Thales shook his head and shook off the words in Corleone Corleone's letter.

"For this reason, I had to take a step back, sacrifice a little bit of my image, and create an embarrassing appearance of a big fall, so that everyone could see my existence - a person who was cornered by the Emerald City, so both

The future king has reason and determination to put the Emerald City in danger."

Thales said quietly:

"Instead of a good son who listens to his father's words and travels, follows the rules, and is constrained at every step for the sake of a perfect plan, a transitional vase that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake."

Hilley sat next to him and rubbed his gloves, without raising his head when he heard the words:

"Misleading, again."

Lausanne II, who was lying on the ground, had his eyes fixed and was trembling slightly.

"The same goes for Hilley."

Thales glanced at Hilley:

"Before, Hille was just the Duke's sister. Everyone respected her, sympathized with her, and pitied her..."

Miss Kevin Deere snorted disdainfully:

"Oh really?"

Thales coughed:

"But even if they suggested that she temporarily take over the position of city lord, they would just treat her as a puppet and a vase, and they would actually have their own agenda."

Thales turned his head and looked at Lausanne II:

"Until that night, after I kidnapped you and defeated me, she was no longer the rich lady of the Iris family, but the only one in the entire Emerald City who dared to openly resist the prince - or, in other words, resist the royal power - as a benchmark.

He is a participant in the storm, the savior of Duke Zhan, and most likely the savior of the Emerald City."

"Or the Destroyer." Hilley added expressionlessly.

Thales raised his eyebrows:

"And a flag, a scapegoat flag for disaffected South Coasters who dare not resist to hide under."

"You mean the scapegoat," Healy sneered, "and the archery target."

Do you like to tear me down so much?

Thales hid these words in his heart and changed the subject:

"Speaking of which, Xi Lai, I guess there should be many people trying their best to find you, right? Whether it's to dissuade you or to surrender..."

"You want to know?"

"May I?"

"Can't."

The frustrated Thales looked back.

"You deceived the entire city... and made them afraid, and then what?" Lausanne II struggled to speak, "What do you plan to do with the sunken Emerald City?"

"Nothing to do."

Thales spoke decisively.

"The direction of the wind has changed. I was desperate and desperate. I used the excuse that Hilley had stepped in and the situation was out of control. Starting with Zhan and Federico, I used coercion, inducement, provocation, and bribery to seize more than one weapon from them.

——Finance and taxation, diplomacy, military, public security...The irony is that these are the bargaining chips they use to constrain me and threaten each other."

Thales smiled sarcastically:

"Then, I found the major forces causing trouble: political careerists fishing in troubled waters, closed-minded and conservative local elites, Emerald City bureaucrats who took advantage of the situation, opportunistic business guilds, and street gangs who followed the trend.

With the weapons and chips that came, I repeated my old tricks to identify their position and find out their trump cards..."

He recalled the various people he met at Kongming Palace:

"So one after another, I went from high to low, down layer by layer, and repeated it back and forth. Depending on the target, I would take the overall situation into consideration and show tolerance, or I would get angry and fight to the death, using the new chips I got from the upper level - most of them were

Ambiguous secrets and promises - take advantage of information gaps and power gaps, move them to the next level, and transform them into truly usable resources and real authority."

Thales narrowed his eyes:

"To build consensus to the greatest extent possible, eliminate conflicts and opposition, and exchange for compromise and cooperation."

Thales exhaled, put his hands back on the ground, and sat on the ground in an inelegant manner:

"So in the end, it seemed that it could not afford to sink, but in fact it was just threatening my Emerald City with fake death. Under the premise that I neither chose Zhan nor Federico, neither sided with Iris nor asked the royal family to take action,

It was resurrected and started functioning again.”

Thales's eyes sparkled.

Only in this way can he truly enter the game.

Really possess the qualification to play chess.

Snap, snap, snap, snap...

Dull and rigid applause sounded, interrupting Thales's thoughts.

"Ah," Heilai's face was cold, his tone was stiff, and his two palms touched each other mechanically, "It's great."

Well……

Thales came back to his senses and coughed awkwardly:

"Well, actually there is no need to applaud..."

"If no one cheers," Hilley continued to applaud, expressionless, "it will be so embarrassing for one person."

Actually, it's very embarrassing now.

Thales quickly coughed loudly, interrupting the applause.

"In short, Xi Lai and I, one bright and one dark, are like two sides of the same coin," he turned to the dazed Lausanne II, "let the Emerald City, which was already out of control, face the same situation - opponents

What was used to oppose me and clamp down on me - to return to the normal track amid the doubts and anxiety."

After the words fell, there was no response, and the dungeon was extremely quiet.

The killer himself just had dull eyes and said nothing, just like a dead corpse.

"Tsk, look how proud you are, His Highness Thales," after a while, Hillai didn't even bother to speak, "Is things going so smoothly? No accidents?"

Thales raised his eyebrows.

That is……

But he was heartbroken.

"In fact..."

Thales spoke hesitantly:

"When negotiating with some of them, I always feel something is not right..."

Hilley turned his head:

"Um?"

The more Thales thought about it, the more he was wrong. He described in detail the back-and-forth negotiation process with representatives of several different forces.

"They saw through it." After hearing this, Hilley said firmly.

Thales was stunned:

"What? Who? See through?"

"Who else could it be? Karabyan's demon twins!"

Thales frowned.

Just listen to Xi Lai's disdainful words:

"I know that pair of bitches very well. Do you think they will leak information to you and show their goodwill and make promises to you without any benefit and only a bunch of unfulfilled empty words?"

Thales' eyelids twitched:

"Well……"

"Just because you have a lotus tongue and what you say is better than what you sing?"

"They... they didn't surrender, at most they were just waiting for a price..."

"You suddenly went crazy and said you wanted to marry you? At the moment when you exposed them as the mastermind behind the scenes? What is it about you, Prince Thales, that attracts them? Is it money, power, or destiny?

Are you going to die early?"

Thales stopped talking.

Xi Lai hugged his knees and snorted coldly:

"Although they are vicious, they are never slow. When you say, 'I have made enough concessions,' they will see through it, or at least begin to suspect that it was deliberately arranged for you to suffer in my hands.

They may have guessed that you have gradually jumped out of the vase and begun to take the initiative in the chess game."
To be continued...