In early spring, the average temperature in Dubai is around 17~28 degrees, and the climate is pleasant.

At this time, the sun is setting, the fiery clouds are dyeing half of the sky red, the evening breeze is blowing slowly from the direction of the Persian Gulf, which is very pleasant, and on both sides of the pedestrian plank road in front of the Burj Al Arab, many tourists hold cameras and mobile phones, recording all this beautiful everything.

In front of the fountain in front of the Burj Al Arab, Qiu Qicheng, Wu Yi, Lei Qingfu and others all came over.

After knowing that the person in front of him was Jiang Sheng, they were all stunned and couldn't believe it.

After all, the current Jiang Sheng looks like he is twenty-one or twelve years old at most, and even after blindfolding his mature and deep eyes, just looking at the skin with fine skin and tender flesh, even if he says that he is eighteen years old, no one will doubt it.

Normal people will feel incredible when they see it.

What's more, Qiu Qicheng, Wu Yi and Jiang Sheng are college classmates, and when they meet again after more than ten years, they all have the swords and axes of the years left on their faces, but only Jiang Sheng is still in the appearance of that green years, even more handsome than back then, how can they not be shocked?

", Jiang Sheng, have you had plastic surgery?"

"You're growing backwards, the more you live, the younger you get!"

"Wow, your skin looks so tender."

"Let Me Touch ......"

A few male compatriots were a little reserved, and Feng Zixin and a few other female comrades were not just happy to look at it, and they actually touched it.

Two of the women are the wives of Qiu Qicheng and Lei Qingfu, and Jiang Sheng are not classmates, but they are quite familiar with Feng Zixin's introduction.

After feeling Jiang Sheng's incredibly tight skin, he couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

For those who have had beauty injections or done Korean-style semi-permanent, in fact, you can see at a glance that the radiance and firmness of the skin are completely different from the real natural collagen, and the feel is very different.

And Jiang Sheng's skin looks and touches, there is no trace of plastic surgery, the key is that the whole person exudes a youthful atmosphere.

Jiang Sheng didn't hide it, he honestly said that he practiced internal kung fu, so he became like this, and it didn't matter if they believed it or not.

Everyone naturally doesn't believe it, but they are all adults, and they know what it means to stop in moderation, and some people don't want to say that they naturally won't go to the bottom of it.

Then they talked about why they were here.

Hearing Jiang Sheng say that he was invited to participate in the 2024 Dubai International Marathon, everyone was shocked and unbelievable again.

The people who are invited to participate in the international marathon are all the top runners from all over the world, and their talent and years of training can make their mark.

And Jiang Sheng is just an ordinary person, but he can be invited to participate in the competition, it is really strange.

"When did you become a professional long-distance runner?"

"Hey, hey, hey......" Looking at the shocked appearance of a group of old classmates, Jiang Sheng bared his teeth and grinned very happily, "Let's talk about this later." Why did you come to Dubai together? And now that the students have started school, don't you have to go to work and take care of the baby? ”

Qiu Qicheng said with a smile: "We made an appointment to travel to the Middle East three years ago, but all kinds of things were delayed in the middle, and it was delayed until this year's New Year. ”

"Oh oh, that's ......"

Jiang Sheng nodded.

In fact, it can be seen from the dress and temperament of several people that their living environment is much better than his previous one.

"Then why did you run away in fear when you saw me just now? Although there is a matter of pitting compatriots, it is not like avoiding snakes and scorpions, right? ”

"Whew! It is said that many wire fraud personnel have come to Dubai, and many friends and colleagues have told us not to talk to people with Asian faces in Dubai, saying that nine times out of ten they are liars. ”

"Huh? That's it. ”

Jiang Sheng hasn't watched these lace news for a long time.

Wu Yi said: "I was reading news reports on the Internet that Dubai is replacing northern Myanmar as the new hub of telefraud, and the four famous telefraud parks are Phoenix Park, Wynn Park, DIP Park and Oasis Park. ”

"Previously, the DIP park was hacked, the internal daily work was exposed, and the salary slips were also clear, but it was suppressed by the news in northern Myanmar and did not get a lot of exposure."

After a pause, Wu Yi said: "But we just came to travel normally, and look at the exotic scenery here, in fact, there is no problem." After all, 99% of the fraudsters are actually voluntary, and there are very few people who are really completely unaware of being deceived. ”

Jiang Sheng smiled: "Okay, don't stand at the gate and chat, it's rare to meet, I'll invite you to dinner, talk while eating." ”

Under normal circumstances, non-guests and restaurant diners are not allowed to enter the Burj Al Arab, but Jiang Sheng is more special, because he was invited to participate in the marathon, and the room he lived in was a high-level VIP suite, and he was eligible to invite friends over for dinner, and there was also a free order.

Seeing that Jiang Sheng brought them into the hotel with just a few words, Wu Yi, Qiu Qicheng and others finally believed that Jiang Sheng was indeed an athlete who was invited to participate in the marathon.

Everyone followed Jiang Sheng to the Michelin-starred restaurant Al Muntaha, which means "peak" in Abera, on the top floor of the Burj Al Arab Hotel.

"Wow~~~ It's so beautiful!"

All three women were amazed.

In addition, five men, including Jiang Sheng and Jiang Yuanzhou, who also came for the first time, were also shocked by the scenery here.

Window wrap-around seating overlooks the Burj Al Arab's huge freshwater swimming pool, while the entire island of Dubai, the sparkling Persian Gulf Strait and The Palm at sunset are simply stunning.

Lei Qingfu scolded and sneered: "Damn, if Jiang Sheng hadn't brought me in, my legs and stomach would have trembled now." ”

Wu Yi laughed quietly and said: "If you don't have the money to come to this kind of place, you must have no confidence!" ”

Jiang Yuanzhou also said with a smile: "Now the price is quite close to the people, at the peak of the year, the location here needs to be booked a month in advance, and the per capita consumption is at least tens of thousands of RMB." ”

"Hahaha, come early and enjoy it early, come late and enjoy the discount......"

While several men were chatting about how much a meal here cost at their peak, three women next to them were taking pictures with their mobile phones.

This kind of rare moment of pretending to be forced, if you don't take a photo to commemorate it, this trip will be in vain.

When I took the photo and sent it to Moments, I also attached the address: Burj Al Arab Dubai.

Several women had happy smiles on their faces.

At the same time, Jiang Sheng ordered a package of 1,200 dirhams (2,400RMB) per person, which was 9,600 dirhams for 8 people, and the total amount of free orders for his three-day trip was only 10,000 dirhams.

In other words, he ate up all the food expenses he had paid for in the three days of the Burj Al Arab in one meal.

Of course, he didn't care, anyway, this was the last meal he ate in the public restaurant before the game, and until the end of the game, he wouldn't eat anything except the food provided by Jiang Yuanzhou, including drinking water.

Dressed in a white shirt and black vest, the sommelier came over and poured each of them a glass of pre-dinner white wine.

Then the waiter brings a small snack before the meal.

There are both sweet and savory flavors.

It's just that the small snack is really small, and it's not enough for Jiang Sheng to stuff his teeth.

Soon the main meal was served, with pan-seared scallops, anchovy foam and fresh white truffles, cheese salad, smoked salmon, tortellini, wild sea bass steak and Australian Angus steak and more.

"Wow~~~~ The legendary white truffle! I heard that this thing is very expensive, let me try it...... Well, it's delicious. ”

"Hey, there's razor clams and nuts underneath this cheese salad, what kind of magical pairing is this?"

Several women shouted when they ate, and Jiang Sheng also sent a video to his wife.

"Although you can't eat it wife, it's kind of participating in watching me eat it......"

……

During the chat, Qiu Qicheng and the others learned that Jiang Sheng was actually the champion of the Zhonghai International Marathon in early January this year, and he also broke the Asian record.

Everyone was amazed.

"Wow~ This is too powerful, right?"

"I want to practice long-distance running, if I can win an award, wouldn't I be able to gain fame and fortune like Jiang Sheng?"

"Rich man, don't dream, do you think those black players eat dry food? Jiang Sheng's award is by no means due to luck! ”

"That's right! In addition to the years of perseverance in long-distance running, it is talent that really determines whether you can become the world's top runner. ”

After eating a sumptuous French dinner, everyone left the peak restaurant and followed Jiang Sheng downstairs to visit his luxurious VIP suite.

Of course, it wasn't Jiang Sheng who took the initiative to invite, it was Feng Zixin who had to go over and open his eyes.

Jiang Sheng and Feng Zixin were considered opposite-sex hardcores in college back then, and then one day Feng Zixin confessed to him in a joking tone, and then he rejected him in a joking tone, and then there was no more.

In fact, he is not a fool, he can feel what Feng Zixin means to him, but who made her grow too safe, so that he can't mention sexual interest at all, so he can only get along as brothers.

But as long as she has a little bit of beauty, they may have several babies now.

Enter the hotel room.

The decoration inside is as always luxurious Middle Eastern tycoon, all kinds of glittering, full of decoration materials, but after all, the hotel has been open for more than 20 years, and the style of the facilities inside obviously feels backward, and there is nothing amazing.

But the biggest feature here is the view from the window, and the room is still duplex, with an area of more than 200 square meters, which is very exaggerated.

So it's a feast for everyone's eyes.

Lei Qingfu said with emotion: "The scenery is really good, no wonder it cost 100,000 RMB for one night back then!" It's a pity that the facilities are outdated, and I found out that there are not many guests here along the way, and I estimate that the Burj Al Arab is now operating at a loss. ”

Wu Yi smiled: "I don't think so. With the horror of the Burj Al Arab back then, it should have earned back the money a long time ago, but now it is just a return to the normal price, so it is not enough to talk about the loss, it can only be said that the profit is not so much. ”

Qiu Qicheng, who was standing by the window and looking at the brightly lit Dubai Island, was also full of emotion: "The local tyrants in this world are really crazy, they can spend 100,000 yuan to live here for a night ten or twenty years ago, what kind of concept is this?" ”

Jiang Sheng also looked at the scenery outside and said with a smile: "The 100,000 yuan in our eyes may be equivalent to a few steel hammers in the eyes of those rich people." ”

"If only I were so rich......"

……

Many people were staring at Jiang Sheng, the Asian record holder of the marathon, and when they learned that the doping testing center of the Dubai Marathon Organizing Committee had conducted a urine test on him as soon as possible, they were all anxiously waiting for the test results.

Generally, the routine urine test for doping only takes a few minutes to get the result, but the Dubai Marathon Organizing Committee's testing is very strict, and there are dozens of reagents that need to be tested one by one.

The duration is up to three hours.

At half past seven in the evening, the results finally came out.

"What, no problem?"

Zheng Shaoguang, a member of the AFC Committee from Singapore, received the report from the doping testing center as soon as possible, and his face was incredulous.

"Impossible! Are your reagents up-to-date? I heard that America researched a new stimulant last month, which cannot be detected by conventional reagents on the market. ”

"Member Zheng is assured that our reagents are all the most advanced in the world, and it is true that no stimulant components have been detected in his urine."

"That'...... Is it possible that he changed his urine? ”

"This one is even more unlikely, we have the whole video."

“……”

Zheng Shao was so angry that he contacted all the reporters, just waiting for the doping testing center to announce that Jiang Sheng had tested positive, and then he could hype it up.

I never expected it!

And just when Zheng Shaoguang was angry, all the teams behind the platinum label players who participated in the competition received the news one after another, such as Pang Taihua, general manager of Guardian Sports Events.

Although it had been expected that Jiang Sheng most likely did not use stimulants, when the test results came out, he was also very difficult to accept.

This also means that Jiang Sheng has basically locked up the championship of Dubai Marcella.

Not only does the $200,000 championship prize and the $300,000 record-breaking prize money have nothing to do with them, but the advertising endorsements of subsequent athletes will also be greatly affected.

After all, advertisers value the influence of the marathon champion, not the skin, and if you don't get the champion, you will ignore you.

Pang Taihua immediately took out the phone and dialed out.

……

On the morning of February 29, all the participating athletes went to the Adidas store in Dubai Mall to pick up the race kits, and at the same time familiarized themselves with the venue, and the basic process was similar to that of China Shipping.

When you open the entry bag, you will find a T-shirt, bib number, pins, gels, candies, chocolates and other small items, as well as a detailed shopping and tourist map of Dubai, and three additional tickets to Dubai Tower.

Although Jiang Sheng already knew the map of the scene, in order to ensure that nothing was lost, he still went to the scene for a walk.

Lunch was specially prepared by Jiang Yuanzhou, and after lunch, Jiang Sheng and Jiang Yuanzhou went to the world's tallest building "Dubai Tower" together.

Feng Zixin and Qiu Qicheng were about to go to Palm Island, but when they heard that Jiang Sheng and they had gone to Dubai, they also rushed over to visit.

Jiang Sheng gave them an extra ticket, and the ticket they bought was returned.

Then I went to Dubai Tower together, and then went to Dubai Park on the water, and Yin Lang's Internet celebrity town to visit.

During this period, Jiang Sheng didn't eat anything, and he didn't drink a bottle of water.

The official competition will be tomorrow, and at this juncture, it will be troublesome if the test value is not up to the test due to indiscriminate eating.

(End of chapter)