80: Chapter 79 The Gao Brothers?

"My heart rate is currently controlled between 60-100 beats per minute, which is not bad. Other people's heart rate during long-distance running is about 120, so I can still speed up a bit."

Looking at the speed displayed on the Huawei sports watch on his wrist, Li Changsheng began to continue adjusting his breathing.

Every time he ran, Li Changsheng would follow the breathing method of the Eight Brocades and the Abdominal Breathing Method of Tai Chi. He had trained with these two methods the longest, and they shared similar underlying principles.

His speed began to increase continuously, and afterimages gradually began to appear from his legs. He had already run more than two kilometers before, and this sudden dash made his speed soar even more.

The pastoral scenery on both sides was receding rapidly. If one were to look at the heart rate fluctuation chart now...

...they would find that Li Changsheng's heart rate fluctuations always remained at a very uniform and constant index. Even with the increase in speed, the frequency of these fluctuations rose gradually rather than showing a sudden, violent surge.

Besides the sound of the wind in his ears, there was only the rustling sound of his shoes making brief contact with the ground. He was moving so fast that Li Changsheng felt it was even quicker than his usual runs in the park.

He didn't know if it was his imagination, an improvement brought about by the increased oxygen levels in this nature-surrounded environment, or perhaps because of his recent progress in cultivation.

"An average of 10.12s per hundred meters?!!"

Looking at the numbers displayed on the sports watch on his wrist, Li Changsheng was completely bewildered. He looked back and found that he had run almost a kilometer.

Li Changsheng couldn't measure the exact distance, but the watch showed that he had just run about a kilometer.

Does this mean that in this one-kilometer middle-distance run, he had averaged the level of a national-grade hundred-meter athlete?

"Could this thing be fake?"

"Did I really run that fast?"

Li Changsheng's mind felt a bit unreal due to the brief lack of oxygen. Because he had indeed run fast enough this time, besides the large amount of steam rising from his body, his chest was also heaving violently as he gasped for air.

Wiping the fine sweat from his forehead, Li Changsheng began to run back, this time maintaining a regular pace.

Before long, he arrived at the village entrance.

"If I remember correctly, the distance from the village entrance to that tree is about a hundred meters."

Standing at the village entrance and looking at the cedar tree not far away, Li Changsheng calmed his breathing. Once he returned to a normal state, he pressed the stopwatch on his watch again.

Almost at the instant he pressed it, Li Changsheng exerted force with his legs, even using the Xingyi Kicking Power. With this step, his whole body shot out like an arrow from a bow.

The wind howled around him. The moment he passed the large tree, he quickly pressed the stopwatch.

"Damn! Damn, damn!"

"10.01 seconds for a hundred meters???"

"Am I already close to the Olympic track and field hundred-meter qualifying standard?"

Li Changsheng was stunned. If he remembered correctly, the qualifying standard for the 2022 Olympic hundred-meter sprint was 10 seconds, and 11.07 seconds for women.

With this hundred-meter result, if Li Changsheng wanted to, he could completely represent the country in competitions.

Moreover, as long as a coach discovered this result, they would definitely recruit him immediately, because this was just a casual run without any professional track and field training.

It could be said that as long as Li Changsheng underwent professional training for a period, breaking ten seconds would be a certainty, and there would even be a glimmer of hope for becoming a world champion.

"How many seconds was Su Bingtian's record? 9.83 seconds. That doesn't seem like much?"

Slap!

Just after saying it, Li Changsheng couldn't help but slap himself.

"Li Changsheng, oh Li Changsheng, you've gotten ahead of yourself. What gave you the confidence to compare yourself with Su Bingtian?"

Regarding this, Li Changsheng felt he shouldn't be proud. Furthermore, when it comes to speed, the further you go, the harder it is to improve. Once you're under ten seconds, every 0.01-second improvement is a leap.

"Perhaps as my physical strength continues to improve in the future, my speed can increase even further. But then again, it's hard to say. Physical strength refers to an overall average value. If there's too much muscle mass, the strength index might go up, but the speed will definitely suffer."

After a brief thought, Li Changsheng stopped dwelling on it. Why worry about this? He wasn't actually going to participate in the Olympics.

After running another lap, Li Changsheng thought of that kid Gao Qiang.

"A few days ago, he said he was doing live streams at the old house by the fish pond at the east of the village, right? I wonder how he's doing now."

He used to go to Gao Qiang's old house to play often when he was a child. His grandfather used to raise and sell fish, so that fish pond was also contracted by their family. It was a beautiful place, nestled against the mountains and near the water.

Controlling his speed, Li Changsheng took only a few minutes to see the fish pond near the large mountain in the distance, as well as a cluster of houses by the pond that had been demolished and were being rebuilt.

Gao Qiang had indeed been busy with live streaming lately. See, he was already hard at work early in the morning.

Various timbers were delivered, and the ruins left after the demolition of the original old house had been cleared away, leaving a large, flat foundation.

"Brothers, today is the fifteenth day of Qiang Zi's broadcast. I couldn't make it in the city, so I came home to start a business. If you like what you see, please follow me!"

While hammering at the wooden foundation, Qiang Zi shouted toward the phone camera.

Qiu Bufan: "Host, tell the truth, did your family use to sell fish? Is your surname Gao?"

Gao Qiang's live stream room had always been lukewarm. After all, a new host doing this kind of farming and construction style is a slow burner.

This resulted in his live stream room having only about a hundred or so long-time fans in total.

Looking at this bullet comment, Gao Qiang was stunned for a moment but still nodded. "Uh... I indeed have the surname Gao, and my family did indeed sell fish in the past. This fish pond you see, we're still raising fish in it now."

To be honest, Gao Qiang was bewildered. What was going on? He hadn't revealed his surname; he had always referred to himself as Qiang Zi.

Qiu Bufan: "Then that's it. Host, don't move. I've already called the police. There's something wrong with your fish pond too; I suspect Someone named Xu died in there."

Wei Xinshang: "Host, give up resisting. The whole country knows what you did. The police are already on their way."

Shi Gu Ri Tian: "Not gonna lie, isn't this President Gao himself? Damn, I've been watching the stream for so many days and wondered why he looked so familiar. You think we won't recognize you just because you changed into these work clothes?"

Looking at these bullet comments, Gao Qiang was completely confused. What was the situation?

What did I do? Is selling fish a crime now?

And who is this person named Xu?

As someone who never binged shows and was busy making money all day, Gao Qiang was completely lost; he couldn't quite understand what these people were talking about.

"Qiang Zi, you're out working so early. Do you need a hand?"

Just then, Li Changsheng's voice rang out from the side.

The viewers in the live stream were all a bit confused. This voice sounded so familiar too. Could it be the other of the Gao brothers coming over?

Then they saw a young man wearing a Peppa Pig T-shirt jogging into the frame.

"!!!!!!!"