Chapter 1 Zhou Yi Checks His Data

When it was time to sleep that night, Zhou Yi entered the system to check his data.

He wanted to see if his abilities had improved after a day of training.

He was delighted to see that the individual items he had trained that day had all increased a little!

It should be known that increasing even a little was not easy. Zhou Yi had trained continuously in the system, and some individual items had only increased by a few points.

It seemed that the effect of training in reality was indeed more significant.

Zhou Yi wasn't surprised by this setting.

If he could obtain a significant increase in attributes just by training in the virtual system, then wouldn't there be no need to train in reality at all? The system would definitely avoid such a situation.

In the training with Guo Nu, such as passing and receiving training, Zhou Yi's passing attribute also increased.

Although it was only a little, it should be known that this was only the first day Zhou Yi and Guo Nu trained together. The increase in this data also proved that it was the right thing for Zhou Yi and Guo Nu to train together. As long as they continued to train like this, the data would definitely get higher and higher.

After being happy, Zhou Yi fell into distress again—he heard Sun Pan say that who you train with each day is random, so even though he trained with Guo Nu today, he might not be able to tomorrow.

Zhou Yi fell into deep thought. Should he apply to head coach Hao Dong to train with Guo Nu permanently in the future?

Everyone else avoided Guo Nu like the plague, so he might as well sacrifice himself to help others!

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The next day, after the morning warm-up, it was time for the usual grouping. The players, who had been chatting and laughing, became serious and their expressions became solemn.

Almost everyone was waiting for the judgment of fate.

Assistant coach Xu Yang began to call out names.

The people who were called were grouped in pairs, and soon Zhou Yi's name was called.

This time, Zhou Yi didn't respond. He looked at Xu Yang expectantly, hoping to hear Guo Nu's name from Xu Yang's mouth in the next second.

"Guo Nu," Xu Yang said.

This time, there was an uproar in the team. Everyone looked at Xu Yang in surprise, or at Zhou Yi and Guo Nu—this was the first time since the team's training camp that the same person had been assigned to a group with Guo Nu for two consecutive days!

Guo Nu was also very surprised.

Originally, he didn't care who he was grouped with for training, because no matter who it was, no one wanted to train with him. He knew his teammates' attitudes towards him, and he knew why, but he didn't want to change that.

Instead of being laughed at and humiliated to his face, he would rather punch back and then hit them so hard that they would only dare to speak ill of him behind his back. At least he couldn't hear them when they were saying bad things about him.

This was actually a kind of self-deception, a form of escapism. But over the years, Guo Nu had become accustomed to using this method to deal with the troubles caused by his height, appearance, and stutter. No one had ever told him that he should change his approach, and he defaulted to this being the best solution.

He thought he should be like this in this temporarily assembled team as well.

But now the situation seemed to have changed a bit.

He was actually grouped with the same person for training for two consecutive days.

Why was it this person in particular?

The person Guo Nu was wary of in this team was Sun Pan, because he couldn't beat this tall and burly northeasterner.

But live and let live. Sun Pan wouldn't take the initiative to provoke him either. There was a delicate balance between them.

The person who made it difficult for Guo Nu to maintain his balance and easily angered him was not Sun Pan, but... Zhou Yi.

When they first met, Zhou Yi repeatedly provoked him, making him furious. This seemed to have formed a psychological shadow in his heart. Every time he thought of him, Guo Nu felt his emotions boiling.

But Zhou Yi and Sun Pan had a good relationship, so it was almost impossible for him to do anything to Zhou Yi. Sun Pan was like Zhou Yi's shadow, inseparable from him, and his eyes were like radar, constantly scanning back and forth between them.

This gave Guo Nu a headache. He realized for the first time that his philosophy of life was... not working on Zhou Yi.

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"Damn, why is it you two again?" Sun Pan complained in a low voice next to Zhou Yi. "Is the coach doing this on purpose? You still have to be careful, but don't wrong yourself too much..."

He was telling Zhou Yi how to get along with Guo Nu.

Zhou Yi shook his head with a grin: "It's okay, don't worry, Sun Pan. This is great!"

"Great?" Sun Pan looked at Zhou Yi with a strange expression.

"Yes, great," Zhou Yi repeated.

He was really happy—he didn't expect it to actually work! The coach really assigned him to a group with Guo Nu!

Now, his training effect wouldn't be bad!

Sun Pan looked at Zhou Yi's happy appearance and shook his head in confusion: "If you're happy, then that's good."

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The other players were also strange about how these two were grouped together again, but before they could discuss it, Xu Yang suppressed their commotion.

"No whispering!" Xu Yang said, glaring.

The young players below immediately became obedient.

As the oldest coach in the coaching team, Xu Yang was very experienced. He had a good personal relationship with Hao Dong, and this time Hao Dong had specifically asked him to help him. It was said that there were rumors that Xu Yang was Hao Dong's enlightenment coach. No one had confirmed this, but it could be guessed from Hao Dong's respectful attitude towards Xu Yang. After all, Hao Dong, the big star, usually called Xu Yang "Xu Zhi."

What is Xu Zhi? Guidance Xu (Xu Zhidao).

Most domestic players call the coach guidance. Hao Dong's shouting like that must have his reasons.

With Hao Dong's support in the coaching team, Xu Yang naturally had great prestige, and the young players were all afraid of Xu Yang's glare.

They still had the feeling of fans chasing stars for Hao Dong, but for Xu Yang, there was really only awe.

Even Guo Nu was like this.

As soon as Xu Yang opened his mouth, everyone became honest.

At the same time, he was also observing Zhou Yi and Guo Nu. He found that after he put the two of them together, their expressions were different.

Guo Nu was surprised, and Xu Yang also saw a bit of distressed emotion on his face, as if being in a group with Zhou Yi made him very unwilling. Xu Yang was quite surprised to see this—Guo Nu, who no one dared to provoke in the team, actually had such emotions towards a specific teammate, that was really rare…

Looking at Zhou Yi again, the happy emotion was simply overflowing when he heard that he was in a group with Guo Nu. It was especially obvious. Everyone could see that he was very happy to be able to train in a group with Guo Nu. This also made Xu Yang not understand. Everyone in the team avoided Guo Nu, why was Zhou Yi so special? Instead, he was happy to train with Guo Nu?

He thought of Hao Dong's reason last night.

Could it really be just because Zhou Yi was happy to be with Guo Nu?

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After the grouping was completed, the training began. Zhou Yi stood in front of Guo Nu and greeted him with a grin: "Hi, we're together again, Lao Guo!"

Guo Nu didn't pay attention to him with a straight face.

"Let's go to the restaurant for lunch together after training, okay?" Zhou Yi didn't care about Guo Nu's attitude towards him and continued to invite Guo Nu.

Guo Nu still ignored him.

"Don't think too much about it. I don't mean anything else. I just think it's normal to eat together since everyone is so happy together..."

Guo Nu couldn't help but twitch his mouth, and his temples throbbed—who the hell is happy with you?!

Just when Guo Nu was about to explode, assistant coach Xu Yang also noticed the situation here, and he shouted: "Zhou Yi! Guo Nu! What are you chatting about instead of training!"

Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the two of them, and they were all surprised—Guo Nu was actually chatting with Zhou Yi?! What's wrong with this world?

Guo Nu, the loner who always went his own way in the team, actually forgot to train because he was chatting with Zhou Yi!

Hearing this, Guo Nu quickly defended himself: "I, I, I..."

Zhou Yi interrupted: "Ah, sorry, coach! We'll start training now! Come on, Lao Guo!"

In front of everyone, he called out his nickname for Guo Nu, and a group of people's jaws almost dropped—Lao Guo? When did Zhou Yi and Guo Nu become so close? They're already calling each other that!

Guo Nu felt the meaning revealed in everyone's experienced eyes. He wanted to explain himself, but the more anxious he became, the more he stuttered, and he couldn't even say a simple sentence well. He could only roar angrily in his heart: Lao Guo your sister!

He was almost crying...

"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, train quickly." Xu Yang didn't want to get involved in the affairs of these two people anymore. He waved his hand, like a light breeze blowing by, stopping Guo Nu's efforts to defend himself and setting the tone for the matter in everyone's mind—Guo Nu had defaulted to Zhou Yi's affectionate nickname for him, "Lao Guo."

During that day's training class, Guo Nu vented all his pent-up anger on the football and Zhou Yi, just like yesterday.

Of course, when Zhou Yi entered the system that night, he saw that the value of his attributes had increased again…

In addition, whether it was lunch or dinner that day, Guo Nu still sat at a table alone and did not eat with Zhou Yi.

But even so, rumors about the true relationship between Zhou Yi and Guo Nu began to circulate in the team…

Even He Ying was very curious. In the dormitory, he took the initiative to chat with Zhou Yi for the first time: "Do you know Guo Nu?"

Zhou Yi was a little surprised that He Ying suddenly came to talk to him. He was stunned for a moment before nodding: "Teammates, how could I not know him?"

He Ying was a little annoyed, not knowing whether Zhou Yi really didn't understand or was pretending to be confused, so he had to ask again: "I mean, did you know each other before?"

"Oh, no, I didn't. I only met him after I came here."

He Ying was even more strange: "Then you..."

"Hey... how should I put it? Everyone is a teammate, and there's no such thing as killing his father or stealing his wife, so what's the point of being so nervous?" Zhou Yi shrugged, his tone old-fashioned as he spoke, as if he was a person with a story.

Being able to say such a thing made He Ying look at Zhou Yi with new eyes.

But Zhou Yi's next question made He Ying a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yi asked, meaning why are you suddenly concerned about this matter?

He Ying didn't know how to explain. In fact, he didn't know why he suddenly became interested in the matter between Zhou Yi and Guo Nu tonight. He couldn't help but say so much.

Now he regretted it.

"It's nothing, just asking." He Ying, not knowing how to explain, simply took out his magic weapon, coldly and stiffly ending his brief "chat" with Zhou Yi.