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Published at 28th of June 2023 07:15:22 AM


Chapter 56

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My Soulmate is a Libero

After playing the Polish team, everyone’s heart was calm, not to mention working hard together, almost all of them were overloaded.

They really understood the pain of constantly colliding with strong teams since the preliminaries.

Min Yaoyang turned on the phone with the slow movements like an old lady, and applied with his mother to buy a massage chair after returning home, and he wouldl sleep there from now on.

Li Ling, who looked like a cheerful big dog every day, clasped his hands and lay peacefully on the ground, letting Wang Yan’s team’s medical fascia gun relaxed him after the game, humming twice from time to time.

Don’t underestimate him just because he twitched when serving. When he played against Brazil, he showed great determination and played all five sets. Hard work often goes unnoticed, and in crucial moments when the Chinese team fell behind, he suddenly unleashed his potential and executed remarkable attacks to turn the game around.

And his brain circuit was so miraculous that his own people sometimes couldn’t touch it, he even deceived the opponent to block the net several times, and then Qin Chunxiao, who was good at adjusting the attack, seized the opportunity to score various points in front of the net.

So even if he knew that Li Ling was a nerve knife, Lao Niu never thought of removing him.

He could use this knife even if he draws it! Besides, even if Li Ling did something wrong, Qin Chunxiao, who had a 100% understanding with him, would stabilize the situation.

Newton and Jiang Xiaohai said: “Er Leng was also lucky to meet Xiao Qin. Otherwise, with his drawing method, before he grows and stabilizes, there may be no other attackers in China who are willing to match him.”

Even if Qiao Mingming was such a good-tempered attacker, he would be angry if he was framed too much in the game. When it comes to Qin Chunxiao, he could bully Li Ling by himself, and he also allowed others to complain when they were framed by the setter, but when scolded him it was not allowed to go too far, or to attack Li Ling, Qin Chunxiao would quickly control the field.

Qin Chunxiao: The whole team must listen to me!

There was a saying that Deputy Coach Jiang had been wanting to say for a long time: “Brother Niu, do you think that Xiao Qin is a bit of a ball bully with his temper?”

Newton: “Huh? He is so short, who is he bullying?”

Jiang Xiaohai: “Aren’t everyone other than Ding Rong bullied? Didn’t you realize that as long as he speaks, they obviously won’t refute.”

Jiang Xiaohai had been a coach for so long, and he had never seen a more arrogant athlete than Qin Chunxiao. He was obviously the youngest one, but as long as he opened his mouth, the whole team would listen to him, including the captain.

Newton replied of course: “That’s because Xiao Qin has the potential to become the soul of the team. As for the soul of the team, it’s normal to be stronger. Xiao Hai, you have never been an athlete, and you don’t understand the responsibilities and obligations of the core of a team. Their Personality is basically equal to the style of the team, Xiaoqin’s temper is better, he is tough, the players are tough, this is a team that can fight tough battles.”

That’s the soul of his favorite team!

Jiang Xiaohai: Do you mean to let the Chinese team develop in the direction of all tough bullies?

Seems like a good idea.

Jiang Xiaohai didn’t know whether he was persuaded or misled by Newton’s logic, anyway, he nodded and accepted Newton’s argument.


Most of the others also looked listless, like wheat seedlings lying dead in the wheat field without water.

Qin Chunxiao was lying on her stomach, with two ice packs full of ice cubes on her waist and a bag of ice water on the back of his neck, like a machine that had just overheated at high frequency and was cooling down with water.

Chang Xiaole took the essential oil in his hand and began massaging Xiao Qin, loosening his muscles. This was necessary to prevent constant tension. Even if there was no inflammation at the moment, there was a higher risk of injury during tomorrow’s game. Many athletes end up getting injured due to such circumstances.

Then he saw that Qin Chunxiao’s waist and abdomen were covered with anti-strain patches.

“The young man has done a good job of protection. Back then, I thought this thing was sticky and I didn’t want to use it, so I ruined my waist.” Chang Xiaole sighed, first pulled off the sticker, and then gave it a massage.

When pulling off the sticker near the left abdomen, Chang Xiaole saw two numbers – 71.

Tattoo? No, Xiaoqin’s family was very strict. During the competition abroad, he had to send messages to his mother and sister every day to report his safety. It was said that his father was still a researcher. Based on his intuition, Chang Xiaole had a feeling that the Qin family would not allow their child to have tattoos on their body before they grow up.

What’s so special about the number 71?

Wait, the numbers appearing on the body are not necessarily due to tattoos, right?

Sensing Chang Xiaole’s pause, Qin Chunxiao looked up at him, Chang Xiaole silently stopped tearing off the patch, and started massaging his waist directly, full of surprise and curiosity.

Does this kid have a soul mate? When did you meet? No one in the whole team seems to know, this is too well hidden, right?

But judging from Qin Chunxiao’s refusal to mention this matter, Chang Xiaole thought there were two possibilities, either the other party’s character was not good enough to make Qin Chunxiao look down on them, or Qin Chunxiao thought privacy was very important and did not intend to share his emotional life with everyone.

Anyway, it couldn’t be that group of boys in the team. Chang Xiaole had been a training partner for this group of people for so long, and he hadn’t seen any other people with numbers on their left abdomen, and the countdown of hidden soul mates was usually in the same place!


Qin Chunxiao seemed to have noticed something, looked at Chang Xiaole for a while, turned his head, lay down, and narrowed his eyes as if nothing happened: “Go up a little bit, yes, that’s it, it’s so sour.”

Chang Xiaole also revealed this matter silently: “As far as your style of play is concerned, it’s not bad just being sour.”

If Chang Xiaole, who had a back injury, fought like this, he would be lifted in less than two rounds.

Qin Chunxiao: “Who told me to be short? If you want to compete with the big guys, you will inevitably have to use a more physical style of play.”

According to Mars, with his initial violent style of play, even if he hadn’t been hit in his previous life, he would have suffered serious injuries within five years.

Or the floor suited him.

The two finished the post-match maintenance as if nothing had happened, and then a group of big boys slowly moved back to the hotel, one by one, they fell on the bed as soon as they entered the room, and then snored loudly.

Only Qin Chunxiao, a man of steel and iron, could get up and watch other games on TV.

For example, their old rivals, Brazil and Italy, would probably be followed even by the adult players. After all, the main players of these youth teams were destined to shine in the adult arena in a few years.

Unsurprisingly, this game was very stalemate. Italy’s secondary attacker Louis and Libero Dario would become world-class players in the next few years, but the Brazilian team against them was a bit soft.

Fu Biyang woke up from hunger, got up to find something to eat, and watched the game on TV.

“Ah, why is the Brazilian team a little listless? It’s like a monk who was squeezed dry by a goblin.”

Qin Chunxiao refrained from asking whether the goblin was a man or a woman, but scratched his head and replied, “Tang Monk is pure and innocent, don’t talk nonsense, and be careful if someone sues you for slander, I also think the Brazilian team is not that fit.”

He thought to himself that this goblin couldn’t be the Chinese team, after all, there were two days between the preliminaries and the semi-finals to let them transfer cities and adapt to the venue, and the Chinese team seized this time to regain their vitality. It was not soft during the war against Poland.


Then on the second day, they fought the Cuban team 3:2 again, and also played five innings, but this time, Qin Chunxiao was put on the bench and was called up again until the fourth inning, and the others also took turns. In the end, they could only regret losing.

After the game, Lao Niu comforted everyone: “It’s alright, this time Mingming, Xiaoji, Erleng, and Xiaozai all spent half the game on the bench. We may not have given our full effort, reserving our energy to face Iran tomorrow. With our capabilities, playing against Iran will be just like having fun.”

After saying this, Lao Niu was prepared to listen to how the boys in the team would plan to beat the Iranian team, but he realized that no one responded to his words.

After a while, Qiao Mingming thumped his thigh: “Coach, let’s not rest next time. It doesn’t matter if you call us up to play five rounds. I don’t want to lose again.”

Li Ling also curled his lips: “I know the Cuban team is strong, but they lost before they even gave it a try. It’s so embarrassing.”

All the players expressed their dissatisfaction. They didn’t need to rotate, and it didn’t matter if they ran into a strong opponent. They were not afraid of getting tired, they just wanted to win!

Seeing this scene, Lao Niu didn’t know whether he was happy or worried.

To be happy is to be happy, of course.

In the field of competition, there would be inertia in losing, just like if a person knelt for a long time, it was not easy to get up again, such as a certain sport that required more force to use of legs.

The men’s volleyball team was different. The Chinese men’s volleyball team was not a team that had become a habit of losing!

Even if the coaching level of the previous generation was not top-notch, the players they lead were not ischemic. Later, when they ran into Zhao Youde, the players who won the World Youth Championship, such as Gao Depi, Tong Shulan, Ding Rong, etc., were all exhausted, but they were still working hard.

Relying on the fairly solid foundation left by Coach Yang, they had withstood the corruption of a bureaucratic coach for several years!

As for the team of the new generation, there were many wolf cubs, and they even ran into Lao Niu, a coach who thought he was not bad. As more and more strong teams won, their cohesion and fighting spirit continued to rise.

It didn’t matter whether they were strong or not, facing a strong enemy, they all had the courage to rush forward and die with each other. Looking at the whole team, even Min Yaoyang, who was the least courageous, was afraid of birds and the dark, and he was definitely not a coward on the field!


It was okay to say that they were influenced by the team spirit of Mighty Dundun, and it was okay to say that they had built up their self-esteem and self-confidence after successive victories against strong teams. These young people were no longer willing to face failure.

Lao Niu told them rationally: “The Cuban team will definitely be able to qualify. Isn’t it good for us to save our strength and meet them in the semi-finals and finals? Take a long-term view, don’t you want to be on the podium? What if we consume it now? If you overdo it and get injured all over your body when it comes to more important games, wouldn’t that leave even greater regrets?”

“One of the most important homework for athletes is health management!”

Seeing that everyone was still unhappy, Lao Niu coaxed in a good voice: “The upcoming games are more important than the next one. Let’s not keep our strength tomorrow, just beat Iran directly, and then go all the way to the end, okay?”

The emotions of the athletes finally rose, and everyone responded one after another: “OK.”

“Finish Iran and Cuba!”

“Finish Cuba and then Italy.”

“There’s also Russia. We’ll go through all those strong teams one by one. If we’re lucky, we might have another match with Brazil!”

“We’re going to win the championship this year!”

A group of boys howled, and Li Ling even let out a wolf howl in a very appropriate way.

“Aww—”

The Russian team who returned to the hotel was taken aback: “Does anyone in the hotel raise huskies?”

Captain Anton looked left and right excitedly: “Is there a dog? Where is it?”

The morale of the Chinese team was like a rainbow, and they vowed to tear apart the powerful enemies they encountered next. Everyone’s thinking could be summed up in one word as “do it”.

The Polish and Cuban teams, which had played against them successively, were in poor condition.

Needless to say, the Cuban team walked swayingly, with a sense of weakness of physical and mental exhaustion.

The Polish team was even worse. They were only dragged to the fifth game by the Chinese team yesterday, and they still lost. Today, they faced the Iranian team and continued to lose. The team atmosphere was pretty bleak.

The captain of the Polish team covered his face and cried loudly: “Damn it! We are obviously the favorites to win the championship, why did we fall into the gutter twice in a row!”

The coach comforted them: “The main reason is that you spent too much energy playing the Chinese team. I am also responsible for this. If I could see that the situation was wrong yesterday and let the main players rest more, I would not lose to Iran again today.”

The players cried loudly: “Coach, we are not reconciled!”

Well, the quasi-final four teams stopped in the top eight, how wronged they were!

On the other hand, the Cuban team was also worried: “We have consumed too much today. What if we face Poland tomorrow and capsize like Poland did against Iran?”

At the same time, the Brazilian team was even worse. They were exhausted by the Chinese team first, and then suffered a big loss from the Italian team. They would have to play against a strong team like Russia tomorrow.

Coach Elliott was so worried that he smoked two packs of cigarettes, thinking that he would definitely be punished by the volleyball association when he returned home.

Obviously, before everyone in the Chinese team realized it, they had successfully unlocked an achievement – whoever fights with us, no matter whether they win or lose, will have to shed a layer of skin, and the probability of capsizing the next day will increase by 80% !

So yes, in the eyes of other teams in this World Youth Championship, this year’s Chinese team was just a villain, and no one wanted to fight them.

In the past, the Iranian youth team, which had always been dominant against the Chinese team in Asia, also raised a small heart. They had miraculously defeated Poland, but no one was in the mood to celebrate. They all squatted in front of the TV and watched the Chinese team’s game recording.

 





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