An hour later.
Lanny called again, only to be told Alec was in a meeting and to wait another hour.
Only on his third call was he finally put through to General Alec.
Alec was panting, occasionally flirting with the beauty beside him.
He did not even try to hide that his earlier claims of being "busy" and "in a meeting" had simply meant fooling around with women.
"Hello, General Alec!"
"Oh, old Lanny. What is it?"
Lanny gritted his teeth in fury.
His lungs were about to burst with rage.
Two hours had been wasted for nothing. Anyone would have been angry. This was far too arrogant.
Couldn't you fool around with women some other time?!
"General Alec, I'd like to ask you to look into someone for me. You know quite a few people in Huaxia, don't you?"
"Who?"
"His name is Xiao Yu. He's a streamer. I want to know whether he really can tell fortunes!"
"Fifty million."
"...That much just to ask about someone?"
"Cut the crap! Pay or don't! If it were that easy, would you have come to me? How many of my acquaintances in Huaxia do you think I can afford to offend? I'll have to swallow my pride and ask for favors!"
"I'll pay! I'll pay!"
After hanging up, Lanny smashed his phone down furiously. What a bastard! He was nothing but a bandit!
But he did not dare offend General Alec.
He had already asked for the favor, so he had to pay.
"Goddamn it! You can't afford to offend people from Huaxia, so you act like their dog and suck up to them, but you can afford to offend me, so you treat me like this and extort me?"
Fortunately, Lanny was not from Huaxia. Otherwise, he would surely have