Silver Plate of Rebirth Frostblade

There was no lottery ceremony held in the evening lottery, and Xu Lingjun and others directly received the notice from the organizing committee.

After the short program, only 24 of the [-] participating men's singles will enter the next round of free skating.Except for the last two groups, the other two groups are mixed draws.Due to the avalanche of the short program, Popov was placed in the penultimate group. He was lucky, and even got the last appearance of the whole group, which could be saved.

Thanks to Popov's big gift package and his own efforts, Zhong Feiyang was lucky enough to squeeze into the last group, but it was a pity that his good luck did not continue to accompany him during the lottery, and he was drawn as the first player in the last group.

Xu Lingjun looked down at Zhong Feiyang's name, followed by Haimo, Wu Jing, Rossi, and Adrian.

Then, he saw the pinyin of his name on the right side of the 24th, the last number in the audience.

Well done, I was the first in the short program and the last in the free skating. It was very exciting.

***

The day of the free skating competition.

With earphones plugged into his ears, Xu Lingjun was sitting on a stool, behind him was Zhu Heng who was busy, holding a portable bar clamp in his hand, twisting and twisting on his head.

Xu Lingjun looked at his own hair in the mirror in front of him, bit by bit, being pinched out of a curved arc, and suddenly opened his mouth and said: "I remember when I participated in the World Youth Championship for the first time, I saw Adrian pinching his hair in the background ,He also told me that the hair will be fluffy if it is clipped, and the face will look smaller."

Zhu Heng laughed out loud, and almost pulled a strand of hair out of the sheep roll with a trembling of his hand.She put the still-hot straight iron on the table next to her, brushed Xu Lingjun's hair with her fingers, and sprayed some styling water.

"It's his style, so stinky." Zhu Heng smiled and pointed to the other direction of the backstage with his eyes. Xu Lingjun looked in the mirror, and Adrian was sitting in a corner with a small box in front of him, carefully drawing his eyebrows .The people around are warming up and resting, and they all seem to be familiar with it.

This set of free skating costumes is relatively simple, but there are some articles on the head. Every time after changing clothes, Xu Lingjun needs Zhu Heng to help with his hair. It's not that he is lazy, but that he once tried to After doing a haircut, he permed a bunch of hair into a right-angle bend, and finally bit the bullet and tied his hair on stage, Zhu Heng didn't allow him to touch the straight irons by himself.

After tidying up her appearance, Xu Lingjun put on a white national team sports jacket over her performance clothes, put on headphones, listened to music clips, and started another round of warm-up activities.

"How long until it starts?" Zhu Heng whispered in Zhu Rui's ear.

Zhu Rui looked at the watch on his hand, and listened carefully to the sound of music coming from the front desk: "Five to 10 minutes. Now Popov has started the competition."

Popov on the court is facing the most important test in his life at this time.

"It's great! The back-to-side ice point is four weeks, Rupp is one week, Sakhov is three weeks. So far, Popov has successfully completed five quadruple jumps. Let's wait a moment to see if he can complete the pair of himself. Salvation! - OK! The last back and outside point around the ice, beautiful! I must say that Popov is a different person today!"

Uncle Ou Ti's excited voice came from a corner of the media booth.

"Indeed, his performance today is really impressive." A male voice with a smile and a little accent came, and the microphone was pulled down, revealing a handsome face that he hadn't seen for a long time.

It is the guest invited by the European Sports Channel of this Winter Olympics, the former figure skating men's singles king, Dominic.

Under Popov's passionate interpretation, he successfully cleaned this difficult program. With a technical score of 112.83 and a program content score of 90.44, he surpassed the crowd and crushed the current No.2 by more than [-] points. Top of the leaderboard.

"What's about to happen next is the warm-up time for the last group of six contestants."

Popov was still waiting for the division, weeping excitedly. Xu Lingjun, who had been waiting on the sidelines for a long time, and six people had already lined up and entered from the entrance of the ice rink.

The broadcast camera pointed at Xu Lingjun without hesitation and began to follow up. After Xu Lingjun got on the ice, he made a series of smooth footwork, and then he skated for a long time.

"My dear Dominique, these players on the court should be your old friends, and you have competed together in many international competitions before, so I am really curious, what do you think of this free skate? What do you think? We all know that the championship is very likely to be produced among the six players in the final group, is there anyone you are particularly optimistic about?"

In the camera, Xu Lingjun moved his neck a bit, and after doing a relatively long skating, he hit the ice with his right foot directly opposite the long side of the referee, and then hit the ice with his right foot for three weeks with his hands over his head.Received warm applause from the audience.

"The six people in the last group all have the possibility of winning the championship in my eyes." Dominic, who hadn't seen him for a long time, had a very magnetic voice: "The feeling of the Olympics is different from all other competitions. On this ice , Anything can happen, and we won't know how it will end until the last moment. But relatively speaking, due to the advantages of yesterday's short program, China's Xu and America's Haimo have a relatively higher chance of winning the championship."

"You and both of them have a history of playing against each other many times. Can you share with us what it's like to play against them?"

Dominic let out a burst of hearty laughter: "Well, I expected it. These two are indeed my old friends, especially Haimer. He is a player with very personal characteristics. This season he Once again, he chose "Alan Huzi", which is very suitable for him and has received a lot of praise, as the long program. The words 'I want to win the championship' have been written on his face-I am really looking forward to watching it He can get what he wants."

"As for Xu, although I have only competed with him for a few years, he is one of the players who left the deepest impression on me. He is young, talented, determined, and has a heart for excellence. I admire him very much. .This year his shows are all new, and he's going to challenge new levels of difficulty in an event like the Olympics, and to that I can really just say, wow, I can't do that."

The 6-minute warm-up time was very short. Except for Zhong Feiyang who was the first to play, Xu Lingjun and others all retreated from the ice.

The moment he got off the ice, he turned his head and glanced at Zhong Feiyang, whose face was already blue with nervousness, and Ge Tianxing, who was chattering beside him as he was making the last chicken soup, smiled slightly and walked towards Zhu Rui who was waiting for him.

"Next up - from America, Ruben Highmore!"

"Ahhhh-"

"Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa……"

"The Japanese player Takei Shunta's score is, the technical score..."

"The next contestant to play is - from Italy, Giuseppe Rossi!"

……

applause.

cheers.

background music sound.

A sublime announcement.

The uproar of the audience.

The sound of taking a breath of cold air.

Although wearing headphones on his ears, Xu Lingjun still felt that everything that happened outside the ice rink could be heard through a thin dark blue curtain.

Groups of people around walked and went, came and went, Xu Lingjun sat alone on the yoga mat and mechanically did stretching exercises that were no longer proficient, and suddenly felt as if he had become an island in a vast sea of ​​people.

He tried his best to get rid of his own distracting thoughts and focus on the warm-up practice at the moment, but the sound on the ice rink still drilled into his ears relentlessly.

Why are there so many cheers?

Is Haimer clean?Has anyone else exploded?

His heart was beating faster and faster, pounding against his eardrums.

It can't go on like this!

Zhu Rui and Ge Tianxing, who were watching worriedly but didn't dare to say a word, suddenly saw Xu Lingjun get up quickly, and were taken aback: "What's wrong? What are you doing?"

"Go to the bathroom and wash your face, and I'll be right back." Xu Lingjun left quickly after leaving a word.

Cold water gushed out of the faucet.

The restroom was near the backstage warm-up venue, and Xu Lingjun stood alone in front of the mirror, looking straight at himself in the mirror.

Beads of water hung on his blushing face, and wet a small lock of hair at the temple.The cold water gradually evaporated, taking away the abnormal heat on his face and heart.

"You can do it. Do you hear me? You must do it."

After a moment of silence, a low voice suddenly sounded in the empty bathroom.

***

"What a perfect game." The voice of Uncle European Sports clearly passed through the radio waves and reached the ears of the audience amidst the screams of the enthusiastic audience: "Up to now, the five players in the last group have performed well But, I personally think that we will definitely witness an Olympic men’s singles record with the highest average score. Now let’s welcome the last player! From China, the world champion who is expected by thousands of people—Xu Lingjun!”

"Xu Lingjun's program received a lot of praise when it came out in the first year of junior high school. Although he is facing great pressure now, due to his huge BV advantage and the short program's leading point difference, we can say that as long as he can do it, in the The Chamonix Ice Rink has created history and completed this unprecedented set of seven four-week free skating, then he will definitely be the champion! It is difficult, but not impossible!" The competition reached the most critical moment , Dominic's voice was also trembling with excitement.

After skating around the field, the teenager raised his hands high.

The audience in the field responded with warm applause.

Xu Lingjun closed his eyes and closed them slightly, his long eyelashes drooping down to cast a shadow in his sight.

His movements standing on the ice rink were so solemn, and the ice rink became strangely quiet in the atmosphere he created.

Xu Lingjun's free skating outfit this season looks plain at first glance, with dark brown trousers and a creased Greek-style beige top, with a golden medallion fixed on the shoulder, and a boat-shaped neckline revealing a deep collarbone. There are no other patterns.Compared with the simple clothes, his ear-length hair was clipped into slightly curving waves, matched with a high nose bridge and white skin, making him look full of classical beauty, as if he came out of Greek mythology , with a trace of sacred and inviolable temperament.

The most eye-catching thing is the fixed circle of decoration on his hair - golden, made into the shape of olive leaves, from a distance, it looks like there is a golden laurel wreath on the top of his head.

"The olive branch, which symbolizes peace and victory, has been a gift to Olympic audiences since ancient Greece. Xu Lingjun's costumes are very thoughtful and fit the theme of the show. Let's hold our breath and enjoy this season quietly My personal favorite show - "Icarus."

The female singing seems to come from the distant sea.

Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos in the tower in the center of the labyrinth of Crete. What awaited them was endless captivity and final death.

Xu Lingjun on the field slowly opened his eyes, his hands palms up, as if he was holding something, and then gradually retracted.With a slight movement of the feet, like a small boat floating in the sea, it instantly picked up its speed, almost without any pause, and slid cleanly to the short side on the other side in line with the dance movements of its hands.

The ethereal female voice gradually faded away, and Xu Lingjun did a two-week walley jump cleanly, pressing out the big outer edge with his left foot, and stretching his right leg back for a little ice.

The blades sank deeply into the tough ice surface. Everyone played very well in today's game. The ice surface remained basically intact after the multiplayer game.

"Perfect opening! A quadruple hook with impeccable height and length! Oh, look at the smooth slide!"

The moment the right rear outer edge felt the weight of his body, Xu Lingjun suddenly felt that his heart became very quiet.

All the disturbances, the noise of the audience around, and the nervousness before the start of the competition all disappeared at the moment when the first jump successfully landed on the ice.

The best hook jump did not betray me.

His mind seems to be left with only peripheral music and a strong belief.

"I want to win!"

The melodious main theme sounded at this moment, and Xu Lingjun used a deathdrop very neatly to enter the first jump-and-swallow turn arranged in the program.

The level of directing is very high. When Xu Lingjun is doing the Yan-style rotation, the camera gradually becomes farther and higher. In the picture, there is only the snow-white ice surface and the five-ring logo printed on it. On the edge of the five-ring logo, a figure is gradually speeding up. , performing a lonely dance.

"Xu's spinning skills have been constantly improving during the many years I have known him." Dominique said with emotion: "The most brilliant thing about him in the past was his speed and the skill of changing directions, but now He not only maintains the advantage of fast speed, but also adds more difficult postures. What's more rare is that he can also adjust the speed according to the rhythm and priority of the music. It’s extremely rare to find a stereotyped player.”

The music gradually eased, and Xu Lingjun ended his Yan-style spin. With the figure-of-sight figure that stopped, he tightened his muscles resolutely and took off with a blade—another Sahov that slid out beautifully!

"Classic, full of Tsui's signature jumps - high quality and imaginative!"

Following the huge arc slid out by Sakhov, Xu Lingjun did a split jump, and slid out with a series of twirling steps with his hands raised high and slowly hanging down. When he slid to the long side opposite the referee's seat, he suddenly turned He turned around, opened his arms, and moved his shoulders slightly, making a movement like flapping wings to take off.

His father, Daedalus, did not want his son to be imprisoned on a high tower and lose his freedom in his prime, so he made him a pair of flying wings out of wax and feathers.

Fly, my child, fly to freedom!

"The following is Xu Lingjun's secret weapon this season - it is also the last piece of the puzzle on his way to the five four-round all-around, Rupu four-round! Oh, this jump! I thought I was dazzled! He really doesn't have Is there something hanging on?!"

Rupp's jump is fast and graceful in the air. It is one of the favorite jumps of many ice fans. Although Xu Lingjun is better at ice jumping, his Rupp jump has an incomparable advantage, that is, its amazing height and Obvious sense of stagnation!

The moment the ice fell, Xu Lingjun just stepped on the accent point of the music. He raised his arms and walked towards the wind, as if he was really standing on the top of a tower, ready to jump down and fly towards the end of the sky!

"Squat spins are one of Xu's most beautiful spins, and his squat spins in this program are especially beautifully designed—oh, did you see the movements of his hands?"

Xu Lingjun, who was squatting on one foot, did not keep his hands idle, but stretched backwards and swayed up and down, as if a pair of wings really grew out of his back, and they were soaring. With the fast rotation speed, the viewing effect is excellent.The audience couldn't help giving a loud applause in the middle of the show.

The female voice singing in the music sounded again in the main theme, different from the ethereal at the beginning, at this moment, the female voice seemed to be more vast and far away, the heavy drums were beating one after another, deep and heroic, Icarus was wearing wings , vigorously instigated, under the gaze of his father, followed the wind and white clouds, fled Crete, the clouds under his feet dispersed slightly, revealing the boundless Aegean Ocean like a huge emerald.

The young man wearing the golden laurel crown is dressed simply, but he seems to be a focal point at this moment. Every move, gesture, frown, smile, and stop together in the graded footwork affect the hearts of thousands of viewers. .

With five jumps, including three jumps, the second half of the four quads is about to begin!

This is also the key to whether Xu Lingjun can successfully create history!

"The back and forth point around, and the hook jumps around! Okay! I have a faint premonition! I feel that history is being written in front of me!" Uncle Ou Ti was completely attracted by the people on the field at this time, It even violated the principle that no predictions can be made casually before the result of the game is out, and set the flag high.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The moment the ice fell happened to be an empty beat of the music, and the people on the field stepped on the ice blade. It seemed that the plane of his dance was no longer the snow-white boundless ice surface, but the hearts of every audience.

"Good job, three and a half weeks and then two weeks of ice - oh my god, who would have imagined that one day I would be able to live to see such a set of programs, regardless of the jumping, three and a half weeks It’s the least difficult jump in the composition! It’s crazy! But it’s a reality! It’s Xu Lingjun who made us witness all this, and may the god of figure skating bless him!”

Before the words fell, Xu Lingjun simply finished the heartbeat again.

At this moment, time seemed to stop for it.

The mask girl and Yuan Jingying held each other's hands tightly.

Du Xiaoxiao and Feng Lin's eyes widened.

Ge Tianxing, who was holding the baffle, clenched his teeth.

Zhu Rui on the sidelines was in the cold ice rink, a drop of sweat slowly dripped from his ears.

There was a moment of silence in the laminar flow ward. Xu Hangsheng on the bed grabbed the quilt nervously, and the patients around him, and even all the doctors and nurses held their breath.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

From the front to the back, all the audience stood up, raised their hands and gave their best applause with all their strength. The crowd surged forward like waves.

"Clean!!!" Uncle Europa League and the commentators from all other countries in the media auditorium shouted loudly at the same time.

"My current mood cannot be described in words! I have seen a miracle, no, I will say it is a miracle! The Olympic god and the figure skating god descended in Chamonix today. The young man sent all the blessings! The champion, the champion without a doubt! A long program, seven quadruple jumps were all completed perfectly! This is a breakthrough in human history. At this moment, he is the incarnation of Icarus. Go to the sky, fly to the sun! The sky is his limit!"

Xu Ling, who had completed all the jumping movements on the field, felt very tired physically, but extremely excited. His limbs seemed to have their own will, and they kept spinning and moving on the field.

hold onto!We must persist until the last second of the program!

The music entered the most passionate passage, and Xu Lingjun felt the sweat roll off his cheeks. This was a pure white battlefield, and the cold mist surrounded him, but he felt a rush of blood bursting from his heart, flowing to every part of his body. Every corner, every nerve ending, was scorching hot, transforming into energy that made him want to explode.

In an instant, familiar scenes floated before his eyes.

When I stepped on the ice for the first time, I saw the huge and novel Yuhu ice rink in my young eyes, the empty arena in Zagreb that fell last in my previous life, the cheers of the audience in Beijing night and the waves of the audience The undulating national flag, the deep footprints I left on the white and flawless snow in Chicago, the sky full of lights reflected by the floor-to-ceiling windows of the practice room, the iron-gray gate of the laminar flow ward of No.1 Civilian Hospital in H City slowly closing ...

In these familiar scenes, there are countless familiar people.

From childhood to adulthood, Yue Baozhu and Hou Boyan, who grew up with him; Lianhai, Dominique, Owada, and Haimo, whom he once regarded as the goal of catching up; Friends Wu Jing, Zhong Feiyang, Adrian and Rossi; and the stubborn Popov who always wants to catch up with him...

The kindly smiling physical therapist in the Yuhu Club; the muscular but somewhat silly physical trainer; the dance instructor Qi Miao and the skating coach Zhu Heng; the knife sharpener who helps him check the sharpening every month; and the cafeteria The fat nutritionist in...

He Feifei, who chose the competition clothes for him one by one; Xu Hangsheng, who held his hand on the hospital bed; Ge Tianxing, who had lines on the corners of his eyes; Dong Zhicheng, who said he wanted him to make money but always compromised for his opinions ; and from the beginning to the end, Zhu Rui who has been with him and by his side...

Icarus is me, I am Icarus.

Xu Lingjun's heart was suddenly filled with gratitude to the world.

Thank you, you are all my Daedalus, forging the wings for me to fly.

Let me conquer myself, the ice rink under my feet, and the distant sky.Maybe then I'll be swallowed up by the sky, the sun, and the sea, so what?I have tried, chased, and fought hard, and it was not in vain.

The majestic and majestic music gradually weakened, and Icarus finally rushed to the sun, his wings melted, and he fell into the rough sea as a martyr.

Xu Lingjun on the field finished the final joint spin, slowed down slowly, and a fine piece of ice shavings hung from the skates under his feet.

He knelt down on one knee, raised his head slightly, clenched his fists on his chest, and slowly looked up at the sky.

The audience, who hadn't sat down since choreographing the footwork, continued to applaud with tears. Looking around, their eyes were full of red, like a sea of ​​five-star red flags.

"Thank God for bringing him to us."

Xu Lingjun stood up from the ice and raised his hands in all directions.

There was another scream.

He suddenly had an urge to cry.

His vision had blurred, but Xu Lingjun could still make out that the live camera was facing him.

"I really did."

In the high-definition close-up of the young man's eyes, two lines of tears flashed across his eyes. He opened his mouth and said a word, but there was no radio, but the audience in front of the TV understood it.

Xu Hangsheng in the laminar flow ward burst into tears at this moment.

It seems that in order to keep the historical moment for a longer time, the referee did not ask Xu Lingjun to end the game for a long time, but defaulted to letting him bow again and again amidst the constant cheers of the audience.

When turning to the short side on the left, Xu Lingjun saw that on the side of the entrance, his mentor Ge Tianxing was holding his knife sheath, and gave him a thumbs up with the other hand.

After Ge Tianxing gave a thumbs up, Xu Lingjun turned his attention to the young man beside Ge Tianxing who was holding his coat.

Zhu Rui's face was full of tears, and he was wiping it with his hands indiscriminately, but his eyes kept looking in his direction, not willing to move away for a second.

The moment the four eyes met, Zhu Rui saw the young man on the field through the doll flowers that fell like rain, and showed him a smile as bright as the rising sun.

Then he stretched out two index fingers, and firmly drew a small heart shape in front of him. With his palms together, his eyes looked at him with a smile, and he blew gently on his palm.

The author has something to say:

00 This season's long-running track is finally here at the end, and it's IcarusbyIvanTorrent/JulieElven

The story about 00 also draws a successful conclusion here

From the beginning of writing this article to the present, for 110 days, I have been accompanied by this group of characters in the book every day. When I wrote the "end of the text", I still felt a little bit reluctant, but the figure skating life of 00 is endless. The meeting will end after winning the Olympic championship this time, he is still the boy who conquered the stars and the sea!

------Here is the dividing line of the author full of gratitude-----

Writing this article is purely on my own whim. Before this, I had never written anything except 10,000-word test-taking essays and academic papers. I don’t know how to enter V, or even where to read the comments, but fortunately, I have readers who have been writing with me and taught me a lot of things patiently. Without your support, I would never have such perseverance After writing a novel of four [-]+ characters, I feel incredible in retrospect.

Thank you all for accompanying me, friends who accompanied 00 Zhuge, I have given you a lot of good things!

There may be extra episodes in the future, but it depends on everyone's opinions. If you prefer to stop here and have more room for imagination, then there is no problem~

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