Prose | Huachun: A group of pseudo-fans gathered in the WeChat circle of friends are, as usual, old friends who roared together in the previous session

Hua Chun (Japan)

Flying to Shanghai last week, the two-week schedule was already full, but because Russia unveiled the prelude to the Football World Cup on the 14th, my daily schedule began to be disordered.

Several major roads in the center of Shanghai have entered the rhythm of the city that never sleeps, the bars are flying with the colorful colors of dozens of national flags, the variety of beers is dazzling, the inventory is basically at its limit, and the clerks feel Alexander.

A bunch of pseudo-fans gathered in the WeChat circle of friends are, as usual, old friends who roared together in the previous session. In all directions of the world, for the sake of watching the ball, the sea and the sky are wide. Or bet win or lose, or beat your chest, or smile, or gossip.

Within a few days, I was dizzy and bloated and severely sleep deprived. It was the only 360-degree open sensory blowout in 4 years. The love of love is in my generation.

Looking at the ball now, the "Art of War of Sun Tzu" that I have read has played a role. That's how to tell the tactics and skills of a ball game, and the will to fight of the star players. And more about deceiving people's tricks and endless deceptions.

Naturally, there are all kinds of strange predictions on the Internet, and its communication speed and amount of information are so large that it can be multiplied by tens of millions of times in an instant, and it will rampage on the Internet.

Following the Paul octopus that appeared two years ago, this time in Russia there was Paul the cat Achilles. It is a cat food bowl that chooses the flag of the winning team to predict the winner's game. However, Paul's glory was already there, and Paul's cat was quickly miscarried.

After millions of years of humanity's natural law of "survival of the fittest", this World Cup, a knockout match with the wildest genes of mankind, has constantly exploded. The first game was Russia against Saudi Arabia, and the optimistic Saudi team actually lost to the Russian team 0:5. This game was nothing short of a "massacre".

The next Portuguese vs. Spain made the whole fan world boil. Ronaldo scored a hat-trick and pulled his teeth flat.

The hat-trick first appeared in 1858, when cricketer HH Stephenson was rewarded with a hat for hitting the goalpost three times in a row, and was the first cricketer to receive this honor.

The battle between the two teeth, the level is so high that the fans are so addicted that I am afraid that God will have to raise his blood pressure.

I live in a hotel in the center of Shanghai, downstairs and in the vicinity of several bars with large TV screens are almost full at night, and T-shirt shops have appeared on the street, printing words such as "fake action", "foul" and "oolong ball" on my chest, which is very popular.

Even funnier is that there is a girl in the bar with the words "quite rough" on her chest. They are not much like the girls who draw panda eyes in Shibuya, there are always more female fans than male fans, bold and open, economically free, and the voice that roars is high decibels. When I laughed with them, I immediately felt that I was younger.

When it was the turn of the Japanese team to fight Colombia, I did not see all of them because of my appointment with someone. But towards the end, seeing Honda open a corner, Daji Yong also used his head to start to win Colombia 2-1.

It was the first time an Asian team had beaten a South American team in World Cup history.

WeChat is a sea of upside down. Those who thought that the Japanese team must lose almost all praised the Japanese team's perseverance, without the slightest doubt that there was any deception here.

At the same time, another video voice also appeared, a Colombian fan deliberately taught Japanese female fans to speak self-insulting foul language in Spanish, and the female fans did not know their intentions and repeatedly said it to the camera several times.

It is said that the Twitter has caused numerous protests. In the end, the Colombian fan was revoked by UEFA and banned from watching the game.

I watched the ball for several days in a row, and during the day, I grasped editing manuscripts and writing papers, and went to see friends and family, and my body was obviously too tired to stop and breathe.

But it was the eve of the unavoidable. Argentina fought against Croatia, and the whole world was in full swing. Madonna's "Argentina, Please Don't Cry for Me" suddenly became popular on the Internet, and rumors said that the referee was "Tito's nephew". The fans shouted: Messi, don't make me cry tonight.

However, at the end of the game in the early morning, people wanted to cry without tears, and suddenly realized that this was not a normal World Cup group game, and this was not a normal Argentine team.

Messi's expression was strange, he seemed to be under great pressure, was there a conspiracy theory in this gap?

A friend gave me information that Argentina lost deliberately, the Las Vegas casino multiplied by 230 times, the bookmaker made a lot of money, and the Argentine team also made a lot of money. I was dumbfounded, I couldn't understand the jargon at all.

Some poets wrote: The eagle is completely defeated and cold, and a mournful sound breaks the intestines. Blood and tears filled the sky and the wind roared, and the couple wept like a national martyr.

In the morning, Washi slept in bed for about 3 hours, and in the afternoon, he went to the suburbs for a conference, his eyelids were so heavy that he knew that he was going to leave the TV tonight.

However, pseudo-fans are pseudo-fans, and friends predict together that in a few days, Nigeria will be frozen into ice sculptures by European Iceland.

However, I finally slept to death. It appeared on television: Nigeria won 2-0 against Iceland with Moussa's second score, and Argentina rekindled hopes of qualifying.

【About the Author】Hua Chun, who went to Japan to study in the 1980s, has worked in environmental protection agencies, parliamentary offices, construction companies and other offices. He is currently retired and living in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of novels, prose, poetry, etc., and has won many important domestic literary awards, and has been compiled into university textbooks and excellent anthologies. In 2015, he was invited by the State Council to Beijing to participate in the "9.3" military parade. He was a director of the Chinese Environmental Literature Research Association, the honorary president of the Japanese Chinese Literature PEN Association, the director of the World Chinese Tourism Literature, a visiting researcher at Jinan University in China, the Institute of East Asian Culture of East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, and a visiting professor at the China Chinese Creative Center of Shanghai University.

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