I will bury the gods

Chapter 190 Black and White
Lin Shouxi took the treasure box, which was made of silver, with a lifelike eye painted on the bottom, and seven small red stone balls revolved around the eye, like broken pupils. His right eye is somewhat similar, but far more beautiful.

"Little girl, I have thanked the young master first." The maid said gracefully.

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

Mu Shijing held her breath, stared at the treasure box with all her attention, and watched the sixth bead gather in the center, she was startled, thinking that he could be equal to herself?

Then, something that shocked Mu Shijing even more happened. As time went by, the seventh bead miraculously moved.

"Why, how is it possible?" Mu Shijing found it difficult to accept.

This maid didn't have much hope at first. She has sought out too many people in the past hundred years, but no matter how well-known fairies and princes they are, Qixing has never moved and cannot return. Could it be that today... the ten fingers on the maid's sleeve trembled? stand up.

Lin Shouxi was also a little surprised, even though Luo Chu'e had given similar praise, but he never believed it to be true, just like he never felt that Chu Yingchan was guilty of smoldering.

But the seventh stone bead was put together right in front of him, and the seven red beads merged into one without any gaps. It turned into a solid circular flame, like a newly awakened eye.

"How are you stronger than me? I haven't seen you have more arms and legs than me." Mu Shijing looked him up and down.

Facing Mu Shijing's doubts, Lin Shouxi replied solemnly: "Maybe I have kindness and lofty morality that you don't have."

"You..." Mu Shijing was furious. If there were no outsiders present, she would have rolled up her sleeves and rushed forward. He dared to say that she has no morals, so let him see his own martial virtues.

However, apart from being angry with Lin Shouxi, Mu Shijing also had a kind side. Anyway, this also helped the little maid's sister.

The maid was really overjoyed, she saluted again and again, her voice trembling:

"Young Master is really the body of the Holy Spirit. This kind of kindness, the little girl has nothing to repay, only..."

Before the words were finished, a sudden change occurred.

I saw that after the stone beads of the seven-star treasure box converged into a spark, the raging flame gradually stabilized and the surface became smoother, just like a red glazed eyeball. According to the maid, this treasure is meant to 'know people'. After recovering, he naturally looked at Lin Shouxi.

In an instant, Lin Shouxi felt a strong sense of staring. He also had this feeling before. It was a rainy night in the Wu family. The bruised and bruised Master Yun opened his stinky demon pupils, and countless tiny eyeballs flew around like flies in the pupils.

This time, the sense of staring was even stronger. He seemed to be stripped of his clothes and tied to an execution rack. His gaze was a real sharp knife piercing his chest, piercing his body bloody, revealing everything hidden deep inside.

At first Lin Shouxi felt a little fear, but soon, the fear turned into unreasonable anger, and he chose to look at that pupil.

"No!" the maid exclaimed.

It's too late.

I don't know what I saw in this pupil, but after a sharp tremor, it ruptured rapidly, and turned into seven lifeless red stone balls again, no matter how people fiddled with them, they would not squirm.

"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 she even didn't dare to look at Lin Shouxi.

Lin Shouxi didn't figure out what was going on, but saw the black-robed maid lower her head, took the Seven-Star Treasure Box again after hesitation, and held it in her arms. She didn't blame anything, but thanked Lin Shouxi more seriously. After that, she held the silver box and stepped back weakly, like a girl hugging a dead baby.

"Is this fate?"

After the maid asked herself, she stopped talking.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing didn't ask her any more about her personal affairs. They went deep into this ancient palace and began to look for a way out.

Soon, Lin Shouxi discovered that everything in this ancient temple seemed to be ordinary, but there was actually another mystery. The sand here was not affected by gravity, would not fall, and could be manipulated into any shape at will. The sculptures here were extremely soft, and they Changing shapes, when you look at them, they become you.

What surprised Lin Shouxi the most was the ancient paintings hanging on the four walls. The four ancient paintings all depicted the same scene: a girl was imprisoned on the trunk of a giant tree with a rusty nail piercing her wrist. She hangs her head, and her face is covered by black silk, but her exquisite figure still shows her extraordinary beauty. The tide rolls under her feet, the flames hover above her head, and the background behind the giant tree is blurred with countless paints. Chaotic and twisted.

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

They are ice and snow and lightning, magma and tsunami, disaster and hurricane, ground thorn and meteor. These disasters that can destroy the world are all added to the girl's delicate body in the artist's pen, as if her exquisite body is a catastrophe. Sculpted out.

On the other side, there is an introduction to this painting. What is depicted in the painting is a mythological scene. In the myth, the goddess of the earth fell into a demon, causing the catastrophe of the world. It was too late for the goddess to wake up, so she took the initiative to imprison her in the god Under the mulberry tree, I want to redeem my sins with my body.

"There is a problem with this painting." Mu Shijing looked at it for a while and said seriously.

"What's the question?" Lin Shouxi asked in surprise, thinking that she had awakened some kind of consciousness and learned some ancient secrets.

"Why did she endure such a capital punishment, but her clothes are still intact? If so, isn't it just a show?" Mu Shijing asked seriously.

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

In addition to the tension of the pictures, these paintings also have a unique interior. Once you reach out and touch them, the two-dimensional pictures will unfold three-dimensionally, wrapping people around, and people will enter the paintings, putting themselves in the disaster, facing this violent world. , A person's delicate spirit will be broken if he is not careful, and he will fall into a coma.

Lin Shouxi originally wanted to see the true face of the Mother Earth Goddess, but he gave up immediately after trying for a while.

Every utensil 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 walked out of sadness, Will answer the mystery of each item for them.

"It's not that this room is a riddle, every item here is a riddle, as long as you get any answer, you can leave smoothly. Of course, there are also some confusing things, which need to be identified by the two of you. " said the maid.

Mu Shijing nodded. She claimed to be smart, and she secretly competed with Lin Shouxi in her heart, determined to leave before him.

Lin Shouxi didn't intend to compete with Mu Shijing. He checked candlesticks, pools, potted plants and other things one by one, but failed to find a way of thinking, but he didn't find nothing. He used this to figure out one thing:

Shi Yirao must be watching them in the dark.

This room is nominally a puzzle, requiring them to break through, but Shi Yiluo's most essential purpose, perhaps, is to observe whether they are 'safe' through their reactions to these objects.

Shi Yirao said that there are stories in history where old gods pretended to be human beings and mixed into the god wall to cause disasters, but gods and people are different after all. The things she uses to really see them are no longer her own eyes, but those who see them. Ordinary utensils that seem to be weird, people's first reaction when facing them can provide more real information.

It can even be said that the maid's seven-star treasure box might just be a temptation for them by the Holy Land Hall.

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

He also quietly asked Mu Shijing if she could sense the gaze of people in the dark. Mu Shijing felt it carefully for a while, but shook his head.

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

Mu Shijing also followed enthusiastically. At first, she thought it was the real mirror in the story, that kind of bad mirror where you can see your loved one from the mirror by peeling off a whole fruit peel. She heard the introduction from the maid. Afterwards, Mu Shijing discovered that it was even more wonderful than he had imagined.

"This is an artifact of the ancient gods."

The maid said: "During the Ming ancient times, dragons ruled the earth, and the laws of the world were also controlled by ancient dragons. Most of them were the dragon corpses we saw, and some dragon kings survived in more wonderful ways. , such as Dreaming Dragon, this mirror is said to be the dressing mirror of Dreaming Dragon, which hides a part of the power of 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 The Dragon Soul still wanders alone, but no one has ever been there."

"Try?" Mu Shijing suddenly became interested.

However, Lin Shouxi shook his head firmly. Recently, he was with Xiaohe both during the day and in his dreams, and the dreams he had were not suitable for public disclosure.

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

In the spacious ancient temple, the two walked around. Unknowingly, a day passed like this. The maid brought food and water, and they leaned together. After eating food and water, they all doubted life.

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

"No." Lin Shouxi shook his head.

Mu Shijing sighed, looked at the maid, and asked, "If we still don't get the answer, will we be locked up here forever?"

The maid replied calmly: "No, you are looking for the answer, and the goddess is also there. The two of you will be imprisoned for a month at most. After one month, the Holy Land Hall will let you go."

"One month?"

Lin Shouxi thought of Luo Chu'e's bet again, and her deadline was also one month... Is this the habit of their family?
"A month..."

Mu Shijing's tone was a little depressed. One month was long or short, but he had to spend it in this claustrophobic place...

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

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

"Did you drag me down..."

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

Lin Shouxi sneered, and replied, "The villain will sue first."

Mu Shijing pursed his lips, and said, "To be with you for 300 years, even thinking about it, I will suffer a lot. It would be great if Xiaohe was here."

Lin Shouxi could understand, this was her insinuation that life with him seemed like years.

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

Mu Shijing knew that he was implying that Xiaohe would kiss him or not herself, so she was afraid that she would reveal the matter of the spiritual root in a fit of anger, so she dusted off her clothes, left with a soft hum, and went to fiddle with the objects again. Ignore him.

Soon, Mu Shijing was attracted by a small hourglass. She thought it was interesting, so she turned the hourglass upside down.

A miraculous thing happened, as the hourglass was turned upside down, the whole room changed, and all the things they had messed up before were unknowingly restored to their original state.

"It's amazing." Mu Shijing praised.

Mu Shijing wanted to turn the hourglass upside down, but was stopped by the maid, who asked seriously, "Ms. Mu, do you want to end the day early?"

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

The maid explained: "This hourglass contains the real law of time, which controls the time in the domain of this ancient temple. As long as the hourglass is turned upside down, the day will pass immediately."

If Mu Shijing only thought it was miraculous before, then this hourglass gave her the feeling of miraculous.

Even if she had seen Zhong Wushi who was parasitized by the Space-Time Demon God, it was still hard to imagine that a complete day would be erased in an instant when the hourglass was turned upside down.

"That is to say, I only need to turn the hourglass upside down thirty times to end this month early?" Mu Shijing asked tentatively.

Unexpectedly, the maid gave her an affirmative answer.

Mu Shijing and Lin Shouxi had complex expressions, as if they had their own considerations.

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

Lin Shouxi agreed.

In the next two days, the two wandered around the house, looking for the answer to the mystery, but they were no longer so urgent, and even set aside time for meditation.

After calming down, Lin Shouxi re-examined this dazzling array of houses, and he suddenly had an idea, whether most of the things here are just blindfolds, and there is actually only one real exit.

He followed this line of thought and thought: If there is really only one exit, where will the exit be placed?
Lin Shouxi came to the center of the ancient hall with his intuition, where there was an inconspicuous chessboard with two tightly woven straw baskets containing black and white pieces. The biggest difference from ordinary chessboards was that besides the chessboard and pieces, there A blank book is spread out.

"This is 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 playing." Mu Shijing pretended to hesitate.

Mu Shijing came from a Taoist school, knew chess since he was a child, and has excellent talent. She just said some self-deprecating words, trying to make Lin Shouxi underestimate the enemy, but Lin Shouxi made an inch of it, saying:

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

Lin Shouxi's calm and modest tone instantly ignited Mu Shijing's fighting flames, and she was determined to kill Lin Shouxi to the last, and make him kneel down under the skirt of the daoist lady.

"Are you black or white?" Lin Shouxi asked proactively.

"Black is black, solemn and mysterious. Of course I am a black child." Mu Shijing said lightly, picked up one at random, and placed it on the chessboard without saying a word.

A strange thing happened again. As soon as the chess piece touched the board, words appeared on the blank page of the book next to it:

'Five sons connected to win. '

Both Mu Shijing and Lin Shouxi were taken aback. This rule was far simpler than they imagined, and it was simply a child's play.

The two fell like flying.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing both had good calculation skills, the chess pieces were spread out quickly on the chessboard, and the two of them seemed to be each holding an elite soldier, swarming each other, seeking a chance to win.In the end, Lin Shouxi got the better of him. He confuses Mu Shijing with all his actions, and hits at the junction, making Mu Shijing unstoppable.Just when the victory was about to be established, the text on the rule book changed.

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

Lin Shouxi's hard-earned victories were gone, and he had to immediately change his mind and start over. As a result, the battle in the hinterland turned into a corner fight. .

During the fight, Lin Shouxi relied on his calculations to gain the advantage again with difficulty, but his advantage did not last long. It was not because Mu Shijing seized the weakness to counterattack, but the rules changed again.

Before the rule changes, there will be no warning. It changes silently and becomes: "Be the first to place a 'positive' character on the chessboard."

Facing this weird 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 to be only a few strokes away, and the rules changed again. Torn.

So, they kept pulling on the chessboard, with the ever-changing rules on the sidelines, which exhausted them physically and mentally.

After changing dozens of times, the rules are moving towards a more and more deviated track. At the end, they don't even need to do it themselves, and the chess pieces will walk randomly on the board by themselves, actively fighting.

And the ever-changing rules have a unique magic power. They are dissatisfied with the rules, but they can't help getting deeper and deeper. After missing the victory again and again, their desire to win is infinitely magnified.

I don't know how long it has passed, and how many times the rules have changed, and the large chessboard is gradually being filled with chess pieces. Looking around, black and white are intertwined, like a psychedelic dream.

Gradually, the two were no longer the masters of the chess pieces, but became the slaves of the chessboard, but they were obsessed with it and didn't know it.

The rule book has changed again:
'Whoever fills the board is the winner. '

After the rules were issued, Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing quickly swept across the chessboard. Lin Shouxi found that as long as the chess pieces were placed alternately in this order, he would definitely win in the end!

After a while of playing chess, as Mu Shijing dropped the last black stone in her basket, there was only one space left on the chessboard.

As long as he fills in the last white piece, he can win the final victory!

Mu Shijing seemed to have experienced a fierce battle, panting rapidly, her proud chest rising and falling, she looked at the last gap, gritted her teeth, and prayed for a change in the rules, but there was no change in the rules.

Are you going to lose...

She obviously didn't have any bets, but at the thought of facing failure, Mu Shijing felt like a knife was twisting her heart for some reason. She 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 in it were used up ahead of time!
He was obsessed with playing chess before, but he didn't realize this...

This, how to do this?
Lin Shouxi's hand fell into the empty chess basket, as if stepping on it, and he felt endless loss in his heart. He felt that he was going crazy. He didn't care about winning or losing, but for some reason, the rules changed hundreds of times here, and he After gritting her teeth and persevering until now, winning or losing, which she didn't care about at first, feels like a thousand pounds...

As long as one chip, as long as one, he can win!Who can lend him a son...

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

moment.

As if a nightmare had crashed into his brain, Lin Shouxi saw countless images, all of which were images from the past. In the images, countless people sat in front of the chessboard, staring at the last space on the chessboard like idiots, screaming like crazy, Desperately gouged out his own eyes, filled the bloody pupils, and then broke out into a crazy, contented smile.

laugh……

Endless laughs...

These crazy laughter were like countless hands, they infected Lin Shouxi, whispering in his ear continuously, the whispers were like a demon's bewitchment, layer upon layer, trying to drag him into the spiritual abyss together!

"I surrender!"

Lin Shouxi shouted suddenly, his words were not depressed, but unprecedentedly sober.

He realized that this rule is always helping those who are about to lose. Even if he really gouged out his eyes and filled them in, the rule book would be rewritten as 'loser wins'.

After thinking about this point, he suddenly realized that he was freed from it immediately.

But unexpectedly, the rule book has not changed, and the black and white words on it are like smiley faces, mocking his cleverness.

After he conceded defeat, the chess pieces fell apart, and he was still sitting there, but Mu Shijing was nowhere to be seen.

His vest was covered with sweat.

He lost, but felt unprecedented ease.

"It takes courage to admit defeat, but courage does not bring victory. She is the winner and has already left here. This chessboard is the only road here, and it can only be used by one person. You let her go, you..." The maid hesitated to speak.

Lin Shouxi didn't show any disappointment on his face. He looked at the maid and said calmly:
"I also found a way out."

(End of this chapter)