Free Web NovelChapter 1244: Chapter 599: As Long as I Run Fast, You’ll Never Catch Up!_3
Zhao Yi, carrying the good mood blown in by the wind, set up a game with Li Renzhe and Fan Lei on the sports field to play soccer. While reliving their college days, they also got in some exercise.
But reliving college days wasn’t easy because everyone had changed a lot.
For example, Li Renzhe came with Li Rui’er. As a qualified dad, it was routine for him to take his child out for a walk.
Fan Lei showed up with Yan Yi, the two having just received their marriage certificate and were in the thick of their honeymoon phase.
As a result,
the three men kicked the ball around on the field, leaving a pregnant Yan Yi, who wasn’t that far along and could still walk, to watch over Li Rui’er from a distance.
The process of playing soccer together was also rather frustrating.
Zhao Yi’s physical condition was still okay since he had been keeping up with his exercise regime.
Fan Lei, on the other hand, was not doing as well. His beer belly had made its debut; there was no way he could compare to his college days.
Li Renzhe had gained a noticeable amount of weight; it was hard to say if he could still play soccer. Most of the time, he just stood at the back, and when the opposing team came with the ball, he remained motionless as if possessed by the spirit of a soccer legend, relying solely on his calm judgment to effortlessly stop the opponents’ advances. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Clearly, the soccer legend didn’t think much of Li Renzhe; the opponents simply used him as an obstacle, easily outmaneuvering him with a change of direction.
"Damn!"
"Old Li, what are you doing? Just standing there dazed, if it weren’t for you, how could they have scored?"
"You’re just a fixture!"
After the opposing team scored two consecutive goals, an out-of-breath Fan Lei ran over and started cursing, obviously frustrated.
Zhao Yi was also feeling quite vexed.
There was a group of campus beauties cheering them on from the sidelines, with quite a few pretty girls among them—
That’s not important!
Anyway, the cheerleading squad was spectacular, but their performance was very poor.
Li Renzhe had a lot of responsibility!
After being complained about several times and feeling indignant and angry, Li Renzhe challenged Fan Lei to a running race. "Let’s see who has the worse stamina!"
"Zhao Yi, you be the judge!"
"We’re going to run four hundred meters!"
"Eight hundred meters!"
"One thousand meters!"
The two quickly escalated their challenge to "one thousand meters" and found a spot to use as the starting line.
A crowd gathered around to watch, with the cheerleaders continuing their encouragement. Thanks to Zhao Yi’s reputation, Li Renzhe and Fan Lei were also somewhat famous, so many people cheered them on as well.
As the crowd cheered, Li Renzhe and Fan Lei, filled with fervor, began their one-thousand-meter race.
After Zhao Yi shouted the starting command, Li Renzhe took the lead and ran out, but then he noticed Fan Lei wasn’t running and stopped, puzzled, to ask, "Why aren’t you running? Too scared to race?"
Fan Lei smiled confidently. "Scared to race? You’ve gained so much weight; I’ll give you a hundred-meter head start."
"Damn it, fine!"
Li Renzhe gave it some thought, realizing he really couldn’t outrun Fan Lei unless given a head start, then he shouted, "Bet a hundred bucks I’ll win!"
"Okay!"
Fan Lei gestured okay with his hand, still muttering, "You? As long as I run faster, it’s only a matter of time before I catch up to you, in one thousand meters!" freewebnøvel.coɱ
Indeed!
Fan Lei was right to an extent; he was faster than Li Renzhe. By the end of the first four-hundred-meter lap, he had already caught up with Li Renzhe.
Realizing he had been caught, Li Renzhe even wanted to give up on the spot, as he felt unable to run any further.
That’s when the infuriating incident occurred. Fan Lei ran ’cheekily’ just ahead of him, not much faster and no longer speeding up, as if he was just waiting for Li Renzhe to catch up and then accelerate again to stay in front.
"Damn it!"
Furious, Li Renzhe cursed, "Wait till I catch you, I’ll have to beat you up!"
Fan Lei taunted smugly, "Afraid of you? I run faster and have better stamina, you’ll never catch up!"
"Just you wait!"
"Come at me then!"
The two continued forward as they talked.
Laden with anger, Li Renzhe found that emotional drive could not compensate for the physical disparity between them.
Meanwhile,
Zhao Yi, watching the antics from a distance, kept muttering to himself, repeating the phrases that Fan Lei had said, "As long as you run fast, you can catch up eventually?"
"As long as you run fast, you will never catch up?"
"That makes sense!"
He connected it to a question that had been lingering in his mind for a long time. "Particles affected by spatial compression produce a magnetic field to resist the squeeze of space and also develop a certain resistance to space absorption."
"If this resistance exceeds the limit of spatial absorption, meaning the energy it contains, will it never be absorbed by space?"
"So, materials compressed to five times their size can already completely counter space absorption, becoming particles that will never be absorbed for energy by space?"
"If they are never absorbed, it means that the particle core has achieved a stable state and is no longer affected by spatial compression, or rather, it has reached a static equilibrium with the forces of spatial compression."
"Such particles won’t undergo energy absorption by space anymore, and no matter the environment, they won’t create a spatial blockade effect."
"What if the core is further strengthened? For instance, by compressing it ten times, twenty times, a hundred times?"
"Upon reaching a higher threshold, maybe they could emit continuous Z-waves and, conversely, absorb space, just like the cosmological theory where, in the end, particles begin to absorb space until space is utterly annihilated, leading to a new cycle—"
