ring of beasts

() Just when Yang Guang was feeling triumphant, a huge human voice sounded around Yang Guang.

And as this huge sound sounded, the terracotta warriors and horses who had fallen to their death in the square suddenly stopped moving at the same time, only lying upright in the oil.

Before Yang Guang could react from the shock, a very familiar huge building suddenly appeared in the light ahead.

One of the seven wonders of the world.

pyramid.

Yes, in this huge classical Chinese style city there is a building similar to the ancient Egyptian pyramids, only much bigger than that.

Why do the pyramids of ancient Egypt appear in a Chinese-style city, and this Chinese-style city is actually under the Atlantic Ocean?

What a mess.

No wonder someone once said that they had seen a pyramid on the bottom of the sea in Bermuda. It turns out that there really is such a pyramid on the bottom of the sea...

Moreover, there are not only pyramids in this city, but also living people.

As far as Yang Guang knows, even ancient monks cannot live for such a long time.

Could it be a zombie?

But if it is a zombie, it does not have human intelligence.

Moreover, the voice sounded like it was calling him to go to the golden pagoda.

Yang Guang hesitated.

But once you've come, you'll be in peace. It's estimated that even if you want to escape now, people will easily let you go. What's more, the city gate has been closed, and you can't get out at all.

Even if you go out of the city, there will still be a "Bagua Lost Formation" outside to greet you.

If the "Bagua Lost Formation" is fully activated, with lightning and thunder, I won't be able to stop it.

It seems that there is no choice.

Heaving a long sigh of relief, Yang Guang took his two pets and walked towards the huge pyramid.

The tower is in the shape of a square cone, with its spire reaching directly into the sky, hundreds of meters high.

The pyramid is surrounded by a large number of street lights. However, because the street lights are relatively short, they can only illuminate the waist of the pyramid. Therefore, the top of the tower blends into the black sky. It reaches straight into the sky, making it indescribably solemn and strange.

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When Yang Guang walked to the foot of the gold tower, he found that the tower was huge. The end of the bottom of the tower could hardly be seen.

The entire tower is made of huge gray-yellow stones, which are tightly fitted and as smooth as a mirror. Even a fly cannot stand on it.

There is a huge oval entrance at the bottom of the tower.

This entrance is dark and deep.

Yang Guang hesitated.

"Come in, young man. I'll wait for you inside." The voice spoke again.

Well, this is a blessing, not a curse, but it is a curse that cannot be avoided.

There is no turning back when the bow is drawn.

Yang Guang stepped onto the smooth steps and walked towards the huge cave entrance.

The moment he stepped into the tunnel, the walls on both sides suddenly lit up.

Two terracotta warriors and horses that were much more delicate than those outside were waiting for Yang Guang, and they were holding two light sources that looked like those street lamps.

Seeing Yang Guang come in, the two terracotta warriors immediately turned around and led the way.

Yang Guang walked behind the two terracotta warriors and horses.

The deep cave is more than ten meters wide. The walls underneath and around it are extremely smooth and flat without any decoration. However, they appear extremely elegant and solemn.

There are many branch roads and tunnels separated on both sides, like an ant hole.

As we walked, the road began to wind and spiral underground.

Damn, this is already the bottom of the sea. If you go further down, you won't reach the magma layer.

Should I take a lava bath? Yang Guang thought to himself.

Just as Yang Guang thought, after following the two buddies for several hundred meters underground, he slowly felt that the temperature was getting hotter and hotter. Although his physical fitness was far better than that of ordinary people, he gradually began to feel unbearable.

Fortunately, after a while, we came into a huge hall. This hall was actually bright, because the walls on both sides were also embedded with light sources like "street lamps".

This hall is as vast as a stadium.

At the far end of the hall is a huge circular pool, but red flames appear from the middle of the pool from time to time, making the hall brightly red.

Could it be that the round pool really leads directly to the magma?

And there are a large number of terracotta warriors and horses standing on both sides of this hall, including spearmen, carriages and the like, some made of black iron, and some made of red terracotta warriors and horses.

There are also a lot of other strange rocks and things.

"Bang" When Yang Guang entered the hall, a stone door suddenly fell from behind, blocking the entrance.

And this huge sound also made Yang Guang tremble in his heart.

"That's great. I haven't seen a living person in a long time." The voice sounded in the hall again.

Yang Guang said nothing and listened quietly.

"You can break through the Bagua array and trap those puppets outside. You are not stupid at all."

"..."

The voice started talking on its own, without giving Yang Guang a chance to interrupt.

"Hey, why don't you speak? Aren't you mute?"

"You are the mute." Yang Guang shrugged and said, "You didn't give me a chance to speak at all, okay?" "You're not mute. That's great. You can talk to me, old man."

The voice started talking on its own again.

Damn, talkative.

"Hey, are you a human or a ghost?" Yang Guang became impatient.

"Well, I don't seem to be a human, but I'm not a ghost either."

"Then what are you?"

"What am I, haha, I'm not a thing," the voice said with a triumphant smile.

Hey, Yang Guang almost burst out laughing.

Following the laughter of that voice, two terracotta warriors walked out of the darkness carrying a pillar-like transparent crystal.

The crystal is two meters high and one meter thick in diameter.

And in this transparent crystal, you can see an illusory figure of an old man.

This figure was wearing a dirty Taoist robe, his hair and beard were gray and messy, but his face was ruddy.

"Hey, I'm surprised," the old man inside the crystal said proudly.

"Surprised" Yang Guang said sincerely.

"My body has been inactive for many years, and what is stored in this soul stone is my consciousness." The figure saw Yang Guang's surprised look. He said even more proudly, "This is my exclusive invention."

Yang Guang can only write the word "service". This thing is years ahead of human technology.

"Is your old man an alien?" Yang Guang asked in surprise, because some experts said that the pyramids were built by aliens, and this old man has such advanced technology.

But do aliens still wear Taoist robes? Yang Guang was confused.

"Alien, what kind of sect is that? I've never heard of it." The figure in the crystal stone looked like he was thinking. "Listen carefully, I am Tianji Zhenren, the leader of Qianji Sect."

It turns out that it is also a sect left over from ancient times.

"Hey, kid. I see you also have the strength to build a foundation. Which sect are you from?"

"I don't belong to any sect, I am self-taught," Yang Guang said.

Those ancient sects fight all day long. Yang Guang is not sure that they have no conflicts with the Beast Taming Sect, so he should not be so serious.

I believe Master Yulong will forgive him. After all, the enemy is strong and I am weak, and there is nothing I can do. Yang Guang thought to himself.

"That's it." The old man inside the crystal looked like he was thinking.

"It's been thousands of years. It's hard to see a living person. You play chess with me," the old man said suddenly.

Nani, what is going on?

I am a bad chess player, Yang Guang shouted helplessly in his heart.

How many young people at his age are good at chess?

Moreover, the other party was so old and experienced at a glance, so how could he possibly defeat him?

However, Yang Guang felt that the other party might just be bored. He was addicted to chess, and after meeting him, he wanted to play chess with him.

Therefore, Yang Guang did not object.

"But you old man doesn't even have any hands, how can you do it?" Yang Guang asked.

"Hehe" the old man in the crystal smiled, and the light in the hall brightened again, like daytime.

A huge chessboard like a football field appeared on the floor of the hall, and this chessboard was painted on the ground.

At the same time, the black and red terracotta warriors on both sides began to slowly walk towards the center of the hall.

In Yang Guang's daze, terracotta warriors and horses of various styles slowly stood in their respective positions on this huge chessboard.

You can also do it this way and use these life-size terracotta warriors and horses as chess pieces.

The terracotta warriors and horses on my side are black, but the old man uses red terracotta warriors and horses.

Except for the color, the shape is the same as Yang Guang's.

Soldiers are terracotta warriors with shields and swords...

The cart is an ancient terracotta chariot. There are two dark iron horse-drawn carts in the front, and there are three terracotta warriors standing side by side on the cart. One in the middle is holding a rein to drive, while the other two are holding halberds.

The horse is the dark knight holding a spear that Yang Guang has seen.

The cannon was not the current pipe cannon, but four terracotta warriors and horses pushing this trebuchet the size of a car.

Elephant, it is really an elephant made of black iron like an elephant, with an elephant knight sitting on it.

The two terracotta warriors carried the old man in the glass pillar to the opposite side, taking the "general" position.

However, there is an empty chair in the commander's position on his side. It seems that he wants to be the "coach" himself like the old man.

Okay, Yang Guang understood, and he took the position of the boss.

Looking left and right, there are black terracotta warriors and horses with "chariots, horses, elephants, and warriors" neatly arranged on both sides.

In front are five terracotta warriors with swords and shields and two car-sized trebuchets (cannons).

It feels like you are really on the battlefield.

"Hahaha, boy, if you beat me, I will give you huge benefits."

"How about losing?" Yang Guang asked calmly, unmoved.

"If you lose," the old man said calmly, "then there is no need for you to live. I will use your soul to refine the puppet."

"Look at the puppets around you. After the puppets are cast, the human soul is injected into them." The old man said calmly, "But before that, the memory must be erased."

"So that's how it is." Yang Guang suddenly realized.

The steel bodies of these terracotta warriors and horses seem to be the hardware of a computer, while the human soul is like the operating system of a computer.

This is how it was done. Yang Guang originally thought that these terracotta warriors and horses were semi-artificial intelligence created by them.

"Otherwise, why do you think these steel puppets can move like humans?" the old man explained with a smile.

Yang Guang took a breath of cold air.

This smiling old man suddenly became like a devil in Yang Guang's eyes.

To refine these puppets, I don't know how many people would be killed.

But the old man didn't mean anything when he spoke.

Yang Guang seemed to see a Frankenstein. He only cared about his own research and did not take his own life or the lives of others seriously.

However, I’m not too busy worrying about other people’s lives right now.

His life was in danger right in front of him.

You must know that you only know how to play chess. How could you have played such an old monster before?

Even the second uncle next door is extremely talented in Yang Guang's eyes.

It is conceivable that an old monster like this who has lived for thousands of years must be much better than the second uncle next door.

Sitting in the handsome seat, Yang Guang thought hard about countermeasures.

Yang knew his own strength. He had never played ten games of chess in his more than twenty years of life, eight of which were played on a computer.

It's not okay to be with others, Yang Guang really doesn't want to be abused by others.

But on the computer, even in the simplest mode, Yang Guang was still abused.

There is no doubt that if I rely on my strength, I can't beat this crazy old man.

However, Yang Guang couldn't think about it for a while.

"You move first," the old man said.

Yang Guang knew that now was not the time to be humble, but how could he play a chess game that was as big as a football field? He couldn't move an elephant that was as big as a truck.

"How to go?" Yang Guang said.

"Look at your feet," the old man said.

Yang Guang saw a rattle placed in front of his seat.

"Pick up the rattle, drop a drop of blood, and mentally think about where the chess piece is going to go."

Yang Guang picked up the rattle and did as the old man said.

The first step, how to go.

By the way, I forgot one important thing.

"Is winning or losing determined by one round or..."

"What do you want?" the old man asked.

"Best of three games, no, best of four of seven games, or best of five of nine games." Of course Yang Guang wanted to delay time.

"If there aren't that many chess pieces, we can win two out of three games," the old man said majestically.

Not that many chess pieces? Yang Guang didn't understand, but he didn't dare to bargain any more.

"If you don't want to leave, I will leave," the old man said.

"I'm going, I'm going," Yang Guang said hurriedly.

Taking the first step is the advantage of taking one step.

Yang Guang thought silently in his mind.

Mount your horse.

I saw the knight on the right suddenly galloping on his horse, and after a burst of hoofbeats, the knight walked to the opposite corner of the cross.

The horse is gone.

When the old man saw Yang Guang moving, his chess pieces also began to move.

On the old man's side, four red terracotta warriors pushed a huge trebuchet (cannon) and began to move slowly.

But it is used as a cannon.

Yang Guang's chess piece moves again.

Get on the "car".

The terracotta warrior who was driving tightened the black iron reins, and the two iron horses began to slowly start, pulling the huge black iron chariot forward slowly...

The old man's chess pieces began to move again.

The four terracotta warriors began to adjust the angle of the trebuchet.

Suddenly, the catapult machine (cannon) threw out a huge round iron block, which hit Yang Guang's "car".

With a "bang", Yang Guang's "car" was immediately smashed into pieces, and dust flew up. Yang Guang also felt the ground beneath his feet shake violently.

Then the four terracotta warriors and horses slowly pushed the trebuchet (cannon) and creaked to the position of Yang Guang's "car".

No wonder the old man said that there were not enough chess pieces, but it turned out that he actually played the game for real.

These terracotta warriors and horses actually fought for real.

It makes Yang Guang feel like he is really on the battlefield.

Moreover, the trebuchet (cannon) was probably not an ordinary trebuchet, because even with all my strength, I could not leave a trace on those terracotta warriors and horses, but now they were smashed into pieces like porcelain.

Yang Guang mounted his horse and attacked the old man's trebuchet (cannon).

I saw this black iron knight galloping on horseback, came to the position of the trebuchet (cannon), used his spear to overturn four red terracotta warriors, and then smashed the trebuchet (cannon)...

More than an hour later, just as Yang Guang thought, he was on the verge of failure.

The old man's red terracotta warriors and horses have completely surrounded him, and Yang Guang is the only one left with "elephant" and "shi".

The rest of the chess pieces have been killed and injured by the old man's terracotta warriors and horses.

Like walking in a field.

The huge black iron elephant next to Yang Guang, as big as a bulldozer, wagging its tail, stepped forward and used its long trunk to whip away one of the opponent's knights (horses).

The other party gets on the "car"

A huge red iron horse galloped from afar, and the two terracotta warriors on the carriage stabbed the elephant in the belly with their halberds.

After the red "car" ate the elephant, it was already facing Yang Guang. The next time it charged, it could reach Yang Guang's position.

The opponent has already "checked".

Yang Guang quickly moved the chair and walked to the cross grid on the side to avoid the "car"'s charge...

Yang Shang "Scholar".

The "Shi" is different from other terracotta warriors and horses. It does not have the shape of armor on the outside, but looks like a robe. It holds a long sword, like a swordsman.

I saw the "soldier" flying up in the air, and with one sword he chopped off the heads of the three terracotta warriors on the opponent's "car".

Now it was someone else's turn to play chess. The opponent's trebuchet (cannon) "jumped" and fired again, smashing Yang Guang's last chess piece, "Shi".

On the left, the red knight has an expressionless face, and the cold tip of his spear is pointed at Yang Guang's throat.

On the right, the red trebuchet was also less than ten meters away from Yang Guang, with the angle completely aimed at Yang Guang.

Yang Guang has no choice but to lose.

"Boy, if you lose in the next game, your life will be lost," the old man said coldly.

Yang Guang broke into a cold sweat.

"Next game." Following the old man's order, the red terracotta warriors and horses that had reached Yang Guang's side slowly retreated back.

A large number of soldiers, horses, elephants, and cannons came again from both sides to replenish the dead terracotta warriors and horses.

But Yang Guang's side is completely new, because all his soldiers are dead.

The old man seemed to be trying to tease Yang Guang, otherwise he would have been killed long ago.

Seeing that all the chess pieces were in place again, the old man shouted "go" again.

Yang Guang is full of cleverness.

If you win two out of three games, if you lose one more game, you will be completely lost.

With so many terracotta warriors attacking him, Yang Guang couldn't run away, fight, or play chess. He had never encountered such a dangerous situation before. Even if he failed, he could still escape because of the Ring World.

But now, I can't escape even if I run.

The shadow of death really shrouded Yang Guang's head this time.

This is really a death game.

He had no doubt that a madman like the other party would really kill him.

What to do, what to do? (To be continued.)