Before the final of the "LC Cup", there is another important event in the international arena, that is, the third stage of this "Nongxin Cup".

If we say that this "Nongxin Cup" is quite interesting, the first stage was Li Xiangping's performance alone, and he went directly to the second stage with six consecutive victories.

When it arrived in the second stage, it seemed like it had become Liu Changhe alone. He defeated five Chinese and Japanese chess players, including Li Xiangping. The Japanese team even failed to win a single game in this game and was directly eliminated in the second stage.

In the last game of the second stage, Liu Changhe was defeated by Chinese chess player Chang Hao. In this way, after the third stage, Li Canghao was actually one-on-three, and he fought against three Chinese chess players, Chang Hao, Luo Xihe, and Ma Xiaofei.

The third phase of the "Nongxin Cup" was just over a week before the final of the "LG Cup", and the competition location was in Shencheng. Therefore, when it was time for the game, Li Xiangping, who was in a state of laziness, also went to Shencheng to watch the game with the large army.

This time, the team leader of Hua was the one who led the team to participate in the competition. Lao Hua was very optimistic about this competition. Although he was still saying "Li Canghao is still very strong" when he was interviewed by external media, "I don't think it's certain now", "You can't be too optimistic now, you can't be too optimistic yet", but in private, Hua's team leader seemed to be full of confidence:

"Hehe, until now, all the championships have been taken away by the Korean team. Since this time, it is such a big advantage, even if it is the Chinese team, it is the turn to win once, right? Otherwise, I would be too sorry for our Xiangping's six consecutive wins before. Do you think it's Xiangping?"

Li Xiangping smiled and of course he could only smile at this time. While smiling, Li Xiangping was actually a little surprised. He thought he couldn't? Logically speaking, Lao Hua is also an old world. So with that cautious temperament, how could he be so optimistic at this time?

However, Li Xiangping thought about it and felt normal. Although Li Canghao is still the same Li Canghao, Li Xiangping even personally believes that due to the existence of himself and Lao Shi, the current Li may not be stronger than his previous life. However, this is just his own opinion, and it is not the case in the eyes of others.

Li Canghao in this period of his previous life was basically the most terrifying time. Not to mention that he had been deified, but most chess players basically had no fear before they fought when they met him in the game.

However, Li is different now. He lost to Lao Shi twice. Even if he was asked to get out of the altar, in the eyes of others such as the Chinese team leader, he is no longer so terrifying now, at least not as terrifying as in the previous life. On the contrary, on the Chinese team, Ma Xiaofei had just won the third world championship, and Li Canghao could not beat Li Xiangping. However, Li Xiangping could not gain much advantage in front of Chang Hao and Luo Xihe. So in this situation of one increase and the other decrease, it was normal for the Chinese team leader to be a little optimistic.

Seeing that Li Xiangping was silent, Team Leader Hua was still excited, and he continued to ask:

"What do you think, Xiangping?"

Li Xiangping had no choice but to answer: "I think it's mainly about Brother Chang's plate now. This plate is the top priority. If Brother Chang can win, then you will naturally stop mentioning everything. If Brother Chang doesn't hold on, I really dare not say what the final outcome will be."

It must be pointed out that this is indeed what Li Xiangping said, and he really thought so in his heart. Countless facts have proved that in the competition system of the arena, "momentum" is very important. At a very large number of times, the role of this thing even exceeds the advantage of the number of people.

Of course, there are many people in the Go world, so although Li Xiangping's words are not very nice, they immediately received many people's approval after he said this.

For example, if Ma Xiaofei was not expected, he should be the head coach of the Chinese team this time, and he would play in the last game, and this time he followed the main force to Shencheng. After he heard Li Xiangping's words, he immediately nodded and said:

"Yes, yes, Xiangping's words make sense, it makes sense. You must know that this game is fast chess, and it is played one game a day. So in this kind of game, if one person is allowed to take shape, the subsequent game will be really difficult to play."

After a pause, Ma Xiaofei even turned to Chang Hao and smiled:

"Xiao Chang, have you heard that Xiangping said, can you win the championship in this competition?

Jun, the key is up to you now.”

The honest child Chang Hao showed a silly smile, but although he was very silly, the confidence behind the smile was fully visible.

Comrade Chang Hao's confidence is of course easy to understand. In normal history, although Chang Hao did not have a world champion at this time, he remained the first in China for many years and reached at least one world competition final every year. Therefore, during this period, he was the de facto first player in Chinese Go.

Now, let’s not say that Li Xiangping, a post-80s generation, has emerged in a sudden force, but now even Ma Xiaofei, a post-60s generation, has grown new buds, adding a world champion to himself again. Not to mention this, how could Chang Hao feel? At least it made him feel excited and wanted to find an opportunity to do a big fight.

And the upcoming "Nongxin Cup" is of course a good opportunity to prove yourself. No wonder Chang Jiuduan is full of confidence.

Chang Jiuduan's confidence and ambition were naturally visible to everyone, but at this time, no one would say it. Team Leader Hua looked very satisfied with this, and he waved his hand with confidence:

"Okay! Let's go now."

After the group arrived in Shanghai, since this was the final stage of the championship that was about to be decided, and the Chinese team looked quite favorable, there were still quite a lot of domestic media interviews on site.

Many reporters were a little surprised after seeing Li Xiangping. After all, he was not doing anything about this competition at this stage, so I don’t understand why he came here this time.

For example, reporter Zhang Da from the "Go World" asked as soon as he saw Li Xiangping:

"Hey, why are you here in Xiangping? Don't you have to attend classes now? Right? This competition is a team competition. Is Xiangping full of confidence in winning the final championship? Then I came here to participate in the final closing ceremony."

When he heard the previous sentence, Li Xiangping was actually in a dark face. He thought to himself that his buddy had found an excuse to run to Shencheng because he wanted to skip classes. However, when he heard the next sentence, Li Xiangping immediately smiled and thought to himself that this reporter Zhang was quite good. Look, the excuse he found for him was simply perfect.

"Hahaha, I have confidence! Of course I am full of confidence in Teacher Ma and Brother Chang"

I don’t know when it started. In the current Chinese Go world, as long as Li Xiangping is present, he will become the center of the venue without knowing it. Seeing almost all the reporters circling around Li Xiangping, all the topics were handed to Li Xiangping, the leader Hua next to him said with a smile:

"Tsk tsk, Li Xiangping, it's really amazing now. Ma Xiao, why are he so popular?"

Ma Xiaofei, Chang Hao, Luo Xihe and others also watched Li Xiangping be surrounded by reporters. They were actually happy about this. Playing Go is not as good as other industries, especially those in the entertainment industry. They can't compare with people in the entertainment industry. They can make a lot of effort to fight for a "C position" or something. That's what people in the entertainment industry can do, and those who play Go basically do not have this kind of awareness.

Seeing Li Xiangping's appearance now, Ma Xiaofei even joked: "It's a pity that Old Nie didn't come this time. If Old Nie is present, it might help him share some attention, but I think even Old Nie may become increasingly difficult to compete with Li Xiangping in the future."

"Haha," Team leader Hua also laughed after hearing Ma Xiao's words:

"That's right, but there is a prerequisite, the prerequisite is that Xiangping must keep winning like this."

When Li Xiangping was surrounded by reporters, in addition to this "Nongxin Cup", he certainly inevitably asked about the final of the "LG Cup" soon.

As for Li Xiangping's answer, of course, it seems very modest and very polite. Of course, this is very normal. After all, in the next five games, Li Xiangping himself will play 4 games, so even if he is arrogant, he will not dare to say anything big at this time.

Of course, the reporters were not satisfied with his answer, so this situation was naturally even more normal. Think about it, so strictly speaking, Li Xiangping and Li Canghao met three times in the World Championship, and Li Xiangping won the final victory in three times. Under this background, Li Xiangping’s “humble” words would seem a bit hypocritical.

"Oh, the current social atmosphere seems to be really bad. Everyone sees that even Li Xiangping, who is like this, has become an old fry now."

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Of course, this was not said in public, but was said by a group of reporters who whispered in private when they were communicating.

Other reporters agreed and nodded frequently after hearing this.

Maybe it is precisely because of this reason that everyone lets go of Li Xiangping. After all, for reporters, there are actually not many reporters who like to interview old fried dough sticks. This is the case in other industries, and of course the same is true in the Go world.

"The Korean delegation's flight seemed to have arrived."

This sentence rescued Li Xiangping, and the reporters scattered and prepared to interview Li Canghao and the others.

It is unknown what happened next. After all, after he arrived in Shencheng, the match between Chang Hao and Li Canghao will be held on the second day. Even if Li Xiangping attracts attention, he will not be the protagonist this time.

It's just a pity that Li Xiangping doesn't want to be the protagonist, but shortly after the game started on the second day, Li Xiangping seemed to be the protagonist again

The protagonist in the battle room.

The reason is nothing special. Li Canghao used the "dog move" he used not long ago in the game, which is the change of "striking six consecutive ways" after the vulgar tactics.

Li Xiangping felt something was wrong. At this moment, he felt that Chang Hao might lose in this game.
Chapter completed!