Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 60 The Road of Thorns
"Do you really want to become stronger faster?" Unexpectedly, Yesenin didn't shake his head and refuse this time, or say some nonsense that "you can become stronger if you continue like this".

However, his sudden rhetorical question did not surprise Chen Yingxiong. He said, "Nonsense! Didn't you see what I look like at the Luzhniki Stadium?"

"But this way you need to put in more sweat and effort, and your body has to bear more pressure. And... Maybe you may be injured in the process, your body will collapse, and you will quit professional football completely, and you will not be able to continue playing football ...Even so, are you willing?"

Chen Yingxiong was stunned for a moment: "So exaggerated?"

"No, it's not an exaggeration at all. If you want to succeed, you have to pay a price that ordinary people can't imagine. I think it's very polite not to kill you. You know that there is a guy named Guo Nu who set an unimaginable price for the protagonist. Is the punishment of death if you succeed?"

Chen Yingxiong didn't know what Guo Nu was about, he shook his head.

"So, if you want to succeed, if you want to be a real hero, if you want to defeat those who laugh at you, you have to... pay these prices, risking serious injuries, risking physical breakdown, risking complete Quit professional football, the risk of not being able to continue playing football, move forward. Do you think heroes are so easy to be? With a few talents, you can be majestic on the court, sweeping opponents, and slapping the media?"

Every time Yesenin said a word, he took a step forward.When he finally walked in front of Chen Yingxiong, Chen Yingxiong found that Yesening seemed to be as tall as himself, and his temperament was different from before...

Is it an illusion?

"Do you think it's exaggerated to be injured, physically broken, and quit professional football early? Then you look back, those people, those your predecessors, what they have experienced... You look back."

Yesening pointed behind Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong really looked back... Then he was taken aback!
Behind him, what should have been an empty stadium suddenly turned into a stadium with stands, fans, and players playing... He could hear a huge din, and even the voice of the commentator... …

Before his eyes, two groups of players were fighting fiercely, one wearing Lazio's sky blue jersey and the other wearing Inter Milan's blue and black sword-striped shirt.In front of the goal, a No. 9 player wearing a blue and black Inter Milan sword-striped shirt was making a pendulum-like feint. At this moment, he suddenly lost all motivation, fell to the ground, and hugged his painful knee. howled.

The Meazza stadium suddenly lost all noise and fell into a deathly silence.

"Oh! Oh! Oh... God! Ronaldo! Ronaldo is injured! This is his comeback game after four months of injury, but he... goes down again! Look at his pained face... his Career is over..."

The voice of the narrator gradually decreases until it disappears completely, and the screen changes accordingly.

A player in a blue and white Brescia jersey stood on the sidelines and raised his hands to bid farewell to the fans, who uttered loud shouts in the stands.

"Robert Baggio finally retired... I actually thought he was going to retire as early as 1984. He dragged his injured leg for 20 years. It's really admirable to go this far. In 1984 In a match between Vicenza and Rimini on May 5, 3, he was injured by a shovel, and the meniscus and anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee were torn. In that operation, he had 220 stitches for the wound..."

The sound faded out again, and the picture gradually changed.

At a press conference full of people, the handsome man in a casual T-shirt with horizontal stripes spread his hands: "A very simple sentence, I decided to bid farewell to football..."

All of a sudden, the flash was fired, and the corners of the man's eyes seemed to flicker in the white light...

Yesenin's voice sounded behind Chen Yingxiong: "Ronaldo, Robert Baggio, Van Basten, Michael Owen, Sebastian Deisler... How many players have affected their careers because of injuries?" Career? How many players have decided to leave the green field early because of injury? They are full of talents, but they have to say goodbye to football because of injury, or they cannot reach the level they should have reached throughout their lives. Is this an exaggeration? No, this is something that happens every day in the world of football, but you can see what happened to those famous stars, and those unknown little pawns like ants, who cares about their departure?"

"When Pele played football, his rough defensive style was rampant. He was repeatedly knocked to the ground by his opponents. Because of injuries, he even missed the two World Cups in 1962 and 1966 due to injuries. But he is the king of the ball. He chose The number has become the number pursued by countless players. When Maradona was playing in Barcelona, ​​​​he was tackled by Goicochea of ​​Athletic Bilbao. The serious injury later caused him to leave Barcelona and transfer to Naples. But he created his own dynasty in Naples, and he became as famous as Pele in football history."

"Some people didn't pass the test, some people passed the test. That's football, heroes. You want to be what you call a one-in-a-million hero, you have to go through that. So, the price of that is actually very high. normal."

"Just because you choose to take this road, it doesn't mean you will be successful, because there are still many tests along the way. This is not a comfortable and pleasant journey. This is a journey full of traps, thorns, dangers, and various obstacles. Planting a road at a fork in the road. In fact, if you don’t choose this road, you can become a world-class star if you work as hard as you are now, and you can upgrade slowly, step by step, and the danger is much less..."

Chen Yingxiong suddenly interrupted Yesenin's words: "Who wants to be world-class? I want to be the strongest in the world!"

"So you chose to take this dangerous path?"

Chen Yingxiong spread his hands: "Is there any other way to choose?"

Yesenin smiled: "No."

"Then it's over, tell me how to do it."

Yesenin snapped his fingers.

Chen Yingxiong found that the environment he was in had changed, the training ground was still the training ground, but the training ground was no longer empty, but full of his teammates...

"This is..." Chen Yingxiong was taken aback.Has he crossed over?

"Train, hero! If you want to improve yourself and improve yourself faster, you need to spend more time on more intense training." Yesenin's voice sounded, and he looked around and found Yesenin standing behind him.

"How is this going?"

"Simply put, a training copy. You will get more training opportunities here, and... it is a meaningful training with confrontation, rather than the kind of training where a person shoots a football. What you consume here Everything will be perfectly reflected in reality. Now it is..." Yesenin looked at his watch. "At three o'clock in the afternoon, when you finish training for two hours, you will find that the real time is five o'clock in the afternoon after you quit training. You have exhausted your energy in training, and you will find yourself exhausted when you quit training. The same is true , you were injured during training..."

"In reality, I will also be injured?" Chen Yingxiong asked.

"That's right. Since you can improve by training here, there's no reason why you can only get benefits, and there are no disadvantages? So you can improve here, and you can also get injured here."

Chen Yingxiong was listening to Yesenin's explanation, when he heard the assistant coach Porter yelling: "What are you dawdling about? Chen Yingxiong! Come here for training!"

Chen Yingxiong turned around and was about to run, but just as he took a step, he staggered... almost fell to the ground!
"What's going on here?" Chen Yingxiong felt that his legs were extremely heavy, as if they had been filled with lead.And not just the two legs, but the two arms, the two shoulders, the whole body... is very heavy!
"Do you think it's enough to simply let you practice for a few more hours? You are training with weights now!"

"Damn..." Chen Yingxiong shouted. "Isn't it too cruel?"

"Men, you have to be tough on yourself," Yesenin said.

"Your sister! You are right because I am ruthless!"

"What I mean is that you have to be tough on yourself." Yesenin waved his hand: "Go ahead, wait a little longer and watch out for the assistant coach to trouble you. Your interpersonal relationship in reality will be perfectly reproduced here. In addition , You can quit anytime you want, just tell me. I'm right here." Yesenin pointed to the place under his feet.

Chen Yingxiong glared at Yesening, and ran towards the training ground with heavy steps.

Just running onto the training ground, he felt that he had started to lose his breath... This burden is not light.

To complete the training under such circumstances, even some daily training is enough to make him feel strenuous, not to mention... In fact, all the training here is designed for Chen Yingxiong.

All it takes today is the ability to shoot in confrontation.

When the football was passed, he didn't even swing his leg, and the football went away... because the legs were too heavy.

"What are you doing? Hero? You're moving too slowly!" Potter roared.

"It can't be my fault, it's because... I'm carrying a weight!" Chen Yingxiong wanted to defend himself.

But he found that Porter didn't respond to his words at all, he just said to himself: "Concentrate! When you see the football passing, you have to judge the landing point in advance, and then react quickly! This is in the In the restricted area, you don't have so much time to adjust, don't be slow!"

Chen Yingxiong thought to himself, it seems that these characters are just programmed after all, and it is impossible to respond to all his actions... But that's good, it will save a lot of unnecessary trouble.Just train with peace of mind.

Potter kept yelling at him throughout practice.Fortunately, Denisov, Anyukov, and Kerzakov could comfort him, otherwise he would be so depressed.

Everything here is exactly the same as outside. Chen Yingxiong even felt that Yesenin copied the real training outside and moved it directly into this virtual space.It doesn't feel very real, but...it's real!

Chen Yingxiong only persisted for half an hour before he was completely exhausted.Although he did not say quit, Yesenin decisively terminated the training.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Yingxiong found himself lying on the training ground before he entered the dungeon, and the surroundings were empty except Yesenin.Where are his teammates and that assistant coach Porter who is always yelling...

He did feel so exhausted that he didn't even have the strength to speak.

Yesenin squatted down.

"How was the first experience?" he asked.

Chen Yingxiong opened his mouth, but no sound came out.Then Yesenin focused his attention on his slightly raised right hand.

The four fingers slowly curled up, leaving only one middle finger in the end.

　
(End of this chapter)