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Chapter 160 Zhuge Encourages Learning: I won’t play chess with trash!

The genius girl Beth looked at the female reporter who suddenly praised her sincerely and was a little confused about her sudden change.

But she didn't care.

Apart from the fact that he just called her a lunatic, which made her a little emotional, she was completely indifferent to the other questions.

The female reporter is right. Ordinary people are insensitive to many of the ecstatic insights of geniuses, and geniuses are also insensitive to many of the ecstatic feelings of ordinary people.

But the words "genius" and "madman" made her feel harsh and uncomfortable.

Because it reminded her of her life experience.

Her mother was also a genius since childhood. Later, she became a PhD in mathematics at Cornell University at a young age. Unfortunately, she had an emotional dispute with a married professor and was not accepted by him. She had mental problems and chose to commit suicide.

She was driving with her and was planning to take her away, but after the car accident, she was safe and sound. She watched her mother die on the spot and the young girl was sent to an orphanage.

There, she saw that the janitor who lived in the basement liked to play chess. She was immediately fascinated by it and started playing with him, showing her side as a talented chess player.

With the help of a janitor, she embarked on the road of chess competitions. She was adopted at the age of thirteen. Accompanied by her adoptive mother, she participated in chess competitions in various states and won prizes.

The reporter's words not only brought back the unpleasant memory of her biological mother committing suicide in front of her, but also reminded her of the chess friend named Zhuge whom she had just met online.

It appeared so abruptly, as if she had seen the janitor play chess for the first time after being adopted from the orphanage. That night, as she lay on the bed looking at the ceiling, a flashing chess board seemed to appear in front of her eyes, and the chess pieces attacked each other as she thought, just as abruptly and bizarrely.

She once suspected that this Zhuge was the embodiment of herself playing chess in her mind.

What the female reporter said was a hallucination. This was the first thing that came to her mind.

Don't blame her for overthinking.

Not only is her mother a genius who then turned crazy, she is also known as a genius girl, and what she thinks in her mind is completely invisible to other people.

If you tell others about it, ordinary people will look at her as if she is a lunatic.

And the key point is that she is American and grew up in an American orphanage, so she passively developed the habit of taking drugs.

He also fell in love with alcoholism from his alcoholic adoptive mother.

Whether she was taking drugs or drinking alcohol, the drunken and hazy state sometimes made her unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Not to mention that as soon as this Zhuge appeared, he used her favorite and most proficient opening of the Queen's Gambit to invite her. Although he couldn't be seen, in her eyes, it was like saying: "I'm here to teach you how to use a real Queen's Gambit!"

If it’s not the other self that I play chess against in my mind every time, then who could it be?
But she soon realized that this Zhuge was not the embodiment of another her.

Because it’s so awesome!

She is no match at all!
The gap was so huge that she couldn't believe it was herself.

She also studied her biggest opponent in her mind, Valisi from the Russian bear. Although he was known as an invincible robot, he did not give her the same absolute oppression as Zhuge.

Moreover, she was sober when playing chess and was not taking drugs or drinking. After she asked for the name, she searched the name Zhuge on the Internet for a long time before she realized that there was such a name.

In China, this is also a symbol of wisdom! Therefore, the opponent ranked first in her mind has naturally changed from Walsh of the Russian Bear to Zhuge Liang of China!
"Beth, are you okay?" The adoptive mother stopped the unfriendly interview, sent the female reporters away, and came back to see her adopted daughter in a daze, and couldn't help but ask with concern.

Putting aside the relationship between adoptive mother and daughter, she is now the agent of her talented adopted daughter, taking her around the world to earn prize money from chess competitions, and she gets 15% of it as her own income, so she has to pay attention to the status of her cash cow.

"I'm fine." Beth shook her head, stood up and walked to the table, staring at the chessboard on the table in a trance.

When the adoptive mother saw this, she realized that her adopted daughter had fallen into her own world again and was improving her chess skills, so she quietly left the room and left enough space for her adopted daughter.

Beth stared at the chess endgame in a trance until her cell phone vibrated, waking her up. She took the phone and saw the familiar notification of a move.

She was startled and quickly restored the chessboard. She then played first with black pieces and made a Queen's Gambit opening. Then, according to the information on the Internet, she moved the opponent's chess piece one step. After making another move, she quickly edited and sent out her moves.

The reply came almost immediately after she sent the message. She was shocked and aggrieved by the speed.

Because this means that the gap between the two sides is too big, and the other party does not take her hidden killer moves into consideration at all.

After losing a game, her eyes became fierce, and she stood up to take out two things from her closet and placed them on both sides of the chessboard.

On one side is a medicine bottle.

On one side is a wine bottle.

She wanted to stimulate herself by challenging this mysterious and powerful online chess friend Zhuge, but to her surprise, she was defeated faster and more thoroughly this time.

You have to know that she has been exposed to chess since she was a child, and after taking drugs, it seemed as if she had gained cheats. Those who didn't know would think that she was advertising for a pharmaceutical group, but she could indeed see those chessboards appear in front of her and move as she wished.

And every time she took drugs and drank alcohol, in a half-asleep and half-awake state, her brain seemed to work faster, and all kinds of wonderful ideas kept coming to her mind.

It was also because of this that she was able to make rapid progress despite having no experience at the beginning, and even turned defeat into victory over many veteran top masters.

This time, in order to let Zhuge see her in her strongest state, she held medicine in one hand and wine in the other. After taking the drugs and drinking, she felt that her "invincible" state appeared again, but she didn't expect to be defeated faster and more miserably.

While she was puzzled, her phone vibrated again. She picked it up and saw the message on it: "Are you taking drugs or drinking? Drugs and alcohol will only numb your nerves. Even if they can make you excited and full of inspiration for a while, they will eventually damage your IQ.

If you do this again next time, I think our communication will end here. I only want to communicate with real chess geniuses, and don't want to waste time with drug addicts and alcoholics!"

These words had a huge impact on Beth.

In the past few years, no one had told her about these things. At the orphanage where she lived, they force-fed the children medicine to keep them quiet, well-behaved and easy to manage. However, after the truth was revealed, they were forced to openly abandon this system.

But she was still young at that time and had already become addicted. She desperately needed this, and finally she rushed into the pharmacy and stuffed these drugs, which were still in large quantities and she didn't know what they were used for, into her mouth as a revengeful meal.

Later she was adopted. Her adoptive mother was an alcoholic. Seeing that she won the prize, she not only allowed her to take her own tranquilizers, but also rewarded her with drinking after she won the prize even though she couldn't drink.

At 16, she was completely free.

She knew this was not good, but the people and things around her were sending her a message through their actions that it was okay!

Everyone is like this!
It was not until now that she was despised and looked down upon by her more talented rival Zhuge, who threatened to cut off all contact with her, that she truly came to a deep understanding of the matter.

(End of this chapter)