ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 40 What Else Can Be Difficult for You?

Every May was a restless month for high school seniors who were about to take the college entrance examination.

After all, there was only a month before the college entrance examination, and not everyone could have such an adventure as Lu Yao had. Suddenly, he healed, and his mind was filled with visions and ideas and his memory was amazingly retentive. Moreover, there was an elder immortal who knew how to cultivate and how to refine herbs in Lu Yao's heart. Lu Yao's achievement had suddenly reached the level that many people could not achieve in years or even more than a decade.

Some people had no chance to succeed in the college entrance examination. And they didn't know whether to take over the family business after the college entrance examination or to go out for a few years while they were young. Some were also vacillating between learning craftsmanship and joining the army for a few years.

At the age of 17 or 18, many people not only had a dream of entering college but also had a dream of becoming a soldier. As the saying went, "People will regret for three years if they join the army. But they will regret for the rest of their lives if they don't do so."

Some boys and girls who were already secretly affectionate to each other couldn't contain their emotions and directly got together. Apart from sitting in their seats in class every day, they spent the rest of the time being together.

Section One of the Senior Grade, where Lu Yao was, was the most important key class among all key classes in the school, so everyone behaved a little better. Although it was unlike those ordinary classes, some people here still became a little impetuous.

In the last placement exam for high school seniors in Xinlu Province, the result of the places for admission to universities were settled, and the final candidates were Lin Jiayi, Dong Xiao, and Lu Yao.

When the director of the Admission Office of the Xinlu provincial Education Department told Headmaster Hu the good news, the whole school began to use it as a selling point to attract outstanding students who were about to take the high school entrance examination.

Lu Yao's plan to go to Miao Village and discuss some things with Miao Jingtian during this outing in Yunwu Mountain had to be postponed. Later, after some careful consideration, he decided to visit Miao Jingtian in Yunwu Mountain after the college entrance examination.

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In previous years, when the college entrance examination was approaching, the school would not hold any sports competition specifically for high school seniors. And the classes would always have contests in private.

However, this year, the school leaders of the No. 1 High School in Shuangta City suddenly announced that they would hold a senior high school graduation basketball competition this week to deepen the relationship between students and parents and between students and their alma mater.

Moreover, the school not only invited the parents of some high school seniors to watch the game but also invited the leaders of some relevant departments of the Education Bureau to attend this activity. So it was a relatively grand event.

Almost all the students in Lu Yao's class paid special attention to study and seldom took part in sports. Especially after becoming seniors, they forced themselves to give up some of their interests and devoted themselves to their studies.

This also led to the whole class's bad performance in sports in the past three years of high school, not to mention basketball that required long-term exercise.

But when the school's notice was sent to all classes, Han Dong, the captain of the school's non-professional basketball team, became a little restless.

In the past three years, Section One of the Senior Grade had never achieved any decent results in basketball competitions. Of course, this did not mean that Han Dong's skills were not good. On the contrary, Han Dong was one of the best players in the whole school. The real reason was that there were no other good basketball players in the whole class of Section One of the Senior Grade except for him and Chu Minghui.

But this would be his last time in high school to win honor for his class in the basketball game, so Han Dong wanted to work hard for the last time.

Han Dong talked to each student and wanted to let everyone actively participate in this game, but unfortunately, the effect was not obvious.

And something that made matters worse happened. As the saying went, "Rain starts to pour when the house leaks."

Chu Minghui, who had always been the starting small forward of the class team, announced that he would withdraw from the class team at this critical time and would not participate in any of the activities in this class competition because of the bet with Lu Yao some time ago.

This made it harder for Han Dong, who already had too many problems to deal with, to establish a team.

After careful consideration, through all kinds of means, Han Dong finally gathered seven students in the class, including Lu Yao, to participate in this basketball competition with him.

However, although Lu Yao promised to participate in the competition, he insisted on taking part as a substitute. Although he was 1.8 meters tall, which made him relatively tall among high school students, and he seemed to be muscular, he had never participated in a basketball competition except for his usual PE class.

Han Dong understood this very well because Lu Yao was not the only one who had a similar experience. There was also a classmate named Yu Fei, who was very good at football but succumbed to Han Dong's persuasion and finally joined the basketball team.

In this way, except the five people in the starting group, Lu Yao and Yu Fei were both rookies with no competition experience at all. So Han Dong decided to give them a three-hour additional practice, hoping that their team could have a little more tacit understanding.

After school, Lu Yao and five other people quickly came to the venue occupied by Han Dong in advance to start training.

"Mates, although I am well aware that there is a big gap between us and the sports students, I still hope you will try your best to do it. Because this competition is the last competition that we will be able to participate in our alma mater where we have lived for three years, and I don't want to leave any regrets!" Han Dong saw that Lu Yao and others came to the basketball court on time one by one, so he was very grateful and said to everyone affectionately.

"Come on, come on!"

Han Dong formed a circle with everyone, and everyone held out their right hands and put them tightly together. They started the training after cheering themselves up for three times.

Due to the limitations of personnel and venue, they could not carry out the five-on-five match. So they could only choose the street-style three-on-four match.

Since Han Dong's personal skills were good, Lu Yao, Han Dong, and Yu Fei were divided into a group, while the other four were in the other group.

Although Lu Yao did not have much experience in basketball games, he was tall and strong. So the other side specially arranged for a person to man-mark him. As for Yu Fei, apart from being able to dribble fast, his shooting was basically negligible. So the strategy of the other team for Yu Fei was to keep him away from the basket area and to allow him to shoot casually in other areas.

In this way, the left members of the other team could carry out a triple-team on Han Dong for a long time. For a while, it seemed that the two teams were a bit evenly matched.

"Lu Yao, shoot quickly! You get the chance!" Han Dong saw that Yu Fei could not enter the three-second zone, and Han Dong was triple-teamed, so there was no good chance. Instead, Lu Yao had a better chance. Han Dong shouted after Yu Fei passed the ball to Lu Yao.

"Rat-tat!"

After listening to Han Dong's reminder, Lu Yao acted decisively. However, because Lu Yao had not played basketball for a long time, his ball hit the board without touching the basket.

"Ha-ha..."

Because of Han Dong, a lot of boys and girls came to watch around the venue. When someone saw Lu Yao make such a ridiculous shot, they couldn't help but laugh.

"It's all right, Lu Yao. Don't be discouraged! Let's do it again!" Han Dong encouraged him.

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"Rat-tat!"

"Bang!"

"Rat-tat!"

"Rustling!"

Although it was an exercise, everyone still worked very hard, and there were more and more people around. Lin Jiayi also joined the crowd, watching Lu Yao and them practicing hard.

Every time, the opportunity went to Lu Yao, but he kept hitting the basket iron or having air balls.

Onlookers could not remember how many times Lu Yao had shot, and it was not until Lu Yao finally put a clean shot into the net that they stopped laughing at him.

Chu Minghui was in the crowd at this time. Looking at Lu Yao, he felt very comfortable. These days, he was very depressed when he was struck by losing to Lu Yao in the bet. And the reason why he withdrew from the basketball team this time was to retaliate against Han Dong for the reason that he always spoke for Lu Yao.

Chu Minghui felt relieved when he saw that the people in this basketball team had uneven basketball skills and were disorganized.

And when he looked back at Lin Jiayi, he felt a little more relieved.

Everyone trained very hard until it was getting dark. Han Dong had already arranged for someone to buy water to quench everyone's thirst. So when everyone stopped training, some students in other classes handed water and towels to them.

"Here, have a drink of water!" Lin Jiayi also handed Lu Yao a bottle of water and said calmly.

Other people also saw the interaction between them. Although they envied Lu Yao a lot, many people were not surprised. Even if the interaction between Lin Jiayi and everyone else were put together, it couldn't be compared with the interaction between Lin Jiayi and Lu Yao recently.

"Thank you. I didn't expect you to like basketball, too!" Lu Yao said politely after taking the water handed over by Lin Jiayi.

"I don't like it a lot. But this time, the meaning of this competition for each of us is different from those in the past! So I come and have a look!" Lin Jiayi said calmly.

"It's a pity that I don't usually play basketball, so I can't play it very well. Otherwise, I can do more for the class and leave a better memory for everyone!" Lu Yao said with regret.

"Lu Yao, is there anything else in the world that is difficult for you?" After listening to Lu Yao's words, Lin Jiayi suddenly looked into Lu Yao's eyes and said curiously, "With only 41 shots, you can control your every shot very well. I don't know about others, but I can see that you have been trying to shoot with all kinds of strength and from different angles. I think you will have no problem keeping your hit rate at 70 or 80 percent now, right?"

After listening to Lin Jiayi's words, Lu Yao did not know how to answer. Because what she said was exactly what Lu Yao had in mind.

"Well, let's call it a day. Tomorrow afternoon, we will face the challenge from Section Twelve of the Senior Grade. I hope we can win. Come on!" Han Dong stood in the crowd and shouted. Everyone could not help but get together. Just like at the beginning, they gathered in a circle to cheer. But this time there were not only the seven people on the team but more than a dozen people from the crowd who gathered closely together and shouted to cheer.

This was what would happen when you were a student. You would be easily moved by this sense of collective honor and unconsciously join in activities that you were not good at. This was the vitality of young people!