One intersection after another kept appearing in front of us, I didn't close my eyes as Jiang Yuan said, but followed him with empty eyes, I calculated in my heart that there would be an intersection every twenty-six steps, whether we turned left or right, it was twenty-six steps.

Jiang Yuan took us left and right, I don't know how many turns, but appeared in front of us still gray, I held up the flashlight and shook it, shouting: "Wait, are we lost." ”

Jiang Yuan didn't stop, he just slowed down, his eyes looked around very vigilantly, and when he heard me speak, he said quite casually: "So what? ”

I saw his expression of not taking me seriously at all, and my heart was inexplicably angry, so I rushed to him in one step, shone a flashlight on his face, and said, "You kid is enough, and your temper is almost the same, you are talking to me like this, beware of me beating you." ”

Jiang Yuan looked at me in surprise, blinking his eyes, as if he was looking at a neuropathy, "You beat me?" Are you sure you can beat me? ”

I was speechless for a while, and Qianjue on the side looked at me with a smile, I ignored him, walked to Qianjue's side, and whispered: "I feel that this place is like a chessboard." ”

Qian Jue suddenly put away the smile on his face, he looked at Jiang Yuan, and what I just said was actually heard by Jiang Yuan, he was also looking at us at the moment, the serious expressions of these two people gave me a hint, I looked at them and said, "What's wrong?" Am I saying something wrong? ”

Jiang Yuan looked at Qianjue, as if he was conveying some kind of information, Qianjue immediately took out paper and pen from his backpack, and I looked at the rice paper and brush spread on the ground. and other pen, ink, paper, inkstone, a black line in my heart. The heart said that the next bucket with the four treasures of the study, the professional and non-professional gold school captains in this world combined. He's the only one.

Qian Jue drew a chessboard on the paper, and Jiang Yuan dotted two black dots on the chessboard, and after drawing, he looked at the simple chessboard intently, and said: "I never understood the layout of this labyrinth, and I once thought that this was an illusion caused by the illusion of the entrance, thanks to your words that reminded me." ”

I laughed, "I don't know." ”

Jiang Yuan lifted the piece of rice paper and pressed it against the wall, then fixed it with duct tape. Standing away for a while, he looked at it intently for a while, and said: "This is a maze with a chessboard pattern, once you break in, it is equivalent to activating the ghost illusion, just like the ecstasy array in the ancient I Ching gossip is the same reason, no matter how the people or animals trapped in it go, they see the same scene, and after a long time, they will have a mental breakdown, and then die or commit suicide." ”

"So to speak. Are we the ones who are trapped in this chessboard? ”

Jiang Yuan nodded at me, "Suffice it to say, what we need to do now is to find the entrance or exit of the chessboard as soon as possible." ”

Qian Jue had been holding her chin and looking at the rice paper since just now, and after hearing the conversation between me and Jiang Yuan, she suddenly took a brush and clicked a few points on the chessboard. Then he looked at me and said, "Boss, do you look familiar?" ”

I took a closer look with a miner's lamp and said I had seen this pattern somewhere. I didn't remember where I was standing for a long time, but finally Qianjue reminded me. It dawned on me that this "chessboard" that had been processed by him and Jiang Yuan had been seen under the bridge where I picked up Qianjue.

I looked at the chessboard. My mind went back to that afternoon four years ago.

I still remember that it was a rainy day, when I had just rented a store in Panjiayuan, and on the surface I sold some inconspicuous antiques and vases, which were not precious, so most of the customers who came to my store were some outsiders, and the things they bought were hundreds or thousands of yuan, and the profit was very low, and I couldn't even pay the utility bills after a few months.

By chance, I received a vase from a person, and the vase was bought for 300,000 yuan in less than half an hour after it arrived in my store.

That night, Li Laosi came to me, at that time I just went to Panjiayuan to kill Li Si's name, but rarely saw him himself, when I knew that the middle-aged fat man standing in front of me was Li Laosi, I was shocked.

Li Laosi looked at my shop, shook his head and smiled, and said: "You don't even have any items in this store, and you still want to make money. ”

I said in my heart, you old fox, this shop is a friend of my father before his death looked at the friendship in previous years to find me, although the rent is a little expensive, but the feng shui location is really good, how many staring at it have not been able to win, but I am not good at management, and I can't hold it anymore.

Li Laosi glanced at me, took down a jade Ruyi from the Duobao Pavilion, and said: "The beautiful jade of Dushan is of the highest quality, but this carving is too poor, and a good jade material has been wasted in vain." ”

I looked at the jade Ruyi, and it was indeed as he said, this carver didn't even look down on me, and I would have come into it because of the cheap price.

Li Laosi saw that I was embarrassed, so he didn't say much, just let me think about it, but before he left, he still introduced me to a customer, saying that this person had something to sell, but this thing couldn't see the light, so he asked someone to drag it to him, but he was a big dealer, and such a small object and the origin is unknown, so he transferred it to me, and asked me if I dared to take it.

I also had no money at that time, and when I thought that the commission could pay three months' rent, I threw everything to the back of my head at once, and I agreed on the spot.

According to Li Laosi, the thing in this person's hand is a set of rubbings, and it stands to reason that rubbings are not cultural relics, nor are they priceless genuine products, can they be so mysterious?

At that time, I didn't understand, but the next morning, a guy from Li Laosi's store came to the legend that at one o'clock in the afternoon, he connected at a station near Starfish Garden, and after getting something, he could put it in the store, and someone would come to pick it up, and the transaction price was three million, and I would take 10% of the commission.

That afternoon, I arrived at the agreed place at the agreed time, and I also successfully met the connector, got something and put it in my backpack and then walked along the river outside the community, I could have taken a taxi, but I just caught up with the rush hour, stood for half an hour and did not have an empty car, I waited very impatiently, and began to take a taxi while walking, but I didn't expect to walk to a bridge.

Due to the severe drop in the water level, a large dry riverbed has formed under the bridge, and from a distance, colorful simple shacks are set up under the bridge hole, which are temporary tents set up by some people who have no place to live here, and I don't know what happened at the time, so inexplicably walking down the stairs. (To be continued.) )