Chapter 21: Butterfly Ball
In the third round, only Jin Jinhuan and those administrators remained, and everyone else had already withdrawn from the trial, and even the bandits had already left.
As an ordinary trialist, the only one who didn't go was Rhodes.
Jin Zhenhuan plus those administrators, it happened to be an even number, they could team up with each other, and in the end, only Li Xiu and Luo were left, and they were forced to form a team.
Li Xiu has already drawn twice, and if he draws with Rhodes again this time, the next trial will be a mandatory life-and-death duel.
There is only one chance, if it is good to be a pitcher, if it is a hitter, the chance of Li Xiu's death will be very high.
What's more, Li Xiu's opponent in the next game is probably Jin Zhenhuan, and the fighter is almost certain to lose.
So no matter how you look at it, Li Xiu can only win and not lose in this trial, not even a draw.
"Brother, the level is good, and he used to be professional?" Rod came to Li Xiu's side and chatted familiarly.
"It's not." Li Xiu closed his eyes and waited for his trial to begin.
"It's rare that you're not a professional pitcher and you can control the ball so well. Finger pitch is not difficult, and after practicing for a while, most people can throw a similar finger fork ball. But that kind of knuckle is useless. The speed of the finger cross ball is slower than the average ball speed, how to improve the speed of the finger fork ball, and precise control, is the key to the fork ball. Like the guy who threw the finger ball before, he almost didn't make it into the good zone, and that kind of control doesn't deserve to be called a finger ball at all......" Rod said to himself.
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Li Xiu interrupted Rod.
"I want to say, we are all playing technology, there is no need to kill each other, if we really divide the winners and losers seriously, then it is likely that both sides will lose, and no one will survive." Rod said.
"Do you think I can trust you?" Li Xiu looked at Rhodes and said.
"Of course you can believe it, and you can only believe me." Rod said.
"Why?" Li Xiu looked at Rod with interest, he wanted to know where Rode's confidence came from.
"In addition to finger balls, I am also good at finger balls." Rod lowered his voice and said to Li Xiu.
He thought that Li Xiu understood what it meant to flick the finger ball, but Li Xiu didn't understand it at all, so he could only look at Rod and not speak.
Seeing that Li Xiu didn't speak, Rhodes thought that Li Xiu was weighing the pros and cons, so he continued: "You should know very well that even the pitcher himself doesn't know where it will fly with the finger ball, and it runs around irregularly from left to right, although it has a nice name called butterfly ball, but for professional players, this thing is a nightmare." Not only can the hitter only guess blindly, but even the catcher can only rely on Meng's catch. If you have to win or lose with me, I'll throw a butterfly ball, and we'll leave it to our fate. ”
"It sounds like a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing that butterfly ball you said." Li Xiu said to Rhodes.
Rod was a little stunned, he thought that he was also a professional-level baseball player, and Li Xiu should be able to understand what he meant, but he didn't expect Li Xiu to say this.
"Do you think I wouldn't dare? Did you know that I'm not just a pro, I'm also a gambler, and my favorite thing is to gamble. Rod's eyes sharpened.
"That's the best, I'm looking forward to you being able to throw a butterfly ball." Li Xiu was telling the truth, he really wanted to see what the butterfly ball that Rhodes was talking about.
"Okay, then we'll see." There was no longer any need to talk any further, so Rod turned and walked away, and sat down on the steps on the other side.
Soon, the third round of trials began, and there were no more groups of people left, they were all feeding each other the ball to get one point each, and soon it was Li Xiu and Rod's turn.
This time, Li Xiu stood in the pitcher's position first, and Rod, who was standing in the hitter's position, shouted at Li Xiu again: "You think about it again, I can let you go first." ”
"Don't think about it, it's all up to you." Li Xiu moved the joints of his body and prepared to start throwing.
"What will he throw? Finger fork ball? Curveballs? Or a high-speed straight ball? Rod stared at Li Xiu, who was in a pitching posture, making a judgment in his heart.
Although he is known as Eagle Eye and has dynamic vision that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, it is one thing to be able to see, and it is another thing to be able to judge it in time.
At the moment when the opponent throws the ball, it is not easy to judge what the opponent throws and swing the bat in time to hit the ball.
Especially in the face of Li Xiu, who is good at changing the ball, and the incomprehensible self-confidence, Rod can't help but be a little nervous.
"Why is he so confident? I didn't even want him to take the initiative to give him a ball, he had to share life and death with me. Although it was just a fool's errand, where did the source of his self-confidence come from? Whether it's a finger cross or a curveball, with the speed at which he throws, I should be able to hit it. But his self-confidence seems to be 100% sure, what kind of ball will make him have such confidence? ”
Thinking about it, Rod's eyes suddenly lit up: "Could it be that he can also throw butterfly balls?" Want to bet your luck with me? ”
The more Rod thought about it, the more right he became, but in addition, he really couldn't figure out why Li Xiu was so confident.
The two men have similar physical fitness, and Rod also has super dynamic vision, except for the unpredictable butterfly ball, there is no ball that Rod is not confident to hit.
"By the way, it must be a butterfly ball." Rod already had a judgment in his mind.
Li Xiu had already thrown the ball, and the speed of the ball flying in the air was a little slow, and the butterfly ball was the slowest way to throw the ball, which made Rod more firm in his judgment.
"Pretending to be a finger thrower? It's useless, you've been seen through by me, since you're going to bet with me, then let's gamble. Rod gambled, knowing that the butterfly ball could not predict its trajectory, even if he was Hawkeye, it was useless, so he could only gamble.
Rod swung his bat abruptly and chose to hit the ball downward, since it was all about luck, then going down a little bit could also prevent Li Xiu from throwing not a butterfly ball but a fork ball.
But when Rod swung the bat, he already felt a little wrong, because the baseball flying over did not shake large and irregularly, and it didn't look like a butterfly ball.
"It doesn't matter, it's useless to cross the ball, and I can hit it just as well." The bat had been swung out, and it was useless to think about anything else, so Rhodes could only swing it hard.
But when the ball reached him, Rod's whole body seemed to be petrified, his face was full of shock and incomprehension.
"Why...... Why is it such a slow straight ball...... No change at all......" Rod watched as the ball flew over the top of the bat and hit the box area just like that.
From a bystander's point of view, it's as if Li Xiu threw a soft and weak straight ball, but Rod deliberately missed it.