Lin Hai Ting Tao

Chapter 90 Anyway, I Believe It

Sarah Brightman felt as if an electric current had coursed through her body, making her tremble uncontrollably!

The impact of Hero's goal was simply too strong…

That kind of power that disregarded all obstacles, where no amount of interference could stop it! A power that held absolute dominance!

It didn't make the goal seem boring at all, but instead filled it with a special kind of beauty.

It actually made her… made her heart flutter!

Sarah Brightman couldn't help but take a deep breath to steady her wildly beating heart.

When Chen Hero headed the football into the goal despite the strong interference from two opponents, commentator Sergei Hirgayevski erupted.

His passionate voice poured out from the TV speakers in an endless stream.

Actually, he wasn't like this before. He was the type who would, at most, shout once when a goal was scored, and then fall silent for a while, as if his brain had short-circuited, before starting to commentate again. He was very unenthusiastic, which annoyed many fans.

But after witnessing Chen Hero's goal, he suddenly changed his "style" and became passionate as well.

Because he was pulled down, Chen Hero fell directly to the ground. Of course, the two defenders who were guarding him also fell from the air, landing flat on their backs. But while they were still lying on the ground with painful expressions, Chen Hero had already leaped up from the ground!

Sarah Brightman was startled by Chen Hero. She originally thought that falling from such a high place would definitely cause a serious fall, and at least it would take a while to recover… Who would have thought that he would jump up again as if he had springs on his butt!

Doesn't he feel pain?

Isn't he injured?

Sarah Brightman frowned and thought.

Chen Hero, who had jumped up, turned his head to look at the goal, confirmed that he had indeed scored, and then spread his arms and rushed towards the camera.

While running, he also took off his jersey, revealing a body full of strength and explosive power.

Chen Hero, who had rushed to the front of the camera, excitedly threw his jersey into the sky with force, turned around and embraced his teammates who were swarming towards him.

Some of his teammates picked up Chen Hero's discarded jersey, and then raised it high with both hands, like a flag, to show everyone.

The only pity was that the atmosphere at the scene was not enthusiastic, because in the Dynamo Stadium, all the fans were from the home team, Vladivostok Luch-Energiya, so no one cheered for their goal.

But this did not affect the Saint Petersburg Zenit players' self-celebration.

"Hero scored again! This is already his eighth goal in seven consecutive league games!" The new season has only started for six rounds, so why is it said to be seven consecutive league games? Because Chen Hero also scored in the last round of the league last season, so if we are talking about consecutive goals, this game should of course be counted as well. "His goal rate is terrifying… It seems that no one in the Russian league can stop him anymore! This… 'Northern Bear'!"

Sergei Hirgayevski definitely did not expect at this time that a title he casually said would later become a famous nickname that accompanied Chen Hero throughout his entire career.

He just felt that Chen Hero was a player of Saint Petersburg Zenit, and Saint Petersburg has the nickname of "Northern Capital" in Russia, and Chen Hero is as strong and powerful as a bear, and full of aggressiveness, so combining the two, he called him "Northern Bear".

"It seems that his scandal with Sarah Brightman has not affected his state… This goal is quite beautiful, it is a typical Hero-style goal!"

The commentator mentioned this matter again. This time, Sarah Brightman did not hesitate and directly turned off the TV with the remote control.

The room suddenly fell silent again.

She lay face up on the soft Simmons bed, looking at the luxurious ceiling and chandelier.

For some reason, Chen Hero's appearance when he scored just now was deeply imprinted in her mind. Now, as long as she closed her eyes, that scene would automatically appear—Chen Hero headed the football into the goal despite the defender pressing down on him from the front and the defender reaching out to pull his jersey from behind.

This kind of power… is really fascinating.

Sarah Brightman is one meter eighty-eight in height, and is considered a power player on the women's tennis court. But in reality, her body is not as strong as everyone thinks, otherwise she would not have suffered a shoulder injury at such a young age. She should be a technical player, because her skills are also very good.

It is precisely because of this shoulder injury that she had to give up the entire 2007 season.

Therefore, Chen Hero's ability to break through the close defense of two defenders in the air and still head the football into the goal naturally left a deep impression on Sarah Brightman.

The beauty of power was very clearly reflected in Chen Hero's goal just now.

If I also had his kind of power…

As soon as this thought sprouted in Sarah Brightman's mind, it became unstoppable.

He is also a power player, right? Why isn't he injured? Football is more intense than tennis, with more physical contact, making injuries almost commonplace for players… But why is he so powerful and not injured?

If I had his kind of power and wasn't easily injured… I would now…

Be preparing to participate in the French Open…

On the tennis court where tens of thousands of people are cheering, on the red clay court of Roland Garros, she would swing her racket to her heart's content, and every swing would drive the sweat to splash out and drip on the ground.

Under the scorching sun, she would hit beautiful balls again and again, make roars that would shock the enemy, and fight all the way to the championship, and then lift the Grand Slam trophy again!

But what about now? She was sitting in a hotel room in Saint Petersburg, staring blankly at the ceiling and the chandelier.

Why could that Hero have such an outstanding body without getting injured?

He gets all the benefits!

That's right, he also showed off his muscles in front of me after scoring a goal. Was he showing off to me?!

Too hateful!

But…

Chen Hero's goal reappeared in Sarah Brightman's mind.

That goal was really beautiful!

Saint Petersburg Zenit relied on Chen Hero's goal to finally win the game 1:0 away.

With Moscow Spartak not yet having played, they temporarily surpassed Spartak and rose to first place.

Chen Hero was named the best player of the game after the game, but this award was no stranger to him. The league has started for six rounds, and he has already won the best player twice. He also won the best player twice last season, once when he scored a hat-trick against Soviet Wings, and once when he scored twice against Moscow CSKA.

For forwards, as long as you can score continuously, the chances of getting the best player of the game are very high. This may not be fair to players in other positions, but who tells everyone to like forwards more?

But the focus of reporters' post-match interviews was not on this goal, nor on the best player of the game. But on a woman.

In the mixed zone, it was crowded with reporters from all over the world, including many Chinese reporters—this away game was very close to Heilongjiang Province in China, and some domestic media did not have enough funds to go to Saint Petersburg for long-term tracking reports, so they flew directly to Vladivostok to interview Chen Hero. Especially after hearing that Chen Hero actually had a relationship with Sarah Brightman, the desire to interview Chen Hero became even more urgent. Chen Hero had never met Sarah Brightman before, but Chinese sports reporters knew very well about Sarah Brightman's status in the sports world. If Chen Hero was really Sarah Brightman's boyfriend, then it would be a matter that would make all Chinese sports people feel proud.

It's like one's son marrying a big star, bringing glory to the ancestors!

"Hero! Is it true that you and Sarah Brightman are in a relationship?"

"When did you and Sarah Brightman meet? And how did you meet, Chen Hero?"

"Can you talk about your girlfriend Sarah Brightman? Hero…"

"I have a question here. Did Sarah Brightman come to Saint Petersburg for vacation just because she wanted to see you, Hero?"

……

A group of reporters chattered and threw questions at Chen Hero.

Chen Hero's head was about to explode.

He was very happy that he had scored in seven consecutive league games. He originally thought that the reporters would ask him this question after the game, and he had even prepared a cool answer that he thought was very cool. Who would have thought that the reporters would completely ignore his wonderful performance in the game, and only stared at that broad-shouldered woman!

"I don't have any relationship with her!" Chen Hero denied the news. "As for whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway!"

After saying that, he stopped accepting any interviews from reporters in the mixed zone and hurried back to the locker room. The good mood of winning the game and scoring a goal was all ruined by these reporters.

Looking at his hurried departure, the reporters had another idea—Chen Hero and Sarah Brightman were really working hard to hide their relationship! The two of them pretended to hate each other, and then said something that had nothing to do with each other.

You can fool three-year-old children, but to fool us… Hehe.

Such public figures, when their private affairs are discovered, of course, they will not admit it readily and generously, thinking that we have not caught more evidence, so they can bite the bullet and deny it.

Don't underestimate us reporters! Saying something like "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway" is a slap in the face!

When we have more evidence, the two of you will wait to be exposed to the world!

After the game, the entire Zenit team rushed back to Saint Petersburg overnight. Flying from Vladivostok back to Saint Petersburg was another dozen hours of air travel, but these were nothing to Chen Hero. This time when he took this flight, he did not encounter harassment from that flight attendant.

Denisov was not surprised by this. He told Chen Hero that it was all because of his scandal with Sarah Brightman.

Snatching a man from Sarah Brightman? No matter how bold this flight attendant is, she wouldn't dare.

Getting rid of the entanglement of that flight attendant was perhaps the only benefit that that incident brought to Chen Hero.

Chen Hero, who returned home, rarely went out to play. The captain and the others did not ask him to go out to play, because… "You kid already has Sarah Brightman now, why are you still running over to hang out with us?" A group of people said to him with obvious jealousy.

"I've already said that I have nothing to do with her!" Chen Hero wailed.

But no one listened.

"Martin, let's go, let's go have fun!" Captain Denisov put his arm around Skrtel and patted him on the back.

"Hehe, Hero, then we're leaving…" Skrtel bid farewell to Chen Hero with an excited look on his face.

"That, Hero…" Arshavin also came over.

Chen Hero looked at him in despair: "Are you going to abandon me too, Shava?"

"Ah, no, no!" Arshavin quickly waved his hand. "I just want to ask you for a favor… Can you help me get a signature from Sarah Brightman next time?"

Chen Hero looked up at the sky in silence.

Is there anything more sad than this in the world? It's fine if the reporters don't believe it, but even my teammates don't believe my words! Am I really that much like that annoying woman's boyfriend?

Chen Hero returned to his apartment building alone.

A gust of wind blew, rolling up the pieces of paper on the roadside, and flew past in front of him.

He felt so lonely…

It's all that damn woman's fault! I don't even have any friends! They don't even take me out to play!

Damn it, damn it!

He looked up and saw the cars across the road again. He knew who was inside. He used to think it was nothing and was in the mood to tease them. But now he knew what the consequences of indulging reporters were…

He couldn't suppress his angry mood and gave the reporters the middle finger.

He didn't care if the reporters were madly pressing the shutter. So what if it was exposed? I'm going to fuck you guys!

After demonstrating to the reporters, he turned around and slowly walked into the gate.

The disappointed Chen Hero returned to his apartment alone, looking at the empty room, and didn't know what to do for a while.

He originally thought about going out with the group after the game. Now he could only stay alone in his empty room, crying his eyes out.

Damn it!

He decided to just go to the training instance. Use high-intensity training to torment his body and mind, so that he could temporarily forget this headache.

Chen Hero began to build a training instance according to the method he learned from Yesenin.

Soon he was in the familiar training ground, surrounded by his teammates and coaches.

"Warm up, warm up!" Assistant coach Porter's voice rang out.

Chen Hero spent a whole afternoon training in the instance. When he finished training, he had leveled up.

He went from level thirteen to level fourteen.

Before the season started, he was already level twelve and a half. Now that the new season has been going on for more than a month, he has also reached level fourteen.

But he felt that the leveling speed was still a bit slow…

When he reached level thirteen, he maxed out the "Knockdown" talent. Now he has a new talent point. How should he choose?

Chen Hero had played World of Warcraft, so he knew that the most taboo thing about talents is wanting all kinds of abilities, but you only have so many talent points. During the leveling process, you are afraid of putting a talent point here and a talent point there, and as a result, you have a little bit of each talent's ability, but it doesn't do anything.

So you have to concentrate on adding to one aspect of your abilities.

His talents are divided into three branches: Strength, Agility, and Technical Awareness. Except for the two points that he accidentally clicked wrong, his talents are all concentrated on the Strength branch.

This is also the branch that best suits his abilities. He has excellent foundations and can maximize the abilities of this branch.

So Chen Hero didn't even look at the talents of other branches and just stared at this one to add points.

How should he add talent points? After so long, Chen Hero had explored a set of experiences himself. That is, you must never add a talent based on the description of the talent itself, but you must combine it with your own actual situation—for example, before, he only had heading as a scoring weapon. When he needed a variety of offensive methods, he decisively gave up continuing to add the "Knockdown" talent and instead chose "Cannon", and kept adding it until it was full.

Now he decided to upgrade the "Aerial Acrobat" talent next. Because although his heading is already very powerful, Chen Hero still encountered situations in the game where he was restrained by the opponent and could not score with a header. According to Chen Hero's understanding, that meant that his heading had not yet reached the peak, so he decided to further strengthen his heading. "Air Dominance" improves the goal rate of headers, which is not enough. He also needs to strengthen from other aspects.

"Aerial Acrobat" is a good choice. "Increase jumping ability by 5/10/15%, and increase hang time by 3/6/9%".

Better jumping than others means being able to jump higher, being able to jump faster, and having a better ability to jump continuously in a short period of time. In this way, the ability to compete for headers in complex situations will be greatly enhanced. At the same time, the hang time ability is also very awesome. The basketball god Michael Jordan has excellent hang time. He and the opposing defender jump at the same time. When the defender lands, the football has not yet arrived, and only he is in the air, so dunking and shooting are not difficult for him.

What would happen if I also had excellent hang time?

A teammate crosses from the wing, and I jump high. The defender jumps up with me, but when he lands, the football has not yet arrived. Only I am above, heading the "late" football into the goal.

Being able to stay in the air for one second longer than the opponent may be the decisive second.

Many goals are just because that one second of opportunity was not seized, right?

Chen Hero did not hesitate to click on the "Aerial Acrobat" talent icon!

A ray of light flashed, and his jumping ability has now increased by 5%, and his hang time has also increased by 3%.

Chen Hero got up and jumped in place, wanting to feel the changes brought about by the talent points. But such a subtle change cannot be felt in this situation…

Everything needs to be tested on the court.

Sweating all over, exhausted by the high-intensity training, and leveling up and gaining a new talent, Chen Hero was physically and mentally happy, and temporarily forgot about the trouble with Sarah Brightman.

Who would have thought that he would receive a call from his agent, Decula, not long after he had just added the talent points.

Chen Hero, with a sweat towel around his neck, was stunned when he heard Decula's call—he didn't expect to have a product endorsement contract so soon!