Chapter 159: Skyfall

The latest website: Shen Lang is going to fight, he is ready to put his strength on the 200m freestyle and butterfly swimming at the best.
Feng Jingyuan also agrees with this idea. After all, Shen Lang is not yet 16 years old. After participating in four events at this level of competition, that is too despising.
After the reception staff sent by the event organizer took the Chinese swimming team to the hotel, the four team members stayed in the room honestly, and the others went in contact with the organizer and got the next schedule and schedule, as well as contact Passes for methods and training locations.
It is not known how many people were invited to this competition, but there were more than 600 swimmers going to Miami in the end, and more than 30 people participated in many events.
The next morning when the Chinese swimming team arrived in Miami, Shen Lang and three teammates came to the designated swimming pool for training.
Feng Jingyuan summoned everyone to a meeting at night, and handed down the schedule and the schedule of the four players.
Shen Lang also got his player cards and schedule, Feng Jingyuan only reported to him the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter butterfly.
The official competition starts on April 8th, the first round of the 200m freestyle is on the day, the semifinals and the finals are on the 9th and 10th; the 200m butterfly is on the 9th, the semifinals and the finals are on the 10th No. 11 and No. 11.
It is now April 6th, and there will be another underwater adaptation training tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is the first round of the 200m freestyle.
If you can swim the top 16 results of all players in the preliminary round, you can enter the semifinals.
"Half of the masters didn't come this time, but it's not without chance!"
Wu Jie doesn't think that Shen Lang has no chance to enter the semi-finals. It has been five months since he upgraded his talents. The four-star talents have already fulfilled a lot. Although it is certainly not a game to enter the finals, it is not impossible to complete the semi-finals. task.
On the day of the game, the Chinese swimming team became the least senseless team. Not only did the foreign media not pay attention, but no one in China paid attention to a Chinese team playing for the country as far away as Miami.
Even the reporters were not dispatched in this event, because no one thought that the Chinese swimming team could achieve any results, and even swimming in the finals was a luxury.
This is true, the Chinese swimming team almost wiped out on the first day, except that Shen Lang came out a 1:51.22 seconds in the 200-meter freestyle that Feng Jingyuan could not believe, which was better than his best result before coming to the United States Faster than two seconds.
Obviously, Shen Lang, who went all out, surpassed all domestic players in this project.
But unfortunately, this result is not enough to swim into the next round. He only ranked 23rd among the 29 players in the preliminary round.
Shen Lang did his best this time, but after all he was only 15 years old and his physical talents had not yet been fully realized.
But this result is already amazing. The Asian 200-meter freestyle record is 1:49.25 seconds, and he is less than two seconds away from the Asian record.
The next day was the preliminary contest of the 200-meter butterfly stroke. This time Shen Lang once again exerted his strength to breastfeed. As a result, he swam out for 1:59.31 seconds that made Feng Jingyuan's eyes wide open.
This result is only 1.5 seconds worse than the Asian record of 1:58.84 seconds, and it is entirely possible to compete for the gold medal in the Asian Championship or Asian Games.
Shen Lang really exerted all her strength this time, and even felt a burst of strength after the swim!
But tired, Shen Lang looked at his results immediately after finishing the game.
"It's dangerous, it's 0.05 seconds!"
He is the last group of the preliminaries. After swimming, he got the results of the other seven players in this group, so he can know whether he has advanced to the next round.
The final result let him breathe a sigh of relief. He was the fourth in this group. Only 12 people in the previous three groups were better than his results, which means that he entered the half of the 200m butterfly stroke with the result of 16th in the preliminaries. finals.
After Feng Jingyuan and two Chinese swimming team coaches got this result, they were as excited as Shen Lang got the medal.
No way, the performance of the Chinese swimming team is too bad.
After the preliminaries of the previous two days, the Chinese swimming team was called a "big defeat". Of the four players who participated in the competition, only Shen Lang barely swam into the 200-meter butterfly swimming semi-finals, the rest were wiped out, and no one could enter the semi-finals. .
But Feng Jingyuan still saw a glimmer of hope in his disappointment. Don't see that Shen Lang only entered the semi-finals with the 16th place in the preliminaries, but he was the youngest one to enter the semi-finals in various projects.
Other countries are not without 15-year-old players, even 14-year-old players.
But the only player of the same age who can achieve outstanding results like Wu Jie is China.
Participants in the men's butterfly and freestyle events also remember the name "Shen Lang". If the 15-year-old guy is not falsely reporting his age, he will likely become his rival in a year.
The fastest period for swimmers to improve is between 15 and 18 years of age. After that, there is limited improvement. Therefore, the next two years will be Shen Lang’s period of rapid progress, which is likely to increase every six months.
The Chinese swimming team can also play in Miami for two more days because Shen Lang entered the 200m butterfly semifinals on April 10.
But this time there is no suspense. Although Shen Lang swimed out 1:59.08 seconds, which is a little better than the preliminaries, but unfortunately it is not enough to let him enter the top eight, and finally ended the Miami with 15th place. Invitational.
Shen Lang had no regrets. Only he and a Japanese player had two yellow skins in the semi-finals, and he squeezed that Japanese player to the bottom of the penultimate. In fact, he was already the active first person of the 200m butterfly in Asia. Because the Japanese is the gold medalist of the 200m butterfly in the last Asian Championship.
If the Japanese player did not improve before the Asian Games this year, he now has enough results to win the championship.
Feng Jingyuan was mixed after the excitement. The Chinese swimming team is likely to rely solely on Shen Lang in the next three years.
How far he can swim, how far the Chinese swimming team can go.
This is actually not a good thing. A genius may allow China to get several gold medals, but it cannot improve the overall strength.
But it's really hard to have a second genius who can compete with European and American players for medals!
Wu Jie does not know what Feng Jingyuan is thinking, otherwise he will tell him: This is not all your problem, but the problem of insufficient domestic chemistry and pharmaceutical level. You don’t see East Germany with less than 20 million people can get it at the Olympic Games The top five in the medal list.
But do you really think it is a Germanic man?
Then TM is the best in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields!
The next day, the very naive Chinese swimming team went shopping in Miami collectively, and their plane had to wait until tomorrow night.
Of course, they didn't go to the attractions that need to spend money to buy tickets, everyone just went shopping in the street.
This is a country where foreign exchange is scarce, and they can only exchange up to 10 dollars for souvenirs before going abroad.
This is still the light of football, or even ten dollars.
Now the body has subsidized part of the proceeds from football to other sports. The most intuitive manifestation is that most athletes’ meals have been improved. The country has also bought some advanced training equipment with a small portion of foreign exchange earned from football. Athletes also have a lot more tickets during the holidays.
However, the US$10 in this era could not be bought in the United States. The entire team only had Shen Lang exchanged US$50 in foreign exchange for his manuscript fees through Li Xianru's relationship before going abroad.
So what can you buy for $50?
Shen Lang has already counted, or Wu Jie has already decided for him.
At the moment, Wu Jie, who is far away in Germany, just bought a "platinum level" "Skyfall Yokogawa Card". The effect of this card is: After using it, you will get a Yokozai once, and the effect cannot be superimposed.
The size of this "traverse" is of course linked to the level of the card.
Bronze-level cards are estimated to pick up at most a wallet, it may be only a few dollars.
But what effect will platinum-grade cards have?
Wu Jie decided to let Shen Lang try it out, so the latter spent two dollars to buy two "Super Million Jackpots" to be drawn tonight, that is, "Mega·", while hanging out with a spinach sales point.
In the United States, only "super million" does not restrict the purchase of non-US citizens, as long as they buy within the United States, they can still receive the award as usual.
But non-citizens need to pay 30% of the national tax, which is more than the 25% of American citizens.
The current "super million" is not $2, but the second prize is still a fixed one million US dollars, and the first prize will fluctuate according to sales.
The group did not respond much to Shen Lang's move, because instead of going straight to the point of sale of spinach, he first bought ten latest Marvel and DC comics at the bookstore at a price of $4 each.
With 10 dollars left, he spent 2 dollars to buy spinach when he passed the spinach sales point.
"Super Million" is divided into "general number" and "special number", the general number must choose 5 out of 70 numbers, the special number is 25 numbers choose one, the two form 5+1 Number arrangement, the jackpot winning rate is one in 258 million.
This low winning rate is horrendous. The first prize is often out of several or even more than ten, but as long as someone wins the first prize, it is a super prize starting at tens of millions of dollars.
At 8 o'clock that evening, Shen Lang turned on the TV in the hotel room and watched American spinach, which was said to have no insider information.
The draw process of American spinach is similar to that of China in the future. Shen Lang watched the number sift out one by one from the lottery machine. He did not feel ecstatic in his heart, even if the first five numbers were exactly the same as his choice until the special number. He finally chose the wrong one, and the excitement in his heart did not increase too much, and his face was even more calm.
"Two million dollars only, not much after taxes!"
Both Shen Lang and Wu Jie behind the scene thought secretly.
The reason why they are not excited is simple. Wu Jie is not short of money now, and Shen Lang is definitely not short of money in the future.
He doesn't know the value of the ancestral home alone, let alone the comics that can be copied in the future.
These two million dollars seem to be a lot, but it is just the icing on the cake for Shen Lang.
Wu Jie used a platinum-level card to do this for him, mainly because he wanted to have money to redeem some of his ancestry and land, and by the way save the process of earning the first pot of gold.
Although he can earn this money with his own ability, he can now help him reduce his time by several years.
"Coach, I won the second prize...no, it's not a prank...you tell the leader, come to my room together."
Shen Lang picked up the phone in the room and calmly called Feng Jingyuan's room.
But as soon as these words were finished, Zhao Xuebing, who was about to watch the movie, almost rolled off the bed next door.
Hit the jackpot?
Second prize?
How is this possible? When I saw the lottery just now, Shen Lang's face did not change. He thought he didn't win the prize at all.
Feng Jingyuan was almost shocked to drop the phone on the ground, his face covered with amazement.
How is this possible, just buy two spinach and win the prize?
Is this kid sure not kidding?
Shen Lang ignored Zhao Xuebing in a room after putting down the phone, and began to consider how to use the money.
The two million US dollars must be paid first, and there are three kinds of taxes-national tax, state tax and personal income tax.
Personal income tax varies from bonus level, but as long as it exceeds US$300,000, it is 36% personal tax, which is the figure in 1982.
After paying personal income tax, you must also pay the national tax, which is a fixed 25%, 30% for non-US citizens.
The final state taxes vary from state to state, generally around 5%, with some highs and some lows. Florida is one of the few states that does not charge lottery tax, which means he can pay one less tax.
But even if there are only two taxes, they add up to 66%.
Of course, if it can be divided into 20 years or 30 years, then you can enjoy a certain degree of tax reduction, and the amount after tax will increase by 5% every year.
If you are a US citizen who does not lack money, this way of receiving money is not bad.
Shen Lang will definitely not consider doing so, so he can only receive after-tax bonus of 680,000 US dollars.
There is not so much money at a glance, and he cannot swallow the money alone.
Now there is a "sports development fund" in China. In addition to domestic wages, any athlete must donate half of the proceeds abroad, so he can only get 340,000 US dollars.
This clear price tag is actually a kind of protection for athletes.
Otherwise, the body part, the national swimming team will have one point, and the Shanghai swimming team will have one more point, it must be no less than 50% left.
However, as Shen Lang, who was not particularly poor, he planned to go out a little more and split half of his 50% to the Shanghai Municipal Government.
When Feng Jingyuan and the team leader ran into his room in pajamas, Shen Lang quickly told them about his winnings. Zhao Xuebing had been asked to leave the room by Feng Jingyuan.
"American taxes are so high?"
After the leader heard that he had to pay 66% tax, he almost shouted, "Evil US imperialism eats people and doesn't spit bones."
"Shen Lang, you have $680,000. Are you really willing to donate half?"
Feng Jingyuan was amazed by Wu Jie’s ideological consciousness, and replaced it with the fact that he absolutely must fight hard. People, sometimes very satisfied, sometimes difficult to satisfy, my greed is not money, one The value of an Olympic gold medal in my mind is much higher than a million dollars. After donating half of this bonus to the Development Foundation, I want to do something for my hometown. "
Shen Lang began to pretend, but these words made them awe-inspiring. Although the person in front of him was just a 15-year-old kid, this realm was really much higher than them.
If they win such a big prize, they will choose to leave the team and stay in the United States, and then apply for a US green card, so that they don't need a penny.
However, what Wu Jie behind was thinking was: Donate another half of US$340,000, and still be able to register a comic company in Hong Kong, and also cooperate with Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio to launch animation in China. The release of the manga and anime version of "Soccer Boy" will definitely make countless times more money than domestic ones.
Moreover, this money cannot be donated in vain.
Even if the ancestors don’t want it, how can the wasteland on the riverside be returned? Otherwise it is a waste to put it!