The night is dark and the wind is high.

In the city of war, black shadows appear and disappear in the streets and alleys of curfew, flickering magic lights, like a hundred ghosts walking at night, even if the occasional patrolling guards pass by, they will only think that they are hallucinating.

The only one who can do this, of course, is the Shadow Mage.

This team of shadow mages is naturally a descendant of the rebel leader Kofde, and they have been given a secret mission today, which is to secretly visit more than fifty homes in the city.

These fifty families were not commoners, nor were they nobles.

They all have one thing in common, that is, they are respected and famous.

If you want to sum up their identity in two words, the word 'wise' is obviously the most appropriate word.

They are indeed wise men.

One of the 0.01% of War City.

Although there are far more truly wise men, there are only so many famous and respected wise men, and they are probably like stars on the earth, and seventy percent of people on the street can recognize them.

Why visit these people?

This is, of course, one of Vega's tried and tested means of controlling public opinion.

As Vega said before, since rumors will stop at the wise, then what kind of results will be achieved if we directly use various means to control the 0.01% of the wise people, and in turn use the 0.01% of the wise people to create rumors?

Vega had tried.

As a result, referring to the deer as a horse, reversing black and white, one word is enough.

Using the utility of celebrities and experts, it's easy to convince civilians of rumors and believe them.

Even if you point to the deer in the distance as a horse and say that white is black, no one will doubt it.

This is the final link in Vega's rumor-mongering - controlling the wise.

I saw only one house.

A shadow mage carried a five-year-old child and walked generously in the direction of the door, and when he was about to walk out of the door, he turned to look at an old man behind him and said, "Old man, you are a smart man, I think you know what to do, right?"

After saying that, regardless of the old man's answer, the shadow mage disappeared into the night.

Such a scene appeared in more than fifty corners of the city.

The virtuous and well-known wise man is not without weaknesses, the poor will be allowed money, the lustful will be tempted by beauty, the affectionate will grasp his affection, and the old and dying will certainly value the offspring......

As long as it is human, there will be weaknesses.

Picking on their weaknesses and trying to make them do things for themselves is as easy as eating and drinking.

With the intelligence services at work as a war machine, there is nothing in the city that is unclear about the investigation, and every wise man with a reputation is under control.

As for the wise men who are not famous?

There is no need for such people to care, because their influence is limited, and if they forcibly explain to everyone that all this is a trick of the rebels in secret, they will only be regarded as idiots by others, and the only influential ones are celebrities.

So the day after the rebels announced their surrender.

One by one, the city of war stood up with respected and well-known wise men.

They openly stated that the Empire's so-called promises were simply lying, and angrily denounced the demonstrators for being too stupid to force the rebel junta to surrender to the Empire, the only savior. When the Imperial Army regains its rule over the Northwest, the entire War City and the Northwest will live in humiliation as third-class citizens for generations.

The horrors of the celebrity effect are beginning to show.

In addition, there is a saying that only when you lose do you know how to cherish.

Knowing that the rebels were about to surrender.

In just one day, the words of these wise men swept through the war city like a storm, and the civilians in the city, who had thought that they had won a great victory because of their march and demonstration, began to panic.

Is what they are doing is fundamentally wrong?

Did they force their savior to death with their own hands?

Those who pretend to be asleep can't wake them up, and the only ones who can wake them up are themselves.

Now that the rebels have been forced to surrender, no one thinks that this is still their means of guiding public opinion.

So when these people were shaken in their hearts and gradually began to doubt whether what they had done was right, public opinion had already entered the rhythm of 'Vega', and the promises of the empire now seemed to them to be full of loopholes.

One trades off the other.

The civilians, who originally believed the rumors and the evidence, but were frantically paced, began to reassert their correctness, which further influenced the diehards.

So after two days of fermentation, the wind in War City changed.

As the day of surrender of the rebels approached, they began to panic.

As soon as the rebels surrender, as soon as the empire enters the city of war, they will be reduced to third-class citizens?

This idea began to take root in their minds, and the public opinion in the city of war evolved from how to get the rebels to surrender voluntarily to how to get the rebels to withdraw the surrender.

Public opinion and the barracks are obviously in sync.

When the rumors began to circulate among the people that the Imperial Army did not intend to fulfill their promises at all, but were only deceiving them, the soldiers in the barracks also began to panic. If the empire does not intend to fulfill its promises, but intends to settle accounts after the fall, then they may not even have a chance to become third-class citizens as soldiers of the rebel army, and they will probably be directly condemned as traitors, right?

It's in their own self-interest.

The soldiers did not have the joy of knowing that they were going to surrender a few days ago, and now they hated their stupidity when they looked at their packed salutes, and if the Empire's words could be believed, why did they join the rebel army in the first place.

What should I do now?

The leader has already issued a proclamation saying that he is going to surrender, can the water that was spilled be recovered?

"Lian Commander, please try again no matter what!"

"Yes, please tell the Chief, that we know that we are wrong, and ask him to retract his fate. ”

"We don't want to surrender, we want war, this time it's either me or the empire is dead!"

“......”

The soldiers sprang into action.

They wanted to show their leader, Coverdale, that they were determined and that he would retract the order to surrender.

"I can only do my best, and I must respect the opinion of the Chief. ”

An officer replied to the soldier in embarrassment: "This time, whether the leader insists on surrendering or taking back his order, I hope you don't blame him, because we misunderstood him before and chilled the leader's heart." ”

"Elder Lian, we understand. ”

The soldiers bowed their heads in shame and said, "Please also convey our apologies to the Chief." ”

Soldiers in the barracks in action.

The civilians of War City are not far behind.

They still marched, but this time instead of forcing Coverdale to surrender as they had done the last time, they admitted their mistake to Coverdale in the hope that he would retract the order to surrender and continue to lead the rebels against the Imperial army.

As long as Coverdale retracts the order to surrender.

Civilians even gave promises to live and die with the rebels.

The winds of the city of war.

In less than seven days, a shocking flip was finally completed.

Now, the civilians and soldiers of the City of War crave war like never before.