Section 7 Gambling

So I'm now avoiding the destruction of our friendship. Pedi and Drahir looked at each other for more than five seconds before standing up and filling two glasses of ale into the barrel next to him, "My friend, you should know the truth of 'turn a blind eye', right? ”

"Thranduil just thinks too much, but I'm different, I don't have to think about the future, and you're so sure Thranduil doesn't have any opinion on what you're doing now?"

"Shall we make a bet?" Pedi smiled silently.

"Yes, in honor of my first bet with you, I can serve you for free for twenty years after I lose this bet, what is your bet?" Elves are confident in everything, their confidence comes from years of accumulated knowledge, and Drahir is so confident that he doesn't even ask Pedi what he will pay if he loses.

However, Pedi was now more confident than Draxiel, and he handed the elf a glass of ale, and said, "I will tell you my plan, and then you will tell Thrandil my plan, and I bet that nothing will happen to him next." ”

The elven general's eyebrows furrowed slightly when he heard this, "That depends on what you're planning!"

"I'm going to negotiate with the Undead Legion... They want peace, and I want peace. ”

"You... Not kidding?" Drahir was stunned, "Let's not say whether Thranduil will agree, your plan is fundamentally wrong, although you can control Muvet-Felle, it doesn't mean that you can manipulate Ferrola." ”

"You should have heard me finish!"

"You can go on, I'm listening. ”

"Our Takukai fleet has found a route to the New World..."

Pedi begins to talk about his plans, as if he were chatting with a friend, sometimes talking about his future, his past confusion, and his views on things. He was interrupted by Draxier more than a dozen times during the narration, and it was an hour before he had finished the plan.

Drahir was in a long time of thought after listening to Pedi's plan, he really needed to think that in the recorded history of the elves, they had fought countless wars with the undead legions, but none of them were finally resolved through negotiation.

The countless wars that have taken place in those tens of thousands of years are like the dialectic of 'right' and 'wrong', the collision of 'right' and 'evil', and there is no possibility of communication between the two sides.

As Drahir had said at the beginning, for most elves, negotiating with the Undead Legion was fundamentally a crazy and wrong decision, something they had never thought about.

As such, he had an instinctive rejection of what Pedi said about negotiating with the Undead Legion, but at the same time it gave him a whole new way of thinking, even if it sounded impossible.

"I don't know what happened 10,000 years ago, and I don't know if there was a big bang at all, but what I do know is that the evil power wasn't created by someone's powerful being, as recorded in your literature... Countless facts and energy reactions monitored in the New World, evil energy, like other cosmic energies, has existed since the time of the formation of this world, and there is no such thing as all good and evil in this world. Pei Di retracted the smile on his face, "We should put an end to this 'game of justice' and put the interests of our people and peace first." ”

"How can there be no justice and no evil?Aren't the undead legions exactly evil from our point of view?" Drahir also had a serious expression, "Aren't depravity and death evil?at least, in our civilization, all of these are evil... And while your plan isn't theoretically wrong, I can't agree with negotiating with the Undead Legion..."

"You didn't obey the rule of the Supreme Council before, but why did you start a rebellion?" said Pedi, playing with the glass in his hand, "Anything is possible, my friend... You have to change the way you think. ”

"When you make an elf change his way of thinking, you make him pay for his life, my friend. Drahir looked at Pedi with a little helplessness and a wry smile in his eyes, "I'll tell Thranduil about your plans, tell him alone, as for his decision, it's not for me to interfere." ”

"According to the knight's routine, do I have to kill you now?" Pedi laughed suddenly, and smiled very brightly.

"Would you do that?" said Draxiel, laughing.

"Haha... I've been waiting for you to serve me for free for twenty years, and now it's a shame to kill you. Pedi spread his hands.

"Thranduil, though he sometimes seems to have a heart like the sea, and a wisdom that I can't match, and a full support for your rule, is at stake for the undead legion, and he won't let you come to it. "You'd better stop your plans now, or you'll really ruin the alliance between the two countries." ”

Pedi kept a smile and asked rhetorically, "Why do you have to explain to Thrandir when you know that you will break the alliance between the Empire and the Elven Kingdom? ”

Drahir's expression was serious, "I'm doing this to preserve our friendship, my friend... You have no idea what the Undead Legion means to the elves, just like your relationship with the orcs five years ago... If five years ago, someone saw you drinking with Shikan-Silveraxe, what would the nobles of the empire think of you?"

"But now we have a strong friendship with the orcs. ”

"Strong friendship?hah! maybe, but elves and undead legions can never have friendship. ”

With a noncommittal expression, Pedi looked at Drahir for two seconds and said, "My friend, don't forget the gamble we just played. ”

"What if you lose?"

"I lost, do you think I can still go ahead with my plan?"

"It's not fair. ”

"I'm the emperor, you have to give me a little privilege, right?"

"The emperor really deserves some privileges. The indifference on Drahir's face slowly disappeared, and it was replaced by the gentle smile of the usual time, "I am not suitable to be an indifferent person at all, in fact, neither I nor my people are indifferent people, but the long period of loneliness makes us forget how to express it." ”

The elven general said something inexplicable, and then left the lounge without looking back.

Andy Barrett walked into the lounge as soon as the elven general left, "You told General Drahier all about our plans?"

"I suddenly felt... Maybe it would be better to let the elves know about our plans. Pedi didn't care.

"Aren't you kidding? you're going to ruin our plans and reduce the elves' trust in you. Andy Barrett looked a little anxious, "What the hell are you thinking?"

"I said it would be better for the elves to let the elves know that our plans would be better for the next ones. Pedi repeated what he had just said.

Andy Barrett was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"Sooner or later, the elves will know these things we are doing, and instead of letting them destroy them at that time, it is better to find out the attitude of General Thranduil at this time. Pedi put down the beer glass in his hand.

"But if you do so, we may find the elves to oppose it, and end it all!"

"I can disadmit it. "General Thrandir won't have any evidence of what I'm doing now. ”

"But you'll lose the trust of the elves. ”

Pedi looked at his cousin for a few seconds, "I think General Thranduil will not only not come to question us, but will help us hide this matter. ”

"I think he's going to come and tear down your command post. ”

"You don't understand what a ruler thinks at all, so... You're always going to be in the highlands. ”

"Are you sarcastic about me?"

"No, I'm envious of you. ”

"Haha!" Andy Barrett laughed, "The nobles of Crewe City describe our highlanders' halls as toilets and our bedrooms as hotels, and you would envy me like that?"

Pei Di was stunned, "Since you know these problems, why don't you want to change them?"

“...”

Andy Barrett left the lounge with an unhappy expression.