Chapter 286: Plumeria

"Put down the guns, all of you, otherwise this fat pig will have his head blown off in the next second!" John's gun muzzle was pressed tightly against Chief Ebnik's temple, his eyes wide, his expression ferocious.

"Shoot then." The leather-jacket man didn't compromise at all. He walked forward with a pistol in his hand and said sharply:

"Shoot, coward, if that thing is still growing between your legs. Why don't you shoot? Are you afraid? Or have you already offered your crotch's old two and a man's dignity to that devil?"

Chief Ebnik's face was pale, his legs couldn't help trembling slightly, and he said incoherently: "Jo, John! What's wrong with you? Don't be impulsive, John, don't shoot..."

Watching the leather-jacket man walk closer step by step, police officer John gritted his teeth, but the index finger pressing on the trigger couldn't be pulled down for a long time.

—Chang ghosts cannot kill people directly. They can only rely on lies and deception to lure living people. The only ones who really kill are the 'Tiger Demons' who enslave these Chang ghosts.

The Freim family calls it a 'Necromancer.'

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood still with his hands raised, somewhat confused in his heart: "Before in the dream, the Chang ghosts in Vanishing Castle didn't show any tendency to have intelligence, nor could they communicate with people. They wandered in the castle almost unconsciously, mechanically executing the instructions of the 'ghost,' just like an alarm clock with a spring wound."

But in the real world, police officer John, who had turned into a Chang ghost, still maintained the intelligence of a living person, could speak, could communicate, could show various vivid expressions and emotions, and could even hold a gun against the Chief's head to threaten the investigation team.

"What caused the difference in the intelligence state of Chang ghosts inside and outside the dream?"

While Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was thinking about this problem, a gunshot exploded suddenly, followed by continuous gunfire like firecrackers. Only to see police officer John raise his right arm and point the muzzle at the hanging lamp hanging on the arched ceiling. The skilled European-style Iaijutsu emptied all 11 bullets in the magazine within 2 seconds.

The long-range hit rate of the pistol is not high, but under such saturation shooting, the chain hanging from the dome was still broken. The 4 muzzles of the investigation team fired in unison, and police officer John's chest instantly bloomed with blood. The heavy crystal chandelier fell from the top of his head, falling straight toward the wooden table with the chessboard and the black-skirted girl standing quietly in front of the table.

—Chang ghosts cannot kill people directly, but they can bypass the rules to kill people indirectly.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe once again confirmed that the Chang ghosts in the real world have intelligence, not the walking corpses that are like machines in the dream.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't care about the life or death of the investigation team. He only cared about the 'Tiger Demon' that could turn people into Chang ghosts, what its true core rule was. Looking at police officer John who was shot and fell, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked forward silently, intending to get closer to check the situation.

But the leg that was walking forward just stepped out, and it shrank back uncontrollably.

"Hmm?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was somewhat surprised: "What's going on."

Immediately after, his whole body lost control and retreated involuntarily. He saw bullets flying out of John's chest, returning to the chamber from which they started, the blooming blood flowers healing, and the falling chandelier rising to the dome.

As the broken iron chain recovered as before, 11 bullets returned to John's chamber.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and Chief Ebnik walked back to the side of the 6 investigation team members, and the two police officers Kamak and John, covered in dust, appeared at the entrance of the hall.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked back and saw the black-skirted girl raising a cold, jade-like slender palm, her moist fingertips pressing on a 'pawn' in the center of the chessboard, preparing to push it forward by 1 grid.

Time returned to the moment she 'arched the pawn.'

She regretted the move.

Before Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could think more, the black-skirted girl opened her mouth softly, her voice as calm as the clear moonlight at the bottom of the pool: "Miss Mei Lin, the one on the right is a ghost, shoot him." The housekeeper named 'Miss Mei Lin' heard this and didn't hesitate at all. She drew her gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger. In less than half a second, the bullet had penetrated John's eyebrows.

Such fast American-style Iaijutsu.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't help but look at the housekeeper Miss Mei Lin more. This woman's combat power might be higher than his own.

"This!" Chief Ebnik was shocked, and the shock turned into anger. He turned his head and roared: "You are too much! Miss Plumeria, even if you are a lady of the Freim family, you cannot execute a dedicated police officer without the ruling of the law!"

So her name is 'Plumeria.'

Plumeria Freim, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe remembered this name.

The investigation team reacted quickly. The leather-jacket man decisively went over and forcibly subdued police officer Kamak, who was shocked by the death of his colleague, and another investigation team member familiarly took off the gloves of John's corpse.

"The left hand is missing a little finger. This police officer has indeed become a slave to the devil."

The housekeeper Miss Mei Lin nodded. Plumeria lowered her head and didn't speak, didn't 'arch the pawn' like before, but chose to 'set up the cannon,' pulling a chess piece carved with a red 'cannon' character behind the 'pawn.'

Chinese chess is an ancient game that originated more than two thousand years ago during the Warring States period. At that time, China had not developed thermal weapons such as gunpowder cannons. The 'cannon' in Chinese chess naturally does not refer to gunpowder cannons in the general sense, but catapults.

At a glance, look at '

The trebuchet, originally written as "pao" (stone-throwing machine), was later phonetically borrowed as the "pao" (cannon) character.

After setting up the cannon, Plumeria left the chessboard and stood still quietly. At this moment, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could already roughly guess what would happen if she moved the set 'cannon' back to its original position.

Time would flow back to the moment before she made the first move.

Judging from the reactions of the investigation team and Chief Ebnik and others, they didn't seem to realize that time had been reversed. To them, Kamak and John had just walked into the door, and Plumeria immediately identified John's Chang ghost identity and immediately ordered Miss Mei Lin to shoot him.

"Only the chess player himself seems to be able to retain the memory during the regret of the move?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe guessed secretly: "But if so, why is my memory retained? I am clearly not a chess player, why wasn't my memory reset by the 'regret move' rule?"

What is the difference between me and the others present?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pondered for a moment and had several directions of assumptions:

1. I am an Ascended One, and others present, except Plumeria, are probably not.

2. My life has been bound to Seeing Lan Shiwen through Taiyi, and Seeing Lan Shiwen's death will trigger death return, which is also a rule involving time, and may have some conflict with the 'regret move' rule that also acts on time.

3. Like Plumeria, I am judged as a 'chess player' by the chessboard.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 287 =====