Chapter 300: A Game of Chess

The Mohist Fairy Island is very large. From the outside, there is only one mountain that looks like a sky-piercing knife, but in fact, there are 36 mountains of different sizes. //www.??// But from the position where Shi Yan landed on the island, the other mountains were all covered by the main peak that looked like a sky-piercing knife.

An island consisting of thirty-six mountains is already a very large island.

The chess house that Shi Yan was going to this time occupied the twelve peaks alone, which was enough to prove the importance that the Mohist school attached to the chess masters in the chess house.

Let Zhu Xie, Daotuo and the other two pack their bags and follow Mo Youfeng up the stairs to the mountain where the chess house hall is located.

Because it is an island, the wind blowing in the face has a damp and fishy smell, which is uncomfortable. Fortunately, there are many unknown purple flowers planted on both sides of the road, and the rich fragrance of the flowers dilutes the smell of the sea breeze.

Although the Mo family is a puppet family, there are no puppet mechanisms everywhere like in Tiesen City. Compared with the rigidity of Tiesen City, the Mo family fairy island is softer.

On the way, Shi Yan carefully opened it and detected the direction of the ground veins of Mojia Fairy Island, so as to accurately understand the internal distribution of Mojia Fairy Island. However, halfway through the exploration of spiritual power, it was blocked. It was not because of the barrier or something like that, but because the inside of these mountains was actually empty!

This discovery shocked Shi Yan deeply. Such a huge island had been hollowed out! Shi Yan walked calmly on the mountain path, looking around carefully.

"The scenery on my Mo family's fairy island is pretty good, isn't it?" Mo Youfeng said with a smile.

Shi Yan hummed vaguely and praised: "Among the islands I have seen, Mojia Fairy Island can be ranked in the top three."

Mo Youfeng smiled and said nothing, continuing to lead the way. Shi Yan continued to look at the Mo Family Fairy Island. He found that the patrols of the puppet birds in the sky were intermittent, patrolling every ten minutes, with only two minutes of rotation time. In other words, if you want to break into the Mo Family, you must complete it within two minutes, otherwise you will be discovered by the puppet birds. Of course, you can also choose to destroy the puppet birds, but Shi Yan's understanding of puppets is not deep, and he doesn't know what will happen after destroying the puppet birds, so this option was thrown out of his mind.

It is more practical to reach the island within two minutes.

The mountain road was winding, with flowers and old trees planted on both sides. The old trees were strange in shape, but exuded a strange beauty. Walking along the mountainside, an old man caught Shi Yan's attention.

Under a huge and ancient tree, an old man in a tattered yellow robe was staring at a stone chessboard.

Shi Yan walked forward to watch out of curiosity, and it turned out that this sloppy old man was setting up the chess pieces. However, Shi Yan watched for a long time and did not see the old man make the next move.

Gradually, Shi Yan discovered that there was something strange about this game of chess. To be honest, this game of chess has ended. White has no way out. It is already a dead game. But how can a dead game make an old man think so attentively? Shi Yan continued to read on and deduced the way of the chess record. Shi Yan couldn't help but admire that the two people who played this game were both peerless masters, at least worthy of the title of five-star chess generals. This ending, although it seems to be over, gives people the illusion that the game is still undecided. It seems that there is a way out for White, although he has thought of many ways but still can't do it.

At this moment, the slovenly old man seemed to have just noticed Shi Yan standing aside. He raised his head and yelled, "Get out, all of you, get out! Can't you see that I'm thinking about something?"

"Grandmaster, this is the new chess player recruited by Master. His name is Xu Yan. He does not understand your taboos, so he rashly disturbed you. Please forgive him." This sloppy old man in yellow clothes turned out to be Mo Youfeng's grandmaster!

Mo Youfeng quickly apologized and tried to pull Shi Yan away, but Shi Yan's feet seemed to be rooted and he couldn't move. Mo Youfeng immediately looked at Zhuxie Daotuo, Mingzi, and Taihao with a wry smile, hoping that they would help. But how could the three of them disobey Shi Yan's wishes? They could only smile wryly and shook their heads.

"Hey, this game of chess is quite interesting." Shi Yan praised with his eyes shining.

The sloppy old man in yellow was about to curse when he suddenly heard Shi Yan's praise. He was stunned at first, and then asked in ecstasy: "Huh? You know chess?"

"Of course, why else would I go to the chess room?" Shi Yan thought the old man's question was ridiculous. What's the point of watching chess if you don't know how to play it? Is it fun?

"No, the people in the chess house are all guys who don't know what chess is." He shook his head and was extremely disdainful of the people in the chess house. He turned around and looked at Shi Yan and said, "Since you know chess, how about playing a game with me?"

"Okay!" Although Shi Yan didn't like playing chess, it was because the group of people under his teacher were too weak and boring when he was learning chess in the past, so Shi Yan didn't like playing chess. But when he saw an interesting chess game, his hands still itched, so he couldn't wait to sit down.

However, the chess game in front of him was very interesting. Shi Yan was fascinated by it and felt reluctant to give up. "How about we continue this game?"

The old man was a little surprised. Over the years, Shi Yan was not the first person to watch this endgame, but Shi Yan was the first person who wanted to continue playing this endgame.

This is a chess endgame with 361 pieces, divided into black and white. It was set up by him and a five-star chess general fifty years ago. The black pieces have all the advantages, while the white pieces are trapped in a cage. It seems to be a foregone conclusion, but he refuses to admit defeat. He always feels that the white pieces in this game still have a way to go, and it is not a dead end. He has been thinking about this for fifty years. Everyone thinks he is crazy. Some people laugh at him, and some scold him, but he has always been determined that he has not lost, and the white pieces must have a way to survive.

In the past fifty years, Shi Yan was the first and only person to make such a request.

The slovenly old man in yellow asked, "Continue playing this game? Don't you realize that this is a dead end?"

Shi Yan smiled and said, "There is no life or death in chess, it all depends on the person."

"Hahaha, what a great chess game with no life or death, wonderful, really wonderful!" The sloppy old man in yellow clothes laughed, "Then let's continue this game. Do you play black or white?"

Shi Yan thought for a moment and said, "The greatest pleasure in playing chess is to win in adversity, not to maintain a winning position. I play chess just for fun. If there is no fun, then why play chess? Naturally, I will play with white pieces."

"Okay, as you wish, you can play with the white piece!" The sloppy old man in yellow nodded and said, "The final piece in this game is the black piece, so the white piece goes first. Please."

Shi Yan nodded, picked up a piece, and put it down.

The sloppy old man in yellow was slightly surprised. He had studied chess all his life, especially the endgame under the tree. He had thought about it for many years and had reviewed it thousands of times. But every time he made a move, he would think for a long time before making a move. But the man in front of him made a move right away. He was suddenly a little upset and secretly wondered if this man didn't know how to play chess. But in the past fifty years, he was the first person to play against him. The sloppy old man in yellow didn't want to miss this opportunity and played chess patiently.

An hour later, looking at the new white chess piece that had landed on the chessboard, as usual, the white chess piece was still in an irreversible dead end.

The sloppy old man in yellow clothes sighed slightly, his expression gloomy.

In the main hall of the chess house, Mo Zihao ordered all his disciples to wait in the hall to show his importance to Shi Yan. However, an hour passed and Shi Yan still did not arrive.

Shi Yan should have arrived at the Mo family fairy island an hour ago. It was only a quarter of an hour's journey from the entrance to the chess house, but now he hadn't even arrived an hour yet, which made his fellow disciples in the hall very dissatisfied.

"Xu Yan is too arrogant!" someone said dissatisfiedly.

"Yes, in order to welcome him, a group of us actually waited here for an hour."

"Maybe he hasn't arrived at the Mohist Fairy Island yet?" someone asked.

"No, Third Senior Brother had already seen him land on the island."

"Could it be that he got lost?" Yue Shuangxuan laughed, "Such a person could actually enter the chess house and require us to welcome him. Master is making a fuss out of nothing."

Mo Zihao sat on the first seat, glanced at Yue Shuangxuan, and said nothing.

At this moment, a little boy came running over, saying, "Master, Senior Brother Youfeng said they were stopped by a weird old man on the road!"

There was a burst of laughter in the hall, and someone joked, "Could it be that the weird old man is dragging Xu Yan to find his way to survive?"

"Maybe he is trying to flatter that crazy old man." As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room burst into laughter.

"Master, why does this person who is not punctual want us to wait for him?" Yue Shuangxuan asked.

Mo Zihao glanced at him indifferently without saying anything, but slowly stood up and walked out of the hall.

Seeing Mo Zihao walk out of the hall, even though they had just breathed a sigh of relief, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

However, Mo Zihao said, "Follow me."

Everyone looked at Mo Zihao in astonishment, too surprised to speak. After a long while, someone asked cautiously, "Master, are you asking us to go and greet him?"

But no one answered him.

Everyone felt a little curious about Xu Yan who was coming. Who was he?

Only Yue Shuangxuan blushed. As the eldest senior brother and the head of the chess house, he actually had to go in person to welcome a newcomer! How could she accept this!

The group of people came to the halfway point of the mountain in a mighty manner. Under the huge ancient tree, there were two figures.

When Mo Youfeng saw his master coming in person, he stepped aside in surprise.

Mo Zihao stepped forward and looked at the chess game, frowning slightly. This was clearly a dead end, Xu Yan was just struggling hard, but the result was still unchangeable.

Even the slovenly old man in yellow thought so. He shook his head regretfully and said, "This game is over."

Everyone under the ancient tree had an expression of "as expected". They smiled and shook their heads, looking at the slovenly old man in yellow clothes. They had no respect at all, but some contempt. When they looked at Shi Yan, the contempt was even stronger. They really didn't know what was so worthy of everyone coming to greet this sycophant who even flattered a crazy old man.

"Alas, it's not easy for you to achieve this, but you can only stop here." The sloppy old man in yellow shook his head regretfully, "You have found a way that I never thought of, but it still doesn't work."

The mountainside was quiet and the atmosphere became a little weird.

However, at this moment, Shi Yan suddenly clapped his hands and said happily: "Interesting, this chess game is really interesting!"

As he spoke, he picked up a piece and placed it on the chessboard.