The Football King System That Came Back to Life

May 6, 2012.

Barcelona, Camp Nou.

La Liga, matchday 37. Barcelona is playing Espanyol at home.

This is Barcelona's last home game of the season, and also the farewell day for the team's legendary coach, Guardiola.

A total of 97,000 spectators attended this match, and the vast Camp Nou was packed to capacity.

Although the opponent was just a weak team that posed no threat to the mighty Barca, the fans' enthusiasm was exceptionally high.

Soon, this match turned into Messi's stage!

With his sharp breakthroughs and flawless dribbling, he firmly captured the attention of the entire stadium.

In the eleventh minute, the opponent fouled Messi near the edge of the penalty area as he was dribbling. The referee awarded a free kick.

Messi scored directly from the free kick, making it 1-0 to Barca against Espanyol.

In the sixty-fourth minute, Messi chipped the ball over a defender inside the penalty area. Because his turn was too fast, Espanyol's tall defender Gomez couldn't keep up and braked too late as he lunged, his elbow touching the ball.

The referee, who was nearby, clearly saw Gomez's handball foul and immediately awarded a penalty, showing Gomez a yellow card.

Messi took the penalty, faked out the goalkeeper, and the ball hit the post before bouncing into the net.

The score became 2-0, with Messi scoring his second goal of the match.

Ten minutes later, Messi received a long pass from Adriano from his own half. He quickly got past an Espanyol defender and went one-on-one with the goalkeeper, scoring again to complete his hat-trick.

Five minutes later, Espanyol's number 22 defender fouled Busquets inside the penalty area, and Messi stepped up to the penalty spot again.

He didn't waste the opportunity created by his teammate, scoring with a single kick to net his fourth goal of the match, achieving an incredible quadruple.

When Messi scored his third goal, securing the win, the Camp Nou stadium had already begun singing his praises.

When he scored his fourth goal, the entire crowd stood up and applauded, cheering for the King of Camp Nou!

It wasn't just the ordinary fans; even the young players from the Barca youth academy who came to watch were completely conquered by Messi at this moment!

"Messi! Messi! Oh my god, did you see that? He's like a god!"

In the youth team, Gerard Deulofeu, who also played as a winger, was as excited as a child, shaking the shoulder of his youth team companion next to him and saying excitedly.

Sitting next to him was a young player wearing the youth team's number 4 jersey, with yellow skin, black hair, and a handsome Asian face.

His name was Lin Quan. He was sixteen years old, a starting midfielder for the Barca youth team, and also a transmigrator.

He was an orphan, adopted by a Spanish couple, and grew up in Spain.

His adoptive father was a former professional player who played as a midfielder.

Influenced by him, Lin Quan started playing football from a young age. Due to his talent and his adoptive father's connections, he joined the La Masia training camp early on and was groomed as Xavi's successor.

Hearing Deulofeu's words, Lin Quan nodded in deep agreement.

Messi in 2012 was undoubtedly the most insane year of his professional career.

In that year, Messi scored a total of 91 goals in all official competitions, breaking Gerd Müller's world record.

At this time, Messi had speed, explosive power, dribbling ability, could beat defenders, could pass, could organize, could support, he was almost omnipotent.

On the field, he was practically the nightmare of opposing defenders.

When facing Messi on a driving run, there was almost no good way to deal with him other than fouling him.

But unfortunately, due to fatigue accumulated from excessive appearances and rough fouls from opponents.

Messi suffered multiple injuries in 2013. A series of injuries severely affected his form, diminishing his peak.

Since then, although Messi remained strong, even becoming more well-rounded.

Compared to his peak period, his breakthrough ability had declined significantly.

But what does that have to do with me?

I'm a midfielder, so naturally, I should be observing Xavi and Iniesta. Messi is too monstrous, and our positions are completely different, so observing Messi isn't meaningful to me.

Just as Lin Quan was complaining in his mind, a long-lost voice sounded in his head:

[System detects a player meeting the standard of a Football King. Do you wish to replicate him?]

Lin Quan was stunned. Was this damn system back from the dead?

When he was six years old, he accidentally obtained a Football King System. At that time, the system only imbued him with some football knowledge and skills before disappearing.

For the past ten years, he had been searching for a way to awaken the system, but he had never succeeded.

Just as he was about to give up, and even began to doubt whether his experience of getting the system was real or just his hallucination, this damn system resurrected.

This made Lin Quan both surprised and delighted.

Although he always cursed the system as a "damn system," without the system's help back then, he would never have reached this point.

So, upon hearing the system's prompt, and fearing that the system would disappear again, he immediately made his choice:

Replicate!

BOOM!

In an instant, countless memory fragments surged into Lin Quan's mind like a tide, past scenes replaying one after another.

All that appeared were scenes of a short player breaking through, dribbling past opponents, and shooting on the field.

"These are... Messi's career memories?"

Lin Quan immediately recognized the short player as the King of Camp Nou, Leo Messi, currently sprinting across the Camp Nou pitch.

Messi's career memories gradually merged with Lin Quan's own, granting him the experience of Messi's eight-year career.

[Memory modification complete, body modification will be carried out tonight!]

The system's modifications were quite unreasonable. Memory modification was one thing; it was hard for others to notice.

However, body modification was a drastic overhaul that would cause significant changes to a player's physique.

If this were done on the field, setting aside others, the teammates around him would easily notice the changes.

Therefore, the system's arrangement was very thoughtful.

Still, when Lin Quan heard that the system was going to modify his body, his heart skipped a beat.

Honestly, no one could refuse Messi's talent.

That was top-tier, king-level talent. Who wouldn't covet it?

But Messi was only 1.7 meters tall!

Much of his talent came at the cost of his height!

Did having Messi's talent mean he would also stop growing at 1.7 meters, just like Messi?

Hiss, that price felt a bit steep!

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