With the power of AI, you become a giant in the magic world!

In the second year of Hongyuan, Dagan, Gaoning County, Beifu County, Yunzhou.

The bluestone road on the street was bustling with people coming and going.

Under the bright sun, a thin young man in his twenties wearing simple blue clothes walked with an umbrella under his arm.

Those who didn't know him whispered: "Where did this fool come from? He brought an umbrella on a sunny day."

Those who knew him would say with a teasing and contemptuous tone: "Gu Shusheng, are you going to play chess again today?"

The man said: "Mr. Zhao asked me to play a game of chess."

"Sour literati talk weirdly! Haha!"

The man smiled lightly and didn't care about other people's ridicule.

After a while, he came to Qingping Teahouse, and as soon as he entered the door, a waiter greeted him: "Hey! Gu Shusheng, you are here, Mr. Zhao is waiting for you upstairs."

"Got it." The man walked upstairs quickly.

On the second floor, in the center of the hall, a graceful woman in red was holding a pipa and singing, and there were several people playing accompaniment beside her, while customers were drinking tea, eating and listening to music around them.

The man walked around and found his target in the window seat.

A young man in gorgeous clothes, his demeanor was very different from the surrounding customers, and there were guards, servants and maids standing on both sides.

He was a well-known young man in Gaoning County, Zhao Wenjun, the second son of Zhao's money house, a standard dandy, and usually unruly.

The man Zhao Wenjun was looking for was named Gu and Xia, a poor scholar in the county. He took three exams, but didn't even get a Tongsheng.

So he gave up this path. He was weak and couldn't do hard work, so he became an idler, serving tea or delivering takeout in the brothels for a living.

He had no land and fame, and couldn't work hard, so he was still a bachelor at the age of nearly 18. Poor scholars in the county were often ridiculed.

Why would the high-ranking Mr. Zhao look for a poor scholar who was shabby and looked down upon by no one?

This has to do with one of Zhao Wenjun's hobbies. He is uneducated, but he doesn't like vulgar things, or he likes to be pretentious.

Recently, Mr. Zhao has acquired another elegant hobby - Go.

So he looked for people to play Go with everywhere. Adhering to the principle of not playing with bad players, he found Gu Xia.

Although this poor scholar is an idle man, he plays Go very well. He is one of the best chess masters in the county, although there are not many people who can play Go in this small county.

"Gu Xia, come on, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Zhao Wenjun was addicted to Go, so he called Gu Xia when he saw him.

They sat down at the opposite table, where the chessboard and chess pieces were already set.

He stretched out his hand and said, "Please, Mr. Zhao."

The two took out the black and white pieces from the chess box next to them and placed them on the chessboard in order.

Go is usually played on a 19×19 chessboard, with chess pieces placed at the intersections of the board lines. The intersections around the chess pieces are the qi of the chess pieces. One piece has four qi, a side piece has three qi, a corner piece has two qi, and a connected piece has a common qi.

If the intersections around the chess pieces are occupied by the opponent's chess pieces, it means that one qi is missing, and the chess piece will die if the qi is exhausted, that is, it will be surrounded and killed. Black and white kill each other, and the one with a larger territory will win.

In order not to be killed, the chess pieces can surround an empty space that cannot be entered to form an eye. If there are two eyes, the chess piece will live.

These are all the rules of Go, which are very simple, but it is precisely the simple rules that lead to the ever-changing Go games, which are known as the wild fox on the tree.

Although Go is a game of black and white pieces fighting, the winning condition does not depend on who kills more, but on who occupies more space and who gets more actual benefits.

Each game is quite similar to the war in the world, so Go is also loved and praised by many doctors and senior officials, and is also given various special meanings.

However, for Gu Xia, it is just a game of black and white pieces grabbing land and filling in colors.

He and Zhao Wenjun took turns to make moves. At first, they were all isolated pieces, but then they communicated with each other on the chessboard, set up camps, and attacked each other.

Zhao Wenjun's style of play is always full of fighting spirit, all killer moves, and the black pieces in his hand are like cavalry, charging into Gu Xia's position.

But being aggressive always has a price. In a moment of carelessness, his entire dragon was surrounded.

"The battle is not over yet..."

Zhao Wenjun was fighting with Gu Xia in the gradually tightening encirclement. Several times the dragon was on the verge of death, he held on one by one, and survived from death.

Unlike Mr. Zhao, who was concentrating and scratching his ears and cheeks, Gu Xia was playing chess calmly.

No, Gu Xia was not playing chess at all. He was actually "walking the dog", of course the dog did not refer to Mr. Zhao.

Gu Xia seemed to be thinking about every move, but in fact he had long been wandering outside the window or listening to music silently.

When the time was almost up, he would look at the chessboard straight in the eye.

The chessboard in Gu Xia's eyes is different from that of ordinary people. The horizontal coordinates are from a to s, and the vertical coordinates are from 1 to 19, turning the chessboard into a standard coordinate system.

"Coordinate (e, 19); winning rate 90%; goal difference 2."

"Coordinate (k, 8); winning rate 80%; goal difference 1."

"Coordinate (l, 12); winning rate 40%; goal difference -1."

Virtual chess pieces appear on the empty space on the chessboard, showing the winning rate and situation after the chess pieces fall here.

That's right, Gu Xia is cheating. He is not good at playing Go. He can win by AI, which is the behavior that chess players hate the most in his previous life - opening the dog.

After a moment, Gu Xia calmly placed the pieces, but did not choose the point with a 90% winning rate, but fell on the point with a 40% winning rate.

A few steps later, Zhao Wenjun seized the "flaw" of the white chess and made an "amazing" big exchange in one fell swoop, exchanging one dragon for another, and reversed the victory with a slight advantage of one point.

"Haha!! Gu Xia could not have imagined this! This young master won! You taught me to repair the plank road in the open while secretly attacking Chencang!" Young Master Zhao laughed heartily.

"I was careless for a moment, and my game was more aggressive, which led to some loopholes." Gu Xia said some unconvinced words at the right time, and his expression seemed a little unconvinced.

Zhao Wenjun was pleased: "Then let's play again. Anyway, I have plenty of time today."

In the afternoon, the sky suddenly became cloudy and it started to rain. The two of them broke up the chess game and agreed to play again in two days.

Gu Xia saw people outside who were either soaked or hiding under the eaves to avoid the rain, and calmly opened the prepared umbrella and walked home.

"Be prepared."

In the morning, he used AI to predict that there was a more than 70% chance of rain today, so he brought an umbrella on purpose.

...

Gu Xia sat at the table under the dim yellow lamp, counting some small silver coins and copper coins on the table.

He picked up a large piece of silver and said, "Mr. Zhao is really generous. He gave me a full 1 tael for today's game.

If I save it for a few more years, it may be enough to pay for the apprenticeship fee of Tianxuanmen."

Tianxuanmen is a well-known martial arts school in the northern part of Yunzhou. It has many kinds of mysterious skills. Once you learn them, you will have unfathomable mysterious power.

As for Gu Xia's class of scholars, why do they want to practice martial arts instead of studying literature?

It's because the scholars in Gaoning County who are in charge of the imperial examinations are too shady. If they don't bribe him, he won't even get a student.

Gu Xia doesn't think he can't write a good exam essay. He has already input the essays of the top and second place winners of previous years into his brain for AI analysis and condensation, and then imitated them.

And since his reincarnation, he has been determined to become stronger and learn the legendary mysterious skills, but he just has no chance.

Gu Xia thought that instead of buying a student, he might as well save money to learn martial arts at Tianxuan Sect. However, the magical Xuan Gong can only be learned by inner disciples, and the registration fee is 50 taels of silver, which is equivalent to a strong man working for seven or eight years without food or drink.

So Gu Xia has been saving money for the past five or six years, and now he has saved 10 or 20 taels, most of which are the rewards from playing chess with Mr. Zhao in the past six months.

"Almost half of it. It would be great if I could play chess with Mr. Zhao more often, so I can get at least one penny of silver each time."

Putting away the scattered silver coins, Gu Xia immediately extinguished the oil lamp. The lamp oil was too expensive, and a small pot cost one penny of silver.

Lying on the bed, his thoughts began to become chaotic.

"I have been in this world for more than ten years. I thought that with the super AI 'Xingchen' in my mind, I could do a lot in this new world... Alas, you need to have startup capital to do anything!"

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Two days later.

Gu Xia played chess with Zhao Wenjun again.

Winning the game fee is one of his ways to save money.

But Gu Xia didn't know how to restrain himself before, and he slayed dragons in every game, which scared everyone else.

Everyone who can play Go in Gaoning County knows his reputation as "the dragon that doesn't live", so no one wants to play with him.

Fortunately, a rich and idle Mr. Zhao popped up at this time. It was not easy for Gu Xia to find a way to make money with Xingchen AI. This time, he dared not win too hard.

Not only must he lose, but he must lose very hard, so that Zhao Wenjun can win thrillingly and feel the joy of winning chess with hard work.

With more positive feedback, he became addicted to chess.

Zhao Wenjun's level gradually improved in half a year. He didn't feel happy when playing chess with bad players, and he lost too badly when playing chess with masters.

Only when playing chess with Gu Xia, they were always evenly matched, and the killing was hearty. Half a year ago, Gu won more games, but now Zhao has more wins.

But he didn't know that everything was an illusion created by Gu Xia in order to win more money.

Gu Xia relied on the calculation power of the stars to accurately control the winning rate. No matter which Go master looked at it, the chessboard was a match of equal strength, but he didn't know that all the scripts had been written since the first move.

"Gu Xia! Watch me slay the dragon." Zhao Wenjun ate the orange peeled by the maid while placing a move.

"Mr. Zhao, you always have too much killing intention!" Gu Xia immediately made a move to make the chess alive.

As expected, according to the script, Mr. Zhao lost this game with a slight disadvantage due to "carelessness".

"It doesn't count! It doesn't count! I was just distracted by listening to the music! Another game!" Zhao Wenjun immediately opened another game.

Gu Xia hesitated: "But it's a little late..."

Zhao Wenjun: "You guy, you want to run away after winning! If you win again, the game fee will be doubled!"

"Then... OK!" Gu Xia nodded.

"I knew it, you greedy scholar!" Zhao Wenjun smiled proudly.

"No way, I have no hope of fame and my family is poor!" Gu Xia sighed.

The two continued to play chess. According to the script, Zhao Wenjun could win this game, and then Gu Xia should show some dejected look.

He was not worried about not winning money, anyway, if he made Mr. Zhao happy, he would get a reward.

Gu Xia pondered, thinking about which flaw to reveal so that Zhao Wenjun could win the game more naturally.