After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"came back?"

"came back."

Looking at his father standing at the door waiting for him to come back, Zhan Lang nodded a little awkwardly.

Why are you waiting for me at the door? I'm just going to have a meal, why are you so nervous?

People invited me to dinner just to help me get rid of a burden. They did it for my father, but instead they put the burden on me.

"Did anyone see it?"

"I saw it."

"What did you do?"

"We just chatted for a while, had a meal, and played cards for a while."

Zhan Lang said this casually, but thinking back to the previous game, he guessed that the bridge player would not want to play with him again.

There is no way, if it is not turned off, it is open.

With a little added spice, you can’t lose even if you want to.

The most important thing is that person doesn't give himself any slack.

Zhan Lang really had no choice but to let go. All the things were coming to him, so he would win no matter how he fought.

Zhan Lengfeng looked at his son with a calm expression and said helplessly: "Aren't you excited at all when you see him?"

Zhan Lang returned to the living room, poured a glass of water, drank it, and said helplessly: "It's not the first time we meet. Didn't we meet privately last time? Isn't this meeting mainly to encourage me?

Haven't you seen someone even more powerful?"

Hearing this, Zhan Lengfeng instantly became proud: "That's right, I was a combat hero at the time, and I was directly received along with other comrades."

Zhan Lengfeng was quite proud. Why do you need to apply for a visa to go to Seoul now? We went in directly at the beginning.

"That's fine. No matter how difficult our situation is now, can it be as difficult as it was back then? Don't worry too much. Just relax."

"The situation is different. You can't fight them head-on, and you don't have any tactics to speak of.

How did that person encourage you?

"It's just a saying that the army of the underdog will win!"

"But another person nearby said that there was only one unlucky soldier, while the Japanese had four."

"But that person was quite optimistic. He said that it didn't matter if we lost. We won the first time, so losing the second time was just a tie. We can just win it back next year."

Zhan Lang said calmly after drinking the water.

But the situation is not that good. If we lose this year, next year will be even more difficult.

Originally, because of the victory in the first China-Japan Go Challenge, everyone's Japanophobia was slightly alleviated. If we lose again this year, the disease might relapse.

Japan, which had just been demystified, was once again covered with a veil of invincibility.

“You still have to win.”

Zhan Lang recalled that when he was having dinner today, many old comrades had given him advice and advice, and many of them even reminded him not to talk nonsense before the competition. In fact, it was because they were not confident about this competition.

If they were confident, the harsher Zhan Lang spoke, the happier they would be.

Anyway, if we win we can slap the Japanese in the face, so why not?

But the less confident you are, the less you dare to move.

But how to make them confident is also very simple, just win two more games.

"The game is the day after tomorrow, right?" "Yes, if we count the time, they should have arrived at the hotel. I heard that the entire Japanese team is here this time."

There were some things that Zhan Lang did not say directly. During this stage of preparation, the Japanese side was afraid that China would relax its preparations for the closing ceremony because of its hopes. In the faxes sent back and forth, the Japanese side asked and reminded China three times to make preparations for the closing ceremony of the second ring match.

It's almost like saying it directly, we have definitely won this competition so let's hold the closing ceremony as soon as possible. It doesn't matter whether the competition is held or not, the closing ceremony must be held.

Because we Japanese have a need to show off.

Every time a fax came, Hao Qiang would make a copy for Zhan Lang, hoping to inspire his fighting spirit.

After all, the more the Japanese team wants to end the game at this stage, the more we cannot let them do so.

Even if we cannot win, we must drag the game to the next stage and crush the Japanese intention of winning quickly in this stage.

Moreover, this time, a Japanese delegation of nearly thirteen people came to China, which can be said to be an unprecedentedly large delegation, and it is obvious that they came for the purpose of hosting the closing ceremony.

The delegation includes not only the head coach of the previous Japanese team, Fujii Hideaki, and sponsors' staff.

Even coach Katsuya Takenouchi, who had hurriedly finished his Japan title round-robin tournament today, took a taxi to the airport and flew here overnight.

It seemed as if he was afraid of missing the opportunity to show off.

Just as Zhan Lang had expected, the large group of Japanese delegation had already arrived at the hotel where they were staying.

Because they had just arrived during the day, Kenichi Mitsuba, the first Japanese player to compete, did not accept the Chinese side's invitation to visit. Instead, he asked to see the competition venue.

It seems that he wants to familiarize himself with the environment in advance to facilitate the subsequent game.

But after arriving at the competition venue, Kenichi Mitsuba made some suggestions on the sofa, coffee table and even the lighting, and even asked for the same chessboard and chess pieces as this competition to use for training in the few days before the competition.

Judging from these abnormal behaviors, Kenichi Mitsuba seemed to be a little too nervous and tried to hide his nervousness in various ways.

Logically speaking, although Kenichi Mitsuba lost to Zhan Lang last year, Zhan Lang did not win the game completely, and Kenichi Mitsuba had many opportunities.

Even in the Japanese Go community, it has always been believed that if Kenichi Mitsuba had not made any mistakes in that game, so many subsequent accidents might not have happened.

There was nothing we could do about the two games between Toya Masao and Fujii Hideaki, as they were both suppressed. We can't just lie with our eyes open, so we can only make a fuss about the first game.

In addition, Japan is now leading 8-5, so Kenichi Mitsuba should not be so nervous.

But no one knows whether he is afraid of Zhan Lang's three consecutive victories last year, or he is eager to prove himself and wash away last year's failure. Sanye Kenichi's mentality is obviously not calm enough now.

However, it is also possible that the overly optimistic mentality released by the Japanese side has invisibly put pressure on Kenichi Mitsuba.

Perhaps he himself was asking himself, can he live up to the expectations of the Japanese team?
End the game here?
On the other side, Zhan Lang was not calm either.

After all, Zhan Lang has not reached the dog level yet, and can’t accurately catch humans.

Zhan Lang feels that his current level should be better than Sanye Kenichi, but to a limited extent.

Before the game, those people boasted about a 50% chance of winning, and 90% of that chance definitely lay on Kenichi Mitsuba.

Zhan Lang said that the other party was just bragging and that his chance of winning was only 70% at most.

If it's really 90% accurate, then you won't have any anxiety at all.

Zhan Lang is now forcing himself to relax. He even skipped training a few days before the game and instead played chess with the nearby chess team.

But these actions just prove that Zhan Lang is also nervous.

Zhan Lang even complained to Ye Qing privately that a lot of people told him not to be nervous, but how could he not be nervous?

The match against Kenichi Mitsuba will be broadcast nationwide on television. If he doesn't perform up to standard and gets killed, he will be too ashamed to face the people of Jiangdong. If he is not nervous at all, he will really become a god.

Just like that, both contestants stepped into the arena with a nervous mood.

(End of this chapter)