Not to mention breaking the game, I feel a pain in my brain just by seeing the black and white pieces on the chessboard - with my dispensable chess strength, I can't see what kind of routine the black and white players are doing!

Seeing that I hadn't stepped forward for a long time, the old man waved at me again, signaling me not to waste time.

I sighed helplessly in my heart, then walked over to the chessboard and took the white piece from the old man's hand.

I finally got here, and I had no other choice but to be helpless, while carefully counting the pieces on the chessboard, and at the same time calculating the probability of success in my heart.

If I want to solve this half of the endgame, it is not impossible to win.

There are a total of 361 forks on the chessboard, and now there are 100 whites and 100 blacks, and there are 120 forks that can be played in addition to a few "forbidden points".

In other words, the probability of me succeeding in breaking the game is 1 in 120.

Well, it's true that there is no win rate at all, but the win rate is only so small.

No, the probability is too low, and I definitely won't have such good luck.

Thinking of this, I took my eyes off the chessboard and silently stared at the spiral ladder on the opposite side of the chessboard, thinking about whether to break in.

At this time, the old man asked me, "What are you thinking?" ”

I smiled and didn't respond, but Li Huaishan said, "The number of chess pieces doesn't seem right." Although, I haven't played Go before, but I also know that it is the first to hold the sunspot, but now the number of black and white pieces on the board is the same, why is the next step to fall white, it should be a black piece, right? ”

The old man said: "The stargazing bureau was handed down from the Tang Dynasty, and in that era, it was usually the white son who took the lead. ”

I just listened to the conversation between the two of them casually, and I didn't mean to interject, and when the old man finished speaking, I made a decision in my heart, so I raised my hand, intending to put Bai Zi on a fork that looked more pleasing to the eye.

But before I could drop the chess pieces, the old man suddenly said, "Have you really thought about it?" ”

I stopped what I was doing and said helplessly: "Anyway, I can't solve this game, try your luck." ”

"What do you know if you haven't tried?" The old man said: "Throughout the ages, there have been many dead games that seem to be unsolvable, but they have been solved by people who are not good at chess. If you look closely at the chessboard, you might be able to see some of the doorways. ”

I hesitated a little, but finally put the pieces back.

Li Huaishan also walked up to me and looked at the chessboard.

My chess strength is limited, no matter how you look at it, I can't see any way, before the old man said, "The sunspot is already waiting to be killed, and the white son seems to be dead." But I don't understand why he said that.

Unexpectedly, Li Huaishan, who didn't know Go at all, saw the key to this chess game: "If you are not, do you think that there seem to be two Chinese characters on the chessboard?" ”

I frowned: "What word?" ”

Li Huaishan shook his head: "I can't tell for a while, it seems to be a loyal ...... Or the word "chic". Don't get so close to the board, stay a little farther away. Too close to see it. ”

Hearing him say this, I immediately took two steps back, squinted my eyes and looked at the chessboard, and sure enough, I found that the black and white were arranged into two words.

It's just that it's not a man, but the words "up" and "down" in the ghost text, and the shape of these two characters is indeed a bit like the "loyalty" and "恙" in Chinese characters.

The white is "up" and the black is "down", but neither of these words is fully formed.

A hundred whites, there are still two points left to put out a complete "Shang" character.

A hundred sunspots, just a little closer, can present a complete glyph.

The last two points of the word "Shang" are in the lower left corner of the board and the center of the board, while the last point missing from the word "Xia" is also in the center of the board.

Thinking of this, I immediately made a move and placed the white piece in the center of the chessboard.

If the chess falls to Tianyuan, if the white son wants to form a complete "Shang" character, he needs to add another son, but the black son can no longer form a complete glyph.

No one knows if it is a coincidence that Hei Baizi put out the ghost text, and no one can be sure if I can solve this chess game if I put Bai Zi in the Tianyuan position.

But I didn't have any other choice.

If it does, we can go up to the third floor, and if not, let's go hard.

After I left the white child, Li Huaishan kept staring at the old man beside me, I didn't look at him, I still stared at the chessboard, but my hand had reached into my pocket and touched the Netherworld Treasure.

The old man didn't speak, and Li Huaishan and I didn't speak, and there was a deep silence around them, as if even the air was about to freeze.

After a long time, the old man suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "No, someone can really solve this stargazing game." ”

Hearing him say this, Li Huaishan and I exhaled a long breath at the same time.

The old man walked up to the chessboard, retrieved the white piece I had just put down, and said to us, "Wait a moment, and I'll open the door." ”

Open the door? What door to open? Where is there a door in this place?

Just when I was wondering, the old man had already reached the top of the staircase, and I saw him put his arm lightly on the handrail of the staircase, and rubbed the surface of the handrail twice with his cuffs, and then I noticed that the color of the spiral staircase began to fade slowly, and finally faded from wood to a blue-gray like stone.

The old man was still rubbing his sleeve against the handrail of the stairs and said to us, "I'll have to wait a while, don't be impatient." ”

As he spoke, the color of the staircase changed a few more times.

I knew there must have been an arrangement on the stairs, but I couldn't see what it was, and I didn't break through it just now, otherwise I don't know what would have happened now.

There was nothing to do, so Li Huaishan started chatting and asked me on the side: "Hey, how did you solve that game?" At that time, I saw that you put the chess pieces in the middle of the chessboard, and I thought you were planning to blind them. ”

I said, "I am blind." ”

After speaking, I asked the old man again: "The person who played this half of the endgame is also a bad guy, right?" ”

The old man's mouth let out that mocking laugh again: "Hehe, yincha? Of course not. That man is a very powerful warlock, all his life has a preference for chess, it is said that this half of the endgame, he inadvertently put it out when he was playing himself, but unfortunately he just put this game out, but he didn't know how to break it. ”

Was it just unintentionally?

I have seen a small number of records related to ghost texts in the classics of the old family, and the classics say that ghost texts are a manifestation of the general trend of heaven and earth, and people who can understand ghost texts are either "yin fate is due", or, they are able to penetrate the heavens.

Don't ask me what the words "yin fate belongs" mean, I can't explain it.

The person who put up the stargazing game at the beginning didn't seem to recognize the ghost text, but he inadvertently put the words "up" and "down" in the ghost text on the chessboard, does it also mean that his chess power has reached a high level that is enough to break through the sky.

Li Huaishan asked with a lot of mouth: "What does self-play mean?" ”

"It's just playing chess with yourself." I first responded to Li Huaishan like this, and then asked the old man: "Do you also recognize ghost texts?" ”

Old man: "What is the ghost text?" ”

I said, "Isn't there a neon sign on the roof of this building that says the word 'food', and that word is a ghost script." ”

"Ah, it turns out that kind of writing is called ghost text," the old man's tone carried a hint of abruptness: "I really don't recognize that word, on Shiling Street, only Tiger Master and Granny Dui recognize it." ”

As soon as the words landed on this side, on the other side, the stairs returned to their original wooden color, and the old man didn't say anything more, and stepped up directly.

The third floor is still the same layout, except for the spiral staircase and the ink paintings on the east wall, there is nothing.

I'm a little skeptical about what this building is for.

The only difference from the first two layers is that the ink paintings on the east wall have become a little clearer, and now you can see the outlines of the mountains and rocks on the picture, as well as the ancient pines and the river below the mountain, but there is a very abrupt blank space on the pine branch on the left, where it seems that something was once painted, but someone has erased it.

The old man walked around the east wall, as if he was carefully observing the painting on the wall, and after a while, he stepped back and said to me and Li Huaishan, "Master Tiger is upstairs, you can dress up a little and go up to see him." ”

Li Huaishan was already a little impatient, turned around and walked towards the stairs, and I grabbed him: "Wait first." ”

Li Huaishan looked at me puzzled: "What are you waiting for, didn't everyone say to let you go upstairs?" ”

I turned my head to the old man and said, "You said before that if you want to see the tiger master, you must first pass five levels, but now you have passed three levels, and there are still two levels left." ”

"Hehe, you're holding your breath." The old man said as he walked to the top of the stairs.

He raised his hand and pointed to the stairs, saying, "Try it, can you go up?" ”

Li Huaishan didn't talk nonsense, he immediately rushed over, at first he walked very fast, but when he was about to step up the stairs, he seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall of qi, obviously raised his leg, but this leg couldn't fall down no matter what.

I grabbed Li Huaishan's clothes, pulled him back, and then asked the old man, "What do you want us to do this time?" ”

The old man did not speak, but silently walked up the stairs, and after stepping up nine steps in succession, he stopped, put a copper lock at his feet, and threw a copper-yellow thing at me.

I reached out to catch something flying in front of me, and when I opened my palm, I saw that it was a key.

I heard the old man say, "There is a hidden door on the stairs, and that door only blocks the living, not the dead, and this is the door lock." ”

As he spoke, he deliberately stepped on the copper lock on the stairs with his foot.

I put the key in my pocket first, and then quickly spread the yang line, and with a flick of my wrist, the gossip money sped out and stuck precisely on the lock nose of the copper lock.

According to my original plan, I first used a yang wire to pull the copper lock over, and then directly used the key to open the lock.

But I didn't expect the lock to be embedded in the stairs, and I slammed the yang line a few times and it didn't move.

(End of chapter)