Lin Mingfei and He Youjin stood on either side of the door, like door gods, waiting for the judgment from the alliance.
He Youjin felt a cold draft blowing into his collar. No matter how hard he tried to cover himself, he couldn't get warm. Feeling unhappy, he put his hands in his pockets and asked in confusion, "Zero, are you really going to let them into the base to investigate?"
Lin Mingfei glanced at him.
He Youjin paused, then tapped his forehead with his knuckles, shaking his head in self-mockery. "Oh, I'm losing my mind, what nonsense am I saying here? Can we really not let them in to investigate? Not letting them in makes us feel guilty, and even a simple matter becomes a problem..."
Lin Mingfei chuckled lazily, her gaze floating in mid-air, unfocused. "Why? Do you feel disadvantaged by being investigated for no reason?"
"Isn't that nonsense? I'm already feeling so aggrieved, why should I let them investigate?" He Youjin spat indignantly and said, "Isn't that an insult?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Mingfei's slightly frowned brows relaxed. The old beast had a casual expression of "too lazy to talk nonsense with them" a second ago, but the next second his eyes became sharp and bright, and even the corners of his lips rose slightly, and he smiled brightly.
This polite and hospitable smile not only did not make He Youjin feel friendly, but instead sent a chill down his spine.
——Why does he feel that the old beast Lin Mingfei is going to start eating people?
As he expected, there was a reason for Lin Mingfei's change of attitude. A group of people emerged from the end of the road in front of the door. Judging from their decent attire and walking posture, it was obvious that they were the "law enforcement officers" from the alliance.
Before He Youjin could recover, Lin Mingfei had already rushed forward, proactively shaking hands with him, and said clearly and cheerfully, "Hello, hello, hello. I'm so sorry for the hard work you've put in coming all the way here."
He Youjin: "???"
This was probably the first time in all the years he and Lin Mingfei had known each other that he had seen this guy so humble and submissive! Maybe he had taken the wrong medicine! The person in front of him was the enemy!
Clearly, Lin Mingfei's soft, somewhat flattering attitude surprised the "law enforcement officers" from the alliance. Judging from their uniform and complex expressions, He Youjin was almost certain they had already firmly established the fact that something fishy was going on within Team P.
"Hey, hey... why are you so fawning--" He couldn't help but whisper in Lin Mingfei's ear, but Lin Mingfei didn't react at all. She made a gesture and invited the "law enforcement officers" into the gate of the base.
The members of Team P lined the road to greet them. Although they were all dissatisfied with this wave of "law enforcement", they still retained their basic rationality and gave the visitors a forced smile.
Xia Tong was still a little afraid, so she huddled behind the three men, glancing at the newcomer through the gaps between them.
"Who is Xia Xiaotong?" the leading staff member suddenly asked.
Xia Tong was startled when his name was called unexpectedly. He walked out timidly with his hands behind his back, his head hanging on his chest like a persimmon. "Yes, it's me." He answered the question in a low voice like a primary school student who had been criticized.
The reactions of those people after hearing the noise were very unified. They first looked horizontally in the air for a while, then moved their eyes downwards in unison and fixed themselves on the top of Xia Tong's head. They seemed to have not expected that this player whose DPS was so high that people suspected him of cheating would be such a petite boy.
"O, Omega?" One of them questioned in a low voice: "Am I seeing right? He looks like an Omega! But why is there an Omega in Team P's base--" He was halfway through his words when someone elbowed him, meaning to calm him down and not look so ignorant.
"Between 9:30 and 11:00 this morning, did you use the account Xia Xiaotong to explore the dungeon in the Siren Valley?" the leading man asked solemnly.
"Yes..." Xia Tong answered honestly, her slender white fingers clenching the corner of her clothes.
"Did you do that DPS yourself?"
"I hit it myself..."
"How did you type that?"
"It's just...typed normally." Xia Tong's voice became smaller and smaller.
The other person looked at him with a little more contempt, as if his previous assumption was confirmed after seeing him in person.
A hint of sharp coldness flashed across Lin Mingfei's eyes. He smiled and walked forward to pat the man on the shoulder.
"I'm the captain. I'm responsible for explaining everything. Let's go to the training room." He still looked unconcerned, striding with wide steps. "I swear, no one in our base has touched the 'cocoon' since this morning."
"You don't need to swear an oath. We have the most professional technicians here. No matter how minor the changes you make to the Cocoon, and no matter how glorious the history of its users, we can find the problem anywhere." The man said to Lin Mingfei with a half-smile:
"Let's go."
Lin Mingfei pretended not to understand and smiled as she led the group upstairs.
Xia Tong's legs went weak and he fell back onto the sofa in a daze. The eyes of the people from the alliance looked at him as if they were wrapped in invisible embroidery needles, piercing him all over, as if he himself was more solid evidence than the information from the anonymous report.
Why are you looking at him like that?
And now, Lin Mingfei is bearing this baptism of anxiety on his behalf.
The atmosphere in the living room was depressing and dull. Xia Tong's fingertips exerted force and sank into the flesh of her palms.
If...he can successfully enter the league this time...he will definitely...definitely bring glory to Team P, and let Lin Mingfei avenge her previous shame, and teach these Alphas who bullied him a lesson!
About half an hour later, everyone waiting in the living room felt that they were about to become corrupted, and Lin Mingfei's bright and attractive voice was heard in the training room, but the words she said were extremely harsh.
"Do you want to confirm this again?" He emphasized the word "again" and sneered, "Otherwise, if our team performs too well next time and someone reports us 24 hours a day, you'll have to assign someone to stay in our base and sleep over meals. Then we won't be able to kick them out, and we won't be able to keep them either. How embarrassing!"
Everyone in the living room looked up in unison as if they had been injected with a dose of stimulant by these sarcastic remarks.
The group of guys who were as arrogant and noble as the Chief Justice before were now standing awkwardly in the corridor, their eyes wandering elsewhere, not daring to look Lin Mingfei in the eye.
"Well... thank you very much for your cooperation and for contributing to a clean and green holographic esports industry." The guy in the lead seemed even more shameless, and at this moment he was able to speak in official language: "We will report this result truthfully to the Alliance Construction and Management Office and improve the game's reporting system to prevent such situations from happening again as much as possible."
He Youjin watched coldly from the side, with nothing but ridicule and contempt.
The lower Lin Mingfei had lowered her attitude before, the greater the psychological gap these people felt now. Perhaps it was shame, perhaps it was guilt, in short -
He received a look from Lin Mingfei.
He Youjin rolled up his sleeves - he was about to start his He style performance rules!
"Make demands! Make demands immediately! Be aggressive! Be unreasonable!" He quickly went over the elements in his mind and laughed like a white-bone demon.
"That's not true. Although Polaris is now in decline, it was once a highly sought-after team. If Sabertooth were reported today, would you investigate them the same way you investigated us?"
"Of course...we have to check it out." The man said with a weak smile.
"Oh, you know whether they'll investigate or not, all because of a fabricated anonymous report! You didn't even find any abnormal data in our account! And yet you just come to our door with your arms flailing!" He Youjin spitted like a machine gun, spitting and mocking: "Our team members are human beings too! Don't they even deserve the most basic rights to privacy and human rights? Our team members have no dignity, do they deserve to be stripped and searched like prisoners? How can this be justified in the world! Ah!"
"Well, it's not that serious..." The man almost couldn't breathe under He Youjin's passionate and indignant speech, his face pale as he said, "We didn't strip you naked and search you like criminals—"
"For a professional esports player, what is a 'cocoon'? It's a partner fighting alongside you! It's a close-fitting, cotton-padded jacket that's always with you! In the middle of winter, you're stripping someone's jacket and searching them inside and out!" He Youjin said, "And you're saying you're not just stripping them naked and searching them thoroughly?"
other side:"......"
Why do I regret it all of a sudden?!
If time could go back an hour, they would have killed each other rather than step into the door of Team P's club!!
What's going on with this feeling of being blackmailed?!
"Where is justice? Where is justice?" He Youjin beat his chest and stamped his feet. "You're so flattering and looking down on the weak! It really makes us veteran players feel disheartened!!"
"That...that..." The other party could no longer hold back and raised his hand tremblingly: "Manager He, please don't be like this. We...we are also following the rules. We can't do anything about the orders from the top, don't you think...we can understand your situation-"
"What do you understand? You don't understand!" He Youjin pointed at Xia Tong downstairs and said tremblingly: "Did you see that shorty?"
"See, I see." The other party stuttered.
"Our new teammate is an Omega. What a frail body! What a fragile heart! Do you know how much effort he put in to keep up with our team? To not let the league down! To achieve such high DPS?" He Youjin burst into tears. "And yet you look down on him like that! He's been labeled a cheater with just one sentence. It breaks my heart watching him from the sidelines—"
—”
"We—we didn't look down on him! We swear!"
"I don't need you to swear!" He Youjin wiped his nose and said the same thing: "Just look into this little brother's eyes! Look at him! Don't you feel the slightest bit of shame?"
“…”
The group of burly Alphas all looked in the direction of He Youjin's finger.
The little Omega kept looking up worriedly, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, his eyes slightly red, his pupils covered with a layer of mist. His eyes were full of resentment and grievance, so simple that it made people ashamed.
Under the baptism of such pure gazes, the inner defenses of the group of people upstairs completely collapsed, leaving only shame, incomparable shame.
He Youjin took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, pretending to wipe away tears: "We just want an explanation! Is it that difficult? Huh?"
"Explain, explain, we will explain to you!" The guy in the lead raised his hand to cover his eyes, blocking Xia Xiaotong's pure gaze, and said humbly: "Don't look at me like that, I feel uncomfortable, we didn't mean it..."
He Youjin had almost finished reading the guide and turned to wink at Lin Mingfei.
Lin Mingfei put her fist to her lower lip and coughed lightly, then said calmly, "Actually, our request is not high. We just hope you can help us find out who maliciously reported us."
"Well...you also know that our reporting system is anonymous-"
"You guys might be able to trick ordinary players with this kind of thing, but I'll let it go." Lin Mingfei folded her arms and snorted softly, "I've probably been playing professionally longer than some of you have been working in the League."
At this point, the "law enforcement officers" were speechless. Team P's negotiation style of playing hard to get followed by a hard blow had drained their soft and hard emotions. The leader rubbed his forehead, then thought, perhaps his brain had just gone haywire today.
Why would they want to antagonize Team P? Why would they want to antagonize Zero? The legendary team that once won three consecutive championships has returned, even though they're in a state of decline. But what if... what if... what if they manage to recreate their glory days? Then Zero will be the one being adored by millions, and wouldn't that make things difficult for them? Rather than risk that, it's better to be humble and behave so we can meet again in the future!
Thinking of this, he stopped worrying and grinned at Lin Mingfei.
"As expected of you, God Z. Nothing can be hidden from your eyes." He said, "Since... we've all become acquaintances today, I might as well help you out. I'm calling the regulatory authorities right now and have them investigate the IP address of the reporting account."
After saying that, he took out his cell phone and made a call.
Lin Mingfei raised her eyebrows, looking like she was waiting for something interesting to happen. After a moment, the man came back, his hand holding the phone trembling slightly.
Seeing him hesitate several times, his face flushed purple as if he was constipated, Lin Mingfei simply opened up. He gave a string of addresses and said with a faint smile, "Is this the location?"
The man raised his face in surprise, "How did you know?"
"This is the address of the Sabretooth Tiger team's base, of course I know it." Lin Mingfei sneered and leaned lazily against the wall. "To be honest, since I came back, their team has made many outrageous moves. I never took them seriously because I thought the people in the alliance wouldn't be deceived by them like ordinary players. But now it seems... Tsk."
"Ah, no, no, absolutely not." The man waved his hands repeatedly and said, "The Alliance is actually very clear-headed."
"I hope so too." Lin Mingfei said.
He didn't continue, leaving the other party ample time to embarrass him. Until he could no longer bear the embarrassment, he took the initiative to say, "How about this? Let's go back and contact... and have the Sabretooth Tiger team's manager come and apologize to you?"
"Is all we need is an apology?" Lin Mingfei asked back.
"An apology is definitely necessary. You guys mentioned it beforehand, it's not easy for an Omega to play holographic esports. He definitely needs some mental compensation." The other party said sincerely, "Other things, other things... God Z, what do you say? We'll do it."
Lin Mingfei pinched her chin in embarrassment. "How about this," he said calmly, "You guys go ahead and arrange a training match between Sabertooth and Polaris before the league officially begins."
"Huh?" The other party was stunned. "A training match?"
"No?" Lin Mingfei asked.
"No... Of course it's possible." The other party was at a loss for words: "Just a training match? The main thing is that we thought..."
"Did you think we would make any excessive demands?" Lin Mingfei chuckled. "Not really. We at Polaris are veterans in the industry. There's no need for that."
"Okay, sure, no problem!" the other party agreed immediately. "We'll contact them when we get back. If there's any news, please let Manager He know. Thank you for your cooperation today and your generosity."
Lin Mingfei pulled the corner of her lips.
"Then we won't stay long. Let's go." The man called out and the group slowly walked downstairs.
They walked through the living room, exchanged glances with the players from Team P, and finally stopped in front of Xia Tong.
Xia Tong stared at them in fear and trepidation. She looked weak, but her little fists were clenched tightly at her side.
The man took a breath and suddenly felt secretly shocked. He felt ashamed and incredible for the contempt and disdain he had felt when he first arrived.
"Xia Xiaotong, right?" He pointed with his index finger: "Omega."
"What?" Xia Tong stared at him warily.
"Keep doing your best, follow God Z." The other person licked his lips and offered a somewhat embarrassed blessing: "The road ahead will be difficult, but the future is limitless."
The author has something to say: Law enforcement officer: Damn it, he shouldn’t have come.
He Youjin: Once you get here, you will be severely beaten by society.
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