18: Chapter 18: Is he the devil?

Jiang Zhe made a major mistake right at the start!

After hearing the starting gun, he was actually a beat slower than all the other members.

But once he truly got into his running rhythm, everyone on the playground was stunned!

His movements were extremely non-standard, and his running form wasn't graceful either. Strangely enough—Jiang Zhe overtook the first sports student in the blink of an eye.

Within three breaths, he directly caught up with the first-place sports student in the red shirt.

Every sports student he overtook felt a gust of wild wind sweep past them from behind.

Amidst the cheers and encouragement of the onlookers!

Jiang Zhe had already pulled ahead of the five others by 13 to 18 meters!

Ultimately, Jiang Zhe was the first to burst through the finish line!

The other five members were about a second and a half to nearly two seconds slower than Jiang Zhe when they barely crossed the line!

They all looked at Jiang Zhe as if he were a monster, their faces asking:

[Is this freaking reasonable? You didn't even use starting blocks during the start!!]

At the finish line, the timekeeper was completely dumbfounded.

When he saw the manual time on the laptop, he stood frozen on the field like an ice sculpture.

Manual Record: 9.47 seconds/100 meters!

After the result was projected onto the large electronic screen... everyone on the playground was stunned!

At this moment, all the nearby laughter stopped abruptly. The sports school students looked in shock at Jiang Zhe, who was strolling back leisurely.

They then looked at the petrified middle-aged coach.

Jiang Xiaoyu looked at the projected manual result, so shocked she covered her mouth. "Brother!"

After witnessing this moment, the viewers in the livestream were also completely dumbstruck.

"What the actual hell?"

???

"9.47 seconds? You're joking, right? This guy is a scholar?"

"Hey, hey, Xiao Yu's Brother, you didn't use starting blocks, and your start was a beat slow; your stride has huge problems, so how did you break the world record?"

Watching this scene, Teacher Wang, Teacher Zhao, and Teacher Wu only felt their worldviews collapsing.

Is it reasonable for someone who knows nothing to break the world record with a manual time?

Even if the electronic timing adds another 0.2 to 0.3 seconds!

You'd still freaking be at 9.67 to 9.77 seconds/100 meters!

With a bit more training and practice, wouldn't the world record be within easy reach?

In the spectator stands.

Many onlookers who had rushed over from nearby looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What happened?"

"9.47???"

"It's fake, right?"

Not just the onlookers, even the sports officials who were inspecting the event rubbed their eyes in confusion.

"Is my vision blurry, or did the timekeeper press it early?" A deputy director's gaze was locked onto Jiang Zhe, his eyes burning with intensity.

Another companion spoke up: "Not necessarily, it might just be a mistake."

A third companion said: "Even if it's a timing error, this kind of speed would directly qualify for national athlete status—no, even world-class athlete status!"

...

After returning to the starting line.

The coach and over a dozen sprinters were so shocked they were speechless.

They looked at Jiang Zhe as if looking at a monster.

The coach stared intently at the time sent to his phone by the timekeeper!

9.47!

After confirming it several times, he finally concluded: It's real!

He confirmed that this was no longer at the level of a national-class athlete, but had directly pushed that level to world-class!

No, even world-class athletes can't freaking compare!!!

The noise here grew louder as more sports students from sprinting, middle-distance, and long-distance running gathered around.

However, they all watched Jiang Zhe in silence, then looked at the coach's speechless expression.

Finally, everyone's gaze settled on the [9.47] on the coach's phone!

By now, more and more sports students realized that this person wasn't Zhao Yun at all!

But...

So what?

In the face of absolute strength, whether he was Zhao Yun or Liu Yun didn't matter!

Everyone chose to remain silent, their gazes like those of pilgrims, placing national honor upon Jiang Zhe!

At this time, Jiang Zhe walked back with a relaxed expression, looking at the excited Xiao Yu. "Do you still want to see Brother run?"

"Brother, run, run, run!"

Xiao Yu naturally nodded her head like a chick pecking at grain.

After all, the viewers were watching with burning eyes. They didn't expect that while watching the tui bei tu livestream, they would see someone break the world record, even if it was an unofficial one!

The coach was about to say something when he was suddenly drawn by Jiang Zhe's limits.

"Zhao Yun, 200 meters!" The coach pointed to a metal box by the track. "Go put on the sportswear and spiked shoes, and use the starting blocks. I want to see your absolute limit!"

"No, I don't know how, and I'm not used to it." Jiang Zhe shook his head gently.

A second time!

The coach knew the person before him couldn't be measured by common sense, so he didn't speak.

"Did you hear? Zhao Yun's manual time broke the 100-meter record."

"What? For real? Is he on drugs?"

"Have you heard? Zhao Yun went somewhere to get an injection and broke the world record, but it doesn't count."

"It's fake, right?"

"Did you hear? Zhao Yun supposedly participated in a secret government experiment and took a [Genetic Serum]. Now he can easily break human limits!"

...

Rumors spread rapidly.

When he stood at the start of the 200-meter track, sports students from all over the playground gathered—shot put, basketball, table tennis, high jump, pole vault...

Fellow sprinters stared intently at Jiang Zhe's back.

"Pick me, pick me."

"I want to be the background for the big boss!"

"Coach, me, me, me!"

The usually stubborn sports students, after seeing Jiang Zhe's performance with their own eyes, were all eager to be his pacers!

The coach picked eight other members from sprinting and the 400-meter dash to make a full set of eight. They were all experts who had been on TV and won awards at the National Games.

However, those experts didn't feel the slightest bit of dissatisfaction. Being able to run with Jiang Zhe gave them a sense of honor!

"On your marks—"

The eight men crouched down, their eyes like hawks staring straight ahead, extremely focused.

Jiang Zhe, on the other hand, was half-hunched. He stepped on the starting block and found it a bit low-quality; he would definitely break it if he stepped down hard.

"Set!"

The bodies of the eight men tensed instantly, like arrows ready to fly!

Jiang Zhe simply leaned his body forward!

"Bang—"

As the sound fell, the eight men charged out like cheetahs.

Jiang Zhe, without any surprise, was very slow to start and was left behind by nearly ten meters.

Under the gaze of nearly a hundred people in the stadium.

Jiang Zhe was able to keep pace with them for the first fifty meters!

When they hit the curve, Jiang Zhe's speed didn't decrease. Instead, in the eyes of the eight team members—he began a desperate second acceleration!

By the time they hit a hundred meters, Jiang Zhe had already pulled ahead of most of them by nearly twenty meters!

The sports student running next to Jiang Zhe felt only a sense of despair!

Jiang Zhe surged past like a gust of wind, getting further and further away!

Even for the sports students who had trained hard for years, with their muscles swelling and their breath burning...

They could only watch as Jiang Zhe's back grew more distant!

In the final 40 meters, Jiang Zhe simply left everyone in the dust. There wasn't a single athlete within thirty-five meters of him!!!

He crossed the line in an instant!

Jiang Zhe stopped abruptly, his feet sliding on the ground for over ten meters before finally coming to a halt.

Only then did those eight runners finally enter their final frantic sprint mode, the expressions on their faces completely out of control!

Fortunately, all eight eventually crossed the line!

This time, it was the best performance they had ever had!

"Holy crap, I feel like I broke a record."

"I feel like I'm going to break a record too; I didn't expect I could run so well!"

"Damn, this performance was beyond my usual level. If it weren't for that fake Great God Zhao Yun, I couldn't have run this time!"

Even before the results were out, this group of athletes had all run their personal bests!

The coach looked at the result sent by the finish line timekeeper: [18.67/200 meters]. He was pale with shock and stood there dumbfounded, his worldview shattered.

Immediately after, the results of the other contestants came out.

[Second Place: 19.72]

[Third Place: 19.79]

[Fourth Place: 19.83]

[...]

"Haha, I broke it, I broke it!"

"I knew it, this result could even get me into the Olympics."

"Awesome, Great God! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to reach these times!"

The cheers and whistles of the sports students rang out continuously!

Looking at these ridiculous results—record-breaking times that could win medals in the Olympics—they had all actually appeared today!!

And they all pointed to the same person: Zhao Yun, Jiang Zhe.

The moment they saw the manual record of 18.67 projected on the big screen!

The entire playground fell into a second silence.

And Jiang Xiaoyu directly clenched her pink fists and shouted excitedly: "Brother, love you, you're awesome!"

At this time, the livestream was collectively flooded with [???].

In the small woods of another high school, the three teachers looked at each other, all seeing the disbelief on each other's faces!

In the spectator stands.

Several middle-aged and elderly leaders from the sports bureau were even more baffled.

"Is this a human result?" x4

Not long after, under their gaze, Jiang Zhe walked to the starting point and hinted with his eyes, "Xiao Yu, do you still want to watch?"

Xiao Yu nodded like a chick pecking grain again, "Watch, watch, watch!"

"Coach." Jiang Zhe then looked at the already dazed coach, "The legendary death 400 meters, are we still testing it?"