I'm a villain, not a devil

There was a war going on at the borders of the empire, so the eldest prince who was deeply rooted in the military could not entertain a grand banquet at this time.

However, Bai Zhan gave "Lanye" enough respect. Although not many people came, they were all his close associates. The dinner was held in the form of a family banquet. It cannot be said that he did not take it seriously.

While pushing cups and changing cups, Sean, who had never had much contact with Bai Zhan before, was amazed.

According to Bai Ye, her eldest brother has a good temperament, but sometimes he is a bit reckless. According to Bai Youming, Bai Zhan has a pure temperament, but his previous experience of leading troops to 'gild' made him contract some minor problems.

But from today's perspective, regardless of anything else, Bai Zhan's superficial efforts were sufficient.

He is outgoing and enthusiastic, and he is not the kind of silly guy who speaks straightforwardly. On the contrary, he is very good at talking, and his occasional wisecracks are not the embarrassing jokes of big men in the military.

Not only that, Bai Zhan is very down-to-earth. He occasionally talks about sensitive topics but does not shy away from them. His words are both sincere and confident.

Compared with his brothers and sisters, Bai Zhan is indeed more like a future emperor, and his personality charm is indeed outstanding.

After a night of eating, drinking and having fun, he did not pretend to "not talk about state affairs". On the contrary, he generously invited Sean to join his team. I have to say that with this kind of character and this kind of performance, Bai Zhan has quite a heroic temperament, which makes people easily fond of him.

At least, that’s how ‘Blue Night’ behaves.

From the dullness at the beginning to the enthusiasm at the end, 'Lanye' made no secret of his appreciation for Bai Zhan, and the latter was naturally more enthusiastic.

Sean analyzed the situation casually. He had a clear mind and the constant gossip made Bai Zhan nod his head repeatedly. He wished he could grab Sean's hand and say it's too late to meet him.

However, Bai Zhan still had a basic sense of propriety and didn't say a word about Sean's origins and his relationship with Bai Youming.

By the end of the chat, Bai Zhan's face was red from drinking. He drunkenly poured wine for Sean, then poured it for himself and drank it all in one gulp.

He put down the cup happily, smiling like the silly neighbor's brother who had epilepsy.

"Lan Ye, you and I really meet each other... Hiccup, I hate it so late!" Bai Zhan slammed the table hard, and then laughed with the strength of his drink, "In the hundreds of years since the empire was established, this is the first time we have encountered such a challenger. , you and I both understand that this is an excellent opportunity to make a difference! If you can help me, the little tree man is just a pile of rotten wood!"

Sean also laughed wildly: "Your Highness, the eldest prince, I'm afraid there's more to it than just that, right?"

Bai Zhan waved his hands silly and cheerfully: "Don't talk nonsense, it's nothing, my father is in good health."

His words seemed to put down most of his wariness towards Sean.

However, Sean seemed to be blushing, but in fact his heart was as clear as a mirror.

The special mulberry wine in front of you can indeed make you drunk, but it can only make you drunk. It depends on whether the drinker is willing to get drunk. Now in this white war, he is willing to get drunk but not drunk.

How would someone like Sean, who has a bunch of top names in the bar, not understand this?

Sean noticed from the moment he walked in that Bai Zhan liked to tap the table rhythmically with his little finger slightly outstretched when making a fist. However, after getting drunk, this movement disappeared.

It seems that being really drunk caused the subconscious movements to disappear, but the other party deliberately repeated this movement in a conspicuous position from the moment Sean entered the door, and stopped this movement after drinking - this is deepening the impression and making Sean really I felt that Bai Zhan was half drunk and half awake, and he was speaking from the bottom of his heart.

Moreover, people who like to tap flat surfaces with their little fingers will habitually raise their orchid fingers when picking up a cup to drink. Bai Zhan has maintained this action to this day.

This shows that the little finger tapping is indeed his habitual movement, but the disappearance of the subsequent movements is intentional.

Bai Zhan was not drunk at all.

While dealing with each other with some drunken words, Sean laughed in his heart.

This kind of subtle psychological behavior should be impossible to detect based on past understanding of Bai Zhan.

Either the eldest prince is hiding very deep, and he seems to be generous and enthusiastic, but in fact he has a sinister heart. Neither Bai Ye nor Bai Youming can see it.

Or, the eldest prince has received guidance from an expert and started to enter areas that he is not good at in order to attract more talents.

Sean prefers the latter, because Bai Youming mentioned before that Bai Zhan's way of doing things has changed, and what was slightly inconsistent at the beginning has become more and more 'normal'.

The master behind him changed his every move while making Bai Zhan invisible, so that more people could form a better impression of him.

It seems that the eldest prince is determined to win the throne, and he has begun to pay attention to these details.

Sean took another sip of wine and began to talk about the other person's words.

However, I don’t know if Bai Zhan saw through his thoughts or if someone really taught him, but Sean didn’t get any useful information.

However, when the two talked about the war, Bai Zhan revealed some things that Xiao En had not expected.

He was drunk, half confused and half sober, and said: "Lan Ye... you know... our empire has the biggest disadvantage against those tree people! What is the biggest disadvantage?!"

Sean was also happy to respond drunkenly: "Your Highness, please enlighten me!"

"Hehe..." Bai Zhan giggled, and then a light came out of his eyes, "I tell you...it's the range!"

"oh?"

Bai Zhan pointed outside and drew a circle: "The empire... has a vast territory! This was conquered by my ancestors and my father. They wiped out countless city-states! Tribes! But..."

He stood up suddenly, not sure whether it was with emotion or regret: "This world... is too big... too big!"

Bai Zhan's body was swaying: "My father...my uncle...they could have opened up a wider territory! But it's a pity...Everyone knows that the cessation of the empire's expansion is the source of My father’s injury…”

"As for those tree people, no matter whether they can take another step into the empire's border, they have a huge advantage... They abandoned the land on the other side of the Raging Sea to regain their fertile soil... Even if they can't get in, Their special method of concealment allows them to cross the eastern and western borders of the empire!"

His eyes widened with anger: "When the time comes, they will be able to enter this vast world, even if in the eyes of most people, the world is just made of the only fertilizer left on the ruins."

"The empire is the most ferocious dragon in the world, but the dragon cannot step outside its own territory!"

"And outside the realm, there are those villages that are too weak, and they can get supplies of resources just by swallowing them... and there are also people who covet the evil dragon's treasure!"

Bai Zhan gasped: "At that time, if the tree people bypass the empire and annex it while cooperating with other city-states, tribes, countries, sects, etc., the empire will have to face more than just the violent sea. There are enemies over there coming from afar..."

Sean's expression did not change, but a sense of surprise arose in his heart.

Is this also taught by the master behind the scenes? It's not like that...

Bai Zhan's judgment of the situation was unexpectedly accurate. This is something that Sean has thought about before. The biggest advantage of the tree people lies in this. To be precise, this is not the advantage of the tree people, but the disadvantage of the empire - as long as it is The empire's disadvantage can be used as its own advantage by tree people. This is a matter of precedence.

However, before Sean could think further, Bai Zhan dropped another news.

There was a trace of pain on his face, but he was still in a drunken state, and it seemed that what he said next was unintentional.

"My second brother Bai Wen's failed encirclement and suppression in Ilia City may have reminded the tree people more quickly that they can do this... There is still no news from the group of tree people who ran away. Hmph, I'm afraid... Going back and forth between regions, looking for forces that can be annexed or cooperated with."

Sean asked casually: "Who can they find?"

Bai Zhan burped: "That team is small in number, but its strength is not weak. I'm afraid what they did first is annexation! On the one hand, it will replenish resources, and on the other hand, it will lay a sufficient foundation for the teams that may come later. ”

"oh?"

Bai Zhan smiled: "If you ask me, they will probably focus on a big city-state..."

"For example?"

The light in Bai Zhan's eyes flashed: "Paradise City."

Sean didn't show anything strange, but showed a thoughtful expression: "Paradise City? That's where the late Crown Prince came from, right?"

"That's right."

Sean was slightly confused: "I vaguely remember that there is a creature called the Titan in Paradise City. It is said that it has the Crimson Peak... Even if the rumors are exaggerated, it should have the strength of the Crimson Upper Level, plus the city With our own strength, a team of hundreds of tree people, I’m afraid we can’t take it down, right?”

Bai Zhan looked around pretendingly, and then lowered his voice: "On the surface, this is true, but as far as I know, the strongest person in Paradise City, Jin Kui, is only as strong as the middle-level Crimson... What's more important is that , I received news about the Titan beast in Paradise City..."

He narrowed his eyes: "He died a long time ago..."

Long dead...

Sean just looked at the other person doubtfully: "Dead? Never heard of it."

Bai Zhan smiled: "Brother Lan Ye doesn't have to worry about the authenticity of this news..."

Sean did not continue to ask, but touched his chin and said: "Your Highness told me these things, I'm afraid there is a deep meaning."

Bai Zhan immediately laughed drunkenly: "It's a joke, it's just a joke. We are all from the military. It's normal to talk about war. Come on, brother Lan Ye, drink!"

…

It wasn't until Bai Zhan was completely unable to stand that Sean was sent out.

"Lord Lan Ye, shall I take you back?"

Sean rejected the kindness of Bai Zhan's personal guards and left staggeringly.

It wasn't until he walked into a dark corner that the blush on Sean's face quickly disappeared.

It was within Sean's expectation that the tree people would re-develop their base areas, annex or cooperate with forces, etc. He had also made preparations for the possibility that Paradise City would be attacked.

But what Sean didn't expect was that Bai Zhan actually knew the news about the Mountain of Survivors.

After Sean cleaned up the pollution brought by Qiu Qingming, the consciousness that the Mountain of Survivors had formed has dissipated, and it does not have the ability to evolve into metallic life. When it flew from its original location to Paradise City, it was the last moment of the Mountain of Survivors. An event.

Only Sherrill, Moza and Luo Xi knew about this matter, and they obviously could not be the source of Bai Zhan's information. ,

At this moment, another name came into Sean's mind.

In the darkness, Sean narrowed his eyes slightly: "Tsk, let me tell you... now, things are starting to get interesting..."

…

Three days later.

This time, good news came from the front line again.

According to the spies' observations, there are fewer and fewer driftwoods floating on the coastline, which means that the tree people are not an everlasting race, and their personnel who can participate in the war may have been dispatched.

At the same time, the Raya volcano erupted completely.

The unprecedented eruption of this active volcano even completely covered the evil dome with volcanic ash.

Most of the volcanic ash blew to the coast along the wind direction, dyeing the entire area gray and white, and the group of tree people completely evolved with the huge power of nature.

Just like the first batch of tree people's army that came to the empire, their arms were black, like burnt wood.

In addition, the tree people showed obvious evolutionary trends.

After the evolution, the weaker tree people began to move closer to humans, and their branches and green leaves were disappearing rapidly, but the stronger tree people seemed more primitive.

It is precisely because of this feature that the spies can roughly judge the strength level of the other party.

According to rough inference, the number of tree people who came to the mainland through the Raging Sea may exceed two million, which is even more than twice the standing military strength of the empire.

There are naturally many strong ones among them, but the strange thing is that until now, no tree people have been found to have multiplied.

The military is scratching their heads for this. After all, Crimson is the top combat force in the army and has the ability to change the situation of a war.

Sean and Bai Ye know why, because all the tree people who came to the Raging Sea this time are people in the eyes.

In short, all these tree people are the products of genetic engineering, but the tree person used as the original gene has returned to the world with a new body.

Sean believes that this is a common behavior of the entire group. People in the eyes usually forcibly occupy the consciousness and body of the gene products, but according to the current situation, the tree people should all be voluntary.

In addition, regarding the proliferation thing, Sean suspects that all Crimson-level tree people should be the same kind of proliferation.

Although the word "mad beast" has the word "beast" in its name, the mad plant is also a kind of mad beast, but it is relatively rare.

But the answer that Sean has never found is the thing that Bai Ye said: his life frequency is almost the same as that of the tree people.

As the war started, more and more prisoners were captured, and Bai Ye had more opportunities for research, but the result remained the same.

"This is not normal..." Bai Ye looked serious. She kept checking Sean's body and comparing it with those tree people, but the result was still the same.

One can still explain that the life frequency of the entire tree people is also almost the same? How is this possible?