Tomb raiding: It all started with the kidnapping of Yin Xinyue

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"As long as Brother Jin can decipher the contents of this, even just one word will do!"

Jin Suanpan smiled awkwardly and said, "Then I'll give it a try in a bit?"

Li Xiaohu took off the gold medal, handed it to Jin Suanpan, and reminded him, "Senior brother can start from the direction of the sixteen-character Heavenly Trigram."

Jin Suanpan looked at him with a puzzled expression.

He then recited the sixteen-character Heavenly Trigram formula, and looking at the gold medal in his hand, a sudden inspiration flashed in his mind!

For a moment.

He seemed to have actually understood the strange pronunciation above!

I was just about to delve deeper into it.

Suddenly, a series of violent noises came from the Underworld Palace again!

"Boom boom boom boom!..."

Everyone followed the sound.

They discovered that the tomb entrance they had come from was actually a heavy stone door slowly descending!

Partridge Whistle raised an eyebrow, and was about to step forward with the old foreigner to stop them, but Li Xiaohu stopped him.

"No need."

Li Xiaohu turned his head to look at the trembling Eight Directions Platform beneath his feet.

The floor tiles beside the gilded stone sarcophagus suddenly parted, and a stone table slowly rose from them.

A chessboard was set up on the stone table.

But there was only one black chess piece on the table.

"Huh?" Partridge Whistle asked, puzzled. "What's going on?"

"Why did a chess table suddenly appear?"

Li Xiaohu replied, "This must be a checkpoint set up by Li Chunfeng."

"If we want to take the next step, we must break this game."

“However…” Jin Suanpan said somewhat dissatisfied, “he only gave us one chess piece.”

"How should we play this move to make a decisive move?"

"what?"

Yin Xinyue, standing to the side, said with a strange expression,

"This game of chess... seems a little too simple."

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"Simple?"

Everyone stared at Yin Xinyue in shock.

Although none of them were very proficient in Go.

But at least it's understandable.

The game of chess in front of us is clearly an endgame, and a near-dead endgame at that.

The haters might have a chance.

But they only have one black piece, which means they only have one chance.

One chance is all it takes to turn the tide for the black pieces, who are in a near-dead situation.

Simple?

Everyone thought Yin Xinyue was joking.

Seeing the strange looks from everyone, Yin Xinyue suddenly became a little temperamental.

With her hands on her hips and a haughty air, she said, "It really is that simple!"

"How can it be simple?" Jin Suanpan pressed.

Yin Xinyue pointed to the chessboard and said, "On the surface, it seems that Black is doomed in this game."

"Here, here, here, Black is in a dead end."

As she spoke, she moved her little hand and drew circles to indicate, "But here!"

"Heizi still has a chance to live!"

"By simply placing a black stone here, we can capture all the white stones in this area, thus activating the entire black group!"

"If we proceed cautiously and steadily in other areas, we can turn defeat into victory."

Jin Suanpan and the others took a closer look.

They discovered that the chess game was indeed as Yin Xinyue had described.

If a black stone lands in that area, the entire board of black stones will come alive!

He looked at Yin Xinyue's expression again.

They were all full of surprises!

Yin Xinyue said with some pride, "This kind of endgame."

"In the Tang Dynasty more than 1,300 years ago, it was indeed a very difficult and ingenious endgame!"

"But in the centuries that followed, generations of chess masters emerged, and they had long since developed all sorts of solutions to this kind of endgame."

Then, somewhat smugly, he said:

"Such a mess."

"When I was very young, my Go teacher had already taught me several solutions."

Partridge Whistle smiled sheepishly and said apologetically, "I didn't expect Miss Yin to be so capable."

Yin Xinyue proudly curled her nose: "That's right!"

“In that case.” Partridge Whistle reached out to take the black piece, but it landed where Yin Xinyue had indicated.

"Wait!" Li Xiaohu stopped him abruptly.

Then, looking at Partridge Whistle with some dissatisfaction, he said:

"I've told you many times, don't be impatient!"

Partridge Whistle reluctantly withdrew his hand, his face full of confusion.

Li Xiaohu said calmly, "I already said that before."

"Li Chunfeng not only has extraordinary attainments in feng shui, but he is also remarkable in understanding people's hearts!"

Let's get back to the chessboard in front of us.

"This endgame is actually a trap!"

"If the solution is as simple as Yin Xinyue said, then there is no point in Li Chunfeng setting up this endgame."

"so."

Li Xiaohu gave the answer.

"This endgame is definitely not a simple matter of winning or losing."

Partridge Whistle hurriedly asked, "Then what could it be?"

Li Xiaohu suddenly changed the subject and asked the crowd, "Have you ever heard the story between the Go master Jia Xuan and Emperor Taizong of Song?"

The group was taken aback by the question and didn't understand.

It's unclear what Li Xiaohu's intention was in asking this at this time.

Everyone shook their heads blankly.

Li Xiaohu smiled slightly and continued:

"Jia Xuan was a Go master during the Northern Song Dynasty. He was one of the few in the country and was deeply loved by Emperor Taizong of Song. He was often summoned to play Go with Emperor Taizong."

"Emperor Taizong of Song was also quite good at Go, but compared to Jia Xuan, he was far inferior."

“But Jia Xuan was a subject, and Emperor Taizong of Song was the emperor; how could Jia Xuan dare to actually win a game of chess against Emperor Taizong?”

"But given his skill level, he can't afford to lose so easily."

"So he would deliberately set up a trap each time, losing his game against Emperor Taizong of Song by a very small margin of one or two pieces."

"But as time went on, Emperor Taizong of Song saw through Jia Xuan's scheme and ordered Jia Xuan to show his true skills and play against him."

"Jia Xuan still dared not use his true skills, so he painstakingly designed a 'triple ko' endgame; this kind of endgame can only be drawn, there is no other way!"

"In the end, it created the illusion that even if he tried his best, he could only fight Emperor Taizong of Song to a draw."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately understood!