Chapter 73: Searching for Hero

The team was on holiday, so what should the players do next?

Of course, Chen Yingxiong wanted to go home. He had been separated from his parents for half a year and he missed them. He had to use this opportunity to go back and visit. Besides, the son made money abroad, so he could be considered to be returning home in glory.

But what about Yesenin?

"I'll go home with you," Yesenin pushed up his glasses. "I think your parents need to meet your agent. Then I can leave you be."

Chen Yingxiong looked at him, and then thought of another thing. "By the way, if I return to China, what should I do with the training?"

Yesenin was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Chen Yingxiong to ask such a question. "Aren't you on vacation? Why are you training on vacation?"

"Of course, I want to improve myself as quickly as possible. The new season is coming, and I can play in the League Cup. I don't want to waste my time like this," Chen Yingxiong spread his hands.

Chen Yingxiong had fully understood that the higher the level, the harder it was to upgrade. It took him more than two weeks to upgrade from level 7 to level 8. Of course, this was also due to his laziness and the fact that he went out to eat, drink, and have fun. But the most important thing was that the experience required to upgrade was increasing.

Therefore, he had to consider using his vacation time for training.

"I think the dungeon training model is great. I can train anywhere without a venue. It's very convenient. So I want to ask if I can continue training after returning to China."

Yesenin thought for a moment and said, "Of course, you can… But it's not convenient for you to disappear in front of others for more than an hour without any reason, right?"

The copy system was that you moved your entire person from the real world to the copy for training. Since you were in the copy, you naturally could not be in reality. Therefore, Chen Yingxiong in the copy could not be seen or found in reality.

Chen Yingxiong waved his hand nonchalantly. "That's not a problem. I don't believe I don't have even one hour of private time a day during the holiday."

Yesenin also felt that what Chen Yingxiong said made sense. If one really wanted to create opportunities for training, there would be many excuses.

He nodded. "Okay. I'm fine."

Chen Yingxiong was stunned. "What do you mean it's okay? Tell me what to do!"

Before, when Chen Yingxiong entered the dungeon for training, it was Yesenin who brought him in, so he had no idea how to enter the dungeon.

Yesenin snapped his fingers. "Now it's OK."

"What's the OK?" Chen Yingxiong was confused.

"Do you still remember what your training ground looks like?"

"Of course, I remember."

"Very good. Close your eyes and imagine what your training ground looks like in your mind. The more details the better."

Although Chen Yingxiong didn't understand what was going on, he closed his eyes and did as he was told. He tried to recall every tree and blade of grass on the training ground. To be honest, it wasn't difficult, because he had trained there for half a season and knew what the training ground looked like with his eyes closed.

When he heard Yesenin say "OK," he opened his eyes and was shocked by what he saw.

In front of him were green trees, grass, and barbed wire… blue sky and white clouds… he was at the training ground of Udeni Park!

"This…" Chen Yingxiong was stunned.

"There's no one here now because you're only thinking about the training ground. To put it bluntly, it's just visualizing your memory," Yesenin explained.

Chen Yingxiong quickly closed his eyes again, and this time he tried to recall his teammates in his mind. During this process, he first heard Denisov's voice. "Why are you standing there like an idiot, Yingxiong?" Because he was most familiar with the leader, he thought of him first.

Then Anyukov laughed. "Which beauty are you thinking about? Let's go meet her together sometime."

When Chen Yingxiong opened his eyes again, the whole team was in front of him, even assistant coach Porter.

Yesenin clapped beside him. "Well done, Hero. Now you know how to enter the dungeon, right?"

Chen Yingxiong nodded.

He suddenly thought of another question. "Can I also add more weight?"

"Why don't you try?"

As soon as Chen Yingxiong lifted his leg, he felt as if it was filled with lead. He smiled and said, "It's done!"

"If you want to practice on your own after you return home, you can do this when I'm not with you," Yesenin said.

"Wait, how do I quit?"

"Just think about quitting after the training session is done."

"Is it that simple?" Chen Yingxiong was particularly surprised.

"It's that simple." Yesenin nodded.

"Doesn't that mean you can't quit during training?"

"That's it. You have to hold on until the end of training."

Chen Yingxiong understood that this thing was a complete test of his willpower. After training in the dungeon, you would understand that the training there was very uncomfortable, and every minute was torture for the body.

He nodded. "Interesting. I see."

When Chen Yingxiong was searching for local specialties in St. Petersburg and planning to bring them back to China to honor his parents, he didn't know that he had already sparked a heated debate among Chinese fans on the Internet.

At first, a football fan who liked football betting and often followed the lower-level leagues accidentally discovered that a person named "Hero_Chen" frequently appeared in the list of goal scorers when studying the match reports of the Russian league. Especially in the last eleven rounds of the league, his name appeared almost continuously.

Logically speaking, the surname "Chen" should only appear in East Asia, and judging from the spelling, it didn't seem to be from other regions. The fan suddenly became interested - could it be a Chinese player? But his name didn't sound like a Chinese name… Chen Heluo? That should be "Heluo." Could it be that the old Russians had mispronounced it, thinking it was "Hero"?

With such questions, the fan found the official website of Zenit St. Petersburg.

As soon as he clicked it, he saw a photo of Chen Yingxiong.

Next to it was the news that Zenit Club announced that it had signed a new two-year contract with the team's center forward Chen Yingxiong.

There wasn't much introduction about Chen Yingxiong's identity in the news, only a simple sentence. "This Chinese center."

The word "China" stimulated the fan, as if he had discovered a new continent. He posted the screenshots and photos of the news to the Fans section of Tianya Community.

The title was very shocking and definitely eye-catching. It had the potential to be a headline party on online media such as Sina Sports - "The hope of Chinese football? ! A Chinese center forward appears in the Russian Premier League, with an amazing statistic of ten goals in eleven games!"

This shocking headline attracted many people to click in to see what was going on. Some people called the poster an "SB" without even reading the content, while others said, "Can you please stop talking about Chinese football?" Of course, after these people read the news translated by the poster, they found out that he was really a Chinese player, and the debate began - was he really really a Chinese player?

"…He just has an oriental face… Foreigners often confuse us with North Koreans, South Koreans, and Japanese…"

"Don't be ridiculous. If there were such a player in Chinese football, he would have been hyped up as the best player by the media. How could he still be unknown?"

"How could this be a Chinese player? The name is not even right! How can there be a Chinese person with this name? Hei Luo Chen? Chen Hei Luo? What kind of parents would be so cruel as to give their child this name?"

"I think it must be a Chinese player! Maybe he went abroad directly? There are players who go abroad directly now…"

"Maybe it's a Russian player of Chinese descent…"

"Damn, this news is too vague! It only mentioned a Chinese center, but who knows where he is from? Is there any more detailed information?"

The great human engine began to turn.

Many enthusiastic Chinese fans rushed to the official website of Zenit St. Petersburg, trying to find all the information about this person called "Hero_Chen."

But it was obvious that Zenit's official website was not very detailed in the player information. On Chen Yingxiong's page, there was no other information except his photo, name, height, weight, position, number.

He did look Chinese, but what was the point of appearance? There were too many immigrants in the world today, so who knew if he was not a real Chinese person or not?

The biggest result of the human flesh search was the speculation that this person's name should be "Chen Yingxiong." Yingxiong meant hero, so perhaps the official directly used an English word as Chen Yingxiong's name.

This speculation had not been confirmed, but some fans online had already called this "Chinese" player, whose name was still unknown, "Hero."

The Tianya Community Fans section gathered many fans. Of course, there were also reporters from sports media who occasionally came here to take a look, or simply registered to pretend to be ordinary fans and hang out on the forum with everyone, saying things that they dared not say as reporters.

So the debate quickly entered the media's attention.

First, "Football" reported this in its own newspaper, saying that a mysterious Chinese player was currently playing for Zenit St. Petersburg in the Russian league. He had scored ten goals in eleven league games, which was amazing. But who was he? No one knew.

Of course, as the mortal enemy of "Football," "Sports Weekly" naturally came out to sing the opposite tune of "Football." They said that they had checked with the Chinese Football Association. In the list of players registered with the Chinese Football Association, there was no player named Chen Yingxiong, so this person could not be a Chinese player. Who was it then? It could be a Korean player, or a North Korean player. Everyone knew that after Advocaat coached Zenit St. Petersburg, three Korean players joined. Maybe this player named Chen was also Korean? But then shouldn't he be a player of the Korean national team, or perhaps a domestic player in South Korea?

The analysis of "Sports Weekly" was very logical, and "Football" was not to be outdone.

In addition to competing in their respective newspapers, the two sides also used their personal blogs on the Internet to mock their opponents by taking advantage of the Chen Yingxiong incident. Anyway, verbal battles between the two families were common, so everyone just watched the show.

But was there really such a person?

We all knew that if Chinese football really had such a great figure, it would be a great shot in the arm for the depressed Chinese football!

If the Russian league hadn't ended, we might have sent reporters to Russia to find out what was going on.

When Chen Yingxiong and Yesenin boarded the plane from St. Petersburg to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, he didn't know that he had already been targeted by the domestic media.