"The world comes first, and the king rules the world."

"The royal road?"

Li Jiancheng stared intently at these eight words, and gradually fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Sima Ruohua immediately stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Li Jiancheng's eyes, but Li Jiancheng was unmoved.

His expression was focused, as if he had fallen into a hallucination, unable to extricate himself.

"It's just a line, is that so?"

"It's strange, it's like they've lost their souls."

Sima Ruohua didn't know why, and just as she was about to return to the other side, suddenly, the ground rumbled and shook.

The violent shaking caused Sima Ruohua to stand unsteadily, but she still tried to get back to the other side.

At this time, Li Jiancheng was also awakened by the shock, and when he heard a rapid sound of organ transmission, he did not hesitate to pull Sima Ruohua, who wanted to return.

It was too late, it was fast, and at the same time that Li Jiancheng grabbed Sima Ruohua, several huge stone gates fell heavily to the ground, completely blocking their circuit.

Sima Ruohua looked at Shimen in surprise, and his heart palpitated.

If such a heavy stone gate falls on a man...... The consequences are unimaginable.

However, it wasn't long before she put that surprise behind her, and desperately banged on the stone door, anxiously shouting to the other side of the stone gate.

"Brother?"

"Brother? How are you doing? ”

"Ninth brother?"

Li Jiancheng shouted while trying to lift the stone gate, but no matter how hard he tried, the stone gate remained unmoving.

On the other side of the stone gate, Sima Jiu and Nalan Lingyun had already been awakened.

Sima Jiu anxiously shouted to the other side of the stone gate.

"Little sister! Younger sister? ”

"Little sister, how are you? Are you okay? ”

After a long time, he didn't hear any response.

Sima Jiu was so anxious that after he inspected the area around the stone gate, he didn't find any organs.

So, like Li Jiancheng, he also tried to lift the stone gate with his own strength.

But the stone gate that did not move seemed to announce to him that all efforts would be in vain.

"What to do? What to do? ”

Sima Jiu frowned and paced back and forth worriedly.

Nalan Lingyun on the side was also anxious.

"Brother Jiu, don't worry, Ruohua and they will definitely be fine."

Sima Jiu said anxiously: "Their deaths are unknown, can I not worry?" ”

At this moment, Sima Jiu inadvertently noticed the direction of the swordsman's stone statue finger behind him.

The original road has been sealed, I don't know what will happen ahead?

"This is the end of the matter, we can only move forward."

Sima Jiu looked helpless.

Nalan Lingyun said: "I hope there are other roads that can lead to them." ”

"Hmm!"

Then, the two of them walked in the direction of the 'chivalrous way' pointed by the stone statue of the swordsman.

On the other side, Li Jiancheng and Sima Ruohua, who had never received any response, gradually regained their composure.

"Ruohua: Don't worry, Ninth Brother, they should be fine, it is estimated that this stone gate separates us, so we can't hear their voices."

Sima Ruohua had a sad face, and after she bowed slightly, she reluctantly looked away from the stone door.

Li Jiancheng turned to look in the direction pointed by the soldier's stone statue, and suddenly became a little curious.

"Huh? Why is it that after the stone gate falls, the front is still bright? ”

Sima Ruohua guessed: "Could it be ...... Exits ahead? ”

"Anyway, now, we can only move forward."

Li Jiancheng was suddenly a little curious, his eyes looked firmly ahead, and a look of longing flashed in his eyes from time to time.

"Let's go ahead, hoping to get to my brother's side."

"Good!"

As they spoke, Sima Ruohua and Li Jiancheng walked forward.

Perhaps too anxious, Sima Ruohua's pace was fast.

Soon after, they came to the door of a stone chamber.

"What is this?"

Sima Ruohua stood still, looking at the scene in the stone room, amazed.

In front of her, at the door of the stone chamber, there was a waist-high square stone table.

On the stone table, there are neatly planned circular patterns, the circular patterns are more than an inch in circumference, and there is a thin gap around the perimeter, and between the circular patterns, a gap of the same length and width is communicated with the upper and lower left and right.

Behind the stone table, a nine-step stone staircase leads to a flat ground that sinks about three feet into the ground, and the pattern on the flat ground is almost exactly the same as the pattern on the stone table.

There are also differences between the two, there is an additional half-human-high crystal stone pillar in the center of the flat ground, and the size of the two patterns is also different.

The pattern on the flat floor is almost ten times the size of the pattern on the stone table.

On the stone walls on both sides of the flat ground, a pattern similar to a chess box is carved.

"Brother Jiancheng, what are these?"

Li Jiancheng glanced at the scene in front of him, and after thinking for a while, he pointed to the stone table and speculated: "The pattern on this stone table looks like a chessboard. ”

Then, Li Jiancheng pointed to the flat ground in front of him and said, "The layout below is similar to the stone table table, which can be regarded as a 'big chessboard'." ”

Sima Ruohua asked, "Chessboard? ”

"Well, the chessboard of the Othello."

"What is Othello?"

"Nine-rank Othello is a type of Go, and the two are just slightly different from each other."

"You see, there are seventeen circular patterns in this row of horizontal divisions, and seventeen circular patterns in this column of vertical divisions, and the circular patterns form seventeen vertical and horizontal columns, making a total of two hundred and eighty-nine." While explaining, Li Jiancheng kept waving his hand.

"That's what makes Othello a nine-fret."

Sima Ruohua asked: "Since it's chess, shouldn't there be chess pieces?" But why didn't you see the chess pieces? ”

"It's really puzzling, I'll think about it again."

"Think about it slowly, I'll go see what it is?"

After finishing speaking, Sima Ruohua ran towards the crystal stone pillar in the center of the 'big chessboard'.

Soon, she was in the center of the 'big chessboard'.

"Well, there's something in there."

As he spoke, Sima Ruohua stretched out his hand to touch the crystal stone pillar.

Just as she touched the crystal stone pillar, suddenly, the sound of a mechanism transmission resounded throughout the stone room.

Immediately afterward, the crystal pillar suddenly plunged into the ground.

At the same time, two sets of mechanisms suddenly appeared on the top of the stone chamber, locking Sima Ruohua, and then, after the mechanism was quickly lifted into mid-air with Sima Ruohua, it stood still.

"Brother Jiancheng, save me!"

"Ruohua!"

When Li Jiancheng heard the news, he was about to go to help Sima Ruohua.

Suddenly, two metal mechanisms stretched out from under the stone table, locking Li Jiancheng's feet firmly, making it difficult for him to move.

Almost at the same time, on the stone walls on his left and right sides, countless spears glowing with cold light appeared, and the heads of the spears were pointed directly at Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng suddenly felt bad and his mind was confused.

"Oops, it's locked, what to do?"

"What should I do?"

"Now, Ruohua and I are locked up and can't move, how can this be good?"

"No, we have to get rid of these mechanisms."

When Li Jiancheng tried to get rid of the mechanism, he accidentally pressed his right hand against the circular pattern on the stone table.

"Huh? Can it be pressed? ”

Li Jiancheng hurriedly withdrew his hand.

But as soon as his right hand detached from the circular pattern, the circular pattern in the corresponding position on the 'big chessboard' immediately fell, and then a stone statue of a soldier in white rose on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, at the position of the adjacent circular pattern to the left of the white-clothed stone statue, a stone statue of a black-clothed soldier was immediately raised.

Li Jiancheng looked inexplicable.

"What's the situation? Could it be that this stone table and the 'big chessboard' are linked? ”

"Look at the posture, who do you want me to play against?"

"But who is this 'who'?"

A moment later, just as Li Jiancheng was hesitating, suddenly, the spears on his left and right sides slowly moved towards him.

"What's the situation?"

"What to do? What to do? ”

"Now, my feet are chained, I can't move, and only my hands can move."

When Li Jiancheng's gaze fell on the stone table again, he suddenly had an idea.

"Is that so?"