were killed by the enemy without even being able to let out a scream.
However, Anson Deer knew that he was luring his opponent into a desperate situation step by step.
This is a necessary trade-off.
At the 11th move, Anson Deer took a risky move. He looked down at the chessboard with his brown eyes and slowly said:
"H1 rook, move to G1, sacrifice the bishop."
After this move, Black undoubtedly captured the elephant he had discarded.
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"What on earth is he doing?!"
Xiong Haodong stared at his desk mate who had been killed in disbelief, pounding on the window and yelling.
At first, he was simply dissatisfied with Anson Lu's attention, but now, watching his familiar classmates die one after another, he completely collapsed and even felt physically uncomfortable.
A blood mist bloomed on the chessboard, and then spread in all directions, washing over the dead silent and cold chessboard. The solemn fighting spirit was like the roar of pine wind, sweeping over with an irresistible trend.
No one outside the classroom dared to imagine how many more people would die on this chessboard.
Wang Jianghan was still watching intently, explaining the direction of the chess game in a hoarse voice.
"Anson was very bold in sacrificing his bishop on the 11th move. This sacrifice was not in vain, but rather a sacrifice that lured the enemy deeper into the enemy territory."
Xiong Haodong couldn't help but say: "Luring the enemy deep into our territory, how many people have died and yet you still lure the enemy deep into our territory!"
"shut your mouth……"
The principal raised his head and met Xiong Haodong's gaze with cold eyes.
He asked without question: "Classmate, although I don't know your name, I want to ask you, if it were you, would you dare to stand there and risk everything else to take over this game?"
Xiong Haodong stood there in a daze. After being silent for a while, he raised his head unwillingly and looked at Anson Lu, who had an extremely indifferent expression.
The game became more and more complicated, and there were fewer and fewer pieces on the board - judging from the number alone, it was obvious that the stone statues had the upper hand, which was why Anson Deer was often criticized.
In this game of chess, he discarded too many pieces. In the eyes of those who did not understand the rules of chess, he was undoubtedly wasting the lives of his classmates!
Moreover, he has no intention of stopping.
Instead, they do things more thoroughly, more extremely, and more paranoidly.
The game came to the 18th and 19th moves, and in these two moves, Anson Deer further abandoned two "chariot pieces".
"He's crazy..."
Xiong Haodong held his head, looking in despair at the two classmates with whom he used to play together. He was clearly still in the dormitory yesterday, playing games online with these two classmates, but today they just turned into a ball of blood mist.
"He's really crazy..."
"No!" Wang Jianghan suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his thoughts suddenly became clear: "I know what Anson Lu is thinking. He wants to cut off the Queen's defense of G7!"
“Get the hell out of here!” Xiong Haodong leaned against the window, his eyes bloodshot. “Where’s Li Yuze? Where’s Li Yuze? Ansen Lu, you beast, if you dare to kill Li Yuze!”
"Brother Dong, Yuze is the 'queen', it won't be that easy for him to die." The squad leader comforted him in a weak voice.
Despite this, he could see at a glance that the current situation seemed to be infinitely biased towards the stone statue's side - there were still two "chariots" left on the stone statue's side on the chessboard, but Anson Deer had just abandoned both of his own "chariots"!
Overwhelming advantage...
To outsiders, it seemed that there was no room for a comeback. At this moment, a scene appeared that was enough to shock Xiong Haodong and the squad leader to the point of tearing their eyes.
The game was almost over. At the 22nd move, Anson Lu said something in a voice without any emotion that no one outside the classroom had expected.
"Queen, move to F6."
"He wants to abandon the queen!!!" Xiong Haodong roared.
Li Yuze, wearing a dark gold dress and holding a long sword, moved forward like a puppet. Her every step shook the internal organs of the boys outside the window, and their hearts were hanging to the point.
At the same time, their hatred for Anson Deer reached its peak.
Everyone was cursing Anson like crazy, saying that he was a mentally twisted lunatic and an executioner who didn't take human life seriously at all.
Only the principal and teacher Wang Jianghan looked at each other at the same time.
Wang Jianghan said in a daze: "Discard the queen and eliminate Black's defense on E7."
"This is simply a stroke of genius..." The principal was incredulous. "By sacrificing the queen, Black's defensive capabilities have been eliminated. The outcome of the game is already decided."
"Principal, should we call him a genius or a madman?"
"I think... maybe both."
As Anson the Deer gave the order to abandon the queen, the stone statues also quickly gave instructions. The "Knight" at G8 moved to F6 and killed the "Queen" at this square.
tread--
Tap--
Tap tap tap——
Along with the howling of countless onlookers and bursts of thrilling horse hoofbeats, a bloody mist spread. The violent scarlet was as bright as a rose, and as fleeting as a rose.
Watching this brutal and hideous scene, it seemed as if the whole world was shaking wildly.
Only the boy in school uniform standing at a corner of the chessboard remained calm. He was like a reef standing in the raging tide, overlooking the overall situation with aloofness and coldness, and the voice of his orders was so indifferent from beginning to end.
"It's over." The principal looked deeply at Anson Lu, "What a psychological quality this is."
"D6 Bishop, move to E7..."
When Anson Lu's voice fell, he opened his eyes and slowly uttered the decisive two words.
"General."
Checkmate is a term used in chess, which means that in a game, if one side's chess piece captures the other side's king in the next move, it is called a checkmate.
At this moment, the boy in the golden and white robe at D6, holding a torch, walked towards E7 expressionlessly, and sprinkled the flame on the black king at the upper left corner.
The gorgeously dressed Black King was engulfed in flames in an instant, and broke into thousands of pieces of stone that fell to the ground.
When the king is checked, the game is lost.
The blazing fire spread in all directions with unstoppable momentum, burning all the stone statues in the classroom to ashes.
hiss--
The flames devoured, covered, infected, and annihilated everything, leaving nothing behind.
At this moment, the "dead" students, as well as the desks and chairs, returned to the classroom intact.
They sat in their seats, staring blankly at Anson Deer standing on the podium, not realizing what was happening for a moment.
After all, they lost consciousness the moment the game began.
"Ah this..." Anson Lu came back to his senses, his eyes trembling slightly, "It's all over, I got too addicted to it by accident."
At this moment, a cold female voice sounded in everyone's ears.
[Congratulations to Anson Lu for being the first player in the world to pass the special career sequence test. The test evaluation is SSS level, and he has awakened a unique career sequence - the old chess player. ]
"What's going on..."
"He...he won? He won despite being so far behind?"
"What the hell?! I saw him constantly giving up pieces, and I thought he had already started. This guy is really something!"
Outside the corridor, the boys who were howling for Li Yuze just now were now completely stunned.
Class 3-4 returned to its original state, including Li Yuze's fifteen students, who were also wearing school uniforms and sitting in the classroom with dull expressions. They seemed to be confused and lost.
【Next is a player prompt that only you can hear. 】
[You have awakened your personal panel. ]
"Ha..." Anson Lu's shoulders trembled, and he asked tentatively: "Uh, personal panel?"
【Personal Information】
【Name: Anson Lu】
[Player type: Sequence player (players are divided into two types: "ordinary players" and "sequence players")]
[Occupation: Old Chess Player (Level 1) (Summon the occupation panel to view relevant information)]
[Level: Lv1 (up to Lv100)]
【Title: Not owned yet.】
[Skill: Call out the "Sequence Panel" to view. ]
[Health: 500]
[Mana: 100]
[Physical Strength: 5 (affects health, endurance, and weight)]
[Strength: 5 (affects vitality and attack damage)]
[Agility: 5 (affects movement speed, dodge speed, attack speed)]
[Spirit: 7 (affects concentration, mana, and resistance to mental spells)]
[Luck: 5 (affects the probability of triggering some events)]
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