Boundary Convention

diary excerpt

"Some people change the world for their own beliefs, some people change themselves to adapt to the environment in which they live, and I want to change both."

Dyson Bay during the day is quiet.

On the night when Mo Xiao and I left Dyson Bay, I remembered how the people here were silently using those invisible brain networks to communicate, they lowered their heads and walked forward on their own.

But now under the blue sky and broad daylight, there is no such invisible communication, and no one can be seen in such a spacious street. Silence, true dead silence, neither animate sound nor animate movement could be seen here. Every street and every alley is empty. At a glance, under all the colorful signboards at night, there are only gray rolling doors left.

The fake plants cast heavy shadows in the morning sun, as if they were guarding the grave for something.

I began to wonder if something had happened to Dyson Bay since I was gone. I couldn't help looking towards the row of low-rise bungalows in the distance. On that night, the vibrant night market there gave me a deep impression. But maybe I was too far away, or maybe I couldn't see clearly, and there was no life in that place, just like abandoned ruins, sinking desolately in the distance.

The whole city seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, sending chills down the spine. In this environment, even though I am already in a state of extreme lack of rest, I still don't feel sleepy at all.

"It's so quiet."

I tried to speak out the uneasiness in my heart, which seemed to reduce my pressure a little. At least it reminded me that there are people around me, and they are still listening to my uneasiness. After all, I can’t hear any other people here. the voice.

"Well, are you surprised?" Mo Xiao squeezed out a few words between her teeth. Hearing this voice, she didn't really want to talk to me, because she was busy with more important 'business', but she couldn't help it. I've repeated 'Quiet' three or four times, and it doesn't seem too good to ignore me.

"Well, it's really a bit of a thing here, just like...in a disaster movie."

"Are you scared?"

As she spoke, she squinted at me.

"You are afraid in broad daylight, are you still a man?"

"I just feel a little weird."

"In the past few days, you have been quite brave." Mo Xiao said to me in a slightly mocking tone, and then asked, "Then what are you afraid of?"

"It's broad daylight, but there's no one there. It's strange, and it makes me feel a little dangerous."

"I thought it was something, so that's it?" Mo Xiao sniffed his nose disdainfully. "Do you know where we're going now?"

"Black market, I heard it from a person on a helicopter yesterday."

"Let me ask you again, when does the black market usually open?"

"night?"

"No, this is not an accurate answer. The correct answer should be when there is less time for people to flow." She said, flicking on my forehead without changing her face, as if it was punishment for my wrong answer. "The black market is illegal after all, and this kind of behavior cannot be carried out when too many eyes are open, so what does it mean for us to come to this place during the day to visit the black market?"

"It means... people's work and rest schedules here are reversed?"

"Bingo, since you, a little genius, have already answered all the questions by yourself, then don't bother me anymore, OK?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately turned her head away, quickened her pace, and walked back to Mo You's side, walking side by side with her, and went back to the war that only belonged to the two of them. The two have been competing for a while. From the moment they got off the plane, the atmosphere between them was very stiff. Their eyes were full of sharp murderous intent, like bayonets, which could kill the guy caught between them at once. Maybe there was some quarrel on the plane, and no one was happy about it.

It's just that the way they fight is quite strange.

The two tall and short people walked forward side by side without arguing or interacting, they just walked forward together. But after a long time, it can be found that they all gradually speed up their pace, and they seem to want to get rid of each other. After careful observation, there is still an inexplicable tacit understanding between the two. Mo Xiao surpasses Mo You for a while, and Mo Xiao lags behind Mo You for a while. When they are tired, they stop together, and when they are rested, they speed up together. One is fast and one is slow, one is still and one is moving, it is natural, maybe this is the sense of synchronicity that sisters have developed through years of living together.

But... this is exactly how children quarrel, I thought a little funny.

It takes a lot of physical strength to keep up with their rhythm, and my physical strength is not very good. Fortunately, I can barely keep up with my empty hands. On the other hand, those who were left far behind were in trouble—those big guys who were on the same plane as me were carrying a big wooden box. As I said earlier, the helicopter was crowded because the boxes Take up too much space. The box felt heavy just looking at it, and I didn't know what was in it. Tang Ren stood out in the crowd, probably because he carried two big boxes by himself. Oh, and Lake, Lake is also behind, he didn't keep up, but he didn't take anything, just short legs.

After half an hour of this excruciating rally on the silent street, I was almost exhausted.

Turning around in the complicated city, I even wondered if the two people who were leading the race in front were just patronizing fighting spirit, and didn't look at the road under their feet at all. I feel like we passed the same place several times in a row, and I can always see the same scenery, like...that battleship by the sea.

I don't know if it's because I always passed the same place with those two people, or because the ship is so big that I can see it everywhere, anyway, whenever I turn my head, I can see the battleship , I will involuntarily stop and look into the distance. That ship was big, big, big, bigger than any ship I've ever seen in a movie, even a computer-generated Titanic would be ashamed. The first half of my life... If I was born from the place where I can remember, then I spent the first half of my life on that ship. Thinking about it this way, that should be my home, and seeing my home become That look was too dark, as if it had been bitten by a sea monster, and my heart was really a bit complicated.

The scene of the explosion that night is still fresh in my memory. If I hadn’t chosen to leave there with Mo Xiao for no apparent reason, what would I be like now? I can't answer, and I'm afraid no one can.

If the future can be seen, is it still the future? So now I only care about my past, my past will not disappear with the ruins still floating on the sea because of a fire, it did exist, I can be sure.

When did those two men truce? I can't answer this right away, because I didn't pay attention to the time myself.

But the scene of their truce is easy to answer.

Both of them were holding their waists and leaning against the wall, gasping for breath. Their faces were flushed from excessive exercise or out of breath.

"Okay, stop... stop, this... this meaningless behavior with you is as meaningless as your existence."

"Heh, sister, just admit defeat. For a brain like me, it is impossible to lose physically! Hahahahahahahaha!"

It seems that these two people are not very strong, and they are both very tired. Mo Xiao is so tired that he can't straighten his tongue, and Mo You's logic is messed up. Maybe it's time to end this dispute. At this time, a neutral person is needed, just like the city-states in the classical era liked to find a third party to mediate when they signed a contract. It is time for me to make a move.

"Almost, you two."

I said in a peacemaker tone.

"Continuing this way may delay the business."

"Business...? Ah, I almost forgot." Hearing this, Mo You straightened up. "We have to go to the black market quickly, what time is it?"

As she spoke, she leaned against the wall and looked around, as if she was looking for something to prove the time, but her head was dizzy and she only saw security robots like trash cans wandering on the street... They were doing Doing what the trash can should do, cleaning up the large pools of pickled stains on the ground.

Suddenly, I felt that the sun was getting brighter. I subconsciously looked up and saw a big classical clock hanging above the wall we were leaning against. I took two or three steps back, only to realize that the building seemed a little too out of place with the surroundings, and its style was too 'old'. This building did not use any composite materials that are popular now, and it is not even reinforced concrete, but is built with precious building materials such as marble, there may be some other valuables, and some decorations are even covered with gold. Probably because the reflective effect of this layer of gold film is so good, I was involuntarily attracted to it before.

"Now, it's a quarter past eight."

While staring at the building intently, I patted Mo You on the shoulder.

"By the way, where is this?"

"So we've already arrived." Before Mo You could reply, Mo Xiao felt emotional. "We ran around and came here."

"Where is this place?" I asked again.

"Black market." Mo Xiao and Mo You also answered me in unison.

"No, that's not what I mean, I mean..." I paused here, not knowing what to say.

"Oh, I see, you mean what this building is?"

"Yes, I feel that the style is very different from other places."

"You can call it the common name 'rat nest'." Mo Xiao said, "You can also call it the scientific name 'Phelotin Mansion'."

Mansion? I can't believe my ears when I hear this, aren't we going to the black market? Is the black market opened in someone's mansion? It's unbelievable. But I don't have any more time to think, because Mo Xiao and Mo You have already swaggered up the stairs shining in the sun. I had no choice but to follow up quickly.

Mo You knocked twice on the resplendent and resplendent door, and the door moved as if automatically, revealing a gap through which only one cloudy eye could be seen.

"Hello, what's the matter? The Philodine Mansion is a private place and is not open during the day." The voice from it was also the same vicissitudes.

"We were invited."

"...Do you have any documents?"

"Of course there is."

Answering like this, Mo You hooked her fingers behind her, and then spread her hands towards me and Mo Xiao, as if she was waiting for us to hand her something. Mo Xiao and I looked at each other twice, looking at each other in blank dismay. But Mo You kept spreading his hands and waiting, and kept shaking his hands, signaling us to hurry up.

"Fool, bring that!"

"What 'that'?"

"That! That!"

Mo You spoke impatiently, and finally realized that there seemed to be something wrong, she turned her head and was stunned.

"Huh? Where are those guys?"

I thought she was probably referring to Lake and those big box movers, so I answered her truthfully.

"They didn't keep up with us, you two ran too fast."

"What...they!" Mo You was about to get angry, but stopped in the middle of her anger, turned her head to look at the eyes in the gap, and said with a smile in a coquettish voice.

"Well, grandpa... No, no, uncle, can we go in first? The family and the people with their IDs are separated. They should come here soon, please."

That loli voice sounds so bone-crushing. If you don't understand her nature, I think most people will fall. It's a pity that the people behind the door are obviously not 'most people'. I think "most people" should not be the watchdog of the black market.

"In fourteen minutes, today's party will start. If you want to participate, please prepare all your documents as soon as possible."

With just one sentence, before Mo You could yell out, he closed the door flatly.

Mo Xiao looked at Mo You who looked angry after being rejected, shrugged his shoulders, walked to the side of the stairs and sat down.

"What should I do next?"

"Wait." Mo Xiao said.

"What are you waiting for! Lake and Tang Ren have never been here before, so they don't know the way!"

All of a sudden, Mo You yelled without warning, furiously, as if wishing the whole world could hear her yelling, the sound even disturbed the trash can that was cleaning the floor... the security robots, they all shook the bright Shining eyes looked over, although Mo You was furious, but still had to hold back, did not shout out the next words.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn..."

She walked down the stairs, pinched me severely, and then squeezed out the words from her throat in a bitter and hateful tone.

"Is this good opportunity a waste of waste?!"

As if she was the one being pinched, she gritted her teeth.

"Who told you to be so childish, just don't compete with me at the beginning."

"You want to fight?"

"Okay... okay..."

Following Mo Xiao's words, there was once again a strong smell of gunpowder between the two. Just when I was suffocated by this smell and was thinking about whether to run away, suddenly, I found something crawling towards us at a very fast speed from the side alley... From that size, I Think it's a dog. But on closer inspection, it turned out to be just a dog crawling like Lake. I saw him sticking his face to the ground, following the smell of the ground like a police dog,

"Rake?"

I said in surprise, as if I saw a savior, since Lake has come, the documents that Mo You wanted must not have escaped.

All of a sudden, the hostility between the two was interrupted because of Mo You's overjoyed. She walked up to him quickly and motioned for Lake to show her the ID.

Lake touched his pocket and took out a small card. I poked my head over curiously, wondering what documents were so important, but suddenly felt that the temperature seemed to drop a few degrees.

"What is this ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

"Rake!!!!"

"Where's the coalition government document I made you forge!?"

I subconsciously covered my ears to prevent my eardrum from being pierced by Mo You's scream. At the same time, I finally saw clearly what the card in Lake's hand was—isn't this the business card written in colored pencils that he showed me before? I couldn't help being dumbfounded, and then I saw Rick making a square with his hand, moved it to his chest, and finally scratched his head innocently.

[Isn't this a certificate? 】

This is really something that only Rick can do...

Mo Xiao, who was on the side, looked at the scene, showing a gloating smile, and patted Mo You on the shoulder.

"If the certificate you want is something like this, I have it."

She rolled up her sleeves, revealing the icon under the skin of her wrist.

Ah, I remember this, when Mo Xiao bought a bunch of scalpels at the market in Dyson Bay, they used this mark. I looked at Mo You, her eyes seemed to light up, and she immediately showed a look of unwillingness.

"Then what's the price?"

"It's not a troublesome thing," Mo Xiao blinked slyly. "Call me my sister, and just bow to me."

"How dare you... oh!"

Mo You seemed to be about to refute, so she closed her mouth tightly again, stretched her small fingers to her mouth and began to bite her nails fiercely, as if she was weighing the pros and cons of these two things. At this time, Tang Ren and the big guys who carried the things had also arrived. It seemed that he realized that time was running out, Mo You finally made up his mind, bowed down to Mo Xiao with a face of unwillingness and humiliation, and whispered.

"……sister."

"Huh? I can't seem to hear what you said clearly."

"My dear sister!"

Mo You gritted her teeth and called out loudly.

Seeing Mo You like this, Mo Xiao seemed very happy. She patted Mo You's bowed head with a smile, "That's right, you'll be good like this. Go ahead and ask that old man to open the door."

Mo You raised her body, gave her a vicious look, ran to the door quickly, and knocked on the door.

"Certificate."

The watchdog said sternly.

"Now here are the papers."

Mo Xiao stretched out his wrist, and the old man took out a scanner, carefully scanned it back and forth several times, finally smacked his lips, and nodded with satisfaction.

"welcome."

The door was not wide open, just enough for one person to pass through. He poked his head out and looked around twice, motioning Mo You and us to come in quickly, and then, after everyone had come in, he closed the door.

As soon as they entered the room, these big men carrying huge boxes and the little guy like Lake seemed to have entered a safe haven. After entering the room, they dropped the boxes and sat on the ground. Even though the comfortable sofa was right in front of them, they seemed to be He also didn't have the strength to walk a few more steps, preferring to choose the cold and hard ground, it seemed that he was very tired. In contrast, only Tang Ren bent down gracefully and put the box down.

"Welcome, what should I call you?"

The person who watched us from the crack of the door gave a salute to Mo You, just as I thought, this is an old man, dressed like a decent man, with white hair all over his head, his behavior and clothes are just like Tang Ren's a butler.

"Well, just call me Lord God."

"Understood, Miss God."

Hearing this address, Mo Xiao almost laughed out loud.

Although Mo You was unhappy about this, she seemed too lazy to flirt with Mo Xiao.

"The auction over there is about to start. You just said that there are still ten minutes." Mo You said.

"Yes."

"Then come to the auction today, is there a girl with white hair who looks like she is still in her thirties?"

"You should know that I am already eighty-one years old this year, my lord, my memory is not as good as before."

"That's right?"

"If you must jump to conclusions like this."

"Hmph, that's good."

Mo You frowned, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be driven by her eyebrows, and she sank slightly, as if she was a little disappointed. But soon, she changed back to her usual appearance.

"Eighty-one years old...are you still a housekeeper?" I sighed a little.

"Hmph, I don't know much." Mo You said with some disdain. "In this world, living people are very precious, let alone the service industry. It is only this level of mansion that does not use those cheap robots to do the work."

After finishing speaking, Mo You waved her hand and gave a command to move forward, signaling the people behind her to follow her and walk towards the elevator.

But she took a few steps, and there were not many echoing her footsteps in the room, only me, Mo Xiao, Tang Ren, and Lake's footsteps that were different from ours. This seemed to make her feel that her order had not been carried out, so she turned angrily and glared at the people behind her.

"Hey, didn't I say I'm leaving? Why are you still dawdling?"

Those big men lying on the ground who hadn't recovered their souls were so stared at, their whole bodies twitched, and they broke out in cold sweat. They were struggling, and just half of their bodies straightened from the ground, but they were suddenly caught by a pair of powerful arms. Pressed back to the ground.

"Miss, let them rest here for a while."

Tang Ren said, by the way, like a dog owner taking care of a newborn puppy, he picked up several big guys who were about the same size as him on the ground, and threw them on the sofa.

Mo You pouted, and stared at Tang Ren for a while with her hips crossed.

The old man at the door suddenly interrupted the conversation, and said that he could ask someone to help carry the things in the box.

But Mo You refused immediately.

"Then you have to do their 'job' alone."

All she left behind was this sentence, saying the word 'work' with extra emphasis, and then swaggered towards the elevator with her hands behind her back.

"Grateful."

After finishing speaking, Tang Ren bowed slightly to Mo You, without hesitation, picked up four boxes in one hand, and followed Mo You lightly.

Lake was about to help, but was pushed back by Tang Ren with his toe.

"Don't you dislike that place? Just stay there."

Lake lowered his head and thought for a while, nodded, and ran to sit on the sofa, while saluting Tang Ren and me.

Then, Tang Ren strode lavishly, following in Mo You's footsteps. Although the way he held the box was scary to watch, he himself seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

"Do you need help?"

I walked up quickly and asked.

"No."

And Tang Ren answered me very simply, without even slowing down his pace, he followed Mo You to the elevator.

"Don't you weigh yourself?"

Mo Xiao gave me a white look and followed. I'm left alone here not knowing what to say.

Only places that are used to plot some ulterior motives will make the underground bigger than the top when building buildings. Just like the infamous 'Wolf's Lair', that building has a dizzyingly complex underground transportation system. Of course, it was originally a refuge, a place to shelter a villain who has made enemies with most people.

I have seen the underground passage of the Wolf’s Lair in movies and some documentaries. It is narrow and stuffy, and it is a place that people don’t want to go. It seems that the frequency of use is not so high, otherwise it would not be so monotonous and impersonal. .

The underground here is far less complicated than the bunker in Wolf's Lair. It took me only a minute to look at the schematic diagram in the elevator to understand the structure almost completely. Of course, I am not the kind of person who is interested in everything, but the journey from the first floor to the first floor is really too long.

In my mind, a black market should be something like a flea market. A group of people spread a blanket on the ground to set up a stall, with all kinds of contraband placed on it. The business people either blatantly peddled some creepy things, or sat on the ground in silence Hospitality.

But it seems that this black market is designed with the idea of ​​building a theater, at least in terms of acoustics. The underground of the entire building presents a perfect fan shape, so that the guests sitting in the last seat can also hear the sound from the center, This is the original design pattern inherited from the ancient Greek theater.

It seems that before, Mo You also mentioned the auction or something. If so, I can probably know what this black market is like. The so-called black market is actually a high-end place that specializes in auctioning illegal items.

'Ding'.

With a crisp sound from the elevator, the feeling of weightlessness when the elevator descended also disappeared.

As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, the spaciousness and bright lights here made me doubt whether it was really underground. Mo You led the way out of the elevator and ran into a young man in a waiter uniform. He greeted us politely. He bowed, and then made a 'please' gesture with a stiff face, motioning us to follow him.

Regarding the waiter's silence, Mo You didn't say much, and naturally followed the waiter and walked over. It seemed that it wasn't the first time she had come to this kind of place, but she definitely didn't come too often, otherwise the old gatekeeper outside It was impossible for the dog not to know her.

Mo You, who had been serious for a long time, suddenly turned her head around, glanced furtively at Mo Xiao, and found that she was at the back of the crowd, she didn't seem to notice the movement here, so she poked her head out towards me, It looks mysterious.

"Hey, handsome boy, how much do you know about the Pact?"

"Huh? What?"

Since the auction hadn't started yet, the theater was very noisy, so I couldn't hear Mo You's question clearly. Seeing my reaction, she didn't seem to be bothered to repeat it. She turned around and continued to walk forward with the waiter, letting her long white hair dangle behind her head. I didn't have the nerve to ask, after all, she He also said some strange things.

We should be at the outermost ring of the fan-shaped 'theater'. Most theaters are like this. The higher you go to the periphery, the higher our position is. In other words, we don't go down into the theater at all, but are set on the wall. in the channel. The whole theater can be seen through the windows.

At the same time, this place should still be a working passage, and the waiters in all uniforms were busy using trolleys to carry things covered with white cloth, most of which were jewelry. But some of the goods are jaw-dropping... This is not a question of value, but a question of the bottom line. I saw with my own eyes a big-bodied waiter and several young girls passing us by. Needless to say, those young girls are also auction items, no matter how elegant and luxurious they are dressed, they can't hide this fact. Because they were all 'led', with loose eyes, mechanical obedience, and heavy iron chains tied around their necks.

"Are they still doing human trafficking?" I couldn't help but say to myself.

"What a fuss," Mo Xiao glared at me. "Human trafficking has not disappeared even in the era of abundant food and clothing, let alone now."

After she finished speaking, she paused for a moment, then casually added something.

"Don't have any weird ideas, it's too stupid to want to be a hero in this kind of place."

I think so, this kind of place is heavily guarded and there are cameras everywhere.

Finally, the waiter took us to a corner and seated us at the very edge of the fan. It seemed that we were not very important guests. After sitting down, Tang Ren put down all the boxes and piled them on the aisle. Anyway, we were in the corner, so it shouldn't matter, but I suddenly became a little curious, what exactly did Mo You bring? ? Since it's an auction, it should be for shopping. Could it be that it's all cash?

So I secretly reached out to the box that Tang Ren was guarding vigilantly, and quietly opened it to have a look... Unexpectedly, it was not the banknotes in my memory, but gold. It seems that the transactions here use hard currency. But just as I was about to close the box, a ray of red light suddenly flashed in front of my eyes, as if something was buried under the gold. I curiously wanted to reach out for the box, but Tang Ren grabbed my hand suddenly.

"Curiosity will kill the cat." He said in a steady tone. "You should learn to be a less curious person, Comrade Xiao Huang."

There was no hint of coercion or coercion between the lines, but I didn't dare to say a word, so I could only obediently put my hand back. This was the first time he called me directly. "Comrade" really made me a little embarrassed.

Before I had time to react from this embarrassment, the opening music rang. Mo You stared at the center of the stage with a smile on her face. That smile was like a confident strategist, or like a tiger lying on grass, jumping up as if waiting for some opportunity. I will never be able to figure out her thoughts, but I still remember the bargaining chip she used when she pulled me over.

"Well, will the professor really come here?" I turned my head and asked Mo Xiao.

"Ghost knows."

"When we came, didn't Mo You say that someone higher than you in the library would come, and asked me to ask about that person? That should be the professor, she was the only one who was the biggest in the hospital .”

"Then how can you be sure that there is no one bigger than her? You come to follow the muddy water because of this kind of empty promise, alas... I am too lazy to talk about you, as expected, an idiot is an idiot, and an idiot should not talk to me. What about yourself? Where do you go to cool off?"

"That's what I said...but I can't get out now." I pointed to Tang Ren's box, which had blocked the passageway.

"Then shut up and go to sleep."

Seeing her say it angrily, I can only stare at the auction just like Mo You.

However, the goods auctioned here are different from what I imagined. There are no gold jewels, but some, er, canned food. This is also the first sold item. The moderator held it in his palm and held it high so that all the sellers could see the product clearly under the shining spotlight, and the can had the words 'inside', 'pork' and so on printed on it.

They certainly wouldn't pay 6,500 kilograms of gold just to buy a can, so I think this should be just a sample, the next water, and the goods such as wheat flour are all the same, and they are all printed With the words 'internal' and 'for sale'. Obviously, these people are peddling government supplies.

Bidding at an auction is a boring process, at least to outsiders, just as people who don't bet on horses don't understand the fun of betting on horses. I was really tired watching it, except for those few girls, I didn't pay much attention. Perhaps it was because most people had consumed a lot of chips in the previous auction, and these girls were bought by a fat man at a pitifully low price compared to the previous goods. This makes people worry about their fate.

After their auction ended, they quickly entered the auction of the next item.

The next item was a very small thing so the seller had to use a monitor to project a picture over the theater and I saw it was a chip or something. At this moment, I noticed that the corner of Mo You's mouth raised an exaggerated arc, and Mo Xiao also looked at Mo You as if he had suddenly realized, with an expression of "so it is".

As the trumpet sounded for the host to start quoting, there was silence all around. I don't know if they have used up the hard currency they brought before, or they don't want this thing. Even Mo You didn't raise the sign, but just kept staring at the chip.

Just when the host was about to announce that the auction was over, someone suddenly raised the price, although it was only a little bit higher.

Looking at the reputation, I didn't see who was quoting. But Mo You seemed to be very sure who made the offer.

"Hmph, the old lady is here, let me just say, how could she miss such a precious component?"

As she said that, Mo You suddenly poked me with her hand, and I immediately understood what she meant.

"I'll add!" This was the first time I participated in this kind of activity, and my voice trembled a little.

Then, just like the rivalry between Mo You and Mo Xiao before, the long pull began again.

Mo You fought with the mysterious bidder for a long time, and finally the price of the chip tripled. I don't know much about chips, but this price seems exaggerated to a layman like me.

"Is this thing really worth that much money?" I asked.

"It's not worth it." Mo Xiao also answered simply. "It's just a 'bait'."

"'Bait'?"

"Yeah, it's just 'bait'. I really didn't expect that the professor would be reduced to relying on this method to get resources. Alas, those old friends from the past have either drawn a clear line with the professor, or lost power like her."

Saying that, Mo Xiao sighed.

The long fight finally came to an end, and Mo You still got what she wanted as she wished. But she didn't come to the stage by herself, but stared at me sitting aside and said.

"Hey, go up and help me take it down."

"Why do I?"

"It's not suitable for a celebrity like me to appear in public, it's better for you to go." She said while pushing me.

Although it sounds like an excuse, it's not a difficult task. After all, she brought me along this journey, so it doesn't matter if I help with this little favor. Thinking of this, I walked onto the stage, and the feeling of being under the spotlight made me a little nervous. I threw down the gold that Tang Ren gave me just now, and hurried back to the corner with the chip.

Mo You picked up the chip and shook it at Mo Xiao, as if provocative, and then happily said to us: "Okay, let's go back."

"Go back? But the auction hasn't...and we haven't seen..."

"It's okay, if you get the things, the old woman will find them herself."

As she spoke, she waved the small chip in front of my eyes with her finger.

"She'll come get it."

After finishing speaking, he pulled me to go out, and the pace was very urgent. Even several times almost pulled me to wrestling.

Just when we were about to reach the exit of the elevator, something unexpected happened, and a thin figure blocked our way.

"Can you please give me that chip?"

I thought to myself that any plan could not be smooth sailing, but there were still stumbling blocks,

Now blocking our narrow passage back to the surface was a pale, bloodless young woman.

"Let me repeat my request again."

There was a voice coming from her. It was a very weird tone, just like the voice from a speaker, and it was closer to a man, with vague murmurs. And the woman's mouth didn't even move, as if she was using ventriloquist.

"Can you transfer that chip to me, please?"

"Hmph... that's not acceptable." Mo You looked at the woman in front of her with a solemn expression, and shook her head.

"I'm willing to pay three times what you bid."

"Heh, it's really interesting." Mo Xiao smiled at the side. "The big fish didn't hang, but instead brought other things."

According to Mo Xiao, Mo You originally wanted to use this chip to seduce the professor, but he didn't expect that there were other people who wanted this chip.

"But before that, please answer my two questions first." Mo Xiao took a step forward, interrupting the conversation between Mo You and this woman arrogantly. "One, what do you want this chip for? Two, since you can afford three times the price, why didn't you bid directly in the auction just now?"

Indeed, this is very strange, and it also proves from the side that this person is not a professor, otherwise she would have already put out a higher bargaining chip when bidding just now.

"This is really a tricky question." The woman tilted her head mechanically, still expressionless, like a corpse, but her words were indeed vivid and full of emotion. same as sync. "First of all, I don't want to answer your first question. As for the second question... Hey, it's so troublesome. Forget it, I'll just say it straight. I just want to have some fun from you."

As she said that, the woman raised her right arm like a marionette, pointing straight at us.

"Take it as if you are being picked on by walking on the street, follow me."

"Crazy." Mo You said and raised his head, signaling Tang Ren to move the woman in front of him away from the intersection.

But before Tang Ren could make the first move, the woman bypassed Tang Ren and floated to Mo You's side with a miraculous movement... It was so fast, I couldn't even see it clearly.

She bent over, her long hair fell down, and she put her neck against Mo You's ear. This weird behavior caught everyone off guard, but the voice that came out of her next caught everyone by surprise.

"Wouldn't it matter if the bomb hidden under the gold is exposed?"

bomb? Gold... Mo You actually hid gold under the bomb? No wonder Tang Ren refused to let me see what's under the box...but Moyou took the bomb, was he trying to blow up this place? I looked at Mo Xiao, she also had a look of surprise, it seemed that he was also kept in the dark.

"Who the hell are you? How do you know?"

"You don't have to worry about this, you just need to ask me if you want to play with me for a while, don't worry, it won't be long, and I will definitely let you go before the explosion."

"What do you want to play?"

"You will know this when you come."

Saying this, she suddenly opened the door in the corridor next to her and gave us a 'please' gesture.

The four of us looked at each other, and finally our eyes returned to Mo You. Now she is the leader and we have to listen to her decision.

Mo You thought for a while, took a deep breath, and walked into the room with an expression of fear, so we followed in.

This room seems to be a resting place for the staff of the mansion.

It's just been cleaned up, except for a table and two chairs in the center, and three chairs against the wall, there is nothing left.

In the center of the table, there is a small chessboard, which has already been set up. The chess pieces are not the usual ones, but are replaced by ancient soldiers. I can only judge which ones are from their positions. Chariot, which one is prime minister or soldier, king.

"Chess?"

Mo Xiao smiled, she was very confident in her logical ability, she was about to take the position of chess player, but was suddenly stopped.

"Please go and watch." The expressionless woman said. "I want to compete with that handsome boy."

As she said that, the woman with facial paralysis cast her eyes on me.

"I?"

I took two steps back.

"Yes, it's you, because you look like the best bully, hahahahahaha."

"But I..."

"If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have let you out."

The paralyzed woman snapped her fingers weakly, and the door of the lounge closed with a sound. Mo You glanced at the door twice, but didn't try to open the door, which was obviously futile. She just waved her hand helplessly to Mo Xiao, motioning for her to come over and sit down by the wall. Mo Xiao looked at me worriedly, stepped forward and patted my shoulder, and made room for me.

There was no other way, so I had no choice but to sit on the chess player's seat, and on the other side, the woman with facial paralysis also sat down.

"You, do you know how to play chess?" the paralyzed girl asked me suddenly.

"No, I don't know, I never..." Of course I can play chess, but on second thought, maybe if I can't, I can change players. I really don't want to take on such a big responsibility.

"You're lying." The paralyzed woman interrupted me bluntly. "My hearing is pretty good. When you said that just now, your heart beat faster, and your eyes also turned to the right. The human brain needs to use the imagination of the right brain when lying, so it will inadvertently turn to the right. look."

These words left me speechless.

"Then your hearing is really good." I replied, but just when I felt that I had lost my momentum, Mo Xiao's voice came from behind. "It's so powerful! Then I farted just now, did you hear that?"

Obviously, she was helping me in the match, which made me recover a little bit after losing the first round. I smiled awkwardly at her, but she still responded to me with her usual slightly lazy expression.

Ah, it looks like things aren't too bad, at least I'm not alone.

But suddenly, a wall rose from the floor, separating me from Mo Xiao and the others. I stood up in surprise, not knowing what happened, Mo Xiao and Mo You who were behind the wall disappeared from my sight in an instant, I was about to find out, but was pulled back by the paralyzed woman. Her strength was uncanny, almost irresistible.

"I really almost forgot about it. You can't expect others to watch chess without saying a word these days, hehehe..."

"You, what did you do?"

"As you can see, it's just to isolate people who may disrupt the chess game. I don't like others pointing out the country when I play chess."

"All right……"

"So back to the original question, you know how to play chess, right?"

I nodded my head, there is no point in lying now.

"The one we played today, well, it's a game I invented myself. I call it Russian chess, which literally translates to Russian chess."

"Do you think I can beat a founder like you?"

"Don't say that, the basic rules are exactly the same as chess, except..."

Suddenly, the woman with facial paralysis took something out of the table, then slammed it heavily on the table, and pushed it in front of me. I took a closer look and gasped. It turned out to be a revolver. Russia, revolvers, that makes me have bad associations.

"It's just chess and Russian roulette. Let me explain the rules."

The paralyzed woman said she took the gun, threw the gun away, stuffed a bullet into it, and then closed the gun chamber again.

"The rules are extremely simple. This is a nine-shot revolver. Whichever side is eaten by a piece, the side that is eaten will shoot itself in the head. If the piece that is eaten is a car, then For the horse, turn the wheel again and shoot again, if the king is eaten - shoot nine times in a row, because that is a loss. It's very simple, ah, yes, I expect you to be the kind To those who hesitate for the life of their opponents, let me tell you something."

Saying so, the paralyzed girl brought her face closer.

"You don't have to worry about my life at all, because this woman is... To put it more simply, you can just treat her as a robot, you should have heard it, I am using the speaker on this 'robot' talk to you."

No wonder this woman with facial paralysis has such an obvious sense of disobedience. I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or be nervous. This means that my enemies have no psychological pressure at all, and every time I lose a child, I need to take greater risks.

"Wait, then I'm at a disadvantage when I fight a robot?! I'm going to die!" I yelled.

"Haha, yes, let's start!" My opponent nodded and took out an hourglass from the table. "There is no limit to the game time, and the thinking time is limited to this hourglass. When the hourglass time is about to hit the ground, it will automatically send out a reminder sound, which is humanized enough."

As soon as the voice fell, the hourglass beeped clearly and quickly, so my opponent hurriedly poured the hourglass back.

The beeping also stops.

"So, let's start, the Vikings are black."

The Vikings refer to my opponent's side, you can tell by looking at his chess pieces. They are all vicious guys, and here I am some farmers with sticks and forks, only this king is doing decently, oh, really interesting, do you want to reproduce the "Siege of Paris"? .

"White comes first, then black, this is the basic rule. But do you know the source of this rule?"

Before the game started, the other party suddenly raised this question. Before I could answer, she spoke again.

"There are rumors that it is because the day comes first and the night comes later, so there is a rule that white pieces go first. But Dyson Bay has already reversed the day and night, why don't we exchange it, how about black first and white?"

Although I don't know what medicine the manipulator behind this woman is selling in the gourd, it doesn't seem to be harmful to me. After thinking about it for a while, I nodded and agreed to this irrelevant proposal.

There is no doubt that the first move in chess is to move pawns. But the opponent's style of play is very unique. She first moved away the pawns blocking the back and front. It seems that she prefers the kind of person who makes the most of the back. Is it the kind of opponent who can use the rear long drive to attack the enemy's line?

For me, the risk of losing every pawn is huge, so I can't take any risks. I chose the most conservative method, and piled up the chain of pawns first, because pawns go straight and eat diagonally. If he must attack me The pawn chain, I can exchange it with him.

Thinking this way, I directly moved the pawn blocking the phase two squares forward, first to release the phase...but to my surprise, the opponent didn't have any layout at all, and moved the 'back' directly.

The queen is the strongest piece in chess. He directly gave up the initial layout and wanted to disrupt my layout. When I was still arranging the chain of pawns, he directly hit the queen on the side where I hadn't released my hands and feet. Although Xiang still has the protection of the soldiers in front, Xiang is walking diagonally after all. If he insists on coming up, I will have no power to fight back.

So I hurriedly released another phase, and he unceremoniously jumped out the horse, the only piece in chess that can move over other pieces. His way of playing is really quite impetuous.

But I guess I kind of understand what he's thinking.

He just wanted to put me to death directly, consuming my chess pieces to the greatest extent from the beginning, and let me die on the roulette wheel. After all, if I was unlucky, I might be finished with the first shot.

Thinking about it this way makes me a little anxious.

What should I do next, should I exchange sons with him?

On the way of thinking, the sharp sound of the hourglass sounded. In chess, if you exceed the thinking time, you will be sentenced to lose. As a last resort, I can only move the phase out. Phase is my favorite piece. Occasionally I can It has the effect of unexpected surprise attack, hoping to use the main general to win back the city.

In the next game, although the opponent was actively attacking, I felt that I could still handle it, because there was no time limit, and each other's temptations were careful enough, and I felt that I had a slight advantage.

Finally, when he had played about thirty or forty moves, he couldn't hold back any longer, and started to use his pawns to rush towards my pawn chain. Although the pawns went straight and slanted, as long as they took one pawn from the opponent, the effect would be lost. But at least he lost his first dime. I saw him pick up the pistol calmly and said lightly.

"This shot is empty."

He said and pulled the trigger.

"I said it, I can hear it."

Then he couldn't wait to use his queen to eat my pawn that lost the protection of the pawn chain with lightning speed, and now his queen has entered a more favorable position. Safe, I can directly threaten the two pawns at the end of my pawn chain, but I know he dare not do this, because then I can directly exchange his queen.

I picked up the gun and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but my opponent looked light-hearted, after all, he wasn't the one who shot.

"Don't be nervous, this shot is also empty."

"how do you know?"

"Did you forget? As I said, my ears are good, and the hearing of this body is still quite sensitive. I naturally knew the bullet drilled into that bore."

I was silent for a while, and then I said to myself, "Huangyuan, you can't die now, you must get back your memory." After speaking, I pulled the trigger-empty, which made me breathe a sigh of relief.

And what happened next was as I expected, he left his rear in that perfect position to threaten my backyard. Then more horses were invested in the attack. The horse is a child that requires careful planning to use flexibly, but it is indeed full of threats. In the next few steps, we exchanged a few soldiers with each other, and fired two shots at each other. In this way, the nine bullets were already more than half, and there were three bullets left, and the footsteps of the god of death began to approach me.

At this time, he suddenly started to move the queen, took the queen directly and killed the pawns in front of my back, trampled to death the pawns in front of me, and killed my king at the same time. What does it mean? After he did that, he couldn't even redeem mine at all, which was crazy.

I fired a shot and luckily missed. Just as I was about to move my queen to eat his queen, I saw him knock on the chessboard, and he pointed out that it was one of my pawns, which was within the range of the horse's attack.

"Are you really going to do this? That would end the game early."

"What's the meaning?"

"Nothing interesting, it's just that if you're going to eat my ass then you're 100% going to get that last shot."

...Did he mean that the bullet was on the last shot? Including the shot I fired just now, there are only two rounds left in this chamber. The chance of being shot next time is 50%. This is a very high probability. Should I believe what he said...

The urging of the hourglass sounded again. This timer is really unpleasant when you need to weigh and think. There is no way. The Xiang who sniped his car from a distance came to eat his horse.

"wise."

He smiled, re-spinned the pistol, shot himself in the head, and very decisively let his hind eat mine right under my nose.

This shot completely messed up my layout, and the next situation was overwhelmingly tilted towards him. His rear entered my rear as if no one was in the middle of nowhere. When I want to calm down and think about the way to crack it, the sharp beeping of the hourglass will disrupt my thinking and force me to make the next move.

Gradually, my goal became chaotic, no longer aiming at his queen, or aiming at his king, or even trying to capture any of his chess pieces, but the probability of simply shooting myself became less and less. Before it gets too low, give away my horse, phase, or rook, to shuffle the cards.

I realized that my decline was irreversible and I was going to lose.

Now I have no horses, no phases, only one pawn and one rook, and that pawn is even far away, maybe there is a chance for him to reach the end of the enemy line, but this is almost impossible, as long as he reaches the end , his car will mercilessly eat my transformed pawns.

And it is impossible to be a general with only one car.

It's all over. I scratched my hair in vain, in a sort of rightful frenzy about what was going to happen next.

At this moment, I was in a state of confusion and accidentally touched the pistol with my elbow. The gun fell to the ground and the chamber fell open. The bullet fell out and bounced twice on the ground, making a crisp sound.

"Wait...that's..."

I was stunned, it was not a bullet at all, at least not a complete bullet, it was just a shell! It's no wonder that no shot has been shot so far, so it can't be fired at all.

"You are! You are fouling!"

"What's the foul?" The voice from the paralyzed woman didn't have the slightest sense of panic when she was found cheating. "I just said that I took this and shot it in the head, but I didn't say that the head must be blown up."

That's right, I see.

Originally, I thought it was impossible to cheat in chess, but there were other tricks outside the chess game, the hourglass, and the hourglass too, just to make me more impetuous in this extreme situation.

This guy was ready from the start.

... Tsk, not reconciled, losing to such a despicable guy is really not reconciled.

In any case, I can't lose, I secretly made up my mind.

It is impossible to win now, but if you want not to lose, there is still a way.

Other board games can't do it, but chess can do it.

"The eyes have changed, have you given up on yourself?"

The opponent sneered.

But I didn't care, I moved the pawn one step forward, and the soldier reached the end and transformed into a queen.

"sucker Punch."

He moved his car mercilessly and trampled the new Empress to death... just what I needed. I seized this chance.

At the next moment, I moved the car and threw the king's last bastion into the enemy camp.

"General," I said.

"Hmph, what's the point? A car can't checkmate me."

As he said this, he couldn't wait to use it and smashed my car, but at this moment, he suddenly froze. Because he found that on this chessboard, I have no pieces left except the king.

"Do you remember that chess has a special draw rule?" I asked him. "You are too immersed in the advantages to forget this. If you can spend more than 20 or 30 seconds thinking about it instead of eating my son directly, you may be able to checkmate me."

"Stalemate..."

"That's right, draw. When one side has only the king and the king cannot move, it will be automatically considered a draw."

My king didn't move after the cast of king rooks in the first place. It happened to be in this favorable position in the corner, and he blocked a line of my king with his rook, and the rook used as a bait went up to attract the rook and then took the rook, thus completing the situation of drawing... As a result, the ending of this chess game It is also the same as the "Siege of Paris". The French defeated the Vikings, but they could not expel the Vikings. They could only make peace with the Vikings and hand over Normandy to the Vikings. What a wonderful coincidence.

My opponent was silent for a while, manipulated the puppet in his hand, and applauded a few times.

"That's right, then let's say I lost, and I lost with such full preparation...I'm a gentleman, congratulations."

After speaking, the woman with facial paralysis fell on the table as if she had lost her soul.

Behind me came the sound of stones moving.

I followed the sound and saw Mo Xiao, Mo You, and Tang Ren running towards me safe and sound.

"call……"

I took a breath, it was exhausting.

But who is that guy? I picked up the piece he moved last, and then I looked, and it was the only piece that looked different from the Vikings. It was a man in a white dress with dark brown hair and green eyes. When I wanted to examine the chess piece carefully, the puppet's hand suddenly moved and crushed the chess piece.