Chapter 30 Nine Palaces Chess Game

The ancient stone man is alive!

It was hard for me to believe what I was seeing, but the stone soldier had already walked up to me and slashed at my head with a slash.

I was so frightened that I retreated, dodging the knife dangerously.

Just as I pulled out my posture and prepared for the next attack of the stone man, the ancient stone man who came to life fell back to its original position step by step, and then did not move. It's as if everything just now was just a real illusion.

It's weird!

I feel like my IQ is clearly inadequate. I can only ask for help and look at the two beauties from the ancient Tang Dynasty around me.

Yuan Meng pondered for a moment, silently counted the number of stone figures in his heart, and seemed to understand something. I hurriedly stopped her, but she waved her hand at me, indicating that she knew what she knew.

I watched with trepidation as she approached the man with the sword, crouched down, and gently swept away the dust from the ground, revealing a quaint pattern on the rocky floor, stretching in stripes, as if it were a dividing line.

"Sister, are these stone figures ......" Qingfeng saw the ancient patterns on the ground, and suddenly ran over excitedly, grabbed Yuan Meng's hand, and said nervously.

"It's a puppet of the Nine Palaces Chessboard Mechanism!" Yuan Meng said with tears in his eyes, "It is recorded in the third article of "Heavenly Ghost Craftsman" written by my father. As she spoke, she pressed her hand to the right of the quaint pattern in front of her.

There were two jerky machine sounds, and the ancient stone man with a gun on the side immediately became strangely active. I gasped, but Yuan Meng took his hand away from the quaint pattern on the ground, and the stone puppet, which was already about to move, immediately quieted down, maintaining a posture that seemed to have not changed for eternity.

This time. I finally found a clue in the memory of the old corpse Ye Zitong. Yuan Meng's father, Yuan Tiangang, was indeed proficient in the way of puppets, and based on the production method of wooden oxen and flowing horses recorded in the "Zhuge Testament", he developed a more complex and advanced puppet, and compiled it into a book. But Ye Zitong was not lucky enough to read that strange book, but only heard about it. Presumably, Yuan Tiangang used that kind of strange ghost technique as a family secret technique, and only left it to his daughter. And that strange book is "Heavenly Ghost Craftsman".

Since Yuan Meng and Qingfeng have studied "Heavenly Ghost Craftsman", it is not difficult to crack this puppet of the Nine Palaces Chessboard.

I rubbed my hands together excitedly, as long as I passed this level, I could see the core of this ancient ruin, and I had a hunch that it must be a great secret.

Yuan Meng pondered for a moment and said to me, "Xiao Soul, I'll try to solve this game, and it's up to you to help next." ”

"No problem," I said, "just tell me what to do." ”

"Good!" Yuan Meng took a deep breath and said, "The next step will be very dangerous, you must be careful." ”

"Understood!" I say.

It can be seen that Yuan Meng is indeed very nervous, although she is familiar with the thirteen chapters of "Heavenly Ghost Craftsman", but it is the first time she has really encountered it, and even she herself is not very sure, with the theory she is familiar with, whether she can really solve the situation in front of her.

Yuan Meng pointed to the right side of the knife puppet in the middle and said, "Take three steps forward along this line." ”

I cautiously followed Yuan Meng's instructions, walked to the position she pointed, and just stood still, Kata made a muffled sound, and among the many puppets in front of me, I don't know which one shook, which scared my eyelids suddenly, but I didn't dare to move, just looked around in a panic, but the puppets around me didn't see any movement.

At this time, Yuan Meng said in a deep voice, "Turn left and take two steps!" ”

I took a left turn, and as soon as the front foot of the second step hit the ground, I felt the rock sink a little. Intuitively, I knew I had touched the trap. But there are only two puppets in the second row, so it shouldn't be ......, slow, if this is a checkerboard puppet, then according to the checkerboard opera, these two puppets should be-

"Be careful!" Qingfeng suddenly screamed.

Maybe at the same moment when Qingfeng shouted, I reflexively rushed forward half a step, and two gunshots rang out, almost at the same time. Gravel flew behind me, and I didn't have to look back to know that I had been shot twice where I was standing.

I dodged two shots in a thrilling way, and as soon as I stood firmly, a strong wind hit in front of me, and a black round object instantly came to me, I couldn't dodge, and I hit the chest, I felt as if I had been hit by a bison, and my body flew backwards uncontrollably. Strangely, at this moment, I felt that time had slowed down so many times that I could clearly feel the trajectory of my flight through the air.

There was a muffled sound, and I felt that my back hit a soft object, and then I stopped, and the slowdown time became faster, and I smashed Yuan Meng and Qingfeng who caught me together, and then I had a sharp pain in my chest, and a stream of qi and blood surged up, and I almost spouted out.

When had I suffered such a big loss, I jumped to my feet, only to see that it was actually an adult-sized stone horse that kicked me away, but the strange thing was how it could be so fast, so fast that I could barely see its movements.

I really don't understand, what kind of power does it rely on to make it have such a perverted speed. Yuan Tiangang is really a demon! I muttered to myself.

Originally, I thought that as long as I had speed, I could easily solve the chess game, but it seems that this idea is wrong, the horse has speed, and the rook is probably faster, and the two cannons should be fire support.

I glanced at the two stone figures in the middle of the game, their muskets were still billowing with smoke, and there were two fist-sized holes in the ground where they were struck, which showed how powerful the fire of those two guns was. It seems that the fierceness of firearms in the Ming Dynasty is incomparable compared to what is recorded.

Smelling the strong smell of gunpowder in the air, a strong fear rose in my heart, if I hadn't dodged those two shots, how could I still be alive now!

Thinking of this, I was angry, but I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as long as the old handsome is killed in chess, then the whole game will be lost, if I can kill the general, thinking ......of this, I stared at the tall stone man under the protection of the elephant man, and took off the mountaineering pickaxe from his waist. Lao Tzu will give you a mountain cannon to eat!

"Damn, eat Lao Tzu's pickaxe!" I raised my pickaxe and threw it at the old handsome's head, "Don't! "The two sisters of the Yuan family behind me stopped me in horror, but it was too late.

The pickaxe turned in the air in a graceful arc straight to the old man's head, and just when he was only a thousandth of a second away from successfully hitting the target, the old handsome stone man raised his hand and firmly grasped the pickaxe in front of him.

My heart chuckled, and I immediately realized how stupid the action was, and just as I was about to see what it would do next, a limp arm pulled me aside at once, and almost at the same moment, the old man threw the pickaxe back.

It was several times more powerful than mine, and the pickaxe hummed horribly in the air, and even though it was a foot away from my head, I could still clearly feel the terrible force of the pickaxe sweeping through the wind.

With a bang, I hurriedly looked back, only to see that the tip of the pickaxe was actually deeply inserted into the rock wall next to the stone man lamppost, and the pickaxe handle shook slightly but rapidly.

I'll go! I gasped.

"You're so reckless!" Yuan Meng complained with concern.

I smiled wryly, speechless. A layer of white sweat came out of my head, but fortunately Yuan Meng's hands and eyes were quick, otherwise I would have to have a cracked stomach. As I spoke, I brushed shoulders with death one after another, and my hands and feet went limp. Whatever she says now, I won't refute it.

"You take a rest first, I'll come!" Qingfeng saw that I was in danger one after another, so I didn't want to go, so I stepped forward and said.

Knowing that there was danger, how could I, a big man, let a woman go up and take risks, so he took a deep breath and said, "I'd better come, but you should be on point, they have guns, and if they come with two more shots, I may not be able to dodge." ”

Yuan Meng said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I just miscalculated, there won't be any more!" ”

I took three steps again according to the route I had taken last time, and as soon as I stood firm, there was a strange clicking sound again, and this time Yuan Meng said, "Take a step back." I did it immediately, click, and there was another sound, "Now turn two steps to the left!" Yuan Meng said.

"Are you sure!" I said it out loud.

Yuan Meng and Qingfeng exchanged words in a low voice and replied to me, "Sure!" ”

"Good!" I took a deep breath and cautiously took two steps to the left, click, and there was another strange noise in the chessboard.

I looked around nervously, and saw all the stone figures standing quietly in place, without any signs of violence and injury, and my breathing was finally a little smoother.

"Next, ...... forward" Yuan Meng commanded with full attention, and I carried it out thoroughly, approaching the area close to the old man step by step. However, the closer he got, the slower Yuan Meng commanded, and every step had to be carefully calculated before he could say it. There were even a few steps to stop and talk to Qingfeng for more than ten minutes before they could be sure.

The more cautious they were, the closer I knew I was to danger. Although there was no movement from the dusty ancient stone figures around me, I knew that every step I took was dangerous and murderous. If I took the wrong step, at such a distance, in a matter of seconds, I would definitely be torn to pieces.

So even though it was extremely quiet, only the clicking sound of the chessboard when I was on the right path, my nervous palms were sweating, and blood was pounding in my veins.

Finally I walked into the old man's activity area, and now that I was only two steps away from it, I couldn't help but breathe.

"Now, take a step back," Mr. Yuan said.

I slowly stepped back, "Now jump in front of the old handsome!" Yuan Meng's voice changed, which showed his nervousness.

"Are you sure?" I was a little scared to say, after all, the terrifying power shown by the old man not long ago made me still have palpitations.

"Sure!" Yuan Meng gritted his teeth and said.

I said in my heart, God forbid! After saying that, I visually measured the distance, three meters away, it may be difficult for ordinary people to do it, but for me, it is a piece of cake.

Taking a deep breath, I jumped over with my eyes closed, stood firmly in front of the old man, and then said in a loud voice, "General! ”