lcionline Chapter 218 Let’s talk carefully
Chapter 218 Let’s talk carefully
The one pointing the chainsaw sword at Howard was the same Silent Sister from the beginning. She was standing at the front of the entrance to the settlement, obviously waiting for someone, while the remaining imperial soldiers were hiding far away inside. But this was not because they were cowardly. They used limited materials to set up a simple line inside the settlement, and the reason they shrank so far was to leave room for possible battles and conflicts.
The other imperial soldiers in the front line also had no good face towards Howard and the Eldar who came here. Many of them drew their guns and pointed them at Howard and the Eldar when Sister Silence raised her sword. If a conflict broke out here, they would pour bullets on them without hesitation.
Sister Silent stared at Howard without saying a word, but anyone could see the anger in her eyes.
She was very angry. When Howard said he could ask the elves for help, she had clearly expressed her refusal with her actions. She would rather die in battle than cooperate with the aliens.
But this mortal lied to her and still attracted these aliens, and later seemed to have reached some kind of invisible deal with these space aliens. To her, this was undoubtedly a betrayal, and her glory was tarnished by the betrayal of this mortal.
The moment the humans drew their guns, the elves also reacted at the same time. They quickly retreated with Howard to create distance, then formed a triangle to protect Howard in the center and took a defensive stance.
Although the elves did not understand why these humans were hostile to them and Howard, they risked their lives to save these hairless monkeys, but these hairless monkeys still did not know what was good for them.
The Eldar have always been self-centered, and in their minds, other races are inherently inferior to them. This group of inferior races, after receiving their favor, not only did not show gratitude but also turned their swords against them, which made them very unhappy. Their equipment and condition were much better than these human remnants. If necessary, they would not mind killing all the humans here.
In the eyes of the elves here, the only valuable person among these humans is this mortal who has a close connection with the goddess of their race. As for the others, they are nothing more than bargaining chips for them to express their friendship to this mortal.
The Eldar's behavior made the atmosphere in the human resettlement area even more tense. The Sister of Silence's chainsaw sword, which was originally stationary, was now powered on, and the imperial soldiers with guns also began to charge their weapons. The two sides seemed to be on the verge of fighting if they had a disagreement.
At this moment, Howard walked in front of the protective circle formed by the Eldar. He put his hand on the Eldar's raised weapon and pressed the muzzle down.
However, he did not ask the elves to turn off the protective stance, because the people in front of him were a group of crazy people. If you tried to reason with them and failed, they would shoot you. If you tried to reason with them, they would think you were deceiving them and would shoot you anyway. If you turned off the shield, these crazy people would fire a volley of bullets at you without thinking and you would be finished.
"Let me handle it." Howard said to the Eldar who was protecting him.
The Eldar hesitated for a moment, put down their guns, and turned off their shields.
Hey, I didn't tell you to turn off your shields!
Howard's eyelids twitched slightly, but since the shield was turned off, there was no way he could let these elves turn it on again. After losing the protection of the shield, it would be the same no matter where Howard stood, so he walked forward slowly, facing the gazes of the Sister of Silence and all the human soldiers who seemed to want to cut him into pieces, and walked in front of the Sister of Silence, trying to start a new round of negotiations.
"Sister, your mission cannot be completed now no matter what. Cooperate with these elves, so that at least you can go back alive." Howard said.
The nun continued to glare at him.
"Your death here will be meaningless. If you return alive, as experienced soldiers, you will be of much greater use when reinforcements arrive. Even for the sake of the overall war situation and the interests of the empire, you should not die here."
But the nun still didn't respond, so Howard decided to stop talking nonsense and just use his ultimate move:
"Sister, you're willing to sacrifice your life for the Empire, so why not your honor? Or do you value your personal honor over the Empire's? If you die here, your honor will be preserved. But if your death causes the Empire to launch a general attack here in the future and they happen to lack a Sister of Silence, resulting in failure, then wouldn't the Empire's honor be damaged because of you?"
After saying this, Howard noticed that Sister Silent's gaze finally relaxed.
Howard sneered in his heart, it seemed that he had found the right direction.
Neither coercion nor bribery is effective for noble people. These people care most about integrity, or honor.
The Sisters of Silence are certainly noble people... or at least they absolutely believe that they are noble. All the crazy people in the empire who have some religious connection hold this idea.
I slaughter, I am obsessed, I do necessary evils, but I do it for the Empire, for the Emperor, so I am noble and resolute. The Emperor will forgive me for raising the butcher knife against the elderly and children, and my soul will return to the Golden Throne after my death.
Howard wanted to laugh.
The noblest people may also be the most selfish, because their so-called integrity overrides their own lives and even the lives of others. They would rather sacrifice their own lives, or even drag down the overall situation, than allow the perfect and noble image of themselves in their minds to be tainted by mud.
For example, the heroine of a science fiction novel that Howard had read, after gaining enormous power that did not belong to her, knew that only a butcher executioner could be qualified for this position, but she was unwilling to give up her so-called nobility and become a butcher, nor was she willing to transfer power, so in the end she caused big problems.
The condition of the Silent Sister in front of him was almost the same. Anyone who was not a fool could see that from a tactical point of view, retreating and conserving strength was indeed the best option at this time, while seeking death was a meaningless performance.
But the so-called glory has made these soldiers lose their minds, and what Howard has to do is to dissect their glory and show it to them.
Of course, Howard knew very well that if it weren't for the elves standing behind him, the Sister of Silence would never listen to his explanation. As soon as he showed his head and was seen by the Sister of Silence, the Sister's chainsaw sword would have already chopped off his head.
Just like when he first met Gloria, he tried to reason with her, but she put a knife to his face and told him to stop talking. Trying to reason with someone in an unbalanced situation was a joke. And once he had the power, if someone didn't want to listen, he'd point a gun at them and force them to listen.