Chapter 2060: Chapter 2261: Block Your Shot and Smash Your Face with the Ball!!!

Hao Jian sank two shots in a row, which instantly made Class Five feel like they were sitting on pins and needles, pissed off as hell inside. But they still didn’t really take Hao Jian seriously. After all, they were already up by more than twenty points, while Hao Jian’s side didn’t even have ten yet. Their total score was still several times Hao Jian’s, so of course they didn’t put him or anyone from Class Three in their eyes.

It was just that this wave of Hao Jian’s, like smashing through bamboo, suddenly stunned them. Everyone was a bit dumbfounded. Only after a roar from Gao Yanfei did they snap back to their senses and realize they’d gotten careless. If they kept messing around like this, Hao Jian might really drag Class Three back into the game.

Right away, they changed their attitude. They had been way too cocky just now, and now that they’d seen what Hao Jian could actually do, they all finally got it.

Gao Yanfei was already dribbling the ball toward Class Three’s hoop. Two guys were locked onto Hao Jian, No. 2 was on Hu Lai, and the others were guarding Ma Yantao and the rest.

Those two glued themselves to Hao Jian, basically locking him up tight, not giving him any chance to get past them. As long as the ball was in Gao Yanfei’s hands and he stayed focused, there was basically no one who could steal it from him.

Hu Lai’s steal just now was pure accident. Now, as long as they shut down Hao Jian, then with Gao Yanfei’s physical gifts and skills, no one would be able to stop him. By then it’d be Class Five’s turn to rack up more points.

But things never go the way you want. Just as Gao Yanfei had already dribbled past half-court and the other two were sandwiching Hao Jian tight, a grin suddenly appeared on Hao Jian’s face. By this time, Gao Yanfei had already blown by Ma Yantao, stepped inside the two-point line, and dashed under the basket, ready to pull off a flashy three-step layup.

With his height and skill advantage, if he wanted to go for a three-step layup, he could just go straight up—basically nobody could stop him. However, just as he planted his second step, a smile curled at the corner of Hao Jian’s mouth. Those two saw that Gao Yanfei was basically about to score and showed a tiny little opening.

Hao Jian smiled, twisted his body, and slipped past the two of them with ease. If he really wanted to, even four or five guys wouldn’t be able to stop him. Let alone these two who thought Gao Yanfei had the points in the bag and had already half given up on blocking Hao Jian. And it was exactly at this moment that Hao Jian exploded forward.

Gao Yanfei took off, palming the ball in his right hand and shoving it up toward the hoop. As soon as he pushed, the ball left his hand. But right then, he suddenly felt a huge pressure surge up beside him, and the next second his vision went black.

"Bang!" The ball that had already been pushed out toward the basket was suddenly smacked out of the air by Hao Jian, who had leapt up and swatted it with a huge slap. And the direction he slapped it in was straight at Gao Yanfei’s face. Gao Yanfei had just jumped up for the three-step layup and released the ball; Hao Jian appeared too suddenly, giving him no time to react at all.

The ball was brutally spiked by Hao Jian and smashed straight into his face. The force was huge, like a massive palm slapping him right across the cheeks. All he felt was a burning, stinging pain on his face, and then his whole body toppled backward and crashed to the floor.

"Brother Fei!" a bunch of people shouted.

The crowd watching was in an uproar, totally unable to believe what they’d just seen. They had clearly watched Gao Yanfei about to lay the ball in, but then Hao Jian suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Gao Yanfei’s vertical was already insane, but no one expected Hao Jian’s bounce to be even crazier—his jump actually took him higher than Gao Yanfei.

Then he delivered a vicious chase-down block, stuffing the ball that had just left Gao Yanfei’s hand. Except the ball didn’t fly off in some other direction—it went straight into Gao Yanfei’s face, blasting him to the ground.

What really stunned everyone was that when Gao Yanfei went up for the three-step layup, Hao Jian was still being locked down by two Class Five players, and he was standing outside the three-point line. Meanwhile, Gao Yanfei was already inside the two-point zone, right under the basket. Yet Hao Jian still somehow managed to rocket over.

Normal people just don’t move that fast. In such a short time, he covered four or five meters, and that was while he was still being defended hard by two guys. Not only did he have to sprint that far, he also had to slip past both defenders and then still go up and deliver a brutal block on Gao Yanfei.

Right away, everyone around the court, even those who barely knew anything about basketball and were just there as melon-eating onlookers, were all roaring in shock after seeing that play.

What the fuck, this guy’s that good? How come no one’s ever seen him on the court before? With skills like that, if he’d been playing here regularly, everyone would’ve known how terrifying he is. But almost no one had ever heard that Hao Jian was any good at basketball. They could only chalk it up to Hao Jian not liking to show off, used to hiding his true strength. Plus, when they thought about it carefully, Hao Jian had only been at this school a few weeks. If he was good but hadn’t really shown up on the court yet, then nobody knowing his level was actually pretty normal.

It was just that, up till now, Gao Yanfei had been the strong one. In the whole first-year grade, he basically had no real rivals. That’s why so many girls came to the court at fixed times just to watch him play. And Hao Jian was just some guy who’d been making a lot of noise around school recently. So finding out all of a sudden that Hao Jian’s game could actually match Gao Yanfei’s was bound to shock everyone.

However, the shock was only a small part of it. When they saw Gao Yanfei get his shot blocked by Hao Jian and the ball smack into his face, sending him crashing to the floor, a lot of people immediately showed a concerned look.

"Brother Fei!"

Number Two had already sprinted over to Gao Yanfei’s side and reached out to pull him up. The others all stared angrily at Hao Jian, but Hao Jian didn’t even look at them. Gao Yanfei, however, waved his hand to signal Number Two not to help him. Then he paused for a moment and pushed himself up on his own.

You could clearly see that red patch on his face; obviously it was from the ball slamming into him. He could still feel that burning pain on his cheek. After he stood up, he wiped the spot where he’d been hit; the skin was a little scraped. Then his eyes turned venomous as he glared at Hao Jian.

"Ref, he fouled, he fouled!" Number Two pointed at Hao Jian and shouted at the referee.

The referee took one look, then shook his head and said, "That was a perfectly legal move. No foul."

Number Two immediately looked displeased. The ball had literally smashed into the guy’s face, and that’s not a foul? He was about to argue with the ref when Gao Yanfei suddenly reached out to stop him, cutting him off. So Number Two shut his mouth, though his face was still full of anger when he looked at Hao Jian.

Gao Yanfei glared at Hao Jian, full of menace, then walked right up to him and said, "You just wait for me."

Hao Jian just smiled without saying anything and waved his hand. Gao Yanfei probably also knew that move just now wasn’t a foul, it was just a normal block. The ball flying into his face was just bad luck, and he’d failed to dodge. Strictly speaking it had nothing to do with Hao Jian.

Right after that, Gao Yanfei stormed past Hao Jian with his teammates, planning to make Hao Jian pay later. Since Hao Jian wanted to play, then he’d play with him properly.

Seeing the fury on Gao Yanfei’s face and the clearly visible mark on his cheek, the girls watching on the side all started indignantly speaking up for him, griping that Hao Jian was in the wrong and that the ref was biased toward him—that Hao Jian had obviously committed a foul, yet the ref claimed he hadn’t.

But anyone who knew even a little bit about basketball could tell that Hao Jian hadn’t fouled. So when they heard the girls keep yelling that Hao Jian had fouled, they couldn’t help but show faint smiles.

Although Hao Jian had stuffed Gao Yanfei’s shot and stopped him from scoring, the ball had ended up getting spiked into Gao Yanfei’s face and then out of bounds, so in the end it was still Class Five’s ball. The ref handed the ball to a player from Class Five, Number Five took it out and once again passed it to Gao Yanfei. Holding the ball, Gao Yanfei walked toward Class Three. Having just taken a hit from Hao Jian, the look in his eyes when he saw Hao Jian was clearly off.

This time, he didn’t choose to go around Hao Jian and attack directly. He dribbled the ball right up to Hao Jian, his eyes cold. Seeing this, Hao Jian just quietly smiled.

"Heh heh!" Gao Yanfei suddenly gave Hao Jian a cold laugh.

Then, he abruptly drove the ball forward, ramming toward Hao Jian. Charging into someone with the ball is an offensive foul; Gao Yanfei obviously knew this rule, so when he crashed into Hao Jian, he clearly controlled the force—he wanted to make Hao Jian feel it, but without breaking the rules.

As he dribbled and slammed toward Hao Jian, he deliberately bent his arm and drove his elbow joint into Hao Jian’s waist. From the outside it might not look like anything special, but once he made contact, the waist of whoever got hit would definitely throb with pain.

This was payback on Hao Jian. Hao Jian had smacked a ball straight into his face and made him fall on his ass in front of so many people. That was an extremely humiliating thing.

So he was going to make Hao Jian lose face too, make Hao Jian suffer.

Only, when he crashed toward Hao Jian, Hao Jian obviously saw through his little trick.