Chapter 23 : I almost forgot to put on my new football shoes

  "Rust--come here!"

  Coach Carter's stern roar echoed throughout the training ground.

  Although it was the rusty stripes that were called, every player in the training ground was trembling.

  "Coming... Coach..." Rusty responded quickly and ran over with his head held high.

  Before Coach Carter could say anything, Rusty said, "Coach, no matter what you just heard from this Chinese kid, I can explain it!

I really wanted to hit this Chinese kid before, but I didn't do it in the end because I am a rational person! I know that this is a critical moment for our school team, and I also know how important I, the main center back, am to the school team, so no matter how angry I was, I didn't fight."

  Hehe...Gu Ran looked at the rusty strips quietly.

  Coach Carter frowned and shouted, "Who the hell asked you that? Wait, what? You almost got into a fight?"

  Rusty was stunned and looked at Gu Ran in surprise, "You are not reporting me???"

  Gu Ran shrugged calmly, "I won't complain. We can solve the problem between us ourselves."

  The expression on Rusty's face was a little strange, but he quickly returned to his original arrogance: "Humph, don't think that I will think you are good just because you didn't complain."

  What the hell?

  Why does it feel like Rusty is a bit arrogant?

  Gu Ran almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

  Coach Carter yelled angrily: "Enough! I don't have time to listen to your love-hate relationship here! Rusty, listen to me, this Chinese kid wants to join our school team--"

  "What?" Rusty's eyes suddenly widened like cowbells, and he shouted angrily, "I don't agree!"

  Carter kicked Rusty on the butt. "Do you think this is a wedding robbery in the church? And you don't agree?"

  Rusty covered his buttocks, "I mean, coach, don't agree to it!"

  Carter said coldly: "Whether you agree or not, that's up to me! Now this Chinese kid specifically wants to have a one-on-one confrontation test with you, the main central defender!"

  "Hahaha!" Rusty was immediately overjoyed. "Chinese boy! You are really courting death! Do you know what my nickname is?"

  Gu Ran was stunned by what Rusty said, "Isn't Rusty your nickname?"

  Rusty smiled proudly, "How can a strong man have only one nickname? Rusty is the nickname given to me by others, but I also have a nickname that truly belongs to me, which is: Human Tank!"

  Gu Ran: ...middle school!

  The flesh on Rusty's face trembled, and he stared at Gu Ran with an oppressive look: "What's the matter? Are you too scared to speak? How dare you fight me one-on-one? Look at your thin arms and legs, I can crush you into slag with just a collision!"

  Such trash talk naturally had no effect on Gu Ran. Gu Ran even wanted to laugh: "The only part of my body that is thicker than yours is enough."

  Rusty was stunned. With his 286 CPU, he thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Gu Ran meant by "rough".

  "Enough!" Carter waved his hand. "In this confrontational test, if you, Rusty, carry the ball from the center circle to the penalty area line, you win. Chinese boy, your task is to defend and intercept Rusty, and don't let him enter the penalty area. If you can grab the ball and kick it across the center line, you win - do you two understand?"

  Gu Ran and Rusty nodded at the same time, "I understand."

  The rules of this adversarial test are very simple, but the simpler the rules are, the more they test your real ability.

  Coach Carter said to Rusty, "Rusty, don't embarrass the Milwaukee Bucks. If you lose, do a hundred frog jumps!"

  Rusty immediately puffed out his chest and knocked on it, "Coach! Don't worry! How could I, a human tank, lose?!"

  Carter said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll give you five minutes to prepare."

  After saying that, Carter picked up the tactical board that was smashed on the ground, sat on a chair on the sidelines, and studied it carefully: "Can this thing still be glued...Orin on the dog!"

  Rusty sneered at Gu Ran and said, "I never thought that you would want to join the school team? Are you here to cause trouble on purpose?"

  Gu Ran smiled calmly, "No, I really want to join the school team."

  Rusty grinned, "Great, because I'm going to let you know right away that you don't deserve it! The day before yesterday you said you'd never played football before, and today you want to join the school team?

Do you think we can join the Bucks Steel Horns whenever we want? Look at you, with your skinny arms and legs, you'll fall apart if I bump into you! And your shoes!

Haha, you're wearing casual shoes? Do you think you're playing golf? With those shoes, I can crush your foot bones with one kick! Don't cry then!"  

  Gu Ran smiled and said, "Thanks for the reminder. If you hadn't told me, I would have almost forgotten to put on my new football shoes."

  Having said that, Gu Ran calmly put down his sports backpack and took out a brand new pair of Messi-exclusive football shoes from the bag.

  This light gold color of the shoes is a perfect match for natural grass!

  When he saw this pair of shoes, the muscles on his face froze, and his two big eyes were illuminated by Messi's special football shoes!

  Isn't this the football shoes that Rusty has always dreamed of!

  Rusty licked his lips. "Could this pair of shoes be the extremely expensive F10 TRX FG football shoes exclusively for Messi?"

  Gu Ran said calmly, "Is it expensive? Not bad, only 1999 pounds."

  "What did you say? Just?!" The flesh on Rusty's face trembled!

  Although Southampton High School is a private school, it is not an aristocratic school like King's College, Eton College, or Westminster School, so £1,999 is definitely not a small amount of money for a student like Rusty!

  Rusty originally planned to work part-time at his father's car wash shop during the summer vacation after the national cup competition, so that he could save enough money to buy this pair of sneakers.

  result...

  Before he could start saving money, Gu Ran had already succeeded—no, he had succeeded!

  Rusty looked at the football shoes in Gu Ran's hand eagerly, "Can I... touch them?"

  Gu Ran smiled politely, "Of course... no."

  Rusty immediately clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Fuck! You think I'm interested? This must be a knockoff! Boy, I'm going to destroy you today!"

  After saying that, Rusty turned around angrily and walked to midfield to prepare for the game.

  "Light~"

  "Feeling 52 points of negative emotions from Chris Dick, the system is generating bubbles..."

  A fairly full white bubble formed where the rusty strip had just stood!

  Ugh?

  Gu Ran put on his shin guards, socks and sneakers while touching the white bubble calmly.

  The white bubbles exploded brilliantly, turning into a ray of light and flowing into Gu Ran's body.

  "Light~"

  "Host has picked up the results from the ordinary bubble: Special strength training +10 hours, today's collection progress 3/10."

  Cool!

  Gu Ran took a deep breath and immediately felt his whole body filled with new strength!

  This was all the result of Rusty's sweaty and exhausted training!

  "Warm reminder: The host has collected 100 hours of special training results and now has 1 corresponding talent point."

  The results of football training can only correspond to football attributes and cannot be added to performance and other skills.

  However, the direct talent points obtained by playing Sophie can be added to any skills and attributes.

  Gu Ran briefly considered it and decided not to add this talent point for the time being.

  A strength value of 60 points should be enough in the high school amateur league.

  Of course, if you find it difficult to fight against the rust strips, you can add some temporary measures at that time.

  Anyway, adding points is just a matter of thought and has no other impact.

  Moreover, adding some temporary things may have unexpected effects.

  Gu Ran quickly put on his basketball socks and sneakers, did a simple warm-up exercise, and then trotted into the court.

  Rusty stepped on the football with an arrogant expression, crossed his arms over his chest, and stood in the center circle.

  The other school team players also stopped training and gathered around the center circle to watch the fun.

  Coach Carter put down the broken tactical board and looked at his watch, "You two, when you're ready, we can start."

  (End of this chapter)