However, Zhang Bo still chose to cooperate with the hints from these Holy Tree Knights, because he knew very well that even though these Holy Tree Knights seemed relatively polite to him now, and their actions were more like hints, once any problem arose, they would let him know what violent means were.
Especially with such an urgent situation outside, and no one knew what might happen, if he obstructed Shen Mu's evacuation route here, these Mount & Blade Soldiers, who valued Shen Mu's life more than their own, would definitely kill him directly.
Therefore, Zhang Bo decided not to tempt fate. Especially since the current planning stage had reached its most crucial point, if something were to happen that led to the failure of the grand plan, that would be a serious matter.
"Time is almost up, about 40 minutes left." Zhang Bo silently estimated the time. As a Blue Star Human living in this apocalypse-like Pendor World, calculating time silently in his mind had almost become an instinct.
Therefore, Zhang Bo knew exactly what time it was and when the grand plan would commence.
So, Zhang Bo needed to stay here and wait patiently for the grand plan to begin. In the meantime, he would keep Shen Mu, who had already been tricked into the Castle District, waiting here and prevent him from running around, making it easier for the Green Leaf Group's Wood Elf assault troops to easily kill him later.
"But now I still need to find a way to get the human troops in the Castle District to leave the castle walls and towers, preferably to withdraw them, so that the Green Leaf Group's forces can attack the main castle building more easily," Zhang Bo mused to himself.
Of course, while Zhang Bo was pondering, his hands showed no sign of stopping.
From the backpack on his back, he took out cards resembling playing cards. With the Holy Tree Knights guarding and curiously watching him, monitoring him, Zhang Bo began what he called divination, muttering to himself.
However, this divination was just something Zhang Bo had concocted himself, solely to deceive others and make them believe that his current actions were divination, allowing them to trust him and receive warnings from the future through such divination activities.
Simply put, it was swindling.
For Zhang Bo, such matters were already quite familiar. The method of using divination to deceive others was not something he learned only now in Deherim; he had already used it intermittently at the Diesel Company, convincing the former official employees of the Diesel Company.
This was also why Zhang Bo, as a Prophecy-type Mage, was so popular.
As long as he bluffed and cheated, he could gain a group of loyal followers. Even if the prophecies weren't very accurate, as long as one prophecy came true, more people would believe it implicitly.
The principle is simple. It's just that Zhang Bo, as a Prophecy-type Mage, has a very well-known reputation.
So much so that even now, having arrived in Shen Mu's Deherim, he has received excellent treatment based on this reputation, and even more so given Zhang Bo's personal display of not competing or vying, and not wishing to be involved with power, which has given him his current identity and status.
If Zhang Bo wanted to compete, he could definitely gain a better position. Even if he couldn't compare to Zhang Caidong, he would be higher in status than Sun Zhiru, who is currently the nominal Deputy Manager.
After all, although Sun Zhiru is currently the Deputy Manager, it is mostly just an honorary title.
In terms of actual power, Sun Zhiru and his four or five close friends, plus a few isolated senior managers who were ostracized but did not want to completely defect from the senior managers' circle, essentially held sinecures. Their real power was even less than some lower-level middle-level managers who closely followed the senior managers.
Compared to them, their power was even less than that of the already defunct loyalist middle-level managers. After all, these middle-level managers, who had banded together, had a very strong organizational capacity and could unite for any matter, ensuring everyone worked towards a common goal.
In fact, if it weren't for Wu Jian, the leader of the middle-level managers, foolishly trusting these senior managers, especially Zhou Mo, the leader among the senior managers who came from a large company and conglomerate, he wouldn't have been so easily tricked.
If Wu Jian hadn't truly been willing to negotiate with these senior managers, willing to concede his own interests, and gamble that these senior managers would still be willing to unite and share power with them.
A rather naive action.
Ultimately, it led to the complete annihilation of the loyalist middle-level managers, who were utterly slaughtered.
This shows that Sun Zhiru and his friends are essentially bystanders. If there's work in Deherim and they're assigned, they'll dutifully do it.
If Blue Star Humans in Deherim are fighting among themselves, especially if senior managers and middle-level managers are fighting, or even if senior managers are fighting among themselves, Sun Zhiru and his group will deliberately avoid getting involved.
They simply don't participate.
This also led to Sun Zhiru not being at the center of the storm at all now. There was even a tacit understanding that if someone wanted to withdraw from the conflict, they would voluntarily join Sun Zhiru's team, thereby signifying their relinquishment of power and status, merely seeking a dignified exit by asking others to grant them a graceful departure.
This created a tacit understanding between the warring factions.
It was a way to save face for both sides, allowing everyone in the senior managers' circle, a group of 16 people, a dignified and conflict-free opportunity to retire.
After all, these senior managers were all companions and comrades who had jointly brought down the Diesel Company at the time, having already paid a blood price together.
Therefore, preserving their dignity was also a matter of dignity for their small circle.
Zhang Bo also realized this, knowing that he could never enter this circle. After all, at that time, he had not participated in this blood tax, nor in the battle to destroy the Diesel Company.
Even if he became a senior manager through Zhang Caidong, it would conflict with the respect these senior managers had for him.
If a conflict of interest really arose then, and it came to a power struggle, it would certainly be impossible for him to still be respected and recognized.
If, like now, he were to truly oppose those senior managers and Zhou Mo due to his relationship with the middle-level managers.
When he went to see those senior managers today, he might even be killed in the alley by Zhou Mo and his group, who were bloodthirsty and wanted to completely eradicate any potential threats.
At that point, Zhang Bo's grand plan would be completely bankrupt.
"Thinking about it now, it's quite good that I'm not competing or vying openly, but secretly pushing things forward," Zhang Bo said with a smile.
His hands never stopped moving.
The cards were still being used rapidly, one after another, and only he understood the meaning of each different card. So, Zhang Bo was just quickly taking out these cards, feigning a surprised expression, and muttering to himself, "How could this be? How can this be? What on earth is going on?!"
This was, of course, Zhang Bo's act, including his current words, which were meant to attract the surrounding Holy Tree Knights who were still watching him, and in fact monitoring him, to get these human knights to come over and ask what he had discovered.
And indeed, it was so.
As soon as Zhang Bo spoke these words, the Holy Tree Knights beside him exchanged glances, seeing the confusion in each other's eyes.
They didn't understand Zhang Bo's tactics, but for them, Holy Tree Knights from mount & blade: Warband - Pendor, their world also had prophecies, proverbs, and divination. Many people and factions even relied heavily on these things.
Moreover, in the Pendor World, prophecies such as the resurgence of the ancient Pendor Empire were circulated, including legendary knight orders, mysterious special races, enigmatic arcane magic, and even evil hellish demons.
All of these had prophecies circulating about them.
If they hadn't come to this Blue Star World, if they were in their mount & blade: Warband - Pendor, news of the legendary Son of Prophecy would probably have spread long ago.
After all, for everyone in the Pendor World, the player-controlled character is actually the legendary Son of Prophecy, the Son of Destiny, the fated person who will unite the entire world and bring peace.
This also indicates that prophecies and similar things are recognized by the Holy Tree Knight.
Therefore, now, their relatively polite demeanor towards Zhang Bo, the Prophecy-type Mage, is understandable.
One must know, in Zhang Bo's view, the seemingly impolite attitude of these Holy Tree Knights and human soldiers towards him here was not actually hostility towards Zhang Bo.
Instead, it was already the greatest respect they could show him as a Prophecy-type Mage.
If it were anyone else, they would have rolled their eyes and completely ignored them. Moreover, if anyone dared to offend their authority, they would directly draw their weapons and let these Blue Star Humans know what ruthlessness truly meant, coming from Mount & Blade Soldiers hardened by war, endless conflict, and the erosion of humanity!
Now, the fact that these Holy Tree Knights remained so calm towards Zhang Bo already indicated that his status was indeed unusual.
"Master Zhang Bo, you seem very surprised? Can you tell us what your divination revealed?" A Holy Tree Knight walked over, looking at him still muttering and appearing very surprised, and asked with a frown, "Or have you discovered some difficult danger or threat in Deherim?"
"Yes, Master Zhang Bo, please explain the situation. That way, we can report it to Lord Shen Mu." Another Holy Tree Knight also inquired, but as he spoke, his expression towards Zhang Bo subtly grew more serious.
They all realized that something seemed wrong. Because if Zhang Bo, the Prophecy-type Mage, had truly predicted something good, he would surely be calm, even showing a relaxed expression. That would be normal.
But now, Zhang Bo, the Prophecy-type Mage, was so tense and anxious, which immediately caused these Holy Tree Knights, who had been relatively calm, to feel a surge of tension and seriousness in their hearts.
This already indicated that the divination result of Zhang Bo, the Prophecy-type Mage, did not seem good.
"How is this possible? What on earth happened? Why do I feel like something is wrong here? No! No! No!" Zhang Bo continued to feign tension, his face filled with terror, his voice growing louder and louder. His eyes, fixed on the cards in his hands, were now extremely panicked, his face a mask of disbelief: "No, no, no, this absolutely isn't how it is! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it will end up like this!"
Zhang Bo's increasing panic and terror, to the Holy Tree Knights beside him, absolutely confirmed their suspicions, letting them know that the divination result Master Zhang Bo encountered was definitely a very bad one.
"Master Zhang Bo! Mr. Zhang Bo!" So, in his anxiety, a Holy Tree Knight walked directly over, reached out, and clapped Zhang Bo on the shoulder, snapping him back to his senses. He then said in a deep voice, "What is the result of the divination!? Can you please tell us properly! Can you please tell us?"
"Ah? Ah!" Zhang Bo seemed to have been startled back to reality, looking blankly at the Holy Tree Knight beside him, then twisting his face in fear and exclaiming, "Something's wrong! Something's very wrong! This is terrible! This is simply terrible!"
"What's wrong? What's so terrible? Master Zhang Bo, speak clearly, can you?" The Holy Tree Knight frowned, patted his shoulder forcefully, and his tone was equally heavy: "Tell me, I need to report to Lord Shen Mu! Be clearer! Don't be so scared! We are here! Lord Shen Mu is here! Deherim will not be so easily breached!"
"Yes, yes, Lord Shen Mu, and the Deherim troops!" Zhang Bo shivered, immediately clutching at it like a drowning man grasping a straw, and urgently said to the Holy Tree Knight, "The eastern wall, that Skeleton ramp that has appeared, there might be stronger enemies appearing. If more soldiers don't go to support, the entire wall will be quickly breached!"
"Boom!"
And just then, as Zhang Bo spoke, a huge sound indeed came from the direction of the eastern wall, as if countless Skeletons were piling up, making a clattering, stacking noise!
And very quickly, outside the main castle building, a Swadian Light Infantry acting as a messenger rushed up, loudly reporting: "Reporting to Lord Shen Mu! Outside the eastern wall, a second Skeleton ramp has appeared! On the wall! More Skeleton Skeletons are attacking! We need troop support!"