Evolution from scratch with added points

Looking at the prompt that popped up on the panel, Chen Jue was in a daze.

If you swim well by yourself, your proficiency in [Swimming] will increase by +1+1.

It's a bit strange that you can get +50 in one go without swimming well.

"Is it possible that snorkeling is a skill that humans should master in order to survive?" Chen Jue murmured in his heart.

Then I remembered that the [Climbing] proficiency gained by climbing trees was indeed higher than when practicing rock climbing, and I instantly understood the reason.

Because the original intention of the skill "Swimming" invented by human ancestors was to capture food from the bottom of the water to satisfy hunger, and in addition to avoid natural disasters such as floods and beasts.

Being able to swim quickly in the water is only one of the factors. If you can dive underwater for a longer time, diving deeper is the best condition for survival.

Moreover, the conditions of the swimming pool are relatively safe. If you go swimming in rivers, lakes and seas, it may trigger entries such as actual combat and practice, further accelerating the growth of proficiency.

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After understanding the logic of [swimming] proficiency growth, Chen Jue no longer obsessed with imitating and learning professional swimming skills.

Anyway, he practiced [Swimming] purely to improve his physical fitness and speed up the growth of his attribute values.

As long as snorkeling helps in this area, then he will focus on this sport and slowly study it.

At first, Chen Jue was still swimming with his head lying face down, suspended a few centimeters below the water surface, using the forward force generated by kicking his legs on the pool wall to sprint across half of the pool, and then accelerated and slid forward.

With his current lung capacity, he can dive into the water from his mouth and nose by taking a deep breath and hold it all the way to the end point 25 meters away.

This single dive can increase proficiency by 50, and the skill level of [Swimming] is directly upgraded from Lv0 to Lv1.

As the unfamiliar muscles spread throughout his body, Chen Jue tried to move his hands and feet underwater again. He found that his water skiing strength increased slightly after reaching level 1 of [Swimming].

Every time he slides his hands and feet, the distance he advances increases by more than ten centimeters.

Apparently, the panel used the correction function to forcibly correct his self-learned wild swimming skills, making his hands slide more reasonably, and his kicking movements began to become more standard.

However, after trying a 25-meter dive, Chen Jue found that the proficiency increase on the panel had become less!

It dropped directly from +50 when diving for the first time to +25.

Chen Jue speculated that this was because his [swimming] skills had improved. The panel judged that the difficulty of his single dive had dropped a lot, so the proficiency level given was cut in half.

In order to test his idea, Chen Jue made his fourth 25-meter dive more difficult.

He was no longer suspended a few centimeters below the surface of the water. Instead, he suddenly sank from the surface of the water to the bottom of the pool!

Then he kicked his legs suddenly, his body galloped forward like a sharp arrow, and he crossed the 10-meter line in one fell swoop.

However, since he dived to the bottom of the water, Chen Jue's next [swimming] movement was no longer alternating left and right strokes, but changed to a paddling posture with his hands forward and waving to both sides, and his legs were still kicking like freestyle. swing.

With such a strange posture, Chen Jue was stunned to dive all the way from the beginning to the finish line. When he surfaced, a new prompt popped up on the panel again:

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【Ding~】

[After completing a high-intensity underwater aerobic exercise, the explosive power of your limbs will increase, your cardiopulmonary capacity will be effectively exercised, and your swimming skills will be greatly improved. 】

[Swimming proficiency +50]

[Strength attribute +0.01]

[Free attribute +0.01]

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【Ding~】

[Your eardrum suffered a slight tear due to the impact of water pressure. 】

[Physique Attribute Temporary-0.01]

[Friendly reminder: After the eardrum undergoes self-cultivation and self-healing, the temporarily sharpened properties will be restored on its own. 】

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"What?"

"Can the attributes still be reduced?"

Chen Jue was a little surprised and hurriedly opened the panel to take a look.

Sure enough, after the [Physique] attribute, which reached 2.07 under the action of the nitrogen pump, there was actually a blood-red descending arrow "↓" behind it, as well as a red word -0.01.

This sudden scene made Chen Jue instantly alert.

Thinking back to the dive to a depth of 1.8 meters just now, Chen Jue suddenly realized that he did feel a bit strange when he first dived, that is, a large amount of water was squeezed into both of his ear canals. swimming pool water.

This feeling is not strong when swimming above the water, because the water will be pushed out and blocked by the air in the ear canal.

Once you enter the bottom of the swimming pool and the water pressure rises, the air reserved in your ears will not be able to withstand the water pressure and will be naturally squeezed out.

When the swimming pool water hit his eardrum, Chen Jue even heard a "pop" sound similar to the tearing of the membrane, accompanied by a slight stinging pain.

However, because he was traveling at high speed and planned to sprint to the end in one breath, Chen Jue naturally ignored this abnormality.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I got up from the water, the consequences would come to my door!

After seeing that the [Physique] attribute dropped by 1 small point, Chen Jue immediately climbed out of the swimming pool and ran to the front desk of the swimming pool to buy the best waterproof earplugs.

In the past, relying on the powerful recovery function of the panel, Chen Jue never took injuries during training seriously.

After being taught a lesson by this swimming pool, Chen Jue finally realized that the human body is not omnipotent.

Even those professional swimmers have to train for a long time from childhood to adulthood before they can adapt to the water pressure at the bottom of the swimming pool.

Chen Jue, who had not been in the water for a long time, plunged to the end as soon as he started swimming. It was obvious that he went too far and did not take the danger seriously.

"so far so good!"

"It's just a minor injury and the pain is not intense."

"You should get better if you go back and take some medicine or do some ear massage." Chen Jue comforted himself, then tried wearing earplugs and trying the shallow water.

The earplugs he bought were not traditional low-quality in-line earplugs, but imported external-type earplugs. After wearing them, they would only block the outside of the ear canal and would not affect the inside of the ear canal.

Because the sales staff at the front desk of the swimming pool said that in-line earplugs will cause pressure on the ear canal. If they are not worn professionally, water will flow into them and be trapped by the earplugs to breed bacteria, which will cause damage to the ears and aggravate otitis media. type of ear disease.

Chen Jue happened to have a slight injury to his eardrum, so he tried to use this kind of external earplugs. Unexpectedly, it was really effective after going into the water.

I dived to the bottom and swam back and forth several times without any water entering my ears. The [Swimming] proficiency on the panel was also increasing rapidly. After a while, the panel popped up again:

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【Ding~】

[Proficiency reaches 100%, and skill level increases. 】

【Swimming Lv1→Lv2】

[Your understanding of the sport of swimming deepens, your swimming posture becomes more reasonable, your body begins to slowly adapt to the influence of shallow water pressure, and your speed when swimming in the water is enhanced. 】

[Being under the influence of water pressure for a long time will increase your lung capacity slightly. 】

[Physique attribute +0.01]

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"Breathe~breathe~"

"Upgraded again!"

Chen Jue looked at the panel with a surprised look on his face. It was beyond his expectation that this newly mastered [Swimming] skill could be continuously upgraded in a short period of time.

It was obvious that he had figured out the key to improving panel skills, which caused a qualitative change.

In addition, snorkeling is also very effective for physical exercise. After swimming for less than half an hour, Chen Jue has already seen that he has gained 4 small attributes.

"No wonder Teacher Li Rui schedules swimming training so intensively on the schedule!"

"This sport does have a great impact on improving physical fitness." Chen Jue felt quite emotional. The arrangements made by professionals were indeed much more efficient than his blind training.

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After half an hour in the adult area of ​​the public swimming pool, Chen Jue was beginning to feel dissatisfied with the 25-meter short track. He felt that such a short distance was too unchallenging for him.

Because after every dive, he felt that he was still holding a big breath in his chest, and he should be able to swim some more distance.

So Chen Jue climbed ashore from the public swimming pool and slowly walked to the standard competition pool next door.

A standard competitive swimming pool is 50 meters long and 30 meters wide. The water depth is in the shape of a slope. The starting point is 3 meters and the end point is 2 meters. There are 8 swimming lanes, which meets the competition specifications of most swimming events.

There were several sports students from the Jiangnan University swimming team practicing in the pool, and there was also a professional middle-aged swimming coach giving guidance. After a few glances, Chen Jue jumped into an unoccupied swimming lane. Go in.

The middle-aged coach didn't stop him when he saw this, because Jiangda's indoor swimming pool is open to the public, and there are many tourists who come to try this competitive pool on weekdays.

In addition, since it is not a competition day, there are not many athletes training in the competitive pool, so leaving an outside lane for tourists will not affect their training.

Unexpectedly, after Chen Jue jumped into the swimming lane, he first stepped on the water and surfaced, took a deep breath, and then kicked his legs and dived towards the bottom.

His whole body was like a long, twisting fish, swimming forward without any sign of rising even after passing the 15-meter line.

This scene attracted the attention of the middle-aged coach. Upon seeing this, he quickly glanced at Chen Jue underwater, and muttered in his heart: "The 15-meter line is still out of the water? Don't you know the swimming rules? Are you a private expert?"

"But this speed is not slow!"

Because according to the swimming rules set by FINA, the longest diving distance of athletes after entering the water cannot exceed 15 meters. If it exceeds, it will be considered a violation.

There is an interesting little story behind the emergence of this rule.

That is, in the early years of China, there was a famous swimming star, Mu Xiangxiong, who was nicknamed "Frog King". When this old man participated in breaststroke competitions when he was young, he always used the diving method.

People need to come up and take a breath when advancing 2 to 3 meters in a breaststroke technique. It takes at least 38 breaths to complete a 100-meter swim.

The frog king Mu Xiangxiong only needs to change his breath three times to swim 100 meters as soon as he enters the water, almost maximizing his lung capacity.

However, because this set of diving skills was so unbelievable that it looked like a supermodel, it caused a dimensionality-reducing blow to other contestants at the time!

In addition, long-term snorkeling lacks ornamental value and can cause harm to athletes during training. Therefore, the FINA directly imposed a big seal on it, requiring the frog king not to use snorkeling techniques during competitions. This was not made clear until 1998. It is stipulated that the diving distance cannot exceed 15 meters.

With the restrictions imposed by the rules, sports students who practice swimming in the racing pool will not try ultra-long-distance diving.

Only a fool like Chen Jue, who ignores the rules, would dive in like this.

But the more the middle-aged coach looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong!

Because Chen Jue's diving distance was really incredible. He passed the 25-meter center line of the racing pool without even the slightest sign of raising his head or floating up.

When Chen Jue started paddling and swinging his feet under the water, the middle-aged coach was even more puzzled: "What technical move is this?"

"A combination of freestyle + breaststroke?"

"Are all the young people today doing this nonsense?"

Before the middle-aged coach could think about it, Chen Jue's swimming distance became farther and farther.

First they passed 30 meters, then 40 meters. When it came to the last 10 meters, Chen Jue, who was sneaking underneath, felt a tightness in his chest.

Due to the long distance swimming and the consumption of a large amount of oxygen, Chen Jue felt a faint sense of suffocation.

But seeing that he was not far from the finish line, he took advantage of the slope at the bottom of the pool to continue accelerating, and finally reached out to touch the finish line before the last breath of oxygen ran out.

"I actually dived 50 meters in one breath!"

"Where did this kid come from?"

"Students from our school?"

This scene not only stunned the middle-aged coach, but also a sports student who was practicing in the swimming lane next to Chen Jue.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

"What kind of iron lung is this!"

While Chen Jue raised his head and came out of the water to take a breath, a prompt popped up on the panel:

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【Ding~】

[Complete an underwater aerobic exercise that exceeds the limit, your swimming posture has been strengthened, and your diving skills have been strengthened and improved. 】【In the extreme state of hypoxia, the metabolic function of your body is enhanced, your cardiopulmonary function begins to slowly adapt to the underwater hypoxic environment, and your physical fitness is greatly increased. 】

[Swimming proficiency +100]

[Physique attribute +0.03]

Update sent~

PS: It is not a problem for a professional snorkeling expert to be able to swim 200 meters underwater in one breath.