Aoi looked at the chessboard in front of her and remained silent.
At this moment, she was like a statue, her breathing was barely audible, and she remained motionless in her previous sitting position.
Just when the man opposite her was wondering if she was asleep, Aoi suddenly reached out her hand and grabbed another sunspot from the chess set. Ignoring the fierce fighting in the upper left corner, it landed on the right side of the road.
The man raised his eyebrows, "A casual move? At this time."
Aoi still said nothing, but just put her hand down again.
The man opposite couldn't help but fell into deep thought when he saw this.
For a moment, he felt that there must be a deep meaning in Aoi's sudden landing here, and for a moment, he felt that Aoi was just bluffing. Because the sunspot in the upper left corner was always at a disadvantage, Aoi was probably helpless, so he had to use this side move to disrupt the situation. his attention.
The man had already taken out a white piece from the chess set, but it was just hanging in mid-air, always hesitant, not knowing where it should land.
"Too long." Aoi said.
The man scratched his hair, "Don't rush me, I have already seen your weakness." As he spoke, he moved his hand to the lower left corner of the chessboard, and then secretly glanced at Aoi.
However, he could see nothing from the latter's face, so he moved his hand to the right.
Aoi still had no reaction.
The entanglement in the man's heart is even greater.
Until Aoi spoke again and repeated, "It's been too long."
The man finally made up his mind, but he neither played on the right wing nor in the lower left corner, but launched an attack on Aoi's other corner.
After he finished playing, the man said proudly, "This time it's your turn to guess me."
However, Aoi had no intention of paying attention to the man, and then she made another move, but continued to bite the man's sunspot in the lower left corner.
The man couldn't help but feel a little bored, but seeing Aoi's serious attitude, he had to cheer up.
After that, the two of them didn't speak anymore, and each took another five steps. The man suddenly let out a light sigh, "Are you going to play with me?"
The so-called Zhengzi, also called Guaiyangtou, is a common technique in Go.
Roughly speaking, one side blocks the other side's chess pieces from left to right, forcing the latter side to move all the way down. When it reaches the edge of the chessboard with no way to escape, it then eats it in one go.
If successful, the benefits will be huge, and the outcome of a game of chess can basically be decided.
However, the corresponding risk is also very high, because the left and right blocks are blocked, and the chess pieces are isolated from each other. If the opponent escapes and turns around to counterattack, it will be a nightmare.
After the man discovered that Aoi planned to play Zhengzi with him, he finally realized the significance of Aoi's previous move.
Aoi's white stone happened to fall on the route of Zhengzi, so if the man didn't want to force the Zhengzi to cause his collapse, he could only let the white stone in the lower left corner survive.
Fortunately, the loss wasn't too great. The man still occupied nearly 60% of the territory in the lower left corner, but he just didn't do his best.
But after Aoi took over the area, the man fell behind Aoi in the overall territory.
So he sighed and said, "Why do people always have the stereotype that the mastermind behind all the stories must be good on the chessboard? I am just a bad chess player. Every time I play chess, I always lose more than I win."
Aoi didn't answer. After solving the battle in the lower left corner, she turned her attention to the corner where the man had previously landed. After thinking for a moment, she began to think of ways to kill the sunspot.
"Tsk, tsk, you are really as unkind as the rumors say. From the time we met until now, I have been doing almost all the talking. You have only answered five sentences in total. Even if you don't care about other things, you should at least ask one question. Ask me who I am?"
"I know who you are." Kui Luozi said calmly.
"oh?"
"Recently, I heard that there is a Mr. Ji who can train living people into rare objects, and has been secretly working against Si Tianjian. You must be that Mr. Ji."
The man praised, "As expected of the youngest fifth-level supervisor in the Sitian Prison, you guessed my identity so quickly, but are you so sure that I am Mr. Ji himself?"
"It's not important. Mr. Ji is just a title anyway."
"That makes sense," the man nodded, and then added, "But I'm not the kind of person who would lend his name to others to use indiscriminately. Everything you hear about me is indeed my doing."
After hearing this, Kui was silent again, but then for the first time she looked away from the chessboard, looking directly at the man opposite, and asked seriously, "Why do you want to refine people into strange objects?"
"Good question," the man's face became serious, "because strange objects can bring power."
"So in the end, there is no difference between you and other bad guys. They are all just pursuing power and don't care about the lives of others."
"No, please don't confuse me with those mediocre idiots. I pursue power not to satisfy my own selfish interests, but to bring hope to the world." The man said sincerely.
"It is said that there is a Jinghu Valley in the academy. There are many paper figures living in the valley. Most of them are desperate people. Due to various reasons, they cannot live in the world. So the academy found them and provided them with new ideas. life, and that’s what I’ve always done – to bring hope to people in desperate situations.”
The man signaled that it was time for Aoi to get off.
So Kui also placed another piece on the chessboard and continued, "Does turning people into strange objects count as giving people hope?"
"You have to admit that there are still many terrible things in this world. In comparison, being made into a strange object is nothing. Let's take you as an example."
The man said while playing chess, "When you were young, your family suddenly suffered a big change. Your father was beheaded, and your mother and sister were sold to the Jiaofang Department. As a result, your mother preferred death to death and stabbed the guest to death with a hairpin. He also committed suicide, and your sister chose to accept her fate, but fate did not let her go.
"In her second year in the Jiaofang Division, she was spotted by an elder of the Salt Gang and bought as a concubine. I thought it was a turn of events, but only two months later, news of her death came. You later went to find her body. When they dug it out, they found that all her limbs were missing.
"I have always felt that if it were you, you should be able to understand me, because at that moment you must have had an extremely strong desire for power.
"It's not just about revenge. If you have enough power, you may be able to rewrite these misfortunes from the beginning. Your parents will not die, and your sister can continue to be her lady, and meet a gentle and kind person one day in the future. A man with a smile on his face when he gets married."
The man said, "Although you have always been hostile to me, I am not your enemy. I have always felt that there is only one enemy in this life, and that is fate."
