Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 217 Natasha's Two Ascension Directions—The Stone Statue of the Queen or the Hall of Assassins
At night, Liukan Town, a wooden house.

After returning from Tokyo, Anson deer took a shower and tried on a khaki trench coat - which Yuri had chosen for him, and it was quite similar to the "Sherlock Holmes decoration" in the carriage of the sea train.

He has grown a lot taller during this period, and his shoulders have also broadened, which is enough to support heavy clothes. The important thing is the change in temperament, so that he will not have the feeling of "children wearing adult clothes" when wearing a windbreaker.

On the contrary, it is just right, revealing a kind of cold elite feeling everywhere.

He had just sat on the bed when a gray message bubble popped up in the upper right corner of his vision.

When I poked it open, it was a transaction application.

[The player "Juliu Mena" in the friend list made a transaction request to you. 】

[—Items given by the other party: poorly crafted wooden planks*999 (low-grade materials), crow’s crow’s head*999 (low-grade materials), reefs that can be seen everywhere*999 (low-grade materials), etc...]

[——The item requested by the other party: [-] evolution coins. 】

"It's really fast, but it only costs [-] evolution coins, and Xiaomei is too nice. It really is the cold outside and the hot inside... It's much better than the black merchant Crow." An Senlu accepted the transaction application.

In any case, low-grade material is now out of print.

Except for Juliu, Anson Lu really didn't know anyone who could do this for him.

If he wanted to find a crow, this Mu Qiang gambler would definitely say - "Mr. Lu, it would be too difficult for me to find such sleazy things as low-grade materials." This kind of words refused.

[The transaction has been completed, you lost 5 evolution coins, and obtained a total of 10000 different low-grade materials. 】

[Current Evolution Coin Balance: 11 Evolution Coins. 】

"Okay, that's enough."

Satisfied, he opened the chess panel and clicked on Natasha's page.

[Chess Type Name: Slum Girl - Natasha]

[Chess Type Quality: Low and Inferior]

[Requirements for upgrading chess types to "normal level": 10000 low-level materials; 50000 evolution coins. 】

[It has been detected that it meets the requirements for upgrading, may I ask whether to consume materials to upgrade this chess type? 】

"Upgrade." An Senlu didn't hesitate. It's just too natural not to upgrade, okay?Natasha is an infinitely advanced chess type, and it is also the main war chess that has accompanied him for the longest time.

[The 10000 low-grade materials in the luggage have been emptied, and 5 evolution coins have been paid. 】

[Current account balance: 6 evolution coins. 】

[Congratulations, the low-level chess type - "Slum Girl Natasha", has advanced to the ordinary-level chess type - "Wandering Apprentice Girl Natasha"! ! ! 】

An Senlu raised his eyebrows.

"Wandering? Apprentice? There doesn't seem to be such a story in the background story of the Queen's Stone Statue."

He thought about it carefully, before the king took Natasha away, Natasha, who was only a teenager, had already possessed extremely strong strength. Maybe she wandered for a while and asked someone to learn from her.

He checked Natasha's panel again, and it had changed drastically.

[Chess Type Name: Wandering Apprentice Girl——Natasha]

[Chess type level: MAX (this type of chess has reached its full level)]

[Chess type quality: normal level]

[Chess attributes: strength: 9; agility: 12; intelligence: 9]

[Chess skills:
1. Assassin instinct (blessed by a "fallen twilight god", Natasha has a natural assassin ability, her reaction and skill far surpass her peers, even assassinating an adult is not a problem)
2. Triangular strangulation (Natasha climbs to the back of the opponent's head and cuts off the opponent's neck with hands and feet)

3. Poisonous dagger (Natasha draws poison on the dagger to enhance the lethality of the attack)

4. Shadow Weaving Step (Natasha uses slow and rhythmic steps to form a phantom to confuse the opponent's sight)]

[Chess description: Natasha met an old man who claimed to be a "Master Ninja" in a slum. She gave the seriously injured Master Ninja food and drinking water, bandaged his wounds, and saved him from danger.

In return, Master Ninja accepted Natasha as his apprentice. He revealed that he had traveled around the world for decades to investigate a demon named "Qinghong", and he must kill "Qinghong" before the end of his life. Rainbow" is eliminated, otherwise the task assigned by the Patriarch cannot be completed.

Therefore, Natasha traveled on the mainland with the ninja master for a period of time, during which she learned many ninja assassination skills, and even the ninja master had to marvel at her incomparable talent.

But half a year later, until Master Ninja's lifespan was exhausted, he could not find the demon named "Qinghong". Natasha buried Master Ninja in the desert, and briefly returned to the former slums, wanting to see her former partner How are they doing now. 】

An Senlu nodded, "Oh, so the plot will continue. After that, she was picked up by the stone statue of the king."

He continued to look down.

[This type of chess has "unlimited advancement qualifications", and it can currently be upgraded to "rare level", and has two advancement directions. 】

[Upgrade direction 1000: "Stone Statue of Queen Qingyan—Natasha", upgrade requirements: 5 common-grade materials, 20 evolution coins, legendary-grade materials—Qinghong Holy Flame*[-]. 】

[Upgrade direction 1000: "The Chief Assassin of the Palace——Natasha", upgrade requirements: 5 common grade materials, 20 evolution coins, legendary grade materials—night cloak*[-]. 】

"Why does it feel like I'm playing a game of cultivation? Are there still many advanced directions to choose from..." Ansen Lu murmured, "Advanced requires 1 common-grade materials, which is much easier to find than [-] low-grade materials. Yes, there should be more on the market now, and the price is not high, the most important thing is the legendary material."

Natasha who advanced to the "Queen's Stone Statue Form" and Natasha who advanced to the "Chief Assassin of the Temple" are completely different concepts.

Anson Lu believes that this choice needs careful consideration.

If she advances to the stone statue of the queen, what kind of story will Natasha have to go through in order to be freed from the curse of "Qinghong"?

However, if advancing to the stone statue of the queen would allow her to regain her original memory, then it would be the stone statue of the queen he knew, not this taciturn girl.

"How do you choose?" An Senlu sighed softly, "Well... To be honest, I don't really want her to advance to the 'Blue Flame Stone Statue'. I feel that there will be a lot of bad memories."

But without this kind of memory, Natasha may no longer be the "Queen of Stone".

His intuition told him that only by evolving Natasha into the form of the "Stone Statue of the Queen of Blue Flame" would she be able to awaken her original memory.

After all, they have cooperated for so long.

"There are still a lot of materials needed to upgrade." An Senlu murmured, "Then just ask Jiang Yijie for it."

Anyway, after making an appointment to cooperate with the national team, he didn't blush and his heart skipped a beat, so he opened his friend list and sent Jiang Yijie a message.

"Captain Jiang, are you asleep?"

"I haven't slept yet, what's wrong?"

"I want to ask you for some materials."

"Hmm... If it is a material of the Red Tide level, it is difficult to get it even with my authority."

"No, I only want ordinary-level materials and legendary-level materials, and there are no specific requirements, any type is fine."

"Then how much do you need?"

Even when Jiang Yijie was typing, his tone was always so warm.

"A thousand common-level materials, twenty legendary-level materials are not many, right?"

"Heh... It's really a lion who opened his mouth, but it's not difficult. I'll send it to you in a while."

"Thank you, Team Jiang."

"You're welcome, we will be colleagues in a short time, and we should help each other."

Is it necessary to emphasize... An Senlu chuckled and closed the conversation panel.

He asked Jiang Yijie for [-] common-grade materials in order to upgrade Natasha. After all, he had already obtained the "Qinghong Holy Flame" material in the sequence dungeon, and the rest were only common-grade materials.

As for the other [-] legendary materials that he and Jiang Yijie asked for, it was to collect [-] legendary materials and upgrade the Floating Shark King to the full level.

In this day alone, he asked three different people for materials. An Senlu had to feel in his heart that this is the benefit of connections.

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of An Senlu who was alone and helpless over there.

"How is she..." An Senlu raised his eyebrows, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and curiously opened the software - observation across time and space.

The software screen appeared quickly, and only a new video was refreshed in the directory on the right—this video was very short, only about 30 seconds.

"Only 30 seconds, what kind of video will it be?"

An Senlu clicked on the video casually, and the screen began to show the picture.

He is very familiar with the unfolding picture - this is Ancheng in China, the time is at dusk, and the setting sun hangs high in the sky.

Ancheng is much bigger than Shangshi City, and it looks bustling and prosperous, at least at the level of a third-tier city.

The "protagonist" of the video, An Senlu, was wearing a black hoodie and a black hood. She walked slowly through the crowd and stopped in front of a residential building. She walked up the stairs to the fifth floor.

She stopped at the building in her memory, turned the door handle, and found that the door was unlocked.

Push open the door and walk in.

What came into her eyes were two hanged corpses—their faces were bloodless, with spitting water from their mouths, eyeballs turned up, and blood stains from their necks being strangled by ropes.

An Senlu's hand on his chin trembled, and he swallowed.

He knew who these two people were—his uncle and aunt. They usually valued their only son—An Hongyan the most. Now that An Hongyan had died under An Senlu's hands, they had no reason to continue living. , so I chose to seek death.

From the past, Ansenlu has neither loved nor hated these two people. Uncle and aunt inherited the inheritance of Ansenlu's parents, so it is their natural responsibility to raise Ansenlu.

With this inheritance, my uncle quit his job and found a job to work at home. My aunt whispered in his ear all day long, but I didn't mind it. After all, Anson Lu's parents left enough money up.

It's just that they haven't taken special care of Anson's deer since they were young, whether it's psychological or physical.

An Senlu spends a lot of time shutting himself up in his room to play chess. He only receives pocket money during the Chinese New Year, and he can only buy a game console after saving for two or three years. But his cousin treats him well and often brings him some comics, magazines and snacks. .

Cousin is the only child of his uncle’s family. Uncles and aunts have piled up the family’s finances on him—all the most advanced cram schools, the best schools, and later sent his cousin to universities in the United States. A lot of tuition.

As for Ansenlu, they were perfunctory as they could.

On the surface, the uncle would say: "The environment of the public schools here is poor, Luzi, let me help you find a private school."

In fact, after finding a school for An Senlu, he breathed a sigh of relief. He told his aunt behind his back how tired he was and how many contacts he had used before he managed to find a school for this poor boy who couldn't help him. He refuses to work hard, and only knows how to play chess all day long, relying on his parents, we will raise him for the rest of his life.

At that time, Anson Deer heard clearly from behind the door.

While beating and scolding uncle, my aunt said that we owed his parents, how could I say such a thing?He was secretly happy again, how outstanding their son was compared to An Senlu.

Ever since she was a child, An Hongyan has been regarded as a "child of other people's family" in the eyes of her neighbors, and now she has become a "returnee elite" that everyone envies. In the future, she will definitely be able to enter a good company and earn a lot of money.

And Anson deer, nothing good.

Even so, seeing the corpses of his uncle and aunt with his own eyes, An Senlu still had mixed emotions in his eyes.

Even if they didn't care much about him, they were still people who had eaten at the same table for many years.

"It's suicide...how vulnerable are you guys?"

An Senlu sneered, she took off her hood, put her hands in her pockets, raised her unemotional eyes, and watched the scene expressionlessly.

Her reaction was uneventful, but Anson Lu could see that her shoulders trembled slightly.

After a while, An Senlu walked into the living room, glanced over the two corpses, and saw a letter on the table. She reached out to pick up the letter, and the picture suddenly went black.

The recording ends here.

An Senlu stared at his own face reflected on the screen, and murmured.

"Does the headmaster's transformation start here? Or where?"

He shook his head, dispelled unnecessary guesses, turned off the software, lay down on the bed and stared blankly for a while.

After a while, Anson Lu sat up and said:

"Natasha, come out."

After the order came down, Natasha, who had already advanced to a normal-level form, appeared in front of him.

Natasha has grown a lot taller with the naked eye. She is still wearing common clothes, with her left hand resting on her right wrist. Her purple pupils dodge Ansen's deer, and her pupils are dim and cold.

"Do you know me?" Anson Lu asked.

"Anson Deer." She remembered what Anson Deer said, and didn't continue to call him master.

"I mean, other than that, do you remember anything? Like killing ghost samurai with me in Hokkaido?"

"Sorry... I don't have such a memory."

"Okay, then tell me, what happened during the years you went out with 'Master Ninja'." Anson Lu was not disappointed.

"We were looking for a demon named 'Qinghong', but we couldn't find it, but we encountered many wonderful things on the way, and I practiced seriously with the master for a long time."

"I see." An Senlu pondered, "That's it, you can go back."

"As ordered."

After the words fell, Natasha disappeared.

Sure enough, she has to be advanced to "Blue Flame Stone Statue" before she can recover her original memory?Do you have to turn her into a "stone statue" again?This is really stupid.

"Or, this advanced route, what if the potential of the stone statue route is lower than that of the 'Assassin's Palace' advanced route next door?" An Senlu stared at the ceiling thinking.

After a while, he shrugged his shoulders, let out a long sigh of relief, and fell on the bed in a big shape, the back of his head sank into the soft plush quilt, and his tired eyelids closed upwards.

"Well, no matter what... let's get some sleep first."

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