I'm bad, but players love me

In the chaos, they didn't even think about why the ELO members who governed this place let these nobles in. They only had anger and dissatisfaction in their hearts, and they just wanted to express their position and determination in the most direct way.

The rage in Setash's heart burned fiercely, as if it was about to set the entire space on fire. However, he knew that he had to remain calm at this moment and not let a momentary impulse ruin his carefully planned plan.

The servants quickly closed the small window, blocking out the noise from the outside world, but the "crackling" sound of the clods of earth hitting the glass became increasingly harsh.

The sound was like countless small hammers constantly hitting Setash's nerves, making it impossible for him to calm down.

Setais clenched his fists, veins bulging, as if he was trying to suppress his inner rage. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to calm himself, waiting for the ELO members who had received the news to rush over and persuade the group of untouchables below to leave.

His eyes were bloodshot.

This bunch of untouchables! Once I succeed in seizing the throne, I will definitely grind them to dust!

……

Willis carefully shook Yun Shuo's shoulders. After the man drowsily looked up from the documents on the table, he carefully folded Yun Shuo's coat and couldn't help but complain, "If you had a normal sleep schedule, you wouldn't fall asleep on the table like this every day."

Yun Shuo's eyelids trembled slightly, as if he was struggling to wake up from a deep sleep. Willis frowned at this and continued to complain, "Only three or four hours of sleep a day. Are you ready to pack up and become a god?"

"Come to think of it, quite a few people have replaced their clay Mani statues with your image. Since worshipping Mani, the god of machinery, isn't effective anyway, I might as well just worship you."

"I'm not powerful either. I'm really curious why the statues of the nobles are so powerful, and why they give them divine power all the time." Yun Shuo rubbed his tired eyes, yawned, and talked about something else. "The world has gone downhill. In the past, such a young person would shout 'Commander, Commander' every day, but when he got older, he would just call him 'you, you, you'."

He stretched himself and spoke slowly, "I've been busy lately, and I can't just sit back and do nothing and push everything onto you. Once I started, I realized I really don't like dealing with this data. It hurts my eyes."

Willis looked at him, a playful smile on his face, and said, "I know you prefer and are better at mechanics. Yialos has been looking for you recently. Didn't you make a rocket launcher a while ago? He's really jealous. If it weren't for the urgent war, he would have disassembled one and studied it. Now he wants to ask you for the blueprints. Why don't you go talk to him?"

As expected, Yun Shuo shuddered when he heard this, as if he had been splashed with cold water and woke up. "Hey! Not really, not really. I don't like dealing with him anymore."

There was a hint of joking in his tone, but it also revealed his awe for Yialos's overly fanatical personality. "If he catches me, I'll be skinned alive. He and guns are truly in love, so I won't force my hand. It'll be bad for my reputation if word gets out."

"Oh, right." Yun Shuo turned to look at Willis, a look of confusion and helplessness in his eyes, and asked, "What happened? You woke me up so suddenly, you can't be telling me about these trivial family matters, right?"

Willis frowned slightly, his annoyance towards Setash evident in his words, "That guy Setash is here again." His words were full of dissatisfaction and disdain.

Yun Shuo rubbed his tired eyes and sighed, "Why is he here again? There are so many things going on every day. Does he think that everyone is like him, doing nothing all day and just lying there waiting to be served?"

"So what? Do you want to refuse?" Willis was scolded by Yun Shuo as soon as he finished speaking.

Yun Shuo used the material available, casually picking up a pen from the table and tapping it gently, as if the crisp sound could awaken some memory in Willis. For a moment, Willis seemed to be back in that rainy night, penniless and ignorant, when Yun Shuo rescued him from the torrential downpour.

"Willis, you have to remember that it's not easy for ELO to get to where it is today, so we have to save as much as possible. Since it's of use, we have to make good use of it, at least on the surface. If you really want to curse someone, then go home and curse them, unless the other party is too mean." Yun Shuo's words revealed an unquestionable firmness.

"Let's go and see him together."

Chapter 95: Tossing a Coin

Outside the damp, sagging longhouse, an ELO member held a child in one hand and raised the other to their mouth like a trumpet, shouting into the house, "Auntie Set, we've brought the child to you!"

Aunt Seth looked extremely flustered, just like a petty thief. She frantically wiped her hands, which were covered with grass debris, on her apron, and then hurried out of the house.

As soon as she saw someone outside, before she could even tell who it was, she subconsciously hunched her back, smiling widely as she kept thanking them, "Thank you ELO for your kindness in sending my child back."

Even though she tried her best to adjust the conversation to the "equal" tone required by ELO, the deep-rooted flattery habit was deeply ingrained in her bones, making the words she said become strange.

Just like her current strange attitude towards the unfamiliar word "equality".

"Ha, it's no big deal." The members were at a loss in the face of this awkward situation. It felt that anything they said would be inappropriate, so they hurriedly pushed the child who had taken the lead in smashing the setash forward and said, "Go, go home."

The child, however, was much more calm than her mother. She even had the leisure to wave goodbye to the ELO member. Her clear voice echoed in the air: "Let's go!"

Aunt Seth clearly sensed something was amiss. Why would ELO personally send her child home for no reason? He was already that old, and it wasn't like he could be abandoned.

She grabbed the child who was still standing there stupidly, waving at the ELO members who had disappeared from her sight, and dragged him into the house without saying a word.

"Mom? What are you doing?"

But Aunt Seth didn't care and pulled the man into the house without saying a word. The wooden door slowly closed behind her, isolating the noise from the outside world.

The light in the room was dim, and her face looked even gloomier in the shadows, like the dark clouds before a storm, so oppressive that it made people breathless. "Colin, tell me the truth, what did you do?"

"I smashed a noble's carriage." Colin said frankly.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent until a sharp, trembling female voice came from the house, "Tell me! Where have you been?"

"Mom, I'm going to beat the beast! Tell them to take our money!" As if his mother's blood pressure wasn't high enough, Colin continued to prod her without knowing anything. There was even a hint of pride on her face.

As soon as the words fell, the woman's voice trembled twice, and she raised her voice and roared: "Beast!"

"Yes, I hit the beast!" Colin raised his childish little face, mistaking the red blush on his mother's face that was shaking with anger for the excitement brought by pride.

"I call you a beast!" As he said this, he picked up a broom nearby, grabbed the child's waist, tucked his head under his armpits and clamped it tightly. Then he grabbed the broom head and used the thick and hard stick to beat the child all over the head.

"Mom, why did you hit me?" The child who was so proud just now suddenly softened his voice and asked half aggrievedly and half confusedly.

"If I don't hit you, you'll never know your place!" He swung another broom. "Who told you not to study hard? Do you know how hard it is to study? Finally, those ELO people are willing to let you go to school for free, and you actually ran away..."

Seth was a little out of breath, she was choked by herself and couldn't say anything.

But Colin was still there with a look of grievance on his face, not realizing at all that he had caused such a big disaster. She just felt wronged for a moment and retorted in a low voice: "I'm done with get out of class..."

"Why don't you go home quickly after class? You just play on the way!" The mother's angry voice gradually became choked. When she looked up again, her angry face was covered with tears.

She put the child down and looked around the bare house. Finally, she hardened her heart and took out a small box from the small hole in the wall under the bed.

Colin ignored the burning pain in his back and limped forward, grabbing his mother's trouser leg. "Mom, no! You agreed that with this money, my sister can come back! You can't use this money!"

"Get lost!" The mother angrily threw away the child who was pulling at her trouser legs. "You're crying now, but why didn't you know the consequences when you hit someone? He's a noble lord, everyone has to give way to him, but you! Your sister..."

The mother bit her lip and took a deep breath. "Colin, remember, your sister will never come back. You are the only one left in our family, so you must survive."

"My sister is still alive!" the child was still stubbornly saying.

"She's already in the Kori Army, how could she possibly be alive? Most of the people who were kidnapped from the village have written to us. They're all from the same place, so they must have been in the same unit. If she didn't end up in the POW camp, how could she have died other than that? If you want to blame someone, blame your sister for being unlucky."

The mother knew she was likely to fail this time. How else could it be that the nobles, under such circumstances, could still so freely run around within ELO's jurisdiction, except that they were in cahoots with ELO?

He is not only a noble, but also an ally of ELO. A small person like me does not ask for survival, but only wants to leave behind offspring for his family.

"Listen carefully," the mother wiped the tears from her child's face with two quick strokes. "Be smart now. Even if your own mother dies, you are not allowed to cry. Do you understand?"

"Why should we apologize to them?" Colin shouted in disbelief. Her mother's beatings hadn't made her "admit her guilt." "We are the masters of this land."

"Bah!" Seth spat on the ground. "I'm telling you, these kinds of words are just for show. Do you really expect them to last?"

"But we don't have to pay so much money, and the land is ours."

Seth sighed, squatted down, straightened the still fussy child, looked him in the eye, and asked, "Do you want this to last forever? Do you want to live this way forever, with enough food to eat, land to farm, and books to read?"

"Of course I do."

"Then come with me to make amends."

"Why?"

"Because he's an ally of ELO," the mother advised. "Mom has always said that if you want to survive, the first thing you have to do is endure. It's the same now. If you want to live a good life, you have to endure."

Seth herself can hardly read, but she is obedient. She knows that since you, the ELO commander, can compete with those great nobles, you must have your reasons.

Even if they wanted to form an alliance with the nobles they claimed to overthrow, there must be a reason for it.

……

When Yun Shuo arrived at the agreed location, Sai Taishi had already been waiting there for a long time. The scene was exactly the same as their last meeting, as if Sai Taishi was always anxiously waiting for Yun Shuo's arrival.

Yun Shuo didn't exchange any unnecessary pleasantries and went straight to the point. "Lord Saitaishi, what are your instructions this time?"

The corners of Setash's mouth curled up slightly, creating a relaxed smile as he tried his best to remain calm and composed. His expression seemed lazy, and his tone was somewhat casual: "Oh, it's nothing serious, just delivering a message for someone."

He seems impartial, like a neutral person who stays out of the matter and has no emotional color.

He took the letter out of his pocket and placed it on the table. "It was sent by Ella. The wax is intact and it has never been opened."

His tone was so natural, as if the letter had nothing to do with him at all, and everything was just a coincidence.

Yun Shuo didn't reach out to check the letter. He sat there calmly, his expression composed, "So, who is this letter for?"

"It's not even opened yet, how would I know who it's for?" Saitaishi feigned innocence and shrugged. "You and I are allies, and allies should be close. How can we keep secrets?"

Then, he placed the letter on the table and gently pushed it in front of Yun Shuo.

Yun Shuo looked at the letter in front of him, but didn't open it. Instead, he looked up at Saitaishi, a hint of amusement in his eyes. "You do have some truth in what you say."

He responded with a smile, "Then, Lord Setash, would you like to explain the military forces you have deployed near the Noble District and the ELO jurisdiction?"

If Yun Shuo had not learned the troop deployment from the system long ago, and Sai Taishi had placed soldiers around the weak points on the periphery of ELO, he really couldn't tell who were Ella's men and who were Sai Taishi's men.

"No, no. I'm doing this to better assist you. Look, if Ella's army rushes over, my soldiers can still hold you back for a while, right?"

It really sounds better than singing. Yun Shuo retorted, "How? When we run away, you run in front to block the wind for us, right?"

"No, no, no, we are all 'young master soldiers', how can we outrun your ELO elite?" Saitaishi replied unwilling to be outdone.

He was still testing the waters, fearing that Yun Shuo already knew that he was about to turn against him completely. He wanted him to believe that he would maintain this "friendly" relationship that was neither an enemy nor a friend until Ella was completely defeated.

Therefore, his attitude must not be revealed.

Yun Shuo shrugged nonchalantly, as if the previous topic was just a trivial matter to him. Then he roughly tore open the seal of the envelope and took out a folded piece of letter paper from it.

After looking at it quietly for a while, he handed the letter directly to Setash.

"What's wrong?" Setash feigned confusion as he took the paper and read it carefully. "It's strange that Ella would actually want to negotiate."

"Is it strange?" Yun Shuo chuckled when he heard this, and played with the wax seal torn from the envelope in his hands.

The corners of his lips curled up in a playful arc, as if he was amused by Setash's surprise. "It's indeed strange."

Setash's eyes were fixed on the letter in his hand, but his peripheral vision was like a cunning fox, secretly observing Yun Shuo's expression. "I want to ask, why did Ella act so deeply in love with you before?"

"New, unobtainable toys always attract children to the window. If you're willing, you can give it a try. Perhaps Ella will think your previous resistance was just a lustful act and let you go."

Yun Shuo's words were undoubtedly a stab in Saitaishi's heart. Saitaishi hated being reduced to an object, especially being looked down upon and regarded as a vassal by others.

Setaishi's fingertips turned white as he tightly grasped the letter paper. He secretly bit his tongue and said, "Oh, why don't you go?"

"I dare to go, but she doesn't dare to stay. Last time I went there, I killed her father. This time, I will probably take her life." Yun Shuo deliberately mentioned the matter of the former city lord. He still remembered the blame that Sai Taishi had put on him.

"Then I too." Setash spread his hands. "Ella found out I was the one who killed him."

"Hmm...so this peace talk seems very dangerous, let's not go." Yun Shuo suggested sincerely.

No? How did it become like this?

Setash hurriedly tried to remedy the situation, "It's okay not to go, but don't you think this is a good opportunity?"

Yun Shuo asked in return: "What good opportunity?"

Suddenly, there was a commotion coming from outside. It seemed that there was a conflict between the servant brought by Setash and the members of ELO.

Willis, who had been standing quietly at the back listening, took the initiative to walk out, which just happened to make room for Setash and Yun Shuo to have a private conversation.

The door slowly closed behind Willis, isolating him from the outside noise.

Setash's eyes grew sharp, and he whispered to Yun Shuo, "This is a perfect opportunity to assassinate Ella. As long as we arrange the peace talks at my place, we will surely succeed."

"Then you naturally accused me of 'assassinating the city lord,' and I died heroically there alongside Ella. Oh, and Ella still has divine power, so she might be able to revive herself, but I'm definitely dead. And you sat back and reaped the benefits, your face crooked with a smile."

Saitaishi was speechless, waiting for Yun Shuo's arrangements.

Yun Shuo threw the sealing wax seal in his hand into the air like tossing a coin. The sealing wax seal drew an arc in the air and then fell into his palm under Setash's nervous gaze.

He clapped his hands together slightly. "Patterns are positive, no patterns are negative. One shot hits the target. What do you choose?"

Saitaishi swallowed his dry saliva. With his good eyesight, he could certainly guess the pros and cons. But the question was why Yun Shuo suddenly gave the right of choice to something so unreliable at first glance.

"I have always been a gambler. I was gambling when we first met. Have you forgotten?" Yun Shuo seemed to see his confusion and asked back.

"That's right." Since that was the case, Setaishi simply let it go.

Yun Shuo opened it and took a look, "Okay, let's go then."

"But there's clearly no pattern on this side," Saitaishi pointed out subconsciously.

"You're so old, and you're still playing tricks like this." Yun Shuo said with a smile, "If I didn't go, you'd be so worried. I have to go, whether I want to or not."

Setaishi was suddenly terrified. What was going on? Did Yun Shuo discover something?

But before he could speak, the other party led him out of the house and said, "Your servants and my people just had a conflict. It's time to resolve it."

Chapter 96: Then wouldn’t ELO’s trip be in vain?

As Willis hurried to the door, the servant brought by Setash had already started fighting with an ELO member.

There was a dull thud, and the servant was punched in the eye. She immediately fell to the ground. The man who hit her was a dwarf who was less than 1.6 meters tall.