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

Chapter 435 Died before leaving the army

"Awesome...absolutely awesome, it's just outrageous, it's like the hell open the door to outrageousness."

Meanwhile, at the Chinese Chess Academy, the New Year had just passed, but the academy had already summoned all members of the national team back to resume training.

The reason is that the Asian Games, which will be held this summer, is an extremely important event. Currently, most of the national team's resources are being used to support the athletes preparing for the Asian Games, and many top athletes are serving as their sparring partners.

After Yi Zheng and Jiang Mobai finish that competition, they will also return to the national team for training.

But right now, most of the national team members are not really in the mood to train. Everyone is staring at their phones, closely watching the latest news popping up on the screen.

Even with the coach present, no one was training. After all, let alone the players, the national team coach's eyes were glued to his phone.

Even if he wasn't attracted to this thing, he knew that forcing these members to train now was pointless; their minds weren't on it at all.

Everyone's attention was focused on the game of Go between Yi Zheng and Li Junhe.

"What the hell is Li Junhe doing?! Even in this state, he's still chasing after them to kill them! Get back to defend! Get back to defend now! That should be enough! That'll be the way to win!"

"What's the point of winning like this? What's the use of winning with a four-stone handicap? Is this something to be proud of?"

"Wouldn't it be even more shameful to lose?!"

"They've already embarrassed themselves this badly, I think Li Junhe, a 9-dan player, probably doesn't care anymore... what a load of rubbish."

Let alone Lee Jun-hyuk, who was once the world's number one, even if it were any other member of the national team, being beaten like that would probably make them want to cover their face and jump into a well.

What's more, being surrounded by so many reporters and having the broadcast live was practically a public execution.

Miao Jun couldn't help but sigh: "I originally thought that A-Zheng was a secret weapon, a strategist, but I never expected that he would be used in this place."

Li Junhe was so badly exhausted today, there's probably no way he'll be in good form for the next two days of matches. Jiang Mobai, 9-dan, really got a huge advantage.

Everyone can empathize with Li Junhe's current mindset, after all, when training privately with the national team, everyone has been disciplined by Yi Zheng quite a bit.

The problem is that no matter what, people shouldn't be hunted down like this without any bottom line, especially in a public execution style.

Li Junhe's reputation, built up over so many years, is likely to be ruined in an instant.

Even if Li Junhe can remain unmoved and adjust his mindset overnight to win the subsequent matches, probably no one will care about the result anymore.

These next few days, probably no one will care about the outcome of this invitational tournament; everyone's focus is on this promotion/relegation game.

Yi Zheng truly lives up to his reputation as a natural focus of attention; he didn't even participate in the competition, yet he became the absolute protagonist—this is just too outrageous.

Moreover, even if Li Junhe wins against Yi Zheng again later, it will be difficult to salvage his reputation much, unless Li Junhe can replicate his victory against Ethan in the final against Yi Zheng, but is that possible?

Even less likely.

In the future, whenever someone boasts about how amazing Li Junhe was, how he dominated the world, and how many honors he had, there will be one sentence in the comments section that will appear.

He was beaten by Yi Zheng to the point of losing four sons.

Li Junhe was once unparalleled in the world—but he was defeated by Yi Zheng and forced to concede four points.

Li Junhe once had a winning percentage of nearly 90% throughout the year—but he was beaten by Yi Zheng to a four-stone handicap.

Beating up the fourth son will likely become a lifelong stain on Li Junhe's reputation.

Just like how the Jade Emperor can never escape the phrase "You've been beaten by a monkey."

"Yi Zheng is improving faster and faster. Do you think... AlphaGo can beat him now?" "What are you saying? You've got the tables turned! You shouldn't be asking 'Can he beat AlphaGo?' but you're asking 'Can AlphaGo beat him?'"

Hearing Miao Jun's words, Qi Ling felt that Miao Jun was exaggerating a bit too much. AlphaGo is already a legend, so Yi Zheng shouldn't be a legend among legends.

But after saying that, everyone felt a little guilty, since AlphaGo only made the other players give them a first move, not a four-stone handicap.

Although reason tells everyone that this was the result of Li Junhe's mental breakdown, the strength of the two sides could not possibly be that great.

However, without absolute strength, how could you possibly break Li Junhe's mentality?

"This is outrageous. I really want to go back and catch up on my sleep, and then hope that I'll wake up and find that I was dreaming."

"If you're worried you're dreaming, I can slap you."

"Screw you."

"Playing Go is really boring, I might as well retire next year!"

"Let's retire together! I've wanted to be a teacher for a long time, hahaha."

Listening to the discussion among the national team members, the new generation members couldn't help but sigh.

These veterans, who are almost thirty or even in their thirties, can indeed consider retiring, but they are only teenagers, and they have a long road ahead of them.

Forget about winning championships, he hasn't even made any money. How can he retire? He can't go back to school now; his peers are already in college this week.

However, the thought of spending more than a decade with Yi Zheng in their professional careers made everyone feel hopeless about the future.

Meanwhile, in the research lab of Muye Fox, watching the successful defeat of the previous version of artificial intelligence, Zhang Xinping, the group's CEO, could no longer suppress the smile on his face.

This is the eighteenth version of artificial intelligence, and its strength has absolutely surpassed that of humans! In its own assessment, it is definitely no less than the so-called AlphaGo on the internet.

With such formidable strength, if anyone else were to be tested, they would likely have no chance of losing.

enough!
It's enough to give this small piece of artificial intelligence a shock to the world.

The field of Go has ultimately been conquered by artificial intelligence!

"But unfortunately, we can't find where this AlphaGo is."

Zhang Xinping couldn't help but sigh. Although Yi Zheng was unparalleled in popularity, in everyone's mind, the strongest was still AlphaGo, which appeared and disappeared online like a dragon.

However, this guy hasn't been online for half a year, and we don't know if he's dead or alive.

"Boss, boss!"

Seeing his secretary barge in, Zhang Xinping said with some displeasure, "How many times have I told you! Knock before you come in! What's with the rush?! Is the sky falling down?!"

The secretary couldn't help but swallow hard as she looked at her disgruntled boss. In a sense, it was no different from the sky falling down.

The secretary silently handed over a tablet. Zhang Xinping didn't pay much attention at first, but as soon as he saw the news on the tablet, he fell silent.

Seeing her boss remain silent, the secretary couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Is the competition still going to proceed as planned?"

Will the boss's AI project fail before it even gets off the ground?

(End of this chapter)