The old man in the bamboo hat had relatively rudimentary artificial intelligence and was probably the overseer of the formation at the Shen Household Old Residence.
Tong Yan had often played chess with Qing'er as a child and had plenty of experience with both this kind of being and this kind of situation.
The old man in the bamboo hat produced a chess box, took out the pieces, and set them up.
Tong Yan saw that it was precisely the Outer Space Military Chess he had thought of. Without hesitation, he picked up a Heavy Mecha and advanced it one step.
Before long, the game was over. Muttering, the old man in the bamboo hat entered a code, opened the alloy door leading farther inside, and took him to the next game.
These simple, tedious trials repeated eight times. The mist grew thinner, and the Shen Household Old Residence became faintly visible in the distance. Tong Yan and the old man in the bamboo hat arrived at the Chess Pavilion in the mountains.
Since it was called the Chess Pavilion, naturally a game had long since been laid out inside.
The board was enormous, with three hundred and sixty-five lines running in each direction. Black and white pieces occupied not only the intersections but even the squares.
"If you can solve this game, all your rudeness will be forgiven," the old man in the bamboo hat said.
As his words fell, the Black and White Stones flew up from the enormous board and hung silently in the space beneath the pavilion, forming an exceedingly complex three-dimensional structure.
The sight naturally reminded Tong Yan of Chaoge City many years ago, and the game Jing Jiu had arranged on Chessboard Mountain.
At this point, he did not yet know that Jing Jiu