Then they rose into the sky
The raging fire and high temperature were even more painful than the suffocating thick smoke.
The young girl Connie struggled on the stake of the stake.
In order to make her family's life better, she made some mechanical gadgets to plow the land, but her parents reported her as a "witch" for a bag of food.
She was stripped of her work apron, put on a loose, ragged black robe, and put on a stake for execution.
She was still young, and it was impossible for her to truly understand the meaning behind the execution of witches. The reasons were not simply fear, anger and rejection of religious heresy. The heavy and unshakable weight of the past few hundred years was a group of people succumbing to ignorance for the sake of their inflated desires and power.
"I knew something was wrong with her! How could a woman tinker with machines that the church had strictly warned against? She must have made a deal with the devil!"
"Her looks have seduced many of us good guys, and she always rejects our advances! She is definitely not a good person!"
"My father died of excessive drinking the night before yesterday. I saw her washing clothes by the river that night. She must have done it!"
"Burn this damn witch!"
"I heard that the witch will also spread the Black Death! She will kill us all! Burn her to death!"
Insults and slander were intertwined into a big web. From time to time, someone picked up stones and threw torches at Connie on the stake.
The stars embraced the sunset, and flames rose from Connie's feet. Through the blazing flames, she saw the cold light of the sharp knife and the twisted, dark and oppressive crowd. There were her parents, the girl who worked with her, and the boy who pursued her... People held hoes, sickles and other farm tools and dung forks and torches, looking fierce and angry, and every face terrified her.
Obviously, she did nothing... She just wanted her parents to farm the land with less effort and still have enough to eat after paying taxes to their landowners.
Is this wrong? Why is this wrong?
She raised her head, and the boundless starry sky gave her tenderness.
She was too tired and in too much pain, but the cry rolled over her tongue and immediately turned into a shrill, mocking laugh.
That's it, right?
Her short life, her young and moving life, the tattered black robe she was wearing, and herself, would all dissipate in the scorching heat and turn into ashes in the sky, leaving no trace.
Connie was in a trance and heard a lot of horse hoofbeats, the hoofbeats of heavily armored knights.
In the inner world, Wu Ci pushed a pawn on the chessboard.
"Madam, you are saved. If you are willing to gain everyone's respect with your talents, then from today on, we will rebel for the truth under the leadership of a saint!"
The leading heavily-armored knight dismounted and rescued the girl from the stake. His iron armor showed a distinct outline against the light, and he extended a hand to her.
The knights were covered in iron armor.
They have no faces, yet it seems as if all of them have the same face.
The girl Connie used her hands covered with burn marks to pull up the hood of the remaining sparks of the hood to cover her burned face, and then gently placed her hand on the large palm covered with gauntlet of the heavily armored knight.
In the inner world, Lord Silver on the other side of the chessboard tapped his forehead with his fingertips. "Risking your identity and sending cavalrymen to patrol around to save so many useless women when the fiscal expenditure is too high?"
"You can't even save yourself, and you still want to save others? My dear Dextal, you are so kind-hearted." The corners of his mouth curled up in a mocking manner.
The witch was silent.
Now, he could clearly tell that the "Ranger" that Sir Silver was imitating was no longer like a Ranger.
The Ranger was a guy who, when passing through Ipvance, accidentally heard the rumor of missing girls, and would specifically run to find the witch to simulate the identity of "Dextol" to check on the girls' situation and safety. It is impossible for him to say such casual words to comment on women.
Well, now we can be sure that the person you simulate does not necessarily have that person's personality or way of thinking. The simulated thing still has the humanity that Sir Silver has injected into it.
From these casual remarks, we can tell that this is class corruption and ignorance.
High and low, nobles and commoners, slaves, men and women.
After thinking about this, Wu Ci said to Lord Yin indifferently, "I admit that I have some preference for them, but if I have to pay such a price to save them, it means that their own abilities are enough to offset my price."
"Do you think this is a game of risking a small fortune?" Silver Lord smiled and pushed the chess piece. "Then you will definitely lose miserably."
"That may not be the case." Wu Ci pushed the chess piece.
On the chessboard, the two chess pieces are still many squares away from each other, but the ranger in the surface world has already succeeded.
[The ranger found the church's spiritual stone storage point and triggered the paper crane to transmit the message]
[You locate the location by using the mark you left on the paper crane in advance, and personally meet the ranger to sweep away all the special spirit stones.]
【Temple of Wrath】
[The energy problem of spacecraft has been solved and things are gradually getting back on track]
It sounds like good news, but the two pieces on the chessboard did not meet, which means it has no impact on Silver Lord.
He asked curiously, "What's the point of this, Dexter? I know everything about you. Do you really believe that letting those women fly around in the sky will make people rebel against my authority?"
"Power can only be broken by another kind of power, and then the mind can be reshaped. People only need to complete their own work, and I will do the rest."
As they talked, Wuci pushed a chariot-like [Rook] forward, and the black [Soldier] also approached Sir Silver's [Soldier].
Before the troops were dispatched, carriages and horses went ahead, carrying supplies and fodder to maintain military needs.
[You obtained the Crusaders from the Rangers and incorporated them into the Cavalry Regiment, temporarily providing them with their daily necessities and equipment.]
[The scarcity of resources forces you to decide not to hide anymore, and to take the initiative to provoke a war, to fight to support the war, to rely on burning and looting the nobles to maintain the needs of the army, and, you, who are sinister and cruel, spread the evil spirit]
[The Temple is not worried about losing the Concentrated Spirit Stone that can control the Knights, but your actions have caused a large number of casualties in the army and the death of a large number of innocent civilians.]
Sir Silver lifted up a white chess piece and crushed Wuci's pawn into powder from above, eating the piece and occupying its position. "You don't care about the casualties of the army or the people? Judging from your behavior, I thought you would care a little."
"I don't want casualties, I just want dark stars." Wu Ci pushed the strongest chess player, the Queen, "Sometimes, you have to pay a price for something more important."
You attacked the Solomon Empire.
[You entered the capital of the Solomon Empire]
【Emperor Pitelei II voluntarily abdicates】
Lord Silver made his move, and Wu Ci moved the Queen aside to avoid the danger of the Queen being "eaten".
The Queen has the fewest restrictions on her moves. She is the strongest piece, but also the easiest to capture. There is only one, so it is very important to preserve her.
However, Wu Ci had never intended to sacrifice the position of the emperor of the Solomon Empire.
[You rejected the emperor's proposal, but asked the emperor for a title and the largest territory, preferably the entire Solomon Empire]
[The emperor, who was placed on a knight's sword, had his head pushed into the newly invented toilet of the witches and flushed more than ten times. He "voluntarily" appointed you as a duke. The territory of the Solomon Empire is your fiefdom, and you can enjoy the vassalage and taxes of all the nobles in the Solomon Empire.]
Playing this kind of chess requires a very high level of brain computing power. Wu Ci believes that no matter how good he is, he cannot compare to the Silver Lord on the other side, who can be described as having "rule-based consciousness".
As for chess, he was a beginner who only understood the rules, not to mention… His consciousness was divided into two parts. One part had to consume a lot of brain power to control the simulated body with a completely different time flow rate, and he also had to endure the pain of the demonic energy erosion to calculate the data of those spaceships…
Ever since Wu Ci made the decision to spread the evil spirit, the evil spirit he refined with the Golden Lotus Buckle given by Tianzun has become increasingly dense. In order not to affect the people and turn into evil spirits, causing his heroic deeds to go unspread, he stored all the evil spirit everyone in the body he simulated, relying on the power of the "Heavenly Scripture" and the Golden Lotus Buckle to forcibly suppress it from erupting.
These evil spirits have affected his thinking. He becomes drowsy whenever he thinks and overlooks some key points.
Therefore, when it was sent to the inner world, the remaining brain power of the original body was very limited, and it had to bear the pain from the other side and the confused thoughts caused by the different speed of time flow all the time.
However, he cannot just stare at the chessboard when playing chess. He also has to consider the security of the simulated identity and the surface world and coordinate the variables of both sides.
This results in limitations everywhere. No matter how precise the calculations are, loopholes cannot be avoided. The only thing to do is to spend more brain power to find ways to hide those loopholes and fill them with other chess pieces and moves.
Wu Ci felt that his brain was overloaded, and it was heating up through his skin and bones like a computer mainframe, with the hot blood flowing through his body.
He pushed his piece forward, taking advantage of the risk of the Silver Lord's piece advancing.
Power already exists... now all that remains is ignorance... we must first break down the deep-rooted concepts of ignorance.
The area behind the King is left empty, and the chess pieces in front of him are pushed forward one by one, replacing defense with offense.
[You issued a decree, requiring people to take a bath on time, not allowing the dumping of excrement everywhere, and building public bathrooms]
[You issued a decree to encourage women to abandon their corsets and work in all walks of life like men]
[You issued a decree to enact a labor law to improve social welfare]
[You issued a decree to gradually reduce the rights of the nobility]
Too hasty, too hasty... too hasty. If you touch the cake of the nobles, you will inevitably suffer backlash even if you have the power.
But Wuci has no way to stop the progress. The only result of stopping the progress is that the [King] will be eaten.
"You care too much about people. No matter how cruel your actions are, you can't cover this up." Lord Silver put down his chess piece, captured Wu Ci, the strongest chess piece standing in front of the King, and approached the King directly, saying in a lazy tone of a knight, "But I'm more curious about the magic energy. Did you get it from Si Chen?"
"Alas, my dear Dextol, it did rely on these demonic energies that came from nowhere to compete with us for the authority of the Heavenly Dao and obtain the Xuanling position, but did it tell you that it itself cannot control these things, so it has become neither a human nor a god. Even if it ascends to the Xuanling position, it is just a false god."
Before the words were spoken here, Sir Silver had already brought down a miracle on the surface world through the intervention of chess pieces.
The nobles and the remnants of the church joined forces to "eat" all of Wuci's cavalry.
Yes...
With Wuci losing his [Queen], all the cavalry, including the Crusaders, who had practiced the simplified and quick version of the Heavenly Starvation Sutra, were trapped in a valley and easily wiped out by a miracle performed by Sir Silver.
"This is the charm of chess and betting. Even if there are restrictions on rules, I can still perform my miracles."
Lord Silver smiled and said, "Look, everything has its own rules. These rules should be managed by us, the mysterious spirits. What can Si Chen do? Not to mention you?"
He made a definition, "Don't let it use you, Dextal. I know you like humans, but Si Chen only wants to destroy the world for the sake of power."
Wu Ci noticed the words that Sir Silver emphasized. He did not use "He" to describe Tianzun, nor even "he" or "she" to describe people. Instead, he used "it" to describe other creatures, inanimate objects, rules, or beasts.
Sir Silver was indifferent to his attention and continued in his chivalrous tone, "My dear Dextal, you know very well that humans are very strange creatures. They always have some sinful thoughts. This is also the meaning of my existence, ignorance and class.
If I don’t suppress them, if I don’t keep them ignorant and ignorant, and only know how to follow my instructions and do everything I say, they will definitely become a mess, destroy themselves, and destroy this world that gave birth to us.”
"Si Chen has too much humanity. He is selfish and greedy. He will never be satisfied with just the position of a mysterious spirit. Dextal, I hope you can understand that he is a despicable thief and an ambitious robber. He wants to get everything."
Wu Ci paused before making his move.
Why does it feel like Lord Silver is brainwashing him? Isn't this skill exclusive to the Tianzun faction? Everyone can do it, right?
He touched his scalding forehead and exhaled with difficulty, trying to calm his overloaded brain for a moment. He whispered, "I will judge right and wrong. No need to remind me."
"Don't be so defensive, relax, dear, if I'm right, you're from the future timeline, right? Dexter?
I think, in the later timeline, Si Chen must have succeeded in seizing the Heavenly Dao? Was it Sugu's?
Oh... dear, please think about it, vitality, reproduction and flesh and blood, after it obtained this heavenly way, did the birth rate of that timeline decrease? Did most people begin to abandon flesh and blood?"
Lord Yin was obviously meaningful. "Everything has its own necessity. For example, Madam Anhun makes the soul peaceful, I make people obedient, and Lord Fangfei makes the climate change... After Si Chen gets our Heavenly Dao, the future timeline will be even worse."
He pointed at the chess pieces on the board. His [Queen] was only inches away from capturing Wuci's [King].
"Look, after listening to it, you are almost completely corroded by the evil spirit, right?"
Wu Ci ignored it and exchanged chess pieces, castling the king and the rook.
Castling, a special rule in addition to the moves of each type of chess piece, has more strict rule restrictions and can only be triggered when six conditions are met at the same time.
The goal is to move the king to a safe position and bring the rook into battle.
Seeing this, Lord Silver chuckled, "Oh? Your chess moves are rigid and stiff. You have to take a lot of care to coordinate the two sides. I thought you were a beginner. You even determined the rules based on my first move. Do you know any special rules?"
"But what's the use of this? Even if you escape my checkmate, your body is doomed to die." He pointed at Wu Ci's [King] with some regret, "Look, the evil spirit has corroded you, your blood has conflicted, and your life span has come to an end. This is the rule of death. Even if your soul, which you bet on, does not lose to me, it will belong to Madam Anhun."
Wu Ci remained silent.
Through the chess piece, he saw his simulated identity "Dextol".
He is writing a letter.
—Sitting at the desk in the little white building in Ypresvence, writing letters for the Ranger and Inès.
He was as calm and composed as ever, but he was shrouded in a terrifying demonic aura and a mixture of blood-borne malice. His skin was covered in cracks that looked like it was about to break. It was unknown what kind of transcendent willpower he had to endure and maintain his body in its current state.
He wrote a suicide note, instructing the Ranger and Inès on what to do after his death so that they could help him while still alive.
Actually, you don't need to watch it.
Without looking at Dextal, Wu Ci could sense that the body in which his consciousness resided was dying.
What if he died? Dextal was famous enough that he could die at any time. He could create his own death.
But after Dextal's death, his original body still remained here, and he couldn't let it be trapped here.
Fortunately, when Dextal stopped calculating and controlling, his body could free up more brain computing power and have the energy to deal with Sir Silver's chess game.
It would take careful planning for Wuci to use Dextal's death to help him leave.
He looked at the ranger-like Silver Lord and licked his lips and sharp canine teeth. "Dextol, I will eat your chess piece and get your soul before Lady Requiem."
Wuci moved his King and it just happened to capture Sir Silver's Queen.
"The game isn't over yet, but I think I'll die as soon as possible before you capture the [king]."
Now has come the most critical moment, everything can be used, everything must give way to his goal.
[You agreed to the original witch's request to take all witches on board the unfinished spaceship and attempt to launch it in the capital of the Solomon Empire.]
[You once again extracted your own lifespan, and used the inner circle method of the Heavenly Starve Book to forcibly control all the people in the capital of the Solomon Empire, preaching equality, respect, and rebellion to them]
[The original witch left you a "mechanical heart" before leaving, and opened your rights under the witness of the witches]
[Then, they rose into the sky and exploded into a firework, allowing everyone to see it. Even after death, people can ascend to the so-called realm of God.]
[Your simulated identity "Dextol" has died]
The consciousness that had been suffering from the pain of collapse all the time suddenly relaxed, and Wu Ci raised the corners of his mouth.
In the simulator's prompt, the identity "Dextol" does not have the prefix that every Heroic Spirit has, which means that he has not yet become a Heroic Spirit.
His gamble was a good one.
If the game is not over and the simulated identity dies, the simulation will not end...
Next...he should face Lady Anhun.
If Madam Anhun is also a consciousness that can communicate, then Wu Ci is very sure that he will return before the game is over.
Note:
Chess moves and rules (from Baidu Encyclopedia)
The chess pieces on both sides are: King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight and Pawn.
There is one for the king and queen, two each for the chariot, bishop and knight, and eight for the pawns.
King (K): can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, but can only move one move at a time. The king cannot give away food, that is, the king cannot move to any square controlled by the enemy. Otherwise, it is considered a "giving away the king" foul, and the game will be judged as a loss if it happens three times. (1) Except when castling, the king can move to any adjacent square that is not attacked by the opponent's chess piece, and can only move one move. (2) Castling is a move made by the king and any of the king's rooks together, which is still considered a move by the king.
Queen (Q): Can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, with no limit on the number of moves, but cannot jump over other pieces. It is the piece with the fewest restrictions and is the strongest.
Rook (R): Can move horizontally or vertically, with no limit on the number of steps, but cannot move diagonally. Cannot cross other pieces except when castling.
Bishop (B): can only move diagonally. No limit on the number of squares, cannot cross. At the beginning of the game, each side has two bishops, one occupying a white square and one occupying a black square.
Knight (N): Each move is to move horizontally or vertically one square first, then diagonally one square outwards; or to move diagonally one square first, then horizontally or vertically one square outwards (i.e., to form a "sun" shape). It can jump over other pieces, and there is no "stuck horse leg" restriction as in Chinese chess.
Pawn (P): can only move forward straight, one square at a time. But when making the first move, it can move one or two squares. The way a pawn captures pieces is different from the direction of movement. It moves straight and diagonally, that is, if there is an opponent's piece in the diagonal square of the pawn, it can capture it and occupy that square.
Special rules
In addition to the general moves of chess pieces, there are three special moves in chess:
Capturing a passing pawn: If the opponent's pawn moves two squares forward for the first time, and your pawn happens to be closely aligned with it horizontally, your pawn can immediately move diagonally forward to capture the opponent's pawn, and it will be considered a move. This action must be performed immediately, and delaying it will be invalid. It is recorded as "en passant" or "en pt", which means "passing by" in French.
Pawn promotion: When any of your pawns reaches the opponent's bottom line, it can be promoted to any type of chess piece except the "king" and "pawn". It can be promoted to "queen", "rook", "horse" or "elephant". This is considered a move. After the promotion, the game moves according to the rules of the new chess piece.
Castling: In each game, each player has one chance to move the king's rook two squares in the direction of the king's rook, and then place the rook over the king and onto a square next to the king as a move performed by the king. Castling is divided into "long castling" (queenside castling, recorded as 0-0-0) and "short castling" (kingside castling, recorded as 0-0) according to left and right. Castling is a relatively important strategy in chess, involving two pieces, the king and the rook, and is a means of turning the situation around or solving a counterattack at a critical moment.
Castling has strict rules and restrictions. It can only be performed when and only when the following six conditions are met at the same time:
1. The king and the rook used for casting have never been moved (that is, the king and the rook are in their original positions at the beginning of the game, the king is at e1 or e8, and the rook is at a1, a8, h1 or h8. However, if the king or the rook used for casting has been moved before and then returned to its original position, "castling" cannot be performed because it does not meet the "never moved" requirement);
2. There is no other piece between the king and the rook used for casting;
3. The king cannot be "checked" by the opponent (ie "castling" cannot be used as a means of "checking");
4. The squares that the king passes through cannot be within the attack range of the opponent's chess pieces;
5. The square that the king reaches cannot be "checked" by the opponent (ie the king cannot send food);
6. The king and the corresponding rook must be in the same row (ie the rook obtained by the promotion of a pawn cannot be used for "castling"). [Note: This rule was added by the International Chess Federation in 1972 to prevent this situation: Imagine a game of chess, assuming that the white king has not moved since the beginning of the game and is in the e1 position. If the white player successfully moves a pawn to the e8 position of the opponent's bottom line and promotes it to a rook (see the pawn promotion rule), and is in the same vertical row as the king, and meets the above conditions 1 to 5, then casting can also be performed (because rule 1 stipulates that the corresponding rook has not been moved, and the promoted rook has indeed not moved, and the previous move is performed by the pawn). Max Pam discovered this move, and it has been used by chess players in competitions. In order to prevent such moves that are not commonly approved but do comply with the regulations from happening, the International Chess Federation added this rule.
There are some misunderstandings about the rules of casting. Here is a clarification. Everything is subject to the above 6 points. Castling is allowed when the above rules are met and the following conditions occur:
1. Wang Weizheng was "generaled", but he had been "generaled" before;
2. The rook used for casting is under attack from the opponent;
3. In long casting, the squares passed by the rook are within the opponent's attack range.
The above three points do not affect the King-Rook Castling. [Note: When making a move in a game, the King must be moved first, then the Rook. Otherwise, it will be judged as a Rook move, and the King-Rook Castling will be invalid.]
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