Fox in the Penalty Area

Hu Lai stepped on the dining table and became the tallest presence in the audience, and also became the focus of everyone's attention in the cafeteria.

Everyone looked up at him, and the humming discussion in the cafeteria disappeared.

Those people from Xizi Middle School stopped and looked back at him.

Wang Le, the leader, frowned upon seeing this: "Why?"

"Ah, that..." Seeing the other party turn around and stare at him, the young man on the table seemed to hesitate a little, with a slightly awkward expression on his face.

But just when everyone thought he was scared, Hu Lai said, "I just want to ask my elder brother who has been through it, are you guys particularly experienced in being eliminated in the first round?"

"Pfft!" There was a laugh in the cafeteria.

Everyone followed the laughter and found that Chen Xingyi covered his mouth with one hand and waved his chopsticks with the other: "Ah, I'm sorry, you go on, you go on..."

Wang Le withdrew his gaze and stared at Hu Lai again: "What do you mean!"

It's just that Hu Lai stood tall, so he had to look up at the other party. This posture aggravated his displeasure with the young man in front of him.

"I don't mean anything..." Hu Lai spread his hands, "I'm just curious. I heard you said in great detail, big brother, that you pack your luggage in advance and put it on the bus, and that you can go directly to the plane or train after the game. Big brother is very life-like. If you haven’t experienced such a thing, I’m afraid you can’t say so meticulously just by imagining it? You see, it’s also the first time for us to participate in a national competition, and we go home directly after a round of competition. I really don't have any experience with…”

There were bursts of hard-pressed laughter from the crowd.

Although Xizi Middle School can participate in the national competition every time, they can be regarded as regular visitors of the national competition, but everyone knows what their results are like in the national competition.

Four out of the past five national competitions have been round trips. Isn't it a matter of rich experience in going home after a game?

The players of Dongchuan Middle School looked around and saw that many people in other teams who were watching the excitement were holding back their laughter. They were obviously not making fun of Hu Lai...

The emotions that had been suppressed in the chest before and had nowhere to vent seemed to find an outlet, and they all poured out with a bang. Everyone just felt that their bodies were clear, so some of them laughed.

It's just that they don't have to hold back their laughter like the people around them, they laughed loudly, especially Meng Xi, who made up the knife while laughing: "No wonder this kid said 'as a person who came here', ahahaha! "

Amidst the laughter around him, Wang Le's face became very ugly.

He originally brought his teammates to attack the opponent's confidence and play psychological warfare.

Who would have thought that now it seems that the opponent is playing psychological warfare on his side?

Wang Le, who was in a hurry to get back the place, stared at Hu Lai: "What's your name?"

Hu Lai shook his head with an indifferent expression: "You don't deserve to know my name."

"Puff ha ha!!"

Before, there was low laughter in the cafeteria, but this time someone let himself go and laughed out loud.

Wang Le turned his head away, glaring.

Chen Xingyi raised his hand and waved it: "Ha...sorry, you go ahead, leave me alone, leave me alone...ha!"

Wang Le took a deep breath, trying not to collapse his emotions, and sneered: "The coward who dare not even say his name!"

Hu Lai showed a surprised expression: "How can this be cowardly? So what if you know my name? Brother, don't think too much, it's just that you don't deserve to know my name."

"Bang bang bang!" This was the sound made by Chen Xingyi laughing so hard that he was pounding on the table.

He smiled so happily that the others in Shuguang High School next to him had to look sideways at him...

With him taking the lead, the laughter in the cafeteria completely let go.

Wang Le originally wanted to come to Dongchuan Middle School to pretend to be a force, and the plan of playing psychological warfare can be regarded as a complete failure...

Now it seems that their Xizi Middle School has become a clown instead.

Wang Le tried to take a deep breath,

He tried to save the situation, but the laughter in the cafeteria became louder and louder, and the voices of discussions unscrupulously got into his ears.

Even if he wanted to speak now, few people would be able to hear him...

He had no choice but to point to Hu Lai and said: "You can play your mouth as you like, football is not played with your mouth. See you in the game!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked back with a few teammates who had already buried their heads in the ground.

When he walked back to his team, he said to all his teammates with a cold face: "Don't tell the coach about this!"

Taking the initiative to attack but losing such a big man, if the coach finds out, I'm afraid he will be scolded to death...

The teammates nodded desperately one by one, and they dared not listen to the captain's words.

Behind Wang Le, Hu Lai was directly hugged off the table by Meng Xi and Mao Xiao. Players from Dongchuan Middle School swarmed up, patted his shoulder, rubbed his hair, and laughed continuously. came.

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A psychological warfare initiated by Xizi Middle School ended in a farce. Everyone came to have lunch and saw a good show. This will definitely become the focus of their discussion for a while.

Everyone would know that Xizi Middle School, which participated in the national competition every year, suffered a disadvantage in front of Dongchuan Middle School, a newcomer to the national competition.

Originally, everyone saw this team as a rookie, and few people were interested in them.

But now, many people will know the name of "Dongchuan Middle School", and they will be extremely curious, what is the name of this young man who stood on the table and returned with a feather...

Someone has already asked in a low voice: "Hey, what is his name?"

"I don't know, do you know?"

"I don't know... who paid attention to them before..."

Chen Xingyi's gaze stayed on the figure of the boy, who was being "bullied" by his teammates.

He remembered how this young man hated Wang Le just now.

He also remembered how the man answered himself in the parking lot.

It's okay, I'm higher than Wang Le, at least I deserve to know his name... Ha!

Chen Xingyi smiled.

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In the afternoon, when Li Ziqiang and the team leader came back from the meeting, they had no idea what happened in the cafeteria at noon.

They communicated the content of the meeting to the team, mainly to tell everyone that because this national competition is the first time that a satellite TV station will broadcast live, they must pay special attention to their image and not discredit the team and the national competition. Don't cause trouble, don't get into conflict with other participating teams...

When they heard this, many people in the team looked at each other in blank dismay, then lowered their heads tacitly, and resisted the urge to look at Hu Lai—they were afraid that the head coach would find out the abnormality and ask about what happened at noon At that time, I am afraid that Hu Lai, who was angry for the team, will be cleaned up by the head coach instead. So everyone tacitly chose to protect our party Hu Lai.

Li Ziqiang didn't notice the small movements among the players at all. He told the players the most important thing in this meeting:

Regarding the issue of the penalty scale of the game, the penalty scale of this competition will be very strict, especially for physical contact fouls. There are some actions that may not attract the attention of the referee in the provincial competition, but in this national competition, they will be 100% watched by the referee.

So he hopes that everyone will keep a calm mind during the game and pay attention to the movements of their feet at all times.

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After returning to the dormitory, Hu Lai couldn't wait to rush into the toilet, locked the door behind him, and took out the task reward just issued from the system - [experience potion].

This small glass tube contained a purple liquid. After unplugging the stopper, he drank it without hesitation, without even trying to taste the special taste—he didn’t care about the sense of ceremony anymore. In the mouth, it works on the body.

He also checked his current points by the way.

Because he bought four training scrolls in the mall during the training camp and spent a total of 8,000 points, so before completing this task, he only had 9,100 points, not even 10,000.

But now after completing the task, he received another 3,000 points reward, and the points in his account broke through 10,000 again, reaching 12,100 points.

Seeing that the points exceeded 10,000, Hu Lai felt a sense of security, even though now he didn't know what use he could get with so many points.

It's like a deposit, the more you have, the more secure you feel.

I can use it for a while, but I have to be able to take it out when I need it.

In addition to the points, there are six bottles of [Physical Potion] in the storage compartment, which Hu Lai has never used - originally there were two lottery tickets, but he used them before he decided to buy the training scroll , wanted to draw out the training scroll, but in the end, two lottery tickets were exchanged for a bottle of [Physical Potion] and a "Thank you for participating"...

And the two training scrolls that he had previously received from the mission had been used up, and the training scrolls he bought later with points were also used in daily training.

So although it seems that the storage compartment is empty now, it is because all the previous props are used on the body and there is no waste.

After taking stock of his current assets, Hu Lai exited the system space contentedly.

He didn't forget to flush the toilet before opening the door, to create the illusion that he was actually going to the toilet just now, so as not to arouse the suspicion of his roommate Luo Kai.

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Luo Kai saw Hu Lai went to the bathroom and came out, he couldn't hide his smile, he hesitated for a while, and then said: "I'm proud to be the hero of the team?"

Hu Lai glanced at Luo Kai, and said with a fake smile: "It's okay, I'm sorry, I stole your limelight."

"You can grab this kind of limelight casually, but you can't steal the real limelight on the court." Luo Kai was stunned for a moment after he finished speaking-he obviously didn't intend to face Hu Lai, but he became Like this?

So he frowned and said again: "Don't be too happy, idiot. Don't blame me for not reminding you if you got revenge during the game."

Hu Lai covered his head with his hands and leaned on the bed: "Then I have to play first. Aren't I always a substitute in training?"

Luo Kai was speechless, and this is indeed the case... Hu Lai has no role in starting the game, and it seems meaningless to tell him what happened after he played...

But he just didn't want to see Hu Lai's complacent look, so he snorted, "No matter how fiercely you spray your mouth, what's the use of being useless on stage?"

Hu Lai raised two fingers.

"what?"

"Since I joined the school team, I have played twice as a substitute and scored two goals. It is known that someone failed to score a goal against Wang Guangwei when I was not on the field. I played to help him attract away Wang Guangwei, he just scored the goal. May I ask who's going to waste it?"

"Heh, without me helping you attract attention, can you get rid of Wang Guangwei?"

"The fact is that you just stood there and watched the whole process."

"If I really move, the goal will not be your share."

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The second day of the national competition passed peacefully and comfortably.