The first time he saw the nail-headed monster, Lu Mingfei put his hand on the handle of the gun's knife. His body sank slightly and he was ready to fight. At the same time, he looked at Mandy who was leading the way, not knowing what he meant. , afraid of being deceptive or something like that.
"I didn't retreat immediately but moved my body two steps to the right to block Su Xiaoqiang from behind. That's right, Lu Mingfei, you have grown so much since we last saw each other. Someone taught you something. Did you?" Mandy didn't look back, she just put her hands on her hips and looked at the lonely and scary nail-headed weirdo under the chandelier, "Don't worry, he's not a threat, as long as you don't take the initiative to participate in the games he hosts, that's it. The content of a level."
"This level...you mean this is Line 7..." Su Xiaoqiang understood Mandy's words and understood what was happening now. He looked at the thin weirdo with a ferocious appearance and frowned. .
"Death chess game." Lu Mingfei said suddenly. He stared at the weirdo and seemed to gradually match this thing with a certain part of his memory... Yes, there was something wrong when watching the live CG on the computer. Feeling stripped away, it was inevitable that he would not recognize the physical thing at first glance when he saw it all at once, but when his attention was focused on the chess board, no matter how slow he was, he should have reacted.
"It seems that you have done your homework before going to the Nibelungen, so there is no need to waste a lot of my time." Mandy suddenly clasped her hands together twice, "Does any of you have any experience in playing chess?"
"I have played a little bit, and Lin Nian likes to play chess with me when he has nothing to do." Su Xiaoqiang said.
"Really?" Mandy looked back at Su Xiaoqiang unexpectedly, then turned back and sighed, "He still likes to play chess, but it's a pity that I can't continue to teach him like before."
"Forget it, Sister Su, let's forget it..." Lu Mingfei immediately turned around and pressed Su Xiaoqiang's shoulders to persuade him in a low voice. Even though the other party was expressionless, he was still afraid that the two women would quarrel at this juncture. The enemy should now act unanimously against the outside world.
Su Xiaoqiang waved her hand to indicate that she was not easily angered. A quarrel was a quarrel, and she could tell when to quarrel and when to tolerate.
Lu Mingfei was a little confused. Is this Mandy Gonzalez mentally ill? From the beginning of their meeting, he attacked them crazily, especially Su Xiaoqiang. If you want to say that a love rival is extremely jealous when they meet, this guy is so jealous. To what extent? Those who don’t know think she came first. You must know that Su Xiaoqiang has known Lin Nian since high school. You are the one who came later, right?
"Women's jealousy." Mandy Gonzalez muttered and laughed inaudibly from the front.
It's reasonable to insist on classifying Mandy Gonzalez as petty. After all, Lu Mingfei doesn't have a close relationship with this woman. They only met once. Maybe she has been such a petty person from the beginning. Sure?
However, Lu Mingfei's seventh sense as a man (women have the sixth sense, men have the seventh sense, this is what "Saint Seiya" says) told him that Mandy's target was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, and it was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. That is to say...this woman seems to be hiding something.
Underneath her harshness towards Su Xiaoqiang, she seemed to have a special purpose.
"It's true that Lin Nian's chess game was taught by me. What's the score for you playing chess with him?" Mandy seemed to be too lazy to be weird and passed the message to Su Xiaoqiang to ask about serious matters.
"I haven't beaten him. He usually won't let others play this kind of thing. He will only teach the loser what's wrong after winning." Su Xiaoqiang answered normally.
"In line with his personality, he can tolerate big things and endure small things, but not games. Games must be divided into high and low levels." Mandy raised her hand and stroked Juan'er's golden retriever, and said in a calm tone, "Lu Mingfei is not you. ?Can you play chess?"
"I know... just a little bit." Lu Mingfei is quite single. "I play Chinese chess. When I was in school, I watched the elders play chess in the community park every day. I still have some confidence in Chinese chess. Chinese chess and international chess Do the two have anything in common?"
"I can't say there is no connection at all, I can only say that it has nothing to do with it. The only thing they have in common is that they are both chess games, and they both rely on checkmate to win." Mandy stretched out, feeling all the bones in his body.
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His bones were chattering slightly, as if he had been here for too long and his body was rusty. "One is an amateur, the other is average... Let's rehearse it first and touch the bottom of the only person who knows how to do it."
With her hands in her pockets, Mandy led Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei around a corner and walked past the nail weirdo. As they passed by, their eyes couldn't help but stay on that terrifying pale face. , the gaze of the man's face also moved as they passed by. The gaze of the deep eye sockets made people shudder, but he did not do anything extraordinary to disturb the three people passing by.
From this distance, Lu Mingfei could clearly see the cold light refracted by the steel nails on the nail-headed weirdo's face, the pink blood vessels on the gums of the torn mouth that were still beating continuously, the thin body like open ribs, and the bare chest without nipples. , that sense of freshness in the human body makes people feel uncomfortable and repelled from the bottom of their hearts.
"Don't try to build it." Mandy suddenly turned to look at Lu Mingfei, who was looking at the nail-haired god, and said calmly.
This sentence made Lu Mingfei, who was about to look at Nail Head's shoulder, raise his head in shock and meet Mandy's pale golden eyes, "...What did you say?"
"I said, don't build it. Your Word Spirit 'Lunar Eclipse' is indeed very powerful, but in Nibelung you should know that some things cannot be passed with just one or two cheat codes. Sometimes cheating is You will be banned. And in the worst case scenario, after the official detects your cheating behavior, they will personally tease you. Believe me, this kind of teasing is not gentle or kind at all." Mandy said in a deep voice. , "As long as we don't provoke him, he won't attack us, so in theory this can be regarded as a safe house, but there are no supplies, but you can stay as long as you want. If you want to leave from here, it's a different matter. .”
Real cold sweat flowed down Lu Mingfei's neck. Su Xiaoqiang was not surprised that Mandy knew Lu Mingfei's voice, but she didn't know that what really scared Lu Mingfei was the word "cheat code" that Mandy spat out. ...Does she know some secrets about herself?
They walked to the platform service center about twenty or thirty meters away from the nail-headed weirdo. On the table in the service center was a beggar's version of chess. Why is it called a beggar's version? That's because the chessboard is made of dust from the table. The chess pieces were painted, and the chess pieces were carved from stones. Lu Mingfei noticed that there were some crushed lime between Mandy's fingers, and it was not difficult to guess that this was the opponent's masterpiece.
It can be seen from the scratches on the table that Mandy must have been simulating chess here for a long time before they arrived. It is estimated that the imaginary enemy was the nail-headed weirdo.
Does this mean that even Mandy is not completely sure of defeating the other party?
Mandy flipped over to the table and went to confront Su Xiaoqiang, "The two of us will play. I will feel your level and then consider what to do next."
"Must we play this chess? We can't just do it..." Lu Mingfei made a gesture of wiping his neck and quietly looked back at the nail-headed weirdo. However, when he cast his gaze, he found with disgust that the other person was also looking back. He was looking back with his neck twisted 180 degrees without moving. The dark folds on his snow-white neck caused by the rotation made people shudder.
"Don't think about it. After a period of testing, Nailhead can't be killed, and attacking him will make you a 'sacrifice.'" Mandy casually moved the stones on the chessboard, stretched out her hand to signal Su Xiaoqiang to move, and the two People started playing on this chessboard.
"'Sacrifice'? What does it mean?" Lu Mingfei felt that this word was not good and he didn't like it very much.
"Literally speaking, which level of the game has not played with life? The rule followed by this Nibelungen is "exchange value with life." Use life as a bargaining chip to exchange for value and meaning. Everyone on this stage is You are a player, and the coins you put into the game machine are your life. Of course, an ordinary game of chess also requires sacrifices." Mandy moved the chess pieces and said, "Since you have played Chinese chess, you should know the game. Most of them have timers, right? Both players have their own playing time during the whole game. When you run out of your time, even if you have a great chess position, as long as the game is not over, you will Condemned to lose."
Lu Mingfei nodded, he
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I still know a little bit. When I was in junior high school, I signed up for the city's chess youth competition, regardless of my ability. As a result, every fast chess move he played against his opponent was a long test for him, which is how much he realized after that time. There is a wise saying about how much rice you can eat from a bowl. Since then, you have quit the chess world and switched to obA.
"Death Game, just use the name you mentioned. This game also has a timer. The time you play is the death period of the 'sacrifice'. Before the chess game starts, there will be an unlucky guy who becomes the sacrifice to start the game." The sacrifice is usually confined to a dangerous situation, such as a slowly filling water tank, a track where the train moves a little at a time, or a secret room where the walls are gradually collapsing. Every time you spend a little time, the sacrifice will be one step closer to death, until If you lose the game or time runs out, and the sacrifice dies completely, you will also be declared a loser."
"What will happen if we are sentenced to lose?" Lu Mingfei asked worriedly.
"It won't matter, because the sacrifice died for you. You are just a chess player. If you lose, you just throw in the coins and try again? Why do you think I can still sit here." Mandy, who was behind the table, kicked the heavy weight on her feet. Lu Mingfei curiously walked over and took a look at her feet. His expression turned ugly for a moment because there was actually a corpse of a man with his hair lost under the countertop. There were already signs of being a giant, and his face was swollen. Big, protruding eyeballs, enlarged and everted lips, which looks extremely uncomfortable.
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"It's nothing against him. I lost in the chess game and attacked the master without authorization. I was thrown into a solid water tank and became the next sacrifice." Mandy said calmly, "Then I took advantage of it. I just tried it without taking advantage of the bastard, and then he died after trying it."
Lu Mingfei no longer had the energy to complain about Mandy's Chinese, which she had already mastered, so he pulled his eyes away from the corpse with difficulty, "You just... don't regard human life as human life?"
"Don't talk nonsense. If I can't do it, someone will come. If I can't do it, then there won't be many people in this world who can do it." Mandy said flatly, "I chose to give myself a vacation after I lost my job. I went to Iceland to play a few games of chess with the retired Bobby Fischer some time ago. Although his time was running out when I met him, his chess skills were still there. The old guy had two brushes... So I stole his brush. Now in the world, no one can beat me in chess more than a slap in the face. In this Nibelungen, I am the most qualified person to try. Although I lost, He also gained a lot, so his sacrifice cannot be said to be completely meaningless.”
Lu Mingfei could hear absolute confidence and even pride in this woman's plain words. It was unquestionable pride, but Lu Mingfei was still skeptical about whether she valued human life - mainly because of her words It's too frivolous and unreliable. That kind of frivolous and indifferent feeling makes people completely confused whether she is serious or joking.
"You lost." Mandy casually moved her queen to checkmate Su Xiaoqiang, to which Su Xiaoqiang remained silent.
She focused on the chess game the whole time and didn't even have time to chat. Even though she was so focused, she still lost miserably in the end. Mandy and Lu Mingfei casually killed her while chatting, and they didn't think twice about moving the chess pieces every time. It was like memorizing a chess piece named Su Xiaoqiang. No matter where Su Xiaoqiang moved, she simply followed the chess piece and won.
"What a disastrous defeat." Lu Mingfei glanced at the chessboard. Even if he didn't understand chess, he could still tell from the difference in the number of chess pieces that Su Xiaoqiang was killed and his armor was thrown off.
"This level is only about 1500 points, the middle level of amateurs. I go there to deliver food." Mandy leaned on the countertop and patted the dust left by the stones and chess pieces on her hands. "I almost know what to do."
"What do you want to do? Use one of me as a sacrifice and try again?" Lu Mingfei took a half-step back and looked at Mandy with some evil intentions.
"Yes, how do you know?" Mandy walked forward with a smile, and put her hand around Lu Mingfei's neck when goosebumps appeared all over his body, "You are Lin Nian's buddy, I He's also Lin Nian's buddy. After all, we are also buddies. Aren't you men supposed to be willing to help your brothers? I don't want you to hurt your brothers. Just help me drink some water."
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Want some water?" Lu Mingfei felt uncomfortable and reluctantly looked at this woman who looked like a senior sister.
"Do you see that water tank over there?" Mandy held Lu Mingfei in her arms and approached some nail-headed weirdos, pointing to a large open water tank not far away near a pillar. The shape is basically the same as what Lu Mingfei saw on the TV channel when he was a child. I have seen the sealed water tank used for David Copperfield's underwater escape. The water tank also contains wet and rusty shackles, which is quite unsettling. "After a while, you take the initiative to walk in and put on the shackles, and the chess game will begin." , do you understand what I mean?"
"I'm telling you, don't even think about it!" Lu Mingfei said he would fall out, break away from Mandy's hand and move away, "Why don't you go in as a sacrifice?"
"There will be no one to play chess after I enter. It's basically impossible to pass the level with the skills of the two of you." Mandy looked at Lu Mingfei with her hands on her hips and sighed, "Aren't you in a hurry? You want to pass this level? You can only be forced to play a fair chess game with that thing. If you don't believe it, you can also try to find other exits or fight it directly. I won't stop you from doing this... Or maybe I On the contrary, I am happy to see you stab it recklessly and then be put into the water tank, which saves me the trouble of talking."
Lu Mingfei frowned and looked at Mandy, seeming to be thinking about something, and also glanced at Su Xiaoqiang.
"Lu Mingfei." Su Xiaoqiang spoke up. She looked up at the smiling Mandy, "I think what she said is true. She is the key to our passing."
"Smart man, the only thing I like about you is that you are very knowledgeable." Mandy looked at Su Xiaoqiang and smiled, "There is an old Chinese saying that those who know the current affairs are heroes!"
"I can be the sacrifice." Su Xiaoqiang nodded and agreed with the other party's suggestion after thinking for a moment, "Actually, I'm also very curious, Senior Sister, do you really want to kill me in the Nibelungen?"
"Lin Nian won't let me go if I kill you, junior sister." Mandy said leisurely, "I won't do stupid things to lose your favorability. After all, I can't SAVE\/LoAd. I only need to do such a thing once to lose my favorability." Already."
"It's not about who is going to be the sacrifice. It's about why we send someone to be the sacrifice and you go to play chess to pass? Are we familiar with you? The person who is familiar with you is Lin Nian, okay?" Lu Mingfei decided to say it anyway. He used harsh words to set clear boundaries. The more he came into contact with him, the more troublesome he became to this woman. He was extremely skilled at closing the distance. If he lost his mind even a little, he would be betrayed by the other party and he would have to help her count the money.
"I think what you said is reasonable, and I have also considered this, so how about this." Mandy crossed her index fingers and pointed at Lu Mingfei, "You are responsible for being the sacrifice." She pointed to Su Xiaoqiang, "You I am responsible for sitting in front of the level master and playing chess." She put her fingers gently against her chin and smiled, "And I am responsible for helping you play chess. I will send one of you to pass the level first to show your sincerity in cooperation. How about that?"