soul probation

【21】

Wang Jue began to observe his reaction carefully.

When you tell someone that the boss who saved you all this time is actually the initiator of all these absurd farces, the normal stress response should be suspicion, anger, and then confusion.As an AI in the industry who doesn't even know what it is, in the world of many exquisitely designed emoticons and deceitful expressions, only "unhappy" has a slightly higher degree of authenticity than other expressions.After frantically probing Li Wei's minefield, he captured this emotion twice: the first time was when he pretended to be asleep and escaped and was caught, and the second time was when his high-sounding "car accident" excuse was debunked, which shows that " "Cheating" is one of the actions that can stir his emotions.As for ethics, he no longer makes extravagant demands.

What will he say?Doubt is certain, but what he wants to find out is the trace of unhappiness behind the doubt.The skill of negotiation is to guide emotions, grasp pain points, and directly hit needs.

He stared at him cautiously, for fear that he would say a "so".

"So," Li Wei said under the scorching gaze, "You too?"

Wang Jue was taken aback for a moment, this sentence caught him off guard who had made all kinds of preparations, "You don't care about yourself?"

"I don't have any memories of my childhood." Li Wei sat down and looked at him.

Wang Jue understood, and looked back at the wall: "Although it is normal to have no memory when I was a child, but the memory was cut off horizontally, and every detail has been clear since then?"

Li Wei looked at him as acquiescing, and then followed his gaze to look at the wall. The twilight of the setting sun was projected through the gray window, even accompanied by a little Tyndall effect, which softly illuminated the award certificate Incomparable.

"You are hypnotized." Wang Jue concluded.

"With such precision, you should have evidence," Li Wei said, "otherwise the gray whale wouldn't chase you down."

"I know you don't believe me," Wang Jue shrugged, "but for some reason, I can't show you the evidence."

Li Wei raised his eyebrows.

Wang Jue smiled without saying a word, bent down, found a dusty box from under the bed, dusted it twice, and coughed several times.Although the box was dirty, it could still be seen from the black velvet material that it used to be exquisite, but it was also particularly dust-absorbing.He dismantled three layers, revealing two rows of black and white chess pieces, each about half the size of a palm, with complex and delicate designs on the metal head, even the cross on the king's head is micro-carved with delicate patterns , It vividly carved the momentum of Chuanguo Yuxi.Then Chuan Guo Yuxi was randomly picked up and handed over:

"So you're the best at thinking of yourself. Playing a game of chess?"

He didn't answer. "I won't, I told you."

"I'll teach you." He shoved the king stone into his hand.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wang Jue directly preconceived and talked about the rules, "This is a car, this is a rear, this is... a rear can walk diagonally, a horse can only walk in a 'day' shape..." He looked up quietly Taking a glance, after confirming that Li Wei was indeed listening, he continued, briefly stating the rules and formations.Before he finished introducing the opening formations one by one, Li Wei drew inferences and interrupted him with his eyes, signaling that he understood.

"How about a game, beginner?" Wang Jue took a step directly.

Li Wei quickly followed.As a novice, he has already performed extremely well, he only thinks a little before every move, and has a plan in mind.Soon the White King was cornered - checkmate.

"You won." Wang Jue seemed very happy to lose, "The No.1 brain really lives up to its reputation."

"You let the water go." Li Wei said a declarative sentence.

Wang Jue laughed when he heard the words, "Let's play another game, I'll still play white."

He restored the chessboard, but before Li Wei took the first step, he held down the black chess with his hand, and stared at him with anticipation in his eyes:

"Don't calculate this time, don't follow the logic, try to follow the feeling."

Li Wei looked at the black and white chessboard so far, and suddenly felt a little dazed when he heard this sentence.He didn't understand the reason for this sentence, but he did have a long-lost sense of fuzziness in the operation of the chess order in his brain just now.Relying on this feeling and the familiar order of the pieces in his mind from the last game of chess, he took a step out of nowhere.

But that feeling was fleeting, and Li Wei, who had become a habit of thinking, began to calculate again.But in fact, the calculation was also a little hesitant. He didn't know how Wang Jue could see it every time. Once there was a trace of the calculation, he would mercilessly overthrow it and start over.

Until the fifth game, when the five different formations designed by Li Wei were overthrown and restored, he became a little impatient and began to wonder if Wang Jue was deliberately regretting the move.

Then he simply took a casual step.

Fortunately, it was not overthrown this time.Following Wang Jue's reaction and took a step forward, Li Wei took another step in a brainless way, wanting to see what he really wanted to do.But after walking a few steps "by feeling", he suddenly felt a strange long-lost feeling.

What's even more strange is that following each move, he can immediately react without thinking after White's moves.The same is true for Wang Jue. The two of them didn't look like playing chess, but like a scripted performance. They passed dozens of moves in just 30 seconds.

When Li Wei realized that he could even foresee Bai's next move and even the next few moves, he put down the chess in his hand and looked at Wang Jue.

Under the usual complexion, Li Wei felt that his mind was collapsing little by little.

"Let's finish downloading it."

Wang Jue played both black and white chess by himself, and finished the game for him.In the end, King Bai had nowhere to go, but he was only one step away from being checkmate-forced to make peace.

A forced draw is when the white king deliberately forces himself into a dead end before he is checkmate, so that black is forced to draw.

Li Wei, who was staring at the chessboard, got more and more serious tinnitus, and the nerves in his brain were screaming wantonly.Every time I saw him take a step, I felt that something was about to come out, and it was getting closer.In the end, he only heard two words——

"A draw." Wang Jue smiled at him.

Li Wei heard this and looked up.

This situation finally stimulated a certain nerve, causing it to hurt violently.He took a deep breath, feeling as if his brainstem was being pierced by a steel needle as thick as a finger.

In an instant he flashed back to a scene.

The scorching sun in midsummer, the sweat in his palms, and the sound of his own heartbeat filled the absolutely quiet and empty scene; the prudence in every move, the regret at one step away, and the sudden relaxation of his nerves after hours of long exams gave him finally the energy Lift your head up and move your sore cervical spine.

The first scene he saw when he raised his head was a child with a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes smiling at him in the light and shadow, and said, "A draw."

The light and shadow on the side of his face made that smile both real and unreal, making him stand there and forget to move his cervical spine.

"What do you remember?"

Maybe it was because the poison still had some side effects, Li Wei's eyes darkened, and he couldn't sit still for a moment.

"I played this game with you."

He blocked Wang Jue's hand that wanted to help him, and looked for his eyes.

Those eyes became more mature from their original general shape, and there was a trace of tenderness that was not easy to give hidden in the sharp and capable eyes.That smile gradually overlapped with the smile of the person in front of him.

what else?

That smile also coincided with the perfect smile arc carefully designed by his own AI.

The psychological suggestion made by the gray whale made him not even remember that he could play chess, but this smile was so impressive that it was imprinted into the depths of the subconscious, becoming the shadow of countless expressions used to pretend and pretend, to whitewash own few emotions.

What were you thinking at that time?Why can't you remember what happened next?

He must have forgotten something very important, but his brain quickly went blank after a short flashback, leaving only the scene that died quickly.

"It's really you. Guess how I recognized you? Your name has changed." Wang Jue took out a photo from the cloth bag on the inside of the box cover, which was taken from behind him.

"This was taken by my family, and I don't know who it is. Although this kind of highly concentrated thinking will be particularly impressive, the hypnosis of gray whales should be assisted by drugs. My psychologist spent a whole It took half a year for me to get back all the lost memories, and it's normal for you to think about it now."

The photo handed over shows Wang Jue's small back, a chessboard on the table, and a small hand holding the king protruding from the opposite side - there is a small mole on the exposed thumb knuckle.Then he felt his hand being held by him, and he looked down, and sure enough there was a mole in the same position.

That hand seemed to pull Li Wei back from the vortex to the real world, and the black mist in front of him gradually disappeared.He took a breath and regained his sanity.

Then he collected himself and said, "So, what's my name?"

His tone was unusually cautious.

Wang Jue: "Forgot."

The corner of Li Wei's mouth twitched.

"Hey, I was too young at that time. But if you let me see it again, I will definitely remember it." Wang Jue said.

"How old was I?"

"It's the year when you lost your memory. Take your own ID card and push it."

"My ID card is fake."

"I know, it's a cover-up, right? Then you don't know how old you are?"

"I don't know. He should be in his 20s."

"Then you may be around my age." Wang Jue snapped his fingers, "I'm 26 this year."

"You didn't count the eight years you lay in bed, did you?" Li Wei blurted out.

"I'll forget it." Wang Jue raised his eyebrows unhappily, and said a little proudly, "You are allowed to skip a grade? I am the one who tied with you."

Li Wei's attention returned to that scene: "Is that a game?"

"Yes. A large-scale children's chess competition in China." Wang Jue explained, "It has a lot of influence, and the coach of the national team is waiting directly behind to persuade parents to sign. Since we drew in the last game, So our boys' group tied for first place."

"The live broadcast at that time was still very simple. Every time we made a move, someone's coordinate position would be sent out, and then a person would manually restore it on a huge chessboard vertical to the ground for discussion by the audience watching the game."

"Grey Whale was one of them. He watched that game."