Lin Shouxi took the treasure box, the treasure box was made of silver, and there was a lifelike eye painted at the bottom, and seven small red stone balls rotated around the eye, as if the pupil was shattered, which was somewhat similar to Yun Zhenren's disgusting, wart-ridden right eye, but far more beautiful than it.

"The little girl thanked the son first." The maid is blessed and said.

Lin Shouxi held the treasure box according to her request, and the scattered red stone beads began to move, Mu Shijing also came over, observing the movement in the treasure box, and after a while, the first bead came to the center, and then, the second and third beads also moved.

Mu Shijing held her breath, staring at the treasure box intently, watching the sixth bead gather in the center, she was shocked, thinking that he could be on an equal footing with herself?

Then, something even more shocking happened to Mu Shijing, and as time passed, the seventh bead also miraculously moved.

"How, how is that possible?" Mu Shijing was a little difficult to accept.

This maid didn't have much hope, she had found too many people in the past hundred years, but no matter how well-known the fairy and the son, the seven stars were always immovable and could not return, could it be today...... The ten fingers of the maid's sleeve trembled.

Lin Shouxi was also a little surprised, even though Luo Chu'e had given similar praise, he never believed it, just as he never felt that Chu Yingchan was guilty of lust.

But the seventh stone bead was put together in front of him, and the seven red beads merged into one, and there was no gap, and it turned into a solid round flame, like a newly awakened eye.

"You're better than me, and I haven't seen you have more arms and legs than me." Mu Shijing looked him up and down.

Facing Mu Shijing's questioning, Lin Shouxi replied seriously: "Maybe I have the kind qualities and lofty morals that you don't have. ”

"You ......" Mu Shijing was angry, if there was no outsider present, she would probably have rolled up her sleeves and pounced, he dared to say that she had no morality, then let him see his martial virtues.

However, in addition to being angry with Lin Shouxi, Mu Shijing also has a kind side, no matter what, this also helped the little maid's sister.

The maid was indeed uncontrollable with joy, she saluted and saluted, and her voice trembled:

"Childe is really the body of the Holy Spirit, this kind of kindness, the little woman can't repay it, only ......"

Before he finished speaking, a change occurred.

I saw that after the stone beads of the seven-star treasure box converged into a spark, the surging flames gradually stabilized, and the surface tended to be smooth, really like a red glass eyeball, according to the maid, this treasure was originally 'knowing people', and after it was restored, it naturally looked at Lin Shouxi.

In an instant, Lin Shouxi felt a strong sense of gaze, and he had also had this feeling, it was a rainy night in the Wu family, and Yun Zhenren, who was covered in bruises, opened his stinky demon pupils, and countless tiny eyeballs in his pupils flew like flies.

This time, the gaze was even stronger, as if he had been stripped of his clothes and tied to a torture rack, his eyes shining with a real blade piercing through his chest, tearing open his body bloodily, revealing everything that was hidden in the depths.

At first, Lin Shouxi felt a trace of fear, but soon, the fear turned into unprovoked anger, and he chose to look at the pupil.

"Don't!" The maid exclaimed.

Late.

The pupil didn't know what it saw, but it quickly burst after trembling, and turned into seven lifeless red stone balls again, no matter how people fiddled with them, they no longer wriggled for a moment.

"This ...... What's going on here? ”

Mu Shijing couldn't figure out the situation in front of her, she remembered what happened to this eyeball, and even didn't dare to look at Lin Shouxi.

Lin Shouxi didn't figure out what was going on, only to see the black-robed maid lower her head, hesitate and then take the seven-star treasure box again, and hold it in her arms, she didn't blame anything, but thanked Lin Shouxi more seriously, and then, she held the silver box and weakly stepped aside, like a girl holding a dead baby in her arms.

"Is this fate?"

The maid asked herself a question, but said no more.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing didn't ask her about her private affairs anymore, they went deep into this ancient hall and began to look for a way out.

Soon, Lin Shouxi discovered that everything that seemed ordinary in this ancient hall was actually another mystery, the sand piles here were not affected by gravity, would not fall, and could be manipulated into any shape at will, and the sculptures here were extremely soft, they changed their appearance anytime and anywhere, and when you looked at them, they would become you.

The strangest thing for Lin Shouxi is the ancient paintings hanging on the four walls, all four of which depict the same scene: a young girl is imprisoned on the torso of a giant tree by a rusty nail through her wrist, her head hanging, her face is covered by black silk, but her delicate figure still shows her extraordinary beauty, the tide rolls under her feet, the flames hovering overhead, and the background behind the giant tree is blurred with countless paints, chaotic and distorted.

She seems to be being tortured, and the difference between the four pictures is also the difference in punishment.

They are ice and lightning and thunder, magma and tsunamis, plagues and hurricanes, earth thorns and meteors, these disasters that can destroy the world are added to the delicate body of the girl under the painter's brush, as if her exquisite body was carved by the catastrophe.

On the other side, there is also an introduction to this painting, which depicts a mythological scene, in which the goddess of the earth fell into a demon, causing a catastrophe in the world, and it was too late for the mother goddess to wake up, so she took the initiative to imprison under the god mulberry tree, wanting to use her body to atone for her sins.

"There's something wrong with this painting." Mu Shijing looked at it for a while and said seriously.

"What's the problem?" Lin Shouxi asked in surprise, thinking that she had awakened some consciousness and knew some ancient secrets.

"Why did she endure such capital punishment and her clothes were still intact? If that's the case, isn't this a show? Mu Shijing asked solemnly.

"......" Lin Shouxi was silent for a while, and said sincerely: "The Holy Soil Hall should invite you to be a painter. ”

In addition to the tension of these paintings, there is also a hole in the interior, once you reach out and touch it, the flat picture will unfold in three dimensions, wrapping people, people will enter the painting, put themselves in the shoes of disaster, in the face of such a violent world, the slightest carelessness of the human spirit will break, fall into a coma.

Lin Shouxi originally wanted to see the true face of the Earth Mother Goddess, but he only tried a little and immediately gave up.

Every artifact here is full of novelty, which is rare in the world, Lin Shouxi fiddled with them one by one, only to feel that he had entered a well-prepared toy room, and the maid seemed to have come out of her grief and would answer the mystery of each item for them.

"It's not that this room is a puzzle, every object here is a puzzle, and if you come up with any answer, you can get out. Of course, there are some deceptive things that need to be screened by the two of them. The maid said.

Mu Shijing nodded, she boasted of being smart, and she secretly competed with Lin Shouxi in her heart, determined to leave before him.

Lin Shouxi didn't mean to fight with Mu Shijing, he checked the candlesticks, pools, potted plants and other things one by one, but he couldn't find the idea, but he didn't find nothing, he took this opportunity to figure out one thing:

Shi Yirao must be watching them in the shadows.

This room is nominally a puzzle that they need to solve, but Shi Yirao's most essential purpose may be to see if they are 'safe' through their reactions to these objects.

Shi Yirao said that there are stories in history of old gods disguised as adults and mixed into the god wall to cause disasters, but gods and humans are different after all, and the objects she uses to really look at them are no longer her own eyes, but these seemingly weird ordinary utensils, and people's first reaction when facing them can provide more real information.

Even said that the original maid's seven-star treasure box might just be a temptation for them by the Holy Soil Temple.

So, Lin Shouxi had another question: where did Shi Yirao watch them.

He also quietly asked Mu Shijing, asking her if she could sense the gaze of the person in the shadows, Mu Shijing sensed it seriously for a while, but shook his head.

Lin Shouxi put aside his thoughts for a while and concentrated on solving the problem, and soon, he was attracted by a mirror hanging on the wall.

Mu Shijing also followed with great interest, at first, she thought that this was the true mirror in the story, that is, the kind of bad mirror that can see the beloved from the mirror by peeling a complete peel, but after listening to the maid's introduction, Mu Shijing found that it was even more wonderful than she imagined.

"This is an artifact of the old gods."

The maid introduced: "In the ancient era, dragons ruled the earth, and the laws of the world were also controlled by ancient dragons, most of which are the dragon corpses we have seen, and some dragon kings have survived in more wonderful ways, such as the dream dragon, this mirror is said to be the dressing mirror of the dream dragon, hiding a part of the power of the dusk sea, as long as you step into it, you will fall into endless dreams." It is said that in the deepest part of the dream, the legendary dragon spirit still roams alone, but no one has ever been there. ”

"Try?" Mu Shijing was suddenly interested.

Lin Shouxi shook his head firmly, he has been with Xiao He both during the day and in his dreams recently, and his dreams are not suitable for public.

Mu Shijing hesitated for a while, and finally chose to give up and did not touch this very evil mirror.

In the spacious ancient hall, the two of them went around and around, and before they knew it, the day passed like this, and the maid brought food and water, and they leaned together, and after eating food and water, they were a little suspicious of life.

"Do you have any ideas?" Mu Shijing asked.

"Nope." Lin Shouxi shook his head.

Mu Shijing sighed, looked at the maid, and asked, "If we never get an answer, will we be locked up here forever?" ”

The maid replied calmly: "No, you are looking for answers, the priestess is also here, the two of them will be imprisoned for a month at most, and after a month, the Holy Soil Temple will let them go." ”

"A month?"

Lin Shouxi remembered Luo Chu'e's gambling contract again, and her deadline was also a month...... Is this a habit inherited from their family?

"What ...... a month?"

Mu Shijing's tone was slightly depressed, a month is not long or short, but it has to be spent in this claustrophobic place......

She did have the idea of meditating directly and retreating for a month, but doing so meant that she had admitted defeat, Lin Shouxi hadn't given up yet, how could she give up first?

Thinking of this, Mu Shijing suddenly realized that this secret contest is likely to change from who solves the puzzle first to who gives up later.

"Are you dragging me down......"

Mu Shijing hugged his knees and stared at Lin Shouxi suspiciously.

Lin Shouxi sneered and replied, "The wicked sue first." ”

Mu Shijing pursed his lips and said, "If I want to be with you for three hundred years, I will suffer a lot to think about, if only Xiao He was here." ”

Lin Shouxi could understand that she was being sarcastic, and she spent her days with him like years.

"If Xiao He is here, you will only suffer more." Lin Shouxi looked at her with sad eyes.

Mu Shijing knew that he was hinting that Xiao He kissed him but not herself, and she was afraid that she would shake out the matter of Linggen in anger, so she dusted off her clothes, hummed lightly and left, and went to fiddle with and study the object, and no longer paid attention to him.

Soon, Mu Shijing was attracted by a small hourglass, she found it interesting and turned the hourglass upside down.

Miraculous things happened, and as the hourglass turned upside down, the whole room changed, and everything that had been messed up before was unconsciously restored to its original state.

"It's amazing." Mu Shijing exclaimed.

Mu Shijing wanted to turn the hourglass upside down, but was stopped by the maid, who asked seriously: "Does Miss Mu want to end this day early?" ”

"What do you mean?" Mu Shijing was surprised.

The maid explained: "This hourglass contains the true law of time, it controls the time in the realm of this ancient temple, as long as the hourglass is reversed, the day will pass immediately. ”

If Mu Shijing only felt magical before, then this hourglass gave her a wonderful feeling.

Even if she had seen Zhong Wushi parasitized by the Demon God of Time and Space, it was still hard to imagine that a whole day would be erased at the moment of the upside-down hourglass.

"In other words, I only need to reverse the hourglass thirty times to end the month early?" Mu Shijing asked tentatively.

Unexpectedly, the maid gave her an affirmative answer.

Mu Shijing and Lin Shouxi had complicated expressions, and they seemed to have their own considerations.

Mu Shijing, who was still complaining before, carefully put down the hourglass and said earnestly: "Every day is precious, let alone a month?" Time should not be wasted like this. ”

Lin Shouxi agreed.

For the next two days, the two of them walked around the house, seeking answers to the mystery, but they were no longer so urgent, and even found time to meditate and practice.

After calming down, Lin Shouxi re-examined this dazzling house, and he suddenly came up with an idea, most of the things here will be a trick, and there is actually only one real exit.

He thought along this line: if there really was only one exit, where would the exit be?

Lin Shouxi came to the center of the ancient hall with his intuition, where there was an inconspicuous chessboard, two tightly woven straw baskets containing black and white pieces, the biggest difference from the ordinary chessboard is that in addition to the chessboard and chess pieces, there is also a blank book next to it.

"It's the rule book." That's all the maid introduced.

Lin Shouxi called Mu Shijing over and asked her to try the chessboard together.

"I'm not very good at it." Mu Shijing feigned hesitation.

Mu Shijing was born in Taoism, she knew chess since she was a child, and her talent was excellent, she just said some self-humble words, wanting to make Lin Shouxi underestimate the enemy, who knew that Lin Shouxi had to inch in, and said:

"It's okay, I'll let you order."

Lin Shouxi's calm and modest tone instantly ignited Mu Shijing's battle flames, and she was determined to kill Lin Shouxi without leaving a piece of armor and let him kneel under the skirt of the eldest lady of Daomen.

"Do you play black or white?" Lin Shouxi took the initiative to ask.

"Black is dark, solemn and mysterious, of course I am a sunspot." Mu Shijing said lightly, picked one in his hand, and put it on the chessboard without saying a word.

Strange things happened again, as soon as the chess pieces touched the chessboard, the words appeared on the originally blank pages of the book next to them:

'Five sons join together to win. ’

Mu Shijing and Lin Shouxi were both taken aback, this rule was far simpler than they imagined, it was simply a child's game.

The two of them fell like flying.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing both have good computing power, and the chess pieces are quickly placed on the chessboard, and the two of them are like each holding an elite soldier, congesting each other and seeking a chance to win. In the end, Lin Shouxi was even better, he confused Mu Shijing, and he pointed at the junction, so that Mu Shijing could not be blocked. Just as the game was about to be set, the wording in the rule book changed.

The two of them read it and found that it had become the rules of Go.

Lin Shouxi's hard-earned victory was gone, and he had to immediately change his mind and start over, so the war in the hinterland turned into a corner fight, and the black and white sons launched a more fierce struggle to grab the territory in the corner.

In the battle, Lin Shouxi once again struggled to gain an advantage by calculating, but his advantage did not last long, not because Mu Shijing caught the flaw and counterattacked, but because the rules changed again.

The rules change without warning, and they change silently, becoming: 'Take the lead in placing a 'positive' on the board'.

Faced with this strange rule, Lin Shouxi had no choice but to abide by it.

He originally thought that this rule was deliberately favoring Mu Shijing, but this time, Mu Shijing got the right time and place, and it happened that only a few sons could be connected, and the rules changed again, Mu Shijing was indignant in his heart, and he couldn't wait to tear up this broken book.

So, they kept pulling on the chessboard, and the rules were ever-changing, making them exhausted.

After changing dozens of times, the rules are moving towards a more and more deviant track, and in the back, they don't even need to do it themselves, the chess pieces will actually randomly move around the board on their own and take the initiative to fight.

And this ever-changing rule has a unique magic, they are dissatisfied with the rules, but they can't help but fall deeper and deeper, after missing the victory again and again, the desire to win is infinitely magnified.

I don't know how long it took, and I don't know how many times the rules changed, and the wide chessboard was gradually filled with chess pieces, and as far as the eye could see, black and white were intertwined, like a psychedelic dream.

Gradually, the two ceased to be the rulers of the chess pieces, but became slaves of the chessboard, but they were obsessed with it and did not know it.

The rulebook changes again:

'Whoever fills the board wins. ’

After the rules were issued, Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing quickly swept the chessboard, and Lin Shouxi found that as long as he alternated in this order, he must win in the end!

After a period of chess, as Mu Shijing dropped the last black piece in her chess basket, there was only one gap left on the chessboard.

As long as he fills in the last white piece, he will win the eventual victory!

Mu Shijing seemed to have experienced a fierce battle, her breath was short, her proud chest rose and fell, she looked at the last gap, her silver teeth clenched, praying for a change in the rules, but the rules did not change.

Are you going to lose......

Obviously there was no bet, but at the thought of facing failure, Mu Shijing felt like a knife for some reason, she forcibly suppressed the urge to overturn the chessboard, and stared at Lin Shouxi.

But soon, another unexpected thing happened.

Lin Shouxi stretched out his hand to the chess basket and found that the chess pieces inside had been used up in advance!

He had not noticed this before, having been obsessed with chess......

This, what to do?

Lin Shouxi's hand fell into the empty chess basket, as if stepping on the air, his heart was endlessly lost, he felt like he was going crazy, he didn't care about winning or losing, but for some reason, the rules were changed hundreds of times, and after he gritted his teeth and persevered so far, the winning and losing that he didn't care about was as heavy as a thousand pounds......

As long as there is one, as long as one, he can achieve victory! Who will lend him a son......

When Lin Shouxi was anxious and desperate, the rule book moved again, not to change the rules, but to add a line of words: any round thing can replace a chess piece.

Moment.

As if a nightmare had crashed into his brain, Lin Shouxi saw countless pictures, they were all pictures of the past, in the picture, countless people sat in front of the chessboard, staring at the last gap on the chessboard like idiots, they screamed like crazy, desperately gouged out their eyes, filled the bloody eyes, and then burst into a crazy, contented laugh.

Laugh......

Endless laughter......

These crazy laughter were like countless hands, they infected Lin Shouxi, and kept whispering in his ears, whispering like the bewitchment of a demon, layer upon layer, dragging him into the spiritual abyss together!

"I throw in the towel!"

Lin Shouxi suddenly shouted, there was no depression in his words, but unprecedented sobriety.

He realizes that this rule is always helping people who are about to lose, and even if he does gouge out his eyes to fill in, the rule book will be rewritten to 'losers win'.

Thinking about this clearly, he suddenly became enlightened and immediately relieved from it.

But unexpectedly, the rule book has not changed, and the black and white letters on it seem to be smiling faces, mocking his self-made cleverness.

After he conceded defeat, the chess pieces fell apart, he still sat in place, but Mu Shijing disappeared.

His vest was drenched in sweat.

He lost, but he felt more relaxed than ever.

"It takes courage to admit defeat, but courage does not bring victory, she is the victor, she has already left here, this chessboard is the only road here, and it can only be passed by one person, you let her go, you ......" The maid stopped talking.

Lin Shouxi's face did not show the slightest disappointment, he looked at the maid and said calmly:

"I've found my way out, too."

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