Chapter 567: Sharpshooter

Chapter 567 The Sharpshooter

Meng Fan had come into contact with archery during the recording of the Asian Games special program "Champion Challenges Champion," triggering the achievement quest "Sharpshooter," and later triggered "Divine Striker" in badminton.

It was also after the program that he completed these two achievement quests and obtained two titles. Together with the previous "Divine Pitcher," Meng Fan's attribute stats in throwing precision, shooting precision, and striking precision had all reached above 20. Factoring in the bonus from "I Am the Champion," the three precision attributes brought a qualitative leap to Meng Fan's five senses.

Meng Fan had only given archery a simple try on the program "Champion Challenges Champion" and completed the achievement quest after the show, so not many people actually remembered that he knew how to shoot. It was truly because Meng Fan had displayed far too many project capabilities on that program, and attention was also drawn to the projects he was not good at or suited for, such as the high jump and gymnastics.

Archery, of course everyone knew about it and many even understood it well, but as a sport, most people did not understand it, and the vast majority had never even encountered it.

As a sporting event, archery had a very poor mass base due to many reasons, mainly two: first, it was relatively dangerous, and second, it was relatively expensive. This was true not only in China, but in the vast majority of countries.

Meng Fan followed the team to the archery hall. Along the way, he had already inquired about the world records related to archery.

It was quite complicated.

There were many world records in archery. Besides the main classifications of men, women, and teams, they were also related to the shooting range and the number of arrows. For example, the men's all-around in the World Championships ranking round involved 90 meters, 70 meters, 50 meters, and 30 meters, with 144 arrows in a single round and 288 arrows in a double round; the Olympic Games only had a 70-meter range with 72 arrows in a double round. Just these two top-level tournaments gave the men's event 3 world records.

Archery world records were all related to the ranking rounds; there were no officially recognized world records to speak of once entering the elimination rounds and finals.

All in all, if following regular tournaments, Meng Fan could complete challenges for four world records in archery—the team event was impossible to complete.

As soon as Yang Ji heard Meng Fan asking about world records, he knew that Meng Fan was really going to use archery to challenge a world record. It wasn't that he didn't believe it, he was just too curious: "Are you for real? You can really challenge the world record in archery?"

Meng Fan smiled and said, "When it comes to precision, I have my own special techniques."

Yang Ji recalled Meng Fan's street basketball shooting world record, and also thought of Meng Fan's various miracles in the field of golf. Of course he believed Meng Fan had special precision techniques. Meng Fan had previously provided many tutorials on intensive training for the five senses, and the archery team had also used them with very good results.

Yang Ji said, "We originally had a training match today using the Olympic tournament ranking round system. Do you want to join us?"

Meng Fan said, "Sure, but I need to livestream it. Is that okay?"

"Of course you can, just settle the appearance fees for the team members—you treat us to dinner after training."

"No problem."

...

Arriving at the archery hall, Meng Fan equipped his bow and gear, then opened the livestream room. Before long, over a million netizens flooded into the room, most of whom had clicked the special notification.

"My friends, my current location is the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Archery Hall. Today I have the honor of following the Zhejiang Archery Team here to train. I will participate in the Olympic archery individual ranking round training match with them. At the same time, I will also challenge the world record for the Olympic men's archery 70-meter 72-arrow ranking round. Next, let me introduce the athletes participating in this training match."

After a round of introductions, he introduced the coach Yang Ji, and then Yang Ji introduced the tournament system.

"The individual ranking round in the Olympic system is ranked according to double rounds, with 72 arrows in total. Due to time constraints today, the 72 arrows are divided into 12 groups, with 6 arrows per group. The first round consists of 6 groups of 6 arrows, followed by a rest period, and then we enter the second round... Finally, let me introduce that the current world record for the Olympic system men's individual ranking round 70-meter 72-arrow is 700 points, set at the 2016 Olympics."

Yang Ji finished the introduction, and the field was also arranged.

Before the official training match, according to Olympic rules, all athletes had a practice shot opportunity of six arrows.

Meng Fan also took practice shots to get familiar with the feel.

His bow was a standard recurve bow. The draw weight was naturally too light for him, but it was still usable; after all, he had excellent strength control.

With the six practice shots, Meng Fan hit above 9 points on all of them, and the last three arrows were all 10 points, basically flawless.

The official competition began.

The first group of 6 arrows in the first round. According to regulations, all athletes had to shoot their 6 arrows within 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Meng Fan stood at the center target position. For his first arrow, he still had a very clear aiming time after raising the bow and arrow. He completed the shot smoothly, and the arrow landed steadily inside the 10-point ring.

For the second arrow, there was still aiming. In addition to aiming, Meng Fan also opened his five senses to a certain extent to feel the wind speed, and then shot it out. 10 points.

The third arrow, fourth arrow, fifth arrow, and sixth arrow, Meng Fan's aiming time grew shorter and shorter. When he finished shooting them all, the elapsed time was exactly 1 minute.

6 arrows of 10 points, a perfect score of 60 points.

Putting down the bow and arrow, he let out a breath. He was somewhat nervous. The cumulative time he had touched a bow and arrow was very short, but because of his own abilities, his understanding of archery was very deep. Most importantly, he could grasp the bow and arrow along with his five senses.

He quietly waited for the other athletes to finish the first group of 6 arrows in the first round. After a short rest, they entered the second group.

Meng Fan's shooting speed became even faster. He shot almost immediately after nocking the arrow, which could completely be considered rapid fire.

In the second group, Meng Fan likewise obtained 6 tens.

Next, it became even more effortless. No accidents occurred. Even if the wind speed suddenly changed, he could accurately control it.

Yang Ji stood behind Meng Fan the entire time, watching until he was dumbfounded, dazed, infatuated, wild, and even more itchy at heart!

He secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he had to try every possible means to drag Meng Fan to participate in an archery competition. Where else could he find this kind of max-leveled archery athlete before even debuting!

The first round ended quickly. Meng Fan hit tens with all 36 arrows in the six groups, shooting a perfect score of 360 points.

During the break, Yang Ji rubbed his hands straight at Meng Fan, not knowing what kind of opening remarks could move Meng Fan. After thinking it over and secretly weighing his words, Yang Ji finally spoke up: "Meng Fan, as the universally recognized number one tough guy in the world, don't you think that adding a footnote of 'good at shooting' after this title would make it look particularly... tough?"

Meng Fan, who was drinking water, almost choked and sprayed it out.

Who would have thought that a guy with such thick eyebrows and big eyes like you, Yang Ji, would also drive a dirty joke!

(End of this chapter)