Chapter 86: A Battle to Avenge the Past Shame (Part 1)
"Arrogant!", "Arrogant!", "Outrageous!"
The people in the class were enraged by Xu Yan's arrogant words. With red eyes, they were like angry bulls, ready to punish him, but were stopped by squad leader Du Zhen.
"What do you want to compete in?" Du Zhen asked, staring at Xu Yan.
"All the things you are good at, throwing grenades, fighting, running, etc., you can choose whatever you want." Xu Yan said proudly.
The arrogant words turned into a thunder, exploding in the ears of the crowd, shocking them and making them, who were already suppressing their anger, noisy again.
"He's too arrogant, squad leader, let me teach him a lesson!" Liu Wei volunteered and was the first to jump out, clamoring to teach Xu Yan a lesson.
He and Xu Yan had an old grudge. First, he was attacked in the crotch by Xu Yan, and he had to lie in bed for a few days, becoming a laughing stock among his comrades. After finally recovering, he went to find a fight, but was fooled again. Although he fought with Xu Yan a few times, he did not gain any advantage at all. Instead, he returned home in disgrace and became a laughing stock again. Now seeing Xu Yan coming to challenge him, he certainly would not miss this opportunity. With red eyes, he said: "Let me compete with you. The last fight was not a winner, let's decide the winner today."
Xu Yan glanced at him, then looked away and looked at the squad leader Du Zhen, saying, "Can what he said represent your class?"
Xu Yan's contemptuous attitude angered Liu Wei, and he yelled angrily, "What do you mean by this? You look down on me."
Du Zhen glanced at Liu Wei and said in a deep voice: "Liu Wei is a member of our class, so what he says can naturally represent our class."
Hearing Du Zhen's support, Liu Wei glanced at him gratefully and said to Xu Yan, "Did you hear that? I can represent Class 1. Can we start now?"
"Are you so anxious to lose?" Xu Yan smiled contemptuously, ignoring Liu Wei's angry look, and continued: "I will fight you later, but before that, I want to challenge him more!"
Xu Yan pointed his finger at Du Zhen, and under everyone's gaze, he challenged him: "Squad Leader Du Zhen, I lost to you in the grenade throwing last time. Do you dare to compete with me again now?"
"If you want to compete with the squad leader, you have to get past me first!" Liu Wei said angrily. He challenged Xu Yan, but Xu Yan ignored him and challenged Du Zhen instead. It was clear that he looked down on him.
In fact, that was exactly the case. Xu Yan glanced at him with contempt, rolled his eyelids, and said, "You are a defeated general, so why should you talk about courage? Stay aside. After I compete with squad leader Du Zhen, if you still have the courage to compete, I don't mind defeating you again."
"you……"
Liu Wei's eyes turned red, and he was about to explode, but was stopped by Du Zhen. He stared at Xu Yan coldly for a moment and said, "If you want to compete, I will accompany you to the end."
As Du Zhen agreed, a group of people marched out of the dormitory building, attracting a lot of attention along the way. When they heard that Xu Yan challenged Class 1, these people joined the crowd without saying a word.
When they left the dormitory building, there were only a dozen people. By the time they arrived at the playground, there were already thirty or forty people, and the number was still increasing, with more people joining in one after another.
Everyone formed a semicircle and watched Xu Yan and Du Zhen warm up. Before they started, they couldn't help but talk in low voices, speculating on who would win or lose.
"Who do you think will win?"
"Needless to say, it must be Du Zhen. He is the record holder of our Wild Wolf Group. No one can surpass him in grenade throwing."
"That may not be the case. I remember that the last time Xu Yan competed with Du Zhen, he threw more than 72 meters, which is not much different from Du Zhen's highest record of 79.2 meters. More than a month has passed, and he must have improved. Maybe he can fight."
"There is a difference of seven meters between more than seventy-two meters and more than seventy-nine meters. At a certain level, it is extremely difficult to increase it by even one meter, let alone seven meters."
"But don't forget, it was Xu Yan's first time throwing a grenade. He was able to throw it more than 70 meters the first time. It doesn't seem to be difficult to increase it to 7 meters a month later."
"That being said, I still don't think highly of him. Xu Yan's talent is very high, but I don't believe that he can improve so much in just one month. Especially during this period of time, he has been training in the recruit company and has not received any special training."
"That's true. Maybe I'm thinking too much."
People were talking about it , most people were optimistic about Du Zhen, after all, he was the record holder. Of course, there were also a few people who had high hopes for Xu Yan. Although this idea was quickly suppressed, it was enough to show Xu Yan's weight. Being able to be compared with the record holder in the grenade throwing event was a kind of recognition in itself.
Three minutes later.
Xu Yan and Du Zhen finished their warm-up. Du Zhen shook his shoulders and looked at Xu Yan who also stopped and asked, "Who goes first?"
"You are the class monitor, please go first." Xu Yan said.
Du Zhen did not refuse. He nodded and agreed. He grabbed a grenade, shook his shoulder, ran forward a few steps, stood on his toes, and made a swinging and throwing motion. However, he did not throw the grenade. Instead, he stopped and stepped back, repeating the previous action once more.
He took a run, stood on tiptoes, swung his upper arms, drove his forearms, and threw the grenade out. When the grenade left his hand, he shook his wrist and the grenade rolled out.
Jiang Danian and another veteran went to check the data at the same time. The veteran shouted, "Seventy-eight point five meters!"
"Great performance!" Liu Wei and others praised.
Du Zhen shook his head and said nothing. Instead, he grabbed another grenade and threw it once again. Although 78.5 meters was already a good performance for him and very close to other personal records, he did not dare to take it lightly because his opponent was Xu Yan, a beginner but a super genius with outstanding talent, which brought him great pressure.
Next, Du Zhen did the same thing and threw it twice, once at 77.9 meters and once even better, at 79.3 meters, breaking his personal record.
"Sergeant, well done, you broke your own record." Some veterans came forward to congratulate him. Liu Wei looked at Xu Yan provocatively, not believing that Xu Yan could win.
Xu Yan ignored him, walked slowly forward, grabbed a grenade, took a deep breath, closed his eyes silently, and adjusted his breathing according to the method his father taught him.
Always stay calm when facing big things. This is what his father taught him. He has always kept it in mind and it has long become an instinct. Every time he performs a challenging act, he will subconsciously adjust his breathing to calm himself.
His breathing gradually became smoother, but his brain became active. The key points of the movements that Mo Wenyuan taught him turned into specific movement images, slowly passing through his mind, and the cells in his body began to rejoice. Although he had not touched a grenade again in more than a month, the action of throwing a grenade had already been simulated in his mind countless times. Since the day he lost to Du Zhen, he had been longing for this day, longing to compete with him again and avenge his previous defeat!
