Lan Ke Qi Yuan Chapter 1: Chess game

The quiet mountains and forests are filled with birds chirping and the flowers are fragrant, and the cool temperature by the mountain streams also makes you feel more comfortable.

A group of people are busy here, playing and setting up tents and campsites.

This is a camping activity organized privately by company colleagues. Of course, all of them are young people. Because they have to carry tents and other equipment for hiking, the older people are not strong enough.

Originally everyone hoped that the company would organize a camping trip, but the company organizes group tours every year, with tour guides driving buses. So this year, many colleagues simply did not go with the company, and instead asked a few people with outdoor experience to go on a camping trip. The leader organized it himself, so we had this mountaineering camping trip.

Ji Yuan has only been working in this software company for two years, and his hair is still full of black. He naturally belongs to the category of young people, so this time after setting up the tent, he was playing mobile games online with another colleague.

"Hey, hey, I'm planning on fate, I'm going to give you a lot!!!! Hey!! I'm dead!"

"What's the use for you? It falls after two seconds of being put on it. It's better for me to escape by myself. Now it's better. I'll give you a double kill in the bottom lane..."

"My, my, my...I will let you play shooter, I will help you!"

"No, no, no, no...I'll find help from passers-by..."

Even though this place seems to be in the mountains, you can still see the base station on the top of the mountain in the distance. The two of them were playing hard with their mobile phones, and there was not much delay in the Internet speed.

Of course there are still places in China where the signal is very poor or even non-existent, but most people have long been accustomed to having a signal everywhere. This is the confidence brought by the improved infrastructure and equipment, making people forget about the signal without realizing it. .

The location where they set up their tent was on a relatively flat hill with a clear stream beside it, making it an excellent location for wild camping.

A total of more than a dozen people have come, a large number of them are taking pictures outside, and a few are adjusting their tents. The only ones who seem to be free are Wang Gang, Ji Yuan and Li Jun.

Wang Gang was going to use stones to build an earthen stove for barbecue. He looked at the camp and saw that Ji Yuan and Li Jun had something to do.

"Ji Yuan, Da Jun, stop playing games and go find some firewood. We'll start a fire soon, otherwise we'll have cold canned food for lunch!"

A little further away, a colleague shouted to two people sitting at the entrance of the tent.

"Got it!!!" "Okay!"

Li Jun and Ji Yuan both replied, and then looked at each other. Anyway, they had already been criticized by their teammates, so they just quit the game.

The two stood up and walked towards the woodland on the edge, entering the denser shade of trees.

There is no shortage of firewood in the mountains and forests, and fallen branches are everywhere. Li Jun drags a big branch around, swinging it around from time to time, and shouting "hey, hey, hey", which in Ji Yuan's eyes looks like Fool.

In order to prevent being infected and afraid of being accidentally injured by Li Jun's "crazy" stick technique, Ji Yuan hurriedly stayed away from this guy.

Like most young people in modern times, Ji Yuan has a lot of brothers and sisters. Among his parents, Ji Yuan's father is an only son, but he also has several aunts. In Ji Yuan's generation, he is an only child.

Perhaps because there are fewer children and grandchildren, the more precious things are, some simple and crude naming patterns such as "Golden Flower, Silver Flower, Guoxing, Cuifen" in Lao Ji's family suddenly became poetic when the grandchildren came. Grandpa even asked for advice from the former After decades of thinking together with my uncle, a Feng Shui master, we finally chose a single name with the character "Yuan", and the whole family was very satisfied.

"Ah! The air in the mountains is so good!! Traveling should come to places with beautiful mountains and clear waters!"

Ji Yuan sighed and was not in a hurry to collect firewood. Instead, he walked around in the forest first and it would save more effort to bring it with him on the return trip.

After walking around for just over a minute, Ji Yuan suddenly discovered that there were several huge and thick trees in front of him. They looked many times larger than the surrounding trees.

"Army, Army, come and see, there are some super thick trees!!! Army!!"

Ji Yuan shouted to the other side and found that the guy was still brushing his stick, so he ignored him for the time being and planned to walk over to take a look first and then take everyone to have a look.

As he got closer, Ji Yuan had a more intuitive feel for these trees.

Only the outermost one has many exposed roots, which are intertwined on the ground. Some of them are estimated to be as thick as the thighs.

‘Wow…there is such an old tree? ’

Niutoushan is not a famous tourist attraction, but there are still many people who come to the mountain for picnics and barbecues. It stands to reason that someone should post such a big tree online, right?

But Ji Yuan just thought about it casually, and then turned to the other side where the big tree outside blocked his view.

"Hey!!"

A confused voice came from his mouth.

On that side, in addition to seeing several other ancient trees that were also extremely strong, there was actually a chessboard in the middle of the trees. To be precise, it was a tree stump with a chessboard on top.

Ji Yuan subconsciously took a few steps forward and reached the tree stump where the chessboard was.

Looking around, there were no warning signs to remind tourists to pay attention, and of course there were no people playing chess.

On the chessboard, black stones and white stones are crisscrossed, the black stones are like a formation, and the white stones are like a dragon. It is a typical Chinese Go game, and it is also a chess game that is half a game.

This made Ji Yuan a little curious. Is the hill Niutoushan intended to be developed as a scenic spot?

However, the chessboard and its surroundings were covered with fallen leaves and dead branches, with bird droppings and rotten fruits scattered intermittently. Whether it was a real game or a decoration, it was obviously a long time ago.

Then his eyes glanced at a special thing behind the chess game. There was a rusty object next to an old tree. It had obviously bulged and deformed due to excessive rust.

Ji Yuan took a few steps closer and took a closer look. After thinking about it, he felt that it looked like an extremely rusty axe.

‘Wait! Could it be the legendary Lanke chess game? ? ’

This idea also made Ji Yuan laugh. The decoration really looked like that, and it also aroused Ji Yuan's interest.

He returned to the chess game and studied the clues carefully. Looking at the black and white pieces on the board, Ji Yuan, who didn't know much about Go at first, suddenly felt that the white piece, this big dragon, was becoming more and more awkward. It could be very coherent, but one piece was missing. Everything is connected, and there is a sense of threat of being surrounded by seemingly chaotic sunspots.

The key point is that for some reason, the feeling of a white dragon with missing corners made Ji Yuan suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. He glanced at the two wooden chess boxes beside the chessboard several times from the corner of his eyes, and then, he reached out and took one by accident. A white piece.

This chess piece is very heavy when you hold it. It feels like you are holding an iron piece, but it feels like ceramics. Ji Yuan weighs it, looks around again with a guilty conscience, reaches out and places the white piece in the center of the chessboard. That is "Tian Yuan" in Go terminology.

"Okay!! I feel much more comfortable now!"

Ji Yuan clapped his hands and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, intending to take a few photos, record a video or something, and then ask everyone to take a look.

I just pressed the unlock button on my phone several times, but no unlock prompt popped up.

"Holy shit!! What's going on? The battery is really out!?"

The phone is really out of battery, and because of the Changan power button, the phone vibrates to start up and then shuts down automatically. Pressing it again does not even turn it on.

I just finished playing with my phone and it still had at least 80% battery, but now it turned off automatically without even realizing it.

Ji Yuan turned around and looked outside, but he didn't see the army playing sticks before.

‘Forget it, go get the power bank! ’

With this thought in mind, Ji Yuan walked towards the camp. After taking a few steps, he realized that the sky was actually getting dark.

After walking for a few minutes, Ji Yuan was confused. He saw the trickling stream and the flat hills. But, where was the camp?

Not to mention that no one in the company is here, even the tents are all gone. What the **** is going on?

This isn't April Fool's Day, and it's so hard to set up a tent and camp, so a fool immediately dismantled it to play a prank.

Ji Yuan looked around and saw two people wearing some kind of uniforms sitting and resting by the stream a little far away, so he quickly walked closer and asked.

"Excuse me, buddy, have you seen where the campers in front have gone? We just set up the camp not long ago!"

The two of them trembled obviously and looked for Shuyuan www. zhaoshuyuan.com was startled by the sudden sound.

Then he turned to look at Ji Yuan in surprise. Although they were resting just now, they were also paying attention to their surroundings. This person seemed to appear suddenly.

Hearing Ji Yuan's question, one of them subconsciously answered.

"Camping? Just now? No one has been camping in Niutoushan these two days. They are all busy looking for the missing people."

"Huh?"

Ji Yuan's answer made Ji Yuan even more confused.

"Someone is missing in the mountains?"

The company checked before the group came here. There is nothing going on here, and even the weather is very good.

"Yes, I have been missing for more than half a month. A young man named Ji Yuan went camping with his company colleagues. By the way, who did you come to the mountains with? Where are your companions? Don't you know about searching for and rescuing missing people?"

As the search and rescue team members spoke, they carefully looked at the person in front of them, feeling that the foreign trade characteristics of this person were somewhat familiar, while Ji Yuan beside him was stunned when he heard these words.

‘Missing? Myself? More than half a month? ’

Ji Yuan’s first reaction was that it felt ridiculous, and his second reaction was that something was wrong.

Before the astonished Ji Yuan could say anything else, a strong feeling of dizziness came over him.

As soon as his eyesight turned dark, Ji Yuan seemed to have lost all his physical strength in an instant. A strong feeling of weakness and dizziness came over him. His legs became weak for a while, and he fell down.

And during this process, Ji Yuan's body lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his lips seemed to be rapidly weathering and became extremely dry and cracked.

"Sir? What's wrong with you, sir? Be careful!!"

"Hold him, hold him!!"

"Not good!!! Call for reinforcements!!!"

The last sound Ji Yuan heard in his life was the screams of the two search and rescue team members, which seemed to come from outside.