Chapter 1223, The Chess Game on Ginkgo Mountain

Choosing Dusk or Luo Lan, this was actually not a rigorous choice question.

Ren Xiaosu said that humans could get along with AIs as equals, so Zero used this question to tell Ren Xiaosu: in fact, in your heart, Dusk and Luo Lan are not equals either.

In fact, Zero never expected to get any answer on this question, it just wanted Ren Xiaosu to reflect on that answer in Ren Xiaosu’s own heart.

If one day humans found out that the AI had intelligence and also possessed the ability to threaten humans, how would humans treat the AI?

But Ren Xiaosu didn’t actually want to know what the future would be like right now, he only cared about one thing right now: he might not have the time.

Zero had chased him for a long time with Dusk, and then suddenly stopped to start a conversation with him.

Ren Xiaosu’s biggest worry was that Zero had been emboldened by talking to him, and the other party was no longer worried about him rushing to the Central Plains again at this time.

At this time, Luo Lan was about to arrive at Barrier 61, and they were only a river away from that center of Wang’s political rights.

Including Luo Lan, Zhou Qi, Xu Concealer and Qing Laosan, there was also an elite troop consisting of 180 men who decided to take a short break before crossing the river.

All of them stored a sense of nervousness in their hearts, as if a dragon’s lair was ahead of them.

“What is the name of this river?” Luo Lan asked Zhou Qi.

“Qianling River,” Zhou Qi knew the entire water system of the Barrier Alliance like the back of his hand, “The upper reaches of this Qianling River are connected to the northwestern snowy mountains, so in July every year there will be flood peaks rolling in, and the waves are like green dragons rolling in the river. In earlier years, there would be big shots from the Central Plains who would come here specifically to watch the tide. About eight or nine years ago when I was exploring the waters I met them watching the tide, at that time I hid in the river, a wave slapped over and knocked over several of them!”

Speaking of this, Zhou Qi’s face actually floated with a smug look.

Luo Lan cried and laughed, how does he feel that since Zhou Qi awakened, he hasn’t taken his transcendental ability to do a few positive things?

Why is it that day after day, it’s all about pissing on a forked bone, wave slapping people, and this sort of thing?

The side of the Qing Lao San smiled and lamented: “If I can have a transcendental ability is good, sometimes really envy you ah Zhou Qi, life has many more possibilities.”

There was a steel bridge over the Qianling River, the bridge looked new, it should have been built by Wang when he was trying to do business with the Northwest.

Standing at this end of the bridge, Luo Lan could already faintly see the towering walls of Barrier 61.

He suddenly said to Qing Laosan, “After crossing this bridge, it’s impossible to say if you and I can come back alive, it’s not too late to regret.”

“If you guys aren’t afraid, what do I have to be afraid of,” Qing Shen said with a smirk.

“I’ve always been a bit confused, why on earth did you come to Southwest?” Luo Lan curiously said, “I thought at first that you came with some kind of conspiracy, but it turns out that now you’ve willingly come to die, what’s the plan?”

Qing Shen laughed, “Didn’t I say, I was convinced by Qing Zhen’s personality ah, so I came to defect.”

“Lying to hell,” Luo Lan bristled, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to talk about it, if we really die here this time, you’ll just take your secret into the coffin, o no, you might die without a burial place.”

“Why be so pessimistic,” Qing Lao San laughed.

“It’s not like you don’t know what we’re here for.” Luo Lan said, “After the plan is executed, whether we live or die will depend on fate.”

This time, Luo Lan and the others came to Barrier 61 not for any peace talks at all, but had another plan.

And looking at Luo Lan’s appearance, the plan was still very dangerous.

Old Man Qing suddenly asked, “How did Qing Zhen become the Qing Clan’s Shadow in the first place? This Fire Spark has investigated for a long time without any relevant information, and the people of the Qing Clan have never seen anyone reveal it to the outside world.”

Luo Lan became happy when he heard this, “Of course those old men wouldn’t say anything to the outside world, but Qing Zhen and I didn’t expect that he would become a shadow either.”

Qing Laosan became interested, “Tell me about it?”

“You should know, right, that all the children of the Qing Clan have to take a trip up the mountain at the age of 18,” Luo Lan said, “Of course, illegitimate children like me definitely can’t go up there.”

“This I know, generally 18 years old is the watershed for the Qing Clan’s children, basically a word from those old men in the Qing Clan Presidium can decide their fate,” Qing Laosan nodded his head and said, “It’s not a secret that all the Qing Clan’s children will first be examined on politics, military, and social management after they go up to the mountain. ”

“Well, originally, the day Qing Zhenzhi went to the mountain no one thought highly of him, they all thought that he would be like that old man in our family, and would be continued to be marginalized,” Luo Lan said, “The truth of the matter is also true, those old men had originally planned to perfunctorily give him a few sentences, and then whisked him off the mountain.”

“So those people didn’t intend to reuse Qing Zhuan at first?” Qing Laosan said.

“Yes,” Luo Lan laughed, “a lot of people think that those old men are very good at reading people, taking a look at you and knowing whether you will have a future or not, bah, it’s just a means to exclude dissenters, those who are close to their faction will have a future, those who are not will be marginalized, that’s all. ”

“Then how did Qing Zhen Zhen get reused again?” Elder Qing asked.

“At that time, the old master had just left not long ago, and the two of us brothers were met with a lot of stares and humiliation because we were raising money for the old master’s treatment, and at that time, Qing Zhen took the rare initiative to say to me that we had to have power in order to protect the people and things around us, and that this opportunity to go up to Ginkgo Mountain had to be seized,” Luo Lan said, “You also know, he’s actually not a person who likes power, but he’s different from that old man in my family, he’s not pedantic, he knows what he should do when.”

Luo Lan continued, “So, when he realized that that group of old men from the Qing Clan were being perfunctory, he took the initiative and asked to play a game of Go with the other side.”

Qing’s bureau has more than ten people, but only one person is really in charge, the other party almost laughed when he heard that Qing Zhen wanted to play a game of Go, because the other party has the title of “re-incarnation of the stone Buddha” within the Qing’s bureau, and the legend says that the official’s ability is extremely strong, and that he has no skillful moves, and that he can only do a half-eye victory.

That means, when playing chess, each hand is only a little bit better than you, it is enough to win.

On that day, Qing Zhen was indeed suppressed everywhere, and the ruler of the Qing clan was sitting like a stone Buddha, as if he could not be defeated.

However, at the 90th second hand, Qing Zhen gave up his life after death, and suddenly killed a bloody path from the upper left corner, and tore a crack out of the chess game.

Since then, the situation has been under Qing Zhen’s control.

Qing Laosan nodded his head and said: ”I see, Qing Zhen used a game of chess to change his opponent’s opinion. The opponent’s chess power is so strong that he was able to suppress Qing Zhen.”

“Not really,” Luo Lan hemmed and hawed, “Qing Zhen told me when he came back, that old man stinks at chess, saying something about having no good moves through the board and only making half an eye to win. But the people who play chess with him don’t dare to win against him, and he himself even blew on it!”

Luo Lan continued, “After this game of chess, the other side won for a long time and lost and was really impressed with Qing Zhen. It’s just that Qing Zhen and I originally only thought that we could have a little bit of power, but I didn’t realize that the other side actually chose Qing Zhen to be the shadow.”

It was like a curse that Qing’s shadow did not end well. Moreover, the dirty work that others were unwilling to do had to be done by the shadow, which clearly did not meet Qing Zhen’s and Luo Lan’s expectations.

This shadow power was no more than what Qing Zhen was seeking.

Many people thought that it was a good thing that the old men chose Qing Zhen to be the shadow, but only Qing Zhen himself knew that choosing him to be the shadow was a convenient way to be used as an outcast at any time because he and Luo Lan had no roots.

But at that time, it was no longer possible for Qing Zhen to back down.

At this time, Xu Zou said, “Boss Luo, I will arrange for a fire to be built and cook first, and we will cross the river after we finish our meal. There’s one thing I must say in advance, when we enter the barriers we must eat the food we’re carrying, and even the fresh water must be drunk from what we’re carrying ourselves, just in case Wang tampers with the food.”

“You’re cautious,” Luo Lan laughed cheerfully, “Don’t worry, we’re already in Wang’s territory, I don’t believe that old boy Wang Shengzhi will still use such tactics as poisoning.”

Xu Concealer insisted, “This is what Chief Qing Zhen had explained, and Wang has a history of assassination plans.”

“Alright,” Luo Lan smashed his mouth, “Each one of you has learned to use my brother to pressure me, Xu Zou can do it.”

Xu Concealer calmly said, “I’m just following ……”

“Come on, hurry up and cook,” Luo Lan waved her hand, “I’m not going to argue with you about this.”