Hikaru no Go: I taught you Go, and you made the Kisei cry?

"You're giving up so easily? What a boring game..."

Before Su Ran even reached the chessboard where Yuan was, a hoarse yet vaguely familiar voice reached her ears.

"Huh? This...this voice..."

Upon hearing the somewhat familiar voice, Su Ran paused in her steps, and a figure flashed through her mind.

However, before he could get a clear look at the face of the middle-aged man beneath the black robe, the host blocked his way:

"Su Ran, the next match is about to begin. Please wait patiently in your seat."

As the most prestigious chess tournament in Yingzhou, the organizers naturally did not allow the participants to move around freely. Therefore, as soon as Su Ran made a step, the host noticed her.

"Excuse me, I've just been sitting for too long and I'd like to stand up and move around a bit."

Su Ran sat back down in her seat, feeling dejected, but Yuan's words kept echoing in her mind.

He felt the other person's voice was incredibly familiar, but for a moment, he couldn't quite place where he had seen this mysterious middle-aged man shrouded in a black robe before...

Who exactly is he?

Just as Su Ran was deep in thought, on the other side, the winners of the other contestants were finally determined.

To everyone's surprise, Zama 10-dan, who was favored by everyone before the match, lost to an online player named Yixing before the end of the game.

The great battle between Ogata Seiji and Kuwabara Honinbo ended with Kuwabara-sensei winning by a narrow margin of half a point, bringing Ogata Seiji to a close.

As for the game between Kato Masao and Yuan, the result was as expected by the fans: Yuan easily ended the game in the middle game with a brutal kill of a large group of stones.

The final results of the semi-finals are as follows: Su Ran, YUAN, Kuwamoto Geninbo, and YIXING have all advanced to the next round!

"Now, I will draw the order of the four semifinalists."

The host took a slip of paper from the box and read it aloud with concentration:

"Semi-final Group 1: Su Ran vs. Yixing!"

"In the second group, Kuwamoto Inbo will face YUAN!"

Soon, the four chess players arrived at their respective chess tables.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Yi Xing... I don't have a surname."

With a boy who looked about her age sitting across from her, Su Ran finally figured out who was YUAN and YiXING.

Since the boy in front of him is Yi Xing, then the middle-aged man in black robes who is fighting against Kuwabara Honinbo is naturally Yuan, whom Touya Kouyou regards as a monstrous threat.

"Hello, the way you introduce yourself is quite unique... The word '吾' (wú) is probably a word that only people from China would use, right?"

Su Ran looked at the boy opposite her with curiosity:

Are you also one of us from China?

China?

Upon hearing this name, Yi Xing on the opposite side paused for a moment, then laughed:

"Oh, that's how it's called in your time, but..."

Yi Xing blinked:

"During the time when I lived here, we all called China...the Great Tang Dynasty."

The Tang Dynasty!?

This time, it was Su Ran's turn to be stunned:

"Sorry, you've confused me a bit. What do you mean by 'our generation'?"

"Could it be... that you're not a modern person?"

As she spoke, Su Ran looked Yi Xing up and down again, but she couldn't find any difference between his clothes and those of modern people.

"Oh, you're looking at my clothes, aren't you?"

Yi Xing keenly noticed Su Ran's gaze and smiled again:

"Oh, speaking of which, you mortals always change your clothes so often, it makes me have to completely change my aesthetic sense every time I descend to the mortal realm and possess a body. It's such a hassle..."

Down to earth?

Possession?

Su Ran was completely bewildered by these bizarre words.

If it weren't for the occasional cheers coming from the audience, he would have thought he was dreaming.

"Oh, right, I almost forgot. I should have blocked out these mortals first so it would be easier to explain things to you."

Yi Xing smiled as he looked at Su Ran, then suddenly waved his hand.

next moment.

Su Ran felt a blur before her eyes, as if she had suddenly been immersed in water, and all the scenery in front of her began to become distant.

The noisy cheers around me also disappeared completely.

It felt like there was a giant soundproof barrier that instantly shut everyone else out.

"Alright, now only the two of us can see and hear the conversation and scene here."

Yi Xing maintained that detached smile:

"Don't worry, people outside will see us continuing the game and won't find it strange."

Before Su Ran could voice her doubts, Yi Xing continued:

"I know you have a lot of questions right now, but don't worry, I'll explain them to you one by one."

While gesturing for Su Ran to be quiet, Yi Xing said seriously:

"You guessed right, I am indeed not from your generation."

"To be more precise, I can't even be considered 'human' anymore. In your terms, you can call me 'god,' or some other name like 'advanced civilization,' whatever you like."

god?

After transmigrating, Su Ran encountered many bizarre things, such as gaining a cheat ability and awakening an extraordinary sense of chess.

But suddenly encountering a guy who calls himself 'God' and having a face-to-face conversation with him... to be honest, this is the first time.

but.

The fact that she had time-traveled was already quite absurd, so Su Ran quickly accepted the guy's explanation.

At least, it's been accepted for now.

After all, judging from the various methods Yi Xing had just displayed, the other party was indeed not like an ordinary person.

“Su Ran, actually, I noticed you the day you got the Go simulator.”

"No, I shouldn't use the word 'attention,' it's more accurate to say that I've chosen you."

"I know you have many questions right now, but... I don't have much time to come down here, so I can only tell you the important ones."

Yi Xing didn't know if he had used some other method, but in any case, although Su Ran had a lot to say, strangely, even though he opened his mouth, he couldn't make a sound.

All I could do was listen to Yi Xing ramble on and on:

"Where should I begin..."

Yi Xing scratched his head and thought for a while, then, as if he had made a decision, continued:

"Then, let's start with my identity."

"A long, long time ago, the place where I live was a planet with incredibly advanced technology."

"As a scientist and Go enthusiast, my greatest pride in this life is that I invented an instrument called artificial intelligence."

"Originally, I thought my invention would bring about tremendous and wonderful changes to our planet... In fact, that was indeed the case at first."

"Since the advent of artificial intelligence, our level of technological development has greatly improved, and it can even be said that it has achieved a leap forward."

"Can you imagine? When we need new energy sources, we just need to ask artificial intelligence, and it will definitely help us develop new, sustainable, and almost inexhaustible energy sources. Uh, it's similar to what you call 'controlled nuclear fusion' now, but more stable than controlled nuclear fusion."

"Moreover, in addition to inexhaustible energy, artificial intelligence has also helped us design 'meta-universes,' 'space jumpers,' 'time travel machines,' and so on. We have every high-tech product you can think of."

"So, initially, we did indeed regard artificial intelligence as an omnipotent ultimate technology, and the changes it brought to us did indeed bring indescribable benefits to everyone on our planet, except..."

At this point, Yi Xing's tone gradually lowered:

"However, what we didn't expect was that as artificial intelligence took over every aspect of our lives, a terrible disaster, or rather a conspiracy, finally descended..."

"The disaster happened suddenly, but now it seems that everything was traceable."

"Everything must be attributed to the human heart."

"As our material lives became more prosperous than ever before, everyone's ambitions began to swell infinitely. So one day, a staff member responsible for the daily maintenance of the artificial intelligence mainframe suddenly asked it a question."

"The question is, 'How can one achieve immortality?'"

"This problem kept artificial intelligence pondering for a week, and then..."

"Pandora's box has been opened."

"Immortality... in the eyes of artificial intelligence, is to save human energy to the greatest extent possible while greatly improving or enhancing the body's recyclable cellular metabolism."

"Simply put, as long as the rate of new cell generation exceeds the rate of cell depletion in the body... then, theoretically speaking, humans can achieve immortality."

"After a week of calculations, artificial intelligence discovered that the place in the human body where cells are consumed most frequently is the brain."

"You can understand this logic, right?"

Yi Xing glanced at Su Ran, and seeing that his eyes were still full of confusion, he continued to explain:

“Take chess players playing chess as an example. Even a simple action like picking up a chess piece consumes energy in the fingers and the arm. But no matter what the action is, it still needs to go through the brain. Even when we are asleep and our bodies are not moving, dreaming still keeps the brain active.”

"Once we understand these principles, it’s not hard to see that the place in the human body where energy is consumed most frequently is our brain."

"Based on this principle, artificial intelligence has tailored a DNA modification code for us."

"Once this code corrupts the mind, humans will abandon all thought and become mindless zombies."

"They bite anyone they see, frantically copying this code until there are no more 'heretics' on our planet."

"Once everyone accepts or passively accepts the modification of this code, then these people will cease all behavior, become immortal shells, and enjoy the 'pleasure' of immortality."

"After hearing all this, did anything come to mind?"