Chapter 157 Group Stage Draw
After the three people communicated for a while, a staff member came out of the association building and introduced the three people into a conference room in the building.
The three of them waited for a while, and a greasy middle-aged man in his forties walked into the conference room with another bald, middle-aged white man.
"Hello, three kids." The middle-aged man in the lead said to Lin Shu and the others with a smile, but this smile made Lin Shu somewhat physically uncomfortable.
"Chairman Xiao, just tell me what you have to say. Everyone is very busy. Wang Jiajun and I asked for leave." Gao Xiaoman looked at this Zhongdeng who had made a mess in the Shanghai Mini Racing Area. Feeling annoyed, he interrupted without mercy.
A trace of displeasure appeared on Chairman Xiao's face after being interrupted, but when he thought that his political achievements still depended on last year's champion, he quickly suppressed his anger, came to the conference room, sat down at the main seat, and said: " Since Gao Xiaoman is in a hurry, let me keep the story short."
Director Xiao said, showing a video in the conference room. The content of the video was all about the chaos of racing cars. The remaining cars fought fiercely with steel needles and saw teeth as weapons. In the end, a strange-shaped car with a three-pronged blade that popped out of the front of the car as a weapon won.
This video made the three of them frown, and then Director Xiao continued:
"First of all, let me introduce to you, this is a mini racing car from America. Expert Dr. Robert is the coach I specially invited for you for this national competition. The drivers he has led have won many championships in interstate competitions in many states in America. He is the best in the field of combat racing in North America. An expert, the car in the video is his masterpiece, the Poseidon.”
“Our three cars are not combat racing cars, so what’s the use of hiring such a coach?” Gao Xiaoman said. , "Moreover, combat racing cars are not allowed to participate in national competitions."
"No, no, no." Director Xiao shook his head and explained patiently: "We, the Shanghai Mini Racing Association, carefully studied the rules of the national competition. There is no clear prohibition on combat parts in the rules, and in the latest release In the rules, in order to prepare for the selection of the national team, the restrictions on the motor and battery of the racing car are also completely relaxed, so the combat racing car is modified within the permission of the rules.”
“At the same time, I also Considering that none of you have experience in this area, I invited Dr. Robert, who will help you complete the modification of the car," Director Xiao said, "Of course, you do not need to bear the cost of this modification. The association will. Special funds are allocated to upgrade your cars.”
Hearing this, the faces of Lin Shu and the others suddenly darkened. What does Zhongdeng mean? He still thinks that Lin Shu and the others took advantage of this matter?
If Lin De really wanted to play combat racing, wouldn't it be better to hand the car directly to the master than to let this doctor appear out of nowhere in America? Returning the Poseidon, pretending to be the Poseidon with a three-pronged knife, right? In Lin Dai's opinion, this thing can be called the Yuan Hua at best, and the running BGM can only be "One Cut Plum".
Let’s not mention R’s simple and crude attack skills that maximize the cost-effectiveness of energy utilization. Aren’t the weapons created by the masters, whether they are air cannons or air knives, much more exciting than this thing?
Lin Ye finally figured it out. In China, as long as something like the X Association is born in most popular sports, there will be this classic situation of laymen giving advice to experts, and then the entire industry will be completely rotten. The most famous one is a certain Pig Association.
"I'm sorry, I don't have the habit of giving my car to others for modification." Lin De still maintained a little restraint and refused.
Gao Xiaoman, on the other hand, simply ignored Director Xiao. After standing up, he said to Lin Shu and Wang Jiajun: "Let's go. It's a waste of time for me to ask for leave."
"Gao Xiaoman!" Director Xiao couldn't help it when he saw this, "Don't you have any sense of honor in the competition area?"
"I am participating in the national competition, you don't need to worry about it. ." Gao Xiaoman said.
"Do you really think that your modification skills can be better than Dr. Robert, who is famous in North America? Your car must be modified today!" Seeing this, Director Xiao also planned to use his own skills. To subdue three people.
Lin Cao laughed when he saw this gesture. He might have offended the wrong person. Although Lin Cao was not a playboy who used his family wealth to bully the market, he, the young master of the Lin family, could still give The chairman of a small Shanghai Mini Racing Association was bullied.
So, Lin Bo turned around and left, planning to complain to his grandfather after returning home that he was bullied in Shanghai. Before leaving, Lin Bo did not forget to curse, "Return the mini racing car Chairman of the association, do you know anything about mini racing? You can’t catch up with a dog on the racing track.”
“Wait a minute!” At this time, Dr. Robert remained silent. suddenly said in English.
Both Lin Shu and Gao Xiaoman could understand English. They turned back and glanced at this man with a frown, intending to see what this man had to say.
Seeing the three of them stop, Dr. Robert snorted and said, "Are all Chinese children so rude? I see Mr. Xiao's sincerity and came all the way from America, but you little brats It’s really disappointing. Sure enough, there are no decent mini racers in this place.”
“Sorry, Mr. Robert, I made you laugh.” Seeing that the foreign guests he invited back were dissatisfied, Director Xiao immediately apologized. said, and at the same time said sternly to the three of Lin Shu: "Why don't you apologize to Dr. Robert quickly? He is America's mini racing expert."
"America's mini racing expert?" Lin Dai He sneered and said in English, "You are so awesome, why didn't I see you lead your national team to win the Atlanta Cup at your home stadium? You don't want to."
"Your national team was defeated by the German team in Why didn't I see you on the coaching bench when my home team won the championship?" Gao Xiaoman also mocked at this time.
According to the general routine, Lin Dai should take out his own car to defeat the opponent at this time, but Lin Dai does not want to do this. The performance of the Yuan Hua model developed by this guy in the video, It's not even as good as the one Kurosawa played at the beginning. This guy obviously came to China to cheat money. Playing against him is a waste of time.
"If you dare to walk out of this door, you won't get a dime of support from the association for this year's national competition!" Director Xiao said.
"It's as if we are short of those steel coins of yours." Lin Shu shrugged and walked out of the office with Gao Xiaoman and Wang Jiajun without looking back.
Let’s not talk about it anymore. Gao Xiaoman’s father is also the boss of a software technology company in Shanghai. Even Wang Jiajun’s family is middle-class in Shanghai. They can’t afford tens of thousands of yuan. And betraying his dignity as a mini racer.
After leaving the association, Gao Xiaoman bought three cups of hot milk tea at a milk tea shop not far away. After sharing one cup each, he sat carelessly on the curb, took a sip of milk tea and said, "Look. The three of us have to fight alone."
"It doesn't matter. Thank you very much, Sister Xiaoman, for speaking up for me. Otherwise, I really don't know how to refuse them," Wang Jiajun also said at this time. .
"It's okay, I've already seen the bald man unhappy." Gao Xiaoman said carelessly, "But there is one thing that is quite troublesome. The bald man probably won't provide us with a training venue, but it will be difficult for us to find one for a while. If there is a training venue that matches the strength of the national competition, we can't go to the Baby Cup. "This is a troublesome thing," Lin De said. Compared with the competition funds, the lack of place to train is a bigger problem for the country. For a competition of this level, if you want the track to have a training effect, it must at least be as large and difficult as the test track at Neon's research institute. That set of tracks that can be automatically adjusted was bought at that time. Lin Bo's body ached for a while. Setting up a track like this just for more than ten days of training was not the way to spend it, no matter how rich Lin Bo was.
"How about you go to the capital with me?" Lin Dai said, but after finishing speaking, Lin Dai slapped his forehead and said, "I forgot that you still have to go to school."
"There is no other way. Let's just do some simple daily training first. We can only wait until the draw of the group stage is over and we have a holiday, and then we can go to the venue where the group stage is held before formal training." Gao Xiaoman He said helplessly.
There is a big difference between China's national competition and Neon's Super Cup. After all, there are more than a hundred players in all competition areas. They can't just get together like in the Super Cup, so China The competition system is divided into two stages: the group stage and the finals. The athletes over 100 meters will be divided into 8 groups according to the principle of avoiding the same competition area. The competition will be held at different venues across the country. The top two in each group will Advance, and then the advanced players will compete in a finals to decide the winner.
The draw is scheduled for next week.
During this period, Lin Bo simply stayed in Shanghai. Although Lin Bo could return to the capital to train with Huo Yuesheng and the others, this seemed too unloyal. ‘
So, during this period of time, Lin Dai just waited for Gao Xiaoman and Wang Jiajun to run two laps on the track in the model shop after school. The rest of the time, he only did simple maintenance.
A week later, Lin Dai and the other three sat in front of the hotel TV to watch the live online draw of the national competition. Gao Xiaoman was on the sidelines and introduced Lin Dai to the strengths of other Chinese divisions. rider.
In Group A, which held the group stage in Beijing, Chen Xiaohu was lucky to be on the list, saving him the trouble of traveling. And according to Gao Xiaoman, the strength of this group is not particularly strong. Except for Su Ye, the trial champion of Hunan Province, the other riders in his group were of average strength. Only three of the others in the group had participated in last year's national competition, and their results were average.
In Group B, which held the group stage in Shanghai, Chen Hewang's name appeared on the list. There were so many good players in this group that it was considered a group of death. Three of the top 20 people in last year's national competition were in this group. Only However, with Scorpio's performance and Chen Hewang's current strength, there shouldn't be a big problem for him to break out of this group.
In Group C held in Chang'an, Lin Xie saw his name.
"Chang'an? It sounds good." Lin Shu was quite satisfied with being assigned to this thousand-year-old capital in the preliminaries.
“There are many good people in your group. Xie Gang from Guangdong Province, Wang Linchuan from Qilu Province, and Li Jialiang from Heilongjiang Province were all players who ranked well last year, especially Xie Gang. "Last year's fifth place." Gao Xiaoman said, "However, you can win the Grand Slam in Neon, so qualifying for the group stage should be no problem."
"Xie Gang. ? What a strange name." Lin Cao said strangely. Compared with the others in the same group, this person's name is a bit confusing.
"Well, he also has twin sisters, one named Xie Peng and the other Xie He." Gao Xiaoman said.
Lin Bo: ...
The parents of this family must be very accomplished in mahjong. At the same time, Lin Bo also thought about it. This name is not the name of the Chinese national team in the original book except Chen Hewang. Other players?
Lin Bo didn't have time to think about it, the list of Group D held in Yangcheng was also released. There was no one Lin Bo knew in this group, but Xie He's name did appear among them.
Then there was Group E held in Shudu. As soon as the list of this group came out, Wang Jiajun on the side took a breath.
For no other reason than Gao Xiaoman appeared in this group, another name also stood out - Huo Yuesheng was also in this group.
A few minutes later, Lin Bo's phone rang. Lin Bo picked it up and saw that it was a call from Huo Yuesheng.
"Hello!" After Lin Shu picked up the phone, Huo Yuesheng's cold voice came from the other end of the phone, but Huo Yuesheng's voice on the other end of the phone was somewhat filled with burning anxiety.
"Ah, is Gao Xiaoman with you?" Huo Yuesheng asked.
"Yes, she is watching the lottery with me." Lin Tie said.
"I know, tell her that I will make her look good in the group stage!" Huo Yuesheng on the other end of the phone was full of confidence, "I will repay you twice as much for all the humiliation last year!"
"No, "You called here just to talk about this?" Lin De felt that this guy was in trouble, "Can't you just call her and tell her?" Gao Xiaoman glanced at Lin Shu and asked from the side.
Lin Tie nodded.
"Oh, I blocked him, but he guessed that I should be next to you now, so he called you." Gao Xiaoman said.
After hearing Gao Xiaoman's voice, Huo Yuesheng on the other end of the phone started chattering as if he had been detonated with explosives: "Damn it! Gao Xiaoman, just wait! The first place in the group stage must be It’s mine! You can’t even make it out of the group stage! Ah! Let Gao Xiaoman answer the phone!”
Gao Xiaoman took the phone from Lin Dong’s hand and shook it. Shake his head.
“Every time we go back and forth, there are just a few words. What’s the point?”
(End of this chapter)