Zombie Bodyguard

Chapter 1717 - 1714: Even the Second Miss Gets Jealous

The outsider team captain personally carried the ball to attack, and the other players naturally cooperated fully. Lin Tian and Xu Feibai became key targets to watch, preventing them from interfering with the captain’s ball attack.

Lin Tian looked at the two players in front of him and suddenly said, "Look, there’s a beautiful girl over there watching you."

The airplane trick overhead didn’t work, but the allure of a beauty was still considerable. The two couldn’t help but turn their heads to look, and indeed, there was a girl looking over, even more than one; nearly all the female spectators were looking this way.

The two felt delighted, thinking maybe they were more attractive than the captain, but then they noticed the beauties’ gazes suddenly shifted, seemingly elsewhere.

They turned back and found Lin Tian was gone, already running toward the captain. Only then did they realize that the girls weren’t looking at them but at Lin Tian, and they had misled themselves by standing near him.

"You two useless guys can’t even keep an eye on one person!" The goalkeeper in black saw their distraction from the back and couldn’t help but curse loudly.

The two dared not retort to the outsider players. Outsiders were like masters in the team, while their team players seemed like outsiders, with a world of difference in treatment.

The two started chasing fiercely, but Lin Tian left them streets behind, having already gotten in front of the outsider team captain in advance.

Lin Tian beckoned to the captain, provoking him to come on. With such a taunting gesture, anyone who wanted to pass the ball couldn’t save face. A grand outsider team captain needed to pass to bypass someone supposedly inexperienced; how could he continue?

The outsider team captain charged forward with the ball, and as he approached Lin Tian, he suddenly made several fancy moves in succession, dizzying the eye. Then he realized the ball at his feet was gone, yet he was still doing the moves without the ball.

Upon regaining composure, he saw the ball had somehow moved to Lin Tian’s feet. Lin Tian smirked and dribbled away with the ball.

"Boo..." The crowd let out a collective boo. To do fake moves to the point of losing the ball without realizing it was indeed a rare oddity in the world.

"Damn, this is the first time I’ve known fake moves to be done like this."

"You just don’t get it. This is called mixing truth with falsehood, fake within the truth, faking the truth... Damn, I can’t make this up anymore..."

"Damn it, what a disgrace, and he calls himself an outsider!"

The classmates’ comments reached the outsider team captain’s ears word for word, making him blush with embarrassment, and his eyes became fierce with anger.

"If I don’t cripple you, I’ll take your last name!" The outsider team captain suppressed his anger, grunted, and suddenly charged at Lin Tian, then slid in from behind to tackle the ball.

However, halfway through, he changed direction, aiming for Lin Tian’s ankle joint. Soccer shoes are different from other sports shoes; they have very hard studs, which can cause serious injury if they hit a person.

It was not uncommon in professional matches for players to have their legs broken from being tackled, and some even intentionally tackled to ruin the opponent’s main player.

Lin Tian didn’t dodge, allowing the outsider team captain to tackle his joint. Bang, the captain kicked Lin Tian solidly, but his own foot was numbed as if he’d kicked an iron pole.

"Since you’re so eager to be the first, I’ll grant you that." Lin Tian coldly glanced at him and stepped on his foot as he continued forward with the ball.

"Ah..." The outsider team captain let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered, his hands trembling as he clutched his foot, cold sweat pouring from his forehead.

"Captain, what’s wrong with you..." Several players hurried over.

"I... My foot... is injured." The outsider captain sucked in a breath of cold air, speaking in broken sentences.

"Do you need to go down and rest first?" Injuries are common on the soccer field; although the players were anxious, they weren’t overly worried.

The captain’s face twisted in pain and fury. "Don’t worry about me, go cripple that Lin Tian for me and get revenge!"

The players looked at each other, as the captain’s demand was really excessive.

"What are you idling for, hurry and go, useless!" The outsider captain shouted angrily. Being continuously called useless had made the players’ expressions unpleasant.

However, before they could decide what to do, a scream suddenly came from their own goal post. They turned to see the goalkeeper in black holding his foot in pain, groaning just like the captain.

The ball rolled to the side. It turned out Lin Tian had taken a shot. The black-dressed goalkeeper, afraid to catch it, tried to kick it away, but his foot was struck by the ball, which resulted in severe pain, rendering his entire foot immobile.

All the players were stunned. Two successive key outsiders injured—this was unusually bizarre. The captain’s tackle could be explained as colliding or an accidental sprain, but the goalkeeper injuring himself while receiving the ball with his foot—was his foot made of tofu?

But who would’ve thought Lin Tian’s shot was so powerful that ordinary people couldn’t bear it.

"What are you blanking out for? Hurry and get them to the hospital." Xu Feibai reminded expressionlessly.

The players then reacted, hurriedly carrying the injured teammates. In the process, touching the wounds, the goalkeeper in black and the outsider captain groaned in pain.

Soon, all the team members had left. What seemed like a lively match abruptly ended, with neither side scoring. But the audience could see the team left in disgrace, having secretly suffered losses.

The soccer classmates looked bewildered; they hadn’t gotten a chance to touch the ball, and the match suddenly ended. This could be deemed the world’s shortest soccer match, right?

"Yeah, Lin Tian, you’re so cool, so awesome!" The girls cheered, and the boys applauded and shouted.

Lin Tian turned and walked toward the volleyball classmates, an action that sent the girls into excitement and anticipation. Only Xiao Manxuan puffed her cute cheeks, looking at Lin Tian with apparent discontent.

Of course, the little girl was unhappy. Lin Tian’s performance on the soccer field made the girls who already admired him admire him even more. Some even shouted they wanted to be his girlfriend.

"Hmph, just knows how to attract bees and butterflies." Xiao Manxuan huffed tenderly.

Under the girls’ expectant gazes, Lin Tian walked up to just one person, Xiao Manxuan. Xiao Manxuan suddenly found herself the center of attention, caught off guard as she could feel the countless envy and jealousy in the girls’ gazes.

Hmph, what’s so good about this bad guy, Xiao Manxuan muttered to herself.

Lin Tian smiled slightly at her, suddenly reached out, and touched her delicate nose, chuckling, "Why is it that I sent them running, and you seem unhappy?"

Being touched on the nose by Lin Tian in such a public, intimate manner made her heart flutter, her cheeks turning a faint pink.

"Who told you to attract bees and butterflies all the time?" Xiao Manxuan had planned to scold him, but her words came out tinged with a slight hint of jealousy.

"Your jealous look is really cute." Lin Tian said with a cheerful smile.

This blunt public compliment made the little girl’s heart race again. She glared at Lin Tian and snorted, "I’m going back to class, I’m ignoring you."