It wasn't an apple that hit Newton.

"Game over, the good guys win."

Lavoisier recited his closing lines: "The werewolves only killed one villager on the first night. In addition, the seer this round is Miss Newton. After hearing that scream, she decisively checked Li Cheng, the werewolf. The witch's antidote was also available, and they won the round steadily."

The second round begins.

Holly, filled with resentment, drew her identity card, and a werewolf appeared in her hand.

"Everyone close your eyes."

"Werewolf, please open your eyes."

Holly immediately opened her eyes, and under Lavoisier's questioning gaze, she decisively pointed to the direction where Li Cheng was standing next to her. Her other werewolf teammate, Susie, did not object and pointed to Li Cheng with great interest. The two quickly reached a consensus.

After making this decision, Holly smiled slightly and closed her eyes with a satisfied smile.

"Werewolf, please close your eyes."

"Prophet, please open your eyes...close your eyes..."

"Witch, please open your eyes... This is the person who will die tonight. Witch, would you like to use the antidote?"

Upon hearing the host call for the witch, Li Cheng, who had drawn the witch card, slowly opened his eyes, intending to see which unlucky soul would be the first to be struck down this time.

Then he saw Lavoisier's long, slender fingers pointing at him.

"..."

Knowing he was the unlucky one, Li Cheng's eyes flickered as he scanned the people sitting at the table, intending to drag someone he liked down with him.

Then he noticed that the little green maid's expression was off—Holly, having avenged her great enemy, was imagining Li Cheng's bewildered expression when he learned of her death at dawn, and couldn't help but smile slightly. In addition, her long eyelashes fluttered excitedly beneath her tightly closed eyelids.

You bullied me last time, now you've stabbed me! Hmph~

Noticing the innocent and unsuspecting maid, Li Cheng pondered for a moment, nodded to Lavoisier, and then gave the maid a thumbs-up downwards, indicating that he was going to poison her.

Lavoisier, observing everything from a god-like perspective, couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.

It's too cruel.

If this man dared to target her like that while playing Werewolf, he'd definitely need a lot of serious talk to appease her afterwards... Wait, why did I suddenly think of that? It's all Li Cheng's fault. Lately, he's only been concerned with the frontline situation and organizing supplies; it's been almost a month since he went on a business trip with her...

While thinking about yellow waste, Lavoisier recited his lines.

"Witch, please close your eyes."

"It's dawn, everyone please open your eyes—tonight the people who died are Li Cheng and Holly. Please leave your last words."

Li Cheng: “√”

Holly: "???"

The little maid opened her eyes expectantly, wanting to see Li Cheng's expression after learning of her death, but instead learned of her own death. Her upturned lips immediately fell, and she looked quite upset.

She is a werewolf, so she must have been poisoned by the witch.

The witch poisoned her. Why did the witch poison her?

Although I've never played this game before, using poison so casually without knowing the other person's identity is just too reckless, isn't it?

Filled with questions, Holly patiently watched the entire game.

A moment later...

"Game over, the good guys win."

The witch and the werewolf perished together, while the seer, disguised as a villager, survived for two rounds and successfully identified the second werewolf, winning another victory for the good guys.

When Holly learned that Li Cheng was a witch and had decisively poisoned her on their first night, she could no longer hold back.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Carrying together past experiences and grudges, she even forgot the difference in status between herself and Li Cheng. She suddenly jumped up from her seat, her eyes red, and grabbed his shoulders, shaking him violently back and forth, saying, "You actually killed me on the first night twice in a row! I'm so angry, so angry!"

"Cough cough, calm down, calm down."

Li Cheng tried to appease the maid who had revealed her true nature and seemed to have transformed from a masochist to a sadist: "Look, as a witch, I can't die in vain on my first night. I have to take one with me, right?"

"Then why me?"

"Your silly grin is so obvious, it's hard for me not to be scathing."

"Huh? Am I just grinning like an idiot...? Wait, what about the first game???"

"Wasn't that your first time playing this game? I was just reminding you to follow the rules. No matter what happens at night, even if a werewolf is deliberately poking your face, you absolutely, positively cannot open your eyes. Opening your eyes is a foul."

Li Cheng was talking nonsense with a straight face.

Hearing his nonsense, Holly's eyes suddenly turned red, and she looked like she was about to turn into a werewolf. Even the simple gesture of shaking his shoulder turned into choking him.

"I'll strangle you to death!"

Chapter 386 After the war ends, then—

The Werewolf game is highly effective.

After several rounds of intense and competitive werewolf battles, Holly began to enjoy the board game and truly immersed herself in the game.

Seeing her transform from her initial reserved demeanor back into the lively little maid Li Cheng remembered, even speaking with much more energy, filled Li Cheng with great satisfaction.

After all, Holly was Veronique's personal maid, so rounding up, wasn't she practically his personal maid?

Although he only joked about serving someone in bed to scare them.

But seeing his personal maid so wary and reserved wasn't conducive to a harmonious marital relationship with the princess in the future...

Far away.

Li Cheng first used board games to make Holly less reserved, and the group played happily for an afternoon and evening. Then, the next day, he spent another day showing her the logistical work he usually handled, so as not to be misunderstood as a lazy, idle person who spent all day in the back.

The importance of logistics is self-evident.

An army without supplies will perish; without food, it will perish; without reserves, it will perish.

Aside from those extreme nomadic tribes that relied on war to sustain their wars, once a regular army's logistics faltered and supplies couldn't keep up, even the toughest man would be rendered ineffective after three days of hunger. In terms of weaponry, the maintenance and repair of equipment, as well as the replenishment of gunpowder and ammunition, were all measures that directly affected combat effectiveness, especially since the quality of firearms in this era was poor and they often needed to be sent back to the factory for repairs.

However, in contrast to its importance, logistics is also the place most prone to corruption and malpractice.

While the front lines were in dire need, the rear was feasting. The sheer volume of money and supplies handled meant that logistics personnel could easily find a way to make a quick buck. Even without misappropriating supplies, they could become incredibly wealthy simply by taking kickbacks from merchants, without ever having to worry about being caught.

Logistics is so important, yet so prone to corruption, that usually only the most trusted and reliable people are entrusted with this important task.

Compared to others, Li Cheng, who was in charge of logistics, did indeed have a natural advantage.

Firstly, Li Cheng has a good relationship with the merchant guild responsible for supplying major materials, and he also has a close relationship with Veronica, so he can serve as a good coordinator between the two sides, making it easy to resolve any problems that arise.

Secondly, Li Cheng is not short of money and is too lazy to smuggle supplies.

In the end, Li Cheng's presence on the front lines was of little use; he was just another Zhao Kuo. It would have been better for him to continue managing logistics from the rear, along with the repair, improvement, and production of firearms in his own factory...

......

A day and a half passed in the blink of an eye.

After a brief farewell, Li Cheng and Holly, along with a batch of supplies destined for the front lines, prepared to head to the fighting front in Peterborough.

Peterborough is located at the border of southern Lincolnshire and northern Cambridgeshire.

It is the largest city in Cambridgeshire, densely populated, and only 125 kilometers away from London, which is a two-hour drive in modern terms—although the whole of the United Kingdom, including Ireland, is only 242,900 square kilometers, smaller than Japan.

Despite his small size, Li Cheng's current success is partly due to the fact that Britain is a small country.

In a traditional Chinese historical drama, he would probably still be wandering around a province, figuring out how to get a degree without taking the imperial examination.

Compared to China's complete bureaucratic management system, Britain, which lacks a mature civil service system, relies entirely on bloodline-based family governance, and where state officials are essentially synonymous with nepotism, can indeed achieve upward social mobility the fastest.

Back to the topic.

Peterborough's geographical location was so important that if the King's army fell, Veronica's princess army could march south and take Cambridge, directly threatening London.

With the generals and soldiers accumulating experience, their morale rising from defeat to victory, and the actual battle reports they received, Li Cheng estimated that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, they would be able to capture Peterborough in less than a month.

This is also one of the advantages of a small country. In just five months, a small force of a few thousand raw recruits, who have never experienced war, can approach the capital and threaten the safety of the supreme ruler, relying on modern firearms and ample logistics.

If we translate that to the Qing Dynasty, starting from the Yunnan uprising and marching northeastward through the winding and complex primitive terrain, it would have been quite a struggle for the army to even reach Beijing in just a few months.

"Is this the difference between big cities and small towns?"

Inside the moving caravan, Li Cheng crossed his legs, gazing at the scenery outside the window while idly complaining to himself: "On one hand, there's a crazy infighting where people are still gritting their teeth and trying to squeeze in, using all sorts of tricks to time travel; on the other hand, you can easily fool kings and princesses and get a minor official position, yet you can't even see a ghost of a time traveler."

"?!!"

Holly, on the other side of the carriage, was full of questions, but she immediately caught the key word "princess" in the conversation.

She asked warily, "What are you talking about? Are you planning to lie to His Highness again?"

"What do you mean by 'again'?" Li Cheng turned his gaze to the maid who had a certain loyal dog-like quality. "Put your hand on your conscience. When have I ever lied to His Highness? Haven't I always been using my diligence and competence to try my best to solve His Highness's problems?"

Holly thought for a moment, but couldn't think of any examples.

But something felt off. After some careful consideration, the young maid hesitated for a moment, but considering that there was no one else in the carriage, she mustered her courage, looked up, and stammered, "Li Cheng, could you promise me two things?"

"speak."

Li Cheng waved his hand lazily. Of course, whether he listened or not was another matter. He had to hear what it was about before weighing the pros and cons.

"The first thing is that you must not deceive Her Highness the Princess."

Holly pursed her lips. For some reason, she had a feeling that Li Cheng was secretly hiding something.

"to make."

It would be strange to refuse such a request, so Li Cheng readily agreed.

Because Holly agreed so readily, she turned her green eyes and stared at him suspiciously for several seconds—which caught Li Cheng's attention, and he turned around and stared straight into Holly's eyes, taking the initiative.

After staring at each other for several minutes, the relatively shy maid finally looked away, lowered her head, and began to cool down her skills.

"The second thing."

Bored to the point of staring at the grasshopper maid and winning, Li Cheng smiled smugly and signaled Holly that she could continue.

Putting aside the boring aspects...

The reason Li Cheng urged Holly was that he was indeed quite interested in what the little maid wanted him to agree to—of course, whether he would agree or not was another matter.

Holly is currently on cooldown.

So she didn't look up, but kept her head down, and said in a very serious tone: "The second thing is that after the war is over, I hope that you can treat the princess like you treat the girls in your family, and often play with her, with a large group of people having a lively barbecue and playing board games together."