Chapter 67: Can You Keep Up with My Thoughts?
On the Quidditch pitch, fourteen broomsticks rise into the sky.
On one side is the team led by Penelope, with a total of four official members, two chasers, including her, a batsman and a seeker.
The remaining chaser and the other batsman are all newcomers who came for a tryout, while the goalkeeper is the substitute.
On the other side is the team of Ash and Qiu Zhang, Ash is the chaser, and Qiu Zhang is the Seeker. Only the two of them are novices in the whole team, the remaining two chasers and two batsmen are made up of regular players + substitutes, and the goalkeeper is also a regular player.
On the surface, the team configuration of the two sides is actually very fair.
Marietta was in the middle, a little nervously holding a red Quaffle.
It is worth mentioning that except for Ash and the two goalkeepers, the other players on both sides are girls.
It can't be helped, after all, the number of boys in Ravenclaw is indeed too scarce.
All the golfers fly in a circle in the center of the course.
Cho Chang and another Seeker are on top of the players on both teams, and their tasks are different from the others.
"The rules are simple, just like in an official game of Quidditch, the team with the highest score at the end of the match wins. Your performance in this game will directly determine whether you can join the team, become a regular player, or be replaced by a newcomer! ”
Penelope explained the rules, his eyes sweeping over the other players and finally landing on Ash.
She wanted Ash to join the team as well, but it was a bit difficult, which is why she had this game.
Penelope shouted downward:
"Marietta, open the box!"
Marietta, who was directly below, was originally there to see the play, but was arrested as a temporary referee.
Hearing Penelope's voice, she hurriedly opened the shaking box.
Shout!
The black Bludger immediately rose into the sky, followed by the small but extremely fast Golden Snitch.
Immediately afterward, the red Quaffle was also thrown into the sky by Marietta.
No one spoke, but everyone knew it was the signal for the game to start!
Syllable!
Penelope rushed forward and reached for the Quaffle.
But just as she tried to hold the Quaffle in her arms and fly towards the goalpost, she suddenly felt empty in her hands.
A hand passed under her armpit and snatched the Quaffle like a lightning bolt!
Penelope turned his head and could only see Ash's back with the Quaffle.
Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately turned around and chased after Ash with the other two chasers.
At such times, if Ash is a good chaser, he should pass the ball to his teammates. Because when the other chasers are besieging him, his teammates will be unguarded and have every chance to rush into the scoring zone first and score a point for their team.
But Ash didn't, and he made the same mistake as a normal novice, holding the Quaffle with one hand and flying forward with his head covered.
But it was enough to surprise Penelope, because Ash had just snatched the Quaffle from her hand so fast that she didn't even react to it, even if she wasn't used to cooperating with her teammates, but she had already shown Ash's amazing talent in this area.
With a little training, he must be an excellent chaser!
Penelope was thinking that her two chaser teammates had already wrapped up Ash on the left and right, and the next second was snatching the Quaffle from him.
A little farther to the right, Ash's team-mates were shouting at him, trying to get him to pass the ball to him.
At this time, even if Ash wants to pass the ball, there is no chance, and there is a high probability that he will be stealed.
But what no one expected was that instead of passing, Ash lowered his body.
In the next second, the tail of his broom glowed red like a burning bolt, and it rushed towards the goalpost like an arrow from a string, more than doubling its speed!
Bang!
The instantaneous acceleration freed him from the pursuit, and also caused the two girls who had wanted to pinch her to slam into each other. Even Penelope, who was watching all this, felt a faint pain in his chest, would he really not be knocked out if he tried so hard?
And Ash himself has already taken advantage of this acceleration to quickly rush to the goalpost!
And in this situation, no one can stop Ash, because they haven't even been able to get the goalkeeper in place!
The Quaffle was thrown by Ash and whizzed through the ring in the middle. 、
The ball went in, and it was so unexpected.
Everyone froze in mid-air, no one moved, and even forgot to breathe.
It was as if even time had been frozen by this ball, and the scene was silent.
Syllable!
At a time when everyone's breathing was stagnant because of this, Cho Chang didn't.
She spotted the Golden Snitch and narrowly avoided the interference of a Bludger, successfully catching the Snitch in her hand and ending the match directly.
Ravenclaw almost made history today – because it was almost the fastest Quidditch game to date!
"Is it more than that?"
Ash flew slowly over to Penelope and blinked.
"Not comparable!"
Penelope glared at him, and couldn't help but ask:
"How did you do that?"
"What and how?"
"I mean accelerate! Why do you suddenly accelerate so fast? ”
Penelope is simply unbelievable, and it's not surprising to accelerate in Quidditch, any broomstick has this ability.
But even if it is the most expensive and fastest light wheel 2000, it takes a while to slowly increase the speed to accelerate. Penelope had never seen anyone double his speed in an instant like Ash!
Penelope's parents were Muggles, so she knew that there was something in the Muggle world called a car, and a car had a thing called a 000 acceleration - if you were to use a proper analogy, the 000 acceleration of the Light Wheel 2000 was 5 seconds, while Ash's 000 acceleration was only 1 second, or even less than 1 second!
With this huge speed gap, it is impossible for anyone to catch up with Ash.
But the problem is that they all use the light wheel 2000!
Why is there such a big gap between the same equipment?
Ash explained in a serious way:
"Actually, my broomstick is a special modified version, with a little bit of money."
In fact, he changed it himself, and simply added a dozen or so magic spells—just a few minutes before he took off.
However, even if this kind of thing is said, no one will believe it, it is better to say that it was changed with money.
A player next to him subconsciously asked:
"How much is a little bit?"
"6,000 gold Galleons."
"Shhh
The Ravenclaw students who heard this number gasped, and at this price they could even buy another 10 light wheels for 2000!
If it's such a money-adding method, then Ash's speed just now makes complete sense - what a fart!
If this effect can be achieved simply by adding money, how can the light wheel company not take it out to publicize? Even Gryffindor students wouldn't believe such a clumsy excuse, so how could they not see it when they were able to enter Ravenclaw?
But as a Ravenclaw, of course they understand the truth of seeing through and not saying it, so no one openly contradicts it.
Ash looked at Penelope, who was still shocked in his eyes, and deliberately asked innocently:
"Sister Penelope, can Qiu Zhang and I be substitutes?"
"Can't!"
Penelope came back to her senses and immediately rejected him, and she said without hesitation: "Because both of you have to enter the main team!" ”