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 gorgeous clothes are covered with dust, and then, like flowers turning into spring mud, 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.

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, I don't know who sorted it out, it's very effective, 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 was very similar to the black and white impermanence of the ghost gate, but it was much more coherent, and he reached out and pressed it 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. Cannon two flat three, this sentence as the name suggests, that is, cannon, from two lines to three lines.

I see.

I stood behind the black-haired middle-aged man, in the same direction as her, the horse was arranged in three rows horizontally on the black chessboard, from bottom to top and from left to right, the chess pieces were the chariot and the horse elephant soldier, the soldier and the horse carriage, two cannons lined up on the horse, and the five pawns were aimed at the chariot elephant general.

In other words, the whole chessboard layout in my eyes is exactly -

Black:

Chariots, horses, elephants, soldiers, and carriages

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— Cannon ————— Cannon —

Pawn-Pawn-Pawn-Pawn-Pawn

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——Chu River Han Boundary———

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Red side:

Pawn-Soldier-Soldier-Soldier-Soldier

— Cannon ————— Cannon —

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Carriage and horses

Thinking about the immortal guidance that Ma Chengcheng said at the beginning, I looked at the chess path played by the middle-aged puppet, maybe this term means that the red soldier takes a step forward, this soldier is not in the middle, from my point of view, it is the second soldier on my left.

The middle-aged puppet moves again.

Ma Chengcheng looked at his steps and said, "Cannon two equals five." ”

This move is the cannon on my right hand, and the cannon moves to the middle of the pawn. I looked at the chess game and silently marked the so-called numerical direction of Ma Chengcheng, two draws and five in my heart-

Black:

9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Chariots, horses, elephants, soldiers, and carriages

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— Cannon ————— Cannon —

Pawn-Pawn-Pawn-Pawn-Pawn

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——Chu River Han Boundary———

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Red side:

Pawn-Soldier-Soldier-Soldier-Soldier

— Cannon ————— Cannon —

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Carriage and horses

Ninety-eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two-one

I see!

I suddenly understood that Ma Chengcheng was the so-called cannon two flat five!

Ma Chengcheng dropped another chess, "Fly seven road elephants." ”

Her elephant fell in front of the general.

I exhaled, "Ma Chengcheng, I understand this, you don't need to explain." ”

Ma Chengcheng nodded.

The ground under the steps is not very close to this stone table, and the entire stone platform rises about ten meters, even if the audience roars at this moment, I still don't look at the stage, only concentrate on the chess game in front of me.

The black-haired puppet horse is eight into nine.

Ma Chengcheng pondered for a while, and also got out of the horse, and Ma 2 into 1.

The black-haired puppet then comes out of another horse, and the horse is two into three.

The horse presented the car, the car 1 flat 2, moved to the original part of the horse.

The black-haired puppet's cannon moved, and it attacked directly.

"Cannon five into four." After Ma Chengcheng finished speaking, her expression was a little serious, and her pawn was removed, like a gun carriage, and the cannon was pointed straight at the general.

Checkmate.

I was a little panicked, but I wasn't in a hurry, Ma Chengcheng would definitely notice this step, and sure enough, she raised the priest and took a step forward, "Supplement." ”

The black-haired doll car is flat.

It's out of the car.