Chapter 22 - 22, Crushing Victory
Liu Jun smiled, "How about we compete in shooting three-pointers? Ten shots each, whoever makes more three-pointers wins the final victory."
"Sure!" Chen Nan grinned, "Is there a wager?"
Upon hearing this,
a gleam flashed in Liu Jun’s eyes. He never expected Chen Nan would actually want to add a wager.
He immediately smiled and said, "That can be arranged."
Chen Nan said, "How about this, the loser buys a cup of milk tea for every student and teacher in the twenty-six senior classes of the entire school?"
Liu Jun and the boys beside him froze. Jizhou First Middle School had over two thousand three hundred senior students.
If every person gets a cup of milk tea, that would be quite a sum!
"If you’re scared, then forget it!" Chen Nan said, tiptoeing and tossing the basketball in his hands towards the hoop.
But it hit the rim and didn’t score.
"Okay!" said Liu Jun with a smile, "Then, as you said, ten shots each, and the loser buys milk tea for all the senior students and teachers."
As soon as these words were spoken,
they immediately caught the attention of the surrounding senior students, and in no time, a crowd gathered around, full of anticipation.
For them, regardless of who won, they would get a cup of milk tea.
But some astutely sensed that there seemed to be some kind of grudge between Chen Nan and Liu Jun; otherwise, they wouldn’t go to such extremes.
Regret was written all over Liu Yiyi’s pretty face.
She didn’t know why Liu Jun was targeting Chen Nan, but she really shouldn’t have encouraged Chen Nan to mingle with these people.
At that moment,
a slightly overweight boy said cheerfully, "My family owns six milk tea shops. If you need milk tea, I can have it delivered directly!"
Huang Yuan waved his hand grandly, "Just have it delivered, and whoever loses will pay the bill."
Over two thousand cups of milk tea wasn’t a small number; he didn’t believe that Chen Nan, the penniless Taoist, could come up with that much money.
If he couldn’t produce the money, he would certainly be disgraced and become the laughingstock of Jizhou First Middle School.
"All right!"
The chubby boy sneakily took out his phone and called his mom, asking her to prepare two thousand five hundred cups of milk tea.
As more and more students gathered to watch, Chen Nan and Liu Jun became the focal point of over two thousand senior students on the sports field.
"You go first!" Chen Nan said with one hand behind his back and a slight smile on his face.
He was no fool.
He could clearly sense that this Liu Jun harbored hostility towards him; otherwise, the basketball wouldn’t have hit him so precisely on such a big court.
This was precisely the reason he suggested that the loser buy everyone a cup of milk tea.
It was his way of wanting to bleed him a little.
"Okay."
Liu Jun immediately grabbed a basketball nearby, stood outside the three-point line, cradled the basketball in his hands, and threw it into the hoop with a jump.
Seeing this, the onlooking students couldn’t help but clap and cheer.
"That’s the basics!" Liu Jun’s face glowed with a light smile, the deputy captain of the school sports team and the leading player of the basketball team.
He had participated in college basketball competitions within the province and achieved quite good rankings.
Shooting three-pointers was as easy as pie for him.
He was accustomed to those admiring gazes.
And so,
in less than three minutes, he scored ten three-pointers, to the delight of the audience.
"Your turn!"
Liu Jun tossed the ball to Chen Nan, his face bearing an intriguing smile.
He considered himself invincible.
He wasn’t afraid of Chen Nan at all.
Chen Nan caught the basketball thrown by Liu Jun with one hand and immediately lobbed it toward the hoop.
This action surprised many.
Everyone knows you need both hands to shoot three-pointers, yet he attempted a one-handed long shot.
Could he make it?
Amidst the shocked stares, the basketball Chen Nan threw traced a beautiful parabola through the air and fell precisely into the hoop.
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Wow!
The scene erupted into a hubbub.
Nobody expected that Chen Nan’s one-handed long shot would actually make it into the basket.
It was a bit outrageous.
"Just a blind cat running into a dead rat, what’s the big deal?" Huang Yuan said with disdain. Although he didn’t often play basketball, he had also successfully made long shots before.
He was not impressed with Chen Nan’s skills.
But next, Chen Nan silenced him with his actions.
He took out the handkerchief he carried with him and tied it over his eyes, effectively blinding himself.
He then made a one-handed long shot.
When they saw him make a one-handed three-pointer blindfolded,
the large schoolyard fell silent as the grave; everyone’s eyes were filled with deep horror as they looked at him.
Just making a one-handed long shot was incredible enough.
Not to mention, this guy was doing it blindfolded.
Even seeing it with their own eyes, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
Although Liu Jun’s skills were well-known,
to be fair,
Chen Nan’s skills were a dimensional smackdown for him!
At that moment,
Liu Jun also realized that he had made a fatal mistake in picking a fight with Chen Nan.
This guy’s skills could very well be above his own.
Ultimately,
Chen Nan finished shooting ten balls.
Without exception,
all of them were three-point swishes.
Once he took the handkerchief off his eyes, thunderous cheers rang in his ears, and everyone was subdued by his skill.
Especially some girls, who looked at Chen Nan with adoration in their eyes.
Lucky this wasn’t on a college campus.
If it were on a college campus, Chen Nan would have gained the right of first choice in courtship!
Huang Yuan’s face darkened as he watched Chen Nan, not expecting his skills to be so exquisite. He snorted heavily, "Even if you made ten three-pointers, so what? My cousin didn’t lose any points."
Clearly,
even though he thought Chen Nan was better, he wasn’t willing to admit his cousin lost.
Moreover,
their agreement was to see who made more three-pointers, not to show off shooting skills.
However,
any perceptive person could see that Chen Nan was clearly a notch above.
Even if the competition was just about who made more three-pointers.
But the whole point of doing this was to test each other’s skills!
For a while,
everyone looked at Huang Yuan with disdain.
Chen Nan smiled and said, "Let’s just say I lost. I’ll treat you to the milk tea!"
"Mr. Chen, do you think I can’t bear to lose? Losing is losing, winning is winning, just over two thousand cups of milk tea, I can still afford it," Liu Jun said with a grim face; he naturally didn’t want to admit defeat easily, nor did he want to spend so much money on milk tea.
But he knew that if he let Chen Nan treat everyone to milk tea today, from this day forward, he would no longer have a place in the schoolyard.
Even though he was about to graduate.
After graduation, he would also become a laughingstock among the junior students.
Thus, he could only suffer in silence.
Chen Nan smiled slightly and said, "Then thanks for Captain Liu’s generosity. I believe everyone will remember that before the college entrance exam, you treated us all to a cup of milk tea!"
Liu Jun almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. Why am I the one paying for everyone’s milk tea, yet all the credit’s going to this guy?
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