August 2000, Jinling City, Qinhuai District.

The annual national Go competition has just concluded here.

Since the participants each year are mainly minors, this competition is usually held in the summer. This is also the practice of fixed-stage competitions.

In the just-concluded qualifying competition for this year, the most eye-catching person was not Liu Yuanbo, who won this year’s championship with 12 wins and 1 loss, nor Chen Yaoyue, who was the youngest qualifying player this year, or even the beautiful chess player who finally succeeded in qualifying this year.

Mao Jiajun is a 13-year-old boy named Li Xiangping who failed to enter Duan.

Among the chess boys competing this year, Li Xiangping has outstanding strength. Even before the competition, he was unanimously favored by the domestic Go community, who believed that it was almost certain that he would win one of the 22 fixed-level places.

In fact, after the start of the match, Li Xiangping lived up to expectations. He won 9 consecutive games in the first 9 rounds. Even after the game, the only set that the champion Liu Yuanbo lost was at the hands of Li Xiangping.

However, just when everyone thought that there was no suspense about Li Xiangping's decision in advance, an accident occurred.

In other words, tragedy happened.

In the 10th round, Li Xiangping was blocked by Chen Yaoyue and failed to realize his wish to set a stage in advance.

In the 11th round, Li Xiangping unexpectedly lost to the beautiful chess player Mao Jiajun, which again delayed the pace of determination.

Yes, at this time everyone thought it was an accident, and Li Xiangping's entry into Duan was just delayed.

However, a few experts familiar with the situation knew that Li Xiangping was already in danger at this time.

Not for anything else, because in the 12th round, Li Xiangping met Yan Qing.

Although this young man named Yan Qing has average chess skills and talents, judging from the post-match results, he only managed to enter the tier with 19th place, but he has one characteristic, and that is Li Xiangping's "hard skills".

Li Xiangping has been participating in fixed-stage competitions since he was 11 years old. His outstanding sense of chess and sharp reactions have long been recognized by the Go community. However, there is a fact, a fact that many people have not noticed. In the first two games,

, Li Xiangping was defeated by Yan Qing.

Now for the third time, can Li Xiangping defeat the "bitter hand"?

The result was as expected by a few experts. Li Xiangping once again lost to Yan Qing in a fateful way. The victory he needed to successfully enter the tier still did not come.

At this point in the game, everyone knew very clearly: Li Xiangping was in danger, he was really in danger!

Because although Li Xiangping has outstanding strength and his chess talent has been unanimously recognized by the chess community, he has a weakness that everyone knows: that is, his poor psychological quality and extremely poor ability to resist blows.

Just 3 days ago, the final round of this year's fixed-stage competition started, and the result was not unexpected. During the competition, Li Xiangping's technical movements were seriously deformed, and he showed a tendency to lose early.

So just like that, after 9 consecutive wins and 4 consecutive defeats, Li Xiangping failed to set the stage again, which also made him one of the most eye-catching figures in the entire competition.

Especially one thing that happened after the game, you can even remove this "one" and make him the most eye-catching figure in the entire game.

That is, after the game was over, perhaps due to deep stimulation or other reasons, 13-year-old Li Xiangping suddenly fell into a coma. He has not woken up for two days and two nights, and is still hospitalized for observation.

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Qinhuai District, Jinling First People's Hospital, in a high-end ward, Li Xiangping is lying on the bed, his eyes are closed and he is unconscious.

However, although he is not awake now, his face looks rosy and his breathing is slow. And around the hospital bed, there are four people standing around watching him closely.

Among these four people is an elderly couple, they are Li Xiangping's grandfather and grandmother. The two elderly people are now looking at their grandson with worried faces.

In addition to the two of them, the other two are also a man and a woman. The man is in his 40s. He is Li Xiangping's attending doctor and his surname is Ren. The woman is a nurse in her early 20s.

The surname is Yang.

"Doctor Ren, what is my grandson's condition now?" Li Xiangping's grandfather asked.

"this......"

Dr. Ren is in his 40s this year. It is not easy to say that he is one of the best doctors in this hospital and even in the whole of Jinling. He is a well-known authority on children's medicine in China. However, faced with the problem of Grandpa Li Xiangping, Ren Da

The doctor didn't know how to answer:

"It's strange. We have conducted various examinations on the child, from brain waves to electrocardiograms to various blood indicators. We found no abnormalities, but why does the child remain unconscious?"

"Humph! A bunch of quacks."

Mr. Li snorted, then ignored Dr. Ren, and turned to Grandma Li Xiangping and said:

"Honey, I don't think it's going to work like this. I need to transfer him to another hospital! Now I have to consider transferring him to another hospital immediately. I want to send Xiangping to Shanghai or Beijing for treatment."

Although Grandma Li Xiangping also looked anxious, she looked calmer and more decisive than Grandpa. After listening to Grandpa's words, Grandma did not hesitate at all. She nodded:

"Yes, we can't delay it any longer now. We can't even find out the cause of the disease. What kind of shabby hospital is this? Old man, I think this is the case. You should contact Old Zhao immediately..."

Look, grandma has already thought about her next move.

Seeing the attitude of the two old people, Dr. Ren didn't dare to speak anymore. Not to mention that he couldn't find out the cause of the disease, which made him feel a little unreasonable. What's more, he knew the identities of the two in front of him.

A standard old revolutionary is definitely not someone he can afford to offend.

Not to mention anything else, just the "Old Zhao" in Li Xiangping's grandma's mouth, Dr. Ren knew that this was a big shot in the province. The reason why this child was admitted to this senior cadre ward was because of that "Old Zhao"

Say hello.

Just when the atmosphere in the ward was a bit awkward, another person suddenly rushed into the ward. This person rushed in while still shouting:

"Xiangping, what happened to Xiangping..."

When he saw the person coming, Grandpa Li Xiangping was immediately furious. He scolded him:

"Oh wow, it turns out that our boss Li is here. It's rare to see so many visitors. What's the matter? Boss Li stopped busy with your money-making plan and finally remembered that he has a son?"

The person who came was naturally Li Yuanhu, Li Xiangping's father. During Li Xiangping's competition, he happened to be in the capital to discuss a business. When he learned about Li Xiangping's coma, he didn't rush over until now.

Faced with the anger of his old man, Mr. Li Yuanhu naturally did not dare to refute. Seeing the presence of outsiders, he had to pretend that he had not heard and turned to Li Xiangping's grandma:

"Mom, what's going on in Xiangping?"

"Oh, I suddenly fell into a coma two days ago. I haven't woken up until now. When I asked what the reason was, the doctor said that there was no problem. It was really frustrating."

"oh?"

Li Yuanhu turned his questioning eyes to Doctor Ren.

"You are Mr. Li, right? The situation is like this..."

Seeing that Li Yuanhu looked kind-hearted, at least not as fierce as his old man, Dr. Ren pushed up his glasses and prepared for another person to explain.

It's a pity that his explanation was interrupted again, and this time it was the beautiful nurse named Yang:

"Blink, blink, blink!, I just seemed to see the child blink his eyes."

As soon as Nurse Yang said these words, Dr. Ren Da naturally stopped caring about the explanation. Everyone including him stopped talking and gathered around Li Xiangping again.

And at this moment, as if he had just finished a long dream, a strange or even weird dream, Li Xiangping woke up leisurely.

Li Xiangping opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the anxious looks of his grandparents, and a warmth surged into his heart.

"Grandpa, grandma."

"Hey, my dear grandson."

Grandpa’s face was glowing red, and Grandma was crying with joy:

"Xiangping, please tell grandma what happened. By the way, how do you feel now?"

"I...I'm a little tired now and want to take a rest."

Of course Li Xiangping was not really tired, he just wanted to take this opportunity to digest the dream he just had.

"Okay, okay, you rest, you have a good rest, and then talk to grandma after you have rested."

The biggest patient in the world is the biggest patient. Since Li Xiangping made this request, others will naturally follow suit.

It's a pity that Li Xiangping was destined to fail to "rest", because at this time, someone came to the ward again:

"Oh, Xiangping is awake already? Haha, Xiangping, look who's coming. Grandpa Zhao and Dao Kai are here to see you."

Li Xiangping finally didn't want to "rest" anymore. He stared at Zhao Daokai with his eyes:

"This kid, has he traveled through time like me?"
Chapter completed!