"Thud, thud, thud..."
The basketball hit the ground, bounced back up, and fell again, its bounces getting smaller and smaller until only the sound of it colliding with the plastic floor echoed around the court.
The ball "rolled" into the bushes, but nobody went to pick it up.
For a few seconds, the whole place was silent.
The surrounding spectators, as well as all the players on the court—whether from School No. 1 or School No. 15, whether boys or girls, whether they were there just to watch the fun or knew what was going on—all stared blankly at the two figures under the basket.
One of them, standing, was a girl with a long ponytail, slender and heroic in her posture, while the other was Jiang Lei, who had been showing off his might on the court just moments ago, but now lay on the ground in a sorry state, unable to get up.
