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Lu Zhaozhao looked around. The strong light just now made her eyes dry and blurry, and it took her a while to recover.

She recalled what the Taifeng soldier had just said. The first level was called abacus, but when she came in, the ground was like a chessboard with crisscross patterns, so what exactly was this level testing?

She walked and observed the surrounding situation.

This place was very different from the West. There were Gobi Deserts and long rivers and setting suns in the West, but here, there was lush greenery and towering ancient trees. So, this place was either an illusion or a newly opened world.

There was no one on this road, and fallen leaves were scattered all over the ground. The only sound was the crunching sound made by her footsteps as she passed by.

Running quickly through the bushes, Lu Zhaozhao saw a towering building in the distance. He thought to himself that it was really something, and then quickened his pace to rush towards it.

She brushed aside the branches blocking her way, and her vision suddenly became bright, but just as she took a step, she was stopped by someone.

"Who is it!" A familiar voice came along with the sound of a hidden weapon piercing the wind.

"Dang!" The bamboo sword broke, and Lu Zhaozhao looked up and met the eyes of the person not far away.

"It's you!" Huai Jiang squinted his eyes and looked at her with an uneasy expression. He was about to say something else but was interrupted by Lu Zhaozhao.

"I'm Guannan, and I happened to be here. Please forgive me if I've offended you."

Huai Jiang didn't understand why she did this at first, since they had seen each other before. But then he thought about it and realized that the meeting was unknown to everyone except them, and who knows who might be watching the scene in the competition arena. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

So, he restrained his expression, put on his usual attitude, looked away indifferently, and turned to leave.

But when he turned around, he bumped into Cheng Sangjie. But Cheng Sangjie's gaze passed Huai Jiang and fell directly on Lu Zhaozhao.

"I accept the invitation of Sang Jie. May I ask if Miss Guannan would like to come in and stay for a while?"

Lu Zhaozhao met his gaze, and seeing his ambiguous expression, she said, "Thank you, friend Chengsang."

Cheng Sangjie nodded in greeting and moved aside to make way. Huai Jiang looked at him with some confusion, but did not refute him and followed him to the side.

Lu Zhaozhao said as they walked up the stone steps. From a distance, they had only thought the building was magnificent, but when they got closer, they realized it was a whole other world.

The buildings are almost identical to those in the human pass!

A city wall was built around the city to form a circle. Parapets and battlements were built on the wall. They were three feet wide and two feet five inches high, with a battlement every fifty steps. The strict regulations made the already strong outer wall even thicker. The outer wall surrounded the round fort inside, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, the Western Territory has not been in contact with the outside world for many years. How could it have the most advanced defense system of the human race?

Lu Zhaozhao was confused, but still walked forward with an expressionless face.

There are already quite a few monsters here. When Lu Zhaozhao walked on the road, monsters would look her up and down from time to time, and she was also looking them up and down.

So far, only Cheng Sangjie and Huai Jiang have been seen among the people of the Eight Clans. However, based on their last meeting, their relationship is average, but Cheng Sangjie and Nan Rongrui are more familiar with each other. Moreover, Chang Yu Lanshan should not act alone, so most of the people of the Eight Clans should be here.

Then, it is no surprise that these people on the roadside should be members of the eight tribes.

Therefore, this impregnable fortress is the base camp of the eight major clans!

Lu Zhaozhao couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. Although they had some kind of alliance, they didn't trust each other, and they all knew it. If these people suddenly changed their minds and refused to cooperate, would she be torn apart here just to eliminate a competitor?

The road was not long. After climbing the last step, Lu Zhaozhao stopped in front of the palace gate and was reluctant to go in.

The door opened by itself from the inside, and the fiery red clothes fluttered, intertwining with the snow-white hair. The person who opened the door was Nan Rongrui.

Behind her followed Tushan Xixiang, and further back, deeper in the room, stood Changyu Lanshan and Chanhe.

"Cheng Sangjie sent a message saying that a girl came. Is it you?" Nan Rongrui winked at her cunningly. Lu Zhaozhao understood and nodded.

She made room for Lu Zhaozhao's body.

Lu Zhaozhao glanced at her bright smile, then looked at Tu Shanxixiang behind her, thanked him and walked in.

As soon as the door closed, the guarded expressions of several people immediately dissipated a lot. Nan Rongrui even walked straight to the chaise longue and slumped down, fiddling with his blood-red nails. He looked at Lu Zhaozhao and said, "Don't be offended. What happened here can be seen by everyone outside, and it can only be said in this hall."

Lu Zhaozhao found it interesting. He looked around the inner hall and said, "Is this Commander Taifeng's work?"

"That's right." Nan Rongrui said, "It's just for convenience."

"Why are you saying so much to her?" Changyu Lanshan interrupted unhappily. He had always disliked Lu Zhaozhao.

Lu Zhaozhao ignored him and asked Nan Rongrui directly: "What do you want me to do?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Nan Rongrui immediately sat up straight, and Tushan Xixiang also shifted his gaze from the knife to her.

"Aren't they looking for me on purpose? Maybe I misunderstood the signs on the road?" Lu Zhaozhao said with a smile. She had noticed from the beginning that the distribution of trees seemed chaotic, but there was only one easy-to-travel path formed by the undulating leaves. This was obviously unreasonable. After all, she had seen so many dense forests and mountain trails in all directions, which would only make people lost.

"Cheng Sangjie is right. You can definitely see it, but I'm too lazy to arrange other routes, so please forget this crude signpost." Nan Rongrui held her chin up, her tone like a lazy cat, and continued: "Do you know how to pass this level?"

Lu Zhaozhao shook his head.

"There are specific areas here, staggered and arranged like chess pieces on a chessboard, but these are dead pieces." She conjured a chessboard with a few pieces on it, pointing and explaining, "We are the pieces on the board that haven't been placed yet, the variables in this game. When we entered, we were automatically divided into two camps, playing against each other, and the winner is the winner."

"How do we play chess?"

"Kill the people in the enemy camp and they will become our pawns." Changyu Lanshan joined the conversation, and it was obvious that he was very interested in this game.

"But there are only a few of you here. Aren't the eight tribes allies? Do you also want to kill those people from the eight tribes who are not in the same camp?" Lu Zhaozhao asked.

But Nan Rongrui just smiled and didn't answer.

An absurd idea came to his mind, and Lu Zhaozhao frowned and said: "You are setting up a trap!"

The door behind him was pushed open with a creak, and Cheng Sangjie and Huai Jiang walked in.

"The key to this competition is abacus, not chess." Cheng Sangjie walked over slowly, found a seat and sat down, and took the tea handed to him by Nan Rongrui.

"A draw is allowed in chess, but both sides need to sacrifice some pieces in the process, so..."

"So you have to figure out a tie and eliminate those who don't belong to you. The more you eliminate, the better for you. Therefore, all eight of you can't be in the same camp."

Lu Zhaozhao finished speaking in one breath and looked at him in disbelief.

Cheng Sangjie nodded.

Lu Zhaozhao spoke with some difficulty: "The chessboard has nineteen lines, one hundred and eighty-one black pieces, and one hundred and eighty white pieces. To make the game a draw, how many of your own kind do you want to kill?"

"Fellow tribesmen?" Changyu Lanshan laughed heartily. "Are you crazy? Are they worthy of being called fellow tribesmen with us?"

He bent down, approached Lu Zhaozhao, and said the cruelest words in the world: "It is their greatest honor to pave the way for us."

Her stomach churned, and Lu Zhaozhao couldn't help but tilt her head to the side and retch. Her eyes lingered on the faces of everyone in the room; they all seemed to agree with this approach.

"Sorry." Lu Zhaozhao left a message and rushed out, leaving the others looking at each other in bewilderment.

"What's wrong with her?" Nan Rongrui was puzzled.

"It doesn't matter. She will come back sooner or later." Cheng Sangjie brushed away the tea foam and sipped the tea slowly.