At the exit of L City Airport, the sounds of shutter clicks continued. Passengers passing by turned around in confusion, only to see the unfamiliar Su Zhe and his group.

"Wow, that guy is so handsome, is he a new idol? He looks familiar!"

Many girls who were attracted by the reporters' attacks often had the illusion that this was a new idol boy group when they saw Su Zhe and his group for the first time, but after seeing Zheng Jian and Su Yinsheng, this illusion was quickly dispelled.

But even so, the girls passing by couldn't help but take out their mobile phones and take some videos of Su Zhe's beautiful face.

"Hello, Coach Su. I am a reporter from the L Province Sports Channel. This World Championship Challenge is the highest level competition in the country, and it is responsible for selecting representatives to participate in the World Championships. In such an important competition, in the men's 100-meter sprint event, your disciples took up 3 seats among the 16 contestants, which shows your coaching level in the men's 100-meter event. So in this competition, what are your expectations for the performance of your three disciples?"

Although he has not experienced such a big battle, as a well-known sprint coach in the country, Su Yinsheng has accepted many interviews.

He was not afraid of the cameras, but calmly affirmed the current achievements of Su Zhe and others, and then concluded: "I hope they can run at their best level in this competition, show their strength, strive to get a representative seat, and win glory for the country."

When answering reporters' questions, Su Yinsheng was not as brutal as he usually was when teaching his disciples. After all, reporters were not his disciples or team members, and they each had their own responsibilities.

After getting a series of answers from Su Yinsheng, the reporters turned the microphones to Su Zhe and others, especially in front of Su Zhe.

Seeing his arms suddenly filled with a bunch of microphones and recorders, Su Zhe had the illusion that he was still an artist.

"Hello Su Zhe, as an athlete who switched from being an idol to entering the sports circle, you have attracted the attention of many sports enthusiasts since you returned to the sports circle. From being unpopular at the beginning, you have now successfully won the men's 100m championship and the third place in the 110m hurdles at the National Championships. In this World Championships Challenge, you have also qualified for both the men's 100m and 110m hurdles. Now that your strength has attracted much attention, what do you expect from yourself in this World Championships Challenge?"

"Uh." Su Zhe held a bunch of microphones and recorders in his hands, smiled a little uncomfortably, and then said: "Of course I hope to run a better result and win the championship."

Su Zhe's answer was very simple. He did not have any difficulty in dealing with the questions from sports reporters, which were basically asked with blessings and expectations.

After all, he has been in the entertainment industry before, and he could handle the questions from those entertainment reporters back then. What does this mean now?

At the end of the questioning, a reporter suddenly smiled and held up a mobile phone to Su Zhe's eyes: "Su Zhe, Zhou Tianjue @ you on Weibo again, asking about your injury recovery. This time, I will make you lose like a real sheep. What do you think of Zhou Tianjue's provocation?"

As soon as this question came out, the reporters around couldn't help laughing.

Zhou Tianjue and the others have more or less come into contact with him, but he just has the temper of a child who hasn't grown up yet. However, ever since Zhou Tianjue got into trouble with Su Zhe, he has been @provoking Su Zhe all day long. This has become a big topic of conversation in the track and field circle.

Just like the post by Zhou Tianjue shown by the reporter, there are quite a few replies to this post. Many people in the track and field kingdom forum and sports enthusiasts who have joined the discussion have begun to take sides.

[Ahem, the new "Decision" competition is about to begin. The 110-meter hurdles event of the World Championships Challenge has begun. Those who support Jue Ge'er raise their left hand, and those who support Zhe Shao raise their right hand!!!]

[Hahahaha, Jue Ge'er is the national championship. Jue Ge'er is so strong, of course I support Zhe Shao! ]

[Alas, Zhe Shao only came in third place in the National Championships, his strength is really worrying (dog head save my life), so of course I support Zhe Shao! ]

[Tsk, brothers upstairs, how can you do this? Where are the supporters of Jue Ge'er? Oh, I support Zhe Shao! ]

The netizens in the athletics forum were all picking sides, but in the end, they all supported Su Zhe. It was obvious that the netizens were just teasing Zhou Tianjue.

Zhou Tianjue obviously also saw the enthusiastic support of the spectators. He got so excited that he retweeted the post of one of the spectators and posted a series of red angry faces.

But his series of expressions obviously had no effect. After seeing it, everyone was still laughing and joking on the Weibo post, while congratulating the melon-user who retweeted the post and got the remake of the video.

This Weibo post also made Su Zhe laugh. He smiled and returned the phone to the reporter, then took out his own phone from his pocket with difficulty and logged into Weibo, and retweeted Zhou Tianjue's Weibo post again.

[Okay, meh~^_^@//Zhou Tianjue: @Su Zhe, little sheep, are your sheep hooves all right? Wait for me to completely crush you this time and turn you into a real little sheep. ]

Su Zhe's insincere and perfunctory expression, coupled with his usual "OK" words, made the reporters around him burst into laughter again. A photographer even filmed the process of Su Zhe's reply to Zhou Tianjue, which could be made into a short video and become another interesting piece of news.

At the airport exit, after chatting with reporters for half an hour, Su Zhe and his four companions were finally allowed to leave. However, the reporters did not leave the airport immediately. Instead, they took out their tablets and notebooks and began to edit manuscripts on the spot for quick publication, while waiting together for the next batch of contestants to arrive.

There were girls watching the whole process around, and only when Su Zhe and the others had disappeared did they begin to admire Su Zhe's unparalleled beauty with longing on their faces.

"It's unbelievable, someone this good-looking is actually an athlete???"

"Oh, didn't you hear that? The reporter just said that he switched from being an idol artist in the entertainment industry to the sports industry..."

"Uh, wait, speaking of this, have you forgotten that person? The incident that was trending at the time, the one where Su Zhe was kicked out of the sports circle."

When this girl mentioned it, the girls around her exclaimed: "Ah, he is the Su Zhe in the emoticon pack???"

These girls have more or less used Su Zhe's original obscene photo emoticons, but they simply cannot connect the person in the obscene photo with the Su Zhe they saw with their own eyes.

“Ahhh, I remember now!” one of the girls shouted again, “Didn’t he also star in a new drama with Shao Xingchen? It’s called Chasing the Light. I saw someone forward it two days ago and clicked in to watch it… Wow, Lu Ming is so handsome! Xie Wei is also my type! After watching that trailer, I almost wanted to ship them together, but unfortunately that drama has a female lead…”

As they were talking, the girl took out her phone and clicked on the trailer link of Chasing the Light, and recommended Lu Ming and Xie Wei to her friends.

While the girls at the airport were still chatting, Su Zhe and his group had already got on the car prepared by the sponsor.

After traveling all the way across most of L City, the car finally brought everyone to a luxury hotel next to the L City Comprehensive Sports Center.

This luxury hotel, built as a supporting facility for the comprehensive sports center, was also invested in by L City's local Kuang Biao Group. As all the contestants in this event are top domestic athletes, all of whom were specially selected by the Athletics Administration Center, the number of participants is relatively small. Kuang Biao's sponsorship is also very generous, and they directly arranged the athletes and the team coaches to stay in this luxury hotel.

Since the hotel they were staying in was very close to the L City Comprehensive Sports Center, which served as the competition venue, Su Zhe discussed with Zhao Zhixuan and Zheng Jian and decided to go check out the competition venue first and do some adaptive training at the venue prepared by the organizing committee for the athletes.

Su Yinsheng did not stop them, but just reminded them not to get too tired so as not to affect their performance on the next day - especially Su Zhe, who was taken as an example and given a stern warning by his father Su Yinsheng.

Su Zhe certainly knew what his father was worried about, but after adjusting his state in the previous two days, his mentality for the competition had improved. He was now more looking forward to the competition on the second day.

For him, this challenge is not only a challenge to his competitive strength, but also a huge challenge to his physical strength and competitive condition.

Perhaps when the schedule was arranged, there was no consideration that athletes would compete in both the men's 100m and 110m hurdles in such a top event, so the preliminaries of both events were scheduled on August 21.

That is to say, if Su Zhe reaches the finals in both the 100m and 110m hurdles, he will have to face four competitions in one day.

So is it possible that Su Zhe will not even be able to enter the finals of these two competitions?

The night before, when Su Yinsheng got the final competition schedule, his face turned visibly green. Even Su Zhe himself felt a headache after seeing the competition schedule.

But since the schedule has been arranged, there is no possibility of changing it. Su Zhe can only grit his teeth and prepare for four games in one day.

While Su Zhe and others were observing the competition at the sports center, reporters who had been waiting at the airport had already prepared a wave of announcements and began to send their manuscripts to the Internet one after another.

Group photos of athletes wearing Hurricane sports suits began to appear on the Weibo accounts of various sports influencers.

The clothing specially designed by Hurricane for the challenge players seemed to be intended to create a sporty and casual style. However, although their company's publicity team made various marketing plans, they made a fatal mistake... They forgot to invite a special airport photographer, and instead only invited a large number of professional sports reporters.

In the hands of photographers who specialize in sports, athletes in wild casual clothes basically present their true state without any beautification, and the realism is enough to make people see the pimples on the athletes' faces.

Honest sports journalists have never known what photo editing is, let alone choosing the perfect angle for athletes to show off their height and long legs. They naturally think that the reason why the media invited them to interview athletes is because they value their professional qualities as sports journalists, not because they want them to take a lot of beautiful photos of athletes.

This wonderful misunderstanding made the leader of the brand promotion team of the Sturm und Drang feel dizzy for a moment.

The casual sports style that their brand is focusing on this time is precisely to use top athletes for publicity. Although they do not expect athletes to wear the clothes to look like stars, the visual effect should at least be good when tall, long-legged and muscular athletes wear their clothes.

However, they never expected that due to miscommunication, the photos taken by these sports reporters of the athletes were completely realistic, and some of the athletes were photographed so that they looked like the parties involved in social news events.

Just when the Hurricane brand promotion team was feeling gloomy when looking at the photos of the athletes sent back by the reporters, suddenly an employee who was guarding the computer shouted with excitement.

"Boss! Boss, look at this! This is Su Zhe's photo!"

Su Zhe?

The familiar name made the head of the brand publicity team stunned at first, and then he quickly walked to the employee's computer. Then, a large high-definition picture appeared in front of the head of the team. Although it was still the rough style of a sports photographer, the face value of the person in the picture completely offset the negative damage brought by the photographer.

The handsome boy was wearing a white round-neck T-shirt and a loose summer sports casual jacket. His outfit was casual and freehand. His straight back made him look taller and thinner. The loose outer jacket made him look particularly young and tender.

The employee first showed the photos sent back by the reporters to the head of the brand promotion team one by one. After a while, he suddenly pulled out another brand promotion plan from the computer. One of the people to be invited to shoot the advertisements was Su Zhe.

"Miao, Boss, look, isn't this the Su Zhe we were planning to date before? When we first planned to date him, he seemed to be just an idol who had just switched from the entertainment industry to the sports industry, right? The topic that caused him to leave the entertainment industry was quite famous. Later, he won the 100-meter championship in the S Province Provincial Games, and filmed the "Chasing the Light" with Shao Xingchen..."

"Oh my god, I didn't realize he had so much potential back then. How long has it been? I just checked and he's already participating in the World Championships Challenge... He also won the National Championships 100m track and field championship and the third place in the 110m hurdles..."

"If he can get a spot in the World Championships this time... Shit, Boss, sign him for a commercial, it's a sure win!"

The more the employee talked, the brighter his eyes became. The leader of the product promotion team beside him also became alert: "Where is that person? Has the appointment been made? Has the advertising contract been signed?"

Soon, the employee who was responsible for connecting with Chen Cheng also stood up and said that the contract had been basically negotiated, and they just had to wait for Su Zhe to be free before choosing a time for filming.

After getting the answer, the head of the product promotion team simply took the photos and information from the employee, took his computer and went to the product promotion director's office. Before leaving, he turned back and said to the employee in charge of the connection: "Follow up on this advertisement and maintain a good relationship with the contact person. Maybe there will be further cooperation in the future."

"Also, we will start implementing our previous publicity and marketing plan, with Su Zhe's photo album and interview video as the main content."

The brand promotion team of Kuangbiao began to launch the publicity and marketing plan at the fastest speed and efficiency. The popularity of entries such as World Championship Challenge, Kuangbiao sponsorship, wealthy company, and handsome sports boy Su Zhe began to rise gradually.

At this time, the influence of "Chasing the Light", which had just released its first trailer a few days ago, is gradually fermenting. Keywords such as Su Zhe and Lu Ming are gradually spreading due to the large number of forwardings of the trailer.

The two propaganda forces unexpectedly began to converge on the Internet. People who saw Su Zhe's airport photos and the "Chasing the Lights" trailer at the same time began to associate the handsome athletic boy at the airport with Su Zhe, who won the national sprint championship and also starred in the "Chasing the Lights" drama.

Without Su Zhe knowing it at all, his name once again spread on the Internet.

That night, in order to ensure sufficient energy for the next day, Su Zhe chose to go to bed early and did not notice that he was silently attracting everyone's attention on the Internet.

At 10 a.m. the next day, after a simple preparation, Su Zhe declined Zhao Zhixuan's invitation to accompany him and went to the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries at the Sports Center alone.

Most of the athletes participating in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries were those whom he had just met at the National Championships not long ago. Su Zhe smiled and greeted everyone.

Ye Jun was naturally among the participants in the 110-meter hurdles. After asking Su Zhe about the recovery of his right foot, he started chatting with Su Zhe.

Zhou Tianjue was the last 110-meter hurdler to arrive. As soon as he arrived, he walked up to Su Zhe with an unhappy look on his face, and then said unhappily, "You're just brushing me off again!"

Su Zhe was stunned for a moment, then he realized what Zhou Tianjue was talking about, and immediately couldn't help laughing: "How did I say it perfunctorily? Didn't I add a word this time?"

This rhetorical question confused Zhou Tianjue for a moment, and then he remembered what Su Zhe said: "Huh???"

…

puff.

Zhou Tianjue's puzzled "meh" made Su Zhe and Ye Jun beside him laugh out loud. When Zhou Tianjue realized why they were laughing, his face turned red and he said to Su Zhe angrily: "You black-hearted sheep are so hateful!!! You must have deliberately lied to me like that!! Wait, I will make you lose like a real little sheep!!!"

Zhou Tianjue, who was angry and humiliated, ultimately failed to fulfill his boast of defeating Su Zhe "in a short while".

There are a total of 16 athletes in the 110-meter hurdles. The preliminaries are divided into two groups. He and Ye Jun are in Group 1, while Su Zhe is in Group 2.

Not only did he fail to achieve his goal of suppressing Su Zhe, but he also shamelessly imitated the bleating of a sheep. Zhou Tianjue followed Ye Junxian onto the court with resentment, and kept repeating to himself in his heart that he must teach Su Zhe a lesson tonight!

In the stands, the "philosophers" who had already known that Su Zhe would participate in the World Championship Challenge had naturally bought their tickets early and occupied the best seats. They were waving cute little banners, chatting and laughing, looking at Su Zhe, who was obviously unharmed, with a beaming joy.

Around the girls, many track and field enthusiasts from nearby cities also came to the scene in groups. Most of these enthusiasts gathered on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum. Many of them were supporters of Zhou Tianjue. Because they had fun playing the team-up meme on Weibo before, someone even quickly customized a huge banner with the words: Jue is so strong, of course I support him... meh! ~

On the banner, there was a portrait of a little sheep with a smiling face, which was exactly the same as Su Zhefa's perfunctory smile.

This ridiculous banner was particularly long. Several of Zhou Tianjue's supporters were happily holding the banner and waved at him after he came on stage, which made Zhou Tianjue feel very angry.

Afterwards, Zhou Tianjue simply turned a blind eye to it, stood on his own track, and began to make his own preparations for the game.

The purpose of the trials for this World Championships is to select athletes who can meet the World Championship competition standards.

For each individual event, up to three athletes with the best results and who meet the competition standards will eventually qualify for the World Championships. If the top three athletes in the final of an event fail to meet the competition standards for that event at the World Championships, then even the top three will be meaningless.

As for the 110-meter hurdles, the entry standard for this year's World Championships is 13.46 seconds - and at the scene, the only athlete who has achieved this standard in an official competition is Ye Jun.

Even for Zhou Tianjue, 13.46 is not an easy result. He has already prepared to go all out in today's preliminaries.

While the players were getting ready, the live broadcast signal from the Chaoting Sports Channel was also connected.

Soon, the referee's signal sounded, the athletes were ready, and at the same time as the signal gun was fired, the first group of athletes in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries shot out from the starting blocks like an arrow from a bow, quickly flying forward and attacking the hurdles.

Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun were in the third and fifth lanes of the first group respectively. Their starting speeds were almost the same and their pace was very close in the stage before the hurdles.

In this preliminaries, Ye Jun's condition seemed to be better than in the National Championships. When attacking the hurdles, he also adjusted the timing of his swinging leg to press down, and his overall movements were faster and smoother.

Zhou Tianjue was also in good shape. His attention was not on any of the players beside him. He only looked ahead, and his rhythmic attacking movements were vigorous and continuous.

Even in the attacking phase, the gap between Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun was still difficult to distinguish with the naked eye!

This sticky situation made the spectators in the stands hold their breath nervously. The stadium seemed too quiet for a moment, and the only sounds were the athletes' running and jumping over the hurdles.

Ten railings, just a flash!

When crossing the last hurdle, Zhou Tianjue was slightly faster than Ye Jun. He quickened his pace and launched a final sprint towards the finish line.

Beside him, Ye Jun also entered the sprint state without giving in.

When they were at the finishing line, both of them chose to push their trunks forward and downward at the same time, competing for every second of speed!

When the two players crossed the finish line, the audience in the stadium couldn't help but applaud. This evenly matched match made the audience feel very satisfied.

Soon, the referee team also sorted out the results of the first group of preliminary contestants.

"First place, Zhou Tianjue, 13.47 seconds; second place, Ye Jun, 13.48 seconds."

This result made the audience sigh with regret, while Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun just frowned, patted each other on the shoulders, and walked off the court together.

Next, the next group of 110-meter hurdles preliminaries also began to step onto the field.