Today's second update: Chapter 3090! 2/4!
After receiving the urgent surrender letter forwarded by the Turtle Prime Minister, Eight Wise Kings was naturally overjoyed when he first read it, barely able to contain himself.
The prolonged stalemate and setbacks of recent days had already plunged him into deep mental exhaustion and self-doubt.
This sudden surrender letter was like long-awaited rain after a drought, a ray of dawn breaking through the darkness!
However, years in high office and the suspicious nature he had developed amid struggles for power kept him from being dazzled by this sudden "good news." After a brief burst of excitement, he forced himself to calm down quickly.
"Even a brute like She Tu Renekton has his doubts. How could I fail to examine this carefully?"
He pondered in silence, his fingers unconsciously tapping the throne's armrest as his gaze sharpened once more.
"Could this be a false surrender scheme set by that brat Huang to lure us in?"
But just as the Turtle Prime Minister, who understood his mind so well, had reminded him, the conditions Gui Gai proposed in the surrender letter were simply too tempting to refuse—sending only a hundred thousand elite soldiers could allow them to coordinate from within and without, utterly crush an entire Huang Army division, and perhaps even strike straight at Huanglong!
No matter how he looked at it, the value of this deal was astonishingly high.
Even if the worst happened and it truly was a trap, they would only lose a hundred thousand troops.
For the allied army, which commanded tens of billions of soldiers, such losses were entirely bearable—nothing more than a scratch.
Still, Eight Wise Kings was a seasoned and meticulous man.
He did not immediately let the enormous potential gains blind him. Instead, he habitually