svetikya Chapter 127
Chapter 127
"Eh? What is this?"
Everyone walked to the stone platform and formed a circle.
"Master Shen, Lao Hu, how come a chessboard suddenly appeared? What does this mean?" The fat man looked at the chessboard, his face almost touching it.
"Hey, Fatty, what are you doing? Be careful not to touch the mechanism!" Hu Bayi pulled the fat man and said.
"I'll just take a look, don't touch it~" The fat man said as he took two steps back.
"The tomb owner put out this chessboard, obviously wanting us to play a game with him." Shen Hao said, "This is a good thing."
"Well, we are all locked up here, what good thing can it be?" said the fat man.
Hu Bayi showed a speechless expression and said, "Who let us in?"
Shen Hao continued, "Look, there is only one chess piece there, which means we only have one chance to move!"
"The tomb owner does not want to kill the people who come in directly, but wants to fight."
"Then let's fight, with Master Shen here, what are you afraid of?" Fatty said directly.
"Who of you can play chess?" Shen Hao asked.
Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, no one spoke.
"Hey, Master Shen, how about you come?" Fatty looked at Shen Hao and said.
"I don't know how to play Go either." Shen Hao looked at everyone and said.
"Ah? Master Shen, you don't know how to play Go either? Then what should we do?" Fatty said anxiously.
"Old Jin, do you know how to play?" Shen Hao looked at Da Jin Ya and asked.
In the original plot, it was Da Jin Ya who saw that this was a classic endgame that had been passed down for thousands of years, but it had been studied by countless people, and the solution had long been made public.
"Well, I only know a little bit of this. What if I make a mistake?" Da Jin Ya said nervously.
All of a sudden, he was under a lot of pressure.
"It's okay, just come on. If you really don't believe me, I can guarantee everyone's safety." Shen Hao comforted Da Jin Ya.
At worst, he could just break open the tomb door and take everyone out.
As for the dragon bone book, it doesn't matter. Anyway, he knows where the Zhuochen Pearl is, and the dragon bone book is dispensable.
"Well, then, okay, I'll try." Da Jin Ya nodded.
Da Jin Ya stood in front of the chessboard, pointing his finger at the chess pieces in the chess game carefully.
After looking at it again and again, he finally remembered that he had seen this endgame in the chess record.
So he said immediately: "Although this endgame may be very exquisite in the past, after thousands of years of research, there are chess records that have already cracked it."
"I still remember this endgame. As long as this black piece is placed in this place, it can eat up the white piece, and the black piece basically wins!" Big Gold Teeth pointed to a position on the chessboard and said.
"Oh, it turns out that this thing is not that difficult after all this time. It seems that social progress is indeed a good thing. Let's play it." Fatty's face showed joy.
"Wait, why do I feel that this thing is not that simple?" Hu Bayi stopped Big Gold Teeth and Fatty.
"What's wrong???" The two looked at Hu Bayi in confusion.
"No, this thing is too simple, there is a problem!" Hu Bayi said.
Shen Hao nodded secretly. It must be said that Hu Bayi's brain is still very smart.
The traps in this tomb have not been simple along the way.
Now, we are at the last level, but it is so simple. It seems wrong.
"This, winning the game is not okay, so do we have to lose the game?" The fat man asked with a bitter face.
Hu Bayi shook his head, "This is even worse. It is even easier to lose the game. It is obviously wrong!"
"Then from this point of view, we can only draw the game."
"No matter who the tomb owner is, he is our predecessor after all. Whether it is winning or losing the game, it is not appropriate. Does the tomb owner want us to draw the game?"
Hu Bayi looked at Shen Hao and cast a questioning look.
Shen Hao nodded and said, "Old Jin, look, if we want to draw the game, where should we play?"
"Draw the game..." Da Jin Ya muttered and looked at the chessboard.
"I don't know if you have heard of the story of Jia Xuan and Emperor Taizong of Song. Jia Xuan was a Go genius in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was appointed as a Go player and played chess with the emperor."
"Although Jia Xuan was a master of Go, he was also good at dealing with social relationships as an official. Every time he played against Emperor Taizong of Song, he would lose to him, so Emperor Taizong of Song was very happy."
"But as time went by, Emperor Taizong of Song discovered that Jia Xuan deliberately lost to him, so he ordered him to show his true skills, otherwise he would punish him."
"Jia Xuan had no choice but to set up a draw situation with three cycles of disasters."
"In this chess game, there is actually a similar situation."
After thinking carefully for a while, he pointed to a corner of the chessboard.The fat man said, "If we move here, we should be able to achieve a draw."
"As long as we move here and capture this white piece, we can achieve a rare four-disaster cycle, and it will be a draw."
Everyone looked at the position pointed by the big golden tooth. Although they couldn't understand it, it didn't stop them from looking.
Shen Hao's consciousness penetrated the entire stone platform and saw the mechanism inside. Whether winning or losing, the mechanism would be triggered.
And there are also mechanisms for a draw.
But the two mechanisms are different.
"Since the situation is clear, let's play." The fat man said.
So Shen Hao picked up the chess piece and placed it at the position of the draw.
Suddenly, the mechanism started, and eight walls fell in front of the eight walls of the tomb, separating the original circle of corridors against the wall.
These eight walls, like antique shelves, are also filled with many antiques.
When the fat man saw this, he said bluntly: "This tomb owner is quite open. He showed so many treasures directly when we were tied. This tomb owner is good and capable!"
As he said, he walked to the wall and wanted to take down the things inside to take a closer look.
Seeing this, Hu Bayi immediately shouted: "Don't move! There must be a mechanism inside!"
"Ah? There is still a mechanism, haven't they been cracked?" The fat man said helplessly.
"I didn't pay attention to it before, but now I take a closer look, the layout of this tomb is clearly arranged according to the Qimen Dunjia."
"Eight walls correspond to eight gates." Hu Bayi said.
"Eight Gates Dunjia, I know this, the gate of life and the gate of death, can't we get out if we find the gate of life?" The fat man said.
"It's not that simple, Mr. Shen, don't you think so?" Hu Bayi looked at Shen Hao and said.
"Yes, people who are familiar with Qimen Dunjia think that they can just find the way out, but if that's the case, they've fallen into the trap set by the tomb owner." Shen Hao nodded and said.
"Fell into a trap?" The fat man looked at Shen Hao, then at Hu Bayi.
"From this journey, there is no mechanism that can kill people directly, which means that the tomb owner left a glimmer of hope, but this glimmer of hope is not easy to find." Shen Hao continued.