Tek has already started for Zenit in the Russian Cup, which is definitely not good news for Chen Hero…

What's worse is that Tek played sixty-five minutes in the Russian Cup match and scored a goal.

On the one hand, Chen Hero is in a "slump," and on the other hand, Tek is in great form after his comeback.

It is already obvious whom Advocaat will favor.

Although Chen Hero has put his newly acquired talent points into "Heavy Artillery," the seven percent scoring rate is really... too insignificant.

Even if he hadn't deliberately practiced long shots before, he could have a scoring rate of ten percent—an average of one goal for every ten shots.

Now it's only seventeen percent at most.

The effect is not obvious.

The percentage added by the talent is fixed. If he wants to further improve the scoring rate, he can only work hard in his own training in this area.

So for a whole week, Chen Hero honed his long-range shooting ability in the instance dungeon, constantly trying long shots from different angles and distances, trying to find some tricks.

This time he really felt obvious progress. Unlike before, when he was just hanging up to grind experience, this time he had a whole coaching team to guide him, and his teammates cooperated with him. He no longer had to rely on Yesenin for everything as before.

Although Advocaat and Potter, as well as other coaches, are virtual, they have excellent professional knowledge just like in reality, and they will tell Chen Hero what was wrong with the shot just now and what to do to make it right.

In this way, the progress Chen Hero made was naturally much greater than before when he was just burying his head in hard work.

His long-range shooting and scoring abilities are increasing little by little.

And the time Chen Hero persisted in this instance dungeon is also getting longer and longer.

From the initial half an hour, he can now consistently persist for an hour.

What does an hour mean? That's twelve thousand experience points!

From level six to level seven, you need one hundred and twenty thousand experience. Even if Chen Hero only relies on grinding in the instance dungeon, it will only take ten hours to reach!

This speed is quite amazing.

Of course, Chen Hero can't get all ten hours done in one day—that would kill him.

Chen Hero can only grind the instance dungeon once a day now, for a maximum of one hour each time, which means ten days.

But besides grinding in the instance dungeon, he has other ways to accumulate experience. For example, normal training in the team, participating in games… It's a pity that Chen Hero doesn't score goals now, so he can't rely on scoring goals to accumulate experience for the time being.

So, calculating this way, it won't actually take ten days for him to raise his level to seven and get another talent point. In this way, his long-range shooting scoring rate will be at least twenty-four percent. It's better to score two goals out of ten shots than just one, right?

Chen Hero was determined to fill up all the talent points for "Heavy Artillery," so he frantically grinded the instance dungeon, pursuing upgrades.

In reality, the bad situation still appeared.

In the twenty-fourth round of the league in midweek, Zenit St. Petersburg's away game against Rubin Kazan, Chen Hero finally dropped out of the starting lineup after starting in five consecutive games.

He entered the match roster, but his position had been replaced by Tek, who had recovered from his injury.

On the bench, Denisov nudged Chen Hero: "Don't worry, Hero, you'll be back soon!"

Chen Hero stared at Rubin Kazan's penalty area and said, "Of course I'll be back soon…"

After I level up a lot more…

I will come back, I will definitely come back!

Because that's my territory!

In fact, there isn't always bad news in reality.

For example, although Tek started in the game against Rubin, he did not continue his form in the Russian Cup. He did have a few shots, but none of them went into the net.

The commentators believe that he has just recovered from his injury and has not yet found his rhythm, and that the entire Zenit team also needs to readjust. Because before, they were all used to Chen Hero being the arrowhead in front.

Tek is one meter seventy-eight tall. Although he has scored four headers this season, his headed goals are completely different from Chen Hero's. Chen Hero's are domineering and direct, while Tek's are about finding the landing point and heading in, and he rarely confronts the opponent's defenders head-on.

Neither Tek nor Kerzhakov are the kind of center forwards who can stand their ground in front and hold the ball. Without Chen Hero, Zenit also lost its bridgehead for attack.

The whole team needs to readjust, and the support for Tek is naturally not enough.

Zenit's luck in this game was really bad—they conceded a goal to Rubin's Argentine forward Dominguez in the ninth minute. Trailing Zenit could only press forward, and the consequence of pressing forward without a bridgehead to consolidate the forward position is frequent turnovers followed by counterattacks. The full-backs had to retreat immediately after rushing up.

Anyukov was furious, he felt like he was a silly bird shuttling back and forth.

He began to miss the situation when Chen Hero was on the field. At that time, as long as the ball was passed over, Chen Hero could always use his header and body to set the ball for his teammates, providing a pivot for the attack. With this pivot, the players in the backcourt dared to boldly press forward. Otherwise, they would lose the ball as soon as they went up, and running like this was purely a waste of energy.

He even felt that although Tek had scored a lot of goals in the previous half season, Chen Hero was still better! This was definitely not out of class friendship with the "Eat, Drink, and Play Gang," but out of the experience of a professional player.

Chen Hero replaced Kerzhakov in the eightieth minute, but it was of no avail after he went up. Because at that time, the team was already losing 0:3 to Rubin Kazan.

Chen Hero came on the field after Zenit conceded the third goal. His appearance was definitely not to turn the tide and equalize the score.

Zenit itself had no fighting spirit, so they lost 0:3 away from home.

In fact, Tek was also very anxious. When he was recuperating from his injury, he watched Chen Hero score one goal after another, and his hope was also being consumed little by little.

Who would have thought that fate would give him a hand at a critical moment? Just as he was about to recover from his injury, Chen Hero encountered a bottleneck, and he was able to regain his starting position.

Maybe he was too eager to perform and completely keep Chen Hero on the bench. He seemed very impatient in the game against Rubin Kazan, and the result was that he didn't seize the opportunity and didn't score a single goal in the end.

If you don't perform in the game, you can only desperately perform in training.

As a result, he overexerted himself again… and he was injured again!

When Chen Hero saw Tek being carried off the field due to injury, he felt that his good luck… didn't seem to be used up yet.

Later, Tek was found to have strained his muscles and needed to be out for two weeks, which meant that he would definitely miss the twenty-fifth round of the league against FC Moscow. And he didn't know if he would be able to make it in time for the twenty-sixth round against CSKA Moscow…

"What a tragedy…" Denisov sighed after seeing Tek injured.

Tek's injury allowed Chen Hero to return to the starting lineup.

This time, his performance improved slightly. At least in the game, he no longer looked as tired as before… That's because Chen Hero had gradually gotten used to the pressure in the instance dungeon.

However, he still had no goals or assists. But this time, Zenit's attack was improved compared to the previous game against Rubin Kazan, that is, they once again had an attacking bridgehead.

Chen Hero stood in the front, acting as a lighthouse for the whole team, pointing the way for the whole team's attack. His teammates sent the ball to him from the air. Although he was under close defense in front of the goal, he still had room to move outside the penalty area. He passed the ball to his teammates, and they came up to shoot.

That's how Zenit's goal was scored. A long pass from the backcourt directly found Chen Hero. Chen Hero jumped up and headed the ball to Kerzhakov behind him. Kerzhakov received the ball and then passed the ball to the wing. Arshavin took the ball and dribbled past the opponent, directly breaking into the penalty area, and then calmly sent the ball into the goal in the face of the attacking goalkeeper.

At this time, the game had only started for fourteen minutes…

In the following games, although Chen Hero couldn't score, he could still create trouble and put pressure on the defenders of FC Moscow in the frontcourt—in order to prevent him from scoring, FC Moscow had to deploy almost the entire defense line to suppress and cut off the support from the wings to him, so other teammates got opportunities more easily.

Advocaat seemed to be using Chen Hero as a tactical center forward—scoring goals was not the main task, but passing the ball and setting up teammates…

Silgayevsky finally felt a little better. At least this kid hadn't completely fallen, he was still useful, although he scored fewer goals than before…

Chen Hero was substituted off after playing for eighty minutes this time, which was already a remarkable improvement. You must know that his playing time had been declining sharply before, and the decline was so large that it was surprising. He even lost his starting position. If Tek hadn't been injured again, who knew when Chen Hero would be able to return to the starting lineup…

But once he left the field, Zenit lost its suppression power against FC Moscow's defense line. Since they were only one goal behind, the away team began a frantic counterattack.

Their counterattack paid off in the ninetieth minute.

In the ninetieth minute, Petr Bystrov finally scored a goal for FC Moscow to equalize the score…

At that time, the entire Kirov Stadium was still celebrating the victory one minute ago, and suddenly fell into dead silence the next minute.

The scattered cheers of the away team's players and fans in the huge stadium were as strange as they could be.

"Zenit St. Petersburg conceded a goal in the ninetieth minute… They suffered two consecutive games without a win! For Advocaat, this must be a disappointing afternoon… When he first took over the team, the team achieved a winning streak and the ranking also rose rapidly. But now that the season is coming to an end, his team has encountered trouble… If you want to compete for the Champions League qualification, relying on this performance is definitely not enough! Only one goal was scored in two league games, but four goals were conceded! We need goals! Only goals can bring victory!"

Silgayevsky called out when the camera gave Chen Hero a close-up shot.

He was trying to awaken the giant bear that seemed to have fallen into hibernation…