The soft chessboard was held in Zhang Tong's hand, and the warm touch made Zhang Tong feel a chill for no reason.
Zhang Tong spread out the chessboard, held it in his hands, and glanced at it casually, Zhang Tong was stunned for a moment.
"What's going on? The chessboard is different?"
Seeing the obviously different textures on the chessboard, Zhang Tong frowned deeply and subconsciously began to examine the somewhat different chessboard.
The original chessboard was painted with winding blue and black lines, which were divided into ninety-nine small grids.
Densely packed, like twisted blue-black blood vessels that have been forcibly severed.
But now the first square on the chessboard has changed.
The grid that was originally just written with weird numbers and symbols was actually replaced by a small pattern.
The small pattern attracted Zhang Tong's full attention.
With his eyesight restored to normal level, Zhang Tong began to look at the two patterns carefully.
"The painting style is a bit strange. Is the background a black-style world?"
"A black-style world filled with dense monsters?"
"It's interesting."
While watching, Zhang Tong kept nodding.
To be fair, this painting can be considered extremely impressive among works produced more than ten years later.
It’s so awesome that Zhang Tong can’t tell whether it’s a painting or reality.
However, the next moment, when Zhang Tong saw an extremely inconspicuous blood red in the first grid, his hands trembled instinctively.
At the same time, Zhang Tong's heart seemed to be grabbed by an invisible big hand. After a moment of pause, it began to beat wildly and unsatisfactorily.
A layer of cold sweat broke out, Zhang Tong stared at the inconspicuous red blood in the picture, his scalp was numb.
"How is it possible! How could it appear in the painting?"
"Could it be that... all the monsters in this painting are real?!"
The grid of the adventure device is very small, and the blood red line in the painting is even smaller, but Zhang Tong, who was almost skinned by a monster in human skin, can be 100% sure that he saw it correctly.
The streak of blood in the pattern is the blood-red monster that appeared after he scratched the human skin with his key!
You can misread other things, but it is absolutely impossible for Zhang Tong to misread something like this that almost killed him.
Before Zhang Tong could think about it carefully, the path on the adventure chess suddenly changed strangely.
The path was like some kind of weird blood vessel, constantly shrinking, and a black mist began to brew in the path.
The mist rose and soon filled the entire chessboard, making the original chessboard suddenly three-dimensional.
In the black-gray fog, at the starting point of the path, which was originally above the first grid, a figure shrouded in fog slowly emerged.
As soon as that figure appeared, Zhang Tong instinctively felt familiar.
It's like...
"It seems to be me?"
A sense of absurdity and horror arose in Zhang Tong's heart, and that instinctive sense of familiarity made Zhang Tong's hair stand on end.
He couldn't understand how a risky chess game could be so weird.
At the same time, a large amount of ashes, as if they had been burned, rolled up in the black-gray mist, forming lines of twisted text like snakes, suspended in the middle of the chessboard.
Those words are extremely weird, and there seems to be a nerve-wracking weirdness and madness contained in them.
Zhang Tong did not recognize every word, but Zhang Tong understood the meaning of the combination of those words.
"You have bound the fate dice and started an extraordinary game."
"Your die rolls a point, you advance one space on the path of truth, you open the spiritual world."
"You encountered the lowest level painted-skinned ghost in the spirit world. You repelled the painted-skinned ghost and passed the level judgment."
"You have been rewarded - Recipe: Apprentice!"
What the hell is this?!
Zhang Tong was still holding the adventurous chess piece, his face reflected in the gray-black light was full of horror!
A large amount of information was quickly digested and understood in Zhang Tong's brain, and each of his horrifying guesses arose in his heart.
"I opened the spirit world?"
"The monsters painted in the picture are all real, and I used this chessboard to release them?"
Extraordinary game? This is clearly Pandora’s Box!
And I am the one who opens the magic box!
The absurd but vaguely terrifying speculation made Zhang Tong freeze up.
At this moment, the text composed of ashes changed and turned into lines of brand new text.
…
Recipe:Apprentice
1 Eye of Resentment (obtained), 1 Heavenly Spirit Cap of the Fallen Ghost, 50 grams of smoky quartz, 10 grams of Tai Sui, and 100 grams of pure water.
Some humans call it the Wisdom Potion, and some humans call it the Spirit-Enlightening Pill... but it is only one of the nine sequence formulas included in the extraordinary game.
…
Faced with the strange words that made people feel anxious, Zhang Tong understood the meaning of these words immediately.
But what followed was more doubts and horror.
Sequence Nine?Apprentice?Recipe?One?
The amount of information revealed in just a few lines was so great that even after confirming that there was no danger on the Extraordinary Game board, Zhang Tong's entire body was still tense.
"A supernatural game...a game that allows people to gain extraordinary power?"
"Is it a game that revolves around me? Or is it a game that involves all of humanity?"
"Why didn't I hear about any supernatural events and terrifying monsters in the world before I was reborn? But I encountered them after I was reborn?"
One doubt after another left Zhang Tong stunned, so much so that he didn't even notice when the various strange phenomena on the chessboard disappeared.
It wasn't until the aura of infinite insignificance and fear coming from the chessboard dissipated that Zhang Tong suddenly shuddered.
"This thing shouldn't be dangerous, although it may be the source of all dangers."
Looking down at the adventure chess piece in his hand that had regained its composure, Zhang Tong made this judgment with flashing eyes.
The reason is very simple. Of the monsters painted in the first grid, I have only encountered one, and that is the Painted Skin Wraith.
And when I met the Painted Skin Wraith, it was only after the Painted Skin Wraith killed a person and put on human skin.
In other words, although it is very likely that these monsters appeared because they started the extraordinary game, they definitely did not emerge from the chessboard.
"Just like the painted-skinned ghost disappeared in the corridor, the appearance of the monster should be a similar process."
"I opened the spiritual world...are these monsters coming out of the spiritual world?"
"md, what the hell is the spiritual world?"
Zhang Tong took a deep breath. The large amount of unknowns and strangeness made him feel dizzy.
He turned his head, looked at the bright moon outside the window, and said to himself:
"I just don't know how big the impact of this game is. If it were as big as the earth, it would be fucking fun."