growing up

The race officially started at four o'clock. Five minutes before the start, all contestants stood on their respective tracks as required. Ling Chao and Gu Yuan were at the end of the third track.

"Pay attention to adjust your breathing, keep your mouth and nose together, take two or three steps like this. Don't be too hasty." Ling Chao said.

"Yeah." Gu Yuan replied softly.

"Don't just think about rushing forward at the beginning, let's see the level of other students first. You follow me, and you speed up when you see that I speed up." Ling Chao said after thinking about it.

Gu Yuan nodded without making a sound.He saw that Luo Tianxiang was on the right side of them, a road ahead.Ling Chao didn't pay attention to what Chen Yu said just now, but Gu Yuan listened to it.Although he didn't know if he would really have any tricks, Gu Yuan had seen a lot of people who always bullied his classmates and thought he was the boss since he was a child.Yesterday he lost to Ling Chao in the long jump competition.At that time, his complexion was already extremely ugly.I met again in the long-distance running today, and this kind of collective exercise did give him a chance to make small moves.

When the referee's voice sounded from the sidelines, Gu Yuan withdrew his thoughts.

The race will start immediately, and the students around are all ready to start, and they will rush forward together as long as the starting gun is fired.

Everyone was very relaxed in the first lap, and the distance between everyone was not much different.Ling Chao didn't use all his strength, but his speed was not slow.Gu Yuan followed behind him and ran at his speed.Many students were left behind.

On the second lap, Ling Chao accelerated. There were a dozen students in front of him, and they overtook them one by one during the acceleration process. By the end of the second lap, Ling Chao had already taken the lead, and Gu Yuan was still following closely .It seemed that Gu Yuan had put all his energy into this competition.

On the third lap, Ling Chao began to enter a state of constant speed.It looks very relaxed, but many people on the runway have slowed down, and the early sprint consumption is still quite large.

Luo Tianxiang caught up at this time, his breath was fairly steady, although he did not surpass Ling Chao and the others, he was not far away from them.A little behind them across the runway.Did not continue to rush forward.

By the fourth lap, Ling Chao and the others had passed the final contestant by nearly half a lap.Apart from Ling Chao, Gu Yuan, and Luo Tianxiang, there were only four or five students from other classes who were closer.Most of the classmates are across from them across the playground.

The sound of refueling on the side of the runway was very loud, and it was full of people.Passing by a class of classmates, I can always hear them shouting: "Come on, Ling Chao, come on, Gu Yuan."

Ling Chao glanced back at the end of the seventh lap, Gu Yuan was still very close to him, and he also saw Luo Tianxiang, almost 30 meters behind Gu Yuan.At this time, the large army was less than 100 meters in front of him.Normally speaking, even if Lingchao just maintains this speed for the last two laps, No.1's problem is not big.

Ling Chao slowed down a little, he wanted to finish with Gu Yuan at the end.

Luo Tianxiang started to accelerate at this time, and whistled to Gu Yuan again when he caught up with Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan turned his head and glanced at him, this man indeed ran well, he had already passed seven laps, yet he looked relaxed.The whistle sounded quite loud.

In order to keep up with Ling Chao's speed, Gu Yuan ran faster than usual, and felt a little tired at this time. Although the speed of his feet did not decrease, he still remembered the breathing rhythm ordered by Ling Chao, but his heartbeat was too fast, getting worse and worse. The heavy steps made him not have too much energy to care about other things.

He felt that Ling Chao was slowing down. In the last lap, logically speaking, he should sprint.He immediately understood what Ling Chao was thinking, and accelerated a few steps forward, and he and Ling Chao were about to walk side by side.

They began to mix into the big team, and some students couldn't even run, but kept walking without giving up.

After turning the corner ahead, with only the last half turn left, Ling Chao watched Gu Yuan catch up and shouted to him, "Come on."

The two accelerated at the same time, Gu Yuan was unable to think, and Ling Chao told him to rush at him.

His brain is a little hypoxic right now. In order to keep up with Ling Chao, he has to breathe faster to use up the oxygen. Anyway, it's only the last half lap, and it will end soon.

He turned a corner, his body tilted a little along with the curve, his feet were fast, and he was surrounded by classmates who were a lap or even two laps behind them. He could vaguely see someone waiting at the finish line with a small red flag.

He didn't really care about the rankings. He came to participate in the long-distance race at first because Ling Chao said he wanted to participate, so he would accompany him to participate.Long-distance running is a boring sport that requires perseverance, which is different from other competitions.It took a long time, he just wanted to run with Ling Chao in this game.

Now, the two of them are leading at the front, and Ling Chao even waited for him to go to the finish line with him, how could he refuse?At this time, it might be a good thing to be able to win the ranking with Ling Chao.

But before he really rushed to Ling Chao's side and walked alongside him, suddenly a gust of wind blew past him, and Ling Chao, who had just turned the corner and was about to run to the side road to circle the classmate in front, was bumped.

"what!"

It is conceivable how hard it was hit during such high-speed running.Ling Chao's body fell to the side uncontrollably, and his feet staggered even more.He collided directly with the two people in front of him.

Gu Yuan's mind was blank, he didn't rush to see who the person bumping into Ling Chao was, but instinctively stretched out his hand to grab him, his fingers slid across the hem of Ling Chao's clothes, but he didn't grab anything. .

Two classmates who had given up running were also affected, but they could only abruptly catch the person who was hit by Ling Chao, and they crashed into a ball. Fortunately, the students behind couldn't run fast. Kan stopped in front of him.

The students in the runway appearance competition also reacted, and screams rang out.Some people wanted to go to the track to see the situation, but at this time there were many students who were competing behind them and were stopped.

Ling Chao had already reacted when he felt someone hit him. Fortunately, he had built a relatively stable center of gravity for many years, but the speed just now was too fast. Even if he stabilized some strength in time, he would inevitably hit him. other people.The classmate who was hit by him was not so lucky. His center of gravity was suddenly knocked off, and he was about to fall. Blocking, a few finally staggered for several steps before falling to the ground.

Gu Yuan finally grabbed Ling Chao's arm, his heart was beating faster than when he was running just now, and his voice changed a bit: "How is it?"

Ling Chao was indeed taken aback, but luckily the other students were fine.Ling Chao hurriedly apologized to the classmate who was bumped, and they were all very frightened.But apart from being hit, there was no injury.If it weren't for Ling Chao's quick reaction to pull them, they would probably all fall into one piece at this time.

Seeing that those people shook their heads and said nothing was wrong, Ling Chao noticed that Gu Yuan was still pulling him, his eyes were full of anxiety.

"I'm fine." Ling Chao pressed Gu Yuan's arm with his other hand.

His face was paler than usual, and his blood was gone. The fingers that pulled Ling Chao were very strong, the veins on the back of his hand were obvious, and he was still trembling faintly.

The personnel who maintained order at the venue ran over and felt relieved to see that they were not injured.Ask them if they can continue the game, and evacuate the students who stopped because of them.

It was only here that Ling Chao remembered who hit him.In fact, in this kind of multiplayer running, getting hit is not a big deal, but Luo Tianxiang obviously did it on purpose.There is a road between them.When Ling Chao changed lanes to go around people, there was no one on Luo Tianxiang's lane, so he didn't need to change lanes at this time.

Ling Chao narrowed his eyes and looked at Luo Tianxiang, who was only a few steps away from the finish line, and said to the man, "Let's continue."

After maintaining the order of all participants, the others also continued to run forward.But Gu Yuan still didn't let go of his hand.

In fact, Gu Yuan didn't have much strength at this time. After confirming that Ling Chao was really okay, the fatigue caused by the excessive running in the early stage hit his whole body.The reason why Ling Chao didn't let go was because he felt that he would fall down as soon as he let go.

Ling Chao noticed that something was wrong with Gu Yuan, the other students around him had already left, and the ones behind were passing them one after another.They just stood on the innermost runway without moving.

"Gu Yuan?" Ling Chao called him, "Can you still run?"

Gu Yuan's breathing was loud, one after another.Sweat drenched his entire head, and several water marks ran down his forehead.

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.In the end, he just nodded slightly.

"Then I'll take you to run." Ling Chao said as he pulled his arm back from his hand, and then used that hand to directly hold Gu Yuan's hand: "It's the last half lap, let's go to the finish line together."

Gu Yuan felt that his fingers were held in a big hand, which was very warm. He could hear what Ling Chao said, and he knew that it was Ling Chao who was pulling him.But he was powerless to think. It had only been a minute or two since Ling Chao was hit. He obviously stopped running, but it seemed like he had run an extra three kilometers. He was in a daze.

Now in the entire arena, except for Luo Tianxiang who bumped into them and passed them to reach the finish line, everyone who was behind before was still far behind.Ling Chao took Gu Yuan's hand like this and ran forward.

His speed was neither fast nor slow, similar to the previous few laps, and Gu Yuan's fingers gradually returned to warmth from the coldness when he pulled them up for the first time.

He is still in a bad state and his physical strength is completely overdrawn, but when Ling Chao is leading him to run, he can keep up with the pace under his feet.

When Ling Chao slowed down a few meters away from the finish line, Gu Yuan looked at him with confused eyes.

"Let's cross the finish line together." Ling Chao looked at him with a smile and said.

"Okay." Gu Yuan panted and replied softly.