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It was dark, all dark.

The arena, which used to be noisy in the past, was surprisingly quiet. It was not yet eight o'clock in the evening, and the sky outside was gloomy. The sun had just set, and the stars were looming in the dark blue sky, and the sky hadn't completely darkened yet.

There was dim light coming in through the windows in the corridor, but the arena, which was only separated from the corridor by a door, was completely dark.

There were no lights or windows in the arena, and the only outside light came from an open door.

Ke Zhiyan stood at the door, scanning the training hall with eyes that hadn't adapted to the darkness.It was dark and there was no human voice, and she couldn't even make out the outline of the ball table and the backboard.

The darkness watched her silently, and Ke Zhiyan's heart beat faster, as if he had seen a monster hidden in the darkness waiting for her to walk in step by step, slowly approaching the teeth, and swallowed her whole in one gulp. .

Ke Zhiyan hesitated a few times, his toes involuntarily twitching the ground.The switch in the arena is far away from the entrance, and it usually doesn’t feel that far away when there is light, but today Ke Zhiyan looked in the direction of the switch, but felt that there was an entire English Channel between her and the switch .

Today is a rest day, and the entire arena is on holiday. In addition, a trial match was held in the team a few days ago. Everyone's physical strength was exhausted by this game, and even their concentration was so distracted.They were still amateur club players, and they didn't have the qualities that professional athletes should have, so the coach took advantage of the situation and gave them a holiday, which would not end until tomorrow.

Ke Zhiyan hasn't touched a racket for two days since the game. She made it all the way from the group stage to the finals. The opponents are all her usual teammates. Everyone trains together every day without looking up and down. They are familiar with each other's balls. very.

It took her a lot of work to get to the finals.

However, the final made her lose her breath and couldn't swallow it for a long time.

Her opponent in the final was her best friend Lenna.From the first day when Ke Zhiyan picked up the racket, Lena, who was two years older than her, became her best friend. They trained and played together, even the school was the same. He only cares about winning or losing, and the opponent doesn't give face to anyone. Over time, he offended many people, and the people around him don't want to play with this freak.Ke Zhiyan didn't mind, she was just a loser, and if she lost on the court, she would only make small moves outside the court, and she was too lazy to play with those people, wasting her IQ.

Lenna was the only one who was willing to play with her after losing to her.She is very talented in table tennis, and she can be regarded as the top player in the team below U18. Sometimes even the adult players will lose to her, but she will be knocked down by Ke Zhiyan's swing.

Ke Zhiyan was very curious. From her experience, this kind of person who loses to her will definitely regard her as a freak like other defeated opponents, and then isolate her and slander her, just like Ke Lvyan satirized : How can children know how to restrain themselves.

Ke Luna didn't. She still smiled and shook hands with Ke Zhiyan according to the rules after losing the game. After losing the game in the morning, she mingled at the same table to eat together at noon. Ke Zhiyan also took all the tomatoes that Ke Zhiyan fiddled with on the edge of the plate and ate them. After the meal, he pulled Ke Zhiyan to compare his height, and smiled at Ke Zhiyan who was half a head shorter than her: "Look, picky eaters don't grow tall, right?"

Ke Zhiyan is 11 years old this year, and she will apply for secondary school in a few years. Ke Lvyan hopes that she can go to Westminster College. Like the whole family, she chooses Cambridge for university.Her parents have no requirements for her, as long as she goes to the school she likes. So far, Ke Zhiyan has no middle school that she likes very much. Even Westminster only pays attention to the application requirements for the sake of her sister's alma mater. and campus life.

In fact, Ke Zhiyan herself is not sure where she wants to go in the future, or what she wants to do.She dared not tell her family that Ke Lvyan already disliked her for being stupid, she was afraid that if she asked, she would really become the only idiot in the whole family, and Ke Lvyan didn't like idiots.

She went to ask Luna, Luna's grades in school were mediocre, neither high nor low. If this continues, she can apply for a public school that ranks high in the UK, but it is still far from a prestigious school, Ke Zhiyan Somehow, she felt that Lenna might not be able to go to the same middle school as her, but at least they would still play in the same arena.

Lena smiled and asked, "Do you think our golf skills will remain at the current level after we go to middle school?"

She curled her lips and smiled half-mockingly, as if she was laughing at Ke Zhiyan's naive thoughts, "By then, I will definitely have gone to the national team."

Luna's idol is Du Xuanya, the No. 1 singles player of the Chinese team. She won a gold medal belonging to the Chinese team in the Athens Olympics two years ago, and won the women's singles championship in the World Championships last year, completing the Grand Prix. Grand Slam is the second female Grand Slam winner in the world.

Luna wants to go to the national team to become a professional table tennis player, play against Du Xuanya in the international arena, and become the No.3 female Grand Slam winner.

Relying on her height advantage, she hooked Ke Zhiyan's shoulder with a light stretch of her arm, half-lowered her head and leaned into Ke Zhiyan's ear and said, "Kid, will you come cheer for me then?"

Ke Zhiyan jumped to the side with a jolt. Luna is 13 years old, and her body has already started to grow up. She knows a lot, and she is very comfortable making fun of Ke Zhiyan. After teasing, she smiled and watched Ke Zhiyan's reaction. Like a child, Lenna laughed.

Ke Zhiyan blushed and didn't know what the distance between them just now was to adults. She just felt that the other party was too close to her, even Ke Lvyan had never been this close.She looked at Lena, who was bent over with a smile, without saying a word, thinking in her heart: I will stand next to you on the podium at that time.

Luna has been working hard to become a professional athlete. Ke Zhiyan often serves as her training partner. After sweeping out the players in the half area on the field, he joins Luna in the final. The result of the match is probably that Ke Zhiyan wins by a few points.After the game, the two of them analyzed the game together, and Ke Zhiyan pointed to his scoring points to teach Luna how to deal with it.

In the spring of 2006, the World Youth Table Tennis Summer Camp was launched at the national team base in Zhengding, Hebei, China.This is an activity carried out by the Chinese National Table Tennis Team in order to deal with ITTF’s growing dominance of the Chinese team. As the name suggests, the “Wolf Raising Project” is for the Chinese team to send coaches to communicate and help train young athletes from various countries. As for the series of activities carried out, the future captain of the Japanese team Shirakawa Iso is a typical example of this plan.

For this summer camp, the Chinese team will not only send senior coaches and national teams to serve as sparring players, but there will also be teams from various provinces in China and national teams from various countries to pick seedlings. It's a half-step into the professional circle.

It's a pity that there is only one spot for Ke Zhiyan's team, and those who are eligible to sign up are mixed together for the promotion round. In the final, only Ke Zhiyan and Lunna are left in the final.

Luna looked very nervous today. In the past, she would fight with Ke Zhiyan on the stage together, but today she left Ke Zhiyan alone. The latter looked puzzled. Ke Zhiyan still whispered He used Chinese to call someone who was three or four steps away from him.

Ke Zhiyan taught Luna simple Chinese, she taught her own name and Luna's full name, but today Luna didn't seem to hear it, and entered the venue to start activities after tidying up.Ke Zhiyan also quickly put on a towel and entered the venue to get used to the table and table tennis with Luna.

She knew that Luna had actually heard it, but she just didn't want to talk to her on purpose. Ke Zhiyan didn't know why, maybe it was because this match was too important to Luna, but even so, couldn't she even have a match in Luna's heart? Why not?

Lena is too eager for the game, but she can't let go of her hands. She hesitates when receiving the ball, shrinks when handling spins, and big mistakes are not common, but she is a little too conservative.

Ke Zhiyan relies on brains to play. She has some talent, is calm and decisive on the court, and has a strong ability to draw inferences from one instance. Therefore, seeing Lunna playing like this, she immediately turned from defense to offense to increase her attack speed and strength.Lena was afraid of losing, so her first reaction was to be conservative and not make mistakes, but the more she thought about it, the easier it was for Ke Zhiyan to catch the loophole.

This was the worst match that Lunna had ever played. She didn't show her strengths and strengths at all, and she didn't even have room to play before she was knocked dizzy by Ke Zhiyan's blow after blow.Originally hailed as a rising star in the London Division, she served as a foil for others in front of the audience and the major coaches in the UK.

Ke Zhiyan shined brightly, and the photo of facing Lenna expressionlessly in the final game appeared in the newspapers of the second day.

She got a ticket to the World Youth Camp and got the nod from the then head coach of the British women's national team.

After winning the award, Ke Zhiyan was still in a daze. To be honest, she didn't have much idea about the number of places and the championship. She only knew that Lenna took it very seriously and worked hard for it for a long time. For her, these are not as important as winning a game.

But Lenna seemed to be angry. Since the final ball dropped, Lenna hadn't spoken a word to her, not even made eye contact.It took Ke Zhiyan the whole awards ceremony and post-match interviews and photos to roughly understand that Luna's behavior should be angry.

Ke Zhiyan thought about apologizing after the game, but Luna went home after the interview. Ke Zhiyan wasted a long time being caught as the champion. After the game, she went to Luna's house again, but Luna didn't see her at all. Ke Zhiyan had no choice but to write a letter and leave it in front of Luna's house to apologize.

Ke Zhiyan was at a loss. She knew that Luna was angry because she lost the competition and lost the spot, but she couldn't figure out why the other party was angry for so long. They were friends, weren't they?Lenna has also lost to her before, and she was fine before, but why did she get angry with her for so long this time?

The letter of apology was unfolded on the table, and it was printed on the letter paper as Lena's favorite Mickey. She spent half a month's pocket money to buy a genuine Disney notebook as an apology gift.Ke Zhiyan held the pen to his head thinking of a sentence, and accidentally glanced at the cabinet next to him from the corner of his eye.

That cabinet was full of her trophies and certificates.

Ke Zhiyan's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote down: Compared with me, you should be more suitable to participate in this summer camp activity, I will tell the coach, I voluntarily give up the quota, so you can go.We're still good friends, right?

Lunna wants the quota, Ke Zhiyan wants to win, as long as she gives up the quota, the two of them will still be good friends.

Ke Zhiyan filled the letter happily, and wrote his name in Chinese on the envelope seriously.

Ke Lvyan came in with his hands in his pockets, leaned against the open door and raised his head: "Mommy let me see your hands."

Ke Zhiyan hurriedly put the letter in the book next to him, smiled, and pointed his right wrist at Ke Lvyan, "I've stuttered, but my surroundings are a little itchy."

Ke Lvyan said "Oh", "As long as it doesn't hurt, I told you that you are not allowed to pick, be careful to leave scars in the future."

Ke Zhiyan smiled and nodded in response, and then Ke Lvyan raised his eyebrows and signaled to the table: "What did you hide just now? Do you believe it? How could someone like you like you? Which little boy is blind?"

No one knew about the cold war between her and Luna, Ke Zhiyan didn't dare to say it, fearing that Ke Luyan would laugh at him for being too bad-tempered and drive away his only good friend, so now he can only get up and drive Ke Luna away with a bad face Say: "You are out, I have to change clothes and go to the arena, will you accompany me?"

Ke Lvyan covered his stomach and waved his hands, his expression turned cold after being pushed out by Ke Zhiyan, "Go by yourself, anyway, you know the way."

This evening is the first time that Luna has talked to Ke Zhizhi since the finals. The venue is in the arena. Luna said that since everyone is on vacation, they can chat freely in the arena.

Ke Zhiyan carefully smoothed the note that Lenna threw in her garden and pressed it under her trophy. She regarded this appointment as a prelude to Lenna's forgiveness.

Now that Luna has taken the initiative to ask her out, as long as she sends her apology letter to Luna and then tells her that she has decided to withdraw from the summer camp activities, then they will be able to play together again.

Ke Zhiyan carefully carried the letter in her bosom and went to the arena. The sky darkened and there was no one in the arena. She stood at the gate of the arena. There was darkness in front of her eyes, and stars were faintly visible outside the window behind her.

Ke Zhiyan took two or three big breaths, but decided to go into the darkness to turn on the light, at least Luna, who was coming later, wouldn't be afraid.

Ke Zhiyan clenched the racket and walked towards the switch step by step according to the route in memory. He stretched out his hand and kept shaking, groping carefully on the wall. Ke Zhiyan swallowed, all the horror movies that Ke Lvyan threatened to watch now It happened in my mind at the same time, as if something was approaching her step by step in the darkness, and something seemed to be wriggling on the wall, just waiting to bite off her hand.

Finally, she came across a switch. "Bada", the first light was finally turned on in the venue, a table tennis table was illuminated, and there was light in the arena.

Lunna was standing by the only door. She didn't know how long she stood there, but Ke Zhiyan was stunned. Has Lunna been standing by her side since just now?Then why is she silent?

Luna smiled at Ke Zhiyan, she raised her hand to close the door, "click", it was the sound of the door being locked.

Luna approached her slowly step by step, the smile on his face was still there, Ke Zhiyan smiled at her, his eyes were bent down, "Lenna, good evening!"

Her voice hadn't changed yet, it was a clear and clear child's voice, and when she spoke, she was full of vitality. Ke Zhiyan stretched out the letter in his hand, "I wrote this to you, are you willing to forgive me?"

Luna got closer, but the smile on her face hadn't let go, Ke Zhiyan felt that something was wrong with Luna today, the smile on her face seemed to be painted on, it felt weird after a long time, and then Getting closer, it seemed to be sneering again.

Ke Zhiyan shuddered, she took a step back subconsciously, and Lena finally spoke, she said: "You freak!"

Ke Zhiyan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she suddenly felt pain in her right hand.