The person who came was none other than Li Mengyao.
Zhao Shiyan felt reassured and immediately stood up and said to Mengyao:
"Okay, okay, then please take us there."
After saying that, he didn't care about Zhang Han behind him, and pulled Li Mengyao and ran towards the counter quickly. Zhang Han shook his head secretly and followed.
After a while, Zhao Shiyan and Li Mengyao came back. Ling Zhi was surprised, why did they act like nothing was wrong? Why didn't they start the next game?
Li Mengyao smiled and explained:
"Shi Yan got a bye in the second group of winners, so she can rest for one round."
Bye? That’s really good luck.
After the first round, there will be 3 people in the winner group and the loser group in each group. The winner group will draw 2 people to play against each other, and the loser group will do the same. So there will be one person from each of the winning and losing groups in this round.
Bye.
After the end of this round, the loser of the two players in the winner's group will enter the loser's group, and the loser in the loser's group will be eliminated directly.
Ling Zhi was about to lament Zhao Shiyan's good luck, but Li Mengyao went on to say:
"Senior, my sister was in trouble just now, and you didn't say anything about helping her out."
"Ah? What's the trouble? Are you talking about that Zhang Han just now?"
"Yes, that Zhang Han obviously wants his sister's WeChat account, but her sister doesn't want to give it to him, so he's in a dilemma."
"That's it. He spoke very quietly at the time, and I didn't hear what he said. However, you probably didn't hear it either. The timing of your passing just now was too good. You guessed Zhang Han before he passed.
Did you say something?"
Li Mengyao covered her mouth and smiled, and continued:
"It's not just right. Mainly because my sister's game was the last to finish in the second group, so I just waited for a while."
"After the game, I saw Zhang Han holding his cell phone and saying something to his sister. Although I didn't guess what he was talking about, Shi Yan didn't even raise his head when he signed his name. He probably knew what he should do.
It must be something that embarrasses her."
Ling Zhi recalled the scene at that time. Because of the angle, he didn't see Zhang Han holding the phone. Although he noticed that Shi Yan was signing slowly, he just wanted to take a look when Li Mengyao came over.
Ling Zhi smiled apologetically at Zhao Shiyan, then turned to Li Mengyao and said:
"Since Shi Yan doesn't want to, then thank you for helping her out."
"Oh, it's okay, it's easy. Then I'll go and get busy! By the way, senior, the last game of the first group has already reached 4:4, and it's your turn to draw lots soon."
"I know, thank you."
After Li Mengyao left, Ling Zhi smiled apologetically at Zhao Shiyan again, scratched his head and explained:
"I'm sorry, Shi Yan, I didn't help you out just now. But...but if you don't want to add others to WeChat in the future, how...how can I tell? How...how can I help you?"
Well, it's a little too embarrassing to say it. He once again deeply understood the troubles girls have when they are popular, and these troubles are absolutely impossible to appear in his life.
"Oh, don't worry. I will handle this kind of thing myself in the future, but..."
Zhao Shiyan glanced at Ling Zhi carefully and said softly:
"It's just that in the future, can I use some... some weird excuses to reject others..."
Weird excuse? You can use any excuse, and you don’t need to ask for my permission. And what is weird...borrowing...
Ling Zhi came to his senses and remembered the scene during the last 5-point challenge. His face turned slightly red and he hurriedly said:
"Okay, okay, as long as it's convenient for you, any excuse will do, hahaha..."
Ling Zhi felt like a fool, but there was nothing he could do. He could only laugh to cover up his embarrassment.
Fortunately, Zhao Shiyan didn't care. After hearing his agreement, he laughed "hehe" and prepared to take Ling Zhi to another table to watch the game.
At this time, Li Mengyao came over to remind Ling Zhi that the first group of games was over and asked him to go over and draw lots.
Ling Zhi walked to the front desk and followed Li Mengyao's guidance to draw a number with a check mark on it. He didn't know what it meant.
Li Mengyao's expression changed, and she said to Ling Zhi awkwardly:
"Well, Ling Zhi, you are not very lucky. What you drew this time is..."
Ling Zhi had a bad premonition. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at Coach Xingchen who was talking to others next to him. When he saw that he was also holding a check mark in his hand, he suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart: What should come, must come!
…
Zhao Shiyan sat aside and watched coaches Ling Zhi and Xingchen each take out their own clubs, with a look of worry on their faces.
Coach Xingchen still had the same smiling expression. While applying some powder, he said to Ling Zhi:
"You go ahead."
Ling Zhi was a little nervous, so he picked up the white ball and prepared to tee off without making any concessions to coach Xingchen.
After the first game kicked off, Ling Zhi hit the ball hard, but unfortunately no ball went in. Ling Zhi stepped aside and waited to see the performance of coach Xingchen.
Although he played English once with coach Xingchen, he clearly felt that he didn't play well. So Lingzhi was looking forward to it and wanted to know how strong he was with all his strength.
I saw Coach Xingchen applying powder while observing the game.
Because Lingzhi had a good tee shot, there were many target balls to choose from. Lingzhi originally thought he would choose a simple full-color ball in the pocket, but unexpectedly he took the lead and chose a patterned top pocket with a slightly larger angle.
After taking careful aim, Coach Xingchen climbed up the pole and hit the ball with a different color. The white ball hit the two bins and stopped in the middle of the table. He walked to the upper half of the table and found a ball with a different color.
Then he collected the colored balls one by one from top to bottom, and finally scored the black eight, achieving a beautiful clear shot and winning the first game.
In Chinese-style games, if you kick off the ball and score a goal, and then clear the table with one shot, it is called a clearing. If you do not score a goal on the kicking off, and the opponent clears the table with one shot, it is called a clearing.
In Chinese-style professional competitions, we can often see two gods fighting one after another after clearing or clearing each other. It can be said that their strength is terrifying.
Now Coach Xingchen has achieved a clean shot as soon as he comes up, which puts a lot of pressure on Lingzhi.
It's not that Ling Zhi has never completed a clearing or catching a clearing. In fact, every time he comes to the ball room with Zhao Shiyan to practice, he can basically clear the table with 1 or 2 strokes. Zhao Shiyan will occasionally clear the table.
But in terms of clearing rate, if Lingzhi can clear 1 or 2 sets out of 10 sets, then coach Xingchen, as a professional player, can probably clear more than 5 sets.
Thinking of this, Ling Zhi secretly raised the coach's threat level by another level in his mind, thinking that he would never be given more than two good opportunities in one round.
However, things didn't work out as expected. In the second game, coach Xingchen kicked off the ball and scored, clearing the ball directly without giving Lingzhi a chance to get started. Some of the players watching on the sidelines also applauded this wonderful clearing shot.
"The coach is great!"
"This accuracy is unbelievable, who has a chance of winning against you!"
Listening to the comments of the people around him, Ling Zhi felt bitter in his heart. He glanced at Zhao Shiyan and met Zhao Shiyan's eyes.
Zhao Shiyan smiled at him, clenched his fists and raised his arms, secretly cheering him on. Ling Zhi felt relieved and nodded to her with a smile.
In the third game, Lexus kicked off.
This time, he was very lucky, and a ball fell into the pocket. Ling Zhi walked around the table and observed the shape of the ball. He made up his mind and took away 3 simple balls of different colors first. Seeing that there were no good balls, he thought about it and put them away.
When a ball near the middle pocket is opened, place the white ball in the open upper half of the table, but not close to the top.
Coach Xingchen didn't seem to take it seriously. He stood in front of the top bank, thought for a moment, then lay down and aimed at a long platform in the lower half of the platform. He used his low stick and hit the target ball. The white ball was fixed at the original target ball position.
, did not move at all.
Ling Zhi frowned, still a little careless.
The defensive idea of this shot is good, but the shortcoming is that the force is not controlled well to let the white ball stick to the bank, so that the coach still has room to make a low shot.
In defensive battles, it is a common strategy to control the white ball near the bank. In this way, firstly, the opponent's hand is uncomfortable and the accuracy is affected; secondly, the opponent can only hit high shots, so even if the opponent scores, the positioning will be affected.
Very difficult.
If Lingzhi had stuck the white ball on the top bank of the shot just now, the coach would never play long billiards in a straight line, because then the white ball would be easily affected by the high stick and fall directly into the pocket.
Now, the coach can use a low shot to control the white ball in the middle of the table, and the remaining full-color balls are distributed around the white ball, which is extremely beneficial to him.
After that, the coach only gave Lingzhi one chance to play and won the game.
Falling behind 0:3, Ling Zhi couldn't help but feel a little impatient, but the coach didn't give him much chance to get started, so he had no good solution, so he could only stare.
In the fourth game, the coach kicked off the ball. The ball was quite loose, but the black eight stopped near the mouth of the pocket, which cast a shadow on the way the two players cleared the table in this game.
According to the rules, in addition to kick-off, if you score black eight before clearing your own ball, you will be awarded a loss directly.
Coach Xingchen seemed to be at ease and didn't pay too much attention to Heiba's position.
But he was unlucky. After fighting with Ling Zhi, he accidentally bumped into Black Eight during a subsequent move, giving Ling Zhi a round.
Although he won a game, Ling Zhi's mentality did not relax at all. The chance to play the coach was pretty good, and he cleared a lot of stones. If he hadn't been unlucky, he would have won with a high probability.
In the fifth game, Lingzhi kicked off. After a fight, it was the coach's turn to place the white ball in the empty upper half of the table.
At this time, the shape of the ball in the lower half of the table is complicated, and the colored balls and the full-color balls interact with each other. There is no chance of long-term attack at all, and there are almost no routes to control the white ball to the upper half of the table again, and the situation is in a deadlock.
There was no way to attack, and no way to defend. Ling Zhi thought for a moment and could only do the next best thing. He wanted to gently push his own color ball in the middle of the table and stop the white ball at a relatively safe landing point in the bottom bank.
Although stopping there will leave a middle pocket for the coach, it is still a bit difficult.
However, because the landing point he chose was too extreme, he could not hit it too thick to prevent the white ball from falling into the bag, nor too thin to prevent the white ball from bouncing too hard. As a result, after hitting the colored ball, the remaining power of the white ball was too much.
It was light and did not touch the bottom bank, giving the coach a free ball.
This foul was disastrous. The coach pursued the victory and won the game in the next two shots, leading 4:1.