Chapter 271 Quack

Feng Xianjun truly deserved to be the Alliance Chairman, having seen enough storms in his life. This shocking news that had made Tao Xuan, Cui Li, and Chang Xian feel like they had been struck by lightning was met with composure by Feng Xianjun, who only frowned slightly. Immediately afterward, he decisively reached out to his attendant: "Medicine, medicine!" (The attendant followed with the song "Check it out, jianbing guozi [savory crepe] coming right up," then rushed out to buy jianbing guozi, and the Chairman died of a heart attack. I really wanted to write it like that...but I'm afraid everyone wouldn't accept it, okay, forget that part.)

Ye Xiu's concern for Feng Xianjun's heart was indeed not without reason; Feng Xianjun always had quick-acting heart-saving pills on hand. The attendant frantically grabbed the medicine, while Ye Xiu had already prepared water and handed it over. The others looked at the Chairman's pained expression with sympathy.

After taking a handful of pills and resting for five minutes, Feng Xianjun finally recovered and let out a long sigh.

"Need to go to the hospital?" Ye Xiu asked from the side, earning a fierce glare from Feng Xianjun, who then took another deep breath before asking, "What's going on?"

After explaining the situation, everyone stared at the Chairman's reaction, and the room fell silent. Tao Xuan felt sweat break out on his palms. He knew that Chairman Feng Xianjun valued the Alliance's development, so Tao Xuan thought they should be able to reach a consensus on this issue. However, waiting for the Chairman's statement made him feel extremely nervous. If Feng Xianjun shook his head and said no, it would be difficult to back down. It wasn't just an arrow on the string ready to be fired, but one that had already been launched, waiting to see if it would hit the target.

"What does your brother do?" Feng Xianjun suddenly asked.

"He does a lot of things… You don't want to use this as an excuse and pretend he was the former Ye Qiu, do you? That loophole would be too big," Ye Xiu said.

"There's no need for that. I just want to confirm that you've always been the only one playing the matches, right?"

"Absolutely," Ye Xiu nodded. The issue Feng Xianjun was concerned about was ultimately the same as Tao Xuan's. And since he was concerned about this issue, Tao Xuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that they had passed the Alliance's test.

"How are you going to explain it?" Feng Xianjun looked around the room.

"Use an alias, change the name, anything will do," Tao Xuan said, his expression relaxing. After all, this violated the Alliance's regulations, so the Alliance's attitude was crucial. As long as the Alliance was willing to cover it up, any reasonable explanation would suffice.

Feng Xianjun then fell silent, stood up, looked around the room, muttered, "What did I come here for again?" and left with his two attendants.

In the end, Feng Xianjun didn't explicitly state his position, and Tao Xuan's heart immediately jumped again. He understood that the Alliance's attitude was still ambiguous, and their final stance would depend on how they handled it. The Alliance would never be their vanguard; they would only provide support if Excellent Era handled things properly. If this topic was ultimately stirred into a complete mess and couldn't be covered up, the Alliance would definitely step in with a righteous and impartial stance.

"Ye Qiu is your online name, your real name is Ye Xiu," Tao Xuan suddenly said.

Ye Xiu understood the meaning of these words and smiled, nodding.

"Let's go," Tao Xuan called out to Cui Li to leave, but Cui Li looked at Chang Xian uneasily and caught up with Tao Xuan, whispering about the situation.

Tao Xuan turned his head sharply, glanced at Chang Xian, and then swept his gaze towards Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu wouldn't be so foolish as to let a reporter hear all this, so this reporter must be trustworthy. Thinking of this, Tao Xuan finally didn't say anything else and turned to leave. However, on the way out, he suddenly thought that Feng Xianjun had actually run to Happy's side, and it didn't seem like he was there to offer greetings to the Challenger League team, right? The Happy team actually warranted the Alliance Chairman's personal inquiry. Tao Xuan's heart immediately became uneasy about this matter, and he didn't really close his eyes all night.

Room 722. After everyone left, those remaining stared at each other, not knowing what to say.

This matter... was all caused by Ye Xiu, but in the end, it seemed like Excellent Era and the Alliance were the ones busy cleaning up the mess, while the person involved didn't seem to have anything to do with it? Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Ye Xiu with a bit of awe.

After the Happy members expressed their feelings, they looked at Chang Xian again, who was still standing at the door, dumbfounded!

"Little Chang! You can't report this, okay!" Chen Guo said to Chang Xian in her usual tone. Chang Xian often came to Happy to hang out, and whenever he encountered something interesting, embarrassing, or shameful, he would say, "I'm going to report this," which soon became his catchphrase.

However, the things he said he would report never actually made it to the papers. He knew that with Happy's current reputation, their daily lives weren't enough to be considered news material. But this time, the material was definitely explosive. Chang Xian believed that as long as he wrote it, even if it was in any issue of the Weekly Esports, he could definitely get a front-page spot.

The front page!

For a small reporter like Chang Xian, getting a small column published would make him happy for days. Now that a front-page opportunity was in front of him, Chen Guo was just casually telling him not to report it...

It wasn't that Chen Guo didn't understand the situation, but that she had a habitual trust in Chang Xian and didn't treat him as an outsider to be guarded against.

Chang Xian was already struggling with how to handle it, and Chen Guo's trust was like adding fuel to the fire. Revealing the truth should be a reporter's job, but revealing this truth would make Chang Xian feel like he was being too unkind. Now that Chen Guo had added this trust, and he was going to stab them in the back, Chang Xian even felt guilty.

"Don't worry, I won't say anything," Chang Xian finally made up his mind. But as soon as he made this decision, he felt a sense of relief, but at the same time, a sense of regret for giving up such a great opportunity rose up, and feelings of annoyance began to constantly tease him.

Really… nothing will be pleasant! Chang Xian really wanted to find a place where no one was around and roar a few times, that might make him feel better. Just as he was about to say goodbye and leave, Ye Xiu suddenly smiled and said, "There's no point in reporting this kind of thing. Even if you do, not many people will praise you. Actually, your initial choice was very wise. Following us, there will be more things worth writing about."

"I... I understand..." Chang Xian replied after being stunned for a moment. He understood what Ye Xiu meant. Happy defeating Excellent Era and entering the Alliance would naturally create more topics. Chang Xian also had expectations for this, but only accidental expectations. Defeating Excellent Era was not easy for a newly established team.

But Ye Xiu showed great confidence in something that everyone thought was impossible, as if it was a certainty. Others would think this was overestimating themselves, would laugh, would scold. But Chang Xian felt that this possibility was small, but not non-existent. Glory was a competition, and there was no always-victorious side in a competition. Any powerful team had capsized in front of weak opponents, so why couldn't this scene happen to Happy and Excellent Era?

"Rest early!" Ye Xiu said with a smile, and Chang Xian nodded, leaving.

Chen Guo wasn't sleepy at this time. First, she excitedly relived the expressions of Excellent Era and the Alliance Chairman being frightened in succession, then she began to think about how Excellent Era and the Alliance would operate in the end. Finally, she began to worry that if things didn't go well, wouldn't that be terrible?

"You have too many ideas, but you may not see any feedback in the short term. Neither Excellent Era nor the Alliance can suddenly jump out and talk to everyone about this Ye Qiu-Ye Xiu issue, that would be too obvious. To cover this up, you have to wait for an explosion first. It's just that whether this explosion point is naturally generated or arranged by yourself is unknown. I guess they will arrange it themselves, so they can take the initiative. Especially looking at Old Feng's attitude, I think Tao Xuan should be more proactive," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, oh, oh..." Chen Guo finally heard Ye Xiu's analysis and felt a lot more at ease. Then, she was pulled away by Tang Rou to sleep.

On the afternoon of the second day of the report, the members of the 20 teams participating in the Challenger League finally arrived. The Alliance organized a reception for all the players. Then, after a slight adjustment on Monday, the offline competition would officially begin on Tuesday.

As a result, the front page of the Weekly Esports, published on Monday, in addition to the large headline about the amazing matches in the professional league that ended last week, actually split off a piece and included a topic that had nothing to do with the professional league that ended last week: Ye Qiu? Ye Xiu??

Chen Guo, who bought the newspaper on the same day, rushed to Ye Xiu's room like fire and handed the newspaper to Ye Xiu to read.

"Oh, have they made a move?" Ye Xiu was calm, flipping it over and seeing that some Excellent Era players were surprised to find that the operator of Lord Grim, Ye Xiu, who had registered for the Happy team, was actually their former captain, Ye Qiu. In view of the previous...

The manuscript started with the discovery, then linked it to past events, and began to question whether it was Ye Qiu or Ye Xiu. Fortunately, this person didn't point out that the former Ye Qiu was a fake name. More of the article discussed what was going on with this name change to Ye Xiu? Then, it said that according to the Alliance and Excellent Era, both identities, Ye Qiu and Ye Xiu, were legal and valid?

Why would they do this?

The manuscript took a turn and actually pointed the question in this direction.

As soon as Ye Xiu saw it, he didn't doubt that this was Excellent Era's doing. Because next, the reporter analyzed whether Ye Qiu was worried about pressure from fans if he formed another team, so he changed his name to Ye Xiu, blah blah blah.

Excellent Era was sure that Ye Xiu would never jump out and explain the real reason, so they used this opportunity to pour more black on Ye Xiu to be satisfied. This incident allowed them to successfully stir up an uproar among the fans, and the focus was no longer on the issue of Ye Qiu and Ye Xiu's identities, but... Happy was indeed started by Ye Qiu. This guy was really going to destroy Excellent Era, and he was wearing a disguise to pretend it wasn't him. He was too despicable and shameless.