Chapter 295 The So-called Good Luck

“how come……”

The next second, Marylin, who was full of energy just now, fell asleep in front of her. Plumeria was immediately panicked, and her heart was pounding in her chest. This girl, who had never shown any emotion since entering Vanessa Castle, as if she had everything under control, showed fear for the first time.

She reached out her hand tremblingly, pressed down a chess piece with a black “马” character on it, and moved it to the other corner of the “日” square.

She took another 5 minutes to ‘undo’ her move.

The unconscious Marylin stood beside the girl again. At the moment when she regretted her move, Plumeria immediately pounced on Marylin and pulled off her headphones.

“Your Highness?!” Meilin looked down in astonishment, and saw the cold, pale face of the girl in her arms with traces of tears. She couldn’t help but panic: “What, what’s wrong? What happened?”

“Don’t wear headphones.” Plumeria was a little incoherent: “Don’t listen to the sound over there, don’t…”

“Okay, okay.” Meilin was confused, but she followed His Highness’s order without hesitation. She put the two headphones and the microphone back into the box, and after turning them off completely, she asked, “What happened? Can you tell me?”

Plumeria shook her head: “I don’t know, Meilin, I don’t know… Something seemed to have happened to Dejin Hansa and the others. You heard the voice coming from the headphones and fell asleep.”

“I tried to use the undo move to turn back time, but it didn’t work, Meilin. No matter how I pushed the timeline forward, once the undo move was over, you would still hear that voice in your headphones and then fall asleep… Why is this happening?”

“Calm down, Your Highness, we must stay calm now…” Meilin held the girl’s slightly trembling hand, her eyes swept over the chess pieces on the chessboard, then she looked around vigilantly and pulled out the pistol tied to her thigh.

Plumeria took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, and briefly recounted what had just happened:

Meilin looked at her watch. The current time was: 03:51 pm.

“According to your Highness, you have already regretted three moves, which is 3 minutes.” Meilin said, “Dejin Hansa and the others should have had an accident at around 15:4 in the afternoon. The voice in the headset sounded at that time, which made me fall asleep.”

“But after I regretted my move, the sound did not disappear.” Plumeria added: “The sound that existed after 4 pm sounded at 3:51 pm.”

Meilin nodded and quickly summarized the currently known information:

1. The rules of the game have not expired

Plumeria can still reset Marylin’s status by undoing her move.

2. Undoing a move is ineffective against “that sound”

No matter how Plumeria adjusts the timeline, once the undoing is over, the sound will sound as usual.

“It was that bird.” Plumeria held Meilin’s wrist tightly, her eyes became clear, and she said, “Before we fell asleep, we saw a strange bird flying around us with something in its mouth, and a long string was dragging behind its tail.”

“Really?” Meilin frowned. She had no memory of regretting her move.

“I know what that thread is, Mary.” Plumeria said, “Before I set out, I asked my godmother what I should pay attention to when using the rules of the chess game. She told me a lot, and one of them was this…”

“Whether it’s reversing a move or capturing a piece, the chess player can only influence the internal affairs of the chessboard. Everything else is beyond our control.” “Generally speaking, once the chessboard is set, the scope of the ‘game’ is determined. Unless the chess player personally removes the chessboard, there will be no other variables. But the godmother said that there is one exception.”

Plumeria looked around, as if looking for the mysterious bird, and then said, “There is a tool called ‘ink fountain’. The line drawn with it can separate everything that is inseparable, cut off everything that is indestructible, and cut off everything that is continuous. At the same time, it can also…

——Redraw the chess game. “

“You suspect that the object in the bird’s mouth is the ink stick, and the ‘long rope’ it is dragging behind it is the ink line?” Meilin immediately understood what Plumeria meant: “The bird is holding the ink stick and the ink line, flying around us. Is it redrawing the chessboard?”

Plumeria nodded. “I think so.”

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why undoing a move could only reset Meilin’s condition but could not make the hypnotic voice coming from the third floor of the clock tower disappear.

“We are trapped, Marylin. The most famous function of the incantation tool called the inkstone is to ‘draw a circle on the ground to create a prison’…” As the situation became clear, Plumeria regained her composure and examined the current situation rationally.

She is actually a very smart girl, but she is still young and lacks experience in dealing with unknown situations. She tends to panic when encountering things that are beyond her control.

“It must be the intruder!” Meilin clenched the gun in her hand and looked around vigilantly: “He must have investigated the intelligence of the Flimmisret family in advance. Damn it, there is a traitor in the family, and our information has been betrayed! He came prepared!”

To be fair, there was nothing wrong with Marylin and Plumeria’s speculation. If the core intelligence had not been known in advance, what kind of person could kill them here silently while they were in control of the chess game?

But no matter how hard Plumeria and Marylin thought, they could never have imagined it.

Ning Zhe had never investigated them in advance, he was just… simply lucky.

It’s so good that any random item can just be used to restrain the chess game in Plumeria’s hand.

The wireless headphones lay quietly in the box on Meilin’s waist. She didn’t dare to put them on now, fearing that she would fall into a coma like before. But what they didn’t know was that at this moment, on the third floor of the bell tower, the music had subsided.

The music box contained a total of 8 requiem songs played by ghosts. Each song lasted 88 seconds. During the time when the two men stood in front of the chessboard in fear, a requiem song had already been played.

Click——

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

Ning Zhe stepped over the corpses lying on the ground, put aside the various tragic deaths, and walked leisurely into the door of the torture room.

The heavy iron door had been opened. A huge dent almost twisted the steel door panel into a huge “U”. The iron bolt that Dejin Hansa had used to prop the door open was also torn into two pieces. The messy interior seemed to have just been subjected to violent demolition.

Ning Zhe walked into the room and passed through the narrow corridor. A cute rag doll that looked like a little girl was curled up and lying quietly against the wall, holding tightly a music box that had closed automatically, and was sleeping soundly like a cat.

Ning Zhe picked up the sleeping little Xia Rong, and when he looked up, he saw Su Xi lying unconscious in the middle of the torture room.

And the…’ghost’ curled up in the corner.

(End of this chapter)