In fact, Cheng Zhu had noticed the point about "weakening the opponent" from the very beginning.
The rules don't mind provoking infighting among humans, just like the second rule of the morning exercise [it's okay to use your hands to affect other students while running]. The rules of table tennis naturally also contain methods for harming other players.
[1. Table tennis requires hitting the ball with a racket. After serving, please try to avoid touching the ball with your body.]
The first rule, which seems to tell students not to catch the ball with their hands, head, or shoulders, is actually interpreted in reverse as implying that students can hit the opponent with the ball to weaken them by injuring their body.
The second rule is even more blatantly malicious in this regard.
2. Keep your racket in your hand at all times. If your racket leaves your hand before the end of the match, you will be permanently disqualified from participating in this sport.
Once the opponent's racket leaves their hand, they can be disqualified from challenging.
Of course, this rule might result in you being judged as the "loser" and having to play another round, but even so, losing is much better than dying on the ping-pong table.
More importantly, there is more than one person on this field.
If you want to hit the ball towards your opponent's hand, forcing them to injure their hand and be unable to grip the racket tightly, then once your opponent realizes this intention, they will deliberately try to avoid the ping-pong ball.
When attention is focused on avoiding victory rather than on winning, it's often not far from losing the game.
Although the opponent could also use offense as defense to return all the balls, this usually requires sufficient strength to do so, because people who can do such "deliberately targeting the hand to harm others" are at least quite confident in their own abilities.
Finally, strong mental fortitude is also required.
Not everyone can quickly calm down and decisively retaliate when they realize that the other person wants them dead.
Unfortunately, Cheng Zhu happened to have both the ability and the mental fortitude.
As Aiden tossed the ping-pong ball down, Cheng Zhu gripped his racket tightly. The moment the ball flew over, he changed his stance, raised his racket, and struck the ball fiercely with a lifting motion, shattering his opponent's confident, malicious smile.
As the ping-pong ball bounced twice on the ground, the broadcast announced again: "2-0."
The ball disappeared from the ground, then reappeared in the center of the table as if data had been reassembled. Cheng Zhu picked it up, waved it at the blond hair that was standing on end, perhaps out of anger, and slowly said, "It's my turn again..."
"3 to 0".
“…I’ve got it.” Cheng Zhu smiled as he watched the other person completely absorbed in his conversation, thus missing the opportunity to catch the ball.
There are really too few rules for this table tennis game.
Cheng Zhu seemed to see how many new rules would be added to the next person after he scored 11 points.
wrong.
Looking at Aiden, who had lowered his head and pursed his lips tightly, not uttering a single sarcastic remark, Cheng Zhu suddenly realized the difference between this place and the rules for running exercises.
The rules for that sport were pasted on the forehead of a scarecrow outside the track, but here they were pasted directly on the ping-pong table. So if there were any new rules… Cheng Zhu quickly glanced at the rules and, sure enough, there was one more: [7. Talking is prohibited while serving.]
If this rule were applied to Yin Zhu, who is disguised as Alice, she would probably be suffocated.
But Cheng Zhu was different. She wasn't usually that talkative, and her earlier remarks were merely a loophole in the rules, deliberately drawing the other party's attention to gain an advantage. This loophole was quickly patched by the new rules, but it didn't affect Cheng Zhu much, since she didn't only win through such cunning methods.
Aiden served very quickly.
From Cheng Zhu's perspective, the blond guy's ping-pong skills were indeed above average, much better than those who couldn't play at all, but still a bit behind his own.
Even so, Cheng Zhu told himself that he could not let his guard down.
The two players pulled back and forth several times in this round, with the ping-pong ball bouncing back and forth on the table. In the end, Cheng Zhun suddenly exerted force, forcing the ping-pong ball to accelerate suddenly and bounce in a direction that Aiden could not react to, thus ending this round.
"4 to 0".
Cheng Zhu rubbed his wrist and stepped forward to take the ping-pong ball that had reappeared on the table.
The opposing team seemed to realize that she was more skilled and began to seek new ways to win, such as trying to play it safe and prolong the game to wear down their stamina.
Judging from his physique, Aiden is indeed a bit taller and stronger than Cheng Zhu. This is related to the original owner Christine's pursuit of appearance and slenderness before Cheng Zhu took over this body.
This has both advantages and disadvantages, but the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
The advantage is that it makes Aiden underestimate Cheng Zhu in the early stages, giving Cheng Zhu a chance to accumulate points early on. The disadvantage is more obvious: Cheng Zhu's weak physique will result in insufficient endurance in sports. In addition, table tennis not only consumes physical strength but also mental strength. If the game drags on for too long, the advantage that Cheng Zhu initially gained will be overtaken by Aiden as his physical strength gradually depletes.
Compared to its disadvantages, the advantages of this body are obviously negligible.
Having identified his weaknesses, Cheng Zhu now needs to minimize the number of games played and speed up each game by any means necessary.
The ping-pong ball is tossed high into the air.
7. Talking is prohibited while serving.
After hitting the ball to the other end of the net, Cheng Zhu stared intently at the ball. When the opponent hit it in her direction, she gave a soft "ha" and sliced the ball over. When Aiden received the ball again, she gave an even louder "ha" and even slammed her hand on the table.
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