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Didn't Saitaishi hear what I just said? I'm being sarcastic!

Instead of feeling ashamed, you're following me here and pretending to be pitiful? Are you okay?

But Yun Shuo quickly suppressed his confusion. He walked towards Saitaish step by step, gradually shortening the distance between them.

And Saitaishi also retreated step by step, his eyes wide open, looking at Yun Shuo in panic, as if the other party would pull out a knife from behind and chop him to death in the next second.

Yun Shuo laughed dumbly. He took two quick steps forward and touched the cloth above Setaishi's heart. "Don't be nervous."

His voice was gentle yet firm, yet it made Setash feel even colder. "In the end, I still want to thank you. Thank you for allowing me to participate in these peace talks."

Setaishi's brows were furrowed, and his voice was filled with undisguised nervousness. He subconsciously asked, "What do you mean?"

"What did you do?" He clenched his fists, his knuckles turning slightly white from the force, and stared at Yun Shuo with his eyes, as if he wanted to know something from the other person.

Yun Shuo smiled faintly and didn't answer the question directly. Instead, he continued, "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid we wouldn't know when those nobles would personally take action. If they launched a sudden attack, ELO would be caught off guard and suffer heavy losses."

Saitaishi looked at Yun Shuo as if he had been stunned by the blow. "So what if you set up defenses? Do you really think you can win?"

"How many nobles are there? And how many of them possess divine powers? How can we know unless we fight?"

"Stop struggling in vain." Saitaishi stared at Yun Shuo, his eyes filled with contempt. "Even if you set up defenses, what will happen? Do you really think you can win?"

Yun Shuo was still in the same expression, "How many nobles are there? And how many of them possess divine powers? How can we know unless we fight?"

"Stop struggling in vain." Saitaishi's eyes were fixed on Yun Shuo's face. He seemed to suddenly realize why Yun Shuo was so confident - Yun Shuo actually thought he could win - the reason was that he felt that there were fewer nobles.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, a hint of disdain forming as he sneered, "Do you really think Ella would have sat there doing nothing for the past two weeks, watching your ELO flourish without doing anything?"

"She forced all the nobles without divine powers to kneel before the statue of the God of Machinery and pray devoutly for a full half month. Remember Luo Lan? Even she has divine powers now."

He revealed Ella's secrets to Yun Shuo, "You can't win. There will only be endless, useless casualties."

If a mediocre guy like Luo Lan can possess divine power, let alone the other nobles.

Of course, there might be nobles who are even worse than Luo Lan and possess divine powers. Saying that nobles who are even worse than Luo Lan possess divine powers would better demonstrate that the blessing of the gods is now basically a "fashion item" that everyone has for the nobles.

But Setash really didn't pay much attention to other people. He noticed Luo Lan because her previous betrayal had left such a deep impression on Setash.

"Yun Shuo, you know nothing about this war!"

Facing Setaishi's sharp accusations, Yun Shuo simply shrugged and said nonchalantly, "So what."

"You..." Such a rogue behavior made Saitaishi at a loss for words for a moment. He could only say bitterly, "I really don't know what that sniper saw in you."

Yialos was a notoriously difficult person to deal with. He was incredibly talented, capable, and possessed the stubborn, stubborn temper that only geniuses possess. Previously, when Setash tried to buy something from him, he was subjected to a choosy process. What kind of business is it where the seller chooses the buyer?

Sure enough, his shop soon went out of business.

After the last sniper operation, Setash had a deeper understanding of Yialos's strength. Not only was he a skilled sniper, but he was also incredibly tough. He managed to survive being shot by Ella and even had the time to research weapons.

When Setash handed the task to Ialos this time, he seemed hesitant and claimed that he needed to think about it.

This is understandable. After all, he was beaten too badly by Ella last time, so it is normal to have some trauma.

However, after returning, he quickly took out a carefully modified and sophisticated firearm and announced that he had decided to participate in the operation.

Setash thought that it was the beating in reality that made Yialos learn to let go of his pride, but who knew that this beating in reality made Yialos learn to be two-faced.

"Thinking back now, maybe he had already secretly come to inform you when I first gave him the assassination mission?" Setash sighed lightly, with a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.

"Indeed." Yun Shuo nodded.

He had to exchange the gun himself for it through the system, fearing he'd have to give it to someone else. Otherwise, how could such an amazing gun possibly exist in the world? Yun Shuo couldn't possibly achieve the same level of precision in his lifetime.

"How much did you spend?" Setash frowned slightly and asked unwillingly.

He paid so much, but still failed to make Yialos loyal. How much money did Yun Shuo have to pay to make Yialos choose to stand on Yun Shuo's side?

"Zero yuan." Yun Shuo naturally knew how much money Setash had given to Yialos.

Wow, the gold is like a piece of iron, crackling and making a lot of noise, and this is just the deposit.

Setaishi really wants to die.

It would not be accurate to say that it was zero yuan. After all, Yialos paid for a large number of weapons, contributed many design drawings of advanced weapons, and was responsible for teaching all the newcomers in ELO how to use weapons. If you calculate it this way, he definitely paid for it.

"Zero Yuan?!" Setash's eyes widened in shock, as if he had just heard something out of the blue. He shook his head in disbelief, a surge of inexplicable anger and loss welling up in his heart. "How is this possible? Zero Yuan? I gave him a huge sum of money to win him over, and he didn't even look at it. And then, he was bribed by you with zero yuan, and he betrayed me so eloquently?"

"When you find that something does not belong to you now, you should think about whether it never belonged to you in the first place. The same is true in reverse." Yun Shuo said calmly.

Setash finally came to his senses, and the scattered clues gradually connected in his mind. "So, Yialos has been your ELO from the beginning?"

"At the banquet in my manor, Yialos was able to escape capture." Setash asked cautiously, his lips trembling.

"I did it."

"His injury?"

"I treated it."

Saitaishi pointed a trembling finger at Yun Shuo, "You were the one who gave him the gun, right?"

After seeing Yun Shuo nod, Saitaishi frowned and laughed, and for a moment he didn't know who he was laughing at.

Who on earth said that people without divine blessings will never be able to understand the ingenuity of machinery?

Talent seemed to have predetermined everything. Even if he possessed divine power, what good would it do? Could he create weapons as exquisite as Yun Shuo's? The answer, clearly, was no.

Setash originally thought that someone like Yialos was rare to come by, but it turned out that Yun Shuo was also rare.

Two of them jumped out from the few civilians he knew, so how many more could there be among the civilians he didn't know?

At this moment, Saitaishi inexplicably felt a sense of cherishing talent. A genius like Yun Shuo should not be ruined by his own absurd ideals.

He stood there quietly, his eyes fixed on Yun Shuo. After seeing Yun Shuo staring blankly at him for a long time, he seemed to feel bored, said goodbye, and turned away.

"Yun Shuo!" But just as Yun Shuo was about to step out of the manor that belonged to Setaishi, Setaishi stopped him, "If... in the end you lose, but you're still alive, come find me. What we said before still counts. I'll consider it as repaying you for saving my life."

"Are you going to survive by relying on the little bit of charity you give me?" Yun Shuo asked back disdainfully.

He continued walking without looking back. "If ELO loses, then wrap my body in the ELO flag, because I will definitely die before then. But I will not lose, and neither will ELO!"

Chapter 16: You don’t carry a gun, you carry explosives?

When Setash returned, Ella had already sat back down in the distance, drinking slowly.

Her scarlet eyes narrowed and her gaze fell on the clothes that Satesh was wearing, which were not only intact but also spotless.

After looking him up and down, he actually pretended to be quite surprised.

She slowly put down the red wine glass in her hand, curled her lips into a smile, and said to Sai Taishi in a deliberately disgusting way, "How heartless! After all, we've been allies for so long, yet you didn't even bother to take his dying body, leaving him to fall straight to the ground like this."

You have to remember, Yun Shuo was shot dead. Judging from the gunfire, he was probably hit more than once. So, it was inevitable that his body would be covered in blood. It was no easy task for Saitaishi to avoid getting himself stained with blood after receiving Yun Shuo's body.

This unscrupulous fellow who dared to speak wildly in front of him was probably lying alone on that sunny avenue, waiting for a servant to come and collect his body.

It's really ridiculous that a great leader of ELO ended up like this.

Facing Ella's sarcasm, Setash ignored her and just picked up the opened bottle of red wine. Not caring that he was still drunk, he poured most of the wine into the glass and drank it all in one gulp, which looked quite terrifying.

This series of actions made Ella frown, thinking to herself: Yun Shuo is dead, and I haven't said anything yet. But you are acting like you want to drown your sorrows in alcohol, as if you are not the only one who wants Yun Shuo dead.

But Setash didn't even glance at Ella. After releasing the anger that had been pent up in his chest for a long time, he said slowly, "If he's not dead, there's no need to collect his body."

There was a hint of relief in his voice, but Ella couldn't feel relieved.

"Not dead?" Ella stood up suddenly upon hearing this. She rushed to Setash's side in two steps and firmly grasped his arm as he was about to pour the wine again. "Tell me clearly, what exactly is going on? How could he not be dead?"

Setaishi concealed his fault and replied with confidence, "The sniper was killed. Remember that gun? It's from ELO, designed by Yun Shuo. Do you think he has it?"

"Are you useless? Don't you know how to resist?" Although Ella's words were harsh, she still let go of the hand that was holding Setash's arm. "Didn't I say that we should arrange more people outside? Even if someone leaks the information, so what?"

"If someone leaked the information, Yun Shuo wouldn't have come." Sai Taishi retorted immediately.

Yun Shuo is not stupid. He knows that it is impossible to get along with Ella, so he came here with full preparation. When he saw Ella stationed here in three layers, he would definitely take a look from afar, then pat his butt and turn around and leave.

The sight of him fleeing in panic, bullets closing in, was still seared into Setash's mind. The resentment he'd suppressed with the alcohol, now swirling under Ella's accusations, weighed down his heart like a gloom, suffocating him.

He has been threatened repeatedly by Yun Shuo, and now he has to endure your anger again when he comes back?

Saitaishi retaliated venomously, "I don't know who he is. He's as good as dead. All he does is sit here and wait, instead of even going outside to take a look. There were so many gunshots, and he didn't even bother to come out!"

"What do you mean?" Ella asked back, her brow furrowed, a hint of menace in her tone. Setash actually dared to speak to her, the city lord, in this way. It was simply unscrupulous!

You must know that they have now been driven to the same camp by Yun Shuo, and in this camp, Ella, the city lord, is absolutely the only supreme leader without any doubt.

No matter from which angle you look at it, Setai's words are undoubtedly a questioning of the city lord's authority.

"What do I mean?" Setash knew Ella was dissatisfied with his attitude, but so what? He still remembered how Ella had repeatedly used him to pave the way for her during the negotiations.

Saitaishi was not intimidated and sneered directly, "Heh, if you had just come out, Yun Shuo wouldn't have been able to escape."

Ella's face turned pale when she heard this. She asked in disbelief, "You mean, this is all my fault?"

Saitaishi nodded without hesitation. His lies always flowed so smoothly, as if they were true. "Why? Could it be that after Yun Shuo pointed a gun at me, I would still risk my life to fight a lowly person like him?"

Ella was speechless after hearing this. It took her a while to come back to her senses. She wanted to argue but didn't know where to start. She could only ask helplessly, "What should we do now?"

Seeing the other party voluntarily retreat, Setaishi naturally stopped pressing and waved his hand nonchalantly, saying, "Yun Shuo can go back. He mentioned to me before that the main purpose of his visit this time was to find out when you plan to mobilize the nobles to fight. This just proves that ELO is not yet fully prepared to compete with us, and they know that they can't compete with us."

"That's why they're acting so cautiously, even risking their own commander's life to participate in the peace talks, just to find out how much time they have left to prepare. If that's the case, then we just need to expedite the process and have those nobles serve in the Cori army as soon as possible."

Setash's words were simple, but Ella felt inexplicably unsure.

She frowned slightly, a lingering worry in her eyes. "Are you sure Yun Shuo would come here just for this purpose? With his calculating personality, it's not like he would easily do something where the risk and reward are completely disproportionate."

"What are you afraid of?" Setash Setash seemed to be indifferent to Ella's doubts and poured some red wine into his glass again.

"My team has surrounded him tightly." Setash seemed to have regained his previous arrogance.

Yun Shuo's actions completely cut off Setai's delusion of becoming the city lord. Now the only thing he could do was to follow Ella and try his best to maintain his own interests.

He gently shook the red wine glass in his hand, and the deep red liquid slowly slid down the wall of the glass. "Let him prepare well. No matter how well he prepares, it will only take one blow from us."

"Bombs?" Ella frowned in confusion. Due to the incident at the military factory, there wasn't much "food reserves" left. She didn't believe that Setash didn't know this.

Her eyes fell on Setash's confident face, trying to find a clue from it.

Setash smiled slightly, leaned back in his chair leisurely, crossed his arms over his chest, looked up at Ella and said, "No, there aren't many shells left."

Then, he changed the subject, "Lord City Lord, you should still remember your friend. I think her name is 'Lumi', right? I remember she was also one of the people favored by the gods."

Setash continued in a lingering tone, "Instead of dwelling on this, why not seek help from Lumi? You two are good friends, and she will certainly agree to your request."

With Ella's proud personality, she naturally didn't want to owe Lumi a favor, "But..."

Setash had already prepared himself for Ella's humiliation and replied calmly, "Lord City Lord, if she's unwilling to do even this little thing, how can she be your close friend? You don't have to worry about her having any psychological burdens; after all, she's from the Kingdom of Wind."

After a moment's hesitation, Ella neither refused nor agreed, but replied ambiguously, "I understand."

Then, she left without even thinking about saying goodbye to Setash.

Just after she left, the servant who had been hesitating outside the door for a long time tiptoed in. Her movements were so light, like a cat, and she was careful with every step, for fear of making any noise that would cause Setash's dissatisfaction.

She held a letter carefully in her hand. The paper was light and almost weightless. But in her hand, the letter was as hot as a burning brazier, causing her hand holding the letter to tremble slightly.

She was actually illiterate and didn't know what was written on the letter in her hand, but from the shocking pool of blood on the letter and the fact that the housekeeper, contrary to his usual behavior, did not deliver the letter personally but sent her to deliver it, it could be seen that the content of the letter was definitely not good, so much so that the housekeeper did not dare to deliver it, for fear of suffering an unexpected disaster.

She bit her lower lip, trying to keep herself calm and stop her hands from shaking. Then, she knelt in front of Setash.

After all, your master is sitting, and you are standing, so you are obviously taller than him. How dare you do that?

"Lord Setash." She raised her hands quickly and accurately, holding the letter in her hand steadily in front of Lord Setash, just where he could pick it up.

Seth's sharp eyes caught the soaked, crimson half corner of the envelope, a blood mark that was shocking. He frowned, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart, and he hurriedly opened the envelope.

The letter slipped out lightly, and the handwriting on it was short and hurried, revealing a sense of urgency and despair.

The general meaning is quite simple: This morning, ELO asked us to give way so they could seize territory. Following Lord Setash's instructions, we complied. But now, they've surrounded us. Seeing things were going badly, we're forcing ourselves to break out.

To put it more simply: ELO stole the base.

Judging from the bloodstains on the letter, the breakout attempt has probably failed, all members have been sacrificed, and only the messenger is still alive.

Setaishi gripped the letter tightly, his knuckles turning white as if he was about to crush the thin paper. Then he shouted angrily, "Why are you reporting this urgent matter only now?"

The servant's mind clearly hadn't caught up to Setash's rhythm. She lowered her head, as if questioning why they had to write a letter instead of contacting them directly. So, she carefully explained, "You know the situation at ELO. Direct contact is almost impossible. We can only communicate through letters."

Setash's patience had worn thin. He kicked it hard, then laughed angrily, "Is that what I'm asking?"

The letter in his hand seemed to have become a ball of scorching flame, burning his fingers so much that they trembled constantly. "I'm asking you why you didn't report this to me earlier!"

She didn't care about anything for a moment, and suddenly looked up, her eyes flashing with fear and anxiety. Her whole body trembled involuntarily, and she tried her best to control herself from completely collapsing.

She was still trying to defend herself, "My lord, you once issued an order that no one is allowed to approach this place during the peace talks."