Except for the place where I was lying, the ground elsewhere sank violently.

I was vaguely aware that I was in trouble again, and I didn't dare to squeak when I stared at the reliefs above my head.

Looking at the relief, I suddenly realized that it was not the whole ground that had sunk, but - one place had risen! I happened to be on this side of the rising ground.

Ma Chengcheng ran to my side, she gasped, and her tone was rarely panicked, "It's over......"

I got up with a spirit, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Ma Chengcheng shook his head, "I...... I ......"

A staircase bulged out in front of us, stretching into the distance.

I poked my head out to look at the scene below the steps, and I was immediately shocked.

As a native of Shaanxi, I am well aware that Xi'an has a peerless and civilized tourist attraction - the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang. Although I have not seen it with my own eyes, in various documentaries, this kind of shocking figurines make me remember it vividly, and in this underground space of Dazhai, although I have seen the exquisite figurine-making technology in the first terracotta torture map, it is just ...... I never thought I would see something so impressive.

There were not many chariots and horses directly below, but they were arranged in an orderly manner, the sergeants were swords and armored, the chariots were hideous, the horses were fat, and the cannons were not artillery, but the kind of cannons like trebuchets, and I was terrified to see it. These things are arranged in an orderly manner, and this arrangement seems to contain some kind of special order.

Ma Chengcheng dragged me, his tone a little desperate, "The road here has changed, we can't go down according to that insurance method, it seems that ...... You can only go to the end of the stairs and see what's there......"

I looked at the fully armed soldiers below, and I always felt that this formation was somewhat familiar.

Ma Chengcheng and I were side by side, she seemed to know what I was thinking, pointed to the bottom and said to me, "You don't have to guess, do you know chess?" Does the Chu River Han Realm know? This is a huge chessboard, the parchment scroll I found says that if this chessboard is not triggered, we can walk out along the Chu River and Han realm, and once it is triggered, we can only leave if we win the chess game, otherwise...... Those organs...... Do you know what this game is called? On the parchment scroll, it is written that it is called the life and death bureau, and a game determines life and death. ”

It was like a slap in the face for me.

My mind was buzzing, and while I was annoyed, I recalled the conversation between me and Ma Chengcheng before entering Dazhai to explore:

"Do you think the stars are big?"

"Right...... It's really big......"

"Like what?"

"Like ...... Like a chess piece, the sky is a chessboard, and the stars are the chess pieces, who can play this game of chess in the world? ”

Who would have thought that this would really be a prophecy?!

It's just that......

Who can play this game of human chess?

At the end of this staircase is a stone table, on which a game of chess is waiting.

There was a person sitting on a stone chair, naked with black hair, like a middle-aged man's face.

I wasn't scared, you must know that I have seen too many such things under this big village, from the black and white impermanence under the ghost gate at the beginning, to the torture of terracotta figurines later, and then to the middle-aged stone table now. It dawned on me that they all had one thing in common.

No clothes.

Perhaps, it is not that they have no clothes, but for a long time, the clothes are covered with dust, and then like flowers turning into spring mud, they gradually decay into dust and disappear forever in the long river of history.

What doesn't rot is pure white bone and soft hair.

Black and white.

No matter how beautiful and flawless the silk body is, it can't escape the ending of a handful of loess and two lines of tears.

Ma Chengcheng looked at the stone table and said: "The life and death game is a game of life and death, fortunately this is not Go, I can still ...... a little bit of chess."

I have mixed feelings in my heart, I don't know how to say it, in fact, Ma Chengcheng said that she knows a little, she is really modest, as early as the beginning, when Ma Chengcheng first learned chess, she directly defeated her father and grandfather, and then taught me.

How much more could she do?

However, even if she can play chess again, how can she win this life-and-death game?

The chess pieces on the stone table have long been in place, the black-haired middle-aged red side, and the horse Chengcheng can only be black.

She exhaled and sat down on Black's stone chair.

A shackle suddenly flipped out of the ground under the stone table, and a crunch clicked to lock Ma Chengcheng's feet. I was startled, squatted down and was about to get rid of the shackles, Ma Chengcheng grabbed me, "There's no need, we can't escape if you get away, I'll try, if I lose......" She was silent for a moment, and then took out all the things from her pocket, "You take these things, don't lose this parchment roll, it is a method that I don't know who sorted it out, it works, if I lose......"

She looked at me and said seriously, "Run." ”

"Remember, start running right away."

"Whether you can escape or not, you must start escaping."

I bit my lower lip, feeling nothing but guilt and pain. I'm really to blame for this, if I hadn't triggered this mechanism, how would we have been reduced to this point?

The black-haired middle-aged man suddenly raised his right hand stiffly, this action is very similar to the black and white impermanence of the ghost gate, but it is much more coherent, but unfortunately I don't have the spirit of study that Ma Chengcheng has, and I didn't think about what principle this made him move, only to see the black-haired puppet reach out and press on the red soldier.

Ma Chengcheng's eyes lit up, "Immortals show the way!" Ma Chenlong, you stand on the red side and watch our chess moves. ”

I stood up as I said, and didn't understand her fairy directions.

There was a loud bang under the path.

My chess level only stays at the introductory stage, I know that horses go day by day, elephants can not cross the river, cars and cannons run everywhere, artillery chess to build artillery mounts across the mountains to fight cattle, veterans do not go out of the nine squares, soldiers go obliquely, soldiers can only move forward. There are only a few rules, but winning a game depends on more than just understanding the rules.

Ma Chengcheng bent her index finger against her lips, she took a step to move the cannon to the pawn, and then whispered: "Cannon 2 flat 3 pawn bottom cannon." ”

I'm a little confused, but it's a pity that Ma Chengcheng is in a fierce battle, how can he explain it to me? I looked at the chessboard and pondered, and suddenly I understood what she meant, and I also understood her intentions, Ma Chengcheng wanted me to understand this game of chess. Gun 2 flat 3, as the name suggests, that is, the cannon is translated from 2 rows to 3 rows.

I see.

I stood behind the black-haired middle-aged man, the orientation was the same as it, the horse was in the form of a black chessboard placed horizontally divided into three rows, from bottom to top and from left to right, the chess pieces were the chariot and the horse elephant soldier, the soldier was like the carriage, the two cannons were lined up on the horse, and the five pawns were aimed at the rook elephant general. In other words, the whole chessboard layout in my eyes is exactly -