At 9 a.m. on August 7, the 110-meter hurdles in the track and field field began.

The preliminaries were divided into 6 games, and Shi Dongpeng participated in the first game, but unfortunately failed to advance with a gap of 0.5 seconds, ranking second to last in the group.

In the fifth preliminaries, Xie Wenjun participated, and the young man performed quite well today, qualifying as the second in the group and entering the semifinals.

In the next sixth race, the much-anticipated Liu Xiang walked on the starting line.

Liu Xiang warmed up with an expressionless face, even if it was a big radio introduction, he waved to the audience, and did not reveal half of his inner emotions.

Yang Lei, who was sitting in the stands, knew that it was not good, and he didn't even have the desire to shout cheers.

Back then, he had heard that Liu Xiang fell down in the first hurdle of the preliminaries, rolled on the ground a few laps, pressed his calf and couldn't get up, and finally jumped over the finish line with one foot from the sidelines, winning applause from the audience, but before he returned to China, he was scolded for becoming a real Xiang, including those angry gamblers who lost money.

And all the other spectators at the scene thought, what results will Liu Xiang run in this preliminaries, and can he score less than 13 seconds?

That's right, if you don't qualify, the audience hasn't considered it, he's a world champion, last year's IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Liu Xiang was also pulled by Robles' arm three times in a row, which is enough to prove that even Robles is afraid of him, how can he not advance?

Maybe only Yang Lei is worried, can Liu Xiang deceive professional sports commentators, deceive the people, and continue to be a tragic hero?

The race is on.

Liu Xiang took the lead, quickly crossing the first hurdle with his best posture, running faster and faster, and he couldn't see anything wrong with his health at all.

"Liu Xiang is very fast!"

"He's always ahead!"

The 110-meter race can be over in 13 seconds, and the commentator doesn't have to say too much, just keep shouting "Liu Xiang Chong Duck".

Yang Lei changed from unbearable to sitting in danger, staring wide-eyed, and the game was over!

Liu Xiang was the first to cross the finish line, and he qualified for the preliminaries!

The big TV at the scene was showing footage of Liu Xiang happily greeting and shaking hands with other opponents.

In the domestic live broadcast room, the commentators are also talking about it, laughing and laughing, saying that this is expected.

Yang Lei held the binoculars and kept staring at Liu Xiang's back.

No fake falls, no injuries, no Achilles tendon rupture.

Liu Xiang changed from the initial indifference to a happy smile after qualifying, and such a change in attitude made Yang Lei feel puzzled.

"Oh no, is he going to ignore the warning of the spinach company and go get a medal?"

Yang Lei's eyelids jumped wildly, even if Liu Xiang won the medal and the 250 million Chinese gamblers won, they would not say half a good word about Liu Xiang, they would leave if they won, make a fortune in a muffled voice, scold if they lose, and splash dirty water and sewage, which is a typical gambler's mentality.

By the way, they offended the spinach company by winning the medal, how much energy did they spend for this bureau, and how could they allow Liu Xiang to sabotage it? Maybe Nike will also get a piece of the pie from this.

The members of the X-Sports cheering group behind Yang Lei were excited and high-fived each other.

Xu Shiwei's phone call came quickly: "I saw the results of the game." ”

Yang Lei asked her: "Is the family arranged properly?"

Xu Shiwei was worried: "It's okay on my side, it's been arranged, but he suddenly advances, I estimate that he may receive harsher warnings and threats, you hurry up and think of a way to keep an eye on it." ”

Yang Lei agreed, and he used a special pass to sneak into the rest area, and the dead beggar Bai Lai pulled Liu Xiang's Coach Sun: "I'm going to meet him." ”

Coach Sun refused: "No, Mr. Yang, the head of the delegation, and the leader of the track and field team, all told me that no one should be allowed to approach Liu Xiang, especially you." ”

"Especially me?"

"Well, your identity is too special......"

Before he finished speaking, a group of people appeared in the afterglow of Coach Sun's eyes, and hurriedly said, "Look, they have been staring and are looking for you." ”

A few Chinese people came over, the deputy head of the delegation, with a few staff members.

After approaching, the deputy head of the regiment was quite polite, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Yang, why did you come in?"

Several other people blocked the passage to the lounge, staring at Yang Lei, not allowing him to approach.

Yang Lei knew that he had no chance, and said with a polite smile: "I'll just say congratulations, forget it, you're busy, I'll go first." ”

It is impossible to have a face-to-face conversation, and the message must be conveyed through Director Liang.

Fortunately, there was also this insider who was willing to help, and that afternoon, Director Liang quietly found the track and field team and cared about the situation of the team members as a leader.

The atmosphere of the track and field team was very good, there was laughter and laughter in the dormitory, Liu Xiang found an opportunity, looked at Director Liang and went to the kitchen to get tea, and whispered to Director Liang who came over: "How is the situation?"

Director Liang said, "Your family is safe. But are you really going to fight them?"

Liu Xiang replied: "Isn't it that we haven't reached the finals yet? I still have a chance to buffer, and I want to see if they will step up their efforts and give a harsher warning, and then decide whether to retire in the finals." Thank you Mr. Yang for helping me take care of my family, I can call the police, tomorrow is the finals, it's a big deal to fight with them. ”

Director Liang understood, he said: "I will carefully help you keep an eye on it in the past two days, don't be careful, prepare for the game." ”

Liu Xiang is taking a risk, and he is also testing the patience of the other party, he has qualified for the semifinals, and I believe that those people will continue to look for him.

Sure enough, in the evening, there was another inexplicable meeting, and everyone from the track and field team was called over, but the person who informed Liu Xiang was still the strange staff.

This time, Liu Xiang did not go to the next building for a meeting, but waited until the other party came to the door.

It's a pity that these people miscalculated, Xie Wenjun and the other person were pulled by Liu Xiang and did not let them go, and asked the three of them to fight the landlord, and the three athletes were present at the same time, and the other party didn't say anything, so he could only threaten him with his eyes, and then changed to a urging tone, and asked the three of them to go to the meeting next door.

When he went to the next door, Xie Wenjun asked curiously, "Who are they? How can they enter our dormitory casually?"

Liu Xiang smiled and said, "I don't know, maybe it's the staff, isn't it normal to have the key to our room?"

There was an inconsequential meeting in the next building, and as soon as the track and field team returned, Director Liang said, "Don't worry, I'll call the security guard to come and change the water." ”

All the drinking water in the house where Liu Xiang and Xie Wenjun were was changed, and all the food was thrown away, just in case.

Clothes and the like are also irradiated with ultraviolet light, disinfectant, and all the places that are easy to touch hands are wiped, tomorrow is the key game, for safety, Liu Xiang did not sleep in his own bed, but went to Director Liang's room to sleep for a night, and Director Liang slept on the ground.

At 6 p.m. sharp, the semifinals of the 110-meter hurdles began.

Yang Lei once again watched the game with the cheering group and waved the flag and shouted in the stands.

He held a few phones in his hand and kept in touch with Xu Shiwei by phone, and Liu Xiang ran another time of 13.09 seconds this time and successfully entered the final.

Xie Wenjun also ran 13.19 seconds and successfully advanced with a personal best, which is really surprising.

"Two top athletes entered the finals at the same time, and Chinese track and field is really expected to rise!"

"Reaching the finals together with the same brothers will surely become a good story in the Chinese sports world. ”

"Look at the eight people in the final, it's really very fate! Merritt and Richardson are two magnesium nationals, Ortega and Robles are two Cubans, plus our Liu Xiang and Xie Wenjun two Chinese, one Jamaican, one British, the 110-meter hurdles of this Olympic Games are really quite good-looking!"

"Is this a team fight?"

The narrators were excited, and the audience was even more excited.

The domestic public opinion was overwhelmingly praised, and I was sincerely happy that the track and field team had achieved such a high achievement.

The game at 6 o'clock London time is already 2 o'clock in the morning at home.

And Beijing time today is Thursday, August 9th.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, in the dead of night, except for those who can't sleep, or are particularly fond of Liu Xiang, or are betting on Liu Xiang, there are few people who still don't sleep at 2 o'clock in the morning.

In a community on Xingfu Road in Shanghai, Liu Xiang's parents' home still has yellow lights in the windows.

The community is a new real estate that opened two years ago, with well-equipped security equipment, and there are people riding electric vehicles to patrol the community at night and work night shifts.

But even though they are on duty, they only wander around the public areas of the community, and rarely go around the residential buildings.

Two security guards rode electric scooters with red and blue flashing police lights installed on the back of the car, which looked particularly dazzling in the dark night.

The three black shadows waited for the security guards to leave, walked out from behind a row of parking spaces, carried a few bags of kits, and slipped into the residential building where Liu Xiang's parents were.

A few minutes later, several people took the safe passage stairs to the door of Liu Xiang's house on the sixth floor.

At this time, the person in charge received a message telling them to prepare to do it.

The three of them quickly divided the labor, all of them covered their heads with a thin layer of camouflage sock nets, one took out his tools and prepared to pick the lock, and the other two prepared the main wires with insulating pliers, which were stuck and could cut off the indoor power supply at any time.

The guy who picks the lock is very professional, and the two iron chisels with a curved modeling head are stretched in, and the lock can be rotated by parting left and right.

I was worried about hitting the anti-latch before, but fortunately it was not locked, and the door was gently pushed open a crack.

A light came out of the crack in the door, and the excited voice of the TV narrator came from inside: "...... In two hours, the final of the 110m hurdles will be ......"

The person in charge nodded, and the companion at the meter immediately cut off the power, and the room was instantly dark.

"There's a power outage?"

"I don't know, I guess so. ”

"How can you sleep in this power outage on a hot day?"

"I'm going to look for a flashlight. ”

The voices of a man and a woman came from the house, and the three of them quickly came in, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the people in the house had not yet reacted, and directly rushed in to catch turtles in an urn.

Who knows, the door clicked shut.

Before the three of them could react, there was a chaotic sound, and the blue electric shock was particularly dazzling in the dark, and there were three pops, and the three guys who broke into the door were all put down and unconscious.

The backup power is on, and there is still a yellow light.

Seven or eight strong men came out, including two men in police uniforms.

"Humph!

A bald man in the lead kicked the sock-sucking man in the shoulder, and the three guys only twitched on the ground, still conscious, but all of them couldn't move.

"Torture them all, search them first, and interrogate them immediately!"

"Yes!"

Several strong men immediately tied up the thieves, and the bald man who took the lead took out all their belongings, although the mobile phone was empty, but it couldn't stop their team, and there were people who understood high technology next to them, and all the deleted information and encrypted communications were cracked out in minutes.

The bald head quietly came to the bedroom and called Zhu Jun: "It's found out." ”

Zhu Jun said: "All the evidence is left, the police take a copy, we back up at least three by ourselves, retreat carefully, the next step may be greater revenge, and if you do it well, you will have a bigger bargaining chip." ”

The bald head said, "Got it." ”

Hung up the phone, the bald head completely stomped on the phone with his feet, poured a little oil on it by the way, and threw the remains of the phone into the glass ashtray and burned it completely.

Liu Xiang didn't know what was going on at home.

He had been resting in the back, and the strength and conditioning coach helped him massage his leg muscles in preparation for the competition in two hours.

Xie Wenjun sat next to him and enjoyed it together, and talked about the results by the way: "Senior brother, we have several strong opponents in the finals. One is the world record holder, Cuban Robles, who is 0.01 seconds faster than you. ”

Robles broke Liu Xiang's world record of 12.88 seconds in 2008, 12.87 seconds, because of his young age and huge upside, he became Liu Xiang's number one competitor.

Liu Xiang shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm discouraged, it is estimated that Robles will win the championship this year." ”

Xie Wenjun hurriedly cheered him on: "The game is ever-changing, who knows what will happen? What if he fouls? What if he gets injured? ”

This usually happens to top players, Liu Xiang said in his heart, what if he fakes a fall?

Xie Wenjun continued: "Then there is Merritt and Richardson in the United States, both of whom have the strength of about 13 seconds, one is 13 seconds and the other is 13.05 seconds. ”

Liu Xiang pouted, he is a little reluctant to run into 13 seconds now, no way, he is 29 years old, and he is already 30 years old, the years are really unforgiving, and he will never return to his peak.

Xie Wenjun said: "Judging from the ranking of the semi-finals, the fourth is your 13.09 seconds, the fifth is my 13.19 seconds, and the sixth is around 13.40 seconds. ”

"And then?"

"I had a bold idea, I wanted to use foul tactics. ”

Xie Wenjun took the information sheet, sat up straight, and said with a serious face.

The two physical trainers stopped massaging, and Liu Xiang sat up straight, all looking at Xie Wenjun.

A coach said solemnly: "Xiao Xie, don't mess around." ”

Liu Xiang also said: "Xie Wenjun, don't fool around, you have to listen to the coach." ”

Xie Wenjun's originally serious face couldn't hold back, and he sneered: "I'll just talk, don't be nervous." ”

At this time, Coach Sun came over, and the physical fitness coach hurriedly reported to him what had just happened.

Coach Sun said very seriously: "I was thinking about this just now, everyone came over for a meeting. ”

Within a few minutes, several delegation officials, as well as the leader of the track and field team, were all gathered here.

The small conference room was packed, but no one was allowed to go out in order to prevent the plan from leaking out.