Chapter 256 Arrive in Zurich and start suffering from painful jet lag
Wang Zi’s words inspired Ye Xiu a lot, and he became more confident about this trip to the World Invitational Tournament.
After nearly a week of training, all the great players of the national team have found their own tacit understanding, and their cooperation is incredible even for Ye Xiu, a spectator.
While the national team members are training, the Glory Season 11 is already underway as scheduled.
Because many of the team's top players went to the national team to participate in the World Invitational Tournament, many strong teams last season performed extremely poorly in their first match of the new season.
The most obvious one is Team Yanyu.
Last season’s championship team was a super team with six-star battleships. This season, including retired Ye Xiu, five great players have gone to the national team.
On the six-star battleship, Li Hua is the only one left.
Thanks to Wang Zi's operation, Team Void's Gai Caijie was introduced to Misty Rain, so that Team Misty Rain didn't have any players to rush into the formation.
However, the team was short of manpower, and Yanyu could only promote three newcomers from the training camp to fill the vacancies in the professional team.
However, the core accounts of Team Mist and Rain were all taken away to the World Invitational Tournament, so the level of accounts in the team dropped significantly.
Under such circumstances, it is naturally extremely difficult for Team Yanyu to win in the league.
Fortunately, the World Invitational Tournament only lasts for one month, and the Glory League only plays four rounds in a month. When Wang Zi and the others return from the World Invitational Tournament, they will still have the opportunity to lead the team back.
On September 7, 2025, under the leadership of the leaders of the E-sports Bureau, the Honor Headquarters, and Team Leader Ye Xiu, Wang Zi and his team boarded a plane to Zurich.
Although the World Invitational Tournament will not officially start until the 10th, the players need to overcome the jet lag, and also need to familiarize themselves with the rules of the international competition in advance, and it will take a day to fly to Zurich.
So even if we leave on the 7th, we will only arrive in Zurich one day early.
When the players arrive in Zurich on the 8th, they must not only overcome the time difference as soon as possible, but also seize the time to log in to the game with the international version of Honor in Zurich and quickly become familiar with the 5V5 individual competition and the 12V12 team competition. , this is also a big test for the members of the national team.
After a long air journey lasting dozens of hours, Wang Zi and his party finally arrived safely in Zurich.
It must be said that as the largest city in Switzerland, Zurich is not only the political, economic, transportation and cultural center of Switzerland, but also one of the richest cities in Europe.
Because it is the largest financial center in the world, the world-famous Swiss Bank headquarters is located in the most prosperous area of Zurich.
Since the headquarters of more than 120 banks around the world are concentrated here, more than half of which are foreign banks, it is also known as the "European Billionaire City".
And Zurich has a temperate maritime climate. In an area of more than 90 square kilometers, there are 4.1 square kilometers of lakes, accounting for nearly 5%.
This also means that Zurich’s summers are not hot at all and winters are not very cold.
There is not much difference in temperature throughout the year in Zurich. The average temperature usually remains between 14-20 degrees. Even in the summer season, the highest temperature rarely exceeds 25 degrees. In the coldest winter, it is extremely cold. At least below 0 degrees.
Coupled with Zurich’s small population, developed economy, and almost no pressure on citizens’ lives, Zurich has been rated as one of the most livable cities in the world by the United Nations Human Settlements Agency for many years in a row.
Therefore, nearly half of the registered population living in Zurich are foreigners.
However, although Zurich is good, Wang Zi and others do not have the time and energy to appreciate the cultural landscape of Zurich. Instead, as soon as they get off the plane, they immediately play with the international version of the Honor game.
On the plane, the leader of the International Competition Bureau has already spoken. If you want to play in Zurich, you should work hard and achieve good results in the World Invitational. When the World Invitational is over, you can have a good time in Zurich. Have some fun.
The conditions set by the leaders are that if you enter the top eight in the world, you will get the opportunity to take a one-day trip to Zurich. If you reach the top four in the world, you can go on a three-day trip. If they win the championship in Zurich, the leaders will spend their own money to treat everyone in the national team to a week-long trip in Zurich.
In order to be able to enjoy a week in Zurich, Wang Zi waited for the next plane, regardless of sleepiness, and immediately adapted to the game.
Due to insufficient manpower, there were only 14 people including Ye Xiu, so they could only adapt to the 7V7 team battle.
Although it is not up to the 10V10 standard, it is still much better than the 5V5 team competition.
After getting familiar with the international version of the Honor game, it was already three o'clock in the morning Beijing time. But the time in Zurich is more than 6 hours behind Beijing time, so it is only nine o'clock in the evening in Zurich.
But it’s okay to sleep at this time.
Everyone who was already very sleepy hurriedly fell asleep after finishing training.
However, the quality of everyone's sleep was not very good this time. Wang Zi, for example, slept until nine o'clock in the morning in Beijing and woke up, but at this time it was three o'clock in the morning in Zurich.
This feeling gives people the feeling that night and day are reversed.
That is what people often say, jet lag.
On the 9th, Wang Zi and his team spent their time in training and jet lag.
The most painful time to be jet-lagged is at night.
As a professional player, your work and rest schedule is basically very stable, especially for people like Zhang Xinjie who live their lives like an alarm clock. As soon as eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, their eyelids start to tremble.
But it’s 11 or 12 o’clock Beijing time, and it’s only 5 o’clock in the afternoon in Zurich. At this time, the nightlife has not even started yet.
If you are sleepy to death at this point in Zurich, how can you still be energetic when you play the Glory League at 7, 8 or 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening in Zurich?
So in order to adapt to the time difference here, Ye Xiu, the night owl captain, became a living alarm clock.
He monitors the training status of everyone in the national team. Once he finds someone dozing off, he immediately slaps him and then shouts loudly to scare him away.
But after staying up until two or three in the morning, let alone Zhang Xinjie, even Wang Zi and others stopped obeying orders.
However, if it is time to play, this is the time to play.
If the sleepiness cannot be overcome at this time, how can everyone concentrate during the competition?
So it was only at this time that Ye Xiu realized that being excluded from the training camp by the organizers of the World Invitational Tournament, in addition to the harms Wang Zi mentioned, the real harm was the harm caused by jet lag.
Other teams from other countries have arrived in Zurich half a month in advance.
Their jet lag has already reversed, and they are completely adapted to this kind of schedule.
But their national team Z has just started to suffer from jet lag, and then the game will start the day after tomorrow, and there is no time to adjust their schedule.
However, there is no point thinking about this now. The most important thing now is to overcome this difficulty.
Fortunately, Ye Xiu is a night owl and is used to staying up all night at Xingxin Internet Cafe, so even if it is two or three in the morning, he is still energetic.
Under the supervision of Ye Xiu playing gongs and drums, Wang Zi and others were woken up from eyelid fights again and again, and then were woken up again by eyelid fights.
After staying up until six o'clock in the morning, which was around 0 o'clock in the morning Zurich time, Ye Xiu let everyone go back to rest.
This time, everyone slept much more soundly. Wang Zi did not get up until 12:30 noon, which was around 6 o'clock in the morning in Zurich.
Although they only slept for 6 hours, because of the good climate and high air humidity, everyone's sleep quality was still good.
After getting up, we had breakfast and then walked together on the streets of Zurich. At eight o'clock in the morning in Zurich, everyone started a new round of training.
Because they were going to the UEFA headquarters in Zurich for the draw at four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone also trained until three o'clock in the afternoon, then washed up, put on clean and tidy clothes, and prepared to go to this World Invitational. The place where the competition is held.
FIFA Headquarters in Zurich!
(End of this chapter)