Volume 1: When Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention. Chapter 78: There Is No End to the Road.

Chapter 78: There is no end to the road (First update, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket!)

Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera stood outside the guardrail of the highway, watching the cars whizzing by.

He was no longer in a hurry, because there was no point in being anxious.

The broken down car was more than 20 meters ahead.

He originally planned to call for help, but found that his mobile phone had run out of battery due to too many calls in the past two days, and the same was true for Cabrera's mobile phone.

There are farmlands on both sides of the M1 highway, with no villages in front or no shops in the back. It's far away from the bustling town.

Now the two of them are really in a state of incompetence.

"This is really a crime that is not a war crime..."

Chen Yingxiong looked up at the sky and sighed. It was really a rainy day, and the car broke down. It was always gloomy at this time, and the sky started to rain again.

The car broke down on the highway. For safety reasons, people naturally cannot stay in the car. There is only one umbrella in the car, which is not big. If two people hold it, both people will get wet. So Chen Yingxiong insisted on letting Cabrera hold on while he stood aside to catch the rain. He also said that such a little rain had no effect on him at all.

He was driving quickly and slowly in front of him. At this moment, because the car broke down, it became like a joke.

"Have you given up, hero?" Cabrera asked him.

"So what if I don't give up? I can't run from here to Liverpool, right? It's two hundred kilometers!"

"Try to hitch a ride," Cabrera said.

Chen Yingxiong was shocked: "This is a highway! Didn't you see that these cars are driving very fast?"

"You always have to try. Don't you always say this?" After Cabrera said that, he put his hand into the guardrail and raised his thumb, which was a gesture to stop the car.

When Chen Yingxiong heard what she said, he also came up and stopped the car with her.

For now, this is the only way.

At 10:45 on January 3, Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera stopped a car on the side of the M1 highway.

There are still five hours and fifteen minutes until the start of the game.

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Martin O'Neill was still a little uneasy. He planned to call Chen Yingxiong again and ask him where he was.

But after calling him, he was told that "the number you dialed has been turned off"...

How is this going?

out of battery?

O'Neill frowned.

But then he thought, since they are all on the way to Liverpool, it shouldn't be a problem, right?

He never expected that Chen Yingxiong's car would break down...

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At 11:30 on January 3, Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera were still blocking the car.

From two people blocking the car at the same time, it has become a turn to block the car. One person stops the car while the other person rests.

They still haven't stopped a car.

The cars were going so fast that most people didn't even notice them, and even if some people did, they weren't willing to risk applying the brakes.

"Damn...it seems like you didn't recognize me..."

At first, Chen Yingxiong stood confidently by the guardrail and stretched out his hand to stop the car. He thought to himself that he was also a popular star in England, and people who came and went would definitely recognize him. They would be very happy to help a star in trouble, right? Naturally, I will also express my gratitude to this foreign Lei Feng who did good things.

But he stood on the side of the road for a long time, and no one stopped his car to greet them warmly.

In fact, it's not like no one recognized him. His face appears in the media every week, and his body shape is particularly conspicuous. How could he not recognize him?

But the few people who recognized Chen Yingxiong were not Liverpool fans. And they all knew that Chen Yingxiong was very important to Liverpool, so out of mutual selfishness, no one stopped the car to help Chen Yingxiong.

So poor Chen Yingxiong was left to hang out in the "wilderness".

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At twelve o'clock on January 3, Liverpool's players had already started having lunch in the restaurant. After a short break after lunch, they were ready to go to the stadium. Generally speaking, for an ordinary league game, the team has to go to the stadium an hour in advance to prepare.

In other words, at 3:30, Liverpool will have to leave for Anfield Stadium.

And Chen Yingxiong must get to the stadium before then.

However, Chen Yingxiong's mobile phone was turned off and he couldn't get through at all. He had no other way to get in touch. Now O'Neill can only imagine where Chen Yingxiong is.

I guess they should be arriving in Liverpool soon, right? Maybe just outside Liverpool now?

Martin O'Neill thought so, but he was still a little worried in his heart.

He always felt that things were not going well and was always worried that something would happen to Chen Yingxiong on the road.

This worry has always been in my heart and cannot be resolved.

He also knew that Chen Yingxiong would be delayed if he had no evidence, but just like his intuition, the thought couldn't go away.

Strangely, Chen Yingxiong clearly called him and said he was already on his way to Liverpool. Even if their mobile phones are turned off due to lack of battery, it logically will not delay their formation, and they do not need to use their mobile phones when driving...

So this was supposed to be a foolproof thing, so why did I just feel like something was wrong?

O'Neill shook his head, trying to get this thought out of his mind.

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O'Neal was worried about whether Chen Yingxiong could come back in time, and Chen Yingxiong's teammates were also discussing this issue while eating.

"Why hasn't the hero come yet?" Adam Johnson would look up at the entrance of the restaurant from time to time even while eating. It seemed that every time he looked up, he could see Chen Yingxiong walking in.

"I called him, and he said he drove over here and arrived in England this morning..." How else could Chen Yingxiong use up his cell phone so fast? With so many phone calls, it was truly a miracle that the smartphone could still last until Chen Yingxiong entered the UK without running out of power.

"That should be no problem, right?"

"But it's been several hours. Even if he's driving a classic car, he should be here by now, right? Not to mention that the guy with him is... Cabrera." Sanchez has some understanding of Cabrera's driving skills. Yes, he can drive very fast in places with chaotic traffic like Naples. Naturally, he is not someone who drives a classic car.

So if Cabrera was really driving, Chen Yingxiong should actually be able to reach Liverpool before lunch.

Why hasn't it arrived yet?

Like O'Neal, everyone is more or less worried and uneasy.

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At 12:30 on January 3, Chen Yingxiong had not yet stopped the car. Fortunately, I did a lot of shopping when I set off from Frankfurt, so I had some bread sandwiches in the broken-down car. Although it didn't taste very good in this cold weather, it was still good for my stomach every day.

Chen Yingxiong was eating a cold sandwich when he saw a red car coming from far ahead. From a distance, it looked like an old car.

He quickly reached out his hand again, expecting to meet a kind person this time.

In fact, he really had no hope in his heart, because he had been disappointed too many times before.

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Phil Gibbs was driving a 1975 Ford with two of his friends in the car. They just went to London to meet the girls, and they all had a very happy New Year's holiday together.

Currently returning to Liverpool from London.

The radio in the car was on, and it really should have been playing a preview of the match between Liverpool and Newcastle.

The topic that the host talked about the most was Chen Yingxiong.

"...Currently we have no more information about Chen Yingxiong. No one knows where he has gone. Our reporters have been squatting in front of the hotel where he stayed in Liverpool, but they have not seen Chen Yingxiong. …”

"Oh! Damn it!" The three young people in the car complained at the same time. "Isn't it? The hero hasn't returned to Liverpool yet?"

"This damn Icelandic volcano! Iceland, this bankrupt place, should sink as soon as possible!"

"Shut up! Phil, my aunt and her family are all in Reykjavik!" A young man with red hair and freckles sitting in the back seat waved his fist.

"Then let them move to Liverpool quickly. Aren't they afraid of being buried by magma when they live in a shabby place where they can only eat fish every day?" Phil Gibbs, who was driving, said with a smile.

"I agree with Phil, that country in Iceland really sucks! They held a referendum to declare bankruptcy after they owed us money, and then just defaulted on the debt! It's so shameless! I still have to pay for Liverpool this season. I don’t even have money to buy the package ticket…”

"Get out of here, Tom. You don't have any money because you think you spent it on that fat girl Leona!"

While the three friends were bickering in the car, Phil Gibbs suddenly noticed a man standing in the rain on the roadside ahead and made a gesture to stop the car.

He suddenly laughed: "Hey, guys, look, there's a guy blocking a car in the rain! Haha!"

He successfully attracted the attention of the other two people, and the three of them turned to look over.

"It looks like the car broke down. It's so pitiful that the weather broke down on the road..." Of course, not everyone is as heartless and compassionate as Phil Gibbs.

"Is the girl holding the umbrella behind him his girl? She has a very good figure!"

"Would you like to whistle a little to tease me?"

While they were joking, Tom Jackson, a young man sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Drive slower, Phil!"

"What? Are you really going to help them?"

"No, I just think that person is a bit like a hero..."

Before he finished speaking, Phil Gibson's car sped past Chen Yingxiong.

But then there was a screeching sound of brakes.

"****! Don't slam on the brakes! How did you get your driver's license, Phil?! It's raining! Damn it! Your car doesn't have anti-lock brakes!"

"Hold the wheel! Hold on to it! God... this is on the highway!"

A sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling sounded in the car.

Chen Yingxiong watched the red classic car speeding past him turn left and right on the road, making snake-like movements for a while before it stabilized, and then stopped on the side of the road with its emergency lights flashing.

"It seems that the sky is the limit, hero." Cabrera walked up holding an umbrella and tilted the umbrella towards Chen Yingxiong intentionally or unintentionally.

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