Chapter 148 I once told you that if your talent is used for evil, it will be a disaster for mankind.
January 20, Tokyo Cinema, Men’s Room.
The movie was playing, and only two figures could be seen in the toilet - Anson Lu and Urushihara Ritsu were leaning against the wall of the toilet, talking in low voices.
"Lu-kun." Urushihara Ritsu raised his eyebrows and stroked his lips with his slender fingers. "What you mean is that the principal actually used the sequence power of the old chess player to return from the future to the present you."
"That's right. Otherwise, with your connections, how could you not find out his identity?" Anson Lu said.
"So, Lu Jun..." Urushihara Ritsu thought for a moment: "The principal said that he left three chess seeds for you. Could these three chess seeds refer to Miss Yuri, Miss Uesugi Asuka, and another person?"
"No, you misunderstood." Anson Lu explained: "The three chess pieces he left for me refer to the 'Savior Team' chess set. I only got one of them now, which is this chess piece."
As he spoke, he summoned the future blue bird in his mind.
The blue bird of the future flew out from the data black hole in the ceiling, scattering blue fluorescence.
"It's called Future Bluebird." Anson Lu opened the chess type panel of Future Bluebird, stretched out his finger, dragged to the line of [Chess Type Introduction], and turned the panel to face the crow.
Urushihara Ritsu raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the chess type panel.
【Chess description:
This is a bluebird from the future.
In the future, Bluebird witnessed the destruction of the human world, and the white dragon destroying nature and the homes of animals. It came with despair of a shattered home, but it spread the seeds of hope to humans. 】
[Belong to chess group: 'Saving Team' chess group]
[Chess set note 1: The chess set has a total of three chess types, and the level of each chess type is not lower than the legendary level, and it is extremely difficult to obtain. ]
[Chess set note 2: This is a very late stage chess set. If old chess players gather this set, they will gain transformational power.]
"I see." Urushihara Ritsu suddenly realized, "The principal wants you to complete this chess set called 'Savior Team'. How to get the other two pieces is the key."
"Right." Anson Lu shrugged. "I think the remaining two pieces should be at least Red Tide level or above, otherwise they would not have the power to reverse the outcome."
"I remember that according to the old chess players' ranking of chess quality, above the legendary level there were only Red Tide, Black Moon, and End." said Urushihara Ritsu.
"You can only draw it after upgrading it, but it seems that the final level can't be drawn from the card pack. It must be forged with a chess type forging scroll. If the remaining two chess pieces in the chess set are final level, then it will be a bit of a headache."
"No matter what, this is not something you should consider at this stage. Lu Jun, you just need to proceed step by step and level up."
"Oh, by the way, there is something I need to tell you."
"What?"
"In the principal's timeline, you died."
Urushihara Ritsu put his hand on his chin and said lightly: "This is not a strange thing. If I hadn't died, I would never let you, Lujun, go alone..."
Anson Deer interrupted him, "No, I mean, you died at the beginning, the first round of the copy."
Urushihara Ritsu raised his eyebrows, "With my ability, how could I die in the first round of the dungeon?"
"You didn't die at the hands of a monster."
"That is..."
"I killed you," Anson Deer whispered.
A hint of surprise flashed across Urushihara Ritsu's deep eyes. The dim and dull light of the cinema, which flickered on and off, illuminated his bewildered silhouette.
He thought for a moment, "Lu Jun, in the previous timeline, you killed me with your own hands?"
"Yes, that's how I was back then." Anson Lu said calmly, "I said this to make it easier for you to understand the principal's logic."
"Really? That's beyond my expectations." Urushihara Ritsu said, "Normally speaking, with my negotiation skills, I would leave myself a way out even if the talks fail."
"Yes, with your ability, even if you can't win the principal's trust, you won't be killed by him."
Anson Lu paused, then continued, "So, my guess is that the principal and you did reach a cooperation in the beginning, and he wiped you out in the copy after he had squeezed out all your usefulness."
"Although the result is unbelievable." After a pause, Urushihara Ritsu said, "But this is the only possibility."
A brief silence fell between the two of them.
There was a loud noise coming from the Imax theater not far away. It was the special effects sound of the movie "Avatar 2: The Way of Water".
After lunch, the five people fought fiercely for the movie to watch. Finally, after everyone's discussion, the right to choose the movie fell into the hands of the sixth person, "Alien Kangaroo".
Anson Deer was delighted and directly ordered the kangaroo in his mind to choose the Doraemon Movie.
Unexpectedly, the alien kangaroo scanned the movies currently in theaters and after much consideration chose the movie "Avatar". Anson Deer looked hopeless at the time and asked Sheriff Kangaroo the reason in disbelief.
Finally, the kangaroo gave the reason seriously - this movie has a positive supervisory effect on protecting the ecological environment. It patted Anson Deer on the shoulder and asked Anson Deer to learn lessons from the movie and improve his civic quality.
"The principal at the beginning might not be a good person."
Anson Lu looked at the ceiling and said slowly: "According to his description, perhaps at the beginning of the evolution game, he didn't even think about saving the world or saving humanity. He was just a monster who used everyone around him to climb up by any means necessary.
"Maybe I have some antisocial tendencies. After all, if the principal wasn't there, I might have been cursed and scolded by all the students in the school and attacked after that death chess game.
"Now that I think about it, I did something so extreme back then. I chose to give up and let those familiar people have their heads cut open and chopped in half in front of them. But afterwards, those students were unexpectedly kind to me. There must be something behind this that the principal was secretly manipulating."
After two seconds of silence, he continued, "However, in order to make me less suspicious, he left a normal person behind to confuse me and make me think that all this is not so abnormal."
"Xiong Haodong." Urushihara Ritsu said without hesitation.
Rather, this is not a question that needs to be thought about at all.
"Yes, Xiong Haodong." Anson Lu raised his head and said slowly, "It is the existence of Xiong Haodong that makes me feel that those students are not so abnormal. Think about it for a moment, I am the world's first sequence profession, but those students are crazy about me, and there is no jealousy or envy at all. If it were a normal situation, someone would have used that death chess game to criticize me."
"In the original timeline, no one protected the principal. He was the target of public criticism from the very beginning. Given my personality at that time, it's not surprising that I turned into a selfish lone wolf."
"So." Urushihara Ritsu put his hand on his chin, "Lu-kun, according to you, the principal only began to gradually change in the second half of the evolution game. In the beginning, he was just a pure villain?"
"That's right, but by the time he realized it, it was too late." Anson Lu lowered his eyes, "In the first half of the evolution game, Lorenzo, Yuliu, and you all died at the hands of the principal. Without Lorenzo's leadership, there was no one in charge of the law enforcement team, and most of the elite players were also dead."
"So, in the end, he was the only one left." Urushihara Ritsu said dimly.
"Yes, he could only make the best of a bad situation and try to defeat the snow dragon on his own, but he failed." Anson Lu laughed at himself.
"It wasn't until the world was destroyed that he realized he couldn't win alone. So, he returned to the present and did his best to pave the way for me and avoid the mistakes he made before."
With a long sigh, he whispered:
"In short, I don't know how many times the principal has traveled back in time, but he has an almost perfect grasp of my psychology. He first used three months to lower my guard and gain my trust.
"After that, he led me along without me realizing it. In the end, he changed me... or rather, he himself, into a completely different person. That's why I can get along with and cooperate with you."
Urushihara Ritsu lowered his head in thought, his thoughts flowing in his deep eyes.
After a moment, he said, "I see... Although the situation is very complicated, my confusion has basically been solved now, Lu Jun, but I still have one question."
"What's the question?" Anson asked.
"After the first round of the dungeon was over, I heard some news from the underground world in Japan. Those people said that the evolution game started a long time ago." Urushihara Ritsu said, "And the clues that can confirm this are... the Jack the Ripper incident in London, England in 1888, and the sinking of the Titanic in the Atlantic in 1912."
Anson Deer was well aware of the causes and consequences of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
This was entirely a tragedy caused by the principal himself. If the principal had not used the power of chess to teleport the snow dragon to the Atlantic Ocean in 1912 in the world boss battle half a year later,
Then, the Titanic would not have hit the iceberg and the people on the ship would still be alive.
But what about the Jack the Ripper incident?
Could this notorious serial killer case also be related to the evolution game?
Anson Deer was suddenly stunned.
He remembered the bottle of old wine produced in London in 1888 that he found in the principal's office - 1888, London... exactly the same year and place as the Jack the Ripper incident.
"I have already guessed the cause of the Jack the Ripper incident. It is probably related to the principal because he took a bottle of wine from London in 1888 and kept it in the principal's office." Urushihara Ritsu said slowly:
"As for the Titanic incident, I am at a loss for words because, even if I have investigated it with all my strength until now, there are still not many clues left for me. Most of the survivors back then are already dead."
Anson Lu was not in a hurry to explain:
"Crow, tell me first about the clues you have about the Jack the Ripper incident."
Rather than explaining the events of 1912, he wanted to clarify his own question first - what did the principal do in London in 1888?
"At that time, Jack the Ripper killed three prostitutes in London and became a world-famous serial killer. However, a yellow man appeared and stopped Jack the Ripper's evil deeds in an alley, making the murderer disappear from the scene."
At this point, Urushihara Ritsu put his hands behind his windbreaker and continued with interest:
"After the Ripper died, the police could not find any clues, and could not even find Jack's body. However, according to some eyewitnesses, someone saw an old man from the East in an alley, summoning a noble stone statue holding a dagger out of thin air, and manipulated the strange stone statue to kill Jack the Ripper."
Anson Lu was stunned: "You mean... the principal called out the Queen's statue and wiped out Jack the Ripper with one knife?"
"That's right." Urushihara Ritsu nodded, "If this was originally just a rumor, then after hearing what you said, Lujun, I am completely sure that this is what the principal did."
"But why would the principal do these things?"
"I don't know about that." Urushihara Ritsu paused and speculated: "Maybe he traveled to the wrong timeline and happened to run into Jack the Ripper who was committing a crime, so he took action to solve the problem?"
"It's quite possible." Anson Lu put his hands in his pockets and said calmly, "After all, that old man must have traveled through time many times, so there's always going to be something wrong."
"And there is one more thing worth mentioning..." Urushihara Ritsu suddenly said.
"What's up?"
"It is said that on Jack the Ripper's hit list, there were three prostitutes who had just turned 18. If the principal had not taken action, these three prostitutes would most likely have died with Jack the Ripper's methods."
Anson Lu was startled: "In other words, this incident also affects the future?"
"Yes, although prostitutes in London at that time had a shorter life span, it will have some impact on the future," said Ritsu Urushihara.
"There are still three prostitutes alive..." Anson Lu put his hand on his chin, his eyes moving: "Moreover, these three prostitutes just turned 18? What's going on?"
etc……
Anson Deer suddenly connected it to an important matter.
"Lu Jun, this shouldn't be hard to guess." Urushihara Ritsu said calmly, "Those three prostitutes who just turned 18 are obviously related to another thing the principal did."
"All three patients with Anchache Syndrome will die after reaching the age of eighteen." Anson Deer took a breath.
"Yes, here is my guess, Lu-kun." Urushihara Ritsu said slowly: "The principal's action in the Jack the Ripper incident may have violated 'certain rules' unintentionally."
"rule……"
"Those three prostitutes who had just turned 18 should have died, but they survived." Urushihara Ritsu said dimly, "So, after the principal returned to the modern timeline, he needed to do something to make up for this loophole - and that thing was that he used some kind of power to make the three Icelandic girls suffer from Ankache syndrome, causing them to die without exception after turning 18."
Anson Lu was silent for a long time, holding his chin with his hand, and said slowly: "I still don't understand, won't this have a greater impact on the future?"
"I don't know either. All the answers lie in that chess piece," said Ritsu Urushihara.
"That chess piece... the one the principal uses to travel through time."
"Well, as long as you obtain the chess piece that can be used for time travel in the future and understand the rules, all problems should be solved."
"I can't wait until then. It's totally incomprehensible. Just because he accidentally killed Jack the Ripper in London in 1888, three prostitutes who shouldn't have lived survived." Anson Deer said, "So, why should the consequences caused by this be redeemed by those three completely unrelated Icelandic girls..."
The dark hair covered his eyes. Anson Lu had countless thoughts and the many guesses that stretched out were like a ball of wool dropped on the ground, rolling continuously and emitting thousands of lines.
He tried to rationalize the principal's behavior in his mind...
But he couldn't do it, not at all...
This piece of the puzzle isn’t clear enough.
Only if he also possesses the chess piece that can travel through time and knows the rules and constraints that the principal faces, can he understand why the principal does this?
However, one thing is certain.
If the illnesses of the three Icelandic girls were indeed related to the mistakes the principal made in London in 1888.
Then, they were simply scapegoats, three scapegoats chosen at random by the principal, and their castrated lives were only used by the principal to offset the "punishment brought by the time-travel rules."
If this was true, Anson Lu could not accept it from the bottom of his heart - Yuri's death was actually just a tragedy caused by the principal in order to get rid of the consequences of the time-travel rules.
"For now, we don't need to think deeply about this matter." Urushihara Ritsu said, "Without understanding the time chess piece, thinking too much about the logic behind the principal's actions is just a waste of time."
After a pause, he continued, "The mystery behind Anchache Syndrome will be revealed naturally once you get the time chess piece."
Anson Lu was silent for two seconds, and then said calmly, "I just hope that after I get the truth... the motive behind the old principal's actions won't be so disgusting that I want to vomit."
"If the principal had fully awakened after losing the battle in Tokyo, he would never have let three innocent girls bear the consequences of his mistakes." Urushihara Ritsu shrugged meaningfully.
"Well, let's not think about it for now." Anson Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the cell phone in his pocket vibrated and a message alert sounded.
Anson Lu took out his cell phone and looked at the screen. It was a message from Asuka Uesugi.
[Asuka: Where are you and Crow? The movie is halfway through! Are you here to watch a movie in Tokyo, or to use the restroom?!]
I don't know why, but when I thought of Asuka's face, my heavy mood eased a lot.
Anson Lu stretched out his finger, typed a line of words, and clicked reply.
【Anson Deer: I'll be right back. 】
"The movie is still playing, we should go." Urushihara Ritsu unscrewed the lid and took a sip of the drink.
Anson Lu put away his phone and walked out of the bathroom slowly. "Let's go, Crow. There is still a long way to go."
Urushihara Ritsu followed beside him and said quietly, "Come to think of it, Lu-kun, the facts so far should have completely proved that my suspicions about you were correct."
The two walked into the corridor of the cinema. Cinema Hall No. 5 was right in front of them. Posters of the movies currently in theaters were hung on the walls. Anson Lu turned his head and took a closer look at the poster of the movie "Time Traveler".
"What guess?" Anson asked absentmindedly.
"I once told you that if your talent is used for evil, it will be a disaster for mankind." Urushihara Ritsu said deeply:
“And the principal’s experience just proves this point.”
In the previous timeline, Urushihara Ritsu, Lorenzo, and Juliu, almost all of the world's top strong men, died at the hands of the principal. Anson Lu was indeed unable to refute this statement.
"You're right, but I won't make the same mistake as him." When Anson Lu said this, a flash of rage flashed across his dark brown eyes, and his voice gradually became deeper:
"Absolutely... not."
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