It was probably because the match between the first group of the semi-finals was so exciting, and from where they were seated, they could hear the audience excitedly discussing some of the highlights of the first group of the semi-finals.

The second group of competitors on the field was also under some pressure and influence because of the performance of the first group - especially Ye Kaicheng and Ling Junyong in the second group of the semi-finals, the two of them were drawn to the same group in the semi-finals of the 500m.

In the 1500m final the day before, the psychological shadow brought to them by Su Liang has not yet dissipated, and before the start of today's semi-finals, Su Liang was clearly not in the same group as them, but they still felt the urgent pressure brought by Su Liang.

Before the start of the game, both of them subconsciously glanced at the other opponents in the same group as themselves, paying attention vigilantly, and at the same time increasing the degree of vigilance in their hearts, reminding themselves to be careful of every opponent to avoid dark horses like Su Liang hiding among the opponents in the same group as them.

The second group of semi-finals was carried out under the condition that the competitors were vigilant and under pressure from each other, so that from the moment the race started, the smell of gunpowder between the competitors was particularly strong.

On the field, after the starting gun sounded, the six players started sprinting at full speed at the same time to compete for the leading position, but Ye Kaicheng and Ling Junyong did have a large strength gap between the two and the same opponents, and the two of them successfully completed the occupation of the lead skating position from the starting stage, and in the next four and a half laps, Ye Kaicheng led the skating in the first place, and Ling Junyong skated behind him and protected Ye Kaicheng.

Under enough tacit understanding and absolute vigilance against each opponent, there were no accidents in the cooperation between the two of them this time, and the other players in the second group of the semifinals failed to break the cooperation of Ye Ling and the two, and in the end, Ye Kaicheng and Ling Junyong successfully qualified for the finals in this group.

With the end of the second group of the semi-finals neatly, the third group of players in the semi-finals led by Mu Yuansheng also came to the ice.

Seeing that Mu Yuansheng appeared on the stage, Zhang Jianxin became a little nervous.

Before Mu Yuansheng entered the national team, he had been training with Jiang Yibo in the Beijing team, he was discovered by Jiang Yibo when he was about twelve or thirteen years old, and he was brought into the Beijing team single-handedly.

But after being nervous for a while, Zhang Jianxin sat down again.

He glanced back in the direction of Su Liang, and after confirming that Su Liang was closing his eyes and recuperating without being affected by the noisy environment in the rest area of the arena, he whispered to Pei Jing on the side with emotion: "Yuansheng's words, it's only the semi-finals, so you shouldn't worry too much about him." ”

Pei Jing, who was on the side, heard Zhang Jianxin's words, but nodded in agreement.

Just like what ice fans once felt, coaches who were familiar with Mu Yuansheng originally thought that if anyone could win the championship of the domestic adult tournament as a minor first, then this person must be Mu Yuansheng.

Last season, when Mu Yuansheng was only 16 years old, he reached the final of the 500-meter distance race in the national league, and won third place in the final.

At that time, the coaching staff, including the national team, felt that in the second year of the national league, Mu Yuansheng would definitely be the favorite candidate for the championship.

And this year, at the beginning of the year at the end of last season, Mu Yuansheng successfully swept the World Youth Championships at the age of 17 and won the glory of the World Youth Championships gold medal.

Just like now.

When Mu Yuansheng appeared on the stage, there was a lot of cheers and applause at the scene.

"Come on, Yuansheng!!"

"Mu Yuansheng! The first is your !! ”

Just from these cheers at the scene, it can be heard that there are many supporters of Mu Yuansheng in the ice fan group.

Su Liang, who was originally sitting with his eyes closed and recuperating, also opened his eyes when he heard the noise that suddenly became noisy at the scene - he heard it, this was the appearance of the players in the third group of the semi-finals, and his senior brother's game was about to start.

Pei Jing also applauded Mu Yuansheng's appearance lightly at this time, and when he turned around, he saw Su Liang open his eyes.

"Xiaoliang, isn't it too noisy? There's still a little time, why don't you put your headphones on and rest for a while? ”

Pei Jing is talking about the headphones that Su Liang wore when he appeared in the national team, the headphones are expensive at first glance, they also checked at the beginning, the headphones are a well-known brand abroad, and the headphones also have a noise reduction function, as for the price, needless to say, anyway, through these things on Su Liang's body, they all know that the conditions at his home should not be bad.

Su Liang shook his head and rejected Pei Jing's suggestion: "Coach, I'm fine, I'll also watch my senior brother's game." ”

In the previous preliminaries, Su Liang saw his senior brother's posture on the ice, and the absolute control of his own speed and strength on the ice made Su Liang happy at that time.

If he had enough physical strength and excellent condition, he thought, he would definitely want to go on the ice and compete with his senior brother.

Su Liang actually had some regrets, he and his senior brother Mu Yuansheng couldn't draw the same semi-final group in the semi-finals, at least he was in the semi-finals

's physical reserves are definitely stronger than he is at the moment.

If he met his senior brother in the semi-finals, then even if he didn't make it to the finals in the end, he thought he might not regret it if he could compete happily in the last game.

With such thoughts in his heart, Su Liang paid more attention to the semi-finals in front of him.

On the field in front of him, the 6 semi-finalists have all been in place in front of the starting line, Mu Yuansheng won the qualification of the innermost road with his excellent results in the preliminaries, and under the command of the starter's 'preparation', the six contestants quickly made the preparatory action of the ice start.

The next second, the starting pistol sounded, and the six contestants on the ice immediately started - the competition officially began!

On the field, Mu Yuansheng, who was usually always smiling, had already turned into a cold face even colder than Su Liang at this time, his eyes were focused on looking ahead, and the starting power brought by the ice under his feet was quickly converted into a forward momentum by him!

From ice to fast arm swing sprinting, Mu Yuansheng's eyes were always only in the direction of the innermost road ahead.

He won't give up the leading position of the inner lane to anyone present!

On the second lane on Mu Yuansheng's right side is also a player from the national team, but this player from the national team also failed to shake Mu Yuansheng's strong posture in the inner lane!

With his perfect technical connection and the starting advantage of being in the innermost lane, he successfully occupied the innermost lane for the first time, and with the same excellent technique of connecting from the straight to the corner, he firmly controlled the position of the innermost lane, so that the runners behind not only could not grab the inside lane on the straight, but also could not seize his inside advantage from the moment of entering the corner!

From the start to the sprint into the corner, Mu Yuansheng did not leave any possible opportunity for the opponent!

And at the end of the first corner, he had already thrown off the gap of two positions behind the second place - this is a familiar opening, Liu Yuheng in the first group of the semifinals also had the same advantage in the opening stage, but Liu Yuheng's advantage failed to maintain to the end, Mu Yuansheng was different.

Behind him, the opponent who was also from the national team saw that he could not seize the opportunity, so he occupied the second place with the sliding position, while following the sliding, he swung to the outside lane from time to time in the back of Mu Yuansheng's side to bring him urgent pressure to mark, wanting to see the opportunity to surpass when Mu Yuansheng made a mistake due to pressure.

But whether he was gliding closely behind Mu Yuansheng or staring at the inside road at every bend, he couldn't find a flaw from the front.

Mu Yuansheng, who was in the leading position, was like an emotionless robot, as if he couldn't feel the slightest pressure from behind him, and mistakes would never appear on his body.

The pressure is always two-way, and the opponent of the national team behind him failed to put pressure on Mu Yuansheng, and as the race got closer and closer to the last lap, the anxious mentality of wanting to overtake made him make some mistakes, and almost gave up the second position to the third player behind him when he came out of the corner.

The unexpected mistake forced the second-place finisher to rein in his mind and focus more on his skate to secure his second-place qualification.

And Mu Yuansheng, who threw the pressure back on the second opponent, he always maintained a calm like ice in the leading position, a pair of eyes looked sharply ahead from beginning to end, his every sliding step was accurately stepped on the arc of the ice line, and the sharp tip of the knife was the same as his line of sight, never changing his direction in the process of advancing.

When the last corner ended, Mu Yuansheng still maintained an absolute advantage and successfully crossed the finish line in front of him with a calm victory attitude.

It was an undoubted victory, but the audience still did not hesitate to applaud and cheer.

Some ice fans who watched last year's game couldn't help but sigh, compared with last year's reluctance to win in the semifinals, this year's semifinals, Mu Yuansheng has obviously improved again.

***

In the rest area, Zhang Jianxin and Pei Jing couldn't help but whisper hello after seeing Mu Yuansheng's performance, and Su Liang saw Mu Yuansheng's victory, a light appeared in his eyes, but he was quickly restrained by himself.

He wanted to have a good time with his brother, but he also knew that the opportunity was not now.

After the announcer at the scene read out the final results of the third group of the semifinals, Mu Yuansheng also withdrew and came to the rest area to take a break.

During the broadcast, the broadcaster also announced that there will be 10 minutes of ice pouring time in the future, and the women's 500m final will start first after the ice pouring, and then the final will belong to Su Liang.

Unlike Su Liang's limited rest time from the preliminaries to the semifinals, this time the person with limited rest time was replaced by Mu Yuansheng, who had just exited.

However, the difference between him and Su Liang is that in the 1500-meter race the day before, he only participated in the preliminaries, and his overall state remained relatively intact, although he only had a 15-minute break at this time, compared with Su Liang, Mu Yuansheng's state recovery was actually much faster.

After Mu Yuansheng came to the rest area, everyone present knew that what Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang needed was a quiet enough rest in a limited time, so Zhang Jianxin returned to the edge of the rest area after giving Mu Yuansheng a physical supplement drink, and no longer disturbed Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng's last 15 minutes of rest.

Not only them, but even the ice fans in the audience who were close to the rest area, after noticing that there were players resting in the rest area, they also spontaneously and consciously spoke quietly, trying not to disturb the rest of the players.

In such an atmosphere, the 10-minute ice pouring time passed in a flash, and the runners in the women's 500m final took the lead on the field.

After Zhang Jianxin and the others heard the cheers of the audience, they all carefully paid attention to Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng who were sitting in the rest area - the two brothers did not sit together, but the distance between the two was not far, and at this time, the two of them were still calmly closing their eyes in the cheers of anticipation of the finals, and they didn't even move their eyelids.

Seeing the two of them in such a calm and calm state, Zhang Jianxin silently turned around and gave Pei Jing a thumbs up - worthy of being a player training in the national team, their Beijing team felt that they were probably going to pick up two championships for nothing this time.

Pei Jing also nodded, and silently sighed in his heart - Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang are really worthy of being senior brothers.

You say, how could he Jiang Yibo be so lucky?

The first player the coach fancied in his career was Mu Yuansheng, but now he has a son who is also talented, and he directly won the 1500-meter championship in the first official event in his career.

This is really, people are more angry than people.

However, no matter how calm and calm Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng were in the face of the noise of the scene, their rest time was very limited, and when the starting gun of the women's team rang out, the staff on the scene had already gone to the rest area to inform the finalists that it was time to go to the waiting area to prepare.

When the staff called out their names, Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang, who were still quietly closing their eyes and recuperating, opened their eyes for the first time.

The two sat opposite each other in a short distance away, and when they opened their eyes, they saw each other for the first time.

When Su Liang opened his eyes and saw Mu Yuansheng, his senior brother opposite him had already nodded at him with a smile.

Come on.

Although his senior brother didn't speak, Su Liang read the meaning of these two words from it, and he also nodded in the direction of Mu Yuansheng.

Although the 500m final in front of him is already at an absolute disadvantage with his physical condition, he has no intention of giving up completely.

Strong have a strong style of play, and weak have a weak style of play.

Come on, he accepted the word - he will use his limited state to go all out!

After the two looked at each other, they each understood the meaning in each other's eyes, then nodded to each other, and got up together to go to the waiting area.

When Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng came to the waiting area, on the ice field, the women's 500-meter distance final had ended their competition, and Lin Ruoyao, who was from the national team and belonged to the Heilongjiang Provincial Team, won the women's 500-meter final.

When Lin Ruoyao, the final winner of the women's group, left the field with the joy of victory, the six competitors in the men's 500m final also staggered past the girls in the women's group and came to the ice field.

On the field at this moment, Su Liang, Mu Yuansheng, Ye Kaicheng, Ling Junyong, You Jian and Jiang Shaotong, the player in the third group of the semi-finals, have tightened the atmosphere with each other to the limit, among which Ye Kaicheng, Ling Junyong and Jiang Shaotong have the most solemn expressions - they and Mu Yuansheng are both from the national team, the 1500-meter distance the day before, the winner is already 15-year-old Su Liang, is it possible that today's 500 meters, the victory will still be taken away by Mu Yuansheng, who is only 17 years old this year?

As players on the national team, the dignity in the hearts of Ye Kaicheng and others does not allow them to easily admit defeat in this game.

Among the six people, the results of the semi-finals are still used as the benchmark for the arrangement of the lanes, and Mu Yuansheng, who ranked first in the overall ranking in the semi-finals, once again got the innermost lane, and Jiang Shaotong and Su Liang, who were in the same group as Mu Yuansheng, were in the fifth and sixth lanes respectively.

Next to the field, in front of the coach's command, Zhang Jianxin and Pei Jing were already standing nervously aside, and the coaches from the Hebei Provincial Team and the Black Provincial Team were also standing next to the arena, waiting silently for the final winner to be decided like everyone on the scene.

This final matchup, only 500 meters, 111.12 meters of track and 4.5 laps of the distance, is clearly only a total of forty or fifty seconds of competition, but no one will want to ignore it at this moment.

Su Liang stood quietly in the waiting area, squinting his eyes slightly, and what welled up in his heart was the urge to sprint with all his strength and the regret of his lack of physical fitness.

On his left-hand side, Jiang Shaotong's eyes were obviously looking in the direction of Mu Yuansheng's side, he was still haunted by the defeat in the semi-finals, and Su Liang could confirm at a glance that Jiang Shaotong was ready to try to seize the inside lane at full speed at the start to compete for the lead in the skate.

Ye Kaicheng and Ling Junyong were on the second and fourth lanes respectively at this time, the two of them were full of tacit understanding, and the gap between the paths was not far, and it was very likely that they would try to cooperate with Mu Yuansheng to attack Mu Yuansheng again after the start.

Among these opponents, only You Jian didn't seem to intend to fight too fiercely at the start.

Because he was in the outermost path that no one cared about, Su Liang was able to observe enough information while waiting for the orderer's instructions.

In the current arena, including him, the target of every player is his senior brother Mu Yuansheng - even if Mu Yuansheng is only a 17-year-old teenager this year, his strength has made adult players feel a deep threat.

Su Liang also glanced in Mu Yuansheng's direction.

At this moment, on the 500-meter distance track, he and his senior brother are still the gap between the innermost and outermost lanes.

I really want to catch up quickly.

Thinking of this, Su Liang silently took a deep breath and readjusted his state.

At the same time, the starter on the scene finally issued the first command of the final - "Everyone is in position." ”

All six runners skated to the starting line at the same time, standing vertically with their arms in place, quietly waiting for the next command.

Soon, the sound of 'preparation' sounded on the scene, and the entire audience in the arena, the ice fans were all holding their breath at this moment, for fear that any noise of their own would affect the listening of the players on the spot.

On the ice, the attention of the six players also peaked at this moment.

And then - "Bang! ”