"Cheng Kong, high school?"

Mishima whispered the name of their first opponent.

For these first-year rookie players, this name is undoubtedly quite unfamiliar.

They don't understand.

The faces of the second and third grade players became extremely solemn.

"Are you so unlucky?"

"It's just that I need to challenge the three giants. I even met Cheng Kong in the first game!"

The seniors are very worried.

Looking at the performance of these second- and third-year seniors, Mishima and the others also realized that the opponent they encountered in the first game might not be that simple.

"Is this opponent very strong?"

Mishima said doubtfully.

Why haven't they heard of it before?

"Of course it's strong!"

Li Lei glanced at Mishima and Honglei City curiously.

He originally thought that no matter what happened, Mishima and the others had a certain understanding of powerful high schools like Nishi Tokyo.

Now it seems that he was wrong.

Mishima, including the other two guys.

Their knowledge of these high schools in Tokyo is very limited.

The only ones they really know and are familiar with are probably the few wealthy families in Western Tokyo.

"you know?"

Mishima looked suspicious.

He is a player born and raised in Tokyo. Although he is not too concerned about intelligence, he has been in youth baseball at least.

He is also the fourth player of his team and the absolute core.

When he graduated from junior high school, Mishima received invitations from many football teams, including several wealthy clubs in Nishi Tokyo.

But they were all rejected by him.

He, a local, doesn't know this, so how could Li Lei, an international student, know?

Not only Mishima thought this way, many players on the Yakushima High School baseball team also had similar thoughts.

They stared at Li Lei with suspicious eyes.

Only supervisors Sanada and Raizo Todoroki looked at Li Lei curiously.

Based on their understanding of Li Lei, Li Lei should not have taken the wrong aim.

"I really admire you. You don't know anything, yet you dare to tell the supervisor that you must break into Koshien."

Li Lei shook his head helplessly.

"Before we enter Koshien, do we need to know a little more about who our opponents are?"

Li Lei's question was like a wake-up call.

To be honest, the first-year rookies on the Yakushima High School baseball team have never noticed this.

"I just briefly learned about the two ways to enter Koshien. There are only two opportunities to participate in Koshien a year. One is the summer competition. Only the first place in each regional competition can qualify.

Tokyo, where we are located, is divided into two competition areas, namely East Tokyo and West Tokyo. Our next task is to pass all the opponents in the knockout round of West Tokyo. As for the spring trials of Koshien, Tokyo

There are only one and a half places. The champion team in the autumn competition will advance directly and automatically get a place. The runner-up will compete with the fifth place in the Kanto region for a place."

"Who doesn't know this common sense?"

Mishima is a dead duck with a tough mouth.

Everyone at the scene knew that this guy only had a rough idea before, and he was definitely not as clear as Li Lei.

But they also really admire Li Lei.

After freshmen join the team, they have to adapt to school life every day, whether it is studying or getting along with the classmates around them, which requires a lot of energy.

As for the rest of the time, they spent almost all of it practicing baseball.

During the game, Todoroki Raizo asked the players to play freely.

How to be happy, how to fight!

But during normal practice, their training intensity is probably not worse than even those of the top giants in the country.

After all, their goal is to break into Koshien.

Originally, their strength and talent were not as good as those players from wealthy high schools.

If you don't practice hard, won't you have no chance at all?

Under this kind of training intensity, they have no way to take care of anything else.

Compared to them, Li Lei's time is undoubtedly more tight.

As an international student, just to keep up with everyone's homework progress, Li Lei has to work twice or even three times as hard as others.

Even if it is daily practice.

Li Lei, who had to take both pitching and swing practice into consideration, was more tired than any of them.

in this case.

Li Lei was actually able to investigate information and learn about the Jiaziyuan schedule.

It’s hard for everyone to admire me or not.

And I'm afraid it's more than that. Li Lei should know much more information than they thought.

"Tell me about the team!"

Supervisor Todoroki Raizo took the initiative to speak.

Other friends are undoubtedly very curious about this topic.

"I don't know much about the teams. Apart from a few wealthy high school games, there are only about a dozen teams. I have a rough idea."

"perhaps……"

Mishima's eyes straightened.

He really couldn't imagine that under such intense training, where did Li Lei find the time and energy to pay attention to this?

"I saw a post on the Internet, and I think the analysis in that article is very reasonable. Of course, every team will have different changes every year, and dark horse teams are not included in the statistics. But

Overall, the more than 130 teams in Nishi Tokyo can be roughly divided into five levels based on the team's heritage and competitiveness in previous years."

Five levels?

The players on the Yakushima High School baseball team had never heard of such an argument before.

They were involuntarily attracted by Li Lei's words.

"The lowest level, that is, the ones at the bottom, are basically the teams that made it out of the first round. For them, the important thing is to participate in the Koshien regional qualifiers."

Hearing what Li Lei said, the players' faces unconsciously showed smiles.

If calculated in proportion, there are undoubtedly the most teams of this level in the country.

"Going up to the next level, that is, Level 4, they have a chance to win one or two rounds, or even reach the third round. But it is difficult for these teams to have the strength and determination to enter Koshien. Our team before

, probably in this position.”

"What?"

Before Li Lei finished speaking, the second and third grade seniors became furious.

It doesn't matter if Li Lei belittles their strength. The seniors also admit that their skills are inferior to others.

But it is absolutely not okay to belittle their determination.

Facing the angry senior, Li Lei shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

"These words are not what I said, but what the post said. According to the above evaluation criteria, we are probably in that position."

"How is that possible? Even if we are not in the second echelon, we are at least in the middle."

The second and third grade players on the Yakushima High School baseball team simply couldn't accept such a result.

Their eyes were filled with angry flames, as if they would engulf Li Lei in the next second.

From their perspective, the strength of the Yakushima High School baseball team is somewhere in the middle.

In the past, they were able to reach the third round, and if they were lucky, they could even reach the fourth round.

In other words, they can eliminate almost 90% of their competitors.

With such strength, how could it be possible to be ranked second to last?

There is definitely a shady story here.

"I can understand the sentiments of the seniors, but do you want to listen to the standards for the middle position?"

After hearing Li Lei's words, several second and third grade seniors reluctantly calmed down.

But they still stared at Li Lei with the eyes of a judge, listening to his excuses?

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Chapter completed!