Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The comment section was in a mess, with many people arguing for Bandru, but there were also many comments that stood firmly on the side of the Empire:
[1. Being bad at competition is the original sin 2. Chris did not violate any rules]
[Some comments are really funny. What’s wrong with having the mecha’s head stepped on? You have to admit defeat if you are not as skilled as others. Didn’t Gu Tunan bite off Charon’s head? Why didn’t I see any indignation then? Some people always empathize with the weak.]
For a moment, Tang Bai couldn’t tell whether this was a collective attack by the Empire’s Propaganda Department’s internet trolls, or if some people’s empathy had really been lost. He looked at these remarks and became genuinely angry.
The little mermaid Tang Bai was so angry that his fish tail was emitting gurgling bubbles. So, he refuted with a barrage of comments: “Chris did not break the rules of the game, but he broke the spirit of competition! We are angry not because we empathize with the weak, but because we look down on Chris’s cowardly behavior! The strong wield the knife against fate, and the weak turn the blade against the weaker ones!”
The host on the stage was announcing Chris’ victory for the Empire team, but not many people were applauding or cheering.
The medical staff gave Bandru first aid. Bandru lay on the support table with blue lips, staring blankly at the top of the gymnasium. He was soaked all over and looked like he was out of his mind.
“Xiao Ru, how do you feel?”
The fear of being unable to breathe remained in his brain. Bandru rolled his eyes slowly, as if he had lost half his life and all the strength in his body was drained.
Miao Heng felt so distressed. Bandru was the youngest kid in their team and had a cheerful personality. They all treated Bandru as their younger brother, but he turned out to become like this after just one game.
Feeling distressed and angry, Miao Heng looked up at the culprit, Chris, only to see Chris walk out of the mecha, glance at Bandru who was still breathing, then the alpha withdrew his gaze and walked backstage without looking around.
From beginning to end, he didn’t say a single word of concern.
This attitude of not caring about anything directly angered Miao Heng. Miao Heng rushed forward and caught up with Chris in the middle of the aisle. He grabbed the collar of that damn bast**d fiercely and said, “Stop! Won’t you explain yourself? Why did you do this?!”
Chris looked at Miao Heng with a calm expression, as if he was not the one being yelled at. “This is a competition. What’s wrong with me beating him?”
“You could give him a quick death!” Miao Heng clenched his fists.
“Those who fight without reason will be disqualified. If you want to retreat without a fight.” Chris raised his lips mockingly and pointed at his face, “Come on, hit here.”
Miao Heng kept taking deep breaths, his chest heaving violently, and it was obvious that he was trying his best to suppress his anger.
The reputation of the country of Proya was not good internationally. To put it nicely, it was generous and magnanimous, but to put it bluntly, it was a barbarian country. Miao Heng did not want to do something like beating people in the International Mecha Cup, as this would bring discredit to his country.
He gasped and endured again and again, his muscles tensed like a trapped beast.
“Okay Chris, ignore these loser dogs.” A peacock-like player from the Empire team rescued Chris’s collar from Miao Heng’s hands. He put his arm around Chris’s shoulders and teased him with a playful smile, “They are just dogs that were bought off with a little favor.”
When Dave uttered this sarcastic remark, it was like a stone thrown into the water. The onlookers had different expressions, and their discussions quickly spread into the channel. If there was a live camera in the channel, the barrage would probably have been boiling.
Miao Heng glanced at the smiling Dave, and then looked at Chris who had curled his lips in laughter. These two players who directly insulted his country made Miao Heng’s face look extremely ugly, and the anger that he had tried hard to suppress surged up again.
“Say it again!”
Dave raised his eyebrows, and when he saw Miao Heng’s terrible expression, he smiled even more happily: “Why, you still want to do it?”
Some of the contestants were just watching the fun, some were whispering, and some were looking towards the Federation and Empire teams.
Everyone knew that the small favors referred to the Federation’s support for Proya. Some people in the Empire would privately say that Proya was a dog raised by the Federation, but these words were said in private. Dave was the first one to do such a reckless thing as to say it in person.
“I heard that Dave’s mecha is the Hermes.” Mo Zheng explained, “Hermes is a bit of a chatterbox according to mythology, so Dave and the mecha’s name fit well.”
Bai Li leaned against the wall and squeezed impatiently, saying: “I don’t want to play, I just want to beat him.”
Gu Tunan said seriously: “I regret not beating him enough.”
Xie Ruheng looked at Dave without saying a word. Was it a coincidence that the contestant from the Empire shifted the conflict to the Federation and the Empire?
Xie Ruheng narrowed his eyes slightly as his phoenix eyes swept over the aggressive Dave. At this moment, all kinds of bloody scenes in the underground arena flashed through his mind. Dave stood next to Chris and suddenly felt a chill on his back, giving him goosebumps.
His smile froze, and he wanted to see who was looking at him. However, Dave did not notice Xie Ruheng, but instead his eyes met Andre in the crowd. The peace-loving prince did not have a good look on his face.
Andre pursed his lips, walked out from the crowd, and shouted: “Dave, that’s enough.”
Dave shrugged, grabbed a handful of his curly blond hair, and walked towards the lounge indifferently.
“I’m sorry, my teammates were not in good condition and did not choose the best way to handle the situation. I apologize on behalf of my teammates here.” Andre apologized politely to Miao Heng. He had an aura of royal dignity that made people feel that bowing to him was not a blasphemy.
Miao Heng was originally filled with rage, but when he saw that the prince of an entire country had apologized to him, it seemed unreasonable for him to continue getting angry.
Andre was cleaning up the mess, while Chris walked around the two of them and continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.
Halfway through his walk, he was stopped by a voice saying “Gua”.
That nightmarish, lonely voice.
Chris looked back as if in slow motion, meeting those gray-blue eyes that seemed to take nothing seriously.
Gu Tunan withdrew his hand from the sound generator and calmly watched the whole process of Chris’s face turning green.
“What do you mean?” Chris’ words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
Gu Tunan was not good at mocking people, but he had a good memory and learning ability. Recalling Chris’ words that had angered Miao Heng, Gu Tunan said seriously, “This is the sound effect of my mecha. Let me listen to it. Is there any problem?”
After saying that, he pressed it again.
Gua? There’s something?!
The crowds of onlookers all ran away from the harmonious scene of the prince’s apology and this white-hot new battle. After all, how could watching people shake hands and make peace be as interesting as watching people fight?
Fight! Fight!
Everyone’s gazes at the show, the deafening sound of croaking, and Gu Tunan, the familiar scene instantly evoked Chris’s bad memories.
The scar on Chris’s body from being defeated by the Lonely Frog had not healed yet and was still fresh, and Gu Tunan’s move was like rubbing salt into his bloody wound.
This was like rubbing it with a ton of salt.
He also threw some money around and was just short of calling him out by name and calling him a money thrower.
“You federal bug!” Chris cursed angrily. Compared with the previous situation when he played with Miao Heng, it could be said that the situation had changed.
“Okay, ignore these loser dogs.” Bai Li patted Gu Tunan’s shoulder, imitated Dave’s tone and said sarcastically: “He is just a bug that can be stepped on by a frog.”
Bai Li had a great talent for provocation. Chris was about to explode with anger. “What did you say? Say it again!”
Bai Li lazily pressed the sound generator in Gu Tunan’s hand and danced repeatedly on Chris’s minefield. The “Gua” that echoed throughout the passage completely set off Chris’ heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
The fact that Chris was able to represent the Empire in the Mecha Cup showed that he was an extremely outstanding mecha master. He had always been smooth sailing all the way, so he was arrogant and flattered wherever he went, which led to his mentality of not being able to afford to lose.
Chris was trembling all over as the Gua voice continued to rise and fall, not knowing whether it was out of anger or humiliation.
Hatred blinded his eyes, and at that moment he just wanted to use the blood of these two men to wash away his humiliation. With the mentality of “I’ve already fought two games anyway, it doesn’t matter even if I’m disqualified”, Chris rushed forward with a ferocious face.
A scarred hand suddenly grabbed Chris’ wrist, and the powerful force made it impossible for Chris to break free.
Chris was stunned for a moment, looked at the owner of the hand, and met the pair of dark phoenix eyes.
That gaze was extremely cold, as if he was looking down at a dead person. No, as if he was looking down at an object. The moment their eyes met, a freezing pressure burst out, causing Chris’s limbs to stiffen and his heart to beat like a drum.
Reason and instinct told him not to provoke this alpha.
“If you have the energy for a fight, you might as well save it for apologizing to Bandru.” Xie Ruheng said coldly, his eyes filled with warning and contempt.
Under normal circumstances, Chris might have stopped, but he was now furious. After hearing Xie Ruheng’s tone of forceful words forcing him to apologize, his anger burned through his string of reason.
“Okay.” Chris paused, as if he was about to stop, but the next second, he used his other hand that was not held to hammer at Xie Ruheng!
In his imagination, he should hear Xie Ruheng’s scream next.
“Aaaaaaa——!!!”
Chris, who was the first to attack, screamed because Xie Ruheng hit the outside of Chris’s arm that was grabbed by him, and Chris’s body was twisted as if a single move could affect his entire body.
Before Chris could react, Xie Ruheng twisted Chris’s neck and hit his head mercilessly.
It all happened so fast that everyone was dazzled. After seeing that Chris had no power to fight back, the faint smile on his face completely disappeared. He watched expressionlessly as Xie Ruheng slapped Chris to the ground as if he was slapping a fly to death.
He pulled out a bear handkerchief from his pocket with his slender fingers and began to wipe between his fingers. His posture was calm and elegant. This was a habit that Xie Ruheng had developed when he was with Tang Bai. He said slowly, “Chris from the Empire team beat up the players from the Federation team for no reason.”
Chris felt dizzy and fell to the ground, listening to Xie Ruheng’s righteous words: “The innocent contestant who was acting in self-defense requests the organizer to disqualify Chris from the competition.”
Chris: “….”
Chris almost fainted from anger.
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