When Bai Yu arrived in Japan, he rested briefly at the Olympic Village for a day before going to the competition venue with the track and field team leader to experience the track and field facilities firsthand.
After running a few laps, Bai Yu realized that the track here wasn't even as good as the one in China. It was nothing like the boasts of those public intellectuals on the internet about how great the infrastructure in Japan was.
Even the surrounding stands, after Bai Yu observed them, showed no signs of being newly built. It seemed that they hadn't even been renovated, but had only been painted a new layer.
Didn't they say that the Japanese spent tens of billions of US dollars on this sports meet? How come Bai Yu can't see where nearly 100 billion RMB went just by looking at this one venue?
Could it be that the government doesn't value track and field events and hasn't spent its budget on track and field events?
Although Bai Yu only saw one venue, it was enough to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
Whether Commissioner Smith was involved in this expenditure is unknown; perhaps he was.
In any case, even if the track here is a little worse, it won't affect Bai Yu's performance.
After all, true powerhouses don't care about the terrain; even if the terrain is changed to mountains, they won't be afraid at all.
After returning from the venue, Bai Yu found Coach Li and prepared to discuss something with him.
"Coach Li, look, it's only the 19th today, and there are still four days until the opening ceremony of the Olympics. We don't have anything to do right now, so why don't we go out for a walk?"
"Huh? What are you trying to do? We're here to compete, we have a team leader, we can't act on our own."
Coach Li looked at Bai Yu. As Bai Yu's coach for six years, he was an old acquaintance who had known Bai Yu since high school. As soon as Bai Yu opened his mouth, he knew what Bai Yu was thinking.
The reason Bai Yu approached him was because he wanted to find someone to share the risks. After all, Coach Li was a member of the track and field team and Bai Yu's head coach.
However, Coach Li was very grateful to Bai Yu. After all, if it weren't for Bai Yu, he would probably still be a coach in the track and field team at Ocean University, and it would be virtually impossible for him to join the national team.
It was at the same time that Bai Yu joined the national team that he specifically requested Coach Li to be his head coach, which is how he was brought into the national team.
Once you're in the national team, the treatment you receive is completely different from that of a university coach. What's more, he also acts as Bai Yu's agent and can usually get a share of the bonuses from Bai Yu.
It's fair to say that Bai Yu and Coach Li are mutually supportive and complementary.
Coach Li discovered Bai Yu and specially recruited him into Ocean University of China. Then Bai Yu brought him into the national team.
So, under these circumstances, although Coach Li saw through Bai Yu's intentions, he did not openly refuse, but instead raised some disciplinary issues.
The reason why a national team can be called a national team is not only because the players on the team are very strong, but also because the national team has corresponding discipline and must act in accordance with the rules.
"Hey coach, I know all the rules in our team, but it's just that we're bored staying in the Olympic Village every day."
For an athlete, the most important thing during a competition is their own physical condition, and mood is also a part of that. Staying cooped up in the Olympic Village every day isn't good for emotional expression. We need to go out and relax a bit.
"I admit you have a point, but it's not up to me to decide. You want to go out, where do you want to wander off to?"
"Where else can I go? I'll just go back to my old ways, find a beach to stroll around and see if I can catch some beachcombing or something."
"Beachcombing? You dare go to the beach here in Japan? You want to go beachcombing? Are you crazy? Didn't you see the news online? The sea here in Japan isn't clean."
When Coach Li heard Bai Yu's idea of going to the beach, he was speechless for a moment.
The main issue is that before this, the Japanese media had reported on the water quality of triathlon events. Well, the water quality there is such that even a real triathlete would get some rust on it.
Especially considering they are currently in Tokyo, only a little over 200 kilometers away from Fukushima, the largest nuclear wastewater storage site in Japan.
Is more than 200 kilometers away? For an island nation like Japan, the marine resources are basically the same. Who knows if there is radiation here as well?
"Coach, it's not as mysterious as you say. I just plan to find a nearby beach for a stroll and see what the marine resources are like here. I'm just looking, I don't plan to eat anything, so it should be fine, right?"
“I can’t decide this for you. If you really want to go, I’ll ask around. If the team leader agrees, I’ll go with you.”
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Coach."
After watching Coach Li leave, Bai Yu began to pack her things, putting on a windbreaker and a hat, and waited.
Fortunately, Bai Yu was lucky. A dozen minutes later, Coach Li returned and brought Bai Yu a message: it was okay to go out for a stroll, but he couldn't cause trouble.
For Bai Yu, this was a minor issue; he wasn't one to cause trouble.
The four of them then prepared to set off. They searched for the nearest beach on their phones, put on masks, and went out.
Bai Yu and his group of four included himself, Wang Hai, Coach Li, and a translator.
After all, they're in Japan's territory now, and they don't know anyone there. Since none of them understand Japanese, having a translator would be much more convenient.
In fact, the Olympic Village where Bai Yu and his group stayed was very close to the seaside. You could say that you could walk a short distance from the Olympic Village to the seaside.
However, this kind of beach is not the beach that Bai Yu wants to go to. This kind of beach can be described as a tourist attraction. Apart from enjoying the scenery, you can at most catch some small crabs or clams and other seafood. There's nothing much to catch.
The beach that Bai Yu was going to was a place where one could go beachcombing and have a good catch, but it was a place that not many people would normally go.
So Bai Yu and his group need to go and search along the coastline.
The search took more than an hour. Bai Yu and the others came out of the Olympic Village at around 1 p.m., and it wasn't until after 3 p.m. that Bai Yu finally found a deserted beach.
This place can only be called the seaside, not a beach, because it is not a sandbar. As far as they could see, apart from some trees and shrubs, there were only rocks.
To be honest, these trees and shrubs are really amazing; they can grow in the crevices of the rocks and survive tenaciously.
"Xiaoyu, is this place alright? There are only rocks and vegetation on the beach, and there's not much of a person around. Just look around here, we really can't walk anymore."
Upon seeing this thicket of bushes, Coach Li felt as if he had seen a savior and quickly spoke to Bai Yu beside him.
After walking for more than an hour, Coach Li and the translator were really tired. They were both middle-aged and their physical strength couldn't compare to Bai Yu and Wang Hai. They were already exhausted.
Bai Yu glanced at the bushes in front of him, then at Coach Li and the translator, and could only nod and stop there.
"Let's go here then. The bushes are alright. I heard there are quite a lot of lobsters and crabs around here. I wonder if we'll be able to find any this time."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he crossed the road and walked towards the bushes.
For someone as tall as Bai Yu, standing at 1.8 meters, these low trees and shrubs posed no obstacle whatsoever. He only needed to watch out for the rocks beneath his feet to avoid slipping and falling.
As for whether it's allowed to go beachcombing in this area, and whether there's anyone managing it?
Bai Yu wasn't particularly worried. After all, he was just there to take a look at the beach; he wasn't going to pick up any seafood to take away. He could just look without grabbing anything.
As Bai Yu stepped into the bushes, he had only taken one step when he heard a 'crackling' sound under his feet.
Upon hearing that sound again, Bai Yu immediately had a bad feeling. It seemed that he had stepped on something and crushed it with a single step.
Sure enough, when Bai Yu looked down, there was a crab at his feet. Judging from the pattern on its shell, it seemed to be a Chinese mitten crab.
However, this flower crab can no longer be described as just one; it should be described as a whole pile. This guy died a terrible death, completely stomped and stuck by Bai Yu.
"Tsk, what a pity. I crushed a half-pound flower crab. It seems that the resources here are quite good. You gave me a surprise right away. Not bad."
As Bai Yu marveled at the resources available here, he continued walking towards the sea.
However, Bai Yu became more careful as he walked, genuinely afraid of stepping on crabs that resembled reefs.
Although he's currently in a small town, and the seafood here will ultimately only benefit the small town, as a beachcomber who grew up by the sea, he...
The education he received from childhood was that you can't waste things; if you don't want them, then don't go and catch them.
The previous flower crab was an accident; he stepped on it by accident.
Bai Yu then strolled around on the rocks. To be honest, the rocks were a really good place to hide.
In addition, the area is sheltered by bushes and trees, which prevents many seabirds from spotting them, making it a paradise for crustaceans.
In a short while, Bai Yu found a large number of crabs and snails in the crevices of the reef, and he even found a lobster and a small green lobster there.
Because both the Japanese and we are located in the western Pacific Ocean, they share most of the same marine resources, with only a few unique species.
However, with the nuclear radiation caused by several nuclear leaks from the Little Pig, the number of unique creatures in the Little Pig has increased, and many of them are even unique in the world, found only in the Little Pig.
As for whether these things are edible, that's another matter; Bai Yu has absolutely no interest in them.
Bai Yu strolled along the beach for an hour, catching quite a lot of seafood, but he would just grab some with his left hand and release it with his right.
He's grabbing these things just to show them off on camera so he can use them as material later.
"Brother Yu, Brother Yu, look at this lobster I've got in my hand, isn't it big? This should be a small green lobster, it must weigh about two pounds!"
Just as Bai Hao picked up another large conch shell, Wang Hai's voice rang out from the side. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw that Wang Hai was holding a large lobster.
It was a green lobster longer than Bai Yu's forearm, and it looked to weigh at least two pounds, a truly large lobster.
But it is precisely because of this that this lobster was able to bring such a sense of awe to Bai Yu and the others, because ordinary lobsters do not grow to such a size.
Bai Yu has been going out to collect seafood for many years, and he has caught at least a hundred lobsters, if not countless.
However, based on his experience over the past few years, the largest lobster he has ever caught is only a little over a pound, which is already considered quite large.
After all, even Baidu Baike (Baidu Encyclopedia) only describes the size of a single green lobster as around 500 grams, which is the largest size that a typical green lobster can grow to.
But the one Wang Hai caught now weighs at least two pounds. Isn't that surprising enough?
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