Chapter 196: The End of the World, the Shadow of the Twilight Gods
The second level of the hot air balloon airship on March 1.
Anson Lu found a room at the side and stayed there. He reached out to open the window and the sea breeze blew in.
The pitch-black night enveloped the huge airship. Its powerful metal body looked like a bloated steel beast, breaking through the clouds in a domineering manner.
Anson Lu looked up at the sky boredly. A huge white ship embedded in the sky cast bright moonlight onto the sea. The undulating sea carried one deserted island after another.
Every island floating in the Pacific Ocean exudes a strange sense of disharmony - combined with the background of the copy, most of the chess pieces from the "chess world" occupied these islands and changed the ecology of the islands.
Unfortunately, Anson Deer could only choose four out of the eight investigation tasks and could not set foot on the remaining islands. Otherwise, he could have gone without food or water and explored all the islands in the sea one by one.
He sat on the windowsill, looking away, observing the islands expressionlessly.
Under the moonlight, every island shows extraordinary magical colors.
As for the first island that Anson Deer saw - the strange creatures were like a pile of worms, dancing in the moonlight. The dance moves were very graceful, but when put on them, it looked like a pile of rotten meat jumping.
The second island that came into sight was filled with ghostly creatures wearing masks on their faces. Their appearance was similar to the "No-Face Man" in "Spirited Away".
This is fine during the day, but looks very scary at night.
Anson Lu's scalp tingled, and he thought that there was no way he would accept such a disgusting chess game, even if he had to pay for it.
On this point, he is somewhat different from Ansenlu.
Anson Lu is somewhat obsessed with the entertainment value of chess types, rather than simply looking at their strength. Sometimes it would be fun to just take a useless chess type and set off some fireworks.
"Oh no, that woman should care more about looks than I do." He complained.
Looking back, every chess piece Anson Lu used was very cool and stylish, but I have never seen any that looked particularly disgusting.
"Speaking of which...how's that guy doing?"
Thinking of Ansen Lu, Ansen Lu remembered the software on his mobile phone again. He turned on the phone screen, clicked on "Cross-Time and Space Observation", and looked at the playlist on the right - a new video was refreshed.
As for the time of the recording, it was yesterday afternoon.
Despite feeling somewhat guilty, almost like a voyeur, Anson Lu still moved his finger and clicked on the video.
"Look at it in a positive way. This is a natural thing to gather intelligence through my parallel self." He thought, "Besides, she is a cold-blooded female devil, okay? What's there to worry about?"
A dark corridor gradually appeared on the video screen.
"Huh, what is that?" Anson Lu felt it looked familiar for some reason. It was not until he saw the two figures that he was completely sure where he was.
Ansenlu was still wearing her school uniform, as if she had no other clothes in her closet, and most of her uniforms were stained with large patches of blood that could not be wiped off. This female devil really didn't care about what she wore.
Behind her, the sound of a chainsaw being pulled slowly appeared.
“Sizzle!!!!”
Oh my god, Dark Disneyland? Anson Lu recognized this dungeon immediately, but in his impression, this was the third round of dungeons, and it was a team confrontation dungeon.
But based on the time of the video, this scene should have appeared yesterday afternoon.
That is, the time when the seventh round of copies just began, not the third round of copies.
So it seems that the system of the neighboring world may have increased the difficulty of this copy and put it in the seventh round of copies.
"She's not going to confront Mickey Mouse head-on, is she?" Anson Deer murmured.
He believed that Ansen Lu was really capable of doing such a thing. After all, he still had a vivid impression of the performance of this cold-blooded female devil in the arena - she had lost the game that was supposed to be won steadily.
Perhaps, she had been crushing her enemies all along, so she built up an extreme self-confidence. This self-confidence made her subconsciously believe that even if she faced Anson Deer, it would only take a few moves of her fingers.
On the screen, Ansen Lu still had a cold expression on her face, her dark eyes were like a dead end, and it was a little scary in the corridor where the light was flickering. Her long, jet-black hair was tied into a ponytail.
After a moment, the game began.
The muscular Mickey Mouse, grinning, pulled the chainsaw, moved and ran, chasing her at an incredible speed - this was much faster than what Anson Deer encountered at the beginning.
After all, the system built the Disney copy based on the strength of the third round of copies; Anson Lu was already in the seventh round, so the difficulty was definitely not comparable.
In an instant, Anson Lu stretched out his slender right arm and released a Red Tide-level chess piece, as well as a legendary chess piece - the King of Winter and the Christmas Sleigh.
The chess piece named "King of Winter" was a white-haired man holding an ice blade and wearing a white bone helmet. He grinned, slashed the ice sword, and his eyes flashed with cruel blood.
After that, Mickey Mouse, holding the chainsaw, was immediately frozen in place.
Anson Lu stood on top of the Christmas sleigh. The two elks stepped into the air and ran towards the end of the corridor at a terrifying speed. Soon they brought her to a metal door.
Hey, hey, hey, where's the cheating going on? How did she get another Red Tide?
Anson Lu felt inexplicably unhappy. If he had this much combat power in the Dark Disney copy at that time, then there would be no need for Lorenzo. It would be no problem for him to defeat five Lorenzos by himself.
However, for Ansen Lu, this copy is already the seventh round of copies, so it is not surprising at this point in time.
At the beginning, when Ansen Lu fought with Ansen Lu in the fifth round of dungeons, her level was already close to level 30, not to mention the sixth round of dungeons, she should have gained a huge amount of experience points.
By now, her level must have long exceeded level 30 - since she has reached level 30, she has unlocked the right to draw the "Advanced Super Chess Package" and is no longer limited to obtaining the Red Tide chess type through crafting scrolls.
Ansonlu got off the sled, looked at the metal door with her brown eyes, hugged her shoulders, tapped her arms lightly with her fingers, and thought with an indifferent expression.
"Let me guess, she can't solve the problem." Anson Deer teased.
He was deeply impressed by this - the riddle was particularly tricky, and even a crow as knowledgeable as him had to go through a lot of detours to solve it.
Moreover, there is a high probability that none of Ansenlu’s teammates will help behind this door.
Ansen Lu is a big devil in the next world. She slaughtered the entire law enforcement team building by herself. Any mentally normal player would not choose to cooperate with her.
Anson Deer remembered something else.
In that instance, before entering Disneyland, players from both teams were prohibited from competing with each other, but this did not prevent players on the same team from fighting each other.
Therefore, it is highly likely that when she first entered the dungeon, players from the same team had a conflict with her, and then she resolved the conflict.
The video ends here, and Anson Lu doesn't know whether Anson Lu opened the door or was chopped in half by Mickey Mouse.
Ansen Lu pondered for a moment, thinking in his heart: What will happen to Ansen Lu in the end? If the world is destroyed, will she also learn from the principal to travel through time and then plan to cultivate a little Ansen Lu?
He found this kind of nesting doll plot a little funny just thinking about it.
However, that was just the original situation - Ansen Lu and the principal were similar beings, so their original endings should have been the same.
But in this timeline, since he and Ansen Lu had some communication, instead of just breaking off a tie with her like the principal did and then going their separate ways, it might produce a series of butterfly effects.
"Forget it. This girl is so crazy that she even demolished the law enforcement team building. She has killed all the sequence players that could be killed." Anson Lu clicked his tongue, "Then in the end... it will definitely be a dead end."
No matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't imagine a situation where Ansenlu survived.
Anson Lu exited the software and turned off his phone.
At this moment, his peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange object on the sea, and his scattered thoughts were interrupted.
He raised his eyebrows, moved his brown eyes, and looked through the rolling sea fog to the other side of the sea. On the hazy horizon, he saw a huge pirate ship.
The huge sail danced in the wind and appeared and disappeared in the fog, but Anson Deer could see the pattern on the sail clearly with his excellent dynamic vision.
There is no doubt that the pattern printed on it is a black dragon.
"Huh?" Anson Lu was stunned. "Isn't this the ship of the Dragon Sail Pirates?"
He was distracted for a moment, and quickly called out Captain Dragon Boat in his mind, but the chess piece did not respond to his call.
[Due to the rules of the current instance, when an 'event' corresponding to a chess type appears around, the old chess player will not be able to summon the relevant chess type. ]
"The system means..." Anson Lu said slowly, "Captain Longchuan is likely on that ship?"
If players were not prohibited from leaving the airship without permission, he would have long wanted to get on the Christmas sleigh and fly over to see what was going on.
Anson Deer narrowed his eyes and stared at the pirate ship that was going farther and farther away and was about to disappear. At the moment when it was completely lost on the horizon, he seemed to hear a dragon's roar resounding through the sea.
"It seems there is nothing we can do." He sighed, "We can only proceed with the dungeon step by step, and then see what incident is related to the Longfan Pirates."
There was nothing to do afterwards, so Anson Lu went to bed early. Before sleeping, he took a look at his friend list and there was no message from Yuri.
Another night of silence.
The next day, at seven in the morning.
Anson Lu woke up from his bed, opened his eyes, and looked out the window. He was so frightened that his whole body trembled and he almost fell off the bed.
"Fuck..." He said in a daze: "What the hell is this?"
At the gray junction of the sea and the sky, stands a row of giants as majestic as the god-king Zeus. Neither the clouds nor the sea fog can conceal their bodies.
This group of giants stood majestically at the other side of the world, as if a tremendous pressure from outer space was sweeping over them, impacting every pore and even every organ of Anson Deer.
It is as if the supreme gods in heaven, who rule over everything in the world, are looking down at the ant-like humans from the end of the world.
Anson Deer shuddered deeply, his stiff Adam's apple rolling up and down.
Without having to think with his dull brain, he could immediately determine where these monsters came from with his outstanding intuition - the Ragnarok chess set.
That chess set, the name of which inspires awe, may be the strongest chess set that an old-time chess player can possess in the entire evolution game. According to legend, the gods with the power to create the world gather here.
The Black Moon-class stone statues of ten thousand riders are just the tip of the iceberg.
The hot air balloon and airship slowly moved away, and the row of magnificent giant shadows disappeared from Anson Lu's sight. If he looked at it for just one more second, he felt that his soul was about to be sucked away.
Anson Lu was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. He walked out of the room slowly and the corridor was silent.
"Aren't they awake yet?"
The dim light enveloped the quiet corridor and the sea breeze blew in from the window, gradually relaxing his tense nerves.
Anson Deer yawned, closed the door again, and rolled back to sleep.
About two hours later, in the restaurant cabin on the third floor of the hot air balloon airship.
Mo Xiaoyuan's hair was messy, with a dull blue hair sticking up straight from the middle. He carried a gun bag even when he was eating. He seemed to be very alert, but his face looked as if he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.
Tong Muli's appearance is very delicate. Even her unkempt look in the morning is very cute, with the unique charm of an oriental girl.
Jiang Yijie picked up a piece of tomato with his fork and suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, can your super intuition be used to... predict the future?"
"Please...Captain, how is that possible?" Anson Lu, who was sitting opposite, asked helplessly.
"Logically, it should be possible, right?"
"How can it be possible?"
"For example, if you think in your mind, will we humans win or lose in the world boss battle three months later? What result will you get if you rely on your intuition?"
"Let me put it this way..." Anson Deer explained slowly, "My intuition can only be used for the future within about four or five seconds, and the established facts in the past."
Jiang Yijie raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully: "I see..." After a pause, he asked again: "Then how did you know this conclusion of 'within four or five seconds'?"
"You should know about the Extraordinary Chess Package, it is a mechanism for improving chess players in the past."
"I heard about this from the higher-ups during the meeting."
"At first, I found that I couldn't even use super intuition to draw a chess bag, because it took five seconds for the chess bag to show the result. After that, I tested it carefully and concluded that it could only work for four to five seconds in the future at most."
"I understand." Jiang Yijie smiled, "That's a pity. If we could predict the future, everything would be easier."
"If you can predict the future, is there any meaning for this game to exist?"
"Yes, if that's really possible, we can just filter out all the current methods and find a route that will make your intuition confirm that you will win the boss battle six months later."
Tong Muli took a bite of salad, chewed the apple, and playfully raised the corners of her mouth and said:
"No matter what, Senior Anson Lu is already very impressive!"
Anson Lu took a sip of milk coffee and said lightly: "Thank you for the compliment."
At this time, the system prompt sounded in the ears of the four people.
[The hot air balloon has arrived at the 'Magical Animal Island' and will land in five minutes. The first investigation mission is about to begin. ]
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