Chapter 1: The Most Awesome CD in History
Sweltering heat.
Although the fan was turned up to its maximum setting, the small rented room was still unbearably hot. The waves of heat swirled around in the cramped space, not only failing to bring any coolness but also making people even more irritable.
Chu Jiang sat cross-legged on a rattan chair, intently staring at the laptop screen.
On the screen, four iron pillars form a huge goal, and through the net, you can still see the blue sky and white clouds. A football with a golden trail shoots straight into the corner of the goal, like a comet, with an unstoppable aura bursting out. Far away, people in the stands are standing up one after another, as if waiting for the announcement of a goal. However, suddenly, a figure appears in the middle of the screen, making a standard diving save motion, stretching out long arms to steadily hold the golden football...
On the left side of the screen, from top to bottom, six golden cursive large characters appear: "The most cow door god in history". Along the lower left corner of the large characters, a row of small regular script is arranged: "Produced by Bo Yibo Studio". At the very bottom of the screen is a progress bar with a golden ball dragging.
30%……60%……97%……98%……99%………
Half an hour has passed... still stuck at 99%...
"Oh no, it can't be a crash!"
The Chu River let out a loud and mournful roar.
With his hand on the power button, Chu Jiang hesitated for over ten seconds before finally deciding not to press it.
"This crappy game has been installing for over an hour, if it restarts, won't I have to wait another hour?"
Chu Jiang was slightly displeased.
The hard drive light on the laptop is still flashing non-stop, and the hard drive occasionally makes a "clicking" sound.
"It's not necessarily a dead machine, maybe it'll be fine if we wait a bit longer..."
Chu Jiang is also half-understanding of computers, and naturally he is at a loss for what to do in the current situation.
Waited for another 10 minutes, the installation progress still stuck at 99%.
The weather was hot and it made people easily irritable, plus the game hadn't been installed properly for half a day, Chu Jiang was getting impatient. He got out of bed, limping slightly as he opened the door and went downstairs to buy a bottle of soda from the convenience store.
Chu Jiang was previously a talented player at the Jianghai City International Milan Football School, where he played as a goalkeeper. At that time, Chu Jiang was also known as the best student in the school's history, and the principal, Mo Yanfan, and the technical director from Italy, Zhan Baoluo, jointly wrote a letter of recommendation to the headquarters of the International Milan Football School, hoping to give this talented player an opportunity to try out for the International Milan Youth Team.
However, all of this was two years ago. Now Chu Jiang is just an ordinary technical school student, majoring in cooking...
Due to his introverted personality, Chu Jiang did not get along well with his classmates at school. Therefore, he rented a small six-square-meter room in the city's central village, which was not far from the school. After school, he would slowly walk back to the rental house alone. Due to some inconvenience in his legs and feet, although the distance was not far, it usually took him about half an hour to walk.
Today, on the way home from Chujiang, there was an old man with a stall selling pirated video and audio discs as well as a small number of game discs. Chujiang walked along this road every day but had never seen the old man before. On such a hot day, the old man was sweating all over, his sparse white hair hanging down on his head, his wrinkled shirt tightly clinging to his thin body, looking very pitiful.
Out of sympathy, Chu Jiang bought five discs from him, four of which were movies and one was "The Most Awesome Goalkeeper in History". Chu Jiang wasn't particularly enthusiastic about playing games, usually just playing "Champion Football Manager" and "Pro Evolution Soccer", but he had been feeling a bit bored with them lately and wanted to try something new. The introduction to "The Most Awesome Goalkeeper in History" said it was a role-playing game of the nurturing type, which Chu Jiang had never played before, so he felt quite curious, although "Boyi Studio" was unknown, Chu Jiang still decided to buy the disc.
However, Chu Jiang never thought that this game would be so difficult to install. After struggling for almost two hours, it still hadn't been installed successfully...
Drinking a refreshing soda, Chu Jiang slowly returned to his rental apartment.
As soon as he entered, Chu Jiang was delighted to find that the game had already been installed! On the right side of the laptop screen, a robust goalkeeper image appeared, with a strong back and waist, looking very fierce; on the left side were some contents set by players themselves, which required players to fill in by themselves.
Generally speaking, games don't automatically run after installation is complete. This game, however, somehow entered the gameplay on its own without anyone controlling it, which looks quite eerie.
Chu Jiang, still excited, didn't notice this. He quickly climbed onto the couch and started typing away on his keyboard with a flurry of clicks.
Player Basic Information Settings:
Name: Chu Jiang
Age: 17 (Chu Jiang chose his age from two years ago)
Nationality: China
Location: Gate will (this item is gray and cannot be changed)
Preferred number: 1
Player Technical Attribute Settings:
Free points: 50 (can be allocated to each single technical attribute, note: a single attribute cannot exceed 20)
Saves: 9
Air superiority: 10
Intercept: 7
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All sorts of technical data values dazzled Chu Jiang's eyes, and for a moment, he didn't know which one to choose.
In addition to the basic properties of goalkeepers such as saves and kick-offs, it also includes many technical attributes that are not closely related to goalkeepers, such as defenders' tackles and man-marking, midfielders' passing and vision, forwards' dribbling and shooting, as well as set piece attributes like corners and penalties.
Chu Jiang's head is hurting from watching.
"Whatever! It's just a game, do whatever you want!"
Chu Jiang finally made up his mind, picked up the mouse and clicked wildly, and an alternative goalkeeper attribute appeared...
Saves: 15
Air superiority: 10
Intercept: 10
Commanding Defense: 20
Handball: 2
Kickoff: 15
Attack: 5
Bounce: 10
Reactions: 18
Prediction: 19
Neuron Index: 20
Concentrate: 15
Sense of position: 12
Mental Strength: 20
Free kick: 20
Penalty: 0
Physical strength: 15
Endurance: 15
Agility: 20
Leadership: 20
... (other properties unrelated to the door are omitted)
Looking at such a door property, Chu Jiang himself was delighted. The goalkeeper's property is generally average, but the ability to score goals is considered a fighter among goalkeepers, and I estimate that Chilavert would have to admit defeat after seeing it. Free kick 20 ah, compared to Mihajlovic, this free kick master is not inferior at all, and I estimate that starting from free kicks can shake off Chilavert by two streets!
However, what made Chu Jiang a bit depressed was that if the free kick points reached 20, the penalty kick attribute would automatically clear to zero. This might be some kind of hidden setting in the system for balance considerations. Chu Jiang wasn't sure what the specific reason was, but since his penalty kicks were zero, he might as well make his free kicks more stylish.
As a stylish and mature man, those easy penalty kicks can be left to the forwards who need to brush up their data, I'll just go for the beautifully curved free kick. Chu Jiang thought to himself.
Similar to the relationship between penalty kicks and free kicks, there are also reactions, predictions, and neural indexes. Although Chu Jiang didn't want to become a nervous goalkeeper, occasionally having butter hands and armpit leaks, but with high reaction and prediction values, his neural index became 20...
Alas, being proud is just being proud, isn't Ikitara the representative of the Gate God's nervous system? As a super gatekeeper, pride is also a kind of overbearing and arrogant...
And so, a Chilavert-esque goalkeeper was born.
After setting up various properties, Chu Jiang wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up a soda and took a big gulp, then clicked start to begin the game.
"Are you ready to enter the game?"
"Yes!"
Chu Jiang chose an affirmative answer without hesitation.
"Entering game... 10%... 40%..."
"Are we going to have to wait another two hours?" Chu Jiang muttered.
Seeing the progress bar, Chu Jiang's heart was a little anxious, and he picked up the soda water and took another big gulp.
Suddenly, a gas was born from the dantian and rushed straight to the throat along the meridians. This is not some kind of divine internal force, but rather carbon dioxide in the air, which classmates who have drunk soda and studied physics should know.
"Not good!"
Chu Jiang's heart skipped a beat, and he had a big mouthful of soda in his mouth.
"Pffft!"
Soda water sprayed onto the computer screen, instantly sparks flew everywhere, and a wisp of blue smoke rose slowly.
Logically, a laptop shouldn't be able to withstand water, but it wouldn't have such a drastic reaction either. Moreover, what's even more bizarre is that the computer screen still displays a clear image, and it's still counting down non-stop.
Strange things happen every year, but today there are especially many...
“98%……100%……”
A white light flashed, and Chu Jiang was instantly wrapped up tightly. Immediately afterwards, Chu Jiang's entire body rapidly shrunk, and soon he was pulled into the computer screen by that white light.
Pull down the screen... Pull down the screen...
"How did the computer get bigger? What the hell is going on......"
Chu Jiang was petrified, his mind a complete blank.
Bang!
The notebook disappeared, and Chu Jiang also vanished into thin air.
In the cramped rental room, only that electric fan was still "swaying" its head...
………
"Master, master, it's time! Master, master, get up quickly! Master, master..."
The familiar and noisy alarm clock sound keeps repeating monotonously.
"I'm so sleepy!"
A loud slap landed on the alarm clock, and Chu Jiang sat up with her eyes closed, just like she had for the past eight years.
Chu Jiang spent eight years in a football school, with a large amount of training every day, so he had to rely on an alarm clock to wake him up every morning.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The knock on the door sounded right on time.
"Xiao Jiang, it's time to get up! Teacher Zhan just called and is urging you to go to school early to prepare!"
Teacher Zhan?
"By the way, Teacher Gianpaolo gets along extremely well with his students and speaks fluent Chinese, so everyone follows the Chinese custom of addressing him as Teacher Jian."
"Huh? Wait a minute! Haven't I been away from school for two years already? Now I've become a useless person, can't even kick a ball, what does Principal Zhan want me to go back to school for?"
"Mom! It's mom calling me! Didn't mom get into a car accident and stay in the hospital a year ago? And it was because I had an accident and stayed at home feeling down, mom was worried but didn't dare to tell me, long-term poor sleep, as a result, when going out to buy vegetables in the morning, a daze, got hit by a car... I'm really unfilial!"
"How could it be my mom calling me to wake up? And this alarm clock, I haven't used it for two years already. Could it be that all of this is an illusion, and I'm just dreaming? Probably, probably because I miss my mom too much..."
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The knocking sound came again.
"Xiao Jiang, are you up? Xiao Jiang?"
Mom's voice was clear and audible.
Chu Jiang became even more bewildered, one hand tightly grasping his thigh.
"Ah yo!"
"What's wrong? Xiao Jiang! What's wrong?" Mom's voice clearly revealed anxiety and concern.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The knocking became more urgent.
"Mom, I'm fine, don't worry!"
Chu Jiang shouted loudly.
Although his thigh still hurts, Chu Jiang couldn't help but laugh happily.
For two years, Chu Jiang had never been so happy before.
