Chapter 960, Old Woman
Looking at the old woman who came to visit him, Gu Hang was still a little curious.
He had not planned to meet the new leader of the Dark Eldar.
There is no point in negotiating.
Even though the diplomatic ambassadors of both sides maintained contact and communication after Victor's death, the human side basically lost the will to negotiate with the other side, and only emphasized again and again that the other side should surrender unconditionally.
For humans, this is easy - the credibility of the Dark Eldar is one aspect, after all, humans are not much better. However, the biggest reason is that from the perspective of the Alliance, after Victor's death and the Dark Eldar's continuous defeat, the Dark Eldar have lost all bargaining chips.
Military failures and political strife have forced the alliance to resolutely advance its strategy of completely occupying the entire Comoros.
Once we win the war, everything will be mine. What else can we negotiate?
After the last peace talks, the Terran Expeditionary Force, which was the most anxious to leave, had already left. This was a great loss to the Dark Eldar, which gave them a chance to attack, but it was also good for humans.
Originally, one of the important reasons why humans accepted the peace talks was that they were worried that the events in Comoros would drag on for too long, leading to unacceptable changes on Holy Terra.
Although the Alliance had a plan for this, the advance fleet carrying the Veil Gate equipment had already set out to find a way to Holy Terra.
But that's a guarantee at best.
The sooner we can build on this foundation, the better.
The last peace talk provided a good opportunity.
Even though Robert's departure took away a large number of troops and occupied the Veil Spirit Gate's transportation capacity for a considerable period of time, seemingly weakening the human power in Comoros, it actually also relieved the Alliance of its worries.
No need to worry about Holy Terra anymore, only Comoros is in sight.
The alliance was able to go all out, coupled with Gu Hang's attack and Victor's death, left Comoros with no room to fight back.
Now, if they want to negotiate again, they have no bargaining chips.
Until the old woman showed up.
According to the report Gu Hang received, this person should have been purged by Victor before the peace talks.
The old woman's identity is very special. She is considered a religious leader among the Eldar, and her status is higher than that of many family archons. In the critical moment of the Eldar, it is actually very reasonable for her to come out and clean up the situation.
After all, the prestige is there.
What surprised Gu Hang was that she didn't die.
Originally, when Gu Hang first learned that the old woman was cleaned out by Victor, he felt quite sorry.
The Storm Elves were able to lurk in Commorragh so smoothly and rise step by step. In just a few decades, they were able to access some of the more core secrets and information of the Dark Eldar, all thanks to the Witch Spirit Cult.
The old woman's shadow can be vaguely seen inside.
He had never established any direct contact with Gu Hang through the Storm Heroic Spirit. However, Gu Hang thought that he seemed to be actively condoning something.
This is just a feeling. During the Storm Spirit's decades of activities in Comoros, Gu Hang regarded this as a tacit understanding between the two parties.
After the Comoros War officially broke out and the Storm Spirits played a key role, Gu Hang originally planned to find a way to contact the old woman.
However, it is not easy to contact her, especially after all the Storm Spirits have been exposed, there is a lack of lurkers.
The Alliance's regular spies can often only operate within the Dark Eldar by disguising themselves as human slaves enslaved by the Dark Eldar.
Slaves are not free, and the actions of spies are quite restricted. The intelligence they can obtain and the people they can contact are also at a very low level.
It is very troublesome to contact the old woman through this line.
However, there is another line.
Diplomatic lines.
Since the beginning of the war, diplomatic activities between humans and dark elves have never stopped. There are ambassadors of the Dark Eldar, who are stationed on the Alliance side, and there are also diplomatic envoys of the Alliance, with a lot of entourage military attachés and guards.
From this perspective, a considerable proportion of people come from the Alliance's intelligence departments. They will take advantage of various diplomatic activities to try to contact high-level figures in the Dark Eldar.
They also had the task of contacting the Wuling Sect, especially the mission of trying to contact the old woman. However, as a religious leader, the old woman did not appear in most occasions and was basically unavailable.
Although, the agents of the intelligence department never gave up the mission, the old woman suddenly disappeared before they succeeded.
Although the purge of this religious leader was kept secret among the Dark Eldar, how could such a thing be kept secret?
The religious leader no longer appears, many high-ranking figures in the Wuling sect have been replaced, and many of the original privileges have been reduced... Although there is no obvious evidence, it is easy to guess what happened.
Gu Hang felt a little emotional after hearing the news.
However, I didn’t expect that she didn’t die and is now in power.
The first thing she did after taking power was internal integration.
This step went relatively smoothly.
The Dark Eldars also realized that they were facing the danger of extinction. In this situation, if they did not work together, they would be doomed. The old woman had enough reputation to glue all the forces together. No matter how ambitious the various forces were, they could only respect the overall situation first.
The most important point in uniting the Dark Eldar is that the old woman can come up with a way to stop the war.
This statement made the Dark Eldar excited, but then when they heard what the specific solution was, it caused an uproar.
Unconditional surrender.
Surrender is acceptable to the Dark Eldar.
Let's talk it over and make the conditions clear. Even if we have to be treated like dogs, we will accept it. After all, the battle is obviously unwinnable, and our home base has been attacked. There are not many things we can use as bargaining chips.
However, unconditional surrender is still too difficult to bear.
On the one hand, the Dark Eldar have been a race that has relied on exploiting slaves and plundering for tens of millions of years. Although they are not specifically targeting humans, humans are the overlords of the real universe, occupying the most habitable planets and the largest population. Even if they are not specifically targeted, they are still plundered the most times. The number of people captured and enslaved is tens of billions, accounting for more than 70% of the total population of Dark Eldar slaves.
If we extrapolate this order of magnitude to the entire ten thousand years of history of the human empire, how many people’s blood and tears have been shed at the hands of Heipi?
Racial hatred is right here.
Moreover, they were not unaware of the human empire's usual attitude toward all non-human races - extermination.
Unconditional surrender, isn't that just handing the butcher knife to mankind, and then raising your neck. Whether they chop you off or not is just a matter of their thought, right?
Why do this?
If the entire race is destined to perish, then why don't they die in the struggle, instead of surrendering so miserably and being slaughtered easily?
Let you, a prestigious leader, come to power, and this is how you lead the entire race, right?
But the old woman had obviously made up her mind. Regardless of the internal feedback, she clearly conveyed her will to the alliance's ambassador and requested a meeting with Gu Hang.
Gu Hang promised.
(End of this chapter)
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