"Be careful, there may be a trap here."

The deep and narrow passages will have quite troublesome traps in my subjective impression, so I am quite alert to it.

"It's alright, Mr. Carter, it's a long but safe passage."

Peter said this and strode forward calmly, without showing any vigilance, although he thought it was incredible, but at this moment he still chose to believe that he had been here beforehand.

As Peter said, we reached the third level of the mausoleum quite smoothly, and it seemed that I was really worried. It is undoubtedly a good thing for us intruders of the mausoleum to be allowed to set a trap, but it also makes people wonder if the designer of this mausoleum is serious about his work. From the point of view of preventing intruders, such a design is obviously a huge loophole, could it be that the designers of the mausoleum want someone to be able to enter?

When such an idea came to me, I couldn't help but laugh in my heart because of my rich imagination. Ah, ah, this should be impossible, after all, such a thing as opening one's arms and letting strangers you don't know enter your sleeping place and share your treasure is impossible for anyone with normal brain circuits to do. In short, put aside the things I don't understand, which has been the norm I've been living for twenty-six years as a human being.

"That's pretty impressive!"

For a brief moment of deep thought, my companions beside me let out an exclamation of amazement, and I turned my gaze to the world in front of me.

"This, how is this possible."

I felt the surprise and joy that suddenly came from my heart and unconsciously blurted out words.

The third floor is quite large, and of course it means under our feet. The intersection of the next floor is just in front of the sight, and between the entrance and exit of this level is a huge square rock, the surface is extremely smooth, with black and white squares painted at intervals, and at the edge of the rock farthest from us are placed sixteen stone statues in the shape of warriors.

Even though I could tell at a glance that it was a mechanism, I still felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy in my heart, and there would be no mistake, the rock in front of me was a magnified chess board, and the stone statue on the opposite side was a chess piece.

The entire chessboard is not connected to the surrounding rocks, but floats out of thin air, and beneath it is impossible to judge the depth even with farsightedness, as if it were pointing straight into the abyss deep in the heart of the earth. That's why everyone was amazed. It's a bit scary, after all, for me who is bound by the Silent Armor and can't use magic, it must be quite tricky to fall down.

If there is a chess game here, it means that the owner of this mausoleum is most likely a time-traveler like me. However, there are many similarities between this world and the world I was in, and I can't rule out the possibility that there are also the same table games in this world.

"Captain Anjief, do you also play this board game?" I pointed to the chessboard in front of me and confirmed.

"I don't quite understand what Mr. Carter means, is there something strange about these stone statues?"

Anjef looked at me blankly, and from his puzzled eyes, he could tell that he didn't know about chess.

YES！ Further affirmed my previous thoughts. Ah, the thought that I'm not the only one who has crossed into this world makes me feel a little excited. No, it's not time to jump to conclusions, and it's possible that such a design is just a coincidence.

"Everyone must follow my footsteps when entering the black and white ground, before I and the two seniors have confirmed that the floating rock in front of us is a mechanism, and found a safe way to pass."

Peter said this as he jumped to the floating rocks and beckoned to us at the periphery of the chessboard.

The entrance where we are standing is about 3 meters away from the floating rock, which is absolutely impossible for humans to jump over, but it is still not a problem for adventurers who have undergone hard training and greatly improved their physical abilities. The warriors jumped over the gap, and the magicians and priests flew over using flying magic, but when they reached the chessboard, the magicians suddenly lost their balance and fell, but luckily no one fell into the abyss.

"Strange, strange, can't do magic."

There were such uneasy shouts around them, and it seemed that this chessboard could limit the use of magic.

"Well, everybody, come with me."

The moment he stepped onto the chessboard from the fringe area, Peter's expression became nervous, and it seemed that something terrible should happen once he touched the mechanism.

Just as everyone stepped onto the chessboard, the rocks under their feet shook violently.

"What's wrong?"

"Did anyone touch the mechanism?"

The crowd became panicked.

"I'm so sorry, I seem to have stepped on something I shouldn't have stepped on."

Although it was an apology, with a hint of secret joy, Witt shrugged his shoulders and said, it was a very calm voice, completely devoid of the guilt and panic that a person who accidentally stepped on the mechanism should have.

"Quick, everyone, run forward!"

At Peter's shout, everyone began to run forward as hard as they could.

However, it was already too late.

The whole chessboard fell into the depths of the abyss as if it had lost its buoyancy, and the strong shaking and sudden weightlessness caught everyone off guard, and because the surface of the entire chessboard was quite smooth, there was no place to grasp it, and everyone slid to the edge of the chessboard one after another. The warriors stabbed their weapons to the ground, but the full force of the blow did not leave a trace on the surface of the chessboard, but was pushed into the abyss by the powerful reaction force.

A terrified roar swirled in the abyss, echoing farther and farther away, and the chessboard returned to its stillness as the members of the exploration team plunged into the abyss.

It's really thrilling, and if I shake it for a while, I'm afraid I'll fall too. Lying on the smooth chessboard, already in the air above the shoulders, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.

"Excuse me, Mr. Carter, can you pull us up?"

A rather nervous voice reached my ears, and it was then that I remembered that the reason I was in this state was to hold Ajief and Nick, who had fallen off the chessboard.

"Ah, sorry, a little relaxed."

I felt a little embarrassed at the two people who were desperately clutching my hands and their bodies were shaking in the empty air, and I pulled them back with all my might.

"I'm sorry to have Mr. Carter save us this time."

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Anjev sat down on the ground and thanked me.

"You're welcome, we're all companions."

I shook my hand in response.

"Everyone's alright, right? Check the number of people now! ”

It's really a general, Ballykaf made a rather loud voice, compared to everyone who was already on the edge of the chessboard, I have to say that Ballycalf's luck is really good, at the moment he is still standing in a relatively safe position, for a moment I seem to see something like a bug around his feet wriggling, but when I want to see it carefully, there is nothing, then it should be my delusion.

Anjiefu nervously checked his surroundings, and then his expression soothed, it seems that none of the seven eagles have fallen.

"The Black Hound lost five people."

Locke let out a rather frustrated sound.

"I've lost two of them."

Witt's voice was still fairly calm.

"Witt, you bastard! You did it on purpose! ”

Locke, having lost nearly half of his companions after entering the mausoleum, was in a rather bad mood, and he ran to Witt in a rage and threw a heavy punch. Witt quickly dodged the opponent's attack and threw a horizontal kick towards Locke's waist, but this swift attack was also defused by Locke, who was extremely agile.

"Now is not the time for infighting, it's coming!"

Just as the two of them were engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle, Peter shouted loudly.

The previous tremor seemed to be just the beginning, and now the stone statues on the opposite side were moving. The entrance to the next level is hundreds of meters in the air, and all sides are pitch black abysses, and we can't escape without magic, the situation is really terrible.

On the chessboard in the middle of the endless abyss, the battle with myself as a pawn immediately began, and facing the sixteen rock chess pieces were 19 survivors of the exploration team, including me.