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As for what to do with the eliminated out of millions of people, Wu Jie was naturally prepared.

Around these sports schools, there will be technical and art colleges and sweatshops like Foxconn in the future.

These factories and technical schools are naturally opened by his tool people, so he will not let all his hard-earned money be earned by others. If he wants to exploit it, it will be exploited by me.

But don't think this is cruel. The competition in the sports industry is so real that it can even be described as tragic.

Of these millions of professionally trained sports population, there are only tens of thousands who will not be eliminated in the end. Except for a very small number of people who can find jobs in the industry, most of them have to go to the technical school next door to change their careers, or go to the next door What else can I do if I work in a factory?

Now look at those sports cartoons that make people excited, don't you have a feeling of being fooled?

That's right, football and basketball are not bad, the elimination rate is at most 99%, and at least one person in 100 people can be a professional.

But behind the invincible table tennis, behind every member of the national team, how many thousands of athletes who have been training hard for ten years are eliminated?

After these people are eliminated, except for a very small number of people who can become coaches or work in schools, what can most of them do?

Shen Lang looked at his three teammates at the airport. Chinese swimmers of this generation were the only three in the end. In addition, he had not been eliminated, and most of the rest had already been eliminated before they were 25 years old.

Their group is preparing to participate in the Super Challenge held in Miami, USA.

This is an invitational tournament with high influence in North America, and the system rated the tournament with two stars.

Every "Miami Super Challenge" will invite many swimming masters from the United States, Australia, and West Germany. In the past few years, China and the United States are in the honeymoon period. The organizer has given the Chinese swimming team four places to invite.

The four places are actually very shabby. All swimming events add up to more than [-] items. They have always been a major player in the medals of the major multi-sports games. The organizers only gave four places.

But in world-class swimming competitions, there are almost no Chinese athletes at this time.

In the early 80s, the presence of the Chinese swimming team was too low, and everyone’s eyes would only focus on athletes from countries with outstanding records such as the United States, Australia, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Even the Japanese swimming team was also ignored.

Even if Asian swimmers can enter the international arena, everyone will only regard them as a foil, and no one even remembers their names.

This time Miami did not invite specific Chinese athletes, because they did not know any famous Chinese swimming players, so they simply gave four places for the Chinese swimming team to choose outstanding players to participate.

After Feng Jingyuan received the invitation, the first thing Feng Jingyuan thought of was Shen Lang.

In this national swimming team, only he has the ability to help China make a name for itself.

But to talk about winning the championship, this is a daydream.

Shen Lang has made rapid progress in the past six months, but his current results are just among the best in the country, and it is difficult to win a gold medal in Asia, let alone compete with those international masters.

Feng Jingyuan estimated that it would take half a year for Shen Lang to be able to win gold in Asia, and one year later to be able to win medals in the World Championships.

In this invitational tournament, he just wanted Shen Lang to experience it, so that he would not even have experience in an international competition at next year's World Championships.

This time, the Chinese swimming team is led by Feng Jingyuan himself. In addition to Shen Lang, the four players sent are also the captains of the men's and women's teams Zhao Xuebing and He Jiahui. The last one is 17-year-old Yang Xia, who is the most talented in the women's team young players.

Wu Jie has been hesitating whether to upgrade Yang Xia's talent. This little girl from Fujian has pretty good talent. She has a two-and-a-half-star physical talent, and a three-star [seven-even-eight-steady] talent. The effect is to increase the sense of body balance. And coordination, which makes Yang Xia's swimming style very standard. If it is not for the slightly inferior physical talent, she is fully capable of hitting the gold medal in Asia.

He originally wanted to invest in this not-so-beautiful, but kind-hearted and simple rural girl.

But there are too many places to spend money now, Shen Lang is still a four-star physical talent, so naturally he has no spare energy to help others.

In the past few months, Wu Jie has obtained a lot of Olympic coins from various sports events. In addition to the gains from the Toyota Cup, his deposit has reached [-] points.

In two more months, after the European competition, he should be able to get his deposit over 15 or so.

At that time, priority must be given to upgrading the physical talents of Chen Haonan, Shen Lang, and Lin Yaodong to four and a half stars, so that they can achieve better results in this year's competition, so others can't take care of it for the time being.

The Chinese swimming team first flew to Japan, then transferred to New York, USA, and finally flew to Miami.

This road is complicated enough, but who knows that there are still no direct flights between China and the United States.

This time the Chinese swimming team sent a team of 10 people, including two team leaders, a head coach, two coaches, and an interpreter. The remaining four are players.

When Shen Lang got off the plane, what hit his face was not a heat wave, but another mission message from the system.

Side mission (3) [Miami Vice]——

"Mission requirements: In this invitational tournament, enter at least one semi-final!"

"Success Reward: [-] Olympic Coins"

After Wu Jie received this task in Europe, he felt that the [-] points were not easy to earn.

This competition is not an Asian fish pond. What Shen Lang is going to face is the United States and Australia, two drug-addicted kingdoms, as well as the chemical teams of East and West Germany.

As for Japan, in the Olympics and World Championships in the 80s, almost none of their players appeared in the finals. [-]% of the medals were taken away by these four countries, including the Soviet Union.

Although there is no East Germany and the Soviet Union in this competition, it is still impossible for Shen Lang to swim to the finals at this stage, even the semi-finals are very difficult, otherwise the rewards would not be so high.

Chapter 159 The Heavenly Fortune

Shen Lang is planning to fight, he is going to focus on the 200-meter freestyle and butterfly that he is currently best at.

Feng Jingyuan also agreed with this idea. No matter how talented Shen Lang is, he is still under 16 years old. It is too contemptuous to participate in four events in this level of competition.

After the reception staff sent by the organizer of the event took the Chinese swimming team to the hotel, the four players stayed in the room honestly. Passes for ways and places to train.

I don't know how many people were invited to this competition, but in the end there were more than 600 swimmers who went to Miami, and the number of participants in many events exceeded 30.

On the morning of the second day after the Chinese swimming team arrived in Miami, Shen Lang and three teammates went to the swimming pool designated for the competition for adaptation training.

Feng Jingyuan called everyone for a meeting in the evening, and sent out the schedule and schedules of the four players by the way.

Shen Lang also got his player card and schedule, Feng Jingyuan only reported him the 200m freestyle and 200m butterfly.

正式比赛是从4月8号开始，200米自由泳的第一轮预赛在当天进行，半决赛和决赛在9号和10号进行；200米蝶泳的预赛在9号开始，半决赛和决赛在10号和11号进行。

It is now April 4th, and there will be another underwater adaptation training tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow will be the first round of preliminaries for the 6-meter freestyle.

If you can swim out the top 16 results of all players in the preliminaries, you can enter the semi-finals.

"Half of the masters didn't come this time, it's not like there's no chance!"

Wu Jie doesn't think that Shen Lang has no chance to enter the semi-finals. It has been five months since he upgraded his talent, and the four-star talent has fulfilled a lot. Although it is definitely impossible to reach the finals, it is not impossible to reach the semi-finals Task.

On the day of the competition, the Chinese swimming team became the most invisible team. Not only did the foreign media not pay attention, but no one in China paid attention to the fact that there was a Chinese team fighting for the country as far away as Miami.

Even domestic reporters were not sent to this event, because no one thought that the Chinese swimming team could achieve any results, and even swimming into the finals was a luxury.

This is true, the Chinese swimming team was almost wiped out on the first day, except that Shen Lang had a time of 200:1 in the 51.22-meter freestyle that Feng Jingyuan couldn't believe, which was better than his best time before coming to the United States. It was a full two seconds faster.

Obviously, Shen Lang, who went all out, surpassed all domestic players at the same time in this event.

But unfortunately, this result is still not enough to swim to the next round. He only ranked 29th among the 20 players in the preliminaries.

Shen Lang did try his best this time, but after all, he is only 15 years old, and his physical talent has not yet been fully realized.

However, this result is already amazing. The Asian 200-meter freestyle record is 1:49.25 seconds, and he is only less than two seconds away from the Asian record.

The next day was the preliminaries of the 200-meter butterfly. This time, Shen Lang once again exerted all his strength and swam a time of 1:59.31 that made Feng Jingyuan's eyes widen.

This result is only 1 seconds away from the Asian record of 58.84:1.5 seconds, and he has every opportunity to compete for the gold medal in the Asian Championships or Asian Games.

Shen Lang really used all his strength this time, and even felt a burst of strength after swimming!

But after being tired, Shen Lang immediately looked at his results after finishing the competition.

"It's dangerous, it's only 0.05 seconds away!"

He is in the last group of the preliminaries. After swimming, he will get the results of the other seven players in this group, and he will know whether he will advance to the next round.

The final result let him breathe a sigh of relief. He was the third in this group. Only 3 people in the previous three groups had better results than him. finals.

After Feng Jingyuan and the two coaches of the Chinese swimming team got this result, they were as excited as Shen Lang got the medal.

There is no way, the performance of the Chinese swimming team is really bad.

After the preliminaries two days ago, the Chinese swimming team was called a "big failure". Of the four players participating in the competition, only Shen Lang managed to swim and entered the 200-meter butterfly semi-finals. The rest were wiped out, and no one could enter the semi-finals .

But Feng Jingyuan still saw a glimmer of hope amidst the disappointment. Although Shen Lang only entered the semi-finals with the 16th place in the preliminaries, he was the youngest among the semi-finalists in each event.

Other countries are not without 15-year-old players, even 14-year-old players.

But there are only players of the same age who can perform as well as Wu Jie, and there is only one in China.

The contestants in the men's butterfly and freestyle events also remembered the name "Shen Lang". If this 15-year-old guy didn't falsely report his age, he might become everyone's formidable rival in a year's time.

The fastest improvement period for swimmers is between the ages of 15 and 18. After that, there is still limited improvement. Therefore, the next two years will be Shen Lang's period of rapid improvement, and it is likely that he will improve a lot every six months.

The Chinese swimming team can also play in Miami for two more days, because Shen Lang entered the semi-finals of the 4-meter butterfly on April 10.

But this time there is no suspense in the result. Although Shen Langyou scored 1:59.08 seconds, which was a bit better than the preliminaries, but unfortunately it was still not enough for him to enter the top eight, and finally ended the Miami with 15th place. Invitational.

Shen Lang has no regrets. In the semi-finals, only he and a Japanese player had two yellow skins, and he at least squeezed that Japanese player to the bottom. In fact, he is already the active No.200 in the Asian 1-meter butterfly. , because the Japanese was the gold medalist in the 200-meter butterfly in the last Asian Championships.

If the Japanese player does not improve before this year's Asian Games, his current result is enough to win the championship.

Feng Jingyuan had mixed feelings after the excitement. In the next three years, the Chinese swimming team might rely entirely on Shen Lang.

How far he can swim, the Chinese swimming team can go.

This is actually not a good thing. A genius may allow China to win a few gold medals, but it cannot improve its overall strength.

But it is really too difficult to have a second genius who can compete with European and American players for medals!

Wu Jie didn't know what Feng Jingyuan was thinking, otherwise he would have told him: This is not all your problem, but the problem of insufficient domestic chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Don't you see that East Germany with a population of less than 2000 million can win medals in the Olympics? Top five results?

But do you really think it's a Germanic race?

That TM is awesome in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals!

The next day, the very naive Chinese swimming team went shopping in Miami. Their plane will wait until tomorrow night.

Of course, they didn't go to scenic spots that require money to buy tickets, and everyone just strolled on the street for nothing.

There will be a shortage of foreign exchange in this country, and they can only exchange up to 10 US dollars to buy souvenirs before going abroad.

This is still stained with football, otherwise it would not even be ten dollars.

Now the Ministry of Sports has subsidized part of the income obtained from football to other sports. The most intuitive manifestation is that the meals of most athletes have improved, and the country has also bought some advanced training equipment with a small part of the foreign exchange earned from football. Athletes also issued a lot more tickets during the holidays.

But 10 dollars in this era can't buy anything in the United States. Only Shen Lang used his manuscript fee to exchange 50 dollars in foreign exchange through Li Xianru's relationship before going abroad.

So what can you get for $50?

Shen Lang already knew it in his heart, or Wu Jie had already made the decision for him.

At this moment, Wu Jie, who is far away in Germany, has just bought a "Platinum Level" [Heaven's Windfall Card]. The effect of this card is: after using it, you will get a windfall once, and the effects cannot be superimposed.

The size of this "windfall" is of course linked to the level of the card.

For a bronze-level card, it is estimated that at most you can pick up a wallet, and there may only be a few dollars in it.

But what would a platinum-rated card do?

Wu Jie decided to ask Shen Lang to try it out, so the latter spent $2 to buy two "Mega Millions" for tonight's lottery when he passed by a spinach sales point while hanging out with everyone. .

The United States now only has "Super Million" that does not restrict non-US citizens to purchase, as long as the purchase is made within the United States, they can receive the prize as usual.

But non-citizens are required to pay 30% national tax, which is a bit more than the 25% for US citizens.

The current "Mega Millions" is not $2, but the second prize is still fixed at $100 million, and the first prize will fluctuate according to sales.

The group didn't react too much to Shen Lang's actions, because instead of going straight to the spinach sales point, he first bought ten copies of the latest Marvel and DC comics at the bookstore, each priced at 4 US dollars.

That leaves $10, and he spends $2 on spinach when he passes by a spinach stand.

The playing method of "Super Million" is divided into "General Number" and "Special Number". For the general number, you need to choose 70 numbers out of 5 numbers, and for the special number, you need to choose 25 number out of 1 numbers. The two form a 5+1 number arrangement Way, the odds of winning the jackpot are one in 2.58 million.

This winning rate is appallingly low, the first prize is often not won in several draws, or even more than a dozen draws, but as long as someone wins the first prize, it will be a super jackpot starting from tens of millions of dollars.

At 8 o'clock that night, Shen Lang turned on the TV in the hotel room to watch American spinach, which was said to have no inside story.

The lottery process of American spinach is similar to that of China in the future. Shen Lang watched the numbered balls being sifted out of the lottery machine one by one. It was finally the wrong choice, and the excitement in his heart didn't increase too much, and his face was even more calm.

"It's only $200 million, not much after tax!"

Both Shen Lang and Wu Jie behind the scenes thought about it secretly.

The reason why they are not excited is simple, Wu Jie is no longer short of money, and Shen Lang will definitely not be short of money in the future.

He doesn't know how much that ancestral house will be worth in the future, let alone those comics that can be plagiarized in the future.

The 200 million US dollars seems like a lot, but to Shen Lang it is just icing on the cake.

Wu Jie used a platinum-level card for him to do this kind of thing, mainly to let him have money to redeem part of his ancestral property and land, and save the process of earning the first pot of gold by the way.

Although he can earn this money with his ability, it can save him a few years of time now.

"Coach, I won the second prize... No, it's not a prank... Tell the team leader to come to my room together."

Shen Lang picked up the phone in the room, and calmly called Feng Jingyuan's room.