Chapter 138: In the Buddhist Temple

Not long after.

In complete silence.

The boy sitting opposite Su Yiming lowered his head and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "I lost..."

"Thanks for your advice."

Su Yiming lowered his head and spoke.

After a long while, the boy sitting opposite Su Yiming finally spoke back with difficulty: "Thank you for your advice."

Seeing this scene, everyone was still staring at the chessboard in a daze.

"The white pieces were completely crushed by the black pieces..."

They could clearly see that Zhang Yuqing, who was facing Su Yiming, had already tried his best. The reason why he lost... was entirely because of the difference in chess skills. Su Yiming was far stronger than him.

It was exactly the same as when Yu Shao faced Liu Jiayuan yesterday.

Zhang Yuqing and Liu Jiayuan were both eliminated in the last round of the finals last year.

After a year of hard training, even if they meet Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin, although there is a gap, they can still fight.

But... facing Yu Shao and Su Yiming, they were all powerless to fight back.

Everyone was silent for a while.

Su Yiming stood up and walked straight to the referee's seat. After reporting the results, he turned around and left the game room.

"Isn't he...going to watch Yu Shao's game?"

Seeing Su Yiming leave directly, everyone finally came to their senses and subconsciously looked towards the third table where Yu Shao was. Seeing that the chess game there had not yet ended, they looked at each other in confusion for a moment.

Yu Shao was just like him, a dark horse that emerged halfway through. Until now they still found it unbelievable. No one could have imagined that Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin would both fall into the loser group.

The most outrageous thing is that they didn't even lose to the same person.

So logically speaking, Su Yiming should care a lot about Yu Shao, but from beginning to end, Su Yiming seemed to care nothing about Yu Shao.

They were just about to go to Yu Shao's table to take a look, but the next second, they saw Yu Shao stand up from his chair and walk towards the referee's seat.

Over there, it's over too.

Everyone had different thoughts for a moment and went to other tables to watch the game.

They looked at the chessboard, but each of them was a little absent-minded, as the previous game of chess played by Yu Shao and Su Yiming kept appearing in their minds.

Inside the game room, the atmosphere was dull and filled with tension.

Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…

The crisp and melodious sound of pieces falling still continued to ring out.

Time passes by every second.

Not long after, someone won, but there was no joy on his face. He walked towards the referee's seat with a heavy expression and reported the result to the referee.

Then, one, two, three...

More and more people have determined the winners and losers. The losers are certainly sad, but the winners also feel a lot of pressure.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, with the end of the last game, the fourth round of the finals of the ranking tournament finally came to an end.

With the end of the fourth round, three people fell into the loser group, nine people were eliminated, only the last four people were left in the winner group, and only the last thirteen people were left in the loser group!

…………

The next day, the fifth round.

The schedule of the qualifying tournament has reached the final stage.

The nine players who were eliminated yesterday, like the players who were eliminated before, none of them chose to leave, but all stayed. They all wanted to see the end of this qualifying tournament.

Everything about this qualifying tournament was beyond their expectations.

Early in the morning, Yu Shao came to the game room again and found a seat to sit down.

Not long after, Su Yiming also came to the game room.

Suddenly, everyone's eyes were focused on the two of them, with inexplicable looks.

Players continued to walk into the game room, but they all said nothing and sat down in an empty seat.

At first, Su Yiming and Yu Shao defeated Fang Haoxin and Zhuang Fei respectively, which made everyone unbelievable. But after the chess games in the first two days proved their chess prowess...

Now, there is only heaviness! Not long after, even though Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin walked into the game room, they still failed to attract anyone's attention.

Finally, as the game time was approaching, Ma Zhengyu and another referee came to the game room again.

Ma Zhengyu looked around the game room, and finally his eyes stayed on Yu Shao and Su Yiming for two seconds.

After a moment of silence, Ma Zhengyu withdrew his gaze and finally said, "Let's draw lots."

Yu Shao was sitting at the first table today. When he heard this, he immediately stood up, walked to the referee's seat, and took out his own signature paper from the signature box.

After returning to the table, Yu Shao opened his signature paper and took a look. The number one was written on it.

It just so happened that he was already at the same table, so there was no need to change seats.

There are only a few contestants surviving to this day, so the drawing was very fast. In less than a minute, everyone had drawn their lots.

Seeing that everyone had drawn their lots, Ma Zhengyu asked about the byes of the loser group as usual, then cleared his throat and said, "Please all contestants take seats at the positions corresponding to your lot numbers."

Hearing this, each contestant walked to their respective seats in silence, while Yu Shao sat at the first table, waiting for his opponent to arrive.

Not long after, Yu Shao's opponent in this round came to table number one. He stopped opposite Yu Shao, but did not pull out a chair and sit down immediately.

"Um?"

Yu Shao was a little confused and couldn't help but raise his head and look across. Then, he saw Su Yiming who was standing opposite him.

Su Yiming also looked at Yu Shao, and their eyes suddenly met in mid-air.

After a long time, Su Yiming finally withdrew his gaze, nodded slightly to Yu Shao, then pulled out a chair and sat opposite Yu Shao.

All of a sudden, everyone stopped and looked at Yu Shao and Su Yiming. Even Ma Zhengyu and another referee couldn't help but look at them.

Round 5

Yu Shao, yes, Su Yiming!

"Yu Shao's opponent in this round is Su Yiming!"

Those who were eliminated were stunned at first, and then they all subconsciously took a deep breath.

The next second——

Without exception, everyone immediately walked quickly towards the first table.

Soon, the crowd surrounded the first table inside and outside, making it impossible to move away.

"Contestants please take seats at the positions corresponding to your draw numbers."

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Ma Zhengyu saw all the contestants standing there, looked at a table, and reminded them: "They have been eliminated, you still have to compete."

After hearing this, everyone finally came to their senses, immediately walked to their respective tables, and sat down.

After everyone was seated, Pu Weize suddenly noticed the situation at table number 10. He was surprised and couldn't help asking, "Table number 10 is... Fang Haoxin versus Zhuang Fei?"

Hearing this, everyone was slightly stunned and immediately looked towards table number ten. As expected, they saw Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin sitting opposite each other at table ten.

The expressions of both of them at this moment were somewhat ugly.

"this……"

Everyone didn't know what to say for a moment, and it felt extremely ridiculous.

Fang Haoxin and Zhuang Fei finally faced off, but in the loser group...

This also means that one of them will be eliminated.

Originally everyone thought that Fang Haoxin and Zhuang Fei had both secured two spots as professional chess players, and the others could only compete for the remaining four spots.

As a result, it seems that at least one of them will be eliminated...

Moreover, the game between Fang Haoxin and Zhuang Fei should have attracted much attention, but at this moment, no one in the audience wanted to go over to see their chess game.

After all, this was a duel between the two who defeated Fang Haoxin and Zhuang Fei respectively! "It's been a year, right?"

At this time, Su Yiming looked at Yu Shao opposite him and suddenly asked.

Hearing this, everyone around was stunned for a moment.

They immediately withdrew their gaze from Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin and turned to look at Yu Shao and Su Yiming.

One year? What one year? Did they know each other before?

"right."

Hearing this, Yu Shao's memory was suddenly pulled back to that rainy night a year ago. He nodded gently and smiled, "It's been almost exactly a year."

At this moment, Ma Zhengyu's voice rang out: "The game time is up. Each side has three hours, one minute countdown, black has a seven and a half point handicap, now you can start guessing the first move!"

After hearing this, everyone put aside their doubts and waited for the game to begin.

At this time, Su Yiming looked at Yu Shao and spoke again: "Each side has three hours, with a one-minute countdown. Black has a handicap of seven and a half points."

Hearing Su Yiming's words, everyone was stunned and looked at Su Yiming in confusion, wondering why Su Yiming wanted to repeat the rules.

"Um."

Opposite Su Yiming, Yu Shao also nodded and repeated: "Three hours for each side, one minute countdown, black has a handicap of 7.5 points."

He knew what Su Yiming meant by repeating the rules. That was to show that he attached great importance to the upcoming game of chess.

After hearing this, Su Yiming finally reached into the chess box and grabbed a handful of white pieces.

Seeing this, Yu Shao also reached into the chess box, took out two black pieces, and placed them on the chessboard.

The next moment, Su Yiming loosened his hand, and the chess piece immediately fell onto the chessboard, making a crisp clicking sound.

"Two, four, six, eight, nine."

Su Yiming stretched out his hand and began to move the chess pieces one by one. He quickly counted the pieces and said, "Nine, an odd number. I play black."

"I play white."

Yu Shao nodded, put the black piece on the chessboard back into the chess box, and then exchanged the chess box with Su Yiming.

"Please advise me."

Su Yiming took a deep breath and lowered his head to Yu Shao.

Yu Shao also immediately returned the greeting: "Please give me your guidance."

Gulp.

As the two of them were guessing who would come first and saluting, a sound of swallowing was heard, and it was unknown who in the crowd swallowed.

However, no one found it strange.

I don’t know why, although it was just a simple guessing game and greetings, everyone could inexplicably feel an extremely solemn atmosphere, one could even say it was solemn.

This made them feel a little unbelievable.

It is common for the atmosphere in a qualifying tournament to be tense and depressing, but this kind of solemnity has never been seen before.

Let them feel as if they are in a Buddhist temple at this moment!

The chess game begins!

(End of this chapter)