At half past eight in the evening, the moonlight gradually became thicker.

Dinner is seafood hot pot, tempura + sushi, and expensive wagyu beef, which fulfills Ke Zhiguang's expectation of eating non-staple food to his heart's content, and consuming to the end, there are still thousands of yuan left in his hands.

After dinner, Ke Zhiguang and Shui Chengxi said goodbye to this living treasure couple.

Although it is a living treasure, Ke Zhiguang is still very happy to know them, after all, he is one of the few friends he has made since coming here.

"Let's talk next time, Guangjun, I'll take you to eat such a good meal!" The half-drunk and unconscious Shangxi Xingren was helped away by Matsumoto Yukie.

After seeing these two people leave, Ke Zhiguang's interest also cooled down.

Suddenly called Guangjun, I feel a little uncomfortable, but after thinking about it carefully, the name of the protagonist in "Chess Soul" seems to be a light, called Hikaru Fuji.

I see, the protagonist who plays chess this year must have a light word in his name, just like the previous protagonists of Yu-Gi-Oh must have the surname You.

"Next, can you accompany me to another place, it's a bookstore, it's within walking distance." Ke Zhiguang said.

"Do you want to buy books?"

"That's it."

"Let's go, then."

The two of them walked through the streets of Tokyo at night.

Tokyo at night has a special magic, with small spaces where every inch of land is at a premium, dense billboards, and an element of activity and restlessness in the air, like bubbles filling the streets, scattering colorful lights around them.

There are people waving banknotes on the side of the road to stop cars, and it seems that there is so much money that they can never be spent, and the description of the Japanese bubble era on the marketing account does not seem to be a lie.

There is a blood-pumping sound in the arcade, and bubble socks will become popular in a few years.

It's a world full of times.

Unconsciously, it seems that he has walked into a somewhat gray area, and there seem to be more mother mulberries in bright dresses around, and there are people with hairstyles that kill Matt standing on the street as special scouts in front of the store, which makes Shuicheng Xiyue a little uneasy.

"If you want to buy a book, why don't you change places?" Mizuki whispered.

"It's okay, it's here." Ke Zhiguang replied calmly.

To be reasonable, this is a game of chess, and even if there is a real danger, most of the time it will be solved by playing chess in the end.

For example, when he was blocked by a group of thugs in the alley, the thugs led by him stepped forward with a smile, and then took out a chessboard out of nowhere, saying Let's have a game of exciting blitz chess, right?

Well, that's a good script, so why don't you go into an alley and trigger an event right now.

Just kidding......

When I came to the designated bookstore, it was a small bookstore with a very small storefront, and the books sold were normal...... No, there seems to be a layer of space inside, and there is a pink glow behind the thick warm curtains.

It's a pity that the location indicated by the [Treasure Map] is not behind the warm curtain, otherwise Ke Zhiguang would have a good reason to open the warm curtain and check what is inside, but it's a pity and hateful.

When I came to the specific coordinates indicated by the [Treasure Map], I picked up the book, and sure enough, it was a book related to Go.

"Muramasa Demon Knife"

The name Muramasa Demon Knife is quite familiar to most people, and it often appears in major literary and artistic works as a magic weapon.

But in Go, this is one of the three formulas, the Muramasa Demon Knife.

The change diagram of the Muramasa demon knife is very complicated, the tricks are repeated, every step implies a murderous trick, sometimes walking, the opponent collapses, sometimes he collapses, the most complex change diagram can fill nearly a quarter of a chessboard, it is this double-edged sword-like lethality, so that this formula is given this name full of the atmosphere of the middle two.

But looking at the cover of this book, it doesn't look like a Go explanation book, it seems to be just a simple swordsman novel.

"Is this the one you want to buy?" Mizuki asked.

"That's it." Ke Zhiguang said that because the book was wrapped in plastic, it was not possible to inspect the treasure referred to in the [treasure map] on the spot.

When I got the payment on the counter,By the way, I asked about the content of the book.,The general introduction is an Edo era ghost swordsman.,One hand is holding a sword.,The story of the two sides of the civil and military double cultivation across the rivers and lakes.,The specific process is to play chess with the opponent first.,After winning the chess, you can force out the demon attached to the opponent.,And then pull out the knife and kill the ghost.,It seems to be quite interesting from the setting.。

In short, it is related to Go.

"But ah,The final ending is a tragedy.,The opponent the protagonist has to face in the final battle is his beloved heroine.,The heroine's chess strength is more superb than the male owner.,The male owner can't defeat her at all.,In the end, the female owner regained a trace of her consciousness.,Forced to make a wrong move.,But this also angered the demon who was attached to her.,The demon killed the female owner.,The male owner killed the demon.,In the end, the male owner stopped playing chess.,Don't hold a sword anymore.,Alas......" The clerk spoke a little affectionately.,It seems that I like this book very much.。

The clerk immediately apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I'm so spoiled, I'm sorry." ”

"It doesn't matter, thanks for the demining." Ke Zhiguang said.

Just like that, I walked out of the bookstore with the book.

In fact, I haven't finished reading the last "Celebrity", and now there is another novel inexplicably.

If I have to say, "Celebrity" also ended in tragedy, and Xiuya did not win the retirement game.

The nameless chess game, the two novels related to Go, there seems to be something hinting at him in the dark.

Ke Zhiguang suddenly felt a ringing in his ears, and his steps shook twice.

"It's okay, Hikari." Suitsuki Mizuki is also used to this title.

"It's okay, it's just two space steps."

After stabilizing his figure, Kezhiguang put on his non-existent glasses, and his gaze suddenly fell to the end of the street in front of him.

He saw it...... Yoshida.

At the end of the street, in the midst of the crowds flowing left and right, Yoshida stood silently in front of an intersection leading to an underground shopping mall, his posture particularly stiff and mechanical.

[Plague Rat], which appeared directly on his shoulder, was larger than the last time he saw it, and his appearance became more hideous and ugly, and some of his limbs had been corrupted into skeletons.

And the tail of the [plague rat] was wrapped around Yoshida's neck like a hanging rope, tightening slightly.

As if aware of the existence of others' eyes, the [plague rat] turned his head and glanced at Ke Zhiguang from a distance, revealing a fierce aura.

This.....?

Ke Zhiguang was intimidated, and his shoulders shook.

What did he see?

It stands to reason that as long as he is in a state of play, he can see the symbolic spirit of the chess player, but at this moment, Yoshida obviously has nothing to do with the game, and he can't find a chessboard within a few tens of meters, but his symbolic spirit still appears.

It's still a posture of wanting to strangle him, the master.

Yoshida took a step forward and stepped into the underground mall.

The [Plague Rat] lying on his shoulder also disappeared in front of Ke Zhiguang's eyes.

"Hikari, what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing, let's go." Ke Zhiguang shook his head and let out a breath into the night sky.

For the first time, I found that the bright moon in the night sky was particularly demonic, and where the moonlight was not bright, it seemed that there were hundreds of ghosts walking at night.

......

......

At ten o'clock in the evening, the black and green restaurant was already on the verge of closing, and the manager was doing the final finishing work.

"A whiskey, thank you." An old, personable voice came from the counter.

It was an old man in a gray trench coat, with flowing gray hair, a cigar in his mouth, and his gestures seemed to be in the wind, and he was a little too dashing.

"Saito Kudan, good evening." The manager nodded respectfully at the old man, "It's so late, are you still working?" ”

"Yes, now the National High School League is about to start, and I've been a bit busy lately." The old man said, puffing through the smoke ring.

"Speaking of high school students, there was a high school student this afternoon who solved the questions you came up with, and he looked very relaxed." The manager said with a wry smile.

"Oh? High school students, this is quite unexpected to me, in fact, we are actually quite disdainful of high school students, and we all think that the younger they are, the more powerful they are, and it really makes me sad to be solved by a mere high school student. The old man smiled slowly, and his spirit was quite energetic.

"I thought so at first, I thought that now that the powerful high school students are all going to practice in the dormitory, the students who can hang out in our store after school should not be very strong, but he gives people a very different feeling."

"Can you describe it?" Saito Kudan said, shaking the ice cubes in the cup.

"He gave me the feeling that he was the kind of person who had played Go for a long time, as if he had played thousands or even tens of thousands of games of chess, and he was thinking about it intently...... It's overwhelming. ”

Saito Kudan was quiet for a while after listening to it, and then laughed: "Since you have commented so, then he should be very strong, but speaking of which, Go is really cruel, I have heard such a saying, people can become masters in a field by investing more than 10,000 hours in that field, but in terms of Go, it may not work." ”

"Yes, the gap in talent separates many people." The manager followed Saito's intentions, and if he thought, Mr. Saito might mean that even though the boy had studied Go for a long time, he could only be a high school student, not a professional chess player, which was a cruel talent.

"No, no, no, I mean even more cruelty, you have to think like this, like those who have been aspiring to become professional chess players since childhood, most of them start learning chess at the age of 7, assuming that they only spend an average of 8 hours a day on Go, and by the time they are more than 11 years old, they have accumulated 10,000 hours, but in fact, when they actually participate in the fixed stage competition, they are a group of monster children who have struggled for almost 20,000 hours."

"Talent is such a thing, in fact, in terms of most people's level of effort, it can't reach the level where you need to compete for talent." Saito Kudan took a sip of strong whisky, and although his posture was bold, not a single drop of wine spilled.

Listening to Saito Kudan's words, the manager hesitated for a moment, feeling a little heavy.

"I'm sorry, I'm far away." Saito pursed his lips and smiled, and his beard moved with it, "Then which school is that high school student you are talking about?" ”

"It's from Yunjing High School, and he's wearing the uniform of Yunjing High School."

"Oh. That's quite fateful, I'm going to go there in a few days because of the league, maybe I'll be able to meet the high school student you call me. Saito Kudan said.