vrcanaries Chapter 1: I'm a Mei Lanfang fan, and you're giving me a Mei Lanfang hater system?
Chapter 1: I'm a Mei Lanfang fan, and you're giving me a Mei Lanfang hater system?
January 2012 in Brazil
"You stinking rascal, what are you saying?"
Barcelona's sporting director, Zubizarreta, looked astonished.
"A sewer rat, a dwarf on steroids, a princess who strolls around while playing football, a system player who leeches off the team?!?!"
"You bastard, what are you saying?!"
Do you even know it's 2012?!
"You've only just won your first title with Santos, and do you know how many Lionel Messi has already won for us?"
"You're only 19 years old, and staying in Brazil all this time has already made you quite ignorant!"
"You are slandering a football legend who is about to be recorded in football history!"
In the top suite of the Rosewood Hotel, São Paulo's most expensive hotel, the crimson sunset streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, accompanied by a furious roar.
"Security! Throw this person out!"
"Li Jing, Barcelona desperately needs a player like you, but we will never abandon Lionel Messi!"
"I don't know what deep-seated hatred exists between you, but I know for sure you'll never be as good as Lionel Messi!"
……
"Damn it, I knew it was hopeless."
"Is it really impossible for the Barcelona management to get rid of Messi in 12? After all, they're not stupid..."
Li Jing had finished showering, his well-defined muscles now displayed. He was wrapped in a bath towel and sitting cross-legged on the sofa.
A few hours ago, after being blasted out by Subizarreta.
Li Jing went straight back to the detached house he rented in the suburbs of Santos.
The small house was decorated to resemble his old house in China, reflecting his nostalgic sentiments.
He is now a professional footballer whose goal is to outplay Messi, and he is the same age as Neymar and currently plays for Santos.
Li Jing is 19 years old this year.
Two years ago, he was a middle-aged man who had been nominated for the Golden Boy award in China, but whose career was ruined by the club's unfair terms, and who then became a football commentator.
After a car accident, he unexpectedly became another person with the same name, named "Li Jing," who had received youth training in Brazil from a young age.
Even more dramatically...
He grew up watching Messi's matches.
Li Jing studied almost every frame of Messi's match videos.
He is a loyal Messi fan.
As a fan of Mei Lanfang
I inexplicably got a Mei-hat system.
That's an enormous insult.
However, for the sake of his career, he still chose to become a veiled hater of his idol in order to cater to this anti-idol system.
Because he needs a championship.
"After this season ends, I'll be going to Europe with Neymar."
"No need to hang up, in this football world full of monstrous talent, you can't get anywhere."
The 2010-11 season, which is last season.
He and Neymar helped Santos win the Copa Libertadores, South America's highest honor, for the first time in 48 years. Neymar also won the South American Footballer of the Year award that same year.
They have a chance to qualify for the Club World Cup this year as the top team in South America.
It was this direct confrontation with a European team that made Neymar realize the gap between his team and European football.
Going to Europe has become an inevitable choice for the advancement of their football careers.
The season is now in its middle stages.
A typical football season is divided into two transfer windows, one in July and one in January.
July is the pre-season transfer window, also known as the "summer window." Key transfers usually take place during this window, allowing players to complete a full season at their new clubs.
January is the mid-season transfer window, also known as the "winter window," used for emergency reinforcements and new signings during the season. Players also have a vacation during this month, but they usually do not choose to transfer during this time.
"It's early January now, and according to the plan, Rafael will go to Europe with Neymar next summer, so he has already been in private contact with quite a few clubs."
"Fortunately, I can add points by working hard and sweating."
"However, there's only half a season to adapt to the Brazilian league."
With this in mind, Li Jing began to focus his attention on his 'Meihei System'.
Over the years, he had gotten used to it, and suddenly the system in front of him opened.
[Breaking the Barrier (Leo Messi) - 10000+ Tasks to be Completed]
[Mission 1: Drive Lionel Messi out of Barcelona, Reward: 100000 Training Hours]
[Task 2: Make 100000 people aware of Leo Messi's reputation as "a sewer rat, a dwarf on steroids"; reward: 100,000 training hours]
[Task 3: Defeat Messi and win the La Liga title (Limited time: 2011-12 season) Reward: 100000 training hours]
[Task 4: Defeat Messi and win the Ballon d'Or (Limited Time: 2011-12 Season) Reward: 10000000000 Training Hours]
[Task 5: Perform a flying tackle on Messi in a match watched by over a million people! Reward: 10000 training hours!]
[Mission 6: Cause Lionel Messi to retire from the Argentine national team! Reward: 100000 hours!]
【Task:……】
[Mission X: Win over Antonella Rocurzo, Lionel Messi's childhood sweetheart, and have her willingly bear you a son and a daughter. Reward: 1000000000000000000000 Training Hours]
Li Jing could only helplessly stare at the long list of tasks that seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance.
He once believed that this system was transformed from a previous life by a colleague of his surnamed Li, Luo Chui, who ascended to heaven due to fatty liver.
Otherwise, they wouldn't hate Messi so much, and wouldn't go to such lengths to try and kill him.
Li Jing looked back at the system.
His rebirth has been accompanied by this Wallbreaker System.
This special training hour is similar to a training simulator.
You will be rewarded with extra training hours when you complete tasks related to Messi.
It can provide targeted training in specific football skills, such as shooting, passing, physical strength, stamina, and even composure on the field.
In short, it's a very powerful cheat.
"These tasks are getting more and more insane... and I'm still only getting a meager 100 training hours a month as a basic allowance..."
"But those days are finally over..."
Li Jing began to focus his attention on the only "completed" task at the very bottom of the screen.
[Mission 773: In the Club World Cup, draw with Messi in regular time, leading to a penalty shootout. Reward: 2000 hours of special training time. (To be claimed)]
Li Jing's football career began in Brazil, in South American football leagues, except for national team matches.
The Club World Cup is the only league where Messi, who grew up playing football in Europe, can have connections with the team.
Therefore, Li Jing made thorough preparations for this opportunity, and as fate would have it, he was able to complete the task.
Now that the season is over, he can finally claim this thing.
Li Jing stared at the bottom line of text on the system panel.
He reached out and tapped heavily on the panel in the air.
[Received successfully.]
[Remaining training time: 2010 hours.]
The previously meager balance instantly swelled up.
Li Jing rubbed his hands together, jumped off the sofa, and walked barefoot around the thick carpet twice.
These 2000 hours are enough for him to make up for all his physical shortcomings.
In preparation for this Club World Cup, he devoted all his saved time to "passing" and "vision".
As a result, he became a classic attacking midfielder with an extremely unbalanced style.
His passing is incredibly skillful, but his stamina and physical strength are terrible.
He also suffered greatly in the notoriously ruthless American league.
The reason we were able to drag the game against Barcelona into a penalty shootout a few days ago was because we put Neymar up front and made him sprint like a donkey.
In addition, he was very familiar with the tactics of that Dream Team Barcelona in his previous life, and he predicted Busquets and Xavi's passing routes in advance.
This gave them a tiny chance to change a small part of history.
(The Club World Cup final at that time saw Barcelona defeat Santos 4-0.)
If we're really talking about pure skill, without Neymar, he probably couldn't even beat the substitutes of Barcelona B team if he played alone at Santos.
"I can't be a middle-aged man anymore... Speed, hardness, frequency—I can't lack any of them."
"Only then will we have a chance to establish ourselves in La Liga."
"Although the number of hours of special training is not many, you can still gradually improve."
Immediately, Li Jing began to add points.
[Current remaining training hours: 2010 hours]
[You are a one-in-a-hundred talent in China, possessing a good understanding of football and emotional intelligence. Even in a garbage dump, that's enough to win the Golden Boy award.]
However, in reality, from a global perspective, your football talent is lacking in speed, dribbling, and strength.
So the only thing you can do is practice diligently.
You've started repetitive practice. Considering your career, you must begin to work hard on your weaknesses, including stamina, speed, and shooting power...
On the first day, you spent eight hours practicing shooting and invited the Chinese women's national football team's goalkeeper to guard you. The goalkeeper said with great disdain, "You're so soft..."
The next day, you spent eight hours training your physical fitness, and even invited a defender from the Chinese women's national football team to run alongside you. The defender complained that you lacked stamina...
On the third day, you spent eight hours practicing your speed and invited a striker from the Chinese women's football team to practice the 100-meter dash. The striker was quite surprised and said, "I didn't expect you to be so slow!"
……
[After 251 days, your special training is over. Each of your training sessions lasted 670 hours, exceeding the top level for women's football!]
After 2000 hours, this data is finally up to the professional level of the Brazilian Serie A.
But it's still quite a distance from the level of Europe...
However, we can only take it slowly. After all, this is football, a sport that cannot be achieved overnight.
The only way is to slowly accumulate training hours.
Li Jing was thinking this way.
Just then, Li Jing's phone startled him.
Li Jing saw the incoming call—it was from his agent, Raiola.
As soon as the call connected, Raiola launched into a tirade of abuse:
"Li Jing! What on earth have you been doing, you BYD?!"
"Why are you all making headlines in Marca, Gazzetta dello Sport, and The Guardian?!"
"What's going on here?!"
"Were there a third person present in that old bastard Subisatan's office just now?"
"Are you out of your mind? Saying these things is one thing, but then it was recorded, and the recording was leaked!"
"Right now, the whole world is repeating and making fun of the 'dwarf on hormones' and 'sewage rats'."
Just now, a recording went viral online, showing what Li Jing said to the Barcelona sporting director this morning.
Li Jing was a little confused; there were only four people present at the time.
1. Himself.
2. Barcelona's sporting director, Zubizarreta.
3. Zubizarreta's assistant.
4. His good brother, Da Silva Neymar!
Although he did say those words to complete his mission of opposing Mei, who leaked them to the media?
Raiola was still roaring on the other end of the phone.
"Santos has now told me they have to terminate your contract. You've seriously damaged their relationship with Barcelona and the club's image!"
Tell me, what do you want me to do now?
"Where do you want me to send you this winter transfer window without any preparation or planning?"
"You're going to have no football to play, you bastard!"
His agent, Raiola, used very foul language.
However, Li Jing's expression changed from initial confusion to anger, then, after catching some key word, it turned into excitement.
Li Jing asked, "My sir, what did you say? How many people are using that meme?"
Raiola angrily replied: "The whole world of football fans knows!"
Before Li Jing could think about what was going on with the recording, his gaze turned to his system task interface.
[Task 2: Make 100000 people aware of Leo Messi's reputation as "a sewer rat, a dwarf on steroids," reward: 100,000 training hours (to be claimed)]
Sure enough, the "incomplete" section has now been changed to "to be claimed"!
A full 100,000 hours of special training!
Is this a case of turning misfortune into blessing?
……