Chapter 133 Chess Piece

It took Lin Zhao a good while to whisper, "Old Mountain Panther is too shrewd, isn't he? He actually used this method to preserve the map."

If it were any other place, this kind of fake map might not have been passed down.

But what kind of place is Yunyin Village? It's a gathering place for thieves, pickpockets, and swindlers. The trust between them might be zero, but when they encounter outsiders, they can join forces to cheat money and share some of the spoils.

This is also the style of the Thief Sect.

A well-made map, with a highly accurate first half, is enough for them to use for swindling. How could they let the map disappear completely?

If one map isn't enough, they might even create more fake maps, and they wouldn't bother to make any changes to the map.

Old Liu pointed to the map on the table and said, "Does Ninth Miss play chess?"

Jiang Jiuyuan shook her head blankly. "I don't understand what you mean."

Old Liu picked up a pen and drew nine circles on the map. "Look at these places, don't they look like the nine stars on a chessboard?"

Old Liu pointed the pen at the mountain in the middle. "This is the tianyuan (center point)!"

Old Liu looked at Jiang Jiuyuan intently. "What exactly was the Thief Sect's treasure that Wei Xuesong took away back then?"

"This..." Jiang Jiuyuan didn't know how to answer for a moment. "Can you let me think about it?"

Old Liu smiled faintly. "Of course. But I must remind you, you'd better make a decision before our hall master returns. His temper isn't very good."

Jiang Jiuyuan said in a low voice, "Aren't you not interested in the Thief Sect's treasure?"

Old Liu said in a deep voice, "We may not want the Thief Sect's treasure, but I must know what that secret treasure is? And what is its function?"

"This is the key to our cooperation!"

"If you insist on not revealing the secret of the Thief Sect's treasure, then let's pretend we didn't meet tonight!"

Jiang Jiuyuan gritted her teeth and said, "Wait for me!"

After Jiang Jiuyuan left in a hurry, Lin Zhao whispered, "Old Liu, is that Thief Sect's treasure really that important?"

Old Liu put away his smile. "The water in Yunlin Mountain is deeper than we imagined."

"Chen Shuyu must have her purpose in bringing this task here."

Lin Zhao's expression changed slightly. "You mean, Chen Shuyu is plotting against Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall)?"

"No!" Old Liu shook his head. "I have a feeling that Chen Shuyu is actually trying to find a way to open Ye Dangjia's memory."

"Let's not talk about Ye Dangjia's previous life for the time being. Just talking about his current life is like a mystery?"

"Ye Dangjia has never mentioned his past before joining Liangjie Tang, and I believe he has forgotten the past. But what is the reason why he forgot the past?"

Lin Zhao said, "If Ye Yang doesn't want to remember the past, isn't Chen Shuyu's approach violating Ye Yang's original intention? Should we stop her?"

Old Liu said in a low voice, "What if Chen Shuyu's appearance was Ye Dangjia's intentional arrangement?"

"This..." Lin Zhao hesitated for a moment, then immediately retorted, "If it was Ye Yang's arrangement, why didn't Chen Shuyu directly tell Ye Yang what happened to him? Or directly use secret methods to restore his memory?"

"Isn't it taking a detour when there is a shortcut, to inspire Ye Yang little by little?"

Old Liu said in a low voice, "That's why I feel confused!"

"I think we should wait and see what happens with Chen Shuyu's matter!"

There was one thing Old Liu didn't say, and that was: Chen Shuyu locked Old Liu with one sentence.

The members of Liangjie Tang all have unknown secrets. If they want to unlock these secrets and enable Liangjie Tang to protect themselves in the world of magic, they can only rely on Chen Shuyu's information.

If Chen Shuyu is driven away, Liangjie Tang will really have no one to use.

While Old Liu was silent, Jiang Jiuyuan had hurried back. "I have already asked the sect master for instructions, and he told me to fully cooperate with Liangjie Tang."

Jiang Jiuyuan sat down. "Very few people in the Thief Sect have seen the treasure of the sect, and our sect master is one of them. The sect master asked me to tell Shiye (martial uncle), that treasure is a chess piece: a blood-red chess piece."

Old Liu's eyes narrowed sharply, and his voice became a little low. "What can that chess piece do?"

Jiang Jiuyuan said, "The sect master said: that chess piece has no effect on the Thief Sect, but if the chess piece is lost, the entire Thief Sect will be in chaos."

"After Wei Xuesong took away the chess piece back then, the entire Thief Sect fell into panic. They immediately issued the Thief Sect's highest-level assembly order, summoning Thief Sect experts to discuss countermeasures."

"After that, those experts, along with the guards and servants in the Thief Sect's main altar, were all beheaded."

"The most terrifying thing is that the headless corpses all maintained their poses before they died. Those who were supposed to be on guard were on guard, those who were supposed to be on sentry duty were on sentry duty... The people in the kitchen were even maintaining the posture of cooking. It's just that they all lost their heads."

"Three days later, all the second-in-command figures of the Thief Sect collectively took over to reorganize the Thief Sect, and began to fully investigate Wei Xuesong's whereabouts. Until they gathered in Yunyin Village."

Jiang Jiuyuan stopped here, but a look of fear appeared on her face.