The villain and I have eight hundred minds combined

Jing Chen controlled the Golden Spirit Whip while glancing at the chessboard, then tried to land the flying dragon hibiscus on another square.

As soon as he stepped in, nothing happened. Long Jin was slightly surprised: "Is everything okay here?"

Jing Chen retracted the whip, thought for a moment, and then guessed: "This is an endgame. We need to calculate the sequence of the pieces that should be eaten step by step to the end. I calculated that this place is exactly the position of the piece that should be eaten."

"How did you know?" Mu Hanxing asked him quickly with a look of surprise.

Jingchen said: "Yin Yang engraving."

The two were stunned.

Mu Hanxing followed his train of thought and took another careful look. Sure enough, on the chessboard squares of different heights, there was an inconspicuous mark on the surface of each square. The slightly raised marks represented positive engravings, while the slightly sunken marks represented negative engravings.

Combined with the story that Long Jin had just told them on the mural layer, Mu Hanxing roughly guessed it, so he said to the two of them, "Yin and Yang represent day and night. In ancient times, Zhulong controlled day and night. Opening your eyes is day and closing your eyes is night. Since your father has Zhulong bloodline, it is reasonable for him to practice this technique. Presumably, the red snake that practiced with your father was both afraid and envious of this technique. He was afraid that the descendants of Zhulong would always control the day and make the red snake tribe unable to survive. He envied them for being able to fly into the sky and become real dragons, controlling the life and death of others at any time... Therefore, the yin and yang on this layer of the chessboard represent the black and white chess pieces, which also represent day and night. This should be some kind of obsession of the red snake after its death."

Jingchen and Longjin were silent in the darkness.

"Lord City Lord, although this endgame can be solved, there are only four ways to solve it. The way out can probably only be one of the solutions. Do you have any ideas?" Jingchen continued to ask.

Mu Hanxing glanced at him. She didn't expect that this man could solve the endgame and use four methods in such a short time.

She was silent, and looked at the wall of faces at the end again. This time, she actually found a breakthrough. Although the faces were densely packed on the entire wall, there were four neatly arranged faces at the bottom of the wall. Each face corresponded to one of the chessboard squares in front. Maybe the correct face was the exit of this level!

Moreover, if you observe more carefully, you can find that the expressions of these four faces are joy, anger, sorrow and happiness respectively. Among the four faces, some have open eyes and some have closed eyes... Is it the second face?

She immediately said to Jingchen, "The last move of the chess piece stopping on the second face is the key to cracking it!"

At this moment, Jing Chen trusted her very much, so he quickly said to Long Jin who was standing on the chessboard: "Upper left, Yinchi."

Long Jin followed Jing Chen's instructions without hesitation and continued to leap forward.

After landing, nothing happened.

"Second from the right, Yangke." Jingchen continued to command.

Long Jin continued to jump forward quickly. The squares all around him were obviously similar, but stepping on different squares would lead to different fates. There were many traps and life and death were unpredictable. Now, he was exceptionally calm on the chessboard. No matter what, he was willing to trust them at this moment.

"Right one, intaglio."

"Third from the left, Yang engraved."

"..."

In less than half an incense stick of time, Jing Chen cracked the chess game leading to the second face and directed Long Jin to the second face. Long Jin looked at the face closely and suddenly his expression changed: "This face..."

"That's right." Mu Hanxing said to him from behind, "Although the face is blurry, the facial features are somewhat similar to yours. But I think this face should be deliberately painted to look like your father, with his eyes closed and slightly angry. The interpretation of this face is probably that he hopes your father can keep his eyes closed so that there will never be daylight in this world, and the Red Viper Clan can survive forever. The designer also hopes that your father can understand the anger deep in his heart back then."

"Ridiculous! My father lived an upright life. He practiced magic to help him, but now he is being blamed for it and even painted it into a mural, distorting history and causing people to misunderstand him!" Long Jin gritted his teeth in anger.

"These things cannot be changed. Why don't you find a way to get past them first? Try pressing that face." Jingchen said to him through the air.

Long Jin raised his hand and pressed it. There was indeed a small mechanism on the face. With a crisp "click", the whole wall began to make a dull sound, and then the faces on the wall slowly split apart because of the opening of the wall...

After the wall of human faces opened, it fell into darkness again.

Long Jin looked down with the help of the light from the illumination bead and said to the two of them, "There is a long ladder here. I will continue to explore the way down."

The mechanism had been activated. It was unknown whether the spirit-trapping formation on the chessboard was still in place, but Jingchen had memorized all the squares that Long Jin had passed through. So, he took the lead and stepped forward, then turned to Mu Hanxing and said, "City Lord, follow me. Be careful."

"Okay." Mu Hanxing said, and flew onto the grid where Jingchen was standing.

Jingchen looked back at her flying towards him, his eyes fixed on her, and he subconsciously stretched out a hand to catch her in his arms.

Unexpectedly, Mu Hanxing landed steadily. The illuminating bead was not nearby. In the darkness, she did not see his outstretched hand at all. She told him calmly, "Go on."

"..."

He was a little unhappy, but he didn't show it on the surface. He withdrew his hand awkwardly in the darkness, then quickly flew and landed on the square in front.

Mu Hanxing followed closely behind. Although the soul-trapping formation had been broken by their combined efforts, she still clearly felt very weak as soon as she landed on the chessboard. Her spiritual power was weak, and even her physical strength was greatly weakened. If she encountered a strong enemy in this formation, she might be defeated.

Long Jin couldn't wait to go down the secret ladder behind the wall of human faces. The two of them quickly jumped on the chessboard, followed the secret ladder, and hurried down.

Halfway down the stairs, I heard a "bang", the sound of weapons clashing.

Mu Hanxing was startled and rushed down quickening his pace.

The lower level is actually where the Red Viper Tribe, which has survived to this day, lives.

"...It's you...the descendant of Zhulong! Hiss...hiss...Kill! Kill! Kill!" A gloomy and hoarse voice sounded in my ears.

What surprised Mu Hanxing more than actually reaching the snake's nest was the structures on this floor.

This floor has obvious architectural changes compared to the previous floors. Not only are there simple stone houses, but there are also load-bearing stone pillars and buildings that humans can live in. You can even see stone tables and stone benches. Although these monsters with human faces and snake bodies crawl on the ground all day long and cannot sit at the table like humans.

The Red Viper Clan...are so eager to become the descendants of Zhulong who can transform into humans?