Chapter 1389 – Playing Chess

　　Holding two Puffy Fish Skewers in his hands, Li Clang walked through the dimly lit dense forest and eventually came to a slow stop at the top of the mountain peak.

　　Beneath the starry night sky, a white-clothed figure was sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking at the several figures with bonfires burning in the clearing below, not knowing what to think.

　　”I brought you a string.” Li Clang sat down beside him and handed out a skewer of meat, “After all, it was you who personally called them, so you have to taste it, right? An Qingyu’s grilling skills are quite good.”

　　Tang Yusheng glanced at him and smiled helplessly, accepting the meat skewer:

　　”Why are you leaving here? Not chatting with them more?”

　　”If you want to talk, go talk by yourself, why do you keep asking me to accompany them? I’m not their nanny.” Li Clang gnawed on a meat skewer and spoke leisurely.

　　Tang Yusheng opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but after a long while, he still sighed.

　　The two of them just sat on the edge of the cliff, silently eating the kebabs in their hands, the air falling into silence.

　　After an unknown amount of time, Li Clang looked down the mountain and suddenly spoke:

　　”I’m sorry.”

　　Tang Yusheng froze slightly, “What?”

　　”You should have seen the performance of these little guys.” Li Clang smiled bitterly, “Back then, if we could be like them …… those tragedies, they wouldn’t have happened.”

　　”Uncle Li, you’re overthinking it.” Tang Yusheng shook his head repeatedly, “If it wasn’t for you guys fighting to the death, I wouldn’t have been born at all, and if it wasn’t for you, Uncle Li, still working hard to bring me up during the time you were leading the special squad, I wouldn’t have been able to grow up to that point ……

　　Lin Qiye and the others did a good job indeed, but history is history, without you guys, there would be no Tang Yusheng for me.”

　　Li Clang didn’t say anything, he sat still in the same spot for a long time, patted Tang Yusheng’s shoulder, got up and walked towards the distance:

　　”Try to get along with this group of little ones more often, you, you’re just too withdrawn ……”

　　Li Clang waved his hand under the night sky, his figure disappearing into the forest, Tang Yusheng still sitting still, his eyes slowly closing ……

　　The Gods Mental Hospital.

　　”Good evening, Dean.”

　　”Uh, good.”

　　Lin Qiye, who was clad in a white coat, nodded slightly to the two caretakers who were walking towards him and continued to walk forward along the corridor.

　　Suddenly, as if he thought of something, he turned back and asked, “Right, where’s your supervisor Li?”

　　”He’s in the courtyard playing chess with Repeat …… Oh no, with Yelander.” The caretaker replied.

　　Playing chess?

　　With Yelande?

　　Lin Qiye froze for a long time, turned his head and walked towards the courtyard.

　　Playing chess was something that didn’t match Li Yifei’s style, and playing chess with Yelande was even stranger, could it be that Yelande’s condition had improved during the time he was gone?

　　Lin Qiye’s brain raced, and soon arrived at the empty compound.

　　It was already late in the day, and the hazy moonlight spilled onto the grass of the courtyard as if it was covered with a light veil, and under the large tree in the center of the courtyard, two figures were sitting in front of a small square table, motionless.

　　One was Li Yi Fei, and the one sitting across from him was none other than the amiable old man clad in cloud-like white robes, Yelan De.

　　Lin Qiye quietly and silently approached the chessboard and didn’t open his mouth to call out to Li Yifei, but instead stood silently behind him and probed at the board.

　　The board was a Go board, and the pieces were also Go pieces, with black and white taking up most of the grid, but the weird thing was that this play was not the Go that Lin Qiye remembered, much less five pieces …… The entire situation was chaotic, and it seemed like there were no rules at all.

　　Only to see Li Yifei rubbing his chin with one hand, his brows furrowed as if he was in deep thought ……

　　”Yea grandpa, what the hell are you playing here?”

　　After a long time, Li Yifei finally couldn’t help himself and asked.

　　”You did well, child.” Yelland spoke with a smile, his gaze lifting to look at Lin Qiye behind Li Yi Fei.

　　Li Yi Fei also sensed something and turned his head to look behind him, seeing Lin Qiye who was wearing a white lab coat in the middle of the night, he was startled and with a lift of his wrist lifted the chess board and pieces all flying, spilling out in bits and pieces all over the place.

　　”Seven Nights? Why don’t you make a sound when you walk?” Li Yi Fei saw Lin Qiye’s appearance and spat out while patting his chest.

　　”What are you guys doing here?”

　　”Playing chess, huh?”

　　”What kind of chess is being played?”

　　”…… I don’t know.” Li Yi Fei scratched his head, “Originally, it was Azhu and I who were playing backgammon here for fun, and then Grandpa Yeh came over, and Azhu and I played a dozen games in a row, and he just watched from the side and didn’t move, popping out a sentence every now and then, ‘You’re doing great, kid’… …

　　I thought ah, anyway, he has been watching for so long, might as well let him come and play for a while as well, so I let Azhu move the place for him, and then Master Yeh sat down on his own.”

　　Li Yi Fei pointed at the chess pieces on the ground and opened his mouth with some egg pain:

　　”I thought it, even if his old man has never seen five pieces of chess, but at least it is also the holy master of the holy religion, see I played with Azhu for so long, I should also be able to master the gameplay …… But I didn’t expect it, it is still a flurry of play, and I’m all looking confused.”

　　From Li Yifei’s mouth, Lin Qiye sort of understood the beginning and end of the matter, and after pondering for a moment, he spoke:

　　”It’s fine, you go and get busy …… I’ll accompany him to play for a while.”

　　Lin Qiye picked up the chess board and pieces, rearranged them on the table, and sat down at Li Yifei’s position.

　　Regardless of whether Yelande played correctly or not, at least this was the first time since he came to the hospital that he had done something other than “overlooking”, so maybe it was a breakthrough in his condition.

　　Lin Qiye pushed the two chess baskets containing black and white pieces in the center of the table and spoke in a gentlemanly manner:

　　”After you.”

　　”You’ve done well, child.”

　　Yelander smiled amiably and reached out to directly take the black chess basket, grabbing a handful from it and spilling them all on top of the grid in front of him.

　　The corner of Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched.

　　”That …… elder Yelander, this chess bar, he doesn’t play like this, let me give you a brief explanation ah ……”

　　Lin Qiye patiently began to explain the rules of Go to Yelander, and after he finished, he added, “Did you understand?”

　　”You’re doing very well, child.”

　　”It’s good if you’ve heard and understood.”

　　Lin Qiye grabbed the black stones on Yelan De’s board and put them back into the chess basket, making a “please” gesture:

　　”After you.”

　　Yelander smiled and grabbed a handful of pieces again, spilling them onto the chessboard.

　　Lin Qiye: ……

　　Lin Qiye sighed helplessly and was about to casually play a couple hands with Yelander when his eyes landed on the chessboard and suddenly froze in place.

　　On top of the chessboard, messy black pieces were scattered disorderly in front of Yelander, without any regularity to speak of …… But the weird thing was, whether it was the number of pieces sprinkled, or the position they were in, they were all exactly the same as when Yelander sprinkled them for the first time.