(Foreword)

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

(Text)

But at this time, the family outside the door suddenly ran into the house: "Report!! News came from the front yard that the bandits had entered the house!! ”

"What!! It's already in the palace!! Zhao Yan clenched the blade in his hand.

Our faces suddenly became solemn again.

"Zhao Yan, since the thieves have entered the mansion, it is only a matter of time before they find this place, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, we should leave here quickly." I said anxiously.

"Miss, what the young man said is very true, let's leave quickly." Zhao Yan obviously agrees with me.

"But..."Wang Ningshuang looked at Master Wang on the bed, "My father is inconvenient to travel now, and there is only one way out of the palace, where can we go?" ”

Zhao Yan had said before that there was only one road to the palace, but now if he wants to leave from this road, there is no one at all.

"Isn't there any other way to leave this big palace?" Cui Li looked a little incredulous.

"You don't know that although this palace is large, it is built on a mountain, and at the end of this palace is a mountain range, and the mountain range is steep, and it is impossible for us to pass through it." Zhao Yan frowned and said.

"So what to do, is there really no other way? Can we only resist here? Cui Li panicked a little.

"With the current situation, that's all it can be." Wang Ningshuang was full of sorrow.

But just relying on our current combat strength, if we want to block the attack of the bandits, it is simply a mantis arm to block the base, if we really want to say that there is no other way out in this palace, we can really only stop here...

"Cheng Yin, you should think of a way." Cui Li walked around in front of me anxiously.

"Cui Li, don't worry, if you say this, I can't even hit the attention to think about countermeasures." I looked at Cui Li in front of me and said.

"Okay, as long as you can think of a countermeasure, I won't move." Cui Li really stood in place.

I couldn't figure out how the design of this mansion was so exquisite, how could there be no other way to get out of here, and the people who designed it didn't take the current situation into account. But there is only one road in the whole house, and I am very puzzled to think about it.

"Zhao Yan, do you have topographic drawings of the mansion?" I asked Zhao Yan.

"There is a way, but now that the situation is critical, how can there be any time to study the terrain maps, it is better to prepare for battle earlier." Zhao Yan said as he took out a drawing from his arms.

I spread the drawings on the wooden table in the dark pavilion, and the drawings were clearly marked, from the gate of the palace to the residence of the king, and the places I had to pass through were drawn in detail on the drawings.

The 'Ningxiu Pavilion' where we rested, the 'Tianjing Pond' where we passed, and the 'Fankai Pavilion' where Wang Ningshuang lived were all clearly marked on them.

I looked at the mansion drawings on the table, and my eyes stopped at the open space behind the courtyard of the old man's house, why there was such a blank space on the drawings, and there was no mark on it.

"What is this place and why is it not marked?" I asked curiously.

"Originally, I wanted to build a courtyard behind the old man's house, but in the end, due to heavy rain for several days, it was never completed, and in the end, it was not completed." Zhao Yan looked at the old man on the bed.

"That's right, my father liked the design of the courtyard very much, but who knew that the heavy rain in the past few days has delayed the construction period again and again, and it has never been completed, and my father is still very angry about it. Because it is close to the mountains, and because of the heavy rain for several days, there are many boulders rolling down from the mountains in the courtyard, and the plan for the courtyard has been shelved, and the people of the palace usually do not move around, and the place is gradually deserted and no one cares. Wang Ningshuang looked at the drawings on the table and said slowly.

"That's a pity, but there are blueprints for this courtyard?" I had a glimmer of hope that maybe something would inspire me.

"When the mansion was completed, the design drawings of the courtyard were taken with the designer." Wang Ningshuang's expression was a little sad: "I have heard from the family who has seen the drawings in the mansion said that the courtyard is beautifully designed, and if it is built, it must be beautiful." ”

I looked at the drawing in front of me, and now all my hope was on this drawing. Above the open space is the residence of the old man, the 'Heavenly Residence'. There is some ink in the way, but it is very light. It seems that the pen was deliberately stopped here. But why?

"Why does this place seem to be marked, but the traces of the brush and ink are very faint and faint, so that people can't see clearly." I said, pointing to the drawings.

"Here, the young man doesn't know anything. This was originally the 'Xuanjing Terrace', between the master's residence 'Tianshengju' and the unbuilt courtyard. However, because the courtyard was not completed, the 'Xuanjing Terrace' was later moved to the front of the lord's residence. That's it. Zhao Yan pointed to the location on the drawing and said.

Suddenly my head started to hurt, and the more I thought about it, the more my headache became.

"Focus, kid, don't be distracted while playing chess!"

The voice was repeated again and again in my head.

When I opened my eyes, it was the same table-style chessboard again.

By the bright light, I saw a middle-aged man sitting across from me, with a serious expression that didn't seem to smile, wearing a striped shirt and a mechanical watch in his right hand. It's so familiar and so strange.

"Kid, what are you thinking, remember that all you have in mind is the game right now." The man's voice was deep and powerful.

I looked at the game in front of me, and I had just watched them put down pieces on the board, but I had never really looked at their game.

I saw the middle-aged man holding the chess pieces in his hand, and just when he wanted to put the chess pieces behind the sunspot on the chessboard, he suddenly stopped moving, and after a period of careful consideration, he put the chess pieces in front of the sunspot. Suddenly, the whole game of Go was completely opened.

I didn't expect that just a simple position could turn the tide of the whole game, and I felt like my movements had slowed down. I pinched the pieces I picked up in my hands.

Suddenly, I landed the chess piece in the position where the middle-aged man wanted to land before, that is, behind the sunspot.

I looked at everything in front of me. Suddenly I woke up from a dream, and now I am holding the chess piece that is about to fall in my hand, so it turns out that this is the case!!

My mind suddenly turned, and the chessboard in front of me changed back to its original wooden table, on which were still the blueprints of the mansion. At this point, I already had the answer in my mind.