Chapter 82: Not crazy, not live

On the eve of the Leeds away game against Burley, the entire Leeds City team stayed at the Burnley hotel.
This is their first Premier League game in the new season. The pre-match coaching staff is very strict, requiring all players to go back to their rooms to sleep after ten o'clock in the evening, and they can’t leave the hotel. They want to get out of the hotel. It is absolutely impossible to play.
Perhaps it was because the last warm-up match played really badly, so the players did not oppose the coaching staff's arrangements.
They also know that the current external atmosphere is not friendly to the team. At this time, they are thinking about going out to play. If there is an accident in the game tomorrow, then whoever goes out to play will become the team losing the game." The culprit".
So when the time came, everyone took a rest in their respective rooms.
Even if I can't sleep for a while, I still lie in bed and chat instead of thinking about going out and having fun.
Hu Lai and Charlie Potter were divided into a room, and now they both have finished bathing and lying on the bed, turning off the lights and chatting casually.
Porter suddenly talked about his prospects for the new season: "Hu, did the boss tell you how many to exchange for a meal this time?"
Hu Lai shook his head: "The event of scoring and changing guests is gone."
Hearing that Porter sighed regretfully: "That's a shame...it's a rare opportunity to eat Chinese food with red pepper..."
"Why are you thinking about good things all day long, Charlie?"
"What you said, I don't want good things, should I think bad things? For example, we will lose to Burleigh tomorrow away?"
Hu Lai turned his head and glanced at Potter: "Fortunately, you are my roommate, Charlie. If you change to Pete, you will have been beaten by him now."
Potter was very proud: "He can't beat me." Then he said with emotion: "I don't know what will happen if Pete and Ismail live in the same house..."
"What can happen? What do you want to happen?"
Charlie Potter shook his head: "I don't know."
"Put you and Ismail in a room, maybe something will happen. With Pete, nothing will happen."
Porter thought for a while and felt that Hu Lai was right. Pete Williams is a very serious and responsible person. At this special moment before the game, he must strictly abide by the team's discipline and wash and sleep early. Therefore, he and Kamala should be speechless all night, sleeping till dawn.
He changed the subject again: "Hu, what are your expectations for this season? You only scored eleven goals after playing for half a season last season. I see fans on the Internet are already guessing how much you can score this season. The ball is up. And the bookmaker is opening the market for the number of goals you have scored this season..."
"Oh? How did it happen?" Hu Lai was not sleepy when talking about this topic.
Professional football is deeply penetrated by the gaming industry. Every Premier League team has a dedicated gaming sponsor, and some of the team's main jersey sponsors are even gaming companies.
The well-developed gaming industry covers all aspects of professional football. Anything in the Premier League can make a betting company open a bet.
There are some gambling games that seem very strange, such as whether a certain player will transfer to a certain team, whether a certain player will start the game, the possibility of a certain player being injured in the season, and whether such a player will Eat pie in the game...
In comparison, the quiz, winners and ties, the number of goals scored, and the number of corners are all traditional items in football betting.
In the lives of Britons outside of football, almost everything can be guessed and placed by bookmakers. For example, who can be elected president of the United States, who can win the prime minister of the United Kingdom, which year Haruki Murakami can win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is it sunny or rainy or snowy on Christmas Eve this year, and what color hat will the great Queen wear at the race meeting? ……and many more.
The reason is that the United Kingdom is a country keen on gambling, and the British really like gambling.
Even professional players are no exception. There have been precedents of many players participating in the game betting. Therefore, the Football Association later stipulated that all professional players and their families are not allowed to participate in football gambling.
"Wait, I'll look for it..." Potter turned over and picked up his mobile phone to browse and find, the light in the light-off room lit up. "Ah, I found it. If you predict that you will score less than five goals in the Premier League this season, you lose 45. To be honest, I also think it is difficult for you to score this point in one season... six to nine goals. One loses 30, ten to fifteen goals, and the odds are two to five... Obviously, they all think you should be able to score in double figures again."
The odds of the bookmaker are basically based on the performance of the players, and then calculated by the actuaries. Also adjust at any time according to the player's recent status.
The odds of two to five means that the bookmaker believes that Hu Lai has a very high probability of scoring ten to fifteen goals in the new season. Therefore, the odds are drawn to tell the lottery players: If you bet on this, there is a high probability that you will not lose money, but even if you win, you will not make much money.
The reason why the bookmaker will offer such odds has a lot to do with Hu Lai's performance last season.
Hu Lai joined halfway through last season and scored 11 goals in just 15 games. This efficiency has made the bookies unanimous that he should score 15 goals after having a full season in the new season. Yes, it is normal performance.
"Sixteen to twenty pay 15 for one."
The odds are higher, but lower than the previous odds of 45 to 1 and 30. The betting company believes that it is more difficult for Hu Lai to score so many goals than it is for him to score fifteen goals, but it is not too big to be outrageous. It belongs to hard work, and even better luck, it may be possible to achieve it. aims. The betting company is more optimistic about him scoring 20 goals in a single season than he is scoring less than 10 goals in a single season.
"Twenty-one goals to twenty-five goals, one pays one hundred and sixty-six. The odds are already very high..."
This odds is much higher than Hulai's odds of scoring less than five goals, which fully shows that it is harder to score than not to score. If a player encounters factors such as poor form, injury and absent a large number of games, there may be no results in a season. But if you want to score as many goals as possible, you need more factors to achieve together: personal strength, team staffing, correct tactics, good condition, and excellent luck are indispensable.
"Of course, there are even higher. The odds for you to score more than 30 goals are one hundred and thirty-six. Basically it means don't think about it, it's impossible." Charlie Porter finished talking with his phone Set aside, the room is dark again.
Hu Lai, who was next to the bed in the dark, said: "Okay, then I will set my goal for this season at thirty!"
Almost at the same time, the long-lost voice rang in Hu Lai's mind: "Task: score at least 30 goals in the 2025-2026 Premier League season. Reward: points × 300000. Special reminder: If the task fails, you will not be able to Get rewards and trigger a penalty mechanism to deduct 300,000 current points. If your current points are not enough, negative points will appear and you will be in debt..."
Hu Lai was stunned.
In fact, when he said this goal at the beginning, he had a hunch in his heart, thinking that the system that pretended to be dead for a long time might release a mission, just like the two missions he had in the Olympics.
So when the task really appeared, he didn't have any waves in his heart, and he even wanted to laugh a little-Xiaoyong, still want to yin me? I can see through it, right?
But when he saw the "special reminder" behind the task, the whole person was dumbfounded in the consciousness space.
He really did not expect that he could still be yin like this!
He understood the sinister intentions of this system-if his mission failed, not only would he not be rewarded with 300,000 points, he would still owe 300,000 points.
And he now owns less than 300,000 points-the previous mission to get the Golden Boot in the Super League allowed him to gain 100,000 points. Later, he helped Leeds to relegation successfully last season, with another 200,000 points. It was three hundred thousand, but he bought training scrolls, [stamina potions] and various equipment and props, and the remaining points were only over two hundred thousand.
In other words, if his mission fails, the 210,000 points are instantly cleared, and his actual points should be close to minus 100,000.
In this way, even if he completes the task reward in the future, the points he has gained must first pay off his debt. Before the points are reset to zero and become positive, he doesn't want to buy anything with the points.
He used to think that even if the tasks released by the system could not be completed, it didn't matter. If he didn't need those task rewards, some tasks that were too difficult might really be able to give up.
For example, the hat-trick and the task of qualifying for the group stage at the Olympics, if you really can't complete it... then you can't complete it.
It can't be overwhelming.
But now this task has a punishment mechanism.
He doesn’t know if the system has been upgraded secretly, because since he came to the Premier League, he hasn’t seen any system upgrade prompts. Of course, it can’t be ruled out that the system is like some smart phones, which secretly patched your system, but I won’t tell you yet, until you find that your mobile phone is getting more and more stuck, the battery life is getting more and more broken, and you think it is not the aging of the mobile phone, you should replace it with a new mobile phone... In fact, it is the thief’s mobile phone manufacturer that is forcing you to update. , Good consumption.
Looking at this disciplinary mechanism, Hu Lai especially wanted to shave himself with big ears-let you say you want to score 30 goals!
Be low-key, report a small number, just say...fifteen goals, how safe?
Have to be exciting!
Hu Lai was a research task in the system space, and it was a time when he was too regretful. For the real world, the time actually only passed by one second.
Charlie Potter smiled when he heard the words: "Hu, you're joking again. Ha!"
I didn’t expect Hu Lai’s serious voice from the bed next door: "I’m not kidding, Charlie. I really intend to score...at least 30 goals this season."
Charlie Potter, who was lying on the bed just now, turned over and sat up, turned his head and looked in Hu Lai's direction: "Are you crazy, Hu?!"
"I'm not crazy, Charlie."
"Thirty balls... Do you know what this number is? You can compete for the golden boots with thirty balls! Last season when Malvin Stones of Manchester Athletic won the golden boots, it was thirty-two. ball……"
Of course Hu Lai knows this, but what can he say?
He can't say to Potter: "Dude, I have a system in my mind. It just posted a task to me and asked me to pay taxes for what I was bragging about. If I can't complete this Mission, then I will have to lose a lot..." Right?
Hu Lai, who was lying on the bed, took a deep breath: "So what? If you want to play, let's play a big one, Charlie. If you don't be crazy, you won't survive. If you don't force yourself to never know where the limit is. Huh? Then I ran for the golden boots!"
After he had said this, when he heard the emotional voice that came out of his mind, he didn't bother to look at the specific task-whatever the task, it doesn't matter, all other tasks are done for the master. .
Come on together, Lord in a hurry!
In the dark, Charlie Potter heard the sound of Hulai gritting his teeth from the bed next door, and was deeply shocked.
This... Is this the confidence and courage of a genius? !
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