The villain's way to tame the protagonist

[Ms. Spider, stop being stunned. They are going to another gathering point... Ah, Miss Doll is also there. How did she find them? This is really bad news...]

Did I...wrong Ella?

Didn't she use the revolutionary army to frame me? Was she framed by Leng Yu? From the beginning to the end, she really just wanted to do her part for Donggang?

[Spider-Ms.? Spider-Ms.?]

If that's the case, what on earth did I...what on earth did I do—

Lian De's thoughts were suddenly interrupted. Her expression was distorted, and she fell to her knees on the ground with a hideous face, shaking constantly.

[Hmm... Mr. Devil should think this is a mental breakdown and won't get suspicious. Yeah, I didn't, that's good.]

Then Lian De felt that the pain that seemed to be squeezing and crushing his entire soul in a pure and extremely rough way was fading away little by little.

Listen up, Ms. Spider.

The devil's voice sounded again, as if whispering in her ear.

[No matter how painful and desperate you are now, there are more important things waiting for you to do]

[You must find them before Miss Doll... Miss Mingfuluo Zeger, kill them all, and don't leave her any clues to trace their identities, otherwise...]

The devil lady paused, but didn't say anything harsh, just chuckled:

You don't want to know otherwise.

[We've been through so much, how bad can it get? Stop thinking about those meaningless things, just do what you should do]

Hearing these words, Lian De felt as if a gaze was descending from the sky. No matter how much regret and pain she was feeling at the moment, it was all meaningless to that gaze.

She wanted to resist, she should resist, resist this extremely mean and arrogant attitude that trampled on her dignity and even her personality, but she... couldn't do it.

If he lost everything here, Lian De Shenlan's life would become a joke.

[…You’re right, devil.]

She called the monster who never revealed his identity to her like this, and her dull eyes were burning with hatred that rose from her pain.

[How much worse could it get? ]

Day 8: Harvest (K)

Ming Furo has been so busy recently that she hardly sees Ansel. As time goes by, her anxiety grows.

She had spread the word as planned before, that as long as they could protect their subjects in this war and fulfill their duties as lords, they would be rewarded. But even so... the progress could not reach the expected level.

"The delay in the middle... No, too much time was wasted from the beginning."

Ming Fuluo, who was staying at the center of an ordnance storage facility, had a slightly cold look in her eyes: "If that woman Lian De had cooperated with me from the beginning, even if the revolutionary army sabotaged it in the middle, the entire Donggang's armed construction should have been completed."

She was not the kind of person who liked to complain, but the fact really made Miss Scholar very annoyed.

Ming Furo often took some time out of her work hours to think about why Lian De so firmly rejected her request and even continued to obstruct her until now.

If the negative performance of the Donggang dignitaries in building the defense system was due to pressure from Lian De, or some power struggle that she could not understand... then why was Lian De so passive? There was no one above her except Anser, and her plan would not affect this guy's interests in any way.

Could it be that that idiot...really did this simply because he was jealous of the relationship between her and Anser?

Ming Furo expressionlessly counted the various weapons neatly arranged in the armory and on standby, veins bulging at his temples.

"If she's such a moron... then why not just throw her on Anser's bed and let that damn brat play with her to death, anyway... huh?"

Ming Fuluo frowned after saying something shocking. Her eyes swept across the row of cabinets filled with standard armor against the wall, and suddenly stopped in front of an armor cabinet.

This is a degraded version of the standard mechanical suit that Ming Furo spent half a day conceiving. It is basically useless to third- and fourth-level extraordinary people, but first- and second-level extraordinary people can use it to accomplish many things. When loaded into the central system, it can also enter the autonomous mode, acting with the protection of civilians as the top priority. In an emergency, it can also actively stuff civilians into the armor for protection.

Because the time for conception was too short, Ming Furo basically did not consider the cost issue. Although Ansher was willing to give her unlimited resources to squander, Ming Furo was not so extravagant as to put this thing everywhere. She only set it up in a few large cities in Donggang that would definitely be attacked fiercely by the revolutionary army.

The reason why she was now in the armory of this territory city was because the central system gave a rather inexplicable feedback -

There are several missing alchemical weapons here.

A degraded standard mechanical suit, a portable melting laser cannon, three general reconnaissance equipment, four individual heavy firearms and a whole box of ammunition.

Ming Fuluo initially thought that there was something wrong with the central system. After all, she was the only one in the world who could understand this thing, and even Anser couldn't provide any help. Ming Fuluo had been groping forward with the system, and even now she would occasionally find some minor problems.

I originally came here with the intention of finding a system problem, but I didn't expect... there would actually be equipment missing!

She squinted her eyes, opened the transparent cabinet door, and put her hand on the armor that looked no different from other standard weapons.

The fair and delicate little hand used just a little force, and the place that was touched was pinched and deformed.

"Shaping spell... ha." Ming Fuluo sneered, "It looks quite realistic, but it's only realistic in appearance."

The people who stole the equipment deliberately left a replica here. They were very thoughtful, but unfortunately, what they were facing had already exceeded the limits of their cognition.

Not surprisingly, the other stolen equipment was also disguised with shaping spells, and the entire armory seemed to be in good condition.

If it weren't for the feedback provided by the central system, she really wouldn't have been able to discover that her equipment had been secretly stolen.

And it was because of...Ansher's reminder.

Ming Furo lowered her eyes slightly, called up the location information of the lost equipment on the central system, and instantly locked all the equipment.

She initially regarded the feedback about missing equipment as a system problem because the location information provided was fixed and scattered around Donggang, and it has not changed to this day.

But now it seems... this seems to be the other party's method.

"You think there must be a way to locate these weapons. You didn't think of taking all the equipment away, but discarded one or two and took the others?"

Ming Fuluo tapped the metal surface with her slender fingers. "There are watchers or spells left at the locations of each weapon. As long as I retrieve a weapon, I will immediately run away with the weapon farthest from it... That should be the plan."

"It may be possible to use different means to disperse them during the escape, or even to take only one item with you in the end."

The woman's fingers paused for a moment. She glanced at the inferior imitation that she had smashed, and looked thoughtful:

"Those idiots, are they capable of this level?"

The thieves had obviously made a very meticulous, even pathologically cautious design, whether it was the shaping spell that was easily visible to Ming Furo but was actually quite sophisticated, or their cautious attitude towards the stolen weapons... In this huge armory, they only stole a few pieces of equipment that might not be discovered even without the shaping spell. It was really... cautious enough.

Just finding the location of the armory was incredible, and being able to successfully break into it was even more incredible... Whether it was strategy or ability, they were obviously outstanding, why were these people sent to die? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't make sense...

Could it be that extraordinary people of this quality are just the average level within the Revolutionary Army?

Ming Fuluo's eyes became more serious... Originally, she didn't take the loss of her equipment seriously.

Because she had too many things on hand, Ming Furo had no time to deal with those trivial matters. Although she saw the system prompt that the equipment was missing, the number was so tiny... The loss of single digits was equivalent to a minor problem with the system in Ming Furo's view, so she didn't pay much attention to it at the beginning.

Although it was inconsistent with her usual rigorous character, considering the current tense situation, it was, well... reasonable for the scholar lady to have such an idea when she had no intention of caring about other trivial matters.

Almost a day later, she remembered this and found out about it in the armory.

In fact, this problem itself is not a problem, because the existence of the central system can crush all the calculations of this gang into dust. Retrieving these equipments or even killing the thief is just a matter of thought for Ming Furo. What really deserves Ming Furo's attention is the abnormal and outstanding performance of the thief.

But if it was really done by those few revolutionary soldiers...

The brief solemnity quickly dissipated, because Ming Fuluo realized that this was not a threat, but an opportunity.

It was Ansel who created the opportunity for her.

*

"Boss, do we really have to go this far? I think running away is the best option."

In the alternative assembly place, four of the five-member team have gathered, and their expressions are exactly the same - a kind of powerless depression and anxiety.

After entering the armory and seeing the various weapons filling the entire huge building, their first reaction was not "How are we going to take this information back?"

But...are we really going to go to war with these things?

When they thought about the fact that other territories, or even most of the territories, were likely to be filled with those bizarre steel monsters, this group of elite soldiers had nothing but despair and prayer in their hearts - they prayed that these things were just iron shells that looked good but were useless.

Otherwise, they really couldn't think of...what the revolutionary army could rely on to capture Donggang, which was armed to the teeth.

They didn't know that the revolutionary army's reliance on capturing Donggang was now standing next to them, ready to grind them into pulp and wipe them out of this world at any time.

What they didn’t know was that… this originally most crucial factor in winning the game was already on the brink of destruction.

Lian De stared at them expressionlessly. She was lucky and unlucky, and the reasons for her luck and misfortune were... before the team gathered, she still had a chance to listen to this group of people talk more about the Revolutionary Army and East Port.

"No need?" The team leader intertwined his fingers and said solemnly, "You all saw that creature that was almost like a steel forest... Our chances of winning were already much lower. If we are not careful enough, we might bring disaster to our colleagues!"

“…Shaping disguise should be enough, right? We only took a few things, and I really don’t believe that Zeger can mark the location of each alchemical tool… There are countless alchemical tools in the territory alone, how many should there be in the entire East Port? No matter how powerful she is, she can’t mark them all—”

"How many times have I said that underestimating the enemy will bring devastating consequences!"

The leader slammed the table and glared at her: "Who do you think that woman is? Damn... that monster was able to join forces with Hydra to kill the emperor! Are you going to pin your hopes of victory on the fact that the other party is not as powerful as they appear to be?!"

The plan of this team was similar to what Ming Furo had guessed. The team leader had always placed Ming Furo's power in a very high position and made multiple assumptions - the stolen alchemical equipment had additional secret skills that they could not unlock. Not to mention the most basic one such as positioning, there might also be dangerous spells such as self-destruction, self-explosion, rampage, and reverse surveillance.

So they didn't have the courage to take all the weapons with them, but only planned to take away one or two weapons that looked quite powerful, and leave the others as bait to interfere with Ming Furo's judgment. When the interference was successful, they would take the most needed weapons and flee Donggang as quickly as possible.

The person who hadn't arrived yet was the only warlock in their team who was quite proficient in space magic. He was planning a route for space movement. According to the plan, the remaining four people would choose to flee in different directions according to the situation, or stay behind to delay the warlock in case Ming Fuluo might see through them, giving him a chance to escape.

They even thought that the warlock's ether must not be wasted, and they had to get him to the revolutionary army's marching headquarters as quickly as possible so that they could not escape with him. The entire plan was filled with extreme caution and determination from beginning to end.

It’s a pity...they and the enemies they face are not in the same dimension at all.

Now, they share the surveillance of other weapons. As long as Ming Furo appears at any weapon, the space sorcerer who has marked the other weapons will immediately go to the weapon farthest from her, take at most one more, and then quickly flee from Donggang.

The atmosphere seemed to be too depressing and gloomy. The captain, who had just lost his temper, coughed twice and said, "Think positively. Maybe even if we are caught... His Royal Highness the Regent will let us go."

"Boss, stop joking..."

"You are kidding me, if he can let us go once, why can't he let us go a second time?"

The captain said nonchalantly, "Didn't he also say that he is not interested in the outcome of the war... No, he doesn't think we can defeat him at all. He only cares whether we can join forces with him to fight Ivora."

? !

The amount of information in this sentence instantly cleared Lian De's already chaotic brain, and a hint of disbelief appeared on his already dead face.

His Highness Anser wants to join forces with us... to fight against Ivora?

No, Your Highness Ansel, it turns out that they have been caught a long time ago?

...No, it was not His Highness Anther who caught them, but Zeger, who was not good at torture and was extremely concerned about time, handed them over to His Highness Anther, but His Highness chose to let them go and chose to use them... to show goodwill to the revolutionary army.

Lian De's already dim pupils began to tremble violently.

On one side, he was clearly a veteran of the revolutionary army, but for unknown reasons he blocked the revolutionary army's crucial actions; on the other side, he was clearly the biggest villain on the opposite side, the regent who controlled the empire, but he didn't care about their rebellious behavior at all, and was even willing to give them a chance and show goodwill even after being offended like that.

Lian De felt that the beliefs and positions that had never wavered since he was a child were being crushed bit by bit by the invisible terror and being shaped into... a new shape bit by bit.

But she didn't resist, and she... couldn't resist.

Because reality is really too cruel.

But even so... even if His Highness Anser, he...

Lian De bit her lips tightly. She was not happy about this incident. She only felt...endless sadness.

She was feeling sad for herself.

When she thought that Anser was the abyss monster that Ivora described as being at the end of his rope, hopeless and doomed to destruction, she felt endless sorrow.

Even though the contrast was so stark, she still couldn't give up everything and stand on Anser's side, because she still had it, because she... hated it.

"If we succeed, Lord Leng Zhu will surely praise our courage!"

As if to encourage his teammates, the captain's voice was much more proud: "We who returned successfully despite having the will to die will surely become one of the banners and guide our compatriots in the direction!"

Cold Salamander...

It really is a cold salamander, and it can only be a cold salamander.

Such a secret team was sent out without anyone knowing, and no legion commander was aware of it.

There was boundless murderous intent in Lian De's eyes. Her desire for victory was not shaken by Leng Xi's betrayal or Ansir's kindness. Instead, it became more and more intense, even reaching an unprecedented peak.

Because this is... the meaning of your life, and it is all you have left.

The Saint Lady looked at Lian De and smiled unconsciously.

It was a smile full of pure joy, as if he was playing with a favorite toy.

Mr. Devil seems to be saying that he is bringing help to Miss Doll by reminding her through them, but in fact the greatest help... is to destroy Ms. Spider's beliefs.

As long as Ms. Spider doesn't stand on the side of the Revolutionary Army, the Revolutionary Army will not be able to defeat Ms. Doll even if she sleeps in Mr. Devil's bracelet every day. This is... real help.

Those words of yours were probably prepared for today—words of goodwill toward the revolutionary army.

You don't care about Miss Devil, she is your good cat.

You just want to use the revolutionary army to say this to the most determined leader of the revolutionary army. Even your own people have acknowledged your kindness, so what reason does she have... to stand against you?