Judging from Fu Ying's expression, she also wanted to see if she, a girl, wasn't tired. But then she remembered seeing her take down six or seven grown men by herself in Chongkou, and immediately realized that she was wrong again. You can't judge her by her delicate and beautiful appearance; that's the complete opposite.
Without saying anything more, Zhou Xuan casually picked out a pair of swimming trunks, then went to the room by the indoor swimming pool to change, and then came to the large outdoor swimming pool.
Li Junjie and Fu Yingzao were sitting on chairs by the pool, with the three foreigners and Wang Jue standing beside them.
Daniel, Wolf, and Elena were already swimming in the pool.
Zhou Xuan came out, squatted down to test the water temperature, then stuck one leg into the water and slid his body into the water. This way of entering the water was extremely awkward, but Li Junjie and Fu Ying both had smiles on their faces.
Li Junjie felt that the so-called diving expert that his cousin Fu Ying had found was somewhat overrated, while Fu Ying knew Zhou Xuan's true diving ability, but she couldn't help but laugh when she saw his way of entering the water.
As soon as Zhou Xuan entered the water, the Daniel brothers and Elena immediately swam over and gathered at the poolside.
Li Junjie's three subordinates each held a timer, and Li Junjie himself also held one. Elena and Li Junjie exchanged a few words, which Zhou Xuan couldn't understand. He was the only one in the group who couldn't understand. He hadn't thought about the language barrier at all when they came, but now he realized that it was quite a troublesome thing.
Li Junjie gestured with his finger and said, "OK!"
"Damn it," Zhou Xuan cursed inwardly. He could understand this sentence, and the words he was most familiar with in this language were "YES" and "OK".
Li Junjie then said in Mandarin, "Mr. Zhou, I'll time you, and the other three will time the Wolf Brothers and Elena. Watch my hand gestures as I dive into the water, understand?"
Li Junjie's Mandarin had a heavy Taiwanese accent, which Zhou Xuan disliked. It wasn't that he disliked Li Junjie personally, but rather that he had heard those effeminate men in Taiwanese dramas speaking in a cheesy way, which made him particularly annoyed by this accent. Also, when Li Junjie called him, he would simply say "Little Zhou" or "Mr." instead of "Mr. Little Zhou," which was clearly a mockery.
Li Junjie looked at the group of people, said "Ready," and then raised his hand and said, "One, two, three!"
These three words were exactly what Zhou Xuan knew. When Li Junjie counted to one, all four of them took a deep breath, and when they counted to three, they all dived into the water.
The water in the swimming pool was only two meters deep. After Zhou Xuan dived into the water, he squatted at the bottom of the pool. There were three heads facing each other, staring at each other. He couldn't help but find it a little funny.
Although Zhou Xuan was exhausted, he quickly felt refreshed after circulating the pill in his left hand a few times. He felt almost no pressure at the bottom of the two-meter-deep water.
Zhou Xuan watched the Wolf brothers and Elena with ease and leisure. The four of them stared at each other with intense tension. After about two minutes, Zhou Xuan felt nothing, but Daniel's body started to sway. Zhou Xuan could feel that he was holding on to his last bit of strength. His brother Wolf was a little better off, and Elena didn't make much of a move either.
About thirty seconds later, Daniel could no longer hold back and leaped out of the water, gasping for breath like a fish out of air.
Daniel's strength was not much different from his brother Wolf's; Wolf also emerged from the water in about ten seconds.
Elena and Zhou Xuan were still staring at each other. Elena was quite surprised. It was already extraordinary for an ordinary person to be able to hold their breath for more than two minutes. She herself could hold her breath for three minutes, which was the result of her hard training. This was already an amazing record. Of course, this was in shallow water. If it were in deep water, more than 20 meters underwater, she could not hold her breath for more than two minutes.
Elena knew she had reached her limit, but the other party, this ordinary young man from the East, did not seem to be holding his breath or feeling uncomfortable at all. Only then did she realize that Miss Fu's words about a master were not a joke.
But it makes sense. I heard Li Junjie mention that the mission was not easy and could even be considered very dangerous. With such a high reward, how could just anyone take it?
When Elena couldn't hold her breath any longer, she floated to the surface. Zhou Xuan didn't want to make a big fuss, after all, they were in a swimming pool, and going too far might arouse suspicion from Li Junjie and the others. He just wanted to do it right. So he immediately floated to the surface with Elena.
Li Junjie pressed the timer.
He was also shocked at this moment. At first, he did look down on the Chinese man his cousin brought back, but now the facts made him shut up.
The three henchmen brought over the timers. Daniel's time was two minutes and twenty-nine seconds, Wolf's was two minutes and forty seconds, Elena's was three minutes and one second, while Zhou Xuan, whom they had the least faith in, had three minutes and four seconds.
This result surprised everyone except Fu Ying. Fu Ying smiled faintly. Last time at the bottom of Chongkou, she followed Zhou Xuan for at least four minutes. Zhou Xuan could dive for four minutes with his bare hands at such a deep sea. What was this swimming pool? It was only three minutes. Zhou Xuan was obviously hiding his strength.
Of course, Elena also noticed that Zhou Xuan wasn't going all out. When she surfaced, panting heavily, Zhou Xuan also surfaced, but he didn't pant at all and remained calm. This surprised her even more. There really are people more capable than you, and there are always higher levels to reach!
Li Junjie handed the timer to his black subordinate, then smiled and extended his hand to Zhou Xuan, saying, "Mr. Zhou, please forgive my rudeness just now!"
Zhou Xuan took his hand and stepped into the pool. Li Junjie's straightforwardness made him like him. He liked what he liked and disliked what he disliked. He was much better than someone like Fang Zhicheng, Chen Sanyan's brother-in-law.
Wolf and the Daniel brothers also came over and shook hands with Zhou Xuan again. That's how society is. It's all about strength. If you have enough strength, people will recognize you. If you are stronger than them, they will obey you.
Elena smoothed her wet hair behind her ear, then gave Zhou Xuan a thumbs-up and said, "Well... good!"
Zhou Xuan was taken aback by her broken Chinese before he realized that Elena was calling him "Zhou!"
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It was past one o'clock, and the night was already very late. Li Junjie arranged for Zhou Xuan to stay in a room on the second floor. Actually, he could stay in any room. There were twelve guest rooms on the second floor. The Wolf brothers and Elena were also staying on the second floor.
Fu Ying and Wang Jue stayed in a room on the third floor, while Li Junjie and his three subordinates drove away from the villa in the Queens district.
Zhou Xuan didn't have much to pack, just a suitcase. The room was quite spacious. He opened the curtains and looked out the glass window. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything, but he could vaguely make out a dark shape. He couldn't tell if it was a small mountain or a tall building.
After lowering the curtain, Zhou Xuan returned to his bed and meditated for a while, circulating the icy energy from his pills through several cycles. He felt almost no fatigue, though he wondered if it was due to the time difference. In China, this time would be around 1 p.m.
However, the harmful effects of jet lag began to appear the following morning.
Zhou Xuan was awakened by a knock on the door. He rubbed his eyes and realized that the sun was already directly overhead. He quickly got dressed and opened the door.
But there stood the tall and beautiful Elena, smiling, at the door. He couldn't help but wonder why she was knocking on his door.
Elena smiled, pointed to her wrist, then to her mouth, and said, "Um, may we have dinner?"
Zhou Xuan didn't understand what she was saying, scratched his head, and felt a little embarrassed.
Elena couldn't explain it clearly either, and just talked a lot through gestures.
Zhou Xuan was even more confused, so he simply pointed to the bathroom and then to his face, gesturing as if he were washing his face, and said, "I'll wash up first, you go downstairs and wait for a while, OK?"
Although she couldn't understand what he was saying, Elena understood Zhou Xuan's posture. She nodded and said, "OK!" and then went downstairs.
As Zhou Xuan washed her face and rinsed her mouth, she wondered what this old hag wanted from her. Could it be that she wanted to start over after seeing that she had beaten her last night?
After letting my mind wander for a while, I washed up, changed my clothes, and then went downstairs.