The work of the Go master

A crack appeared on the white drill bit!

A black dragon roared, and the cracks widened further!

Yagami Kunikyo felt it; his heart was stirred with the joy of impending victory. He hadn't expected to experience such emotional fluctuations even in this state, which spoke volumes about the strength of his opponent, the difficulty of the game, and the richness of the spoils of victory.

On the chessboard, the black dragon besieges the white pieces, poised to win this fierce battle—

Amidst the storm of quantum bombardment, Ke Zhiguang stepped out and stood on the girl's shoulder!

"I'm sorry, there's something I forgot to tell you, it's a very interesting paradox." Ke Zhiguang said as he moved forward on the arm that spanned billions of light-years, his speed increasing.

"The biggest weakness of artificial intelligence is that it has no emotions, but on the other hand, if it had emotions, it would mean that it had lost the game."

Following the arm's length, which spans billions of light-years, Ke Zhiguang leaped forward and ran, holding a short sword made of stars in his hand.

Yagami Kunikyo suddenly turned his gaze to the chessboard and made a startling discovery... the game was not over.

White's lone dragon was successively cut into several pieces by Black, but none of the pieces were completely dead, leaving a lot of residual potential.

However, that's not the key point. The real key point is... the last small dragon, with the cover and support of countless teammates, successfully escaped from the dense spiderweb-like blockade of the black stones and rushed straight into the black territory!

Just how much computation is required to extrapolate the game to such a profound level?

If their duel was a collision between universes, then this hidden, profound, and imperceptible path to victory was like a multi-dimensional tunnel of spatial distortion. What could perceive it was not conventional computing power, but something more mysterious and metaphysical... a feeling.

"It's not just about simply launching it into the air. Don't forget, the tradition of the final battle is to slay the dragon."

As Ke Zhiguang spoke these words, he had already leaped into the tunnel, the sharp light of his blade slicing through the darkness, fiercely pressing against Ye Shen Guojing.

In the lower right corner of the chessboard, the initial battle formed by Koz's flying knife was the target that Koz wanted to hunt down.

Chapter Fifty-Five: At the End of Darkness, After Sunrise

Under the starry night sky, atop the Tokyo Tower, an assassination attempt amidst the snowstorm brought the game to its final moments!

On the 180th move, the white chess piece slipped from Ke Zhiguang's hand, its cold light pointing straight at Ye Shen Guojing's neck!

It was a single move that appeared out of nowhere on the second line. It appeared ghostly below the black pieces, echoing the last string of pieces that had just darted into the black's airspace. A white flash opened up from the bottom!

Yagami Kunikyo clenched his brows and forehead, and terrifying veins bulged out like tubes! It was as if the tubes were carrying not blood, but boiling energy!

All the computing power surged toward this final, localized area like a massive army!

He continued to sink deeper and deeper into the ocean...

I saw that door; on the other side of the door was God's temple!

Ten dragon-claw-like fingers pried open the door, using unparalleled computing power to knock it open! Countless streams of light spilled out from the other side of the door!

He saw it; the chessboard was shrouded in light and shadow, and the odds of winning were shifting on the empty spaces of the board. The odds of winning for each move was clearly marked.

12.7%!

18.6%!

21.5%!

Every choice on the chessboard has an extremely low win rate... an extremely low win rate for Ke Zhiguang.

In other words, the scales of victory are still on our side!

However, in the next instant, the win rate of a certain selection point rose sharply! This made Yagami Kunikyo shrug.

11%——18%——26%——36%——41%——49%——52%！胜率已经蔓至了一半以上！

Within the space of this temple, the odds of winning at every subsequent choice can be clearly discerned, as if a high and mighty deity is foretelling the fate and cause and effect of everything.

The reason for this fluctuation in win rates is that even gods cannot calculate all win rates in an instant, but as time goes by, gods will arrive at more accurate conclusions.

In other words, there is a fatal opportunity to win on the chessboard at this moment. It is so difficult that even a god could not perceive its existence immediately!

“In that case, we can only try to grasp it through our senses.” Ke Zhiguang’s voice came like a ghost, or like a glimmer of light.

And then there's that exhilarating music, which brings the charge to its final climax.

Make your move!

That spot was hit!

On the three lines of the chessboard, that move connects to a small knight's move to the left and a bishop's move to the right. It cannot connect to either side, but there is an invisible thread that links all the pieces together and activates all their power.

This is impossible!

Break through! Stand down! Roll! Cross! Squeeze! Cut off! A ko fight has broken out on the far right line of the board!

Yagami Kunikyo angrily placed his piece! He drew a black bone blade from the chess box and slashed at the white light that was inches away!

Sparks of starlight shattered between the two, illuminating their faces as they fought desperately, making their expressions extremely rugged.

In the universe, the scale of the battle suddenly shrank, from hundreds of millions of light-years of cataclysmic destruction to close combat within a few square meters!

Once the ko fight begins, every piece that is captured is a heavy blow. If the sword is broken, then use your fist!

A slash was delivered! Yagami Kunikyo threw a punch first, hitting his opponent squarely in the face, but then a slash was delivered back, and the same painful blow was immediately returned!

52%——56%——68%——74%——81%！这个象征胜率的数字依旧在不断攀升，也就意味着对方的每一击都踩在了正确的节拍上！

One punch... another punch... and yet another punch!

The bright red blood splashed out in the universe, and in this world where only a rough black and white style remained, it immediately turned into a black ink stain!

"Ke Zhiguang!" Yagami Kunijō seemed to roar!

"Yagami no Kyoto!" Ke Zhiguang replied in the same tone.

At the last moment, at the end of time, both sides unleashed a full-force blow to each other's cheeks.

The light engulfed the two.

100%.

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Move 256 – Ke Zhiguang raised his piece high.

An unprecedented tranquility descended upon the world of Kezhiguang.

Although the countdown was still going on, it seemed to move exceptionally slowly, each second like being immersed in a lake, quietly enjoying the peaceful light and shadow.

The background music finally stopped, as if it had burned out completely, leaving only a lingering echo in the ears.

In the center of the battlefield, ink stains were everywhere. Both sides seemed exhausted, breathing heavily and staring at each other in silence.

The capital of Yagami Kingdom was already swaying and collapsing backward.

Ke Zhiguang then slowly walked up.

"Who...who are you?" Yagami Kunikyo's vision blurred intermittently, and he unconsciously asked the same question he had just asked.

After catching his breath, Ke Zhiguang answered in a deep voice: "I am Ke Zhiguang."

On move 256, the last piece was placed on the board—eliminating the ko fight as the victor.

despair--

At the moment the ko was resolved, the black dragon, which was entrenched in the lower right corner of the board, let out a mournful cry. The large dragon with forty points was killed. However, considering that it was still connected to the white dragon with nearly sixty points, it would not be an exaggeration to say that this was a battle of a hundred points.

The universe began to collapse, and all the starlight began to shift violently. Like a tsunami, it engulfed the humanoid Nidhogg, its dragon head, neck, spine, wing membranes, claws, and steel tail, including its scales, all of which were pulverized one by one in the collapse of energy.

Kyoya Yagami lay in the central hall where he controlled the dragon, waiting for the tsunami of light to sweep in layer by layer and eventually engulf him.

In this year's Imperial City Go Tournament, Ke Zhiguang defeated Yagami Kunikyo 3-1.

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The song started again, but it was no longer the exciting, upbeat tune.

Instead, it's a Christmas song more suited to this quiet night, tinkling and tinkling, but it's not sung in a child's voice, but in an ethereal and clear female voice, with a hint of a soprano hymn.

So the question is, who is singing?

Who would sing a Christmas song at this time of year, especially with such a strong British official accent?

Speaking of which, today really is Christmas.

December 25, 1988, 1:30 a.m.

Just as the game ended, the blizzard suddenly stopped, a few snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and the wind ceased.

Electricity was restored to Tokyo, and if you looked down from above the Earth, you would see that at the easternmost point of Asia, light was suddenly ignited, and the Tokyo Tower stood like a torch.

The patient in the hospital woke up; just moments before he had been suffering from oxygen deprivation, he suddenly sat up.

The electrician gave a tired smile as he looked at the power supply that had finally been repaired.

The cars stuck on the road started moving again, and the streets that had been blocked for almost half the night were finally cleared.

Even at 1:30 a.m., after midnight, the pink and gold bubbles still rose, and Tokyo was shrouded in enchanting lights, making people yearn for it.

As the elevator of Tokyo Tower slowly descended, Ke Zhiguang looked at the city gradually brightening up through the glass, and at himself, humming the song "Ding'er Xiang".

It's all finally over.

Like the end of a long, dark night, dawn appeared on the horizon, and everyone arrived at the long-awaited tomorrow.

When the final 256th move was placed on the board, the last piece of the puzzle was completed, the gears turned, and a click was made.

The flames that had been eroding the Wood of Chess Fate ceased abruptly, and swarms of black snakes fell from above, plummeting back to the realm of the underworld, thus closing the gates of life and death.

A crack appeared in the sky at dusk and in the eternal night. The crack expanded rapidly in an instant, eventually splitting into countless tiny fragments that scattered across the earth like a meteor shower.

The world's wounds are healing, and all the laws are returning to their original state.

Even after the fire, the Chess Tree still retained a last vestige of life and did not completely collapse.

After the fire subsided, the Chess Tree resembled an ancient ruin, having just experienced a devastating disaster. It was reduced to broken walls and rubble, with charred branches stretching towards the sky in all directions, its former greenery gone forever.

But at the very top of that Go luck tree, a bright, glittering fruit was held aloft. That fruit symbolized the Go fortune of the city. Ke Zhiguang seized it and stood at the highest point in the Go world.

It is indeed located at the highest point of Tokyo Tower, requiring an iron escalator to reach.

After being covered by snow for many days, it had been buried deep under the thick snow. It took Ke Zhiguang a lot of effort to pull out this symbol of supreme power in the chess world and see its splendor.