Chapter 405: The Battle Begins!
Chapter 405: The Battle Begins!
Editor: H2dH2mr Li Yingjie’s dispirited appearance caused the hall to fall silent again.
In contrast to Wu Jiong’s concern, Ling Lan’s expression was indifferent.
She only tapped on the cup in her hands, as if considering sothing.
Not long after, Lin Zhong-qing reappeared from the kitchen where he had been clearing things up.
He ca to stand before Li Yingjie and placed a cup of ice water which was still radiating cold air onto the tea table.
Compared to before, Lin Zhong-qing seed to set the cup down rather heavily — the sound of the cup slamming onto the tea table was loud and jarring.
“You too are laughing at , aren’t you?” Li Yingjie was startled by this noise.
He jerked his head up and glared at Lin Zhong-qing with red-rimd eyes, expression stubborn as he snapped this question at the other.
With a tray in his hands, Lin Zhong-qing placidly leaned over to collect that cup of hot coffee in front of Li Yingjie.
He did not get angry, only tossing out the following statent.
“What is there to laugh at?
Judging by your previous thods, I’m not surprised that soone would betray you.” These words of Lin Zhong-qing’s hit Li Yingjie right where it hurts; Li Yingjie beca livid, the sadness and frustration shrouding his heart being chased away in an instant.
Pointing indignantly at the coffee in Lin Zhong-qing’s hands, he yelled, “Even though I used so bad thods in the past to bully you, you can’t take my coffee away!
Also, you are actually giving ice water on such a cold day?
Are you abusing your position to take revenge1?” Lin Zhong-qing’s lips quirked at these words.
He pointed at the cup of ice-cold water and said coolly, “I think, that it’s best for you to use this to cool down a little right now.
So there’s been a traitor.
Is that worth becoming so lancholic1?
Seeing you like this …
you’re really not at all like the Li Yingjie who only knows how to bully and push down.” That said, he did not even turn his head back to look at the other as he stord back to the kitchen with a stony expression.
That manner showed clearly that he was not at all taking the now furious Li Yingjie seriously.
Li Yingjie had always been arrogant — even though the traitor had appeared from his team, indeed dealing him a heavy blow, and from young, he had eaten crow many tis by Ling Lan’s hand …
overall, his life had been smooth sailing.
He was loved by his family and constantly praised by his subordinates — this had cultivated his haughty and arrogant temperant.
Now, actually being mocked by soone he used to look down on, he felt greatly insulted and could not stand it.
Therefore, he actually ignored Wu Jiong and Ling Lan, charging after Lin Zhong-qing impulsively into the kitchen, thinking to argue with Lin Zhong-qing until he saw reason.
Did this godd*mn Lin Zhong-qing not have any bit of comrade-like compassion?
Striking a man when he’s down1 …
that, that, that’s just too bloody despicable!
Wu Jiong stared in astonishnt at Li Yingjie who had still been moping in self-recrimination and frustration a while ago.
Now, he was actually spiritedly chasing after soone else into the kitchen and had begun an intense debate with Lin Zhong-qing.
He looked towards Ling Lan who was sitting on the sofa, his expression completely nonplussed.
He had just been thinking how he could console that punk just a mont ago!
Ling Lan narrowed her eyes slightly, set down the cup in her hands, and said calmly, “Li Yingjie’s matter, let’s not bother with it.
I believe he knows where his problem lies.” Otherwise, Li Yingjie would not have been so shaken.
He actually knew very well where his problem lay; he just did not want to admit it.
Wu Jiong had also cald down now.
He nodded and said, “Makes sense.
I just don’t know whether this incident will affect tomorrow’s battle.” Wu Jiong could not help but worry.
“No matter.
The reason why I did not want the na list exposed before the fight was to avoid complications.
Frankly, even if Leiting knows now, it won’t be an issue.” The true killing blow had never been the na list to begin with.
Ling Lan had only been misleading the opponent with a smokescreen of carefully cultivated truth and omissions, letting Leiting truly believe that Lingtian’s trump card was the two unexpected additions on the na list.
After hearing what Ling Lan had to say, Wu Jiong’s heart finally settled.
Boss Lan would not make a promise unless everything was within his control.
Wu Jiong and Ling Lan continued to discuss things they had to note for tomorrow’s battle.
When they suddenly noticed that Li Yingjie’s initially loud and energetic voice in the kitchen had gone silent, the two of them turned with surprise to look in the direction of the kitchen.
Then, they saw Li Yingjie huffily scrubbing a cup in his hands with a clean rag, the force with which he was doing so making it seem as if the cup was his archenemy.
Wu Jiong felt that that cup seed extrely familiar.
He reflexively looked down at the coffee cup in his hands and imdiately realised what it was.
“Wu Jiong, do you still want more coffee?” Lin Zhong-qing noticed Wu Jiong’s glance at his cup and briskly walked out of the kitchen with the coffee pot to ask seriously.
“Uh, uh, um, okay …
er, that, just a little.” Lin Zhong-qing’s sudden question made Wu Jiong respond reflexively.
He thrust out the coffee cup in his hands only to find that he had barely taken two sips from his cup.
It was still almost full, and so, he could only quickly and his answer.
Lin Zhong-qing did not seem to notice Wu Jiong’s embarrassnt.
He very carefully poured a little more coffee into Wu Jiong’s cup and then carried the coffee pot back to the kitchen …
“I’m done cleaning this.
Like this, you can finally give coffee now, right?” Li Yingjie saw Lin Zhong-qing return and quickly raised the spotless cup he had wiped, showing Lin Zhong-qing that he could pour him so coffee now.
Lin Zhong-qing cast a cold glance at him and put the coffee pot back on the shelf, saying coldly, “If you want to drink, pour it yourself!” “Why?
Wu Jiong is a regint commander, and I’m also a regint commander.
Why can you pour for him but not for ?” Li Yingjie was enraged once more.
“You were the one who made a mistake.
Do you still have the right to get others to pour coffee for you?” Lin Zhong-qing calmly dropped this sentence and then stopped paying any more attention to Li Yingjie.
Li Yingjie was flushed to his roots with anger; his hands were balled up into fists and he looked like he was on the verge of punching Lin Zhong-qing.
“This logistics head of yours has finally gotten his revenge.” At this point, Wu Jiong could not help but shake his head and comnt with a wry smile, feeling sowhat speechless at how Li Yingjie was mindlessly serving himself up for this abuse.
Ling Lan raised her head to look at Wu Jiong and said evenly, “Zhong-qing is not taking revenge.” Wu Jiong was bewildered.
Ling Lan said with a half-smile, “What?
Don’t you feel how Li Yingjie has turned back into the Li Yingjie of before?
Arrogant, overbearing, sowhat unreasonable?” Wu Jiong was enlightened.
He cast a searching look at Lin Zhong-qing who was still ignoring Li Yingjie in the kitchen.
Once again, he found that, in terms of understanding people, he was truly no match for Boss Lan.
In his eyes, Lin Zhong-qing’s behaviour had obviously been ant to taunt and mock Li Yingjie, revenge for Li Yingjie’s oppression of him in the past.
However, after Boss Lan’s hinting, he realised that Lin Zhong-qing was just goading Li Yingjie to motivate and encourage him so that the disheartened and lost Li Yingjie could be revived.
It made sense when he thought about it.
If Lin Zhong-qing were really so petty and short-sighted, how could he be worthy of following Boss Lan till now?
He had still underestimated Lin Zhong-qing.
Leaving aside the sense of failure in Wu Jiong’s heart, Li Yingjie was feeling as if he and Lin Zhong-qing were truly archenemies in their past life.
Their enmity must have carried over into this life, dictating that they could not coexist peacefully for even one day.
Worked up by Lin Zhong-qing almost to the point of exploding, it was lucky that he still rembered that he was in Boss Lan’s territory.
He finally managed to control his anger with much effort, and only then did he leave Ling Lan’s villa with Wu Jiong, expression still indignant.
Right then, Li Yingjie could only think that he absolutely could not let Lin Zhong-qing look down on him.
He, Li Yingjie, was naturally born as an arrogant person — hells, wasn’t it just one traitor?
He would let the other know that betraying him, Li Yingjie, would result in no so-called future.
Thus, he must win in the big cha fight with Leiting tomorrow.
He would let the other know that, if they wanted to make the Lingtian cha Clan disappear, if they wanted to see Li Yingjie out of sorts and miserable …
there was absolutely no way!
Li Yingjie, who had always been sowhat breathless from the oppression of Thunder King Qiao Ting, actually managed to sweep away the burden in his heart due to this betrayal and Lin Zhong-qing’s goading.
Right now, Li Yingjie had once again reverted to that fearless and arrogant ‘I’m number one’ mode — the Li Yingjie now would be able to rip a chunk of flesh off even soone as powerful as Thunder King Qiao Ting out of sheer fearlessness.
A night passed in silence.
The ti soon arrived at one in the afternoon.
The military academy made the unprecedented decision of declaring the day a school holiday, allowing all the students to spectate the cha fight between Lingtian and Leiting.
The instructors of each class even set an assignnt for the students to write a reflection after viewing the fight …
The cha fight between Lingtian and Leiting was a virtual battle.
As such, the venue was in cha World.
However, this match was set as an internal event by the mainfra, which only allowed people coming from login points in the First n’s Military Academy to enter and spectate.
In cha World, both Leiting and Lingtian were already prid and ready.
They were only waiting on the mainfra’s notification to enter the map of the cha fight.
In order to ensure fairness, the cha fight’s battlefield map would be randomly selected by the mainfra.
Therefore, neither team knew which map they would be fighting in.
Compared to the Lingtian cha Clan, Leiting was obviously more confident in this regard.
After all, having been through countless virtual cha fights, they had a pretty decent understanding of all the various maps of cha World.
It could be said that, from the very start when both teams entered the map, they would definitely have an advantage over the Lingtian cha Clan in deciding how to adapt and handle the situation.
In the waiting room of the 12 participating mbers of the Lingtian cha Clan, when Ling Lan operated the cha Chang Xinyuan had modified to appear before the group, those who did not know the full story were filled with awe.
Just as Ling Lan and her team expected, Wu Jiong, Li Yingjie, and the others all thought that Ling Lan’s cha was a special-class cha.
Wu Jiong, Li Yingjie, and the rest were both admiring and in awe that Ling Lan was the first to beco a special-class cha master in the Lingtian cha Clan.
As expected, Boss Lan was the strongest of them all.
As the Lingtian cha Clan now had three special-class operators on the roster, Wu Jiong and the rest found themselves a lot calr.
Although Ling Lan had always stressed that Lingtian was not certain to lose in the fight against Leiting, they had still been uneasy deep inside.
Now, they finally felt a little more confident.
The only one who was calm was instead Li Yingjie.
Lin Zhong-qing’s goading might have worked too well — Li Yingjie’s eyes were filled with fighting spirit, as if planning to use strength to prove that he, Li Yingjie, would never be beaten down.
Very soon, everyone received the alert from the mainfra.
Three minutes later, they would be automatically pulled into the battlefield by the mainfra.
Ling Lan swept a cold gaze around at the 11 people in the room and said, “Later once we get in, if everyone is together, split up into the teams as we arranged previously before acting.
If we’re split up, the first thing is to hide yourselves well.
I’ll find a way to contact you all.
At that ti, it’s highly likely that you all will have to team up with the three people closest to you.
Team coordination might not be as good, so be ntally prepared, everyone.” Ling Lan’s warning made everyone’s heart clench, but they imdiately replied, “Roger, Boss Lan.” 公报私仇: This is a beautiful phrase in Chinese that really doesn’t have a neat English equivalent.
(Beautiful in terms of structure and parallelism, not aning, okay?
:p) To explain it as literally as I can, it’s ‘publicly taking private revenge’, but the aning is only clear if it’s elaborated into ‘abusing official power to take personal revenge’.
Here, Li Yingjie is accusing Lin Zhong-qing of abusing his clan position as main logistician to mistreat him as revenge for his prior bullying.伤春悲秋: Original phrase here being ‘aggrieved over the passing of spring and mournful at the advent of autumn’.
As the change of the seasons is an inevitable thing, soone who does as this phrase says is soone who is prone to brooding and fits of moodiness.
Here, it is used in the context of being sad over sothing unnecessary.落井下石: The literal phrase here is ‘(to) drop rocks on a person who had already fallen into a well’.
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