Lin Hai Ting Tao

Chapter 1082 God's Perspective

Despite how shocking Zhou Yi's first-person perspective while playing football was, even more shocking things were waiting for them.

Mark Lawrenson proposed an advanced test.

The purpose of the test was to see if Zhou Yi could really master all the information he had observed. After all, a quick glance was completely different from actually remembering something and using it effectively.

He had Zhou Yi rewatch the video he had just filmed from his first-person perspective.

Then, without warning, he suddenly paused the video and asked Zhou Yi to quickly mark the positions of both teams' players on a prepared overhead view of the field.

The result that Zhou Yi drew surprised everyone present.

Whether it was the front, side, or back, a 360-degree view without blind spots, he marked them all.

Of course, for players directly behind him, the position he marked wasn't very accurate.

But for the players in front of him and on either side, Zhou Yi marked them very accurately.

Excluding the two goalkeepers, there were a total of twenty people, and he marked eighteen of them correctly! The two that were wrong weren't too far off, and considering that those positions weren't that important, it didn't affect the overall situation even if they were wrong.

Seeing this result, a collective gasp was heard from the crowd.

"Radar," Mark Lawrenson said. "It's just like radar, accurate and efficient. This test clearly illustrates why Zhou Yi knows every corner of the field like the back of his hand and knows where you are. So he saw you, he really remembered you all..."

Mark Lawrenson then brought in several other players to do this test.

Including Pires.

Pires did fairly well, getting ten out of twenty people correct.

The other ordinary players could only get five right at most, the difference was very obvious.

"...Their field of vision narrowed," the expert invited by the production team explained. "This is normal. When humans are nervous and highly focused, their field of vision narrows, focusing on their target and completely ignoring the situation outside the target. This allows the brain to concentrate its energy and resources on the target it should be focusing on... But Zhou Yi is clearly different from ordinary people. His eyes are always moving, rarely focusing on one target for a long time. This may seem like a lack of focus, but he can obtain much more information than others, and this information can help him obtain more intelligence on the field and analyze it. In this way, he naturally has more information than others..."

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Was that enough?

Of course not, Mark Lawrenson had prepared another test for Zhou Yi.

He prepared a special five-a-side football match.

The players would wear a closed device similar to goggles, which was actually a screen that received video signals from several cameras above the football field.

So the players wearing this device saw a picture presented from a bird's-eye view above their heads.

They would play the game from this special "third-person perspective."

When the game started, almost no one could run and play normally, except for one person.

That person was of course Zhou Yi. After a very short period of adaptation, he was full of energy on the field.

He controlled the ball freely and passed accurately, but his teammates were too uncomfortable with this strange perspective and performed poorly.

Making it impossible for the game to continue.

So Mark Lawrenson called a stop to it.

Although the game couldn't continue normally, Mark Lawrenson had gotten what he wanted.

"I've always had a guess, and today it's finally been verified!" Looking at Zhou Yi, Mark Lawrenson said excitedly. "When I commentated on your game at the Olympics, I had a feeling that you were playing the game with a 'God's perspective,' just like us commentators! Now, I've proven my guess, you are indeed playing football with a 'God's perspective'! It's incredible! It's crazy! It's amazing!"

Pires also nodded and said, "Yes, it's really amazing. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I almost wouldn't have believed it..."

Then he faced the camera and explained to the audience behind the camera and the director why he and Mark Lawrenson were so excited about this matter.

He asked the director, "Do you know why many people think playing football is easy?"

The director didn't know, "Why?"

"Because they're not on the field," Pires replied.

"Not on the field?" The director was puzzled.

"Yes, what's the difference between being on the field and being on the sofa?" Pires asked again.

The director shook his head, "I don't know..."

Pires patiently explained, "Think about what the theme of our filming today is?"

"Vision?" The director guessed.

Pires nodded, giving an affirmative answer, "Yes, that's right. People watching TV will wonder why you don't pass here, why you don't pass there. But we players on the field can't see so many things. There are twenty-two people on the field, and excluding myself, there are twenty-one other people. But you saw the results of the test just now, I can only see ten people. We can't see everything, and we can't control everything. This is a very normal and reasonable result, so sometimes people watching the game think the players are stupid. There's a big opening there, why don't they pass? Because they didn't see it at all. If they didn't see it, how can they pass?"

Pires spread out his hands.

"But Zhou Yi is different, he can see almost everything, he can control everything. When you can even grasp the situation behind you, then a backheel pass is very easy, right? When you can monitor the entire field, you can naturally find those openings that others can't find. That's why he is a world-class midfielder at such a young age. Because he is like a chess player manipulating chess pieces, he is like God playing football."

The director was stunned, he didn't expect former French international Pires to give Zhou Yi such a high evaluation.

Seeing the director's expression, Pires asked, "Do you think I'm exaggerating?"

The director subconsciously nodded.

"No, I'm telling the truth. Zhou Yi, his future is limitless..." Pires said with a smile.

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Zhou Yi's performance in this test was surprising, and it also made people more curious - how can his brain quickly accept so much information and process so much information?

Now it was the turn of the professional scientific team to appear.

The production team found a professional team that studies how the human brain works in action to conduct a test on Zhou Yi.

Using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging to scan and model Zhou Yi's brain.

Through imaging technology, you can see the structure of Zhou Yi's brain. Then the scientific team found that a part of Zhou Yi's brain was very active compared to ordinary people, and this part is the area that determines the brain's spatial cognitive ability.

Then, while Zhou Yi's brain was being scanned by nuclear magnetic resonance, he watched his own game footage, and then at the moment before he passed the ball, the playback was paused, allowing him to choose the passing target from three options. At the same time, in order to be closer to the actual game effect, the options only stayed for half a second, and then the screen went black.

This test was used to study how Zhou Yi's brain used the information it had mastered.

Generally speaking, it is not easy to grasp the standing positions of players on the field, let alone select the correct passing target in such a fleeting situation.

There were a total of two hundred and forty groups of such tests, which were repeatedly tested in an hour and a half.

Then, nuclear magnetic resonance was used to scan and record Zhou Yi's brain for each choice during this process.

In the end, a total of seventeen thousand brain cross-sectional images were taken and then analyzed.

It can be clearly seen that more parts of Zhou Yi's brain are active, especially the basal ganglia, which has been in a state of intense activity during the experiment.

"...We have found other players to do similar tests before. There are almost no signs of activity in their basal ganglia..." Dr. Li from the scientific team introduced. "Their active area is the prefrontal area on the surface of the brain, which is the brain area we use when we think and make decisions. The prefrontal area being activated means that the player is making passing judgments while thinking. But Zhou Yi is completely different. The basal ganglia that Zhou Yi uses is the area in the human brain used for long-term memory and experience and knowledge gained through repeated practice..."

Dr. Li pointed to the brightest area on Zhou Yi's brain cross-sectional image.

"So I have a guess. I think Zhou Yi's basal ganglia has accumulated a huge amount of game experience accumulated in the game, just like a Go game record. So the brain can instantly filter out the best choice for the current game situation, but this series of choices are made subconsciously, so Zhou Yi himself may not feel that he is racking his brains to think and choose. This is what is called intuition..."

"But there is a doubt," Mark Lawrenson said. "Zhou Yi is so young. He has only been participating in professional leagues since 2009, and it has only been five years now. The accumulated game experience should not be so huge and massive..."

Dr. Li spread his hands and said, "This is the only thing I feel doubtful about..."

Zhou Yi felt cold sweat unconsciously emerge as he listened to their discussion - he didn't expect that this nuclear magnetic resonance and Dr. Li's speculation were already close to his core secret...

The huge amount of game experience was of course kicked out by himself in the virtual space, where he could play seven or eight games a night. He did this every night, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Even if he played seven games every night, that would be two thousand five hundred and fifty-five games of experience.

And he has been doing this for six years since 2008. Two thousand five hundred and fifty-five games a year multiplied by six is fifteen thousand three hundred and thirty games of experience.

An ordinary professional player can't play 10,000 professional games in his lifetime if he plays normally...

Zhou Yi certainly has far more rich experience and game experience than all other players on this planet.

That's why his basal ganglia area is as bright as a small sun.

Zhou Yi quickly spread his hands and said, "I was also a loyal fan before I started playing professional football and watched a lot of games. And... I can only say that I am gifted, ha!"

Dr. Li turned to look at Zhou Yi, and then nodded: "Well, that's all I can say. Your talent is indeed very amazing. We used to think that playing football depends on the body, not the brain, at least the brain is not the most important. But you have subverted this perception. Now I think that those world-class players, even if they are not good at learning and have low education, their brains will definitely not be bad. Fools can't play football..."