"As you know, I came to India about three years ago for business reasons, and although it has been devastated by the British for countless years, it is still a magical land of gold. ”

"And after a period of running-in, I finally began to get acquainted with the land, and that was when I became acquainted with the Atlantean remnants. ”

"I won't go into the details of what happened, it's legendary, but that's not the point, as Jim told you, I helped them in their most critical moments, and that gave me the highest trust. ”

"You seem to like helping people," said Leard, "and I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Anthony when my grandmother died. ”

Pym tilted his head and thought about it, and then smiled: "It turned out to be that guy, after you said that, we really haven't seen each other for many years..."

Not wanting to touch his father's heart, Lird shifted the conversation back to the Atlantean family.

"According to Jim, you devised a plan to help the Atlantean aliens get out of the war, but a mistake in executing the plan has left you with the kind of injuries you are now. ”

Pym nodded and said abruptly, "Yes, this is my omission, but fortunately, the result is not particularly bad. ”

"Not bad?" said Lird, surprised.

"Isn't it bad that you've become like this now?" said Lird excitedly.

Pym gently patted the back of Leard's bulging palm and said, "Don't get excited, my child, although you are still very young and in a time when you are easily excited, now you must learn to control your emotions, only by controlling your emotions can you see and solve things rationally." ”

Lird breathed a long sigh of relief, although he still couldn't let go of what his father said, but now was not the time to dwell on this, and Liard's heart was constantly telling himself not to lose his reason.

Seeing that his son's mood was better, Pym said to him, "But even then I didn't have access to the core secrets here, and if I knew all this, it can only be regarded as providence." ”

Lird looked at his father's rather excited expression and listened quietly, and he was also quite curious about this so-called providence at this time.

Pym said: "A year ago, the previous priest of the Atlantean remnant passed away, and the new priest succeeded him, and it was in that more chaotic situation that I discovered the secrets hidden in this people. ”

Hearing this, Lird's heart beat rapidly unconsciously, and he realized that this time he was about to come into contact with the true truth.

Pym pauses somewhat mischievously at this, and then asks Lird a seemingly unrelated question.

"Do you know how to play chess?"

Lierde was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then nodded and said, "I know a little bit about it, you forgot, you still taught me the basic rules of chess." ”

Pym smiled and nodded, and then said: "Of course I haven't forgotten, in fact, I am a chess enthusiast, although my chess skills are not exquisite, but because I have been watching music games all year round, I have memorized some routine moves in my mind, so in the eyes of some people, I am also half a master." ”

Lird smiled lightly, "Does this have anything to do with your discovery of the secrets of the Atlantean remnants?"

Pym nodded, "Of course, because I played against God once." ”

Playing against God?

Pym's words startled Lird, and then Lird said, "The god you speak of is the new successor sacrifice?"

Pym shook his head and said, "As I said, there are two kinds of gods in my eyes, [thought] and [power], and it does not refer to someone specifically, but it is [power] that comes into contact with me. ”

Lird swallowed a mouthful of spit, still not quite understanding his father's explanation, so he listened silently.

Pym said: "I wanted to say some comforting words to the new priest that day, and I went to her residence at the agreed time, but for some reason the priest was not there at that time, and the guard by the door was not there. Now that I think about it, this kind of thinking makes no sense, and the reason why I did this kind of thing at that time was really a bit of a ghost. ”

"When I entered the tent, I hesitated, but I thought that since I had already walked in, there was no reason to quit, and if I did so, it seemed that I had a weak heart, so I decided to stay. ”

"However, there was still something strange in my heart at that time, and I couldn't calm my emotions, so in order to calm my emotions, I decided to play a game of chess alone to relieve this feeling. I always carry a miniature chess box with me, so I can use it to pass the time of boredom wherever I go. ”

So I went to the table and prepared to play a game with myself to pass the time, and it was this game that made me make an amazing discovery. ”

"I didn't notice that there was a huge slate on the table, or I didn't care about it at the time, it was just some kind of decoration, and my attention was more on the game. ”

"I played that game very closely, which is also a situation that I often have when I play chess with myself, because I am too familiar with my own chess routines, so some tricks and tricks can be easily solved. ”

"But in the end I used White's piece to hold Black's piece, and I couldn't come up with a way to turn Black into a winner, so I decided in my heart that White would win. ”

As he said this, Pym's face began to twist exaggeratedly, as if he had recalled something extremely shocking, and Lird's heart suddenly tightened with the change in his father's expression.

Fortunately, Pym's expression quickly recovered, and after a while, he said in a relatively flat tone: "After that... Just as I was about to reset the pieces, one of the bishops on the black side suddenly moved. ”

Learde was stunned when he heard this, although he was prepared in his heart, he still did not expect such a strange thing to happen, and asked in disbelief: "You said that the bishop moved, and he moved it himself?"

Pym nodded and said, "That's right, it's the chess piece itself, which suddenly lifts up, and then freezes down." ”

Lird was silent for now, and though he didn't see the scene, he still felt a strong coldness spread down his spine.

The chess pieces moved without permission, and even if such a scene was told by his father, Lird still couldn't imagine it.

He could only swallow his saliva continuously, trying to calm his heart. Lird wanted to ask his father if he was dazzled and mistaken at the time, but how could his father be wrong when he thought about such a thing?

Pym said: "At that time, I was stunned for a moment, at that time I only thought that I was dazzled and wrong, but from the bottom of my heart there was already a sense of fear, but when I carefully observed the chess game, I was completely shocked, because the bishop was definitely not placed by my consciousness, I thought that the position of the bishop was very clever, and this move alone led to a turn for the whole chess game!"

"Ahh

If it is said that the unauthorized movement of the chess pieces is caused by some kind of force, it is acceptable, but the situation of the chess game changes when it is a close move, which is really unbelievable, and the probability of this kind of accident is really too low.

Pym said: "At that time, I was really stupid by the scene in front of me, I never thought that the chess pieces would find a way out of the game by themselves, and at that moment I even suspected that my chess pieces had cultivated themselves to perfection." ”

But I didn't believe in this idea in the end, because no matter what, the chess pieces will never have their own independent thoughts, otherwise the world would have been chaotic. And my thoughts at the time were still to blame myself for this, I thought that I had a mental problem, and I played chess by myself in the dark, but I didn't realize it. ”

"In order to prove my idea, I tried my best to control my mind and reason, and put all my attention on my hands, and then attacked again with white. ”

"And this time I realized that I was not mistaken!"

"The black chariot thrust forward, knocking out one of my Praetorian Guards, who rolled off the board at a very tricky angle, and that scene... Really..."Pym sighed softly, apparently unable to find a word to describe the situation even now.

Lird was completely silent, he looked at his father, and there was doubt in his eyes, he did not believe that such a thing could happen anyway, because it was completely contrary to the conventions of the world and the state of science, and Lird could not believe that such a thing could happen without any contact with any objects.

But the father's memories continue.

"I was really completely stunned this time, because I was trying to control myself, and I was sure that I would never do anything like that, and I couldn't have made such a quick judgment of the situation, and even if there were two personalities in my body, they couldn't have exchanged so quickly in such a short period of time. ”

Then I fell out like a madman, and I looked around in a hurry, and I thought that someone had crept in and had done this prank with me, but there was no one in the tent, and I looked around the room, and I saw no one. So I had to turn my attention back to the chessboard. Pym's voice trembled slightly, but Lird also heard an incomparable excitement in it.

"After much hesitation, I returned to the table, and the game changed as if nothing had just happened, but I knew that there was a 'person' waiting for me to play. ”

"In the end, I still overcame the courage to go again, and this time the opposite sunspot went out again, and this time I finally completely believed that everything in front of me was not an illusion at all!"

Lird looked at his father, and this time he felt that everything he had heard was an illusion.

Pym said this, stuck out his tongue and licked his parched lips, and then said to Lird with a wry smile: "Can you 'digest' these now?"

Lird nodded stiffly, not making any further statement, except to indicate that he was listening.

Pym didn't expect much from that, he was just a narrator now, and the audience didn't care if he believed what he was saying.

"After going through the same thing three times, even if you go through the fear again, it calms down a bit. By that time, I was in a much better mood, or rather a little used to the strange situation in front of me. At that time, I told myself that I had to finish the game no matter whether I was facing the devil or the transparent person, and it was clear that the 'conscious force' that played chess with me did not mean to hurt me, but only wanted to play chess with me. ”

Pym's words were weird and funny, but no one would laugh out loud at what he was saying, because it wasn't funny when they happened in reality.

"After that, I started to play chess, although it was said to be a game of chess, but at that time my mind was already blank, and I had no way to think about the next move. And the result is undoubtedly undoubted, my white piece was defeated by black chess. ”

"But I failed, but I finally breathed a sigh of relief because I felt like I was finally free. ”

Pym suddenly laughed, and then said: "But I was too naïve to think at the time, just when I thought it was all over, the pieces on the table began to move in full, and before I could react, they quickly returned to 'place', and black and white exchanged with each other, and then the white Janissaries advanced two squares first." ”

When he heard this, Lird felt his spirit break down, and he understood that the so-called chess game was not over, and that no matter what the [power] his father was facing, he always wanted to play another game with his father.

"I was almost breaking down. Pym muttered.

"I tugged at my body in the hope of escaping myself from this dream-like vision, but the pain was still accompanied by the clear chessboard situation, and I knew that what was in front of me was not a dream, or that I could not get out of this 'dream' in this way. ”

"So you... What did you do?" asked Lird in a somewhat hoarse voice.

Pym said, "What can I do? What choice does the situation allow me to make? I can only continue to play chess in fear, otherwise who knows what kind of disaster will befall me?"

Indeed, if this matter were to someone else, they would not have come up with any good way, either choosing to play chess to face it, or fleeing in the wilderness, or fainting in terror.

Now it seems that Pym has chosen the bravest path.