Seeing this message, Zhou Xiaochuan bowed his head and said to the old turtle: "The other party has sent another application for the game, do you want to agree?" At the same time, he did not forget to reach out and free the black boy from the sand's mouth.

"Thank you, master, thank you." The black boy who escaped in the si felt scared for a while, and hurriedly thanked Zhou Xiaochuan. And Shazi was glaring at the dissatisfied beard, stretching out his paws to snatch back the black boy from Zhou Xiaochuan's hand: "Don't interfere, I will eat this thief bird to make up for my loss in snacks!" ”

Zhou Xiaochuan didn't protect it all the time as the black boy wanted, but let the sand snatch it back, and of course he didn't forget to tell the sand a sentence: "A small punishment and a big admonition will be done, but don't really make a bird's life." At the same time, the old turtle lying on the computer desk was urging repeatedly: "Master, don't care about the thief bird's life, hurry up and start playing chess." It seems that it still has a lot of resentment about the fact that the black boy fell into the well just now.

Zhou Xiaochuan didn't waste any more time, cāo clicked the start button with the mouse, and the last game of chess that Lao Turtle could play today kicked off the battle.

However, neither Zhou Xiaochuan nor Su Xuan nor other professional Go players expected an accident to happen at this time.

Just when the two sides had just made a dozen moves, the surrounding environment suddenly darkened, and it was actually dark.

"Damn, there's a power outage!" Although Zhou Xiaochuan and Su Xuan were in two different places, they said such a sentence in unison at the same time.

"When is the power outage bad, it is actually a power outage at this time...... Su Xuan hurriedly took out a spare candle from the drawer of the computer desk to light it, and shook his head with a wry smile: "If the thousand-year-old king and eighty-thousand-year-old turtle misunderstood us because of this accident, it would be too wrongful." ”

"Strange, how can there be a sudden power outage at night? I'll call the power company and ask. Chang Lin was also anxious, and quickly took out his mobile phone to call the power company's duty number. He didn't want to be misunderstood by the thousand-year-old king 80,000-year-old turtle because of this accident, and he couldn't afford to lose and deliberately forced to retreat, and if he didn't play chess with them in the future, the loss would be too great.

However, before Chang Lin's phone was dialed, the light in the room turned on again. In stark contrast, the buildings across the street outside the window were still in darkness. It turned out that the dormitory of the Go team in Shide City was at the junction of the two districts, and the district to which it belonged had been restored, but the adjacent district was still in a state of power outage. However, Su Xuan and the others were not in the mood to pay attention to where the call had come and where the power was still out, so they hurriedly restarted the computer and logged in to the online game of Go, wanting to continue the game just now.

Fortunately, because the power outage was very short, the system determined that they were temporarily disconnected, and did not end the game just now, and as soon as Su Xuan landed on the account of the thorny wild rose, he immediately returned to the chess game. "Fortunately, I caught up with ......" The professional Go players in the room invariably breathed a sigh of relief.

After seeing the other party's state, Su Xuan couldn't help but be stunned.

"What's wrong?" Several non-professional Go players next to him hurriedly asked for unknown reasons.

"This thousand-year-old king and eighty-thousand-year-old turtle, why did it fall off, it's too coincidental, right? Could it be that there is also a power outage over there...... Wait, blackout? A trace of shock flashed in Su Xuan's eyes, she raised her head suddenly, and said to the professional Go players around her, "You say, is it possible that this person is in our Shide City?" ”

Chang Lin and the others looked at each other, and Jingran felt that this matter was unlikely, but as Su Xuan said, it was too coincidental for everyone to drop the line together......

Could it be that this mysterious master is really in Shide City? So where will he be? Who will it be?

Regarding the surprise and speculation of Su Xuan and other professional Go players, Zhou Xiaochuan did not know. At this moment, he was busy using the faint light emitted by the mobile phone screen as a lighting tool, rummaging through the cabinets in the living room, and finally found a candle, quickly lit it, and did not forget to complain a few words in his mouth: "Why did the power go out suddenly?" And I don't have to warn you beforehand. Hey, I don't know when the electricity will stop. "The place where he lives is not in the same area as the Go team dormitory, so there is already a call from the Go team dormitory, but it is still pitch black here. …,

The old turtle lying on the computer desk also stretched his neck at this time and complained dissatisfiedly: "Damn, why did the power suddenly go out?" I've just started my last game of the day, and I'm looking forward to another big win. I said, master, didn't you forget to pay the electricity bill? ”

"Don't you see it's pitch black outside? Did they also forget to pay their electricity bills? Zhou Xiaochuan returned to the room, and the candle was placed on the bedside table: "You, just be content, I still played four games of chess today, which is somewhat enjoyable, and I haven't started learning chess today." No way. In the future, you have to change the rules, teach me to play chess first, and then it will be your turn to play those five games. As he spoke, he reached out and picked up a book on the bedside table for an introduction to Go, and flipped through it. This book was bought at the bookstall next to the station when he returned to Shide City from Fangting County today, and he thought that he was looking through the bus to pass the time, but he didn't expect it to come in handy after the power outage.

I don't know if it was because Zhou Xiaochuan's circuit problem in their area was more serious, or for some other reason, until he blew out the candle and went to bed more than an hour later, and the electricity supply could not be restored. Early the next morning, Zhou Xiaochuan woke up, because all the lights in the house were on, and he couldn't sleep.

"I don't know when the electricity came last night, and the power company is too weak......" After muttering, Zhou Xiaochuan got up and turned off the lights, washed up, went downstairs and had breakfast at the roadside stall, and then came to the pet home Shide store. Although it is not yet time to go to work, the store has already opened, and the veterinarian Liu Xiangzhu is busy cleaning.

Seeing Zhou Xiaochuan coming, Liu Xiangzhu paused what he was doing and greeted with a smile: "Morning, boss." ”

Zhou Xiaochuan also smiled and said, "I thought I was the first to come, but I didn't expect you to be earlier than me." Then he picked up the mop and cleaned up with Liu Xiangzhu. A few minutes later, the pet groomer named Zhao Qian also came, and the three of them were busy together. But what made Zhou Xiaochuan deeply puzzled was that until the work hours passed, the other pet doctors still did not arrive.

At half past nine, Huang Xiaowan, who rushed back from Fangting County, also came to the store. When she saw that there were only Zhou Xiaochuan, Liu Xiangzhu, and Zhao Qian in the store, she couldn't help but be stunned, and said with some wonder: "Why are there only three of you?" What about the others? Not here yet? Odd...... Those guys are very punctual on weekdays, why are they collectively late today? Something can't be wrong, right? ”

Liu Xiangzhu and Zhao Qian glanced at each other, and they both saw a strange look in each other's eyes.

Zhou Xiaochuan didn't notice the change in the eyes of the two, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and said while flipping through the contacts in the phone book: "I'm also wondering about this, and I'm about to call them to ask." Soon, he pulled out the mobile phone number of one of the veterinarians and dialed it.

The phone was quickly connected, and Zhou Xiaochuan just asked, why haven't you come to work yet? , I heard the other party say in a hurried tone: "I'm sorry, Boss Zhou, I have decided to resign, and I will settle this month's salary with you in a few days... Ah, what, I still have some things to do, so I won't tell you more, goodbye. He didn't give Zhou Xiaochuan a chance to ask, so he hung up the phone in a hurry.

"Resign?" This answer made Zhou Xiaochuan frown, feeling that something was not quite right in this matter. After thinking about it, he called a few veterinarians who didn't come to work. The answer was surprisingly unanimous: "I'm sorry, I'm resigning." ”

Except for Liu Xiangzhu and Zhao Qian, the employees in the Shide store of the pet home actually resigned! It's weird, it's hard to accept.

"We are not thin on these employees, why did we suddenly resign en masse? And they didn't even say hello in advance..."Huang Xiaowan frowned and muttered, obviously, this sudden incident made her feel unacceptable.

Zhou Xiaochuan shook his head, he couldn't understand why these people suddenly resigned en masse. You must know that the salary they offer to these people is not low, and the working atmosphere of the pet home has always been very good, he and Huang Xiaowan and Zhang Aijia have never been able to serve the boss's shelf, and the big guys get along as if they were friends, he never thought that these people would suddenly resign en masse.

Just when Zhou Xiaochuan and Huang Xiaowan were puzzled, Liu Xiangzhu suddenly said: "I know why they resigned. ”

"Why?" Zhou Xiaochuan and Huang Xiaowan turned their heads to look at him in unison.

"They must have been poached." Liu Xiangzhu said: "A few days ago, I received a phone call from a pet hospital in the city called Pet Ning, asking if I would be interested in going to work there, and promised to give me double my salary in the pet home as long as I passed." But I think that working in a pet home, first, you can learn things, and second, the working atmosphere is better, so although the salary offered by the other party is very good, I still rejected him. Originally, I thought that the pet hospital had only called me and had not told me about it. But judging from the current situation, I am afraid that I am not the only one who was digging at that time. ”。 ）