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Chen Yiyang and Jiang City spent quite effort to get in touch with someone from Laoma Chili Sauce.

Because this company is too closed and traditional, few people from the emerging internet companies have connections to speak with them.

Ultimately, they managed to find a responsible person at Laoma Chili Sauce through a friend's friend's acquaintance in Jiang City.

Chen Yiyang called them and asked if Laoma Chili Sauce had sponsored the Qiuqiu Flying Car.

"You're talking about that? We're puzzled too," the other party said leisurely, "Yesterday the court in Peng City suddenly froze over ten million in our company's funds. They claim we're overdue on some competition sponsorship fee. I was just thinking of looking into what kind of competition it is."

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What the hell.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yiyang was even more baffled.

An inexplicable sponsorship has emerged, fine.

But how could they go to court and have the court freeze the company's account funds?

After confirming the other party wasn't joking, Chen Yiyang asked a few more questions.

He confirmed that Laoma Chili Sauce had never sponsored any esports competition nor had any knowledge of the alleged overdue sponsorship fees.

The situation was becoming surreal.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yiyang turned to Jiang City.

"You don't think the Qiuqiu Flying Car project team is so desperate for money that they'd deliberately fabricate sponsorships with some platforms to blackmail them?"

"I doubt it," Jiang City said uncertainly, "Even if it's 'Nanshan Pizza Hut,' now we're supposedly in a society governed by the rule of law. This would be no different from robbery."

"Laoma Chili Sauce said they've already reported it to the police, so it seems Laoma Chili Sauce's people were indeed unaware."

Chen Yiyang pondered hard but couldn't make sense of it.

So, he picked up the computer to check the sponsorship relationship between Laoma Chili Sauce and Qiuqiu Flying Car.

Then he checked some reports on Qiuqiu Flying Car's own website and Tengxu News.

Qiuqiu Flying Car claimed that they had been sponsored by Laoma Chili Sauce for an entire season.

Chen Yiyang looked at Qiuqiu Flying Car's website and found that they were quite dedicated to this sponsorship, arranging promotional collaboration images, comics, and in-game collaborative skins.

Furthermore, the past season's Qiuqiu Flying Car match footage all featured Laoma Chili Sauce.

Qiuqiu Flying Car even came up with a slogan, "Laoma also races."

The deeper Chen Yiyang dug, the more he discovered.

Qiuqiu Flying Car treated this sponsorship very seriously and mentioned Laoma Chili Sauce's sponsorship of Qiuqiu Flying Car multiple times on places like their official blog and website.

According to Laoma Chili Sauce, Peng City had frozen sixteen million of their funds.

This means that, at least on Qiuqiu Flying Car's side, the sponsorship fee for an entire season was considered to be sixteen million.

Sixteen million is enough to buy half a year's worth of ads on some popular channels on CCTV.

Who would be crazy enough to sponsor such an obscure esports competition?

Then, Chen Yiyang promptly found out that just a week ago, Qiuqiu Flying Car had officially announced that Kuxing Coffee was also sponsoring their competition.

Of course, this was just an official announcement. Things like the official collaborative skins, promotional images, etc. hadn't been made yet like with Laoma Chili Sauce.

After double-checking and confirming that Kuxing Company had never signed any sponsorship contract with Qiuqiu Flying Car.

Chen Yiyang realized that there was big drama on the horizon.

The next day, an announcement from Laoma Chili Sauce went viral all over the internet.

Laoma Chili Sauce said in the announcement that they had never sponsored Qiuqiu Flying Car's matches but inexplicably had sixteen million of their funds frozen by Peng City's court for this reason. Laoma Chili Sauce had already reported this to the police.

This matter first exploded within the gaming community.

Especially among some streamers who play Qiuqiu Flying Car.

Because although they don't focus on Qiuqiu Flying Car's competitions, they had heard about a game skin launched earlier themed with a collaboration with Laoma Chili Sauce.

Why is Laoma Chili Sauce suddenly saying they never sponsored Qiuqiu Flying Car?

How could this be? They had even seen Laoma Chili Sauce's collaborative Qiuqiu Flying Car chili sauce gift box online.

At this point, Chen Yiyang also logged into his social media account and calmly posted a Weibo.

"Everyone, don't look at me, I don't know when Kuxing sponsored Qiuqiu Flying Car either."

Chen Yiyang was trying to forcibly include himself in the picture.

But this garnered quite a successful reaction.

Because everyone discovered that Kuxing Coffee had actually sponsored Qiuqiu Flying Car this season too.

But now, as the current big boss, the true owner, and a somewhat famous influencer of Kuxing Coffee, Chen Yiyang popped up, saying he wasn't aware of Kuxing sponsoring Qiuqiu Flying Car's esports competition.

This raised the possibility that the problem might not be with Laoma Chili Sauce, but instead with the Qiuqiu Flying Car project team?

Yet despite the uproar outside, Tengxu still hadn't released an announcement.

Until noon the next day, Wu Changxun called Chen Yiyang.

"After the incident happened, we also reported it to the police. They've arrested the culprits, and after last night's interrogation, the situation is basically clear."

"What exactly happened?" Chen Yiyang was intensely curious.

He genuinely wanted to know why Qiuqiu Flying Car would perceive consecutive sponsorships from Laoma Chili Sauce and Kuxing Coffee.

"It was done by three con artists. They disguised themselves as people from Laoma Chili Sauce and claimed they wanted to sponsor the competition to get game bundles, and the Qiuqiu Flying Car project team took it seriously.

Later, when a season passed with Laoma Chili Sauce not paying the sponsorship fees and they couldn't obtain new game bundles, they then disguised themselves as people from Kuxing Coffee to contact Qiuqiu Flying Car, saying Kuxing Coffee wanted to sponsor it. Thus, trying to scam new bundles."

"Really?" Chen Yiyang asked incredulously.

He couldn't fathom that the bizarre tale behind this absurd situation was even more ridiculous.

"It really is true." Wu Changxun was also somewhat speechless.

Although he had always hoped for problems in the gaming department.

But not something as embarrassing as this!

Getting conned by three scammers for an entire season was one thing, but they actually managed to freeze someone's funds without any communication with Laoma Chili Sauce.

"This is a serious issue," Chen Yiyang said gloomily, "Tengxu's game illegally used Kuxing's trademarks and products, and Kuxing has the right to sue Tengxu."

"Originally, if something went wrong in the game department, I should gloat, but the higher-ups want me to contact you because they hope Kuxing can stay out of the matter moving forward, never mentioning it again.

We'll handle the PR with Laoma Chili Sauce, and we hope you can delete that Weibo post to prevent the situation from escalating," said Wu Changxun.

After all, simply being duped was nothing more than a joke. But then Tengxu also inadvertently froze someone's funds.

Tengxu didn't want this matter to continue gaining attention.