Chapter 357 How to hit someone? It hurts!
The next morning, the bedroom window was half open, the morning sunlight lavishly occupied every corner of the room, the rustling sound of the breeze striking the swaying leaves, like a beautiful symphony, extremely pleasant to the ear.
Ye Fan slowly opened his eyes, looked at the good weather outside the window, muttered to himself: "The weather is good, luck… should also be good!"
Ten o'clock in the morning.
Just over ten minutes after the seventh round of the ranking tournament began, Ye Fan walked out of the competition venue. This left Gu Ziyi, who was waiting in the hall, very speechless.
In the past seven matches, the time Ye Fan took to finish a game never exceeded twenty minutes, regardless of who the opponent was.
Such a proud battle record naturally attracted the attention of many people.
Although players with seven consecutive wins were few, among the vast thousand-plus people, seven or eight could still be found. The key was, Ye Fan's tie-breaker points were too high, frighteningly high!
The maximum tie-breaker points obtainable per match is 3, but one must win by more than ten stones against the opponent. In six matches, Ye Fan's tie-breaker points reached 18, meaning he won every match by more than ten stones against his opponent.
Terrifying!
Gu Ziyi walked up to Ye Fan, just wanting to ask about the situation of this match, but before she could speak, the real-time information refreshed on the large screen blocked her mouth.
Top of the large screen.
Number 366, seven wins, zero losses, tie-breaker points: 21!
Seeing the tie-breaker points at the end, Gu Ziyi's eyelids jumped rapidly, her expression extremely strange.
Clearly, Ye Fan still won with a large advantage.
"Ye Fan, can't you go a little easier?"
"I already went very easy."
Ye Fan sighed helplessly, said extremely innocently: "But the opponents couldn't withstand it, all full of weaknesses. Even trying to go easy wasn't easy to do."
Gu Ziyi: "…"
The way he said that, really deserved a beating!
But thinking of Ye Fan's terrifying Weiqi level, Gu Ziyi felt relieved.
After all, Ye Fan had beaten Guo Yuan.
Coming to participate in the ranking tournament could only be described with one phrase.
Dimensionality reduction strike!
Gu Ziyi rolled her eyes, raised her right hand lightly pointing at the large screen, said: "Xiao Xi's opponent this round is very strong, a player with seven consecutive wins. Hope she can beat the opponent. I just looked at Xiao Xi's upcoming opponents, their levels aren't too strong."
"As long as Xiao Xi wins this match, then her possibility of successfully ranking is very high!"
Ye Fan narrowed his eyes, didn't say anything.
How the result would be, would be known when Ning Xi came out. Worrying now was just useless effort.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, the number of players in the hall at this time wasn't large. After seven rounds of competition, many players who knew they had no hope had already given up the competition, leading to a sharp decrease in the number of people competing now.
Although there weren't many people, they all had the possibility of successfully ranking.
Ning Xi walked out gracefully, her small face drooping, her eyes showing utter dejection.
Seeing this situation, Gu Ziyi's heart skipped a beat, said: "Bad, looking at Xiao Xi like this, if nothing unexpected, she probably lost the game."
Saying this, she turned her head to look at Ye Fan, saw Ye Fan actually looking unmoved, couldn't help but freeze, her face full of astonishment, "Why do you have no reaction at all?"
"React to what?"
Ye Fan shook his head slightly, walked towards Ning Xi, stopping half a meter away.
Ning Xi spoke first, "Gege, sorry…"
"Stop for a moment!"
Ye Fan interrupted, saying: "I just studied your tie-breaker points. For the next three matches, you only need to get 5 tie-breaker points to successfully rank."
Ning Xi's small face showed utter astonishment. What Ye Fan said was completely on a different channel from her.
But for some reason, her heart felt very happy…
Ye Fan flicked Ning Xi's forehead, instructed: "Also, don't say sorry to me in the future."
Ning Xi felt the pain, covered her forehead and stared pitifully at Ye Fan, said weakly: "Why hit people? It hurts!"
Ye Fan moved the girl's small hand away, gently blew on it, "If it doesn't hurt, how can you learn your lesson?"
Ning Xi whimpered twice, didn't say anything.
The two came over to Gu Ziyi's side. After hearing the result, Gu Ziyi's brow furrowed straight, "Xiao Xi, you've already lost two games. The next three matches can only be won, not lost. And, even if you can win all of them, you still have to compete based on tie-breaker points in the end."
"No problem."
Ye Fan glanced at Gu Ziyi, said: "Didn't you just say that Xiao Xi's upcoming opponents are all very weak?"
On the surface, these words seemed directed at Gu Ziyi, but were actually meant for Ning Xi.
At this time, the girl must regain her confidence!
"Hmm?"
Sure enough, after hearing these words, Ning Xi's eyes instantly lit up, "Sister Ziyi, is this true?"
"Mm."
Gu Ziyi understood Ye Fan's intention, nodded and said: "I studied the opponents for your next three matches, their strengths aren't strong. You just need to play steadily, the chance of victory is very high."
"If possible, try to win by more stones, raise the tie-breaker points, this way the possibility of successfully ranking will correspondingly increase a lot."
"Understood!"
Ning Xi nodded in agreement, her face full of determination.
Originally, she thought there was no hope left, never expected she still had a chance to compete based on tie-breaker points. No matter how small the possibility, she would strive hard for that sliver of life.
After the students of Beichuan Dojo gathered, Gu Ziyi tallied the results, her face couldn't help but sink.
Besides Ning Xi, three other students had lost their matches. This also meant the three had to compete based on tie-breaker points like Ning Xi, and moreover, the remaining three matches must all be won to even have the chance to compete on points.
You should know, in previous years, Beichuan Dojo's students had a hundred percent ranking rate. Losing one game was already extremely rare, let alone losing two games and competing on points, simply couldn't find such a case!
What happened this year?
Ning Xi could be excused, after all, her time learning Go was short. But the other students were different, these students started learning Go since childhood, shouldn't have this kind of performance…
Gu Ziyi was straightforward. With a cold face, she asked the three: "What happened with you guys? Give me a reason!"
The three boys looked at each other. Finally, a boy wearing glasses hesitantly raised his hand, said: "Instructor, I lost to an internal battle (内战 - nèizhàn / civil war), my opponent just now was Li Zhenglong."
The student standing to the left of the glasses boy quickly followed, speaking up, "Me too, internal battle, I lost to Wang Yiming."
Hearing this, an extremely hidden trace of embarrassment flashed across Gu Ziyi's face. Just now, she was only focused on studying Ning Xi's upcoming schedule, completely didn't look at the match data for others, didn't know two internal battles had occurred.
"Okay, I know."
Gu Ziyi's facial expression didn't change. Her gaze landed on the last boy, "What happened with you? Also internal battle?"
This boy had a bitter face, looked towards Ye Fan behind Gu Ziyi, explained with a crestfallen face: "Instructor, I wasn't in an internal battle, but my loss was completely an accident."