After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 68 68. Demon Sword
"Didn't Fujii Hideaki 9th Dan come?"

Looking at the people communicating over there, Zhan Lang asked curiously. He thought that with that guy's enthusiasm, he would appear in this place.

Li Yiran heard this and replied: "This kind of warm-up exchange match, generally the top-notch ones won't show up, they also have status."

Fujii Hideaki always looks out of touch. If you spend too long with him, you will forget that he is also one of Japan's top-notch chess players, and currently holds the title of Go Saint, the uncrowned king of Japanese Go.

"Did your opponent over there see that? This is your opponent today, Ichiro Nakagawa, amateur 7th dan."

Hearing this, Zhan Lang nodded: "I see, I remember that name was in the magazine last time, right?"

Zhan Lang remembered that the other party seemed to have commented on him during the presentation, but the evaluation was not very high.

But it doesn’t matter, I don’t hold a grudge.

"Yes, this guy is the champion of the last session. Because of this championship, he is now known as the No. 1 amateur king in Japan, the champion king."

After hearing Li Yiran's description, Zhan Lang felt things were getting weirder and weirder.

The Four Heavenly Kings are fine.

Now there is another champion king.

Are you playing Go or Pokémon?

Is it possible that a person named Xiaozhi will appear in the competition soon?

But there's nothing wrong with calling him Xiaozhi, as long as he's not called Chi.

"Anyway, don't take it lightly. This guy is very cunning."

"Have you played with him?"

Li Yiran nodded and said nonchalantly: "It happened two years ago. Two consecutive defeats."

“That’s pretty impressive.”

"No matter how powerful he is, he is still an old man. His strength has stopped here. I don't think his strength has improved much in the past two years."

“I don’t think you’ve made any progress.”

"That means I don't want to learn, okay?"

Zhan Lang was too lazy to complain about Li Yiran. He just looked at the reporters filming around him and said, "Are there reporters for this kind of warm-up match? The atmosphere of Go alone is really good."

Even though Japanese Go did not fall to the last place later, it has not fallen behind in various publicity reports, not to mention that it is still the Go kingdom now.

"Humph."

"Japan's へようこそお上しくださいました..."

Listening to the completely incomprehensible Japanese on the stage, Li Yiran, who was sitting next to Zhan Lang, translated: "A lot of nonsense, welcome to Japan, Sino-Japanese friendship, warm-up matches, support for the game, hope everyone can perform at their best, etc."

Listening to the scattered keywords, Zhan Lang couldn't help but complain: "Could it be that your Japanese is not good enough and you can't translate it?"

"Don't slander someone's innocence out of thin air!"

After the Japanese side finished their speech, Fang Yuan, as the representative of the Chinese side, also spoke a few words. What he said was basically the same thing, and there was also a translator who translated his Chinese into Japanese.

After taking photos and group photos, the small-scale pre-match warm-up match officially began.

Zhan Lang glanced at Nakagawa Ichiro who was sitting opposite him and greeted him in his few Japanese words: "Konnijiwa."

"Konnichiha!"

When Ichiro Nakagawa heard this, he thought Zhan Lang knew Japanese, but after saying a few words, he found a confused look on the other party's face, and then he realized that the other party seemed to only know this one sentence.

"Is this kid this tall at fourteen?"

The first reaction of seeing Zhan Lang, Nakagawa Ichiro, was the same as most people, that Zhan Lang could grow so tall at the age of 14? According to the information, the Japanese Go prodigy Torajiro should be a few months younger than the opponent, but he is only about 1.6 meters tall, which is considered to be a good development.

But as for Zhan Lang, Nakagawa estimated that the opponent was at least about 1.85 meters tall.

A bit too burly.

Many people in the Japanese chess world are quite interested in Zhan Lang.

After all, the last time Fujii Hideaki returned to China, he has been promoting how talented this Chinese kid is and how amazing his future achievements will be.

Another 9th dan player, Heizo Takenaka, who was traveling with them, remained tight-lipped and was unwilling to reveal too much information.

There is not much communication between China and Japan nowadays. The only things widely circulated in Japan about Zhan Lang are his game with Takenaka Heizo where he was given two stones and his pointing out the ghost hand move in the game between Fujii Hideaki and China's number one player Fang Yuan.

As for the opponent's level, there are different opinions in Japan. Some people believe that his level is very high, while others think that it is just boasting by Fujii Hideaki, a Chinese.

Some people even gave Zhan Lang a nickname, "the mysterious boy."

And today, Ichiro Nakagawa is here to solve the mystery.

As for why they used Nakagawa as their trump card right at the start, the main reason was that the Japanese Chess Institute was unsure of Zhan Lang's true strength and was afraid that others would not be able to figure it out all at once; the other reason was to give a show of force.

On paper, Nakagawa's strength is still among the top among the four kings. In the eyes of the Japan Chess Association, no matter what, the possibility that Zhan Lang is stronger than Nakagawa is very small.

This will help to directly detect how deep Zhan Lang's bottle of water is, and make other Japanese players more confident.

At the same time, it can also give Zhan Lang a warning.

After all, in a game, if you win gradually all the way, it is easy for you to accumulate momentum, and your state and strength will be better than usual in the later games.

In order to prevent this from happening, you should frustrate the opponent right from the start and dampen his momentum, which will prevent him from performing exceptionally well.

Due to the language barrier, there was little room for communication between the two sides, and the game officially began after a simple guessing game.

After Nakagawa got the black pieces, he did not hesitate at all and built a layout similar to Kobayashi style on the right.

Zhan Lang didn't hesitate at all and just hung it up high.

Seeing this move, Nakagawa, who was about to make a move, suddenly stopped his hand in mid-air.

Because the opponent's move was completely beyond his expectations. After all, there was already a complete response method for this common layout.

You make the first move, and then follow the opponent's response.

But Zhan Lang didn't play by the rules. Normally, he should have used two rooms and then a small flying one or something.

As a result, the opponent made a high hook, which caught Nakagawa off guard.

Are there any new research results in China?

After all, the name of a person is the shadow of a tree.

If it was an unknown player, Nakagawa would think that the opponent played very badly.

However, the name Zhan Lang has been circulating in Japan for such a long time that Nakagawa would wonder if the other party was hiding some flying knives or something.

After careful consideration, Nakagawa decided to pinch the opponent's hand first.

But Zhan Lang didn't hesitate at all.

Big fly!

Demonic sword!

When Nakagawa saw Zhan Lang unsheathing his magic sword, he was stunned.

There’s something wrong with your magic sword!
(End of this chapter)