ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 42 Received the Order at a Critical Moment

As soon as Lu Yao entered the classroom the next day, he saw all the people of the basketball team gathered around Han Dong's seat. But based on their facial expressions, it was obviously some bad news.

"Han Dong, what's wrong?" After saying hello to Lin Jiayi, Lu Yao put down his schoolbag, came to the crowd, and patted Han Dong on the shoulder.

Han Dong did not speak, but he glanced at him and handed over a piece of A4 paper to Lu Yao which was full to the brim.

Lu Yao took a look and unexpectedly found that Tang Fa's name also appeared in the list of Class Sixteen of the Senior Grade that they were going to face in the next match.

"How does this happen?" Lu Yao also asked curiously.

"I don't know either. When I got the list from the PE teacher this morning, I was as surprised as you are now. But Mr. Wen told me that there was nothing wrong with the list. He didn't know anything else!" Han Dong explained.

Looking at the two people, Yu Fei also asked curiously, "Lu Yao, does Tang Fa really have a professional basketball background? Is he really as good as what he appears to be on the video shown by Han Dong?"

After taking a look at the crowd, Lu Yao said, "I have been in contact with him several times before, but we have not talked about this in detail. It seems that he has a professional basketball background."

"How can we play this game? Class Sixteen is already a class with strong sports abilities, in which there are several students enrolled for their basketball skills. Each of them is not much worse than Han Dong. Now there is Tang Fa who has professional experience. How can we play this game?" Some people were already getting discouraged.

Although the competition had only been going on for a few days, and Lu Yao became much calmer than before, he was still much infected by everyone's spirit of unity and perseverance. So at this time, he also sincerely wanted to encourage everyone to cheer up and work hard.

After taking a look at the crowd, Lu Yao jokingly said, "The first sentence of 'Age of Wushu' says, 'No matter how strong he is, the breeze will still caress the hills; No matter how fierce he is, the moon will still shine on the river. The reason for his fierceness was his evilness, but I will still have strong spiritual power.' Guys, as long as we unite as one and do what we can, we should not be any worse than them. Even if we lose in the end, it will be nice as long as we don't leave any regrets!"

After listening to Lu Yao's words, although the expression on everyone's face was still very serious, it eased slightly.

Lu Yao and Han Dong didn't say anything more, and the crowd dispersed to study.

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Because it was the final, the venue of the game was set in the school's indoor basketball hall which could accommodate 300 people to watch the game at the same time. And today, since people heard that there was a classmate with a professional basketball background who would also participate in the game, many parents of students and students who had not watched the game before also came. Even on the rostrum, Headmaster Hu also accompanied Director General Chu of the Education Bureau and other leaders to watch the warm-up match of the players of the two teams.

Throughout the warm-up stage, Tang Fa was not stingy with his own skills. He accomplished shooting at the basket, slamming dunk, turning back while slamming dunk, and other difficult movements easily, and the students and parents who watched off court shouted happily.

On the contrary, on the side of Class One of the Senior Grade, except for Han Dong, other players weren't able to shoot well in the absence of confrontation, which made the students in the class get very nervous for them.

Lu Yao had been there to pick up the balls for everyone, and he did not participate in the warm-up training for shooting or laying up the shot, which seemed to be very normal in others' eyes. After all, Lu Yao did not shoot a single shot after his debut in the last game. He only defended, which naturally made people think that he was a defensive player and ignore other things.

"Beep!"

With the sound of the whistle, as the referee of the game, Mr. Wen, a teacher from the school's sports teaching and research group, signaled the athletes from both sides of the competition to get on stage.

Because the student who was injured the day before had a serious ankle injury and could not continue to play as the rear guard in the team, Yu Fei, who could move relatively fast, was arranged to replace him. At the same time, Lu Yao sat quietly on the side of the court to watch.

Tang Fa glanced at Chu Minghui sitting in the auditorium and then turned to look at Lu Yao with a provocative look on his face.

When Lu Yao saw the list in the morning, he was already vaguely aware of the hidden plot, so he didn't pay any attention to Tang Fa at all.

The game officially began. First of all, Class Sixteen of the Senior Grade gained the possession of the ball and began to organize the attack. With their skillful passing balls, they quickly found the weakness of Class One Yu Fei. Class Sixteen made a beautiful middle-distance shot and took the lead to score two points.

Then, it was Class One of the Senior Grade's turn to attack. After Han Dong received the bottom line ball from his teammates, he began to dribble forward quickly. But as soon as he crossed the midcourt line, he was double-teamed by the other team. Today's opponents were different from those a few days ago. They were all students with special sports skills who usually stayed on the basketball court, and they usually trained more with Han Dong, so they knew Han Dong's prowess and adopted the strategy of preventing his outbursts and passing. This was aimed to put enough pressure on Han Dong to make him pass the ball to others.

Han Dong also knew very well about the other side's strategy, but there was nothing he could do about it. The other side completely blocked his breakthrough line, and he could only pass the ball to others. But the others simply couldn't score under the strict defense of the opposite team. Soon, they made lots of mistakes.

"How did Class One of the Senior Grade make it to the final?"

"Very true. It is really funny that a basketball team like this, which has no cooperation at all, could beat other teams such as Class Twelve and Class Five, which are also very strong basketball teams. It is not deliberately arranged by the school, is it?"

Many students and parents on the spectator seats talked one after another when they saw the performance of the members of Class One of the Senior Grade.

On the contrary, the next few rounds became Tang Fa's own show. Three-pointers, jump shots, and dunks came up one after another, and the score difference also reached 25 points. What made things worse was that Han Dong was hit in the face by Tang Fa with his elbow in a defensive round. Blood went down along his cheek and the game had to be temporarily suspended.

During the pause, there were some teachers on the rostrum who liked to lick other's boots surrounding Chu Tianyang. And a tall teacher dressed in a tracksuit complimented him, "Director General Chu, I heard that the student in Class Sixteen named Tang Fa is your distant nephew. It is said that he also has some experience in professional basketball. I wonder if it's true!"

Chu Tianyang glanced at the teacher who spoke, and he also knew him. His name was Wei Qinxue, who was the head of the school's sports teaching and research group. Chu Tianyang asked him to go through Tang Fa's admission procedures, so Wei Qinxue was more familiar with the situation of Tang Fa. But at this time, since he asked in this tone on this occasion, he obviously wanted to get other people here to pay Chu Tianyang a better compliment.

"Oh, Mr. Wei is very well-informed!" Chu Tianyang said with a smile, "My nephew was selected by Tianma Club in Yanjing to represent the club in the national professional league for a year. Now he's received a better opportunity and wants to go to other countries for further study. So he wants to take this time to improve his literacy class."

"He is so excellent that he is going abroad for further study. So it is estimated that when he returns from his study, he will be able to take part in the competition on behalf of the country, right?"

"Of course! Director General Chu sends Tang Fa to the No.1 High School in Shuangta City, and this indirectly does a great favor to our school! When Tang Fa shines in professional basketball competitions in the future, as his former alma mater, our school will also benefit from the association with him! Don't you think so?"

"Very true. Director General Chu is so considerate to your school. Headmaster Hu, you have to remember the great service that Director General Chu has done to your school!" A cadre accompanying Chu Tianyang of the Education Bureau said to Headmaster Hu when he heard the words of other teachers.

After hearing this, Headmaster Hu reluctantly squeezed out a smile and nodded without uttering a word.

"Li, what are you talking about? Everyone is dedicated to the educational work in Shuangta City. There is no such a thing called personal merit!" After looking at Headmaster Hu, Chu Tianyang said solemnly to his assistant who had just spoken, "All right, the game is about to begin. Let's sit down and watch the game."

After the suspension, Lu Yao was still off the court. The first round was Class Sixteen's possession of the ball. After Tang Fa received the ball from his teammates, he made several turns, quickly shook off the defender, broke through under the basket, and cared nothing about the players who came over to him. He then jumped very high and made a slam dunk. And then he made an act of shooting in the direction of Lu Yao when he landed on the ground.

Except for Lu Yao and Chu Minghui, other people had no idea that this move was aimed at Lu Yao. They thought it was a presumptuous act of celebration.

What Tang Fa wanted was to completely overwhelm the other side in terms of momentum, and then he would find a way to force Lu Yao to come onto the stage. Thus, he could thoroughly beat him. These were his thoughts. Seeing that the momentum on the court had almost been set off, the next thing was to find a way to get Lu Yao to appear on the stage.

Tang Fa received a pass from his teammates and went straight to the basket. When he broke through Yu Fei's defense, he deliberately got tangled up with Yu Fei's legs. Immediately, both sides lay on the ground.

"Oh!"

With a mournful scream, people saw Yu Fei holding his ankle and constantly rolling on the ground. His whole face was a little twisted. People could see how serious his injury was. In the meanwhile, Tang Fa pretended to be a good person and stretched out his hand to pull Yu Fei.

After others saw this, they immediately gathered around, and the referee also came to confirm that Yu Fei could not continue to participate in the game because of his injury. He then made a request to Han Dong for the substitution of the player.

After people carried Yu Fei to the side of the court, other students took him to the school infirmary. Lu Yao, as the only substitute, was asked to get on the stage at this critical and difficult moment.

After seeing Lu Yao getting onto the court, Tang Fa pretended to pass him by inadvertently. At the moment when the two passed by, Tang Fa whispered, "Lu Yao, Yu Fei got injured because of you. Don't you want to do something for him?"

Lu Yao did not answer but only looked at Tang Fa's back with a contemptuous smile.

"Han Dong, you go and defend the others. I will take care of Tang Fa. You can get closer as soon as you have a chance, and I will pass the ball to you!" Lu Yao whispered a few words to Han Dong's ear, then turned, and ran away.

Han Dong originally wanted Lu Yao to defend others. After all, Tang Fa's ability was too strong. But when he thought that Lu Yao was also calm like this during the last bet between him and Chu Minghui, he suddenly had a feeling of extreme trust in Lu Yao.

Lu Yao was more than 1.8 meters tall. But when standing next to Tang Fa, he was still shorter than him. Lu Yao could only stick to Tang Fa's body to defend him.

Tang Fa glanced at Chu Minghui on the spectator seats, made an OK gesture, and began to ask his teammates to pass the ball by waving.

He wanted to thoroughly ravage Lu Yao in front of the school's teachers, students, parents, and relevant leaders of the Education Bureau, so he decided to humiliate Lu Yao in every round by using slam dunks.

After Tang Fa received the pass from his teammates, he wanted to take the initiative to push away Lu Yao to awe him.

But what did not occur to him was that he had not been able to push Lu Yao away by taking advantage of the inertia of running forward, coupled with the advantage of taking the initiative.

This made Tang Fa also briefly stunned. When Lu Yao was with his cousin, he seemed to be very weak. But how could Tang Fa not be able to push him away this time?

However, when Tang Fa was stunned, Lu Yao was not stunned at all. This was exactly what he wanted, and he made a decisive move.

"Han Dong, get closer!" Lu Yao shouted and passed the basketball intercepted from Tang Fa in the direction of Han Dong's running direction.

With Lu Yao's shouting, many parents, teachers, and students on the spectator seats were stunned. No one thought that the teenager, who had been sitting on the bench, intercepted the ball from Tang Fa, who had been so dominating on the court.

Of course, this also surprised all the other players in the game except for Lu Yao and Han Dong.

In this way, after Han Dong got the ball, he made a long-distance running attack, accomplished an overhead basket, and easily scored two points.