Chapter 1 Chen Xing Is Really Capitalizing on Chen Hero's Popularity to Promote Liverpool and Build Momentum for Himself

So at Anfield, he arranged a very grand welcoming ceremony. Thirty thousand Liverpool fans poured into Anfield Stadium, which could hold more than 60,000 people, to attend the welcoming ceremony prepared for Chen Hero, to welcome the most prolific center forward in football today.

While the fans outside were chanting Chen Hero's name in unison under the guidance of the live broadcast, Chen Hero was standing in the player tunnel at Anfield.

The player tunnel at Anfield is very narrow. After all, it is an old stadium. Although it has been renovated several times, the player tunnel remains the same.

He had been here before, just the season before last, when he represented Napoli in the Champions League. In the group stage, Napoli's first game was away at Anfield, and their opponent was Liverpool.

Thinking of the past, Chen Hero found it very interesting. Back then, to encourage his teammates, he stood where he was now, raised his hands, and slapped the wall above him.

There was the Liverpool team emblem and a world-famous phrase: "This is Anfield."

He said at the time: "This is Anfield, and we are Napoli."

He never thought that he would have the opportunity to come to this stadium as a Liverpool player and stand under this sentence.

The staff around him wanted to remind Chen Hero that it was time to go out, but Chen Hero raised his hand and slapped the sentence with both palms. He muttered in his hometown dialect: "This is Anfield, and I am Chen Hero!"

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The welcoming ceremony was a great success. The next day, photos of Chen Hero holding up the Liverpool jersey and scarf at Anfield Stadium made the front pages of many local Liverpool media outlets. Even media outlets outside Liverpool paid close attention to Chen Hero's joining. After all, Chen Hero in Liverpool meant that other Premier League teams would start to have headaches...

After dealing with a large number of media at the Liverpool club, Chen Hero returned to the hotel where he was temporarily staying, accompanied by his agent, Decra.

Liverpool Football Club is looking for a house for him, which will take time.

As soon as he returned to his hotel room, Chen Hero threw himself onto the bed, lying on his back with his arms and legs spread out.

This holiday was very busy and hard for him, and he didn't even have time to train in the instance dungeon. Even so, the doctors were amazed by his physical fitness during the physical examination...

Chen Hero lay down for a while and decided to go train. Football, like driving, will only become more unfamiliar if you don't practice it. There's no way you can become skilled and improve.

With a blink of an eye, Chen Hero entered the instance dungeon, but he was startled when he saw the person standing in front of him.

So much so that he didn't continue training, but quickly exited the instance dungeon, and then ran to knock on Decra's door next door.

"What's going on?" he asked.

Decra was confused: "What's going on?"

"The instance dungeon! The instance dungeon!"

Decra realized what he was talking about. He smiled and asked, "Oh, so you saw him?"

"How could he appear in my instance dungeon?" Chen Hero asked in surprise.

"You completed the mission." Decra shrugged and spread his hands.

"But I don't think I conquered the Napoli fans..."

"At Wembley Stadium, when you scored your third goal of that game, you conquered all the Napoli fans. Didn't you hear it at the time? No boos, only cheers."

Chen Hero tilted his head and thought, he couldn't remember. "I'm not sure..." he shook his head.

"Anyway, you completed the mission, so Maradona came to your instance dungeon to report to you." Of course, Decra knew that Chen Hero and Maradona didn't get along, so Maradona's attitude towards Chen Hero in the instance dungeon wouldn't be very good. But this was something Chen Hero had to worry about himself, and it had nothing to do with him.

"Oh, right, speaking of missions..." But he still had to take care of Hero's emotions, so he changed the subject. "The system has undergone its third upgrade, and a new expansion pack is out."

"Oh? I didn't feel any different..." Chen Hero's attention was indeed diverted.

"Because this time, the new things are mainly reflected in the mission system."

"Mission system? If you didn't mention it, I would have thought there wasn't such a thing. You described a very wonderful prospect to me at the beginning, but what was the result? It's completely different!"

"Ahem..." Decra coughed. "It's like this, you have to take things one step at a time... Improving this system also has to be done step by step... That's right, the mission system has been fully upgraded. You will receive many missions in your instance dungeon and on your computer. For example, you already have a mission now."

"What is it?"

"The Rise of the Reds."

"Sounds like Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge... What does this mission mean?"

"As the name suggests, help Liverpool rise again and complete their revival."

"Your explanation is very vague..."

"In simple terms, it's about constantly leading the team to victory and winning championships. The more championships you win, the closer you are to revival. Think about Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s, that was a dynasty. They won ten league titles, four Champions League titles, four League Cup titles, three FA Cup titles, nine Community Shield titles, and two UEFA Cup titles, and one European Super Cup title... These honors constitute a dynasty."

Chen Hero clicked his tongue as he listened: "Are you saying that I have to win so many championships to complete the mission?"

"It's not that exaggerated, but of course, the more important championships you win, the better. As for competitions like the Community Shield, it doesn't matter if you don't win them."

"Then the difficulty of completing this mission is really great..."

"Don't you like challenges?" Decra smiled.

Chen Hero rolled his eyes: "Okay, what rewards are there after completing such a difficult mission? If it's just experience or something... then you can go to hell!"

Decra smiled without saying a word, waved his hand, and Chen Hero found that the scene in front of him had changed. He and Decra were standing in front of a magnificent stadium, but it wasn't Liverpool's Anfield, it looked more modern than Anfield...

"This is Stanley Park Stadium. The new stadium that Liverpool is building but hasn't finished." Decra explained to the confused Chen Hero.

Suddenly a voice rang out: "Ladies and gentlemen! Thank you very much for coming to the unveiling ceremony of Hero's statue!"

Before the voice finished, there was thunderous applause.

Chen Hero was startled by what he heard, and then he looked in the direction of the sound. In the most conspicuous place, he really saw a life-size bronze statue, and the statue looked exactly like... himself, raising his arms and cheering for a goal!

"This is..." He turned to look at Decra in surprise.

The applause at the scene was much quieter, as if it had been artificially turned down, but you could still see reporters holding cameras taking pictures, and there were cameras filming, and many fans were raising their arms and cheering non-stop.

Decra snapped his fingers, these scenes disappeared, and they returned to the previous hotel room.

Decra asked with a smile: "How do you like this mission reward?"

Chen Hero was shocked: "Are you saying that you're going to erect a statue for me outside the stadium? Like... uh, like Batistuta?" With his knowledge, he could only immediately say that Batistuta had a statue erected by fans.

"That's the highest honor, Hero."

"This... hey... heh heh!" Chen Hero replayed the scene just now in his mind, and then laughed, laughing louder and louder. He had to admit that such a reward greatly satisfied his vanity and made him quite accomplished.

"Not bad, I like it!"

"This is a big mission, you may need a long time to complete it. In addition, there are many small and medium-sized missions, with various long-term and short-term goals. After completing them, there are various rewards, the rewards are different, it may be experience, or it may be some very practical benefits, such as this statue. Of course, it may also be skills..."

"Skills?"

"Yes, what about Maradona's spoon shot? Cruyff turn, Elastico, etc.? They can all be given to you in the form of mission rewards."

"I can learn these skills by completing missions?" Chen Hero was taken aback.

"Basically, that's right."

Chen Hero whistled: "Sounds awesome!"

"However..." Decra poured cold water on Chen Hero. "In the past, none of the missions required you to complete them. But now some missions you must complete, there are limited conditions."

"What if I don't complete them?"

"There will be punishment."

"What kind of punishment?"

"Deduct a lot of experience, even lead to you being downgraded."

Chen Hero listened with interest, how can there be such a thing as downgrading? What will I be downgraded to?

"Your upgrade is through experience, and after upgrading, there are many talent points to add. When you are downgraded, your experience is deducted, and the talents you added after upgrading are also deducted, so your abilities will decline..."

"Damn, that's so ruthless!" Chen Hero was shocked.

"Not only that, you may also encounter inexplicable injuries on the field. Small missions not completed are small injuries, big missions not completed are big injuries..."

"Wait, wait. I remember I clicked on the talent that reduces the chance of injury..."

"This is a mission punishment, ignoring the injury reduction chance of talents. If you fail, you have to accept the punishment, there is no way to escape it."

"Damn! Can I apply to withdraw from this system?"

"No."

"Can I not do the missions?"

"Missions with failure penalties cannot be avoided."

Chen Hero was speechless: "Why do I feel like I'm on a thief ship?"

"You have also gained so many benefits from it, haven't you? You always have to pay a price, and... if you work hard on this price, maybe you don't have to pay it? The premise of punishment is mission failure, if you succeed in the mission, who will punish you?" Decra said with a smile.

Chen Hero sighed: "Okay, okay... Where can I see the missions?"

"On your computer, and... in the instance dungeon."