Chapter 58 Twins
The lights went out completely at this moment, and the entire Roppongi EX Theater was swallowed up by the giant beast called "Darkness". Only a faint candlelight was left swaying on the stage, and the weird dancing shadow of the spider demon was projected on the wall.
"It's really hellish..." Ji Minghuan thought.
He stood in the audience passage leading to the stage, with audience seats on both sides.
The stone statue of the queen protected him, the cold flame burning in her pupils flickered.
He was alert to any movement in the huge theater. He could clearly see the shadows on the wall moving, but he couldn't find the spider's limbs in the darkness. He could only hear a rustling sound.
At this moment, Ji Minghuan released Tianqu from his body, and a black and white ring formed around him.
He raised his hand to touch the rotating chess pieces, and directly summoned all the remaining chess pieces - three soldier statues, a cannon cart statue, and a king statue.
The reason why there are two extra soldier stone statues is because Ji Minghuan developed the "Recruit Soldiers" skill in the skill tree and obtained two brand new soldier chess pieces.
The Black Iron Soldiers raised their swords and half-knelt beside him; the cannon cart statue was loading shells with a rattling sound coming from the gun barrel; the king statue stood there like a cripple, motionless, holding the scepter high.
As the SkyDrive unfolded, Ji Minghuan now had a "bird's-eye view" in his mind - he seemed to be standing on the ceiling, overlooking the central area of the EX Theater.
It's like a chess player watching what's happening on the board.
The observation range of this perspective is a circle with itself as the center and a radius of thirty meters. At the same time, Ji Minghuan's chess style is only allowed to move within this circle. In other words, this circle is equivalent to a "chessboard" - the chess player can observe the overall picture of the chessboard at any time, but can only control his own chess pieces on the chessboard.
Once the chess piece goes beyond the range of the chessboard, it will automatically return to the black and white ring on its side.
The only chess game that can transcend this rule is "Queen's Colossus".
Ji Minghuan had just experimented with it himself, and the result was consistent with Xia Pingzhou's memory: the Queen could continue to act even if she left the range of the "chessboard", so she could clear the monitors in the theater one by one.
As the "King's Colossus" appeared in the audience passage, a black and white light rose from its scepter and turned into an invisible barrier that enveloped Ji Minghuan's body.
This is the special power of the King Colossus: as long as it remains on the "chessboard" and is not destroyed, the chess player will not be harmed at any level.
With the protection of the King's Colossus, Ji Minghuan can naturally use the "chessboard perspective" to see the overall situation without any worries.
There was a hazy blackness in his vision, and the sight of his eyes became a burden to him. So he simply closed his eyelids and relied on the "chessboard perspective" in his mind to perceive the changes in the theater.
As if wearing night vision goggles, he could clearly see every detail in the darkness. The body of the spider demon sometimes slid across the ceiling, and sometimes crawled across the audience seats in the northwest direction... Her whereabouts were elusive, wandering around like a phantom, and no one knew from which direction she would attack.
The hoarse singing voice still floated and echoed in the theater: "Although the two butterflies are separated, the heart is still one." She sang the classic lines from the Kabuki "Shuangcho na Kurin Diary", which tells the story of the tragic love between twin sisters.
The singing was also interspersed with the crisp sound of her limbs twisting and connecting with each other: click, click...
Ji Minghuan remained unmoved.
He silently thought about countermeasures. Every time the Queen Colossus made its body vanish, it needed a buffer time of about 10 seconds.
Letting the Queen use "Nullification" to protect the King's Colossus is naturally an option.
But this is equivalent to cutting off one's own arm, because the queen is the strongest fighting force among the four basic chess types. Chess players cannot just focus on defense, sometimes offense is the best defense.
The next moment, the figure of the spider demon suddenly appeared in the chessboard perspective.
She hung upside down on the ceiling above Ji Minghuan's head with a spider silk, and attacked him, her body falling downward, pressing down on Ji Minghuan's head like a deformed mountain.
"The gun carriage."
Seizing this moment, the black iron gun carriage gently twisted the barrel and aimed it at the sky above Ji Minghuan.
With a loud bang, the dark shell shot out from the barrel and hit the demon in mid-air in an instant. The flames exploded like fireworks.
The spider demon screamed, and the hoarse croon was replaced by a piercing high-decibel cry.
The flames flowed through her dense fur, gradually climbing up her body. Every limb of her body was twisting and twitching, making annoying "firecracker" sounds.
At this time, the spider demon was only one meter away from Ji Minghuan.
The explosion happened in such a dangerous location. Logically, Ji Minghuan should have been involved in it. The best outcome would be that he would be burned to death. However, his body was protected by the king, and naturally remained unscathed under the blessing of the black and white barrier.
Taking advantage of the victory, Ji Minghuan drove the giant statue of the queen, stepped on the audience seats, jumped up, and shot towards the ceiling.
She spun her body like a dancing swan, using the momentum to pull herself together. The two daggers in her hands danced out a clear arc, forming a sharp full moon.
"Hiss--" The spider demon in the air suddenly opened its mouth and spit out a huge amount of spider silk from its mouth, instantly wrapping its body into a cocoon.
This action not only extinguished the flames on her body, but also resisted the pursuit of the Queen's colossus - the Queen's double daggers only scratched grooves on the cocoon, and the sticky spider silk cushioned a lot of the impact force, like a circular swamp, the more force you apply, the deeper you will sink.
"Don't make a cocoon, cut the spider silk that is hanging her." Ji Minghuan observed and gave orders from a global perspective.
So before the queen was pulled towards the audience seats by gravity, she threw the dagger in her right hand with her backhand.
With a gust of chilly wind, the tip of the dagger drew a silver path in the air, cutting the spider silk hanging the giant cocoon.
A shrill cry echoed throughout the theater, and the spider cocoon tumbled and fell from the air.
And right below it, three black iron soldiers were ready for battle.
The soldier colossi held up huge swords, with the tips of their swords pointed directly at the spider cocoon falling from the sky, just like ancient soldiers readying themselves to stab a lone enemy with their spears, bound to pierce the demon in the cocoon with holes.
However... just when Ji Minghuan thought he had it all figured out, suddenly a deformed giant appeared in his view of the chessboard.
He was suddenly startled, opened his eyes and looked up - he saw a monster crawling on the ceiling that looked exactly like the spider demon, but on his head was a man's face instead of a woman's face. The only thing was that the expressions on both faces were twisted and hideous, like a demon that had just been fished out of the sulfur spring of hell.
"Spider Demon...more than one?" Ji Minghuan muttered to himself as he watched the scene.
Only then did he suddenly recall the Kabuki line that the spider demon had just sung: "Although the two butterflies are separated, their hearts remain one..." It turned out that her lyrics had already hinted that there was a pair of twin demons living inside the theater.
At this moment, the Queen had just fallen from mid-air, and the soldiers were surrounding the spider cocoons that fell from the sky. The second round of shells in the artillery carriage had not yet been reloaded.
So the king's statue was in a helpless situation.
Another spider demon quietly descended from the darkness, spinning its eight claws and swooping towards the king while screaming.
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