Chapter 7: Basketball Match II
Isabella is one of the famous students at Hunei University, also one of the promising Ranker in the Virtual Reality Game called Ranker's World Online that no one knew.
LET'S START THE BASKETBALL MATCH!
As soon as Mr. Den announced, he immediately blew the blue whistle that hung on his neck, in order to officially start the basketball match.
The sound of the whistle easily enveloped the vast gymnasium.
Hey, look there! Why is Ling wearing old shoes? He might destroy the beautiful flooring of the Gym.
Oi! You didn't see what the shoes of your classmates were wearing, huh? All of them had imported shoes that came from America like Lebron 88, Booker 58, and Murrant 32!
Move out! You should not be there, know your place, peasant!
His classmates and other students sitting on the bench bad-mouthed Ling once more. They're the people who don't like someone stepping up to them, but were good for flexing their expensive things even if they hadn't had impressive skills.
Yet, Ling wasn't paying too much attention to them but accidentally glanced at Isabella before the match started.
'She so beautiful-' He uttered to his mind and paused.
Through his eyes, his female classmates covered Isabella's existence as they thought Ling already molesting Isabella inside his head.
Hey! Where do you think are you looking at huh?
By just simply your eyes, I feel my clothes slowly taking off...
Are you wishing for your death?!
Isabella aggressively tugged one of the woman's arms, or to be exact, her classmate standing right in front of her. "W-What are you guys doing? I'm watching the match." She asked them in a deep tone, and could not know the reason why everybody here went too far.
"Stay still, Isabella. We are protecting you from that pervert!"
"Mina is right! That man's eyes were the same as the rapist's eyes!"
"Guys, could you please stop? Don't be exaggerated. Also, I never thought that man is looking at my body and did bad things to each one of you." She said nonchalantly but deep inside she was annoyed with them. After that, pulled back Mina back on the bench.
From afar, Hary secretly smiled since one of their classmates tried to protect his best friend. 'Those bitches... They didn't know how kind is Ling that's why they can easily say those words.'
To begin with, eleven people gathered on the court including Ling and Mr. Den that decided to be the referee of this basketball match.
Brrt!
Two young men who had heights of 180 and 182 centimeters stepped in the middle of the court to do the jump ball. As soon as the ball went mid-air, the two battled for the ball.
Swoosh!
The ball was heading smoothly towards Ling, yet when the moment he was going to catch the ball, his teammates tackled him and snatched the ball away.
"Oops! Sorry, but next time you should not try to block my way."
A red-haired young man that has sharp eyes, and was 179 centimeters in height approached him sarcastically. His name was Tan Sik.
Thud!
Ling fell to the ground with a surprised expression on his face. At the same time, he was able to hear his classmates' voices and expensive basketball shoes screeching on the wooden polished surface.
'Eh? What is his problem?'
He didn't intend to reply to Tan's words, he just simply regained his footing and continued to play.
Pass!
Pass the ball here!
Nice shot!
Oh! That's three points!
Score:
Team A 12 points
Team B 31 points
12 minutes had easily passed and the first quarter has ended. However, Ling hadn't had a chance to hold the ball at least once. Yes, sometimes the ball headed to his location but his teammates immediately ran there just to snatch the ball from him.
'What a full of jerks? I'm always free but no one tried to pass the ball at me? Hais... Why I'm expecting from them? They are the people who think highly of themselves that no one could able to reach them.'
Ling talked to himself since he perceived some of his teammates and audiences were blaming him because of the low scoring they had.
Are you blind? That bastard is just walking on the court!
I agree, he's useless!
Mr. Den, we would like to do a substitution. Please, remove Ling from our lineup and get another player one of our classmates.
Nevertheless, Mr. Den didn't allow their decision as he noticed Hary was sharply looking at him, and he already what was the meaning of that.
"No, Ling will continue to play. As you can see, he's still not tired and has lots of strength, I can't see any reason to bench him." He replied in a deep tone.
Ling shook his head and hands in unison. "I'm good, Mr. Den! I can sit on the bench and give chance to others to play." He took the towel, planning to not play for the rest of the quarters.
"Do I need to repeat myself, Ling? You are still playing! On top of that, you have to score two or five points so I can put something in your assessment."
"Score?"
"Why? Do you want to fail my class? It's too embarrassing that you'll repeat another year just you fail with the P.E class." Well, Mr. Den was a good guy, he was just doing this because Hary said it to him.
'Sorry about that Ling! I just want to see your basketball skills.' Hary connected his palms and closed his eyes.
At this juncture, Ling can't do anything but be forced to play. "Two or five points, let's give it a try."
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The second quarter started, then both teams entered the court and had a malicious smiles on their faces.
"Eh? Are you continuing to play? You didn't aware that you are just walking around? It would be better if let someone switch you, so this basketball match had some thrill."
A man had brown hair, black eyes, an average physique, and smaller than Ling by 4 cm mocked him. His name was Shin Kinna, his family was well known for having successful prosecutors.
"Hehe, they forced me to do it..."
Ling's team inbound the ball, then the four of them do their best to get a score
'Well, they're not going to pass the ball at me even if I cried blood here. So I think, I have to do something to get the ball by myself.' He said inwardly.
Team A currently had 22 points and Team B had 45 points. In a short time, the opposing team managed to enlarge their lead.
Moreover, Ling's teammates looked exhausted since once they took the rebound, they were driving the ball coast to coast.
'Haha~ just like what I expected, no one could last running on the court for several minutes. It's time for me to move." Ling uttered, then positioned under the basket to get a rebound.
Blag!
When the ball hits the rim and missed, it bounced back and smoothly landed in the direction where Ling standing was. Without making any second thought, he nonchalantly jumped into the mid-air as he noticed no one in the area tried to take it.
Bam!
His feet gently touched the surface, he noticed someone charging at him and wanting to steal the ball.
Swoosh!
To avoid the defender, he did little ball hesitation and spun around. He then charged to their rim in the fastest way he could.
Pass!
Of course, someone was calling for him to pass the ball and that was Tan the man who tackled him earlier.
"Give me the ball right now! They're just going to steal it from you!"
Defenders went to Tan's location as they thought Ling would pass the ball, but he just faked it. 'They are all stupids, they didn't think I can easily read their moves?"
Swoosh!
He continuously dribbled the ball with excellent handling, and the main reason why left the three defenders at once. When reached the middle, a tall guy aggressively guarded him as he thought he can easily scare Ling with his tough outward appearance.
Bam! Bam!
Yet, Ling just did double crossovers and left him sitting on the surface.
Swoosh!
What the?!
Ankle breaker?!
That move is so smooth!
When he was inside the three-point line, the last defender come at him. So he pretended that he was going to shoot the ball in the distance.
'The fuck? He has already fallen for that bait?' Ling said in a weak tone along with a suspicious smile on his face.
Meanwhile, he saw the big guy elevating in the air, so he didn't make any second thoughts about charging toward the basket and dunking the ball. But it wasn't a simple duck as he did it with a double-clutch.
Ling hung on the rim for a couple of seconds before landing in the area that became a quiet place all of a sudden.
"Eh? Did I surprise them by that? It is their first time seeing someone dunk? However, I need three more points."
"Hary, why don't you tell me, that man is a high flyer?" Mr. Den said in an astonished tone.
"What? This is also my first time seeing Ling play basketball. We are friends for almost 3 years, but he never tried to show me his skill at least one." Hary said while his eyes widened and trembled in shock.
The ball landed, and the last defender took the inbound and passed it to the closer teammates. Nevertheless, Ling was behind him and snatched the ball.
Bam!
The sound of the ball solid by hit by hand was perceived by their ears, moreover, the ball moved up so Ling jumped into it.
To begin, Ling positioned was in the right corner and 4 meters away from the basket. Two defenders were going at him.
'I showed them my inside play, so they will not expect this one."
He showed them that he was going to charge under the basket, so he can show off again. Though different things happened as after he dribbled once, he did double step back and shoot from the three-point line.
Splash!
The ball didn't touch the rim, it was all in the net.
How it could be?
Ling is an impressive basketball player?
Before he looked at Mr. Den his eyes and Isabella's eyes were met in the amid. Also, it was the place where Mr. Den was standing in, so it was inevitable.
'She's still watching me, yet, I already have 5 points, I'll out of this boring match.'
Ling walked closer to Mr. Den and made a gesture. "I'm out, Mr. Den, I already have 5 points so it means that I passed."
He sat on the bench where Hary was looking at him with a broad smile. "That's so cool, Ling! I never think that you are that good!"
"Wait, Ling! Back to the court! Continue to play!" Even though Mr. Den was not recovered from that scene. Still, he asked Ling to play as he wanted to see more of his talent.
He shook his head from afar along with a broad smile on his face. "No, Mr. Den. You have said that I need five points if you say 20 or more points it might be I'm still on the court."
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