Chapter 28: Qi Zi must find her first
After working up a sweat on the training ground, Su Shui returned to the dormitory, took a hot shower, changed his clothes, and left the school.
Before leaving, she sent a message to Jin Duo Tbao: [Duobao, I will be back later in the evening, and I will leave the dormitory to you! ]
Following the original route, Su Shui arrived at the chess room. Coincidentally, a new little girl came to the room to learn chess, so the owner handed the little girl over to Su Shui.
They chose a small classroom and asked Su Shui to give the little girl one-on-one individual training.
The little girl is named Bei Yingjie, and she is five years old. It is understood that she has been learning Go for a year, but her progress is slow. Her parents want to train her to be an excellent conductor and prepare for the imperial school entrance exam in the future, so they enrolled her in a class.
As soon as the girl came in, she bowed politely to Su Shui. She sat down only after Su Shui gestured for her to take her seat. She was very well-behaved and obedient.
Bei Yingjie's eyes were bright. She asked Su Shui in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Teacher, are you a student of Romeda Imperial School?"
Su Shui nodded, "Yes, I heard that you also want to apply to the Imperial Academy in the future?"
Bei Yingjie smiled and replied, "Yeah, I heard that there are many outstanding people in the Imperial School. Last year, my parents took me to visit the Imperial School. Wow! The Imperial School is so beautiful, and there are many delicious foods! I love it! It would be great if I could get in!"
Su Shui touched Bei Yingjie's head and said, "With me as your teacher, you will definitely pass the exam!"
Bei Yingjie smiled even more happily, revealing a row of neat white teeth.
Su Shui brought a chess board. It was his first time meeting Bei Yingjie and he had never tested her level, so Su Shui wanted to play a game with her to understand her true level.
"Let's play the next round first! If you have real skills, you must go all out and let the master see how capable you are!" Su Shui encouraged.
Bei Yingjie: “Yeah.”
Su Shui let Bei Yingjie play black first, and Bei Yingjie politely placed his first move at the star position in the upper right corner.
After both sides occupied two star positions, Bei Yingjie moved the next black chess piece to the 33 position. This move made Su Shui feel that this girl was quite proactive in playing chess.
In order to test the girl's basic skills, Su Shuizhong followed the basic pattern of three-three response points in a proper manner. Bei Yingjie did not make any mistakes in this pattern.
Su Shui still felt somewhat relieved in his heart. The girl's layout was pretty good, and she had accumulated some fixed patterns. She also probably played a lot of chess games. The next step was her calculation ability.
Su Shui deliberately came up with a life-and-death puzzle to test the girl. Faced with this chess situation, Bei Yingjie fell into long thought.
Su Shui said to her, "Take your time to think here. I'll go get you a glass of water first."
The girl nodded and continued thinking.
After Su Shui took a cup of tea, she stood outside the glass window and observed Bei Yingjie who was sitting in the classroom. Seeing her concentrated and thoughtful look, Su Shui smiled like an aunt.
This little girl is a good material for learning Go. She has strong concentration, is willing to work hard and is resilient. I just played Go with her and found that she has a good mentality as well.
Su Shui took his water cup and sat back in his original position. He looked at the chessboard and asked patiently, "If you haven't figured it out yet, ask yourself, is this piece important? If it's not important, you can take the initiative to move to other places and occupy the main field. If it is important, you can take a gamble if you have the ability to minimize the loss. If it's really not possible, then you can only give up and fight for the first place."
“Learning to give up is a necessary process to advance in chess.”
After listening to Su Shui's words, Bei Yingjie seemed to be shocked. Her eyes suddenly flashed with a firmness and wisdom far beyond her peers. She replied calmly: "Thank you, Teacher Su. Yingjie understands."
Afterwards, Bei Yingjie generously put that chess piece aside temporarily and seized another big piece of the field.
In the following games, Su Shui would continue to throw different levels of life-and-death puzzles to Bei Yingjie from time to time to observe her response strategies and accurately assess her chess skills.
By the end of the competition, Su Shui had a rough idea of Bei Yingjie's level. He still had some distance to go before reaching the next level. Currently, he was at about level six or seven.
This game of chess took more than an hour to finish, and after that, there was only more than half an hour left before the class ended.
Su Shui tailored a strategy for Bei Yingjie based on her situation. In the remaining half hour, Su Shui asked her to write down the score of the game and review it carefully. If she had any questions, she could come to the next class to continue listening.
In addition, she assigned a homework at the end of the class.
Bei Yingjie took pictures of the chess game and homework and recorded them in the optical computer. When he left, he specially added Su Shui's optical computer number. When he saw the ID number "The Poorest Rich Woman", Bei Yingjie's eyes lit up, but there was still no other unnecessary expression on his face.
"Goodbye, Teacher Su!" She waved happily towards Su Shui and ran towards the suspended tram station alone.
Su Shui looked at the little figure from behind and said with emotion: "The children here are really independent. They are only five years old, but they make their parents worry-free. They don't even need to be picked up. They are really good children!"
She looked up at the bright starry sky. The moon in the valley was particularly bright today. "I have to say, the security on this planet is really good. Children don't have to worry about walking on the road at night."
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There is a curfew at Romeda Imperial School. Su Shui hurried back to the school before the curfew. As soon as he entered the dormitory, he smelled the charming smell of hot pot.
Jin Duobao was wearing cute pajamas, turning on the dreamy ceiling projection, playing music, and boiling hot pot.
"Su Shui, you're back! Where did you go tonight? Come and try the hot pot I made." She pulled Su Shui to the dining table.
"I called my sister and Gaia to come over for hot pot, but one of them was busy brushing up on her knowledge as a mecha master, and the other was still training at the training ground so late... I was the only one left, an uneducated person, boiling hot pot."
"Wuwu, you are the only one left to eat hot pot with me."
She personally prepared the seasoning for Su Shui, and also put a lot of vegetables into a bowl and handed it to Su Shui.
“It tastes good, delicious.”
"Su Shui, where did you go at night? Did you go to study like them?"
"I went to the chess room to teach the kids how to play chess."
Jin Duobao blinked his big eyes, "So you guys are all doing real work, and I'm the only one who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun. With my level, can I participate in the Federation Star Tournament?"
Su Shui tilted his head, "The Federation Star Tournament?"
"Well, the Federation Interstellar Games, don't you know? Every year, the Federation holds an Interstellar Games. Last year, the competition was held on Mei Han Star, and this time it will most likely be held on Tian Hai Star. The top military academies from almost every planet in the Federation will participate in the competition."
"My sister studied so hard just to participate in the competition. If you want to participate in the Federation Interstellar Competition, you need to pass the selection."
Jin Duobao said with some disappointment, "I actually really want to participate in the grand competition, but with my current level, I'd rather give up..."
Su Shui encouraged her, "Since you want to participate, then go and try your best to pass the selection."
Jin Duobao was not very confident. "The contest selects the elites of the Imperial School. My strength is not outstanding this time. The contestants are still the elites of the whole school. I guess the students from the Student Excellence Association have taken up several places."
Su Shui: "Don't underestimate yourself. If you want something, work hard for it."
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Mu Jingchen had just finished washing up and sat on the sofa when he received a message from Wen Tianhong. He called Wen Tianhong's computer and saw that Wen Tianhong was sitting in the office looking haggard.
"Lieutenant Colonel Wen, it's already this late, aren't you going to take a break?"
Wen Tianhong looked even older than he had during the meeting. He drank a glass of water to moisten his throat. "Jingchen, since you returned from the Green Forest, the Federation Star Alliance Senate received news of the mutants and sent out an eight-man army, but they were all wiped out. Before he died, he brought the news to the Federation that the mutants had spread to two hundred kilometers away."
Mu Jingchen looked solemn and moved his fingers slightly. In just a few days... had it spread so quickly?
"Lieutenant Colonel, the list of students in the Student Excellence Association has been divided into groups. We can start the operation tomorrow."
Wen Tianhong: "Thank you for your hard work, Jingchen."
He lowered his eyebrows slightly, his lips trembling slightly, and it seemed that he had something in his mind but did not reveal it all. Finally, he was silent for a while before speaking, "The appearance of the mutants this time may not be that simple. I speculate that there may be a bigger conspiracy behind it. The source of the mutation in the Green Forest did not appear out of thin air, but was caused by human factors."
Mu Jingchen leaned on the sofa, his eyes full of sorrow. The scene of the mutant invasion ten years ago was still vivid in his mind. He said in a deep voice, "Colonel Wen, that cave is a bottomless abyss. At the source, there are pairs of blood eyes, tens of thousands of them, and they all look exactly the same."
"I saw despair in those bloodshot eyes."
Wen Tianhong's hand holding the teacup kept shaking. He suppressed the fear in his heart and said, "Don't worry, this time it won't be like the last time. This time it will be a joint battle of the entire federation."
"Go to bed early, Jingchen."
The image of Wen Tianhong projected by the computer disappeared, and Mu Jingchen stood on the balcony enjoying the cool night breeze.
Ten years ago, a mutant crisis broke out on the planet Romeda. The entire Federation was helpless and all those who came to support were wiped out. When everyone thought that this was the day of the extinction of mankind, an unexpected miracle saved the planet Romeda and the entire interstellar federation.
The woman who was hailed as the greatest woman ten years ago, Mu Jingchen's mother - Xie Erwuyi, her death brought peace to the planet Romeda.
Xie Erwuyi participated in the action of eliminating the mutant creatures at that time. That year, the little Mu Jingchen followed behind his mother and fought side by side with her. He saw with his own eyes that the blood-red rose pierced his mother's heart and then gradually withered.
All the mutants that were stained by blood died without exception.
At that time, Xie Erwuyi suddenly realized that she knew her blood could destroy these mutated creatures. Before she died, she instructed Mu Jingchen to hand over her body to the Federation so that the Federation could extract her blood and destroy those mutated creatures.
In addition, before she died, she figured out a lot of things and said something to Mu Jingchen in particular: "It's that medicine... you must find... her."
The young Mu Jingchen never knew what the "medicine" and "she" his mother was talking about were. For so many years, he had been looking for the secret his mother was talking about, but he had no clues.