133: Chapter 133 Pre-Qin Chess

Chen Mo didn't hesitate at all and cast his vote for Beans.

As if I'm lacking one or two items.

According to Brother Chrysanthemum, the Beans game would result in at most one death, whereas the Matches game carried the risk of a total wipeout.

If only one person would die, Chen Mo might be able to save everyone if he found the trick.

But if it were the higher-risk Matches game, he wouldn't even be able to survive himself, so what would be the point of playing?

Lao Liu didn't know that Return to Zero was Chen Mo.

From Return to Zero's perspective, trading the death of Many Children Many Blessings for an item was definitely a surefire, profitable deal.

Lao Liu offered a very generous stake.

For the five apprentice Administrators, it could be called an irresistible temptation.

But the true identity of Return to Zero was none other than Chen Mo himself.

Kill myself? To trade for an item?

Are you kidding me?

Actually, there was another option: choose the Matches game, take the risk, and trade the lives of others for Lao Liu's item, while Chen Mo alone survived.

If all these teammates were wicked people in reality, Chen Mo might have agreed.

But now, his teammates were all his friends; even if he were offered an S-rank item, Chen Mo would absolutely never agree.

Life is not a doll to be toyed with; life is precious.

Everyone has their own family and friends, and Chen Mo understood the pain of losing family.

Therefore, since his teammates chose to trust him, he had to give his all to bring everyone out!

Bring them out alive.

[King's Trial selection complete: Beans game generation starting]

A halo of light flashed before Chen Mo's eyes, so intense it felt like a giant beast swallowing him whole.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already standing inside that palace.

Jiang Xinyi and the others were also forcibly sent in.

"This? What's going on?!" Lu Chengfeng was full of shock.

"I just opened a sewer, and I was transported directly?"

Turning his head and seeing Chen Mo standing there, Lu Chengfeng immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness. Having you with me for this transport puts my mind at ease!"

Jiang Xinyi cupped her chin and scanned the knights standing around them.

They were lifelike, yet unable to move.

Upon closer inspection and touch, she discovered that these knights were all wax figures.

Su Qing and Xu Xiaoman hurriedly hid behind Chen Mo; the timid duo had to cling to a strong thigh at all times.

"Chen Mo, this must be your doing. Did you discover something and trigger a hidden plot?" Jiang Xinyi asked.

"I found a crystal ball earlier and discovered it was full of toys. After staring at it for a while, we were transported inside the crystal ball."

Meng Zhou adjusted his glasses and carefully observed the knights.

He discovered that their ranks differed.

Some were soldiers holding shields and swords.

Others were cavalrymen riding steeds.

And some were chariot soldiers sitting in war chariots.

"This is the oldest form of Chinese Xiangqi. The 'Chu Ci · Zhao Hun' records: 'Ivory pieces for Xiangqi, six of the Liubo game'."

"Using twelve pieces, six white and six black. Before the Pre-Qin era, Xiangqi consisted only of the General, Horse, Soldier, and Chariot, which corresponds perfectly."

"And our Dormitory has 12 people. Since Pre-Qin Xiangqi has 6 white and 6 black pieces, does this imply that we are indeed in an opposing relationship with the 6 players from the village on the other side?"

Meng Zhou shared his opinion.

Lu Chengfeng walked up to the soldier wax figure in the front row, waved his hand in front of it, and tried poking the wax figure's eyeball.

When his finger entered the eye socket, he really felt like he was touching a cornea.

It was slimy and damp, and white threads were pulled out, making one's stomach churn.

"Damn! Those two The Artists really made them lifelike."

Lu Chengfeng hugged his shoulders, shrugged, and hurried away.

But what he didn't notice was...

Just after he turned and left, that soldier wax figure whose eye he had poked...

suddenly blinked its eyes at his back.

Chen Mo walked up the steps to the King wax figure and tried reaching out to touch that face, which was full of vicissitudes.

His palm approached it inch by inch.

However, just as he was about to make contact!

A pair of large, powerful hands suddenly shot out and grabbed Chen Mo's wrist directly!

"Assassin! There's an assassin!"

The King wax figure in front of him suddenly opened its mouth and shouted.

Lu Chengfeng and the others reacted immediately, only to see Chen Mo's neck already being gripped by the King, who lifted him high off the ground.

"You! Let him go!"

Lu Chengfeng gripped his gun tightly and aimed it at the King wax figure.

The hand gripping Chen Mo's neck suddenly released, and Chen Mo sat on the ground, breathing rapidly.

Then, the King wax figure suddenly drew the sword hanging nearby and pressed the blade against Chen Mo's forehead.

"Someone, come quickly! Drag this assassin out and behead him! He looks like a Huaxia person; he was sent by Daming Palace!"

"Daming Palace? What is that?" Chen Mo was completely bewildered.

But he reacted quickly and immediately replied.

"Your Majesty, I am indeed from Daming Palace, but I am a spy within Daming Palace."

"Huh?"

Hearing Chen Mo's words, the King's expression froze.

"You mean you've come to defect to me?"

"That is exactly my intention! Presumably... Your Majesty must be troubled by some difficulties. I am a top student from the Imperial Academy of Daming in Huaxia, and I can help you solve them."

Hearing that Chen Mo was actually a student of the Imperial Academy, the King's expression immediately improved.

He then dropped the sword in his hand, collapsed onto his throne, and rested his cheek on one hand.

Sobbing, he said: "I was originally the monarch of a country; the nation was prosperous, and the people lived in peace and security."

"But unfortunately, I made a wager with a certain sorcerer, and my soul has been imprisoned here."

"The people from Daming Palace on the opposite side are in the same situation."

"We have each left four problems for the other side; only by solving them one by one can my soldiers be restored."

"There must be a battle between us; whoever wins can return to our world, and if I lose, even I will turn into a wax figure."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo realized that this was definitely a hidden plot.

And before they arrived, no one had ever triggered it.

"These problems were set by the people of Daming Palace. Since you are from Daming Palace, and a top student from Daming Palace at that, you must know them."

As he spoke, His Majesty the King placed a table next to him in front of Chen Mo.

He reached out and took a handful of Beans, arranging them in a certain order in front of Chen Mo.

Chen Mo looked closely.

He discovered that there were 14 Beans, arranged in 5 piles.

From left to right, they were: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.

"Why don't we have a match? Each person can take an entire pile of Beans, or any number of Beans from a single pile, per turn."

"Whoever takes the last Bean wins."