Chen Xing is no stranger to hot searches. He has been on the list more than once in China, but he has never won the first place. The closest one was to the second place. This was caused by the cooperation of the domestic tourism industry, but unfortunately we lost to a traffic star.
It's a bit of a pity.
Chen Xing only dared to curse in his heart because he was afraid of being scolded if he spoke out.
And it seems like he values this thing more.
This regret was actually made up for in Iceland. Just put up a sky lantern and it became a hot search?
So if I go buy a kite tomorrow or fly it there, can I consider it if I have another hot search number one, number three or number five?
Forget it, this is too worthless.
Chen Jiaqian said: "I see that many people on the Internet are saying that they are going to buy Kongming lanterns from Auntie. Haha, now it's good. You have attracted a lot of business for Auntie and the others. Next time you go there, you might even get a free meal. A hot pot meal.”
"It's an accident. By the way, where are you?"
"Me? We are watching some children's performances here in the Old Port. They are very cute. Do you want to come and play with us?"
"never mind!"
Chen Xing immediately refused.
Some elderly or married people may prefer children. It is really difficult to like people like Chen Xing who are around 20 years old. He feels that he might as well stay here and watch the parade, at least every person walking on the street He feels fresh to everyone he meets.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Xing looked around again.
Still no one paid attention to me, and I obviously didn't do any disguise, not even wearing the mask that I couldn't live without in China.
This hot search is just like that.
Continuing to watch the parade, there were already some private organizations or individuals passing by. Although some ghost masks looked scary, the figures under the sheets or cosplay clothes were very attractive.
If there really are such monsters in reality, then it doesn't seem to be a big problem to encounter them once or twice?
Chen Xing was a little tired from standing, so he slowly moved to lean against the wall behind him. While playing with his mobile phone and chatting with friends, he looked at the parade in front of which almost no one was passing by. This should be considered the end, and he might also watch later. Nothing new.
Some people around him also joined in at this time, holding banners they wanted to express. Some of these banners expressed love, while others denounced the company boss.
Anyway, these people were wearing masks and clothes they wouldn't normally wear, and they weren't worried about being spotted.
As the saying goes, putting on a mask means taking off the mask?
A cup filled with beer suddenly stretched out from the side. It must have been poured recently. The hops were still pouring out vigorously, and the aroma of malt was very strong.
"List?"
He called Chen Xing's name with uncertainty, but with these words, Chen Xing roughly knew that he was looking for him. He took the beer first and said, "Hello, Chen Xing, who are you?"
"An ordinary Icelander," he said with a smile.
Then he clinked a glass of beer with Chen Xing and drank half the beer in one go.
He is about the same height as Chen Xing, about 1.8 meters tall. He is very strong. Even winter clothes cannot block his muscles. He also has a very free and easy temperament. This kind of person says that he is just an ordinary person. Chen Star wouldn't believe it.
But there doesn't seem to be any malicious intent.
Chen Xing also drank half a glass of beer directly. If it was just beer, Chen Xing's current alcohol capacity was pretty good. Give him some time to digest and he could drink it for a long time.
"readily!"
Seeing that Chen Xing could drink so much, he happily patted Chen Xing on the shoulder and introduced himself.
Eros Einzbern.
Occupation is ice hockey player.
Chen Xing had heard of ice hockey before, but had never seen it before. Not to mention China, even ice hockey in France is a very niche sport. In the world, the only countries that like this type of ice sports the most are the Nordic countries.
Eros saw Chen Xing on the Internet and was deeply impressed by him.
I saw it on the news yesterday and on the trending search this afternoon. It’s hard not to remember it.
The excitement outside gradually dissipated, and Chen Xing, who had time, also took advantage of Eros's invitation to enter a bar. After drinking two beers, he left the bar and walked two steps into another bar.
This kind of bar-hopping is as familiar as girls visiting a clothing store, and it can be regarded as the most unique scenery in Reykjavik.
The atmosphere in Nordic bars is very good. As mentioned before, bars are the most important social point for Nordic people. People who get acquainted with each other in a bar are like classmates. The bar is like a class, and they are like each other. very familiar.
And there is no charge to enter these bars. As for tourists, you can walk into multiple bars in Reykjavik in one night, experience the different 'class' cultures in these bars, and find the place that suits you best.
With so many bars here, there is always someone who understands you.
Even with the ultimate social fear, Chen Xing kept changing bars and found a place where there were a lot of people, but no one talked at all. Everyone just drank, read, and played with their mobile phones. It was the same place as a teahouse or cafe.
………………
After a few days of this kind of life, when December was about to enter, Chen Xing boarded a bus to Brundios to watch Ai Orlando's bicycle race.
This is a small town located in the northwest of Iceland. It usually provides various infrastructure services for tourists traveling along the Ring Road No. 1. The town has a population of only more than 800 people, so it is not a very eye-catching city.
But this is the place where more than 2,000 tourists stay every November.
Of course, it’s the annual Icelandic Dark Night Snow Hell Endurance Race.
Western names always like the more words, the more elements there are. The competition in Iceland includes conditions such as darkness, snow, and endurance racing, plus the word "hell" representing difficulty. You can imagine how difficult this competition is.
Riders have to start from a snow-capped mountain with an altitude of 3,000 meters and ride all the way down. The final destination is in this small town with an altitude of more than 400 meters.
If you don't have any strength, let alone get a ranking, anyone who can run the entire race is considered a master.
Chen Xing and Ai met at a restaurant in the town.
The competition starts tomorrow, but Ai, who has been here for many days, is already fully equipped and looks like a racing driver, except for the helmet.
Chen Xing saw him immediately when he walked into the restaurant.
"Why are you dressed like this? Did you go out for training today?"
"No, runners have been prohibited from going up to survey the route since yesterday, so that there will be a thick enough layer of snow tomorrow."
Chen Xing had no idea about bicycle racing. This was his first time watching it, so he asked, "Why is there snow? Isn't this snow swept away during the race?"
"Sweep it away?"
Ai looked at Chen Xing and said, "Now I know you are a real novice. Of course, the snow was left on purpose to allow the racers to find the most suitable route in the snow. How can I sweep it away for you?"
"Ao...that's it."
Chen Xing also smiled.
"Anyway, you can just watch my performance tomorrow. I can't tell you the winner. There should be no problem with the top three. I heard that there will be official reporters to interview and it will also be broadcast on the news network. As my only cheerleader, maybe You can also show your face.”
Ai Orlando is not an unknown person in the circle of cyclists. There will definitely be fans of his in the audience this year, but it doesn't matter to him. Anyway, the only friend who really comes to support him is Chen Xing. one person.
"Forget it, I've already shown my face."
Chen Xing was a little speechless and told Ai the story of his time in Iceland.
Ai has been training these days. He really didn’t know that Chen Xing had just come to Iceland and had such a wonderful life for a few days. He was also visiting the LOL game and making news, and he was making some hot searches. This is too coincidental. Well, the news in Iceland is so good?
Why do you suddenly have no expectations for winning awards?
After returning to the rented hotel, Ai Cai patted his face to cheer himself up and said, "Go ahead, Orlando! You didn't come to the competition just to participate in the news network. Does it matter whether other people's news is good or not? Have a good ride!”
The next day.
Today, a finish line was built outside the town of Brundios. Chen Xing went there early in the morning and saw someone installing a laser on the door frame of the finish line to detect who was coming first among those rushing into the finish line in the same batch.
There are also several large screens that will broadcast live broadcasts at that time.
Most of the tourists were watching the race near the finish line. A few people followed the tour guide very early and went to other safe locations on the route to wait. Although they could not see the athletes crossing the line, they could watch those athletes who had a harder time passing. Take your own video somewhere.
Today's game will be broadcast live.
The live broadcast images come from three sources: one is the two helicopters found by the competition organizing committee, the other is the cameras placed at various points in advance, and the third is the action cameras on the helmets of the players. Everyone has this camera.
When the time comes, they will find some exciting pictures and put them on the TV screen at the finish line.
There were more than 700 riders participating in the competition. Chen Xing found Ai's name on this flyer. The starting position was quite good. According to Ai himself, judging from his starting position, as long as the route was correct, then You can crush them all the way and win the game in first place.
However, there are too many variables in snow racing in the dark.
The finish line was brightly lit, and with the countdown of three to two in the loudspeaker, the contestants set off like an arrow.
The first shot uses a helicopter perspective. The helicopter flies very high, because flying too low will affect the riders' competition. Cycling racing is not as tough as rally racing, even if the plane flies back and forth at a height of more than ten meters, it will not There will be some impact, but the impact on the bicycle will be huge.
So the plane flew relatively high, and at one time more than a hundred people appeared in the camera.
Many arrows fall down as soon as they take a few steps. However, it doesn’t matter if you fall once or twice in an endurance race. You can get a good ranking if you resume the game earlier, so you can see it on the screen. See those riders who fell but immediately stood up and rode again.
Chen Xing looked for Ai among this group of people.
I didn’t see it, I should have run to the front.
Ai's position is in the front two rows. There are no people in front of him at the start, so he can rush faster. Without falling down, he has now entered the first big downhill section.
Chen Xing looked back and forth at the performance of these players on several monitors.
There wasn't much introduction to the players during the live broadcast, but there was a commentator who was very good. He seemed to know every driver, and he couldn't pronounce the names at all. Chen Xing couldn't tell who Ai was on these TVs. But after listening to the commentary, I learned that Ai is now in seventh place.
Chen Xing searched for it on TV again, but finally gave up.
No more searching, just look around.
If you can still see some whitening of the sky in the afternoon in Reykjavik, you can't see it at all in Brundios. At most, it's a state that is about to come out, and then And immediately returned to night.
Chen Xing didn't see their previous training and watched this match directly. He immediately discovered that the difficulty of this hell match was visibly high to the naked eye.
The closer you get to the North Pole, the more profound the effects of the polar night will be.
The lights in front of the bicycles did not allow these riders to observe much of the environment. They could only focus on the route they found and kept running. The stars still looked very bright, but they really couldn't see much.
No wonder it’s called a hell game, it’s really hell.
There are already a lot of ruts in the snow. For those riders at the back, following the route taken by the rider in front undoubtedly proves that the route is correct. Under normal circumstances, there will be no fall, but there is also a hidden danger in this.
That is, compressed snow is slipperier.
Whether to find a new route yourself or follow the path of others is also a choice.
Anyway, at this time, at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, hundreds of people are constantly experiencing the process of falling down, but then getting up and immediately supporting the car to run forward, or immediately sitting on it and driving forward. It is dangerous. It's not very dangerous, but it looks really painful.
"Won't their car crash?" Chen Xing heard someone next to him say this.
This must be my first time watching it, and I don’t understand anything.
Seeing that he was also alone, Chen Xing said, "Did you come alone?"
"Yeah, I heard there is a bicycle competition here so I came over to take a look. I live nearby."
"OK, I happen to know the question you just mentioned. One of these players is my friend. The frame of his bicycle alone costs more than 3,000 euros. The other accessories together are enough to buy a new car. This kind of A level of wrestling shouldn’t be a big problem.”
To be honest, Chen Xing was shocked before he learned about it.
The frame of a bicycle alone costs several thousand euros, which is simply a waste for someone like him who thinks five hundred yuan to buy a whole bicycle is too expensive.
The race for the riders soon reached the gravel road section. When it reached an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, there was not much snow. Gravel roads and mountain paths gradually became more numerous. At this time, there were fewer people wrestling, but the shortcomings were It's also obvious...the road is too narrow to overtake.
Chen Xing couldn't tell where his friend was, so he could only look for it on a TV with real-time rankings.
Ai is in fifth place.
