I'm bad, but players love me

As she approached the coffee table where they were discussing the matter, she turned to glance at Willis, who was still frozen in place. "Please be mindful of your attitude, uh, who's that? Oh, never mind, you're not important. What's important is that you understand that it's ELO that's seeking our help. This is a period of cooperation between us, and you don't want this trivial disagreement between us to lead to the breakdown of our agreement, do you?"

"So, come and sit down now. We should talk about these things." Then she signaled her servants to change the tablecloth on the table, put new cushions on the chairs and so on.

It was clearly what she wanted to talk about, but Willis sat there waiting for a long time and didn't see the other party actually sit down.

"If we want to talk, you should at least sit down, right?" He suppressed his anger once again. At this moment, he had only one belief in his heart: trust Yun Shuo, trust the commander, and the decision he made would not be wrong.

It was this that supported him to continue sitting here instead of using this table to smash the idiot opposite him to death.

"I'm sorry," the other party apologized indifferently, with a fearless confidence and a nonchalant attitude. "I'm different from you common people. After all, I'm a noble, so I have to be more delicate. I don't want to get sick when I get home. Who knows if these things of yours are clean or not."

"If you're so delicate, why not cover yourself in a glass dome?" Willis couldn't help but sneer. "If you nobles have to go through so many steps just to sit down, then we ELO are definitely the winner. After all, we don't need to incense our guns."

"Heh, you don't think humans can defeat gods, do you?" The other woman smiled and sat on the newly arranged chair. Willis' words did not hurt her at all. "As long as there is divine power, even if only one noble dies, it won't be difficult to kill you... people."

She deliberately paused after "this group", making people feel that she seemed to have swallowed some hurtful content, but this would make the person opposite her even more embarrassed, and this was exactly her purpose.

"People need order, and this so-called order is that we are at the top, and you are at the bottom. Stay in your position and don't try to change anything. After Lord Setash takes the throne, we will naturally make your lives better, but the prerequisite is that you must be clear about what treatment you deserve and what you don't deserve."

Willis asked in return, "You mean we'll end up with nothing and you won't give us anything?"

"Of course not. We will certainly change some things, but if you want to blame someone, just blame your bad luck for not being born into a noble family, so the essence will not change."

Chapter 46: Let’s fight!

Willis slammed the table and stood up, his eyes wide with disbelief and anger. "What do you take us for? A bunch of thugs foolish enough to agree to such conditions, or a stepping stone you can use to your advantage and then kick away at any time?"

"Stepping stone?" The other party was amused by the word. "Actually, I don't understand why Lord Setash would do this? Just you guys?"

She half-closed her eyes lazily, her index finger jabbing at the pariah opposite her, whom she completely disdained. "Honestly, you guys aren't even as thick as the insoles of your shoes, and you're still fantasizing about being a stepping stone? You really think too highly of yourselves."

Then, she looked at Willis, whose face was ashen, and raised the corners of her mouth in satisfaction, "Sure enough, this expression is more suitable for you guys."

How can you lowly people be so calm in front of nobles?

You should immediately kneel down in fear and trepidation when you see the corners of our clothes. Fear and cowardice should be engraved on your dirty and vulgar faces. No matter how I torture you, you can only be angry but not say a word.

"Be grateful to us. Compared to people like Ella who want to execute you all, haven't we been friendly and considerate enough? After all, we actually allow you to be so arrogant as to want something..." She thought about it for a long time but couldn't remember the name.

"Hiss... Never mind, it's nothing..."

"It's 'equality', miss." Willis interrupted her, and this action obviously made the person opposite her look a little embarrassed.

"Oh, I'm really tired of communicating with rude guys like you." She held her forehead with her hand, pretending to have a headache. "It's not something important anyway..."

Interrupted again, Willis repeated in a solemn, almost low voice: "This is very important! This is extremely important to us!"

"You interrupted me twice." The other party spread his hands and could no longer maintain the smile on his lips.

She said with disgust, "What's with your attitude? The Young City Lord is preparing to purge every place except the noble district, and you idiots are still here repeating these stupid details. I'm your only hope of survival! Do you understand?"

"What do you mean?" Willis couldn't help but prepare his mind for the worst - a massacre.

"It means exactly what it says: It's better to kill ten thousand people by mistake than to let one go. You no longer have the right to dream, because the butcher's knife is already at your neck."

She stood up slowly. "Honestly, in order to survive, disbanding the ELO organization is the right thing to do. I really don't understand what you're still holding on to."

"Then fight!" Willis' eyes seemed to be able to emit fire, that kind of bold and lively flame was burning fiercely, ready to burn itself out at any time, but everyone who saw this look was sure that before he burned himself out, everyone who approached him would be ignited by him.

She was stung and stood up suddenly. The lambskin soles of her shoes were worn by such rough movements, or perhaps they had been worn out earlier when she had been twisting them anxiously.

She simply looked at Willis coldly and abruptly ended their meeting. "Well, I think we've pretty much finished our conversation. I'll go back and report this friendly conversation to Setash and the others."

Willis sat there without moving. He no longer had the eagerness and nervousness he had at the beginning of the meeting. This kind of person can go wherever he wants.

Before stepping onto the human stool formed by the driver's kneeling form, the noblewoman turned around and said loudly, "I hope your words will also represent the will of your commander."

William, who was serving as a servant nearby, suddenly put down the plate in his hand, rolled up his sleeves and rushed out, "I can't stand it anymore! I have to go up and teach this bitch a lesson!"

"Stop, William!" Willis shouted in a trembling voice.

"But……"

"Are we going to make things worse? This is all my fault."

How could Willis not understand such a blatant threat and humiliation? He just sat there, covering his face with his hands.

He had paper and pen at hand that he had prepared specifically for the purpose of discussing things, but it was obvious that they were not fit for use at all.

After Willis finally stood up and his eyes, which had turned slightly red due to his weakness, finally returned to normal, he went to find Yun Shuo immediately. He wanted to get something clear, as he was in a state of confusion.

But when he saw the adventurer in luxurious clothes leaving the door so carelessly and wandering around the village belonging to ELO, he could no longer bear it and rushed into the house to argue with Yun Shuo.

But when he was extremely rude and bumped into his commander, the other party's first reaction was to care about his safety.

"I am too incompetent, Commander. I failed to complete your task. You trusted me so much and entrusted such an important task to me." Willis stood up and lowered his head to admit his mistake to Yun Shuo.

"No, you're not wrong." Yun Shuo stood up and patted the other man on the shoulder. "You're not wrong, Willis. On the contrary, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. Why did we establish ELO? Isn't it so that we can one day carve out a world of our own, a world for ordinary people like us, a world where we have the right to survive?"

Willis looked up in a daze, tears unconsciously sliding down his eyes. After the first drop, he could no longer hold back the rest, "Commander..."

He secretly cursed himself in his heart for shedding tears at such an inopportune time and for being so weak.

Yun Shuo pulled out a tissue and handed it to him. "Willis, don't be so self-deprecating. You've been with ELO since its founding. As ELO grows, so do you. Your thinking is inseparable from ELO's philosophy, just as ELO's philosophy also includes your thinking. How could you think that what you said was wrong?"

All true tears will flow out of the nose, and the snot can be wiped away with a tissue, but the feeling of humiliation cannot be wiped away from the heart so easily.

Yun Shuo knew that Sai Taishi was not a casual person. He was more like a madman whose behavior was meticulous and logical. All his actions were not done on impulse. Even if he went crazy temporarily, there was a logic behind it.

From this perspective, we still cannot explain why the little noble was so stupid as to treat an ally like this, but we can explain why Setash sent him - because she was stupid enough.

Chapter 47: I Want to See Him

In order to test the other party's bottom line and maximize his own interests, Setaishi always likes to do this secretly.

In stark contrast to his gentle appearance, everyone who knows him knows that what he likes most is to push for more.

His characteristics are self-confidence, arrogance, self-willedness and manipulation of others.

If Yun Shuo gave in, then all he could do was continue to retreat. Having started, there was no limit to what he could do. Of course, if the other party wanted to force a fight, he would need to rethink their relationship.

Setaishi sat in his rocking chair, rocking leisurely, seemingly unconcerned with the other party's hurried report. For a long time, until the young noble standing beside him couldn't help but move his numb legs, he finally asked, "What is the other party's attitude?"

"They are naturally honored to be able to cooperate with us." The young noble straightened his body and said in an awkward flattering tone.

If it wasn't so inappropriate for her status, she would have wanted to make up a lie like "It is ELO's honor to be Lord Setash's dog."

"Feel honored? Are they enduring it in silence?" Setash keenly observed the person in front of him's every move. His eyes swept over the small movements of her constantly rubbing the surface of her nails, and the pair of shoes on her feet that had broken skin at the toes.

He turned his face away, stretched out his arm and plucked a pink rose, carelessly removing the soft petals one by one. "You'd better learn to tell the truth in front of me."

Saitaishi put the petals on his lips. He was truly more beautiful than the flowers. No wonder so many players, even though they knew that the other party was not a good person, were still crazy about brainwashing themselves for this face, saying that the other party was like this only because of a miserable childhood, and was not a bad person at heart.

Yet, at this moment, no one dared to admire such a rare sight. The words that escaped those thin lips were, "You don't think your shabby family is any harder to deal with than ELO, do you? You don't want to anger me and end up living with those things, do you?"

The noblewoman's body trembled uncontrollably, a chill seeping into her pores. But just as she was forced by fear to abandon all selfishness and was about to speak, Setash raised a finger to stop her, "Shh, I'm not finished yet. Didn't your family teach you etiquette?"

He raised his silk-gloved fingers halfway in the air, giving examples one by one. "Let me think about it. If you really fell, the first person to kill you would be your servant. Rumor has it that if you cut off the flesh of the Messenger piece by piece, there would be more than a thousand pieces." He smiled innocently, turned around and continued, "Just enough for them to share!"

The man's attitude became obviously more cautious, and he no longer respected Setash just to please the elders in his family.

He changed his previous attitude of trying to please for the sake of pleasing others, and instead carefully observed Setash's every move like a newborn animal.

After the man who held her and her family's life in his hands had finished speaking, she spoke cautiously, "They said that if we insisted on not giving them equality, they would go to war with us."

"Start a war?" Setash burst into laughter, which made his smile look more like a fake smile. "What can they use to start a war with us? But this is fine. After all, all I want from the beginning is Yun Shuo. If crushing ELO can make him submit to me faster, I don't mind."

"Yes. With your ability, they have to bow down to you and are completely unable to resist." The female noble smiled apologetically.

Setash glanced at her sideways. "Who told you we're going to war with ELO? Let Ella and her gang fight them."

"But Lady Ella has no plans to start a war yet," the noblewoman couldn't help but speak. "ELO is weak and will never initiate a war. They will definitely delay it again and again. The longer it takes, the better it will be for them."

"Whether they have this plan or not is their business, and whether we can let them have this plan is our business." Setash waved her away impatiently.

When half of the group had left, Saitaishi suddenly asked, "By the way, who was that person we were connecting with? Was it Yun Shuo?"

"No, it's one of his men, named Willis."

"Why not Yun Shuo? He really doesn't value the cooperation between him and me at all."

The noblewomen were dumbfounded. Was this man really worth risking our lives on?

Although she was equally arrogant and thought that the people of ELO were just a group of pigs and dogs in human skin, she also knew that her previous words were only used to scare the members of the ELO organization so that they would make concessions as soon as possible, and the actual situation was not that serious.

But no matter what, Yun Shuo, as the commander of ELO, should not meet with a small fry like himself, because the person they originally discussed cooperation with was Saitaishi, and they couldn't lose face in any way.

If Yun Shuo came to talk to a guy like the little noble who was obviously cannon fodder, he would not get the reputation of being approachable, but the tragedy that ELO would never be able to speak with dignity in front of Setash again.

Setash picked up the rose again. The slender stem was covered with sharp thorns, and he could feel the sharpness of the thorns even through his gloves.

He secretly exerted force with his hands, and the thorns easily penetrated the gaps in the silk and scratched the skin of his fingertips, leaving a hint of scarlet on the snow-white satin.

Yun Shuo will never give up, Sai Taishi thought clearly.

Just like the pile of luxurious clothes hidden in the servant's room behind the garden. If the people who were searching were not blind, they would have thought that the servants had stolen his clothes.

Even for him, it was not easy to get rid of suspicion under the already suspicious circumstances at that time, let alone disguising himself as a victim and even gaining Ella's trust like now.

"Yun Shuo, do you want to see how far I can go for you, or how much I care about the deal between you and me? I really want to."

Setash casually discarded the blood-stained gloves and said, "I want to see you in a couple of days, Yun Shuo. No, tomorrow. I can't wait to see you."

The servant beside her heard this and immediately went to make arrangements. Before leaving, she asked, "Should this flower be thrown away too?"

Setash stared at it, his eyes wandering, as if he was looking through it at someone else. After a long moment, he finally said, "No, turn it into dried flowers and put them in a vase beside the bed. How can such a good thing be ruined after just one use?"

Chapter 48: Here Comes the Boomerang

"Sai Taishi wants to see me? What does he think we are? Dogs that can be summoned and dismissed at will?" When hearing the news, Yun Shuo's first reaction was how shameless Sai Taishi must be to do such a thing as "Although I specially arranged someone to intimidate you yesterday, I hope you won't be angry. I'm here to apologize today."

"He said he came here with sincerity today," Willis said from the side, his eyes dark as he stared at the ground. "He said he would give us enough food. The slums are in ruins right now. Everything else is easy, but it's going to take quite a while for us to become self-sufficient in food."

"We're basically living off our savings. Everyone's scrimping and saving. Many civilians who joined us have handed in their food and are waiting for our distribution. But the problem is, those who have no intention of feeding the civilians in the first place, and the food we give them is barely enough to keep them from starving to death. No matter how much we save, it's just a drop in the bucket."

He tried his best not to let his emotions cloud his judgment. "Commander, we must get this food, otherwise, ELO will be in big trouble."

Yun Shuo didn't answer him immediately, but turned around and asked, "I remember there are a lot of factories in the slums, right?"

The nobles disliked these factories, which were always associated with filth and decay, because they would pollute their land, so they dumped them all on the border between the slums and civilian areas. Later, as the slums continued to expand and demand decreased, almost most of the factories that were not related to food and clothing were abandoned in the slums.

"Yes. But there's not much point in opening them. Without a market, we'll only lose money. We don't have much upfront capital to guarantee the investment. Moreover, without the tacit approval of the nobles, such a big move will definitely be noticed."

Willis was talking when he suddenly thought, "You don't want Setash to run this market, do you?"

"Is it possible?" Yun Shuo asked back, turning the pen in his hand boredly.

"Of course not," Willis denied without hesitation. "They don't have such a large scale, nor would they spend such a large amount of money on such a thing. If the profit is not big enough, why should we do such a thankless task?"

"Then we'll have to pick another unlucky guy." Yun Shuo shrugged and didn't continue the topic. "Tell Setash I agree. Let's do it this afternoon. Willis, you go this time."

Pointing the pen directly at Willis, he smiled and emphasized, "By the way, if he does something stupid again this time, you don't have to hold back."

"Even if I want to hit them one by one with the table and send them to see the God of Machinery Mani?" Willis opened his eyes wide and asked tentatively.

"of course."

"That's just..." Willis' voice rose, then dropped sharply. "What a shame."

He put on a look of deep regret. "They insisted you get through this time because Setash wants to meet you. So, you can't escape. I just hope you can take my share when you hit them. And by the way, that noblewoman with the sky-high eyes can come over once more. She owes me one last time."

"Let me give you a slap first." Yun Shuo went up and slapped the man on the back.

Okay, go ahead and tease my old father, just calm down and it will be fine.

"If I really want to go, it won't be a one-on-one situation." Yun Shuo narrowed his eyes and smiled, "If I don't peel off a layer of skin from him, he will really think that our ELO is weak and can be bullied."

Willis said: "And, I would like to add that Setash is already waiting for us at the agreed location."

"Huh? Is he free?" Yun Shuo didn't know what to say for a moment. "Forget it, if he wants to wait, let him wait."

……

"Excuse me, when will Yun Shuo come back?" Setash asked William, who was pouring him a second cup of coffee, with his chin supported.

William's expression was impassive, as he meticulously completed his duties as a waiter. "If you're so anxious, you should have made an appointment in advance, right? The coffee is ready, please enjoy. Please wait here, the commander will arrive eventually."

Commander-in-Chief. Setaishi silently repeated the word with his lips and tongue, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth as the last syllable stretched out.

Speaking of which, when we first met, Yun Shuo was still hesitating, insisting that he wasn't the commander-in-chief. But how could his judgment be wrong?

At that time, Yun Shuo was like a ferocious beast locked in a magnificent cage. He showed off his strength so arrogantly that people couldn't help but believe that even though he was now trapped in this cage carefully built by Ella, he would never be trapped here forever - he didn't even need opportunities, because he would create opportunities for himself.