Chapter 6: Useless Hacks
It was the third day after Li Xiangping woke up. Or rather, it was the third day after he confirmed that he had traveled through time.
"Li Xiangping, are you a little too excited this time? What painted boat? What chessboard? What chessboard used in the ten games at Danghu? Why do you keep asking me these? I don't even know what you are talking about."
"Hehe, it's nothing, actually I just... just wanted to tell you about a weird dream I had, you know, a dream."
Thirteen-year-old Zhao Daokai looked at Li Xiangping with strange eyes.
Li Xiangping, who looks only 13 years old despite being 31 years old in soul, looked at Zhao Daokai with innocent eyes.
The only thing Li Xiangping did in these two days was to confirm whether Zhao Daokai had traveled through time like himself.
Of course, it was impossible to ask directly about such a thing. In order to find out the truth, Li Xiangping could only use various roundabout ways to test Zhao Daokai in the past two days. So, while he successfully confirmed that he was the only one who traveled through time, his various tests also aroused Zhao Daokai's suspicion and impatience.
"Oh, yeah, you've been telling me about a beautiful lady in ancient costume named Xiuqin these days. What Xiuqin? Where did Xiuqin come from? Xiangping, did you dream about Xiujuan?"
This time it was Li Xiangping's turn to be stunned: "What Xiujuan?"
"Gu Xiujuan, the one sitting next to you."
"ah?!"
Li Xiangping was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. When he came to his senses, he felt happy.
Now I have returned to the age of 13, so I will be in the second grade of junior high school next semester. The girl named Gu Xiujuan is their junior high school classmate, a pretty girl.
Li Xiangping's gossip fire was burning. He said to Zhao Daokai, "Tell me the truth, are you in love with Gu Xiujuan?"
Zhao Daokai's face turned red: "No way."
Li Xiangping laughed loudly. He sighed in his heart while laughing, Zhao Daokai in those days was really an honest child, definitely not as frivolous as later generations. Look, he just lied to him and his expression betrayed him.
It was true that Gu Xiujuan was their classmate, but Li Xiangping did not have a deep impression of her. He was not very familiar with her, and they did not have much interaction after they grew up. He really did not know in his previous life that Zhao Daokai once liked such a girl.
Of course, at Zhao Daokai's current age, it is normal to have that kind of confused emotions. On the contrary, it is really abnormal for someone who has never had this kind of first love.
"Xiang Ping, it's time to take medicine."
Just as Li Xiangping was about to continue to deceive Zhao Daokai, the beautiful nurse who first discovered that Li Xiangping had woken up walked in.
"Hello, Aunt Yang."
When he was young, Zhao Daokai was not only an honest child, but also a very polite child.
Looking at the pile of incomprehensible medicine in Nurse Yang's hand, Li Xiangping looked bitter. He knew his own business and knew that he had just traveled through time, so he didn't need to take any medicine at all.
However, there was no way. He thought this way but others did not. Since he fell into a coma too suddenly and his awakening was a little strange, it was almost inevitable that he would be kept in the hospital for observation. It was a decision made jointly by his elders and the hospital, and he was not allowed to refute it at all.
"Sister Yang, can you not take medicine? Look how healthy I am now, why do I need to take medicine?"
Hearing Li Xiangping calling her "sister", Nurse Yang smiled and said, "Xiangping, you are a very polite child, but you can't not take the medicine..."
The beautiful nurse seemed to be nice to Li Xiangping and her voice was nice, but her attitude was very firm. This patient was a key patient and he was very important.
She poured a glass of water for Li Xiangping and insisted on watching him finish the medicine. Li Xiangping had no choice but to act like a good boy and swallow the medicine whole.
Seeing Li Xiangping's cooperation, the beautiful nurse became even happier. She praised Li Xiangping a few more words and then told him: Because your illness this time is so strange, to be on the safe side, the hospital and Li Xiangping's elders have decided that it is best for you to stay in the hospital for observation before the new semester starts.
Upon hearing this news, Li Xiangping said in a choked voice: "So I have to stay in the hospital for at least half a month?"
"Yes, I will take care of you during this period. If you have any problems, you can come to me directly." The beautiful nurse said a few more words in a friendly manner, then packed up and left.
As soon as the beautiful nurse left, Zhao Daokai said to Li Xiangping, "I am also very polite, why does she only praise you and not me?"
Li Xiangping laughed and thought, of course, based on your "Aunt Yang" and my "Sister Yang". Of course, he didn't explain it to Zhao Daokai, because it wouldn't take him long to understand such a truth.
Zhao Daokai grumbled casually and continued:
"Okay, I have to go to class in the afternoon, you should have a good rest, I will come to play with you in the evening."
Li Xiangping smiled slightly. The name Zhao Daokai also has a certain meaning. "Dao" refers to Wu Daozi and "Kai" refers to Gu Kaizhi. Therefore, it goes without saying what he is going to learn during this summer vacation.
But Zhao Daokai is different from himself. Although such a name reflects the wishes of the elders, Li Xiangping thinks that Zhao Daokai loves painting more than he loves chess. At least at this age, Zhao Daokai really likes painting.
Not only does he like painting, he also studies a very rare school of painting, the so-called "surrealism". The name sounds very cool, but to be honest it is just a realistic school of painting.
In a nutshell, if a painting created using this method can be indistinguishable from a photograph, it would be considered the highest level of this school of painting.
However, in Li Xiangping's opinion, this school of painting actually has no future, and people who learn this kind of painting are even a little stupid. After all, technology will become more and more advanced in the future. No matter how good a person's painting skills are, he will not be able to draw a truly high-resolution clear photo.
"I said Daokai, are you a little bit stupid? Why did you think of learning this?"
"So what do you think I should learn?"
"Even if you want to learn to paint, you should learn abstract painting. I think abstract painting has a future, but you are learning something called surrealism. Daokai, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but do you think humans can still challenge machines?"
Zhao Daokai smiled slightly, and even patted Li Xiangping on the shoulder gently: "There are always some stupid people who will try to challenge the machine. Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I'll go over first. Remember to wait for me in the evening."
Zhao Daokai left gracefully, leaving Li Xiangping alone in a daze.
The reason why he was in a daze was that he began to doubt his own judgment. After various tests in the past two days, Li Xiangping had already determined that Zhao Daokai was not a time traveler. However, after hearing what he just said, Li Xiangping became shaken again.
Does this sound like something a 13-year-old kid would say? And why does what he just said seem to have a deeper meaning? It seems like he is talking about his current situation.
"Tsk tsk, my friend Xiang Ping, I think your brother's words are very good."
At this moment, such a voice came to Li Xiangping's ears.
It was true that he was the only one in the room at the moment, and this was not Li Xiangping's hallucination, but a real voice that appeared in his ears. However, the strange thing was that Li Xiangping did not seem to be surprised at all. After hearing this, Li Xiangping even frowned:
"Brother Ding'an, if you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb..."
To explain such a strange phenomenon, we can only start from the strange dream that Li Xiangping had.
That's right, just as everyone guessed, Li Xiangping fell into the cliché of time travel and rebirth, and it was a more advanced cliché, that is, he brought the so-called "system" with him when he traveled through time. At the moment he woke up after his rebirth, Li Xiangping suddenly found that there was another person in his consciousness.
In other words, this body of his now has two souls. In addition to himself, there is another guy named Shi Ding'an Shi Xiangxia.
To be honest, when Li Xiangping first learned about this situation, he was quite surprised. How similar is this to the Japanese anime "Hikaru no Go", where they were both connected by a chessboard and possessed by an ancient Go master. Could it be that he will start to enjoy the aura of the protagonist and reach the pinnacle of his life from now on?
At the very least, I should be doing much better than the protagonist of "Hikaru no Go", Shindo Hikaru. When Shindo Hikaru got the adventure, he was still a rookie, while I have already reached a close to professional level. Even if I ignore these factors, just based on the brother Shi Xiangxia in my body, he should be much more awesome than Fujiwara no Sawa.
After all, Fujiwara no Sawa is just a fictional character, while Shi Xiangxia is a real chess master from the Middle Ages. Even if Fujiwara no Sawa is not fictional, judging by the era he lived in, his level should be several levels lower than Shi's.
However, after the initial surprise, Li Xiangping soon felt bored.
Because after thinking it over, he quickly realized that the cheat he had used was not very useful, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a useless system.
Although it is true that Shi Xiangxia is an ancient chess master, and he and Fan Xiping jointly created the pinnacle of medieval chess, his true level is highly controversial in modern society. A small number of people believe that his level is very high, comparable to modern top-notch masters, but more people believe that his level is actually average, and some extreme people even believe that they are at most at the level of fifth or sixth.
In other words, some people think that Shi Xiangxia's level may not be as good as Li Xiangping's current level.
As for Li Xiangping personally, although he does not think that his level can be as high as that of Lao Shi, he also doubts whether Lao Shi can be compared with the modern top-notch masters.
What's more, Li Xiangping can confirm one thing, that is, no matter what level Lao Shi is, whether it is an amateur master level or a professional master level, it is all within the human category. In front of Go AI, Lao Shi should be a loser.
This is why Li Xiangping felt that the cheat he used was of little use.
"Oh, I have to think of a way to uninstall this system..."
As Li Xiangping thought about this, he secretly laughed in his heart. Obtaining a "system" when traveling through time is something that many people would wish for but for him, not only did he travel through time, he also obtained a system when he traveled through time. However, the first thing he thought of after traveling through time was to "uninstall" this system.
This is probably unique among all time travelers.
