Everyone seems to want to persuade Yang Zheng to take the professional exam again.

First, because his current chess strength is the highest in the company, and even the professional chess players hired by the company are difficult to withstand Yang Zheng's airtight attack on the chessboard.

The second reason is that Yang Zheng started as a chess player, although he is now a shareholder and responsible for the company's technical support, his chess is the foundation of his foothold in this industry.

Yang Zheng was also hesitant to participate in the professional chess player assessment, but the previous experience of canceling his professional chess player qualification was like a painful memory of being stuck in the throat by a fish bone, which made him subconsciously disgusted with everything in the professional chess player assessment.

He is such a person who can't turn his brain, and people who have a good relationship with him will think that he is principled, but bystanders will still say that he is dead-headed.

This is his shortcoming, and it is one of the few strengths in his life.

After all, there aren't many people like him who are brainless.

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The day of the World Series is getting closer and closer, and the company run by Yang Zheng has also won the broadcast rights of the event in advance.

However, Yang Zheng is not responsible for planning and running the next event planning, because he has now left Shangjing.

I'm going to the funeral of a good friend.

He sat on the high-speed train to a friend's funeral, his eyes were very foggy, and his mind was full of memories with his high school friend.

This friend's surname is Liu, and he was a very good friend in high school, and Liu was very outgoing, much more extroverted than Yang Zheng in high school.

's height of 1.9 meters, coupled with his handsome appearance, made him attract the attention of girls in high school.

He is indeed a very good young man, in addition to his excellent appearance, his athletic talent is also very good, he has been the main force of the school football team since high school, and the best result in three years of high school is to lead the team to win the fifth place in the national high school football competition, and what is even more commendable is that his academic performance is also very good.

With a full score of 750 in the college entrance examination, he scored 620 points, and with his identity as a sports student, he also successfully entered the top colleges and universities that many people dream of.

According to common sense, such an excellent person should also be a man of the year in college, and after graduation, he should embark on an enviable elite road.

But Liu was very low-key in college, and after graduation, he went to do a very incomprehensible job.

And that job is a forest ranger.

Forest rangers, a profession that can only be seen and heard about in elementary school textbooks, give the first impression that most of the people who are willing to take up this job are elderly people.

This also made many people who know Liu very well, wondering why he is so young and has such a good future, why should he do such a "promising" industry.

Liu and Yang Zheng had a very good relationship in high school, and the two of them became iron buddies because of an online novel.

In those days when Internet content was still scarce, computers were not as ubiquitous as they are now.

When everyone goes to an Internet café, they basically play some stand-alone online computer games, and there are not many people who play online games. And reading online novels, to be honest, was a very niche hobby back then.

After all, in that era, paper books had a wider audience and were more "convenient".

Yang Zheng still remembers that he and classmate Liu met after reading a novel of the mercenary genre in another world. He had almost forgotten the specific name of the book and the plot now, he only remembered what the main character was Amy, who had been an insignificant little person. At that time, while reading novels, they also imagined that their boring life could be as passionate and magical as novels.

He still remembers that after they finished reading that novel, Liu half-jokingly told him that he would also be an excellent fiction writer in the future, write his wild imagination, and then bring infinite reverie to many readers like this book.

At that time, Yang Zheng looked at classmate Liu with light in his eyes, he nodded, he probably believed that such an excellent classmate Liu would definitely be able to complete his ideals in the future.

In the next three years of high school, I also read a lot of interesting novels with Liu, and after that, the two of them also focused on their studies and were admitted to good universities.

During the four years of college, he also corresponded with Liu frequently, but as time went by, Liu didn't seem to want to be a fiction writer.

It may also be because he majored in psychology in college, and his future dream is more to pursue a career as a psychiatrist.

Here I have to mention Liu's major, which was not chosen by Liu himself, but by Liu's father.

Liu's father is an engineer engaged in computer-related industries, he has been exposed to artificial intelligence for a long time, and he is keenly aware that the future era is likely to be the era of artificial intelligence.

Assembly line work and cheap labor will all face the risk of obsolescence in the future, and psychology is the only industry that will not be replaced by artificial intelligence.

I have to say that Liu's father has a keen sense of business, and with the progress of the times, most of the possibilities he expected have become the contradictions of this era.

It's just that he seems to ignore that his children don't really like psychology majors.

But even if he knew, he would let his children choose the major he recommended, because he knew that Liu had always been an obedient and good child.

In the four years of college, although Liu was a little lost and often a little confused, he also followed his father's plan, and after graduating from university, he was admitted to the graduate school of this university and continued to engage in research on psychology.

And Yang Zheng did not choose to go to graduate school, but went to work and started a business like an ordinary person, and the intersection between the two gradually decreased.

Except for the occasional holiday blessing, I can't make an appointment for dinner a few times a year, and slowly, the friendship between the two only exists on mobile phones.

After Yang Zheng lost his job, he also pretended to post a circle of friends that the world is so big that I wanted to see. When classmate Liu saw it, he not only comforted him, but also transferred more than 1,000 yuan to Yang Zheng, asking Yang Zheng to relax, don't give up on himself, and go for a big meal.

Yang Zheng has always kept this affection in mind, and he also wanted to wait for his success to get together with classmate Liu, and he also imagined that if he could really become a rich man, he would definitely give these friends who were good to him a luxury car.

However, the world is impermanent, and the death of classmate Liu not only made Yang Zheng realize the preciousness of friendship and the fragility of life, but also made him inexplicably have a sense of urgency.

He also seems to realize that when people reach middle age, separation will gradually become a norm.