Watching Lancelot collapse to the ground after being hit by a Frigg Bullet, Amon's lips silently curled into a faint smile.
He slowly stepped forward, removed the tactical earpiece Lancelot was wearing, placed it against his own ear, switched it on, and spoke in a conversational tone:
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
After a brief silence, a steady, icy male voice came through the earpiece, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. "Who are you?"
"He Xiaomeng. And my teammate, Lu Mingfei," Amon answered clearly and crisply.
The moment the name "Lu Mingfei" reached his ears, Chu Zihang, standing by the window on the other end of the line, gave the slightest imperceptible twitch of his brow.
He did not ask about Lancelot's condition. The fact that the communicator had fallen into enemy hands already explained everything. He merely followed up calmly, "Have you joined the Student Union?"
"No. Junior Brother Lu and I do not represent the Student Union." There was a smile in Amon's voice. "According to the rules of Freedom Day, it shouldn't be limited to just the Student Union and Lionheart Society, should it? I think this gambling table could use another chair."
Chu Zihang immediately grasped the key point. "You represent yourselves? A third faction belonging to neither the Student Union nor the Lionheart Society?"
He paused slightly, seemingly weighing the significance of that information. "Just the two of you?"
"That's right. As for choosing to 'visit' one of your squads first... consider it a greeting, and also a formal declaration that new players have now entered this game."
Chu Zihang did not question whether the rules allowed it. He merely confirmed calmly:
"There is indeed no explicit rule stating that only two sides may participate. It is simply that other societies are weaker than us, so