147: Lifetime ban

"Didn't you f*cking say I wouldn't get caught? What do we do now! It's all over the internet!"

Giant Demon held the phone and unleashed a torrent of abuse at the person on the other end.

"My teammates hate my guts right now!"

"What am I supposed to do!"

The voice on the other end was calm and unhurried. "What are you panicking for!"

"I haven't even settled the score with you yet. You're the one who leaked this, and now I'm implicated too. I gave you 100,000, and you couldn't even keep your mouth shut about something this small?"

Giant Demon's face looked worse than if he were crying. "So what do we do now? We're in the same boat now. Since I've been exposed, it's only a matter of time before they come for you too."

"You have the nerve to say that? If you had just taken the money and thrown the match quietly, it would have been over. Who told you to go around blabbing about it? Give my money back!"

"Give the money back? I earned this by sacrificing my reputation, why should I give it back to you? Give me another 100,000!"

"I'll give you 100,000, do you want two punches instead? Who are you trying to fool here? You agreed to match-fixing from the start, you should have known the risks."

"Don't say so much! Give me another 100,000, and I promise not to bother you. I'll take the fall for everything myself."

"Take the fall yourself, you idiot!"

Giant Demon stared at the disconnected phone, then raised his hand and dialed again.

"The number you have dialed is switched off..."

His mood was incredibly low at this moment. In reality, he hadn't wanted to fix the match in the first place.

However, his team's skill level wasn't high to begin with. Even if they managed to take sixteenth place, the team would only get 90,000 in total.

His share would only be a little over 10,000.

But Galaxy gave him a whole 100,000, just for him to feed a few kills.

100,000!

He couldn't even earn 100,000 in a year!

"Forget it, forget it," Giant Demon calmed himself down for a moment and comforted himself.

At least he still had the 100,000, right?

At most, he would just get scolded by netizens and beaten up by his teammates.

Besides, if they beat him, he could just call the police.

It wouldn't be a big deal; it was just a game tournament, it wouldn't ruin the rest of his life.

He opened his phone, wanting to take a look at the Social Media Platform, but just as his finger was about to touch the app, he chose to turn off his phone instead.

At this moment, the Social Media Platform was even livelier than when the KPL tournament first started.

Countless netizens swarmed under Wandering God's lan zhi account and began commenting frantically.

Some even went to Ye Bai's account.

Hang Dong was also following this matter. She and her brother had been obsessed with watching the tournament recently, and she hadn't expected something like this to happen.

"I was wondering why Giant Demon kept dying; so he took money. That's just too much!"

Hang Liang nodded. "He's finished."

Hang Dong: "Exactly! He's finished, we're all scolding him!"

Hang Liang smiled. "I meant he is completely finished."

"What do you mean?" Hang Dong asked, confused.

Hang Liang: "I knew you didn't read the terms of the Honor of Kings Official Tournament carefully. It clearly states that if match-fixing occurs, the player will be banned for life, the team will be disqualified, and the player will face penalties."

"Penalties? Banned?"

"Yeah, it's written there. You have to pay double the amount you received as a fine. And it's not just a lifetime ban from competition; you're also banned from streaming on the Divine Realm platform for life."

"That means it'll be impossible for him to make money playing honor of kings in the future. Plus, he has to compensate the Honor of Kings Official Tournament. Since he took 100,000, he has to pay back 200,000."

Hang Dong's eyes widened in shock. "200,000! That's so much!"

"But this isn't binding, right? If he makes a scene and doesn't pay, there's nothing they can do, right? After all, it's just a game tournament, it's not like it's written in the laws and regulations."

Hang Liang smiled. "The Honor of Kings Official Tournament has long been endorsed by the tournament association. This is the real deal; they will handle it."

"Wow, brother, how do you know so much?" Hang Dong looked at him with admiration. "We're watching the same tournament."

Hang Liang didn't speak. In fact, he really wanted to participate in the tournament too.

That's why he had studied the Honor of Kings Official Tournament thoroughly.

"But disqualifying the team seems so unfair, doesn't it? They might have made it into the top sixteen. Sigh, the teammates are suffering for no reason," Hang Dong complained while eating fries.

Hang Liang shook his head. "There's no other way."

Just as he had said, the Honor of Kings Official Tournament soon responded to the match-fixing incident.

[Honor of Kings Official Tournament: Regarding the match-fixing incident during the fourth division tournament on October 6th, between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM, according to Article 167 of the Honor of Kings Official Tournament regulations, we will impose the following penalties on the involved players: Giant Demon of the Lynx Team will be banned from honor of kings competitions for life, fined 200,000, and banned from streaming on the Divine Realm platform for life. Galaxy of the Assault Team will be banned from honor of kings competitions for life, fined 200,000, and banned from streaming on the Divine Realm platform for life. Both teams will be disqualified from this tournament. Additionally, we will provide humanitarian compensation to the innocent teammates involved by distributing the fines from both parties equally among the remaining non-involved players @Central Continent Tournament Platform]

Ye Bai didn't even know about this yet, but Hilda had already responded.

As for the match-fixing, Ye Bai had actually already made things clear to Hilda.

In gaming, there will always be people willing to take the risk to fix matches.

After all, most people are just doing it for the money.

As for why the two teams were disqualified, Ye Bai had no other choice.

If he let the two teams find substitutes and continue the tournament, it would mean that match-fixing could become a viable option in the future.

Teams could completely exploit this rule: let one person fix the match, and if something happens, kick them out while keeping the team's results. If nothing happens, they could just keep playing.

The cost of match-fixing would be too low, and e-sports tournaments would definitely fall into chaos in the future.

Therefore, collective punishment was the only way.

[666, the punishment is so fast! A 200,000 fine, isn't that too much?]

[Awesome, I knew Wandering God must have already planned this out. But if you put it that way, the other four players are actually quite happy. Even though they lost the tournament results, they got extra money.]

[Oh my god, Giant Demon and Galaxy's families are really unlucky. Now they have to cough up their family assets to pay for them.]

[What if they don't have the money to pay?]

[If they don't have money to pay, go look at previous cases. Do you think the officials are pushovers? They'll directly freeze bank accounts, list them as untrustworthy individuals, and they might even be detained. I have to say, Wandering God thought this through very thoroughly; it had already coordinated with the officials beforehand. No wonder it dared to set the prize money so high.]

[If 200,000 is split among his teammates, each person gets 50,000. That's so nice.]

[Nice my ass. They made it to the top 16 and had a chance to climb higher. What if they could have gotten a top ranking? I'd say they are just incredibly unlucky. Plus, he probably can't come up with 200,000 all at once. Whether they can actually get the money is another question. I feel bad for his teammates.]

At this moment, Giant Demon and Galaxy, who had been tracked down by the Honor of Kings Official Tournament staff, wished they could strangle each other.

"He forced me! He forced me to fix the match! You can't do this! I really don't have the money, I beg you! I was wrong, I really know I was wrong."

Giant Demon was in tears, filled with regret.

Unfortunately, it was too late.