At the meeting, Gessa said half-jokingly and sourly, "Those bumpkins genuinely adore you. The applause when you speak to them is much more sincere than when I speak to them."
"Can you even tell real from fake applause?" Winters feigned ignorance.
"What's applause?" Gessa sneered, "I can even tell whether their farts are intentional or uncontrollable."
Despite many attempts to refuse, Winters ultimately couldn't resist Gessa's insistence and, as the military representative, presented the battle report of Jade Crossing to the National Assembly.
The situation was indeed as Gessa described. When Winters talked about their side carefully setting up an ambush and gradually luring [Firm] into a trap, a pin-drop silence enveloped the room, with the audience holding their breath, afraid their sound would scare the enemy away;
