Noticing the anomaly, Lin Qiye immediately picked up the black stone again and placed it back in the bowl.
"Please, go first!"
The smile on Yelander's face did not fade in the slightest. Patiently, he continued taking black stones from the bowl and scattering them across the board.
The number and positions of the pieces were still exactly the same as the previous two times!
Lin Qiye's expression gradually turned serious.
Once or twice might have been a coincidence, but when the result was still the same the third time, things were definitely not that simple.
Yelander was the Holy Lord of the Western Holy Church. Lin Qiye did not believe that, after he had explained it once, Yelander still did not understand the rules of Go. Yet he had scattered the pieces into the same positions three times. Either he was simply trying to cause trouble, or... he was trying to convey some sort of message?
"Senior Yelander, what are you trying to tell me?" Lin Qiye asked.
Yelander's answer was still exactly as Lin Qiye had expected. "You did very well, child."
Lin Qiye sighed and stopped trying to communicate with him. His gaze fell on the board before him as he carefully committed the position of every stone to memory.
After memorizing the pieces, Lin Qiye got up and left. He found Li Yifei and, after pondering for a moment, said:
"If you have nothing else to do in the future, play Go with him more often."
Li Yifei froze, his face turning bitter. "But when he plays Go..."
"Don't worry about whether he plays correctly. Every time he finishes, mark down the positions of all the pieces on the board and keep them together. I'll look through them one by one later."
"...Alright, no problem."
Seeing