Chapter 103 Special Training

“Why does his special training have to take place in my room?” Sun Pan complained to Guo Nu while swiping his room card to open the door to his and Yang Muge’s room.

“Oh, Lao Guo’s and my rooms already have other people in them, which is inconvenient. Only your and Yang Muge’s room doesn’t have outsiders,” Zhou Yi explained, pushing Guo Nu into the room.

After Sun Pan closed the door, he stood at the entrance with his hands on his hips and asked, “Alright, now can you tell us what this special training is actually going to be like… What are you looking for!”

Zhou Yi rummaged through the drawers as he said, “Just a moment, just a moment… Got it!”

Then he pulled out a piece of paper and started walking around the room with it, checking items one by one: “Blanket, desk lamp, wall lamp, TV, mirror, chair…”

“What’s that you’re holding in your hand?”

“A list of the room’s items and their prices,” Zhou Yi said.

“What?” Sun Pan suddenly had a bad feeling…

At this moment, Zhou Yi had finished checking off all the items on the list. Only then did he say to everyone, “Lao Guo’s problem is that he’s not calm enough, so we’ll force him to remain calm even when it’s very difficult to do so. If Lao Guo can persevere through this special training, I believe it will definitely help him on the field!”

“Get to the point!”

“Specifically, this special training is to have Lao Guo juggle the ball while we insult him,” Zhou Yi finally revealed his idea.

“Huh?” Sun Pan looked utterly confused, and Guo Nu was also surprised.

What kind of special training was this?

Zhou Yi further explained, “Right now, as soon as someone insults Lao Guo, he’ll fly into a rage. So we’ll use this method to make him lose his composure. But while he’s losing his composure, he still has to maintain the stability of his juggling. If the ball flies away or hits the ground, he’ll have to accept a punishment.”

“I see…” Yang Muge, who had been silent all along, understood Zhou Yi’s intention and nodded. He also felt that although this idea sounded very unreliable at first, it was actually… quite reasonable.

Juggling the ball requires a calm mind to control the ball well, but if emotions are very volatile, it would be difficult to continue juggling—one might even want to kick the ball away with all their might.

In this situation, Guo Nu would indeed have to work hard to control his emotions in order to further control his body to continue juggling the ball.

“What’s the punishment for failure?” Sun Pan was more curious about the punishment. Anyway, he wasn’t the one being insulted, so he didn’t care whether the method was effective or not.

“The punishment for failure… bark like a dog three times!” Zhou Yi said.

“Ah?!” This time, even Yang Muge couldn’t help but exclaim. He and Sun Pan opened their mouths wide and looked at Zhou Yi, then turned to look at Guo Nu.

Guo Nu didn’t expect the punishment for failure to be this either. His face was red all the way to the roots of his neck.

Zhou Yi naturally saw Guo Nu’s expression, and he said to Guo Nu, “Lao Guo, if you don’t want to bark like a dog, then don’t let the soccer ball hit the ground. This is your only chance. Do you accept it?”

Guo Nu considered it for a while. He really wanted to turn around and leave, because he felt that Zhou Yi’s method was simply a disguised way of teasing him.

But then he thought of how Zhou Yi had spoken up for him on the field this afternoon, and he felt that Zhou Yi shouldn’t be that kind of person.

Finally, he nodded: “Alright… then.”

“Good!” Zhou Yi was very happy that Guo Nu could accept it. He snapped his fingers and tossed the soccer ball to Guo Nu: “Then let’s start now!”

Guo Nu used his chest to cushion the soccer ball that Zhou Yi had tossed over, and then took the opportunity to start juggling.

The soccer ball bounced back and forth between his left and right feet. This was the most common and simplest way to juggle a ball. In this special training, Guo Nu felt that this was also the safest method.

Zhou Yi plopped down on the sofa, striking a pose as if he was watching a play, and then started chatting with Guo Nu: “Actually, Lao Guo, I think Liang Qiqi’s words were quite representative. Your performance after coming on the field was really terrible. It’s reasonable to say that you are a Bayern Munich youth team double agent…”

Before he could finish speaking, the soccer ball fell to the carpet. Guo Nu clenched his fists and glared at Zhou Yi, his face flushed red.

“Guo Nu!” Seeing this, Sun Pan quickly shouted.

Zhou Yi spread out his hands: “This is special training, special training, Lao Guo. You can’t even make it through the first round, how are you going to play in the game?”

“Zhou Yi is right, this is just training, those things he said are for the needs of the training, it’s not really like that…” Yang Muge also explained for Zhou Yi.

Only then did Guo Nu realize that Zhou Yi had indeed said that he would insult him while he juggled the ball…

“N-n-n-no… I’m s-s-sorry.” Embarrassed, Guo Nu stuttered immediately, “I t-t-took it seriously. The t-tone you used was t-too much like… like you meant it…”

“Of course, we have to strive for realism, otherwise how can we achieve the training effect?” Zhou Yi sat down again, “But you just let the soccer ball hit the ground, shouldn’t you accept the punishment?”

Hearing this, Guo Nu’s complexion, which had just improved, darkened again.

The air in the room suddenly seemed to freeze, and there wasn’t a single sound. It seemed that everyone was waiting for something.

Guo Nu lowered his head and clenched his fists hard, so hard that his knuckles turned white.

Barking like a dog in front of these people… This was the first time in his seventeen years of life that he had ever experienced such a thing. If anyone had ever spoken to him with a similar request in the past, he would have probably beaten them until their face was covered in bruises, and he would never have allowed anyone to insult him like this, even if he was beaten into the hospital!

But now…

Zhou Yi wasn’t trying to humiliate him, but to help him. He was being kind.

Guo Nu repeatedly reminded himself of this in his heart, otherwise he would really have lost control.

After what felt like a very long time, he finally managed to control his emotions.

He lowered his head and said in a very low voice, “Woof, woof, woof…”

Zhou Yi asked, “Lao Guo, are you stuttering, or did you really bark three times?”

“Three times!” Guo Nu said angrily.

“Your voice is too soft, I thought you were too embarrassed and started stuttering again…”

“Woof! Woof! Woof!” Guo Nu shouted three times again angrily. Each of these three sounds was full of energy and very distinct.

Zhou Yi nodded repeatedly: “Good! This time, you really didn’t stutter!”

Guo Nu was panting with anger, but he kept reminding himself that all of this was to train himself…

Sun Pan, on the other hand, laughed heartlessly next to him.

However, when the training continued, he quickly stopped laughing.

Because he found that Guo Nu’s emotions were now very unstable, so naturally he couldn’t juggle the ball well, and the soccer ball would fly everywhere. Once again, it flew against the wall and almost hit the wall lamp.

This scared Sun Pan badly—if the wall lamp broke, he would have to pay for it! This was his and Yang Muge’s room!

“Be careful!” he said, pointing at Guo Nu.

“D-d-d-do you think I w-w-want to bark like a dog?” Guo Nu, who had just woofed three times, also said through gritted teeth.

“Damn…” Sun Pan was speechless, so he decided to do something himself. This was much better than trusting Guo Nu’s ability to control his emotions.

After the training continued, Sun Pan stopped watching the show with his arms crossed like before. Instead, he lowered his center of gravity and stared intently at the soccer ball, while at the same time slightly spreading his hands, just like he was standing in front of the goal waiting for the opponent to attack…

Soon, after Zhou Yi said, “Hey Lao Guo, looking like this, you must still be single, right?” the soccer ball flew out.

At the same time, Sun Pan shot out like an arrow, soaring into the air, reaching out his hands, and catching the soccer ball that Guo Nu had kicked away. At the same time, his whole body fell onto the bed—if he hadn’t stopped it, the ball would have gone towards the wall lamp again.

“Do you have a grudge against the wall lamp in my room?” Sun Pan was still scared after lying on the bed.

“I-I-I… can’t c-control it!” Guo Nu stammered in his defense. He would stutter when his emotions were unstable, and ever since the special training began, he hadn’t been emotionally stable…

“Three times, Lao Guo,” Zhou Yi reminded Guo Nu.

Guo Nu gritted his teeth and barked “woof” three times again, and the training continued.

Sun Pan became extremely busy, catching and blocking, and catching the soccer ball that Guo Nu kicked into the air—this was even more difficult than defending against the shots of those elite youth team players in the game, because he couldn’t use the action of pushing or hitting the soccer ball away. He had to make sure to catch the soccer ball, without letting go or hitting it anywhere else.

So after only a few rounds, Sun Pan was panting with exhaustion.

“Damn it… are we training you or training me!” Sun Pan complained, lying on the bed with the soccer ball in his arms. He didn’t even want to get up anymore. Because getting up meant he had to be frightened and flustered again.

Yang Muge also joined in the action of helping Guo Nu clean up the mess, intercepting the soccer ball with Sun Pan. After all, Sun Pan couldn’t cover all the space around Guo Nu three hundred and sixty degrees, and there were various obstacles in the room, so he couldn’t move freely either.

While Yang Muge and Sun Pan were running and jumping all over the room after the soccer ball, Zhou Yi sat on the sofa, seemingly chatting with Guo Nu, but shooting poisonous arrows at Guo Nu one by one, and then making all three of them restless.

What about himself? Sitting on the sofa, taking the time to drink a cup of coffee while Guo Nu “woof woof woof”, it was really pleasant.

Well, the moonlight outside seems pretty good…