Chapter 41: The Deadly Chessboard

"Come here?" Han Nuowei said to himself. A cold wind blew through his heart www.biquge.info, and he subconsciously looked around. In this secret room, where he is the only living person, such a sentence suddenly appears, which is really chilling. However, there are no other changes in this chamber, so what do these candles mean?

Could it be that it was literally meant to stand on this disc by himself, but it was too much, and he looked at the candles, and he never felt very comfortable, and instinctively rejected the idea. In desperation, he had to carefully inspect the secret room and Shi Hu again, but found nothing. He had no choice but to muster up his courage, put his hand on Shi Hu's body, and jumped up.

Shi Hu did not move.

Han Nuowei squatted on Shi Hu's buttocks, took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth, took half a step forward, and stepped into the disc. The disc wasn't very large, and he had to knock down a few of the candles to fit his feet all the way in. In fact, when he did this, Han Nuowei was quite happy, because he really didn't like these candles. As soon as he stood firm, his feet sank into the sand.

Suddenly, Han Nuowei felt a violent shaking, and then, a thunderous sound sounded, even louder than the movement of the stone ball before, deafening. At the same time, he felt a strong sense of weightlessness, and Shi Hu fell frantically like an elevator with a broken line. Han Nuowei closed his eyes, held his head, bent down, and curled up in a ball. He could feel that the bones of his body were about to be shaken apart by the violent fall.

Fortunately, the fall was not long, and after about a few seconds, the earthquake passed. Han Nuowei slowly opened his eyes after making sure that he was not shaking.

He didn't have time to check for injuries on his body, so he was dumbfounded and frozen.

Because what greeted him was a beautiful scenery that he had never seen in his life.

A small house shaped like a crown stood before him, surrounded by intricately carved columns, and in front of it was a small square like a chessboard. Han Nuowei raised his head and saw countless colorful plankton floating leisurely above his head, like countless bright lights, reflecting the crystal clear dome with a soft serenity. He held up his flashlight, and some of the corals and anemones were stimulated by the light, which immediately reflected gorgeous fluorescence.

It is a man-made cave in the middle of a huge Baltic amber that makes it as if one had jumped into the hollow of the amber. After the light enters this space, it seems that it is no longer bound by any constraints, but wanders freely, and does not want to leave for a long time. Han Nuowei really couldn't imagine that under this shipwreck, there was such a breathtakingly beautiful scenery. He stretched out his hand and gently stroked the stone wall of the cave, and a warm feeling of amber reached the palm of his hand, like the soft skin of a lover.

Han Nuowei suddenly understood where Mo Aogu's arrogant momentum came from, anyone who had such a rare treasure in his ancestors would be unruly and unearthly.

He looked around at the Amber Cave and couldn't help but feel confident that the treasure must be not far away!

He jumped off Shihu and checked it, only there was a bruise on his arm, and his left calf was a little numb, and the rest of the place was fine, which was a blessing.

After the inspection, Han Nuowei walked onto the chessboard with joy, and as soon as he landed, he was stung back. When he looked closely, it turned out that the chessboard was densely covered with slender steel needles, about ten centimeters long, and he didn't notice it at first because the light in the cave was erratic. He tried to step on the tip of his boot, and was immediately pierced with countless small eyes.

How to get there?

Han Nuowei picked up a piece of gravel next to Shi Hu and smashed it towards the chessboard with all his strength. The stone landed in the center of the chessboard, and after a creaking sound, three busts more than two meters tall slowly rose from the chessboard. The three statues are triangular in shape, each with a thick square slab.

Han Nuowei roughly estimated the distance between the stone slabs in front of the three statues, and then sighed. The slabs were too far apart, and it was impossible to jump in front of the "crown" door by stepping on these three slabs without steel needles.

Is it possible, then, that what happens when he stands on the thick stone slab and increases the weight of the slate? But after one glance at the steel needle, he immediately dismissed this thought. Don't try it, if it's wrong, it will be tied into a hornet's nest. He sighed and pinched one of the outermost steel needles with his fingers, trying to break it off. But with great effort, he didn't feel the slightest bend in the needle. It's really evil, he couldn't help but think, such a thin steel needle can't be broken.

Han Nuowei looked around helplessly, trying to find another way to bypass the chessboard. But as far as the eye could see, there was no other way unless he could fly to the dome.

Han Nuowei only had a small flashlight on him. "If only there was a rope, then I could tie it to a high place and swing it like Tarzan. Han Nuowei thought so and sighed softly.

After thinking about it for a while, he rummaged through the pile of rubble next to Shi Hu to see if there were any tools that could be used.

However, after searching for a long time, I didn't find anything. He reluctantly returned to the chessboard, staring at the three thick stone slabs in a daze.

When he looked closely, he found that each stone slab was inlaid with a ring made up of English letters. These letters are carved into small discs in the same color as stone slabs, which also appear to be made of stone. The discs are pressed against each other, forming a ring. Judging from the gap between the discs, the discs seem to have been attached. He tried to pick it with his fingernails, but he couldn't. And just below the ring, which is closest to him, there is a small hole slightly larger than the letter disc.

Looking at the entire ring, it's like the dial pad of an old-fashioned telephone. This shape made him think that the solution to this puzzle should be to rotate the ring so that the correct letter falls into the hole. Han Nuowei read the letters once, and they happened to be twenty-six from A to Z, and the whole was arranged in a counterclockwise direction.

So, what is the correct letter?

Han Nuowei looked up again to observe the three statues. All three statues are male and all of them are of European silhouette, but apart from the fact that they are all handsome, there seems to be nothing unusual about them. Han tried to rotate the ring in a clockwise direction so that the first letter "A" entered the hole.

"A" was quickly sucked in as it slid over the round hole, and then popped out again after a second or so. At the same time, the steel needles in the entire rectangular area where the statue was located immediately became longer. Han Nuowei was so frightened that he hurriedly took a step back, he thought that the steel needle would slowly retract again, but after waiting for half a minute, the steel needle did not respond.

You can't be wrong once! This damn chessboard! If he turns it wrong again, and the steel needles around him get longer, he may not be able to reach the ring. Han Nuowei rubbed his eyebrows irritably, what do the three man statues represent?

Han Nuowei squatted down, painstakingly recalling the family legend that Mo Aogu had told him, trying to find possible clues. But he couldn't think of a possible targeted answer.

A few lines of English love poems popped into his mind, and he had seen them by the porthole of the shipwreck.

Beauty's-effect-with-beauty-were-bereft,

Nor-it-nor-no-rememberacne-what-it-was。

This-were-to-be-new-made-when-thou-art-old,

And-see-thy-blood-warm-when-thou-feel'st-it-cold。

Make-thee-another-self-for-love-of-me,

That-beauty-still-may-live-in-thine-or-thee。

Lo,in-the-orient-when-the-gracious-light

Lifts-up-his-burning-head,

each-under-eye,

Doth-homage-to-his-new-appearing-sight,

Serving-with-looks-his-sacred-majesty。

Han Nuowei was so confident in his memory that he immediately stood up and tried the first word of the love poem, "B"—and by this time, the length of the steel needle was almost up to his knees.

Han Nuowei was almost crazy. He tried to arrange and combine some of the nouns in it, but it didn't feel right. He tried to pick out a few words with a high repetition rate, but he couldn't combine them into any phrases.

Han Nuowei remembered the sequence of the eight planets that made people laugh and cry, could this be another trap of doubts?

"Wait!" Han Nuowei suddenly shouted. In the penultimate sentence, each at the beginning was originally the end of the previous line, and he initially thought it was just the writer's special writing habits, but he didn't think much about it. However, if you think about it, the stiff disconnection of the verse and the transfer to the next line here should be Cotton's implication that each is an important word.

Then, if you extract the first letter of each line, form the word in phonetic order, and must include the letter e, that is AE. However, I have tried A for the first time, and I am sure that the beginning of A is wrong, and A is not a word with special meaning, which means that it is not combined according to the phonetic order.

After removing the sequence condition, the words containing e in the initials are bed and name.

"name......" Han Nuowei was suddenly stunned.

Name.

Han Nuowei became excited, the mystery should be the name of the statue.

The statue that guards the family's treasure is carved to most likely be the owner of the treasure.

Thinking of this, Han Nuowei trembled and turned "M" into the hole, and when he watched M being sucked in, his heart rose to his throat. And when M bounced back again, the steel needle did not get longer! Han Nuowei was overjoyed, and he then turned into "O", and the steel needle did not become longer! He tried "Rrison" in one go, and then the statue slowly moved. The statue moves to the left, and when it reaches the border, it moves to the far right, like a chess piece moving on a chessboard, and the steel needles disappear wherever it goes.

Han Nuowei stepped on the chessboard as if on thin ice, and after making sure that the steel needles were gone, he came to the second statue. The second statue looked a little younger in "age" than the first, and he tried to turn into "C", and the needle became longer again. He was startled, it wasn't Cotton, it was Edmund, and he tried to turn to the "e" again, and this time the needle didn't get longer. He pinched a handful of sweat and turned the "dmund" in order, and the steel needles in the second row were all gone.

The last one, undoubtedly, was Cotton's grandson Andrew, and after Han Nowei finished spinning the last letter of "Andrew", the steel needles on the chessboard finally disappeared.

Han Nuowei stepped on the last grid of the chessboard, and he didn't realize that his body was already drenched in sweat.

In front of the Crown Lodge, there are three flights of steps, behind which stands a blue door. And on the door is inlaid with a piece of pure gold door plate with a large area, and the door number is on the side of the door on the left and right. Of course, the door is locked, and the door number is exactly the door lock.

Han Nuowei sighed, after solving so many mysteries, it was enough to prove that he was the descendant of the Hannover family, but Cotton still didn't let him breathe.

Han Nuowei stepped on the steps, only to feel a shaking, and almost fell. When he straightened up and stood firmly, he found that the steps had risen by more than ten centimeters, just enough for his line of sight to reach the center of the door number. At the same time, a row of metal fences emerged from the edge of the steps, pointed like sharp spearheads.

Han Nuowei was dumbfounded, these fences were about knee-high as him, and they looked like dangerous traps no matter how he looked at them. He didn't dare to act rashly, so he had to stand still first and start studying the door.

The pure gold door plate on the door is divided into two parts, left and right, and the middle is connected by a thin five metal beams. On both sides of the beam, five round gold medals are arranged vertically. The gold medal on the left is inlaid with seemingly random numbers, and the gold medal on the right is all engraved with a cross.

Han Nuowei stared at the gold medals on the left, each gold medal was inlaid with four rubies, and each ruby was engraved with a number on its surface. He quickly skimmed through the rubies and found that the largest number was 9 and the smallest was 1.

And on the lower right side of the door plate, there is a horizontal groove protruding outward, in which some ruby particles are placed, and the surface of which is also engraved with numbers. Han Nuowei pulled it, from 1 to 9, it happened to be nine.

"This round of math exams. He smiled wryly, "It's good that it's all in the single digits." ”