Unable to stop Meng Lang, Gou Yu could only watch as he pulled out his phone.
Beep—
The moment the dialing tone started, everyone around the small table fell silent.
Then the phone screen showed that "Dumbass Little Bro" had answered.
"Hello? Little bro!"
The instant the call connected, Meng Lang spoke with an exuberant grin, gesturing for everyone at the table to be quiet.
Then, without drawing attention to it, he turned on speakerphone and set the phone on the table.
Gou Yu broke out in a slight sweat at his actions.
Brother Meng, your desire to screw over the captain was a little too strong, wasn't it?
After Meng Lang's enthusiastic greeting, the young man who had been gone for so long finally spoke through the speaker. His voice and tone were as nostalgic as they had been in The Cabin.
"What the hell do you want, bro?"
Meng Lang: "..."
Damn it, little bro, wasn't that way too different from how you answered when Xiao Huo called you last time?
He opened with "What the hell do you want, bro?" Meng Lang's mouth twitched slightly, but he still forced a smile and adopted a casual, ordinary chatting tone.
"Hey, it's been a while since I called you. I was just checking up on how you've been. What are you doing right now, little bro?"
"First of all, it's suspicious enough that you'd care about me. Second, spit it out already or I'm hanging up."
Not bothered in the slightest by Fang Ran's cold words, Meng Lang's eyes lit up when he heard that Fang Ran seemed busy. He silently turned the phone volume all the way up.
"I do, I do!"
As he answered, Meng Lang carefully listened to the background noise on Fang Ran's end and