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Chapter 18 The least valuable thing is the national champion!
In the evening, Wu Jin and Sun Yang, who had been training all day, returned to their simple eight-person dormitory.

"Old Wu, I must defeat Yu Cheng!"

Sun Yang slammed his coat onto the bed and spoke with a burst of energy.

Now it seems like he's even forgotten about not liking the dorms; all he can think about is catching up with the city.

"You threw my bed!"

"You're on top!"

Wu Jin threw Sun Yang's coat on the bed and collapsed onto it, saying irritably, "You've said that to me more than a dozen times already, come up with something different!"

After being thoroughly humiliated by Yu Cheng early this morning, he would say every now and then, "I will definitely defeat this guy!"
"Watch me, I'm going to surpass Yu Cheng!"

"..."

Don't mess with teenagers.

It's like Tang Sanzang chanting sutras.

This is so annoying!

Wu Jin really wanted to transform into Sun Wukong and hurl a sarcastic remark at Sun Yang.

But Sun Yang clearly didn't realize he was a chatterbox. He pushed Wu Jin aside and plopped down next to him, saying, "Move aside, let me lie down for a bit!"

"Why don't you sleep in your own bed?!"

Wu Jin was also wondering when he would surpass Cai Li.

"I still have to go up there, right? I'll have to come down again after taking a shower, hehe!"

Sun Yang stretched out his long leg and kicked his bed board, suddenly saying, "Wu Jin, I'm serious!"

He turned his head and said with a serious expression, "That Yu Cheng is my target!"

"Fourteen times already!"

"Sun Yang, you've told me fourteen times that you're going to surpass him!"

"I understand!"

Fourteen times, fourteen times! You're quite the talent.

"And you, that guy who's competing with you seems really good. He's a key player in the team's 50m freestyle, and I heard he's aiming for the championship this time!"

"Of course, he's still a bit behind Yu Cheng, but he should be able to clear the 400 meters!"

"If I surpass him, I should become the number one in China... oh, no, in Asia!"

Sun Yang was lost in his beautiful daydreams.

Wu Jin grinned at him: "Don't dream about it. It shouldn't take me long to surpass Cai Li, but it will be much harder for you to surpass Yu Cheng!"

They've already won the ring toss.

Sun Yang turned his head, clearly annoyed, and demanded, "Why?"

Because I have a system!

According to Wu Jin's estimation, by the time the championship begins, he should be able to compete with Cai Li.

Based on the system's experience of gaining around 50 points per day, by the time the championship is held a month later, the basic acceleration should have reached level 10!
A level 10 acceleration boost, if it's a 10-second boost, can improve the time by about 3 seconds!
This was, of course, Wu Jin's prediction, but he felt it was pretty accurate.

If he can really be 3 seconds faster than he is now, then he will also be a member of the 24-second club, and will be in the same tier as the domestic 50-meter freestyle finalists, belonging to the top group.

Therefore, it's not impossible for him to surpass Cai Li in a month.

Even with the system, Sun Yang cannot close that gap of tens of meters in a short time.

"Tell me, why?"

Sun Yang was getting anxious when he saw that Wu Jin remained silent for a long time.

He hates people who only say half of what they mean. Wu Jin wasn't like that before, was she?
"You'll find out the secret in a month!"

"Tch, I could have said we'd surpass Yu Cheng in a month."

Sun Yang clearly didn't take Wu Jin's words to heart, but Wu Jin smiled and said, "I don't know if you can surpass Yu Cheng in a month, but I should be able to!"

"Blow it!"

"If you surpass that Cai guy in a month, I... I'll give you 100 yuan!"

Sun Yang said with a confident expression.

Wu Jin smiled broadly: "Forget about the 100 yuan, just wash my clothes for a month!"

"What if you don't make it past the deadline in a month?"

Sun Yang was certainly not stupid.

If you can't beat it, I'll wash it for you!

"A word is settled!"

Sun Yang sat up excitedly, and Wu Jin nodded: "Okay, it's a deal. The championship match, until the end of the championship match!"

"Row!"

"That `s a deal!"

Sun Yang was extremely excited, as if he had gotten a great deal.

"No, no, we have to write it down, just in case you don't acknowledge it!"

As he spoke, he got out of bed and started looking for paper and a pen. The fatigue from a day of training seemed to have no effect on him at all.

The other students in the dormitory, including Chen Jinglun, also curiously gathered around Sun Yang.

After seeing the terms of the bet written by this guy, they all looked at Wu Jin with disbelief.

Obviously, surpassing the team's top 50m freestyle runner in just one month until the championship is unrealistic in their eyes.

Wu Jin is doomed to lose this bet!
They were still young and liked to talk big. The few 14- or 5-year-olds thought Wu Jin and Sun Yang were just kids, while they considered themselves adults.

"Take a bath! Take a bath!" Chen Liwen, the temporary dormitory head, shouted. Sun Yang had already written the bet and signed his ugly name.

He shoved the document in front of Wu Jin and said, "Old Wu, it's in black and white, sign it quickly!"

"A month, don't forget!"

Wu Jin smiled happily, but Sun Yang thought Wu Jin was just being stubborn.

Swish swish!
Wu Jin signed her name and then began to organize her toiletries, as she was about to take a shower.

"If I win, I'll laugh about this bet for the rest of my life!"

Sun Yang felt that the time after the championship match when Wu Jin would wash his underwear and socks was not far off. Wu Jin, who was holding a towel, also looked up and said, "Me too!"

He's now even more excited than Sun Yang about the future three-time Olympic champion's embarrassing history of washing his underwear and socks.

Wu Jin will remember this top-tier scandal for the rest of her life.

The two were teasing each other when Wu Jin hummed a song and walked into the public bathroom.

Yes, the dormitory conditions were so basic that there wasn't even a bathroom; there were just eight metal beds and a cabinet.

So the eight people on the first night were not used to it and chatted until very late before falling asleep.

The bullying they'd witnessed in the morning had made these guys forget about their accommodations and their minds were filled with the ambition to surpass their rivals.

Wu Jin looked at the virtual panel that appeared in front of her. It showed that she was only 5 experience points away from reaching level 3.

Tomorrow, I can try out the level 3 skill.

At the same time, the swimming pool where he can measure his speed every day allows him to conduct more tests.

For example, is the initial acceleration most cost-effective to use after entering the water, or when you start to exhaust yourself?

He plans to try several times to find the best time to use the basic acceleration skill.

In that case, his 50-meter freestyle time should be able to improve further.

In a daze, Wu Jin drifted into her first dream after joining the provincial team.

Beep!
Wu Jin and Sun Yang were woken up early in the morning by whistling.

The provincial team's training is very regular.

We get up at 5 a.m. every morning to warm up with swimming, running, stretching, etc., have breakfast together at 6:30 a.m., study some academic subjects in the morning, and continue from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Lunch and a 2-hour nap are included, and the afternoon session lasts from 3 pm to 6 pm.

In the evenings, they do adaptive training, so their daily training volume is much greater than that of Chen Jinglun.

Scientific training is still rare these days. At present, the amount of training in China ranks among the top in the world. It will take about 10 years before coaches gradually change some of their training methods and stop focusing on quantity.

Instead, skill and quality are prioritized.

However, Sun Yang and Wu Jin are still in the growth spurt stage, so their training volume is less than that of others, and they basically do not do any strength training.

The training session reported yesterday, the first day, doesn't count at all.

Today marks their first day of training with the provincial team.

"Wu Jin, practice according to this schedule for the next week!"

"This is the initial arrangement, subject to change at any time!"

Xu Guoyi, dressed in a classic white coach uniform with red trim, approached Wu Jin with a piece of paper in his hand.

His other two disciples, Cai Li and Wang Haibo, were already warming up on the shore.

Wu Jin and the other two were his students.

His wife, Lou Xia, brought along three other students who were originally his students, two of whom had been selected for the national team.

Zhou Yafei and Wu Peng!
The current Queen and King of Asian Butterflies.

Butterfly stroke has always been the stroke that Chinese people excel at most among the five major swimming styles.

They also achieved the most results. Zhou Yafei won two gold medals at the Busan Asian Games last year in the 100m butterfly and the 4x100m mixed relay, while Wu Peng was the swimming MVP and best swimmer at the Asian Games last year.

One person won three gold medals and one silver medal in the 100m butterfly, 200m backstroke and 400m individual medley, causing a sensation throughout the country.

If Luo Xuejuan is the biggest star of the Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team, then Wu Peng is the second biggest star after her.

The small Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team is now full of hidden talents.

The national champion is nothing special here.

The students trained by Xu Guoyi were all mentored by his wife; those who did not achieve results were supervised by him.

Ding!
[Congratulations, host, you have completed a perfect warm-up! Swimming experience +10!]

The warm-up exercises provided by Xu Guoyi were nothing more than joint stretching, easy swimming, and running, and surprisingly, I was rewarded with 10 experience points in just one hour.

Wu Jin had to take the upcoming provincial team training program seriously.

These are things that many sports schools like Chen Jinglun don't have; it's a training method that Xu Guoyi devised for Wu Jin himself.

In other words, these were all things he was practicing for the first time.

That would be a wealth of experience!

"It doesn't even feel like a month!"

After warming up and training, Wu Jin ate breakfast and started adding experience points to her skills.

Ding!
[Congratulations, host! Your initial acceleration has reached level 3!]

[Acceleration]: Beginner level 3 (200/300), grants a 3-second boost to swimming speed!

……

The training was upgraded on the first day. As Wu Jin thought about the training that was about to begin, he felt an overwhelming surge of experience.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I should reach level 4 by tomorrow or the day after!
Is level 10 still far away?

(End of this chapter)