NOVEL WEB Chapter 67 Staying in progress
After Liu finished speaking, he and Coach Sakaki walked out of the villa directly, as if he planned to set up the venue for training first.
Others stayed in the villa, digesting the lunch that had just ended and the profound meaning of Liu's words.
Hyotei's Ninzu and Xiangri moved directly to Atobe, trying to get some little hints from him.
It's a pity that the eldest young master's words are still closely related, and they didn't get any information out of them.
On Tatekai's side, Kirihara also had his eyes wide open, looking curiously at Yukimura, who also participated in formulating the training plan.
Yukimura glanced at Kirihara, then looked around, and found that everyone had surrounded him at some point, and the expressions on their faces were similar to Kirihara's, with the same curious look. Seeing their expressions like this, the arc of Yukimura's mouth slowly widened, and Niou, who felt a hint of danger in advance, pulled Yagyu silently back a few steps, and then shrank behind Kuwahara.
Amamiya Arashi looked at Nioh's movements and couldn't help but sigh in his heart for his keen intuition, and then looked at the remaining people... Sanada won't say it anymore, Kirihara is a kid who has always been silly, Kuwahara is honest and honest, it's normal that he hasn't reacted yet , Marui's words... Looking at Marui who wanted to move, but was pulled by Kirihara, Amamiya Arashi expressed sympathy. As for the other two second-year students, Urayama and Hoshino, they also ran away quite cleverly when they saw Nioh's actions.
Just as Yukimura put on a familiar smile on his face, Coach Yanagi and Sakaki walked in and told everyone that it was almost time to start training.
Oh ho~ Looks like you escaped! How lucky? Originally, Amamiya Lan wanted to sigh, but when he turned around, he found that Yukimura's smile was becoming more and more dangerous.
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When everyone walked out of the villa and came to the open space at the door, they found that there was already a quite simple tennis court in the open space. However, the ground was indeed uneven. Looking at the pits on the east and west, many people felt speechless.
After the tennis club members of both schools lined up in two rows under the arrangement of the minister, with the minister taking the lead, they started to warm up first - running along the mountain road, and they needed to pay attention to avoid some sudden 'attacks', such as gravel. , colorful wet dyes on trees, etc.
Running is a simple thing, and running along mountain roads is not difficult for teenagers who exercise all year round. But the difficulty is that what they are running on is not a spacious road, but a mountain path covered with dense jungles and surrounded by different plants. It can only accommodate two people walking side by side at most. They also need to avoid some things that will suddenly appear when they do not know. gravel and wet dye.
By the time they successfully completed the warm-up exercise, most people's clothes were stained with dye in varying areas, and there were many scratches from stones.
Among them, the two most miserable ones from the outside were the two top picks of Tatekai University. Urayama and Hoshino's clothes were almost covered with dyes of different colors, and there were many traces of stones scratched on them.
However, Yukimura and Amamiya Arashi did not change much, except that they were a little breathless after running. Atobe, Sanada, and Yanagi stuck some dye on their cuffs, hat brim, and hem respectively, but they all successfully avoided the stone's attack. Although Nioh was not touched by the dye, he was hit by a gravel once because he accidentally tripped on a vine.
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Less than three minutes after the warm-up ended, Coach Sakaki asked them to start the first training.
The person being shouted stands in a circle, and the others spread out and hit the ball toward him outside the circle in clockwise order. People in the circle need to hit the ball back one by one, and pay attention at the same time. Don’t leave the circle drawn under your feet. When the number of circles is a multiple of five, everyone hits the ball into the circle at the same time. In the fifth circle, each member has one ball, in the tenth circle, each member has two balls, and so on. Coach Sakaki was on the sidelines recording the number of consecutive balls and whether they crossed the boundary.
The first one was Hyoutei's Mugahigatake. Relying on his flexible body and acrobatic shots, he successfully survived three rounds. However, he accidentally failed to control where he landed when he jumped into the air. Ran outside the circle...
Next up was Nioh. Nioh phantomed into Tezuka. He successfully survived four rounds by relying on his ‘Tezuka Domain’. In the fifth round, he missed three or four balls because he had no time to swing his racket...
Sanada consumed too much energy due to excessive use of 'Instant' and 'Mountain-like'. Although he barely passed the fifth round, he could not continue...
Yagyu and Kirihara fell in the third round, and Hoshino and Urayama both fell in the second round before they could catch the ball. Sangyuan couldn't keep up with his reaction speed, but he still managed to survive until the third round...
On Hyotei's side, except for the director Atobe, Ninzu and Jirou Akutagawa, all the members fell in the third round. Yushi Ninzu relied on his "Thousands of Special Skills" to survive until the fifth round, while Jirou Akutagawa successfully passed the fourth round, but fell asleep uncontrollably during the fifth round.
Atobe hit most of the balls in the tenth round, but a small half was too late to hit back; Yanagi successfully hit back most of the balls in the tenth round through calculation. Although the remaining balls also calculated the direction, they could not swing the racket. The speed still can't keep up...
Yukimura also fell in the tenth round, but the difference was that he hit almost all the balls successfully, but there was one ball that was not hit by Yukimura's racket. It was mixed in with the balls that were hit back...
Although Amamiya Lan had ways to pass the challenge of the tenth round, he did not want to use those methods. He missed three balls in the tenth round based on his own ability alone.
After they finished the first training session, it was almost time to have dinner. They put away their rackets and planned to go back to their rooms to clean themselves up before coming down for dinner.
Dinner is a nutritious meal prepared by Atobe. Although it is rich in nutrients, its taste can only be said to be barely adequate. Although everyone can accept the taste, no one particularly likes to eat it, except Liu who is used to eating meat and vegetables.
After dinner, everyone didn't have much energy to continue playing around. They needed to take time to rest in order to cope with the next day's training. Because, Liu said at dinner that today's training was the easiest... But after experiencing the warm-up and training in the afternoon, several people had some doubts about the ease Liu said. In their opinion, the afternoon training only looks easy. During training, you need to pay attention to the time and frequency of hitting the balls on the left and right sides, align yourself with others, and pay attention to the balls in all directions when in the circle... But luckily It’s because there was no punishment for those who failed to pass the test today... Thinking of this, a few smart people had some idea. It was probably because of the first day, so they felt a little more relaxed.
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The next day, Amangong Lan walked out of the room refreshed and saw Sanada practicing kendo and Hijiruo practicing ancient martial arts outside the villa.
After watching their training for a while, and then finishing the leisurely breakfast time, they started training again.
The warm-up exercise is still the same as yesterday, but this time there is a time limit. If the distance remains the same, the warm-up exercise needs to be completed within an hour. Of course, members who have not completed it will receive something dictated by Ariyanagi and made by Coach Sakaki. A bottle of 'Love Drink' is about 300 ml.
When he heard the word "love drink", the members of Rikkai who had been tortured probably thought of something and immediately became serious. Even Nioh, who had been the most lazy in the past, became quite serious.
After seeing this scene and not knowing the reason, the Ice King members also straightened their expressions and stopped laughing and joking.
When Coach Sakaki announced the start, the teenagers who had become familiar with the road conditions yesterday rushed out one by one. After jumping over the winding vines on the ground, avoiding the bushes full of spikes, dodging the tree trunks full of paint, and dodging the stones that would appear at any time and where, I successfully completed the 'warm-up' and returned to the hospital within an hour. All the boys at the starting point were sweating profusely, and the one who sweated the most was Nioh Masaharu. In order not to drink that weird 'drink', Nioh can be said to have tapped into his potential.
However, although most people returned to the starting point within the stipulated time, except for a few of them, everyone else was more or less hit by stones or stained with paint... Coach Sakaki had the most marks on his clothes. The two people brought the 'drinks'. Of course, after counting the number of people, he also took out a corresponding number of 'drinks' and prepared to give them to the members who overtime.
As you can imagine, the people who had finished their drinks looked normal at first, but when a gust of wind blew by, they fell to the ground in an orderly manner.
It wasn't until Atobe found someone to fill them with a large bottle of water to dilute the desperate taste in their mouths that they managed to recover.
The next training was still the same as the first training yesterday, except this time they were divided into three groups by drawing lots, with each group having about six people. The requirement to reach the national level is to pass at least the tenth circle, while the Kanto level is required to pass the tenth circle. Of course, the two people with the lowest number of laps in each group and the person who failed to complete the requirements will receive a bottle of 'drink'. If someone is also one of the two people with the lowest number of laps in the group without completing the requirements, then he You can get two bottles of 'drinks'.
After hearing the news, everyone who had seen the power of 'drink' swallowed their saliva and made up their minds to complete the requirements and not want to be the last person.
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Under the stimulation of Coach Sakaki's "Love Drink", everyone seemed to have been pumped, one worked harder than the other... In the following training, they all completed the requirements, and at the same time worked hard to pass higher laps. , although the price is that after completing this, they don't have much physical strength... but the final data shows that they all far exceeded the requirements given by Coach Sakaki.
After completing this training and finishing lunch, Coach Sakaki gave the bottom two people in each group a bottle of 'drink' as mentioned before. At the same time, they were given some rest time because they had been physically exhausted in the morning.
The person who got the 'drink' finished the 'drink' in one gulp under the eyes of Coach Sakaki, and then the process was the same as before. Atobe arranged for a maid to fill them with water, trying to make them wake up as soon as possible.
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When their physical strength was almost restored, Coach Sakaki led them through the woods to an open space in the mountains suitable for camping.
Coach Sakaki told them that the afternoon training was to use their balls and rackets to obtain the supplies needed for the picnic. These supplies included: food, firewood, water...
The water can be obtained from nearby lakes, but it needs to be heated. Firewood can be obtained by knocking down those branches with tennis balls, and as for food... there are fish in the lake, and there are also some pheasants, ducks and birds in the woods.
Everyone was divided into three groups by drawing lots. One group was responsible for fetching and boiling water, and at the same time, they could also think of ways to catch fish.
The second group is responsible for collecting firewood, and at the same time looking for some edible wild fruits...
The tasks that the three groups need to carry out are relatively the most difficult. They need to find game and use tennis balls to catch them... But luckily, the third group has the outstanding Yukimura Amamiya and his extraordinary eyesight. department.
As for Sanada and Yanagi, one is in the second group and the other is in the first group.
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During the separate operations, Sanada first used 'Invasion Like Fire' to help one group of members light a fire, and then followed the second group of members to search for wild fruits and firewood. Liu Ze led several flexible members. After calculating the position of the fish, he successfully caught many fish, but most of them ran away.
Atobe, who has extraordinary eyesight, led Amamiya Arashi and Yukimura to the mountains and forests in search of wild game. However, perhaps because there was too much movement, they frightened away two pheasants, but luckily they found a nest of pheasants, which made people happy. When taking it back first, Atobe saw a pheasant again and successfully knocked it down with the tennis ball he carried. So Kuwahara, who originally only had to carry pheasant eggs, picked up a pheasant.
After Kuwabara left, Atobe and others continued looking for game...
Kuwahara, who returned to the fire, handed over the pheasants and eggs to the remaining group members.
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At about the same time, everyone will arrive at the original location. The first group of people got about a dozen fish. If divided one by one, each person can eat about half of one. In the second group, Sanada directly worked with several people to drag a downed tree over. Almost everyone else was holding some wild fruits or edible non-toxic mushrooms.
In addition to the pheasants and eggs that Kuwahara sent back, the members of the third group also caught a nest of rabbits and two pheasants. At the same time, they also used tennis balls to shoot down about a dozen unknown birds the size of sparrows. Many bird eggs were also found.
After gathering the collected materials, everyone began to deal with pheasants, rabbits, birds, and fish. Since there were no such tools as pots and pans, and for convenience, these were directly tied with branches after being cleaned at the lake. It was roasted on the fire. Of course, the wild eggs and bird eggs were also directly buried in the fire and roasted.
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After finishing this tasteless picnic, Coach Sakaki took them back to the villa.