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Chapter 38 My First Championship!!

"Huff...huff..."

Wu Jin lay panting in the pool, her eyes fixed on her first-place finish.

22 second 62!

The intermediate level 2 acceleration combined with the intermediate level 1 sprint is only about 0.4 seconds faster than the beginner level 10 acceleration and sprint.

Although Wu Jin didn't know if this was her limit.

However, it's likely true that the more you upgrade, the less you improve.

Moreover, the higher the skill level, the more skill experience is required, and the more difficult it becomes to improve.

"Contest!"

"Participate in more competitions, and then improve your existing skills!"

"The system is only an aid after all!"

Wu Jin's swimming ability is currently significantly reduced due to puberty; however, once he passes puberty, he should have another opportunity to greatly improve his abilities.

Of course, this is on the premise that he can get through the developmental stage.

If they can't break through, they might have to rely on the system to prolong their lives, which is also a source of worry for Wu Jin.

He really wanted to try the 100-meter and 200-meter races, but even if he ate more during this period, his physical fitness still needed a gradual improvement process.

However, I might give other swimming styles the 50-meter mark a try.

For example—butterfly stroke!
Wu Jin has practiced freestyle since childhood, but he has also practiced the other three swimming styles when he was learning them.

My butterfly speed is barely acceptable, my breaststroke is terrible, and my backstroke is awful.

So he decided to take advantage of his developmental stage, when he couldn't do a lot of physical activity, to practice butterfly stroke as well.

When I get back from this championship, I can have a good talk with Xu Guoyi.

ding ding ding-

The system notification sound hadn't stopped yet.

Winning the championship seems to come with a bigger reward than winning the semi-finals or preliminary rounds?
It's actually normal for there to be more, but Wu Jin also received a lot of rewards in the semifinals and preliminary rounds.

So he was quite surprised to see so many more in the finals.

Ding!
[Congratulations, host! You have won the gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle final at the Chinese Swimming Championships. You are rewarded with 500 experience points!]

Ding!
[Congratulations, host, for breaking your own national youth record of 22.98 seconds! Reward: 50 experience points!]

……

Ding!
【恭喜宿主打破了2001年8月9日由小泉池一在泛太平洋锦标赛上创造的22秒71男子50米自由泳亚洲青年纪录，奖励经验1000点！】

……

A total of 5 awards, including a gold medal, three self-broken national youth, national junior, and Asian youth records, plus a new Asian youth record.

The total is 1950 points.

There are both zeros and whole numbers.

There's even a 50-point bonus!

Just couldn't see it.

"The national youth team only gave 50 points as a reward for the third time. That's incredibly stingy!"

There might not be another one next time.

So, a record can only be rewarded a maximum of... 3 times?
And they decrease sequentially.

This is Wu Jin's guess.

Of course, there is another possibility, like the Asian Youth Record this time with 1000 points, then next time 500, then the next time 200, 100... all the way down to 0.

Of the two reward options, Wu Jin naturally preferred the latter, as it would yield more experience points.

Even fly meat is meat.

If you accumulate 50 experience points a few times, you can level up.

The next second, just as Wu Jin was about to get ashore, another sound came to her mind.

Ding!
"Congratulations, host, on winning your first championship! A new skill has been activated—Water Reaction!"

[Water Entry Reaction]: Basic level 1 (0/100), provides a 0.01-second reaction boost.

Ding!
[Congratulations, host! You have won your first championship and activated the professional achievement challenge!]

[Beginner Career Achievement Challenge]: Try to win your first world championship and earn new skill rewards.

Step onto the world stage, climb to the top, experience the pinnacle, and illuminate the brightest star in the world of swimming!

"..." Wu Jin almost forgot about the advanced quest that was activated before the competition.

But the rewarded skill really caught his eye.

Water reaction!

This is a truly practical skill!
In some ways, it's even more intuitive than acceleration and sprinting.

毕竟入水反应每提升0.01秒，其实就相当于最后的成绩提升0.01……这要是入水反应能提升0.3，那岂不是50米自他可以试着破全国纪录的22秒33了？
22.62 minus 0.3 seconds!
This is what Xu Guoyi meant when he said that Wu Jin still has a lot of room for improvement.

Regarding the water entry reaction alone, he could only improve it by about 0.5 seconds, and he has actually improved it somewhat in the past month.

His reaction time is currently between 0.9 and 1 second, as measured by Xu Guoyi.

It's the time it takes for you to react immediately after the starting gun fires.

How to describe this reaction? It was average, just okay for a 12-year-old; but compared to the world's top swimmers, the gap is undoubtedly huge.

The world's strongest players currently have a reaction time of around 0.7 seconds, and some with innate neurological talent can even reach 0.6 seconds or more!

Of course, this is just the most extreme value at present.

Humans certainly have things that are faster than that.

The future will be even faster.

Wu Jin had been a coach in her previous life, but she hadn't studied the limits of human neural responses; however, she was very clear about the limits of athletes' responses.

Take Pan Zhanle, who will become the first man in history to swim under 46 seconds in the 100-meter race, as an example. His reaction time upon entering the water is around 0.6 seconds. That is, from the moment the starting gun fires until he reacts and jumps up, he only needs 0.6 seconds.

This is already among the top tier of human swimmers.

But there are several athletes in the world who are even more freakish than him. The French star, the three-time Olympic gold medalist in Paris, the "Red-faced Monster" Marchand, can reportedly achieve a time of 0.59 seconds, or even 0.51 seconds.

In order to ensure that their swimming prodigy would become the MVP of swimming events and win as many gold medals as possible, Paris shamelessly changed the pool size to 2.3 meters and had him train in that pool for two years.

All I can say is that when these white people get shameless, they're truly unbeatable.

But that's in 2024. In 03, we didn't have the advanced technologies and specialized reaction training of the future. Although we had equipment to assist us, it certainly couldn't compare to the technology 20 years from now.

Therefore, the average reaction time of athletes currently fluctuates around 0.7 seconds. Over the past 20 years, swimmers' reaction time has improved by 0.1-0.2 seconds. This is due to technological innovation and the improvement of human limits.

Swimming miracle, asthma-stricken prince Michael Phelps, now has a reaction time of only 0.7 seconds!

"I don't need much, just get my reaction time down to 0.2 seconds!"

"Any more and they'll be on the slicing plate!"

Wu Jin was joking with the system, and of course, she couldn't be happier to have this newly acquired skill.

After adding points from the semi-finals and the remaining 100 points from the preliminaries, he had 300 points left.

With the 1950 points just awarded, even after spending 2000 points to upgrade the two intermediate skills, there will still be an extra... 250!

Hmm, 250, quite a special number!
This is definitely something Wu Jin cannot tolerate!

So he gave it a try and spent 100 points to upgrade the water reaction by level 1.

He wanted to test how much time he could gain with each level of this basic skill.

It's definitely impossible for it to be 0.01 seconds. To get that much time from level 1, how could a basic level 10 water reaction only add 0.1 seconds?!
Wouldn't intermediate, advanced, or even higher levels be even more outrageous?
The future reaction speed is too fast, just wait to slice it!

Swish!
After a flash of white light, the only white skill on the system panel, [Water Reaction], became level 2.

[Water Entry Reaction]: Basic level 2 (100/200), provides a 0.011-second reaction boost.

"!!!"

Damn, I knew it.

Wu Jin didn't have high expectations for this skill.

"So, if I spend another 800 to reach level 10, I'll only get a 0.02 boost?"

"The overall time improved by 0.02 seconds?"

Wu Jin instantly lost interest in adding points to the [Water Reaction] skill.

It's best to focus on improving acceleration and sprint, since spending 1000 points to level up once can improve the overall time by about 0.2 seconds.

With a level 2 acceleration, it seems that 0.4 seconds could break the national record of 22.33 seconds.

We can add the water reaction later when we have more experience.

It's a pity the championship has already ended, otherwise Wu Jinzhen would have liked to try and break a national record.

We'll have to wait until the next World Championships.

Wu Jin complained as she walked toward the contestants' tunnel.

There, Chen Zuo, the runner-up in the men's 50m freestyle at this year's championship, who also swam in under 23 seconds, was already waiting for him!

(End of this chapter)