Gu Kun didn't pay attention to how many spectators left the venue after he finished the game.
Because he is really tired today.
There was a 1500-meter freestyle preliminaries and three 200-meter breaststrokes. That was a real swim of 2100 meters and four sprints. It was definitely the most physically demanding day since the start of the competition.
It would be absolutely impossible for other normal people on earth to maintain their condition under such physical exertion.
Gu Kun managed to get even by relying solely on the fact that "to break any single world record, you only need to use 80% of your strength".
Hurrying back to the hotel, Gu Kun took a quick shower and then lay down on the bed.
"Don't you want to eat something first? I made steak and prawns for you." Lin Ying quietly followed Gu Kun into the room and asked softly.
She came to Fukuoka two days before the start of the game, chatting with Gu Kun to relieve his boredom, cheering him on, but she definitely did not let him get close to women.
Occasionally, she would borrow the kitchen of the temporary rental house next to the hotel to help Gu Kun cook something delicious. As for the ingredients, the team brought them from China to avoid containing stimulants.
"Let's eat later." Gu Kun buried his head in the pillow, not even bothering to lift it up.
"Then I'll rub it for you first, and then I'll warm it up for you." Lin Ying said, then she gave Gu Kunma a gentle and considerate massage.
After feeling relieved, Gu Kun pointed to the cabinet where his luggage was placed: "Bring me two bottles of vodka and a box of chocolates."
Of course Lin Ying complied, and then Gu Kun ate two kilograms of steak with his hands, and then started chewing chocolate while drinking vodka. He estimated that he had eaten 20,000 calories before he stopped.
Pan An is in the eye of the beholder. Even if Gu Kun just had something to eat, his achievements in the past few days would make him dazzled and shaken in the eyes of the girl.
Lin Ying only felt that Gu Kun's every move and gesture had a strong masculine flavor.
"It's so satisfying. The coach and teammates stared at me the past two days and asked me to eat together. It's really frustrating. I have to worry about others treating me as a weirdo." Gu Kun let out a long breath, "These days
Thanks a lot."
It is only in front of his woman that his quirks and talents will not be doubted.
After hearing the man's consolation, Lin Ying felt sad and a little relieved: "Am I the kind of 'big brother's woman' on "Young and Dangerous"? Being able to experience this in this life is a gift given to me by fate. I
I will cherish it."
Some little girls just enjoy the feeling of being a big brother's woman. It can only be said that everyone has their own ambitions.
In fact, Midlova originally wanted to come to Fukuoka to watch Gu Kun compete this time.
But Gu Kun didn't want to see a bunch of blond foreign girls shouting for him on the field, which was too abrupt. So he deliberately did not give travel subsidies to Midlova or any other overseas student girls.
Midlova's life had just improved, but she still had to regularly transfer money to her hometown in Heklan to support her family, so she wisely did not spend extravagantly and gave up watching the games.
After all, Lin Ying is a girl from a rich family and paid for it out of her own pocket. This is different.
The two simply hugged Wen Cun and rested for a while. Lin Ying remembered something and asked: "Your subordinate called you that day. I didn't ask for details. I didn't want to ruin your mood for the game. The competition will be over tomorrow.
Did something happen to Lan Fang?"
Gu Kun lit up a cigar. This was the first time he smoked it during the competition. He had been very restrained before. Then he said leisurely:
"It is true that something happened. I believe you are sensible and will not talk nonsense. It is a business rival. Zhu Jingye wants to deal with my people. But at least no one was killed, and the opponent was severely bleeding.
——
When you came here last time, didn't you say that a woman named Hu Mei wanted to persuade you to seduce me and provide some scandals about me? Now I can tell you clearly that the boss behind Hu Mei is Zhu Jingye.
So Zhu Jingye chose another plan to deal with my people after just a few days after confirming that Hu Mei's persuasion failed and you refused to cooperate with them. When I return to China after the competition tomorrow, I will deal with them."
Lin Ying was frightened when she heard this, but she also understood her love and care for her husband more and more.
The people around Gu Kun are really unsafe.
"Then my response that time...wasn't it inappropriate and harmed others? If Hu Meiduoxu and I had an argument for a while, maybe we could hold them back and prevent them from taking risks..." Lin Ying has never seen blood after all.
, he is still kind in nature, but he is a little uneasy.
"It's none of your business. It's unnecessary for Hu Mei to find you. It's Zhu Jingye's wishful thinking. Don't think about it too much. I'm going to rest."
Gu Kun domineeringly took all the psychological burden on himself and asked Lin Ying to retreat and go back to her room to sleep.
As for tomorrow, turn pressure into strength, explode and vent, and then hide your merit and fame.
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Monday, August 21st.
Gu Kun, who slept in until 9:30 in the morning, had a hearty buffet breakfast, wandered around the hotel, and read magazines online, killing two hours.
It was approaching noon, so I went to the hotel gym to warm up a little, and then I called a car with Lin Ying to go to Kitakyushu Swimming Center.
The starting fare of a taxi in Japan is 660 yen, and it basically takes a few seconds to jump.
After all, the Universiade is not as good as the World Championships or the Olympics. Due to financial constraints, the swimming team does not charter a bus. Other team members usually walk to the venue, which is not far from the hotel anyway.
In the taxi, the Japanese driver did not recognize Gu Kun at first, but because he heard that Gu Kun was going to the swimming center and was speaking in Chinese, he carefully asked him in Chinese: "There is a player on the Chinese team."
, his name is Gu Kun, do you... know him?"
"That's him." Lin Ying proudly announced, hugging Gu Kun's arm tightly.
"Sure enough, it looks a bit like the one taken by NHK. Can you sign it for me? I don't need to charge you the fare."
Gu Kun smiled, casually took out a small advertisement clipped on the back of the front seat, signed his name, but finally paid for the car.
If he doesn't give money, wouldn't it be equivalent to selling an autograph for 660 yen? If he cares about someone's autograph, does the price drop that much?
The Japanese driver was obviously aware of this problem. After parking the car, he apologized to Gu Kun repeatedly. He even walked out of the cab and went around to the other side to open the door for Gu Kun.
"At least in this three-thirds of an acre of land in Fukuoka, everyone already knows you." Lin Ying said proudly and gratifiedly.
Gu Kun smiled and didn't take it seriously.
He quickly entered the venue, took samples for doping tests according to procedures, and completed all preparations.
As the announcement came from the loudspeaker, Gu Kun took off his headphones and stood on the starting platform for the last time amid the cheers of the audience.
In order to adjust the rhythm before the game and not to let the noise in the venue disturb them, many swimmers still have the habit of wearing headphones and listening to some background music with an inherent rhythm that suits them until they are ready to board the starting platform.
Gu Kun was not that particular, but just five days ago, when he won his third gold medal and broke his eighth world record, a Japanese named Soda Gohito suddenly flew from Tokyo.
Come on, Bula Bula lobbied him hard.
He also bowed to express his thanks for handing over the check and sample gifts, and implored Gu Kun to listen to Sony’s latest lightweight version of disc-man and use Sony’s headphones before the next competition.
At that time, Gu Kun could only reluctantly accept this pair of Sony headphones and the matching disc-man, which were said to be worth 1 million yen.
Of course, there is also a check for advertising fees of 100 million yen.
Even so, Gu Kun only promised to wear it before competitions in the future, so that the media from all over the world can take close-up shots and know that it is Sony. However, Gu Kun will not endorse it.
It’s only more than 8 million yuan, what else does Sony want? Dai Dai’s benevolence and justice are enough to give him face.
Give it if you love it, but get out if you don’t.
"Contestants, get ready."
Gu Kun slowly took off his headphones and placed them on the side of the starting platform together with his CD player. Finally, he crossed his fingers and stretched his arms.
With a whistle, Gu Kun flew away like a torpedo.
There have been too many troubles that I have been holding back recently that I don't want to think about. As my heart is about to return, I really need a way to vent.
On the other hand, since there will be no competition later, Gu Kun does not need to think about conserving his physical strength.
Just do whatever you want once.
At worst, it will be more difficult to break the world record in the 1,500-meter event in the future.
But it doesn’t matter. Based on other projects alone, it is certain that he will surpass Bubka in the future.
As a human being, the most important thing is to be happy, and it's nice to occasionally do whatever you want and not play your cards according to plan.
"Oh my God, why is it so fast?"
"This pace is obviously much faster than yesterday's preliminaries. Are you being impulsive? Are you afraid of running out of energy in the second half?"
The Japanese on the stage all cared about Gu Kun from the bottom of their hearts and seemed to be worried about him. Some of them vaguely felt that they could witness an even bigger miracle.
Kitajima Kosuke, who had already relied on Gu Kun to retire suddenly and become the world's frog king, was also in the stands, and his heart was full of admiration and excitement: "He is such a professional athlete, he will definitely not be random.
Allocating physical strength! There must be some leftover energy! Come on!"
After only five laps of swimming, Gu Kun had already surpassed the second place by half a lap. On the tenth lap, he passed 80 meters, and then continued steadily until the sprint.
At this moment, the tens of thousands of spectators in the venue knew that there was no problem of improper distribution of physical strength. Everyone's pupils were dilated and they just wanted to see more shocking news.
"Come on! One more lap! Come on! One more lap!"
"Don't save any energy! Let's vent it completely! Let's see the sportsmanship!"
An Oceania player in second place just saw a huge wave next to him suddenly bounce over, and the echo made people gasp for breath. He really surpassed one lap.
The 1,500-meter record set at the Universiade and the World Youth Championship was originally more than half a minute slower than the world record, so Gu Kun was at least 70 meters ahead of the second place in the preliminaries.
Now the lap is only 30 meters longer than in the preliminaries, but converted into time it is at least 15 seconds.
Of course, the performance of the second and third place seemed to be worse than in yesterday's preliminaries, so it is impossible to improve the record by 15 seconds - mainly because other players suffered huge psychological setbacks and blows after being trapped.
, my willpower collapsed during the final sprint, and I didn’t sprint at my full strength.
"14 minutes, 27 seconds 88! This is a full 11 seconds higher than the 14 minutes, 38 seconds 90 he set yesterday! Gu Kun became the first person on earth to swim under the 14 minutes and 40 seconds barrier.
An Earthling who swims for 14 and a half minutes!"
"Gu Kun brought a perfect ending to his Universiade journey."
Reporters from various countries announced excitedly into the microphone in front of their respective cameras in their respective languages.
When Gu Kun came off the stage wearing a bath towel, countless reporters gathered around him. People from NHK took advantage of the landlord and got there first:
"Gu, may I ask why you suddenly broke the 10-second world record today? Is it because you don't want to retain your strength? The outside world says that you want to be someone who surpasses Bubka, but it's all in vain, Gu's sportsmanship that goes all out, you
What’s the explanation for this?”
Gu Kun: "I can break as many as I want. As for sportsmanship, I think it should be viewed from an overall perspective. For those events that require a lot of physical exertion, before the final round of competition, as long as you can ensure victory, leave some
Physical strength is quite normal.
I can't allocate my energy like everyone else, because you can't find another player who needs to register for 9 events and swim 25 games in total, right?"
The NHK reporter was left speechless by the rhetorical question, and felt that what Gu Kun said was indeed very reasonable.
Yes, Gu Kun is the only person on earth who has applied for nine gold medals at once, and has to swim at least four times on average every day. Is it wrong for people to allocate their physical strength a little?
Now it’s the last day. Didn’t they just try their best to break the world record of 10 seconds?
The Bubka conspiracy theory is totally slander! Gu Kun’s sportsmanship is at least nobler than Bubka’s!
The female reporter ended the interview respectfully with an almost flattering smile.
Then Gu Kun was touched by a group of Japanese girls through the fence, desperately trying to ask for his autograph.
Gu Kun signed a few as a courtesy and then left the venue under the protection of bodyguards.
Limited by the nature of the competition and the scale of media coverage, he believed that his reputation was so popular in Japan for the time being. As for spreading it back to China and attracting everyone's attention, it would probably not be until the start of school.
That is the real harvest season.
However, it is good to have a good reputation in Japan. After returning to Lanzhou, in the first one or two years, Chinese tourists will still not be wealthy enough compared to Lanzhou's consumption level.
If it can attract enough Japanese people to support it, it doesn't need to be too many, tens of thousands of people every year will be a big business. After all, Lanfang is only that big, and there are very few people to support.
…
Just like that, Gu Kun made a high-profile return with an epic honor.
On the night of August 21, his flight arrived in Hujiang from Tokyo, and then transferred to Guangdong and Kuching. Because it was late at night when he arrived in Kuching, he stayed one night and returned to Lanzhou on his own boat early the next morning.
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At the Lanfang Port pier, Gu Kun saw a grand welcome ceremony.
It turned out to be the Grand Duke of Lanfang, Zhu Youdong, wearing formal court clothes and coming out to "welcome" the hero's triumphant return.
"Your Highness." Gu Kun asked politely first.
"Gu Kun, you are our hero in Lanfang." The Grand Duke held Gu Kun's hand and said some high-sounding words of encouragement.