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"Gods, please enlighten us, where will the fate of the Fang Kingdom go in the next step?"

The cat eater prayed silently in his heart.

Even if the same prayer has not received the slightest answer after hundreds of "victories" in the past, its piety still has not diminished in the slightest.

Simply because, it has no choice but to be pious, and has nothing.

This time, there was still no sign of apocalypse descending on the black top of the rock.

The cat eater could only suppress his disappointment and anxiety, and returned to Luminous City with the bruised victors.

However, before stepping into the city wall of Luminous City, a news like a bolt from the blue almost knocked it down.

"Are you leaving?"

Its eyes were extremely sharp, and it pierced like an ice pick into the dozens of patriarchs waiting at the gate of the city.

These patriarchs are all of the same identity as it. The middle and small nobles of the Long Fang Kingdom, after the national teacher disappeared, the undead general was in a coma, and the four major families killed each other, weakened each other to the extreme, took advantage of the situation and took control of the highest power of the Long Fang Kingdom. .

Over the past month or so, these patriarchs have been loyally supporting the Cat Eater, helping it maintain the Longtooth Kingdom from collapse.

But now, they have united together and proposed to the cat eaters that they are going to take most of the remaining elites of the family to leave Luminous City, leave the radiation range of the Fang Kingdom, and even leave the edge of the known underground world to go more Live in the distant darkness.

"Why!"

The cat eater was so angry that his eyes were staring, his ears were full of "buzzing", he was both angry and confused, "Our ancestors worked so hard to build the Luminous City, this is the most magnificent city in the underground world, it is the kingdom of long teeth The core is also the soul of the Rat Race civilization! Why, you have to abandon the creation of your ancestors and hide in deeper darkness?"

"Because Luminous City can no longer support the needs of our survival."

The patriarchs had obviously planned for a long time, and they were definitely not in a momentary mood. They calmly explained to the cat eater, "It is under the leadership of the national division that the Luminous City can maintain such a large scale and complicated order, with hundreds of thousands or even several One hundred thousand rat tribes plus more slave soldiers and wild rats gathered together, still in order.

"Now the national teacher is gone,

We have experienced several serious internal struggles in a row, including wars with mutated insects, which also greatly consumed precious supplies.

"Right now, there are signs of order collapse in Luminous City—with the rapid consumption of various supplies, more and more Rat Races have become panic-stricken, even full of aggressiveness towards their compatriots, and many female rats are No longer willing to breed, even the bred cubs are weak and sickly, inferior species that can't live for a few days.

"Many elites who have experienced many battles are tired of continuing to fight with mutated insects; killing these mindless insects will neither give you a huge return nor give you the slightest pleasure. Even if you exchange a hundred mutated insects for a precious Soldiers, it is still a very bad deal.

"The recruits are full of enthusiasm and screaming, but they have nothing but spirit. Many recruits are sent to the battlefield only a few months after birth. Apart from their overly excited spirit, their combat skills are lacklustre. Being dragged into the abyss by mutated insects within one round, or getting tired quickly after growing rapidly.

"Everything shows that our ethnic group has reached the limit of expansion, and this war is falling more and more into an abyss of out-of-control. If we don't divide the too large ethnic group and let some rats go far away, we will be wiped out. The disaster will come soon."

"Cat eater, you should know what mice do."

A wise man with white beard and hair said earnestly, "When there is enough food and space, the mice will reproduce desperately, and the number will soon expand to ten times, a hundred times.

"After reaching the limit, a mysterious switch will be turned off, and the rats will become irritable and ferocious, refusing to reproduce to the next generation, and instead use cannibalism to control the number.

"At this time, the best way is to split up. A litter of mice splits into five or ten litters, and some of the mice go far away to maintain harmony with each other.

"A few days ago, the struggle for power among the four major families was certainly driven by ambition, but it was also inevitably controlled by nature. It was because the ratio of our ethnic group and resources reached the limit.

"Cat Eater, we admire the courage you have shown in previous battles, especially in the battle to eliminate the Snake Demon, and the fearlessness you showed when you followed the national teacher and the undead general. We are not willing to be like the three major families besieging the giant axe family. , unite to besiege your family, even we are unwilling to expel your family.

"Then, let us leave here with the necessary supplies, find a new home, and build a brand new city. Luminous City, the most glorious city in the underground world, will belong to you entirely!"

"No--"

The cat eater blushed, and said, "You can't leave, we are far from reaching the limit of reproduction, and Luminous City can accommodate hundreds of thousands, even millions of Rat Race!"

"When the national teacher is here, maybe so."

The wise man with white beard and hair sighed, "But the national teacher has fallen, and no Rat Clan can possess its wisdom and prestige, and can manage a city with millions of rats in an orderly manner. You can't, all of us wise men combined Will not work."

"However, only cities with hundreds of thousands or millions of rat populations are enough to maintain our civilization!"

The cat eater waved his paws and tail, and stammered, "This is the words of the national teacher. The national teacher said that only, only when the number accumulates to a certain level, will it appear... division of labor and cooperation, stratification, cultural exchanges, Only in this way can we promote the germination of civilization, so we must defend Luminous City at all costs!"

"Why, do we insist on 'civilization'?"

The wise man said, "We have the strongest body in the underground world, and we have smarter minds than ordinary underground creatures. Even if there are no cities, no writing, no language, and no rules that bind us, we can just spread in all directions and survive. , why do you have to squeeze into the Luminous City and pursue the illusory 'civilization'?"

"this……"

The cat eater was stunned, speechless for a long time, "Isn't it a matter of course to pursue civilization and continue to evolve, the national teacher once said..."

"When the national teacher was there, he gave us the mission of the gods, and told us that defeating the insect swarm and the snake demon is the final test of the gods. As long as we cleanse our bodies with the flames of glory, our heroic spirits can soar , into the heaven under the blue sky and white clouds."

The voice of the wise man contained deep frustration, "But we failed. Although we destroyed the snake demon's lair, we failed to prevent the spread of mutant insects, and even the national teacher fell unfortunately.

"Now, we have lost our guide, and it is impossible to eliminate the bug swarm and complete the mission of the gods. We have completely failed.

"Then, what use is the so-called 'civilization' to us?"

The cat-eater was stunned for a long time. Bloodshots gradually burst out from the depths of Mung Bean's small eyes. It gritted its teeth and said, "We will definitely fulfill the mission of the gods and completely defeat the insect swarm!"

"How to win?"

The wise man said, "Cat eater, you know the internal situation of the kingdom better than us. Our food, weapons, and strategic materials can't last long. Now, everyone is using one victory after another to arouse their spirits." Only when you are excited can you barely support it.

"However, more and more victories mean that we have seized more and more territories to be stationed, and the logistics supply line has become longer and longer, and it is more and more prone to omissions, harassment and even cutting by mutated insects." .

"As long as one defeat breaks the dream of 'the kingdom is invincible', the Rat Clan's exuberant spirit in the past will rapidly cool down. At that time, their faith will completely collapse, and Luminous City will face a catastrophe of total collapse at any time.

"Even if the mutated insects don't take the initiative to attack, as long as they continue to harass, they will force us to mobilize most of our troops and fall into the quagmire of consumption. Among other things, we haven't sent an expedition team to find food for a long time. The earthworms around Luminous City The pastures and plantations have just been rebuilt, and they can't provide enough food for hundreds of thousands of mouths. The storage warehouse is about to bottom out. Cat eaters, how are you going to feed all the rat tribes in Luminous City? Don't tell me, what do you mean? Civilization, is to return to the bloodiest wilderness, let us eat the flesh and blood of rats?"