ILSITM Chapter 75

I seemed to fall on my butt.
“Come out quickly, great warriors, all of you get out here!”
In the darkness, I heard a clamor of voices.
As soon as I stood up, I was pushed forward by a crowd of people.
It felt like I was walking in a narrow and dark passage.
After walking for dozens of meters, I turned a corner, and there seemed to be light ahead.
After walking out of the passage, I and a group of people were actually standing on the street.
The sides of the street were surrounded by three-meter-high iron fences, and outside the iron fences on both sides, there were crowds of people.
“Welcome, great warriors, to participate in the 4th World Warrior Championship. We will be broadcasting live today. Welcome viewers from all over the world to watch,” a voice floated down from mid-air.
Amid the cheers of the crowd on both sides of the street, I looked up into the air and a hot air balloon came into my sight.
In the basket under the hot air balloon, stood a man holding a wireless microphone.
Beside me, stood hundreds of strong men.
They were all bare-chested and bare-legged, wearing only a pair of shorts.
Most of them were black and white, and there were a few yellow people.
I looked at my legs, which were wrapped in tight and elastic jeans.
I looked at my upper body again, and I was wearing a black tracksuit.
“I finally didn’t possess the statue of Yang Wulang. This person is me. Although I can’t see my face, these clothes are mine,” I secretly rejoiced.
Where am I? I obviously jumped down from a solid cave under the offering table, how could I have come to this place?
I observed the buildings on both sides of the street and the surrounding crowd, and found that this was not in China, but in a certain city abroad.
The man standing in the hot air balloon basket, holding a microphone, should be the host of this competition. He was speaking English. My English is not good, but I can still understand what he is saying.
“The first level is a standard marathon. These warriors will run the entire 42.195 kilometers marathon. Of course, the most fun thing is that in the last three kilometers, we will release more than a dozen cheetahs to chase them. Only the first ten warriors to reach the finish line will be the winners of the first level,” said the blue-eyed, blonde-haired host.
“I must have traveled from that vertical cave to here, right? Why do I have to run a marathon as soon as I travel to here? This is something I never expected,” I muttered.
However, running a marathon is not difficult for me.
“On your marks, get set—go!” The host gave the order in mid-air.
I saw the people around me start running, so I followed them.
“World Warrior Championship? Why haven’t I heard of it before? The first level is running a marathon, and the second and third levels are swimming and cycling? It shouldn’t be. That’s the Ironman Triathlon. This is the Warrior Championship,” I said to myself as I ran.
At this time, I saw the cameras mounted on several small drones in the air were taking pictures of us along the way.
My endurance is good. I started long-distance running at the age of six or seven and have been running for twenty years.
After I retired from the Marine Corps, I participated in several marathons held in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Although I didn’t run in the top few, I ran within three hours, and the fastest time was two hours and forty minutes.
After running half the distance, I was among the top 30 of these hundred warriors.
I’m in good shape today, I think I can run faster.
By the time I had run 30 kilometers, I had overtaken to 19th place.
In the next twelve kilometers, as long as I maintain this pace, I can achieve a late surge and run into the top ten in the end.
When I ran the last five kilometers, I saw a dozen iron cages placed beside the track, each cage containing a cheetah.
“Attention, warriors, there are only five kilometers left to the finish line. When the leading player runs the last three kilometers, we will release these dozen cheetahs to race with you. Cheer up,” the host shouted loudly at us from the hot air balloon.
We ran very fast, and the last one was only four or five hundred meters away from the first one, the gap was not very big.
When I ran the last three kilometers, I was only thirty or forty meters away from the first place, and I had overtaken to eleventh place.
After running a few hundred meters further, I heard screams from behind.
I turned my head and looked behind me, and several cheetahs had caught up with some people running behind, and were frantically tearing them apart.
These cheetahs would not give up until they had bitten these players to death. After biting one person to death, they would continue to chase the people in front, and then bite them to death, and then chase the people in front.
Seeing this scene, the people running in front couldn’t help but speed up.
There was still the last kilometer left, and my ranking was always swaying between eleventh and tenth place.
There were only the last hundred meters left, I accelerated, running faster and faster, overtaking several players in a row, only one step away from the first warrior, and only half a step away from the second warrior, unexpectedly winning the third place.
I turned my head and looked behind me. The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh warriors had successively reached the finish line. The tenth, ninth, and eighth players had been caught up by three cheetahs and unfortunately died in the mouths of the cheetahs, stopping before the finish line.
At the finish line, an automatic lifting fence was installed.
At this time, the iron fence had been raised, separating us from the ferocious cheetahs.
The seven of us stood at the finish line, looking through the iron fence at the last kilometer of the track, silent.
On this last kilometer of the track, there were corpses everywhere and blood flowed like a river.
No matter how fast we run, it is impossible to outrun cheetahs with a speed of up to 120 kilometers per hour.
How small humans appear in front of these beasts!
“Which country is holding this so-called World Warrior Championship? How can they be so contemptuous of the law and treat human life like dirt?” I thought angrily.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I announce with great sorrow that only seven warriors have won the first level. Let us warmly congratulate them!” The host in the hot air balloon basket above our heads started to get excited again.
At this time, a military transport helicopter making a “buzzing” sound landed not far from us.
“Please, warriors, quickly enter the helicopter, we will transport you to the destination of the second level,” the host’s voice floated from the air again.
I followed a few winning warriors and walked onto the helicopter together.
When I got inside the helicopter, I found that there was no one in the cockpit. It turned out that this was an unmanned helicopter.
In front of our seats, there were various high-energy foods. After all, everyone had just run a marathon, and they were exhausted, so they were a little hungry and started eating.
After eating, everyone sat in their seats and dozed off.

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