zero second lore

Chapter 238 Pearl Tower

After the match between Lizhong and Ninth Middle School, the victorious Lizhong players celebrated a little in the locker room, then changed their clothes and went to the sidelines to wait for the start of the next game.

For the current Lizhong players, a victory in a group match in East China no longer excites them. Since they won the championship in the city competition, everyone has set higher goals.

Therefore, the players quickly got out of the mood of victory and turned their attention to the next game, the match between Huifu and Xuhui Model.

Previously, the understanding of these two teams only existed in videos and information introductions. Now going to the sidelines to watch their games in person is the best way to get to know them.

After Lu Yuan put on his sportswear, he hummed a messy tune while walking, buzzing like a fly~buzzing, annoyed the buzzing of Bai Ye, and said angrily: "You never stop! Blind Humph what!"

Lu Yuan stopped humming, and replied, "Yue opera."

Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What did you say?"

"Shaoxing opera."

Lu Yuan replied very seriously, and started humming again after finishing speaking, Bai Ye hurriedly interrupted him, saying: "If you continue humming indiscriminately, I will beat you to death, regardless of Yue opera and Beijing opera, you are not allowed to hum."

Lu Yuan felt very wronged, why can't he hum a Yue opera?

When he was a child on vacation, he often lived at his grandmother's house, who had an elderly audio-visual player, which was actually a super-sized MP4 player, which played all kinds of divine comedies and local operas all day long.

Grandma’s favorite thing to listen to is Yue opera. When Lu Yuan was young, he didn’t have a mobile phone to play. When grandma was threshing grain and drying rice in the big yard, she let Lu Yuan hold this player and sit on a small stool to play Yue opera. Over time, these babbling Lu Yuan's mind was poured into his tunes, and as long as he was in a particularly good mood, it was easy to leak out when he was happy.

Bai Ye refused to sing, so Lu Yuan had no choice but to keep his mouth shut. At this time, Wang Yourong poked Lu Yuan behind him, and asked in a low voice, "Lu Yuan, did you just hum "Pearl Tower"?"

When Lu Yuan heard it, he nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, it's the Pearl Tower, have you heard of it?"

Wang Yourong also nodded and said: "My grandma used to like to listen to it, so I followed it up a little... Well, it's quite nice."

"Ha, I actually don't think it sounds good. It's just that after listening to it too much, it's easy to hum it, and I'm used to it. How about I hum a part for you."

Seeing that the two were about to start a fan exchange meeting, Bai Ye immediately warned the two of them, especially Lu Yuan, if another tone popped out of his mouth, he would drain his red envelopes at night.

Lu Yuan immediately shut up, and at this time everyone came to the stands, because there are so many people watching the game today, there are no seats in the stands, everyone can only stand in the passageway, so as not to block others.

The two sides are warming up on the field. Xuhui Model Middle School is wearing a golden jersey with a black collar, which looks imposing; while Huifu Middle School is wearing an ordinary red jersey, which is simple and simple without too many fancy styles.

These are two former super teams in East China, both of which are star schools that have won the national championship, and with the foreshadowing of the previous exciting game, the atmosphere of this game is even stronger.

Lu Yuan suppressed the desire to sing in his heart, took out his mobile phone, and boarded Goupu to see if there were related popular science posts or live posts in the NHBA section.

As soon as he opened the post, he saw that the match between Lizhong and No. [-] Middle School in East China had already started. It seemed that some people were watching the match, and they posted very quickly after the match.

However, after Lu Yuan wasn't interested in watching the game, his attention was drawn away by another live post. The title was "Xuhui Pearl Tower vs. Huifu Glass Tower. Giant towers collide. Who is the highest peak in East China!"

What attracted Lu Yuan was of course the "Pearl Tower". Just now he was still humming this scene, when he saw this word on the page, he thought it was quite fantastic.However, he quickly realized that this Pearl Tower was not a drama, but the nickname of a Xuhui model player, and he must be a core player.

Lu Yuan thought, it must be the unibrow.

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"Pearl Tower", one of the twin towers of Xuhui Model Middle School, is Wang Yao. This nickname has two meanings. One is that Wang Yao is tall, but his playing skills are gorgeous and shining like pearls; there is another reason, It was when he was in junior high school that the color of the team's jersey was pearl white, so he won the title of Pearl Tower.

In Shanghai, this Pearl Tower is an absolute star. Not only did he appear on the promotional poster of the competition in East China, he was printed on a huge portrait and hung in front of the gymnasium, and he also accepted the endorsement of a sports equipment before the competition—— Black knee pads for both legs.

This is the protective gear sponsored by the sports company, and the company logo can be clearly seen on it. As long as he goes further with Xuhui Model, the company's exposure will be higher.

This is allowed in the NHBA, but there are strict access conditions, and the company is not allowed to directly contact players, it must be approved by the NHBA committee, and there are strict restrictions on advertising content and methods.

Shanghai is a big market, larger than BJ's in terms of scale and quality. This is the hometown of Yao Ming, an international metropolis, and basketball should have greater achievements.

Xuhui's model is undoubtedly the pride of Shanghai basketball, but it is only a national championship, and it can't even compare with Changsha Deming Middle School, let alone Huaqing High School.

So this time, the entire Shanghai basketball community has great expectations for Xu Hui's role model. Although they have not yet entered the real maturity stage in terms of player age, Wang Yao and Wang Shun are both sophomores in high school, and Wang Yu is only a freshman in high school. That's when they are stronger.

But it seemed that everyone couldn't wait any longer, because Xuhui Fanfan's performance in the district and city level competitions was really eye-catching, and their double tower style of play can be said to be devastating.

No matter how basketball develops, a tall and strong inside line will always give people a huge shock, let alone two.

The warm-up of the two sides was over, and the game was about to start. The spectators who had just left their seats to go to the bathroom and smoke a cigarette returned to their seats one after another. The stadium was noisy and lively.

At this time, the starting lineups of both sides came to the field, and the center stood in the middle circle.

Lu Yuan saw that Xu Hui's model center forward had unbrowed eyebrows, and the center forward from Huifu Middle School, a tall and strong black man, why didn't he see him when he was warming up to the field yesterday?

"Wow, who is this red-clothed center forward? He's so strong, it just looks...is he a high school student?"

Lu Yuan once again had doubts about the age of the players on the court. Since he started playing, Lu Yuan found that many players on the basketball court did not look like high school students, and all of them looked like they were in their early 20s, such as Lin Xin.

And the center of Huifu Middle School is even more terrifying. Standing on the court, he feels similar to the father of other players. He looks up at the basketball that the referee is about to throw up. The wrinkled forehead lines can kill a cockroach.

Hearing Lu Yuan's question, Bai Ye sighed, thinking that this kid will be beaten to death by his opponent one day in future matches.However, Xie Gezhi, the center of Huifu Middle School, is indeed a person who is often suspected of changing his age in the NHBA. He is actually only 17 years old this year, but he looks like he is 26 years old or even older.

If it weren't for the NHBA's strict bone age test, Huifu Middle School would probably be complained by opponents for using overage players in every game.

Xie Gezhi looks old-fashioned, but in terms of reputation, he was once louder than Wang Yao. He was known as Mao Zhiyuan's successor in Huifu, and he wanted to lead Huifu back to the top.

But last year, he suffered a serious ankle injury, and this year, because of the injury, Huifu lost the city-level championship. Otherwise, they would definitely be the seeded team and would not be assigned to the host early.

During the adaptive training yesterday, Xie Gezhi went back to the locker room early for physical therapy, so Lu Yuan didn't see him.

And because of the frequent injuries, Xie Gezhi was given the title of "Glass Tower".

Bai Ye told Lu Yuan the whole story, and Lu Yuan suddenly realized, thinking that it was called the glass tower because it was easier to get hurt, not because of other reasons, otherwise it would be disgusting to think about it.

Lu Yuan quickly cut off his bad thoughts, and the game on the court had already started.

Xie Gezhi and Wang Yao jumped the ball. Wang Yao was better than Lu Yuan in touching the height. He was the first to touch the ball, which was owned by Xuhui Model Middle School.

Point guard Wang Yu got the ball and rushed forward with the ball without any pause.

It seemed like a point guard who wasn't going to run the offense or pass the ball, but went straight to the basket.

As a result, facing two defenders from Huifu Middle School, he forced a layup and missed.

But Wang Yao grabbed the offensive rebound from behind, made a tip-up and scored the first point of the game.

Wang Yao seemed to be used to his brother's mindless assault, so he just patted Wang Yu on the head and said, "Don't be so anxious next time."

Wang Yu nodded. My brother has said this to him countless times, but he still can't do it. How can the two brothers rush up to grab the offensive rebound every time, and then succeed in the second attack?

Rather than passing the ball strenuously, this method seems to be more suitable for Wang Yu's style of play.

But facing Huifu today, everything will not be so simple.

(End of this chapter)