Chapter 197: Table Chat
Sylvie narrowed her eyes and smiled slightly: "If it is necessary, then there is nothing I can do. My motto is to be realistic and rational in life and work."
"Minister...I feel like you're going to sell me out."
"How could that be? I like you so much! I'm very optimistic about you!" Sylvie picked up another piece of meat for Su Ming.
Su Ming felt that the other party was using friendly actions to confuse him so that he would work for her. She was a vicious exploiter!
Well, Super Intuition didn’t say that, it was just his own malicious speculation. The minister seemed to be a good person... although a little unreliable.
"By the way, tell me about your plan. Do you think the people from the Dream Cult will attack the village?" Sylvie asked again.
Su Ming thought for a while and shook his head.
"No?" Sylvie tilted her head.
"Well, how should I put it——"
Su Ming thought of the letter he had left behind, and also thought that Ansiriel would return to normal in a few days.
To be honest, he really didn't know whether Ansiriel would carry out the plan they had agreed upon.
"I'm not sure. Maybe... but also maybe not." Su Ming said ambiguously.
“Generally speaking, when people say something like this, it means the chances of success are slim, so I just assumed they wouldn’t come.
But we must put pressure on the God of Hope. If we don’t let the God of Hope be threatened, we will never be able to get out. After all, today is already the fourth day. In three days, the outside world will start to take action. Time is running out.”
After saying that, Sylvie licked the sauce off her fingertips, glanced at Flora, and asked with a smile, "What do you think, little Flora? If I let you make the decision now, what would you do?"
"Me? I have no experience in this kind of thing." Flora shook her head embarrassedly.
"Do you really need to make a decision? Tell me about it. It's like a makeshift exam." Sylvie's tone was gentle. At this moment, she was a patient and good teacher.
"Um...should we try and see if we can communicate directly with the God of Hope?" Flora answered tentatively.
In fact, Flora did have an idea in her mind, but she knew that idea should not be said, at least not by her.
Sylvie nodded slightly and asked again: "Do you think this attempt is useful?"
"I...I don't know." Flora shook her head.
She pretended not to know. In fact, anyone with a little bit of common sense could guess that the approach just now would definitely fail and was not even worth trying. But she couldn't say that now. She didn't want to face Sylvie's question directly. No, perhaps it should be said that she shouldn't face it directly.
Sylvie also shook her head, forked a piece of steak to Flora, and raised her eyebrows: "I think you know."
Flora lowered her head, said nothing, and ate the steak in silence.
The questions and answers between Sylvie and Flora were very personal, just like casual conversation at the dinner table, but the subtle aura emanating from Sylvie still affected others.
The atmosphere at the dinner table became inexplicably subtle, and Su Ming felt that Flora was nervous.
The questions that Sylvie asked just now were obviously very common, and he didn't understand why he was so nervous.
Arthur and Liu Feiyun also noticed that the atmosphere was a little strange. For some reason, they always had the illusion that Sylvie was interrogating Flora. What did she ask her just now? It seemed to be a new plan.
"I heard from the high priest that you killed a corrupt person in another village. Isn't that a great performance? If you work harder, you should be able to perform even better, right?" Sylvie mentioned casually.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present, except Jiang Yichuan, looked at Flora in surprise.
She took out the corrupt?!
Liu Feiyun was stunned and couldn't believe it.
He and Arthur both knew that the Corruptor was a monster as famous as the Plaguebringer. They had fought against the Plaguebringer and had barely escaped death.
In their eyes, the Corruptor and the Plaguebringer are on the same level and are monsters that cannot be challenged by a single psychic. Did Flora really kill the Corruptor alone?
The person who was more shocked than them was Xia Xiaoyu. She didn't believe at all that Flora had killed the corrupt man. You know, the last time she got a little close to the corrupt man, she almost died.
"Wait, could it be that the corrupt official who fell off the cliff was mistakenly killed by her? That doesn't count as her killing him!" Xia Xiaoyu said indignantly.
"Maybe it wasn't that one. It should be that she met the corrupt one again later, and then she won." Su Ming calmly put forward a reasonable possibility.
"How is it possible! Flora's ability is to make anything her hands touch evaporate. There is no way she can get close to the Corruptor! Not to mention killing the Corruptor!" Xia Xiaoyu touched Alice's head with a little force, causing Alice to shake her head.
Xia Xiaoyu knew how terrifying that thing was. The smell of that monster was enough to be fatal just by smelling it. It was absolutely impossible to touch it with bare hands!
"Xiao Yu, you led the corrupt away. They can't possibly think the one you led away was killed by Flora." Su Ming said again.
Xia Xiaoyu thought about it and it seemed to be true.
She glanced at Flora and shook her head slowly. No matter what, she didn't believe that Flora had killed the corruptor single-handedly.
Maybe Flora borrowed the power of others and let everyone use tactics such as rocket long-range shooting to defeat the Corruptor together?
Yes, that should be it!
"It's just luck." Flora spoke modestly.
"You are worthy of being the champion of the Superpower League. You can do it easily as long as you want to! It's a pity that I was not there at that time, otherwise I would have seen your most brilliant performance. You must have worked harder this time than in the Superpower League, right?" Sylvie said with a smile.
Flora remained silent, her eyes wandering, and she was quite nervous.
Her reaction made the atmosphere on the scene even more weird. Now no one would think it was an illusion. Everyone could feel Sylvie's attitude of pressing Flora step by step. The conversation between the two sounded very ordinary, but obviously there was a deeper meaning in it.
I'm afraid only Flora knows what the specific meaning of this is.
Arthur felt that the meat in his mouth had no taste. This rare modern dinner was inexplicably unbearable. He secretly glanced at Su Ming and saw that Su Ming also winked at him.
Sure enough, Su Ming also felt that the atmosphere was not right.
"Minister, what do you think of the seasoning of today's meal?" Jiang Yichuang suddenly spoke, breaking the silence.
Sylvie was slightly stunned, then nodded: "Not bad, about your usual level."
"Dad, I want to eat that!" Alice said, pointing at the potato brisket with her little finger.
Su Ming immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to change the subject, so he reached out and handed Alice some food, then asked, "What else would you like to eat, Alice?"
"No more." Alice shook her head and licked the chopsticks she used to dip the sauce.
there is none left!?
How can you, a little foodie, say there is no more at this time!
No, I have to find more topics to talk about, Su Ming thought.
"The captain's cooking skills are really good! I think the lobster is delicious, and the steak is also good!"
Su Ming put on a sincere face and praised the few lobsters left on the plate without hesitation, and kept winking at Arthur.
"Arthur! What do you think of these dishes compared to what we had in the royal city?"
"Ah - uh - ohhh! Yes, yes, yes! They taste better! The ones in the royal city, to be honest, taste a bit monotonous!"
Arthur quickly agreed and started the topic of food. The tense atmosphere finally relaxed a little after this.
Everyone started talking about other things, and the originally cold atmosphere became warm again, with laughter and discussion filling the air again.
Liu Feiyun untied the bandage on his hand, showed everyone his sequelae, and asked Jiang Yichuan if he had heard of the medical treatment for this sequelae.
Arthur found a topic, chatted for a while, and then began to ask Flora about the specific appearance of the corruptor.
Everyone was just beginning to relax. Sylvie put down her cutlery and looked around at everyone gently, with a teasing look in her eyes.
Then she spoke again.
This sentence made everyone stop using their chopsticks, knives and forks, and the air became quiet.
"Let's talk about something serious. Now that Xiao Ming is back, the method of controlling the Dream Cult doesn't work anymore. It's too unrealistic to wait for the Dream Cult to attack the village. We have to do it ourselves.
We don't have much time, so let's do it tonight. Later, Yichuan will go to the high priest to get as much information as possible, and then we will kill everyone in this village."
Su Ming's chopsticks holding a slice of meat were suspended in the air. Xia Xiaoyu stopped chewing. Flora, who had been looking down, looked up blankly. Liu Feiyun and Arthur, who were about to pick up some food, suddenly forgot which dish they wanted to pick up. The words that Sylvie had just said casually echoed in their minds.
——Kill them all——Kill them all——Kill…all?
Everyone was stunned, only Jiang Yichuan was still eating, his movements were still as fast and smooth as a machine on an assembly line.
"clear."
Jiang Yichuan replied expressionlessly, as if Sylvie's order just now was "Make me a cup of coffee."
Su Ming was stunned for a long time, staring blankly at Sylvie. He instinctively wanted to object, but when he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered the decision he had made before.
When he was in the royal city, Su Ming had already made the worst plan. If he had no chance to go back, then in order to stop the spread of the white fog from the outside world, he would kill as many people as possible from the Hope Cult to achieve the goal of stopping the white fog.
He had already decided to kill these people at that time, but now when it really came to the point of doing it, he hesitated.
Why hesitate?
Why are there different decisions when thinking about the same question?
"What's wrong? Why aren't you talking? Were you too focused on eating to hear clearly?" Sylvie's eyes slowly swept across everyone's faces and slowly repeated, "We'll take action tonight and kill everyone in this village."
"Wait! This isn't a good idea, is it?" Flora put down the bowl, her eyes full of shock.
Arthur and Liu Feiyun were stunned for a few seconds, and then they said, "Hope Church, they are not our enemies, right?"
"Haha, of course they are not our enemies." Sylvie laughed.
"Then…why should we—?"
