After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"But the next player, Shohei Takemiya, is one of the most outstanding players in contemporary Japan. Since the beginning of this China-Japan Go Challenge, he said that he is looking forward to fighting Zhan Lang in the China-Japan Challenge.

Zhan Lang lived up to everyone's expectations and arrived in front of him. This game was indeed extremely exciting.

From my outsider's perspective, Zhanlangjun is undoubtedly the strongest player in Chinese Go, and Wu Gong is also one of the strongest players in Japanese Go.

Therefore, the battle between the two can be called a battle of the century that occurs rarely in a century, representing the highest level of confrontation between Chinese and Japanese Go, so I am looking forward to this passionate collision between the two of them in the near future.

I think this game will be very exciting! It will definitely surprise everyone! It may even lead to a match that shocks the whole world!"

Fujii Hideaki's last words aroused long-lasting applause from the participants. In addition to the results of the game, everyone was indeed looking forward to playing more exciting games.

At the same time, it was precisely because of Fujii Hideaki's speech at the meeting that the final battle between Zhan Lang and Takemiya Masahei, which was named the "Match of the Century", began to ferment in the media of both countries.

Why shouldn't we look forward to this century-long battle that represents the highest level of competition between China and Japan?

There were also people from the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun in the Japanese delegation this time, and they delivered all the information they obtained back to Japan as soon as possible that evening.

The Asahi Shimbun worked overtime overnight, and the next day's sports edition focused its coverage on the war of the century that was about to take place.

No matter which aspect you consider it from, it is definitely better to focus on this aspect in reporting.

After all, we can't report that a bunch of people from our country excitedly went to China to attend the closing ceremony, but ended up being beaten twice in a row, and the result of the competition was postponed to the last two games.

Although this news is indeed true, it is really disappointing and Japanese chess fans really don't want to see such news.

Of course, we cannot help but report on it, but it is mainly placed in the corner and reported in a relatively "small" space.

This not only highlights the fact-seeking nature of my journalism, but also makes everyone happier. You can't see it because you ignored it. Anyway, I definitely reported it.

All are happy.

After all, people always have to look to the future, so it is only natural that the future game of the War of the Century should be reported on the largest pages.

In addition to reporting the players' remarks in detail, the Asahi Shimbun also asked delegation members to interview the two former head coaches of the tournament, Fujii Hideaki and Takenouchi Katsuya, for their opinions.

Katsuya Takenouchi believes that although China's Go level has indeed improved significantly from these two competitions, it will take at least five years to catch up with Japan. Therefore, Zhan Lang, as the top force of China, cannot defeat Wu Gong.

The outcome of Fujii Hideaki's game being decided in one game is too random, and the difference in the two players' levels is not that big, so there is no way to judge who will definitely win, but he wants to vote for Takemiya Masahira.

After all, Takemiya Masahira is his family. Who doesn't want his family to win?

The fundamental reasons why Fujii Hideaki is good about Chinese Go are that he loves Go and hopes to promote it worldwide. Another reason is that he hopes to use external threats to encourage Japanese Go to stop being complacent and make further progress.

Also in China, after the news of Zhan Lang's three consecutive victories spread, almost all Chinese newspapers that publish Go news reported this event with nearly twice as much content as usual.

However, the public and newspapers with certain knowledge of Go formed two opposite extreme ideas about the subsequent competitions.

Most of the civilian followers were in a very excited mood, already obsessed with Zhanlang's three consecutive victories, which were the same miraculous achievement as the previous session.

Some optimistic people directly think that since Zhanlang has achieved three consecutive victories, then the possibility of a fifth consecutive victory is not very high?

Even Peking University and Tsinghua University wanted to invite Zhan Lang to give a report and talk to everyone about the competition, but unfortunately Zhan Lang refused.

But even if Zhan Lang could not be invited, Tsinghua University and Peking University still invited Chen Long, the person in charge of the Chinese Go national team, and Hao Qiang, the person in charge of this challenge tournament, to give reports in the auditorium.

Even though Zhan Lang, the absolute protagonist, was not present, the venue of the event was packed with just these two people.

From this we can see how popular the boxing match is among the public, especially among college students, where many people are paying attention to it.

However, subsequent reports in various Go-related professional magazines do not seem to be very optimistic about Zhanlang.

There were even many newspapers that published articles listing a long list of data, indicating that there was still a significant gap between Zhan Lang and Takemiya Masahiro. It was a miracle that Zhan Lang won three consecutive victories in this tournament.

But taking all factors into consideration, the chance of defeating Takemiya Masahei is less than 30%. It is irresponsible to blindly expect Zhan Lang to always defeat Japanese chess players.

Some people even analyzed that the outcome of this game will be decided within fifty moves. If Takemiya Masahira can overwhelm Zhan Lang within fifty moves, Zhan Lang will be in danger. On the contrary, if Zhan Lang can effectively curb Takemiya Masahira's cosmic flow and extend the battle line, Zhan Lang will undoubtedly win.

Because this kind of analysis article that seems very rational and mysterious is loved by many people who don't know much about Go, such prediction reports can be said to be constantly published in newspapers of various media in China. Even newspapers that have nothing to do with Go can't help but let people who don't understand it at all write an article to get some attention.

Anyway, if you write something relevant, people will pay for it, so why wouldn’t the newspapers write about it?

Even Takemiya Masahei, who was previously virtually unknown in China except for professional chess players, became a household name in China with Zhan Lang's fame and this game of the century.

To some extent, riding on the popularity of celebrities and creating a couple relationship is always the fastest way to become famous.

Even now, even the uncles driving taxis in the capital know that Zhan Lang and Takemiya Masahiro are about to have a century showdown.

Hao Qiang couldn't help but teasing Zhan Lang that if he lost this time, Wu Gong Zhengping's fame in China would surpass his.

At this time, Zhan Lang basically stayed at home and focused on studying the game.

Of course, it’s not just about research.

"Xiao Lang, the doctor who gave you the massage is here again."

"understood."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Lang stood up from his chair and couldn't help but stretch.

Winter comes quite early in the capital. Zhan Lang caught a cold and had a fever this winter.

Although the fever was high at 39 degrees, it was actually no big deal.

This is actually quite normal. After all, it is impossible for someone to never get sick and stay healthy forever. People who eat grains will naturally get sick.

It seems that Zhan Lang just needs an IV drip and some medicine to take, and some coughing and other things are normal.

After all, who hasn’t been sick since childhood?
Illness comes like a mountain falling, and goes away like a thread being pulled out. Just recover slowly with treatment.

However, the doctor said that Zhan Lang’s immunity was reduced due to overwork, so he must pay attention to rest in the future.

This diagnosis directly made the entire national team busy. The deputy director of the Sports Committee directly stated: "The main task of your national team now is to ensure that Zhan Lang gets enough rest and is in good health. You must not let external factors affect this competition."

After all, there are countless examples of failure in competitions due to physical reasons. Everyone is naturally afraid that Zhan Lang will lose the game due to this reason, and then they will have no place to cry.

Therefore, the national team reached out directly to Zhan Lang's home and implemented mandatory "control", not allowing Zhan Lang to go out after 9 o'clock in the evening and having to go to bed before 10:30.

This temporary control regulation is supervised by Zhan Lang's parents, who must ensure that Zhan Lang gets enough rest.

After hearing the news, Zhan Lang wanted to complain that he had access control and turned off the lights in his previous life when he was in college.

Although I have reached the age to go to college in this life, I have finally gotten into society without having to go to college, and you still give me this college trick!
It's even stricter here than in university.

Because they were worried about the supervision of Zhan Lang's parents, Chen Long and Hao Qiang sometimes even took turns to ride their bikes to Zhan Lang's house at ten o'clock every night to see if Zhan Lang had gone to bed.

Every day when Zhan Lang was brushing his teeth and met Hao Qiang who came by bicycle, he couldn't help complaining that he was not a primary school student anymore, so there was no way he could go to bed at 10 o'clock.

Only primary school students have to go to bed on time at eight or nine o'clock. Maintaining a regular schedule is certain, but adults can't even have a nightlife?
But with just this one sentence, Hao Qiang and Chen Long began to take turns to persuade Zhan Lang, saying that this was the doctor's advice and it was now even a mandatory task for the Go team, so even if you can't sleep, you should lie down in bed.

Later, in order to allow Zhan Lang to have a better rest, the doctor in the sports team who specialized in massage for other athletes even had the task of going to Zhan Lang's house on time every night to give Zhan Lang a massage and help him relax and fall asleep.

Although no one told Zhan Lang that he must win and must win this China-Japan Go Challenge.

But Zhan Lang could deeply feel everyone's expectations.

The first task of the entire national Go team at this time is always to revolve around Zhan Lang.

Amid the eager anticipation of all aspects of the Chinese Go community, Zhan Lang arrived in Japan on March 27th.

This game, hailed as the battle of the century by the Chinese and Japanese Go circles, is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)