Like most other high-level monographs on life and death, "The Secret Spectrum of Out of the Blue" only has a title, no answers, not only no answers, but not even a little hint, net kill? Robbery? Co-living? There are none of them, except for the black first or white first, there is no more word, and what is very surprising is that with the old degree of this book, there must be a lot of researchers, but there is not a single word of comment or experience on the side of the eyebrow at the foot of the book. Tan Xiaotian once sorted out the thousands of books in the library of the Jiangdu Chess Academy, and it is rare to see such a situation, and some books that are often borrowed are not even commented on by more than one person, and those books have obviously not survived as long as this book, which makes Tan Xiaotian a little puzzled.

However, this kind of problem is not what Tan Xiaotian is most concerned about, as a child who is keen on solving life-and-death questions, he is more concerned about the topic itself.

The cottage is full of rough people, and there are few people who know words, not to mention people who can play Go, no one plays chess, and naturally there will be no chess sets, and Tan Xiaotian regards it as a treasure that Lin Lao Wu specially made for him to make magnet chess sets in the luggage on the car, and there is nothing available anyway, so he can only calculate silently in his mind and cannot disassemble the method on the chessboard, although this situation is not conducive to research, but it is more suitable for the actual combat state, After all, no matter how difficult the problem is in the actual game, the chess player can only think with his own brain.

In the past, with Tan Xiaotian's sense and calculation power, he could often find the key to solving the problem with just one scan of his eyes, and solve the problem, and the re-examination of the difficult points was almost the same, and it was extremely rare for him to spend a cup of tea on those difficult life and death problems, at least he had only seen a few three or five in the two years he had studied chess in the Jiangdu Chess Academy.

However, the difficulty of the first question in "The Secret Spectrum of the Orchid" surprised Tan Xiaotian, there was no incense or drip calculation time here. But the first feeling after the review is that this question is more difficult than any of the dead and alive questions he has done before, the depth of its complexity and the various traps encountered in the process of solving the problem are endless, usually there is only one key point when solving the general life and death problem, as long as this key point is found, the problem can often be easily grasped and, the next trick can be achieved overnight, basically no difficulty, and this question actually has three key points, one is more hidden than the other, one is more difficult than the other. As long as there is a place that is not clear, this problem cannot be solved, in short, when Tan Xiaotian repeatedly checked and confirmed that he had found the correct one, the oil lamp on the table was already as small as a soybean, but it turned out that the lamp oil in the oil bowl was about to dry up, although there was not much oil in it, but it was estimated that it was at least more than half an hour.

"It's so hard! I've found a treasure! Putting down the book, Tan Xiaotian rubbed his somewhat sour eyes. I was very happy in my heart -- life and death problems are the basic skills of Go, and there are many monographs on life and death problems, but just as Go is characterized by easy to learn and difficult to master, it is extremely difficult to create advanced life and death problems. The life-and-death books that can be bought on the market are basically not challenging for tasteful chess players, and it is only a matter of time to find the correct solution, and chess players have to do it every day out of the need to maintain the sense of chess and the speed of calculation, and play chess to the level of Tan Xiaotian. It is difficult to arouse their interest in ordinary life-and-death problems, and they hope to find more difficult life-and-death problems to hone their computing skills, but due to the school's inheritance. The really difficult question of life and death is basically collected by the major families, the sect, the so-called broom self-cherishing, each sect family is regarded as the highest secret within the sect and strictly confidential, not to mention the outside world, even the disciples in the sect are only qualified to study under the supervision of the elders in the sect only when they reach a certain level, and occasionally there are external legends, even if it is one or two, it will become a shocking event within the chess world, attracting the strict investigation of that sect. With Tan Xiaotian's experience in doing more than 10,000 life-and-death questions in the past three years, he can be sure that the difficulty of the question he just did will not be lower than the average level of the secret collections of the various major families, and this is just a question that he casually turned over in the "Secret Score of the Orchid", think about it, with the thickness of this book, there are at least two or three hundred similar life-and-death questions in it, and the difficulty of those global life-and-death questions is probably several times more than this question. Thinking of this, Tan Xiaotian was so excited that he almost went crazy.

Such a thick book of life and death questions can not be done in a day, put down the "Secret Spectrum of the Lan", Tan Xiaotian picked up "One Heart Collection", just flipped through it to see, but the flame in the oil lamp suddenly jumped and then went out, but it turned out that the residual lamp ran out, and the light was reflected, and the room immediately fell into darkness.

"It's really unlucky, why don't you run out of oil in the morning, don't run out of oil in the evening, but there is no oil at this time." Tan Xiaotian was annoyed in his heart, but he didn't have any way at all, and he didn't know where to put the lamp oil, how to find it. In desperation, he could only lie down on the bed in the dark, and as for the two books, he held them tightly in his arms, saying nothing and refusing to leave his side for half a step.

Although it is three poles in the sun, the sun is shining, but there is no usual busy scene in the workshop, there is no buzz when sawing wood, there is no clanging sound when hammering steel nails, although the air is still filled with the smell of wood as before, but there are no sawdust flying, shavings rolling.

No one is in the mood to work, from top to bottom, from master to apprentice, everyone is in a heavy mood, they don't want to talk, they don't want to do things, they sigh one by one, their faces are sad, breakfast is on the table but they hardly move, no one has the appetite to eat, it seems that a stone is pressed on their chest, and they feel uncomfortable panting.

"Qiu Ju, let's eat a little, people are iron, rice is steel, you are not alone now, you have to think about the child in your belly." Lin Lao Wu didn't have an appetite for himself, but he still persuaded Qiu Ju.

"I can't eat it." Shaking her head, Qiu Ju sighed.

Although Liu Wenxiong has promised to do his best to help, and the ransom is ready, but Tan Xiaotian's current situation is that no one knows that an eight-year-old child is in the tiger's den and wolf's den, surrounded by ruthless and murderous bandits and robbers, even if he already plans to pay money to ransom people, who can guarantee that those robbers will keep their promises and send Tan Xiaotian back safely?

"Alas, then drink a mouthful of porridge, every day is auspicious, there will be no problem, I heard that the winged tiger is a very righteous robber, since he said that he will pay the money and release him after three days, he should not regret it." Lin Lao Wu can only be so comforted. (To be continued......)