This new round of competition can basically be considered Bai Yu's last competition before participating in the Olympics.
If he wins the championship in this league, he will only need one more Olympic gold medal to achieve the Grand Slam in long-distance running.
However, this last league is bound to be a tough one, especially since the first match is in Hawaii, which is obviously their territory.
Although the United States is not particularly good at long-distance running, nor does it place much importance on it.
It's okay if Da Piao Liang doesn't care, and she doesn't even particularly care who wins these events, but there's one condition: the winner can't be someone from our family.
Most of the venues for this round of track and field leagues are in the United States, which is why Bai Yu's competition journey is destined to be anything but peaceful.
Since going abroad, Bai Yu has become much more protective of himself. He strictly controls everything he eats and drinks, and he will never touch anything unfamiliar.
Fortunately, the national team attaches great importance to Bai Yu's competition and has made arrangements in all aspects. Bai Yu and his team only need to follow the arrangements of the national team to avoid crossing any red lines.
Bai Yu's impending achievement of the Grand Slam in long-distance running is not just about his personal honor, but about the honor of everyone in our country.
After all, whether a country is strong or not needs to be verified from many aspects, not just the economy and military. Even sports are a standard of measurement.
The reason why we invest so much in sports every year is to announce to the world that we Chinese people have stood up and are no longer the weak and feeble nation we once were!
Although Chinese people don't place particular importance on sports stars, and fan culture is still infiltrating all walks of life, we still have to do what needs to be done.
After Bai Yu arrived in Hawaii with Coach Li and the others, the entire team was fully equipped with protective gear, and all the necessary protective measures were in place.
After arriving at the hotel, Bai Yu did not leave the house, completely avoiding any possible contact with the virus. He now needs to maintain his form and strive to achieve good results in the next few competitions and make it to the finals.
Actually, the points battles in the previous stages didn't put much pressure on Bai Yu, after all, he's currently the world's number one ranked player.
However, with the spread of the epidemic, if one is not careful and gets infected, not to mention whether or not medication will be needed afterward, and whether the medication will be prohibited,
However, the pandemic can affect one's performance, preventing them from achieving good results, which is fatal enough.
Therefore, Bai Yu can only try to avoid contact with others to reduce her risk of close contact.
However, staying in the room all the time wasn't a solution. After two days, Bai Yu couldn't stand it anymore and called Wang Hai to go out.
The two of them, fully equipped with masks and goggles, arrived at the beach.
The hotel they stayed at in Hawaii was an oceanfront hotel, and all the rooms faced the ocean. Because of this, after watching the ocean for two days, Bai Yu finally couldn't resist coming out and went beachcombing with Wang Hai!
After two days of observation, Bai Yu discovered a problem: although there was a coastline with excellent resources near the hotel, he did not see any people going beachcombing during those two days.
Although we are currently in the midst of a pandemic, only our country has implemented control measures. For the freedom-loving people of Great Britain, let alone a pandemic, even if the apocalypse came, nothing could stop their pursuit of freedom.
But in such a free country, no one goes beachcombing here; they are completely indifferent to the resources along the coast.
Bai Yu then searched online, full of doubt, hoping to find an explanation.
After Bai Yu's investigation, he concluded that it was possible to go beachcombing here, but he needed to carefully examine the catch.
Hawaii has its own marine conservation laws, so some things you can pick up, but others you can't.
As for Bai Yu and Wang Hai, two outsiders, they knew absolutely nothing. They had no idea what could be picked up and what couldn't.
However, they still came out because they had already thought of a solution: they would just come out to go beachcombing without picking up any seafood; they were just there to take a look.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai arrived at the beach just as the tide was going out, and then they strolled along the shore.
Moreover, they weren't strolling on a sandy beach, but rather on a rocky reef, because compared to the catch on a sandy beach, the seafood that might appear on a rocky reef is far more plentiful.
Just as the two brothers reached the rocky beach, they spotted something brownish with a hint of yellow, waving its two large pincers as it fed.
"A bread crab? Such a big bread crab, doesn't anyone come to pick it up?"
Bai Yu looked at the bread crab in the crevice of the reef. It was very big; its shell alone was bigger than Bai Hao's palm.
And this guy was eating as if no one else was around; what he was eating was a large mussel, and he was eating it with great relish.
"Brother Yu, do you think we can take this bread crab with us? I feel like I'd be missing out if we didn't."
"Why take it away? Are we going to cook it ourselves or sell it here? We might as well just film a video and not cause ourselves any trouble."
Bai Yu and his friends came to the beachcombing area to film videos. They had filmed beachcombing videos in other places before, but overall, this place had the richest resources.
The bread crab that Bai Yu and his group found weighs nearly two pounds. If it were in China, it would be picked up immediately if it appeared on the beach.
So far, this is definitely the biggest bread crab that Bai Yu has found since he started beachcombing, but unfortunately he can't take it with him.
"Brother Fisherman, there's another one in here! Could these two bread crabs be a couple? Is it their spawning season?"
"Who knows? Anyway, it's not easy to find bread crabs where we live, let alone crabs this big."
However, it's a bit of a shame that we can't take this thing with us.
Following Wang Hai's pointing finger, Bai Yu indeed found a bread crab hiding deep inside the crevice of the reef. It was clear that this crevice was their nest.
"Brother Fisherman, there are giant conches here too! These must be coconut snails, right? They're huge! Brother Fisherman, I remember you caught a coconut snail before, right? This one is even bigger than the one you caught before."
After examining the two bread crabs, Bai Yu and Wang Hai wandered around the area again, and soon Wang Hai made a new discovery.
Because of its unique color, the coconut snail is quite conspicuous on the rocky beach and can be seen from a distance.
This coconut snail was also very large. Bai Yu picked it up. This thing was so big that it was about 30 or 40 centimeters long, almost as big as Bai Yu's head.
This coconut snail must have been swept up by the tide; otherwise, given its habits, it would likely live at a depth of 50 to 100 meters.
Generally speaking, this creature doesn't come to the beach, but once it does, it's basically impossible to escape; its yellow shell is just too conspicuous.
Bai Yu held the coconut snail in her hand for a while, then put it down and continued wandering around.
To be honest, the marine resources in Hawaii are truly exceptional. The two white fishermen not only discovered crabs and coconut snails here, but they even found spiny lobsters.
However, unlike the lobsters in China, the spiny lobsters here don't have the word "Chinese" in their name, and they are not protected animals.
As for other small green dragons, they saw several of them, and there were also quite a few sea fish. They even released many stranded sea fish back into the sea.
After wandering around for more than an hour, the two brothers were ready to go back and didn't want to stay there any longer.
There was nothing they could do. The longer they wandered around, the more they felt they were losing out. After all, they could only look and couldn't take any of the seafood they encountered, which was a very unpleasant feeling.
However, taking a stroll outside at least relaxed Bai Yu a lot. With a more relaxed mindset, he will definitely perform better in the upcoming match.
Sure enough, on the fourth day after Bai Yu arrived in Hawaii, his race began. There were thirty participants in the long-distance running event, and Bai Yu had an absolute lead, crossing the finish line first.
For this preliminary round, you need to accumulate points to participate in the subsequent finals. Bai Yu's idea is to perform well in the first few rounds and secure a spot in the finals as soon as possible, so that the pressure on him can be reduced later.
After finishing the competition in Hawaii and completing the necessary sample collection, Bai Yu and his team boarded a plane and flew to San Francisco, the next competition location.
The competition intensity here is very high. After one stop is over, the next stop is only three days away.
In the past, before the pandemic, such a high-intensity competition wouldn't have been a problem. You could just rest briefly at the destination and then start the competition.
But now that the pandemic has started, everyone is in a state of panic. This is why the concept of "freedom" is so popular. It's all about freedom, as long as you don't get infected.
If this happened in our family, let alone three days, they wouldn't let you leave until your quarantine period was over.
After all, in our country, the health and safety of the people are paramount, and everything must be considered for the sake of safety.
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