[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

Ta Yaliang felt that his life was heading towards a strange track. It was no longer a go legend like a young man's passion, but a summer tale about supernatural beings.

Start seeing "them" after the first thunderstorm of summer.

It was a scorching summer day, and 17-year-old Toya Ryo had not yet moved out of his home to live independently, and the wind chimes hanging on the eaves made light sounds.He and Hikari Shinto were sitting in the chess room, playing chess opposite each other.

Two months later will be the qualifiers for the LG Cup. In recent years, the Japanese chess world has stagnated, and it has repeatedly failed to break into the top eight finals in international competitions. International competitions have basically become a battle between China and South Korea.The Chess Academy also felt a lot of headaches because of this. After drastic reforms, some young chess players who have entered the circulation circle and successfully promoted to the seventh dan can finally no longer participate in the time-consuming low-level qualifiers. We finally entered representative qualifiers.

This also means that Shindo Hikari, who successfully entered the Honinbo circle, and Taya Ryo, who lost the Celebrity Challenge at the beginning of this year, both got the right to participate in the final qualifiers, and two months later, five people will be determined to participate in the LG Cup.It just so happened that Ryo Toya's parents went to Beijing again two weeks after their return. Without the powerful and powerful celebrity of Ryo Toya, Shinto Hikari visited Taya's house again, and had daily practice with Ryo Toya. .

When Shinto Hikaru ran to the chess room with bare feet and shouted "Taya, let's play fast chess in ten seconds" was reprimanded by Taya Ryo "Idiot, it's not a special training for international competitions", so he had no choice but to lazily Literally picked up the disk.It's not that he doesn't want to resume the game, but that Ta Yaliang has recently become good at his poisonous tongue skills, and every time he criticizes his chess to the point of indignity, the two have another daily quarrel, and finally it ends with Shinto Hikari's return home.

Sigh... He occasionally wants to spend a day peacefully with Taya Ryo, otherwise, every time he would slam the door and leave the day before, he would rush to him to play chess the next day, which made him Masochistic.

At the beginning of the replay, the two were still able to talk in a good voice, but when Hikari Shinto felt a little bold, as expected, they started arguing again.

"Why do you use two high-hanging rooms here? It should be low-hanging!"

"The upper part of Baizi is weak, of course I'm going to hit it!"

"Do you want your child in the lower right corner to be taken away? Give the other party 25 items for nothing!"

"What, if the other party comes down here, I'll—"

boom -

The loud thunder instantly drowned out the rebuttal of the blond boy.

There seemed to be a silver dragon falling from the sky, and after a few zigzag lightning bolts, it was followed by a downpour.

Hikari Shinto's desire to refute was also extinguished by the thunder, and he sat back on the tatami mat in disappointment, with his golden bangs in one hand. "Why did the thunder suddenly hit so loudly that I forgot what I was going to say next, Taya, you... Taya?"

In Shinto's eyes, it was Taya Ryo who raised his head with a smile at first, but changed his expression the moment he looked at him.

Taya Ryo's expression gradually changed from relaxed to shocked, and finally turned into a frozen smile.

"...Taya?"

Shinto Hikaru suddenly remembered the horror TV series that Shinto Masao played last night at dinner, in which the person who found the corpse had the same expression, but there was no necessary scream when the corpse was found.

"You, why are you looking at me like this? Is there something behind me?" Shindo Hikaru was chilled by his gaze, and quickly spoke loudly as if joking. "Your expression is like... like..."

He was speechless, because he suddenly found that Ta Yaliang was not looking at him.

Taya Ryo looked over his shoulder and looked behind him.

Just when Shinto Hikaru thought that there was really a hanged body behind him, and was about to turn his head, Ta Yaliang said: "No, Shinto... let's play chess."

Shinto Hikari didn't miss the look that flashed across his face.

Hesitation, shock, disbelief, and... horror.

Shinto Hikari was sure what happened just now, because Toya Ryo's state today can be said to be extremely bad. Although he played chess without rules, he also lost his previous sharpness, and was unexpectedly lifted by Shinto Hikari.

"No more," Hikari Shinto threw Kuroko, holding back his anger. "Look at what kind of chess you are playing today." He finally understood Ta Yaliang's anger and disappointment when the three kings of the sea fought back then. It turned out that playing such a bad game of chess with the opponent would be such an annoying thing. thing.

Ta Yaliang was abnormally speechless, but silently picked up the chess pieces. "Shinto," he said suddenly after putting the last handful of white pieces into the chess box. "Tonight...just stay."

Shinto Hikari was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why Taya Ryo would say these words suddenly.But thinking that it's not like I haven't stayed here before, I nodded. "Anyway, it looks like the rain won't stop for a while, and I'll be drenched when I go back. Well, let's order some takeaway. Seafood ramen!"

"Ramen is not allowed at night, order Japanese food."

"Hey Taya Ryo! I'm a guest, what would the guest want to eat? Shouldn't the host treat guests to their heart's content?"

"If you want to live in my house, you are not allowed to eat ramen."

"...you..." seems to have forgotten...who invited him to stay overnight before?

Shinto Hikari's forehead burst out with veins.

After Shinto Hikari sent a text message to his mother that he would not be home tonight, Taya Ryo ordered Japanese food in the same manner as usual.Unable to eat the most beloved ramen, Shinto Hikari could only hum on the side, and then drool over the exquisite food delivered.He quickly ate his portion in a hurry, seeing that Ta Yaliang only moved his chopsticks a few times, he put his mind on his portion of food.

"Taya, don't you want to eat?"

Only then did Ryo Taya let out a cry like waking up from a dream, and pushed the share in front of him to Shinto Hikari. "you eat."

Hikari Shinto was not a delicate girl like Akira Fujisaki, so although he noticed that Toya Ryo was in a bit of a state today, he didn't think too much about it because he was always rough.What's more, at the moment of food, everything has to be put aside.

So Shinto Hikari happily took Taya Ryo's Japanese food, and didn't stop chopsticks until his stomach was round.

When he sighed with satisfaction and wanted to thank Taya for giving him his own Japanese food, Taya suddenly looked over and frowned: "Shinto, you can't eat too much at night, you will digest it." bad."

"..." Shinto Hikaru took a deep breath, and then another breath.

For the sake of your poor state today, I will bear it.

Hehe, anyway, it's raining heavily outside today, you can't drag me to the park in the middle of the street to spread out like a grandpa, what can I do?

Shinto Hikaru thought this way, and the expression of needing to be beaten appeared on his face at all.

Then, he was dragged to the chess room by Taya Ryo for another duel.

This time Toya Ryo's state recovered, although he was not as aggressive as the title battle, but it was almost the same as usual.However, Shinto Hikari was dizzy and dizzy because he ate too much dinner, and his state couldn't be said to be particularly bad, but it also caused Toya Ryo's dissatisfaction.

"Tell you not to eat too much for dinner, look at what kind of chess you are playing now!"

"You're still talking about me? I don't know who was in a bad state in that game just now! I actually took away two pieces!"

"Are you qualified to say that when you admit defeat in the middle game!"

"There is!"

Amidst the quarrel, Shindo Hikaru was a little helpless.

As a result, every routine quarrel was still carried out...

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when the two of them finished their quarrel.Shinto Hikari stayed at Taya's house for a long time, so he stopped being reserved, and ran straight to the bathroom while Taya was still packing up the chess pieces.

After Taya Ryo finished washing, Shinto Hikaru had already put on his pajamas in a big way, spread out another quilt, and slept soundly.

The rain outside eased, Ta Yaliang lay down and covered the quilt, listening to the sound of water dripping from the bamboo tube in the courtyard, and looked at the old-fashioned ceiling with a pair of blue eyes.

This afternoon, he saw a... very bad "thing".

Shinto Hikaru's attitude softened a little after the thunder passed. He originally wanted to take advantage of that time to talk about the usefulness of the low clip again, but he didn't expect that the moment he raised his head, he saw something that he would never forget.

Because it is a Japanese-style house, the sliding doors are all opened, and Hikari Shinto sits in front of the chessboard with his back to the door.

He looked over Shinto Hikari's shoulder and saw a wandering...dead man covered in blood and with one eyeball missing.

He wasn't screaming because he was dazed, and the thing was drifting slowly to prove it wasn't a corpse or something.

He immediately thought he was hallucinating, and his mind screamed to blink and bow his head, but he didn't move.

He froze and couldn't move, then watched the thing slowly look towards him as if it felt his gaze.

For the first time, Ryo Taya felt that his heart was so strong that he could still stay awake after seeing the face that would make a horror movie makeup artist worship.

It faced him, stared at him silently and coldly, then grinned, just like it floated before, it floated towards the wall of his courtyard and passed through the wall.

Perhaps human instinct is very powerful, so not only did he not faint after that horrifying laugh, but he calmly called Fujimitsu to play chess.

But Go doesn't lie, his game in the afternoon was really bad enough, so bad that Hikari Shindo was annoyed.He also realized that he was not very calm.

He just didn't know how to deal with the situation.

Yin and Yang eyes?Or some hidden ability suddenly activated?

What is this, is there a world waiting for him to save in the future?

Taya Ryo, who devoted all his time to Go since he was a child, only heard Mr. Ashihara mention American blockbusters a few times. He has no contact with one of the three pillar industries in his country. Ability, maybe there is more than one world waiting for him to save, maybe many dimensions...

From the side came the slight and long breathing sound of Jin Tengguang, accompanied by the sound of dripping water from the bamboo tube in the courtyard, the silence was a bit beautiful.Just when Ta Yaliang was about to fall asleep in a daze, he heard a gasp.

The instinct of the body is warning him that it is extremely dangerous.

So he woke up in an instant, opened his sleepy eyes, and faced the bruised face during the day.

The only eyeball was covered with bloodshot eyes, staring at Ta Yaliang.

scream?scare?faint?

If he maintained his usual rationality, Ryo Toya would probably think that it would be better to wake up Hikari Shindo by yelling, or to faint directly, but this is not an ordinary scene.When you are in a daze and suddenly look at a dead face, it is good not to have a heart attack.

In fact, Ta Yaliang didn't think about anything, because his mind was blank at that time.

Seeing him wake up, the thing let out a loud panting sound from its rotten mouth, as if it smelled very delicious food.Can't wait, want to gasp for a big meal.

"Eyes...give me..."

Saying this, the thing opened its mouth wide and bit Ta Yaliang's eyes.

Taya Ryo felt his heartbeat stop, and then——

After the shrill scream, the thing rolled and was bounced away, passed through the wall, and the shrill scream gradually faded away until it disappeared.

Taya suddenly turned over and sat up.

The author has something to say: This is the first time I wrote a long fan story, and it was completed within a month with [-] words. The original setting was a short story of [-] words, but it turned out to be so long...

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The first half is more horrifying, and the second half is more cheating!