Chapter 30
Activation, Hidden Task!

“Paris Olympic Committee Apologizes for Opening Ceremony!”

“Paris Opening Ceremony Video Removed from Official Website!”

“China Wins Third Gold! 4x100 Men's Freestyle Relay Breaks World Record, Wins Gold!”

“China’s Youngest Olympic Gold Medalist, 13-Year-Old Swimming Prodigy Chen Shu!”

“Chen Shu Breaks 100-Meter Freestyle World Junior Record!”

“Men’s 4x100-Meter Freestyle Relay: China Breaks 64-Year Monopoly of US, Europe, and Australia, Wins Gold, Pan Zhanle Makes a Strong Comeback, Chen Shu Shines in the First Leg!”

Waking up early in the morning, Chen Shu scrolled through his phone and saw countless news articles about him and yesterday's competition.

The funniest thing was the opening ceremony. The domestic "Little Colonials" and "Feminazis" had been singing its praises for days, but in the end, even their “legal father” [note: this is a sarcastic term used to refer to Western countries] had swiftly apologized. They even praised the ceremony as beautiful. Wasn’t this a slap in the face?

On Douban [note: a popular Chinese online forum], those people had even rated the ceremony 9 out of 10. The whole internet was mocking them.

Chen Shu laughed as he scrolled through the news, his day was already starting off great.

Besides this, he and Pan Zhanle were also trending. Out of the top 20 trending topics, they combined had 10 entries.

They were dominating the trending list!

#Pan Zhanle, Chen Shu, China's Freestyle Swimming Twin Stars#

#13-Year-Old Olympic Champion#

#Chen Shu, A Dashing Victory; Pan Zhanle, A God Descending to Earth#

#China’s Youngest Olympic Champion#

#Chen Shu Breaks Tokyo Olympics’ Quan Hongchan’s Record of Winning an Olympic Gold Medal at 14 Years Old#

#China’s Swimming Prodigy of the Future#

Anyway, he had gone viral.

Overnight, he became famous across the country.

Of course, this was within Chen Shu’s expectations. Not only Weibo, but Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, etc. were all pushing news and videos related to him.

His dad must have received the news by now too.

Yesterday, before going to sleep, he had shown off in his Moments by posting a photo of him winning the gold medal. Now, his Moments was blowing up.

All kinds of likes and comments.

His entire class had appeared under his post. Zhang Jingyu said that reporters had already interviewed him, asking if he should tell the truth or just hype him up. Chen Shu found it both funny and unbelievable that reporters could get information so quickly.

His online aliases might be dug up too.

He had registered for Douyin and Weibo, but he didn't verify them, and he only had a few followers, all named "Time to Use the Toilet".

Wouldn’t Zhang Jingyu, with his big mouth, reveal all his social media accounts?

Chen Shu was skeptical and hurriedly changed his nickname to his real name, but obviously, it was too late.

He just didn’t know it yet.

After checking his phone, Chen Shu got up to wash up. He had already taken a urine test at 5:00 AM, and another one at 7:00 AM. After becoming a world champion, the number of urine tests Chen Shu had to take had increased significantly. This was normal, and Cui Dengrong had told him about it yesterday.

From the moment he won the Olympic gold medal, Chen Shu was no longer an ordinary person. He had to undergo various stricter checks than others, and he couldn't eat just anything, especially junk food. Others couldn’t feed him anything either.

Even if it was out of sight, or if someone passed by, he couldn’t eat any food that was left unattended.

There had been a food poisoning incident before, and there had been numerous cases at the Olympics where athletes had eaten food belonging to other athletes, leading to positive doping tests.

Many countries were masters at framing others.

You might think sports competitions are about striving on the field. But the reality of sports competition is that, in addition to striving, you also have to defeat the Americans’ cutting-edge technology, their swimsuits, swim caps, biopharmaceutical agents, and even their shameless tactics outside the game.

This includes but is not limited to doping tests, sleep disturbance, all sorts of poisoning and contamination, and, most absurdly, even planting contraband in the luggage of Chinese athletes.

Don’t think for a moment that the great Western lighthouse wouldn't do such things. They've done this many times. They will be even more shameless than normal people think.

The development of the internet has torn away their veil of hypocrisy for the world to see.

Especially in competitive sports, they would flaunt the gold medal count when they were far ahead; once China surpassed them in the gold medal count, they invented a medal count, where they could have 200 gold medals for their own strong events, such as swimming and track and field, dividing them up into various categories.

But China’s strong events, like diving and table tennis, faced various restrictions and had their projects cut. The most serious was weightlifting, which was reduced from 15 gold medals to 10, with significant changes in weight categories, and only 6 athletes allowed to compete, making the athletes constantly uncomfortable and unaccustomed to the changes.

If you were to divide events according to swimming and track and field, shouldn’t weightlifting be 50 kg, 55 kg, 60 kg, and so on?

So, this Olympics had already become corrupted.

China could only defeat them in their strong events, completely crushing them, and only then would they be forced to admit defeat. It was clear that yesterday’s 4x100 freestyle relay, where China broke the world record, had angered and made the Americans suspicious.

As they were eating breakfast provided by the Olympic Village, Pan Zhanle suddenly sprayed his bread out of his mouth. The people sitting with him, including Chen Shu, thought that the Paris food was too bad. Although it was truly unpalatable, only salty and nothing else, dry and tasteless like chewing wax.

“Damn it, Phelps, that guy actually has the nerve to say we’re wrong?”

“What’s wrong? What did Phelps say?”

Michael Phelps is the most “legendary” swimmer in history, and in the Olympics as well, without a doubt.

This guy participated in 5 Olympics and won 23 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals just from swimming, especially in the Beijing Olympics. He won 8 gold medals alone, which sent shockwaves across the globe.

But he also had many scandals, the most famous of which was smoking marijuana and then drunk driving and gambling; he openly used high-tech speed-enhancing shark skin, which was in the official news.

He also used drugs reasonably. This guy was said to have asthma, and had to take some kind of medicine with stimulants.

Of course, it’s no big deal. After all, American athletes all have asthma, and it’s nothing new under the hot sun, but he himself is not clean, yet he always thinks others are like him.

“This is a disgrace to the Olympics!”

“Yesterday’s 4x100-meter men’s freestyle relay, China broke the world record and won the gold medal. Pan Zhanle and that 13-year-old boy are absolutely abnormal!”

“I don’t believe that Pan Zhanle could swim that 46.01 seconds, it’s extremely unrealistic, humans can’t reach such a limit!”

“And that 13-year-old, 47.20 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle, it’s also ridiculous!”

“I hope WADA [World Anti-Doping Agency] will strengthen doping tests for these two athletes. If necessary, they should conduct a full-scale blood test, something is wrong with them…”

Pan Zhanle held up a video from the internet and showed it to everyone.

“Damn, shouldn’t we fire back at this bastard?”

“This guy is the one who took the most drugs, now he’s just a waste!”

Wang Haoyu was also indignant.

Chen Shu laughed a little: “If a dog bites you, you don’t bite back, do you? Clearly, he’s gone crazy again. Even Phelps, that drug addict, is losing his mind!”

“Haha, the best way to fight back is to win a few more gold medals and make him mad!”

Chen Shu’s words resonated with Pan Zhanle: “Yes, take him down!”

“Those who take drugs always think others do too. You know, their logic is: I’m taking drugs and still can’t beat you, so you must be taking even more drugs than me!”

“Damn it, their faces were so messed up after swimming, how dare they talk about us?!”

“Typical Western double standards!”

“Actually…”

Pan Zhanle suddenly winked at everyone secretly, and Chen Shu and the others gathered around: “My world record last time, I swam it on purpose like that!”

“I was just afraid that their technology would be 0.3 seconds ahead of me. Then, I could directly defeat them!”

“Hahaha, you’re the best, Pan Shen!”

This guy can even control his world records?!

No wonder he’s the man who can only be defeated with a system.

“Alright, enough with the chit-chat. Damn, we have the 200-meter freestyle heats this morning, are you guys coming?”

Pan Zhanle looked at Chen Shu and Zhang Zhanshuo.

Zhang Zhanshuo shook his head: “I’m not going. Shu Ge said he wants to try the 200-meter freestyle. I’m going to play with him…”

“Oh~~~”

Ji Xingjie and Chen Jun’er got excited when they heard this. They had a playful look on their faces. Pan Zhanle also had a mischievous look: “No, no, wait for us, wait for us to finish, you guys have to wait for us to finish before you guys race. Damn, if you race before us, I’ll tell Coach Cui you secretly drank Coke!”

Pan Zhanle was talking to Zhang Zhanshuo, and Zhang Zhanshuo got anxious when he heard this. He glanced around, and hurriedly said: “Brother Pan, I’ll definitely wait for you!”

Chen Shu: …

This guy is so spineless.

The swimming team is really full of shameless people!

But, even though Chen Shu said this just now, deep down, he was still really annoyed by Phelps’ words.

Damn, you don’t believe me? I’ll break all your Olympic records!

Damn it!

The best way to defeat an enemy is to defeat him on his own turf, head-on!

So what if you have 23 gold medals?

Can’t break the single-Games record? Five Olympics is not enough?

Chen Shu didn't believe it.

Ding!

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining a hidden mission!】

Hidden Mission——The Greatest Swimmer!

【The Greatest Swimmer】: Try to break all the records of the world's strongest swimmer. Unlock any record to gain the reward for that record.

Ding!

“Host has broken Michael Phelps’ first Olympic Games record!”

“Experience +100 points!”

Phelps participated in the Sydney Olympics at the age of 15 and didn’t seem to win any medals, did he?

Does this count as breaking a record?

But thinking about it, it does seem to count.

“What about the second Games, 6 gold and 2 bronze?”

This record is difficult to break, but Chen Shu is only 13 years old. There’s no rush. If he can’t break it, he’ll do it in the next Games in Los Angeles, and in front of him, he’ll grab 10 gold medals!

The best way to slap someone in the face.

“So, it seems like I can't train other things for now, I need to train all the swimming events!”

“The best thing is to learn backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke!”

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