I want to be a superstar.

On the morning of January 31, 2005, a Monday in the United States, Yes got up early as usual to go for a long run.

For Yes, long-distance running has always been his favorite training method.

Long-distance running requires no cost and does not require consideration of factors such as time, weather, indoor or outdoor conditions.

He can run whenever he feels like it.

Long-distance running is also the best way to maintain physical condition.

On his superstar development system panel, there is a section for physical condition.

Yes's current physical condition column is "weightless".

Physical condition is not just about weight; it also includes aspects such as physical activity level.

For example, the phrase "exhausted" appeared yesterday.

Exhaustion is a state of physical overexertion.

In addition to "exhaustion", physical activity levels also have two corresponding states: "rusty" and "rusty".

The "Rusty" status is a debuff that temporarily reduces all attributes by 20%.

Generally speaking, if a person lacks sufficient systematic training with and without the ball for even a week, they will develop a "rusty" effect.

As for "Rusty", it means that he has not had systematic training with and without the ball for about a month, and the effect is that all his attributes are temporarily reduced by 30%.

Systematic training with and without the ball incurs costs.

Significant time and economic costs.

This is unrealistic for Yes, since even now he is not a professional or systematic basketball player.

His training methods are different from others.

The methods others use to improve various attributes are absolutely different from his.

If he uses someone else's system or method to practice, his attributes may not be able to improve at all.

He needs enough time to find his training method.

Most of these training methods are unscientific.

How can something that's unscientific be a system?

Therefore, given the limited time available, he can only choose between improving his attributes and maintaining systematic training.

The chosen answer is beyond question.

Of course, you should choose to improve your attributes.

Therefore, in the beginning, his body often appeared to be rusty and covered in rust.

After a long period of exploration, he discovered that long-distance running and shooting can replace systematic off-ball and on-ball training.

This prevents his physical condition from being chronically sluggish due to "Rusty" and "Rusty Marks".

From then on, regardless of whether he needed to improve his attributes, Yes insisted on long-distance running every day, and a simple basketball hoop was even hung in his dormitory for him to shoot hoops.

If long-distance running could also be linked to attribute improvements, it would make him even happier.

He was referring to the speed attribute.

Speed ​​is his favorite attribute, without a doubt.

Improving other attributes always led him to seek out all sorts of strange methods, but speed was the attribute he worried about the least.

"Adrian, one 'Stranger' and one 'Seattle Times,' please."

"OK, Ye, congratulations on graduating high school. Consider today's newspaper a free gift from me."

"Adrian is being so generous today? Then I'll accept it."

Today, Yes officially graduated from Garfield High School.

Garfield High School uses a credit system; students can graduate as long as they earn enough credits.

He had actually earned enough credits long ago and could have graduated long ago.

However, he was waiting for a perfect graduation ceremony.

What makes a perfect high school graduation ceremony?

Yes looked at the Seattle Times in his hand.

"Rodney Stuckey graduates high school with a bang: Thank you, fate, for helping me grow. National champion, here I come!"

The Seattle Times, Washington's largest newspaper, has today's front-page headline: Starkey leads Kentwood High School to victory over Fox High School to win the Washington State Championship.

"When I came to Kentwood High School four years ago, I never imagined that I would end my high school career in this way. Thank you, fate, thank you, God, for allowing me to grow from an insignificant nobody into a Washington state champion in these four years. Now, I can proudly say, NCAA, here I come! National champion, here I come!"

That's very extravagant.

Looking at Starkey's interview in the newspaper and the photo of him holding the championship trophy high, Yes admired him in his heart.

Although Stark is his arch-rival, he has to admit that Stark now has the right to be so bold.

Starkey was his biggest rival and enemy during his four years at Garfield High School.

Both players, playing in the same position and possessing the same aura of genius, began their high school basketball careers.

Yes was a prodigy who shocked the entire state of Washington from the moment he debuted, and together with Roy and the others, he created the legendary Five Tigers, the strongest team in Washington state.

Stuckey, on the other hand, is a late bloomer. From being utterly defeated by him at the beginning to recently defeating him, Stuckey's progress in the past four years is incredible.

"Should I thank fate? I never imagined I would become fate one day."

Perhaps, in Starki's mind, he was no longer worthy of being his nemesis; he was merely a passerby in his destiny.

Starkey leading Kentwood High School to the Washington State Championship is the biggest news in Washington State today.

But for Seattle, Kendwood High School winning the championship? That's none of their business.

Today, the most important front-page headline of Seattle's largest local newspaper, The Strangers, is about Yes.

"Yes officially joins the University of Washington, reuniting the Garfield Five. The dream unfinished four years ago is about to continue, and Seattle's glory sets sail once again!"

Seattle's glory...

Looking at the photo that the stranger had devoted almost half a page to, Yes shook his head with a wry smile.

This is a photo from four years ago when they swept through Washington state.

An old, yellowed photograph.

It's an old photo that can be seen everywhere in Seattle, whether it's a restaurant, library, or coffee shop.

He also had a copy of this photo in his dorm room, but he put it away last year.

This photo carries the expectations and dreams of so many people...

Putting the newspaper away, Yes took a deep breath, and his somewhat agitated emotions calmed down a little.

"Ye, let me tell you a secret: today in Seattle, the sales of The Stranger's Report will be more than 10 times that of The New York Times."

The Stranger's newspaper has more than 10 times the sales of The New York Times?

That sounds familiar...

"Adrian, you said that to me four years ago."

Yes waved his hand and prepared to run away from this place that always reminded him of the past.

"Thanks, old man."

That old man is so annoying...

Yes found that everything around him had changed since he made the decision to join the University of Washington.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the people who used to greet him when he went for a run were more enthusiastic than before.

She smiled more often.

Yes really never imagined that he would have such an ability one day.

but……

Aren't you afraid of being disappointed again?

Ye Si ran back to his dormitory and was about to take a shower when there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, four familiar faces with smiles were standing there.

"Yes!"

"Yes?"

Upon hearing this familiar yet unfamiliar address or greeting, Yes smiled and shook his head.

"Come in, everyone."