Before the overworked employees' chat group closed, Huai Shi, sitting in a little dark room and watching the scenery, met Russell.
"Whoa, not bad at all. The student surpasses the master!"
Russell patted his shoulder and praised him lavishly, though it was impossible to tell which part he was praising...
Huai Shi rolled his eyes and asked bluntly, "What should I do?"
"Nothing."
Russell said, "At this stage, you've already done everything you could. No matter how this ends, there'll definitely be great merit waiting for you—next, all you need to do is wait."
"Wait?"
Huai Shi was puzzled. "We know Beatific Land has a scheme. Shouldn't we withdraw?"
"Withdraw? Why would we withdraw?"
Russell asked in return, "When two armies face each other, if you know the other side has a reserve force hidden away that'll come out at a critical moment, are you supposed to pull back?
Don't forget, the strategic objective hasn't been achieved yet, Huai Shi. The Unified Bureau is the kind of place that would slaughter its own whole family for performance targets, then go slaughter someone else's whole family.
Once the targets are set, they will never give up.
These are merely some expected changes. At most, they're a little worse than anticipated, but now that we're prepared, we won't be left flailing when the time comes."
"But we won't get any advantage going forward either, will we?" Huai Shi sighed.
"If you limit yourself to an individual perspective, you can't see the bigger picture, Huai Shi. But you still have plenty of time to learn—an extremely, extremely long time—so there's no rush."
Russell spun a coin around his fingers and said calmly, "From the War of All Realms until now, now that we can finally stabilize the situation, everyone has wanted to fight