Looking at the little girl who lost her eyes and wanted to play chess with him, Li Nanke was not only emotionally horrified, but also confused.
What exactly is hidden in this shitty place?
Why did you bring them here?
Even the original Phoenix Mountain at least had a clear purpose.
"I can't play chess."
Li Nanke declined the other party's invitation to play.
The little girl tilted her head, pointed to the chess piece with the word "琤" written on it in his hand, and then pointed to a blank placement point on the chessboard.
It was obvious that the other party was telling him to put the chess piece here.
Teach me how to play chess?
Li Nanke was confused and walked to the chessboard.
The densely packed chess pieces seemed to exude a smell of decay and death, making it feel eerie.
Although Li Nanke didn't know how to play chess, looking at the placement point pointed by the little girl, he had a strong hunch that if he placed the chess piece there, he could win.
Li Nanke looked at the black ceramic Go jar next to him, only to find that it was empty.
In other words, only the chess pieces in his hand are left.
One child determines the outcome!
Subconsciously, an inexplicable bewitching impulse prompted him to pick up the chess piece in his hand and drop it into the empty space pointed by the little girl.
The arc of the little girl's lips slowly widened.
Suddenly, the man stopped moving.
In Li Nanke's mind, he remembered what He Nantian had said to him before about "playing chess with the sky" and the horrific and cruel chessboard scene——
The chess pieces on the chessboard are all people!
Sacrifice man!
Hold your head and kneel at the intersection of the dividing line, acting as a chess piece.
In a daze, the chess pieces in front of Li Nanke turned into corpses, while the chess pieces in his hand were living people.
Once he falls, Nie Ying will be sacrificed into a corpse just like He Nantian.
"wrong!"
Li Nanke suddenly woke up and backed away repeatedly.
He held the chess piece tightly in his hand, glared fiercely at the little girl in front of him who almost tempted him to kill Nie Ying, and said angrily: "I won't play with you!"
The little girl tilted her head, as if she was a little surprised by the other person's behavior.
She pointed out the window.
The scene outside the window suddenly became clear.
Under the peach blossom tree, I saw the ballad girl covered with flowers standing pretty, with her hands folded in front of her belly, looking coquettish and luxurious.
But Li Nanke saw that the singer was in pain.
There seems to be a soul hidden inside.
Every time a flower blooms in the body, it is torture to the soul!
Princess!
Li Nanke's pupils shrank slightly, and he turned around and rushed to the door to try to save people, but the door seemed to be welded shut and could not be opened at all.
"Damn it, I'll kill you!"
Li Nanke stared at the little girl and rushed towards her.
But the little girl's figure disappeared like smoke.
Only the chessboard remains.
The current situation is already obvious. As long as Li Nanke drops the chess piece, he can rescue the eldest princess and leave here.
In short, only by sacrificing Nie Ming can there be hope.
Li Nanke cursed and looked for other exits in the house, but even the windows were extremely strong and could not be broken open.
"Go to hell with your uncle's chess game!"
The man directly overturned the chessboard. But the next second, the chessboard returned to its original state.
Li Nanke laughed angrily when he saw this.
He sat on a chair, rubbed his face and tried to calm down.
The dim candlelight flickered on and off.
The guqin in the corner is still the only reassuring presence in the strange hut.
Staring at the chessboard on the table and the chess pieces in his hand, Li Nanke frowned and fell into thought.
If Nie Ying has been used as a pawn, where is she imprisoned?
Outside?
It shouldn't be possible.
The lights were just turned off for a moment. If she had been kidnapped by a monster, there would have been some movement, but she disappeared silently.
Especially at that time, he kept holding the other person's hand.
As a result, what followed behind him was a faceless woman in pink clothes.
etc!
Li Nanke suddenly thought of something and turned to look at the table. He found that the bouquet of peach blossoms placed on the table when they first came in was missing.
Even the fragrance of peach blossoms in the room can no longer be smelled at this time.
"A blind trick?"
Li Nanke lowered his head and looked at the word "琹" on the chess piece in his hand, and a bold idea came to his mind.
That woman without pink coat is Nie Ying!?
Because the two inhaled the aroma of peach blossoms, they had hallucinations.
He saw Nie Ying as a faceless monster dressed in pink.
And when Nie Ying looked at him, she might have seen a monster too!
This also explains why the woman suddenly shot him and entered the closet. She may have heard something and walked in.
Thinking of this, Li Nanke walked to the closet again.
He threw out all the clothes inside and looked at the empty cabinet for hidden compartments.
But after searching countless times, I still couldn't find it.
Li Nanke's eyes squinted from the corner of his eye, and his gaze suddenly fell on the guqin in the corner.
He seemed to have noticed something strange and stepped forward.
I saw that the guqin, which originally had its strings broken, was now intact.
It looks like it has been renovated.
By some strange coincidence, Li Nanke reached out and plucked the string that had been connected.
Snapped!
With a crisp sound, the strings broke.
The candle on the table went out.
After waiting for a while and seeing no other movement, Li Nanke lit the candle again.
The cabin regained its brightness.
The chessboard on the table disappeared, leaving only a bouquet of withered peach blossoms.
Done?
The man rushed to the closet.
In the closet, Nie Ying was huddled in the corner, holding a blunderbuss in both hands. Although her delicate and cold face tried to remain calm, her eyes were filled with fear.
Seeing a dark shadow appear in front of her, she subconsciously pulled the trigger.
boom!
The flame burst out of the barrel.
Fortunately, Li Nanke dodged in time and was not hit.
"it's me!"
Li Nanke shouted hurriedly.
Hearing the man's familiar voice, Nie Ying was stunned for a moment, still holding the gun tightly and staring at the outside of the cabinet, her delicate jade fingers turned blue and white.
It wasn't until the man's figure actually appeared in front of her that the woman let go of her tense heartstrings.
"It's okay, I'm here, don't be afraid."
Afraid that the woman would get nervous and get angry, Li Nanke carefully took away the gun from the other party's hand and gently held the frightened woman in his arms to comfort her.
Nie Ying's body was very cold, and she was still trembling in her arms.
Like a frightened little white rabbit.
Who would have thought that the usually cold and arrogant woman would show such a weak side at this time, which makes people feel sad and pitiful.
Faced with Li Nanke's out-of-bounds embrace, Nie Ying did not break away. Instead, she hugged the man's waist, greedily enjoying the other's body temperature and heartbeat.
A joy from death to life.
Through questioning, Li Nanke learned that the other party's experience was the same as what he had guessed.
When the candlelight went out and came back on, Nie Ying saw a monster in front of her, holding Li Nanke's blunderbuss.
She mistakenly believed that Li Nanke had been attacked.
So he grabbed the gun from the opponent's hand and fired.
When he was about to refill his gun, he heard Li Nanke's shout from the cabinet again, so he walked over and entered the cabinet filled with mist.
As a result, she was trapped in the closet and couldn't get out.
She even felt that there was a sharp knife pointing at her in the dark, and it would stab her at any time.
"It's all just an illusion."
Li Nanke gently stroked the woman's pink back and said softly, "You deliberately tricked me. If I had fallen pregnant at that time, you might have died in there."
As he said this, the man discovered that the chess piece in his hand was inexplicably missing.
He looked towards the table.
The chessboard appeared again, and the little girl sat opposite.
And where she was pointing, there was already a chess piece placed, and the word "缨" on it also disappeared.
"you win."
The little girl smiled slightly, and her body and the chessboard dispersed like powder.
The door of the wooden house also slowly opened.
"It turns out that this is the real game of chess." Li Nanke suddenly realized.