Volume 3 Chapter 73: The Girls’ Brick-Breaking Contest!
It worked!
Uh…
But in the next second, everyone held their breath.
Because Lin Lin had kicked too close to the edge, the punching bag was hit unevenly. It lost balance, swung off center, and quickly swung back along the rope, straight toward the girl who was still standing there in shock.
“Watch out!”
Gao Liang reacted first. He rushed forward and pushed Lin Lin down to the ground.
Luckily, he had hung the punching bag quite high. After he pushed her down, the bag just swung back and forth a few times without hitting them.
Gao Ye quickly stepped forward and stopped the punching bag. Everyone took a deep breath.
Thankfully, nothing serious happened.
Gao Liang wiped his sweat and looked down. The girl under him had a red face, and there were still a few tears at the corners of her eyes from the fright.
“S-sorry, Lin Lin. It was urgent, so I had to do that.”
He quickly let her go, looking embarrassed.
Lin Lin lay on the ground for a moment, feeling a little down.
She didn’t blame Gao Liang. She just felt embarrassed. She hadn’t thought about that problem at all. And now she felt guilty.
She had made trouble for him again.
She slowly got up from the ground, still looking depressed.
Even Gao Ye, who had wanted to continue teasing her, felt a little awkward.
Just as she was about to say something comforting, Lin Lin suddenly spoke, trying to comfort herself.
“Well… at least I did better than someone who couldn’t even move the bag at all…”
Gao Ye froze.
Then she stared at Lin Lin in disbelief and tilted her head.
“What did you just say?”
“Ahem… I was just talking to myself.”
“Hey, hey, Sister Lin Lin, be fair! If I hadn’t stopped the bag, you’d still be lying on the ground shaking under my brother!”
“Hmph, w-who asked for your help…”
“Oh? So you were enjoying it?”
“W-what are you talking about?! Hmph! Someone who can’t even kick a punching bag shouldn’t talk!”
Lin Lin was getting annoyed and embarrassed.
The two girls officially started arguing.
Gao Ye showed her small tiger teeth and shouted,
“At least I didn’t almost get knocked out by a swinging bag!”
“If you’re so good, kick it again!”
“Hey, hey, stop!”
Gao Liang quickly raised his hands.
“Ahem… you two, stop arguing about this. It’s pointless. How about this, I’ll be fair and let you compete properly. What about a brick-breaking contest?”
He stepped between the two arguing girls and made the suggestion.
They blinked, paused, and looked at each other again.
After a tense stare filled with imaginary lightning from their eyes, both girls nodded.
“Alright! The First Huadu Women’s Professional Brick-Breaking League Grand Final is about to begin!”
Gao Liang said it in a playful tone.
He remembered that there were some practice bricks and wooden boards stacked in the corner of the training hall.
Of course, these training props weren’t as strong as real bricks or boards. But at least they looked impressive.
He brought some over, found a small table, and placed a brick on top.
Alright.
As the referee, Gao Liang could now officially announce—
The competition begins!
First to go is contestant number one, Lin Lin. She chooses one brick. Hmm, that looks like a very safe choice.
Isn’t that a little too safe? After all, these are not real bricks. Even a kindergarten kid might be able to break one.
It seems that today Lin Lin just wants to play it safe. She is being very careful… ahem…
The girl raises her hand, then brings it down in a straight chop!
As expected, the brick is easily split in half. But after breaking it, the girl just stands there in shock. A moment ago, she was clenching her teeth and gathering a lot of courage. Now she looks clearly surprised.
Uh…
Did Lin Lin think it was a real brick?
Wow… that’s really something.
“Hehe, Sister Lin Lin, you needed that much courage just to break something that’s basically foam?”
Gao Ye can’t hold back her laughter and covers her mouth as she giggles. Lin Lin looks shocked and confused.
“Huh? This… this is foam? Hey—Gao Liang, you should explain the rules clearly first!”
“Ahem. The rules are… you each have three rounds. In each round, you take turns choosing how many bricks to break. At the end, we add up the number of bricks you successfully break. Whoever has the bigger total wins.”
After Gao Liang explains, Lin Lin makes a bitter face.
So that means… in the first round, she only got one point.
How annoying!
She should have let Gao Ye go first!
Next, after learning from Sister Lin Lin’s mistake, Gao Ye easily chooses three bricks and breaks them successfully.
Heh~
The girl happily looks at Lin Lin. The two-point gap makes Lin Lin feel a lot of pressure.
In the second round, Lin Lin can’t play it safe anymore.
“Five!”
“Wow, impressive~”
Gao Liang nods in surprise and puts down five bricks for her. Lin Lin aims carefully, then chops down hard!
“Smack—!”
Phew…
The girl feels pain in her palm!
She takes several deep breaths nervously, then looks up at the foam bricks.
Success!
“Hehe, looks like it’s not that hard after all~”
Lin Lin looks at Gao Ye. Now she is three points ahead.
But Gao Ye doesn’t care. Whatever. Then she’ll just choose five bricks too.
“Five.”
“Hmm…”
Lin Lin pouts unhappily. Tsk, how boring. She just wants to keep the two-point gap?
Lin Lin had hoped Gao Ye would refuse to lose and choose a higher number, then fail.
Hmm…
Her plan failed.
But Lin Lin doesn’t give up. Maybe Gao Ye won’t be able to break five bricks?
However, when she turns around, Gao Ye easily chops through five bricks!
Ah…
The little devil smiles at her with a slightly naughty look. Lin Lin can already imagine how she will be laughed at if she loses in the final round.
What a mean girl!
Lin Lin has no choice but to take a deep breath and think carefully. She is under a lot of pressure. Just now, five bricks were already almost too hard for her.
If she wants to win, and if Gao Ye can break five bricks again, plus the two-point difference, and she needs one more point to win…
That means she needs to break eight bricks.
Lin Lin grits her teeth.
Eight it is. She’ll give it her all!