Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 380 I'm Not Afraid of Yi Zheng

"It's really outrageous. Is this Yi Zheng's first time participating in the top division? What award do you think he can win this year? Best Newcomer is definitely his!"

"It's a bit difficult to say he'll be the best captain, because he doesn't have enough captain matches. In the early stages, Lao Yun was always the captain."

"If no one stops their team from winning the championship, then Yi Zheng will be the MVP. An 18-year-old MVP, wow."

I see that Go-themed novels on certain platforms are already being updated, and their current plots aren't exciting enough and are outdated!

"There's nothing strange about it. Yi Zheng is now in the period where his performance is starting to explode, so it seems normal for him to win any championship."

Before entering the venue, the members of the Yuewen team couldn't help but complain as they watched Yi Zheng tapping on the vending machine. They said that every step Yi Zheng took felt like he was making history, or rather, he was making history no matter what he did.

Many Go forums have a post pinned to the top of their homepage that asks, "What record has Yi Zheng broken/set today?" The number of replies is staggering.

Yi Zheng wasn't thinking about making history right now. Legends and history, all of that could wait! He had only one incredibly simple and urgent wish: "To spit out that bottle of sugary soda that's stuck in my throat!"

What kind of garbage machine is this? It got stuck after something fell down!

"Old Jiang, do you want to lead the team tomorrow?"

Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but ask Jiang Mobai, who was standing next to him, since no matter how the results were today, it was likely that either Jiang Mobai or Li Junhe would be the main general tomorrow.

Unless the score is 3 to 1 today, tomorrow, to play it safe, they might use a strategy similar to the "Tian Ji horse racing" tactic, for example, putting Lianqiao in the main position.

Jiang Mobai didn't show any particular expression when he heard the others teasing him, because he was still immersed in Yi Zhengxin's boastful remarks from yesterday.

My legend will never end until my last breath.

Damn it! Yi Zheng's lewd remarks just keep pouring out like water! It's like an old sow wearing a bra, one after another!
What happened to Lao Jiang?

Seeing Jiang Mobai looking distracted, his teammate Lian Qiao couldn't help but ask, "Are you kidding me? You're not really asking me to fight Yi Zheng."

Besides, as long as he's still in the professional arena, facing Yi Zheng will always be a challenge. You can't just let Yi Zheng enter the finals in future matches and then have everyone compete.

There has never been anything like this before. Even when Li Junhe was at his most terrifying, it was impossible for him to do this. The format of the World Championships has never been changed for any player.

If Yi Zheng really reaches that level, then everyone will be completely defeated by him. In that case, the World Championship should just be renamed the Second Best Martial Arts Tournament.

Then Yi Zheng would truly become AlphaGo.

As soon as they reached the door, they were stopped by several special correspondents who were lying in wait. Since the finals were being held in Europe, there were bound to be a few well-connected local media outlets who had the ability to sneak into the competition venue just to get the first-hand scoop.

"Li Junhe 9-dan, are you confident of winning against Yi Zheng 9-dan today?" Li Junhe hadn't said a word on the way here, but when he heard the reporter's question, he just nodded slightly: "No one is invincible. The most important thing is your own confidence and whether you can turn that confidence into power on the board."

Over the years, Li Junhe has become known as a "non-stick pan" in the media. After all, he's in his early thirties, and it's really too difficult to find anything explosive to say from him. So the others could only pass the microphone to Jiang Mobai.

After all, Jiang Mobai was a classic master of witty remarks before Yi Zheng appeared; he was uncomfortable if he didn't show off for a day.

"Today's lineup is Li Junhe 9-dan versus Yi Zheng 9-dan, but who is your team planning to field in the second match, the captain's match? After being defeated three times last month, does Jiang Mobai 9-dan still have the confidence to face Yi Zheng 9-dan?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mobai scratched his head: "I have to correct you. It's not that I was killed three times in a month, it's that I was killed three times in five days. But there's no point in saying this, it's all the same to me."

My main task is to help the team achieve good results. Actually, making it into the top four is already quite good. If I could do the same as Yi Zheng, that would be good too. Let's move on to the next round.

Yi Zheng's chess style... well, based on my playing style, I'm not particularly afraid of him. He doesn't pose a huge threat to me. The only reason I might lose to him is because I can't beat him.

Upon hearing this, the European reporters were stunned. What did Jiang Mobai mean by that? Was he afraid of him or not?
Jiang Mobai left immediately after speaking. The Chinese language is profound and complex; you can guess for yourselves.

Before the match, reporters were only allowed brief interviews and could not take up too much time with the players. However, they found that they waited at the door but did not see Yi Zheng.

Yi Zheng had scouted the location the day before, and today he slipped in through the back door next to the staff.

The semifinals for all four teams were held on the same day, and the lineups for each team were also different.

As a professional team, Yuewen has four main players who are all 9-dan, three Chinese and one Silla player, and a substitute player who is a Chinese 6-dan player.

Team England also has four 9-dan players as standard, and it is the so-called all-American team. It can be said that all the elites of America are gathered into one team. The whole team is composed of old white men, and even the team slogan is to make American Go great again. When Trump comes, he will shout "MAGA"!

On the other side, the Arceus team has a more complex lineup, with one Chinese player, one Japanese player, and two European players, making it quite international.

Yi Zheng and his team, Mu Ye Hu, are the rumored all-Chinese team, with two 9-dan and two 7-dan players. In terms of team composition, they are the worst, because the official members of the other three teams are all 9-dan.

Ke Lao has always been pessimistic about this, after all, an all-Chinese team doesn't seem to be a good buff, especially since the opposing team has a Silla person with the surname Lee. Can Yi Zheng break the curse?
"The boss said that if we make it to the finals, he'll give us an extra bonus, and if we win the championship, the bonus will double."

Looking at the other people in front of him, Yun Linglei realized that even the boss hadn't expected the team to achieve such results this year.

After all, it was a long-term contract. The boss originally wanted to personally cultivate a galactic fleet to play a nurturing game, but who knew that the nurturing game would suddenly turn into a hack-and-slash game.

The other team members were also eager to participate when they heard this. Sometimes, no matter how much motivation or how exciting the speech, nothing beats the reward money.

I can say that I don't like money, and I'm the only person who's never interested in money.

(End of this chapter)