boyutpedia Chapter 287 Preparations for the Sports Meet
Chapter 287 Preparations for the Sports Meet
After the Four-Way Games were finalized, all departments in Dawn City began to get busy, and supplies and crystals from other bases were gradually transported to Dawn City. As for the competition venues, there are enough. Dawn City currently has three large stadiums and all kinds of indoor stadiums. Only some venues need repair, but with the help of the ability users and the efforts of the Dawn City Construction Department, this is not a problem.
Although this sports meet will be grand, there won't be as many events as the pre-apocalyptic Olympics, but it will still have everything you need. Li Chenglong instructed Dawn City Television to broadcast the news during prime time and encouraged all ability users and residents of Dawn City to participate in the preliminary selection. After rounds of selection, athletes could be sent to participate in various events.
This was also the consensus of the leaders of the four sides. In order to reduce the number of participants and reduce the competition pressure on Dawn City, the rules stipulated that only four players from one base were allowed to participate in each event. If the participants were to participate as a team, such as a football team or a basketball team, each base would only send one male and one female team.
The news that the four major bases would jointly host the sports meet spread quickly, and several small and medium-sized bases in the Eastern Theater Command expressed their desire to join. Meanwhile, bases located relatively close by, such as Black Gold City, also submitted applications to participate. After discussions, Generals Li Chenglong and Sun Tianlong, Lieutenant Generals Xu Limin and Wei Jing, and Lieutenant Generals Sun Qingpeng and Gao Shixin welcomed the proposal.
Li Chenglong was studying the sports competitions for people with superpowers at his desk, showing great interest in soccer. Although he was a key player on the basketball team in the army before the apocalypse and was very good at basketball, he still had some knowledge of soccer and had even participated in the army's soccer team and played against soccer teams from other units.
After becoming a superhuman, Li Chenglong dreamed that once world peace was restored, he would join the Chinese national football team, lead them to the World Cup, and lift the trophy. However, this was contingent on the World Cup allowing superhumans or awakened individuals to participate; if not, there was nothing he could do.
At his suggestion, the superhumans of Dawn City formed both a male and a female superhuman soccer team. Yun Lan didn't join the soccer team because she knew nothing about soccer; instead, she and several female special forces members organized a women's table tennis team. However, because there were so many superhumans applying to join the table tennis team, they had to participate in a preliminary round to advance and represent Dawn City in the competition.
Li Chenglong's football team has 20 members, all of whom are level 7 or above superhumans and have football experience. Five of them were professional football players before the apocalypse. Having good players isn't enough; a good coach is also essential. Fortunately, there was a coach in Dawn City named Li Xiaopeng, who had led his team to several top finishes in the Chinese Super League. Li Chenglong personally invited him three times, finally managing to persuade him to join the team.
Li Xiaopeng quickly assembled his coaching team and began training the 20 players. Meanwhile, the women's team also had a veteran coach leading the training, and captain Yun Qian stated that her team was determined to win the gold medal. Based on the strengths and weaknesses of his players, Li Xiaopeng decided to establish a 4-2-3-1 formation for his team.
The 4-2-3-1 formation is a highly concealed and flexible attacking formation. Utilizing a lone striker as a focal point, it employs a variety of hidden attackers behind him. This formation boasts strong concealment, diverse attacking methods, and the potential for surprise attacks. The three attacking midfielders effectively exploit the opponent's danger zones through various positional interchanges and combinations, ultimately aiming to breach the opponent's goal.
While defending, the two defensive midfielders effectively participate in the attack using their own strengths, enriching the attacking options and forcing the opponent to drop their defensive line, thereby better seizing the advantage and initiative in midfield. This achieves a total football strategy.
Since it's a single striker formation, a player with exceptional individual ability is definitely needed, and the men's football team captain, Li Chenglong, naturally took on this important task. The 4-2-3-1 formation places high demands on the two full-backs; they must be all-around players who excel in both attack and defense. Wang Yousheng, a level 9 water-type speed-type ability user, and Zheng Yong, a level 9 metal-type strength-type ability user, will serve as the left and right full-backs, respectively.
The 4-2-3-1 formation places even greater demands on the two defensive midfielders. One must possess excellent stamina and defensive running ability, primarily responsible for midfield defense, while the other needs outstanding dribbling and passing skills and the ability to control the tempo of the game. Wu Gang, a level 10 wind and fire elementalist, and Zheng Aiguo, a level 10 earth elemental strength-type elementalist, fill these two positions.
三名进攻型前场分别是9级速度型异能者王兵、10级风系异能者孙有才和10级力量系异能者赵刚，还有两名后卫则是10级土系异能者齐国安和10级力量系异能者赵睿。门将位置则是9级速度型异能者杨学麟。
This clearly shows that the vast majority of ability users are single-elemental. Even among the 6000+ ability users in Dawn City, those with dual or more elements are extremely rare. Li Chenglong had previously conducted a count; among all the ability users in Dawn City, there were over 200 dual-elemental users, about ten with three elements, and only one with four elements. That sole four-elemental ability user, named Su Jian, is currently in the city defense department. He is a level 7 ability user with speed, strength, wood, and water elements, essentially possessing S-level potential among awakened users.
As for Awakened Ones, there are currently no more than 10 in Dawn City. Most of them are people around Li Chenglong. The only other person is Yang Zheng, an 8th-level C-rank Giant Winged Bat Awakened One. He used to be in the city defense department, but was later transferred to the Second Combat Division of Dawn City as the deputy commander.
Based on the information he had previously gathered, and after reading the books left by Erica, Li Chenglong learned that the probability of a dual-elemental ability user is 10%, the probability of a triple-elemental ability user is 3%, the probability of a quadruple-elemental ability user is 1 in 1000, and the probability of a five-elemental ability user is 1 in 10,000.
According to Reina, Erica and Li Chenglong's teacher, Awakened Ones are actually a type of superhuman, a higher-level manifestation of superhumans. The probability of their appearance is very low, accounting for only 0.5% of all superhumans. Although this probability seems high, most of them are low-potential Awakened Ones. The probability of an S-level Awakened One is estimated to be only one in tens of thousands of all superhumans.
Previously, the China headquarters conducted a rough census, re-counting China's population. This census was much more accurate than the previous one, including many individuals who were not included in the previous count. Currently, China's total population is over 9400 million, of which over 80 are individuals with special abilities, while the number of awakened individuals is only over 1000.