Chapter 127: Underground Palace City

Xiao Shirong's subordinates all stood there and didn't dare to move because their boss didn't sit down. I sat down on the floor by myself, took two sips of water from my bag, and pretended to be careless, but I was actually thinking about what else was possible with this lock.

Xiao Shirong is really patient, he can really stand there motionless when he sees me like this.

Hey, it's up to whom, I put the water back in my bag, leaned against the wall and started closing my eyes.

Just when I was almost sleepy, for a moment, a glimmer of inspiration flashed through my mind, Ma Dao people said, this is providence?

"What time is it?" I asked Xiao Shirong, "No, what time is the month, what time is it?" I asked.

"What's wrong, does it matter?" He asked.

I didn't bother to say more to him, and pulled our "calendarist" to the heavenly lock: "You just follow today's input."

Although he was a little confused, he listened to my words and transferred them one by one.

"Cut, blind work. You can't ......," Xiao Shirong sarcastically said. But before he finished speaking, with a "Gada" sound, "Whew! "A gust of wind blew from behind us to the gate, and the sudden force of the wind almost knocked us against the iron wall, and his voice was cut off.

I subconsciously squatted directly on the ground, with my back to the wind, while protecting my eyes with my hands and raising my head with difficulty - I saw that the Tianshi lock had fallen to the ground, and the rusty door was actually opened by itself, this gust of wind should be formed by internal and external wind pressure, and my situation was not the most embarrassing, and the "calendarist" had already fallen to the ground to avoid the wind.

This time...... If you think about it carefully, it's not simple, it's completely inspired by me from zero hours, but it really opened this door, is it possible that the "time" of this lock changes with time? Or rather...... Is there really a definite number in the dark? And it was really broken by so many ginseng?

After waiting for more than ten seconds, the wind finally stopped. I stood up and patted the dust off my body and head. I glanced at Xiao Shirong, who didn't look at me, just looked in.

I also turned my head to look inside the big iron gate, at least ten meters away, all of them were still poured with iron, and further inside, there seemed to be some masonry structures.

"Why, don't you dare to go in?" I asked Xiao Shirong.

With a wave of his hand, he let his men go inside.

"Hey, I said, don't keep letting them take this risk, how can you be the boss." As I spoke, I pulled him inside.

Sure enough, he broke away from me, not willingly. I pretended to stay with him, but I actually secretly observed his men, and they entered the "iron hole" one by one, and none of them looked down at the sky and locked it, which surprised me a little. Such a large piece of gold, even if it is not a cultural relic, is valuable, not to mention that this is still a cultural relic of the Han Dynasty, so turning a blind eye is really not like the behavior of a tomb robber.

But I thought to myself, maybe there was another possibility—they knew there was something better in there, so they left the bag empty first.

Xiao Shirong and I followed them inward, and after a while, the cave, which was nearly ten meters high, suddenly "opened up" - the space became larger, and now it seems that the height is at least fifty meters, maybe a hundred meters is unknown, and the width is at least more than 100 meters on the left and right, because the natural cave appearance is easy for people to misjudge.

But in addition to the cave, there are already obvious traces of "development and utilization" here, someone has built a complex of buildings in this natural cave, and it should be huge - our vision is blocked by the tall wall in front of us, it is more than ten meters high, the length extends to the end of the cave, through it, there are buildings in it, like a royal palace. I had a hunch that this was where we were.

We walked along the palace wall for a long time and finally found a palace gate. Another door! I cried out in my heart.

We gathered at the gate of the palace and began to wonder how we could get in. The situation here is different from the outside, the door is no longer locked, and I can't push it open, I don't know if it's too heavy or there's a latch inside, either way, I'm really out of line.

Xiao Shirong kept looking forward, I didn't know what he was looking at, so I followed his example to look up. I saw that there were huge cylindrical door nails painted with gold on the palace door painted with red paint, and the lintel was synthesized with a mortise and tenon structure above the door, which was not spectacular.

"Let's go, climb up." Xiao Shirong said.

"What? I heard you right, can you climb so high? ”

"Yes, bile mouse." Saying that, Xiao Shirong actually took the lead this time and began to climb up. When some of his men saw this, they followed.

I'm not particularly afraid of heights, but I've never climbed such a high place with my bare hands, not to mention that the ones that can step on my hands and feet are sleek door nails, and if you are not careful, you will be crushed.

But seeing that Xiao Shirong's men followed obediently one by one, I would be left alone if I didn't leave. I gritted my teeth, forget it, let's go!

So, I followed his example, stepped on a doornail and kicked it up, and then leaned over and hugged the other one diagonally above, so that I could at least reach the doornail on my chest.

In this way, I climbed several meters high, even with my hugging and climbing, but I didn't want to look down at all, so I just followed the figure of the person above and continued to climb up.

Finally, Xiao Shirong was the first to climb to the top, but a bigger problem appeared. The lintel above the door frame is obliquely protruding downward, and the length must be two or three meters, which is not an angle that ordinary people can challenge even in rock climbing competitions, let alone those of us.

Xiao Shirong apparently noticed the problem as well, and he began to try to move sideways. Holding a doornail and swinging it from side to side on my head, I could see that my legs went limp. At last, he approached a corner of the palace wall, and fortunately the palace gate was higher than the wall, so that we could climb to the top of the palace wall.

Although I was very reluctant, I followed his example, and one by one I swung to the side of the palace wall and climbed up.

Only then did I see this place clearly—it took so much effort that there was only one palace building inside the palace walls, and although it was unusually tall, it seemed to be lonely. I can't help but wonder, could it be that the legendary divine soldier Tai'a Sword is really enshrined here?

I can't wait to go on. But there are no stairs or ladders, and there are no nails on the opposite side of the door. What can I do now?

Xiao Shirong's subordinates were already ready, and those awls before came in handy again, turning into piles and hitting the palace wall. Then, they set up the rope ladder and began to climb down.

It's so professional...... So said in my heart. The ladder was very stable, much easier than climbing the door nails, and it didn't take long for us to fall to the ground. With this thing, you don't have to work so hard to get out for a while.

There was nowhere else to go, so we plunged headlong into the imposing palace.

The moment we entered the door, the originally dark palace suddenly lit up with fire, which startled us. I subconsciously leaned down, but nothing seemed to happen. I looked around, and the fire was shining with a group of figurines of soldiers with torches, all life-size, surrounding the entire interior of the palace.

The area inside this palace should not be smaller than a theater garden, but as far as the eye can see, there is no coffin, no treasure, and no Tai'a sword, but a pile of stones.

Seeing that there was no other movement, we cautiously walked inside. When I got closer, I saw that the stones were not disorganized, but had been carefully polished into the shape of chess pieces, and they all fell on the joints of the square tiles.

Seemingly...... Is this a game of Go? Which one is this? Do you want us to play chess with him?

I also know a thing or two about the rules of Go, I scanned the surroundings, but I didn't find a chess jar. Without a chess jar, you can't add chess pieces, and you can't talk about chess.

I kicked a sunspot on the ground, and it was moving, and I kicked it out along the gap in the tiles, and it actually slipped to the next cross and stopped.

Immediately afterwards, there was movement next to me, and I turned my head to see that a white child actually moved on its own, and also moved along the grid on the ground.

This? In my impression, the only way to play chess without adding pieces and only taking turns is chess and military chess. But there are obviously only black and white pieces here, and the surrounding soldier figurines are all untouched, so the mystery can only be in the chess itself.

I started to wonder what a new way to play. First of all, we take turns on the roton, and if I move it, it will move too; Second, the son is divided into black and white, so there should be a winner and a loser, but how should it win? Do you want to use the chess pieces of one side to "eat up" the opposite side? What are the rules for eating?

I asked Xiao Shirong: "You are well-informed, do you know how to play this?"

He shook his head, "I don't know."

I asked his men again, "Can any of you see it, don't hide it if you know it, I know that you are not small."

There was silence below, and I was like a teacher asking questions to my students in class.

Alas, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, and I don't know how many times I have had this idea since I came in.

I looked at the chess pieces and fell into deep thought. Observe this game carefully, it is not like a game of Go, nor is it like a game of backgammon, otherwise the skills of the two people playing chess will not be able to take it seriously.

But I couldn't think of anything other than that, so my mind started to wander around the world.