Volume 8: Future · Gap 4 · Competitive Games Chapter 8 Ping Pong
Lu Bai took a deep breath, stood in front of the table, then tossed the ball and swung the racket.
There was a flash of black light on the ball, and then it landed steadily on the table, which was considered a successful shot.
The first move of Po Xun's Demonic Palm, the Demonic Light, was initially applied to the ping-pong ball.
I have to say, this feeling is very interesting.
On the other side of the table, another contestant, with a grin on his face, swung his racket and hit the ball.
The black light that appeared above dissipated instantly, replaced by a hint of faint blue.
Now that the field is not restricted, Lu Bai will naturally not be unable to keep up with the ball.
Move forward, get into position, hold the racket horizontally, and prepare to receive the ball.
The ball fell on the table and then bounced up. At this moment, the round ping-pong ball turned into a shark swinging its tail.
When Lu Bai swung his racket to hit the ball , he felt that the ball was bouncing unusually.
In this situation, let alone injecting strength to counterattack, even the ball could not be controlled and flew directly to the other side.
"The score is valid, 1-0!" Lao Wang also announced the result.
In terms of attitude, they will indeed try to please Lu Bai, but each of them is also a strong man with a resonance rate close to 30%, and each of them has at least intercontinental strength.
To have come this far, they have indeed become much more tactful, but in terms of strength, they are pious.
Match-fixing rarely occurs.
The smiling man named Shi Yu who was fighting against Lu Bai told Lu Bai his understanding of this competition.
“We roughly figured out three stages.”
"The first stage is to successfully inject your own power into it, just like Master Lu's previous ball."
"The second stage is to change the shape of the ball that is hit."
"At this time , the ball is equivalent to your clone. If the opponent cannot break your power, then they can only lose points."
"And the cracking and injecting of one's own power need to be done simultaneously. Otherwise, even if the counterattack is successful, the ball hit back will be easier for the opponent to manipulate."
“That’s why the serving side has an absolute advantage.”
"The serve right changes after every two serves."
"How to keep your own serve and break the opponent's serve is the key to the game."
“So the third stage is ‘solidification’. This means leaving more power in the ball so that the opponent can only clean up the surface power. Ultimately, we can completely gain sovereignty over the ball.”
Lu Bai turned his head and looked at the ping-pong ball that fell on the ground. He picked it up and observed it carefully, and found that until now, the azure power of the stone jade still remained in it.
"Now, without any interference, I only need 23 balls to successfully transform this ping-pong ball and gain control of it."
“Once you gain control of sovereignty, even if you leave it outside for a few days, the power within it will not fade.”
"Others can't clear the power I leave in the ball with just their serve and racket unless they hold the ball for a long time."
So table tennis has now become a tug-of-war.
Every game is like an elementary school math problem, calculating when a pool will be full if water is added and drained.
The forces within a table tennis ball are constantly changing, with some forces increasing while others decrease.
At the same time, receiving and serving also have their own variations, and even changes in time need to be taken into consideration.
It can be said that the changes of this ball are twists and turns.
Whoever reaches eleven points first, or whoever controls the ball first, wins the game.
In the entire game, the early stage was best of three, and the later stage was best of five.
There are also many detailed rules. For example, when picking up the ball, the players cannot pick it up themselves, but must use a uniform robot.
When serving, the ball cannot be in the hand for more than a certain number of seconds, etc.
To ensure the fairness of the competition to the greatest extent possible.
The main part of the entire competition has always been singles, because the competition is nominally held to hone the travelers' resonance rate.
In doubles, four people inject power into one ball, which requires more tactics and coordination. The degree of control over the ball is not as high as that of singles, and it is not as good as singles for honing the resonance rate.
Because of this nature, doubles can only be held as an exhibition match and has little to do with Lu Bai.
After Shi Yu’s explanation, Old Wang nodded and let Lu Bai practice juggling alone.
This kind of exercise is just to get familiar with this way of using force as quickly as possible. It helps with the resonance rate, but not much.
What can really help is that the different strengths of two people are gathered on one ball, and then they continue to compete and fight.
Only through competition can you quickly improve your resonance rate.
While juggling the ball, Lu Bai kept trying to inject his own strength into it.
This kind of injection cannot simply transfer power into it.
Otherwise, it will only make the structure inside the ball unstable.
It is necessary to use that resonance rate to reasonably inject power into it little by little.
By the time the ball turned into a red dragon, Lu Bai had already bounced it more than thirty times, and by the time its internal power stabilized, Lu Bai had used nearly a hundred balls.
Even if the familiar process is removed, Lu Bai still needs about seventy balls to occupy the sovereignty of a ping-pong ball.
This is when the ball is dribbled quickly . If the game is played normally, even if there is no interference from the opponent, it will probably take about eighty balls.
"It's a little better than I thought." Old Wang said on the side. At this time, he no longer tried to please Lu Bai and gave him false compliments.
"I originally thought that you, Mr. Lu, couldn't even occupy sovereignty." Old Wang was actually also very tired. He was leading the team well, but suddenly a transfer student appeared and directly took away the quota of the regular team members.
The resonance rate is roughly 10%, which is more than ten percent lower than that of most of the starting players.
Generally speaking, people at this level may not even be able to control the sovereignty of the ball. After all, the material of the ball determines its blank slate physique, and it is difficult to withstand various forces.
If the resonance rate is not high enough, you may leak energy while hitting, and won’t be able to complete the injection of power until the end.
After all, to inject power, you still need the help of a racket.
The racket itself is more terrifying than the ball. After all, the ball is just a small hollow ball, while the racket's mass is many times that of the ball.
Even if the player holds it in his hand all the time, it is difficult to completely control it.
It is difficult to inject power through such a medium.
The fact that Lu Bai accomplished all this with a resonance rate of 10% really exceeded Lao Wang's expectations.
"It seems that your true strength far exceeds your resonance rate." Old Wang judged this and his mind became active.
He had previously planned to give up on getting a good ranking in this competition, but now it seems that Lu Bai is not completely without fighting power.
Maybe you can do one or two more operations?
