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Chapter 376 I don't torture old men, I only kill them.
"What's happening here?"

Inside the competition hall, Huang Yizhong, a 7-dan player, remained utterly astonished as he looked away from the chessboard just as the black pieces were about to be placed.

He may not have seen the brilliance of this move yet, but it truly left him completely bewildered, as it disrupted his planned offensive rhythm.

A celestial being descending from the heavens? Huang Yizhong, with a solemn expression, could only take it one step at a time after careful consideration. Since he couldn't find a way to deal with it, he would remain unchanged and wait for the right moment to stabilize his own rhythm.

For those watching from the sidelines, the analysis was clearly much clearer than that of those inside the arena.

Following the layout of the chessboard, Yu Zhiying picked up a chess piece from the chess box, placed it in the same position, and after a serious and meticulous thought, she suddenly realized the true intention behind the move.

That's the position near the bottom, seven columns and seventeen rows. Lin Ruo's core calculation point is undoubtedly here.

This cluster of white stones may seem powerful, but it actually has obvious weaknesses. Once it breaks through, it can easily allow black to escape.

As for whether it can be realized, once the foreshadowing is laid, it depends on whether subsequent moves can uncover it.

Huang Yizhong responded with a very ordinary move: simply push out the nearest piece. Lin Ruo, who had anticipated this, made an extreme twisting move by following the white piece at the bottom.

This move, by cutting off the center of the black stones, effectively created space for a breakthrough in the area below.

No matter how the white pieces move on the left side, with Lin Ruo's initial move to establish a foothold, the piece in the seventh column and fourteenth row will naturally fall.

The situation suddenly became clear.

After making two seemingly stable moves that actually hinted at assisting the opponent, Huang Yizhong's eyes widened slightly, and he involuntarily opened his thermos and took a sip of tea.

He became a little nervous because the situation really seemed to be tilting in his favor.

The placement of the chess pieces in seven columns and fourteen rows on the board seemed to carry an unstoppable pressure, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.

This move was absolutely brilliant, and it worked in conjunction with the previous move, "Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens," dismantling the white pieces' formation in just two moves.

The black stones then captured a stone at the bottom, calling for another capture. In the vast space of the white stones, the black stones gathered and captured the scattered white stones that were trying to change the situation.

Huang Yizhong had no choice. The area below was his most important territory, and he couldn't ignore it, much less sit idly by and wait for his doom without fighting back, even if such a counterattack seemed to be aiding and abetting evil.

That's exactly right; in the blink of an eye, three white stones were surrounded and killed.

Huang Yizhong tried to find a way to salvage the situation elsewhere, but to no avail.

"White can play any other moves, such as extending into the area where Black played earlier on the top, but Black can still ignore it and continue to capture below."

While strategizing the moves, Yu Zhiying explained them to her two junior sisters who had come with her. She was quite surprised by the coordinated efforts of these two people.

"Is there absolutely no way to crack this?" Wu Yiming could only ask helplessly after racking his brains.

Yu Zhiying's answer was crisp and clear: "No, it's completely blocked."

The situation changed too quickly. Lin Ruo, who was just at a disadvantage, launched a counterattack with the "Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens" technique, intending to form a connection to help the black pieces below escape.

As a result, Huang Yizhong not only failed to react, but also went up and gave what he called a divine assist.

By placing a piece at the weak point, the situation was not only turned around and brought into a close contest, but the player then captured three more white pieces to establish an advantage.

Black's goal is not to capture those few white stones, but to escape. When white tries to capture black, black counter-attacks and captures, then connects and allows the large group of stones to take flight.

This move disrupted the carefully laid-out formation of the white pieces. In short, everything fell apart.

So yes, Lin Ruo, who had been suppressed for most of the time, took over the baton from the professional 7-dan player in just two moves, turning the passive situation into an active one and seizing control of the game.

"Brothers, it looks like we've turned things around! I'm not kidding, Lin Ruo is really going to defy the odds and change his fate!"

In the most popular live stream room on Zhanqi Go, even the young streamer was amazed.

Although the two sides had only exchanged about seventy moves in the game, they had actually gone through a chaotic back-and-forth battle where the odds were reversed.

Is this something you see in Go matches where the early stages focus on the opening moves?
Shouldn't we only see such a wonderful situation in the mid-to-late game?

[Holy crap, I've never played Go, I'm not very educated, streamer, don't lie to me, are we really going to lose?]

[Lin Gou doesn't expose the streamer's son who is born without an anus, but her daughter looks exactly like the streamer.]

[Brothers, I studied Go for an hour, and I can tell you definitively that this is going to be a game-changer. I checked the real-time win rate using AI, and Lin's team has already surpassed 70%.]

[Hey, did Lin Gou's recharge payment arrive? Just a second ago someone was telling me he was at a huge disadvantage, how did he turn things around so quickly? Is he doing sit-ups here?]

If Lin Gou keeps going like this, I'm really going to start dreaming about winning the world championship. He can even beat a professional 7th dan, he's got a death wish!

[Go is a game that changes in an instant; don't be surprised.]

[How can I not be surprised? Lin Gou isn't really going to beat a professional 7-dan player who's worth real money, is he? Wow, his mouth will be all crooked after the match.]

Is it possible that things have already gone astray?

The viewers who were alerted looked into the live stream and saw, from a distance, that Lin Ruo was no longer in her seat but had gotten up and gone to the restroom.

Going to the bathroom right after turning the tide? Yeah, that's pretentious.

Huang Yizhong, a seventh-dan player, was still deep in thought in his seat. He took sips of tea and then sipped it again. What to do next was truly a difficult question for him.

His resentment was still nagging at him, and he found it hard to accept the sudden turn of events.

A young man who had just entered the early stages of his professional career unexpectedly defeated him so badly on the Mengbaihe Tournament field that he was completely bewildered.

The happier Huang Yizhong was in the first fifty moves, the more miserable he felt at that moment.

After much thought, Lin Ruo finally made her next move, only to have her place completed in less than ten seconds after Lin Ruo returned from the restroom.

They went down very quickly and landed very accurately.

Huang Yi was terrified and stared intently at the chessboard. He thought to himself that Lin Ruo was completely different from the other players. Her quick moves showed that she didn't care about the old man's despicable methods. Instead, she was determined to defeat him in no time.

This is obviously much more aboveboard than staying up all night, but it is still quite despicable.

Too brutal.

While Lin Ruo's defense is flawless, her offense is so overwhelming that it leaves opponents breathless.

(End of this chapter)