Soon, the good news came one after another, and the victims were out of danger one after another, and the speed was noticeably accelerating. After nearly 100 people were rescued unharmed, seeing that everything was indeed normal, the risks were under control, and there was nothing to worry about, so under Alice's untraceable arrangement, Cheng Zitong's mother also escaped safely.

After the number of rescued people exceeded the 1,000 mark, Yates began to look away from the instruments and magic circles that showed the victims' situation for the first time. He closed his eyes slightly, as if he was a little tired, but when he opened them a moment later, he was already shining. Yates's fingers tapped on the armrest of the rattan chair under the seat, he looked at Sun Suhe and suddenly asked, "Mr. Suhe, it will take a lot of time to wait for all the victims to be rescued, how about you and I talk about a game?"

"Go?" asked Sun Suhe with some surprise.

A sincere smile appeared on Yates' face, "I wonder if Mr. Su He is interested in meeting friends through chess?"

Although Sun Suhe learned Go for a period of time when he was a child, he also memorized the formula and played the score, but he has not played it for many years, and he has long forgotten this bit of Tongzigong, and now he only remembers the most basic rules and knows how to play. Sun Suhe thought about it, Yates must be a master, and he still didn't want to get an axe, which made people laugh. He was about to politely refuse, but Alice suddenly said in Sun Suhe's heart: "Let's go down with him." ”

"Isn't it a shame for me to play in this stinky chess basket? I still have this self-knowledge. Sun Suhe replied with self-deprecation in his heart.

"Of course it's not you, it's the old man Tanuki who has itchy hands and wants to borrow your hand to play a game with this Mr. Yates. He said that if you lose anyway, you Xiao Su will lose, and if he wins, even if he wins, this game of chess must be played. ”

Sun Suhe laughed in his heart, "This fat cat master, the abacus is so loud." Haha, you ask him, how is his level, is he okay? It doesn't matter if I lose, I don't want to lose too embarrassed. ”

"Xiao Suhe, you put a million hearts, master, I have a hundred ways to win chess, as long as I don't make a stupid move, no one can win me. Old Man Tanuki stroked his beard and said confidently.

These words reached Sun Suhe's ears through Alice's perception, and Sun Suhe couldn't help but smile, "Please, you help me tell Master Tanuki, when he said this, I became worried." ”

"Xiao Suhe, don't be verbose, you're so unhappy. Hurry up and agree to Yates, and then wait to see the perfect and beautiful chess game of the master, drowning the other party like a surging river. ”

"Okay, your old man Tanuki has spoken, how dare you not agree?"

Sun Su flicked his hand, and a magic array on the ground quietly appeared, and between the surging green mangs, a young seedling poked its head out and sprouted, and soon grew into a small Tingting tree more than one meter high. The branches are coiled upwards like a swimming dragon, forming a flowing hollow base between Sun Suhe and Yates. The green leaves crumbled in the wind, turning into a cloud of nebula-like light particles.

Sun Suhe snapped his fingers, and the light particles immediately rotated into a series of green and slight straight rays, they were the same length, no more than a penny, nineteen vertical and horizontal, staggered out three hundred and sixty-one intersections, just at the top of the canopy to form a square chessboard. As soon as the mind touches the chessboard, the intersection points immediately change, forming dots slightly larger than the nail cover, with solid dots for sunspots and hollow dots for whites.

Yates praised: "What a chic chess set." ”

Since it is a chess meeting, it is not appropriate to be commensurate with the position, Sun Suhe also smiled and said: "Mr. Yates has this elegant meaning, then I will also be cheeky to be elegant." ”

"Please. Sun Suhe stretched out his hand to invite.

"Oh, is Mr. Suhe going to let me go first?" Yates raised his eyebrows, and a playful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The victory or defeat of Go is, simply put, to see who can occupy more territory on the 361 board. Therefore, the first side has a clear advantage. In the past, the Japanese chess saint Beninbo Shuze enjoyed a reputation for being undefeated in black, which was of course because of his genius and superb chess skills, but it must also be said that there was a first-mover advantage in black.

Therefore, in the rules of modern Go, in order to balance the advantage of black and white in order to ensure the fairness of both sides, black must deduct a certain number of eyes when calculating the amount of land occupied by both sides at the end.

And "let first" means that the opponent will take the black first, and there is no need to deduct the number of meshes when calculating the victory or defeat in the end. This is the smallest degree of handicap chess, generally speaking, the master let the low hand, the seniors let the juniors, only when there is a certain gap between the two levels will they give way in the game. At that time, Wu Qingyuan, the saint of Showa chess, was demoted by several generations of Japanese masters through the "lifting and lowering ten chess", known as "let the world be the first", so he was recognized as the first person in the world.

When two players play each other for the first time, if one side asks to give way, it is clear that they regard themselves as masters and despise the other, which is extremely arrogant and provocative. Sun Suhe hadn't played chess for a long time, but he didn't expect his invitation to be misunderstood as a concession, and he couldn't help but cry and laugh.

"Meow, I can't let it go, Xiao Suhe, you can't let the master and me suffer before you start!" Before Sun Suhe could speak, Master Tanuki had already shouted.

Sun Suhe could only smile to hide his embarrassment, and said lightly: "Guess first, just guess the serial number of the next rescued person in the surveillance." What do you think, Mr. Yates?"

The so-called "guess first" is to grab a chess piece in the hand of one party for the time being, and then the other party to guess the number of chess pieces of the odd and even, if you guess correctly, you have the right to choose black or white, if you guess wrong, this power will belong to the side that catches the chess piece, of course, the party that holds black first is to stick to the purpose according to the rules. This is the most conventional and fairest approach. There are no chess pieces to catch at the moment, so Sun Suhe has made some changes.

There is also an unwritten tradition that the side that draws the pieces is usually the higher rank, and when the two players are of the same rank, the older players. Sun Suhe asked Yates to guess the odds and evens, but in fact, he took advantage of him. Sun Suhe will not be complacent about this boring cheapness, but these details must be done, otherwise he cannot maintain a consistent strong image. Sun Suhe never naively thought that Yates really just wanted to play chess. The so-called watching chess is like watching people, and he probably also has a mind of judging people with chess, so even an understatement is not sloppy at all.

Of course, many people don't care much about this kind of unwritten rule, and whoever catches and guesses is often messed up. Therefore, this not only shows a certain strength, but also is much more gentle and polite than "let the first".

"Good. ”

Yates had no objection and replied crisply. He held out two fingers to indicate that he had guessed an even number.

The results soon appeared, and the next rescued person in the surveillance was numbered 556.

"Ha," Yates showed a hint of a smile, "Mr. Suhe, then you're welcome, I'll take the black first." ”