(Foreword)

The chessboard has been opened, the pieces have been set up, and the game has begun.

(Text)

September 20, 2021 at 20:30 p.m.

Everyone looked at my face with surprised eyes, and Cui Li slowly walked up to me and asked me word by word, "You said earlier that we can leave here?" ”

"Yes, I know how to get into these rooms." I smiled slightly, my eyes full of confidence.

"You see this statue says that it has been established for thousands of years, and I hope that it will be in spring and autumn for a few years." I walked over to the previous statue and read the words on it.

"That's right, didn't we just solve this anagram?" Xia Cheng approached the statue and carefully looked at the handwriting on it.

"Look at the words carved on this statue." I walked over to another statue.

"People are in the court, a man of a lifetime? What does that mean? Cui Li asked, standing in front of the statue.

"Quite simply, it's also an anagram." I walked up to Cui Li's side: "If I'm guessing correctly, there's an anagram carved into every statue here."

Li Ruina ran to a statue farther away: "It seems that you are right, there is a word here." ”

The statues in the garden seem to be arranged irregularly, as if scattered in the garden, and we tend to ignore the things that are right in front of us.

"What the hell is going on? What kind of anagram is a person who is a man of the first generation? Zhao Yuyu looked at the statue in the garden suspiciously.

"People are in the court, and the answer of a person is 'Shi'." I looked into everyone's confused eyes. "So where we're not a garden in a sense."

"Not a garden? So what's here? Anagram palace? Lin Yun seems to have grown tired of my boring speculation.

I didn't care about Lin Yun's disdainful tone: "Listen to me, this is not just a simple garden, but a chess game of --------------------."

"Huh! Huh!" Before I finished speaking, Lin Yun couldn't help but laugh. "Your speculation is so wonderful, you just rely on these anagrams, and say that this is a chess game, and there is no doubt that your imagination is really different."

"Yes, just these few words are not enough to explain what kind of chess game this is." Zhao Xiaoyu also didn't believe what I said.

"Although the anagram on the statue is 'phase' and 'shi', this alone should not be enough for anything." Xia Cheng euphemistically expressed his opinion.

I wasn't surprised by everyone's skepticism, but it wasn't convincing to rely on two anagrams. I looked around the garden: "If you look at the layout of the whole garden, and the lines of the stones on the ground, isn't it a chessboard connected together?" ”

"It's just a coincidence, right? Since you said that the arrangement of this garden is arranged according to the chessboard of chess, then the simplest question, where is the Chu River Han Realm? Lin Yun's tone sounded irrefutable.

"The Chu River Han Realm has always been here." I looked at the fountain that divided the garden into two parts.

"I didn't expect this garden to be so cleverly designed." Cui Li couldn't help but praise.

"But what does this have to do with how we get into the house?" Li Ruina carefully studied the statues in the garden.

"Since it's a chess game. So as long as we win, it should be fine, right?" Cui Li said the key point this time. Indeed, I think so, too.

"Which of you can play chess, I'm still proficient in Go, but my level in chess is very average." Li Ruina looked at everyone. But no one answered her question. Is it true that none of us can play chess? How I wish I could have my head hurt and see a chess board or a game or something, but the reality is not what I thought it would be.

"Maybe I can try..."Zhao Yuyu stood in front of us: "I learned it when I was young, but now I haven't played it for a long time."

Hope is better than nothing, we split up and wrote down the location of each statue and the anagram on it, first of all, we had to guess all the anagrams on the statue. This move was much easier than we thought, since we already knew that anagrams were chess pieces, so the range was much smaller, and with Xia Cheng's talent for guessing charades, it didn't take long for us to label all the statues in the garden with their own names. Handsome, officer, minister, car, horse, artillery, soldier. We looked at the chess game drawn by Li Ruina and studied it.

"I have a question, are we using the chess pieces over there?" Zhao Yuyu's question instantly knocked everyone down.

"This way." I pointed to the left side of the board, "Didn't you notice?" There were only benches on one side of the garden, and there was not even a stone bench on the other side. I think we should be using this side of the pawn. ”

"So how do we play chess? Moving the statue yourself? Cui Li frowned.

"No, what is the most used by AEF?" I just wanted to answer this question myself, but Li Ruina said it first. "AEF probably uses the most voice-activated devices!" Of course, among all the people present, the one who knows AEF the most is of course the chief engineer Li Ruina.

"Zhao Miyu, what do you think of this game of chess?" Xia Cheng looked at the chess game on the paper, and seemed to understand a little bit about chess.

"It's hard to say, although this chess doesn't seem to be difficult to play, but there are chess in chess, and I'm not very sure." The expression on Zhao Yuyu's face was serious.

"Don't think about it, if you lose, it's a big deal to start over." Cui Li looked impatient, and he felt like he couldn't wait to go down by himself.

"Do it all over again! Are you sure you can do it all over again? Lin Yun's words reminded us that if we lose, we can do it again. If not, then we won't be able to find a way out? Zhao Yuyu's pressure became heavier and heavier, and sweat slipped down her forehead.

"We believe in you!" I put the paper on which the game was drawn into her hand. "Let's get started!"

Zhao Yuyu took the chess game and looked at it for a while: "Let's start!" Rook five into two. ”

Suddenly, a statue in the garden began to move on its own.

"It's incredible, isn't it?" Cui Li exclaimed in surprise.

"Quiet! Zhao Haoyu needs absolute silence now! Xia Cheng patted Cui Li's shoulder.

As soon as the statue stopped moving, the statue on the other side of the fountain began to move.

September 20, 2021 at 21:02 p.m.

All the statues stopped moving, and Zhao Yuyu stood in the garden without speaking, tears flowing from the corners of her eyes. We lost. Just as we were disappointed, all of a sudden all the statues moved. It didn't take long to return to its original position.

"Great! I said you can do it again if you lose! A smug smile appeared on Cui Li's face. But soon the smile on his face disappeared. We noticed that the wait of a shop in the lounge area suddenly closed.

"How so?" Cui Li ran to the door of the store.

"Looks like we're thinking it's simpler." I looked at the garden as it was restored.