Fox in the Penalty Area

Volume 201 of Fox in the Restricted Area, fully armed Hu Lai The main locker room of the Provincial Sports Center outside the Jincheng North Third Ring Road is filled with various sounds, such as whenever someone comes in or goes out, the door is opened From time to time, the din of the stadium outside will be magnified countless times and transmitted in.

There were also people walking around in the locker room wearing new football boots, the impact of the spikes on the marble floor was crisp and dense.

Various sounds of opening and closing cabinet doors, talking, playing football in the locker room...

These are the sounds in the locker room before every game.

For a professional player, he is used to preparing for games in such an environment.

But today's home team locker room is a little different from the usual game.

After Zhao Kangming led all the coaching staff out of the locker room, the door was closed again, and the sound outside was many times quieter.

Qin Lin got up from his seat and walked to the middle of the locker room. He supported the middle table full of sports drinks and fruit snacks with one hand, put one hand on his hip, and looked around at his teammates.

The originally noisy locker room gradually became quiet.

"Brothers!" he said, "Outside people think this game should be abandoned. Don't look at the stands outside are full of people, but in fact they are all here to celebrate our promotion—— After all, this is the first home game after we confirmed the promotion."

When the team went out to warm up just now, they saw the Provincial Sports Center which was almost full. This stadium, which can accommodate 60,000 people, had hardly been filled before, except for stars who came to give concerts.

But today, enthusiastic Flash Star fans, Anton fans, and Jincheng fans filled the stands with 60,000 people.

When the Flash Star players went out to warm up, they were busy in the stands, hanging the banners they carried on the railings of the stands on each floor, and the colorful banners, slogans, and ribbons just wrapped the railings.

Various slogans and flags were flying in the stands.

That scene was really like a championship celebration.

Considering that this is a FA Cup final, it may make people wonder whether the fans of Shining Star are determined to win the FA Cup.

But in fact, Flash Star fans just came to celebrate the team's promotion.

Although the next league is also the home of Shining Star, the excited fans couldn't wait at all, so they poured in to fill up the provincial sports center where the FA Cup final was held.

Of course, they must also come to cheer for the team in the FA Cup final.

It's just that they don't pay much attention to the results of the game.

Even if they really lost the final and lost the championship, it would not affect their mood in the slightest.

It's really like what Qin Lin said, this is a game that should be given up.

But the Flash Star players themselves are unwilling to give up.

"...I always remember how we answered Director Zhao 20 days ago. All of us wanted to win, and no one gave up. I think this game is an excellent test for us, Test whether we are really ready to participate in the Chinese Super League next season. Otherwise, when we are promoted to the Chinese Super League, will we have to give up when we face every opponent who is stronger than us?"

Facing the questioning from the boss Qin Lin, someone couldn't help shaking their heads.

"We are two goals behind on the total score. But what is two goals behind? There is no such thing as a football field that is behind by two goals in the first half and then reversed in the second half... What's more, we still have a full ninety Minutes! The opponents are really strong, but we are also strong! We have defeated so many teams upright and entered the finals all the way, of course we have the strength to stand in front of them and fight them to the death!"

"We are strong!" After Qin Lin finished speaking,

Captain Li Tielin stood up and shouted, waving his fists.

"We are strong!!!" The other Flash Star players shouted back to him, and the entire locker room was filled with various howls.

"We can fight them to the death!"

"Fight to the death with them!!!"

The flash star players in the locker room almost jumped up from their seats, roaring at the top of their lungs.

"Very good!!" Qin Lin slapped several times vigorously, "Get ready to play! Get ready to play!!"

Amidst the noise, Hu Lai sat down again and entered the system space.

Now in his consciousness space, there is a layout almost exactly the same as that of Shining Star's locker room and the virtual locker room.

In the virtual locker room, there are several items on the table in front of him.

He is like a soldier about to go to battle, checking his weapons and equipment.

[Lover's Red Rope], [Broken Bear's Legguards], [Weared Bear's Jersey], and two [Consonance Cards].

This is all the equipment he prepared for today's game.

He spent all his points for this.

[Broken Giant Bear Legguards] He bought 30,000 points out of the 100,000 points rewarded in the official mall after completing the task of the East Asian Cup. According to his father's lessons learned, he felt that it was definitely the right choice to wear this injury-reducing shin guard in the game against Wang Xianke's team, otherwise he might regret it for the rest of his life...

[The giant bear jersey that was worn] was drawn out with ten consecutive lottery tickets when he was playing football in Dongchuan Middle School. But it has been useless, because his physical strength was not enough at the time, and this jersey that improved his confrontation ability on the basis of his own strength seemed very tasteless. It is different now. After so long of professional football training, especially the strength training specially formulated for him by physical coach Sun Yi, his physical strength today is not the same as that in middle school. This jersey will naturally come into play.

Hu Lai also specifically studied that the main central defenders of the Golden Arrow are all tall and large. One is Mao Junzheng, the main central defender of the active Chinese national team, who is 1.88 meters tall and weighs 86 kilograms.

One is Jin Yong, although he is not a national team player, but his strength is not bad, otherwise it would be impossible to be the main force in Wang Xianke's Dashun Golden Arrows. He is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 85 kilograms.

In the first round of the two central defenders, Hu Lai had confronted them. Once they were attached to them, it was really difficult to deal with them. Their strength made Hu Lai seem to be fighting against a sandbag filled with sand—— — If your strength is weak, you can’t even shake the sandbag.

That's why he chose to turn the jersey out of the storage space and let it play its due role.

[Lover's Red String] Hu Lai spent 10,000 points to buy it from the official mall last night.

I bought two [Consonance Cards] together.

Why are there two?

Because Hu Lai found out that after he bought [Lover's Red String], he only had 63,000 points left.

In the official mall, the price of [Consonance Card] is 30,000 points per piece, which is just enough to buy two.

Then why buy two?

Because Hu Lai's mind was wide open. Thinking back when he used one for Chen Xingyu, the effect was very good, so he couldn't help thinking that if he used a [Spiritual Rhyme Card] for two people, what effect would it have?

Don't the outside world say that he, Chen Xingyi, and Zhang Qinghuan are the flashing star trident?

That line, arrange everything, and see what kind of sparks can be sparked between the tridents!

In this way, Hu Lai exchanged the remaining points in his hand for two [Consonance Cards].

Now I only have 3,400 points left, and it can almost be counted as returning to the pre-liberation overnight.

But Hu Lai didn't regret or feel sad, not to mention that if he successfully completed the mission, he would be rewarded with 200,000 points.

In other words, in order to kill Wang Xianke, this is also the price that must be paid.

If you don't want your child to be tied to a wolf, how can you leapfrog and kill monsters if you don't want to get points?

"Let's go, Hu Lai!"

Wang Guangwei, who had already got up, looked back and saw Hu Lai was still sitting on the stool, so he turned around and waved to him.

"coming."

Holly got up.

[Broken Giant Bear Legguards] was equipped on his legs by him.

His right hand slid across his left wrist, and a thin red rope appeared on his wrist.

He shook his neck and shook his shoulders, [the worn giant bear jersey] has been put on.

He followed behind Wang Guangwei, and walked out of the locker room with his teammates. Hearing the dense sound of shoe spikes hitting the floor, he looked at the numbers and names on the backs of his teammates, and walked step by step towards the waiting player. corridor.

The shouts in the stadium outside the passage grew louder and clearer.

"Flashing Stars Rising!!!"

"Rise up!!!"

Every flash star player knows that they are here to celebrate the upgrade, but it doesn't matter, from now on, let's treat it as if they are here to beat the Dashun Golden Arrow and beat the drums to cheer.

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In the tunnel, players from both sides met.

Before the two finals, the Golden Arrow players didn't know anything about other Shining Star players except Chen Xingyi, who was on loan, except for Qin Lin.

As the last boss of Chinese football, Qin Lin's status in Chinese football is by no means comparable to that of his star teammates.

Even the opponents, the local Chinese players of the Golden Arrow, would greet Qin Lin one after another after seeing him.

For example, Chai Shun, the 34-year-old Golden Arrow captain, used to be a midfield partner with Qin Lin in the national team, and the relationship between the two was quite good.

Even before such a critical game, they can get together to chat and laugh happily.

Mao Junzheng, also a teammate of the national team, also came up to greet Qin Lin.

After exchanging pleasantries, they returned to their respective teams.

Qin Lin, who had been smiling before, regained his seriousness and stood in the middle of the team.

Chai Shun and Mao Junzheng, the Golden Arrow players, also had serious expressions, waiting for the referee to bring them out.

Just before they came out of the locker room, they felt the "storm of saliva" from head coach Wang Xianke.

Director Wang asked them to think about the shame of losing the league championship, and asked them if they were willing to be the laughing stock of others like this.

The players naturally answered loudly that he was not reconciled.

Wang Xianke asked them to use the victory of this game and the FA Cup champion to fight back against those who questioned and ridiculed them.

After successfully stirring up the murderous spirit of the players, he drove them out of the locker room.

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The atmosphere in the corridor suddenly became a little...stiff.

Everyone was tense, for fear that they would lose the chain at the critical moment, and if they didn't, they would show timidity or discouragement.

Only Hu Lai's painting style is different from everyone else...

He stared blankly at the air in front of him, his eyes were not focused.

His gesture was naturally noticed by others.

First, Bian Li, the Golden Arrow midfielder who was standing next to him, noticed his abnormality, and then touched his teammates in front and behind with his arm, signaling them to look at Hu Lai.

The Golden Arrow players, who were still full of murderous looks, didn't hold back when they saw Hu Lai's face like Brother Pig, and someone laughed first.

Then more desperately suppressed low laughter sounded in the half of the corridor occupied by the golden arrow.

And it alarmed the Flash Star players.

Wang Guangwei looked back and saw that Hu Lai was still in a daze, so he reached out and poked him, and at the same time asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"

Hu Lai's originally sluggish eyes became lively again: "Ah, nothing, what's wrong?"

"You've been laughed at..." Wang Guangwei leaned close to Hu Lai's ear, frowned and whispered, and briefly explained the situation just now.

After listening to Wang Guangwei's explanation, Hu Lai turned his head to look at Bian Li who was standing next to him.

The latter was covering his mouth and enjoying himself, but when he saw Hu Lai's eyes, he quickly straightened his face and put on the majestic appearance of a Chinese Super League player again.

Hu Lai suddenly grinned: "I'm sorry, brother, I made you laugh... I was thinking about something just now, and my mind was distracted. Brother, do you know that our club announced before the game that if we can win the FA Cup, there will be one The bonus of tens of millions is nearly 400,000 to everyone... I was thinking just now, how should I spend such a large sum of money. Brother, do you think I should buy a house or a car first? If If you want to buy a car, what kind of car should you buy? Hey brother, what kind of car do you drive?"

Bian Li was stunned for a moment, and then realized what Hu Lai said just now. His face changed, and he wanted to retort at one point, but after thinking about it again, he felt that it might be the other party's psychological tactics. Although the possibility is very low, it is still safe. , don't talk to him...

So in the end he snorted and ignored Hu Lai.

Seeing that the other party didn't continue talking to him, Hu Lai turned his head to look at the other Golden Arrow players around him, and every time he saw a smiling Golden Arrow player, he grinned at them.

The Golden Arrow players who had originally laughed at him had no choice but to put away the smile on their faces and put on a tense expression again.

Hu Lai just looked over one by one, and after forcing all the Golden Arrow players he could look at to laugh, he turned around in satisfaction.

Then continue to look at the front of the team in a daze.

What a thick light chain...

In his field of vision when he turned on the system, there were two milky white thick chains of light shining with soft light extending from the top of his head and projecting to the front of the team. into Zhang Qinghuan's body.

There is another link between Zhang Qinghuan and Chen Xingyi that connects them together.

Hu Lai moved a little sideways, and the positions of the three light chains would also change, turning into an extremely long and narrow triangle.

This was the effect after he used [Spirit Card] on Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan just now, and it was also the reason why he looked dull just now.

Before that, when he used the [Consonance Card] on Chen Xingyi, he didn't have such a cool special effect...

Even without any explanation, Hu Lai could feel that some kind of bond between himself and Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan had become stronger.

At the same time, Chen Xing, who was in front of the team, raised his eyes and glanced above his head.

A familiar but inexplicable feeling resurfaced in his heart...

But this time, instead of looking at Hu Lai, he turned his attention to Zhang Qinghuan.

Zhang Qinghuan also happened to look back at him at this moment.

Hu Lai, who saw this scene completely from behind, hastily turned off the system vision, and the strange scene in front of him disappeared.

It turns out that two or more [Consonance Cards] are used for this effect, so if I have enough points, buy ten [Consonance Cards] and use them for my teammates, wouldn’t it be possible to form a net on the court? Can the eleven members of the team be able to think in one place and move their energy in one place, just like the arms and fingers?

Hu Lai suddenly longed for getting rich overnight. Because it takes 300,000 points to buy ten [Consonance Cards], and now only 200,000 points are given after completing the task...

At this moment, the referee group of four came up from the rear of the team, and they greeted the players on both sides: "Follow up!"

Players from both sides followed behind them, walked out of the tunnel, and with deafening shouts above their heads, they stepped onto the green field under the lights.

"CCTV, CCTV, good evening, viewers and friends. What you are watching is the second round of the 2023 Chinese Football Association Cup final. The two sides of the match are the home team Anton Shining Star and the visiting team Dashun Golden Arrow... Now both sides The players are on the field and the game is about to begin!"

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