After Quitting the Sports World, I Became a God of Cooking

Su Bai, as a track and field athlete with no prospects, decided to retire due to a lack of hope for improving his results.

But when Su Bai officially submitted his retirement application, his...

Chapter 11

Qiu Wen's best potential project and score completely surprised Su Bai.

You know, the 400-meter event is the longest distance among the sprint events, but it is also the one with the weakest presence in the eyes of the domestic people.

The reason is simple: there is a real lack of talent in the country.

The 100-meter event has attracted widespread attention because it is the most accessible event for ordinary people, and the pursuit of extreme speed is also a nature of human beings. At the same time, there are epoch-making and dominant top talents emerging in the international arena. They represent mankind's breakthroughs in extreme speed time and time again, which has left a deep impression on countless people.

The 200m event was relatively unpopular in China and had few followers. However, in the past two years, at the same time as Fang Yu in the 100m event, a talented 200m athlete, Wu Yi, emerged and ran under 20.80 seconds in two consecutive races.

You know, whether it was then or now, in the domestic track and field Grand Prix 200m event, as long as Wu Yi is not participating, there is a chance to win the championship with a score of 21.20. What's more, in last year's Grand Prix, Wu Yi did not participate in a certain game, and even a score of 21.30 was enough to win the championship in that Grand Prix race.

You should know that in 2017, the annual best result in the 200-meter event was 19.77 seconds. During the year, a total of 6 athletes ran under 20 seconds. Up to that time, no yellow people had run under or close to the 20-second mark.

It was not until the sudden emergence of Wu Yi, a genius in the 200-meter event, that new hope was born and the genius effect emerged, which boosted public attention. The 200-meter event has received greater support and publicity in the past two years.

In the sprint event, there are only three distances: 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters. Nowadays, although the 100 meters and 200 meters have not yet been able to hold their heads high in international competitions, Wu Yi has broken the 10-second mark in the 100 meters and is constantly striving for the 20-second mark in the 200 meters.

If you really count the events, the 400-meter event is the least known.

At a time when top international athletes can run under 43 seconds and the top 30 400m athletes worldwide all run under 44 seconds, there are very few domestic athletes who can run under 45 seconds in the 400m event.

Taking the championship results of various track and field Grand Prix races in 2017 as an analogy, domestic athletes are still in the era where 46.70 seconds is enough to win the championship. In the domestic youth competition, if there is an athlete who can run under 46.30 seconds, he can be called the new hope of the 400-meter event.

Even domestic track and field enthusiasts, when talking about the 400-meter event, are often angry. After most of them curse a few words viciously, they feel very disappointed in the team and hope to find a taller athlete among the existing 400-meter athletes in the country who can regularly run a time of 45 seconds in national competitions.

At least... at least it shouldn't be a situation where you can't find a single athlete who meets the requirements in a global track and field competition like the World Championships.

Unfortunately, it is difficult for track and field fans to even meet this small expectation. Take the 2017 Track and Field History Championships as an example. In the men’s 400m event, the Chinese team failed to qualify.

In Su Bai's mind, all kinds of information about the 400-meter event came one after another, and after countless turns, this information finally turned into Qiu Wen's 400-meter event potential value of 7.6.

[Qiu Wen’s potential cannot be wasted! 】

This is the loudest voice in Su Bai's mind.

Regardless of the consideration from which angle, Su Bai felt that since he had made the discovery, he also had a certain responsibility to let Qiu Wen switch projects as soon as possible and start training in the 400-meter event, rather than wasting his talent and wasting his time on the 100-meter and 200-meter events.

It's just that Qiu Wen's potential value came suddenly, and Su Bai found it difficult to think of how to explain Qiu Wen's talent to him, or how to convince him and the coaching staff to let Qiu Wen withdraw from the 100m and 200m events and instead train in the 400m, which is not valued by the provincial team.

This question lingered in Su Bai's mind. After pondering for a long time, he finally turned his attention to another function he gained after the upgrade.

【Super Idol Training Space】

This is a new system function that he obtained after the host's personal level was upgraded to level 3, and matching this function are two mandatory courses opened by the system - cooking training and coach simulation course.

According to the simple introduction given by the system, after starting from host level 3, if you want to be promoted to personal host level 4 and 5, in addition to completing the system's target tasks to gain experience, you also need to learn the main courses in the idol training space to a certain progress and pass the assessment.

After obtaining the system for some time, Su Bai finally confirmed thoroughly that although this stupid system was named "Super Idol System", it was indeed operating with the purpose of helping him become an excellent coach. Although he didn't know why it had such a strange name, Su Bai's heart was full of gratitude for the emergence of the system.

Including the [Training Space] that has completely surpassed real technology and the two main courses in the training space, Su Bai has been eager to try.

The next day, after Su Bai woke up, he felt his abundant energy and state, and was simply amazed at the training space in the system.

In that training space, he has a maximum usage limit of 6 hours a day. During these 6 hours, he can study the cooking-related courses prepared for him by the system, improve his knowledge of cooking, ingredients, nutrition and other aspects, and at the same time carry out training in various aspects of cooking such as the five senses and basics.

Another course in the system is even more powerful.

【Coach Simulation Course】

This course is divided into two parts: theoretical course and practical course. In the theoretical course, the senior coaches in the system will answer his questions and provide him with teaching guidance on various theoretical courses. In the practical course, he can use his reputation points to exchange blank athlete simulation data in the system. At the same time, he can adjust the intelligent data of these athletes according to his known athlete data. At the same time, he can arrange training plans for these athletes according to his theoretical ideas, and these simulated athletes will train 100% according to his training plan.

By observing the personal conditions and performance curves of these simulated athletes, in theory, he can get a training plan that best suits the athlete.

For one night, Su Bai was completely immersed in this idol training space. At the same time, he also noticed that in order to maintain the operation of this idol training space, he would need to consume a large amount of his reputation points - the so-called reputation points were converted from others' sincere appreciation of his cooking skills or other skills.

If he wants to continue using the idol training space, then whether it is to open and operate this space, or to exchange the teaching time of two courses and exchange simulated athletes, it will consume a lot of his reputation points.

But what's the big deal?

Compared with the various epoch-making functions in this sand sculpture system, the setting that consumes reputation points to exchange for course time is already normal and reasonable.

Thinking of this, Su Bai even felt a little excited.

Early in the morning, in the kitchen on the third floor of the canteen of the S Province Sports Team, Sun Xiangdong and Su Bai were preparing breakfast meals for the athletes.

Ever since Su Bai arrived at the kitchen on the third floor, Sun Xiangdong's work has become much easier. Moreover, after he discovered that Su Bai had an unusual sensitivity in selecting ingredients, whenever the food supplier for the sports team's canteen delivered goods, Sun Xiangdong would take Su Bai with him to inspect the goods.

It's true that Su Bai could easily classify these first-class ingredients into different grades, which amazed the food suppliers who came with him. They all said, "Master Su is really awesome," and the ingredients delivered later were even more refined and careful.

Now, not to mention the cafeteria on the third floor, the food supply for the track and field group of the entire S Province Sports Team has been improved in quality because of Su Bai.

This morning, it was breakfast preparation time. In the kitchen on the third floor, there were all kinds of cereal porridge, noodles, fresh soy milk, milk, and a series of side dishes made by Su Bai himself, including a variety of cold tofu and fresh jams.

These days, Sun Xiangdong has completely let go of Su Bai. When preparing each meal, he only gives Su Bai the necessary food nutrients and raw materials. At the same time, he tells Su Bai the taboos in the production techniques - such as controlling the amount of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc. The rest is left to Su Bai himself.

And Su Bai has never disappointed anyone. Even a small portion of cold tofu, after passing through his hands, seems to be blessed. It has a sweet and refreshing taste in the mouth. The cold sauce prepared by Su Bai himself can add freshness to the tofu without overpowering it. One spoonful of it, combined with the freshly cut cucumber shreds on the tofu, the fresh, salty, refreshing and clear feeling goes into the stomach so easily.

In addition to these side dishes, there are also various vegetable rolls, freshly prepared pickles, and even beef floss fried by Su Bai himself, served with soft and smooth boiled eggs.

After a breakfast, all the athletes who come to eat together will be satisfied both physically and mentally!

Such a perfect and enjoyable breakfast also provides sufficient nutrition and power for the athletes' subsequent training.

After the athletes on the third floor of the cafeteria had finished their breakfast, Sun Xiangdong finally stopped his busy work and looked at Su Bai with a smile.

"Xiaobai, you seem to be in a good mood today. Did something good happen to you?"

When Su Bai arrived at the kitchen today, he seemed to be in high spirits, and occasionally had a slight smile on his face while preparing meals. This was very rare for Su Bai, who used to look a little cold and aloof.

Sun Xiangdong's words stunned Su Bai. He didn't expect that his performance would be so obvious.

After a brief pause, Su Bai simply nodded and smiled, "Yes, I made a very good discovery, which made me very happy."

Seeing Su Bai's smile, Sun Xiangdong was also happy. He didn't ask Su Bai why he was so happy. Just looking at Su Bai's smile, Sun Xiangdong felt relieved for Su Bai. After all, Su Bai in the past was always tense and always gave people a feeling of keeping strangers away. How could he be as relaxed and friendly as he is now?

"Oh, I think you should smile more like this. You are obviously good-looking. I wonder how many girls and boys will be attracted to you if you smile like this!"

Sun Xiangdong's praise made Su Bai feel a little embarrassed. He coughed slightly, then told Sun Xiangdong that he was going to the coaching staff to see his master Zhao Heping.

There was nothing to do in the kitchen at this time, and there was still some time before lunch was prepared. Sun Xiangdong waved his hand indifferently and let Su Bai go freely. Not only that, he also seriously instructed Su Bai to pack a breakfast to send to his master.

After thanking Sun Xiangdong, Su Bai changed out of his work clothes in the kitchen, washed up briefly, and walked towards the sprint team's coach's office with his packed breakfast and a lot of thoughts about Qiu Wen.

Although he knew that it might not be possible to transfer Qiu Wen to another team immediately, he thought that he should still test the waters first.