[Soul of Chess] What if

"He Gu, is your game over?"

"Shinto..." He Gu opened his mouth when he heard his question, as if he wanted to say something.

Hegu probably needs to comfort himself again... Ah Guang thought so, so before the other party could speak, he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Ah ~ as you can see, I lost this game again. But, next time I will definitely win a game! *^____^*”

As he spoke, he made a gesture of clenching his fist, trying to make his friends not have to worry about him.

However, not only He Gu frowned slightly, but even Zuo Wei beside him was worried.Ah Guang realized that his disguise had failed, so he also put away his barely maintained smile.

Seeing Ah Guang's slightly lonely expression after the disguise faded, He Gu sighed, and then sat down beside Ah Guang.

After a brief silence, he looked straight at A Guang with a slightly serious face: "Shinto, have you been feeling unwell recently, or has something happened?"

"Eh?"

Hearing He Gu's inquiry, Ah Guang was stunned for a moment, and he asked in puzzlement, "Why do you say that?"

"Look—" He Gu said, pointing his finger at the board that has not been sorted out, "This is the simplest life-and-death problem. It stands to reason that you should not make mistakes. Of course, if you are too careless during the game And it’s not impossible to not notice it.”

"But here..."

Following He Gu's actions, Aguang also moved his gaze to the lower left corner of the chessboard.At first he didn't realize it, but after he deduced it from the bottom of his heart, he was so regretful that his intestines were green: there was obviously a way to survive here, and it was not difficult to find at all, but he surrendered easily!

No wonder the opponent was so stunned when he conceded defeat...

It turned out that he should be the one who can win this game in the end!

But he handed Bai Xing over to others so easily? !

After realizing this, self-blame, annoyance, remorse, all kinds of emotions kept intertwining in Ah Guang's heart, and he rubbed his head vigorously, as if this would make his messy mind feel better.

Knowing that Ah Guang himself has discovered the problems in this game, He Gu will not say much about it.

After Ah Guang's mood had almost calmed down, he continued the previous topic: "You haven't been in a good state recently, are you really okay?"

"I..." Ah Guang didn't know how to answer for a moment.

As He Gu said, his recent state is indeed not very good, but it is not because of his health or life.

However, the real reason is that even he himself can't explain why, so how should he answer He Gu?

"I'm not very clear either..." He replied with some distress, "It's just that I don't know why, it seems that I can't win..."

"Become unwinnable?"

Seeing Ah Guang's listless face, He Gu put his chin on his head and thought about it seriously, and then said his speculation: "Could it be because of your continuous losing of chess?"

This argument sounds very reasonable, so A Guang asked: "How do you say that?"

"Hmm...Think about it, it's impossible for you to fall from the first group to the second group without a gap in your heart, right?" He Gu looked at Aguang with confirmation.

Being poked at the heart of the matter, even though he was a little embarrassed, Ah Guang couldn't help but nodded in admiration.

"If this happened to me, I would definitely want to accumulate more white stars, so that I can return to the same group next month. We have similar personalities, so I think you should have such a plan... "Speaking of which, Hegu smiled shyly and scratched his hair.

Thinking of how confident he was at the beginning, and thinking of the situation where he lost consecutive chess games, Ah Guang lowered his head and replied softly, "Yes."

Seeing this, Hegu slowly put away the smile on his face. He watched Ah Guang seriously explaining his speculation: "Although I have such thoughts, but in the first match of the second group Encountered setbacks - you got a black star in that game."

"Such a result will inevitably dampen your self-confidence. In order not to get a black star, you became more careful in the second game. However, if you care too much about the outcome, you will lose your sense of normalcy, which is not conducive to your own level So, no surprise, you also lost the second game.”

Aguang nodded unconsciously to let Hegu understand that his speculation did not deviate too much from the actual situation, so his tone became more affirmative: "You failed to identify your problem at the first time, but chose a comparison Be cautious once, trying to avoid mistakes. This will instead make you fall into a vicious cycle of 'lost→careful→lose again→more careful', and the result is a continuous loss like now."

"You mistakenly equate the winning or losing of the chess game with your level of caution, and when you realize that the more careful you are, the more likely you will lose, you will inevitably have the illusion that you can't win. "

"Of course, what I'm talking about is just my personal guess. What makes you have such an idea, you still need to find the answer yourself." Looking at Ah Guang's thoughtful look, He Gu added road.

"Well..." He Gu patted Ah Guang's shoulder in relief, "In short, let's relax properly, don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"It's getting late, it's time to go back."

"Ah! I'll be fine soon!" Hearing He Gu's words, Ah Guang came back to his senses.Seeing that it was indeed getting late, he hurriedly quickened his movements.

The next day is the day when Hasase Middle School holds a school festival.

Since the performance of the Weiqi Club stage play is scheduled for around three o'clock in the afternoon, and they have almost finished rehearsing, Ah Guang has a morning to play.

Today is a sunny day, perfect for playing outside.The campus at this time has become completely different from usual: the school gate is full of colorful signboards, the corridors and stairwells are covered with propaganda posters, and the classrooms have also been transformed into cafes, haunted houses, and exhibitions. Pavilion, the venue for live portraits.The students each displayed their ingenuity and tried their best to attract customers.The whole campus is filled with festive atmosphere.

In fact, when the school festival was still a week away, the lively atmosphere on the campus began to gradually increase day by day.No matter during the lunch break or after school, you can see everywhere busy making display boards, drawing posters, or knocking and making models.Under the shade of trees, beside the playground, there are many students practicing singing and various musical instruments.

Everyone is making final preparations for the school festival.

In addition, in order to increase publicity, the members of the executive committee have carefully produced a brochure introducing various activities of this school festival.At the beginning of the new semester, they arranged for manual distribution, and almost every family around the school received a brochure for the school festival in their mailboxes.

Their efforts were not in vain.Because not only the teachers and students of the school participated in the school festival today, but also the residents near the school also came to participate.The campus is crowded with people everywhere, so lively.

If it weren't for He Gu's words yesterday, Ah Guang might not be in the mood to have fun at all today.

Although he doesn't know whether the reason for his continuous losing is really what Hegu said, but he has indeed lost his composure.

Maybe I should really relax and change my mood.Thinking of this, Ah Guang turned his attention to the bustling campus.

I saw food stalls lined up on both sides of the campus roads, and there were many kinds of snacks, not only chocolate bananas, fried noodles, French fries, hot dogs, takoyaki, etc., but also cotton candy, ice cream and crepes!

As for the taste...it depends on the skills of those students.

Anyway, Ah Guang didn’t eat ㄟ(▔,▔)ㄏ

At this time, Ah Guang was standing in front of the haunted house, hesitating whether to go in.

After hesitating for a long time, although he wanted to give up a little bit, but thinking that he had been in the queue for a long time, Ah Guang decided to go in and have a look.

What's more, I'm not even afraid of Zuo Wei, those fake ones shouldn't scare me...Probably...(;[-]_[-])

In this way, Ah Guang walked into the classroom without a trace of light holding the light stick given to him by his senior at the entrance.

With the faint light of the fluorescent stick, Ah Guang walked along the winding path.Except for the very weird song that was playing in a loop, there was no sound in the classroom, and after a while, Ah Guang felt a little fuzzy in his heart.

At this moment, a bloody human head appeared in front of him.

The moment he saw that head, all the blood on Ah Guang's face faded.

fake...it's fake...

Ah Guang kept muttering in his heart, and after a while he forced himself to walk over calmly.

After that, they encountered one after another ghosts like the headless ghost.Compared with Zuo Wei's beautiful face, Ah Guang's expression is quite normal.

After being able to faintly see the outline of the exit, Ah Guang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before he could finish his breath, he felt something wrap around his ankle quietly! Σ(°△°|||)︴

"Whoa, whoa, whoa-!!!"

Ah Guang finally couldn't bear it anymore.He kicked back and forth non-stop while screaming, and when the feeling of entanglement in his feet disappeared, he ran out with all his might.

After finally adjusting his breath, Ah Guang just stood up when he found that a group of people queuing in front of the haunted house were all looking at him.

"Ah Guang, your screams just now were too loud..." Zuo Wei whispered, half covering his face with his sleeve.

Recalling his reaction just now, Ah Guang's cheeks turned red all of a sudden.

While he was walking towards the distance slightly stiffly, he still didn't forget to refute Zuo Wei in his heart: "Who... who said that! Just now your cry is obviously bigger than me..."

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