The side quest says that the amusement park's electricity can only last for two hours, but there are still children who haven't played enough, so please help the employees generate enough electricity to keep the amusement park running normally.
Ming Qiao initially guessed that the entire side quest might have two directions, one is to let the "children" have enough fun, and the other is to generate electricity. But all the students who were originally in the library have now been rescued. In other words, the prerequisite of "children" has disappeared, but the situation has not changed. This can only mean that there are still "children" in the playground, or they can only rely on "generating electricity" to solve the problem.
But now, instead of spending so much effort looking for the "child" who they don't know whether he exists or not, they might as well regard power generation as a life-saving straw.
Anyway, based on past experience, generating electricity according to the task may not be right, but it will definitely not be wrong.
There are less than thirty minutes left before the two hours mentioned in the side quest. Time is running out and Mingqiao and the others do not have enough time to adjust.
After what happened before, the students were eager to try the power generation task. Mingqiao wanted to let them perform, but he was also a little worried. This was not the best time for students to exercise their courage and physical fitness. Mingqiao was afraid when he thought about allowing them to rescue people in batches. But then again, Mingqiao couldn't step on so many treadmills by himself. Instead, the group relay race proposed by the students was the safest way.
A group of students, both male and female, were full of energy, and with their numbers they were bolder. They made bold statements saying that they would kill any ghost or god that stood in their way.
With Jiang Su acting as a guarantor for a group of students, Ming Qiao had to compromise with this group of young people no matter how authoritative he was. After arranging the groups, he began to tirelessly emphasize to everyone the need to pay attention to safety.
The task of generating electricity for the amusement park is simple. All they have to do is stand on the treadmill and run. However, they have no idea how much they should run, whether there is a time limit, or whether they will encounter other dangers.
——Unknown risks are the most terrifying things.
The time on the phone screen jumped to 17:55. In five minutes, the amusement park would be completely cut off from power, and their power generation task would officially begin.
"Cao Haibo." Mingqiao called Cao Haibo to the front and said, "You lead everyone to warm up before running."
"Ah?" Cao Haibo's face turned from pale to red again: "In front of so many people?"
"Yes." Mingqiao nodded: "You are the most professional here, come on, we all need you."
Cao Haibo was forced to stand in front of everyone. He lowered his head and muttered, "I... am warming up." Then he turned around at lightning speed, leaving his back to everyone.
"Louder." Jiang Su shouted from behind.
"I'll lead everyone in warming up before running." Cao Haibo blushed and finally managed to say this.
There were a few chuckles in the team, but after they finished laughing, everyone cooperated and stood in line, following Cao Haibo's lead and started to work seriously.
Although Cao Haibo is shy, his movements are professional and standard, and he is very relaxed. He would take advantage of the gaps between turns or movements to glance at the team behind him from time to time to make sure everyone is doing it seriously, and then turn back pretending to be calm.
Time passed quickly, and after Mingqiao finished warming up, a thin layer of sweat had formed on his forehead.
He, Cao Haibo and another girl were in the same group, standing together next to a treadmill closest to the door. This was the front of the room, making it easy to observe the situation outside and respond in time, and it was also faster and easier to issue commands.
Mingqiao looked at the old-fashioned phone, and the other students wearing watches also lowered their heads and stared at the movement of the hands.
Last ten seconds.
"Get ready." Mingqiao's voice echoed in the small power room. No one responded. Only the increasingly rapid breathing sounds revealed everyone's nervousness.
"run."
The lights didn't even have time to go out before they were picked up by the first group of students taking over the relay. They ran as fast as they could to fight for a glimmer of hope for themselves and everyone else.
The first person in Mingqiao's group was Cao Haibo. Mingqiao was observing the situation on the side. Just when everyone started running wildly on the treadmill, two countdowns appeared on the wall of the playground outside. One was a simple number 1000, and the other was obviously a countdown of time 05:00:00.
Just like the red light of an electronic clock, shining from the inside out of the wall, combined with the colorful and shining neon lights, it is not that scary.
But that countdown...
Mingqiao looked at the treadmills all over the room, then looked back at the string of numbers.
In less than half a minute, the number 1000 turned into 999.
It's kilometers.
Five hours, more than twenty treadmills, to complete a thousand kilometers.
On average, a treadmill can run nearly 50 kilometers, which is longer than a full marathon.
Mingqiao took a breath.
If the more than 50 kilometers are evenly distributed among each person, each person in a group of three will have to run about 16 kilometers, while a group of two will have to run 25 kilometers. As time goes by, the countdown is even more heart-wrenching than the countdown itself.
And if some groups fail to achieve their targets, other groups will need to complete them for them.
This has almost become an impossible limit.
"Teacher Ming?" Cao Haibo looked at Ming Qiao standing below in confusion.
"I have to tell you some bad news." Ming Qiao's face was heavy: "We have to run a thousand kilometers within five hours."
Cao Haibo calculated it with his not-so-bright head and soon broke out in a cold sweat.
"Teacher Ming." Cao Haibo ran faster and faster: "You notify them first, let me think about how to arrange it."
"good."
Mingqiao looked at the countdown outside again. This time the number became 987 and the time was 04:56:03.
It's just the beginning, and this speed can't be maintained for long. As each group's physical strength is gradually depleted, the speed will slow down. Although it's a relay race, it still can't change the established facts.
"Students who are running, please continue, don't stop. The rest of you, please listen to me." Ming Qiao took two deep breaths, and made his tone as steady as possible with a hint of encouragement: "We need to complete the goal of 1,000 kilometers within five hours."
As soon as he finished speaking, a shocking discussion broke out in the power room. Fortunately, he had told us about the possible situation in advance, and the commotion was quickly quelled.
"It can actually be done. We have to believe in ourselves." A girl took the lead in speaking.
To Mingqiao's surprise, none of the students came out to refute, as if they agreed with the girl's statement.
"Yes, at our current speed, we can complete it." Ming Qiao expressed his concerns: "But later on, everyone's physical strength will decline. This is inevitable."
"Don't worry, teacher." Another boy said, "With unity, we can move mountains. Now it's just a matter of running. We can definitely do it."
Mingqiao rarely used rational thinking to refute these students. In their opinion, as long as everyone worked together, there was nothing impossible, just like how they dared to take the risk together to rescue the trapped students.
Mingqiao felt warm in his heart.
Different from the individual heroism worshiped in the West, we most admire the collective power. None of the students in this power room backed down, and none of them questioned this traditional power. They worked together and vowed to break through this cruel game.
"Teacher Ming, let's change." Cao Haibo said to Ming Qiao on the treadmill.
Mingqiao knew that Cao Haibo had thought of the best solution, so he readily exchanged positions with him.
"My method is this: everyone should try to maintain a constant speed while running. When they can no longer hold on, they should sprint hard for ten seconds, and then the next person will take over. This cycle repeats. While one person is running, the other two people can rest. But resting does not mean you have to sit down. Instead, you can stretch on the spot or walk around. Keep moving and don't carry anything."
Cao Haibo has a loud voice, and he must ensure that his voice can be heard clearly by everyone present.
"Good." Jiang Su took the lead in applauding Cao Haibo, and people began to follow one after another, and finally the whole room was filled with prolonged applause.
They encouraged Cao Haibo and also encouraged themselves.
As time passed, almost everyone's running speed gradually slowed down, and the countdown numbers outside jumped slower and slower, but no student stopped.
Even if they are extremely tired, they just drink a few sips of water, eat a biscuit, and continue stretching or doing warm-up exercises.
Their relay did not stop for a second. This atmosphere infected everyone. The students influenced each other and trusted each other.
Until the time stopped at 00:34:29.
The original number 1000 decreased from three digits to two digits, then to one digit, and finally jumped from 1 to 0.
The moment the countdown disappeared, Mingqiao was running hard on the treadmill.
His speed had reached a level slower than crawling, and the same was true for the other groups, but everyone was persisting.
"Teacher, it's stopped." Cao Haibo rubbed his eyes in disbelief. After making sure that the countdown hanging over the person's head stopped and disappeared, he staggered out of the power room and couldn't help shouting, "We did it!"
"We did it!" a student responded to him.
Mingqiao's legs lost strength and he collapsed on the treadmill.
They did it.
"Teacher Ming!" Cao Haibo ran in from outside, holding a few A4-sized white building blocks in his hand.
"What's wrong?" Mingqiao asked weakly and mysteriously.
"Look at this! I found it outside. I've never seen this before!" Cao Haibo was the only one in the group who did not break the rules and could not see the building blocks. He excitedly held up the A4 paper in his hand and said, "It's half of the thesis."
Mingqiao took it with trembling hands and took a look.
It happened to be the incomplete part of Sun Guiping's paper that he had obtained earlier.
Mingqiao slowly closed his eyes.
They completed the side quest, and this half of the paper is the best proof.
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