Chapter 30: Varsity Tryouts
An autumn rain and a cool, the weather in the north has begun to drop rapidly since the beginning of autumn, especially after a drizzle, the temperature has plummeted by two or three degrees, and a trace of coolness is also announcing the end of summer.
In the early morning, the sky had just brightened, and the rain from last night had not yet dissipated, and the stone road was a little slippery. The air was very fresh, and the green pine branches and leaves on the roadside were covered with dew, and they were even more green in the light of the early day.
Facing the sun, on the edge of Mandarin Duck Lake of Beiyang University, a beautiful figure ran over slowly, with fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and he could hear a shallow chant and low singing in his frequent rapid breathing, as if he was singing while running.
In the more than a month since he entered the school, Wu Shengnan insisted on running in the morning every day, practicing qi while running, so that he could exercise his lung capacity the fastest. Because the main way of fighting the war song sacrifice is to sing the war song, and after a battle, you may have to sing several war songs in a row, which has great requirements for lung capacity. Especially some difficult battle songs, they need to be supported by a pair of iron lungs.
Since entering the university, she has only known what the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger are. Even in the relatively unpopular profession of War Song Sacrifice, there are still many people who are learning, and her excellent ability makes her a little embarrassed. In order to stand out among these outstanding classmates, she had to put in more effort.
Speaking of this, Wu Shengnan is still a little depressed. During this time, she carefully studied the war songs that Shen Mu wrote to her, and found that she couldn't sing most of the war songs!
Shen Mu wrote two manuscripts for her, a total of thirteen war songs. There are a few battle songs that are okay, the difficulty of singing is not great, and the emotions are relatively easy to grasp, and she is confident that she can successfully sing them after becoming proficient. But the next few battle songs are inevitably a little too difficult, and she can't sing them at all with her current ability.
She really wanted to pull Shen Mu's ears now and ask clearly, where did he get these war songs?
A few days ago, she quietly experimented with it, and after only singing a few words, the mana fell down with a whizz, and the entire Mandarin Duck Lake was almost not stirred. Luckily, there was no one nearby that morning, otherwise the whole school would have to be alarmed.
From then on, she didn't dare to try again. However, her understanding of the war song was one step deeper. If you can sing it completely, the power is absolutely extraordinary, and of course, the consumption is absolutely extraordinary. She made a simple estimate that it would take almost 40,000 mana points, which meant that she would need to consume more than half of her current mana.
A single war song costs half of the mana, and a team match requires about four or five war songs to be sung, so this cost is a bit too much.
And this war song is only the one she thinks has the weakest effect, and if she changes to other war songs, she may need how much? This feeling is like having a treasure mountain but not knowing how to spend it!
There are very few people by the Mandarin Duck Lake in the early morning, and Wu Shengnan is used to practicing his voice in front of the lake after running here every day, and by the way, he can secretly practice the war song. I don't dare to mobilize the magic element, but it's okay to just practice the tune.
Purely from a musical point of view, Wu Shengnan also likes this song very much. The tune is beautiful, fresh and elegant, and the lyrics are even more dreamlike and poetic. Every time she sang it, she could feel a faint sadness infecting her emotions, and several times she couldn't help but mobilize the magic element to respond.
"What a great war song! I really look forward to the day when I can sing it perfectly!" Wu Shengnan couldn't help but sigh after every practice, but it was a pity that such a good war song couldn't be sung to others.
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At seven o'clock, it was already bright, and the flow of people around the lake began to gradually increase. Wu Shengnan also happened to stop practicing, and after a brief cleanup, he turned around and went to the cafeteria. Because she was the first to get up, she was basically in charge of breakfast for four people in the dormitory every day.
As soon as I walked to the door of the cafeteria, I found that there seemed to be a lot of people who came to have breakfast today, and they were all crowded in front of the door and didn't know what they were watching.
Everyone was curious, and Wu Shengnan couldn't help but look inside when he passed by, only to find that they were watching the latest announcement.
Squeezed forward, relying on his excellent eyesight, Wu Shengnan finally saw the content of the announcement clearly. It probably means that because of the continuous losses of Beiyang University, the school is determined to readjust the school team. In order to ensure fairness, openness and impartiality, the school has decided to hold an intramural selection competition next month. All current students can sign up, and those who perform well will be selected for the school team.
This year's school team has two groups of official members, a total of 10 members. There are also eight reserve members, for a total of eighteen seats.
In the past, most of the selection of school team members was recommended and assessed. That is to say, if you hear that the student is very good, or if a teacher recommends that a certain student is very good, then he can be assessed by the school team, and if he meets the standard, he can be selected as a reserve member. The best performance among the probationary members can become full members.
And this time, Beiyang University seems to have been really stimulated, and directly changed its usual and chose a completely open selection method. This method has not been used in schools before, but it proved to be too time-consuming. This kind of large-scale selection like a whole school takes at least two or three months, and there are basically not many people who are selected and recommended in the end. So very few schools now do this kind of time-consuming and laborious thing.
On the one hand, the determination to reform is the same thing, and on the other hand, it is necessary to think about the sentence on the announcement: the announcement says that those who perform well can be selected for the school team. It's about the outperformers, but not the winners. In other words, this selection is not determined by the final victory or defeat, as long as you perform well enough, you may even be selected after only one game. Beiyang University obviously wants to take this opportunity to reserve the next batch of talents!
However, this selection criterion is too attractive, and it can be seen from the gradually reddening eyes of the surrounding students that there will be a fierce battle around these eighteen places.
Wu Shengnan stood thoughtfully in front of the announcement for a while. She naturally wants to enter the school team too, but her current ability alone is absolutely not enough, unless she can master those battle songs. But she hasn't thought about whether to let these war songs be exposed so early, and she may have to go back and think about it carefully.
After buying breakfast for four, Wu Shengnan returned to the dormitory with a heavy heart. Before I could push the door open and enter, I heard a burst of chatter.
Usually at this time, a few of them are still lazy in the bed and don't get up, what's wrong today?
"Alas, the boss is back!" Wu Shengnan was the oldest, and he was naturally elected as the boss of the dormitory, and then naturally became the nanny of the three of them.
"Boss, have you seen the announcement of the school? The school team is going to be openly selected!" Zhao Bijun, the fourth child in a black lace sundress, jumped off the bed without caring about walking naked, dancing a little too excited.
"See, the posts are all over the school. Wu Shengnan put four breakfasts on the table and said, "Now that the whole school is discussing this, you also have ideas?"
"Who can have no idea about this?" The second Han Linlin also jumped up, grabbed a bun and took a bite of it fiercely and said: "I think it's just right for the four of us to form a team, the spell department, the martial arts department are all there, and there is no shortage of attack, defense and support." ”
"It takes five people to form a team, and there are only four of us!" reminded the third Zhang Xuejiao.
"It's okay, I'll let my boyfriend come. He happens to be a guardian knight, and he can be used as a meat shield!" Han Linlin immediately pulled her boyfriend in, and didn't even give the other party a chance to ask.
The four girls are all quick-tempered and do what they say. After having breakfast in a hurry, he went directly to the office of the student union to register the team, and Han Linlin's boyfriend was also urgently called. A young man named Zheng Bin, who is not tall, is quiet, and is even more obedient to Han Linlin, and even pushed away the previous matter of teaming up with his roommate in his dormitory.
So the '3042' team was hastily formed. Why is it called '3024'? Because their bedroom number is 3024, and a few girls don't even bother to name it for the sake of saving trouble.
Forming a team is only the first step, and if you want to participate in this audition, you must go to the school office to register. Originally, it was a very simple thing to sign up, and it would take three or five minutes at most to fill out the form. But I couldn't stand the fact that there were too many people who came to sign up today, and there was a long queue of dozens of meters, and I waited for more than half an hour before I arrived.
However, the process of waiting in line is not boring at all, on the contrary, it is very lively. Most of the students were lining up and analyzing all kinds of inside information, and the major clubs on campus around them also came to support the field and began to recruit openly.
In the end, the entire registration venue has almost become a temporary talent recruitment market. All kinds of recruitment, the call to form a team came and went, and the larger clubs exaggerated the poster banners and put out various welfare benefits, some of which were really exciting.
For example, a club called 'Yinghao' is recruiting the main meat shield profession, responsible for a full set of equipment and potions, not to mention, there is a salary of 10,000 yuan per month, and the bonus is calculated separately.
This treatment is simply generous for students. I don't know if it's the local tyrant of that family, and I'm ready to do a big job.
In addition, they heard a lot of gossip. It is said that the reason why the school attaches so much importance to this school team selection is because I heard that this year's college league will be restructured and may be changed to the U25 Longhua Star Cup Super League. The entry requirements were changed to open to all citizens under the age of 25, which means that not only university students, but also military personnel and some social organizations can participate. This also means that the league will be more brutal and the competition will be more intense.