(Foreword)

Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

(Text)

"What the hell is it? What is it exactly? Zhao Yuyu looked at the Jiugongge in front of him and kept asking himself.

"Do you say that it is the same as the layout of chess, if the 'handsome' chess is in the middle position, then there should be two 'shi' on both sides of it, and then the order of the first row of the nine-square grid from left to right should be 'rook', 'horse', 'elephant', on the contrary, the third row of the nine-square grid from left to right corresponds to 'elephant', 'horse', 'rook'." Xia Cheng said.

I presented the corresponding chess pieces in my mind according to Xia Cheng's instructions, and suddenly I understood what Xia Cheng meant. The order from left to right in the last row of the board is 'rook', 'horse', 'elephant', 'shi', 'shuai', 'shi', 'xiang', 'horse', and 'rook', but it is not arranged in three rows like the nine-square grid, but in a straight line. Therefore, the pendulum method that Xia Cheng said was to fold this original straight line into three sections and place it in the nine-square grid. If you try to convert the nine-square grid into a straight line using the spatial translation method, it will be exactly the same as the placement of chess.

"Xia Cheng, this is a solution, maybe it can be successful." After Professor Wu finished speaking, he rearranged the chess pieces on the chessboard according to Xia Cheng's method.

Just when we all thought we were done, the mechanism in front of us remained unmoving.

"It's still not right, how can I activate this mechanism?!" Cui Li almost roared.

Apparently I was right to have my previous doubts, and filling the board with pieces is not the way to activate this mechanism. If there is a certain order in the placement of the chess pieces, then this order will definitely be reflected in this strange array, and it is not our guess. Cui Li seemed to be looking for something among the scattered chess pieces, holding a found chess piece in his left hand, while his eyes kept searching among the scattered chess pieces. Suddenly, he shouted happily: "There really is!" ”

"Cui Li, what are you looking for? Do you already know how to activate this mechanism? Zhao Yuyu said mockingly, obviously she didn't believe that Cui Li had found a way.

Cui Li did not respond to Zhao Yuyu's taunt, but took down all the other chess pieces on the Jiugong grid except for the word "Shuai", he moved the "Shuai" chess piece to the last empty square of the second row, and then placed the left-handed chess piece on the empty space of the first square of the second row.

I looked at the chess piece that Cui Li put down in his left hand, and the word "I" was engraved on it, and then he put the chess piece he had just found in his right hand in the middle of the two chess pieces on the Jiugong grid. I almost didn't laugh out loud when I looked at Jiugongge, the chess piece that Cui Li put down in the middle was engraved with the word "very", and it was connected from left to right to 'I', 'very', and 'handsome'.

I looked at Cui Li speechlessly and said, "The strange array designed by Mr. Ouyang Yu is not for you to be funny......

Cui Li himself laughed: "Didn't you just say that all methods can be tested, I just want to see if this method is correct." What if Mr. Ouyang just wanted to play a joke with us? Cui Li Zhenzhen had words, and I could only cast a speechless look at him.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, we simply do not know which chess pieces are correctly placed on the nine-square grid, and what is the order in which they are placed. Everything is like an endless puzzle, we are wandering in a huge labyrinth, there are no shortcuts, no hints, and none of us knows where the exit of the maze is.

Cui Li took down the chess pieces on the chessboard and said, "Why do you think this old Mr. Ouyang Yu set up such a puzzle?" Don't give us a hint either? It's a pity that decryption requires wisdom, not handsomeness. If handsome can solve the puzzle, then I must be invincible. Cui Li muttered to himself on the side.

At this time, I was not in the mood to joke with Cui Li, although I knew that he was not joking with us on purpose, but wanted to help us reduce our nervousness.

However, the puzzle in front of us does put us in a dilemma, and this huge mechanism is crucial to our victory on the battlefield, but we don't have much time to obsess over the answer to this puzzle. But if I gave up this mechanism, I would undoubtedly lose an important weapon, and I was puzzled by such a dilemma. If you want to win the whole battle, the only way to leave this strange array is to activate the mechanism in front of you as much as possible.

Just as I was confused, suddenly the blacksmith walked past me and knocked my book of three generals to the ground.

Just as I was about to pick up the book of the Battle of the Three Generals, I saw the words that Mr. Ouyang Yu had said again:

Once upon a time, there was a general who led a large army to press in, passing through a city, and after a few days of fighting, the defenders of the city could no longer afford to continue to defend the city. In fact, he could have fled the city, but he didn't, and still led the remnants of his old army to stand on the tower. Its heroic spirit shocks the Quartet...

I looked at the text in front of me and suddenly had a headache, and I had a feeling that the text in front of me was inextricably linked to the mechanism we wanted to activate. I kept looking at this text over and over again, thinking about it over and over again, and suddenly I seemed to think of something.

Sure enough, this battle of the three generals is so important to us, and it is the core of all the puzzles.

I was on the ground and searching, looking for something.

"Cheng Yin, what are you looking for? Those eight chess pieces are still in my hand, are you looking for this? Cui Li spread out his hands and placed the eight chess pieces in front of me.

"No, not eight, it's four." I looked at Cui Li in front of me and said.

"Four? Isn't it eight? Cheng Yin, what the hell are you talking about? ”

"We were wrong, although the chessboard in front of us is a nine-square grid, it doesn't mean that we need to put all the blank squares on the chess pieces, the real answer Mr. Ouyang Yu has already told us."

"Cheng Yin, are you saying that Mr. Ouyang Yu has already told us the answer to this riddle? So what's the real answer? Why haven't we found out at all? Professor Wu asked blankly.

I kept looking for the chess pieces on the ground and said, "Professor Wu, you will know the answer soon." ”

After saying that, I picked up a chess piece from the ground, and the word "north" was engraved on it.

"Cheng Yin, is this chess piece engraved with the word 'north' the key to solving this puzzle? How I feel more and more confused. This is not a chess piece at all. Cui Li asked.

I smiled and replied, "Don't worry, the answer will be revealed soon." ”

(End of chapter)