This Omega is Sweet and Wild - Chap 77
Chap 77
The World High School Games had a total of 18 major events and 220 minor events. There were more than 400 male and female athletes gathered at the training center. After more than a month of internal selection, half of them would be eliminated.
The people standing next to them were not only teammates but also opponents. No one knew if they could stand on the final podium until the last moment.
This group of athletes were all young people. Although there was some estrangement in the beginning, they soon got along well.
As an Omega, Li Cheng trained in the speed event that tested the body’s explosive power. This alone was enough to attract attention.
In addition, he was handsome and had a forthright personality. After a meal, most of the athletes remembered the blonde boy’s name.
After the meal, everyone who came to see them off had to leave. From the next day onwards, the training center would be under closed management. Unless there were special circumstances, no one was allowed to visit, and no one was allowed to leave the team without permission.
Many young athletes couldn’t help but cry when they left home for the first time.
Sadness was contagious. Moving images of tearful farewells were everywhere in the dormitory. The Omega were sensitive and all of them were crying.
Li Cheng, who was standing among the “crying” people, was speechless.
Coach Wu looked at Li Cheng awkwardly. “… Why don’t you shout a couple of times to prove that you’re an Omega too?”
Li Cheng immediately crossed his hands and rejected the suggestion.
Coach Wu said, “Then let’s hug as a farewell.”
This suggestion was reasonable. Li Cheng immediately opened his arms and gave the coach a tight bear hug.
Li Cheng had lost his parents when he was young. He didn’t receive much care in the orphanage. In the past two years, Wu Xu was like a teacher and a father. He trained him from an unorthodox swimmer to a provincial champion. He gave him countless strict instructions and also countless silent care.
Now, Li Cheng was going to say goodbye to him and face the next challenge in his life.
Suddenly, Li Cheng felt his jacket become heavy, as if something had fallen into his pocket.
Li Cheng was stunned and reached out to touch it.
Wu Xu immediately stopped him and whispered in his ear, “Don’t touch it. Don’t let the dormitory manager notice.”
Li Cheng: “???”
Old Wu, you didn’t put any contraband in my pocket, did you? ”
Wu Xu: “Don’t talk nonsense — I left you a phone.”
Li Cheng was even more confused. “I have a cell phone. Why are you giving me a cell phone? Why are you being so sneaky?”
“I heard from the other coaches when I was eating,” Coach Wu said furtively. “This closed-door training will be conducted in a military-style manner. All the players will have to hand in their mobile phones!”
Li Cheng was shocked.
Coach Wu said, “You are choosing athletes, not idol trainees. Even if it’s a closed training, there’s no need to forbid you from contacting your families, right?
Besides, if you bunch of teenagers can’t even touch a phone for two months, won’t you get sick from holding it in?
After some discussion, we decided to take advantage of the loophole and find an opportunity to give our kids a mobile phone. ”
Li Cheng was moved to tears. Before he came to the training camp, he had never heard of such a rule — he had promised his sister that he would call her once a week!
And if he didn’t have a phone, how could he send those (crossed out) flirtatious (/crossed out) text messages to Xiao Yiheng in bed every night before he went to bed?
Li Cheng didn’t want to cry before, but now he really wanted to. “Old Wu, you are so good to me …”
But before he could finish his sentence, Coach Wu’s next sentence came crashing down on him.
Coach Wu: “The most important thing is, if you learn any good special training methods from the national team coaches, you must tell me immediately!
Those stinky boys on the team are used to being lazy. They go into the water every day like chasing ducks. I need a way to deal with them right now! ”
Li Cheng: “…”
Damn, what a waste of his gentleness.
Coach Wu finally loosened his embrace. He took a step back, looked up at Li Cheng, and warned him, “You look smart, but you are really stupid.
When you are on the training camp, don’t casually treat anyone as your friend, especially about the phone. Don’t tell anyone. If you meet someone with bad intentions and tell them, it will be terrible! ”
Although Li Cheng felt that Coach Wu was worrying for nothing, he still agreed.
The temperature was getting lower and lower. It was windy and snowy today. Li Cheng hadn’t received the down jacket from the team yet, so he was wearing autumn clothes. He was wearing too little. Coach Wu was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he quickly let him go back to the dormitory.
“Li Cheng, practice hard.”
Coach Wu patted him on the shoulder and said, “If one of my students is destined to become a world champion, I believe it will be you.”
Li Cheng didn’t know if it was an illusion, but under the streetlight, he seemed to see a drop of tear fall into the wrinkles at the corner of Wu Xu’s eyes.
Li Cheng stood at the porch and looked at Wu Xu’s back as he left in the wind and snow. He felt a little sad.
Wu Xu was not tall. He was about 1.75 meters tall. He was not an excellent swimmer, but he was definitely an excellent swimming coach.
Year after year, session after session, he had trained many, many students. Every Teacher’s Day, Wu Xu’s desk would be piled with flowers and gifts from his former students, which was enough to prove how much he was loved by his students.
Wu Xu and his wife had been married for many years, but because of his wife’s health, they had never had children. In his words, he had long regarded his students as his children.
Looking at Coach Wu’s back as he walked further and further away in the snow, Li Cheng’s thoughts churned. He finally understood the touching dialogue in the famous essay “Back View” in the Chinese textbook.
… Uh … Uh … It’s that sentence!
… The author’s father sent him to the train station, and then his father went to buy fruits. Before buying fruits … Then … Then what did he say?
It seemed to be, “You stand here and don’t move. I’m going to buy some oranges.”
Li Cheng: “… …”
Damn, underachievers don’t deserve to feel sad.
Suddenly, a tall figure appeared beside Li Cheng.
“Li Cheng, what are you thinking about?” Zhou Jian walked closer and asked in a familiar tone.
Li Cheng blurted out, “I’m thinking about the Chinese textbook!”
Zhou Jian: “… …”
Zhou Jian: “Oh, I didn’t expect you to love studying so much.”
With his interruption, Li Cheng’s originally sad mood was instantly broken. A cold wind blew, and Li Cheng felt a little cold, so he planned to go back to the dormitory on the third floor.
Before leaving, Li Cheng took the initiative to ask, “Zhou Jian, how can I return your clothes to you after I wash them?
Why don’t I just send them to the dormitory manager? ”
Although they were all boys and lived in the same dormitory building, athletes of the three genders, A, B, and O, couldn’t stay in the same dormitory. They had to swipe a card to enter the dormitory on each floor.
Zhou Jian immediately said, “No need to go through so much trouble.
Let’s exchange phone numbers. Give me a call before you send them down, and we can meet here directly. ”
Li Cheng shook his head. “Didn’t you hear? This training is a closed management, and all phones have to be handed in. Even if we exchange phone numbers, we still won’t be able to contact each other.”
“… …” Zhou Jian lowered his voice. “I brought two phones. Also, when your coach hugged you just now, he secretly put another phone in your pocket, right?”
Li Cheng: “!!!”
Li Cheng was shocked.
He immediately typed out three consecutive denials. “No, no, don’t talk nonsense!”
He didn’t expect that Coach Wu was right. The undercurrent in the swimming team was turbulent. As soon as he separated from Coach Wu, someone asked him if he had a second phone.
If he hadn’t heard Coach Wu’s warning, he probably would have foolishly taken out a new phone and exchanged numbers with Zhou Jian.
This Alpha with ulterior motives was really too scary!
Huacheng, Huihuang Community.
At 11: 00 pm, Xiao Yiheng used the excuse of going out for a night run and left home.
This was the time he and Li Cheng had agreed to talk on the phone. There were many inconveniences at home. Because he had openly contradicted his parents before, Mother Xiao’s surveillance of him had become even stricter. She had even installed a camera in his room, facing his desk.
Once he did anything unrelated to his studies at his desk, Mother Xiao would open the door and come over to “show concern” for him.
Xiao Yiheng left the oppressive space, put on his running shoes, and ran at a constant speed on the track in the community.
He had to run because he knew that his father was standing in front of the living room window with binoculars.
He pretended to listen to music and put on his headphones. Just after 11: 00 pm, his phone rang on time.
As soon as he picked up the phone, Li Cheng’s voice came from the other end of the line.
It was very strange. Li Cheng was in the middle of winter, but Xiao Yiheng was in the middle of summer. However, the warmth in Li Cheng’s voice melted the ice in Xiao Yiheng’s heart.
“Xiao Yiheng, did you miss me?”
Xiao Yiheng controlled his running speed and answered, “Of course. I now regret promising you that I would only miss you once a day.”
Li Cheng giggled for a while.
Xiao Yiheng heard the sound of wind coming from the phone and asked Li Cheng, “Are you outside?”
“No, I’m squatting on the balcony.”
Li Cheng rubbed his palms, “But it’s really cold here. When I exhaled into the air, the air turned into white mist!
I’ve never seen this in Hua Cheng. Do you know what’s going on? ”
“It’s liquefaction,” Xiao Yiheng answered.
When the temperature outside was too low, the water vapor exhaled by the human body would turn into small droplets. This was a very basic physical phenomenon.
Li Cheng: “Liquefaction?
The one that can make people thin? ”
Xiao Yiheng: “…” Liquefaction can make people thin? What kind of physical phenomenon is this?
This was really a blind spot in the knowledge of a top student.
The two of them chatted a bunch of nonsense again. Anyway, they were young couples, so it was interesting to talk about things that were not nutritious.
Xiao Yiheng listened to Li Cheng’s words and trembled. He urged him to go back to his room and sleep.
“No, I can’t go back!” Li Cheng said in a thieving tone, “I can’t let others see me using my phone.”
Xiao Yiheng asked why.
Li Cheng: “The team is under lockdown management. Everyone has to hand in their phones!
Fortunately, Old Wu secretly gave me a spare phone before she left. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to contact each other for the next two months! ”
When he spoke, he deliberately exaggerated a lot of details. It was obviously a very simple thing, but when it came out of his mouth, it was as thrilling as 007’s secret mission.
Xiao Yiheng could naturally tell how exaggerated he was, but he still went along with his words and praised him for being smart and witty.
“Fortunately, Chengcheng is smart. You handed in one phone and kept the other. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to hear your voice for two whole months.”
Xiao Yiheng chuckled. “If that’s the case, I can only torture you in your dreams and ask you why you’re ignoring me.”
Li Cheng: “… If you want to ‘ask’, then just ‘ask’. What’s with ‘torture’?”
Xiao Yiheng did not answer, and there was no need for him to answer.
Li Cheng said again, “By the way, do you still remember Zhou Jian?
He actually asked me for my phone number! ”
Xiao Yiheng’s footsteps were messed up, and he subconsciously stopped running.
He stood next to the track and asked warily, “You didn’t give him your phone number, did you?”
“Of course not!”
Li Cheng said in a tone as if he had seen through the truth, “That guy actually said, ‘Even if you handed in one phone, you must have a second one. Give me your phone number’. Hahaha, does he think I’m a fool? He definitely wants to trick me into self-destructing, so that he can use this secret to threaten me!”
Xiao Yiheng: “…”
He now realized that his boyfriend might really be an idiot.
Xiao Yiheng: “You did the right thing. That Alpha deliberately contacted you. He must have ulterior motives. You must stay away from him.”
… However, he was quite cute.
