Chapter 220 "You've grown taller."
Sisdoriya smiled slightly, and a huge golden pendulum slowly rose from behind her to the sky, swinging violently from side to side, just like Big Ben at noon, spreading the sound of the bell that resounded throughout the world.
As the pendulum swung, circles of mercury light like ripples fell on the entire volcanic valley, covering all still objects, including Anson's deer.
His face was cold, his body couldn't move, but his mind was full of thoughts.
……pendulum.
...Sisdoriya is the name of the principal's time-traveling chess piece.
Her powers are related to pendulums.
I must write it down, maybe I will draw related chess pieces in the future.
Anson Lu had previously judged through his super intuition that the time-traveling chess piece was the principal's "infinitely advanced chess type".
Now, he has chosen the Queen's Statue as the "Infinitely Advanced Chess Type", so naturally he is not sure whether he will be able to gain the ability to travel through time like the principal in the future.
No matter what, Anson Lu had no intention of leaving himself a way out.
For him, this timeline is the only chance left for him.
If you lose, the world will be destroyed.
Win and usher in new hope.
As Anson Lu was thinking, his body was gradually engulfed by the mercury light scattered by the pendulum, as if he was immersed in a silver ocean, with his mouth and nose blocked by solidified liquid.
[The chess type "Anson Deer" has released the skill - time reversal. ]
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 a coma.
After an unknown amount of time, he raised his heavy eyelids.
What came into view was a rooftop. Anson Lu held his head with his hand and felt his forehead swollen. A pain that seemed to be tearing him apart filled his mind, forcing him to cheer up.
He stared blankly ahead, his eyes fixed.
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 base was still in Shangshi, he often chatted with Crow and others here.
It was dusk, the sky was a mixture of light yellow and ultramarine, and a thick gray fog was floating in the town, obscuring most of Anson Lu's vision, so that he could only see the interior of Shangshi High School.
This school seemed to have been abandoned for a very long time. Lizard-like mosses were crawling everywhere. The steel school sign at the entrance was covered with a thick layer of black rust, which was spreading hideously. Even the walls around the school sign were infected, as if they were buried in mud. At this time, the four large characters "Shangshi High School" mounted on the plaque with special materials could no longer be seen clearly. They were either blurred to the point of being transparent, or covered with rust.
"...What's going on?" Anson Lu murmured in a low voice.
This scene did not seem like an illusion, nor did it seem like a scene woven by the system. Every detail impacted his senses, constantly reminding him that this was real and by no means false.
Every time Anson Lu came back from the copy, he would confirm the situation in Shangshi City as soon as possible. He was very sure in his heart that the school could not have become like this overnight.
His intuition and thinking complemented each other, allowing him to quickly come to the conclusion that this place... might be the distant future.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind, interrupting Anson Lu's thoughts.
He turned around suddenly and stared at the principal and the girl next to the principal - Sisdoria. Both of them had very calm expressions. The girl covered her mouth with her hands and had a playful smile on her face.
The corners of Anson Lu's mouth twitched slightly, and after a long silence, he asked:
"Principal, where have you been?"
"Dead." The principal said lightly. He touched the pocket of his suit jacket, as if he wanted to take out a cigarette, but his pocket was empty, no cigarettes or lighter.
Sisdoriya took out a cigarette from somewhere and handed it to the principal with a smile: "This is the last cigarette of your life, enjoy it..." After a pause, she said quietly: "Oh no, strictly speaking, we are no longer human."
Dead?
Not human anymore?
"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?" Anson Lu was incoherent. "You're standing in front of me, you're standing in front of me, and you're telling me you're dead. You old man, you're used to playing tricks, right?"
Since the principal was dead, who was the person standing in front of him? Why did he have the ability to drag him into the future? This was too bizarre. The development of things was far beyond his imagination.
"The me you see now is just an individual constructed by the system based on my previous 'thoughts and behavior patterns'."
The principal took the girl's cigarette, put it in his mouth, and then explained: "She is the same. You just need to treat us as machines."
"...Then what are you going to do?" Anson Lu lowered his head.
"We still have two minutes. During these two minutes, you can ask us everything you want to know." The principal said slowly.
At this moment, a dragon roar powerful enough to shatter eardrums resounded through the sky, the earth trembled violently, and the king standing at the top of the food chain slowly lifted the thick fog, revealing its body as magnificent as the Tower of Babel.
Its wings were like a vast curtain, covering almost half of the sky of the town. The entire Shangshi High School was shrouded in deep shadows, and not a single ray of light could penetrate the dragon's wings.
It blocked out all the light, and just a slight vibration of its wings was enough to create a sound of cracking in the air, sweeping away all the clouds and mists lingering inside the town. Even the sky trembled and the space was shattered. Shangshi City seemed to have become a battlefield of air battle between two superpowers. Countless missiles exploded in the air, and strong winds howled and swept across the earth.
It was getting closer and closer to Shangshi City. Its face, which was facing away from the sun, was shrouded in gloomy shadows. Its huge upright pupils were shining brightly in the darkness. Its expression was as ferocious as the devil king in the eighteenth level of hell, and as aloof as the king who unified the world, just like Pangu, the creator of the world in Chinese mythology, Zeus, the supreme god who ruled over all things in the world in Greek mythology, and Odin, the creator of the earth and mankind in Norse mythology.
The entire city was collapsing. With the snow dragon's body as the center, tens of millions of violent steam gushed out continuously. The airflow generated by the wings pushed the steam to spread in all directions.
In front of such a huge monster, all things lose their color, and all creatures must meet the king of the world with the most humble and sincere attitude.
Only Anson Deer was too lazy to look back.
He knew what was behind him... It was the snow dragon, the snow dragon that would descend on Tokyo, Japan in June 2026, the monster that destroyed the principal's world.
For decades, it has trampled on human civilization day after day, leaving no grass growing wherever it goes. Now China's Shangshi City is about to become its playground.
"Chess player, I haven't seen it for a long time." Sisdoriya smiled, "Our old friend."
"Yes...it's become bigger, even bigger than before." The principal raised his head, his deep eyes reflected the snow dragon that was taller than the clouds, and he lit the cigarette in his mouth with a lighter.
As the snow dragon landed on the earth, a loud noise like a nuclear explosion was heard, the air suddenly cooled down, the loud noise of buildings collapsing continued, followed by a thunderous dragon roar.
Anson Lu's ears were almost numb from the shock, but he still didn't turn around. He just raised his brown eyes and stared at the principal's face angrily, unable to say a word.
He 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 he still felt very complicated.
"Don't worry, we know as much as our own original body. The similarity between me and that 'Principal' is at least 99%. Both our memories and personalities are highly overlapped." The principal said slowly, "And the remaining 1% is beyond the reach of the system."
"Isn't your skill to go back in time? Why did you drag me into the future?" Anson Lu asked in a low voice.
"Some permissions and loopholes were exploited. There is no need to ask. It will take too long to explain. Time is limited."
"I still have a lot of things I want to ask you."
"I know."
"Why did you do that to Yuri?"
"I was doing an experiment at the time, trying to see if I could artificially create a 'sequence player'."
"…You are such a jerk."
"At least I succeeded. Yuri and Uesugi Asuka were both created by me as Sequence Players. They should have died early in the first round of dungeons as ordinary people."
"Tell me, how can we save Yuri?"
"I don't know. Maybe there will be a chance after defeating the snow dragon."
"...Don't you think you're disgusting?"
"From an outsider's perspective, the chess player did nothing wrong. It's just that you have subjective emotions and it's difficult to judge what he did objectively and rationally." Sisdoriya explained on behalf of the principal with a smile.
The principal took a deep puff of his cigarette and said nothing, his suit jacket swaying slowly in the wind.
"Then tell me, what about the other two Icelandic girls who died? Were they just guinea pigs that you used for your experiments?"
"Three to be exact. The other one is a parentless girl in an orphanage. No one knows she's dead."
"So, you should explain it." Anson Lu's voice was hoarse and weak.
"I originally came to London in 1888 to experiment with my ability to travel through time. 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 made a mistake, I need to make up for it. The death of those three girls was the sacrifice I made to prevent the 'Law of Space and Time' from getting out of control."
"Ha... I knew that you were a complete bastard in a sense. You think you haven't killed enough people? My cousin, Crow, and those sequence players, they are all..."
The principal interrupted him: "That's enough, is there anything else you want to ask? There is no point in just venting your emotions, and there is no time left." Having said that, the principal glanced at his watch. There were only more than thirty seconds left, and they had to leave.
"Have you been acting with me for the past three months?" Anson Lu's eyes were covered by the black hair.
"That's right..." the principal said unhappily, "I have to wear contact lenses, grow a beard, and do some facial adjustments in the hospital. Otherwise, with your observation skills, I might be exposed right away."
The time was approaching midnight, and the world around the three people was falling apart. The roar of the snow dragon was so magnificent, like an indelible epic. Every time it opened up a city and crashed into a building, it seemed to be tearing away the last ray of hope for humanity.
Sistoria didn't take it seriously and hummed softly, "London bridge is falling down... falling down... falling down, my fair lady."
The sweet and cheerful singing voice and the brutal and ferocious dragon roar mixed together, making Anson Lu unable to tell which was real and which was illusory, or whether both were real.
This world... is simply too contradictory.
"After all these years, you still like this song 'London Bridge Falling Down' so much." The principal puffed out a cigarette and looked away at her.
"After all, the first time I met the chess player was in the London dungeon." Sisdoriya 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 to sing."
"Chess player, I'm not so stupid that I can't learn a song."
With only six seconds left, Anson Lu's expression became more and more complicated, and his hands were shaking slightly. He didn't know if it was because of himself or the influence of the snow dragon, but the whole city was shaking violently.
"Answer me..." He stared at the principal and spoke almost word by word: "What I mean is, you play chess with me every day, and those bullshit you tell me every day...are they all false?"
The principal was silent for half a second, then slowly raised his head and stared at Anson Deer with his deep eyes.
He took out the cigarette from his mouth, and there was a turbulent light in the depths of his turbid eyes. It seemed that he had a lot to say, but time did not allow it, so in the end... he just left a few words lightly.
"You've grown taller, kid."
At this moment, the snow dragon swung its tail, and a violent wind swept past, completely submerging the figures of Anson Lu, the principal, and Sisdoriya into the brutal snow-colored ocean.
When Anson opened his eyes again, the Noboribetsu Hell Valley in Hokkaido was still in front of him.
The principal has disappeared, but the Red Tide-level chess player "Lorenzo" controlled by the computer AI Hu Qiu is still murderous and staring at him covetously.
[According to the skill "Rewind Time" effect 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 prompt sounded, and Lorenzo disappeared. Instead, the Ghost General and Violent Donald Duck who appeared in the first round appeared again.
Hu Qiu no longer had a single chess piece in his hand.
The same goes for Anson Deer. Since he is back to the initial round, he naturally does not have any chess pieces in his hand.
However, under the influence of the principal's "time rewind" skill, Anson Lu was able to draw two more chess pieces than Hu Qiu, and these two chess pieces determined the victory.
"According to the effect of 'Time Rewind', draw two chess pieces from the chess library." Anson Lu said in a deep voice.
As he finished speaking, two chess shadows appeared around his shoulders, and the phantoms glowed with crimson light.
Anson Lu didn't even look at it and gave the order directly:
"Arrange two Red Tide-level chess pieces, Uesugi Asuka and Yuri."
The next moment, when the Ghost General and Violent Donald Duck were fighting, a meteorite made of ice suddenly appeared in the sky. It smashed down violently and crushed the bodies of both of them.
Bang——
At the same time, a red dragon descended from the sky, flapped its majestic wings and swooped in front of Hu Qiu. It swung its flaming claws and easily crushed Hu Qiu's head, splashing a hideous blood mist.
[Congratulations, you have defeated the computer AI "Hu Qiu" in the game of chess, and have passed the test of the third-level old chess player, and will soon return to reality. ]
The heavy rain in Noboribetsu Hell Valley slapped the boy's cheeks. Anson Lu slowly raised his head and looked at the gray sky with a gloomy face, with the principal's last words still echoing in his mind.
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