Chapter 6

After leaving Tang Lin's company, Xiao Fan first found a mobile phone store, bought a phone, and then asked the store clerk to get him a mobile number. After setting it up, he logged into his QQ and started contacting the boss.

However, perhaps the boss was not online, so despite Xiao Fan's long message, there was no response. So he had to take a taxi and head directly to Jiangzhou City.

Before getting into the car, he took out Lin Zhengtian's business card and called him to inform him of his new number.

Sitting in the car, looking at the scenery outside that was quickly receding, Xiao Fan thought of his parents and younger brother, and his heart was filled with warmth.

"Dad, Mom, little brother, soon, very soon we will meet again!" A smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Fan's mouth, and his restless heart suddenly became calm.

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Slightly relaxed, Xiao Fan began to play with the phone in his hand out of curiosity.

Thinking back to five years ago when he was still in college, there were no smartphones. Every student had a straight or flip phone, which could basically only make calls, send messages, listen to music, and read e-books. Now, after five years, phones could almost be used as computers.

However, to be fair, Xiao Fan quite liked the current phones. They had large screens, many functions, and fast internet, which made them much better than the old feature phones, except for the higher price.

"Right, I wonder what the level of Go is like in the Earth world!" This thought suddenly arose in Xiao Fan's mind.

Speaking of Go, Xiao Fan had been forced to learn it by his grandfather when he was a child. However, due to the large amount of thinking required, various strategic placements, and calculations of the consequences of each move, it was very mentally taxing. Since Xiao Fan was not particularly smart, after being thoroughly beaten a few times, he angrily gave up and stopped playing.

After crossing over to the world of immortals, Xiao Fan found that although this world was much stronger in many aspects compared to the Earth world, there was one industry that was far behind: the entertainment industry.

There were countless entertainment options on Earth, such as dancing, KTV, concerts, movies, basketball, online games, Go, chess, and so on. In the world of immortals, it seemed that apart from visiting brothels to listen to music and watch dances, there were no other interesting entertainment activities.

After becoming the Demon Emperor, Xiao Fan had a lot of free time. Out of boredom, he "invented" Go.

However, he did not expect that the introduction of Go would immediately cause a huge sensation in the world of immortals. Within less than ten years, it became popular throughout the entire world. Many people would find a place to sit together, set up a board, and play a game, often surrounded by a crowd of spectators.

Xiao Fan and his old friends would often sit together and play a game, with a pot of immortal wine on the side, spending three days and three nights immersed in it, unable to tear themselves away.

Xiao Fan now had a great love for Go. Since the journey was long and he couldn't do anything else, he decided to go online and see if he could play a game to pass the time.

He opened the browser and found a forum called "Go Home," and clicked to enter it.

As soon as he entered, he noticed a highly pinned post at the top of the forum titled "The Jilong Chess Board, Who Can Solve It?" Out of curiosity, he opened the post.

The first floor of the post contained a chess board diagram, followed by a link, and at the end, a sentence: "A thousand-year-old agreement, the Jilong Chess Board, watching the world, who can solve it?"

The comments below had already reached nearly 100,000, with the following remarks:

"Damn, this chess board is too difficult, completely unsolvable!"

"OP is an idiot, such a difficult chess board, you probably can't solve it yourself, right?"

"This must be an ancient chess board, I looked it up, it seems to be left by Guiguzi from the Warring States period!"

"No way, the white pieces are in a killing formation, surrounded by ten thousand troops, the black pieces are dead, there's no way out!"

"I bet no one can solve this chess board!"

"I heard that the national master Nie Qing was also helpless against this Jilong Chess Board."

"Passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed, passed...!"

"Damn, the upper floor feels good, the whole family goes to the crematorium!"

"I'm just here for experience, writing a few dozen characters, both helping the OP and earning experience! Two birds with one stone! If I can get the second floor, I can also become familiar with everyone!"

"Breaking news, system bug, replying 'I am an idiot' in this thread automatically turns into 'OP is an idiot'!"

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Xiao Fan clicked on the link, and the QQ browser on his phone automatically redirected to the chess board software. A chess board immediately appeared on the screen.

Xiao Fan carefully examined it, and at the same time, his divine consciousness in his dantian became active, rapidly calculating in his mind.

"Good, this chess board is quite interesting!" After nearly twenty minutes, a smile appeared on Xiao Fan's face.

No wonder this Jilong Chess Board left everyone in the forum at a loss. The killing moves were interconnected, and one move could affect the entire board. The white pieces were like an army of thousands, surrounding the black pieces, which would die in as few as eight moves and as many as fifteen moves.

However, in this deadly situation, there was still a glimmer of hope, but this hope would only appear in the last move. As the saying goes, when placed in a desperate situation, one can find a way out, and great misfortune will be followed by good fortune.

Having figured out the solution, Xiao Fan smiled and began to place a black piece, followed by a white piece, playing against himself.

Soon, Xiao Fan placed the last black piece, and at this point, the white pieces were completely defeated. The Jilong Chess Board was finally solved.

He clicked to save and was about to leave the forum to browse other areas when he suddenly found that he couldn't access the internet. At the same time, his phone received a text message: "You are out of credit, please recharge promptly."

"Really? The 200MB of data given to me is used up so quickly?" Xiao Fan was stunned. His old Nokia feature phone didn't even use up 100MB of data in a month, but the current smartphone used it up in less than half an hour.

Since he was in a taxi and it was midnight, there was no way to recharge his phone, so Xiao Fan had to put down his phone and close his eyes to rest, waiting to arrive in Jiangzhou City.

However, Xiao Fan had no idea that shortly after he solved the Jilong Chess Board and disconnected, the entire "Go Home" forum exploded.