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  The host paused for a moment, then continued: "First question, in a regular international basketball game, how many players are on the court at the same time? Answer A, 5 people. Answer B, 10 people. Answer C, 12 people. Let's take a look at Liao Jiajia's answer - A, 5 people."

  As soon as the host's words fell, a sound wave spread among the audience in the gymnasium. These questions were just a piece of cake for some boys who liked basketball, so before the host announced the answer, everyone knew that the girl named Liao Jiajia had already answered incorrectly. Among the sounds emitted by these audiences, there were those who felt sorry for Liao Jiajia's incorrect answer and those who found it a bit funny that she got such an easy question wrong.

  "Oh, what a pity! Liao Jiajia's first question was wrong. Perhaps our question had a bit of a brain-twisting element to it, and maybe Liao Jiajia understood the term "on-court players" as referring to one team. Of course, this question was designed to be a bit brain-twisting, but that's to test the contestants' ability to think on their feet! The basketball court is full of unpredictable changes, and our school's basketball team needs a manager who can respond to sudden events at any time... Unfortunately, Liao Jiajia got this question wrong, but don't worry, let's move on to the next one."

  "This host really has some skills with words. It's a pity that our school doesn't have an official position for live sports commentary, or else this guy would definitely be qualified for the job."

  Next, continue to announce the answer, this girl named Liao Jiajia answered three questions correctly and two incorrectly, she also smiled satisfactorily and walked off the stage.

  "This girl would make a great manager, she's really cute. And her figure is top-notch." A boy wearing the school basketball team uniform said with a nudge to his teammate's shoulder.

  "Yeah, it's okay. But I heard from the person who went to hand out the registration forms that two stunning beauties also took the forms to fill them out. One of them was even the beauty who sat in the stands watching us train that day..." His teammate chimed in, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by another teammate beside him.

  "Are you serious? The beauty who sat in the stands that day also signed up?" Zhang Jialin suddenly heard this news behind his teammate and was excited for a moment.

  "Ah, this is not a rumor. It was Bi Jianguo and Chen Chenbin who told me. They met her when they went to hand in the forms that day. They also found out the girl's name, which is... Yan Nan. That's right, Yan Nan. A first-year student." Zhang Yong, nicknamed "007" on the basketball team, was indeed well-informed about school gossip.

  "I'll go take a look at the judges' table and remind those little rascals to give that beautiful female judge, Manager Wang, high scores. That way we'll have motivation to play ball." Zhang Jialin said with a hopeful face.

  Zhang Yong and his teammates looked at each other after Zhang Jialin quickly walked away with an excited face, both feeling a bit speechless about their team's second main player. The basketball team manager wasn't just one person dominating the scene; in the hearts of these players, the best female manager was still single and beautiful. That day, the beautiful woman in the stands was indeed stunning, but she already had a boyfriend, which meant that even if she were to become their team's female manager, they could only admire her from afar.

  The competition is still ongoing, and the girls who came on stage afterwards were also very beautiful, but they all had to be slightly inferior to that No. 3 Liao Jiajia. However, the audience's enthusiasm was still high, and the intermittent wolf whistles made many of the girls on stage feel quite shy, but their shy appearance also added a few points of cuteness.

  Most of the girls who participated in the selection only had a superficial understanding of basketball, and those simple basketball knowledge questions could stump a large number of them. But who let these girls be beauties? Even if they answered the question incorrectly, the audience would just smile and not take it to heart. The boys in the audience were often mesmerized by their adorable reactions when they realized they had answered incorrectly. Beauties are treated differently, at this time if a boy went up and answered a question incorrectly, I estimate that the audience below would scold him until he was dead.

  "Next, please welcome the 23rd contestant, who is also the last contestant of our selection this time. This contestant is Lin Cijie from Class 1, Grade 2." The host announced on stage.

  At this time, a girl wearing a school uniform for experimental middle school walked onto the stage. She quietly braided two small pigtails behind her head, with a short fringe on her forehead, and her plain makeup revealed her smooth white skin. A pair of small black-framed glasses sat on her high nose, but did not ruin her perfectly featured face, nor did it make the girl look bookish, instead adding a lively touch. Because in those small eyes, a bright and shiny gaze would occasionally flash, from which one could tell that this girl was very determined.

  This girl is the only one among more than 20 girls who came to the competition today wearing a school uniform and not even wearing makeup. But she still looks exceptionally outstanding among these girls with her elegant and refined appearance. Boys all like pure girls, just like they like the feeling of a lotus flower coming out of the water, so clear and beautiful.

  This girl didn't have the shyness and awkwardness of those other girls, she walked confidently to the center of the stage. Smiling, she used the microphone to greet the audience and host. "Hello everyone, I'm Lin Cijie from Class 1 of Senior High School, I came to participate in this basketball team's female manager selection because of my love for basketball, so I believe I can do a good job as the basketball team manager. Thank you."

  Lin Cijie's confident and sweet smile, as well as her sweet voice, immediately won the favor of everyone present. Everyone in their hearts agreed that this girl named Lin Cijie was the most beautiful among all the girls who came to audition today. And she also had the highest figure. Looking at her wearing flat shoes, she was almost as tall as the male host on stage, estimated to be around 1.75 meters tall. Such a height is just the ideal standard for finding a girlfriend in the eyes of those tall basketball players. So Lin Cijie was equivalent to the perfect embodiment of a female manager in the eyes of those off-court athletes.

  If Lin Xiaoyu were here, he would probably involuntarily open his mouth and be unable to close it for a long time. Because the Lin Cijie standing on the stage at this moment is that wild girl who scolded Lin Xiaoyu until he fled in disarray with blood flowing from his head that day at school. If someone told Lin Xiaoyu that the girl who scolded him without stopping had such a gentle and quiet side, Lin Xiaoyu would not believe it even if you killed him, because Lin Xiaoyu had already set that girl as the representative of the image of a savage in his heart.

  The host, holding the microphone, applauded for her and then asked Lin Cijie, "Lin Cijie, do you have any talent to show us?"

  "Talent show? I didn't know today's competition had a talent show, I wasn't prepared." The girl named Lin Cijie smiled apologetically and stuck out her cute little tongue. This adorable expression on this beautiful girl's face made it even more endearing, causing the audience to immediately forgive her for not being well-prepared for the talent show.

  But the audience under the stage would not let go of such an opportunity to watch a beautiful girl perform, so some male audience members immediately shouted "Sing a song".

  The scattered shouts were immediately echoed by the audience, and soon became a rhythmic chant of "Sing a song... sing a song..."

  The girl named Lin Cijie saw the enthusiastic request from below and remained calm, not showing any signs of nervousness. She smiled and said: "Singing and dancing have nothing to do with being a basketball team's manager, I'm not here to audition for a cheerleading squad, how about this, is there a basketball around? Can someone lend me one?"

  Look at this beauty who doesn't want to sing or dance, but wants to borrow a basketball. All the boys are somewhat surprised, but someone in the audience immediately sends a basketball onto the stage.

  Lin Cijie took the basketball and handed the microphone to the host beside her. With her right hand, she spun the ball upwards, and it quickly rotated into the air. After the ball fell back down, Lin Cijie stretched out a slender and fair finger to support the bottom of the ball, which then rapidly rotated on the tip of her finger.

  "Wow, this beauty can spin the ball!" The boys in the audience exclaimed. There were not a few boys who could spin the ball, but girls were rarely seen doing it, and beauties like Lin Cijie who could spin the ball with their fingers were even more rare.

  But before the audience under the stage had time to exclaim, Lin Cijie made another move that shocked these audiences a bit. Lin Cijie slowly moved his fingers holding the ball vertically downwards, and then let the still rotating ball follow his wrist to circle around his arm slowly.

  This action also surprised those boys who could spin the ball. Because the difficulty of spinning the ball in this way is very high, it not only requires the technique of spinning the ball, but also the wrist flip angle is very particular. This beauty actually completed it so easily, it seems that she has already reached a very skilled level in spinning the ball.

  "Thank you." After Lin Cijie performed a little bit of her ball-handling skills on stage, she took the microphone and slightly bowed to the audience. The applause from below was thunderous, although everyone wanted to see this beauty sing and dance, but her skilled ball-handling technique was truly rare, making these boys sincerely admire her.

  The subsequent Q&A session did not stump Lin Cijie, who loves basketball, and she quickly answered all five questions on the paper correctly.

  It seems that the result of this basketball team's female manager selection is no longer suspenseful, and Lin Cijie should be the popular candidate.

  But behind the judges' table, Zhang Jialin was standing with a disappointed face. The beautiful girl he had been waiting for did not show up to participate in the selection and no longer had hope of becoming the basketball team's manager...