Arseny was one of the only remaining players in the Russian squad when he took on the sixth group of the quarter-finals in the morning, and in order to make the most of his strength in the short distance, his excellent future, he decisively used the ringing tactics in the quarter-finals.

From the very beginning of the race, it was sprinting at full speed.

The players in Arseni's group were inexperienced in dealing with ring rings and were not sure that they would be able to maintain their advantage until the end of the game after chasing Arseni in the future.

With this boldness, he managed to use this lap tactic to earn himself a qualification, even though Arseni was clearly reluctant to skate in the final three laps.

"This is a very decisive player."

Su Liang looked in the direction of Arseni, he was not worried about Arseni's performance in the semi-finals, he was more worried about tomorrow's 500m distance event.

If he is confident that he will impact the medal in the 1500m event, then from the strength of some 500m distance players he has observed in today's competition, Su Liang can already foresee that tomorrow's 500m battle will not be an easy challenge for him.

While Su Liang observed the opponent on the field, these players present were also observing Su Liang.

From the two matches in the morning, these players have really realized Su Liang's strength.

Even in the eyes of many of them, Su Liang's strength is at least above that of South Korea's player named Kang Yeon-ha - as for whether Su Liang's strength can completely overturn the other two players in South Korea, it's not easy to say.

Of course, while agreeing with Su Liang's strength, this is another concept for whether Su Liang can win a medal in the 1500-meter distance of the World Youth Championships.

Just as the Chinese team knows the South Korean athletes, the teams of the other national teams also have a thorough understanding of South Korea, and the combination of the South Korean team's 'teamwork' and their excellent long-distance ability is the reason why South Korea has always dominated the World Junior Championships medal in the 1500m.

Even if Su Liang can win against these South Korean players alone, will he be able to have a team to fight with him?

While thinking like this, many players present turned their attention to Sun Ruixiang and Wu Gang, wanting to see if the other two Huaguo players had the ability to break through and advance to the finals.

Just when everyone was testing each other with inquiring eyes, the on-site staff and notaries were all in place, and after checking the computer program, the notary told the staff that they could start the group lottery.

The semi-finals were selected in exactly the same way as the quarter-finals, with the players sitting quietly in the seating area and watching the staff draw the list of players in each group.

When the first group's lottery list was unveiled, Su Liang silently glanced at the grouping of the list and found that he was once again drawn to the first group.

He was joined by South Korea's Kang Yeon-ha, Canada's Emmanuel, Japan's Hongo Suzuki, as well as the United States' Jalen Slade and Belgium's Emeric de la Max.

The South Korean players were located in front of Su Liang's side, and Su Liang noticed that when Kang Yeon-ha was selected for the first group, he had a stiff look on his face and looked very resistant to becoming one of the members of the first group.

And after having to accept his grouping situation, Su Liang saw that Jiang Yanhe swept him with a vicious gaze very vaguely.

Sensing Jiang Yanhe's vicious gaze, Su Liang's brows furrowed slightly.

This is not the normal behavior of a player after knowing his opponent.

And Wu Gang, who was sitting next to Su Liang, obviously also noticed the vicious gaze from Jiang Yanhe, his three white eyes silently swept in the direction of Jiang Yanhe, and then suddenly said to Su Liang inexplicably: "Don't let me not see you before the final." ”

Su Liang pondered for a second and understood what Wu Gang meant—the steel-toothed little white rabbit was warning him.

As for what the warning will be, it is already obvious.

That South Korean Kang Yeon-ha, in the semi-finals, should use some dirty means against him.

Yes, during the noon break, South Korea's head coach Lee Yong-ha had already warned Kim Hyun-deok, Kang Yeon-ha and Choi Chang-hee in their lounge - "In the semi-finals in the afternoon, no matter what method you use, I don't want to see Su Liang of the Huaguo team appear in the 1500-meter final again!" ”

When saying this, Li Yonghe especially emphasized the phrase 'no matter what method is used'.

The implication of this is already very obvious.

It's not like this hasn't happened before for South Koreans – when they come up with an opponent they think could threaten South Korea's medal or promotion, they'd rather sacrifice one of their own players, even if it's a limit for one, to nip the 'danger' before it happens.

And obviously, in the eyes of the South Korean team, Su Liang is the player who may let them encounter 'danger'.

Even though Su Liang did not face South Korean players in the preliminaries and quarterfinals at this World Youth Championships, Li Yonghe observed Su Liang's performance from the preliminaries to the quarterfinals.

This player's performance is so stable, stable and calm, so stable that Lee Yong-ha is sure that he will be able to maintain such a state, overcome obstacles all the way in the game, and advance to the final has become the biggest obstacle for the South Korean team to win the medal or even win the championship!

That being the case, what he has to do is, of course, to prevent this from happening.

That's why he gave such instructions to the three players under him during the noon break, when he hadn't yet determined who would be matched with Su Liang in the same group.

Of course, in Li Yonghe's eyes, the best situation is to let Jiang Yanhe be matched to compete in the same group as Su Liang - anyway, Jiang Yanhe is already a waste to him, let this waste play the last bit of use, and drag Su Liang off the horse when he is in the same group as Su Liang, this is Jiang Yanhe's biggest role.

And now, Li Yonghe's expectation has obviously been fully achieved.

The only one who is resentful in his heart is Jiang Yanhe, who is full of unwillingness.

- Why did he become an outcast?

***

After Su Liang and the three of them drew lots to determine the group list, the three returned to the rest room of the Huaguo team.

In the lounge, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng had also gotten the group list from the staff.

When Su Liang and the others first came back, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng felt that Su Liang's grouping was not bad, and it was obvious that he selected the weakest player in South Korea, and he might not be able to pose any threat to Su Liang.

But Su Liang didn't hide what he saw, and directly said the resentment he saw in Jiang Yanhe's eyes.

Although Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng already knew that South Korean players were not good goods, they were still used to thinking in a good direction, and before Su Liang said this possibility, they really didn't think that South Korea would use such a vicious plan.

While Pei Jing and the others were stunned, Wu Gang on the side also gave his corroboration.

"I also saw Jiang Yanhe's eyes."

Speaking of this, Wu Gang added silently: "In my morning match with him, he was once unusually close to me in the sliding stage. ”

Hearing the unusual closeness in Wu Gang's words, Pei Jing and the two were stunned for a moment, and then Pei Jing thought of a certain picture and said, "Is it before you put it in the outer way?" ”

Wu Gang stiffened his stinky face and nodded.

Hearing Wu Gang's corroboration, Pei Jing and the two took a deep breath - since this Jiang Yanhe has this criminal record of intending to foul, then he can't take a chance at all about what he might do in the afternoon semifinals.

But now, after knowing that Wu Gang might deliberately foul Su Liang in the semifinals, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng's faces sank, and they didn't know how to deal with this matter for a while.

It is useless to report to the organizers, after all, they don't have any evidence, and so far, some of them are just analysis and judgment made from Jiang Yanhe's resentful gaze.

But if Su Liang is allowed to participate like this......

At the beginning, Somfy was injured on the ice, and he became the current state of the glass man, and the player who fouled him was from South Korea.

It was even a completely unknown South Korean player who traded his foul for a serious injury to Shang Fei and a major impact on his career.

As soon as they thought of this, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng's faces became a little worse.

"Or ...... In the semi-finals in the afternoon, let Xiaoliang retire? ”

When Zhang Dongcheng said this proposal, his face was also obviously unwilling, but let them exchange the future of a player of Su Liang's level for a victory in the World Youth Championships, they didn't dare to gamble, and they didn't want Su Liang to face such a danger.

But without waiting for Pei Jing to say anything, Su Liang took the lead and stood up first, and said decisively and calmly: "I refuse." ”

Hearing Su Liang's refusal, Zhang Dongcheng shook his head: "Xiao Liang, you don't know the methods of those South Korean players, you need to concentrate on the game on the ice, and the opponent only needs to shoot at a moment when you can't be distracted, and you may be seriously injured as a result." ”

"Xiao Liang, the dirty ice surface may kill you."

"Moreover, if it is just an ordinary foul, with your strength, there is a high chance that you will be awarded to the final, which is definitely not the result that the South Korean team wants to see, so if they foul, it must be a serious foul on the premise of making you injured......"

Even Zhang Dongcheng is indeed very unwilling in his heart, but he really does not like to gamble with the player's name.

But Su Liang still asked in a calm and restrained tone: "Team leader, coach, I know that you are thinking about me, but have you ever thought that if you don't face South Korea's provocation, they will continue to be so arrogant, and the consequences and effects of this arrogance will be difficult to eliminate." ”

"If every time China has a great player, South Korea just plays against our player – do we have to retire every time?"

"I can withdraw from the World Youth Championships this time, and in the future World Championships and Winter Olympics, when I encounter such a situation, should I also choose to retire?"

"No matter how dirty the South Korean players and methods are, I will not allow them to defile this clean ice surface – and I will not allow their machinations to succeed!"

Su Liang's face was always calm, and even his voice did not deliberately raise his tone, but in the entire lounge, there was still a long silence because of Su Liang's words.

Every word Su Liang said smashed into the hearts of everyone present.

He looked at Zhang Dongcheng and Pei Jingdao with complicated faces, and said word by word: "Coach, I can't retreat, Huaguo team, can't retreat." ”

This short sentence, twelve words, smashed Pei Jing, Zhang Dongcheng and everyone present with a buzzing brain.

The young man in front of them was clearly less than 16 years old, but his courage and his unyielding determination were deeply engraved in the hearts of everyone present.

Sun Ruixiang hadn't noticed the South Korean player's expression from the beginning, so from the moment he returned to the lounge, Su Liang said this, he was stunned.

As the most simple-minded of the three contestants, he didn't even think that the little stick would use such a bad conspiracy.

After listening to the words of Su Liang, Pei Jing, and Zhang Dongcheng, his whole person was obviously panicked.

"Boss, otherwise you'd better quit! Those little sticks aren't human anymore! ”

Su Liang shook his head and calmly comforted: "I'm fine, you play well by yourself." ”

"Don't worry, it might be dangerous if you are completely defenseless at first, but since we are aware of his scheme, then that Jiang Yanhe may not be able to successfully foul me."

Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng saw the determined look in Su Liang's eyes, and knew that there was no need to say anything to him at this time, and Su Liang was ready to compete.

So Pei Jing could only grit his teeth, and then instructed the staff and team doctor of the Huaguo team to be ready at all times later-once any situation arises, it is necessary to rescue Su Liang as soon as possible.

If it weren't for the situation, he would even want to apply for medical assistance from the organizers in advance, but at present, he can only reluctantly prepare for the worst.

Su Liang didn't stop Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng from being busy, he knew that only if these preparations were as complete as possible, his coach and team leader would be able to reluctantly let him play.

So Su Liang didn't stop the two of them, but sat on a chair in the lounge by himself, quietly leaning against the wall and closing his eyes to recuperate - before the official start of the afternoon game, he needed enough rest to get his spirit back to a better state, so as to deal with everything that might happen in the later game.

***

At the same time, in the lounge of the South Korean team, Kang Yeon-ha was also sitting and resting with a gloomy face.

Just now, his coach Lee Yong-ha has once again warned him to play the last bit of his 'waste' role in the semi-finals.

Su Liang, Su Liang......

The name kept swirling in his mind, and in Jiang Yanhe's mind, it turned into a panicked human form that flew out on the ice.

As long as he completes the task!

As long as he succeeds in making it impossible for Su Liang to advance to the finals, then he will be one of the heroes of the South Korean team, and he does not have to worry about being reprimanded and ridiculed by his teammates when he returns to South Korea.

He can, he can do it!

Under the constant self-brainwashing and Li Yonghe's high-pressure instructions, Jiang Yanhe's mentality and expression have been completely distorted, and he even misinterpreted what he had to do in the afternoon game as his personal self-sacrifice and lofty glory.

He was constantly planning in his mind how he should obstruct Su Liang - if the obstruction was unsuccessful, then don't blame him for being ruthless......!

Who called you, always in my way? It wasn't easy for me to become a regular player for the South Korean youth team!

***

Soon, the time was 2:30 p.m. in Budapest.

It's already 8:30 p.m. in China, which happens to be the time when most people have already left work and finished dinner.

The live broadcast of the 1500m semi-finals of the World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships on the domestic sports channel also started at this time, and many ice fans who could only watch the preliminaries and quarterfinals online text discussion version finally had time to sit in front of the TV and start watching the live broadcast of the evening competition.