Chapter 61: Basketball

Fifteen years ago, the airport of New York. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"The flight to Chicago is about to arrive at the airport, passengers are asked to be ready as soon as possible......"

A man in a snow-white shirt stands in front of the airport toilet sink. He washed his face with water in both hands, and a deep coolness pierced his bone marrow through his skin. He raised his head and carefully looked at himself in the mirror, and suddenly felt that this man was so strange.

His name was Richard Parker, a man who had just made a breakthrough in scientific research, but the world did not know about his achievements.

"Hurry up, Richard! We're on the plane! ”

The tall, red-haired woman shouting outside the door was his wife, Mary Parker, who was doing the same job as him.

Richard came to his wife's side with a blank gaze and took the coat from her hand blankly.

"It shouldn't be like this, Mary." He suddenly spoke, "This is not the life I want. ”

"We've talked about this, Richard, and we don't have a choice." Mary sighed and said, "Mature up, you're a man with a son!" Think for our Peter! You're making the right choice. ”

Richard closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them, his eyes were full of confusion.

"Is this really the right choice, Mary?"

Fifteen years later, today, high school.

Perhaps students all over the world think the same way – no matter how long the holidays are, there are never enough, and the experience from the break to the beginning of school is almost as fleeting as a blink of an eye.

Physical education class, one of Eric's most hated classes. It's not that he's physically challenged, it's purely because it's the only class you'll never be able to sleep on your stomach in a daze.

A group of energetic young people shouted loudly and sweated on the field, and the shouts could be heard clearly across the street outside the school. The boys seem to agree that the court is the best place to attract the attention of the girls, and they are as active as tigers hunting.

Eric sat bored outside the court, anxiously waiting for the clock to pass. The scorching sun scorched the ground and made a "sizzling" sound like a steamer, making people sweat just by listening to it. He looked at his watch almost every two minutes, and each step of the second hand seemed as long as New Year's Eve.

Somebody's way of slapping the basketball on the court flew over, flicked twice on the ground, and rolled to Eric's feet.

"Eric! Hand it over! A boy in big pants clapped his hands at him, sweat-soaked muscles shiny in the sun.

Eric lazily picked up the basketball in one hand, and he was going to throw it out, but his movements suddenly stopped like a stuck slide.

Out of the corner of his eye, he swept to the other side of the court, where a girl in black was leaning against the shade of a large tree and looking in this direction.

It's Raven.

At this moment, he himself couldn't tell what kind of psychology was at work, but in short, he took back the basketball that was about to be shot. In the surprised gaze of the boys, he showed a light smile of unknown meaning.

He made a shot and stood on the sidelines, halfway across the pitch. The basketball soared into the air, and the spinning sphere flashed from the scorching sun, and the moment seemed to have wings. It swiped in an unreachable arc, leaped over the boys' heads, and landed into the basket in a stunned gaze as if it were programmed with a predetermined outcome.

The basketball bounced several times in a row on the hot ground, rolled a few centimeters and then stopped.

"Holy!" The boy exclaimed, "You still play?" ”

"I just don't fight, who's to say I won't?" Eric shrugged, "I'm sorry, I don't seem to have discovered anything I'm not good at." ”

He glanced in Raven's direction again, and a slight smile appeared on the girl's cold face.

"Eric!"

He looked back, and this time it was their PE teacher who was also the coach of the basketball team. The physical education teacher was a chubby middle-aged man, with a big round belly, a half-bald head, and a small whistle hanging on his chest that looked quite funny.

"You know how to play?"

"I ...... Belch...... This time it was good luck. ”

"I don't believe in luck, boy, I see you have talent." He looked Eric up and down as he spoke, and nodded approvingly, feeling like he had picked a favorite ingredient at the wet market.

Without waiting for Eric to reply, he hurriedly continued: "I believe that your skills have been mastered, and you were just hiding your strength from us before. But we don't have anyone on the team now...... An idiot from our team was disqualified for the season after a dry fight in the woods in the back yesterday afternoon. We desperately need talented players like you. What do you think? ”

"What? Did I hear me right? Someone in the crowd said, "This kid has touched basketball once since he entered school, and then he is going to join the school team?" ”

"I ...... I don't know, I think maybe I'm not a good fit for basketball. ”

Just because Eric can play basketball doesn't mean he's interested in it.

"Didn't you say it's not a bad thing to try something new?" Raven popped up to him at some point, "You can give it a try, maybe I'll join the varsity cheerleading squad when you play." ”

Eric was startled, and looked at her expression carefully, only to see that she was covered in frost as usual, and wondered if she was joking.

Make up for Raven's dancing in a cheerleading team's sexy uniform...... Why does the picture feel weird?

"Okay." Eric smiled, "I'm participating." ”

"Good." The coach nodded with satisfaction, "Practice after school, let's see what you really can do." ”

After school.

They say that love can change a person, and Eric has always felt that that is idealistic, and like "love at first sight", it should only exist in a fragment of a novel.

People's personality should be engraved in the bones, and the external performance may change with other factors, but it is difficult to change the things in the depths.

And now, he is a little shaken...... Maybe sometimes people do do things they wouldn't normally do.

Just as he was distracted, there was another boiling on the field. The basketball swirled down from their half-court basket, and the "away" score on the scoreboard became 110, chasing Eric's home score of 114.

Eric had a headache.

Originally, he thought that things would be easy, and he could easily surprise the four with his overwhelming strength, but so far the script seems to be quite right.

The start was smooth, he was like an unstoppable sharp knife, going deep into the back alone again and again, and easily led by 30 points with the strength of one person. And then it was at this moment that a kid from the away team suddenly broke out. It's a pretty skinny guy, the kind of nerd type who looks like he's being bullied, and no one notices that there's such a number one character on the pitch at the beginning of the game, and his presence is so thin that it's close to the background on the field.

Until all of a sudden, like Eric, he scored a goal with a straight shot and a beautiful one-on-one shot.

Then, the duel between the two began.

This is not an exaggeration, the whole scene is almost a duel between these two people, and the students can't intervene at all. Eric watched in amazement as the fragile imp jumped up and down, shooting from all sorts of almost impossible angles and ways, and almost as soon as he made a shot, the visitors' score would grow.

The visitors' score went straight up like a rocket, and by the end of the first half they were at 110 points, just four points off the home side.

Eric was pretty sure that kid was clearly not a high school student anymore.

He couldn't help but think of what Sharon Carter had said to him when he came to the school.

"Actually, we've been eyeing this high school for a long time, and it's not just because of you that we've sent me this time. We believe that there are other extraordinary children and other superpowers hidden in this school......"

His mind moved.

Could it be this little ghost......

"It's the end of the world!" Just then, a blonde player passed by and muttered to his companion, "Nerds are going to rule the world!" See? Parker's kid looks like he's been beaten today! ”

Parker!?

No way! Peter Parker? Spider-Man?

Eric smiled wryly.

This school is really a Wolong and a Hidden Tiger...... Playing with Spider-Man, it's hell to win......