The Female General Dominates All After Transmigration-Chapter 224 - 222: The Backbone

Next, Ling Chengyan once again personally took to the field to adjust the team’s formation. While instructing individuals and the whole team on tactical strategies, she still sensed the players’ suppressed emotions.

They were like taut bowstrings, putting forth all their spirit and effort, learning and refining each move, all for the purpose of erasing the shame of today’s defeat on the court tomorrow.

One becomes courageous after knowing shame.

No team can always be undefeated. There is no invincible team in the world. Experiencing failure and learning and drawing strength from it is also a form of rehearsal and growth.

Watching the fierce and spirited players, Ling Chengyan felt secretly gratified.

The next day, before the Ling Family brothers went out, Wang Futang came to Huicheng to visit Ling’s father.

Back then, the Ling Family and the Wang Family were in-laws. The two old men had met before and even drank together. Meeting again after ten years, though Wang Futang appeared older, he was still healthy, while Ling’s father was so ill he didn’t look human.

The two old men couldn’t help but reminisce upon their reunion.

The Ling family father and sons wanted to keep Wang Futang for a meal, but he firmly declined, "Once you’re better, let’s have a drink again, old brother. For now, don’t worry about these matters."

Wang Futang was accompanied by his second son, Wang Lianfa. As they left the small courtyard rented by the Ling family, Wang Lianfa raised his hand to stop the Ling brothers from walking them further and said with clasped hands, "You two brothers stay here. Uncle Ling needs someone to look after him." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The eldest Ling brother asked the second one to stay with the old man while he insisted on seeing the guests off to the street corner, only turning back after watching them get on the motorcycle and ride away.

Sitting on the motorcycle driven by his youngest son, Wang Futang felt uneasy, tightly clutching his son’s clothes, reprimanding, "Slow down, slow down... I told you not to buy this thing. It roars like a tractor and speeds like a flash—if anything were to happen..."

Wang Lianfa helplessly turned his head and smiled bitterly, "Dad, please go easy on me; your son can be careful enough, can’t I?"

He grumbled to himself: It’s just thirty miles an hour, and the old man is reacting so much. If he knew, I’d been driving seventy or eighty miles on the highway, wouldn’t he die of anger!

Even while grumbling, Wang Lianfa obediently slowed down. Suddenly, a bicycle overtook them from behind...

Wang Lianfa: "..."

Meanwhile, at the district basketball court, the latest round-robin match was underway, with the Special Service Company facing the division’s strong team, the Reconnaissance Company.

Halfway through the game, Ling Chengyan arrived at the court side, unexpectedly encountering an old acquaintance, Shao Guoqing, who had been promoted and left the Guard Company.

Seeing Ling Chengyan walking over, Shao Guoqing smirked insincerely, "With your team competing, Captain Ling is still taking her time. It seems you have confidence in certain victory."

Ling Chengyan smiled, "Minister Zhou flatters me."

As the words fell, the person standing next to them turned around; it was Zhao Feng, the captain of the Reconnaissance Company.

She felt not the slightest unease, raising a smile, and greeted warmly, "Captain Zhao walks fast. I couldn’t find you the moment I left the conference room."

Zhao Feng also smiled and nodded, "If Captain Ling were to personally take the field, the game would certainly be more exciting."

Ling Chengyan chuckled, "Is Captain Zhao so eager for something to happen to us?"

Zhao Feng laughed, moved aside, accidentally squeezing Shao Guoqing to one side, and cheerfully invited Ling Chengyan to sit next to him to watch the game together.

The two teams on the court were equally matched, while the two captains on the sideline spoke joyfully and amiably. Not to mention Shao Guoqing, whose instigation failed and felt internal turmoil, even the onlookers clicked their tongues quietly.

Ling Chengyan had entered the Special Service Company, practically stepping on the Reconnaissance and Guard Companies to become the Special Service Company captain. Now, both teams were competing on the court... Shouldn’t these two have some animosity? What’s with the warm and cordial atmosphere?

The situation on the court was intense. Both teams were deeply engaged, their scores alternating in the lead, making it difficult to distinguish a winner or loser for a while.

On the sideline, Zhao Feng squinted at the court as the Special Service Company’s power forward intercepted the ball, bypassed the opponent, then decisively passed the ball to the right position. Small forward Zheng Qianjin caught the ball without a hint of hesitation, turned around, jumped up, and made a shot—the ball circled the rim once, then gently fell into the net.

The ball went in! Three points!

The referee blew the whistle, and the Special Service Company scored, extending their lead to five points!

Ling Chengyan turned her head to look at Xu Dong in the distance, who waved one hand toward her: Five minutes left until the end of the third quarter.

Ling Chengyan raised her hand as a signal, then Xu Dong called a timeout.

Leaving behind Zhao Feng, the captain of the Reconnaissance Company, Ling Chengyan walked towards her players, motioning for Zheng Qianjin and Geng Wei to come over, bending slightly, and whispered almost head-to-head.

The team re-entered the field, and the game resumed.

The members of the Special Service Company seemed revitalized, almost transformed, with the fatigue apparent before now nearly vanished. They looked energetic once more.

The ball passed rapidly. Reconnaissance Company players managed to snatch the ball and drove it under the Special Service Company’s basket. As the opponent was about to jump and shoot, Zheng Qianjin suddenly leapt up, grabbing the ball before it even reached the basket.

After winning the ball under the basket, Zheng Qianjin turned and passed the ball directly to a teammate behind him. The Special Service Company’s players quickly launched a new offensive round, reaching under the opponent’s basket before they had time to react. Rising to shoot, the move was executed in one fluid motion—the ball went in!

Another two points—the Special Service Company’s lead widened to seven points!

The Special Service Company was unstoppable, like a bamboo splitting the air... Nobody knew when Zhou Guoqing slipped away.

Ling Chengyan didn’t care when this person left, merely turning back to Captain Zhao Feng of the Reconnaissance Company, "Your team’s guard is quite a rarity..."

Zhao Feng was startled and dodged, "Please spare us; you can’t take all the good ones."

Ling Chengyan chuckled, "However, I think he’d be more suitable playing as a power forward, organizing in midfield might suit him better."

Zhao Feng, being tall, looked down at Ling Chengyan and after a moment said, "Do you really mean that?"

Ling Chengyan smiled and shook her head, "I just said it in passing. Don’t take it seriously."

Zhao Feng didn’t say anything, but his gaze towards the court held a bit more contemplation.

This young lady, though only in her twenties, possesses skills and wisdom far beyond most men. Leaving aside work matters, even in basketball games, just yesterday, after a personnel change, the Special Service Company had a tough match and lost by over a dozen points.

Yet in just one day, the Special Service Company, up against their Reconnaissance Company, was full of momentum, evidently on the brink of victory. If anything was different—the only difference was that Ling Chengyan had returned. The basketball team and all others in the Special Service Company had found their backbone, no longer acting like lost dogs as they had yesterday.