Speed ​​Skating Survival [Apocalypse]

Skate shoes are the legs of every ice athlete.The blade is made of 65-gauge steel, and each pair of shoes is hand-polished and sharpened.It is necessary to ensure that the ice skates have edges, corners and flat surfaces so that they can hold the ice. After a long time, the blade becomes a smooth and curved edge, which cannot bite the ice.

Not to mention that skating at ordinary speeds is strenuous, but it is very dangerous to put it on an extreme track with an average speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

So in the first class of ice skates, the coach emphasized the importance of grinding shoes.The school has professional shoe racks for sharpening skates. Xia Bing still remembers how she carried her skates and queued up to sharpen them.The sound made by the whetstone will never be forgotten in a lifetime.

And follow him forever.

Because he is a short track speed skater.

It is very difficult to train a speed skater. If it were not for the strong support of the adoptive parents, I would not be where I am today.

First of all, skate shoes are very dangerous and hurt people. Last time Feiyang was pushed off the slide by another team when he was cornering. The speed was very fast. People can't be saved at all.

This is also one of the reasons why many parents do not let their children choose speed skating. The skates are too long.

In addition, because speed skating must have a 400-meter skating track, ordinary ice rinks do not allow speed skating skates to enter, so the conditions are very harsh. It is doomed that young athletes can go to the country every day if they have a solid economic backing. Organized professional ice rink training, or like himself, in the northernmost city, at three o'clock in the morning when the coldest time, lined up to slide on the ice.

Therefore, people who practice ice must not be afraid of the cold. If they are afraid of the cold, they will lose at the difficult starting line.The temperature of the ice surface is low, and after long-term training, the soles of the feet are cold.

What's more, speed skating is tiring, too tiring.This pursuit of absolute speed requires full development of body functions. On the track, one-piece competition tights are not cold-proof. Not only is it cold, but it also needs to wrap the body tightly to minimize air resistance.It can be said that every athlete finishes the game frozen, but never exits.

Ligament tear and alveolar explosion are the most common professional diseases.Absolute speed, absolute stamina.

"Is the child hungry?" Xia Bing handed over the snacks.

Chen Zhong was still trying on the shoes, his eyes only touched slightly, and he took the beef jerky.

Okay, I like jerky but not shredded squid, Xia Bing will remember.His eyes focused on Chen Zhong's feet.

"Are you practicing Dao?" He asked.

Chen Zhong straightened his upper body, and with the support of his skates, he looked particularly tall. "Well, speed skating on the road."

The shoes that Chen Zhong is wearing now are avenue skates, also known as speed skates.

The team led by Xia Bing is short-track speed skating, and the two competitions are completely different in terms of competition system and equipment.Short-track speed skating requires front and rear hand coordination and physical contact, so their equipment is safer. They must wear helmets, gloves to prevent cuts, neck guards, and knee pads. The skate tube is completely closed, and the root of the blade is arc-shaped.

In addition, the blade body is shorter, and the bottom of the blade, the front third and the rear third are more sharpened, with a radian, which reduces the contact area with the ice surface, and facilitates the arc to advance when cornering.The blades of the short track speed skating blades are also relatively high, and the skates will not touch the ice when the blades are very inclined.

Chen Zhong's equipment told Xia Bing that children practice speed skating, which is what they call avenue skating. They have no relay cooperation, and they break the ice alone. The characteristic is that they are fast and extremely fast. Narrow and flat, the pedaling area is large and the frictional resistance is small.The shoe waist is also shorter, because the athlete has to lower the center of gravity of the body.

During the competition, the avenue athletes do not wear helmets and protectors, and reduce the load to a minimum. It is a real ice sport that competes for skating speed without assistance.

Faster, terribly fast.

Chen Zhong is obviously a speed skating player who practiced alone, and his character can't practice relay coordination.He is just an ice skate, and he can only complete the game alone, suppressing with speed.

Xia Bing couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, such a team member is really dangerous.

Since it was decided to sweep the 6th floor, everyone lost their appetite for this meal. After being hungry for several days, the stock of snacks was instantly reduced by half.

In the evening, Xia Bing led the team to rub their calves. "Hurry up, it's hot from rubbing, don't let the muscles become stiff."

Promote blood circulation, calf cramps are a high incidence of ice sports.It's okay to be in normal times, but in this environment, cramp is tantamount to death.

Feiyang and Liangzi kept rubbing each other, looking forward to and fearful about their upcoming plan.Xia Bing understands their hearts, they are worried about their parents, if they can really rush out, it might be possible to find them.

The child Chen Zhong was sitting on the sofa, touching his skates and a hockey stick next to him, going to the balcony for a while, and lying on the door for a while to listen to the movement outside.

"Captain Xia, is he recovering from his illness?" Liang Chu couldn't help asking.

Xia Bing shook his head, then nodded again. "He'll be fine if he doesn't hurt his own people. Give him time to adjust and don't make him feel uneasy."

He knew that Chen Zhong was easily disturbed. At that time, the child was only 9 years old, and he peed his pants because of the loud voice of others.Chen Zhong has grown up now, but in Xia Bing's eyes, he is still the little boy hiding in his own world, changing his diapers by himself, and even hitting himself.

The life teacher at the time said that the child could not take care of himself completely and was prone to violence. If he did not improve, he would drop out of school.Thinking back now, those may all be signs of autism.

Because there are no other activities, after washing up, everyone is going to sleep.Xia Bing huddled in the sleeping bag, his feet were cold, his face was afraid of the cold, it was because of the hard training these years, it was directly frozen to death, no matter how much he wore on his body, his nose was afraid of the cold, every morning exercise in the winter training would make him feel cold. Freeze and cry.

The nose was sore, tears flowed down uncontrollably, and with a red nose, he led the whole team skating around in big circles.Now, he covered the lower half of his face with a pillow cover, including his nose, and suddenly remembered that Chen Zhong was afraid of the cold, so he covered him with the uniform black down jacket issued by the team.

When he covered it like this, Chen Zhong, who had his back to him, turned around.

Xia Bing's first reaction was that his unintentional touch frightened him.

"It's me." Xia Bing said in the dark.

Chen Zhong glanced at him quickly, but only turned his face sideways.It did scare him, but it didn't completely scare him to death, because Chen Zhong knew that Xia Bing was the only person around him.For my autistic self, security and patience are longings.

He is very sensitive, and changes in the environment can cause great anxiety. When he was a child, even a few cracks on the ice rink would make him uncomfortable.Patience means being with you all the time and not giving up. Chen Zhong only realized when he grew up that children with autism can be just like normal children, and they are also smart.

Every autistic child is smart, so they have more obstacles, and they can't control their small movements. When they can't restrain their actions, they will beat others.Chen Zhong didn't want to do this.

Because I couldn't concentrate in class, interfered with the class, and kept making small movements, I kept repeating grades and repeating grades in elementary school.Until his condition improves, he skips one level every year, and he can learn knowledge points that others don't understand at a glance.

He also doesn't understand why others don't, let alone the difficulties of skating on ice. The coach has told you the skills, but you still don't know it.

But Xia Bing was different. He was patient with himself and wrote letters for 8 years.So, even if he didn't reply to the last letter, Chen Zhong didn't want to blame him.

"Do you want to tell me something?" Xia Bing saw Chen Zhong's hesitation, "I close my eyes and you talk, I won't look at you."

After finishing speaking, Xia Bing closed his eyes, but his eyelashes trembled, which proved that he was not asleep.

Chen Zhong's throat was dry, which was normal dryness after being in a cold environment for a long time, and the root of his tongue was bitter.

"Let's talk, kid." Xia Bing teased him with his eyes closed, "Captain, listen up."

Listen, Chen Zhong likes this sentence.When I was a child, I spoke late, and my parents picked me up and beat me up when I said the wrong thing. Few people were willing to listen to me stumble and finish a sentence.

"I bought a shark." He said to Xia Bing's face, watching the white air he exhaled land on the small crimson mole on the bridge of Xia Bing's nose.

"Ah?" Xia Bing closed her eyes, raised her eyebrows, and then the corners of her mouth curled up, with a naughty smile, "What kind of fish?"

He forgot, and Chen Zhong felt lost.On his 14th birthday, Xia Bing sent 300 yuan to buy gifts for himself.Every year on his birthday, he would send money and greeting cards to himself. Xia Bing is different from others, he is the ice of summer.

"Oh, I remembered." Xia Bing closed his eyes and recalled that he once asked him what birthday gift he bought with the money, "A gift? Is it?" He was wearing two sleeping bags, but Chen Zhong still felt it.

After being beaten a lot, any touch is a stimulus to me.

But he was happiest when Xia Bing remembered. "Shark pillow."

"I know that, hugging the sleeping Shasha." Xia Bing smiled on his face, and also smiled in his heart. He is really a child, buying a pillow for his birthday, "When this disaster is over, the captain will buy you another one."

Chen Zhong glanced at his suitcase. "In the box."

"Ah?" Xia Bing opened his eyes at once.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Chen Zhong's eyes seemed to be playing hide and seek with him, and he slipped away in front of him, unable to catch him.Xia Bing quickly closed it again: "You brought the shark?"

"I'm used to it." Chen Zhong glanced at him again, not because he didn't dare to look at him, but because he was afraid that if he looked at him for a long time, he would be easily irritable. When his parents beat someone, the most common sentence he said was, "Look at me."

Xia Bing smiled again and nodded. "Then we also take it with us when we break out, don't leave Shasha, it is considered a non-staff member of the team."

Chen Zhong's eyes lit up in the darkness.

Suddenly, miserable cries came from the corridor, first screaming, then someone came to save me, and then suddenly there was no sound.

Someone wanted to rush out of the building.

Xia Bing frowned tightly. He had heard this kind of voice too much these days, and seemed to be used to it. "Go to sleep, save your strength, and act tomorrow."

Chen Zhong didn't nod or shake his head, he closed his eyes anyway, very obedient.

This time, Xia Bing slept well. In the middle of the night, Liang Zi and Fei Yang were replaced, and Chen Zhong was back to back, leaning on each other's shoulders to rest for a while.

After the sky brightened, he didn't act in a hurry. Instead, he rested and got enough sleep. He didn't start eating until the warmest time at noon, and the two surprise boxes were all emptied.

There are many kinds of snacks, but they are all in small packages, which are just stuffed between the teeth in front of the four boys.After the meal, everyone changed into uniform equipment, the team uniforms of the first team.

Chen Chong is wearing Yan Yijun's because there are embroidered characters on the chest.He took a black ballpoint pen, melted out the name, and wrote two big square characters: Chen Zhong.

They lifted the refrigerator down first, and carefully lifted the table and moved it back to its original position.Without obstacles, there is only a precarious door between them and the outside world.

Xia Bing observed the door through the cat's eyes, and waited until the zombie outside the door turned a corner and left the straight road here, he made a final gesture to the team members: "Put on shoes, take a knife, wear neck and knee pads, and put on a helmet. Hold on, the ones we will face next are not human beings, so don't be soft."

Several people put on the equipment together, stepped on the skates and shoes, and immediately gained a lot of height. After putting on the helmet, the height increased a lot.It was the first time for Chen Zhong to wear protective equipment for short track speed skating, and it felt strange.

He is a speed skater. He has no teammates on the track and is all enemies. He doesn't need protection and cooperation, he just needs to cross the line.Be fast and see everything.

Xia Bing took a deep breath, the room ran out of ammunition and food, and would soon be in a desperate situation. It seemed that what was shown in the zombie movies was true, and only by escaping could he survive.

The door opened, and after a month and a half of hiding, they finally had the courage to leave 609's shelter.

There is a layer of ice on the floor of the corridor, making it difficult for others to walk, it is a natural battlefield under their feet.

The author has something to say:

Chen Zhong: Can I say that I am a son-in-law?Team Xia raised me, so he has to be responsible for me.

Xia Bing: Don't think about falling in love at this time, the important thing is to live.

Chen Zhong: I don't.