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Guan Yu was lying under a lush tree on the school lawn, his eyes closed and his hands crossed behind his head, as if enjoying the baptism of spring, as if he was asleep.

A pink butterfly flew quietly to his ear and stopped in the tender grass beside Guan Yu.

There was a sound of footsteps, and the pink butterfly flapped its wings and flew away, as if frightened, and then a gentle boy's voice was heard.

"Here you are." It was Liu Bei's voice.

Guan Yu closed his eyes tightly and did not respond, as if he was asleep.

"I saw you renting a field outside of school to play, why don't you go to the school venue to play?" Liu Bei continued to ask.

Guan Yu still didn't react at all.

"Next week we're going to play against the 'Ten Constant Servants' team." Liu Bei said calmly. "Principal Lu Zhi is now our coach, and he said that he hopes you can join our team, so that we can defeat the 'Ten Permanent Servants' together and play in the national competition together!"

"I'm sorry, I refuse." Guan Yu's movements did not change at all, but he suddenly said a cold sentence. "My goal is to get into the national competition and get results, not to compete with that kind of weak team, and with your ability, I am afraid that I will also be abused in the national competition, so why should I follow you to humiliate myself?"

"That's right, I see." After listening to Guan Yu's words, Liu Bei slowly turned around and walked away, and after taking two steps, he suddenly stopped again. "Maybe we're not up to the standard of your teammates, but we've been working hard and we want to do well for the school team. Guan Yu, you have extraordinary achievements in the field of basketball, which we can only hope for, but we can't stop moving forward, so I hope you can consider joining our team, so that we can improve together, and I believe that one day, you will recognize us as your teammates. Liu Bei said confidently.

Guan Yu still maintained the same posture, Liu Bei said "I'm sorry", and prepared to leave.

"I'll probably go see that game." Guan Yu suddenly spoke in a cold voice again, and Liu Bei stopped abruptly.

"Let me see your strength, although there is nothing to expect..."Guan Yu's voice suddenly became vague and low, and others could barely hear it clearly.

Liu Bei turned around, and he saw Guan Yu's lying posture that had changed. He turned his back to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei couldn't see Guan Yu's face and expression.

Looking at Guan Yu's back, Liu Bei smiled slightly, then turned around and strode away. "Guan Yu, I believe that you will definitely be able to make the right choice, because you, like us, have an infinite passion for basketball!"

"Huh!"

"Great!" Kong Ming made a sudden stop and scored another goal while running, and he was so tired that he was sweating profusely to support his knees, but his heart was excited. Lately he's been practising his shooting on the go, and it was hard to shoot for a while, but now he's getting a feel for it. He found that although it was difficult to shoot during the run, once he did, he developed a sense of confidence that he would score. And Kong Ming found that he could score three goals in a row from the same position on the court, and he secretly renamed this shooting ability "Repeater". However, this way of shooting is very physically demanding, and only one attempt is enough to make Kong Ming tired enough.

After resting for a long time, Kong Ming was about to start shooting practice again, when suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and he noticed the three-point line.

"Three-pointers? Isn't it worth three points if you score one goal than two points? I want to give it a try. Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, stood with his feet outside the three-point line, aimed at the basket for a long time, and suddenly threw a shot with all his might.

The "snap" ball was blocked by someone, and Kong Ming was still at a loss.

"I'm sorry Kong Ming." It was Liu Bei who capped him just now. He scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "I'm sorry Kong Ming, I've been practicing defense recently, and I just saw you preparing to shoot, and I couldn't help but stop your ball, haha..."

"Abei!" Kong Ming clenched his fists, and his face turned red. "The shooting sensation that I finally brewed is ruined for you! You are so hateful! After yelling at Liu Bei, Kong Ming was suddenly stunned, he had never had the idea of yelling at Liu Bei before, not once, the hierarchy between the monarch and the minister made him always have only a respectful attitude towards the monarch, and even for the matter that they had the biggest disagreement about - whether to send troops to attack Eastern Wu, Kong Ming did not quarrel with Liu Bei. Kong Ming has always believed that the relationship between the monarch and the minister should always live in harmony, and even if there is a rift between the two sides, it is to slowly mend the relationship between the monarch and the minister calmly.

But just now he yelled at Liu Bei, and he suddenly unconsciously had a new feeling, which made him shake his previous thoughts. "Why am I yelling at Abi? Is it because I care too much about this basketball game? Or is it because this era erased the gap between monarchs and ministers? I don't figure it out either, but it's a good feeling! Now the friendship between me and Abi is truly pure... Also, yelling at Ah Bei just now is from my heart, my heart, it is the desire to play basketball well, not to realize anyone's ideals and wishes, why do I feel this way? For the first time, I felt like I was living for myself..."

Thinking of this, Kong Ming had mixed feelings, tears filled his eyes, and Liu Bei's figure in front of him began to blur...

"Hey Kong Ming, what happened to you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Liu Bei couldn't help but be at a loss when he saw Kong Ming's expression, and he didn't know what was going on, he put away his smile and blindly apologized.

"I'm fine, Bei." Kong Ming smiled and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and then he shifted his gaze to the basketball in his hand, avoiding Liu Bei's eyes.

"By the way, Abei, you've been practicing defense lately, how effective is it?" Kong Ming opened the topic and asked.

"I feel like the defense was average at the beginning, maybe my speed of following up the defense was a little slower, but if it takes a long time, the opponent's speed slows down, and my defensive ability can be played more, which is what I found when I played against Senior Gongsun recently. Now I've been playing him for a long time, and I've been able to contain his attacks a lot of the time. Liu Bei said while thinking.

"That's right, Abei, your progress is indeed great." Kong Ming said reassuringly. "With you and Zhang Fei's internal and external defenses, I believe that the opponent will definitely be afraid of you."

"Well, I'm going to do a good job defensively, my offense is not good, and I can only rely on defense to realize my value in the team." Liu Bei said self-deprecatingly.

"No, it's not." Kong Ming immediately stopped him. "Do you remember the last ball you played against Zhang Fei last time?" Kong Ming asked.

"Ah, yes, I remember, what's wrong?" Liu Bei asked strangely.

"The last shot of your layup, Zhang Fei stopped you, but he should have fouled the beater, I guess he stopped at the time, also because he realized it." Kong Ming gave Liu Bei an analysis.

"Really... Is that really the case? Liu Bei frowned and tried to remember. I didn't react at the time, did I? No, I have some impressions when you say that, my hands seem to be touched. ”

"That's right." Kong Ming patted him on the shoulder. "You're a threat to the basket, so don't be skeptical about your ability to score, of course, we need your defensive prowess."

"Thank you Kong Ming!" Liu Bei looked at Kong Ming with a smile. "You often give me encouragement, how I feel more and more inseparable from you, just like the feeling of a fish can't live without water."

"The feeling that fish can't do without water..."Kong Ming vaguely remembered the evaluation given to him a long time ago by the person who was almost exactly the same as the person in front of him, and he couldn't help but smile heartily.

"Then Abei, what kind of awesome name are you going to use for your breakthrough layup?" Kong Ming changed the subject.

"What? It's not a great trick..."

Liu Bei's face turned red all of a sudden. "But listening to you say that, I still plan to seriously practice this kind of hand-changing layup, in this case, I'll name this trick 'Double-strand Flash', haha..."Liu Bei said half-jokingly.

"'Twin Streams'! What a domineering name! Kong Ming appreciates the name.

"What about you, Kong Ming?" Liu Bei asked Kong Ming. "You've been practicing shooting thousands of balls in the past few days, what kind of shooting skills have you practiced now?"

"It's not a stunt." Kong Ming took the ball and walked near the halfway line and began to brew the dribble. "I just found some patterns that fit my own." As he spoke, he slowly dribbled the ball to the free throw line, jumped and shot, and the ball "slammed" into the frame and popped up.

"What kind of law is it?" Liu Bei asked while drinking water.

Kong Ming stopped talking, he ran and jumped twice without scoring a goal, and in the third he finally threw the ball near 45 tons to the right of the free throw line.

"Look, that's my skill." Kong Ming brought the ball back to the center circle and prepared for the next dribble shot.

"It's just ordinary pitching, can it be considered a skill?" Liu Beizhang and the second King Kong were confused.

Kong Ming didn't reply, he brought the ball back to the place where he shot just now, almost the same action jumped and shot, and the ball went in again!

"Yo! Terrible! The position and action of the ball you just threw the ball are exactly the same as the way you threw the ball before, and you actually threw it in! Is this your skill? Liu Bei said with admiration.

"Yes, there's a third ball, I'm confident I'll be able to score it!" Kong Ming brought the ball to the same position again, his eyes full of endless confidence, the same movements, the same way of shooting. The ball slashed through the air in a white arc of light, "Whew! The ball went into the net!

"Awesome! Score three goals in a row in the same position, this is Kong Ming's ability! Liu Bei gave a thumbs up. How do you want to name this trick? ”

"This stunt, I'm going to name it..."Kong Ming propped his hands on his knees and said word by word with all his strength.

"I named it --- repeater!"