Magus Tech (Technological Wizard)

"By the way." Li Cha looked at the clown, and asked meaningfully, "This time, Mr. Clown, are you planning to invite me to stay and watch your wonderful circus performance? Yesterday, I saw it in the village. , unless your program today is different from yesterday's, watching the same program twice is not a pleasant experience."

"Then you're going to be disappointed, I'm afraid I really can't invite you anymore." The clown said, apologetically, "Today's performance is the same as yesterday's. After all, a new show can't be made just by thinking about it. Yes, we all use the same show to keep performing back and forth in one area, and when everyone has seen it, we change to another place, this is our way of survival."

"That's it." The clown said again, "Although I can't invite you to watch the show again, I can invite you to play a little game with me to have fun."

"Little game? Now?"

"Yes, now." The clown nodded, sure.

"What kind of little game is that?" Li Cha squinted at the clown and asked. At this moment, he knew very well that rejection was absolutely unacceptable. Although the clown seemed to mention it casually, he guessed right. This was the highlight of the clown's preparation.

Today he encountered many hidden hunter traps along the way, almost broke the horse several times, and encountered wild beast attacks several times, all of which should be made by the clown, or the black hand behind the clown.

The purpose of doing this is to let him appear in this town at the right time, meet the circus, and then let the clown take the opportunity to do something, just like the clown tried to persuade him yesterday.

Yesterday's persuasion and teaching was forcibly countered by him with his philosophical knowledge, and he didn't know what it would be like today.

What could it be? Li Cha was thinking a little curiously.

The next moment the clown replied: "Here, this is it!"

As he spoke, the clown took out a chessboard and two boxes of chess pieces from his pocket as if conjuring.

Putting the chessboard on the ground, the clown squatted down, took out black and white chess pieces from the two boxes, and quickly placed them on the wooden board.

Li Cha saw that many chess pieces were engraved with animals of various types: lions, tigers, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, bison, antelopes, monkeys, chimpanzees...

There are also some chess pieces carved with characters of different identities, and there are many types: kings, ministers, knights, soldiers, farmers...

The chessboard is the most common square chessboard,

There are many squares, and the clown keeps putting chess pieces in the squares, and after a while, a large piece is filled. Then the clown took out the last two clown-shaped pieces, one black and one white, from the box, and placed them in the grid between the two ends of the board.

Looking up, the clown looked at Li Cha, and said slowly: "Let me introduce, what you are seeing now is something called Clown Chess, which is my invention, you can think of it as a beast chess game played by children , but there are a little more chess pieces, and the rules are a little more complicated.”

After a pause, the clown explained the rules: "First of all, it is the clown chess piece, which is the most important piece in the game. The way the clown chess piece first moves is three squares diagonally, like this. Then, he has three lives. , every time you die, your walking style will change, respectively...

Besides the clown, there are human chess pieces. The king among humans is the most powerful chess piece, but it should be noted that he cannot directly eat the enemy's chess pieces. He must ensure that there are other human chess pieces on his side before he can attack and eat the chess pieces. And the chess pieces around are different, the attack power is also different, and the chess pieces that can be eaten are also different. For example, if there is a minister in this position, then it can kill the enemy farmer in this position...

Then there is the animal card, which can be used to attack any chess piece of the enemy. Whether it can be successful or not depends on the calculation of the attack power. In addition, it is necessary to ensure the balance between the number of animal chess pieces and the number of human chess pieces, that is to say, the animal chess pieces cannot exceed the human chess pieces too much, otherwise it will cause a beast tide. And even if the number of human chess pieces has an advantage, it is impossible to let all the animal chess pieces gather together, which will cause a wave of small animals...

The safest way to treat animal chess pieces is to separate each animal chess piece, for example, lions and monkeys need to be divided into departments. If there is one piece, the lion will eat the monkey directly, and then in the next twelve rounds, there will be no more food, because he is full..."

After a long time, the clown's rules were finally finished. If the rest of the people would have patted the chessboard on the clown's mask, they would have asked, "This is why you said that there are more chess pieces and the rules are more complicated?!"

There are more chess pieces and more complicated rules than just one point, it is simply indescribable!

Even after hearing it once, Li Cha only used a special memory method to forcefully memorize the rules, barely knowing how to move the chess pieces.

Rubbing between his brows and trying to digest the rules, Li Cha looked at the clown and asked aloud, "Mr. Clown, are you really going to play this game with me?"

"Yes, how do you feel?"

"Something cumbersome, but also kind of fun."

"It's just interesting." The clown clapped his hands, "Because my game has considered a lot of rules in reality, and it will give people an immersive experience. How about it, it's not dark yet, come and play with me."

"If I refuse, Mr. Clown will be very sad, right?" Li Cha asked.

"It's not enough to be sad." The clown shook his head, "But you will definitely be disappointed. After all, this game of mine is a bit different. In my opinion, only smart people can play it. And smart people, after all, are rare. It’s not easy for you alone, the conversation you had with me yesterday left a deep impression on me, if you don’t play, then maybe I won’t be able to find another person to play with me for a long, long time.”

"Okay then, I'll play with Mr. Clown." Li Cha squatted down, looked at the clown and asked, "Then who of us will take the first step? Toss a copper coin to decide?"

"No need, I can go first." The clown said.

"Um?"

The clown explained: "The rule of clown chess is that whoever is in the west will go first, and I am in the west now. Of course, you can also change positions with me. Do you want to change?"

Li Cha looked at the clown and blinked his eyes. The current situation involved a very subtle psychological game: before he got more information, he couldn't decide which one had the greater advantage of going first or going later. Although it seems that the clown wants to choose to go first, what if the clown does it on purpose?

After a while, Li Cha didn't stand up and change positions, but made a gesture of invitation and said, "In this case, Mr. Clown, let's take the first step."

"Okay." The clown nodded, and began to move the chess pieces unceremoniously, and Li Cha followed suit. ()