Sovereign Dominion's lounge.
"Dad!"
The Hu Baobao leaped into the Hu Xiao's arms.
"Oh my, my good son!" Hu Xiao said joyfully, "Now you recognize your father, don't you?"
The Hu Baobao scratched its little head, looking shy and embarrassed, and said, "Actually, I recognized him just now, but Daddy's appearance and voice have changed so much that I was a little afraid to recognize him."
" Brother Hu / Brother Xiao!"
Minglang and Anya slid into the house on their knees, frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy, "We brothers really didn't recognize you! Please forgive us this time, we promise we won't do it again!"
Hu Xiao glared and said, "You dare to do it again?"
"No, no, no, there won't be a next time."
Hu Xiao put the Hu Baobao down and waved his hand, saying, "You guys take Huzi out to play."
"Thank you, Brother Hu / Brother Xiao!"
The Minglang Anya were overjoyed and scurried out the door.
"Our Sovereign Dominion actually has a Champion Emperor player." Jiang Sui looked at Hu Xiao's game account and exclaimed in amazement, "The number of Major National Badge he has is longer than my lifespan. No wonder he is Tiger Emperor Mountain Lord."
When she learned backstage that Hu Xiao was actually Mountain Lord, she was instantly stunned. She never expected that the "kind and approachable" Uncle Hu who lent her four million was actually the famous Mountain Lord!
Hu Xiao smiled and said, "If Xiao Jiang wants to practice national standard drills, I can arrange for one of the core members of Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest to give you a few dozen to play around with when you have some free time."
"Dozens of national standards?"
Jiang Sui swallowed hard. She had been stuck at the Diamond rank for ten years. Let alone the national standard, she even had difficulty getting the village standard. If she could actually get the Major National Badge, she would probably be overjoyed!
but.
Jiang Sui, with her hands behind her back, said with a smile, "No need to trouble Uncle Hu. The only way to feel a sense of accomplishment with national standard exercises is to do them yourself."
Hu Xiao nodded. "That's true."
"However, Uncle Hu," Jiang Sui said, resting her chin on her hand, "Since you're the Mountain Lord, you must be quite familiar with the other two Champion Emperor players, [ Silver Dragon ] and [ Phoenix ], right?"
Hu Xiao pondered for a moment and said, "We were very familiar with each other back in the Imperial Crown, but we lost contact after the Imperial Emperor banished me from the team."
"Hey? I thought the three of you were good friends."
"How could that be?" Hu Xiao Roar chuckled, " Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and I don't get along in private. Our values, temperaments, and personalities are completely incompatible. The only reason we became friends is because of the Imperial Emperor."
Jiang Sui asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"Because the Imperial Emperor and we have a good relationship, we usually pretend to be on good terms with each other out of respect for the Imperial Emperor, and get along peacefully. In your post-2010s terms, it's called a plastic friendship."
Jiang Sui punched with her left fist and then her right palm, suddenly realizing, "So, as soon as you left Imperial Crown, you deleted each other from your friends list and never contacted each other again?"
Hu Xiao shook his head. "I didn't delete you as a friend, it's just that we're competitors, so there's no need to stay in touch."
Jiang Sui suddenly exclaimed excitedly, "So, you still have the Silver Dragon Phoenix's contact information?"
"Yes, a QQ friend."
"Let's give them a QQ call," Jiang Sui said, rubbing her hands together with expectant eyes. "I want to hear the voices of the other two Champion Emperor players."
"We all use voice changers when we make QQ calls, so you most likely won't hear their real voices." Hu Xiao, always ready to help, opened his main QQ account. "Eight years without contact, I wonder if they'll answer."
Hu Xiao found Silver Dragon's QQ, brought up the voice call interface, and called the other party, instinctively activating the built-in voice changer software.
Just one second after typing, a red exclamation mark suddenly popped up on the chat interface!
[Message sent, but rejected by the recipient]
"What the hell!" Hu Xiao stared wide-eyed at his phone screen in disbelief. "That little brat Silver Dragon blocked and deleted me?"
"Ah?"
Jiang Sui was slightly taken aback, then immediately exclaimed indignantly, "This is outrageous! They unilaterally deleted you without even telling you!"
Hu Xiao looked as if he were being rebated, his face extremely ugly. "That bastard, back in the Imperial Crown Team, when he clashed with Phoenix, I stood up for him a lot, and now he's actually deleted me."
Jiang Sui's goodwill towards the Dragon Emperor Silver Dragon instantly plummeted to negative levels. Putting everything else aside, just the fact that he was unilaterally deleted as a friend would make anyone furious for days!
Why did he delete you?
Hu Xiao's face turned pale, then flushed. "I guess he doesn't want to pay back the money."
Jiang Sui asked in surprise, " Silver Dragon borrowed money from you?"
Hu Xiao grumbled, "I borrowed it many times, but back then we were both members of the Imperial Crown, and they would always return it to me immediately on payday."
Jiang Sui hurriedly asked, "How much money does he owe you now?"
Hu Xiao scrolled up the chat history and found that his last contact with Silver Dragon was in 2016, the night before he withdrew from Imperial Crown, when Yinlong borrowed money from him, saying, "He owes me 1999 yuan."
"That's over a thousand yuan! Call the police, Uncle Hu!"
"It takes 2000 yuan to meet the filing standard." Hu Xiao's face darkened. He finally understood why Silver Dragon had lent him 1999 yuan. The little brat had no intention of paying it back.
"Damn it, if I saw him in real life, I'd beat him to a pulp!"
Hu Xiao Roar, his face grim, returned to his QQ contacts, found his friend Phoenix, and opened the chat. " Phoenix, did you delete me too?"
It's important to know that although he had never had a conflict with the Phoenix, he often spoke up for the Silver Dragon, so their relationship wasn't good.
Jiang Sui cheered from the side, pumping her fist and saying, "Don't hesitate, Uncle Hu! Whether it's deleted or not, one phone call will tell you!"
"Good!"
Hu Xiao didn't hesitate any longer and called Phoenix directly. The QQ call interface instantly appeared on his phone screen.
Jiang Sui exclaimed in surprise, " Phoenix didn't delete you!"
"Damn it, I was blinded by greed and helped Silver Dragon back then. Phoenix was the most loyal and righteous person."
Hu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. If Phoenix had deleted it, where would he have put his old face?
Suddenly, at that moment.
The desktop phone suddenly rang.
Hu Xiao and Jiang Sui looked at the same time; it was Huyan Lan's phone!
" Uncle Hu... you made a QQ call, right?"
Jiang Sui stepped forward and picked up Huyan Lan's iPhone. Although it was locked and the contact information was not visible, the status bar indicated that someone was calling the owner via QQ!
Hu Xiao said blankly, "Yes."
"You just made a QQ call to Phoenix, and now Sister Lan's iPhone is ringing with a QQ call." Jiang Sui's throat bobbed, and she mechanically turned her head. "I have a bold guess."
Hu Xiao frowned and asked, "What speculation?"
Jiang Sui hesitated before asking, "Do you think it's possible that Phoenix is actually Sister Lan herself?"
" Phoenix... is that Xiao Lan?"
Hu Xiao looked shocked and hurriedly walked to Jiang Sui's side. He looked down and saw that Huyan Lan's phone screen was locked, so the caller's information was not displayed.
But as Jiang Sui just said, it's too much of a coincidence that his phone rang right after he made the call!
At this moment.
The door to the lounge was pushed open.
A full, snow-white figure arrived first, followed by a long-haired woman in high heels who entered with an air of arrogance. It was none other than Huyan Lan.
" Sister Lan, you've come at the right time! Here's your QQ number!"
"QQ call?" Huyan Lan took the phone, unlocked it with facial recognition, and the moment she saw the QQ contact, her expression changed drastically, and her movements became noticeably unnatural.
Seeing this, Hu Xiao and Jiang Sui looked at each other in bewilderment.
Could it be that Huyan Lan... is really Phoenix?