When they came out of the playground, it was still noon in the library, and Yue Xingwen took his teammates to the canteen for a meal and went back to the dormitory to rest for a while. At 2 pm, they went to the Gymnasium on the 6th floor to prepare for the water sports event.
The Library Sports Meeting also featured a wide variety of water sports, including various types of swimming, diving, sailing, rowing, and more. Most of the 183 Research Group were non-swimmer, so they didn’t register for the water sports events, only Lin Manluo and Zhuo Feng registered for types of swimming events.
The two of them were members of the school’s swimming association when they were at Hua’an University. Senior sister Manluo was said to have been able to swim since she was a child, and Zhuo Feng went to learn specifically for his girlfriend.
Although Yue Xingwen did not register the event himself, he also brought his teammates to the scene in advance to cheer for Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo.
The swimming event had significantly fewer participants than track and field. Most of the students were non-swimmer like Yue Xingwen and did not dare to enter the water to compete. Therefore, Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo successfully reached the final stage without any problems.
Unfortunately, the two did not have displacement skills, and they could not compare with the physical fitness bonus of the Sports College’s students and the speed bonus of Group A’s students, in the end, Lin Manluo relied on the strength of swimming, plus using her vines at the key moment to tie up the opponent faster than her. In the freestyle and backstroke events, she won two bronze medals. Zhuo Feng was just ‘accompanying the run’ and did not get any medals.
But when both of them came back, they were still very happy.
Ke Shaobin said with emotion, “Humans’ sorrows and joys are by no means connected. The happiness of a couple is the sadness of single dogs.”
Xin Yan said lightly, “What? Do you want to fall in love?”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and seriously said, “No. I’m content to have Xiao Tu with me. I’m talking about you guys.”
The teammates around him: “…”
Classmate, you want to be beaten up ah!
Lan Yarong raised her eyebrows and said, “Xiao Ke, do you want me to move the Civil Affairs Bureau over and send you and Xiao Tu to get married?”
Ke Shaobin immediately sat up straight, said with a sincere expression, “No, thank you senior sister. Humans are different from robot species, we have reproductive isolation, and can’t get married.”
Xin Yan: “…” What’s going on in this guy’s mind all day long?
Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo soon returned. Lin Manluo handed two bronze medals to Yue Xignwen and said, “Sorry, I only took two bronze medals. Xingwen, you can distribute it, see who needs to exchange credits.”
Yue Xingwen accepted the medals and said with a smile, “Senior sister is modest, you are very impressive to win the medals when competing against the Sports College’s students.”
Zhuo Feng said, “The indoor water sports events are over, right? We have to go outdoors.”
Ke Shaobin turned his head and asked, “I remember, Qin Miao and Qin Lu also registered for the double rowing, right?”
Qin Lu replied, “Yes, the individual and double compete first, and the team rowing is last. Xingwen, how do we arrange it?”
Yue Xingwen took a closer look at the rules for team rowing.
The team rowing was an eight-person rowing mode, with four oar racks installed on the left and right sides of the boat, arranged in order from the front to rear, and the team rowing needed 9 people to participate. Among them, 8 paddlers sat in the cabin, each with both hands to control an oar; A helmsman sat alone in the stern or bow of the boat and steered the boat’s course with a wire rudder rope.
When rowing, all eight paddlers had to row backwards with their backs to the direction in which the boat was going; The helmsman sat at the stern of the boat, facing the direction forward.
As the team sat with their back facing forward and could not see the road, the helmsman was needed to grasp the direction and direct the rhythm of the paddle.
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Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “Yes, they will think that they can’t win the prize anyway, and it’s quite interesting to obstruct the 183 Research Group.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “So, in the rowing event, let’s not use the tactic of falling behind fist, but directly rush forward? Wouldn’t that make us a target?”
Yue Xingwen explained, “There are two methods to win the championship in this kind of Sports Meeting. The first is previously used in the relay race, using a late starter, let people focus on other teams, and ignore our existence, and then suddenly counterattack at the last moment; The second, on the other hand, is to go forward at the beginning of the race and take a huge advantage. As long as we are far enough away from the team behind, their control skills won’t be able to control us.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes brightened and said, “Yes, the group control skills have a range, and hard control of more than 10 seconds such as freezing, and sleeping is within 100 meters; More than 100 meters of control time are usually very short, two or three seconds, even if we are being controlled, the effect is not much. As long as we move more than 100 meters ahead of others at the beginning, most of the hard control skills won’t fall on us.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “That’s the truth. The difference between rowing and relay is that the relay is running in a circle, no matter how big our advantage is, we still have to run to the starting point, and nearby students can control us. But we have to row in a straight waterway line. However, the rowing race is in a straight waterway line, if we have enough advantage and leave the other teams behind, we’ll be out of reach and can’t be controlled by them.”
Different competition required different strategies.
The rowing race was a straight waterway, and if they were lagging behind, the other who lagged behind would find a way to control them and it would be difficult to counterattack. In addition, they had used this method before, and the other teams would certainly be prepared.
It was better to rush forward directly and grab the first place!
Xu Yishen smiled and asked, “There are 9 players for this competition, who will participate?”
Yue Xingwen’s gaze quickly swept over his teammates, considered for a moment before saying, “Young Ke, senior brother Xu, and Qin Miao rest, let the remaining 9 people participate.”
Ke Shaobin’s robot was really useless in this kind of competition, Xu Yishen couldn’t split to go to another boat, and Qin Miao’s skills were also not much help.
Yue Xingwen looked at Qin Lu and asked, “How many times can your plate movement be used?”
Qin Lu said, “I used it 2 times on the relay race, so there’s still 10 times more. I can do the double rowing race with my sister without using the skills and reserve it for the team race.”
Qin Miao said, “Don’t use it. We both registered for the double rowing event to play, not to get the prize. Keep your skills.”
This couldn’t be better, as the Geographic Department’s plate movement could instantly switch places to a distance to surpass the opponent.
Of course, other teams must also have students from the Geography Department, and maybe their plate movement still had 12 times of use. If everyone moved forward together, Yue Xingwen might not be able to take advantage, and at that time he needed to improvise.
Everyone came to the ‘Outdoor Water Sports’ competition area.
This was a seaside, the vast sea with the skyline. The surrounding beach was white and clean, and there were various colors of balloons representing the tracks by the sea. All the rowing races would be complete in this sea.
The library race allowed the use of special abilities, so the individual rowing event was increased to 500 meters, the double rowing was 1,000 meters, and the team rowing required everyone to row 3,000 meters.
3,000 meters sounded far away, but if the Geography Department used the plate movement, it was only a matter of a dozen seconds.
The individual and double rowing events started soon. With Qin Lu saving her skills for the team events, both of them were eliminated from the race in the first round.
The team rowing event was conducted last. Due to the very wide sea and the fact that no more than 300 Research Groups registered for the team rowing event, there were no preliminary rounds for the team rowing event this time. All the rowing boats were directly competing this time.
The dense rowing boats lined up by the seashore, with no end in sight. The spectacular scene made many students stunned.
Ke Shaobin immediately summoned his Xiao Tu and took photos everywhere. Yue Xingwen could not help but smile and said, “Ke Shaobin is really like a frontliner reporter of our 183 Research Group, taking photos all the time during the Sports Meeting.”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed and said, “He took a lot of photos of you in a strange posture when you were controlled before, and said that he wanted to commemorate it.”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Ke Shaobin, were you itchy to be beaten?
The race was about to start, Yue Xingwen and his team were assigned to the C-183 race boat.
The race boat was named after the Research Group. When the students around saw them, they immediately whispered: “Keep an eye on 183 next door later!”
“Control the 183 boat first, don’t let them find a chance to counterattack!”
Some students also asked worriedly, “If we row faster than them, will Jiang Pingce make us go backwards again ah?”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
Rest assured, you couldn’t go faster this time.
The mechanical voice began to read out the rules of the race: “The team rowing will start soon. Please board the race boats as soon as possible. Please note that during the race, if the race boat is mistakenly rowed into other tracks, it will be regarded as a foul and you will be disqualified from participation!”
The mechanical voice: “Start the countdown, 10, 9…”
At the moment when the countdown began, Yue Xingwen began to chant silently, “In fact, there is no road on the ground, and when there are many people walking, it becomes a road!”
He sat in the stern of the race boat, facing forward, and he could see the teammates around him.
Almost as soon as he finished reading his lines, the familiar gunfire indicating the start of the race rang out in his ears. Yue Xingwen opened his ‘Modern Writers’ Classic Anthology’ book and Lu xun’s skill ‘Road’ came into effect!
At the same time, Qin Lu released the Geography Department’s skill ‘Siberian Cold Current’!
A cold wind passed through, and the sea surface was directly frozen into ice!
How could they ride forward on the frozen sea?
Qin Lu froze the sea instead of freezing people, which was very clever, because if she froze the people, students could use the release control skills to lift the control. However, freezing the sea was equivalent to having an impact on the environment, unless the Environment Department used the Purification Lawn to melt the ice, and other majors used the skills that could undo the environmental impact!
Even if the Chinese Department used the Golden Cicada Shell—— the frozen racing boat could not be taken away!
Many of the surrounding racing boats were frozen in the sea and unable to move forward.
However, Yue Xingwen used Lu Xun’s skill to open up a path directly ahead!
The best thing about Lu Xun’s ‘Road’ skill was that it was not limited by the terrain and could be opened in water, air, and mountains… Of course, it could also be opened on the ice!
Moreover, walking on this road, they would be immune to all attacks.
The total length of the road was 500 meters, which was only one-sixth of the total length of the track, but as long as they passed through this distance, it would be difficult for other race boats to catch up with them.
Yue Xingwen said, “Qin Lu, switch places continuously forward!”
After the road was opened, their boat could move and Qin Lu immediately took out her globe to switch places forwards. The race boat of the 183 Research Group bursted out like an off-string arrow, and instantly appeared 400 meters away!
The surrounding racing boats were still frozen on the ice and could not move.
In the audience area by the sea, many students couldn’t help but wonder: “The sea is frozen, and no one else can move, how can the 183 Research Group’s boat move?”
Someone said: “I heard that senior brother Yue Xingwen was reading the lines. It seems to be, there is no road on the ground, and when there are many people walking, it becomes a road?”
Everyone: “…”
So, as far as their 183 Research Group had a road, the others teams had no road?
This was called—— I go my way and leave others with nowhere to go?
Someone said in surprise: “These are Lu Xun’s words, right?”
“During the relay race, Yue Xingwen read Humans’ sorrows and joys are by no means connected; I only think that they are noisy. These are also Lu Xun’s words.”
“So the Chinese Department is the library’s plug-in? Did Yue Xingwen unlock a bunch of Mr. Lu Xun’s skills?!”
Everyone: “…”
The 183 Research Group was indeed the most shrewd.
With ‘Immune to all attacks’ road, even if the other teams saw 183’s boat running to the front and wanted to control them, the skill would be invalidated. Rather, all kinds of skills from the students of the 183 Research Group greeted the boat close to them.
Xin Yan covered a racing boat in front of him with an enlarged distillation flask. Lin Manluo’s vine shot out and tied the two racing boats that were close together. Zhang Xiaonian erected a wall in the water to stop those boats that ran fast!
Yue Xingwen relied on this wave of ‘freezing + road opening’ operation to surpass all the surrounding teams. Their 183 Research Group’s racing boat moved for 10 consecutive plate movements, and only took ten seconds to approach the finish line!
The team that fell behind tried to control them, but it was out of reach and it was also too late!
The mechanical voice sounded on the sea: “C-183 Research Group’s race boat reached the finish line in 12.33 seconds.”
Everyone: “……”
This time they didn’t play the routine of ‘lagging behind first and then counterattacking,’ but they were rushing to the front at the beginning and going to the finish line in one breath?
They actually froze the sea water into ice and directly let their racing boat teleport on the ice??
This was a devil’s team, right?
This chapter made my monday bearable 🫣. Thank you for translating! Can’t wait for the next updateee 😭
Oh, great! I like how Xingwen said this communication is only for fun and then stole all golden medals
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It’s so weird to me that so many of them don’t know how to swim. In my country (U.S.), swimming is considered an important skill to learn for safety, even if, like me 😅, you’re really bad at it. I plan on having my future kid(s) start to learn swimming at a very young age. (I started learning properly at 7, and wish I’d started learning sooner.)
HAHAHAHA this arc is really fun and amazing..
Thats was too fast 😭😭😭 i feel bad for the other teams
haha, our Xingwen’s team truly is too black-bellied! Our little ancestors aren’t allowing any of the other teams a chance, truly they’re just so terrible ♡
I was a bit scared going into this arc, believing that there would be an accident. But seeing all these students play nicely and not cause any deaths. I really am happy!