A golden top-tier talent skill card issued by the system was waiting to be activated.
Not yet. As he walked towards the sidelines, his heart grew increasingly excited. What would this talent card be?
As he walked, he saw a man with a bandaged head appear at the sidelines.
Isn't that Henry? He actually came to greet me personally, a smile on his face, though it was hard to see clearly with the bandages.
It seems the injury isn't too serious. As long as the bleeding is stopped, it shouldn't affect his normal actions.
However, inadvertently, Henry's appearance suddenly reminded him of the goalkeeper Cao Baiming, who had just been sent to the operating room. His heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He almost forgot! There was such a thing!
What should he do now? Did he still need to visit that person?
On the field, the Bournemouth players were already swarming towards the sidelines, asking their team's executives about his injury. Seeing this, Cao Baiming also walked over proactively.
Just as Cao Baiming was striding towards the group, a strong force suddenly stopped him from behind, grabbing his arm.
"What are you thinking? What are you going to do?"
Vieira suddenly said from behind.
"Go and ask about the goalkeeper's condition, if there are any problems?"
Vieira sighed helplessly and continued, "Don't. We'll get news later, or I can go and ask for you!"
Cao Baiming understood his meaning when he heard this.
Just then, Henry also walked over.
"Look at them, they're clearly still emotional. If you go over, it probably won't end well. You kicked their starting goalkeeper to the operating room, how can they not want to beat you up?"
"Beat me?" Cao Baiming chuckled.
"It wasn't intentional."
Saying this, he walked forward despite the attempts to hold him back.
Soon, a few Bournemouth players noticed him. The two burly men standing at the front, who were usually the ones to step up, blocked him.
"What do you want?"
After this, others also noticed and surrounded Cao Baiming.
Cao Baiming's expression was calm, showing no fear at all. Instead, his face was full of curiosity.
"I just want to see what other jokes you can come up with. What do you think I want to do, fight?"
Cao Baiming saw that these people were already prepared to fight.
They themselves didn't have full confidence, after all, that kick was a legitimate shot!
They couldn't possibly say, "You should pay attention to the safety of our goalkeeper when you shoot!"
Cao Baiming knew he had done nothing wrong and was completely fearless.
These people also knew how terrifying Cao Baiming's physique was. They probably wouldn't be able to defeat him even if they all ganged up on him.
If they couldn't get revenge for their teammate and ended up in the hospital ward themselves, it would be too embarrassing.
At this moment, a voice came from the back of the crowd.
"Alright, stop it. He probably just wants to inquire about the situation!"
The Bournemouth head coach suddenly appeared.
As soon as he spoke, the surrounding people quieted down a lot.
"That's right."
Cao Baiming nodded indifferently.
"Just like I told them, we don't have any news yet. Let's wait..."
"We'll tell you if there's any update. And you, right now, all we know is that he's at St. Swithin's Hospital."
Cao Baiming nodded again, then left.
He had obtained enough information.
Cao Baiming walked leisurely, pushing through the crowd gathered around him, heading straight for the locker room.
Although everyone felt as if they had been insulted and had an indescribable feeling of discomfort, they couldn't do anything about it.
No one stopped him, not even dared to block him.
Upon returning, Cao Baiming quickly summoned the system and redeemed his rewards.
A moment later, the system responded quickly.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the top-tier talent skill card [Ace Bomber]. Talent effect: Heading ability increased by forty points, guaranteed to hit the target within the penalty area, and any physical object struck by the head on the field will increase its power by three times."
Cao Baiming nodded slightly.
"Not bad, it perfectly compensates for my only current weakness, heading!"
However, when he thought about it, the previous effects were quite standard. What was that last sentence?
It was chilling!
"Striking any physical object on the field with your head will increase its power by three times..."
What did "any physical object" refer to?
It wasn't the ball, was it? But why not just write "ball"? Isn't it just about increasing power?
But then he thought, besides the ball, what else is on the field? That would be people!
This talent was too terrifying. Was it trying to get him to hit people?
Now that Zidane was making a strong return, it wouldn't be appropriate to be too presumptuous in front of the master!
How embarrassing that would be!
Immediately after, the system's voice sounded again, reminding him.
"Ding! Detected that your remaining points have accumulated to one million. Do you wish to redeem them immediately?"
"Wtf???"
Cao Baiming was truly shocked this time.
Didn't he just spend his points at the beginning of the season? How did he have another million!
What was going on!?
What else could he do? Of course, he had to ask!
"System! How many points do I have now? Where did they come from?"
The questions were a bit numerous, and the system took two seconds to respond.
"Ding! Your current remaining points are 1,012,005."
"The main sources of points are: emotional absorption value, mission rewards, match goal data..."
Cao Baiming's eyes lit up.
"Emotional absorption, what's going on that it's ranked before mission rewards?"
"Ding! The new season's point system has been updated. Emotional values are automatically absorbed from the surroundings within twenty-four hours and added to points. The emotional value absorbed in this match was 290,605 points."
"Holy crap!!"
Did he hear that right? Over two hundred and ninety thousand for one match?
Wait, the point system was updated?
"What about the goals??"
"Ding! Goal rewards have also been updated, increasing the total reward by 2000%. A single goal in a match rewards 20,000 points, and a hat-trick rewards 50,000 points."
Cao Baiming suddenly understood. No wonder the tasks for the new season were all rewarded with 5 million points!
While excited, he also had new worries.
He understood the concept of inflation. Would there be inflation of points too!?
Giving it a try, Cao Baiming casually thought of something in his mind. The most direct way to verify this was to see if learning things consumed more points.
After much consideration, Cao Baiming thought of a good idea.
"System, let's learn to play the piano, up to about level eight. How many points would that require?"
Cao Baiming suddenly remembered the piano in the club hall that no one had ever played.
"Ding! Reaching piano level eight requires 4525 points. Time is shortened by forty times, taking 75 seconds."
"Learned in 75 seconds?!"
This speed should be acceptable!
Cao Baiming recalled that the points consumed for learning some recipes and other things before didn't seem to have changed. The points hadn't depreciated!