Bagley settled down on his end. On the other side, Lu Yang found Zhou Tianming and told him to take the initiative to discuss the matter with Alice and the others.
"If you don't talk to them, Steiger will definitely know your betrayal was fake. You might not be able to come back, and he'll extort a hefty sum from us. We also can't be sure he won't leak the information," Lu Yang said.
The consequences of Steiger's whistleblowing were beginning to show. Lu Yang guessed Steiger was watching to see how he responded. If he did nothing, Steiger would inevitably come to extort him.
After thinking for a long time, Zhou Tianming accepted Lu Yang's reasoning. The two discussed it for quite a while before Zhou Tianming took out his phone and called Alice, saying angrily, "Did you betray me?"
Alice had been repeatedly discussing the war that would begin more than ten days later with Sanyou Weimen and the others. They needed to mobilize their players and prepare for war without letting Lu Yang notice, which was extremely troublesome. When Zhou Tianming suddenly called, she had thought he wanted to chat with her and had been quite happy. But after hearing what he said, she could not help frowning.
"What betrayal? I don't understand what you mean." Alice signaled for Sanyou Weimen, Radvijev, and the others to stop what they were doing.
Zhou Tianming said angrily, "Lu Yang just spoke with me. He said someone told him that when I took time off, I went abroad to meet you, as well as Sanyou Weimen and the others."
Alice looked at Sanyou Weimen and the others in shock. "Impossible. Why would we do something like that?"
Seeing that Alice's expression was wrong, Sanyou Weimen asked, "What happened?"
Alice told