Hearing this, Yu Shao instinctively looked toward the commotion.
Just then, Su Yiming, who had defeated his opponent, also stood up.
Yu Shao recognized the winner as the person who had nodded to him when he first entered the competition venue. Slightly surprised, he took another look at Su Yiming before turning his gaze away.
At last, not long afterward.
"I..."
The boy sitting opposite Xu Ziqin lowered his head deeply. The words reached his lips, but he simply could not bring himself to say them, as though they were unbearably heavy.
"I..."
He clenched his teeth, his face filled with unwillingness. In the end, he forced out the remaining two words in one breath: "I lost."
Xu Ziqin nodded at him and said softly, "Thank you for the game."
The boy sitting opposite Xu Ziqin kept his head lowered. Only after a moment did he reply dejectedly, "Thank you for the game..."
Behind him, the Go instructor from Jianghai First Affiliated High School looked at Xu Ziqin, then at Yu Shao, and fell silent.
In previous tournaments, he had seen the two students from Huanan Third High School's Go academy play. They had indeed played well.
But to be honest, he had not expected those two former aspiring professionals to perform like this in these two games.
"Perhaps Jiangling Fifth High School wasn't quite so unlucky to run into Huanan Third High School in the first round..."
Seeing that both of his teammates had already conceded, the third player from Jianghai First Affiliated High School felt his spirits plummet.
This meant that regardless of whether he won or lost this game, nothing could change the fact that they would be eliminated in the very first round.
"They both lost."
He stared gloomily at the Go Board before him, looking