The 400-meter event was one of the most difficult events in track and field, between sprinting and middle distance running. The world record set by humans was currently around 43.03s for men and 47.60s for women.
However, the Library Sports Meeting did not restrict the use of special abilities, and it certainly did not take that long to run the 400 meters. Theoretically, the Geography Department’s ‘Plate Movement’ could even teleport directly from the starting point to the finish line 400 meters away in 2 seconds.
The event was completely beyond the scope of ‘human physical ability’, it all depended on how people used their skills.
As soon as the whistle sounded, the first group of athletes in the 400-meter event appeared neatly on the track. Each person occupied one of the 1-10 tracks, and there were signs at the beginning of each track, which looked quite formal.
A cold mechanical voice rang in their ears: “Before the referee’s gun sounds, any skill used by a contestant will be regarded as a foul and will be directly disqualified. Except for the contestants, students in the viewing area are not allowed to use skills. After the gun sound, the runners run 400 meters counterclockwise around the playground to reach the finish line, and the referee’s system will automatically record the results. In the preliminary stage of the competition, only two students from each group can enter the semi-final.”
Hearing this, Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but be surprised, “Counting by the group, instead of looking at the overall ranking? If there are too many powerful players in the same group, even if they run fast, they may not be able to enter the top two. If the strength of the same group is weak, it will be relatively easy to qualify.”
Jiang Pingce nodded and replied, “En, in group competitions, the luck factor is important. However, this sports meeting is not about physical fitness. The key lies in skills. What opponents encounter in the same group already has a great impact on the final result. It’s reasonable to decide the qualification according to the group.”
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “I hope senior brother Xu can enter the semi-final.”
Zhuo Feng laughed and said, “What’s the point of a semi-final? He should be able to reach the final!”
The first group of competition began quickly.
The 10 students were both male and female, and their physiques were also different.
The students in the audience looked curiously at the large screen in the center of the playground, which listed the details of the contestants of this group, including the Research Group, majors, name, gender. Among the first group of contestants were Mathematics, Chinese, Geography, Law, Sports and other majors, and even mixed in with a girl from a Music Conservatory.
The 10 people were exercising on the track, and the audience was full of comments, “I think this group, the two from the Geography Department and the Sports College should be able to enter the next round, right?”
“Not necessarily. Everyone knows that the boy on track 5 is from the Geography Department, so the control skills will definitely be prioritized towards him, he will become a target!”
“Everyone, ready——”
Although the library’s intelligent referee was trying to imitate the human referee of the Sports Meeting, because the mechanical voice of its speech did not have a fluctuation, everyone only felt strange when they heard it.
With a ‘bang’ sound of the gunfire, the 10 students on the field immediately ran wildly!
As many people in the audience expected, the boy from the Geography Department on track 5 had just taken out the globe and saw an iron cage falling from the sky, “3 years in prison!”
The girl from the Law Department at the next track put him straight in jail!
Confined people were unable to switch places, they could only use the ‘Golden Cicada Shell’, this kind of release control skill. The Geography student who was locked in was so angry that he could only gritted his teeth and watched the other students run wildly forward.
The girl from the Law Department spoke fast and summoned 4 prisons in a row, locking all 4 people from the Mathematics Department, Geography Department, Sports Department, Chemistry Department who were considered a threat to her in place.
However, the next moment, she found herself unable to move her feet at all——
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The familiar music played on the playground, the <Tonight is Unforgettable> played on the flute.
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The contestants all fell asleep, and the girl from the Conservatory of Music followed by playing a song <Daughter Who Chasing Wind>, and then, as if she was stepping on the wind, she ran so fast that people were dazzled!
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The mechanical voice coldly announced: “In the preliminary round of the first group of the 400-meter event, the finalists are Zhou Jiayao of the A-99 Research Group, and Qi Liang of the B-196 Research Group. The second group, please get ready.”
Seeing such a result, the audience was shocked!
Yue Xingwen was also very surprised, “It’s the first time I have seen the skills from the Conservatory of Music. If I’m not mistaken, her flute playing <Tonight is Unforgettable> is a group sleep control, blowing <Daughter Who Chasing Wind> is to accelerate herself?”
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “The Conservatory of Music, it seems to be full of mages, maybe there’s a sonic attack.”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed, “Fortunately, she did not meet our Xingwen. If Xingwen recited Mr. Lu Xun’s ‘humans’ sorrows and joys are by no means connected; I only think that they are noisy.’ —— if the environment is muted, won’t all the skills of the Conservatory of Music be wasted?”
Yue Xingwen helplessly held his forehead and said, “Mr. Lu Xun’s passage is too long. I’m afraid that before I finish it, they will control me first.”
Upon thinking about it, everyone felt it was also the truth. Yue Xingwen often posted strategies on the forum, she was very famous. If he participated in this kind of competition, other students knew that he was very powerful, and they must have controlled him first, so that he might not be able to release his skills.
This was the truth of ‘the shot hit the bird that poked its head out’.
In the first group of competitions, the girl from the Law Department controlled the students from Geography Department, Mathematics, etc, and ignored the girl from the Conservatory of Music. In turn, she let the Music student use her group sleep control to make all the contestants fall asleep, and therefore advanced.
In the usual Sports Meeting, everyone could judge the approximate performance ranking according to the physical fitness of the contestants, but today’s Library Sports Meeting, everything was unknown.
The 400-meter race was held one after the other.
Due to the library’s fully intelligent management and referees, and the fact that students were very fast, a group would usually finish within 20 seconds, and a faster group could even finish in 3 seconds!
Yue Xingwen was sitting in the audience and watched with great interest.
There were many majors and skills that he hadn’t seen before, so today’s competition really opened his eyes.
“400-meter event, group 103 preliminaries, please stand by.”
As time passed, everyone finally saw a familiar name on the screen——
C-183 Research Group, Faculty of Biological Science, Xu Yishen, male.
Zhang Xiaonan said excitedly, “It’s senior brother Xu’s turn!”
Yue Xingwen quickly swept through the opponents in the same group and said, “In this group, there are three from the Sports Department, one from the Geography Department, one from the Normal University, and the Chemistry Department, can he qualify?”
Zhuo Feng said, “His mitosis speed is quite fast, it depends on his performance.”
By looking at the name listed on the screen, Xu Yishen’s group 103 was a ‘nightmare group’. The three students from the Sports Department were each tall and had a long-leg, and they were fast in running, plus skateboarding, pole vault, triple jump, 100-meter hurdles and other skills, it was very advantageous for them to participate in this kind of racing event.
“Everyone, ready—— go!”
At the moment of the sound of gunfire, the boys of the Chemistry Department raised his right hand, and several consecutive flasks fell from the sky. The surrounding students dodged while the tallest male student from the Sports Department could not dodge and was locked in a transparent glass bottle. The boy punched forward, but found that the glass bottle could not be smashed?
The boy could not help but scold, “Damn! There’s still an idea to put someone in the bottle!”
Students who were close enough to hear his complaint were laughing out loud.
This brother was too unlucky, not even a step to run, and his race was over. He could only stay in the glass bottle, full of reluctance to see everyone rush forward.
The boy in the Geography Department on track 7 was once again targeted by all the contestants, and he dodged the flask of the Chemistry Department, but he could not avoid the vine of the Environment Department next to him.
The green vines tied to his body quickly. How could he switch places if his hands could not use the globe?
The boy could not laugh or cry and said, “Does our Geography Department have so much hatred value today?”
The audience couldn’t help but say, “Of course!”
“After all, only you can finish the race in 3 seconds!”
In the previous group, as long as they did not control the Geography Department’s students, they could use the globe’s plate movement and reach the finish line within 3 seconds. Other majors were very afraid of the Geography Department’s plate movement skill, so when they saw a Geography student in the same group from the big screen, they would give priority to control them.
On the next track, the dark-skinned boy was on his skateboard, sprinting to the finish line at the fastest speed!
Unfortunately, it was only half the way, and a girl’s gentle voice suddenly sounded next to him, “Students, class is in session, and today, we’re going to talk about…”
The girl from Normal University actually came to the playground to give a lecture!
Normal University’s lecture notes allowed a wide range of targets to listen to the lecture. So, the student who was on the skateboard slipped, stopped sharply in place, and almost fell.
He was punished by the ‘teacher’, standing in place, unable to move, and could only watch a girl from the Normal University run past him.
This girl was also powerful, lecturing while running and panting. After running 200 meters away, due to the influence of the lecture notes’ range, the students who were pushing immediately resumed action!
The Sports student who had pole vault, jumped a dozen meters at once and caught up with her in the blink of an eye.
There was also a Sports Department’s student who had maxed out his long jump skill who also ran fast. He jumped once for more than ten meters. The boy in white T-shirts acted like the wind, just like the white phantom that could use lightness skill in a martial arts novel.
The three of them sprinted collectively towards the finish line!
Upon seeing this, Yue Xingwen suddenly felt that something was wrong and asked, “What about senior brother Xu?”
Zhang Xiaonian also rubbed his eyes and said suspiciously, “I don’t see him ah? It seems that he disappeared from the beginning of the race.”
Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully and immediately reacted, “Has he become a cell?”
The cheers of ‘Fighting’ were endless in the front row of the audience. The girl from Normal University and two boys from the Sports Department were only 10 meters away from the finish line, and soon, the three people reached the finish line one after another, and the race was over!
The leg of the girl from the Normal University was not long enough compared to the boys from the Sports Department, so she was 2 seconds late.
They thought the two boys from the Sports Department would be the finalists in this game, but, when the result was announced, the audience was shocked: “The finalists of the group 103 are Xu Yishen and Zhou Kai.”
Zhou Kai was the one who jumped with the pole vault from the Sports Department, and everyone saw him reach the finish line first.
However, who was Xu Yishen?
There was no such person at the finish line ah!
Until Xu Yishen fell from the top of Zhou Kai’s head and turned back into a human, smiling and patting his shoulder while saying, “Thanks brother.”
Zhou Kai: “???”
The audience: “……”
Could the Faculty of Biological Science be more shameless?!
He did not run by himself, directly turned into a cell, hitched a ride on top of the head of the person who got first place, and lay down to win?
Was this considered qualified?!
Xu Yishen smiled and said, “That’s why I registered for the track and field event.”
Whoever was in first place?
He turned into a cell lying on top of the other person, wouldn’t he become second place?
i just remembered how funny this arc is 😂 thank you for the TL
Real genius!
Thank you for your translation 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Hell Yeah he literally said work smart not harder
He really did just lie down to win!! Xu Yishen did a good job getting a passing grade with minimal effort
Indeed indeed, why run when you can lie down?
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it is just like the race of the chinese zodiac sign story lmaaao