Chapter 20 Strength and Technique



The administrator stared at the flying baseball with eyes as sharp as blades, and swung the baseball with all his might.

There was no sound of the bat hitting the ball, and the administrator's swing of the bat missed.

"Forkball!" Everyone was shocked.

People with sharp eyesight could see that before the administrator swung the bat, the ball thrown by Li Xiu dropped significantly, exactly the same as the forkball thrown by Rhodes, and even dropped more.

The game was tied at 1-1, and both Li Xiu and the administrator passed the test.

"So you can play baseball, and you can even play the forkball. Why didn't you tell me earlier? Is it fun to play like this?" When Li Xiu returned to the stands, Ah Fei immediately walked over with a stern look on his face and said.

“I didn’t know how to play baseball before, but now I have learned it,” Li Xiu explained.

Ah Fei naturally wouldn't believe it. If Li Xiu was just good at pitching accurately, she could still accept it, but techniques like forkball were impossible to achieve without a lot of professional practice, and it also required talent.

"Forget it, it's best that you know baseball. You finally got through this level." Ah Fei had a look of disbelief on his face, and Li Xiu did not explain any further. No matter how much he explained, Ah Fei would not believe it now.

Now Ah Fei has determined that Li Xiu is a professional ball player who is good at various ball sports.

What is giving Ah Fei a headache now is that if it weren't for the incident with Kim Jin-hwan, Li Xiu could have withdrawn from the trial now.

But considering what Jin Jin-hwan said before, if Li Xiu withdraws now, and Jin Jin-hwan really wants to kill Li Xiu after he goes out, they will have no way to stop him.

"What are your plans?" asked the bandit while looking at Li Xiu who was sitting on the steps to rest.

"What else can I do? Even if I want to give up, there are people who won't let me. Besides, I don't plan to give up." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"But..." Ah Fei thought about it and swallowed the words that were about to come to his lips.

Although Li Xiu has professional-level baseball skills, his physical fitness is far behind that of his opponent, and he cannot always hit the forkball successfully.

The first time, others were not prepared. Now that he knows that Lee Soo can throw the forkball, Kim Jin-hwan is on guard. It will be difficult for him to beat him using the forkball again.

A Fei didn't think that Li Xiu could beat Kim Jin Hwan. The difference in physical fitness was there, and it was difficult to make up for such a big gap with skills.

When it was Kim Jin-hwan's turn to play, he stood in the pitcher's position.

Facing an opponent with quite good physical fitness among ordinary trial participants, Jin Zhenhuan did not take his opponent seriously at all. He did not have any tactics or skills and directly threw a high-speed straight ball.

The baseball flew straight to the center of the box with a whistling airflow.

Bang!

"Hit!" The collision between the baseball and the bat made the trial-taker ecstatic.

But the next second, the smile froze on his face, and the wooden bat he swung with all his strength was broken by the ball. The baseball still did not change direction and rushed into the box.

For a moment, everyone looked at Kim Jin-hwan in shock. What kind of supernatural power did it take to be able to break the baseball bat directly?

No one present could do it, and no one even dared to think about it.

"Give up, you can't possibly beat Kim Jin-hwan. Don't participate in the second round of trials. You might still survive if you quit now." The bandit said directly to Li Xiu.

Because Ah Fei had already seen clearly, it was very obvious from Jin Zhenhuan's previous goal that not only did his physical fitness far surpass Li Xiu, he also possessed the skills of a trial-taker.

When Jin-hwan was pitching, she saw the skill ring mark appear on Jin-hwan's finger.

This skill made Kim Jin-hwan invincible. He could even break the bat, and there was no way to stop him from pitching. When Lee Soo was the batter, he would definitely lose the game.

Kim Jin-hwan showed his skills in the first round, which was totally unnecessary. It means he doesn't care about this skill at all, and he must have a stronger trump card.

No matter how you look at it, Li Xiu is bound to lose, so Ah Fei asked Li Xiu to withdraw. Maybe Jin Zhenhuan would not kill him outside, so there would still be a glimmer of hope.

It's better than fighting him knowing you'll die.

"Interesting, that was the skill of a trial-taker just now, right?" Li Xiu seemed not to have considered these questions at all, and looked at Jin Zhenhuan in the field with interest.

"Yes, although I don't know what kind of skill it is or what level of skill it is, but that skill helped him break the bat, which is scary." said the bandit.

"It's getting more and more interesting." Li Xiu narrowed his eyes, wondering what kind of skills he would get if he passed the final trial this time.

When it was Jin Zhenhuan's turn to bat, he simply hit the ball thrown by the trial-taker far away, and it looked like he was just swinging it casually.

The trial-taker was killed on the spot as he did not go out of bounds.

"Don't quit, or you'll be dead." Jin Zhenhuan returned to the stands and shook his finger at Li Xiu from a distance, his eyes as evil as a ghost.

"Don't worry, this is such an interesting game, I will definitely play it to the end." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"That's good." Jin Zhenhuan snorted coldly and ignored Li Xiu.

He originally thought that Li Xiu would be scared by his goal, but now it seems that the goal did not have the effect he imagined.

After the first round, most of the surviving ordinary trial participants chose to leave, while the administrators stayed.

They team up with each other and every point they can get is a point.

"If the two people are always tied, will the trial continue?" Li Xiu suddenly thought of this question and asked the Fei next to him.

"Not really. In a duel-style trial like this, if a person draws three times in a row, the fourth trial will become a mode in which one person will be eliminated. The modes will be slightly different for different events. In the event of life and death speed, if there are three consecutive ties, the fourth time will become a duel with only one pitching opportunity, and the loser will be eliminated directly." Ah Fei explained.

"That means there are only three rounds left. The others are almost out or have given up." Li Xiu thought about it. Before the duel with Jin Zhenhuan, he still has three rounds of opportunities to get strengthened.

After the first round of trials, Li Xiu once again received magic core rewards and enhancements.

The rules for the second round of trials remained the same, and Li Xiu formed a team with an administrator again.

This time the administrator is ranked higher. His preliminary ranking is five, far above Li Xiu.

This time, Li Xiu came to the pitcher's position first. The administrator had a preconceived notion that Li Xiu would throw the forkball, but when he swung the bat, he found that it was actually a curveball. It was too late to control the force and change the position of the baseball.

The baseball spun to the lower right corner of the box, and Li Xiu scored first.

When Li Xiu was the batter, the manager also responded with a high-speed curve ball. Although Li Xiu hit the ball with his swing, it flew out of bounds.

"Ordinary people are just ordinary people. No matter how good their skills are, they cannot compare to those of the trial-takers who have been strengthened many times. This is the suppression of absolute strength." Jin Zhenhuan watched two games of Li Xiu and had a very clear understanding of Li Xiu's physical fitness and skills. He already had the confidence to win.