Regarding Jin Zhen's situation, Ling Zhi didn't mean to look down on him. After all, there are many reasons why he can't play well. Economic, mental, and technical problems. Any problem will have a profound impact on the players.
Besides, Jin Zhen was younger than me more than ten years ago, so it would be unfair for him to criticize him harshly at that time.
Moreover, Lingzhi is not familiar with Jin Zhen's experience in the past ten years, so it is difficult to comment on his practice of playing exhibition games.
But just because Jin Zhen made things difficult for him many times, Ling Zhi still had no good impression of him.
Do you want to admit defeat directly? How is that possible?
However, if you don’t admit defeat, Lexus still has to admit one fact:
Jin Zhen is a professional player!
Although his strength is not as good as the famous snooker players in the world, he is still considered to be among the first-class players in China.
Lingzhi also took a look at Jin Zhen's game results before. He has never lost a game since entering the elite group!
It seems that he does have two skills, so we must pay attention to him tactically!
So Lingzhi started to fiddle with his mobile phone again, trying to find Jin Zhen's competition videos in previous years and understand Jin Zhen's competition style.
Since it was quite a while ago, Lingzhi searched for a while but found no match for Jin Zhen!
Yes, speaking of it, Jin Zhen was also a short-lived figure at that time. No one was very familiar with him, so no website would deliberately save his game videos.
After searching for another long time, he still couldn't find it. Just when Lingzhi was feeling worried, he suddenly felt a puff of air blowing past his face. He quickly turned around and saw Shi Yulu looking at him with a smile. He suddenly became angry.
Come from one place:
"You girl walk silently, and you don't even make a sound when you sit next to me."
"squeak......"
Ling Zhi's head was suddenly full of black lines, and he said angrily to Shi Yulu:
"Didn't you finish the competition and advance? Why are you still here and haven't left yet?"
Shi Yulu rolled her eyes at Ling Zhi, stuck out her tongue, and said:
"Senior brother, didn't you leave too? You still have the nerve to tell me? Then why didn't you leave?"
"I......"
Ling Zhi glanced at Li Mengyao, turned around, and didn't know how to explain it for a while.
Shi Yulu Bingxue was smart, looked at Ling Zhi's eyes, and said with a smile:
"Oh... you are accompanying that sister, right? Who is that sister to you? Is she your girlfriend?"
"What nonsense are you talking about! I have a girlfriend. That girl over there is my girlfriend and I's most important friend. Please don't talk nonsense like that just now."
"Haha, I know, I know. By the way, Senior Brother Lingzhi, what were you looking for just now? Are you looking for the game video of senior Jin Zhen?"
Ling Zhi thought that she had just been sitting next to him and must have seen what he was looking for, so he didn't show any pretense and nodded.
"Hehe, I know, couldn't you just ask me directly?"
"Oh? Are you familiar with Jin Zhen? I really didn't see that."
"I'm not familiar with him! Senior Jin Zhen is not an academic and has never learned football from the coach, so I haven't met him a few times. But the coach has explained his game videos to me a few times before, so I reluctantly
impression."
So Shi Yulu began to explain to Ling Zhi on his own. Ling Zhi naturally wanted to ask for more information about Jin Zhen, and of course he wanted to know more about it, so he sat next to Shi Yulu and listened to her quietly.
In general, from Shi Yulu’s words, Lexus can summarize the following points:
1. Jin Zhen’s playing style is considered to be fast, and his accuracy is acceptable, but his movement is not precise, and he often breaks the connecting rod without realizing it.
2. Jin Zhen's defensive ability is not good, his thinking is rough, and he often leaves easy or difficult opportunities for his opponents. Among professional players with so many strong players, his technical shortcomings are fatal.
3. Jin Zhen's mentality is not good, so he is suitable for hitting downwind balls. Headwind balls are often defeated, and it is not uncommon for him to be beaten several to 0 by his opponents.
So that's it, Ling Zhi nodded thoughtfully. Based on the last duel with Jin Zhen in Xingyu, he believed that what Shi Yulu said was right.
Finally, Shi Yulu added:
"By the way, these are what the coach told me. I didn't mean to say bad things about senior Jin Zhen behind his back. Senior brother, please don't get me wrong."
Ling Zhi smiled and said:
"I know, I know! You are a very innocent girl. At first glance, you are not the type to speak ill of others behind their backs."
"Hey, senior brother, you know a lot about it."
"Then who do you think is better between you and Jin Zhen?"
Originally Ling Zhi just asked casually, but unexpectedly Shi Yulu became shy at this time, and he didn't know what happened.
"Huh? Did I say something wrong?"
"Uh, no. I just... just don't want to compare with senior Jin Zhen."
Ling Zhi wanted to ask directly why, but seeing Shi Yulu's hesitation, he didn't ask. Maybe he would touch some of her little secrets by asking?
But just when Ling Zhi wanted to change the topic, Shi Yulu took the initiative to say it:
"Because the coach used senior Jin Zhen's playing style as a negative example to guide me, so compared with him, I always feel a little...somewhat..."
"There's a bit of a price drop, right."
Shi Yulu was a little surprised. She looked at Ling Zhi with wide eyes and said nothing.
Ling Zhi understood in his heart and did not continue talking. He thought to himself that this girl still had a little arrogance in her heart.
"Okay, no matter what, thank you today for letting me know a lot about Jin Zhen."
"Hehe, then I wish you, senior brother, good luck in your competition tomorrow!"
"Ah, you too."
As a result, Lexus began to carefully watch the national group competition in front of him.
Among the 48 people who won the national group yesterday, the organizing committee once again selected 16 seed players, so today's first round is for the other 32 players, but until now, it has basically ended.
What is now going on is the duel between the winning 16 players and the 16 seeded players selected today. The final 16 winning players will compete with the 16 seeded players selected yesterday until the top 8 are selected.
So until now, the competition in the national group has begun to have some quality. Many people can shoot some decent single strokes, but some people even Lingzhi may not be able to beat them.
After a while, Ling Zhi felt something was wrong. He turned around suddenly and found that Shi Yulu hadn't left yet.
"Um, what are you still doing here? Why don't you go back?"
Shi Yulu pouted and said:
"You can sit here, but I can't?"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, young lady, you can do whatever you want."
"Haha, but speaking of it, that sister just now was looking back at you from time to time. Didn't you notice? Senior brother, I have some doubts. Is she really not your girlfriend?"
"Go, go, what are you kidding about?"
"Hehe, then senior brother, you can always tell me the story between the three of you. This will also prevent me from guessing."
Ling Zhi was a little helpless, but Shi Yulu was right. In order to prevent her from asking endless questions, he had to tell a part of the story about how he and Zhao Shiyan met Li Mengyao. He only gave a general outline and did not tell the details to avoid this girl.
From now on, spread the word everywhere.
In this way, Ling Zhi spent an hour chatting with this girl.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Li Mengyao changed shifts with others, and the three of them even went out to have a meal together. Shi Yulu also officially met Li Mengyao.
However, at the dinner table, Shi Yulu behaved very well and did not tease them about whether they were lovers. Ling Zhi felt very pleased. It was probably Li Mengyao's life experience that made Shi Yulu feel something.
After that, Shi Yulu said goodbye to the two of them, and Ling Zhi brought Li Mengyao and Zhao Shiyan, who had just gotten off work, to join them and return to school together.
...
The next day, Monday, one o'clock in the afternoon.
Ling Zhi came to the Pioneer Billiards Club again, but this time, Zhao Shiyan also came with him.
Not to mention that Zhao Shiyan no longer needs to show his face in the laboratory. In fact, it doesn't even matter whether Ling Zhi goes or not.
Because Wang Haibo, Lingzhi's instructor, is usually very busy and basically doesn't care about them, so whether or not he goes to the laboratory to see the students themselves, as long as you show the scientific research progress at critical times, that's fine.
But having said that, Ling Zhi basically goes there every day. After all, the learning atmosphere in the laboratory is still relatively good. It's just that today we made it to the top four of the Citizen Cup, so it's okay to miss a little while.
Ling Zhi convinced himself in an instant that it would only be half a day, just half a day.
Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan sat side by side and shared with her the battle situation of the previous two days. Zhao Shiyan listened with interest while looking at Li Mengyao's busy figure in the distance.
It is said that today Xie Yixin asked Li Mengyao to personally referee a certain table match in the national group. This time the referee will no longer simply throw the ball, but serve from beginning to end.
Including yarding the ball, picking up the ball, resetting, reporting single strokes, etc., all must be done carefully. This is an excellent training opportunity for her.
After all, there are many third-level referees who came to practice in this competition, but only a few people, including Li Mengyao, could get this kind of training opportunity, so she seemed very excited on the way here today, but of course, she was also very nervous.
Fortunately, Zhao Shiyan also came here today, and with good sisters supporting her, Li Mengyao felt much less nervous.
After a while, Shi Yulu took the initiative to come to Ling Zhi, looked at Zhao Shiyan and said with a smile:
"You must be Sister Zhao Shiyan, hello, my name is Shi Yulu, I am Ling Zhi's junior sister."
"Oh, it's sister Yulu. Lingzhi mentioned you to me. You also learned football from coach Xingchen, right."
"Yes, yes..."
The two girls chatted together like they knew each other, and Ling Zhi became an outsider.
But this state did not last long, because Jin Zhen quickly came to Ling Zhi's side.
Although Ling Zhi wanted to ignore him, looking at the guy's appearance, it seemed that he didn't intend to let him go easily:
"Boy, are you still not going to admit defeat?"
"Admit defeat? Why should you admit defeat? Do you deserve it?"
To Ling Zhi's surprise, before he could speak, Zhao Shiyan had already refuted Jin Zhen!
Jin Zhen looked at her, chuckled and said:
"You are...oh, I remember, you are the wild girl from the last time we were in Xingyu, right? The one who was standing next to this boy at that time?"
"Senior Jin Zhen, please be more careful in what you say. Do you really think that I have no temper at all?"
"Haha, okay, okay, I'll see you at the table later. I hope you can last a few more games."
Looking at Jin Zhen's leaving figure, Zhao Shiyan crossed his arms and said angrily:
"This guy is so arrogant just because he has been to the Eagle Country to play. He is really shameless!"
But then Zhao Shiyan began to worry about Ling Zhi again:
"That being said, Ling Zhi, he should still be very strong. Are you sure?"
Ling Zhi smiled and comforted her:
"Yes, don't worry, even if you lose, it won't be too ugly."
"Oh, all right."
Zhao Shiyan naturally knew Jin Zhen's strength. No matter how bad he was, he was still at a professional level, so she naturally wouldn't expect Ling Zhi to win the game.
But she still hopes that Ling Zhi can beat Jin Zhen a few more games, otherwise wouldn't that guy become more and more arrogant?
After a while, the game officially started.
After the guess was over, it was determined that Jin Zhen was the first to kick off, but what Lingzhi didn't expect was that before kicking off, Jin Zhen suddenly said something like this to him:
"Boy, let me discuss something with you. In this game, how about we only focus on offense and not defense?"