Chapter 24 Xinfei Road Bike Race
At a previous press conference, Kennard, as the CEO of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, said something quite passionate, indicating that the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce will enter the stage of rapid expansion and development in the future.
However, in everyone's opinion, President Xu Yi was really a little... unemployed in the next month.
If he first published three theoretical books related to magic machinery through the Daily Press under the Bonta Daily, which was still related to his career, then he announced the opening of a new flying academy, which was really a bit inexplicable.
Although Xu Yi said a long time ago that he would open a comprehensive college, when everyone learned about the courses of this college, they were still confused.
It’s okay to start a basic magic course, why are there any messy courses such as Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, history, etc.?
In the eyes of many people, perhaps the useful things are just astronomy and geography classes. As for Chinese, mathematics... teaching reading, reading, reading, reading, and simple arithmetic, shouldn't children learn it themselves while growing up?
Xu Yi responded to this in Bonta Daily, claiming that the Chinese courses taught in this Xinfei Academy are nothing special, but mathematics, physics, chemistry and other courses are all laying the foundation for mastering relevant knowledge of magic machinery, and they are all things that can greatly promote the development of the magic industry in the future.
According to this explanation, this academy can be considered to be a little related to his job.
However, people could not associate it with the work Xu Yi should have done in the following matter.
After a month of preparation, the Xinfei Road Bike Race finally started on a cheerful autumn day in mid-October.
After being bombarded by the New Air Chamber of Commerce in major newspapers and the powerful propaganda offensives that were almost covered with leaflets in Bonta City, not only the people of Bonta City, but even the people of several surrounding cities had long known about the existence of this road cycling race.
From the publicity, I learned that this road cycling race was a competition sponsored by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. As for the content of the competition, it is very simple, which is to compare who rides a bicycle faster.
According to the rules of this competition, the contestants who participate in the competition must ride from Bangta City as the starting point to the end of the Luoyu Valley, with a total of about 60 kilometers.
Because it was the first competition, the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce said that it was still in the preliminary trial stage. Therefore, it would not prepare particularly generous prizes, but the first-place contestant will still receive a full set of New Aircraft Household Magic Machinery awarded by the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce.
If you count it, the value of this set of home magic machinery is more than 200 gold coins, and it is actually not small.
In addition to the first place, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also listed the next ten players passing the finish line as second prizes, and could win a set of Xinfei brand kitchen and bathroom home magic machinery, worth nearly 100 gold coins.
After that, the next fifty contestants who passed the key points won the third prize and received a new flying brand warm and cool air conditioner as a reward, worth thirty gold coins.
With such an attractive reward, it immediately attracted many people to participate, and even many people who had not bought bicycles before, bought a car within this month and planned to win prizes through surprise practice.
On the day of the competition, according to statistics, the number of people who signed up for the terrifying number of people!
Because the number of participants was a bit beyond expectations, the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce was forced to announce that the 10,000 people were divided into five batches, and then the ranking was determined based on the time from the starting point and the time from the end point.
Because of this, the competition, which was originally expected to be completed in one morning, was forced to extend to a whole day.
However, no one complained about the more than 10,000 people participating in the competition.
After all, in the eyes of most people, participating in such a road cycling race is a very novel experience. As for the prize, it is just an accompanying congratulations. It is good to get it, but it is no problem not to get it.
Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also gave everyone a surprise, that is, before the competition officially started, Xu Yi, Steele, and the great magician Camilla whom he had not seen for a long time, stood in front of the starting point on a bicycle, and planned to set off at the same time with the first batch of players!
Seeing the eager gazes of the audience around him, Xu Yi joked to Steele, who was beside him: "Hey, you say, are these guys so excited because of seeing which of us three?"
Steele gave him a blank look: "It's not you anyway." After saying that, he let go of the handlebars and raised his hands to signal to the crowd around him, which immediately caused a loud cheer from the crowd, and then gave Xu Yi a smug smile. "How is it?"
Xu Yiran laughed silently, thinking that Steele would always look naughty in front of him from time to time, even after getting married.
"Come on Bibi, I'm sure." Seeing Steele's movements, Xu Yi became childishly. He imitated Steele's appearance and threw his hands with his hands, posing in a position that he thought was very handsome, waved to the crowd around him.
There was another burst of cheers in the crowd immediately, but it was obvious that the voice that belonged to the woman completely overshadowed the man's voice.
Steele snorted softly: "President Xu, I didn't expect you to be very popular with girls."
Xu Yi laughed: "I've won too much."
The two looked at each other, laughed at the same time, and then looked at the great magician Camilla beside them.
The great magician Camilla glared at the two of them: "What do you think I will fight like a child like you?"
The two of them smiled, exchanged glances, and suddenly got out of the car at the same time, rushed left and right to the left and right of the great magician Camilla, and grabbed one of his arms and raised them at the same time.
Seeing the three of them like this, the crowd around them burst into deafening instantly, which was obviously much louder than the two times just now, and was filled with countless excited shouts.
"Look, grandpa. You still have a high status in the minds of the people of Bangta City. So you should go out for a walk in the future. Let everyone see you, and you can feel much more at ease." Xu Yi smiled.
"Yes, grandpa, you should have more activities when you have nothing to do. It's so boring to stay in the laboratory all day long." Steele also said.
The Great Magician Camilla looked at the two of them, showed a gratifying smile on his face, and shook his head gently, "Okay, I know you are worried about my body. But there is nothing to worry about. Tell you, I have touched that threshold, and maybe it won't take long to become a level 5 magician. I think as long as I work harder to become a magician, I can live for a few more years."
Xu Yi and Steele were shocked at the same time.
"Wow! Grandpa, are you going to become a level 5 magician? So fast?" Steele shouted in surprise.
The great magician Camilla smiled slightly: "I don't know why. In short, after I started to study magic machinery, I found that my magic level had grown much faster than before." After that, he glanced at Xu Yi. "Hey, boy, even the old man can break through. Don't be lazy. If you weren't even a great magician when I became a magician, that would be too unreasonable."
Xu Yi smiled bitterly and nodded: "I will work hard."
Steele smiled and held Xu Yi's hand: "Grandpa. Don't worry, I will urge him to become a great magician even if he becomes a great magician. At that time, our family has two great magicians, and my parents will definitely be happy to death."
The great magician Camilla laughed and waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's talk about these things in the future. Today, let's participate in this road cycling race. Speaking of which, Xu Yi has many messy ideas, and he actually came up with such a competition to promote bicycles."
"This is not only for advertising, but also for promoting this kind of competition, which is also beneficial to people's health, right?" Xu Yi shouted.
"Well, I agree with this. So today, neither of you is allowed to care about me. I want to ride these sixty kilometers by myself!" The great magician Camilla waved his hand proudly, not giving Xu Yi and Steele the opportunity to object.
The two had no choice but to nod.
Fortunately, although the Great Magician Camilla is close to seventy, because of the special physique, the body is not weak. As long as there is no idea of a competition, it is not particularly difficult to ride these 60 kilometers slowly.
The three of them chatted for a while. The atmosphere of the entire schedule had already reached the top driven by the host specially invited by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. When the established competition time came, the host announced the start of the game loudly. After the sound of a loud noise, Xu Yi, Steele and the Great Magician of Camilla took the lead in rushing out of the starting point, and the first two thousand contestants who set off followed closely behind.
Seeing that the great magician Camilla was ahead, Xu Yi and Steele looked at each other and slowed down at the same time.
The other contestants behind him exceeded two, and from time to time, someone said hello to them when they passed by them, and then whistled away.
After a while, the two of them had already fallen to the back of the team, with only the players left in front, back, left and right, just like them. It was obvious that they were just focusing on participating.
In such a cool autumn weather, basking in the warm autumn sun and riding on the roads in the suburbs is actually a very pleasant enjoyment.
The two of them had no idea of speeding up at all. They rode slowly while chatting while smiling, and were in a very relaxed and casual mood.
Xu Yi's eyes flashed over the golden mature wheat ears in the farmland on both sides of the road, and suddenly laughed and said, "To be honest, the reason why this road cycling race can be accomplished is thanks to these wheats."
"Because in order to harvest them smoothly, Earl Stark had to compromise with you and promise your conditions?" Steele raised his lips and chuckled.
"Yes, our beloved city lord is willing to agree to any conditions in order to achieve good performance in this autumn harvest. Not to mention agreeing to me to hold a road cycling race with little impact, even if I ask him to reopen the Sanqidun Industrial Zone, he may have to pinch his nose and accept it."
"But I don't think he will do much better." Steele stretched out his hand in confusion and pointed to the wheat fields on both sides of the road. "Last autumn harvest, the wheat fields in Bonta were planted as they are now. Earl Samo said that there is no room for improvement in the grain output in Bonta. Even if Earl Stark finds a way, I don't think it's possible to increase the grain output too much during this autumn harvest, right?"
Xu Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry, we are not fools for our beloved city lord, he must have a way."
"Is that true?" Steele glanced at Xu Yi, then looked at the farmland covered with golden wheat seedlings on both sides of the road, still full of confusion and suspicion. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!