Chapter 197 Are you guys doing team building here?

Three days later, at the Southern Chess Academy.

The national team qualifiers have begun again.

What was different from the past was that today, when a group of professional chess players came to the game room, they all looked absent-minded, glancing towards the door from time to time.

The match schedule for the national team qualifiers was announced three days ago. Ever since Yu Shao defeated Tong Lecheng, his opponents in every round have attracted much attention, and this time is no exception.

Therefore, everyone knew who Yu Shao's opponent would be today! The genius who was also an amateur chess player and won all the games last year and then won the game against the lower-ranked players in just one and a half years, and then fought his way through the games against the higher-ranked players.

Zheng Qin third dan!

Zheng Qin is currently 20 years old. It is not uncommon for people to reach high-level games at around 20 years old. Even Zhang Dongchen was already a 9th dan at the age of 21 and won the title in the same year.

But the problem is that Zheng Qin was just promoted to a professional dan a year and a half ago, and he was not a young player who was trying to get promoted. It took him only one year to go from losing his first professional game to a 2nd dan player to being able to compete with a high-dan player! "I didn't expect his luck to be so bad that he would meet Zheng Qin so soon."

A brown-haired young man looked at Table Number 10, which was still empty, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"But it's a good thing that he met Zheng Qin. If it were anyone else, they might not be his match. It seems that he will lose to Su Yiming..."

"But he deserved to lose. Thirteen consecutive wins, these two first dans, are a bit too scary."

When he thought of this, he felt a little heavy.

He originally thought that Tong Lecheng would be able to defeat Yu Shao, but he didn't expect that Yu Shao actually won, and then went on to win two consecutive victories, which made everyone feel pressured.

If I hadn't been so unlucky and met Zheng Qin in this round, I would probably have continued to win.

However, even if Yu Shao lost today, Yu Shao's strength is much higher than that of him, who has been a professional chess player for three years and is only a professional third dan.

"It seems that a genius still needs to be polished by a genius." The brown-haired young man thought silently.

There are many people who share the same idea as him.

However, Hong Shengchen, who was sitting at table 22, looked in the direction of table 10 with an extremely solemn expression, and was not as optimistic as the others.

Others can only measure Yu Shao's chess ability by the fact that he defeated Tong Lecheng, but he watched the game between Yu Shao and Tong Lecheng from the first move to the end without losing a single piece! The move after the white piece made two consecutive three-three moves, and the move to get rid of the first move, even now when he thinks back to it, he is still deeply shocked! "That move, it simply gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth..."

"If he didn't perform exceptionally well in that game, and that was indeed his normal chess ability—"

Hong Shengchen's mood fluctuated, his expression became more and more solemn, and he came to a conclusion that shocked him: "Even someone as strong as Zheng Qin may not be able to win!"

"It's possible for either side to win or lose. This game of chess will probably be a fierce battle!"

Hong Shengchen had a vague premonition that today's game of chess would definitely exceed his imagination, but the problem was that he had a competition today and might not be able to watch the game.

"I don't know... who will win in the end?"

Inside the game room, everyone had different thoughts, but without exception, everyone was paying unprecedented attention to today's game between Yu Shao and Zheng Qin.

Just then, a fat man in his twenties slowly walked into the game room, immediately attracting a lot of people's attention.

"Sheng Ziyan, seventh stage?"

Seeing Sheng Ziyan walk into the game room, everyone looked a little surprised.

After all, Sheng Ziyan didn’t have any national team competition today, and even if he did, he probably wouldn’t be in the same game room with them.

Could it be that he came to watch the game between Yu Shao and Zheng Qin?

They remembered that Sheng Ziyan had specially watched the game between Yu Shao and Tong Lecheng before, but for some reason, after that day, Sheng Ziyan never paid attention to Yu Shao's next few games.

Just as Sheng Ziyan walked into the game room, another thin young man in his early twenties followed Sheng Ziyan into the game room.

Seeing this young man, everyone was slightly startled.

"Xi Ye, seventh stage?"

But it wasn't over yet. After Xi Ye walked into the game room, another young man who looked to be around 25 years old walked into the game room, followed by the fourth, fifth, and sixth...

Seeing this scene, everyone was completely stunned and stared at the door of the game room.

"He Yu 6th Dan, Tan Han 5th Dan, Chu Zhize 6th Dan, Wu Boming 7th Dan... Du Yongqiang 8th Dan?"

Everyone stared in amazement at the young men who walked into the game room, and for a moment they couldn't help but feel dry in the mouth.

What are you professional chess players from Shouzhuo Dojo doing? Are you doing team building here? Although they don't want to admit it in their hearts, they have to admit that the only reason they came here today is to wait for the game between Yu Shao and Zheng Qin in the near future!

Not long after, another young man with bronze skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes walked into the game room.

"Le Hao is fifth level strong?"

Seeing that Le Haoqiang had also arrived, everyone in the game room looked at each other in surprise.

"Because Yu Shao also participated in the Yingjiao Cup, you came to watch this game? Do you think Yu Shao is a threat?"

"Not really. He even beat Zhu Xinyuan, 9th Dan, in the 10th Dan Tournament before. He almost made it to the 10th Dan Tournament as a 5th Dan. He is one of the strong contenders for the Yingjiao Cup. How could he think that Yu Shao would be a threat to him?"

"Maybe it's not because of Yu Shao, but because of Zheng Qin? Zheng Qin does make him feel threatened."

"Or, is it possible, it's both?"

When Le Haoqiang walked into the game room and saw Meng Ziyan and his group, he couldn't help but be stunned.

When Meng Ziyan and his group saw Le Haoqiang, they all looked a little surprised.

Inside the game room, a group of professional chess players looked at Meng Ziyan and his group, then looked at Le Haoqiang, then suppressed their inner emotions, turned their heads, and stared at the door of the game room.

Who else... could it be? Fortunately, the next people who came into the game room one after another were all professional chess players participating in this round of the National Championship Qualifiers, which made everyone feel a little relieved.

They had never expected that the match between Yu Shao and Zheng Qin would attract so much attention.

After all, this was just a match between a first-dan chess player and a third-dan chess player! However, up to now, the two main players have not even arrived yet.

The atmosphere in the entire game room suddenly became extremely depressing. Everyone was in a very complicated mood. They looked at the door of the game room, quietly waiting for Yu Shao and Zheng Qin to enter.

After a while, a young figure appeared at the door of the game room.

The moment this young figure appeared, he attracted everyone's attention.

One of the real protagonists has arrived.

After Yu Shao walked into the game room, he looked towards the tenth table and saw that there was no one on both sides of the table, so he knew that Zheng Qin had not arrived yet.

Under the gaze of everyone, Yu Shao walked towards table ten, and soon came to the side of the tenth table, pulled out a chair and sat down, waiting silently.

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Time passed by minute by minute, and everyone's heart was restless. They looked at Yu Shao who was sitting at one side of table ten, and then looked at the door of the game room.

No one knew why, but suddenly time seemed to take so long.

Not long after, as everyone was eagerly waiting, Zheng Qin finally appeared at the door of the game room.

Zheng Qin is here too!

Zheng Qin stood at the door of the game room and cast his eyes towards the tenth table.

After seeing Yu Shao, Zheng Qin was silent for a moment, clenched his right fist quietly, took a deep breath, and his eyes became more determined than ever before, even... a little cold.

Under the gaze of everyone, he strode towards table ten, soon came to the opposite side of Yu Shao, then pulled out a chair and slowly sat down.

At this point, the two main characters have all arrived.

For some reason, seeing the two sitting opposite each other, everyone's mood suddenly became a little depressed, as if they felt the precursor to a coming storm.

They suddenly felt it was a bit ridiculous. It was clearly just a national team qualifying match, but it had a bit of the solemnity and tension of a national team challenge match.

"Finally I can play chess with you again."

As soon as Zheng Qin sat down, he raised his head, looked at Yu Shao, and said slowly: "It has been almost two years since our last game of chess."

Hearing this, Yu Shao felt a little confused.

Indeed, it’s been almost two years.

At that time, he had just traveled through time and his first opponent in this world was Zheng Qin. He never thought that Zheng Qin at that time could make it all the way to where he is today.

"I heard that you defeated Qin Haisheng, 7th Dan, and have made it to the main round of the regional competition."

Yu Shao suppressed his mixed emotions and said with a smile, "Congratulations."

"Thank you. I actually won that game with great difficulty."

Zheng Qin shook his head and said, "If I played another game with Qin Haisheng, 7th Dan, at that time, I would not be sure to win."

Hearing this, Yu Shao was slightly stunned and didn't say anything, as he felt that Zheng Qin had something else to say.

As expected, Zheng Qin was silent for a moment, then spoke again: "But——"

Zheng Qin suddenly raised his head, stared at Yu Shao, and continued, "If it were me today, I would win."

There seemed to be flames burning in Zheng Qin's pupils.

Looking at Zheng Qin's eyes, Yu Shao was speechless for a moment.

"I have been waiting for this game of chess for one year and nine months."

Zheng Qin lowered his eyes, looked at the chessboard, and said, "I often can't help but think about what the next game of chess with you will be like... Now, this day has finally come."

Zheng Qin paused, raised his head again, looked at Yu Shao, and said, "Yu Shao, first dan, I will do my best in this game until I die."

"I see, Zheng Qin, third dan."

Yu Shao nodded, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he spoke.

The two of them only addressed each other by their rank, which seemed very unfamiliar.

Because next, they will decide the winner on the chessboard, so their identities, at least in this game, are destined to be enemies of life and death!

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