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Looking at the funny face of Dugu Xiaobai, Zhang Song nodded and said, ”This junior cannot thank Senior enough for promoting me. However, I have come today on an important matter. ”
Dugu Xiaobai looked at Zhang Song with interest, then turned his gaze towards the two little fellows behind Zhang Song, and slowly said: ”Don't tell this old man, you have specially come this time to send this old man off as a disciple.”
Zhang Song heard and laughed faintly, denying anything: ”Senior is indeed senior, you actually hit the mark. Not bad, this junior has come here today to entrust my two younger brothers to you, senior.”
”Are you so sure I'll take them in? Aren't you afraid of being disappointed and coming back? ” Dugu Xiaobai looked at Zhang Song mysteriously and asked a question in reply.
”I'm afraid, but at least this is an opportunity.” Zhang Song admitted it.
”Haha, little guy, I have to say that you're very smart. Although you saw through my thoughts, you endured it, and even spoke such flowery words for me to personally say them right?”
”Hoho, how can this junior's clumsy and insignificant skill hide from senior's eyes?”
Dugu Xiaobai did not respond to Zhang Song's words. Instead, he carefully sized up the two little fellows behind Zhang Song, looked at them, and said. ”Are you willing to become my disciples?”
The two little fellows looked at Zhang Song blankly.
Zhang Song frowned: ”You decide.”
The two little ghosts thought for a moment, then nodded and said, ”Master!”
Dugu Xiaobai smiled with gratification, looked at Zhang Song and said: ”Today, I will accept your kindness.”
Zhang Song said happily: ”In that case, thank you senior.”
Dugu Xiaobai nodded. ”Now that I have already accepted them, if you have nothing else, you can leave. The people outside are still waiting for you.”
The person who spoke did not have any intention to leave, but the meticulous Zhang Song managed to catch some clues from it. Every time she tried to grab hold of something, it would slip away from her hands. Although he was not able to understand what Dugu Xiaobai meant, Zhang Song knew that Dugu Xiaobai had something to say, and was implying something to him.
After warning the two little fellows twice, Zhang Song then bid farewell to Dugu Xiaobai, and listened to his words, returning to the world that belonged to him.
The week-long ”three-man basketball game” was held as scheduled. As there were more than a hundred teams registering for the competition, the host's student union had divided the competition into two stages, the preliminaries and the semifinals.
Based on the strength of the participating teams, the results of the previous match, and the popularity of the forum, the organizers had selected eight teams from each team as seeds. They could skip the preliminary competition and directly enter the semifinals.
The more than one hundred teams participating in the preliminary competition were divided into twenty-four teams. Each team's first name would be promoted to the second round, and they would then form the top 32 with the eight seeded teams. They would be the final winners. Each team has 4-5 teams, and each team has 3-4 teams.
The ”Fourth Young Master of the North Anhui” composed of Chen Fan, Meng Yunfei, Zuo Zhihong and Liu Xiaohu was the number one seed of this year's champion and directly entered the semifinals. Zhang Fei and Zhang Han also dug out two strong and vigorous troops to form a team — — ”World Alliance”. However, Zhang Song was not so lucky. The ”deathwing” composed of Zhang Song, Zhang Jun, Su Xiang and Tan Bin did not qualify as a seed and was assigned to a team with strong strength known as the ”Death Group”.
”Damn, I'm really unlucky. I encountered a hard nail in the first round.” Tan Bin looked at the match schedule, and scolded.
Zhang Song was divided into sixteen groups. In addition to Zhang Song's ”deathwing”, four other teams were in the same group: ”City Superman”, ”Rocket Union”, ”Street King”, and ”School Overlord”. ”Except for the” City Superman ”team, which was not highly regarded and was weak, the other three teams were all very popular.” Rocket Union and Street King were ranked third and fifth among the hundred teams participating in the preliminaries. They had a betting rate of 1: 1.2 and 1: 1.8 respectively. Therefore, when Tan Bin saw that his first opponent was actually ”Rocket Union”, he would scold her.
”There's no need to curse, even if we fight earlier or later, we'll still have to fight sooner or later.” Zhang Jun patted Tan Bin's shoulder to console him, but he clearly knew in his heart that although the order of the matches seemed to be insignificant, it was actually quite important. For a mid-level team, the most taboo thing was to play the strongest team from the very beginning. If you beat him, your confidence would be affected; if you beat him in a fight, your confidence would be inflated, and it would definitely be more harmful than beneficial.
”The match will begin in an hour. There was only one preliminary round, and it was often 8 minutes. The middle can be replaced at will, but each team only has a three-minute pause. ”Since we still have time, let's warm up a bit!” Zhang Song shouted.
Before the match had even begun, the school forums went crazy. Many people were making their bets, betting on which teams would emerge from the group and fight their way out of the semifinals that would begin the day after tomorrow. ”Have you made a bet?” In an instant, it became a catchphrase in North Anhui University.
”Little Jia, did you bet?” Chen Hewen who was sitting in front of the computer asked Cao Jia who was sitting beside him.
Cao Jia shook his head and said to Chen Hewen: ”I'm not interested in this kind of gambling.”