deadly round table

After Chess player Jia took the first move, his expression gradually became serious, and his back, crushed by the grief of losing a pair of daughters, straightened up. He sat upright opposite the samurai armor, as if he was facing a big enemy. It was meeting a terrifying opponent in the World Series.Chess player Jia forgot the existence of Jiang Wenyuan and the others, and also temporarily forgot the death of his daughters. He was absorbed in entering the chess game, and fought against the automatic chess machine on a chessboard composed of 64 black and white grids.

Jiang Wenyuan only knew the rules of chess, and did not study it too deeply. He did not pay too much attention to the chess game, but refocused his attention on the mask of the samurai armor, which still looked so hideous and terrifying. , but the anxious feeling when they looked at each other disappeared, as if the attention of the samurai armor was diverted to other places.

The duel between Jia chess player and the automatic chess machine will not end for a while, Jiang Wenyuan said to the other three: "The dining area serves meals in a buffet style, so it shouldn't be a big problem for us to grab a lunch."

Walking to the dining table, Jiang Wenyuan handed an empty plate to Chen Mian, "Shall we have something to eat?"

Chen Mian held the plate, "I always feel the smell of cooking waste left on my body. Now I feel uncomfortable and I can't eat. I want to pack the food back and eat it after washing off the smell. Let's eat again for dinner." Let's eat together."

Jiang Wenyuan looked at Chen Mian calmly and didn't speak.

Chen Mian felt a little uncomfortable being watched by Jiang Wenyuan, "What's wrong?"

"We are players of the round table game. Surviving in this precarious world, no one knows when and why we will die. You say we will have dinner together, but who can guarantee that we will all survive to the next meal?" I just want to cherish every time we can spend together." Although Jiang Wenyuan said so, he didn't force much, he stretched out his hand to Chen Mian, "But if you don't want to, return the plate to me. "

Chen Mian stuffed the plate back into Jiang Wenyuan's hand, then said after a pause, "By the way, help me get my share of food, I'll go to the bathroom to clean up, and I'll be back soon."

When Jiang Wenyuan went to pick up food, Chen Yan also put down the fresh-keeping bag and went to get a plate.Qin Qiyue, who was walking beside her, asked, "Aren't you packing?"

Chen Yan pulled up the corner of her mouth and showed a perfunctory smile to Qin Qiyue, "I just expressed my feelings about the words of Mr. Jiang Shuai. Who can guarantee that I won't die on the way back to the side room of the villa. It's better to be a hungry ghost than starve to death." Good luck to the ghost."

Qin Qiyue thought about it again, Chen Yan's words seemed to make sense?He also put down the fresh-keeping bag and went to get the empty plate, "Chen Yan, wait for me."

When picking up meals, both Chen Yan and Jiang Wenyuan kindly suggested to Qin Qiyue that no matter what taste they like, it is best to take some high-calorie and easy-to-digest foods, so that even if they cannot eat too much food due to the influence of the game , can also maximize the intake of calories and preserve physical strength.

When Chen Mian came back from the bathroom, Jiang Wenyuan and the others had already fetched food and waited for him, "You guys are..."

Jiang Wenyuan's gaze swept across Chen Mian's somewhat pale face, wet lips, and slightly wet skirt one by one, Chen Mian must have just vomited.Jiang Wenyuan patted the empty seat next to him, and said to Chen Mian: "They said that the hot dishes are very good today, so they changed their minds and planned to have dinner with us."

After all, the four of them had just experienced the horror of the food waste bucket. No matter how delicious the dishes were, they didn't want to enjoy them, so they ate their lunch as fast as they could.When they returned to the chess table in the center of the restaurant, the game between the Jia chess player and the automatic chess machine was close to the end.

Chess player Jia was not in an easy state of dealing with the enemy. Beads of sweat dripped from his forehead, and he made the last move with trembling hands. When he let go of the exquisitely carved white chariot, the king of black chess was completely defeated. He was cornered.Chess player Jia had a victorious smile on his face: "General! I won!"

When the automatic chess machine sent out the message of surrender, Chess player Jia touched the chessboard tenderly like a treasure, and was a little incoherent with excitement, "I can feel that its strength is better than before it was repaired. If I play against a computer, my chess strength will definitely become stronger. My father never reached the top all his life, maybe one day in the future, I will be able to fulfill his father's last wish and become the number one chess player in the world!"

Jiang Wenyuan interrupted Chess player Jia's narcissism, "Chess player Jia, we are very happy for you that you can continue to improve your chess skills and strive for more glory for the country. But the more important thing now is to find out who the two ladies were killed. the truth!"

Chess player Jia was woken up by Jiang Wenyuan's blow to the head. He held onto the chess table and stood up in panic, "Yeah... Yueqi and Aiqi are gone...why am I still obsessed with the chess game...it's because of them The reason why my mother left me. I always put all my thoughts on chess, and often ignore the concern for their mother and daughter."

For a top chess player, it is a compulsory course to maintain a calm mind in the face of any desperate situation.Chess player Jia has a promising mentality, and he quickly adjusted his mentality, "I'm going to see my wife. Although she is not the biological mother of Yueqi and Aiqi, she has six reasons to be a member of Jia's family." Years, now that Yueqi and Aiqi are dead, she must be very sad. I want to accompany her, so I will not accompany you first."

"Jia Qishou, can I ask you one last question?" Jiang Wenyuan called Jia Qishou to stop.

Chess player Jia put the capture chess back on the board, and did not complete the chess. "Please try to briefly explain your problem."

Jiang Wenyuan watched the automatic chess machine recognize the misplaced pieces, and returned the scattered pieces on the chessboard to their original positions one by one. "Who repaired this automatic chess machine?"

Everyone turned their attention to the automatic chess machine. After it completed the game, the third gear switch of the steam engine automatically tripped and stopped working.Machines that were once abandoned for many years can now be fully restored.According to Jia's testimony after completing the game, the chess power of this automatic chess machine became stronger after it was repaired.

Who is the person who miraculously repaired the antique machine?

Chess player Jia was silent for a while, "It was repaired by a master invited by my ex-wife. She said that she could not be with her daughter. This is a gift and compensation she gave to her daughters. It is said that the two masters made it for their father back then. Descendants of the scientist who built the chess machine."

Jiang Wenyuan asked, "Then where are they now?"

Jia Qishou shook his head, "If you want to suspect them as murderers, I don't think it's necessary. Before Yueqi and Aiqi disappeared, they had already left the villa and went down the mountain."

Chess player Jia didn't give Jiang Wenyuan another chance to ask questions, so he left the automatic chess machine and went looking for his wife.The four of Jiang Wenyuan looked at the chess pieces on the chessboard, and Qin Qiyue kept rubbing the Neiguan point on his wrist to relieve the desire to vomit, "These new chess pieces look like they are made of bones."

Although Qin Qiyue didn't bluntly say what kind of bone it was, the other three knew it well.If the bones of the twin sisters Yueqi and Aiqi really become chess pieces on the chessboard, then the people related to this automatic chess machine will become very suspicious.

"Let's go and have a chat with the guests entertained by Chess Player Jia. Let's not touch this machine for now." Jiang Wenyuan said seriously to the other three. Since he was not at ease, he emphasized again, "If you Don’t touch these chess pieces if you don’t have the confidence to beat the No.16 chess player in the world. If you touch the chess pieces rashly, you may be drawn into the game like chess player Jia. If you lose the game, no one knows what will happen. what happened……"

While Jiang Wenyuan was speaking, their eyes silently fell on the samurai sword in the hands of the samurai armor. As long as they imagined the scene of the samurai sword being unsheathed, their necks felt chilly.When the four of them chatted with Chess Player Jia's guests in the restaurant, they never touched anything on the chess table, and they also kindly reminded those players who wanted to touch the chess table that some players followed their advice , and some scoffed, doing whatever they wanted.

Those players who fiddled with the chess table and picked up the chess pieces were not forcibly drawn into the chess game as Jiang Wenyuan and the others imagined.There was even a very courageous player who directly took away one of the soldier white pieces.

At dinner time, Jiang Wenyuan and the others temporarily finished the first day's intelligence collection work, and returned from the main house of the villa to the side room of the east villa where they stayed.The player who took the pieces was sitting at the dining table, with a ruddy complexion and a loud voice, and he said to the other players at the table, "Let me tell you, chess not only pays attention to competition, but also has both art and science. It is the whole world. The crystallization of the wisdom of the people of the world for thousands of years! As long as you are willing to get in touch with and understand chess, you will definitely be impressed by the charm of chess."

From the point of view of Jiang Wenyuan and the others, that player was completely embarrassing. They heard that there was no wave of emotion in their hearts, and they even wanted to laugh.But those players at the dinner table had completely different ideas from Jiang Wenyuan and the others. One of the female players held the soldier bone chess in her hand and said yearningly: "Brother Wolf, I am 29 this year, you said I will start learning from now on." Chess, is there still time?"

Brother Lang laughed loudly, "Why is it too late, as long as you have love for chess in your heart, it's never too late to learn!"

Several other players who touched the soldier bone chess also laughed together, as if they were possessed by evil spirits.

The normal players left silently with food, and Jiang Wenyuan and the others didn't want to stay for long, so they took their dinner and returned to their room.When they were active in the restaurant this afternoon, because there were so many people and concentrated, the four of them all acted separately to learn as much information as possible about Chess player Jia and the automatic chess machine.

The four of them gathered together the information they got while eating dinner.

Chess player Jia was born when Jia Changsheng was 51 years old. Chess player Jia showed a very high talent for chess since he was a child. Changsheng Jia brought his son into the world of chess by hand.The automatic chess machine was Jia Changsheng’s 61th birthday gift to Jia. The [-]-year-old Jia Changsheng suffered from mental and physical problems.It can be said that the automatic chess machine accompanies Jia to grow up, witnessing his chess ability from youthful to mature.

The automatic chess machine has undergone two overhauls.

The first overhaul was after Jia Changsheng's death.Before Jia Changsheng passed away, Chess Player Jia had been taking care of his father in undressed clothes and neglecting the management of the automatic chess machine. When he finally remembered the automatic chess machine, the ten-year-old machine had broken down.Chess player Jia turned to the scientist who built the machine for help. The scientist not only repaired the machine, but also upgraded it.After the upgrade, the strength of the automatic chess machine has risen to a new level, and the 20-year-old Jia chess player is not its opponent at all.Under the tempering of automatic chess machines, Chess player Jia went abroad and gradually made a name for himself in the world chess world.

Chess player Jia got married at the age of 29. At the age of 30, Yueqi and Aiqi were born. The automatic chess machine also broke down in the same year and could no longer be used.Since the scientist who made the automatic chess machine passed away, no one else could repair this unique machine, Jia Qi player also immersed in the happy life of a family of four, and the automatic chess machine was abandoned.But the good times didn't last long. After only two years of this happy life, Jia Qishou's wife was fed up with her husband's obsessive study of chess and neglected life, so she resolutely divorced Jia Qishou.

Chess player Jia needs to specialize in chess and has no time to take care of housework. He remarried soon.In the following years, Jia's world rankings rose steadily, all the way up to No.12 in the world rankings.However, after Chess player Jia turned 40, his chess strength had no breakthroughs, and began to decline. His world ranking fluctuated, and he never ranked higher than 42th.At the age of [-], Jia's world ranking has stabilized at No. [-].

And Yueqi and Aiqi, the 12-year-old gifted chess sister Huaqi players, have gradually entered the world's field of vision.Their performance has completely surpassed the honor Jia Qishou won at the age of 20, and everyone is full of expectations for this pair of sisters.This time, Chess Player Jia invited relatives and friends to stay for a short stay, many of whom were well-known figures in the chess world.

Chess player Jia's ex-wife doesn't care much about her daughter on weekdays, but on this grand day, she still gave a big gift to Yueqi and Aiqi.She found the descendants of the scientists who made the automatic chess machine, and the automatic chess machine that was gathering dust in the warehouse finally had a chance to see the light of day again.

No one expected that Yueqi and Aiqi would die when the automatic chess machine was successfully repaired for the second time.

The bones of twin sisters have been turned into new pieces for an automatic chess machine, while their missing brains have yet to be found.

"Who do you think killed the twin sisters?" When Jiang Wenyuan asked this question, his eyes fell on Qin Qiyue. He was looking forward to Qin Qiyue's performance all the time.

Qin Qiyue put down the plate, wiped off the oil from her mouth, and began to analyze it seriously.

"I don't think the murderer has much to do with the guests invited this time. According to Chess Player Jia, the automatic chess machine repaired by the twin sisters is stronger than the original. If the murderer's purpose is just to kill people, There is no need to consider improving the chess power of this machine. Facts have proved that the death of the twin sisters is to make the automatic chess machine. The murderer should be among the three players Jia, Jia's ex-wife and current wife."

Chen Yan nodded, "I also agree with Qin Qiyue's statement. The automatic chess machine is more powerful than before. The direct beneficiary is Chess Player Jia, and the indirect beneficiary is his current wife. As for Chess Player Jia's ex-wife after her daughter's death There are no more clues as to what role it played in the incident."

Chen Mian didn't say anything, and looked at Jiang Wenyuan softly with a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes.Jiang Wenyuan added: "There is nothing wrong with your thinking, but I think there is another possibility that there may be problems with the automatic chess machine itself. The wolf brother who took the bone chess, and others who touched it Bone Chess players..."

The four recalled the players at the dinner table who were obsessed with chess like bewitched, and couldn't help falling into silence.

After a busy day and still having nightmare memories in the back kitchen of the main house, the four of them were a little tired. They stopped arranging tasks at night and went to the bathhouse to wash their bodies thoroughly. After taking a comfortable bath , I finally felt like I was finally alive.

Before going to bed, Jiang Wenyuan and the others faced a problem.

There are two double beds in the quadruple room, which means that the four of them must sleep in the same bed two by two.There is nothing wrong with Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian sleeping together, but there is something wrong with Qin Qiyue and Chen Yan.

The problem was Qin Qiyue. He changed his previous impressive performance and said to Chen Yan hesitantly: "Do you sleep well?"

"If it's talking about snoring, teeth grinding, and dream talking, I don't have any." But what Chen Yan said next made Qin Qiyue smile and then gradually disappeared, "However, I move a lot when I sleep, and I like to sleep with things in my arms." , especially like hot things, it might bother you."

"It's over, it's over, it's over! My wife has a very good nose. If you hug me to sleep all night, and I smell your smell, she can smell it even after five or six days!" Qin Qiyue's expression became desperate, "Could it be Can I just sleep on the floor?"

At that moment, Jiang Wenyuan and the other three were very consistent in their inner activities. They were wondering whether the wife Qin Qiyue mentioned was a female human being or a dog.

"How can I sleep on the floor in such a cold day?" Jiang Wenyuan resolutely rejected Qin Qiyue's solution, "If Qin Qiyue and Chen Yan can't sleep in the same bed, they can be replaced. As long as Qin Qiyue and your wife don't think too much It’s fine if you think you’re gay.”

Qin Qiyue looked at Jiang Wenyuan moved, "Brother Jiang, thank you! My wife is a straight girl, she doesn't even understand homosexuality, and she won't doubt me just because I have contact with a man. So how do we arrange tonight?"

Jiang Wenyuan spread out his palms towards Qin Qiyue, and there were two notes in his palms, "You take one at will."

Qin Qiyue didn't know why, so she randomly chose one, unfolded it, and saw the word Chen Mian written on it.Jiang Wenyuan unfolded the remaining piece of paper, revealing the word Jiang Shuai in elegant handwriting.Jiang Wenyuan said: "Look, isn't this the decision?"

Chen Yan looked at the two who decided on the bed without authorization, her cheeks puffed up, "Why don't you ask my opinion."

Jiang Wenyuan took back the note in Qin Qiyue's hand, "Then why don't you draw lots?"

Chen Yanchang sighed, "Forget it, let it be like this."

In the middle of the night, after Chen Yan and the other three had gone to bed, they turned off the lights in the room.She climbed onto her and Jiang Wenyuan's bed in the dark, and got under the covers.Jiang Wenyuan wasn't asleep yet, and was looking at his phone under the blanket. Chen Yan looked at Jiang Wenyuan's face through the phone, "You must have tampered with those two lottery papers just now. Even if I draw them, I will draw them too." Not to Chen Mian. Why, you are worried that I will catch Chen Mian and hug him tightly when I sleep at night? I am really jealous."

Jiang Wenyuan turned his gaze from the phone to Chen Yan, and generously admitted: "If you sleep with Chen Mian, I will indeed be jealous."

Chen Yan wrinkled her nose and snorted, "I hugged you tightly to sleep, isn't it the same if Chen Mian is jealous?"

Jiang Wenyuan put the phone back in his bag, "Then let him be jealous."

Jiang Wenyuan thought Chen Yan was just joking when he said that he didn't sleep well, but he didn't expect that she could overcome many obstacles and hug him tightly like an octopus with the Chu River Han boundary between them.However, Chen Yan hugging him didn't make him feel uncomfortable, even if he pushed away, he would wrap around him again, so Jiang Wenyuan simply let him go.

In the middle of the night, Jiang Wenyuan was awakened by the sound of heavy objects falling from upstairs.

Then, there was a slow dragging sound, and the heavy object that landed was dragged away——

Jiang Wenyuan wanted to get up, but was entangled by Chen Yan, her red lips slightly pursed, and a whispering voice sounded in Jiang Wenyuan's ears, "It's cold, don't get up...sleep..."