Chapter Twenty-Six: Let's Play a Game of Chess

When Lei Yang opened his eyes again, the outline of something else gradually appeared in the darkness of nothingness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

He was still in a vast area of darkness, and both feet were on the seemingly ethereal black, but the feedback from the soles of his feet was almost a real touch.

Lei Yang looked down at himself, but was surprised to find that the darkness did not obscure his vision in the slightest, as if a beam of light was emitting from his body, and he could clearly see his body.

And the things around them that gradually emerged in outline gradually brightened, and these things were of different shapes, some in the form of strips, some in the form of blocks, some large, some small.

Something of all shapes fills the darkness.

Gradually, their appearance came to full bloom, and their luster began to change - from a monotonous white to a variety of different colors.

The colorful halos of light grew brighter and brighter in the pitch-black space, and later, the lights mixed together and became unusually dazzling!

All of a sudden, the whole space was full of light!

Lei Yang felt a little uncomfortable, so he gently covered his eyes with his hands.

Curious as to what these things were, he left a gap between his fingers through which he could barely see outside......

He saw a treasure in the light.

……

The warm sunlight quickly dispelled the darkness, and the heavy black suddenly dissipated like a mist when it met the warm yellow glow.

Xu Ke and Ike gradually appeared in their eyes a black and white room, from the floor to the wall, and then from the wall to the ceiling, all black and white grids like a chessboard.

The window of the room was leaning against the sun, and the sun's rays could be clearly seen slanting through the window.

Outside the window is a dense forest, and further into the woods, a black sculpture can be faintly seen.

Except for the one wall with the window, there is an identical wooden door on each of the other three walls.

The walls of the wooden doors are also covered with black and white stripes.

Xu Ke and Ike stood in the middle of such a room, with their backs to the window, facing three doors and a ......

Woman.

A very beautiful woman in a long black dress.

The woman stood in front of the middle door, staring at the two of them closely.

Ike looked at this woman with an inexplicable face, and just wanted to open his mouth to ask Xu Ke beside him what the hell was going on.

But before he could speak, he found that Xu Ke's whole body beside him was trembling.

……

Lei Ruoya walked in the darkness blankly, only to find that there was nothing but darkness around them.

She only felt that she had been walking for a long time, and then suddenly she saw a black figure appear in the darkness ahead.

This scene really looked extremely strange - the whole world was black, and it stands to reason that the black shadow should have been completely integrated into it, but Lei Ruoya could strangely see a figure of the same color.

But Lei Ruoya didn't have time to think about it, and when she saw the black shadow, she ran straight towards it.

The shadow didn't move, as if it wasn't aware of Lei Ruoya's arrival.

The black shadow looked like a tall man in a black robe, and he was facing away from Lei Ruoya, without making any sound or making any movements.

Lei Ruoya ran to him, then looked at the gloomy black shadow, and boldly asked him, "Are you the guardian demon here?" ā€

Such an unabashed question is indeed a bit funny, so it is a matter of course......

The dark shadow smiled as it turned its back to Lei Ruoya.

His shoulders shrugged and his body slumped slightly, and a loud laugh erupted in the shadows.

It's just that this laughter sounds as if there is an indescribable gloomy and weird, and the laughter seems to have a cold chill, and Lei Ruoya on the side feels that her hairs are standing on end!

The black shadow laughed for a long time, and then finally stopped the eerie laughter, and turned to Lei Ruoya behind him in a hoarse and ugly voice:

"Human ...... Fresh and delicious human ......"

Although his words were the standard continental language, he spoke intermittently, and there was a palpable stiffness and jerkiness in his words, like a child still babbling......

But the child's voice was still unusually hoarse, and it sounded like something was rubbing against his vocal cords!

"Life...... Life...... I want my life! ā€

The black shadow seemed to suddenly become excited, and his hoarse voice suddenly rose, and then his whole body began to tremble violently!

Lei Ruoya was startled and hurriedly shrank back.

His body continued to squirm as if there was no real gas, and the fluffy black qi burst out from this wriggling body, and his shadow that was originally like a man's body suddenly exploded!

A large mass of black gas floated in the air, condensing......

In the end, it was condensed into a miserable white face!

The black qi ran down the face, slowly hanging down like a door curtain.

The miserable white face was like a demon's mask, sharp fangs protruding from its mouth, and the blood-red face on the mask was staring at Lei Ruoya!

Then the mouth on the mask slowly opened and closed, and said to Lei Ruoya in a hoarse voice:

"Life...... Give me life...... Give me life! ā€

……

Treasure.

Aside from the darkness itself, there seems to be only treasure left in this darkness.

Countless gold coins and nuggets were thrown on the ground like garbage, and all kinds of jewelry were shining brightly even in the dark.

The light of gold and silver was unprecedentedly bright, and Lei Yang could barely open his eyes.

In addition to these ordinary treasures, there are countless weapons and armor lying quietly on the ground.

The color on them is not as bright as that of the treasures, but they are all shining with purple or orange light.

Lei Yang may not know the value of those treasures, but after all, he has been in this game for more than three months, and he knows very well how rare equipment above the purple level is.

However, Lei Yang was only slightly stunned, and then walked over these treasures and equipment without changing his face.

He didn't know what the treasures of the place meant, or what would happen if he picked them up.

The only thing he can remember clearly is that his sister taught him not to pick up random things on the side of the road since he was a child.

Ruoya, she said......

"There are often extremely dangerous traps hidden in the things that are readily available."

A familiar voice suddenly sounded behind Lei Yang, and Lei Yang's whole body trembled visibly when he heard this.

He slowly turned his head, and then saw his sister in the pile of treasure.

My sister was smiling at herself.

……

"Xu Ke, we'll meet again."

The woman is very beautiful, and her voice is very soft and waxy, so that people can't help but want to hold her in their arms and caress her after hearing it.

But after Xu Ke heard this soft and beautiful voice, his whole body trembled.

It took him a long time before he finally calmed down, and he barely raised his head to meet the woman's gaze:

"yes...... We've met many times before in Mammon's Vision, and it took me a lot of effort to get out of your shadows...... Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for us to meet again. ā€

Ike looked at Xu Ke and the woman, his expression was very surprised: "You know each other?" ā€

When the woman heard this, she covered her mouth and chuckled: "Of course I know, but I am ...... What about his first love. ā€

"First ...... First love!? Ike, who is still single, suddenly widened his eyes when he heard this.

Xu Ke suddenly frowned: "What do you mean by appearing here?" Another illusion? Will demons only play tricks like illusions? ā€

The woman giggled, "How can it be just a little trick like a fantasy?" I read your memories and found that the last time you experienced a fantasy was based on your past. The last time you saw me, I was just what you remembered me to be. So, this time I'm going to show you the ...... The way I am now. ā€

Xu Ke was stunned and took a closer look at the woman in front of him.

found that her eyebrows and eyes were indeed much more mature than in her memory, and her once long hair was now coiled on her head.

The sunlight behind him, which obviously belonged to spring, bypassed Xu Ke's body. It hit her in the face, making her look extraordinarily beautiful......

It's like a glamorous elf.

But Xu Ke then shook his head violently, and said to the woman in front of him impatiently: "So what do you mean!?" ā€

"Oh, why are you in such a hurry, isn't it good that we haven't seen each other for so long?" The woman glanced at Xu Ke, "People miss you so much......

"You're not her at all!" Xu Ke replied coldly.

"I really can't help you," the woman sighed, as if helpless, "the rules are simple......

"Kill me, and you'll be able to go to the next room...... Simple, isn't it? ā€

"As long as ...... If you are willing to do it. ā€

……

"Brother, pick up those treasures." The younger sister looked at her brother from afar and said to him with a familiar title.

Lei Yang was silent for a while, and then asked, "...... What to pick up for? ā€

"Pick them up and they'll be ours, it's an innumerable treasure as long as we get it...... What's this game for!? This so-called miracle game I can easily beat the level! At first, there was a familiar sense of frenzy in my sister's eyes.

But at the end, her gaze softened again: "As long as we clear this game, we can go back, right?" Just go back, the two of us...... We'll be together forever. ā€

There were two of us...... We'll be together forever.

Lei Yang felt that his heart was slightly touched.

"Isn't that what you want, brother?"

Lei Ruoya began to walk towards her brother with a bright smile on her face: "Clear this game, and then the two of us will live together forever after we go out...... Don't think about anything else, just forever...... It's good to be together forever. ā€

"So pick it up, these are low-hanging fruit at your fingertips, as long as you bend down slightly......" Lei Ruoya walked in front of Lei Yang, stretched out her right hand and grabbed it in the air, "You can hold everything in your own hands." ā€

"Brother, you have listened to me since you were a child, this time ...... I will tell you, my brother, to pick up all the treasures on the ground. ā€

Lei Yang's eyes widened and he looked at his sister in front of him, and his sister was also looking at him.

As if he had noticed that Lei Yang had been indifferent, his sister slowly stretched out her little hand towards her brother.

Lei Yang thought for a moment......

Then he drew his long knife.

……

Xu Ke seemed to want to step forward after hearing this, but when he just took his right foot, he quickly retracted his foot.

He repeated this several times, and his face was full of hesitation, as if he was engaged in some kind of strong psychological struggle.

Ike on the side couldn't stand it anymore: "Mr. Xu Ke, with all due respect...... The woman in front of her is obviously an illusion......"

"Hehe, even if you know it's fake, but just look at this exact face...... He can't do it either. The woman looked at Xu Ke and Ike and said softly, "He's always been like this." ā€

After hearing this, Ike glanced at Xu Ke, who seemed to be still at war between heaven and man, and found that the other party was obviously silent for a while after hearing this, and then looked at himself: "It's good to let you come in together." ā€

Xu Ke paused when he said this, and said in an unusually heavy tone as if he had made a decision, "Go kill her, Ike." ā€

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ I? Ike was stunned for a moment, then glanced uncertainly at the woman standing in front of the door.

The woman seemed to be watching them, too.

"Yes, it's you, you don't know her anyway, and ......" Xu Ke's voice suddenly became hoarse, and his tone began to become a little weird, "You also know that she is just an illusion." ā€

Ike was silent for a moment, and out of nowhere he pulled out a long knife.

"Then I'm going to split it like that?" He clenched the long knife and looked up to ask Xu Ke's opinion.

Xu Ke was stunned, and then nodded unusually resolutely:

"Hmm...... Just slash it over! ā€

……

The long knife pierced through her sister's slender waist, and her sister's little hand did not fall on Lei Yang's body after all.

Blood gushed from the wound and fell into the darkness of the ground, but it didn't know where it had splashed again.

"Ruoya once said to me: Saint Seiya will not be defeated twice by the same move, not to mention that this move actually didn't work for me the first time."

After Lei Yang said this, he slowly raised his head.

But the scene that fell into his eyes shocked him!

Although it has been pierced through the waist, my sister is still smiling...... Still smiling at him.

The smiling sister whispered to him, "No matter how uncreative you are, I won't use the same move on you twice." I didn't expect this trick to solve you, it's just ......"

"It's just an appetizer."

At the end, my sister's face suddenly exploded with a "bang"!

Her entire body seemed to melt and dissolve at this moment, turning into endless black qi!

The black qi rolled and condensed in front of Lei Yang, quickly forming the appearance of a person!

When that person was finally condensed, Lei Yang's eyes widened exaggeratedly!

Because he was in that black air......

See yourself!

……

Ike's knife slashed down!

He didn't even use his fighting spirit, so he easily cut the woman into two pieces from the waist!

A large puddle of blood shot out from the woman's severed body!

After seeing this, Xu Ke's pupils also shrank to the size of a needle tip at that moment!

But he quickly shook his head, went straight over the two bodies, ignored the woman on the ground who was still moaning, and pulled up the pale Ike and pushed open the wooden door in the middle.

The black and white wooden door was easily pushed open by Xu Ke, and the two of them walked over quickly without looking at the situation behind the door, as if there was something extremely terrible in the room behind them.

But when he actually walked out of the wooden door, Ike's face turned strange.

He subconsciously said, "Oh...... What the hell! ā€

Behind this wooden door......

It's the same room as before!

The floor, the walls, the windows, the view from the windows, and the three wooden doors on the walls......

Everything seems to be the same as the previous room!

and in the middle of the room......

"Xu Ke, we'll meet again." It's that soft voice again.

The middle of the room...... Still standing with that woman!

……

"Human ...... Adventurer...... Fresh life ......"

The face floating in the air was muttering something indistinctly, and Lei Ruoya looked at it with a strange expression.

His pale face floated in the air, and he looked as if he had no head. Black air came down its face like a curtain, like some kind of weird sunny day doll in ancient Japanese culture.

"Hey, you demon isn't here to scare people, is it!? You have to make a way out of what you want to do! Why is it scary there!? ā€

After hearing Lei Ruoya's complaint, the miserable white face seemed to be excited, and began to float wildly in the air.

"Life! Life! Life! Like a child who has found a toy, he begins to repeat a word out loud.

Then the black curtain under its face suddenly opened, and countless black qi slowly descended from the black curtain.

The black qi sank strangely to the ground, and then began to churn and condense in front of Lei Ruoya and the evil face.

Most of the pure black gas transforms into a square black and white plate, while the other part flutters on the plate and is divided into two sides......

They are condensed into black and white!

Once again, the two colors are subdivided, each divided into sixteen cones of different shapes!

Lei Ruoya looked at everything in front of her in surprise, and suddenly felt the plate in front of her......

It's clearly a chessboard!

And those on the plate on the cone......

Exactly the pieces on the chessboard!

After seeing this scene, the face became even happier, and it began to open its mouth to make a sound:

"Chess...... Play chess...... Life...... Wager! ā€

"Playing chess...... Play chess...... Play chess! Let's play chess! (To be continued.) )