When Jiang Chen came back after the call, he found that Huo Bo had arrived, but Pan Liuyi had already left.
"Why does it take so long to make a phone call?" Chen Xu said, "Hurry up, let's go in!"
The three of them changed into ice skates together and slid in.
Apart from the initial sluggishness, Jiang Chen quickly regained his previous skating feeling, while Chen Xu and Huo Bo were even more at ease, attracting a lot of attention as soon as they entered the venue.
After a few laps of warm-up, Chen Xu suggested provocatively: "Let's have a competition? The loser will buy dinner."
Jiang Chen and Huo Bo looked at each other, curled their lips and nodded. The three of them slid to the outer circle in tacit understanding, counted one, two, three silently, and set off at the same time like an arrow from Li Xuan.
Huo Bo took the lead, Jiang Chen followed closely behind, and Shen Xu followed closely behind Jiang Chen. The three of them were so close that they were almost stuck together, and they were evenly matched. Occasionally, they would pull away a little, but they would quickly catch up. It was a competition between friends, but the scene was as stalemate as a professional competition.
The commotion here quickly attracted the attention of other people on the skating rink. Some people stopped skating and skated to the outside to watch who would win or lose. Some people couldn't help but shout out:
"The little brother in white! Come on!"
One person shouted out, and the scene instantly became more heated. Others couldn't hold back and shouted:
"The little brother in black! You are the most handsome!"
"The guy in white is the most handsome! He must be number one!"
"The guy in black is the most handsome and coolest!"
"Brother in white clothes, you are so handsome!"
With the two waves of girls cheering in a confrontation-like manner, most people stopped and watched their game with great interest.
Only at another adjacent ice rink, a few teenagers had surprised expressions.
Someone snorted: "What a pretentious guy."
Someone mocked: "The ice rink is almost owned by the three of them. If they are so good, why don't they rent out the rink to host the Olympics here?"
Some people also said indignantly: "Why don't we go to the ice rink over there? This kind of rubbish competition that only tests speed, any one of us can crush them."
The young and energetic boys wanted to rush over and interrupt the competition. No one could get a word in. Seeing that He Qianjian hadn't said anything, they turned around and asked him, "Qianjian, what do you think..." After seeing He Qianjian's expression, he paused for a while before carefully asking, "Qianjian? Are you okay?"
After hearing this, the other people realized that He Qianjian had not spoken a word. They all looked over and saw that he had a grim expression. They couldn't help but say a few words of concern.
He Qianjian stared at Jiang Chen on the opposite ice rink, the sinister look in his eyes was almost impossible to conceal: "It's okay."
Someone followed his gaze and immediately understood what he meant. He said, "There are a bunch of bumpkins out there who have never seen a real skater. How about we go out and meet them?"
"Okay!" The sweet-looking girl also looked over there without blinking, and said in a sweet voice: "Let's go over there, it's lively over there, I want to go and take a look."
He Qianjian's already dark face instantly turned completely dark. He had been pursuing this woman for nearly a month, and her attitude towards him was no different from that towards others, soft and cute but without any waves. He thought she was like this towards everyone, but he didn't expect that she would show such a strong interest in him after just one glance at Jiang Chen and the others.
Someone asked, "Mr. He? Are you going?"
The girl didn't wait for them and slid out: "I'll go take a look first!"
The haze in He Qianjian's heart almost overflowed. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go."
…
Amid cheers, Jiang Chen and the other two finished the competition. The outcome was not too suspenseful, Huo Bo came in first and Chen Xu came in last.
As the last one, Shen Xu was very dissatisfied: "Those people are really short-sighted. Why do they only say that white and black clothes are handsome? Don't I look handsome in yellow clothes?"
Hobo: "What's for dinner?"
"Sichuan cuisine?" Chen Xu thought for a moment and said, "This place is close to Xuji, why don't we go to Xuji to eat Cantonese cuisine."
Ho Bo: “Okay.”
Jiang Chen raised his lips, looked up and saw the men coming aggressively, and the smile faded. Huo Bo and Shen Xu also saw that this group of people were coming for them, so they stopped smiling and looked at the newcomers.
The girl skating at the front of the group was a younger one. She came up to Jiang Chen and the other two with a smile on her face, but her eyes were fixed on Huo Bo. “Your competition just now was super exciting! I’ve never skated so fast before. Can you teach me?”
Shen Xu nudged Jiang Chen and said in a low voice, "I thought these people were looking for a fight with us, but I didn't expect they were interested in Huo Bo."
Jiang Chen's eyes fell on He Qianjian, and they met each other's eyes. He Qianjian snorted inwardly, skated to the front, and said, "Everyone paid to skate here, and you three took up the entire skating rink as soon as you arrived. Isn't that too overbearing?"
Chen Xu sneered: "The three of us occupy the skating rink? Then you standing here are not human beings?"
The faces of the teenagers behind He Qianjian changed, and one of them said, "Don't you understand what we are saying? We are talking about the three of you competing just now, occupying the entire venue and disturbing others."
"Which other people?" Chen Xu looked around curiously, his eyes fell on the face of the person who spoke and then moved away, saying: "Besides the three of us, is there anyone else here? Apart from me, is there anyone else who speaks human language?"
Hearing the three "人" characters that he had emphasized, the young man took a half step forward in anger, but was pulled back by the person behind him. The person said, "You guys skate pretty well. Since you don't admit that you're occupying the field, let's have a competition. We won't bully the weak with the strong. Let's have a three-to-three competition. The team with the most people in the top three will have the other people get out immediately. How do you think?"
The person who said the three words "get out" emphasized them particularly strongly, and in an instant, a tense atmosphere arose.
Chen Xu nodded: "Okay, when you get out, remember to go around the periphery and don't take up everyone's space."
They were all young and energetic boys, and once they made the threats, they couldn't wait to start the competition.
The people who had been waiting outside to watch Jiang Chen and his team competed had already stood up and were ready to come in and continue playing, but when they saw that they were going to have another match, they had no choice but to sit down again.
Huo Bo whispered something to Shen Xu, who slid to the bar area, pointed his chin at the audience area, and slid back.
Before the game started, some people in the audience were already holding drinks and cheering loudly: "Brother in white! The milk tea is super delicious! You will definitely be first this time!"
"Brother in black! Wu Long is as ice-skating as you are. No one can skate as well as you!"
"Brother in yellow, you are so cute! Come on!"
Jiang Chen paused and turned to look at Huo Bo and Shen Xu. Shen Xu was smiling smugly, while Huo Bo rolled his eyes with a sullen look.
"What's going on?"
"I asked him to buy a drink for the people in the audience as payment for occupying the venue. I don't know what he said to them."
"It's unfair, okay? People just saw that we are handsome and spontaneously wanted to cheer for us."
"Come on."
Chen Xu and the other two chatted and laughed as they skated to the starting point. He Qianjian coldly withdrew his gaze, pulled the boy next to him, and whispered something.
The game begins.
Huo Bo was still leading the way. Unlike before when he was just having fun trying to get closer to Jiang Chen and Shen Xu, this time he completely left everyone behind, while Jiang Chen and Shen Xu were still closely following him.
The match just now was just a joke between the three of them, so naturally it was more of a joke. To the audience it seemed like the match was very tense, but the three of them knew very well that if Huo Bo used all his strength, the result would not change, but the match would definitely end early.
The other three people didn't know that Huo Bo had only used less than 50% of his strength before. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't touch the corner of Huo Bo's clothes. They could only grit their teeth and fight for the second and third place.
However, the second and third places are not so easy to get. Jiang Chen hadn't skated for a long time in the last game, so his body was still in the warm-up period. Now that he has finished warming up, he will naturally skate faster and better than in the last game.
Shen Xu was similar. He was the slowest among the three, but because he was short and flexible, he was always the fastest at the corners. He was able to catch up by turning almost every time he fell behind, and he always maintained the third position steadily.
The race they had agreed to run was three laps, and they had already completed two laps. Seeing the three people who were far ahead, one of them changed his expression, took something out of his pocket and threw it towards the corner.
Jiang Chen had been paying attention to all the movements on the field, especially the boy who had just spoken to He Qianjian. When he saw him throwing things, his expression turned cold and he slowed down. He was just about to turn around to remind Shen Xu when he saw He Qianjian on the outside walking towards him.
As He Qianjian got closer and closer to him, Jiang Chen heard a strange yet familiar conversation:
A cold mechanical voice said, "Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters away... Exchange the key at fifty meters with the key in your hand. Are you sure?"
He Qianjian: "Sure."
"The exchange was successful."
Jiang Chen froze in his tracks, but Shen Xu had already caught up with him and asked, "Jiang Zi, what's wrong?"
"It's okay." Jiang Chen suppressed the shock in his eyes and said, "I just saw the group of people behind him lost a key at the last corner of the last lap. You should be careful and avoid it later."
"Fuck." Chen Xu said, "These people are too sinister."
Jiang Chen speeded up: "Be careful."
When Shen Xu and Jiang Chen closed the distance, Huo Bo had already completed three laps and was the well-deserved first place.
At this time, Jiang Chen and Shen Xu also slid to the last bend. When passing the key chain, Shen Xu bent down, picked it up, and threw it back. Following closely behind Shen Xu was the person who threw the key. Not long after, a bang was heard, followed by shouting and cursing.
Jiang Chen and Shen Xu slid to the finish line calmly. The three men also slid over, supporting the injured people. They were all very angry.
One person rushed over and pushed Shen Xu hard: “What do you mean!”
Chen Xu had been prepared for this, and he slid back a few steps to stand firm. Then he pushed the man without showing any weakness, and sneered, "Don't you know what I mean? He didn't keep his own keychain properly, so who can he blame if it falls?"
"You are slandering me—"
"Is it slander? Go ask your friend and see whose door the key can open."
The exasperated young man paused, turned to look at his injured companion, and was about to ask, when He Qianjian stepped forward and said, "We don't know who the key belongs to, and we can't prove it now, but everyone saw you throw the key back and cause someone to get hurt."
"So, no matter who the key belongs to, the people who got hurt are all ours." He Qianjian's eyes swept over Shen Xu and Huo Bo, and finally landed on Jiang Chen, and said coldly: "How are you going to give us an explanation?"
Chen Xu: "Who are you? Why should I give you an explanation?"
The young man behind He Qianjian couldn't stand it anymore and rushed out, "Fuck you, I'll smash your mouth!"
Jiang Chen and Huo Bo stood in front of Shen Xu, while the people on the other side also slid behind that person, and the atmosphere was tense.
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