Ping Pong Life

Chapter 147 The Legendary Ceiling

The third game kicked off amid the extreme noise outside the court and the extreme silence inside the court.

Huaping players have fought a lot of civil wars in international competitions over the years, and it is almost normal for domestic players to meet in the finals. Therefore, when the schedule enters the final stage, not only the audience relaxes, but even the players themselves relax.

Because the vast majority of players didn't think of taking everything, they basically relaxed at least three points after completing the tasks assigned by Huaping.

The rest is a team battle, which has a bit of a "friendship first competition second" flavor.

The finals of this civil war mode are usually very good to watch, because the two sides of the game will play very "show", similar to exhibition games, especially some unimportant games, they will tacitly show the tricks in the usual training, causing the stands A lot of applause can be regarded as a contribution to the promotion of table tennis, and by the way, I can get some top ten ball highlights for myself.

But today's game was played very seriously, even more serious than foreign wars.

Sun Tianlong wants the winner to take all, and Luo Jiu wants to grab the food.

The small Asian Cup, held once a year, is known in the industry as an international competition, but today's final was played like an Olympic final.

The two sides of the game did not use any slightly fancy skills, they played extremely simple, and all actions made sense.

But even if they try to play as simple as possible and reach the level of ingenuity and clumsiness, in the eyes of the audience, this game is still extremely exciting.

Because the speed, strength and rotation of the ball when flying in the air cannot be faked, the various changes of the ball in the macro sense cannot be faked, and those incredible arcs cannot be faked.

In this game, the Dragon team served first, and the Dragon team still chose to serve with a short backspin.

But after Luo Jiu made a short swing, the Dragon team directly challenged.

Luo Jiu's pendulum is almost perfect and impeccable, so the dragon team's challenge is also hell-level difficulty.

But he managed to flick the ball over.

Luo Jiu immediately fell into the disadvantaged position and was forced to retreat, forcing the high-hanging loop.

The Dragon team rushed directly.

Luo Jiu retreated and pulled again.

The Dragon team rushed again.

Luo Jiu still pulled the ball over, but with extreme reluctance.

So the dragon team exploded for the third time and charged Luo Jiu to death.

The score is 1:0.

The Dragons serve again, this time with a reverse spin.

What Luo Jiu is most afraid of is spinning. He directly rubs a left-spinning ball.

The ball is still impeccable, and if there is a downside, it's that it's not short enough.

So the dragon team went straight to the fight again, still an active attack on the hell-level difficulty, and still succeeded in the fight.

Luo Jiu fell into the passive position again, and after forcibly pulling back two rebounds, he also resorted to a strange move. He stepped back directly, turned his wrist over, and slashed a long ball with the back of the racket.

This ball is almost exactly the same as the raw rubber chip that Wang Chao used when he played Ma Angxing. They both use inappropriate rubber to chip a ball that is theoretically meaningless.

Like Wang Chao, he sliced ​​the ball perfectly, floating and weird, and no one was sure what was going on with the ball.

This cut made the audience in the surrounding seats gasp in amazement. The audience may not know that this is an unreasonable raw rubber cut, but at least they can feel that this rhythm change from extremely fast to extremely slow is extremely pleasing to the eye. Visual effect.

This is vaguely considered a half-super ball.

If the luck of this ball is better, wipe the side and the net, it will be a proper super ball.

But the Dragons are not Maang Star.

Without hesitation, he made another explosive charge, directly killing the ball that was not spinning at all.

2:0, the Dragons continued to score.

When the scoreboard turned another page, many people understood it.

For example, Qin Huachang and Wang Chao in front of the TV.

For example, He Jingping who watched the game live.

For example, Cai Guodong, Wang Lu, Zhu Zeshi and others who watched the live broadcast in the imperial capital.

They know what the Dragons are doing.

The dragon team is actively fighting!

This person standing at the top of the table tennis pyramid has no arrogance in his heart, and absolutely no sense of face. All his ideas and tactics are only for winning the game.

When he realized that he was behind, he did not hesitate to put himself in the position of the weak and began to charge against the "strong".

The most effective way for the weak to challenge the strong is to fight regardless of the cost.

Just as he counterattacked Lin Zijun in the fifth round of the final of the Kangaroo National Tournament, now he counterattacked Luo Jiu.

He acquiesced that today's Luo Jiu was stronger than him.

The game continued in silence.

Both of them are true masters of tactics. In many games that year, they also used a lot of delaying tactics and psychological tactics.

But today, the two played extremely fast, serving the ball as soon as they got it, without any delay.

This situation is very similar to Wang Chao beating Zhu Ding.

This is also a kind of competition, a kind of game.

Whoever hesitates loses momentum.

On the field, momentum is often more important than technique.

After another 3 minutes, the score jumped to 7:2 at an extremely fast speed, and the Dragons led by a big score.

Luo Jiu wiped the hot sweat off his forehead with his hand, and rubbed his sweat-soaked palm against the sportswear twice.

In the few minutes just now, he was a little confused.

How many years he has been in Huaping, and how many years he has observed Sun Tianlong.

Although his record has been ups and downs over the years and has been extremely unstable, he has always felt that he knows Sun Tianlong's strength like the back of his hand.

Otherwise, how could he say such big things when he called Wang Chao?
But now he realizes he was wrong.

It turns out that the dragon team still has such a fierce side.

In this round, the dragon team changed from the rigorous, scientific and agile style of play in the past, and played like a wild beast. As long as they find the slightest gap, they will pounce fiercely and bite off a piece of meat.

The Dragon team is very concerned about the turnover rate when playing. He is the best player in mathematics in the Huaping team. He has perfectly inherited the philosophy of his teacher Qin Huachang, using data to assist in playing, and has always only done the most cost-effective moves.

But now the Dragons are starting to be unreasonable.

He hit a lot of balls in a row, each of which was almost impossible to hit.

But the dragon team all finished.

He told Luo Jiu with facts: It's not that I don't know how to play violent games, I just don't want to play violent games, because there are too many chances, which will reduce my chances of winning.

But when you push me into a hurry, I will mess around too!

Luo Jiu worked hard to adjust his mentality, his feet bounced slightly on the ground, kept his body active, squatted down, and waited for the next serve of the Solitaire team.

The dragon team steals the leader.

Luo Jiu successfully predicted and attacked sideways.

This is an extremely rare opportunity to take the initiative.

But as soon as he pulled the ball over, Long Team jumped up, his upper body was almost pressed against the table, his arms swung forward, and the racket went up to meet the ball just as it landed on the table.

This ball is even more unreasonable.

You must know that the Dragon Team is serving a long ball, and Luo Jiula is also serving a long ball. This ball must be released anyway. What the Dragon Team should really do is to take a step back and pull the long ball sideways.

But the Dragons prefer to hit the uphill shot, which is at least twice as difficult, which is equivalent to forcing a stalemate ball into an in-court pick.

At this moment, Luo Jiu frantically backed away, waiting to catch the ball, but the Dragon team slammed the ball over, and it hit the small triangle on the left side of the net, which Luo Jiu hadn't expected.

Under the premise that it was already incredibly difficult, the Dragon team actually came up with an extreme line change.

The ball was killed directly and the score became 8:2.

Luo Jiu was also a little bit unable to be beaten.

Afterwards, the battle started again, and Luo Jiu's state obviously dropped a bit. It had weakened from the most vigorous place in the previous two rounds, showing a clear passivity in the situation.

After another 2 minutes, Sun Tianlong pulled back a round at 11:4.

At this point, Qin Huachang finally had a bright face, looked back at Wang Chao, and said with a smile, "How is it?"

Wang Chao could only admire: "Strong!"

Qin Huachang started Versailles: "Actually, Luo Jiu has played very well. Over the years, I have rarely seen Sun Tianlong forced out of this state. You know, this state is rare. He has been playing for many years. I have touched this state before, but I have never been able to stabilize my technology at this state. Only at critical moments, when I am pushed and have a strong enough belief in winning, can I occasionally reach this state."

Wang Chao nodded.

He knew that Qin Huachang's words were not pretending.

Although no one knows what the ultimate state of table tennis is, the state that Qin Huachang mentioned and the state that Sun Tianlong showed at this time, Wang Chao has comprehended in his previous life.

The grand slam disciple in his previous life also briefly reached this state.

It was a miraculous state of omnipotence on the table, seeing any ball, feeling that it could be handled in any way.

For example, those completely unreasonable picks and counters that Sun Tianlong just showed, seem to violate the rules of the ball, but in fact they have reached the limit in countless details, which is actually reasonable.

It's just that this kind of rationality is a special case among special cases, and even people like Qin Huachang may not be able to fully understand it, let alone all living beings.

Wang Chao knew better that what Luo Jiu boasted when he called him earlier should be this realm.

They are all peerless figures who have touched the real ceiling.

But Luo Jiu is obviously still immature. He was ecstatic after touching the ceiling for the first time, thinking that this was a new continent, mistakenly thinking that he had really reached the ceiling, but he didn't know that this realm could not last forever.

You can touch it, but you can't touch it all the time.

So today Luo Jiu beat Sun Tianlong, the competition is who can touch the ceiling first.

Luo Jiu came here with seven years of grievances and the belief of becoming a god in the first battle. He had a stronger psychological motivation at the beginning of the game, so he touched the ceiling first and won the first two rounds.

But this successfully angered Sun Tianlong, and also successfully activated Sun Tianlong.

When Sun Tianlong also touched the ceiling, Luo Jiu fell directly into a disadvantage.

Why?

Because Sun Tianlong has more weapons.

He has more skill, experience and fighting instincts.

He also has an absolute psychological advantage that has been formed for a long time.

After all, he has beaten Luo Jiu too many times in team training and team tests.

When the two reached the same starting line, Luo Jiu showed an obvious decline.

But Luo Jiu is not powerless to fight back. He also has advantages. He has a better touch and can hit more super shots. It's just that he was really beaten just now, and he didn't realize it for the time being.

Therefore, whether the fourth game can be turned around depends on whether Luo Jiu can re-display his strengths at a new height.

Soon the fourth round will begin.

Things started to get stalemate.

After 5 minutes, the score was tied at 5:5.

Another 5 minutes passed and the score was tied at 9:9.

The look and feel of this game is completely different from that of the third game.

The Dragon team was still unreasonable and attacked the whole court, but Luo Jiu's defensive methods became more abundant.

He no longer sticks to pure parry or back pull or bounce, but starts to play tricks.

There is push and block, there is cutting, there is cutting, there is tearing, and there is rubbing.

The Dragons kept picking up speed and wanted to hit the ball fast.

Luo Jiu kept slowing down, trying to hit the ball slowly.

This is another level of game, no one can get a complete advantage, so the score turned into a seesaw, biting tightly, biting to 12:12 in one breath.

In fact, starting from 10:10, all the key shots have been played. Every shot is a heartbeat, and every shot makes the mood more tense.

The heart disease of the Huaping coaches was mostly caused by this situation.

If this is a foreign battle, it is estimated that coach Qin Huachang or He Jingping outside the field will start to take quick-acting heart-relief pills.

But today was fine, after all, it was a civil war, and guidance was not allowed, so He Jingping, who was sitting in the audience, just leaned forward subconsciously, expressing great concern, but he didn't take medicine.

Qin Huachang was also very nervous. He didn't say a word during the entire fourth game, and devoted himself wholeheartedly, but luckily, he didn't need to take medicine either.

After all, from his standpoint, whether Sun Tianlong wins or loses this game is actually not that important.

Emotionally, he certainly supports Sun Tianlong.

But from the perspective of benefiting Huaping, he hoped that Luo Jiu would win.

Because Luo Jiu can at least last until the next Olympics, but the Dragon Team can't last.

Younger is more valuable, they represent the future.

At this time, there was warm applause and cheers from the entire venue, because the fourth game had already been played, and the Dragon team won another game at 14:12, abruptly tying the total score.

After all, Luo Jiu didn't make it to the end. At the last moment of the competition of pure willpower and emotional stability, he softened.

A bo7, after playing for an hour, turned into a bo3.

(End of this chapter)