Chess Game: Villain, place your bets

[Chen Xian...Qin Shixuan...it seems...]

"Give it to me." Qin Shixuan took the tray in her hand and placed the tea set on the table.

"Mr. Chen, how did you come back? You just told me that you... were killed by bad guys..."

"Yes. I did die. I fell into darkness, but I woke up after a while. At that time... it should have been daytime. The sky was red and there was no sun. It took me a lot of time to figure out where I was. world. I found that people there called me [Qibao].”

"Pfft...Sorry, why did I call you Qibao?"

"I seemed to be another person in their eyes. That world was just like the hell I imagined, with blood red everywhere, people wearing clothes made of the most primitive animal skins, and people being punished for various crimes every day. I also made mistakes in being put in a frying pan, being sawed, etc., and when I was about to endure the fire, Brother Qin appeared and saved me, and that’s how I came here.”

"It's your luck that I happened to be there."

"I know." Dong Huayu nodded, with some thoughts in his mind.

"It's like this. I'm very grateful that you care about me, but I have lost my memory now and can't remember anything about you. I only remember that I am in a novel. There is a villain who always harms people. I want to help the protagonist. Defeat the villain. I can’t take care of the rest. I hope you can understand. It’s not that I don’t recognize it, but I really can’t help it.”

"Don't think too much, we didn't blame you! This is not what you think, right, Xiao Chen."

"Yes! Yes! I would be very satisfied if I could just see you!"

Donghua didn't know how to answer, so he could only laugh. The narrator's introduction sounded in her mind:

The three of them sat opposite each other at the table, sipping the tea in their cups with their own motives. No one can explain the circumstances that allowed people from three different worlds to come together. No one can tell Dong Huayu whether the lost memory can be recovered. She was a little worried. Firstly, two friends appeared out of thin air but she did not remember them. Secondly, her ethereal life would end at some point. Will she also start wandering around the world like them?

I don’t know what kind of luck I had today, but I was able to enter Maple Stack. What if I don’t have the chance in the future?

She entered here in the ward where the sign was removed. Does the world in that room overlap with other worlds?

She had so many questions but didn't know where to start.

The two told her many things in the past. Dong Huayu wants to recover his memory more and more. She herself knew that her memory was incomplete. How did she lose it?

Dong Huayu still wanted to explore a bit, so he stood up and said goodbye to the two of them. She went to her boss to pay, and he said her story could be exchanged for tea. She thanked her many times before leaving.

Only Chen and Qin were left in the room. They sat opposite each other and began to play chess in silence.

The black and white chess pieces seem to have gained life and are fighting on the chessboard. No one loses to anyone.

……

Dong Huayu opened the door, and there was a white light behind the door. She returned to the base again. She felt relieved knowing that she would not disappear after death. She reasoned that she could leave this world through death, thereby escaping someone's control and perhaps regaining her memory.

She rushed to the other end of the corridor, where there were prison-like rooms with thick iron doors that looked very solid.

She walked into an open room, saw the knife left on the floor, and left with it. In a forest outside, she dug a hole in advance, buried her body, and then used a knife to cut open the aorta. Afraid of slow blood flow, the neck, wrists, legs, and other places that could bleed quickly were all stabbed.

The wound was still very painful, but she didn't care about it. She just wanted to confirm her suspicion. If she could, then she would most likely know what happened and who she really was.

After the last drop of blood drained away, she fell into complete darkness. The narration in her mind temporarily disappeared, replaced by a large number of memories. She died due to poisoning and entered the world of the novel, where she played against the villain, died many times, escaped, was caught, killed, escaped, killed, lost her memory, and is now deceived.

[The villain is really bad. As long as I restart, I will definitely lose my memory, but I can't stay here forever! Is there any way to preserve my memory without being discovered...]

This seems to be an unsolvable matter. She buried herself today, so restarting is only a matter of time. She will not stay here forever, nor can she stay in the blank room forever. She will always go out, but as soon as she goes out, she will Amnesia.

Now that she has been running away for a long time, her character is probably no longer in the story. Even if she remembers to find the protagonist, what can she do without memory.

It’s uncomfortable, and I feel like I know I’ve already lost but I’m still trying to be arrogant.

[Otherwise, just admit defeat... Although people won't care about me whether I admit defeat or not... Don't resist. No matter what the villain does, let him go. If he is happy, he will not hurt the protagonist... But what he has to do is Kill the protagonist...] The protagonist, unlike her, will not necessarily be resurrected after death.

Floating quietly in the black space. She even thought that this was a different world, but it was always black and she couldn't talk to others.

At this moment, an idea suddenly flashed in her mind.

【journal! 】

【yes! How did I just think of that! Only I can restart, and the diary remains unchanged. As long as I can find the diary I wrote in the past, I can 'recover' my memory! 】

She was a little happy and prayed for a quick restart.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the all-white room. She jumped up excitedly and rushed to the white wall. She sincerely prayed that the door would open to the protagonist's past school - Lijing Academy.

click

The door opened, and a group of students in uniforms passed by outside. A tall sign on the campus read "Lijing" in large characters. Dong Huayu rushed in to look for his old things.

I really found a lot. There are three diaries.

She took it. Go to the next location.

It stands to reason that she still stayed in the countryside.

……(after a long time)

She returns to the village where the protagonist lives. Her old home is no longer here, and she can only stay at school. On a full-moon night, she took out all her diaries and looked at them together. A large number of memories flooded into her mind, and she looked at her long life in disbelief.

It seems that she is quite difficult to kill and can always turn danger into good fortune. Probably stupid people are blessed.

She learned about the rules of the world she lived in in her diary. It turned out that the villain was really the biggest villain, and everyone else lived relatively freely under his control. The ultimate goal of the villain is to kill the protagonist, replace the protagonist as the ruler of the world, and change the laws of the world. But the book cannot lack the protagonist, otherwise the story will collapse and the world will disappear.

That's why the villains come up with so many ways to surround the protagonists and cause trouble for them everywhere. This must be the case, it can't be just because he has nothing to do!

What also worries Donghua is her acquaintance with Chen Xian. Chen Xian liked her in the past, but she didn't know how to face it.

Forget it, let’s write it down first.

She picked up a pen and wrote down all the recent events, not noticing that she was using a pen filled with strange ink.