Chapter 286 Plumeria

Chapter 286 Plumeria

Chapter 286 Plumeria

"Put the fucking guns down, or this fat pig's head will explode in the next second!" John pressed the muzzle of the gun against Sheriff Ebonick's temple, his eyes wide open and his expression ferocious.

"Shoot now." The leather jacket man showed no sign of compromise. He strode forward with his pistol in hand and said sternly:
"Shoot, you coward, if you still have that thing between your legs. Why don't you shoot? Are you afraid? Or have you already given your cock and your manhood to that devil?"

Sheriff Ebonick's face turned pale, his legs couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he said incoherently: "John, what's wrong with you? Don't be impulsive, John, don't shoot..."

Watching the man in leather jacket approaching step by step, Officer John clenched his teeth, but his index finger on the trigger was reluctant to move.

——The minions cannot kill people directly, they can only rely on lies and deception to lure living people. The real killers are only the "tiger demons" who enslave these minions.

The Flimmisret family called it the 'Necromancer'.

Ning Zhe stood silently with his hands raised, feeling somewhat puzzled: "In the previous dream, the ghosts in Vanessa Castle did not show any tendency to be intelligent, nor could they communicate with humans. They wandered around the castle almost unconsciously, mechanically executing the instructions of the 'ghosts', like a wound-up alarm clock."

But in the real world, Officer John, who has become a ghost, still retains the intelligence of a living person. He can speak, communicate, and show all kinds of lifelike expressions and emotions. He can even point a gun at the sheriff's head to threaten the investigation team.

"What causes the difference in intelligence between minions inside and outside dreams?"

While Ning Zhe was thinking about this, a gunshot suddenly rang out, followed by a series of gunshots like firecrackers. Officer John raised his right arm and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the chandelier hanging from the vaulted ceiling. With his skilled European-style Iai, he emptied all 2 bullets in the magazine within 11 seconds.

The long-range hit rate of a pistol is not high, but under such saturation shooting, the chain hanging on the dome was still broken. The four guns of the investigation team fired at the same time, and Officer John's chest was immediately covered with blood. The heavy crystal chandelier fell from the top of his head and hit the wooden table with a chessboard on it, and the girl in a black dress standing quietly in front of the table.

——Ghosts cannot kill people directly, but they can bypass the rules and kill people indirectly.

Ning Zhe once again confirmed that the minions in the real world were intelligent, rather than the machine-like zombies in his dreams.

Ning Zhe didn't care about the life or death of the investigation team. He only cared about the real core rules of the "tiger demon" that could only transform humans into ghosts. Looking at Officer John who was shot and fell to the ground, Ning Zhe silently took two steps forward and planned to get closer to check the situation.

But as soon as the leg took a step forward, it retracted uncontrollably.

"Huh?" Ning Zhe was a little surprised: "What's going on?"

Then, Ning Zhe's whole body lost control and he stepped back involuntarily. He saw in disbelief that bullets flew out of John's chest and returned to the gun barrel where they started. The blooming blood flowers healed and the fallen chandelier rose to the vault.

As the broken chain was restored to its original state, 11 bullets returned to John's gun chamber.

Ningzhe and Sheriff Ebonick walked backwards back to the six members of the investigation team. Carmack and John, who were covered in dust, had just walked in from the door of the hall.

Ning Zhe looked back and saw the girl in the black dress raising a slender hand as cold and white as jade, with her sparkling fingertips pressing on a pawn in the center of the chessboard, preparing to push it forward one square.

Time went back to the moment when she was 'pushing the pawn'.

She regretted her move.

Before Ning Zhe could think, the girl in the black dress spoke softly, her voice as calm as the clear moonlight at the bottom of a pool: "Mary, there's a ghost on the right, shoot him dead." The housekeeper called 'Mary' did not hesitate at all when she heard it. She drew her gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger. The whole process took less than half a second, and the bullet had penetrated John's forehead.

Very fast American style Iai.

Ning Zhe couldn't help but take another look at the housekeeper Meilin. This woman's fighting skills might be higher than his own.

"This!" Sheriff Ebonic was horrified, and his astonishment soon turned into anger. He turned his head and shouted, "You are going too far! Miss Plumeria, even if you are a lady from the Flimmisret family, you cannot sentence a dedicated police officer to death without the judgment of the law!"

It turns out her name is 'Plumelia'.

Plumeria Frimmisrat, Ning Zhe remembered this name.

The investigation team reacted quickly. The man in leather jacket acted decisively and went over with a gun to forcibly subdue Officer Carmack, who was shocked by the murder of his colleague. Another member of the investigation team took off the gloves from John's body with ease.

"With a missing little finger on his left hand, this police officer has indeed become a servant of the devil."

The housekeeper Marylin nodded, and Plumeria lowered her head and said nothing. Instead of "pushing the pawn" as before, she chose to "set up the cannon" and pulled a chess piece with the word "cannon" engraved in red behind the "pawn".

Chess is an ancient game that originated in the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. At that time, China had not yet developed hot weapons such as artillery. The "cannon" in chess naturally does not refer to the gunpowder cannon in the general sense, but the catapult.

Catapult, written as "砲", was later used as a homophone for "炮".

After the cannon was set up, Plumeria took her hands off the chessboard and stood still quietly. At this moment, Ning Zhe could roughly guess what would happen if she moved the set up 'cannon' back to its original position.

Time would flow back to the moment before she made her first move.

Judging from the reactions of the investigation team and Sheriff Ebonick and others, they didn't seem to realize that time had been reversed. To them, as soon as Carmack and John walked in the door, Plumeria immediately saw through John's identity as a ghost and immediately ordered Mary to shoot him.

"It seems that only the chess player can retain the memory during the period of regretting a move?" Ning Zhe secretly guessed: "But if that's the case, why is my memory retained? I'm obviously not a chess player, so why didn't my memory get reset by 'repenting a move'?"

Am I any different from the others here?

Ning Zhe thought for a moment and came up with several hypothetical directions:

1. I am an ascender, and most of the people present, except Plumeria, are not

2. My life has been bound to Lan Shiwen through Taiyi, and Lan Shiwen's death will trigger death return, which is also a rule involving time, and there may be some conflict with the "repent" rule that also acts on time.

3. Like Plumeria, I was judged as a "chess player" by the chessboard.

(End of this chapter)