Chapter 76

Page Twenty-Six

Chairman Yuanyue Teaches You to Play Volleyball

This resilient volleyball, despite being continuously hammered by two monstrous girls, remained intact. It was a miracle in itself.

It could also be that this volleyball had ninety-nine lives and was a cheating ball.

“Substitute, Xiao Qian, you’re off.”

At the start of the third set, Chairman Yuanyue immediately suggested a substitution. She took off her sandals, which were not conducive to movement, and stepped onto the sand barefoot.

Xiao Qian ran far away the moment she came down, as if she had been greatly humiliated… and indeed, she had been greatly humiliated.

Chairman Yuanyue, despite wearing a bikini, looked great, but she wore an overcoat, and Lei Miaomiao’s two-piece outfit was quite conservative. Thus, without the bountiful chest of Tian Qian, Zhao Zhao quickly recovered from his indescribable state.

“What’s your name, little girl?”

Facing the older Chairman Yuanyue, Xiao Hai Tang didn’t put on airs and answered honestly: “Chen Hai Tang, Chen with the character for ‘east,’ and the name of the hawthorn flower.”

“Then I’ll call you Little Hai Tang? I’m Xie Yuanyue, you can also call me Yuanyue Jie, the mother of these two kids…”

“Hello, Yuanyue Jie.”

Despite how Chairman Yuanyue appeared younger, Xiao Hai Tang didn’t seem surprised, as if she had known all along.

Yuanyue Jie bounced the volleyball in her hand, her usual confident smile on her face, a dangerous sign.

“Playing volleyball isn’t about who has the most strength, girl. Learn this, I’ll teach you how to play volleyball properly.”

Zhao Zhao’s presence was automatically ignored by Yuanyue Jie.

In terms of physical ability, no matter how well Yuanyue Jie maintained herself, she was now in her forties, and her physical capabilities couldn’t match those of a young person.

Moreover, her opponents were a karate black belt and a muscular basketball enthusiast.

However, Yuanyue Jie’s control over the ball’s landing point was exquisite. The ball seemed to come alive in her hands, going wherever she wanted. Her jump serve always landed right on the edge of the line, causing Xiao Hai Tang and Zhao Zhao to scramble to catch it, occasionally bumping into each other. Lei Miaomiao’s previous tactic of exhaustion was pushed to its limit by Yuanyue Jie.

“Hey, old man, what’s Yuanyue Jie’s background?”

This didn’t look like the level of a regular volleyball enthusiast. If I hadn’t known she was the chairman of a major conglomerate, I would have thought she was a professional athlete.

At my question, Lei Lao’s gaze drifted into the distance, as if recalling his beautiful youthful days.

“This goes back to college. Yuanyue was the captain of the school volleyball team, while I was the captain of the basketball team… At that time, our university’s indoor gym was small, with the basketball court and volleyball court next to each other, and overlapping training times. That’s when we met. One day, it rained heavily…”

“Cut! Cut! Old man, I don’t want to hear any love stories. That’s toxic to single guys like me… Just tell me, how strong is Yuanyue Jie at volleyball?”

“She’s decent, her best result was second place in the national tournament.”

“What? Second place is decent?”

“Even though it’s second place, it’s just a competition among college students. Our basketball team won the championship that year.”

Unlike Yuanyue Jie, Lei Lao had a good impression of Zhao Zhao, perhaps due to their shared love for basketball?

In any case, Yuanyue Jie was a volleyball prodigy whose career had been delayed by the family business. Even though she was only part of a college team, she had surpassed the threshold of professional athletes… Facing two beginners who had just started playing volleyball, Yuanyue Jie was practically invincible.

No wonder she dared to make such a bet: “Lend me Lei Miaomiao for a day, and I can do anything.” She never believed she would lose. Damn information asymmetry fraud.

Xiao Hai Tang’s foot spike still had tremendous power. Yuanyue Jie dared not block it head-on. If Lei Miaomiao hadn’t intercepted it, we might have scored, leaving a glimmer of hope.

But soon, that last hope was extinguished. Yuanyue Jie began to change her serving technique. Her serves lacked spin and seemed weak.

Yet, this non-spinning magic ball had extremely unpredictable trajectories. The volleyball floated irregularly in the air, making it hard to predict where it would land. Even when Xiao Hai Tang was prepared to receive the ball, the volleyball suddenly decelerated, falling like a marionette with cut strings, easily scoring a point.

Like an end-game guided missile from India, after completing Brownian motion in the air, it plunged downward.

“It’s a float serve, a sinking float serve!”

Tan Linhua seemed to recognize this type of serve. A flash of light appeared in his eyes as he diligently explained.

“A float serve doesn’t spin, so there’s no axis of rotation. Plus, the volleyball itself is relatively soft, and after deformation under impact, the internal air oscillates, causing the flight trajectory to become unstable. As for deceleration and falling, it’s because the deformed volleyball experiences greater resistance, making it easier to be captured by gravity at low speeds, losing its momentum.”

“Now I understand, even though I don’t get it.”

“…Cough, in short, this advanced serving technique is not something an amateur can casually pull off. The more professional the volleyball player, the more unpredictable their float serves.”

What? Such a magical serve is actually a real-world phenomenon rather than a superpower?

Xiao Hai Tang and Zhao Zhao,凭借出色的神经反应速度，偶尔能在飘球落地前接到几个球，但仍然无法改变比分大幅落后的颓势，最终以11：21的完全碾压局势，输掉了比赛。

无敌的小海棠倒下了。

无论是赵兆还是小海棠，那些说“交给我吧”的家伙，最终都会输吗？

“抱歉啊，委座，明明说了要帮你赢下来的。”

所向披靡的小海棠很少吃瘪，因此这次输了显得特别失落，浑身的霸气荡然无存，垂着脑袋，恹恹的样子看起来居然有些可爱。

哦，我失踪的母亲啊，我说了什么？可爱？我这辈子都没想过自己会用“可爱”这个词来形容小海棠。

我抬手犹豫了一下，最终还是没敢把手放在她头上，虽然想摸摸她的脑袋安慰一下，但如果她恢复过来，我的手就别想要了。

命要紧。

“没关系啦，你能跑过来帮忙我就很感动了。”

橘子也跟着帮腔：“就是啊，海棠姐已经很厉害了，像欧尼酱这种才叫没用。”

…嗯…橘子这话，我怎么听着也不是个味儿。

远月姐拖着不情不愿的雷喵喵走了过来，后者鼓着脸偏过脑袋不看我和小海棠。

“海棠小妹别难过，第一次接触排球能打到这种程度已经很不错了。”

远月姐的成熟女性气场全开，看上去格外亲切，连小海棠都乖巧地点了点头。

“我认可你作为我雷喵喵的对手，下次我们再来痛痛快快地打一场。”雷喵喵虽然还侧着头，眼角的余光却在偷瞄小海棠的脸色，红宝石般的眼睛扑闪着，像个拉不下脸道歉的孩子，“所以抬起头来吧，我的宿敌。”

“这是我的台词吧？明明第二局是我比较占优势。”雷喵喵的话还是有用的，小海棠身上的气势又回来了，她看向雷喵喵的眼神也多了一份惺惺相惜。

合着打了一场很烧特效的沙滩排球之后，这两人之间还擦出了友情的火花。

“我以前确实看走眼了，你也是个不错的家伙。”

以前？什么以前？

小海棠什么时候见过雷喵喵吗？