In the third round, only Jin Zhenhuan and the administrators were left. Everyone else had withdrawn from the trial, and even the bandit had left.
As an ordinary trialist, the only one who didn't leave was Rhodes.
Jin Zhenhuan and the administrators were even numbers, so they could form teams with each other. In the end, only Li Xiu and Rhodes were left, and they were forced to form a team.
Li Xiu has already drawn twice. If he draws again with Rhodes this time, the next trial will be a mandatory life-and-death showdown.
There is only one chance. If he is a pitcher, it is fine. If he is a hitter, Li Xiu has a high chance of death.
What's more, Li Xiu's opponent in the next game will probably be Kim Jin-hwan. As a hitter, he is almost certain to lose.
So no matter how you look at it, Li Xiu can only win but not lose in this trial, not even a draw.
"Brother, your skills are pretty good. Were you a professional before?" Rhodes came to Li Xiu's side and started chatting in a familiar manner.
"No." Li Xiu closed his eyes and rested, waiting for his trial to begin.
"I'm not a professional pitcher. It's really rare to be able to control the ball so well. The crotchball is not difficult. After practicing for a while, most people can throw a similar crotchball. But that kind of crotchball is useless. The crotchball is useless.
The speed of the ball is inherently slower than the average ball speed. How to increase the speed of the crotch ball and precise control are the keys to the crotch ball. Like the guy who threw the crotch ball before, he almost missed the strike zone.
, that kind of control is not worthy of being called a crossbow..." Rhodes said to himself.
"What exactly do you want to say?" Li Xiu interrupted Rhodes.
"What I want to say is that we are all just playing with technology. There is no need to kill each other. If we really decide the outcome seriously, both sides will probably suffer losses and no one will be able to survive," Rhodes said.
"Do you think I can believe you?" Li Xiu looked at Rhodes and said.
"Of course I can believe it, you can only believe me." Rhodes said.
"Why?" Li Xiu looked at Rhodes with interest. He wanted to know where Rhodes' confidence came from.
"In addition to fingerball, I'm also good at fingerball." Rhodes lowered his voice and told Li Xiu.
He thought Li Xiu understood what finger-flicking meant, but Li Xiu didn't understand at all, so he could only look at Rhodes without saying anything.
Seeing that Li Xiu was silent, Rhodes thought that Li Xiu was weighing the pros and cons, so he continued: "You should know very well that even the pitcher himself doesn't know where the ball will fly when he flicks the ball, and it will fly up and down in an irregular manner.
Although it has a nice name called butterfly ball, for professional players, this thing is a nightmare. Not only the hitter can only guess blindly, but also the catcher can only rely on blind catching. If you must talk to me
To determine the outcome, I will throw the butterfly ball, and we will leave it to fate."
"It sounds like a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing that butterfly ball you mentioned." Li Xiu said to Rhodes.
Rhodes was a little stunned. He thought that Li Xiu, who was also a professional baseball player, would understand what he meant, but he didn't expect that Li Xiu would say this.
"Do you think I don't dare? Do you know that besides being a professional player, I am also a gambler, and my favorite thing is gambling." Rhodes' eyes became sharp.
"That's the best. I'm looking forward to you being able to throw the butterfly ball." Li Xiu said it sincerely. He really wanted to see what the butterfly ball that Rhodes said was like.
"Okay, let's see." There was no need to talk any more. Rhodes turned around and left, sitting on the steps on the other side for a while.
Soon, the third round of trials began, and there were only a few groups left. They were still feeding each other the ball to get one point each. Soon it was Li Xiu and Rhodes' turn.
This time Li Xiu stood at the pitcher's position first. Rhodes, who was standing at the batter's position, shouted to Li Xiu again: "If you think about it again, I can let you go first."
"No need to think about it, just rely on your ability." Li Xiu moved the joints of his body and prepared to start pitching.
"What pitch will he throw? A fork? A curveball? Or a high-speed straight ball?" Rhodes stared at Li Xiu in his pitching posture, making a judgment in his mind.
Although he is known as an eagle eye and possesses dynamic vision that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, but being able to see is one thing, and whether he can judge in time is another.
The moment the opponent throws the ball, it is not easy to determine what ball the opponent is throwing and swing the bat to hit the ball in time.
Especially when facing someone like Li Xiu who was good at changing balls and had such incomprehensible confidence, Rhodes couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"Why is he so confident? He doesn't even want me to let him score a ball, and he insists on life and death with me. Although it is just nonsense to fool him, where does the source of his confidence come from? Whether it is a cross ball or a curve.
With the speed of the ball he throws, I should have a chance to hit it. But his confidence seems to be 100% sure. What kind of ball will make him have that kind of confidence?"
After thinking about it, Rhodes' eyes suddenly lit up: "Does it mean that he can also throw butterfly balls? Want to bet on my luck?"
The more Rhodes thought about it, the more he was right. Apart from that, he really couldn't figure out why Li Xiu was so confident.
The physical fitness of the two is similar, and Rhodes also has super dynamic vision. Apart from unpredictable butterfly balls, there are no balls that Rhodes is not confident about hitting.
"By the way, it must be a butterfly ball." Rhodes already made a judgment in his mind.
Li Xiu had already thrown the ball, and the ball flew a little slowly in the air. The butterfly ball was the slowest pitch, which made Rhodes more firm in his judgment.
"Are you pretending to throw a crossbow? It's no use. I've seen through you. Since you want to bet with me, let's take a gamble." Rhodes became more interested in gambling, knowing that the butterfly ball is unpredictable.
Locus, even if he is Hawkeye, it is useless, he can only take a gamble.
Rhodes suddenly swung the bat and chose to hit the ball downwards. Since it was all about luck, going downwards would prevent Li Xiu from throwing a fork ball instead of a butterfly ball.
But when Rhodes swung the bat, he already felt something was wrong, because the baseball that flew over did not swing wildly and irregularly, so it seemed that it was not a butterfly ball.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you point at the ball, I can hit it just as well." The bat has been swung out, and there is no use thinking about it anymore. Rhodes can only swing hard.
But when the ball came in front of him, Rhodes seemed to be petrified, his face full of shock and incomprehension.
"Why...why is it such a slow straight ball...no change at all..." Rhodes watched helplessly as the ball flew over the top of the bat and hit the square area like that.
From the perspective of a bystander, it was as if Li Xiu had thrown a weak straight ball, but Rhodes missed it on purpose.