Chapter 174: One Versus Ten
The man was very handsome, dressed in a sharp suit. There was something calm and restrained about him.
Claire had seen his photos.
This was Angus Garcia.
The young men got up one after another, flocked to him, and pointed rudely to Claire on the sofa.
“Mr. Garcia, this is the girl.”
Angus raised his eyes and happened to meet the girl’s cold gaze.
For a moment, their eyes met.
Without any expression, the man quickly moved his eyes away as if he couldn’t be bothered to take another look at her.
Claire propped her cheek with one hand.
Another arrogant guy.
“Is everyone here?” At this moment, John walked into the Go club and went straight to Claire.
“Let me introduce to everyone, this is the girl who is going to have a wheel fight with you. She’s younger than you. Don’t bully her.”
Someone complained. “President, why should we have a wheel fight with such a little girl? This is literally bullying her.”
John chuckled. “That’s not necessarily true. Just get started.”
There were a total of ten members in the Go club including Angus.
The wheel fight could also be called an attrition fight. These 10 people surrounded Claire in the middle and Claire played Go against them at the same time.
To put it simply, it was a one-vs-ten fight.
According to the order of the draw, the young men took their seats one after another, and Angus was first in the line.
They had chosen the white pieces.
Claire walked up to Angus, holding a black piece in her delicate hand and slowly put it on the game board. After that, she went to the next person.
After going around all ten of them, she returned to Angus and put down the second Go piece.
The wheel fight proceeded in this manner.
It might be simple at first, but as the wheel fight proceeded further, the weaker ones would start to get tired.
Playing Go against 10 people at the same time meant that she had to consider 10 games of Go at the same time.
In an ordinary one-on-one game of Go, one only needed to think once, while in this wheel fight, Claire had to think ten times in one round, without any slack time, and she had to keep her mind clear all the time.
Twenty minutes later, Claire solved five people in the fastest way.
Those people scratched their ears and cheeks in embarrassment, wondering how they could lose to a little girl.
Claire walked to the 7th person who was holding a white piece and seemed to be hesitating where to put it. His forehead was sweating profusely, and his hands were shaking.
Unhurriedly, Claire tapped the game board gently. “Have you decided where to put your piece?”
The more she urged, the more anxious the person became. His mind became a mess and he felt a splitting headache come on.
After a while, he threw the Go piece on the ground fiercely, choosing to abstain from this one.
Claire glanced at the game board, choosing to abstain too.
This meant this game had ended.
John came over to count the remaining pieces. Black Go pieces occupied more territory, so Claire had won.
The man left his seat. His head drooped, and he looked devastated.
It didn’t take long for nine people to leave the field in failure, leaving only Angus in the fight.
These young men gathered around the corner to watch the battle, discussing hotly.
“Did the president lie to us? How could she have never learned how to play Go!”
“I think she is a Go master!”
“Ahhh, what a disgrace!”
Claire walked up to Angus.
Angus looked up at her. The disdain in his eyes had changed to curiosity.
Claire put a black piece on the game board, cutting the connection between Angus’s pieces. When Angus tried to build the connection again, she took the chance to block his way again.
In the end, all his pieces were cornered.
Angus frowned. The odds were against him and he needed to return to the center as soon as possible.
However, whenever he took a step, Claire followed, pressing on at every step. She refused to leave him any escape route.