Chapter 117: Chessboard Surprise

Fuerdi picked up the card to examine it, feeling it was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it, and his head ached for a while.

【"Bewitchment Technique": When using this card, the designated person will have their love and desire for you grow wildly, and they will be obedient to your every command.】

"If you have the confidence to make her fall in love with you, you don't need to use this. After all, she's just a fool who clings to men; just use some means."

"What is this?"

Tian Nuan saw him ask with lip-reading, then frowned. "Don't ask so much, you don't need to know, you just need to know how to use it."

"I can take back the slave contract at any time; your life is in my hands. You'd better finish the task quickly; I feel sick every day I see her."

Tian Nuan tidied her hair and smiled at him. A big problem was solved, and she felt much more comfortable. Without looking at the expression of the person behind her, she walked straight out of the room.

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"Elizabeth... can we believe what that dwarf said?"

Several people hunched over, sneaking into the corridor in a corner invisible to the guests. At the very end of the corridor was the castle's restroom.

The candlelight was dim, the platinum-colored carved walls extended to the ceiling, and a huge oval mirror was embedded in the washstand.

The windowsill was covered by off-white curtains, making it unclear.

Willow grabbed the back of Pip's suit, Felix followed closely behind Su Mian, and even squeezed Luna aside.

Su Mian held up an oil lamp and made a shushing gesture. The dwarf told them that every night, strange sounds would come from the castle's restroom.

Sometimes it was a man, sometimes a woman, and sometimes a child; in short, it was very strange.

But every dwarf heard different sounds, so it couldn't be judged whose was correct, so they only came to investigate at twelve o'clock.

She stepped into the entryway. The curtains on the windowsill were blown by the wind. Su Mian held up the oil lamp to observe, but didn't find anything unusual.

Felix stepped forward and pushed open every restroom door, the clanging sound echoing in the empty room.

He scratched his head. "It seems... there's nothing."

Suddenly, Luna exclaimed. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound; she had pulled open the curtains.

Behind the curtains was not a windowsill at all, but an entire uneven white cement wall, as if something was about to rush out from behind the wall.

Just then, the twelve o'clock bell rang.

Ding—

Ding—

Ding—

"Holy crap!"

Willow shouted, climbed onto the washstand with a kick of her legs, and the stone tiles under her feet changed color abruptly. The red and white grid gradually disappeared from the outside in, all turning into black and white floor tiles.

At first glance, it looked like a huge chessboard.

"Woo woo woo..."

"Uh ah..."

"Hahahahaha"

Various sound lines suddenly rang out from behind everyone: children, men, women, some laughing, some crying, some screaming.

Pip's face turned pale, his whole body frozen in place, neither daring to look back nor daring to move half a step.

Only Su Mian and Felix looked back. Even though they had made sufficient psychological preparations, their vision was still severely impacted.

That wall where the curtains were pulled open, those uneven places, had completely turned into pale faces.

It was as if cement sculptures had suddenly come to life, laughing at them, crying at them.

More were screaming silently, but all opened their mouths wide, as if wanting to say something, the changes in expression driving the wall to deform.

One head after another stretched further and further forward, carrying cement drips onto the ground.

"What are you still stunned for? Run!!!"

Willow accidentally saw that wall with her peripheral vision, and a wave of goosebumps rose in her heart.

The physiological reaction born of fear made her scalp tingle, her limbs weak, and she even felt like vomiting. Seeing Elizabeth still staring blankly, she crawled from the washstand to the door.

Su Mian came back to her senses. Felix hurriedly asked, "What did you find?"

"There is the King's face in here."

She hadn't pointed out the specific location to Felix yet when Luna grabbed the hands of the two, sweat breaking out on her head.

"Didn't you notice the color change under your feet?! Run, it'll be too late later."

As she spoke, just as she was about to pull the two, Pip slammed the door shut with a "bang."

Willow: "What are you doing?!"

Pip's face was pale, his legs shaking. "That, that King chess piece is outside."

With just one sentence, everyone held their breath. A black figure was vaguely visible through the glass on the door, standing at the entrance, still, staring at them.

Willow gasped, shrinking her body back, accidentally touching the faucet switch, and the faucet suddenly made a strange sound.

Gurgle—

Gurgle—

"What sound?"

Su Mian frowned and looked behind Willow. Willow was so scared she jumped off the washstand, her back against the restroom door.

The faucet trembled, the sound sounding like it was swallowing, or like vomiting.

With a harsh scraping sound, several black and white long-column objects poured out from the faucet, vomiting non-stop, instantly filling the entire washbasin, and overflowing in less than half a minute.

It was a pile of chess pieces, all kinds: pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, queens, only no king.

"Thump—"

"Thump—"

The King chess piece started hitting the door. Pip covered his mouth and hid behind Luna. "What to do? What to do now?!!"

Su Mian looked at the chess pieces in the sink and the black and white grid on the floor.

"Set up the formation, we need to set up the formation."

Willow: "Now?! He-he-he-he's about to come in—"

Luna gritted her teeth. "Stop talking nonsense! Throw the chess pieces over!!!"

As she spoke, Willow grabbed a handful of chess pieces and threw them to the few. Su Mian caught them, organized all the usable chess pieces, and threw the excess aside.

After setting up the first two rows of the chessboard, the movement outside the door stopped, and two rows of black chess pieces also appeared on the floor where the players were.

The crashing sound outside the door stopped completely.

The black and white grid extended under their feet, the light lit up square by square, and the chessboard was activated.

"It's started." Su Mian said.

Almost the moment her voice fell, the black chess pieces opposite moved first.

The black side didn't have any probing, the pawn line advanced as a whole, the two central pawns moved in parallel, the queenside knight jumped out immediately, blocking the diagonal line, and the black rook slid along the bottom line, blocking the passage.

This was an extremely standard offensive deployment, with a fast rhythm. If the player side were calm enough, they could definitely win if they spent time studying it.

But the ghost wailing and wolf howling behind them rose one after another, getting louder and louder, disturbing their minds.

The white side, however, appeared chaotic.

"Move the knight first, control the center!" Willow shouted anxiously, seeing them hesitating to move.

"No, the opposite pawn pressure is too fast, the knight will be topped to death." Luna retorted, "Should use the rook for joint defense first." Who knew how a housewife would play chess.

Pip stood on the outermost side against the wall, holding a chess piece, his face pale, unable to interject a word. ===== CHAPTER 118 =====