Upon hearing that they could challenge it repeatedly and even ask someone for help, Ye Weiming finally breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to Dao Mei and said, "Contact your brother."
"I already tried." Dao Mei shook her head. "We're in a special map right now, so we can't send Carrier Pigeon Messages."
Ye Weiming nodded in understanding, then asked the four teammates beside him. After confirming that none of them knew how to play Chinese chess, he could only sit down and try to break the deadlock himself.
The red side he held had one horse, one cannon, one elephant, and two pawns. One pawn had not moved from its original position on the seventh file, while the other had advanced to the enemy's back rank and stood on the starting square of the seventh-file elephant. The black side had one chariot and two pawns that had crossed the river. The chariot was surrounded by the horse, cannon, elephant, and one pawn. It looked as though the enemy had been tightly encircled, but in truth, those pieces could only be captured by the black chariot and could not capture it themselves.
After briefly observing the position, Ye Weiming immediately moved his horse to give check. Yet after checking several times without effect, he finally made one careless mistake and was counterattacked by the black pieces under Elder Chen Tuan's remote control. In just thirteen moves, he was completely checkmated, losing in a truly miserable fashion.
After the black chariot delivered a head-on killing blow, Elder Chen Tuan's voice rang out again. "Sigh... please leave, everyone. With your chess skills, you'd best bring an expert to help next time."
And so, Ye Weiming and the others were thrown out without ever even seeing Elder Chen Tuan. Left with no