NOVPUBUnder Huang Yan’s leadership, Wu Bin and his group successively visited several venues.
All of these venues had their own unique features, clearly showing that Huang Yan had put a lot of thought into them.
Take the basketball gym, for example, which had not only an indoor court but also an outdoor one, and each gym’s rest area had dedicated spaces for water and storing personal items, and even the basketballs could be selected basket by basket.
Then there was the swimming pool, which not only had lockers for personal items right next to it but also three lifeguards stationed around each pool. These lifeguards were fully equipped and focused intently on the situation in the pool.
In case of any danger in the pool, these three were ready to respond immediately.
Huang Yan asked Wu Bin with a smile, "I heard that you had a drowning incident at your school before?"
Wu Bin nodded somewhat embarrassedly.
"Indeed, I wasn’t paying attention and accidentally drowned."
Huang Yan continued, "That’s because your school doesn’t have the facilities we have here. If you swam at our place, you definitely wouldn’t have a drowning incident. We also provide swimming caps and swimsuits for free, why don’t you try swimming here?"
Hearing Huang Yan’s offer, Wu Bin repeatedly declined.
The online audience in the live broadcast room couldn’t help but tease.
"Could Principal Huang actually be serious? Even Principal Xu didn’t dare to invite Brother Wu to swim for fear of an accident, yet he’s so bold?"
"You can tell Principal Huang is stubborn. If Brother Wu really drowns in the pool later, I bet he would regret it to death."
"I think it’s actually a sign of Principal Huang’s confidence. Look, there are three lifeguards by the pool and a professional medical team on standby. He probably thinks such arrangements are foolproof."
"Too naive. If my Brother Wu were to get in the water and drown, and the drowning led to death, what would you do then?"
Seeing Wu Bin decline his offer, Huang Yan was a bit disappointed.
He had taken Wu Bin to visit so many venues partly to let the entire country’s audience know that the sports facilities at their university were quite impressive, in hopes of increasing the enrollment rate for next year’s freshmen.
But just looking at them was ultimately a limited way to promote, so Huang Yan was trying to find a way to get Wu Bin to actually try them out, which would make the promotion more appealing.
But Wu Bin seemed uninterested in everything, and no matter how Huang Yan invited him, Wu Bin always said that he would try it some other time.
The group continued walking and finally came to the last venue, the boxing gym.
Though called a boxing gym, it didn’t only have equipment for Western boxing but also many traditional martial arts apparatuses.
Such as wooden dummies and stone locks, for instance.
He Bingbing asked with some curiosity, "Principal Huang, does your school also teach traditional martial arts?"
Huang Yan said proudly, "Of course, our university is the national headquarters for traditional martial arts research. We have also hired many masters of traditional martial arts as a way to inherit and protect our traditional martial arts."
"As you know, with societal development and progress, traditional martial arts have slowly declined. If we do not step in to protect them, there may soon be no one to carry on the tradition of martial arts."
Huang Yan was stating a fact here.
It’s a civilized society now, let alone acting heroically in the face of injustice, even just getting into a verbal argument with someone, both parties are afraid to throw a punch because as soon as you do, it’s considered mutual assault.
Then what follows is the loser goes to the hospital, and the winner goes to jail, with no victor at the end of the day.
For that reason, traditional martial arts have slowly fallen out of favor, because there’s no need to learn them anymore; there’s no market.
In the past, people learned them for self-defense, when traveling in the unpredictable world of jianghu, where nowhere was safe; without knowing a move or two, you could easily be robbed.
But now, why learn that stuff? It’s better to learn law instead, so that if you sue, you could end up getting a larger settlement.
"Wu Bin, my friend, come here, let me introduce you to our traditional martial arts coaches."
It was clear that traditional martial arts were still a big selling point for the institution, or else Huang Yan wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about introducing a coach to Wu Bin.
Huang Yan led Wu Bin forward. Coaches, who had been notified earlier, stood in line at a distance, smiling and shaking hands with Wu Bin.
"This is Coach Lei, specializing in Tongbei Fist. He has developed his own set of skills called ’Opening the Dragon’s Spine,’ incredibly formidable, and he has a lot of fans online."
"This is Coach Mi, specializing in Wing Chun. His listening bridge move is like those killer techniques in the movies; when he really gets going, he doesn’t blink an eye—so fierce."
"And this is Coach Ma, who created Lightning Seven Whip. It’s as fast as lightning, making it unpredictable and impossible to guard against!"
As Huang Yan introduced them, the netizens in the live stream room also started discussing.
"Why do these coaches look so familiar to me? I feel like I’ve seen their works online." 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
"They are all internet-famous coaches, no wonder you recognize them. I initially thought the traditional martial arts coaches at this university would be very professional, but now I’m just disappointed. To be blunt about this group’s level—I bet they can’t even handle street thugs."
"Surely not, right? Even if these coaches don’t have real skills, at least their muscles aren’t fake. With all those muscles, how can they not beat some street thugs?"
"Buddy, haven’t you heard of specialization? Are you underestimating street thugs? Those who are still hanging around and making a name for themselves, every one of them has some tricks up their sleeve. They fight and brawl on the streets all year round; do you really think just anybody can handle a couple of moves against them?"
Not only did the netizens doubt these coaches had any real skills, even Wu Bin wasn’t impressed with them.
After all, Wu Bin had exchanged blows with Dream Tapir and the Gluttonous Specter; facing these so-called traditional martial arts coaches, he indeed didn’t think much of them.
Just when Wu Bin was thinking of exchanging a few pleasantries and then taking his leave, Huang Yan unexpectedly invited him warmly, "Wu Bin, Chen Xiang told me you’re also skilled in martial arts, and quite formidable too?"
Wu Bin was initially taken aback before he immediately began waving his hands, saying, "No, I haven’t learned martial arts, I really can’t."
Huang Yan thought Wu Bin was being modest, and said with a smile, "Come on, you don’t have to be so humble. Chen Xiang has already told me that if you hadn’t acted first to control one person, it wouldn’t have been easy for them to subdue the others."
"Since you, Wu Bin, also know martial arts, why not spar with our traditional martial arts coaches and help promote our university at the same time?"
Upon hearing Huang Yan’s proposition, the netizens in the live stream couldn’t help but send a barrage of comments.
"This Principal Huang is really brave, huh? He actually dares to have Brother Wu take action and practice with these people?"
