Back in the game, I'm still the big devil

Arthur's sudden sprint at the start of the penultimate two kilometers forced Roy into a dilemma.

If he doesn't follow, he will face the most unfathomable defeat in his entire career (including his previous life).

If he follows, his plan, and even that of the entire team, will be completely disrupted.

At this moment, Roy was so angry that his facial features were smoking:

This Arthur, what kind of muscle is wrong to go crazy on the field?

But anyway, Arthur has launched the sprint, and Roy has to respond:

Whether to voluntarily give up the stage championship, or respond to Arthur's challenge and follow up at the risk.

Roy decided: follow your heart.

In fact, before his mind made a decision, his body had already started to act.

Roy began to rock the car rhythmically, his speed steadily increasing.

Although he was not as fast as Arthur, and his speed was filled up in an instant, his stability was astonishing, and his linear growth rate was terrifying.

When Arthur's speed reached its peak, Roy still had strength left.

Who will win this game is still unknown.

Soon Roy felt the backlash of resistance.

His muscles were sore and his hamstring was visibly throbbing.

But it was better than Roy expected:

This proves that he is still young.His brand new body can still stand agitated.

To Roy's surprise, the other end of the radio was silent. For the first time, the head coach Victor did not make a sound, and did not stop Roy's "brainless" sprinting behavior.He seemed to see through Roy: it is absolutely impossible to admit defeat at a time like this.

Since Arthur played the card, Roy had to follow.

"This is an extremely rare competition!"

The broadcast commentator Jacques' voice changed uncontrollably.

"In today's game, the 'rabbits' were not caught and rushed to the finish line first."

"However, at the finish we saw a battle between two of the best young riders of the Tour de France."

"With two kilometers left in the finish line, runner number 176, Arthur Wilson launched an 'attack'—"

"This move is close to madness. Is Arthur really planning to run two kilometers in a row?"

"His 'attack' started to work and the distance between No. 143 Roy and Arthur was increasing."

"No, wait, Roy followed, Roy followed Arthur."

"When the gap between the two widened to about 40 meters, Roy followed—"

"His speed has steadily caught up with Arthur, and the 40-meter gap has started to narrow again..."

"My God," the commentator himself is a retired cyclist, "what is a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, we have seen it today."

"This sprint to the finish line is almost the most difficult of all stages."

"Gravel road, uphill, continuous curves..."

"These young children, don't they know what kind of consequences will be caused to them by rushing for two kilometers in a row?"

"Unbelievable, unbelievable!"

"Roy has narrowed the gap to about 20 meters. He seems to be very experienced in dealing with gravel roads - did this kid train on gravel roads?"

"Arthur is looking back, he is checking Roy's position, he obviously feels threatened!"

"Oh, my God, Arthur attacked again, and Roy continued to accelerate."

"What did I see? I saw the best competition in years."

"Obviously, both of them are full of confidence in themselves, and neither of them intends to give up halfway."

"If all the players are like them, then this Tour de France...how competitive it will be!" Jacques couldn't help but imagined it out of thin air.

When his attention returned to the screen, the competition had entered the final stage of intense heat.

Arthur and Roy turned a corner and entered the last 500 meters of gravel road.The slope here is kept at about 9%, and Arthur and Roy are struggling to shake the car.

Arthur was very fast, and Roy was biting tightly behind Arthur.

400 meters, 300 meters...

The finish line is in sight, and Roy has returned to his familiar state. The dopamine brought by exercise releases infinite excitement and happiness, and Roy will soon enter the final sprint state—as long as he can get a signal from Arthur .

Unexpectedly, at this last moment, Arthur didn't even look back at Roy.

He directly exploded with an unimaginable speed.

This game seemed to be Arthur's own game.

The only enemy is Arthur himself.

And Roy was only half a second slower, and he could no longer catch up with Arthur who was crazily shaking the car and sprinting towards the finish line.

This was one of the few times that Roy watched Arthur in front of him, rushing to the finish line without looking back——

Too much, really too much.

This time Arthur won a lot, he passed Roy by nearly a body.

The two crossed the line at the same time, and the final timing results were exactly the same.

But Arthur's advantage was too great, and his victory was undisputed.

In the second round, the contest between Arthur and Roy: Arthur won.

As soon as he crossed the finish line, Roy looked up to the sky and sighed——

To be married to someone is exactly what he said.

If he had known this was the result, he should have listened to Victor and took it easy.

When I return to the team later, I will inevitably be scolded by the head coach;

After being scolded by the head coach, you have to be scolded by the team doctor.

He watched Arthur in a white shirt surrounded by reporters carrying cameras - usually this kind of treatment was only given to Roy.

Competitive sports are like this, the first is the first, No.2 is nothing...

Roy thought lonely.

He pedaled his car lightly, and slowly approached the crowd surrounding Arthur.

He suddenly saw Arthur lying on the cockpit of the racing car at this moment, his back heaving up and down—it seemed that Arthur hadn't been able to raise his head since reaching the finish line.

Many drivers will experience a state of near collapse after sprinting hard.

Roy has also felt this feeling once or twice: he feels physically exhausted when he crosses the finish line, and he can't even lift a finger.

Reporters surrounded Arthur, but no one knew what to do with this fresh stage winner.

Roy sighed and stepped off his racing car.

He pushed aside the crowd, came to Arthur, and gently stroked Arthur's back.

"Are you all right, Arthur?"

"I'm Roy, I'm here to congratulate you for winning the stage championship."

Roy also really wanted to say something beautiful like "losing is convincing".

But now when he saw Arthur's state, he just wanted to curse: Crazy, look, make yourself like this.

Who knew that at this moment, Arthur turned around suddenly, and wrapped his arms around Roy's neck.

Roy: ...?

At this moment, his heart seemed to miss a beat.

Arthur's face was pressed against Roy's shoulder so tightly that Roy could clearly hear the young man beside him sobbing softly.

Roy: ...!This guy actually cried?

Roy thought to himself that he was not qualified to laugh at others: when he won the stage championship for the first time in his previous life, he also cried into a puppy with red eyes.

But... what should he do now?

Does he need comfort?

The problem is...he, won't he?

The flashing lights clicked and clicked around Roy, and the reporters tried to capture this moment: the two young stage champions, after a life-and-death competition to cross the line, now "reconciled" very intimately.

"This one……"

Roy cleared his throat and said dryly to Arthur: "Congratulations..."

"Roy!"

Arthur was still hanging on his neck, but his mood seemed to stabilize, and the sobbing gradually died down.

"Thank you, Roy." The man hanging from the neck suddenly spoke in a muffled voice with a strong nasal voice.

Roy smiled bitterly: "It's good for you, there is still a stage champion, I will be miserable tomorrow..."

This time his plans were completely disrupted.

At this moment, all the members of the Baolai team arrived.

"Everyone, please give way!"

Arthur is the first stage champion of the "wild card" team Baolai team.This championship was not easy to come by, so that now everyone in the Baolai team seems to be more excited than the champion himself.

The two team doctors of the Baolai team squeezed into the crowd in an instant, one on the left and one on the right, and supported Arthur.

The head coach of the team also rushed into the crowd quickly, giving Arthur a warm hug one by one.

The two arms hanging around Roy's neck were long gone, and he was quickly squeezed out of the circle.

Roy shrugged, rolled his eyes, and sighed inwardly.

He is really raising Gu - raising such a powerful opponent for himself.

However, he still doesn't quite understand:

Arthur has been a little weird since last night until he crossed the finish line just now. Why is this?

Roy was cut off from the crowd.

The reporters' cameras and flashlights were directed at Arthur.

But Arthur was well protected by the Baolai team, and the reporters were not given any chance to "seek stitches".

A few shrewd reporters turned around and looked around.

Just when Roy thought they would pounce on him, the reporters found someone standing beside him——Arthur's teammate.

"Hello, what do you think of teammate Arthur's victory today?"

"What do you think?" The driver of the Baolai team obviously didn't expect to be asked on his own head, "Arthur said that he will definitely win today-he really won."

"why?"

Such an answer obviously aroused the interest of the reporters, and they all raised their microphones to ask questions.

"Because..." the driver seemed unsure whether to reveal these personal reasons, "Today is Arthur's mother's birthday, and his mother passed away a long time ago..."

So he won the championship of this stage because he wanted to comfort the spirit of his dead mother?

Roy was stunned when he heard this answer from the side.

He bowed his head in thought, and gradually remembered:

In my impression, in the Tour de France every summer, Arthur seems to "show off his power (nervous)" at a certain stage, but it is not fixed which stage it is, nor is it fixed whether it is a mountain stage or a flat stage .

In his previous life, Roy studied for a long time, but failed to find out the rules.

But now he got the answer without any effort: Is this day an important anniversary? !

Also, it's a fixed date, and the Tour de France is scheduled differently every year, and could fall on either type of stage - and Arthur will leave no stone unturned on this day.

Roy tapped his head in frustration.

He boasted that he knew this "dead enemy" very well, and understood it to the bone-but he never knew it, never knew it.

He knew all the data about Arthur's height and legs, and he could memorize Arthur's resume in various competitions, but he didn't understand why Arthur moved from South Africa to England at all.

His understanding of Arthur was limited to an opponent, not a friend.