In order to avoid Lian Youyou's suspicion, the person in Duanmu Qingchen's body just pursed his lips and said nothing, responding to all changes with the same attitude, taking one step at a time and observing the next.
So, he nodded to Lian Youyou: "Yes."
Lian Youyou raised her lips and smiled: "Okay! You watch." She waved her snow-white sleeves, and immediately, all the light spots dissipated, the huge Tianjiyi world turned into a blank, and the black world became clean, just like a chessboard turned over, and everything started over again.
"To be fair, let's let Tianjiyi choose someone." Lian Youyou said, and snapped her fingers at the dark world, "Tianjiyi, you choose someone, and we will decide its fate tonight. As usual, the fate of the chosen person must change dramatically tonight!"
"Buzz—" A heavy humming sounded throughout the dark world, as if a mountain that had been sleeping for thousands of years was slowly waking up.
Suddenly, light appeared and formed a giant black chessboard. Light and shadows kept flickering on the chessboard. "Snap!" Only light and shadows were left on the chessboard. The fate of this person chosen by the Tianji Instrument tonight will become a game between two gods.
The shadow stood on the empty chessboard, and looked like a young girl. Above the girl, a line of words appeared: Li Juanlan, died at midnight tonight.
"Oh - it looks like a murder, hum... kind of interesting." Lian Youyou looked at Duanmu Qingchen who had been watching her quietly, "Tonight we are going to change the fate of this girl. If I win, she lives, and if you win, she dies, how about it?"
Duanmu Qingchen's golden pupils were startled, and then they narrowed slightly: "Her fate is to die tonight. This situation is in my favor. Are you sure you want to attack me?"
"Puchi." Lian Youyou smiled mischievously, "Yeah~~ I like to attack you~~ I'm a female warrior, I love to attack."
Duanmu Qingchen felt a little uncomfortable looking at the smirk on Lian Youyou's face.
Lian Youyou's face was full of confidence: "I like challenging things. Also, it seems that you haven't finished it for ten thousand years, so your skills are a bit rusty. If I stand in an advantageous position, I will be bullying you."
Duanmu Qingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, his previous words were just polite. His expression was much more relaxed than before. He moved his body and walked to Lian Youyou, leaning down to look at her: "And then?"
Lian Youyou glanced at him and smiled: "Everyone's fate is actually connected to many people."
Lian Youyou waved her robe sleeves again, and immediately, Li Juanlan's shadow instantly emitted a myriad of rays of light. The people connected to these rays of light appeared on the chessboard one by one, and new rays of light formed between them. In an instant, a complex light network had formed on the huge dark chessboard! The originally empty chessboard was covered with light spots again in the blink of an eye.
“The game of chess of fate is about heartbeat and excitement. Let's add some difficulty. We will not listen to their inner thoughts. When they are hesitant and wavering in their minds, we will give them a push. But we don't know whether it is for good or evil. This random push will change the entire web of fate.” Lian Youyou pointed to the web of fate in front of her. There was only one Li Juanlan, but there were so many people whose fate was related to her.
Duanmu Qingchen nodded after hearing this, and also agreed: "If we know his inner thoughts, we will know what he is thinking, and you and I will make choices for him. In this way, the chess game will indeed become boring."
Lian Youyou shook her head and said, "Not bad~~Not bad~~~This way, there is a random chance. Randomness is a chance that even we, the true gods, cannot control."
Duanmu Qingchen then looked puzzled: "But if we don't push people, ordinary people will eventually make their own choices. What's the point of this game?"
"Where? It's naturally the accident brought about by randomness." Lian Youyou pushed her hand. "With this random push, the direction we push may be the same as the original decision of this mortal, but it may also be contrary to it. Usually, mortals make their own decisions, but today, mortals, we, can't actually make a decision. This is called: randomness."
Duanmu Qingchen's golden pupils showed a hint of understanding. He understood that originally, mortals were indeed autonomous, but today, because of the existence of their mysterious pushers, mortals were no longer autonomous, and everything became unknown and random. This game of fate became even more thrilling.
This randomness actually worked in his favor because Li Juanlan's fate was already determined. If Lian Youyou knew the chess piece's mind, she might be able to turn the situation around. But now that she didn't know, it would be even more difficult to turn this fate around.
Just as Lian Youyou said, if their prediction is the same as the original fate, the fate line in front of them will not change. If the prediction is contrary to the original fate, the fate line in front of them will definitely change. This fate network can be said to be a ripple effect, and the two gods may not know the fate of Li Juanlan tonight.
Sure enough, interesting.
Lian Youyou smiled at Duanmu Qingchen's golden eyes and said, "Can we start now?"
Duanmu Qingchen narrowed his golden eyes, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Okay."
Lian turned around and raised her snow-white sleeves. Immediately, the various lights and shadows on the black chessboard turned into black and white. Two small doors appeared on the left and right of the light net, the black one was the door of death, and the white one was the door of life.
"The black piece is the one who pushed Li Juanlan into the death door, and he is your chess piece. The white piece is the one who can pull Li Juanlan out of the death door, and he is my chess piece. We can only use our own chess pieces to change the fate of Li Juanlan." Lian looked at Duanmu Qingchen's golden eyes leisurely.
Duanmu Qingchen blinked and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Isn't black evil and white good?"
"Tsk." Lian chuckled, "How can a chess piece tell good from evil? A person had good intentions but did something bad. Is he evil? Perhaps this is the mystery of fate."
Eternal silence remained within Duanmu Qingchen's body, he lowered his eyes and savored Lian Youyou's words carefully.
Lian turned around and looked at the vast chessboard in front of him. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Immediately, a string of numbers appeared in the air. The numbers were set at four hours.
"It is now the hour of the twilight in the Qian Dynasty. To make the time clearer, I used the future timer, so it is now 7:15. Li Juanlan will die at 1:00 in the morning. Well, this time is very special. It is a time intersection. It doesn't look like an accidental killing. The time has been set." Lian touched her chin leisurely, her eyes becoming deep. Zi Shi is the moment when yin and yang change. Choosing Zi Shi to kill a girl, based on her experience as a god for thousands of years, this is probably related to evil magic.
"Let's start." Duanmu Qingchen walked to Lian Youyou and stood with her next to the huge chessboard.
Lian Youyou came back to her senses, looked at the black and white light and shadow on the chessboard in front of her, and smiled: "Game, start!"
Immediately, the time above them began to count down, "click, click, click."
The princes arrived late at the Imperial Garden Lantern Square.
In fact, they had arrived earlier, but they had gone to look for the crown prince Duanmu Qingchen. The protagonist of tonight was Duanmu Qingchen, but he was missing. (To be continued)