King of Kings, start with a perfect record and strive for the top spot.

Chapter 187: Encountering an Old Classmate

Stepping into the hot pot restaurant, strings of bright red chilies hang from the ceiling, a vibrant and fiery sight that makes one's hemorrhoids ache.

It's 5 PM now, right around lunchtime. The hot pot restaurant is filled with rising steam, and the heat is accumulating and unable to dissipate, making the room feel stuffy.

There were even a few guys eating hot pot shirtless.

Luckily, Xu Zhiqiang had made a reservation and booked the time and place well in advance, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to eat this hot pot.

When the two arrived at their designated seat, number 39, a sweet, delicate voice called out to them.

"Ye Lan?"

"Xu Zhiqiang?"

"Why are you two here?"

Both of them paused, especially Xu Zhiqiang, who was all too familiar with that voice.

At table number 38, a man and a woman were sitting. One of them was Huang Yuting, Ye Lan's high school classmate and the woman Xu Zhiqiang loved but could not have.

She wore a pure white halter dress, the thin straps falling on her rounded, rosy shoulders. Perhaps because it was too hot, her fair and delicate skin was slightly flushed, making her look a little mature.

Huang Yuting looked at Ye Lan with a blank expression in her bright eyes, clearly not expecting that Ye Lan had also come to Jiangcheng.

"Baby, do you know these two people?"

A thin boy standing nearby, seeing how handsome Ye Lan was, inexplicably felt jealous and interrupted Huang Yuting.

He always felt that there was something wrong with the way his girlfriend looked at Ye Lan.

Once she came to her senses, Huang Yuting quickly introduced the two parties.

"This is my boyfriend, Wang Lei."

"These two are my high school classmates, Ye Lan and Xu Zhiqiang."

Ye Lan smiled and extended her hand. "Hello, my name is Ye Lan."

However, Wang Lei seemed not to notice Ye Lan's friendly gesture.

He kept stirring the hot pot with his chopsticks, raising his eyebrows every now and then and glancing at Ye Lan with disdain.

"Hey, don't you have any manners?"

Xu Zhiqiang already harbored resentment towards Wang Lei for taking Huang Yuting away, and seeing Ye Lan being humiliated like this, he immediately flew into a rage and wanted to rush up and teach her a lesson.

Ye Lan, who was standing in front of him, reached out and stopped him.

Ye Lan moved her hand, which had been suspended in mid-air, toward Huang Yuting.

"Since your boyfriend doesn't want to shake hands with me, let's shake hands instead. I helped you gain a lot of points back in high school!"

During high school, Ye Lan helped Huang Yuting reach the King rank multiple times.

If calculated based on the power leveling service price, Huang Yuting owes Ye Lan at least a thousand yuan.

Huang Yuting also felt that shaking hands was harmless, so she extended her petite hand and grasped Ye Lan's broad hand together.

"You brat, flirting with my girlfriend right in front of me! Do you even respect me as your boyfriend?!"

Wang Lei immediately exploded, standing up at lightning speed and slamming his right hand on the table.

Perhaps because of the excessive force used, the broth inside the hot pot splashed out.

The rich red oil splattered directly onto Huang Yuting's white dress, leaving several conspicuous stains.

"Wang Lei, what are you doing? This is my favorite dress."

Huang Yuting hurriedly tried to wipe the oil stains with toilet paper, but found that she couldn't get them clean no matter what she did; in fact, the stains were getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing this, she was so angry she almost cried, and her big, watery eyes filled with tears.

Ye Lan originally intended to just provoke Wang Lei, never expecting that he would cause such a big trouble. She immediately sat down silently in the seat next to him.

"I'm so sorry, baby, I couldn't help myself when I saw him touching you, I'm so sorry..."

Wang Lei looked at the oil stains with anxiety and hurriedly touched all the chopsticks and spoons on the table.

They seem very busy, but I don't know what they're busy with.

Huang Yuting sighed and gave up struggling.

He stared coldly at Wang Lei.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? He and I were classmates in high school. Can't we even shake hands?"

"Wang Lei, you're just my boyfriend, not my dad. Why are you being so nosy?"

After saying that, she picked up her bag and walked towards the entrance of the hot pot restaurant without looking back.

Wang Lei reached out to grab Huang Yuting's shoulder, trying to explain things, but his angry girlfriend was harder to handle than a pig during the Lunar New Year, and she dodged him by tilting her shoulder.

The two chased each other as they walked out of the hot pot restaurant.

"Hey, handsome guy and beautiful lady, you two haven't paid the bill yet."

Upon hearing this, the waiter, who was eating watermelon, exclaimed "Holy crap!" and put down the watermelon rind he was still eating to chase after the attacker.

Ye Lan poured herself a cup of chrysanthemum tea. "I heard you say before that Huang Yuting's boyfriend is really good at games?"

Xu Zhiqiang took the teapot and poured himself a cup as well.

"A top player who consistently scores over 2000 points in peak matches is one of the key members of the school's esports club."

"A score of over two thousand can be considered a master? I thought vocational colleges were full of hidden talents."

Ye Lan's eyes held a hint of disdain, after all, this rank was far too low in his eyes.

They don't even qualify as opponents!

Xu Zhiqiang could only smile and agree, "Godfather, although more than half of the students in the school are addicted to the internet, liking to play games and having gaming talent are two different things."

Ye Lan took a sip of tea and nodded in agreement.

"That's true. There's that joke online where a parent tells their child, 'If you put even half the effort you put into playing games into studying, you would have gotten into Tsinghua or Peking University long ago.'"

Child: "Do you think I'm pretty good at games?"

The two shared funny jokes from the internet and laughed heartily.

Afterwards, Xu Zhiqiang suddenly said seriously, "It seems that Wang Lei also formed a team to participate in this match against the Wolves."

Ye Lan put down her teacup and shook her head. "If their team's star player is only Wang Lei, they probably won't even get three kills."

This statement is not an exaggeration.

In a typical high-level tournament, Wang Lei might win one or two out of ten matches against professional players.

Since everyone is just a regular player and temporary teammate, they don't know each other well, so problems are bound to arise when cooperating.

But this time, their opponents are real professional teams.

Moreover, it's a professional team like Wolves, who perfectly embodies individual heroism.

Putting aside the difference in individual skill levels, the two teams are not even on the same level when it comes to teamwork.

This is why, over the years, the streamer team has frequently lost to the professional team.

In ordinary high-level matches, the streamer doesn't seem to be much different from the professional players.

However, once teamwork is involved, this difference immediately becomes apparent.

As the game says.

Honor of Kings is a 5v5 team-based competitive mobile game!