I Wasn't Born a Champion - Chapter 7

Regarding the issue discussed by the coaches, the trainees had not yet heard about it for the time being—or rather, even if they had heard about it, they wouldn’t have the energy to think about things 40 days later.

For the current batch of kids in this summer camp, just the early morning training that started at 5:20 every morning was already enough to make them complain endlessly, let alone that it wasn’t just early morning training throughout the entire day, but also different classes in the morning and afternoon.

In fact, the training curriculum formulated by Pei Dingshan here for the summer camp trainees was already very restrained, but it couldn’t be helped that the process of training and physical consumption was always painful.

Take the running training on the first day, for example. Some trainees who did not properly relax their muscles after class according to the coach’s instructions felt a critical strike from their bodies upon waking up the next day. Even for the trainees who did train properly, the sense of fatigue from being unaccustomed to the training intensity on the second day had already swept over them.

Some trainees directly asked for leave from the leading teachers of their respective schools in the summer camp, and the teachers did not refuse them.

In Dormitory 303 of the summer camp, Zhou Yu’ang was probably the one in the best condition. Although he had not received particularly formal training before, the training system of his junior high school track and field team was relatively standardized, with a fixed training time every week. Combined with his own love for sprinting events, he would also do extra training on ordinary days. Therefore, adapting to this kind of basic training in the first two days of the summer camp was not a problem at all.

Although Jiang Yuan was not like Zhou Yu’ang on the school track and field team, he was in good physical health. He had been grabbed by the school to train for quite a while before the all-province middle school games, so adapting now wasn’t a big problem either.

In Dormitory 303, the only one who had never received high-intensity training was Su Yu.

When waking up the second day, Su Yu was a bit dazed as a whole.

He hadn’t experienced this kind of feeling like being run over by a truck all over his body for a very long time. Although his training the previous day had already been reduced in volume, and he had completely carried out the relaxation process after the training ended, his physical condition was still worse than expected.

He could no longer remember clearly how he had persisted through the summer camp back then. Perhaps his brain later automatically blocked out the memories that were too painful, to the point that after experiencing the baptism of time, it caused his memories of the entire summer camp to be a bit blurry.

When Jiang Yuan intended to call him to get out of bed at 5:00 in the morning, he saw his terrible complexion and condition, and immediately his heart skipped a beat.

“Holy crap, ancestor, are you okay?”

Su Yu shook his head, pursed his lips, lifted the thin quilt covering his body, and sat up wearing his shorts and T-shirt. However, the movement when getting up still caused his entire brow to furrow together, his small face looking to be in quite a terrible state.

Zhou Yu’ang had also finished washing up at this moment and huddled over. Looking at Su Yu’s condition, he was also quite worried, “Hey, Xiao Yu, with your condition, why don’t you skip training today? Take a day off?”

Jiang Yuan also nodded, pointing outside the door, “Just now there were many people yelling outside saying they wanted to take leave today. If you take a day off too, nothing bad will happen!”

But very clearly, Su Yu, who had already gotten up, did not intend to accept this suggestion from the two.

He furrowed his brow, adapting for a moment to the sore and fatigued feeling all over his body, and then said in a muffled voice, “I can do it.”

“Hey…”

Zhou Yu’ang felt that this wasn’t quite right and wanted to advise a few more words, but Jiang Yuan beside him was already sighing.

Jiang Yuan, “Alright, but don’t force yourself too much either. Speak up if you can’t hold on, otherwise forcing exercise will have the opposite effect.”

Once Su Yu went into the bathroom to wash up, Zhou Yu’ang then looked toward Jiang Yuan, “Yuan-zi, why didn’t you advise our little ancestor more? He clearly hasn’t exercised in the past and trained too hard all at once yesterday, so his body must feel extremely uncomfortable today.”

Jiang Yuan cast a glance at him, “Do you think you can talk Xiao Yu out of it?”

“Ah, well.”

Zhou Yu’ang scratched his head and shut his mouth. Although they had known each other for less than two days, Su Yu practically revealed a stubborn streak all over his body. At a glance, he was the type of master who wouldn’t turn back until hitting the southern wall, and might not even turn back even after hitting it.

“Sigh, the little ancestor is truly hard to advise.”

Zhou Yu’ang let out a sigh, but seeing the smile on his face, one would know that he wasn’t actually angry, just slightly worried, with his eyes revealing appreciation for this resilience of Su Yu’s.

He patted Jiang Yuan’s shoulder and said, “Yuan-zi, don’t worry. Coach Pei will know what he’s doing in his heart. Besides, our little ancestor hasn’t exercised for a long time. If you want to let him adapt little by little, then half of the time of this summer camp during the summer vacation will be wasted on this.”

“Let me tell you, I have experience in this matter. My health wasn’t very good when I was a child either—it will definitely feel a bit uncomfortable when first starting training, but after enduring for about a week, the body actually adapts.”

“And, to tell the truth, our little ancestor was fine yesterday, so he should be even more fine today. If there were a real problem, he should have been sent to the hospital yesterday!”

Jiang Yuan: “…”

Jiang Yuan was still quite touched by the words Zhou Yu’ang said in the beginning, but upon hearing these last two sentences, he wordlessly scanned Zhou Yu’ang, who was over 180 cm tall, with wheaten dark skin all over, and a mouth full of big white teeth when smiling.

“…With you like this, your health wasn’t very good when you were a child?”

Zhou Yu’ang gave a hehe smile, “Contrasted, contrasted with now.”

When Su Yu walked out of the bathroom, what he saw was Zhou Yu’ang and Jiang Yuan chatting idly. He cast a puzzled glance at these two, not knowing what the two were chatting about.

After Zhou Yu’ang saw Su Yu come out, he immediately stepped forward and threw his arm around Su Yu’s shoulder, “Alright, little ancestor, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, off to early morning training.”

As he spoke, he cast another glance at Jiang Yuan, pretending to be puzzled as he said, “Yuan-zi, still not leaving? In a bit, don’t get caught by Coach Pei and penalized to stand in the number circles.”

Jiang Yuan gave him an annoyed look, then stood on the other side of Su Yu, and went out the door together with the two.

By the time the three walked to the training field, Pei Dingshan was standing next to the training field as usual. Upon seeing the three of Su Yu, Pei Dingshan scanned Su Yu who was standing in the middle of the two, and then gave a slight nod.

Zhou Yu’ang was the first to flash a bright smile toward Pei Dingshan, “Good morning, Coach.”

Pei Dingshan nodded, then turned his gaze toward Su Yu again, “Your physical condition is poorer than the other trainees. How do you feel today?”

Hearing Pei Dingshan’s inquiry, Su Yu gave a muffled response, “I’m fine.”

Hearing his answer, Pei Dingshan raised his brow slightly, putting his focus onto Su Yu’s body, “Su Yu, I should have told you that starting from yesterday, you and Zhou Yu’ang are cooperating with my research topic experiment.”

“As your guiding coach, I hope you can honestly answer everything related to your condition.”

“This will affect my judgment of your physical situation as well as the accuracy of my research topic conclusions.”

After finishing saying these words, Pei Dingshan posed the exact same question to Su Yu once again, “Now, tell me, how do you feel right now?”

The same question, but a different oppressiveness arrived upon Su Yu.

He clenched his fists silently before opening his mouth in a low voice, “Not too good. Muscles are sore and swollen, limbs are also very heavy, very tired.”

Upon finally obtaining Su Yu’s answer, Pei Dingshan first observed the skin exposed on the surface of Su Yu’s body, confirming that Su Yu’s limbs could still move freely. Only then did he finally reveal a gentle expression, “Very good, just like this—Su Yu, I hope you can understand that I am your coach. We need to build mutual trust between us. I need to know your various conditions, so that I can make the most suitable planning for your training.”

“Do you understand?”

After Su Yu remained silent for another moment, he finally nodded slowly, responding with an “Mm.”

Looking at the awkward kid before him who was entirely like a startled, fur-bristled kitten, Pei Dingshan let out a sigh in his heart. Fortunately, at least he was willing to be obedient; other things could be taken slowly.

After finishing inquiring about Su Yu’s situation, Pei Dingshan then turned his gaze toward Zhou Yu’ang, “Everything good?”

Zhou Yu’ang immediately stood at attention, saying in a loud voice, “Reporting to Coach, everything is good!”

“Mm.”

Pei Dingshan nodded, raising his hand to signal that the two could go prepare to warm up.

Right as Su Yu was about to walk past, he then said, “Su Yu, today’s warm-up volume is reduced by half, and the subsequent training volume is reduced by another two sets compared to yesterday’s volume.”

Hearing the words, Su Yu just wanted to say he could do it, when Pei Dingshan already spoke one step ahead, “I am the coach, listen to me.”

When Pei Dingshan waved his hand again to let the three leave, Zhou Yu’ang then said in a low voice to Jiang Yuan, “How about it? Didn’t I say the coach knows what he’s doing in his heart?”

After speaking, he advised Su Yu with earnest words again, “Aiya, little ancestor, let me tell you, although our training plans are all formulated according to the standards of junior high school students, look at how you haven’t exercised in the past, so you can’t possibly come according to the standards of us ordinary people.”

“The coach is also doing this for your own good, otherwise once you injure your body from training, that’s truly having nowhere to cry even if you wanted to.”

Su Yu was originally still a bit troubled, but after hearing Zhou Yu’ang’s words, he then remembered that in the summer camp of his previous life, he felt physically exhausted on the very first day, but he rigidly bit his teeth and persisted until the end, and the price of persisting like this was that a major illness instantly erupted right after the summer camp ended.

That illness nearly cost him his life. Although it was ultimately clinically cured, there were also some sequelae that were difficult to explain clearly.

Thinking up to this point, he silently took a deep breath, telling himself—Su Yu, do not be anxious.

On the other side, right when Pei Dingshan was lecturing Su Yu just now, the time had actually already exceeded the early morning training arrival time of 5:20. Some students noticed Pei Dingshan talking to Su Yu, so they quietly detoured to the side and blended into the queue waiting for the warm-up run.

As a result, before the warm-up run started, these people were all singled out by Pei Dingshan without a single one missing.

“…Save me, wasn’t he talking to that Su Yu!”

“A demon, is he truly not a surveillance camera turned into a spirit?”

Inside the queue that started running laps, only Zhou Yu’ang had a face full of smugness, “Hey, look, our coach is truly awesome!”

Su Yu looked at this Zhou Yu’ang, whose current character was completely different from the later domestic number one sprinter, while silently responding in his heart at the same time: …How awesome, is it the awesomeness of a surveillance camera turning into a spirit?

On that day, Pei-Future National Team Sprint Meritorious Coach-Dingshan joyfully earned a brand new title once again in this term of the summer camp—The Surveillance Camera Great Demon King.