About 10 years ago, a diver was injured on the way back to the surface, because he did not get professional help in time, and finally lost his life.

After that incident, the World Freediving Association reorganized the competition rules and medical system.

The current freediving competition is still dangerous, but there are complete medical and rescue methods, and the tragedy of the past has never happened again.

Xie Bujing was sent to the infirmary for emergency treatment. About an hour later, his condition returned to normal.

However, he was diagnosed with damaged eardrums and squeezed lungs and will not be able to continue participating in the remaining two competitions.

Meanwhile, in the constant weight no-fin competition, Norbert.Lansing successfully challenged the depth of 103 meters, refreshing the record of 2 meters set 102 years ago.

Most freediving competitions are not profitable, and the commercial value is not high. Most of the competition staff are part-time, and the manpower has not been enough.

After being unable to compete, Xie Bujing and Duan Yan joined the volunteer service group of the conference to provide services for the players who continued to compete.

Xie Bujing's work status is very stable, and he is also emotionally stable after returning to Bohol Island. It seems that he has not been hit by this failure.

But Duan Yan is very worried. He has been paying attention to Xie Bujing's emotions these days, and he has to follow him wherever he goes to be at ease.

Xie Bujing ate and Duan Yan was with him, Xie Bujing ran and Duan Yan also ran with him, and even Xie Bujing slept and Duan Yan stayed by his side.

What was even more outrageous was taking a shower. Once Xie Bujing stayed in the bathroom for more than 10 minutes, Duan Yan began to find various excuses to knock on the door.

The most common excuse is to go to the bathroom. After tossing twice, Xie Bujing asked Duan Yan to go to the bathroom first before taking a bath.

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Duan Yan stayed in the bathroom for 2 minutes, and as soon as he opened the door, he met Xie Bujing's inquiring eyes.

"What's wrong?" Duan Yan tried his best to pretend nothing had happened.

Xie Bujing folded his arms around his chest, leaned against the door frame, and said slowly, "You didn't go to the bathroom just now."

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Xie Bujing said again: "I didn't hear the sound."

Duan Yan pretended to be calm: "Suddenly I don't want to go to the bathroom that much."

"Oh," Xie Bujing said calmly, "Then don't knock on my door later."

Duan Yan gritted his teeth and did not speak.

Xie Bujing filled the bathtub with water and stepped into it with bare feet.

He likes to take a bath, and he likes the weightlessness of his body floating in the water.

It is a pity that after this lung injury, he was banned from diving by his coach for 2 months, and he could not enter the water again until his body fully recovered.

The warm water submerged inch by inch, Xie Bujing curled up, his whole body submerged in the water.

The water waves swayed slightly, and finally calmed down completely.

Xie Bujing's skin showed a transparent white under the light, almost blending into the bathtub. His jet-black hair floated in the water, completely weightless, as peaceful as if he was in his mother's arms.

"Dong dong dong."

After an unknown amount of time, Duan Yan started knocking on the door again.

Xie Bujing didn't want to respond.

But the knocking on the door became more urgent.

"Are you getting better soon? I want to go to the toilet." Duan Yan was a little worried, but Xie Bujing had already been in for 15 minutes.

Just when Duan Yan was considering whether to hit the door, the bathroom door was yanked open from the inside.

Due to inertia, Duan Yan almost bumped into Xie Bujing's chest.

"You want to go to the bathroom?" Xie Bujing stood at the door calmly, his body was wet, he was not wearing anything.

Duan Yan moved his eyes up uncomfortably, and said nonchalantly, "Yes."

Xie Bujing didn't speak, but just took a step aside.

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Xie Bujing: "Don't you want to go to the bathroom? Go."

Duan Yan walked towards the toilet with Xie Bujing's gaze, and put his hands in front of his trousers, but he couldn't make the next move.

Xie Bujing leaned at the door, his tone was light: "Are you not in a hurry now?"

Duanyan: "...I can't get out of here if you are here."

"I can't get out just looking at it?" Xie Bujing raised his eyebrows, "It seems that you are not in such a hurry. Since you are not in a hurry, don't knock on the door when I take a shower next time."

"Who said I'm not in a hurry?" Duan Yan gritted his teeth and pulled off his pants.

Duan Yan has never been so embarrassed in his life.

Just imagining Xie Bujing staring at him made him extremely embarrassed.

But amidst the embarrassment, there was also a faint trace of weird excitement.

Duan Yan took a deep breath and closed his eyes resignedly.

There was a rustling of his hands, and then a thud of liquid falling into liquid.

Duan Yan finished this set of actions in one breath, and quickly pressed the flush button.

When he turned around, he realized that Xie Bujing was no longer in the bathroom.

out?

Did he not look at himself?

Duan Yan let out a heavy sigh of relief, but felt even more embarrassed.

Just now, he actually thought that Xie Bujing would watch the whole thing...

Why did things become like this?Duan Yan covered his face in despair.

It was as if he wanted to tease Xie Bujing when he was a child, but he was the one who got teased every time.

But Xie Bujing was still soft and cute when he was a child, much better than his bad temper now.

Duan Yan shook his head, and forced Nai to walk out of the bathroom according to the fluctuations in his heart.

Xie Bujing had already changed his clothes and was drying his hair with a towel. When he saw him coming, he raised his chin: "Can you blow my hair for me?"

Duan Yan paused, and walked over obediently: "Okay."

The hum of the hair dryer rang in the room, and inches of wet hair were passing through Duan Yan's fingers.

Xie Bujing has a lot of hair, which is very hard and grows very fast. If he doesn't cut it for two months while studying, it will exceed his eyes.

Others say that people with hard hair have a hard temper.

Having known Xie Bujing for nearly 20 years, Duan Yan couldn't be more clear about this.

When they first met Xie Bujing, people thought he was easy to talk to.

After all, he can eat casually, dress casually, play casually, and most of the time he is casual, and people will think he is like this.

However, when he encounters something he really cares about, he will stubbornly turn into a bull, which is still a solid copper bull, heavy and hard, and no one can pull that kind of bull.

Duan Yan still remembers that in the winter when he was five years old, Xie Bujing secretly went skating in Houhai without telling the adults, and broke both knees.

Duan Yan asked him if it hurt, Xie Bujing gasped in pain, but raised his head and smiled at him: "It's so fun!"

Since then, Duan Yan knew that Xie Bujing was destined to embark on the path of figure skating.

"I know what you're worried about," Xie Bujing's voice sounded slowly, "but I'm really fine, anyone will fail in a challenge, and I won't be depressed because of this."

"Sorry," Duan Yan turned off the hair dryer, and sat down next to Xie Bujing, "I'm just a little worried about you..."

Xie Bujing turned to look at him, and said firmly, "We've known each other for so long, am I the one who gave up on myself because of one failure?"

Duan Yan did not speak.

To some extent, it is precisely because Xie Bujing will not give up on himself that he is more worried.

Xie Bujing never compromises with difficulties, he will only push himself into desperation again and again, in order to achieve the set goal, he even does not hesitate to injure his own body.

In other sports, it may only damage the body, but in freediving, it may have fatal consequences.

.........

Two months later, Xie Bujing resumed training.

The two-month rest made his physical condition decline. According to the coach's suggestion, he gradually dived from 40 meters, 50 meters, 60 meters... to 80 meters again.

Because he was doing meditation and yoga every day, the diving process went smoothly, and soon, Xie Bujing came to a depth of 100 meters again.

101 meters, 102 meters, 103 meters...

And then he got stuck here.

It seems like a curse, as long as he dives to 104 meters, he will be unconscious for a while during the ascent.

Xie Bujing continued to practice static apnea, dynamic apnea without webs, and ear pressure balance.

In addition, he will also practice yoga to relax his diaphragm and increase the flexibility of the body.

However, when he challenged 104 meters with constant weight and no fins again, he was still unable to succeed.

It was as if the sea had erected a barrier in that place, with the words "The following areas are forbidden for mortals to pass without equipment."

Xie Bujing stopped constant weight without fins and began to practice constant weight with fins. He can dive to 124 meters with monofins, far exceeding the depth of 104 meters.

Because flippers can provide a lot of power in diving and rising, just like the tail of a fish, helping humans swim farther in the sea.

Abel suggested that he could try to practice constant weight with fins. Xie Bujing now has a monofin of 124 meters, which is only 6 meters away from the world record.

But Xie Bujing didn't want to, he didn't believe that he couldn't break through that number.

He insisted on diving to 104 meters.

Xie Bujing stopped all recreational activities and trained himself in a stricter way.

Abel is a freediving teacher who advocates active training. He believes that as long as the body is not worn out, the more training, the better the results.

Under this concept, Xie Bujing's training is full every day.

Duan Yan was worried, but he couldn't make any intervention.

Xie Bujing is such a kind of person, once the goal is determined, he will go all out to do his best.

Frank also persuaded Xie Bujing several times, but when he found that the latter didn't listen, he stopped saying anything.

After March, the Deep Blue Freediving Depth Challenge was held in Bohol Island, and Xie Bujing signed up for the constant weight no-fins diving competition again.

He has reached a depth of 103 meters in practice several times, but 104 still has no success.

Xie Bujing decided to challenge this depth again in the race.

It's a pity that he still failed to achieve effective results this time. He fell into a brief faint after getting out of the water and failed to complete the water out process.

The referee said sorry and gave him a red card.

Xie Bujing fell into an even crazier training.

But it's not all good news.

180 told him that in the future world, humans have successfully resisted the rule of artificial intelligence.

If he completes the mission of this world, he will be able to go home soon.

Xie Bujing was silent for a while after listening, then nodded: "I see."

After speaking, he sank himself into the pool again.

……

180 witnessed Xie Bujing's predicament almost from beginning to end. He was very sad, but he didn't know what he could do.

So that when he received the news, he immediately shared it with Xie Bujing without hesitation.

180 exhaled, so, should it help a little bit?

However, the live commentary had a different opinion from him.

"What's the matter with you, the system? Why are you telling him this now? Aren't you adding pressure to him?"

"But..." 180's eyes widened, "I just want to encourage him."

"It's not now to encourage. You tell him now, isn't it just to urge him to complete the task as soon as possible and then clear the world?"

Those who watched the live broadcast were all experienced system seniors.

180 opened his mouth and realized for the first time that he might have made a mistake.

He was a little uncomfortable, and slowly typed a line.

【sorry. 】

Xie Bujing: "?"

【I shouldn't add pressure to you...】

"Pressure?" Xie Bujing raised his eyebrows, "I thought you were sharing good news with me."

[Then how do you feel? 】

"Thank you, I'm more motivated."

【That's good. 】

180 breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a little guilty, and decided to be more cautious in the future.

Xie Bujing is indeed more motivated.

The more difficult the situation was, the more excited he was.

He soaked himself in the sea all day long, imagining that he was a fish.

He practiced static apnea every day, and it was not uncommon for him to push himself to the verge of fainting.

But Frank often stared at him nervously and ordered him not to train like this.

This is a must on the diving road. Everyone came here like this. Xie Bujing doesn't think there is any problem with it.

Knowing that Frank was worried about him with good intentions, he moved to practice in the bathtub.

No matter how long he can hold his breath statically, once it exceeds 3 minutes, the physical pain will still come to him.

But the more miserable he was, the more positive his mood was.

It's like Sisyphus suffering every day.

In the pain of day after day, he felt a kind of upward joy.

……

On the contrary, the harder Xie Bujing trained, the more worried Duan Yan became.

He is like a single father with a three-year-old child shopping, wishing to tie a rope directly to Xie Bujing's body, and the other end must be firmly held in his own hand to feel at ease.

And he found that Xie Bujing took longer to take a bath.

Every time like this, it was because he was holding his breath statically, without exception.

Xie Bujing's habit is to fill the bathtub with water first, and then go in to take a bath after taking a shower.

When the sound of water in the bathroom stopped, Duan Yan knew that Xie Bujing was holding his breath.

The time is long and short, most of them are more than 5 minutes.

But this time, the quiet time inside was longer than usual.

A full 8 minutes have passed, and there is still no sound in the bathroom.

Duan Yan paced back and forth anxiously outside the door.

He didn't want to appear that he didn't trust Xie Bujing at all, like a pervert who peeped at others at any time.

But he couldn't understand better than that, people like Xie Bujing are really easy to do that kind of thing.

After another minute, Duan Yan couldn't bear it anymore, and he pushed open the bathroom door to have a look - the scene he was most afraid of still appeared.

Xie Bujing was floating in the bathtub all over, and lost consciousness.

Duan Yan quickly dragged him out of the bathtub, and patted Xie Bujing's cheek gently and quickly.

"Xiao Jing? Xiao Jing? Wake up!"

Xie Bujing tilted his head to one side, but still didn't respond.

Duan Yan flattened Xie Bujing's body and began to give him artificial respiration.

When Xie Bujing finally regained his breath, Duan Yan found water droplets falling on the ground.

Urinary incontinence.

This is a side symptom of a weakened central nervous system, and very few people push themselves to this extent.

Duan Yan looked at this scene with a complicated expression, as if his heart had sunk into the deep sea.

He had just finished cleaning Xie Bujing's body when the phone on the sink rang.

Xie Bujing slowly opened his eyes, and said in a calm tone with a bit of bewilderment, "What are you doing?"

Duan Yan's blood pressure immediately rose.

He took a deep breath and forced Nai's anger: "You fainted."

"Did you come in and save me? Thank you." Xie Bujing stood up from the ground, and said nonchalantly, "But I'm fine, I set the alarm clock, I won't let myself really pass out..."

"Do you know what happened just now?" Duan Yan abruptly interrupted him.

"Didn't you say I fainted?" Xie Bujing looked back at Duan Yan, as if realizing something, "Are you worried about me? In fact, fainting is not that scary. I'm used to this kind of temporary If you faint, there will be no problem."

Xie Bujing wiped his body with a towel, and said: "Besides, fainting doesn't feel painful, it just loses consciousness for a moment, like falling asleep."

Xie Bujing has no fear at all.

He was even laughing.

It seems that it is a trivial thing to force myself to become unconscious and incontinent.

Duan Yan took two steps back, looking at his childhood playmate almost in horror.

At that moment, invisible fear seemed to overwhelm him like a tsunami.

A terrible thought rose from Duan Yan's heart.

If this continues, Xie Bujing may really die in the water one day.

……

Xie Bujing got dressed and came out, and saw Duan Yan sitting on the balcony with an unprecedentedly serious expression.

"You can't go on like this, you will only drive yourself to death."

Xie Bujing froze, and after two seconds of silence, he said, "I know you are worried about me, but you have a measure."

"If you had sense, you wouldn't have made yourself unconscious and incontinent! Do you know how worried I was about you just now? I even thought you died in the bathtub!"

Duan Yan roared out this passage angrily, his emotions were unprecedentedly out of control.

This was the first time Xie Bujing saw Duan Yan express such a temper, he took two steps forward and took Duan Yan into his arms.

"sorry that I had you worried."

Duan Yan clenched his fists, like an angry and uneasy lion, even in Xie Bujing's arms, he was still trembling uneasy.

Although Xie Bujing is still healthy and safe now, the images of him vomiting blood and fainting in the bathtub still linger in Duan Yan's mind.

Duan Yan grabbed Xie Bujing's forearm and said in a hoarse voice: "I...I just don't want to see that kind of scene again."

"Well, I understand." Xie Bujing patted his head to comfort him.

Duan Yan: "Promise me? Don't hurt yourself so much in the future."

Xie Bujing didn't speak, and it took a long time before he said: "Is your desire point almost collected?"

Duan Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "The variety show will reach its goal in about two months after the second season."

Xie Bujing let go of the paragraph.

After thinking for a moment, he slowly said: "After you finish the task, go back first."

Go back first?

Duan Yan was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head in disbelief: "What did you just say?"

Xie Bujing: "Go back and wait for me."

Duan Yan's eyes immediately turned red.

He clenched his teeth tightly, almost out of breath.

After a long time, he squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Thank you, don't be surprised, what do you think of me?"

Xie Bujing took it for granted: "You are my best friend."

"Is there anyone who treats a friend like you?" Duan Yan popped out these words word by word, pushed away the chair and stood up.

Xie Bu startled and raised his head.

"You never cared about my feelings at all, you always only think about your own affairs." Duan Yan turned away with a face full of disappointment, leaving the curtains to flutter restlessly behind him.

In the empty room, Xie Bujing looked at the chair Duan Yan was sitting on just now, his vision blurred a little bit.

Xie Bujing and Duan Yan fell into a cold war, and everyone in the studio saw it.

But the training still has to go on.

Xie Bujing was very confused, and his mind was restless during the process of rising and falling, but his score was not affected too much, and it remained at around 100.

But gradually, he developed a sense of powerlessness.

Always feel that something is wrong.

And no matter how hard he trains, his grades still don't improve any more.

Xie Bujing paused his training for the first time, and just sat on the reef by the sea in a daze, from morning till night.

Occasionally Frank would come over to accompany him, perhaps because he was also from China, and Frank always paid special attention to him.

On this day, Frank came to him again, and said something inscrutable: "You shouldn't hide it, the sea knows everything."

Xie Bujing looked at the rolling waves, but didn't speak.

After a while, Frank suddenly said again: "Actually, I never told you that I have a child."

"Child?" Xie Bujing was curious, "Then he..."

"I'm not a good father, and I don't know how he is now," Frank said, "but I have a picture of him, do you want to see it?"

Frank took out a battered old-fashioned diving watch with a whitened photo inlaid on the back.

Xie Bujing was a little surprised: "Is this you? You can't tell at all."

Frank: "Because I'm tanned now."

Xie Bujing looked at the gray photo and was stunned for a moment.

He took the watch and his expression became serious: "Do you still know what your real name is?"

"I don't remember." Frank shook his head, "I also lost my ID."

"Then you didn't go to the Chinese embassy to report the loss?" Xie Bujing was a little excited, "You knew you had a child, but you didn't go back to find him?"

"I..." Frank was stunned for a moment, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes.

"Sorry," Xie Bujing was taken aback, realizing that he had overreacted, "It's just that you resemble someone I know."

Frank: "You know me?"

Xie Bujing asked 180 in his mind: "Do you think he looks like the original owner's father, Xie Herong?"

[Not quite. 】

[But it seems a little bit like it. 】

180 Ka Ka Ka comparison, after whitening the current Frank's skin, his eyes widened in surprise.

[It's Xie Herong!They are the same person! ! 】

Xie Bujing returned to the space of consciousness.

The original owner was still curled up in the corner, having closed his five senses a long time ago.

"Hey, can you hear me?" Xie Bujing squatted beside him and said.

The original owner turned his back to him and did not respond.

Xie Bujing said again: "I found your father."

The stiff figure moved, and the handsome boy seemed to have recovered from petrification, and asked in disbelief: "Really?"

"Do you want to see him?" Xie Bujing asked, "I can let you out."

The original owner was stunned for a while, and when Xie Bujing thought he was going to refuse, the original owner nodded.

Xie Bujing retracted his consciousness to the consciousness space, allowing the original owner to control his body to meet his father.

After waiting for too long, he fell asleep unconsciously.

"Xiao Jing! Xiao Jing! Wake up!" Someone was pushing his body, "Aren't you going to the ballet performance? If you don't get up, it will be too late!"

Xie Bujing opened his eyes and found himself back in his bedroom when he was 8 years old.

Duan Yan, a little one, was lying on his bedside, with his eyes wide open.

"Oh, yes." Xie Bujing got up from the table and quickly put on his clothes.

Duan Yan sat on a small stool with a relaxed expression and swung his legs: "This time I will watch the ballet with you, and next time, don't forget to accompany me to the World Intelligence Conference."

"Understood, I will never forget." Xie Bujing put on his small suit seriously, turned around and said, "How are you doing now?"

"So handsome." Duan Yan gave a thumbs up and jumped off the stool, "Let's go quickly."

go?

Where are you going?

Xie Bujing opened his eyes suddenly, only to realize that it was just a dream.

At the same time, the original owner had finished talking with Frank, and handed over control of the body.

"Thank you." Frange looked at him with kindness and sincerity in his eyes.

Xie Bujing: "Have you recovered your memory?"

"No," Frank shook his head, "but I'm reminded of something from the past."

Xie Bujing nodded and stopped talking.

Frank leaves.

Xie Bujing sat cross-legged on the reef, closed his eyes and began to meditate.

The first is to focus on your breathing and calm yourself down.

Then there is the sensation of focusing on the body.

The wind was blowing on his face, which was very comfortable, and the insteps of his feet were crawled by small bugs, which were numb, but it was still tolerable.

And finally the emotions...

Xie Bujing could clearly perceive his anxiety.

Meditation and freediving have similarities in purpose. They both advocate not rejecting one's own emotions and body sensations. The key is to find the cause of this emotion, accept or release it.

So what caused his restlessness?

An obvious reason is the cold war with Duan Yan, because Duan Yan does not agree with his current training methods.

Another reason is that his performance can no longer improve, no matter how hard he practices, he can't break through the world record barrier.

Before that, Xie Bujing had always been proactive, active, and offensive.Undoubtedly, this trait has allowed him to excel in many sports.

But this time, the method didn't work in freediving.

Not only did his grades fail to improve, but he also created conflicts between him and Duan Yan.

He hates this feeling.

So how to solve it?

According to his current knowledge reserve, freediving is a rather contradictory sport.

People with large lung capacity store more air in their bodies, but at the same time, they consume more oxygen.

A heavier person sinks faster, but also encounters greater resistance when ascending.

Some people think that endurance training is useless and will increase oxygen consumption; others think that endurance training can enhance people's willpower and make people better cope with underwater difficulties.

Freediving is a very new sport, especially competitive diving. The theory and training methods are often changed, and most of them are still controversial.

In free diving, the importance of physical fitness and skills is not as great as imagined, and good results are not guaranteed to be achieved through good training.

If he has been training like this and it doesn't work, shouldn't he use another method?

Xie Bujing didn't know the answer, so he took off his clothes and pants and jumped into the sea, deciding to follow his instinctive choice.

On the dark sea, a white figure disappeared in an instant.

Feeling the wrapping of the sea water on his body, Xie Bujing slowly closed his eyes in the warm embrace.

Most athletic competitions require speed and strength, and adrenaline to fuel the body.They are extroverted, expansive.

But free diving requires slowness, requires your thinking to become dull, even stagnant, fall into sleep, and minimize the energy consumption of the body as much as possible.This is a restrained process.

In addition to exercising, you also need to control your spiritual world.

Xie Bujing slowly opened his eyes in the dark sea.

The sky is dim, the night is low, and the plankton glows faintly in the sea water.

It turns out that freediving is a spiritual exercise.

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