Beauty and the Bodyguard

At the entrance of the Imperial garden, the old eunuch turned to the crowd and motioned for them to stop.""After entering the Imperial garden, please walk around and admire as you wish. However, do not touch anything inside or leave the Imperial garden."

"The first round of the competition is lantern riddles. There are lanterns hanging everywhere in the Imperial garden, and each lantern has a lantern riddle. However, the lantern riddles are initially hidden. Only when two or more people choose one lantern at the same time will the riddle be revealed."

"The person who gets the riddles right first will get one point, and those who don\'t get it right will have one point deducted! Each person must challenge at least ten lantern riddles. If there are less than ten, ten points will be directly deducted and double the points that are not enough!"

"There are hundreds of lanterns in the Imperial garden. Any lantern that has an answer will light up, which means that you can not challenge it. The time to challenge a lantern is one-fourth of an incense stick. If there is no answer within the time limit, the challenge will be considered a failure. All participants will lose two points!"

There were low exclamations around them. Obviously, they didn\'t expect such a punishment. If they couldn\'t answer, they would lose more points, but they had to complete ten challenges, which forced people to challenge.

If he didn\'t challenge them at all, he would lose 10 points. If he continued to lose double points 10 times, he would lose 20 points. In total, he would lose 30 points!

The problem was ... Those who were dressed like scholars had to compete in both civil and martial arts. The Civil competition only had 25 points. If 30 points were deducted directly, they probably wouldn\'t need to participate in the martial competition and would be directly eliminated?

"Alright, that\'s all for the rules. Now, everyone, please enter in order. We can begin the lantern riddles competition immediately! If you think you\'re confident, you can make more guesses. There\'s no upper limit to the chances of challenging!"

The old eunuch retreated to the side after he finished speaking and gestured for the crowd to enter.

Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu followed the group and passed through the gates of the Imperial garden.

The inside and outside of the courtyard walls were like two different worlds. The garden was filled with all kinds of rare flowers and plants, beautiful beyond words.

There were many beautiful palace maids scattered all over the place, and each of them had a lantern hanging above their heads. However, the lantern was not lit, and the surface of the lantern was also covered with a light veil.

When they first entered the Imperial garden, there were two Palace maids distributing signs.

Anyone who formed a two-person team would get a pair of Jade plates. With these Jade plates in hand, they would be able to cross the points at a critical time.

After everyone entered the Imperial garden, they dispersed.

However, no one immediately started guessing the riddles. Although everyone had to challenge at least ten times, everyone wanted to see the situation first.

For a moment, the Imperial garden seemed to be filled with many tourists, but there was no atmosphere of a lantern riddles competition.

Lin Yi wasn\'t in a hurry, and walked slowly with Liu Ziyu, planning to follow and see what was going on.

Not far away, two groups of people were whispering, but their voices still reached Lin Yi\'s and Lin Yi\'s ears.

"By the way ... I\'ve thought of a way to win. Let\'s form a team to play lantern riddles. You win five times and I win five times. This way, we each get five points and lose five points. Not only will we use up the ten challenge chances, but our points will not increase or decrease!"

"Are you sure this is a sure-win method? And not seeking death?"

His companion was speechless,"what if we can\'t guess it?" Two points for each person? We\'ll lose all our points and be eliminated together?"

Lin Yi couldn\'t help but smile. The so-called sure-win method was a bit too naive-only using it on the premise that he could solve the riddle.

Besides, you can definitely guess the lantern riddles, so why do you need to form a team?

"Cousin Zhong da, do you have confidence in guessing the lantern riddles?"

Liu Ziyu was actually quite talented, but he had never played lantern riddles before, so he was not very confident.

In addition, there was a time limit, and he was fighting with others, so it was inevitable that he would be nervous. Liu Ziyu felt that it would be difficult for him to perform well.

"Hehe ... I\'ve played it before, it should be okay!"

When Lin Yi was young, old Lin would bring him to lantern shows occasionally, and they would play riddles together.

Lin Yi\'s skill level was pretty good back then, but he wondered if the lantern riddles of a conferred Kingdom would be even more difficult.

Lin Yi felt that guessing riddles was a bit of a joke.

After all, the sub Island was a cultivation world that focused on body cultivation. It was a bit funny to use lantern riddles as a means of competition.

However, after thinking about it carefully, the environment here was similar to the ancient times of the secular world. Naturally, there was a trend of quartishness.

It was impossible for commanderies to always be at war, and there should be entertainment outside of war.

"That\'s good! It\'s great that you\'re confident, cousin Zhong da!"

Liu Ziyu let out a breath of relief and looked at the two people who were talking not far away. He pulled on Lin Yi\'s sleeve and whispered,"Cousin Zhong da, why don\'t you go challenge those two first and try?"

The difficulty of the lantern riddles had not been tested yet, so everyone wanted someone else to try it first.

But in fact, if one understood, it didn\'t matter who came first or last. No matter how difficult it was, everyone had to complete the ten challenges.

In this way, the person who challenged first might even have an advantage.

Because in the end, most people would have completed it, and the remaining people would not be able to find anyone to challenge. At that time, they could only bear the punishment of ten points deduction and double points deduction!

Lin Yi didn\'t really mind-he looked at the two who were talking, and the one who was talking about the sure-win method looked a little depressed, probably thinking that it was a pity that his idea didn\'t come true.

The other guy was looking left and right, as if to see if anyone was ready to challenge him. Lin Yi nodded to Liu Ziyu, and the two walked over together.

"Two brothers, are you interested in a challenge?"

Lin Yi cupped his fist and smiled politely at them. "There\'s a lantern here, why don\'t we try it? Which one of you would like to give me some guidance?"

The two men\'s expressions changed when they saw that it was Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu.

They still clearly remembered Liu Ziyu\'s brutal performance at the reception banquet.

They wanted to refuse, but they were afraid of offending Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu. The two looked at each other and forced a smile."I don\'t deserve your advice, let\'s just have a spar."

The guy who said he had a sure-win method obviously didn\'t have much confidence, so he pushed his partner out to be Lin Yi\'s opponent.

There was a Palace maid and a lantern next to them, so they didn\'t have to go far. They directly chose the nearest challenge.

After the palace maid confirmed that the two of them wanted to challenge the lantern, she reached out and pulled down the light muslin covering the lantern, revealing the riddle written on the lampshade.