Chapter 107: Whoever’s The Strongest, We Take Them Down!
The 702 Regiment competitors spectating from the sidelines saw the sacrifice made by Ba Te Er and the other two, and they were all moved, with emotions surging in their hearts, turning into roars one after another.
“702 Regiment, come on!”
“702 Regiment, come on!”
“702 Regiment, come on!”
……
Hearing the cheers coming from the sidelines, Chen Jun, Wu Liu Yi, and Xie Chong, who had just begun their sprint, immediately felt a surge of new strength injected into their bodies.
They had even more drive, even more momentum.
They ran faster and faster!
The two teams from the Division Reconnaissance Battalion were far ahead, and they thought the 3 Kilometer Sprint was a sure win, not only taking first place in the individual event, but also grabbing second place, using their strength to demonstrate the Reconnaissance Battalion’s Hegemonic Status.
But with less than a kilometer left to the Finish Line, something unexpected happened.
A team surged forward!
And at a very fast speed!
Taking a closer look, it turned out to be the dark horse from the previous event, the 702 Regiment Team 1 that had tied with their Reconnaissance Battalion.
Emerging again from the fierce competition in the Second Echelon, it wasn’t some veteran powerhouse regiment, but surprisingly a team from the Zero-score Regiment.
Shocking everyone once more.
This left the Reconnaissance Battalion competitors feeling very surprised and inexplicably under some pressure.
Something unusual must have a reason, making people inevitably uneasy.
To give Chen Jun and the other two no chance at all, to completely shatter their hopes, and even more to ensure they could securely take first and fight for second.
The Division Reconnaissance Battalion also made an unusual move.
The group of six that had been together split proactively into a front team and a rear team.
One team of three accelerated into the sprint phase, while the other team of three maintained a steady pace and continued forward, with the two teams gradually pulling away from each other.
Chen Jun and the other two had already entered the sprint phase, their speed much faster than the Reconnaissance Battalion’s trailing team.
No surprise there.
Soon, Chen Jun and the other two, accelerating forward, caught up to the Reconnaissance Battalion’s trailing team, which was maintaining a constant speed and had already opened up a gap of over twenty meters ahead.
The three from the Reconnaissance Battalion started using tactics, not breaking the wind, forming a straight line parallel formation.
The three of them blocked the innermost three lanes.
Forcing Chen Jun and the other two, who wanted to speed up, to slow down and match their pace, obediently following behind them.
This way, they could not only secure first place steadily, but also easily pocket second.
If they were mild-mannered competitors, or ones with smaller guts, seeing the opponent was a Division Direct unit, their resolve would weaken by half.
With the Reconnaissance Battalion using such a helpless trick, they might actually succeed in the end.
Unfortunately.
What kind of person was Chen Jun?
He was a traverser who had hundreds of lives on his hands and had even taken down a genuine Division Commander; a mere Division Direct Reconnaissance Battalion was nothing to him.
“Since you like playing dirty tricks, then let me show you what a real dirty trick is.”
Chen Jun sneered darkly to himself. Seeing he was less than five meters from the Reconnaissance Battalion competitors, he didn’t decelerate at all; instead, he accelerated even further.
It was like paying tribute to Ba Te Er.
Or perhaps an even stronger strike surpassing Ba Te Er.
Leveraging his 89-meter tall frame and 180-jin weight advantage, Chen Jun charged forward even more aggressively than Ba Te Er.
Ba Te Er had concerns and only squeezed through forcefully, but Chen Jun swung his arms wildly.
Turning both elbow tips into palms, using the normal arm swing of running as cover, he specifically targeted the gap between the two in the middle, that is, between the two Division Reconnaissance Battalion competitors.
In the instant he approached the Reconnaissance Battalion competitors, his right swinging arm elbow thrust forward, then flung fiercely to the right.
This tiny change.
Turned what looked like a normal arm swing into a lateral elbow strike, thanks to his height advantage, smashing right into the face of the Reconnaissance Battalion competitor on the right.
“Pa~”
The sound of flesh colliding was crisp.
The Reconnaissance Battalion competitor on the right wasn’t paying attention and got smashed by the elbow, leaving him dizzy and staggering far ahead, completely off his lane.
When he came to his senses and looked back in anger.
He saw that his teammate on the left had also been smashed out with the same dirty move by Chen Jun, and he fell to the ground even worse off.
And the inner lane that they had blocked dead tight was forcibly opened up with a huge gap.
Chen Jun didn’t even glance at them as he led his team to whoosh through the gap and continue pursuing the leading team ahead.
The final trio!
With Chen Jun’s double elbow strikes left and right, he smoothly broke through the biggest obstacle at the moment, also eliciting a burst of astonished exclamations from the whole audience.
No one expected someone to be so ruthless, directly using elbow strikes on the competition venue.
What left the audience most speechless was that Chen Jun’s move was played so dirtily that it couldn’t be judged as intentional, at most just an overly large arm swing amplitude.
The Martial Arts Competition had no rules specifying that arm swing amplitude must be controlled within a certain degree.
In other words, Chen Jun’s double elbow takedown of two people was actually not a violation at all, completely within the rules as reasonable behavior.
This was too much!
“Haha, good, good kid, well done, daring to fight and fight with guts, just like my style back in the day.”
Regiment Commander Wang slapped his thigh repeatedly in praise, still not satisfied, he turned and said: “Gao Cheng, impressive, you’re one lucky guy; this new recruit is so fierce, and the new cadre even fiercer, truly gratifying.”
“Regiment Commander, that, let’s make it clear first, he’s a cadre from my Seventh Company; Seventh Company’s rise depends on him, don’t you get any ideas about him.” Gao Cheng said nervously.
“You kid, still so protective of your own.”
Regiment Commander Wang smiled indulgently and guaranteed: “Put your heart back in your stomach; I can assure you, no one can take him away from your Steel Seventh Company.”
“Uncle Wang, I still have a pack of good tea; after this Martial Arts Competition ends, I’ll send it over for you to try.”
Gao Cheng, having gotten the guarantee, grinned and immediately offered a benefit to the Regiment Commander, even changing his address to a more intimate private one.
“Good, that’s what you said, no playing dirty.”
Regiment Commander Wang was in a great mood and laughed, then continued turning his gaze to the venue: “Two laps left; whether we take it down depends on the sprint.”
Regiment Commander Yang listened to Regiment Commander Wang and Gao Cheng next to him chatting happily in all sorts of discussions, feeling exceptionally upset inside.
He had thought this event would let them recover face, then counterattack Regiment Commander Wang satisfyingly, regain face, and prove that 701 Regiment was stronger than
Unexpectedly, now both of 701 Regiment’s teams had fizzled out, turning it into a showdown between 702 and the Reconnaissance Battalion.
Once one of the absolute protagonists on the venue, now reduced to an unnoticed backdrop, this huge gap was unacceptable to Regiment Commander Yang.
It wasn’t just Regiment Commander Yang who couldn’t accept it; the Reconnaissance Battalion Commander, already red-eyed with anger, couldn’t either.
Seeing his two competitors taken down, the Reconnaissance Battalion Commander exploded with rage on the spot, storming to the Grandstand to complain.
Complaining to the Division Commander that Chen Jun had fouled in the competition, using violent moves to attack other competitors.
Other Battalion Commanders found it hard to approach the Division Commander directly because there was a Regiment in between; going over ranks for anything was taboo in the troops.
But the Division Direct Reconnaissance Battalion had no such issue, and the Battalion Commander thought the Division Commander would definitely side with him.
The result greatly disappointed him.
The Division Commander believed it wasn’t intentional attack, just that Chen Jun’s arm swing was a bit large, and with the height gap, his arm happened to hit the face.
The Reconnaissance Battalion competitors had blocked the path; wanting to get past was inevitable.
The Division Commander’s response was beyond the Battalion Commander’s expectations; with nowhere to vent his anger, he could only bottle it up, nearly exploding with rage.
Fortunately, the Reconnaissance Battalion was still leading now; as long as they didn’t lose first, they could still save face.
The Battalion Commander could only leave huffily.
But sitting there, just thinking of his Reconnaissance Battalion competitors being so easily taken down by Chen Jun in front of all the top experts in the Division, proving they were far, far inferior to Chen Jun, his face being rubbed on the ground.
The Reconnaissance Battalion Commander just couldn’t get over that mental hurdle; he had to win back this breath.
So he clenched his teeth darkly and swore.
The feud between the Division Reconnaissance Battalion and 702 Regiment was now thoroughly settled; in the upcoming Martial Arts Competition events, any other regiment could take first, except 702 Regiment.
He would use every method and means to stop 702 Regiment from winning any Martial Arts Competition event.
Let everyone know the consequences of offending the Reconnaissance Battalion.
Chen Jun still didn’t know that by using a dirty trick to break the Division Reconnaissance Battalion’s dirty trick, he had thoroughly offended the Reconnaissance Battalion and been resented by their Battalion Commander.
Right now, his eyes were only on the remaining opponents, only on taking first in the 3 Kilometer Sprint.
When there were only five hundred meters left, Chen Jun’s team finally caught up to the Division Reconnaissance Battalion’s team, with stamina also nearly depleted at this point.
But there was still a bigger hurdle blocking them that needed to be broken through.
Among these three Reconnaissance Battalion competitors, two were Provincial Athletes, both very strong and never imagining losing in this event.
Their best 3 Kilometer times were 9:35 and 9:77 respectively.
This was already infinitely close to the Division Record.
Both had great ambitions, wanting to set a new Division Record in this Martial Arts Competition, which was why they sprinted so fast from the start.
As Reconnaissance Battalion competitors coming to break the record, absolutely confident that first was in the bag and not putting other competitors in their eyes.
Yet being caught up in the final sprint by another team was unacceptable to both.
With only four hundred meters left, the distance of the final lap, the two dropped all tricks and decided to win with hard power.
Let the pursuing Chen Jun and the other two see what a real 3 Kilometer Sprint was.
“Charge~”
The two exchanged a glance and accelerated again.
Seeing the opponents no longer playing dirty tricks and no longer using his own barbaric charges, Chen Jun also decided to compete with them in true hard power.
He yielded the lead position and shouted: “The rest is up to you, Wu Liu Yi, time to perform.”
Chen Jun had completed his mission; his stamina couldn’t support another acceleration sprint, and keeping the current speed to the Finish Line was already his limit.
And as long as Wu Liu Yi could reach the Finish Line first, with his and Xie Chong’s current rankings.
The individual first place was securely theirs!
No matter how awesome the Reconnaissance Battalion was, even with six competitors ahead, as long as they took first, the final points would still crush the Reconnaissance Battalion.
“Kill~~”
Wu Liu Yi roared loudly as his response.
For the sacrifice made by Ba Te Er and his two teammates to help him break through the siege, for not letting down Chen Jun, who willingly played the Wedding Dress despite having the strength.
For not letting down everyone in 702 Regiment who sacrificed and put in effort for the Martial Arts Competition.
And especially for his own dream persisted for years, with endless sweat poured in, yet still unachieved, to draw a perfect end at this moment.
Wu Liu Yi’s willpower was like iron, unleashing a massive burst.
Like an arrow off the string, he broke away from the team, launching a solo sprint against the three Reconnaissance Battalion competitors, hard-robbing meat from their mouths.
“Want to catch up? Dream on, I’m a Provincial Athlete.”
The leading Reconnaissance Battalion competitor sneered disdainfully, not believing anyone could match his sprint, unleashing all his stamina to charge forward.
“Whoosh——”
The six competitors in full sprint blew past the front of the Grandstand like the wind.
The final sprint began!
Finally, a team appeared that could contend with the Reconnaissance Battalion, especially in running; under the influence of curiosity and anticipation, the crowd on the sidelines couldn’t help but tense up, even holding their breath.
Regiment Commander Yang also held his breath, but his tension was in another direction.
He was afraid 702 Regiment would really win!!
Only the other competitors from 702 Regiment itself, at this most critical moment, weren’t idle; they all started cheering hoarsely.
400 meters……
Wu Liu Yi began attempting to overtake.
300 meters……
Wu Liu Yi overtook one Reconnaissance Battalion competitor.
200 meters……
The three leading competitors madly exploited every cell in their bodies, bursting with stronger strength, running faster speeds.
100 meters……
They reached the final straight stretch.
The two Reconnaissance Battalion competitors unleashed their sprints, slowly pulling a body length apart due to strength differences.
Wu Liu Yi behind them kept accelerating, albeit very slowly, but step by step closing in, half a body, half a body, making slow progress.
At this 100-meter sprint speed, 100 meters was just over ten seconds.
Wu Liu Yi, this stubborn type who practiced five thousand kilometers for the Division 5 Kilometers, had his potential explode under various emotional stimuli.
Incredibly, he briefly ran a terrifying 50 seconds, at the level of an athletic champion’s sprint speed.
Under the tense gaze of hundreds in the whole audience……
In the final second of the sprint, with a tiny advantage of half a body over the first Reconnaissance Battalion competitor, he crossed the Finish Line first.
“The Reconnaissance Battalion actually lost? Really lost? To the Zero-score Regiment?”
After a brief deathly silence in the whole audience, the reaction erupted like a volcano, bursting with incredulous exclamations.
“We won!!!”
Gao Cheng jumped up from his chair in excitement, unable to control himself as he hugged the Regiment Commander and shouted happily: “We won, Regiment Commander, we won again.
That arrogance was huge, thinking they’re so great, looking down on everyone; the Reconnaissance Battalion took a tumble this time, and we were the ones who tripped them, haha.”
Regiment Commander Wang didn’t speak, didn’t stand, didn’t shout.
But his eye sockets……
Turned red!
And in the red, there were shiny things!
