I asked Jessica to put the tapes away, and since she has a lot of important things hidden in her home, I also hope that she can take the time to install a better anti-theft device in her home.

In the end, I decided to take the task of installing the security device into my own hands, but I might have to wait until the next time I returned to Los Angeles.

As for how many secrets are hidden in Jessica's house, I can't help but have more speculation in my mind at this time, and even I think there are still many things that Jessica hasn't fully told me, of course, it may take a little time, for her, for me, how not.

These secrets in Jessica's family are getting deeper and deeper, and it must be more than just some things, nor some people's things, it is more likely that there is a very big network involved behind it, and there is a strong attraction to the people and things in this network, but I also know that once I really follow Jessica into this huge network, it will not be easy to get out at any time.

But even though I was well aware of the dangers that might lie ahead, it didn't stop me from making up my mind to share it with Jessica.

In the end, I drove out of Jessica's house, and I was going to let her go with me, but then I thought that if I and she were too much in front of the rest of the team, it would only lead to more media interest in my relationship with Jessica, and the behavior of those paparazzi-like media after the last game had already reminded me that in order to protect Jessica and my own private living space, I had to try not to expose them too much to the media.

The car I was driving was still an elderly BMW that I had borrowed from Kobe's father, Joe, and I felt that the car had become less good over time, so maybe I should really think about the brand of car that my agent had advertised for me.

My salary under my rookie contract is not too high, and the NBA pays my salary once a week, so I don't have enough money to buy a good car right now, and I don't want to buy a car with a loan, after all, if I use a loan, it will probably make me choose a luxury car that is significantly beyond my current financial ability, and it is difficult to correct the habit of luxury.

And the most important thing for me now is to hone my skills, improve my court experience, and work together with my teammates to achieve a better regular season result, and even sprint towards the championship.

In fact, as the NBA regular season continues, I feel more and more how long the NBA season is, and I have even begun to feel a little tired after just playing a dozen games, this fatigue is not entirely physical, in fact, after all, Kobe's body is only eighteen years old, and it is actually relatively easy to recover from such a game intensity.

What really tires me out is the trivial things that I have to deal with during the long season, which I probably wouldn't have been so tired if I had only focused on basketball itself, but now with Jessica and a lot of other things like the media, teammates, fans, family, endorsements, and so on into my life, I start to feel like life has become a little bit lost, and I don't know how to find a thread in the chaos that will allow me to sort it all out smoothly.

When I boarded the Lakers plane, I saw Shaq walking into the cabin with headphones and a rather dynamic dance, and I was really worried about whether his massive body would flip the whole airliner over.

Of course, this is just a joke, after all, although this Lakers special plane is not as good as those Boeing 747 large passenger planes, it is also a medium-sized passenger plane that can accommodate dozens of people, and Shaq is not the Hulk, nor is it so destructive.

It's just that when he really walks with that kind of hip-hop movement with a very strong sense of rhythm, you will unconsciously be brought into that feeling, every step he takes is a special pace and note, followed by the tremor that seems to be the whole plane following his movements.

Although he seemed to have been accustomed to Shaq's dance, head coach Silver Fox Harris still reminded him a little, after all, his dance steps seem to be particularly destructive today, and those teammates who are almost about to fall asleep listening to the song with headphones seem to be awakened by his steps, maybe this is because the fluctuations generated by his dance steps are more transmitted through the plane itself than through the air, even with headphones you can clearly feel the vibration.

I still ignored Shaq's active plucking as usual, but put the headphones back into my ears, I have to say that the American black rock music in the mid-90s actually has some very good songs, but they may not be popular throughout the United States or even the world, and there will naturally be different artistic aesthetics in different regions of the United States due to cultural and ethnic differences.

When I first returned to the United States in the mid-90s, I was still a little difficult to get into the aesthetic point of the music songs they liked, in fact, I also found that this country does have unimaginable inclusiveness in terms of culture, but on the other hand, this inclusiveness is not absolute, cultural conflicts between different races, different regions, and different classes always exist, even within the Lakers, there are several different factions that listen to songs, of course, the faction represented by Shaq is the most powerful.

Shaq's personality is really a bit special, he is not actually the kind of person with a particularly domineering personality, he actually won't force you to accept his views or his behavior, but his personal aura is really too strong, even if he can't force you to accept his views and culture, but in the end you will find yourself having to do something the way he wants you to do it, to look at his performance.

And for people with a personality like me or Kobe, naturally we don't like Shaq very well, because our personality is too likely to be disturbed by Shaq's powerful influence, and we will always have our own independent personality and ideas, and we will give everything for our own goals and desires, and will not change much because of the influence of people like Shaq from the outside world.

In fact, there is not much conflict between me and Shaq off the court, maybe because we both have a magnetic field that attracts or repels each other at the same time, or we don't have much intersection with each other, each doing our own thing, if there is really an intersection then it will generate a lot of energy, and I can't say whether this conflict and collision itself is good or bad, at least on the basketball court, this collision between me and Shaq can often bring a new passion for the game.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris also seems to be happy to see this kind of conflict arise, because he will find that it seems to activate the desire to fight between Shaq and me at the same time, and we will give our best to the game to prove each other's strength, and more often than not, we will even cooperate better with each other in order to compete with each other, which has to be said to be a very interesting thing.

The flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco wasn't long, and we took off a little earlier today, probably because we had been suggested after a few previous road trips, which led to us arriving too late at the hotel to rest, which would further affect the state of the next day.

Soon the Lakers management optimized the departure time of the plane, and when we entered the hotel today, the time was not even more than 10 p.m., which is a huge improvement compared to before, and of course, this directly led to the fact that I was able to spend a lot less time with Jessica this afternoon.

However, I am more supportive of this adjustment at the top of the Lakers, because for me the game is not less important than Jessica, after all, basketball is always the same as life for me.

I just entered the hotel a few hours early and found myself a little unable to find anything to do, I saw Shaq and a few other Lakers players walking out of their rooms with a smile from a distance, they seemed to have made an appointment to go out and have fun together, but I was not interested in this, not to mention that they would not invite me to go, and even if they did invite me to go, there was only one result, that is, ruthless refusal, I would rather take some time to be alone and quietly look at the bright starry sky through the window.

It's not that I'm really unsociable, it's just that I really don't like wasting too much energy on all sorts of ineffective social interactions, and obviously mixing with Shaq's group is a typical waste of my life.

Before I knew it, I fell asleep, and when I went to bed earlier, it naturally meant that I would wake up earlier, and I seemed to be awake at seven o'clock in the morning, and my brain was very clear, which means that I had a good sleep last night.

At this time, there was still about half an hour before dawn, the starry sky and the bright moon outside the window, and the faint morning light in the distance was not far away, and I decided to get dressed and take advantage of the good morning air to go out for a walk.

In the process of going down from the hotel, I found that this hotel seems to have some good mountain bike rentals, and the bicycle rental store happened to open early today, so I rented a bicycle and prepared to ride along the route of the first morning light, ride to the mountain trails near San Francisco, ride to the community park, to breathe fresh air, to feel the beauty of nature.

When I rode this kind of mountain bike, I was a little uncomfortable at first, probably because I was a bit tall, and there didn't seem to be many styles and sizes of mountain bikes for me to choose from, and after a few steps, I found that my body was not particularly strong, so I stopped and spent a lot of time adjusting.

Just as I was adjusting my mountain bike, a girl who didn't look to be in her 20s rode past me, probably seeing me trying to figure out but looking helpless, and she had just ridden out and then went backwards after a few steps.

"If you want to adjust this height, you need special tools, and if you do, I have it in the back seat of the car."

The girl smiled and said to me, in the dim light of the street lamp, I faintly saw that the girl was also tall, judging from her toned body should be a girl who usually likes sports very much, and then looked at the bicycle parked next to her, on the surface it looks simple and generous, but in fact, if you look closely, you will find that there are many traces of man-made changes on this bicycle, it seems that this girl is really a bicycle expert.

The smile on her face froze when she saw me look up, and I touched my face with my hand, thinking that there was a fly or something else crawling on it.

Then the girl seemed to notice her previous gaffe, and soon recovered herself, only to see that she opened a small box from the back seat of her bicycle, which was like a small treasure chest, hiding a lot of various gadgets.

When I stood up, I found that although this girl looks slender and not short, the actual real height is only just up to my chin, but the height of my chin should be about one meter seven five, which is also a considerable height for ordinary girls.

"Are you Kobe?"

The girl suddenly said this, I was a little distracted, and the expression on my face stiffened a little for a few tenths of a second, and then I remembered that I was not Kobe Bryant now! When did my popularity become so high? In the dim light of the wee hours of San Francisco, a strange girl was able to recognize me.

"Well, yes, I'm Kobe Bryant, may I ask you."

Before I could finish my sentence, the girl had skillfully taken out a few professional-looking tools from her treasure chest-like box, and then she began to remodel my mountain bike very skillfully.

"Well, I also saw your game in the bar by chance last time, when a few of my friends were very excited to see the game you played against the Rockets, and they seemed to like your favorite person, so I have a little impression of you."

"That's right, seriously, do you usually carry such a complete set of car repair tools when you go out?"

I watched in disbelief as the tool magically tapped in her hand on the mountain bike I had rented, and she was so fast that I was once again in a daze when she graciously handed it back to me.

I took a serious look at her face at this time, it was a typical white girl's face, and there were even some freckles on it, but in my opinion, these little freckles made her look a little cuter, and she felt like a leading girl.

"Thank you so much, in fact, this car was only rented by me, and I haven't ridden this kind of car very much, so I can."

"I can see that, by the way, if you are here, does it mean that your Lakers are going to play against the Golden State Warriors today!"

"Are you a fan too? By the way, you just said that some of your friends are fans, so there shouldn't be any boyfriend among those friends? ”

I saw a slight flush on the girl's face, but I didn't say anything.

"Haha, you're really a little cute, so you helped me, I should also give you a small gift, this is called a gift exchange, I can help you and your friends get a few tickets for today's game, of course, the location may not be particularly good, but it will certainly not be too bad, if you are willing to come to see my game, I will be very happy."

"Really?"

The girl looked at me with wide eyes as if she had heard something very incredible, looking at her big eyes, really like a cute little rabbit, and I couldn't help but like it even more, of course, this kind of liking is only similar to the kind of liking the little sister of the leader, which is different from the kind of liking Jessica.

Then I asked the girl to ride with her, and I learned from her that her name was Amy, that her family lived less than two blocks from here, that she would come out every morning at this time to ride and exercise, and that she did have a boyfriend she had been talking to for several years, and that they had known each other since junior high school.

When she said this, her face flushed again, and I couldn't help but think of some memories of my previous life after listening to it, thinking of my previous life, I also had a beautiful but short-lived first love in junior high school, and my first love was always so beautiful but full of regrets, and now I think about it, I may feel that I was so naïve and naïve at that time, but it is a kind of happiness and beauty that can no longer be found.

And at this moment, I seem to see the shadow of my first girlfriend in my previous life on the face of this girl, although their height and appearance and even body shape are different, but the same is the beauty on their faces when they laugh, the kind of eyes full of hope and expectation for the future, just like the rising sun that is about to break through the clouds and slowly rise, the future is full of hope and light.

And I also found that this cheerful and happy girl really has a kind of magic, which can make me feel very relaxed, it is really the feeling of the girl next door, and I am a little brother, looking at her, you can never give birth to any evil thoughts, and there is only the same expectation for a better life in the future.

We rode along the trails and into some trails under her guidance, which, in her words, is fun to ride on the trails.

Under her leadership, I gradually became more interested in cycling, thinking that when I went back, I would definitely pick two good mountain bikes, one for me and one for Jessica, and we would go to the mountains of Los Angeles to ride when we had time.