Chapter 295

"How could..."

Miss Mei Lin, who was full of energy just now, fell to the ground in front of her and fell into a deep sleep in the next second. Pulu Meiliya immediately lost her composure, and a heart in her chest kept beating. This young girl, who had never shown any emotions since entering Vanessa Castle and seemed to have everything under control, showed a look of fear for the first time.

She reached out her hand tremblingly, pressed a chess piece engraved with the black word "Knight" on the chessboard, and moved it to the other diagonal of the "Ri" grid.

She "took back the move" for another 5 minutes.

The sleeping Miss Mei Lin stood beside the young girl again. At the moment of taking back the move, Pulu Meiliya immediately threw herself on Miss Mei Lin and violently pulled off the earpiece.

"Princess?!" Miss Mei Lin looked down in astonishment and saw the cold-white face of the young girl in her arms with tear stains, and couldn't help but panic in her heart: "Wh, what's wrong? What happened?"

"Don't wear the earpiece." Pulu Meiliya was somewhat incoherent: "Don't listen to the sound over there, absolutely don't..."

"Al, alright." Miss Mei Lin was puzzled in her heart, but still executed the Princess's order without the slightest hesitation, put the two earpieces and the microphone back into the box, and only after turning them off completely did she ask, "What on earth happened? Can you tell me?"

Pulu Meiliya shook her head: "I don't know, Miss Mei Lin, I don't know... Something seems to have happened to Dejin Hansa and the others. You heard the sound from the earpiece and fell into a deep sleep."

"I tried to use taking back the move to turn time back, but it was useless, Miss Mei Lin. No matter how I push the timeline forward, once taking back the move is over, you will still hear that sound from the earpiece and then fall into a deep sleep... Why is this?"

"Calm down, Princess, we must be calm now..." Miss Mei Lin held the young girl's slightly trembling hand, her eyes swept over the chess pieces on the chessboard, then looked around vigilantly, and by the way, pulled out the pistol tied to her thigh.

Pulu Meiliya took a few deep breaths to calm her emotions and simply repeated what had just happened:

Miss Mei Lin raised her hand and glanced at her wristwatch. The current time is: 03:51 PM.

"According to the Princess, you have already taken back 3 moves, which is 15 minutes." Miss Mei Lin said: "Dejin Hansa and the others should have had an accident at 04:00 and a few minutes, and the sound in the earpiece also sounded at that time, making me fall into a deep sleep."

"But after I took back the move, that sound didn't disappear." Pulu Meiliya added: "That sound that existed after 4:00 PM sounded at 3:51 PM."

Miss Mei Lin nodded and quickly summarized the currently known information:

1. The rules of the chess game have not failed.

Pulu Meiliya can still reset Miss Mei Lin's state by taking back the move.

2. Taking back the move is ineffective against "that kind of sound."

No matter how Pulu Meiliya moves the timeline, once taking back the move is over, the sound sounds as usual.

"It's that bird." Pulu Meiliya held Miss Mei Lin's wrist tightly, her eyes becoming clear, and said: "Before falling into a deep sleep, we saw a strange bird, holding some kind of thing in its mouth and circling around us, dragging a long line behind its tail."

"Is that so?" Miss Mei Lin frowned. She didn't have the memory before taking back the move.

"I know what that line is, Miss Mei Lin." Pulu Meiliya said: "Before setting off, I once asked the Godmother what to pay attention to when using the rules of the chess game. She told me a lot, and one of them is like this..."

"Whether it is taking back a move or capturing a piece, what the chess player can influence is only the affairs within the chess game. Everything else is not under your or my control." "Generally speaking, once the chess game is laid out, the scope of the 'game' is already determined. Unless the chess player personally removes the chess game, there will be no other variables. But the Godmother said, there is one exception."

Pulu Meiliya looked around, as if looking for that mysterious flying bird, and continued: "There is a granting prop called 'Ink Marker'. The line drawn with it can separate everything inseparable, cut off everything indestructible, and isolate everything continuous. At the same time, it can also..."

—Redraw the chess game.

"You suspect that the thing held in the mouth of that flying bird is the Ink Marker, and the 'long rope' dragging behind it is the Ink Line?" Miss Mei Lin immediately understood what Pulu Meiliya meant: "That bird is holding the Ink Marker and dragging the Ink Line, circling around us, is it redrawing the chess game?"

Pulu Meiliya nodded: "I think it should be."

Otherwise, it cannot explain why taking back the move can only reset Miss Mei Lin's state, but cannot make the hypnotic sound coming from the third floor of the clock tower disappear.

"We are trapped, Miss Mei Lin. The most famous function of that granting prop called Ink Marker is 'Drawing a circle on the ground as a prison'..." As the situation became clear, Pulu Meiliya became calm again and rationally examined the current situation.

She was a very smart girl, just young and lacking experience in dealing with unknown situations. When encountering things beyond her control, she easily panicked.

"It must be that intruder!" Miss Mei Lin gripped the gun in her hand and looked around vigilantly: "He must have investigated the information of the Flimmis-Ret family in advance. Damn it, there is a traitor inside the family, our information was sold! He came prepared!"

In all fairness, Miss Mei Lin and Pulu Meiliya's speculation was not wrong. If the core information hadn't been known in advance, what kind of person could have checkmated them, who mastered the chess game, here silently?

But no matter how Pulu Meiliya and Miss Mei Lin thought, they would never have imagined.

No errors in the content, read it at a glance!

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had never investigated them in advance. He was just... simply lucky.

Lucky enough that any granting prop he took out just happened to be able to restrain the chess game in Pulu Meiliya's hand.

The wireless earpiece lay quietly in the box at Miss Mei Lin's waist. She didn't dare to wear it now, fearing that she would fall into a deep sleep like before. But what they, who were vigilant, didn't know was that at this very moment, on the third floor of the clock tower, the music had subsided.

There were 8 requiem pieces played by ghosts recorded in the music box, and the duration of each piece was 88 seconds. During the time the two stood in front of the chessboard in fear, one requiem piece had already finished playing.

Click—

A pair of feet wearing cowboy boots landed on the floor of the third floor.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stepped over the corpses lying horizontally and vertically on the ground, left the strange and miserable death states of various postures behind, and walked leisurely into the door of the interrogation room.

The heavy iron door had already been opened. A huge dent almost twisted this steel-cast door panel into a huge "U" shape. The iron bolt previously used by Dejin Hansa to prop up the door had also been torn into two pieces. The messy interior seemed to have just experienced a violent demolition.

Walking into the door and passing through the cramped passage, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe arrived inside the room. A cute rag doll in the shape of a little girl lay quietly by the wall, curling its body, hugging the music box that had already closed automatically, and fell into a deep sleep like a kitten.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe picked up little Xia Rong, who was already asleep. Looking up, he saw Su Xi, who had fallen into a deep sleep in the center of the interrogation room.

And that "ghost" curled up in the corner of the wall.

(End of chapter)