Chapter 1 I Can't Count on You

Actually, Chen Hero had considered having Dracula take him back to England before, because Dracula was Mr. Aurora, and he could "teleport" to any corner of the earth.

So he specifically hid in the toilet and secretly called Dracula, but Dracula's answer disappointed him: "Have you ever seen light carry people, Hero? I can teleport myself, but I can't teleport with people..."

"Damn, your superpower is so low-grade! Aren't you embarrassed? If superpowers aren't awesome these days, no one will watch!"

"This isn't an urban superpower novel..." Dracula also felt wronged. "In short, I can come to your side now and help you solve the problem, but I can't take you back to England. I'm afraid you have to provide your own transportation..."

"I really can't count on you!" Chen Hero said angrily, "At the critical moment, Christine is more trustworthy!"

Therefore, Chen Hero decided to accept Christine's suggestion and rent a car to drive all the way from Frankfurt to Liverpool...

Driving from Frankfurt to Liverpool is about 1,500 kilometers. If the road conditions are good and there are no traffic jams, it should only take fifteen hours.

So driving from Frankfurt to Liverpool is not an incredible thing.

But driving to Liverpool in the current situation is not necessarily reliable.

First of all, it is winter now, and the weather in Europe has been very strange in the past two years, often encountering severe blizzards.

Just now, it hasn't been an hour since we drove out of Frankfurt, and we can already see snowflakes dancing in the car lights.

In addition to the bad weather, after most European flights were grounded, all the travelers who were traveling transferred to road traffic, and there would definitely be many people driving out, which could easily cause traffic jams on the highway.

The highways in Europe are full of cars, and once there is a traffic jam, it is almost like a parking lot.

Therefore, the difficulties of the two people along the way can be imagined.

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On the highway heading west from Frankfurt, after driving only twenty kilometers, the two encountered their first traffic jam. However, this traffic jam was not related to the large number of travelers traveling by car, but was caused by a traffic accident caused by slippery roads due to rain and snow.

The Audi SUV that Chen Hero and the others rented was slowly wriggling forward, wrapped in the rolling traffic. It took half an hour to get through the congested area.

To relieve the anxious mood, soothing music was played in the car.

But it didn't help.

Looking at the heavy night outside the car, and the snow flying all over the sky rolled up by the cars, Chen Hero frowned tightly.

"Don't worry, Hero. We will arrive in Liverpool early. You still have time to take a shower." Cabrella comforted Chen Hero while driving.

In fact, the most tiring thing along the way was Cabrella, because Cabrella could hardly rest. Her driving skills were several orders of magnitude higher than Chen Hero's, and she was more experienced in dealing with these complex road conditions and weather conditions than Chen Hero. It was obviously better to let her drive.

"You can even sleep now, maybe you'll be there when you wake up?"

Chen Hero shook his head: "I just slept on the plane, I can't sleep at all at this time. I'd better talk to you, I'm afraid you'll be too bored driving alone if I fall asleep. It's easy to get tired driving at night, and you didn't sleep much on the plane, did you?"

"I can stay awake for forty-eight hours, Hero, you don't have to worry about me at all." Cabrella replied with a smile while driving.

Cabrella's driving skills are really quite good. In bad road conditions, most vehicles have reduced their speed and are driving slowly on the highway, but Cabrella is maneuvering the car through the traffic, and the speed is not slow.

If the road conditions are good and there is no traffic jam, maybe they can really arrive in Liverpool before the game, just like Cabrella said, and take a shower or something.

But things can't really go that smoothly.

After driving for more than ten kilometers, they encountered another traffic jam. This time it was still a traffic accident. This time the waiting time was a little longer, reaching an hour. Because this time someone died, an ambulance came, and everyone squeezed to both sides of the road to make way for the ambulance. For most of the time, the traffic flow was at a standstill.

In this way, they drove all the way west, encountering many traffic jams along the way, most of which were caused by car accidents due to the dark and slippery roads, but all in all, it went smoothly.

At dawn, they arrived in the Netherlands.

At this time, it was already 9:30 on the morning of January 2nd, and there was less than a day and a half left before the game at 4:30 the next afternoon.

From the moment they entered the Netherlands, the car encountered an unprecedented traffic jam.

They were stuck in one place for an hour and a half and only moved one kilometer...

Bored, Chen Hero turned on the radio, wanting to hear the current situation. As a result, the news he heard made him want to tear the car apart—"The A67 highway in the Venlo section is very congested due to a series of car accidents and a large number of passengers switching to car travel. The traffic jam has stretched for twenty kilometers..."

Hearing this, Chen Hero's already anxious heart became even more irritable.

"Damn! Twenty kilometers! Does anyone want to live! Why haven't I seen so many people in Europe before!"

Cabrella wanted to find a place to get off the highway, but their car was in the middle lane, with cars in front, behind, left, and right, and there was nowhere to go. They could only be wrapped in this slow steel torrent and move forward slowly.

Cabrella was also very anxious, but she didn't show it in front of Chen Hero. Chen Hero was irritable, so she had to remain calm. If even she became anxious, this journey would be a lot of trouble.

In order to calm Chen Hero's mood, she could only find something to talk to Chen Hero about to divert Chen Hero's attention.

"Have I told you about my family, Hero?"

Sure enough, this topic interested Chen Hero very much. When he heard Cabrella talk about this, he perked up: "No. But why did you take the initiative to talk about it? I always thought you didn't want to tell me about your family..."

"Anyway, there's nothing to do now, is there?"

"Ah... that's true, anyway, we're just idle. I only know that you seem to have many younger siblings... By the way, how is your younger brother who I met last time?"

"He's not gambling anymore, but he's just like that... That's how the children of poor families in Napoli come. I work hard to earn money, just hoping to change their fate. My brother admires you very much, he also wants to learn from you and play football, but I don't think he has the talent..."

"That's not necessarily true, haha, maybe he really has talent? If he wants to play football, let him come to Liverpool, I'll talk to Chen Xing and arrange for him to try out for Liverpool's youth team."

Cabrella shook her head: "There's no hurry, he's still young."

"Still young? He dared to sneak to France to gamble..." Chen Hero clicked his tongue. He was naughty enough when he was a child, but he had never been so rampant. "Hey, the car in front is moving!"

Cabrella glanced at it, lightly stepped on the accelerator, moved the car forward a little, and stuck tightly to the rear of the car in front.

"I have four younger brothers and three younger sisters in my family..." Cabrella continued.

Chen Hero grinned. They're really fertile... Including Cabrella, doesn't that mean Cabrella's mother had eight children? If this were in China, how much would she be fined if she got caught?

But the foreign population has increased, so maybe the government will give money for having more children.

"My parents have been busy earning money to support the family since I can remember. Basically, I was the one who took care of them."

"It's been hard on you."

Cabrella smiled: "I didn't think so at the time, anyway, I was just playing with them, not letting anyone else bully them. When I was very young, I fought with the boys in the neighborhood. At first, I couldn't beat those who were stronger than me, but later it turned into them not being able to beat me."

Chen Hero thought to himself that no wonder you are so good at fighting, you have a foundation...

"So you didn't keep your hair long because you didn't want people to grab your hair when you were fighting?" However, Chen Hero was also an old hand at fighting, so he immediately understood why Cabrella didn't want to keep her hair long.

Even now that Cabrella's hair is a little longer than before, it is very limited, far from reaching the point of "shoulder-length hair."

"At first it was, but later it became a habit. Having shorter hair can save a lot of time managing it."

"You really are a woman who doesn't like to dress up... Hey, it's okay, if you liked to dress up, I guess many women would be envious and jealous, haha!"

Cabrella smiled and accepted Chen Hero's praise of her.

In this way, the two chatted while slowly moving forward.

By the time the two squeezed out of the traffic jam, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.

There were still more than sixty kilometers to the Belgian border ahead.

This section of the road was slightly smoother, but this "smoothness" was compared to the previous twenty kilometers of traffic jam. In fact, there was a lot of traffic on the road, and even if Cabrella tried her best, it was difficult to run at a speed of more than one hundred kilometers per hour.

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When the two entered Belgium, it was past three o'clock in the afternoon. The weather in winter was bad, and it got dark very early.

The two hungry people decided to stop and have a meal before continuing on the road.

According to Chen Hero, he originally wanted Cabrella to sleep for a while, but it would take too long, and Cabrella resolutely disagreed.

In the end, Chen Hero had to drive instead, and Cabrella rested.

In fact, Cabrella also disagreed with doing this. Because driving for a long time is very tiring. Not only can the body not move freely, but also the high degree of mental tension also increases fatigue. Chen Hero was going back to participate in a high-intensity and high-confrontation game, not going straight home to sleep.

What's the point of rushing back if you waste too much energy and energy on the road?

But Chen Hero firmly disagreed with Cabrella continuing to drive, saying that he was Superman and there was no such thing as fatigue at all, and that he had already slept.

The two argued for a while, and finally reached an agreement. Chen Hero would drive for five hours, until ten o'clock in the evening, and then hand the car over to Cabrella, and then he would go to rest.

The two had a simple dinner at a roadside fast food restaurant, and then went to the gas station next door to fill up the gas, and then got back on the road.

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Martin O'Neill had been paying attention to Chen Hero's itinerary. He made several phone calls to Chen Hero. At first, when he heard that he was stuck on the road, his heart beat faster. He was relieved when he heard that they had arrived in Belgium.

The route Chen Hero took was directly west from Frankfurt, taking the A12 and A10 highways, and then taking the A2 for more than 400 kilometers to enter the Netherlands. From the Netherlands, they entered Belgium.

Passing through Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and other places, they turned to the coastline, entered France along the coastline, and then passed through Dunkirk to reach Calais.

In Calais, their car would board a train specially used to transport various passenger vehicles, and enter the United Kingdom through the English Channel Tunnel.

Once in the UK, they would go northwest, diagonally across the UK, and arrive in Liverpool.

Now that they have arrived in Belgium, half of this long journey is over.

Although it is already past eight o'clock on the evening of the second, there are less than twenty hours left before the game that starts at four thirty tomorrow afternoon.

Will Chen Hero be able to make it back?