When Elinor finds Ask, he is watching Medea and Hera playing chess.
"That's not right?" Medea wondered, "How could you kill me, a person who can read minds?"
"Playing chess relies on brainpower, not mind-reading." Sheila said while playing with the chess pieces. "Even if you can predict my next few moves, you don't know how to place the pieces to affect the overall situation dozens of moves later."
"You mean my brain power is not as good as yours?" Medea sneered.
"I didn't say that." Sheila said calmly, "It's just that Medea, are you relying too much on your abilities? Thinking is the most precious wealth of mankind."
"Captain!" Eleanor ran to Ask's side, told him her father's question, and finally asked:
"So what do you think? Are the Wolfs in league with the Hussites in the Principality?"
"I don't know that either," said Ask.
"Is there something you don't know?" Eleanor was shocked.
"Why don't you ask some smart people?" Ask said, "For example, Medea and Hera in our team."
The two girls were clearing the chessboard and chess pieces on the table. When Sheila heard this, she said:
"That depends on what you mean by 'collusion'."
"Uh." Eleanor hesitated.
"If private contact is considered 'collusion'," said Shira, "then there must be. The Hussites mainly come from the native Scolappians in Bohemia, Bavaria and Carinthia. In the current hostile situation, the Wolf family will definitely try to contact these Hussites, hoping that they can launch a rebellion to delay and consume the strength of your Weisbach family."
"But if 'agreeing to rebel' is considered 'collusion', then that's not necessarily true. Since the leader Hus was executed by the Vatican, the Hussites have rapidly expanded among the poor, but the biggest problem is that they lack a supreme leader with prestige like Hus who can integrate the currently scattered Hussite forces."
"An organization that is not fully integrated is like an open fist, which does not have enough killing power. In this case, even if the Wolf family wants to incite the Hussites in the principality, they probably lack channels to contact them directly. It is more likely that they can only bribe some small leaders in private. And if there is not enough power accumulated, rebellion cannot be launched at all."
"Let me add one more thing." After Sheila finished her analysis, Medea also said with a smile, "I think the Wolf family has not reached any agreement with the Hussites at all."
"The reason is simple. Within half a month since we arrived here, the Hussites launched several attacks on the streets, and even openly attacked you and the commander."
"This has certainly attracted your family's close attention, but it is contrary to the 'rebellion' itself. As Shira said, if the Hussites want to rise up, they must first integrate the many forces within them."
"If they have completed their integration and are planning a rebellion with the Wolf family, they should not have taken the initiative to launch an attack on the streets before the rebellion, because that would only alert the enemy and cause you to be highly alert for no reason."