Destoria smiled slightly, and the huge golden pendulum slowly rose from behind her to the sky, swinging violently from side to side, like Big Ben at noon, spreading out the bells that resounded throughout the world.

As the pendulum swayed, a circle of mercury light like ripples fell over the entire valley of fire, enveloping everything that was still, including the Anson deer.

His face was cold, his body couldn't move, but his mind was thinking.

…… Pendulum.

…… Mistoria is the name of the Headmaster's time-traveling chess piece.

Her abilities are related to the pendulum.

I have to write it down, and maybe I'll draw the relevant pieces in the future.

Anson Lu had previously judged through super-intuition that the time-traveling chess piece was the principal's "infinite advanced chess piece".

Now that he has chosen the Queen Stone Statue as the "Infinite Advanced Chess Player", he is naturally not sure if he will be able to gain the ability to travel through time like the Headmaster in the future.

No matter what, Anson Deer didn't intend to leave a way out for himself.

For him, this timeline is the only chance left for him.

Lost, the world is destroyed.

Win and usher in new hope.

As Anson Lu pondered, his body was gradually engulfed in the mercury light scattered by the pendulum, as if he had been immersed in a deep silver ocean, and his mouth and nose were clogged with coagulated liquid.

[The chess type "Anson Deer" has released the skill - time rewind. 】

Sick of it......

So what exactly is this chess piece for......

Anson Deer soon lost his breath, his eyes darkened, and his consciousness fell into a drowsiness.

After some time, he lifted his heavy eyelids.

What greeted him was a rooftop, and Anson Lu held his drowsy forehead, and a pain that seemed to be about to tear apart filled his mind, forcing him to lift his spirits.

He stared blankly ahead, staring intently.

There is no doubt that he is very familiar with this rooftop, which is the high school building of Shangshi High School, where he often chatted with the crows when the union base was still in Shangshi.

It was dusk, the sky was pale yellow and ultramarine, and a thick gray fog drifted through the town, obscuring most of Anson Deer's vision, allowing him to see only the interior of Shangshi High School.

The school looked as if it had been abandoned for a long, long time, crawling everywhere with lizard-like moss, and the steel school sign at the entrance was covered with a thick layer of black rust, and the rust spread hideously, even the walls around the school sign were infected, as if they were flooded with mud.

“…… What's going on? Anson Deer muttered under his breath.

This scene is not like a hallucination, not like a scene woven by the system, every detail shocks his senses, constantly reminding him that it is real and never false.

Every time Anson Lu came back from the dungeon, he would confirm the situation in Shangshi City as soon as possible, and he was very sure in his heart that the school would not become like this overnight.

Intuition goes hand in hand with thinking, allowing him to draw conclusions very quickly – here...... Perhaps in the distant future.

"Long time no see."

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind him, interrupting Anson Lu's thoughts.

He jerked his head back and stared at the headmaster and the girl beside him, Sistoria, both of whom looked very calm, the girl hiding her mouth and a playful smile on her face.

The corners of Anson Lu's mouth twitched slightly, and he was silent for a long time before asking:

"Old man, headmaster, why did you go?"

"Dead." The headmaster said lightly, and he felt in the pocket of his suit jacket, as if he wanted to get a cigarette, but the pocket was empty, there was no cigarette, and there was no lighter.

Sistoria took out a cigarette out of nowhere and handed it to the headmaster with a smile: "The last cigarette in my life, enjoy it......" After a pause, she said quietly, "Oh no, strictly speaking, we are no longer human." ”

He's dead?

Not a human anymore?

"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Anson Lu spoke incoherently, "You stand in front of me, you stand in front of me, you told me that you are dead, the stinky old man is used to pretending to be a ghost, right?" ”

Now that the headmaster is dead, who is standing in front of him? Why he has the ability to drag him into the future is too bizarre, and the development of things is far beyond his imagination.

"What you see now is just an individual built by the system based on my previous 'thought and behavior patterns'."

The headmaster took the girl's cigarette and put it in his mouth, then explained, "She's the same, you just treat us like machines." ”

“…… So what are you going to do? Anson Deer lowered his head.

"We have two minutes left, and in those two minutes, you can ask us everything you want to know." The headmaster said slowly.

At this moment, the dragon's roar that shattered the eardrums resounded in the sky, the earth trembled violently, and the king standing at the top of the biological chain slowly lifted the thick fog, revealing its majestic body like the Tower of Babel.

Its wings were like a vast curtain, almost obscuring half of the town's sky, and the entire Upper Stone High School was obscured by deep shadows, and not a single ray of light could pass through the dragon's wings.

It obscured all the light, and just a slight vibration of its wings was enough to set off a cracking sound in the air, sending out all the clouds and mist that filled the interior of the town, and even the sky trembled, and the space was shattered, and Shangshi City seemed to become an air battlefield between the two great powers, countless missiles burst in the air, and the wind howled and swept across the land.

It is getting closer and closer to Shangshi City, its face facing away from the sun is shrouded in gloomy shadows, its huge pupils are shining in the darkness, and its expression is as hideous as the king of the devil on the eighteenth floor of hell, and it is so arrogant that it seems to be the king who rules the world, just like Pangu who opened the world in Chinese mythology, Zeus, the supreme god who rules all things in the world in Greek mythology, and Odin who created the earth and human beings in Norse mythology.

The entire city was collapsing, and with the snow dragon's body as the center, tens of millions of violent steam poured out one after another, and the air currents from the wings pushed the steam to sweep in all directions.

In the presence of such a behemoth, all things have lost their proper color, and all living beings must appear to the king of the world with the most humble and earnest attitude.

Only Anson Deer didn't bother to look back.

He knew what was behind him...... It's the snow dragon, the snow dragon that will descend on Tokyo, Japan, in June 2026, the monster that will destroy the principal's world to pieces.

For decades, it trampled on human civilization day after day, and no grass grew everywhere it went, and now Shangshi City in China will also become its playground.

"Chess player, I haven't seen it in a long time." Destoria smiled, "Our old friend. ”

"yes...... It's gotten bigger, even bigger than before. The headmaster looked up, his deep eyes reflecting the snow dragon that was higher than the clouds, and lit the cigarette with a lighter.

As the snow dragon landed on the earth, a nuclear explosion-like sound was heard, the air suddenly cooled, and the loud sound of buildings collapsing was endless, followed by a thunderous roar of the ear-filling dragon.

Anson Lu's ears were shocked and he was almost unconscious, but he still didn't look back, just raised his brown eyes, stared at the headmaster's face with indignation, and couldn't say a word.

Obviously, he knew in his heart that the person in front of him was not the principal, but just a data body generated by the system based on the principal's information, but his mood was still very complicated.

"Don't worry, we know no less than our own body, and the similarity between me and that 'principal' is at least ninety-nine, whether it is memory or personality, it is highly overlapping." The principal said unhurriedly, "And the remaining one percent is not within the reach of the system." ”

"Isn't your skill going back in time? How did you drag me into the future? Anson Lu asked in a low voice.

"There are some permissions and loopholes that are exploited, and there is no need to ask, it takes too long to explain, and the time is limited."

"I still have a lot of things to ask you."

"I know."

"Why did you do that to Yuri?"

"I was doing an experiment and trying to see if I could artificially create a 'sequence player.'"

“…… You're such a bastard. ”

"At least I succeeded, Yuri and Asuka Uesugi are both sequence players created by me, and they should have died early in the first round of dungeons as ordinary people."

"Tell me, what do you have to do to save Yuri?"

"I don't know, maybe I will only have a chance after defeating that snow dragon."

“…… Don't you think you're disgusting? ”

"From a bystander's point of view, a chess player has done nothing wrong, it's just that you have subjective emotions, and it's difficult to judge what he has done objectively and rationally." Storia smiled, and the acting principal explained.

The headmaster took a deep puff of his cigarette and did not speak, his suit jacket swaying slowly in the wind.

"Tell me, what about the other two Icelandic girls who died, just guinea pigs you used for your experiments?"

"Three to be exact, the other one has no father and no mother, in the orphanage, no one knows she's dead."

"So, you might as well explain." Anson Deer's voice was hoarse and weak.

"I originally came to London in 1888 to experiment with the ability to traverse, and as you know, I did something wrong, and I shouldn't have killed Jack the Ripper in advance." The principal said, "No matter what, since I have made a mistake, then I need to make amends, and the death of those three girls is a sacrifice I made to prevent the 'laws of time and space' from getting out of control." ”

"Hah...... I know, in a sense, you're really an out-and-out mongrel, and you don't think you've killed enough people? Cousins, crows, those sequence players, they all ......"

The headmaster interrupted him: "Enough, what else do you want to ask?" There's no point in just venting your emotions, there's not much time left. With that, the headmaster glanced at his watch, and there were more than thirty seconds left before they had to get out of here.

"In the past three months, you have been acting with me?" Anson Deer's eyes were obscured by strands of black hair.

"That's right," the headmaster said angrily...... "I have to wear contact lenses, grow a beard, and do some facial adjustments in the hospital, otherwise with your boy's observation, I may be exposed all at once." ”

The time was approaching midnight, the world around the three of them was falling apart, and the roar of the snow dragon was so grandiose, like an indelible epic, every time it opened the city, every time it crashed into a building, it seemed to tear up the last ray of human life.

Sistoria disagreed, humming softly, "London bridge is falling down...... falling down…… falling down，My fair lady。 ”

The sweet and lilting song mingles with the brutal and monstrous dragon chant, making it difficult for Anson Deer to tell which side is real and which is illusory, or both.

This world ...... It's just too contradictory.

"After so many years, you still love this song "London Bridge Falls" so much." The headmaster swallowed the clouds and looked away at her.

"After all, the first time people and chess players met was in London." Destoria put her hands behind her back and smiled slightly, "That's where I heard this song." ”

"If I knew you were so annoying, I wouldn't have taught you to sing."

"Chess player, I'm not stupid enough to learn a song."

There were only six seconds left, Anson Lu's face became more and more complicated, his hands trembled slightly, I don't know if it was because of himself, or under the influence of the snow dragon, the whole city trembled really much.

"Answer ......me," he said, looking at the headmaster, almost word for word, "I mean, you play chess with me every day, and you talk to me every day...... Are they all fake? ”

The headmaster was silent for half a second, then slowly raised his head, his deep eyes fixed on Anson Lu.

He took off the cigarette in his mouth, and the light was turbulent in the depths of his cloudy eyes, as if he had a lot to say, but time did not allow it, so in the end...... He just left a faint word.

"You kid...... I've grown taller. ”

At this moment, the snow dragon waved its tail, and the violent wind swept by, completely submerging the figures of Anson Deer, the Headmaster, and Icestoria into the brutal snow-colored ocean.

When Anson Deer opened his eyes again, he was still in front of Noboribetsu Jigokudani in Hokkaido.

The principal has disappeared, and the red tide-level chess game "Lorenzo" controlled by the computer AI Hu Yun is still murderous and eyeing him.

[According to the skill "Rewind Time" effect of the chess type "Anson Deer" - the scene goes back to three rounds ago, and you get the right to draw two pieces.] 】

The system beep fell, and Lorenzo vanished, replaced by the Ghost General and Donald Donald Duck, who had appeared in the first round, again.

Hu Hu's hand is gone.

The same goes for Anson Deer, because he is back in the initial round, so he naturally does not have any pieces in his hands.

It's just that under the influence of the principal's "time backtracking" skill, compared to Hu Huan, Anson Lu was able to draw two more chess pieces, and these two chess pieces decided the victory.

"According to the effect of 'time rewind', two pieces are drawn from the chess library." Anson Lu said in a deep voice.

As the words fell, two chess shadows appeared around his shoulders, and the phantoms shone with crimson light.

Anson Lu didn't even look at it, and directly opened his mouth and ordered:

"Arrange two red tide-level chess pieces, Uesugi Asuka and Yuri."

The next moment, while the ghost general was fighting with the violent Donald Duck, a meteorite suddenly appeared in the sky, and it violently smashed down, crushing the bodies of the two.

Bang –

At the same time, the red dragon that descended from the sky spread its awe-inspiring wings and swept in front of Hu Yun, swinging down with its fiery claws, easily crushing Hu Yun's head, and bursting out a hideous blood mist.

[Congratulations, you have defeated the computer AI "Hu Hu" in the chess game, and you have passed the trial of the third-order old chess player, and you are about to return to reality. 】

The torrential rain in Noboribetsu Hell Valley slapped the boy's cheek, and Anson Lu slowly raised his head, looking at the gray sky with a gloomy face, and the last words of the headmaster echoed in his head.

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