Zhan Dapeng took a cursory look at the clock, which marked the time Luo Ke had given Xiao Yebai to solve the Puzzle Boards, three boards, a total of two hours.
For ordinary people or even not-so-ordinary individuals like Zhan Dapeng, looking at such a chessboard would make their head spin. Two hours, it might be tight even for a genius like Xiao Yebai.
Zhan Dapeng could only remember that when Xiao Yebai was kidnapped, he practiced this on Dark Island, and the fastest he could solve one Puzzle Board was half a day. New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮※𝓷𝓮𝓽
Xiao Yebai was quite old now, and it was said that intelligence should be higher in children, as the older one gets, the less sharp the mind becomes.
Their chances of winning were not great.
Luo Ke must have thought the same. As long as Xiao Yebai lost, they would have an excuse to do whatever they wanted.
Rather than forcefully using underhanded tactics, the black-hatted ones would, of course, prefer to win them over fair and square.
Regarding this, Zhan Dapeng felt it was a trap.
Luo Ke and his group were eager to act, merely because they had probably sensed their strategy here, fearing they would uncover how much money the black hats had used to acquire Changda.
Acquisition was like a crocodile hunting; swallowing in one gulp was the most meaningful. The longer the delay, the money remained idle, like a ship stranded, with every minute they were losing profits and income.
Now, both parties were actually in a stalemate. All they needed was to wait a bit, just wait patiently. The issue was the sudden burst of justice felt by the women of the Xiao Family.
Zhan Dapeng was indeed finding it somewhat absurd to follow Xiao Yebai dealing with those ladies of the Xiao Family.
The dark rains outside the window showed no sign of stopping.
The pendulum struck for the first time.
The first hour had passed.
Xiao Yebai seemed still stuck on the first Puzzle Board.
The person behind the surveillance camera mockingly chuckled, "Yebai, have you regressed?"
Xiao Yebai didn’t move, as if he was cut off from the rest of the world.
Accompanied by Xiao Yebai’s statue-like response, Luo Ke seemed to grow somewhat anxious.
The clock on the wall ticked away another quarter of an hour. Next, whether it was the dark gaze behind the surveillance camera or Zhan Dapeng watching his own brother, it suddenly felt like a magical act had unfolded before their eyes.
In a moment that was too quick to understand, Xiao Yebai’s uninjured hand lifted, and his fingers waved through the air like a magician.
Such graceful motion, thoroughly pleasing to the eye, made one feel they were not only watching a magician but perhaps a conductor or some other master artist wielding their tool.
After Xiao Yebai picked a chess piece from each of the three boards, in an instant, all were solved.
Zhan Dapeng felt his blood boil, almost choking on the excitment in his chest, barely stopping himself from shouting: Excellent!
Those behind the monitor were naturally rendered speechless.
Setting up three scenarios, and furthermore, linking the three scenarios together, those who couldn’t see this connection and tackled them one by one would definitely waste time and get trapped.
Who else but a true genius could solve the enigmas set by another genius?
After so many years, this little genius who had escaped from their hands had grown up, not only still sharp as ever but had become even more formidable.
The silence behind the monitor seemed to reluctantly admit this fact.
However, Xiao Yebai and Zhan Dapeng didn’t know that the scene of Xiao Yebai solving the Puzzle Boards had also been transmitted to the cabin where Xiao Shumei and the others were imprisoned.