Give Up

At the same time, someone hugged Zhou En and tried to drag him away.

"Zhou En, did you fail to come up with a solution?" Just then, Li Hui looked at Zhou En with disdain.

"You should understand that this is an unbridgeable gap between veterans and rookies."

"You'd better admit defeat obediently tomorrow, or I'll beat you so badly you won't know which way is north."

Li Hui had made no effort to hide his voice, and most of the people in the club had heard him.

"Zhou En is screwed now."

"Heh heh, serves that guy right for insisting on going out to eat. He somehow lost a fight he was guaranteed to win."

"Bro, this is where you're wrong. If you can lose, why bother trying to win?"

"Hahaha, that's true."

"That's what you get for digging your own grave."

"Hahahaha."

The mocking laughter stabbed into Zhou En's heart like needles, leaving him terribly distressed.

"Zhou En, don't mind them." Chubby gently patted Zhou En on the shoulder, afraid that Zhou En might act impulsively and do something irrational.

Zhou En took a deep breath. He also understood that making a scene now would do him no good.

"Wang Rui, come with me." Zhou En grabbed Chubby and headed outside.

Chubby looked at Zhou En with relief, as if to say that Zhou En had finally grown up.

If Zhou En had known what Chubby was thinking, he might have strangled him.

But Chubby soon realized that something was wrong, because Zhou En was not heading toward the club's entrance. He was going farther inside.

At the very back of the club was a fighting ring.

Chubby had come to the club purely to have fun, but he had never expected Zhou En to challenge him to a ring match.

"Wang Rui, do me a favor. I'll definitely find a way to make up for the weaknesses of Sun Character Consecutive Fist."

Chubby was helpless. He nodded his enormous head, then added, "Go easy on me."

In fact, both sides wore protective gear and helmets during sparring matches. They only fought bare-chested during actual competitions.

After putting on his helmet, Zhou En said to the nervous-looking Chubby, "You know the weaknesses of Sun Character Consecutive Fist, right?"

Chubby nodded at that. The weaknesses of the famous Sun Character Consecutive Fist had long since been exposed.

Most importantly, Sun Character Consecutive Fist was only effective at close range. As long as the distance was maintained, it was completely useless.

Another weakness was that it only targeted the center line. As long as an opponent guarded that area, there was nothing to worry about.

Of course, it had one more flaw: Sun Character Consecutive Fist was purely offensive and had no defensive capabilities whatsoever.

Chubby assumed a karate guard stance. The reason he had learned karate was that karate pursued the ultimate striking power.

Zhou En, meanwhile, took up a sanda guard stance, which was entirely based on his personal preference.

"I'm coming." Zhou En warned Chubby before shooting forward like a cannonball, closing the distance directly so he could unleash Sun Character Consecutive Fist.

But Chubby clearly knew the weaknesses of Sun Character Consecutive Fist, so how could he give Zhou En a chance to get close?

His short legs repeatedly kicked toward Zhou En. Though the attacks had no technique or pattern, they forcibly kept Zhou En from closing in.

Cold sweat continuously beaded on Zhou En's forehead.

"Hahaha, look at that! Isn't that the famous Zhou En from school? He can't even beat a benchwarmer."

"At that level, he still dreams of challenging a starting team member? What a joke."

"Exactly. He should take a good look at how much he's actually capable of."

Zhou En and Chubby were sparring inside the club, so the club members had followed them over one after another.

"I think he wants to comprehend the weaknesses of Sun Character Consecutive Fist during the fight and find a way to counter them."

"Hahahaha, what an overestimation of his abilities. Has he watched too many cartoons?"

"Maybe he thinks his little cosmos is about to explode."

Outside the ring, Li Hui crossed his arms, a faint, barely perceptible smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

On the other side, Wu Min frowned. He had actually thought highly of Zhou En, but Zhou En should never have exposed his ultimate move.

Wu Min gently shook his head, his eyes filled with disappointment toward Zhou En.

Liu Yu lightly bit her pearly lower lip. She also understood that it was impossible to make up for the weaknesses of Sun Character Consecutive Fist in such a short time.

Before tomorrow's match had even begun, its result was already destined.

Zhou En no longer had the slightest chance.

"Whew, whew, whew." Chubby's chest rose and fell violently. He was clearly exhausted.

"Zhou En, stop. I can't go on anymore."

Zhou En's hands hung at his sides. He stood there silently, and no one knew what he was thinking.

He could have relied on his formidable strength to defeat Chubby outright, but that was not the result Zhou En wanted.

Zhou En wanted to find the weaknesses of his Sun Character Consecutive Fist through sparring with Chubby.

Unfortunately, he had failed.

Seeing that there was no more excitement to watch, everyone chatted as they turned and left.

Only Chubby and Zhou En remained in the ring.

Seeing Zhou En standing like that, Chubby walked over and patted him on the shoulder. He no longer wore his usual worldly, experienced expression.

"Zhou En, give up. Go back and repeat your final year of high school. Maybe you can still get into Tsinghua or Peking University!"

"You should know that pinning your hopes on mixed martial arts isn't realistic."

"Everyone has had dreams, but everyone eventually understands why they're called dreams: because they only exist in dreams."

"You're still young. Going back to repeat your senior year isn't a big deal. If you're worried you won't be able to explain it to your parents, I can talk to them for you. I guarantee they won't make things difficult for you."

Seeing that Zhou En was still standing there blankly, Chubby shook his head and sighed.

To recruit more people and meet the trainees' training needs, the club's classrooms were used in four separate time slots.

It was much like a youth activity center or a tutoring class.

That was why Zhou En normally saw almost none of the other starting team members, apart from Li Hui and Wu Min.

But today was an exception, because today was the club's final selection trial for starting team members. Every trainee who had joined the club would come to participate.

After all, what if they made the starting roster? Wouldn't their future prospects soar?

The club's head coach, Liu Yu, had taken this into consideration and specifically rented the school's sports field as the venue for the club's selection trial.

There was no way this could remain a secret. In particular, after Chubby started streaming on Gouya Live, the selection trial attracted the attention of quite a few teachers and students.

"Buddy, don't you have class today?"

"Of course I had to ask for leave to watch the selection trial on such an important day."

"Do you think Zhou En can win today?"

"Haha, you know Zhou En's trump card has already been exposed. Against everyone else, he'll crush them effortlessly."

"Uh, true enough."