"Xiao Su, you have to think carefully about retirement. I can keep this retirement application for you first."
In the office of the sprint coach of the S Province Sports Team, Zhao Heping held the retirement application form handed to him by Su Bai in his hand. He pondered for a while and advised his disciple earnestly, hoping that he could think it over carefully.
Su Bai looked at his coach's advice and was silent for a few seconds. He then looked at Zhao Heping very seriously and said, "Coach, I have thought it through."
Hearing Su Bai say this, Zhao Heping was stunned for a moment, and finally sighed.
Su Bai's parents died when he was young, and there were no other relatives in his family. Although he had property left by his parents, he was sent to an orphanage because he was too young to take care of himself. He grew up in the orphanage until he became an adult and took back his family property from the regulatory agency and left the orphanage.
Because of his experience of growing up in an orphanage, he developed an independent character and always thinks more about many things.
He has actually been thinking about retirement for nearly half a year and has talked about it with his coach several times before. He decided to retire after repeated consideration.
At the beginning, when he was 13 years old, he performed outstandingly in the school's physical education class and was selected into his school team. Later, when he participated in the city competition, he was noticed by coach Zhao Heping who was there to select talents.
After that, he trained with his coach throughout junior high and high school, and always followed the path of a sports student. When he took the college entrance examination, he was admitted to a good university in the city based on his performance in the U20 National Competition.
However, his coach's cultivation of him all along was really a waste. So far, his personal PB (personal best) in the 100-meter event is only 10.88 seconds. Although this number is auspicious, it just barely exceeds the standard line of a national first-class athlete.
Since he officially started participating in adult competitions, he has strictly and seriously followed the coach's training plan and always maintained a good personal condition in the competition. However, these measures and methods are of little use. His results seem to have encountered a threshold that he cannot cross. No matter how much he increases his training volume, it is difficult to improve.
So far, he has only been able to participate in some city and provincial competitions, and at most compete in the national Grand Prix events, competing with athletes from all over the country who are in similar condition, and then watching several domestic 100-meter athletes stand on the podium.
So far, his best ranking in the country was the 9th place he achieved in this year's Grand Prix H City leg - there were only 8 people on the Grand Prix finals list, and he happened to be the one who didn't make it to the finals.
It's annoying to think too much about this kind of thing, but Su Bai was not too frustrated. He just realized very rationally that his talent in the 100-meter sprint was limited. Even if his performance could enter a period of explosive growth in the next two years, it was still uncertain whether he could meet the standards of a national master, let alone the standards of an international master.
If he continues to work on this project, although he will have a stable job in the sports team for a while, the road ahead will not be easy. When he retires in another seven or eight years, he will be in his 30s, with no achievements and no connections. When he retires at that time, it will be much more difficult for him to find a way out than it is now.
Su Bai has no family to help him. If he wants to live a good life, he can only think about himself more over and over again.
Now that he has just graduated from college and is still young, it would be much better to retire now than to retire later.
Now, the person who feels most sorry about his retirement may be his coach Zhao Heping, who is like a teacher and a father to him.
Zhao Heping held Su Bai's retirement application report, was silent for a long time, and finally nodded.
As Su Bai's coach, he has brought Su Bai up. In fact, he has already explained to him in detail Su Bai's situation and thoughts. After what happened today, he no longer has any reason to stop Su Bai.
"Okay, I'll take your application report."
Zhao Heping finally nodded formally and agreed to Su Bai's request without saying anything else.
Su Bai looked at his coach seriously, pursed his lips, and bowed to Zhao Heping: "Master, thank you for all these years."
Zhao Heping was feeling upset at the moment. He glanced at Su Bai out of the corner of his eye and waved his hand at him unhappily: "Okay, go ahead, don't get in my way here!"
After Su Bai stood up, he looked at his coach's uncomfortable face. He was not good at making jokes and entertaining people, so he was silent for a moment, bowed to his coach again, then turned and left the office.
After he left the coach's office, he looked at the track and field team's training ground not far away and his teammates who were still training on the training ground. He felt a little relaxed, as well as a sense of uneasiness and anticipation for the unknown future.
However, before he could think more, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind.
"The condition has been triggered, the system is started, and initialization preparation is in progress..."
Um? Su Bai was stunned, not knowing where the mechanical sound came from. Even though he was usually calm, he was a little confused at this moment.
"Host binding successful, host identity confirmed, system activation conditions confirmed, system startup successful."
"Ding, the super idol system has been successfully activated. Please explore and use it by yourself."
The mechanical system prompt sound stopped abruptly, leaving Su Bai standing there in confusion - what happened? Is it haunted? Or did aliens invade his brain?
Su Bai was confused for a while, and finally remembered some novels his teammates had shared with him. Many of the protagonists in these novels had obtained various "systems".
Thinking of this, Su Bai's doubts were slightly relieved, but after he saw clearly the translucent interface that appeared in his mind, he was in a state of confusion again.
"Super idol system?"
What does this mean? Should we let him venture into the entertainment industry?
For a tone-deaf person like him, even if he wants to venture into the entertainment industry, there is no way anyone would accept him, right?
Just when Su Bai felt that his system was useless, a mechanical voice popped up in his mind again.
"Ding, host, today's mission, please check."
As the voice fell, a translucent task box appeared in front of Su Bai.
Today's task: Practice basic knife skills for 1 hour (with basic knife skills tutorial)
Mission reward:? ? ?
Failure penalty: None
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Looking at today's task, Su Bai's face, which had originally seemed a little indifferent, now looked even colder and more ruthless.
Su Bai took another look at the six big characters "Super Idol System" on the system interface, and then took another look at today's tasks released by this stupid system. He really wanted to take this system out and shake it to see if there was any water in its brain.
This is clearly a cook system, right?
Looking at this extremely crude system and inexplicable tasks, Su Bai hesitated for a moment and decided to borrow a place in the sports team's canteen kitchen to try it out.
If for no other reason, his parents were actually a young couple who ran a restaurant. In his limited childhood memories, he still remembers all kinds of delicious food that his parents carefully prepared for him. Those flavors have always been treasured in his memory.
Such childhood memories have made him love cooking. To be honest, he seems to have a good talent in cooking. Even without this system that fell from the sky, he also planned to learn cooking skills specifically.
With this idea in mind, Su Bai found the sports team's kitchen after a brief thought, asked the chef who was preparing nutritious meals to borrow a chopping board and knife, and then took out a white radish from the kitchen. Then he stood in a corner where he would not affect the work of the chefs in the kitchen, and opened his system interface again.
Before today, Su Bai thought that his cooking skills were not excellent, but definitely acceptable, and at least he could cook a home-cooked meal without much of a problem.
But after he clicked on the "Basic Knife Skills Tutorial" that came with the system, he suddenly realized that he probably didn't know what the word "basic" meant.
In cooking, knife skills have always been the essential foundation of cooking.
Even though Su Bai had not studied cooking systematically, he knew how important knife skills were in the Chinese cooking system.
But before Su Bai clicked on the "Basic Knife Skills Tutorial" in the Sand Sculpture System, he thought that this tutorial would contain some training on how to dice and shred radishes and cabbages. How could he have imagined that the tutorial video in this system was directly a set of shredding techniques for Wensi tofu?
Su Bai was stunned at first because of this task requirement that totally disregarded the basic law. But before he could complain, the video he just saw on the system interface was suddenly loaded into his mind. This method of indoctrination was like a sudden enlightenment. In just a blink of an eye, it seemed that all the outlines of "basic knife skills" were poured into his mind.
What was instilled into his mind was not only the shredding technique of "Wensi Tofu", but also the ultimate mastery of the skill of "shredding" in cooking.
It was not until this moment that Su Bai finally realized that this stupid system, which had been so crude since its inception, was indeed a mysterious thing that was not so ordinary.
When Su Bai tried to cut the radish in his hand into shreds according to the technique he had just mastered, even though his body was not yet proficient in the technique of "cutting into shreds" and it was difficult for his brain to keep up, but with his continuous practice, after just one hour, the shredded radish he cut was already perfect in the eyes of ordinary people.
"Hey, Xiaobai, your sword skills are pretty good, right?"
In the kitchen, chef Sun Xiangdong had just finished his busy work and happened to pass by Su Zhe. When he saw the large basket of shredded radish that Su Zhe had cut, he raised his eyebrows and was quite surprised.
"But there are so many shredded radishes... OK, we have to add a portion of stir-fried shredded radishes to everyone's nutritious meal today."
When Sun Xiangdong was muttering to the side, Su Bai suddenly realized how much shredded radish he had added to the kitchen in the past hour.
Realizing that he had caused trouble in the kitchen, Su Bai turned around and apologized to Sun Xiangdong.
"Hey, what's the big deal?" Sun Xiangdong was a straightforward man from Northeast China. He patted Su Bai on the shoulder and didn't feel any trouble about the shredded radish. "Shredded radish is also an ingredient that we can use in our daily nutritious meals. There's nothing to be sorry about. It's just that I didn't realize that you, Xiaobai, have such great knife skills!"
Su Bai looked at the large basket of shredded radishes that he had cut, and thought about the stupid system in his mind. For a moment, his mind was a little confused.
After briefly chatting with Sun Xiangdong, he left the kitchen first. When he returned to the dormitory, the mechanical sound in his head rang again.
"Practice knife skills for 1 hour. Basic cooking skills have been activated. Gain 1 skill point. This is the first time to gain skill points. Skill points will be automatically matched. Congratulations to the host for activating the basic cooking skill. Current basic cooking skill level: Level 1."
"The host has completed today's mission, and is rewarded with 1 skill point. Congratulations to the host for completing the system mission for the first time, and is rewarded with 1 job opportunity."
After this series of voice messages were broadcast, the system became silent again. After Su Bai pulled out his system panel, he looked at the basic cooking skill and the 1 free skill point and fell into deep thought.
Is this stupid system really a cooking system?
Looking at the 'Super Idol System' on the system interface, Su Bai always felt that this system would not be as simple as simply training him in cooking skills. However, at this moment, he had only had the system for half a day and could not see much more.
After thinking it over, Su Bai put the issue of the system out of his mind for the time being.
only……
The system just said that there is another reward which is a job opportunity?
Just as he thought of this, Su Bai's cell phone rang again. The caller was his coach Zhao Heping.
"Hello, coach, I'm Su Bai."
Zhao Heping's voice on the other end of the phone was still a little unpleasant, but he still said, "Aren't you worried about having trouble finding a job in the future? I just heard that the cafeteria is hiring a chef. Don't you like to cook? Well, I'll take you to ask Sun Xiangdong tomorrow."
Zhao Heping’s words stunned Su Bai.
Although the job of chef does not sound very high-end, the canteen chef of the S Province Sports Team is a member of the sports team and has good benefits. Some people from outside who want to join the team cannot.
Although Su Bai graduated from university, he majored in sports after all. If he didn't have any connections, he might not be able to find a better job than this one if he really wanted to find a job outside.
And what Zhao Heping meant was obviously that keeping him by his side would make it easier to take care of him.
Thinking of this, Su Bai's eyes turned slightly red.
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Heping didn't wait for Su Bai's reply, and said again: "You kid, give me a reply!"
Hearing Zhao Heping's caring tone, Su Bai smiled and said, "Well, I understand. I'll come to see you tomorrow."
"Humph, that's pretty close."
After listening to Zhao Heping's instructions to come and see him tomorrow, Su Bai seriously said he understood and hung up the phone.
Looking at the phone in his hand and thinking about what happened today, Su Bai felt a little dazed and expectant - his life might be about to change differently.
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