Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1128 The Royal Room
  Taking a step forward with his left and right feet, Shao Yu stepped onto the low bronze steps.

After twisting his ankles, Shao Yu felt calm in his heart.

Well, okay, it seems I didn’t ask...

As soon as the idea came to mind, a series of mechanical sounds suddenly came from below.

clack clack...

Shaoyu reacted immediately, jumping back as if he was in a hurry. However, this human power was incomparable to mechanical power - at least he couldn't.

Two mechanical calipers stretched out from under the table, one on the left and one on the right, grabbing Shao Yu's feet and holding him in place as he wanted to escape.

Shao Yu almost lost his balance due to the sudden pull by an external force. He lay back on his back without moving his feet or head, and finally managed to maintain his balance by swinging his arms.

Fortunately, this mechanism should only be used to restrain people in place and is not harmful. Shao Yu is fine.

Out of confidence in his own magical power, Shao Yu breathed a sigh of relief after discovering that there were no further changes in the mechanism, and began to think of a way to escape.

He first pulled his feet backwards. He could sway slightly, but he could not break free from the calipers.

Shao Yu bent down, grabbed the mechanical arm connected to the caliper, and pulled back with all his strength.

A face was flushed with blood from holding back blood, but the mechanical arm was only pulled a very small distance, which was basically useless.

Facts have once again proved that it is unrealistic for human power to resist mechanical power - for Shao Yu.

Before he could think of another way, the sounds of mechanisms operating could be heard elsewhere.

The noise this time was much louder than when he was locked up just now. The sound of gears grinding and chains turning overlapped and echoed in the empty hall.

Shaoyu hurriedly stood up, looked around the environment, and carefully prepared to deal with possible dangers.

But just like before, there is still no danger.

As the mechanism operated, there was first a slight shaking under Shao Yu's feet, and the already high platform he was standing on slowly rose to a certain height.

This allowed Shao Yu to have a better visual environment.

Immediately afterwards, the fire stations standing in an orderly manner on both sides of the walls were automatically ignited, and the suddenly rising firelight illuminated the dim back half of the empty hall.

It seemed to be a pit or something like that. The entire area was about a person's height deeper than the front half where the machine platform was.

Because the bottom was slightly deep, the firelight could not illuminate it clearly, and Shao Yu could not move his position, so he could only vaguely see what was going on underneath.

It's very empty, and there doesn't seem to be anything. The floor is neatly laid out, and there's a high probability that there's some saying in it.

Before Shao Yu could think more about what the pit was for, the surface on which the words had been carved suddenly folded and shrank like a bamboo slip, and a new level of table surface emerged from below.

The table this time is a pile of criss-crossed grids. When you look at it, the first thing that comes to mind... is undoubtedly a chessboard!
  Also changing were the two grooves on both sides, each of which translated two sentences.

"Soldiers kill in formation, it's child's play."

Shao Yu gently stroked his palm across the table, read the two sentences on the left smoothly, and couldn't help but smile.

"This chessboard, and these words, it seems that you want me to play chess!"

"The ancestors of the Mo family are really interesting. As for playing chess..."

As he spoke, he looked down at the calipers that trapped him and couldn't help but shake his head.

After sighing, he turned his gaze to the right, where there were two sentences:
  "Victory or defeat is unpredictable, be careful about life and death..."

"Ok?"

Shao Yu touched his chin in confusion.

The two sides feel a bit conflicting. How can a gambling game involve life and death?
  Shao Yu, who couldn't figure it out for the time being, simply gave up and didn't want to think about it anymore.

No matter what, let’s play chess first!
  Shaoyu still has some confidence in his chess skills.

Although he has always advocated violence and dislikes the so-called military principles taught by Master Fan, he is quite interested in playing chess.

According to what Master Fan said, his talent in this field is indeed good. After studying for several years, his skills are quite remarkable.

If you want to say that he is a master of chess, he is far from it, but he is still able to deal with a rigid machine creation, right?

Shao Yu reached out his hand and pressed the chessboard with great satisfaction. As expected, it was a mechanism that could be pressed.

After feeling his pressure, the four squares in the center of the chessboard turned around at the same time, revealing four chess pieces.

Two black and two white, each with a diagonal line, is equivalent to making a black and white X.

At the same time as the chessboard was flipped, the corresponding grids in the pit below also opened, and four human-shaped pottery figurines rose up.

The appearance of the terracotta warriors is exactly the same, but the color of the armor on their bodies is different, some are black and some are white.

There are also different orientations. The terracotta warriors of the same color face the same direction, but those with different colors have different orientations.

Shao Yu couldn't help but grin when he saw this, "It's interesting to give him some troops!"

As he muttered, his hands couldn't wait to touch the chessboard grid.

He stretched out his hand and pressed lightly. Each piece he touched sank slightly, then immediately bounced up and reversed, revealing a brand new black chess piece.

At the same time, a black terracotta warrior also rose below.

Shaoyu made a move here, and immediately a square flipped over on its own, revealing a white piece.

Shao Yu was a little surprised that the agency responded so quickly, but he didn't pay much attention.

As a native of this world, he has a high degree of acceptance of mechanism arts and does not feel there is anything wrong with meeting an Alpha Dog in this era.

Of course, maybe it's because he also expected how powerful the artificial intelligence he was about to face would be, so he didn't feel a sense of crisis.

After a few more moves, Shao Yu's black stones surrounded the white stones.
  "Hey!" Seeing this, he couldn't help but smile, waiting for the piece to be eaten by him.

But to his surprise, after the besieged white piece was swallowed, a black piece was turned over as a replacement.

Correspondingly, the armor pieces on the white terracotta warrior below also flipped over and turned into black, changing the lineup in an instant.

"Oh?" Shao Yu was stunned, but he quickly understood this special rule, "It seems that the surrounding pieces will not be eaten, but become their own chess pieces."

"Hmm...it's interesting!"

Shao Yu shook his head and smiled.

Now he found it more interesting.

………………

At the Xia Dao terminal, Tianming and Qianlong walked into the bronze gate hand in hand, and then received the same treatment as Shaoyu.

The two people's reactions were similar to Shao Yu's. They just looked back at the closed door and stopped paying attention.

Tianming focused all his attention on the space behind the door. Looking at it, he couldn't help but sigh:
  "Wow!"

"So many people!"

What appeared in front of Tianming and Qiantaki was an extremely huge mountain cavity, with a width of about ten feet and a height of at least ten feet. It was unclear how long it was, and the farthest point could not be seen at all.

(End of this chapter)