Chapter 105 - 105 The National Awakeners' Competition
105 The National Awakeners’ Competition
After hanging up the phone, Ning Shi drove to the fist statue on Pangu Avenue in the school. His three disciples were already waiting for him there.
It was a Thursday. Although there were classes, the teachers had given all the students participating in the competition time off.
Donglin City’s Donglin City’s First Strength Awakener School encouraged its students to participate in the competition, so there were a lot of students who had signed up for it, hundreds of them.
The school had arranged for a special bus to pick up the students to and from the competition venue.
Luo Yao and the other two received special treatment from Ning Shi, and their principal personally drove them to school.
“Get in the car!”
Ning Shi rolled down the window, and Luo Yao naturally sat in the front seat.
Jiang Bichao and Zong Shangren looked at each other and could only sit in the back.
After nearly two weeks of training, Luo Yao’s body started to develop again.
When she first entered the school, she was short and thin, with a pale face and yellow hair, like a malnourished primary school student.
Now, her face was ruddy, her skin was smooth and elastic, her hair was soft and smooth, and her large black eyes were moving. In terms of appearance, she was very good at fighting.
The point was that she had grown five centimeters in two weeks!
She was now 1.44 meters tall.
To her, this was a great breakthrough and good news.
For the competition, the three of them wore the school’s custom-made training clothes.
After the three of them fastened their seat belts, Ning Shi started the car.
“Do you guys have any food that you don’t eat or any special dishes you like?”
The three disciples did not dare to speak the truth in front of their master, and they shook their heads.
[ Luo Yao: When it comes to food, I’m hungry again! I’m so happy to be able to have a meal with master. I must perform well today and win the competition. Master will send me to another competition one day, and we can have another meal together. Haha! Luo Yao, you’re so smart! ]
[ Jiang Bichao: It’s my first time in an off-campus competition. I’m so nervous. I can’t eat spicy food. What if master wants to eat Sichuan food later? I’ll get diarrhea whenever I eat spicy food, and it’ll affect the competition. Should I tell master? I feel so conflicted. ]
[ Zong Shangren: I just came to Donglin City not long ago, so I didn’t have the chance to eat out of school. If I were in Shangmo City, I would be familiar with it. I can eat any of the eight major cuisines, and I’ll eat different dishes every day! ]
Seeing the thoughts in his disciples’ minds, Ning Shi thought that Luo Yao and Zong Shangren probably really didn’t have any qualms. Jiang Bichao couldn’t eat spicy food, and he still had a competition in the afternoon, so he really shouldn’t eat anything too spicy.
“The competition venue is Donglin Stadium. The places to eat near the stadium are probably full. Let’s find a place to eat on the way there.”
As Ning Shi drove, he said, “There’s a bulgogi beef hotpot restaurant in front of us. It’s a chain store that sells clear soup and shabu-shabu hotpot. Let’s eat at this restaurant.”
After confirming their venue, Ning Shi sped up and arrived at the store in 15 minutes.
It was still early, so they didn’t have to line up. The four of them found a table by the window and sat down.
Ning Shi saw that his three disciples couldn’t let go, so he picked up his tablet and placed an order.
At the bottom of the pot, he chose beef bone and radish soup, 10 servings of dragon meat, 10 servings of beef raw and cooked meatballs, 10 servings of tender meat, spoon meat, fat meat, streaky toe, and beef brisket.
Ning Shi ordered a lot. After the waiter received the order, he even specially came over to confirm it.
“Hello, Sir, you ordered 10 sets. Are you sure you didn’t order the wrong ones?
“Sir, there are four people at your table. I suggest that you order a total of eight servings of meat.”
The waiter’s reminder was a kind one. Ning Shi smiled and said, “The order is correct. We are awakeners and our appetites are relatively large. Could you please serve the dishes faster? Thank you!”
Taking advantage of the interval when the dishes were served, Ning Shi instructed his three disciples, “The scale of this competition is very large, and casualties are allowed. The time you’ve been awakeners is too short, so you’re mainly training.
“You must learn to measure the strength of your opponent. If the gap is too big, you can take the initiative to give up. Your strength is currently in a period of rapid growth. If you get injured, it will affect your future training.”
Ning Shi listened to the thoughts of his three disciples. Luo Yao’s reaction was to listen to their master, Jiang Bichao knew when to advance and when to retreat. Only Zong Shangren wanted to seek some excitement, thinking that it was no fun to admit defeat.
It seemed like Zong Shangren’s match needed to be paid more attention.
After a while, plates of beef were served. The clear soup in the pot also began to boil. Ning Shi began to rinse the meat up and down.
The beef in this restaurant was fresh and tender. Different parts of the beef had different textures, which fully satisfied their desire to eat meat.
The scene of four strength-type awakeners eating together was so tragic that the waiter was dumbfounded. The empty plates were stacked so high that he forgot to clear them.
After the meal, Ning Shi drove for another half an hour and arrived at Donglin Stadium.
The car made two rounds, and all the parking lots near the stadium were full. Ning Shi had to say, “You guys get off the car and report first. I’ll park the car further away and come over to find you.”
He drove to a shopping mall two kilometers away and found a parking space.
Ning Shi suddenly had an interesting idea.
“When you’re stronger, you can run here for future competitions. It’ll be a warm-up.”
After parking the car, Ning Shi quickly arrived outside the stadium.
At this moment, the stadium was packed like sardines.
Ning Shi had to squeeze to move forward.
It was one o’clock in the afternoon, and there was still an hour before the afternoon game started. These people were already ready to enter the venue.
Ning Shi heard a middle-aged man loudly calling his family.
“Oh, really? I’m on TV? There’s an image of me in a live internet broadcast? Haha, honey, you have to come with me next time. The competition this morning was too exciting. It was really a flash of lightning. With these real abilities, who would want to watch those fake special effects in the movies?”
“Football? Don’t mention football to me, I’ve already quit. I’m now a loyal fan of the National Awakeners’ Competition!”
“Yes! Good! Good! I’ll definitely return on time! He didn’t drink! I’m hanging up.”
The competition mobilized all media resources, including television stations, online media, live broadcast platforms, short videos, newspapers, magazines, and so on, to report on the competition-related content.
There were three competition venues in Donglin City: The city stadium, the sports and fitness center, and the red stone square.
In the stadium alone, there were more than 200 reporters, more than 20 TV stations, and even more media figures.
This was only a competition venue for a city.
Ning Shi knew that for the sake of this competition, the officials had specially modified the communication network of the competition venue, purchased the most advanced live broadcast equipment, and even freed up a few satellites in the sky.
They would strive to do their best for the National Awakeners’ Competition and use the competition to drive the trend of martial arts among the people.
With such a background, no one knew who would win the competition and become a well-known celebrity.
As the coach of the contestants, Ning Shi could go through the contestant’s passage. He squeezed into the front of the dedicated passage, verified his identity, and was about to go in when he met an old acquaintance.
Zhu Daniu, an awakener from the Investigation Department.
He took out his ID and was also registering his information and verifying his identity. He should be here to participate in the competition.
Zhu Daniu also saw Ning Shi and took the initiative to come over to greet him.
“Hello, Consultant Ning! Are you also participating in the competition?”
Ning Shi shook his head. “No, my students have a competition today. Did you sign up? ”
Zhu Daniu let out a bitter smile. “It’s an official requirement. The proportion of participants from our Investigation Department must reach 10%. Everyone has been very busy recently, so the team sent me here.”
“Oh? Did Wang Yunlin come as well?”
“No, Captain Wang was transferred to the army. We don’t know where he went, but we lost contact with him after he was transferred.
When Ning Shi heard this news, he immediately guessed that Wang Yunlin had been transferred to the border for military service because of the previous incident.
He smiled. “The rewards for this competition are very attractive. As long as you can enter the top 32 in the city, you will get a prize. With your strength, you can try.”
“In order to increase the audience’s view, the officials have sent military experts to participate in this competition.” Zhu Daniu pouted.
“There’s also a large number of experts among the people participating in the competition, so I don’t need to think about the reward.
“I just want to finish this competition as soon as possible and go back to handle the cases. There are too many cases now.”
Ning Shi could feel that this was Zhu Daniu’s true thoughts.
It seemed that after the series of events that happened during the National Awakening, Zhu Daniu had also grown a lot.
In the past, he loved to show off in front of others, but now, in the face of such a grand competition stage, he had no intention to compete or show off.
Instead, he wanted to return to the team to deal with the backlog of cases.
Ning Shi’s heart moved. He remembered that he was short of merit points, so he left Zhu Daniu his phone number.
“Captain Zhu, if you encounter any major difficult cases in the future and have more merit points, you can give me a call.
You register first, I’ll go in and find my students.”
Ning Shi entered the contestants’ waiting area when he finished talking.