Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 626 The First Day of the Sports Meet, Over
Not only were the referees surprised, but the students from Shilan Middle School who were watching also showed considerable surprise when they heard Erii say she wanted to challenge the 3.51-meter height.

Besides those watching Erii, some members of the track and field club were also gathered around the field to watch their vice president compete. Lu Mingfei didn't know what 3.50 meters meant, but they did! The passing score for a first-class pole vaulter was 3.50 meters.

Could it be that this slender, pretty girl is also a sports specialist, and has even reached the level of a first-class pole vaulter? But she doesn't look like it at all; who studies track and field with such fair skin…

"I'll ask you one more time, are you sure you want to declare a height of 3.51 meters, and not 2.51 meters?" the referee asked.

Erii typed back: "Yes."

In the stands next to the pole vault, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but rub his forehead when he heard what the referee said.

How foolish of him! He only told Erii to refer to other students' grades, but he completely forgot to tell her to refer to the lower grades, and definitely not the higher ones.

Erii's athletic ability is beyond question. The physical abilities of ordinary people and hybrids are worlds apart, and Erii's bloodline is among the best of the hybrids. Her Super S-rank bloodline already requires her to inject serum to maintain normal bodily functions.

At a height of 3.51 meters, Erii can easily jump over the bar without even needing to catch it.

Lu Mingfei was wondering if Erii's announcement of challenging the school sports meet record height right from the start was a bit too flamboyant.
And being exactly 1cm taller than the previous student... it sounds a bit like a provocation.

Well, now that things have come to this, it seems like being a little flamboyant doesn't matter anymore.

Although Lu Mingfei kept saying he just wanted a simple, ordinary campus life, he didn't seem to have done anything particularly shady. If he truly wanted a peaceful campus life, he wouldn't have deliberately flaunted his relationship with Xiao Tiannv in front of everyone. Perhaps he did have a tiny bit of a desire to show off, which is understandable.

Anyway, he's already as prominent as Chu Zihang at school, so it doesn't really matter if Erii creates another big scandal. After this semester ends, he'll transfer to the preparatory class, and then Shilan Middle School will no longer have Lu Shenhua, only his legend.

Of course, he didn't know that even if he told Erii to refer to other students' grades downwards, Erii would still seem to be asking for a height increase by one centimeter when she applied for the challenge.

A girl addicted to online games...she never holds back in any game!

Staff set the bar at a height of 3.51 meters on the high jump stand. The referee took his position in the landing area.

Erii stood in the running zone, looking ahead, recalling the pole vaulting movements she had seen others perform.

Although she had never played a game like pole vaulting before. After all, it's a niche sport in track and field, so unpopular that it wasn't even included in Nintendo's Wii Sports simulation games.

However, she had already seen other people's jumping movements, which were not difficult, and Erii was very confident that she could perfectly replicate the same movements.

“Sakura said I can’t jump too high… so I have to control the height of my jumps.” Erii pursed her lips and thought to herself.

A whistle signaling the start suddenly rang in my ears.

Erii gripped the bar tightly, took a running start, jumped, and cleared the bar, landing lightly on the mat like a butterfly—a perfect, fluid movement.

To make it seem like she barely cleared the height, she deliberately controlled the force of her jump, making sure the hem of her track and field uniform barely grazed the edge of the bar as she leaped over it.

Erii landed on the mat and immediately turned around, looking towards where Lu Mingfei was. She smiled and gave him a two-finger peace sign, indicating that she had succeeded. Lu Mingfei also smiled and waved back at Erii.

The referee and onlookers looked surprised.

They actually succeeded in the challenge... They thought the girl was just saying it casually, just for fun.

Thinking about it this way, they hated it even more... Damn it, it's one thing that all the girls around Lu Mingfei are beautiful, but how come they are all so capable?

Liu Miaomiao, the school's piano prodigy, has already passed her performance-level exam... Chen Wenwen, the literary girl, is rumored to be serializing a web novel on a certain website, and she's quite popular... Su Xiaoqiang, the little angel, has the power of money... Xia Mi is the vice-captain of the cheerleading team and also the vice-leader of the dance troupe...

Now we have a sporty transfer student? That completes the style list, huh? Why don't you add a few more tall, mature women, blonde lolis, sexy secretaries, and bespectacled otaku girls?
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The pole vault consists of three rounds, and the best score among the three rounds is taken as the highest score.

In the first round, Erii's height of 3.51 meters temporarily puts her in first place, followed closely by Li Xiaoxi, the vice president of the track and field club, with a height of 3.50 meters.

Although Li Xiaoxi was surprised that Erii could actually jump over a height of 3.51 meters, she had initially thought that Erii's declaration of a height of 3.51 meters was a provocation.

After all, when she was peeking at Lu Mingfei just now, Erii, who was standing next to Lu Mingfei, also turned around and glanced at her, and noticed her peeking... Moreover, Erii's fair skin and slender arms and legs really didn't look like a track and field student.

It seems that I am overthinking it.

Li Xiaoxi took a deep breath and prepared for her second round of pole vaulting.

Erii's jump of 3.51 meters is certainly not to be underestimated. However, judging from her jumping posture, she judged that 3.51 meters was probably Erii's limit.

When Erii jumped over the bar, the hem of her tracksuit was almost touching it. If she had been just a millimeter or two lower, the bar would probably have been pulled down by her clothes.

Her jump of 3.50 meters in the first round was just the school sports meet record she set last year, far from her best performance, and even lower than her average performance in training.

She is confident that she will completely outpace Erii in the second round of pole vaulting.

With that in mind, she declared her second challenge height to the referee.

……

"3.75 meters?"

The onlookers were even more shocked when they saw the staff place the horizontal bar at a height of 3.75 meters on the high jump stand. It was even higher than Erii's previous statement that she would challenge 3.51 meters.

Last year, Li Xiaoxi could only jump 3.50 meters, but today she can already challenge that height? Her performance improved by 25 centimeters in just one year? At this rate, it seems quite possible that she'll become a national-level athlete before graduating high school…

The qualifying score for a first-class athlete is 3.50 meters, while to advance further and obtain the title of National Master Athlete, a score of 4.00 meters is required in public competitions. Li Xiaoxi's current target of 3.75 meters is not far from 4.00 meters.

Li Xiaoxi didn't know if she could succeed in her challenge. Her usual training results were mostly around 3.71 meters or 3.72 meters, and she could only jump 3.75 meters when she was in excellent physical condition.

For some reason, after glancing at Lu Mingfei on the sidelines, she impulsively declared 3.75 meters to the referee.

In front of the running area, Li Xiaoxi gripped the pole, took a deep breath, and adjusted her body and posture. She was in good physical condition today, the weather was great, there was no wind, and there was also…

She can definitely do the 3.75-meter challenge!

The instant the whistle blew, she had a thought and took off with all her might. A swift and fluid run-up, pole vaulting, takeoff, and flight—the movements were like flowing water—before landing steadily on the soft mat in the landing area.

The crossbar wasn't knocked down!
Before Li Xiaoxi could even bask in the joy of her successful challenge, she heard the referee beside her shout, "You want to challenge 3.76 meters? Are you serious?"

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but want to facepalm. He should have told Erii to announce a higher height from the start. Always being 1cm taller than others... to others, isn't that just pure provocation?

Erii nodded seriously, feeling a little puzzled. The previous student had jumped 3.75 meters, and the teacher hadn't said anything. Why was the teacher so surprised that she had only jumped 1 centimeter higher?

……

With Erii winning first place in the pole vault with a height of 3.81 meters, the first day of the Shilan Middle School Sports Meet came to a close for Lu Mingfei and his classmates.

Although Li Xiaoxi was blessed with a certain buff on her third jump and successfully challenged a height of 3.80 meters, which she had never reached in her usual training, Erii ultimately won the top spot with a score of 3.81 meters, just 1 centimeter behind, breaking the highest record for the pole vault at Shilan High School.

Clearly, this underworld princess, lacking social experience, needs to learn more about interpersonal relationships and social dynamics.

Although she didn't win first place in the pole vault event, Li Xiaoxi wasn't in a bad mood.

After all, sports competitions are always about accepting the consequences of your bets. Although you only got second place, you broke your own limits and set a new personal best, which is a good thing.

Moreover, she also realized that 3.81 meters was clearly not Erii's limit. Because no matter how high she declared, Erii would always declare a height that was 1 centimeter higher than hers, and every time she jumped over, the hem of her dress would almost brush past the bar.

This not only demonstrates her complete ease with the 3.81-meter height, but also showcases her terrifying strength control. After all, compared to getting a perfect score, consistently scoring just one point above the passing mark on every test is truly terrifying…

What's more, after taking a group photo on the podium, she mustered up her courage and casually invited Chen Wenwen and Lu Mingfei to watch her provincial youth track and field championships a few weeks later. Lu Mingfei also smiled and agreed... For her, this was much more important and happier than winning first place at the school sports meet!
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The school gate of Shilan Middle School was already deserted. In the evening sunset, Liu Miaomiao smiled and waved to everyone.

"Then I'll head back now. See you tomorrow," Liu Miaomiao said.

Chen Wenwen, carrying her schoolbag in front of her, smiled and nodded: "Okay, see you tomorrow. Remember to get a good rest tonight, you still have to run two 800-meter races tomorrow."

Tomorrow morning is the 4x800m relay semi-finals, and the finals are in the afternoon. Come to think of it, Lu Mingfei doesn't understand why the semi-finals and finals are so close together. The school sports meet is supposed to last five or six days, right? Didn't the school think to leave an extra day when they made the schedule? They didn't want to exhaust his girlfriends.

On the bright side, the sooner the 4x800m project ends, the sooner he can... cough cough cough.

"What are you spacing out for? You won't even answer when I ask you a question."

Chen Wenwen gently nudged Lu Mingfei's arm: "Miaomiao has already left, and you're still staring blankly in that direction... and smiling so strangely."

Lu Mingfei touched the corner of his mouth, wondering if his smile looked strange.

"Wenwen, what did you ask me just now?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"I just asked you, are you really going to the provincial youth track and field championships to cheer on Senior Sister Li?" Chen Wenwen asked, turning her head to the side.

"Wenwen, you said that Senior Sister Li takes good care of you guys in the track and field club. She even lent you the training ground when you were practicing the 800-meter race... Wenwen, if you want to go, I'll go with you."

"Is that all? Hmph... Well, that's fine then."

Lu Mingfei watched Chen Wenwen humming and felt that his girlfriend was a bit mysterious.

Before he could speak, Chen Wenwen changed the subject, blinked, and asked, "Speaking of which, hasn't Miaomiao forgiven you yet? She didn't even wave to you just now."

Chen Wenwen bit her lip and chuckled. She had naturally heard about what Lu Mingfei had accidentally done to Liu Miaomiao. However, the word "accidentally" really needed to be put in quotation marks. Because she knew her boyfriend's hands had always been a little mischievous.

Mingfei said it was just an accident, but who knows... Now finally someone can deal with him!
Lu Mingfei pursed his lips and could only truthfully reply, "No."

Su Xiaoqiang, arms crossed, said, "If you ask me, Miaomiao should ignore him for a few more days, so he'll learn his lesson... Wait, why are you looking at me like that?"

As soon as Su Xiaoqiang finished speaking, she saw Lu Mingfei turn his gaze, his eyes scanning her up and down with the look of a predator eyeing its prey, a malicious smile on his face. She was about to take a step back to distance herself from Lu Mingfei when the boy wrapped his arms around her slender waist and pulled her into his embrace.

"I think you should learn your lesson, little fairy." Lu Mingfei gently pinched Su Xiaoqiang's cheek: "Have you forgotten how you begged me this afternoon? It seems you don't want to go to bed early tonight."

Perhaps because they bickered so much, Su Xiaoqiang had developed a habit of arrogantly retorting to Lu Mingfei, which is why she had just habitually retorted to him... Only now did she realize that she had been able to eat ice cream for the past few days.

She immediately turned to look at Xia Mi, her expression pleading for help.

However, Xia Mi simply took a step back, giving him a look that said, "Good luck, senior sister." She herself had recently found it hard to resist her senior brother's lust.

Erii, standing beside Natsumi, also retreated. Although she didn't quite understand Sakura and Gorilla's words, her instincts told her that Sakura's eyes held a dangerous glint, and getting too close might mean being devoured...

Su Xiaoqiang thought to herself, "What kind of sisters are these? They're so decisive in betraying their teammates!"... They had clearly forgotten that when faced with this situation, they were always the most decisive in betraying their teammates.

"It seems like nobody wants to help you." Lu Mingfei's mischievous voice came from beside my ear.

Feeling Lu Mingfei's aggressive gaze lower on her, Su Xiaoqiang swallowed hard and offered her last excuse: "Oh, right! I have to participate in the 4x800m relay tomorrow, so tonight..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Mingfei interrupted her, grinning mischievously, "It's alright, it's alright, Wenwen is fast. We can have Wenwen run your share back tomorrow too."

...It seems like I'm doomed tonight.

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(End of this chapter)