CH1 Fanatical Maniac
"Xiao Yu!" "Xiao Yu, wake up!" the yelling slowly became clearer and clearer.
Who!? Who is yelling in my ear? it's making it hard to sleep I still must go to work tomorrow morning. Xiao Yu started to feel a little angry since he worked overtime last night until after midnight and he has definitely not had enough rest to be woken up by shouting it is simply unacceptable, so he tries to tell them to be quiet.
But Xiao Yu Still couldn't speak clearly.
Xiao Yu feels his body being carried away and after a while, his body gets put down in a room. Whatever he has been put onto is soft, but he cannot tell whether it is a bed or a couch.
"Andy" "try giving him water!" Xiao Yu hears someone run into the room.
Xiao Yu suddenly feels a chill throughout his body as it suddenly starts coming to life, he feels his senses return to function.
"Look, it worked his eyes are moving!" the person who just brought the water said excitedly.
As Xiao Yu was once again splashed with water, under the stimulus of the cold he felt his strength start to return but his eyelids still felt heavy and hazily he opens and closes his eyes first his left then his right. He can barely make out what looks like two heads.
"Xiao Yu, can you hear me? Xiao Yu!" Andy Walsh yells loudly.
Xiao Yu began to feel that something was wrong, is that a ghost pushing on the bed.
But immediately he felt that a ghost pushing on the bed is wrong as well.
As Xiao Yu's vision clears up through his efforts of blinking it brings the two ghost-like heads he saw before into focus revealing that it is two blonde foreigners, and both of them look very concerned.
"You ..." in a hurry, Xiao Yu raised his right hand to point at the nearest foreigner, but his strength was still weak, and his hand quickly fell back down to his side again.
Seeing Xiao Yu speak, the two foreigners were very obviously relieved.
"It's good that you're okay, Xiao Yu, you almost scared us to death!" Andy Walsh sat down on a stool next to the bed and said with a laugh.
"I ... what is happening?" Xiao Yu warily looked at the two foreigners, and slowly he realized that this is not his dormitory, this is a rarely seen in China brick-built flat tile house, the interior decoration is also very simple, and the roof is a visible layer of brick tiles and an old rotten wooden beam.
"Do they have such houses now?" this is strange Xiao Yu thought.
But as soon as the words came out, he immediately froze.
It's not that what he was trying to say that was wrong, it was the language used to say that phrase in the first place.
From the time he had come to his senses until now, Xiao Yu realized a very serious problem, he had been speaking English, and especially fluent English, as if English was his native language, even in his mind he was thinking things in English.
"No way?" Xiao Yu was immediately scared out of his mind and started to have cold sweats and he stood up from the bed.
Andy Walsh was immediately taken aback by Xiao Yu's sudden movement, "What's wrong? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Xiao Yu stared at the foreigner's face in front of him, his concerned expression did not look like he was faking it, but who was he? And what is this place?
Xiao Yu starts to recall, a bunch of memories that don't belong to him at all, these memories told him that this concerned Englishman in front of him is called Andy Walsh and is an authentic person from Manchester, and he is standing next to another man about the same age as him called Mark David.
"Manchester, England?" Xiao Yu was chilled to the bone.
In his previous life as an avid fan of football, he naturally would not be unaware of this place, which is the city where England's super giants Manchester United are located, and another English Premier League club called Manchester City, their arch-rivals, and the two annual Premier League matches they have called the Manchester Derby.
"How did I come to England?" Xiao Yu muttered to himself.
Soon, the memories in his mind answered this question of his.
Xiao Yu's family immigrated to England during his grandfather's generation, and they lived on Faulkner Street, the famous Chinese gathering area in Manchester, where Xiao Yu's father later also found another immigrant of Chinese descent to marry, after which he gave birth to Xiao Yu, they settled down together and ran a supermarket in Faulkner Street, and over time the business became more and more prosperous.
But just a year ago, Xiao Yu's parents passed away in a car accident, leaving Xiao Yu a supermarket and some insurance money, but also leaving him an orphan.
"Xiao Yu, are you all right?" Walsh shook Xiao Yu's shoulder with concern. He was worried when he saw Xiao Yu staring dumbly at the wall as if he had been knocked silly.
Xiao Yu bewilderedly shook his head, he found that this Xiao Yu who was born in the UK is 23 years old, but his age did not matter too much, what really gives him a headache is that it is now June 3, 1998.
In other words, Xiao Yu transmigrated!
"Oh my god, what the hell is wrong with me?" Xiao Yu grabbed his head looking torn.
Andy Walsh rushed to grab Xiao Yu's hand, "It's okay, we just got screwed over by that guy Murdock, it's okay to rest, or better idea I'll let Mark take you home to rest first, and I'll do the picking of the players for you."
Xiao Yu was surprised again when he heard what Andy said, "What, picking players?"
Andy Walsh was surprised but while looking at the similarly surprised Xiao Yu for a moment, he quickly figured out that it is probably some form of temporary memory loss, caused by an intense collision.
"Oh, it's today that we are selecting players for the newly formed club" Walsh hurriedly replied, he was obviously trying to help Xiao Yu recover his memory.
"A newly formed club?" Xiao Yu frowned, he found that his brain was overloading, too many new things suddenly rushing in, and many of them were too fast to be processed, especially when squeezed together with his original memories.
Andy Walsh facepalmed, then thought about it for a moment, and asked, "Do you remember Manchester United at least?"
"Yes!" Xiao Yu immediately nodded his head, if he does not remember Manchester United then can he still say he is a fan of football?
"What about Murdoch?" Andy Walsh asked again patiently.
Xiao Yu felt that it sounded very familiar and thought about it, "Is it the newsgroup one?"
In the past, Xiao Yu used to like to go online to read online novels, some of which are reborn urban and competitive soccer novels that are the most to his liking, so he is not unfamiliar with this super rich man who is often made fun of, and he thought of it immediately.
"Yes, that's the son of a bitch!" Walsh gnashed his teeth in hatred, snarling like a wolf, "He bought Manchester United, a whole billion dollars!"
Xiao Yu frowned once again and began to think, he immediately thought of 1998 when Murdoch did launch a takeover of Manchester United, and when the offer was revealed to be astronomical, it shocked the world of football, Manchester United also agreed to the acquisition, but the fans began to oppose, the matter getting bigger and bigger, enough that even the British government was alarmed.
Although the British government eventually rejected Murdoch's takeover of Manchester United by March 1999, it was this takeover fiasco that made the whole world begin to recognize the value of Manchester United, and the Premier League as a whole.
But what does this have to do with me?
Feeling Xiao Yu's inquiring eyes, Andy Walsh facepalmed again, he felt Xiao Yu was hit too hard to forget this much.
"I advised you long ago, to not go on the field to play football, and you did not listen, the result?" Lamented Xiao Yu, but still made to explain regarding Xiao Yu's doubts.
It turns out that the original British Xiao Yu is a die-hard Manchester United fan since his childhood, and single-handedly founded a Manchester United fan club called the "Red Devil Knights", and in the process of Murdoch's acquisition of Manchester United, Xiao Yu has been leading the Red Devil Knights members around in protest, but half a month ago, Manchester United shareholders decided to agree to Murdoch's acquisition of Manchester United.
It is in this situation that the British Xiao Yu suddenly found that all the efforts he had made were in vain, the shareholders of Manchester United betrayed the fans' feelings for Manchester United, and they decided to hand over Manchester United to Murdoch for the sake of money.
The British Xiao Yu once thought of getting all the fans to raise money to buy all the club shares, but the astronomical price of $ 1 billion is too huge to achieve, so he finally decided his best way forward was to re-form the football club.
Since Xiao Yu's parents left a fair amount of insurance money and inheritance, and Xiao Yu also sold the supermarket on Faulkner Street, which raised a total of one million pounds, Xiao Yu decided to use it all as start-up capital to form a new club.
Andy Walsh is also one of the core members of the Red Devil Knights, he runs a fan bar in Manchester and is Xiao Yu's closest friend, he got pulled over by Xiao Yu to help voluntarily.
"All the fans are very supportive of you, look, it's only the first day of the selection process and there are already three to four hundred people out there who have come to sign up to participate, and there's still a steady stream of people calling to ask for information, so you must do a good job and don't let down everyone's expectations of you!"
Xiao Yu took a peek outside of the room and found that there was a huge crowd outside, and every now and then the sound of applause would burst out the onlookers were cheering for the wonderful performances of the trying-out players on the field.
Mark David, who had just helped Xiao Yu in and then gone outside to work, hurried in, "Xiao Yu, is everything all right?"
Xiao Yu who had not yet pulled out of the shock of transmigrating, just instinctively nodded his head.
"It's all okay good, Andy, there are too many people out there, you need to come out and help!" With that, Mark David turned and ran out again.
Andy Walsh smiled and stood up, patting Xiao Yu's shoulder, "You take a good rest, I'll go outside to help!"
Xiao Yu nodded and sat back down to rest but when Andy Walsh was almost at the door he suddenly thought of something.
"Andy!"
"Yeah?" Andy Walsh turned around.
Andy is a standard Englishman with a slightly blessed figure, perhaps very ordinary, but Xiao Yu felt that his smile gave a very real sense of satisfaction.
"Is it really busy out there ...?"
Andy Walsh laughed, "It's been busy, there's so much to do to build a brand-new football club from scratch, but although it's tiring and we're all only helping out voluntarily, we're all having fun."
"Why?" Xiao Yu felt that it was strange.
"Have you forgotten that too? when forming this club, you said that there is only one soul for the Red Devils! Although the club is yours, but it is also for all the fans!"
After a pause, Andy Walsh smiled a cheerful smile, as bright as the sunshine outside.
"We all believe that when big money encroaches on the good old Dream Theater, the soul of the Red Devils will live on in you because you are the madman who has poured out his money! A madman with a feverish pursuit!"
Xiao Yu froze, for a long time his mind was echoing the words of Andy Walsh.