Cloud Thinking

The opening day of the team competition was a spring day with clear blue skies and warm sunshine. Bellman, which had been covered in snow for nearly half a year, finally revealed its true appearance. Colorful flags were hung on the diagonal eaves, swaying and fluttering in the spring breeze, adding spring colors to this city of ice and snow.

Children were chasing and playing in the streets, cheerful laughter echoed everywhere, shouts and hawking sounds came one after another, and horse-drawn carriages rumbled by, but had to stop from time to time due to the crowded crowds.

Walking into the alley and into the bazaar, you can see a lot of people gathered together. Squeezing into the crowd and coming to the low counter, you can see papers on the table with names of each team participating in the team competition. Among them, a few are highlighted in red - those are the teams favored by the majority.

A group of people were clamoring to place bets, putting in how much money to bet on which team would win, and the detailed information of each team had been posted a few days ago. After all, not many people knew about the first-year students. But even so, the teams that placed the most bets were basically the sophomore teams. After all, they had a year of experience, and even if the rules of the competition had been changed this year, the extra year of study was not in vain, right?

In the largest competition arena of Carter College, all teams have assembled and are waiting to go on stage. The stands are packed with people, all looking forward to this grand event.

Offstage, Britney tugged at the sleeve of Helia, who was standing next to her, and asked in a low voice, "By the way, I still don't know what our team is called. What name did you come up with?"

"Yes, Bellei, you didn't tell us the team name. It would be bad if we miss the opportunity to play when our name is called!" Drummond echoed.

Helia, who was holding her head high, smiling, pouting her lips and humming a little tune, suddenly stopped, looked away from Britney without leaving a trace, and said with a guilty conscience: "You will know when you go on stage. Just follow me, you won't miss it."

Lydia hugged Helia's arm, and leaned against Helia with her tall body shrunk a little aggrieved. When she heard what she said, she nodded without thinking. It seemed that she would nod no matter what Helia said...

Even though Karzer has been with them for a while, he is still not used to joining their conversations. Since the captain has said so, then let's do it. It doesn't matter what the team name is anyway.

But he didn't have to wait too long when he heard the teacher standing guard at the door shouting to the waiting teams inside: "Miscellaneous team! Miscellaneous team! It's your turn!" He was still laughing in his heart at which team had come up with such a funny name, when he saw his captain walking forward with his head held high.

Lydia followed closely beside Helia and walked forward, leaving Britney, Drummond and Karzer standing there in a daze. The teams around them that had not yet entered the field cast their eyes towards them, and their laughter penetrated their ears completely unhindered.

I take back what I just said! No matter what, the team name cannot be out of the normal range! Who the hell is a slacker? I am not a slacker! Karzer roared in his heart.

Drummond held his forehead with his hand. He knew that the strange reaction of the little princess just now must be because she gave him some strange name, so she was too guilty to tell them!

Britney laughed twice. If she wasn't in the team, she would admit the name, but she was still here! How could she survive in the magic world if she was called a scoundrel as an eighth-rank magician?

"The idiot team! What are you doing? Get on the field!" Seeing that the remaining three people were still not moving, the teacher urged them again. The three people didn't want to hear this name again, so they ran after them. When they passed by the teacher, they heard him muttering with his head down: "What kind of name is this... Are they really a group of idiots?"

Aaaaaaaaaaaa! Helia! You bastard! Give us back our innocence!

Obviously, their team name not only made people from other teams laugh, but also made all the audience present laugh, including Blott who was sitting in an excellent viewing seat. The smile on his face froze when he saw the first person from the team walk out.

Little Princess??? Mixed Team??? What???

Helia enjoyed the attention of everyone present, and walked with a heroic and proud manner, as if she was not the one who bore the title of the mixed team. Under the resentful gaze of the three teammates behind them, they walked to their team's position and stood still.

"Is it too late to withdraw from the competition now? I don't want to lose my reputation in my later years." Britney complained.

"It's too late. Unless you get beaten to death in the game and the judges determine that you can't return to the game, you can withdraw from the game." Drummond replied, "Of course, I think whether you continue to stay in the game or withdraw in the way I said, your reputation can't be saved, bastard number three."

"You, bastard Number Four, what qualifications do you have to criticize me?" Britney was so angry that she laughed and "replied".

"They are all idiots, what's there to fight about..." Karzer said with his head down and a sad face. If his family saw this game and saw that he was a member of the idiot team, who knows what they would say about him...

Wuuwuwu! It's all because of the captain's crappy name! From now on, I'm afraid that wherever I go, everyone will laugh at me and call me a scoundrel! Wuuwuwuwuwuwuwu!

"Hahahaha! The Mixed Team! What a great name!" The team that had entered the venue earlier laughed. The laughter was so loud that they had no intention of holding it back, and it reached Helia's ears directly.

She turned around and raised her middle finger to the person who laughed the loudest. She seemed to think that her attack was not strong enough, so she pulled out the arm that Lydia was holding, raised two middle fingers, and said sarcastically: "If some teams were beaten by the mixed team, wouldn't it be more embarrassing?"

Although the people on the other side didn't understand what Helia meant by raising her middle finger, they still felt offended and said angrily, "It's not certain who will win or lose! The mixed team should just mix well!"

"Ouch! You're so anxious! Hahahaha! Did I get it right? You're really not as good as the mixed team?" Helia was very sarcastic. After she said this, the opponent was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and rushed over to beat her. In the end, he was stopped by his teammates.

"Hey! You're a coward! Hahahahaha!" Helia pointed at the man and laughed.

“Fuck you!” The man couldn’t hold it back any longer, and before his teammates could hold him back, he rushed over like a fat ball, but was mercilessly kicked away by Lydia who was guarding Helia, and flew out.

"Not bad, not bad! Nice kick!" Helia clapped and cheered. She didn't expect Lydia to be so strong. She saw that the little fat guy was quite big and must be quite heavy. Lydia actually kicked him away with one kick! She was indeed the woman she had chosen!

"Is that too much?" The captain of that team stood up and looked at Helia with a frown.

"You were the ones who laughed at us first. We just responded verbally. Your people couldn't stand it and jumped on us. We acted in self-defense. How could we be too much?" Helia spread her hands and shrugged, pretending to be innocent, but she really deserved a beating.

Then she took two steps forward, approaching the howling little Fatty who was kicked to the ground, and smiled evilly, "If I go up and kick him again, that would be excessive."

"You!" The man was a little annoyed by Helia's arrogant attitude and took a step forward to have some "friendly" physical communication. Lydia stood in front of Helia without any fear. She had been well fed by Levita in the academy these days, and her height had grown rapidly. It seemed that she was almost 1.8 meters tall. With the strict training, her physique was not something a small magician could withstand.

"Hey! The two teams over there! What are you doing! Separate immediately!" The teacher on patrol quickly noticed the abnormality here, walked over quickly with the magic wand in hand, and angrily asked Lydia and the captain over there to separate.

In recent years, team competitions have been developed into new uses by these students, because the college does not allow private provocations. If caught in serious cases, the student will be expelled. It is a high-voltage line. Even if people have hatred or grudges, they will at most curse and glare at each other and dare not take any action.

But it is different in team competitions. All conflicts are reasonable. Here, as long as you dislike someone, you can go up and shoot him, as long as you don't kill him. This is the bottom line of team competitions, and any action is legal.

Therefore, team competition is also jokingly called the best time to take revenge and settle grievances!

Do you have a classmate you don't like? Take the opportunity to give him a slap during the team competition!

A classmate borrowed money from you and didn't pay it back? Hit him on the head during the team competition until he pays it back!

Is there a slacker in the research group who doesn't work? During the team competition, slap him in the face until he admits his mistake and is willing to work!

It was precisely because everyone had developed this new use that many people couldn't help but fight at the opening ceremony of the team competition. But fighting in front of so many people, before the game even started, was a slap in the face of Carter College! It was a disgrace to the whole country! The dean would never allow this to happen, so in recent years, teachers would patrol during the entrance of the team competition opening ceremony to prevent friction between teams from fighting in front of so many people.

When the team leader saw the teacher coming, he said, "Wait for me," and returned to his team. Helia didn't take his warning seriously at all, and returned to the team with Lydia.

With Britney and Drummond around, you'd be awesome if you could kill me!

The teacher who came running saw that both sides had returned to their teams, so he stopped between them, panting, and looked left and right with his sharp eyes, silently warning them not to fight again, or else they would not be able to blame him for not giving them face in front of so many people.

After the teacher left, Lydia suddenly pulled Helia's hand, leaned over and whispered in her ear: "I'll help you, secretly, beat him." He was referring to the captain of the team next door, because he had just provoked Helia, but because the teacher was there, Lydia didn't do anything, but it didn't mean that the grudge was over.

"Do you remember what he looks like?" Helia replied in a low voice, obviously agreeing with Lydia's suggestion.

Lydia looked over and happened to meet the other person's gaze. She bared her teeth at the man, frightening him so much that he quickly turned his head back and replied, "Remember."

Helia patted Lydia's hand and said with a smile: "Then beat him!"

"My two masters, please stop causing trouble. We can't stand being ganged up on by a group of people!" Britney naturally heard the two men's whispers and begged with some exhaustion.

"The team competition only happens once a year. If you miss this chance to beat up your classmates, you won't have it again this year! You can't miss it!" Helia said confidently. She put her hands on her hips, looking excited. It was obvious that she had made up her mind. "I'm going to beat up everyone I don't like!"

"You won't hit your teammates, right?" Drummond raised his hand and said weakly.

Helia looked at him and showed her standard eight-toothed smile, but what she said made Drummond unable to laugh, "That's not necessarily true!"

By the time all the teams had entered, it was already an hour later. Helia was getting a little bored waiting, so she had to rely on Lydia to tell her about her experience studying at Levita to keep her alert.

This year, the number of students enrolled was very high, including the sophomores, there were nearly two hundred people in total, divided into forty-four teams. When Helia heard the number, she felt very bad, four, death, what bad luck!

However, because there were too many teams and the first game was a positional competition, one competition venue was not enough. The organizers had no choice but to divide the 44 teams into four groups. Each group competed in the same competition venue, and the final results were calculated based on points.