"From the beginning to the end?!!!"

At 5:24 pm on May , in a motel near Dajing Chess Academy.

Qiantang team's Lantian Baduan's voice echoed through the laptop's speakers in the room:
"Oh my goodness! I'm afraid this Queen Zhaotian has made a mistake in how to start the Dragon Star War?!!!
"Doesn't she understand why, in addition to the final winner of each group, the one with the most consecutive wins also has to enter the semi-finals? She knows that the ones ranked lower can't possibly make it all the way!

"As a result...Oh my God! Her remarks today really set public opinion on fire!
"A female player said she would defeat nine top 20 players in the country and then challenge the recognized leader in the country... Who has ever seen such a posture!!!
"I see people discussing this everywhere now. It has already been on the trending search list of several online communities!"

"……yes!"

The voice of Qiantang team coach Xie Minghe followed:

“What’s more important is…this girl is not joking!
"In this Dragon Star Tournament preliminaries and the main tournament, she has defeated seven 10th-dan masters and a rising star of the th rank! And she has won every game!
"Rui Zhao is already quite well-known among the Chinese people! Even if they don't know her, almost all Chinese people know that there is such a great girl in the Go project through media publicity. And the gender issue has been a hot topic on the Internet in recent years...

"Once she made such an explosive statement, people would also know about her glorious performance in the Dragon Star Wars. Even if the Dragon Star Wars is just a small competition, it would cause a sensation throughout the country!"

"Actually... this is why I asked for help from you guys!"

It was only then that the official at the other end of the room said helplessly:
“Originally I didn’t care, but I didn’t expect that the Dragon Star War would attract so much attention after the relevant reports came out!

"There was even a reporter who got my phone number from somewhere and called me directly hoping to interview me over the phone!

"So I thought, we should not get killed too badly in tomorrow's game - after all, there are many people who are looking to slander us male professionals..."

"Well……"

Lan Tian hesitated for a while, then asked Xie Minghe:
"Coach Xie, didn't the association give Rui Zhao a hint?
"She's already secured a spot in the semi-finals! Now that she's making such a big scene, shouldn't she just stop and give everyone some face?"

"Don't even think about it!"

Xie Minghe's voice also revealed a sense of helplessness:

"Rui Zhao is a great contributor to Chinese Go!
"If she hadn't fought so hard to end the Nongshim Cup, our record in the Nongshim Cup in the past few years would have been terrible! The association owes her, but she doesn't owe the association!

"Chairman Shang, how can you have the nerve to ask her to 'give way' for a bunch of us unpromising male chess players?"

"Uh... Actually..."

As soon as Xie Minghe finished speaking, the voice of the former celebrity Tian Yuan came from the loudspeaker again:

"When Guan Ye told me about this today, I called Rui Zhao to ask about it. He also hinted that she had already won more games in Group B and secured a place in the semi-finals, so she didn't need to be too eager to win.

"But in the end, this girl didn't understand what I meant at all! Instead, she kept telling me that everyone in the Dragon Star Tournament is a master, there are a lot of rounds, and she likes this competition very much..."

After Ni Jue finished speaking, there was an awkward silence in the live broadcast. It seemed that everyone in the live broadcast didn't know how to respond to what Ni Jue said.

After several seconds, a certain overage teenager asked cautiously:
"Well... Actually, I really think it's okay for Little Bear to think this way, right?

"Ever since I participated in the Dragon Star Wars in 20 years, I still think: Isn't the goal of the bubble game to go through from the beginning to the end?"

"Shut up!"×2
Naturally, Ni Jue and Lan Tian could not tolerate such inappropriate remarks, and directly issued a gag order to the team's main player - of course, a certain Xiong Da was also recognized as the main player with the lowest status in the entire Weiqi League.

"Ah...alright, alright!"

Hearing that the topic was going off topic, Shangguan Sheng gently brought the topic back to the topic:

"I'm just asking everyone to come up with some ideas, I'm not saying that I hope that Queen Zhaotian will let me off!

"Since we have to fight it out in the arena, I will also try my best to save the face of us male chess players...

"So, how should we deal with Rui Zhao tomorrow...

"Does anyone have any good suggestions?"

After the official finished speaking, the microphone fell into silence again.

Even quieter than the silence just now... it seemed even quieter.

After a long while, Xie Minghe finally managed to break the awkward silence by saying:

"Or...

"Let's talk about how to get Rui Zhao to let go!"

……

"Tsk tsk tsk! Queen Zhaotian is so cruel!
"When facing a calm and easy-going person like Guan Ye, I will not hold him back at all!"

May 5, 25: p.m.

Dajing City, Huaxia Chess Academy.

Bian Lele, who was eliminated the day before yesterday afternoon, is currently in the official live broadcast room of this Dragon Star War. As a guest commentator, he is very satisfied with the game that just ended:
"Hey! Didn't I tell you guys a long time ago? I'm definitely not the worst one!

“A bunch of netizens said that Xiao Nie and I were sitting at the same table!
“And now, facts speak louder than words!

"Yesterday, Dai Gong gave up at the 104th move. You said that he was never good at fast chess and it doesn't count - OK! Even if that's the case!
"But we both lost more than 50 points when we gave up. The day before yesterday, I managed to hold on for almost two hours, but today, I lost in just one hour and fifteen minutes. How can I explain this?!

"This proves that I am worthy of being called the 'Phantom God of Civil War' and the 'Legendary Nai Zhaoren'!

"In a nutshell: I'm not the worst anyway!"

"Um, Bian Jiudan..."

Seeing that the topic was going off topic, the host Song Jin quickly brought the topic back to the topic:
"Should we... summarize this game first?"

"Ah! Okay!"

Bian Lele realized that he seemed to have expressed some of his emotions too eagerly, so he took it back and said:
"This game is actually very similar to mine. The layout of both sides was relatively calm. After Shangguan Sheng, who played with white, split the upper right in the 58th move, the two sides also maintained a two-point situation for a period of time.

“But the key is that once the delay is used up, it will be hard to withstand the super fast chess performance of Queen Zhaotian!

"After Guan Sheng used up his last delay at move 78, he couldn't hold back as he had to make the next move in seconds! The black pieces kept taking advantage of him in the local moves!

"By the time the top pattern was finalized at the 107th move, White's chance of winning was only 13.1%!

"Shangguan Sheng, who found himself not so good at the game, could only force himself to hold on. When the black pieces won in move 113, the white pieces could not stand being captured by the black pieces, so he forced himself to move one step further.

"But Rui Zhao's sense of chess in super-fast chess is too sharp. In just 115 seconds, he has already determined that the white chess piece in the middle is in danger after this move. The th move directly hits the AI's first choice and starts to forcefully kill the white chess piece in the center!

"We can see that according to the AI, the white dragon has no chance of survival, and after 133 moves, Shangguan Sheng resigned!

“So…it’s really not that we male chess players are not good enough!
"I don't even know what words to use to describe Rui Zhao's fast chess skills! His basic skills, chess sense, calculation ability, and error control ability are all so outstanding!
"If it was a slow chess game, we would think slowly, ensure the quality of the moves, and we could still compete with her.

"But there's no way to play the blitz game! There's really no way to play it..."

"Okay, okay! We get it!"

Seeing that Bian Lele had gone off topic again and wandered off to who knows where, Song Jin quickly pulled him back and said:
"Uh... Thank you, Bian Lele, for your wonderful summary! This is the end of the commentary for this game!

"At the same time tomorrow, Vice Chairman Lu Wenjie and I will bring you the eighth match of the Dragon Star Tournament Group B Bubble Tournament. Please stay tuned..."

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Bian Lele suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly interrupted:
"Song Jin, what's going on?
"Didn't we agree at the time that as long as no one snatched the spot from me, I would be the commentator for the next few days?
"I want to see a river of blood!"

"..."

Song Jin signaled the director to quickly cut off the signal, and at the same time he couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Bian Lele and said:
"Hey, Lele! Didn't you notice how popular the topic of Rui Zhaolong's performance in the Star Wars was after the post-match interview yesterday?

"Just now the association sent a message that from tomorrow onwards, as long as Rui Zhao has not been eliminated, all the matches involving her in the Dragon Star Tournament will be broadcast live on CCTV-5! For a live broadcast on TV, the association must arrange for someone who can handle the situation!"

"What?"

Bian Lele blinked rapidly several times:
“Isn’t the Dragon Star War just a small competition?!
"Is this really necessary?!!!"

"So I say: You don't understand how much attention Rui Zhao's performance in the Dragon Star Wars is getting right now!"

Song Jin shook his head, then took the phone from the side, casually pulled up a hot search column of a popular online community and showed it to Bian Lele:

"Take a look for yourself, what is the number one on the trending search list right now!"

Bian Jiaojicao was startled at first, then he looked over in the direction of Song Jin's words, and then he couldn't help but read out word by word with surprise:

"【Who can stop Queen Zhaotian?!" (End of this chapter)

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