The Luckiest Man - Chapter 17
Chapter 17: The World Was Going To Change Drastically!
Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
“Brother Fu! Please, look out for me!” Zhang Yang was afraid that Hong Xiaofu had not understood him. He quickly walked over to him and said, “You know there will be a big crowd, make sure to restrain your power, control it. If not, I’ll be in trouble!”
“Oh, what would I do?” Hong Xiaofu had not yet figured out how his power was supposed to work. He naturally answered, “No worries, just take the test. I’ll just be watching from the side, okay?”
“Okay.” Zhang Yang put his hand on Hong Xiaofu’s shoulders and gave him a thumbs up, “I was waiting for you to say that. I’ll treat you to a meal when I have time!”
After convincing Hong Xiaofu, Zhang Yang felt relieved. Although Hong Xiaofu was not exactly on his side, he had good credibility. If he said that nothing would happen then there was a high chance that it would really be fine. He could be at ease.
“Everyone is here, right?” The mysterious man standing beside Principal Liang adjusted his gold-framed spectacles and spoke, “Let me introduce myself. I am from the Awakeners Ability Center and I am the Director of the High School Department. My name is Han Feng. The purpose of my visit today is to help you assess your Awakening potential. Are you all okay with that?”
Director Han Feng of the Awakeners Ability Center’s High School Department!
Hong Xiaofu and the rest immediately understood what was going on. No wonder Principal Liang was attending to him the whole time! It is a must to receive any guests from the Awakeners Ability Center respectfully. It was safe to say that the most popular sectors in the world were all related to the Awakeners. Even the Mayor has to receive Han Feng respectfully.
“Understood.” Zhang Yang enjoyed being in such a setting. He enthusiastically said, “So Director Han, when can we begin?”
Director Han took out a small notebook and glanced at Zhang Yang before saying, “Zhang Yang, 19 years old. Awakener of the Strengthening System with an Integrated Constitution, current gene sequence of LV1, score of 3.14%. Is that right?”
When Zhang Yang heard this he smiled and replied, “My score is at 3.15% now, Director Han.”
“Oh? That’s great.” Director Han giggled and said, “It increased a little these past few days then. Alright, you shall go first.” He called a sports teacher over and said, “Let’s start with the one hundred meters run. I’ll collect data.”
The physical education teacher immediately took out a stopwatch and said, “Sure, no problem.”
They prepared. Zhang Yang was getting ready at the starting line while all the teachers and students were watching from the side.
“He is going to run soon. Come to think of it, I’m really not sure of how fast an Awakener can run!”
“This is to test potential as well, right? I read online that one Awakener with an Integrated Constitution has completed the run in eight seconds.”
“Oh my god, eight seconds! Isn’t the world record just slightly above nine seconds?”
“To be exact, the current world record holder is the famous Usain Bolt, from Jamaica. On the 17th of August 2009 in Berlin, Germany, he set a record of 9.58 seconds for the one hundred meters run.”
“Oh my god, are the Awakeners really that fast?”
Listening to the commotion of the students around him, Zhang Yang smirked and raised his eyebrows.
After being Awakened, he had indeed completed such tests before. He had set a record of 7.52 seconds the previous time. Now that the Director was around, he would put on a great performance and aim to complete the run under 7.5 seconds.
“Get ready!” The physical education teacher raised his hands up high before swinging it downward sharply as he shouted, “Go!”
Zhang Yang flew like an arrow.
As he ran on the track, both his legs were moving as fast as car wheels. Some students saw that and shouted, “Afterglow! There is an afterglow from his legs!”, “Oh my god, isn’t he insanely fast?”
A one hundred meters run was only a matter of a glance to the current Zhang Yang.
He dashed past the finishing line. The physical education teacher looked at the stopwatch and announced, “7.49 seconds!”
One hundred meters in 7.49 seconds!
That mad speed was simply shocking. In such sports, even improving time by 0.01 seconds was an extremely difficult task—it was nearly impossible to ask the world record holder to raise his record to 9.57 seconds. However, a high school student who had just been Awakened could set a record of 7.49 seconds. That was unbelievable!
Hong Xiaofu, who was watching from the side, was extremely surprised too. He had barely been Awakened for a short period, yet he could already set a record below 7.5 seconds. It was evident that the world was going to change drastically. World records would all be affected by the influence of the Awakeners.
“Thank you everyone, thank you all!”
As he was walking back, Zhang Yang opened his arms and ran around as if he was the world champion. This caught the attention of the students around, especially the girls, as they were all cheering and screaming, “Zhang Yang you are the best!”, “Nicely done! I love you!”
Suddenly the track was filled with laughter.
“7.49 seconds. Not bad, not bad.” When Zhang Yang was back, Han Feng smiled and nodded while scribbling Zhang Yang’s results in his notebook. He said, “How did you feel when you ran? Do you think you can do better?”
“About that…” Zhang Yang subconsciously wanted to say yes immediately. However, he took a glance at Hong Xiaofu who was standing at the side and immediately swallowed his words.
He was lucky that nothing had gone wrong and he had had a perfect run. If he were to make any mistakes and fall while running, it would be so embarrassing! No way, he couldn’t do it again.
He quickly replied, “I think that was my limit, I doubt I can get faster even if I run again.”
He turned to look at Hong Xiaofu again. It was so depressing. What a good chance to flaunt his abilities. If Xiaofu hadn’t been there, he would have tried another ten times!
“Yup, okay. Then let’s move on to the next segment.” Han Feng looked at the test sections written in the book and said, “We will do the high jump. We are looking out for your vertical jump as well as the run-up before taking off.”
High jump! Zhang Yang immediately felt uncomfortable. He was reminded of how he had been totally dominated by Hong Xiaofu the day before. Two times! In that short while he had knelt twice. Was history going to repeat itself?
All the students at the side were waiting to watch a good show, too. Was Zhang Yang going to kneel again?
“The… That…” Zhang Yang was stammering as he spoke. “Director Han, for the high jump… how will you test it? Could you explain it?”
“Oh this, very simple.” Han Feng knew about what had happened between him and Hong Xiaofu, but he simply replied, “You just have to jump on the spot and we will measure the distance between the sole of your feet and the ground when you reach your maximum height. Then you will jump again with a run-up and we will measure that distance too. It is very simple.”
“Oh…” Zhang Yang murmured. He looked at Hong Xiaofu again. High jump on the spot.. likely… maybe…possibly… should not be a problem? It would be fine!
It was only a high jump, how was he going to end up kneeling? His body was strong enough, he had to bear with it even if it meant getting a fracture.
He would not get on his knees.