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Chapter 26 Genius

After lunch, Ang Lee separated from the two men and went their separate ways.

With more than an hour to go before their afternoon classes, they planned to go back to their dormitories to rest.

Instead of returning to his dormitory, Ang Lee sat in the cafeteria to rest, playing with his phone.

Bank card balance: 4657.9.

Three thousand five hundred thousand was thanks to his white moonlight, while the rest came from the sports genius.

"The white moonlight is really awesome."

Ang Lee couldn't help but sigh, thinking about how he had worked himself to the bone for several days, only to have the "Sports Prodigy" advance to 5%, while the "White Moonlight" had overtaken him in less than a day, and by a significant margin of 32%.

After checking his bank card balance, he opened Douyin (TikTok) and started watching short videos.

After scrolling through his phone for a while, Li An suddenly remembered something, opened the search bar, and typed in Lin Shiyu's name.

The next moment, many video preview images of the zoomed-in page popped up.

#An incarnation of an angel, a sprite on the court

#ViolentAesthetics

#VolleyballGoddess

#Jiangda Campus Belle

These headlines and copywritings are all quite exaggerated, but Ang Lee doesn't care and just clicks on the first one to start reading.

As soon as he clicked on it, a stunningly beautiful face rushed into Ang Lee's view.

Unlike her appearance today and last night, perhaps because she was on the court, Lin Shiyu's long, straight black hair, which was usually loose, was tied into a high ponytail, revealing her slender neck and making her look heroic and dashing.

She already had a curvaceous figure with a prominent bust and hips, but after putting on the blue volleyball uniform, her shoulders looked like they were carved into a sculpted wall and her waist was slender and graceful, making her incredibly beautiful.

Beneath the shorts, her snow-white, plump, long, and perfectly proportioned legs were even more captivating.

Ang Lee was truly amazed when he saw Lin Shiyu in the video.

Although Lin, the senior student with long, straight black hair, was already very beautiful, her aura was even more exceptional when she tied her hair up in a high ponytail, held a volleyball, and stood on the court.

The video is short, only fifteen seconds long, and simply shows Lin Shiyu doing stretching exercises with a ball on the court.

After playing it twice, Ang Lee swiped his finger to turn to the next video.

"Squeak—"

The sound of shoes scraping against the floor filled the air. Lin Shiyu, wearing jersey number 4, came to the net, looked up at the volleyball above, a confident smile on her lips, and leaped into the air, swinging her arm down like a whip.

"Bang!"

With a perfectly timed hit, the volleyball struck like a meteor, breaking through the defense of three female volleyball players and crashing onto the opposite side of the court with a loud and powerful bang.

This is just the beginning; the video includes many clips.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The repeated spikes that score points, just as the title suggests, interpret the aesthetics of violence through spiking.

"So strong!"

The video ended quickly and started replaying automatically. Li An's mind kept replaying Lin Shiyu's actions in the video, and he felt goosebumps all over his body, a feeling of excitement rising in his blood.

Every jump was fluid and graceful, and every spike was the result of countless hours of practice.

Lin Shiyu's performance on the court was amazing, displaying an unparalleled sense of pressure.

"So that's how volleyball is played?"

Amidst the excitement, Ang Lee also had a moment of enlightenment.

Observe the volleyball, adjust your position, approach the target, brake and stand firm, swing your arms high, bend your body, and spike the ball powerfully.

There are many more details to spiking, but the main steps are the six mentioned above. It seems quite simple, and I feel like he could do it too.

"No, how could volleyball be simple?"

Thinking it over, Ang Lee realized something was wrong.

Yesterday, he watched eight dumbbell exercises and thought they were simple enough. They weren't difficult at all; he just needed to watch the video a few more times and follow along.

This is a volleyball, so why would he think that volleyball is simple?

Although volleyball is the easiest of the three major ball sports to learn, it is actually very difficult to master and is far more complex than it seems.

With these questions in mind, Ang Lee watched the video again.

After watching it a couple more times, his opinion remained unchanged. On the contrary, with each viewing, he noticed more details and felt that Lin's actions in the video were becoming increasingly simple and easy to understand.

"Is it because of a significant increase in athletic talent?"

Upon realizing this, an answer came to Ang Lee's mind.

With this conjecture in mind, he left the search results for Lin Shiyu and instead started searching for basketball, football, tennis, and badminton.

His reaction to watching these ball games was the same: at first glance, they were amazing, they thought they were very strong and powerful, and they felt excited.

From the second time onwards, whether it's a three-pointer or a skill move he can't name, he'll break it down into specific actions, and then he'll have a "Oh, I see" feeling, thinking it's very simple, and that he could do it too.

"This is the right way to portray the persona of an athletic prodigy!"

After repeated testing, Ang Lee's heart was racing.

A genius is someone who possesses extraordinary talent and excels in a specific field.

Mathematical problems that ordinary people struggle to solve are easily solved by Gauss.

Skills that ordinary people can master in a month or even several months are not that difficult for geniuses.

His previous thinking was wrong; learning speed is the real manifestation of talent!

Although he can speed up his progress by running, this is simply one of the behaviors that fits his character as a "sports genius".

Since he's a sports prodigy, he should naturally get active.

But he was just running, and jogging at that, which didn't allow him to show any genius or talent.

After all, everyone can run. Even if he runs a little faster, it's not enough to call him a genius, unless he runs faster than ordinary people.

Having finally found a way to utilize his athletic talent, Ang Lee didn't stop there and began searching for all sorts of videos.

Interesting, very interesting.

Whether it's basketball, volleyball, or even football, which he used to dislike completely, everything suddenly became interesting to him at this moment.

"Hey student, stop playing on your phone, class is about to start."

It wasn't until the cafeteria staff started cleaning and noticed that Li An was still sitting there, intently watching his phone, that they called out to him, causing him to stop watching the video.

Fortunately, the cafeteria and the teaching buildings for each grade were not far apart. Although there was not much time left before class, he ran back to the classroom and still had plenty of time.

Arriving at the classroom before class started, the previously buzzing classroom suddenly quieted down with Ang Lee's arrival, and many people subconsciously looked at him.

Facing everyone's gaze, Ang Lee chose to ignore it and looked at someone he was more familiar with.

Chung Kwok-keung and Leung Chun-sang, who were sitting near his seat, waved to him.

Zhong Lixue was still sitting in the first row. After making eye contact, she quickly turned her head away.

"Am I just imagining things? Xiao Zhong's reaction doesn't seem quite right."

On his way to his seat, Ang Lee had a vague sense of unease.

Both times, Xiao Zhong turned her head away when their eyes met, but in the morning she looked obviously shy, like a child who had done something wrong and had been discovered and wanted to hide, pretending to be busy, which made her seem very cute.

Her current act of turning away seems more like a panicked escape.