Sima Xingkong also tilted her head back, pondering for a long time, perhaps simulating the battle in her mind. Finally, she opened her eyes, looked at the chessboard, picked up a black pawn, and knocked the red general off the board.
The result was that the red pieces, originally in a dominant position, were annihilated. The black side was left with only one pawn and one general, facing each other across the board, each occupying a core position on their respective battlefields!
I couldn't help but feel a surge of dread. If this were true, then all of our people, these masters I knew, would be gone. On the black side, at least Long Yue and the Miao King would remain. After the chess match, the Bai Ze demon clan would no longer be able to resist the Shan Hai demon clan. As long as Long Yue and the Miao King were present, the two largest dark organizations in Yan Xia, Mo He and Chi You, would quickly recover their strength, even if their core members were lost.
I swallowed. Bing Bing looked at me, "Brother... will it be like this?"
I shook my head. It wasn't a "won't" or a "don't know." It was that I couldn't say. If I did, our morale would be crushed. We were already at a disadvantage, so what hope would there be to fight?
Sima Xingkong played three games consecutively. She stood up, looked with satisfaction at the two black pieces on the board, stretched, and returned to her bedroom. She didn't close the balcony door and lay down on the bed, turning off the light to sleep.
Demons generally did not choose to sleep at night. She was probably just tired from playing chess.
On the surveillance feed, only a vague human shape could be seen on the bed. The chessboard in the center of the screen, however, grew increasingly blinding.
"Turn it off," I said.
Bing Bing turned off the projector and quickly exported all three games, labeling them as three video files.
"Send the third one to Shen Xingyue," I said.
"Okay."
I returned to my room and couldn't sleep for a long time. About half an hour later, Shen Xingyue called. "You're not asleep yet?"
"No, did you watch it?" I asked.
"I did."
"What are your thoughts?"
"You... need to prepare for the worst. Based on the information I have about them, this simulation even held back some of her strength."
"Who do you think the black pawn that was pretending to be dead and then appeared at the end could be?" I asked.
"It must be Long Yue. Among the top masters of the Shan Hai demon clan, only she can use magic, which would allow her to feign death."
"Then if I had left Diana or Daji within the Nine Palaces, to play the role of the advisor, wouldn't that have been able to turn the tide?" I said.
"Without them fighting outside, you wouldn't have achieved such an advantageous opening. Aren't your two rooks them?"
"...Wait, you mean her general is more powerful than Daji and Diana?" I asked. My two red rooks were lost in the final battle, "licked" away by Sima Xingkong's general. "Who is her general? The Miao King?"
"No, the Miao King was a rook. Two-thirds of the way through the game, he was taken down by Daji. Her general should be the reincarnation of Shan Hai. Only the reincarnation of Shan Hai could defeat the two demon kings, Daji and Diana, consecutively." Shen Xingyue had access to the Shan Hai demon clan's database, so her analysis should be quite accurate.
"Specifically, who is it?" I asked.
"We haven't found out yet."
"So... if we can find the reincarnation of Shan Hai within half a month and somehow prevent it from participating in the competition, we can win this, and win by a large margin!" I analyzed. I didn't dare to say "eliminate the reincarnation of Shan Hai," only to prevent it from participating. Even Daji and Diana couldn't defeat the reincarnation of Shan Hai, let alone me.
"Theoretically, yes. Although the Shan Hai demon clan has many masters, there are only thirty-two pieces on the board. Your Daji and Diana alone could eliminate more than half of them. For the Shan Hai demon clan to win, they would have to use the method she just employed. However, as far as I know, the reincarnation of Shan Hai has not yet appeared." Shen Xingyue said.
"Hasn't appeared? Then why do they dare to hold this chess match?" I asked, confused.
"Perhaps, they are using this method to force the reincarnation of Shan Hai to reveal itself!"