Chapter 31: Black and White Mystery (End)

The air in the woods was a little chilly, and it had just rained, so the rainwater accumulated on the leaves was blown by the breeze and dripped sparsely.

Feeling the sudden shiver of the person on his back, Shi Ye paused and asked in a gentle voice: “Is it cold? Do you want to rest for a while?”

Bai You shook her head and said in a relaxed tone: “It’s okay, it’s just that the rain suddenly dripped on my back and scared me. Let’s keep going.”

“Okay.”

As Shi Ye said this, he stopped, gently put Bai You down and leaned against a tree, took off his coat, and handed it to her sideways.

“It should be better to put it on.”

The boy in front of her turned sideways and looked away politely.

Bai You thought about it, and it seemed that when he put the chess piece in front of her when they first met, he had such clear eyes, gentle and polite.

There is no aggression, just like the clear moon in the sky, the light is gentle and not dazzling.

Perhaps because of this, she has never associated him with that person. Even until she was attacked by the snake just now, she was still thinking in her mind that it should not be him.

Bai You lowered her eyelashes, took the coat and put it on, and her pockets jingled a few times, with an unignorable sense of falling. She clearly knew what these things were.

“Okay.” She shook her pockets and joked: “Do you want the tool to help you carry it first?”

“No, it’s for you.”

He walked over and squatted down, his tone light, as if he was talking about something insignificant, “Don’t you want the chess pieces? Except for the ones on you, the rest are all here.”

Bai You paused slightly after hearing this.

They are all here, that is to say, even the two in Qi Ming’s hand…

She lowered her eyes and looked at the boy who showed his back to her without any defense. Suddenly, she felt that she couldn’t understand him. Her mind was full of thoughts, so chaotic that she couldn’t figure out anything.

She simply closed her eyes, leaned on the boy’s back, and wrapped her arms around the boy’s neck, which was slightly cold due to the cold wind, and let the cold pine branch scent infect her.

Why?

Why?

Bai You buried her face in her long hair, only her long eyelashes trembled slightly. After taking a long breath, she took out the black agate button and carefully put it in his chest pocket.

“This is the button on your collar that I accidentally caught when I fell down. Sorry, I’m giving it back to you now.”

Shi Ye’s voice was light, as if he didn’t take it to heart, “Well, it’s okay.”

The boy’s voice echoed in her ears. She was close to him and heard his words very clearly. She clearly felt that he was completely different from the previous person.

…

No, maybe there are still some subtle and imperceptible similarities.

Bai You raised her hand and looked directly at her fingertips, which were clean and flawless without a single stain of blood.

It seemed exactly the same as that time.

But she knew that what had happened could not be changed, and it was impossible to forget it in a short time. The more she didn’t want to recall it, the more those details would appear in front of her.

This game suddenly had these unknown variables, which were beyond her understanding. All of them were her speculations.

When the situation she verified was getting closer and closer to her guess, and she was the only one to bear the result, she admitted that she began to panic.

Perhaps, it was more of a confusion.

There were no more words along the way.

The following situation went smoothly. They rescued Lillian, a young and mature girl who was placed on the altar before the sacrifice began, and ended this absurd sacrifice.

Several girls hurriedly left the temple after expressing their gratitude, leaving only Lillian.

There was no excessive emotion in Lillian’s eyes. Her holy white dress was slightly lifted by the wind. She held her messy hair and tilted her head to speak hoarse and immature syllables.

“Thank you, I seem to understand what you said.”

Bai You was worried and did not hear the words scattered in the wind. Hearing this, he raised his voice a little, “Hmm? What did you say?”

Lillian subconsciously made a gesture of worship. When she found something wrong, she immediately withdrew her hand. She was a little stiff, smiled with her teeth showing, and recovered some of the expression she should have at this age.

“The Godfather always told me that it is our honor to give everything for the Supreme True God, whether it is faith or life, these are all natural and unquestionable.”

“But it was not until I stood there and watched the flames burning so close that I realized that I didn’t want to die.”

She paused, and although she was a little hesitant, she still said firmly: “I violated my faith, but I am not ashamed of it.”

Bai You was stunned, and saw Shi Ye who came back from dealing with the follow-up in her peripheral vision, and put his hand on Lillian’s head and rubbed it gently.

Looking at the face that was somewhat similar to Moore, she smiled.

“Let’s go, you should leave here. There are people waiting for you outside.”

Almost forcefully, in the next second, Bai You pushed Lillian out, and she stepped over the corpses on the ground without hesitation, and walked towards the main hall where Shi Ye was.

Bai You didn’t look like his foot was injured at all, but Shi Ye seemed not to notice it. He smiled gently, “You seem to like that girl very much?”

“No. It’s just sympathy.” Bai You replied nonchalantly, and then asked him: “Have you dealt with everything?”

“Almost all of them have been obtained.”

Shi Ye held two black chess pieces between his knuckles and turned them carelessly, “There happens to be a chessboard here, do you want to play a game?”

Bai You looked at his eyes steadily, and the eyes that were originally clear and clean and could be seen through at a glance were now only dark. I don’t know if it was because he was standing in the dark. He had a smile on his face, but she couldn’t see the smile in his eyes.

All the chess pieces have been obtained, and Queen Bai’s request has been completed.

But the game is not over.

He gave all the chess pieces to her, but trapped her in this chess game.

Bai You exhaled lightly, “Okay.”

She sat down casually, occupied one side of the chessboard, and placed all the white pieces one by one.

Shi Ye sat down opposite, and the black and white pieces faced each other. The game started quickly and ended with the white side’s defeat.

Bai You supported her chin with her hand, holding the piece that was about to be eaten. She couldn’t think of the next move to avoid being eaten. Finally, she got annoyed and threw it on the chessboard like a temper. She snorted and said sarcastically:

“Someone is really ruthless.”

Shi Ye didn’t say anything, but just lowered his eyelashes, picked up the piece she threw on the chessboard, moved to the most dangerous place, and then placed the [king] like a “dizzy” in the position where the white piece could be eaten in one move.

The ironic “someone” in the words was so obvious that Bai You blushed for a moment, completely angry, and really picked up the white chess piece to eat the [king], and said viciously:

“Checkmate, I won.”

Shi Ye smiled lightly and slowly cleaned up the chessboard, “Well, you won. Do you want another game?”

Bai You immediately waved his hand to refuse, and then as if he thought of something, he suggested: “It’s boring to play this. Playing chess is fun only when you play with people of the same level. Let’s play poker.”

As he said, Bai You took out a deck of black and gold poker cards, drew four cards from it, and divided them into two groups, one group is the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts, and the other group is the K of Spades and the Q of Hearts.

“Do you know the King’s Game?”

Shi Ye nodded, “I know, but I haven’t played it.”

“Ok, the rules are very simple. The two of us randomly draw the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts as our bottom cards, and this group is also randomly drawn. The person who draws the King of Spades can order one of the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts to do something. You can’t look at your own bottom cards, which means that even if you draw the King of Spades, you may still be ordered.”

Bai You blinked, “How is it, is it more interesting than playing chess, do you want to play?”

Shi Ye pondered for a moment, his eyebrows slightly curved, “It seems to be more interesting than playing chess, come on.”

“Because there are only two cards, it is easy for the dealer to remember the order of the cards when shuffling them, so for the sake of fairness, I will be responsible for dealing the cards and you will be responsible for shuffling them.”

Bai You placed the two groups of light and dark cards on both sides, pushed them towards Shi Ye, and then closed his eyes, listening to the subtle shuffling sound.

“Okay.”

Opening his eyes again, the positions of the two sets of cards were slightly changed. Bai You calmly distributed the two sets of cards, and then turned over his own open card without hesitation.

… Queen of Hearts.

It was obvious who had the King of Spades. Bai You’s heart sank for a moment. He sighed softly and put the Queen of Hearts on the table.

“Okay, you issue the order.”

The boy across the chess table tapped the table lightly with his knuckles. He didn’t turn over the cards on it at all. He seemed to be thinking about what kind of order to issue. His long eyelashes drooped slightly and he smiled for a long time. His tone was gentle and had a boyish laugh.

“Ace of Hearts…”

The boy dragged out the ending tone, which made Bai You nervous. He looked at him with burning eyes. He thought it was an excessive request, but he was stunned when he heard the second half of his sentence.

“…Play with me for a while.”

What kind of order is this?

Bai You paused, and hesitantly turned over her hidden card. The bright red color was extremely conspicuous on the black and white chess table.

“…”

In silence, the two began a new round of the game.

Bai You turned over the open card again, this time it was the King of Spades.

She put the card on the table, raised her eyes, and thought for a while, “Ace of Spades, answer me a question.”

Shi Ye turned over his hidden card with no denying, it was indeed the Ace of Spades, “Ask it.”

Bai You paused for a long time before speaking: “Well…, did you bring me into the game?”

As if the hypocritical veil between the two had finally been lifted, the air at this moment was instantly as quiet as the tranquility before a rainstorm, silent and suffocating.

Time was silent for a long time, so long that Bai You thought she would not hear the answer, the boy in front of her said faintly: “If I say yes, what will you do?”

Bai You’s fingertips suddenly tightened, and just as she was about to speak, Shi Ye interrupted her again.

“Although I’m curious about what you would do, unfortunately, it’s not me.”

Bai You was slightly surprised. It wasn’t him…?

Shi Ye retracted his gaze, his lashes concealing the emotions in his eyes. He tapped the cards on the table with his fingertips and said in a steady tone: “Do you want to play one more round?”

Bai You nodded without objection, sorted out the two sets of cards, put them in front of Shi Ye, and closed his eyes again.

This time when drawing the cards, Bai You hesitated for a long time, and finally put it on the card on the right and turned it over.

…It was the King of Spades.

Bai You took a deep breath, sat up straighter, looked at Shi Ye’s somewhat familiar black eyes, and said word by word: “Ace of Spades, let me go.”

When Shi Ye heard this, there was a smile in his eyes, his eyes were clear and gentle, and his words were steady and gentle, and his voice was slightly deep.

“I’m sorry.”

After saying that, she turned over the hidden card with her slender knuckles, and the dazzling red color immediately caught Bai You’s eyes.

“…”

“Okay.”

Bai You suddenly relaxed her body and leaned back on the chair.

She rubbed her painful eyebrows and complained: “But I can’t stay here all the time. Playing chess with you every day? That’s so boring. At least you can change the copy to play.”

Facing the girl’s sudden change, Shi Ye did not react.

He carefully sorted out the playing cards, put them in the box, handed them back to Bai You, and explained: “Don’t worry, this copy will end soon.”

Bai You didn’t sleep all night, and couldn’t muster any energy. She lazily nestled in the chair, “Yeah.”

As if she remembered something, she added, “So what should I call you, Si Yu, or Shi Ye?”

Thinking of this, Bai You suddenly laughed.

When people told her the name, it was quite obvious. The initials of both names were sy, so she didn’t notice it at all.

Before Shi Ye answered, Bai You continued to say: “I told you that my memory is not good, but I can’t remember so many weird names. I will call you Shi Ye from now on.”

If she called Si Yu, she would always think of that scene, which was more or less numb. Although she had a good psychological quality, she couldn’t stand facing the person she stabbed to death every day.

After all, she was not a perverted murderer.

Although he seemed to be completely indifferent, and he couldn’t be considered a real person?

Sleepiness gradually came over her. I don’t know if it was because of physical sleepiness or other reasons. Bai You couldn’t resist the strong tiredness and closed his eyes, and his consciousness was drowsy.

Only when he was half asleep and half awake, he seemed to hear a faint response.

“Okay.”

–

“Ding, Ding…”

[The limited-time dungeon of Black and White Mystery has ended]

[Number of people selected for this dungeon: 10]

[The dungeon exploration value has reached 100%, and it is now permanently closed]

[Congratulations to the player with ID 123456 for clearing the dungeon]

[A new limited-time dungeon has been opened. The system will randomly select 10 players to enter the dungeon after eight hours. The rules of the game are unknown]

[I wish all players a happy game]

Author has something to say:

Why is it eight hours? Of course, it is to let my wife have a good sleep (bushi)