Chapter 480: Genius Teenager

The first Quidditch training was set for the afternoon of the next day, but just after breakfast in the morning, the whole team came to the stadium. What they had to do was to watch Slytherin's trial training and peek at the status of their team as much as possible, preparing targeted tactics in advance.

After scanning the crooked melons and cracked dates, Delake strode to the auditorium and pulled up Cui Ge's sleeve.

"Why don't you go to the trial training?" he said sincerely. "With your physical fitness, you definitely can."

"But I don't want to go." Cui Ge said lazily. "I think it's boring."

Harry was a bit surprised, there are still people who think Quidditch is boring?

"I tried an F-15 in Hawaii during the summer vacation, and I have completely lost interest in brooms now."

No wonder, Harry withdrew his gaze, but from one perspective, Tang Nade really spoiled him.

"For the sake of the academy, help a brother." Delake lowered his face and begged.

Cui Ge looked at him for a few seconds, finally sighed, and said casually: "Alright, which position do you want me to go to?"

"We are still missing a Keeper." Delake pulled Cui Ge away from the stands, and Harry immediately became nervous.

Luo En found Harry watching the field with full attention and couldn't help asking: "Not to that extent, right? Even if he inherited a bit of physical fitness from the double riders, are we still afraid of a Keeper?"

"It's not a question of double riders, but," Harry swallowed, "a genius teenager who can sit in an F-15 at 16, I don't even dare to think about his flying skills."

Cui Ge seemed to hear this sentence, turned his head and showed a proud smile.

"Quidditch matches don't allow wands, right?" After getting the broom, Cui Ge asked, "The only attack method that can be used is physical collision?"

"Or use Bludgers to hit people." Crabbe waved his bat on the side.

"Is the Quaffle okay?" Cui Ge's eyes lit up.

"Theoretically it's okay, but it doesn't have much power if you just throw it."

"Theoretically it's enough." He crossed the broom, "Because only Chasers throwing the ball will count as scoring, so the Keeper's task is..."

Classic dry-land onion-pulling start, Cui Ge had already rushed toward Millicent who was holding the ball, "... shoot down all enemy Chasers."

When he used a side-roll half-turn to snatch the Quaffle from behind, Luo En was still being stubborn, but Harry had already started to panic.

When he reproduced Immelmann, Cobra, and other maneuvers Harry had used in the Triwizard Tournament at will in the air to dodge Bludgers, Luo En was still pointing fingers, but Harry's hands started to tremble.

When he began to continue to show pendulum, hammerhead turns, and other movements Harry had only heard of but never tried, and by the way, used the Quaffle to hit a player down with relative speed, Luo En stopped talking, and Harry couldn't help wiping his sweat.

When he swept past the Chaser in a posture never seen before and used the broom tail to hit the player down, everyone in Gryffindor started to tremble, and Harry tried to breathe deeply to calm himself down.

"This," Eve's quill had broken on the notebook, "how to fight?"

"Dean, can you defend against him?" Jin Ni turned to ask.

"Me?" Dean was also wiping sweat, "Really or fake?"

"Don't think about it, this kind of genius teenager cannot be restricted. We have to play fast breaks and four-protect-one." Harry sighed, "Team battles can also be practiced, anyway, just survive these two years."

The players fell into silence one after another. Even McLaggen, who was used to talking big and not serving anyone, was rarely silent at this moment.

"Don't be discouraged, everyone, it's just that the Snake House is harder to fight." Eve stood up and shouted, "We still have hope of victory. As for the Snake House, we have already seen their trump card, just discuss targeted tactics!"

After discussing back and forth, the final conclusion was—when playing against Slytherin, transfer Gutt to be a Beater, Harry and Jin Ni change to Chasers, the two take turns responsible for carrying the ball and circling with Cui Ge, and the person who doesn't need to circle takes Natalie to find the Snitch, using the Seeker's experience to end the game as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Slytherin was a bit carried away, and before it was time for lunch, they left the stadium giggling.

In the afternoon, Harry and Jin Ni could also master those air combat maneuvers relatively skillfully. After all, the broom's maneuverability was better, and the speed was not that fast. But even so, they did it after many attempts and repeated exercises, while Cui Ge looked like he succeeded once, which made him feel a bit frustrated.

"Cui Ge is not completely without foundation." Eve comforted them, "He was interested in these things when he was very young. There is something called a TV in the Muggle world, which allowed him to see the heroic posture of pilots at home."

"This is the benefit of living in the Muggle world. Sigh, if we could watch Quidditch matches on TV—"

"Not much use," Harry sighed, "Perhaps we are already geniuses in Quidditch, but sometimes you really have to admit that for those who are born to belong to a higher sky, genius is just the threshold to see him."

Luo En patted his shoulder, "Are those books from the fourth year still there? You two can try to cooperate to deal with him, that way there is still a battle."

"When you mention the fourth year, I think of Cedric, and then I think of the current Eagle House and Badger House. We still have a battle against Cui Ge, but what about them?" Harry shook his head, "So we have a more severe problem: how do we get enough points from them, at least more than the points the Snake House got from them."

Hearing this, Eve's eyes suddenly lit up, "This is not a severe problem, this is our advantage instead. Because their Seeker Greengrass is good at fast attacks in the first fifteen minutes, and is not good at suppression, so as long as we train scoring cooperation well, we will definitely get more points from the other two families."

"For the other two academies, that's too cruel." Natalie, the youngest, said with sympathy.

After dinner that day, Harry learned in the chat of Torchwood that Cui Ge didn't sit in an F-15 during the summer vacation, but was learning to fly an F-15. Tang Nade spent nearly a month with him at the flight base in Hawaii.

"He is so good to you, did he repent?" Lu Na asked.

"Don't know, but old Tang seems to say that he doesn't intend to get married and have children, so I became his only heir." Cui Ge said with a guilty conscience, "But my dream is to be a pilot, which is still a quite dangerous profession."

"It's a bit dangerous for Muggles, but for wizards, if you can learn to fly on your own, it's not that dangerous." Delake said, "And you can Apparate, can't you?"

In their chat, Harry gradually pieced together what changes happened to the defeated Tang Nade during this summer vacation: he seemed to be preparing to reconcile with Cassandra and privately apologized to her sincerely, but Cassandra, who had already closed her heart, refused. She now only wanted to live a quiet life with her son.

If applying the novels that Zhang Qiu hangs on her lips every day, the next step should be her running, him chasing, him paying everything, winning back her heart, but reality is not so dog-blooded. Tang Nade simply let go of this relationship and selected seven beautiful female secretaries after returning to the country.

However, both as atonement and as a retreat, he began to care more about Cui Ge and officially established him as his heir. This time Cui Ge proposed that he wanted to be a pilot in the future, and he immediately used his connections to start paving the way for him. Perhaps as Delake said, after all, wizards being pilots is much safer than ordinary Muggle pilots.

"However, there seems to be a problem with this." Harry asked, "If you go to a pilot school in the Muggle world after graduation, what about Lu Na?"

Even from a utilitarian perspective, Harry didn't want them to break up. The extreme form is top-level Super-Wizard power, while the separate double riders can only sit at a table with Delake.

"Think about it next year." Cui Ge scratched his head in distress, "I haven't even thought about where to be a pilot. Although old Tang has connections there, I really don't want to be separated from everyone."

Harry quickly said: "It doesn't matter, see what you and Lu Na plan. If you want to stay, I also have connections in the Ministry of Defence."

"Then what about your mother? Does she support you?" Delake sourly changed the subject.

"Of course, she knows that my dream since childhood was to fly a fighter jet." Cui Ge said happily, "From the first time I sneaked to the grocery store to watch TV, I had this idea."

Wizards who had never understood fighter jets, harboring a sense of reverence for the Quidditch genius, listened to Cui Ge introduce those air combat legends bit by bit. They were both full of curiosity about listening to stories and found some immersion in the wonderful plot.

However, Harry didn't listen very seriously, because he had taken history classes for Muggles before and knew that air combat was just one branch of many battlefields, and he was not as interested as ordinary wizards.

What aroused his interest was a direction of thinking. If wizards intervene in modern battlefields, using magic to improve safety like Cui Ge is just the crudest approach. They can completely develop targeted, higher-performance weapons for wizards to use. However, if the idea is placed on improving existing Muggle weapons, then it is inevitable to face the problem of 【wizards not willing to learn Muggle things】.

So, if you change your thinking and use magical aerial units that are more in line with wizard cognition, such as 【Dragon Knights】 or 【Griffin Knights】, and then put some auxiliary technology on them to cover up their magical essence, will this be feasible? The feasibility seems good, but compared to conventional air power, it may not have much advantage.

Once thinking of this, Harry felt helpless again. Perhaps Cui Ge is just an extremely rare exception after all. ===== CHAPTER 481 =====