Chen Yingxiong saw those comments in the newspapers while eating breakfast.

You motherfuckers aren't done yet, are you?!

Chen Yingxiong slammed the newspaper on the table, making Cabrella across from him look up. "I told you not to read the newspaper while eating. It's disgusting."

Chen Yingxiong laughed. "You're right, Christine. It really is disgusting. Okay, I won't look at this stuff while eating anymore!"

Just then, he suddenly heard a "ding" in his head, followed by a gentle female voice reminding him, "You have a new quest."

Chen Yingxiong was stunned. "Are you talking to me?" he asked Cabrella.

Cabrella shrugged and shook her head. "No."

Chen Yingxiong frowned.

"What's wrong?"

Just then, Chen Yingxiong noticed something like a… bulletin board in front of him. The bulletin board was translucent, so he could still see Cabrella's surprised expression on the other side.

The bulletin board began to display the following text: "The media's continued questioning has made you furious. You've decided to teach them a lesson and let them know what the consequences of offending you are. So you must…"

Just as it reached that point, everything in front of him suddenly disappeared, and Chen Yingxiong saw Cabrella's clear face again. There were no more messy things in front of him.

"Uh, nothing… I think I might have had an auditory hallucination just now… but it's okay now!"

Chen Yingxiong's intuition told him that the things in his head and the things that appeared in front of him were most likely related to Dracula.

But the sudden appearance of voices and words was really scary!

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After finishing breakfast, Chen Yingxiong drove alone to the Melwood training base to participate in the team's training. The fourth game of the Champions League group stage was in the middle of the week, and everyone had to work hard for this game.

But Chen Yingxiong stopped the car halfway and started calling Dracula.

"I said, Dracula, what the hell are you up to again?"

"Ah? You received it?"

"Bullshit! I was eating breakfast when I heard a 'ding' in my head! Then a female voice said I had a new quest, and then words started appearing in front of me… and then it all disappeared before it was finished! What the hell is all this?"

"Um… this is a test before the new expansion goes live. From your description, there are still some problems, but I'm already fixing it…" Dracula said very calmly.

"Are you using me to test bugs? Also, what's going on? Didn't I used to have to open a webpage to see quests? How did it suddenly jump into my head?" Chen Yingxiong had a lot of questions to ask. He couldn't even wait to go to the training base, so he stopped by the side of the road to call Dracula. If he didn't understand these questions, he would be distracted even during training.

"Um… it's like this. Don't you think it's too troublesome to log in to a webpage wherever you go to see the quest instructions? It's not convenient at all. And after I modified the quest triggering mechanism, there are now more quests than before, and they're more flexible and can appear at any time. That way, if you don't go online to see the quests because you have other things to do, you won't be able to accept and do the quests… I thought it would be better to just change it to a portable system."

"A portable upgrade system?"

"You summed it up well, Hero. That's roughly it."

"But it's really scary when it pops up so suddenly!"

"So I'll give you a voice prompt first…"

"I said, can you change the way you do it?"

"I can't think of a better way than the current one…"

"Can you not display it directly in the center of my vision? A little to the side, or just display a… yellow exclamation mark in the corner of my eye, so I know there's a new quest, and then I can choose whether or not to click on it to view it myself, so I can at least have some mental preparation, okay?"

"You're a genius, Hero!" An excited voice came from the other side, obviously Chen Yingxiong had helped him solve a "problem" that had been bothering him for a long time…

Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes. "What kind of genius is that? Have you never seen the plug-ins for World of Warcraft?"

"Okay, I'll go and modify it now. Also, this new expansion will also introduce a lot of new things besides this portable system…"

"What are they?"

"If nothing goes wrong, you'll know soon, Hero!"

Dracula hung up the phone mysteriously. Chen Yingxiong was in a daze in the car for a while, thinking about what new things would be in the upcoming new expansion. He couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, just wait and play it…

He shook his head, restarted the car, and drove off, heading towards the Melwood training base.

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Chen Yingxiong really found out what the new expansion was very quickly. Dracula's efficiency was obviously much faster than those real programmers.

And the most important thing was that it didn't need to be reviewed by the Ministry of Culture and the Press and Publication Administration, so it could meet its user, Chen Yingxiong, as soon as possible.

Chen Yingxiong saw it when he took the time to enter the dungeon to practice at night.

In the past, when he entered the dungeon, he would go directly to the training ground, where the intelligent teammates would be waiting for him.

There was only one exception, and that was when the new expansion went live, and he went directly to the player supermarket.

This time was the same, he entered the player supermarket again. But at the same time, a text appeared in front of him…

"Strongest Striker's Red Empire Version 4.3 Update Notes? What's this!"

Although he thought it was nonsensical, Chen Yingxiong still read it seriously.

This was something that had never happened before, an update notes document. This document contained all the things that had been added and modified in this update, so it was clear at a glance. Chen Yingxiong didn't need to call Dracula to ask, or explore it himself. He just needed to read this instruction document to know what new things were in this new expansion.

The first modification was to the quest system, adding a portable reminder function. The document also told Chen Yingxiong that if he thought the human voice reminder was too noisy, and the sudden "ding" would scare him, he could also use his consciousness to adjust the settings options and turn off the human voice reminder function. In that case, only a yellow exclamation mark would appear in the upper right corner of his vision to remind him that there was a new quest.

In addition, the query function can also be set up through the portable system and directly accessed with consciousness. The visual effect is the same as Chen Yingxiong's current viewing of the instruction document—the background is transparent, but the text can be seen, which will affect the vision to some extent, but fortunately, the area occupied by this thing is not large.

Through the portable query function, Chen Yingxiong can access anything he wants to query anytime, anywhere, such as quest completion progress, reputation system, talent tree, etc.

In addition to the portable system, some new things have indeed been added.

For example, achievements!

Achievements are titles that Chen Yingxiong gets after completing some special events. Some achievements will overlap with reality, while others will only belong to the achievements in the system. What are the benefits of achievements?

Actually, they're useless, just empty names, adding a little fun. If Chen Yingxiong is bored, he can brush achievements and become an "achievement party." Successfully dealing with various situations will give you corresponding achievements. Some things are easy to do, some require a lot of effort, but isn't it also an achievement in itself to put in the effort and harvest various achievement titles?

Achievements are just empty names anyway, Chen Yingxiong just thinks they're interesting, but where are the things that are really beneficial to him?

In addition to achievements, there is also a brand new system added to this upgrade. That is the simulation battle mode!

Chen Yingxiong found this simulation battle mode very interesting.

In short, the experience that Chen Yingxiong accumulates from doing quests and leveling up can be used to upgrade or as a currency to buy players. This has already been explained before, and Chen Yingxiong is very familiar with it.

And in this simulation battle mode, the role of experience as a currency is maximized. Not only can it be used to buy players, but it can also be used to form your own team by buying players!

Then, you can get experience by competing with other teams, and learn some brand new skills and talents…

Of course, these opponents also require Chen Yingxiong to spend experience to buy, but it has changed from buying one player at a time to buying an entire team at a time, so the price is naturally much higher than buying one player, but because it is a "package mode," the overall price is still acceptable. It's much cheaper than buying players one by one to make up a team. Moreover, the "package mode" also makes it easier for those classic teams to appear…

Yes, the teams that Chen Yingxiong encounters in the virtual副本 (fuben) [copy/instance] are all classic teams in the world of football.

For example, Brazil in 1970, Real Madrid in the first Galácticos era, Cruyff's Dream Team, AC Milan in the era of the Dutch Three Musketeers, Argentina in 1986… all of them are famous teams in the world of football.

Playing against these teams? No one can even think about it now! But Chen Yingxiong has such an opportunity.

Competing with teams of this level, not to mention those virtual experience points, just the real experience, not the kind of experience that can be bought and sold, how much can Chen Yingxiong gain!

Players always have to compete with high-level opponents to improve themselves. No player in the world has this opportunity, but now Chen Yingxiong has it!

He clenched his fists, eager to compete with those legendary players and legendary teams!

With Pelé! With Maradona! With Cruyff! With Beckenbauer… competing with these historically brilliant superstars and defeating them!

Just thinking about it makes Chen Yingxiong feel excited.