Chapter 1 The commentator shouted that Napoli had equalized the score in thirteen seconds, a shocking number, but it was wrong. When he reacted and looked at the time, more than ten seconds had indeed passed, but the problem was that this wasn't the time of the goal...

In reality, the entire process of this goal was... nine seconds!

When the football crashed into the goal, only nine seconds had passed since Napoli kicked off.

A large portion of those nine seconds was spent passing the ball in the backfield, from Hamsik's long pass to Arshavin, and then from Arshavin stopping the ball and passing it to Chen Hero. Finally, Chen Hero blasted the football into the goal with a furious shot. This process only took three seconds!

As fast as lightning!

Boos and cheers sounded simultaneously, both coming from the visiting Napoli fans. This time the boos prevailed, because most of the fans who followed the team to the away game were die-hard fans like the "Napoletani" and extreme fans like the "Napoli Ultras."

"Damn it! How did he score again!" those extreme fans from the "Napoli Ultras" group cursed angrily in the stands.

They wanted the team to win, but they didn't want Chen Hero to score.

After the game against Roma, they even held a very serious meeting. At the meeting, everyone unified their thinking, which was that no matter how many goals Chen Hero scored, the booing should not stop. Absolutely do not be confused by his "small favors." Always remember that this person is an enemy of Napoli fans!

Why hold such a meeting? That's because in the game against Roma, such a trend had already emerged—everyone was frightened, or rather confused, by Chen Hero's goals—should we boo the team's goalscoring hero?

After this meeting, the members' thinking was unified, telling them to separate Napoli and Chen Hero. Napoli is Napoli, they still support and love her, without regrets, and swear allegiance to the death. For her dignity and glory, they can fight against the most vicious football hooligans without fear. But Chen Hero is Chen Hero, he doesn't deserve to wear the Napoli jersey, he doesn't deserve to be Napoli's number nine!

So we have to cheer for Napoli's victory, but also boo Chen Hero. When he scores, we boo! When other Napoli players score, we cheer.

We don't believe that Chen Hero can score in every game, or that he can score all the goals for the entire Napoli team!

So, currently, after Chen Hero's goal helped Napoli equalize the score, what filled the air above the visiting fans' stands was boos, not cheers.

The Fiorentina fans had already learned about the wonderful relationship between Napoli player Chen Hero and Napoli fans from media reports, but seeing it with their own eyes still broadened their horizons and made them marvel.

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Chen Hero seemed to think that the boos weren't loud enough, so he ran to provoke the fans again. He once again made the celebration gesture of slapping the fans in the face, and the result was satisfactory to him—the fans' boos became louder.

After slapping the fans, Chen Hero also raised his arm towards this group of fans, indicating that they could boo even louder.

Sure enough, the boos grew louder again!

It's just that the result of forcibly increasing the volume was that many people couldn't catch their breath and their lungs lacked oxygen, their faces flushed red...

In order to oppose Chen Hero, they didn't hesitate to suffocate themselves, which is truly admirable.

But Chen Hero didn't care about such boos at all. He turned around and ran to celebrate with his teammates.

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Napoli's players were cheering and celebrating the goal, while Fiorentina's players were a little confused—this was probably the shortest time they had ever been in the lead... Who would have thought that the opponent would score as soon as they kicked off?

The two sides instantly returned to the same starting line. As for the previous lead? For the Fiorentina people, it was like they had a beautiful dream.

Now the dream is over, and reality is cold and cruel.

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"Beautiful goal! Napoli equalized the score with their first attack after the kickoff! It's an amazing fast break! The specific numbers are out... A full nine seconds, it only took them nine seconds to complete the revenge!"

The commentators were still amazed by Napoli's quick attack.

"The cheers of the Fiorentina fans have been cut off, and now it's the turn of the Napoli fans... uh, to cheer..." This commentator originally planned to say "the Napoli fans cheer" in one breath, but halfway through, he remembered that the Napoli fans were actually booing even louder...

"Chen Hero has scored his eleventh goal of the season! He has scored five goals in two consecutive games! Amazing goal rate! Last season in the Russian Super League, he scored twenty-one goals in eleven games. During his three seasons with Zenit, he scored fifty-eight goals in fifty games. All of this fully demonstrates his amazing goal rate. He is an efficient scorer!"

"When Napoli played Fiorentina at home in the first half of the season, Chen Hero started and played the full ninety minutes, but failed to score a goal. This time, he finally made up for this regret..."

"With such crucial goals in two consecutive games, I think we can already announce that the Northern Giant Bear, who dominated Russia and changed the world, has officially awakened! He's back! He's back after wandering in the trough! What we see in front of us is definitely not the Chen Hero whose form fluctuates, but a powerful center forward that makes the enemy tremble!"

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The Chinese reporters in the media box raised their arms and jumped up from their seats, shouting "Long live the hero!"

And beside them, those Italian colleagues, especially the Napoli reporters, had complex expressions and didn't know what to say.

Napoli's lightning-fast equalizer should have been a good thing. If it had been at any other time, they might have been excited and hugged each other. But now, they didn't know whether they should cheer.

Cheer for Chen Hero? Wouldn't that be admitting that their previous actions were wrong? Wouldn't that be admitting their failure?

As the uncrowned kings, they couldn't lose face...

There was one thing that was even more embarrassing than this goal.

They found that Chen Hero had been the focus of attention in two consecutive games. That is to say, as long as they were still reporting on Napoli's games and paying attention to the Napoli football team, the name "Chen Hero" was a hurdle they couldn't get around. They couldn't pretend to ignore it, because if they did, normal reporting work would almost be impossible to continue.

They can't do reporting work without reporting on Chen Hero, right?

In the last game, Chen Hero staged a poker, which was famous throughout Italy. It was obviously inappropriate for them not to mention it. Fortunately, in the last game, Chen Hero found them news material that allowed them to keep silent about the goals—his celebration of slapping ears.

So everyone can use criticism of Chen Hero's initiative to come to collect manuscripts and fill the page.

But what should we do after that? Talk about his slap-in-the-face celebration in one game, talk about it in two games, and talk about it in three games?

If we keep talking like this, let alone whether the readers are willing to listen, they themselves will not accept it first.

We always have to talk about Chen Hero's performance on the field. At that time, what should we say?

It's good luck to have a poker in one game, and all the luck of four or even more games has been used up. So next, he will definitely experience a period of low form, just like what he showed in the first half of the season. Everyone is not new to this scene.

But he scored in the game against Fiorentina.

What should we say?

Say he's still lucky?

Okay, it's still good luck to score a goal in this game.

What if he scores again in the third game?

Still good luck?

What if he unfortunately wins the league's top scorer in the end? Is it also good luck? Is every game lucky? Is every goal lucky?

If that's the case, their newspaper will be torn down by the readers...

Chen Hero has become their nightmare. As long as he continues to perform well, they will have to report on his excellent form, and every such report is like Chen Hero slapping the media that once humiliated him...

This is really a bit unwilling—anyone, as long as he has a little shame, he will not easily accept such a result.

So every goal of Chen Hero is like a death warrant, forcing them to choose between work and dignity—either report on me, or lose your job!

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When Chen Hero only had two shots in the first half, and neither of them were on target, Lavezzi, who was watching the live broadcast on TV at home, smiled. He was just waiting for this scene, waiting to see Chen Hero's joke.

He even wanted to see Mazzarri's joke—if you don't take me to the away game, then wait to lose! Look, look at the Chen Hero you trust, what kind of shooting performance does he have?

How long have you been with the team? This is his real state! Don't be deceived by his crazy performance in one game! He's always like this, one good game, several bad games!

Now you know who you should trust, right?

So when Fiorentina scored, he didn't even feel pain for the team's backwardness, but a smile appeared on his face.

Napoli without me is not Napoli!

But it's a pity that his smile only lasted for a minute. When the game restarted, it only took Chen Hero a short nine seconds to equalize the score with a beautiful long shot!

His smile froze.