Chapter 140: Dogs Can't Change Their Appetite...
Walled City Alliance.
This loose alliance formed against the Legion of the Eternal Night, with the rapid development of the Legion of the Eternal Night in the past two years, brought them more and more pressure, and the relationship between them became closer and closer.
Especially in the past year, the Eternal Night Legion, which has relieved its breath, no longer blindly forbears them, but fights-for-tat, and the pressure on the Walled City Alliance has doubled.
At the initiative of Clayton the Scavenger, the Walled City Alliance convened a meeting of all the city lords, which was held on an island in the inland lake of Andes.
The benefits of this are twofold.
First, there is no need to worry about being raided by the Eternal Night Legion, which will simmer the upper echelons of the Walled City Alliance, and Clayton, the scavenger, is particularly curious about Sean's night attack, and he has a deep memory, and it is from that night that Sean and his Eternal Night Legion are like a volcano erupting, out of control.
Say no regrets, that's fake, if he was still in the Eternal Night Legion at the beginning, with his own means, maybe the entire Eternal Night Legion is now under his control - Clayton the Scavenger obviously didn't know that if he was too late, Sean and McGee would have been angry with him even if they fought for losses.
Some people don't feel like they have any problems with their behavior patterns, and Clayton the Scavenger is a typical example of that.
Even if Sean and McGee the Skullcrusher don't catch fire and drop him, with people like him mixed in, it's really impossible to say what kind of virtue the Legion of Eternal Night will become.
The Legion of the Eternal Night has achieved its current success thanks to internal unity.
Second, it is to prevent some people from making ghosts within the Walled City Alliance, people gather in groups, and they can form an alliance with Clayton the Scavenger, there are really few good stubbles, and there are many mountains, and it is a norm for them to form gangs.
In less than two years, there have been three major forces and four small forces within the Walled City Alliance, and the forces gathered around Clayton the Scavenger have not even entered the three big forces, at most they are the largest of the four small forces.
However, Clayton the Scavenger is a special one, not only as the initiator of the establishment of the Walled City Alliance, but also has dealt with the highest echelons of the Legion of the Eternal Night, and knows them best.
Clayton the Scavenger himself is also slippery enough, meeting left and right in the middle of the three major forces, and privately forming a good alliance with the other three small forces to jointly deal with the oppression and erosion of the three major forces, and is about to become the fourth big force of the Walled City Alliance, from a three-legged standpoint to a four-legged battle.
However, Clayton the Scavenger is not satisfied with this, and in addition to seeking more power in the Walled City Alliance, he also wants to wipe out the Legion of the Eternal Night from the mountains once and for all.
"What the Eternal Night Legion is doing, we are all doing, but everyone has seen the effect, we are not half a star away from each other, why? Because the other party is a whole and can be flexibly dispatched? And what about us? A plate of loose sand, a plate of loose sand for each of its own interests! If we continue like this, it won't be long before we will be left far behind. β
"I don't know what's going on in your walled city, but since the end of last year, a large number of villagers have begun to flee and go to the Eternal Night Legion, just because of the land reclamation they are engaged in, and all the land they have reclaimed belongs to individuals, and they only need to pay taxes quarterly! β
Although this gathering of the city lords of the Walled City Alliance was held under the initiative of Clayton, the scavenger, but when the meeting was actually held, he became silent, and some small city lords jumped out first, but most of the opinions in their mouths came from him.
This treacherous and cunning guy is more handy in the Walled City Alliance, not to mention things that offend people, even this kind of inaccurate thing, he will not come forward in person, but those puppets jump out, probe the wind, and follow the flow to maximize his own interests.
"Don't mess around here, you are a fugitive, it has nothing to do with our current system, it's purely that you squeezed too hard, all the land reclaimed belongs to you, and you have to pay all kinds of extra taxes, you don't give them any hope at all, if they don't run, what are you waiting for? You can't be a slave for a lifetime? The fugitive problem you talked about, I dare not say that there is absolutely no problem in my walled city, but there are only a handful. β
"Hey...... Don't show off here, who doesn't know who, just like how kind you are to your villagers, they don't dare to run, it's not because you use the system of joint sitting, kill one by one, and rule with your methods, it won't take long for your people to run out, but you will kill them all. β
"Even if you kill them all, it's better than your inaction. β
"You're a butcher theory......"
"Enough, are you worse than anyone else?"
A loud but threatening sneer interrupted the two arguing with the smell of gunpowder.
"Old vulture, you invited us here, didn't you just listen to these fools grinding their teeth?"
"You ......"
Those little city lords glared angrily, but none of them really dared to speak out against him.
Because the person who spoke was not only the city lord of one of the three major forces within the Walled City Alliance, but also known as the first warrior of the Walled City Alliance, Tagore, who had the reputation of Andes Tiger.
Compared with the other two great forces from the former Three Caves and Eight Cities, Tagore's emergence in the Walled City Alliance is beyond everyone's expectations, but it seems to be reasonable.
Before joining the Walled City, Tagore was already well-known in the Andes Mountains, a champion knight, it is difficult to think of not being famous, not to mention that his background is quite legendary.
It is rumored that he was an abandoned baby, but at that time, there was no one in the mountains like Sean who took the initiative to take in orphans, and he was able to survive because he met a giant tiger Andes who had lost his son and picked him up.
If he had been raised by this tigress, there would have been at most a legend of a tiger child in Andes Mountainβa legend that is rare elsewhere, but not unique in Andes Mountain, especially monkey children.
There is a kind of mountain ape and wild monkey in the Andes Mountains, not only will they steal the children of the same kind, but also the children of other primate species, they will also steal, including the mountain people, this mountain ape and wild monkey is called the baby thief monkey by the mountain people through gritted teeth, and they will be killed when they see it around the walled city.
When Tagore was four or five years old, the Andes Tiger who had raised him was killed by a small walled city lord, who picked him up, and when he saw his legendary background, he adopted him as an adopted son and did his best to train him.
However, the first thing Tagore did when he first became an adult was to kill his stepfather and avenge his adoptive mother, the Andes Tiger.
This is the prototype of the famous story of the tiger as the mother in the mountains, and this matter is still full of controversy, both those who agree with Tagore's approach and those who scold it.
Those who agree believe that Andes Giant Tiger raised him first, first formed a mother-son friendship, and although his later stepfather also had the grace of nurturing him, he had the revenge of killing his mother first, and he never forgot revenge from the beginning, which is a true temperament.
Those who scolded thought that Tagore was an immature white-eyed wolf, and he actually killed the people who raised and cultivated him for the sake of a brute, and Andes Tiger raised him, not really out of feelings, but the instinct of a beast, if it weren't for his father-in-law, not only would he not have his current achievements, but maybe he would have become tiger dung long ago.
No matter what the world says, Tagore still goes his own way, and the relationship with the tigers in the mountains of Andes is even closer than the relationship between the mountain people.
He joined the Walled City Alliance, not on his own initiative, but was invited by the scavenger Clayton Sangu Thatched House, at that time the Walled City Alliance had basically taken shape, and the two big forces led by the Four Water City and the Three Caves Alliance had become the core, and there was basically nothing to do with the scavenger Clayton.
Clayton, the scavenger, managed to pull together such a big shelf, how could he be willing to make a wedding dress for others, and in order to break this situation, he invited Tagore, a tiger, in.
Clayton the Scavenger originally tried to tame the tiger for his own use, but upon contact, he found that the tiger was too wild to be tamed by anyone, so he had to settle for the next best thing, using the tiger to disrupt the situation and make it easier for him to fish in troubled waters.
Tagore did not disappoint Clayton the Scavenger at this point, and when he entered the Walled City Alliance, he was like a fierce carnivorous fish jumping into a school of grass carp, bumping into each other, and pulling out a force that was no worse than the Four Waters City and the Three Caves Alliance.
This also proves in disguise that the other party is not so brainless as he appears - a pure martial artist can become a general, but he cannot become a commander.
Being named, Clayton, the scavenger, naturally couldn't pretend to be a turtle anymore, and coughed a sigh.
"There is some truth in what they say, if we continue to do this, the mountain will really become a human being! Are you going to honor a hairy boy who has not even grown his hair as a king?"
"I have said a long time ago that you are shooting yourself in the foot, using your own shortcomings to compare with others, and comparing the growth speed with an emerging force, this is the biggest joke I have ever heard, in other words, before they grow up, no matter how much it costs, first crush him to death. Tagore clasped his hands and sneered.
He is the main battle faction in the Walled City Alliance, from the day he joined the Walled City Alliance, he has been advocating war, he firmly believes that it is extremely unwise to compete with an emerging force to develop the speed, after all, the Andes Mountains have a new pattern now, all thanks to the other party, the other party must have its own advantages.
But at that time, he had just joined the Walled City Alliance, and he was alone, so he couldn't get response and support at all.
"If you don't know anything, don't be a prophet here. "The middle-aged man who opened his mouth to refute Tagore was Antonioli, the lord of the Four Waters City, another force.
Like Skullcrusher McGee's Upper Water City, Four Water City was also an old-school force in the Andes Mountains, one of the Three Caves and Eight Cities back then.
Seriously, there is still a certain relationship between the two sides, Shangshui City, Xiashui City, and Sishui City are distributed along the ancient river of Jacob, and they were called Sanshui City back then, and the relationship has always been relatively close, and there are many marriages between each other, and Antonioli should be McGee's grandfather's generation.
However, the relationship between the three cities was broken in McGee's father's generation, and although it did not become a feud, it was also a dead end.
The relationship between the walled cities is so stiff, it is nothing more than two words - interests.
Compared to Shangshui City and Xiashui City, Sishui City, which is located on the shore of Andes's inland lake, is obviously in much better condition, because they are not only produced in the mountains, but also in large quantities in the water, and because they are located in the depths of the mountains, they are basically not affected by the scourge of slave hunters.
After thirty years of cultivation and recuperation, Sishui City does not dare to say that it has returned to its heyday, but it is not much different.
The reason why they came to join in the crowd was not because of the threat of the Legion of the Eternal Night, which had not yet shown such a threat at that time.
They are there to divide the interests and gain more power.
At that time, their main threat did not come from the Legion of the Eternal Night, but from the other walled cities in the Walled City Alliance, and at that time, the entire Andes Mountains were in a state of scattered sand.
In order to compete for the right to hunt on a mountain and the right to fish in a water, it is common for two or more walled cities to fight to the death.
It wasn't until Clayton the Scavenger came and painted a bigger pie for them, showing them a bigger world, that many people suddenly realized that they didn't have to stick to this one-third of an acre of land, and they could still go out.
By the time the Walled City Alliance really felt the threat from the Eternal Night Legion, the Eternal Night Legion had already completed its own adaptation, showing a strong momentum, and with their own strength, even the most powerful Four Water City, they had no way to eat the other party, and they were even more timid.
It's not that they don't want to fight, but how to play?
Who's at the forefront?
If you win the war, how will the interests be divided?
If you suffer too much damage in a head-on conflict with the Legion of the Eternal Night, you will definitely be swallowed up by other walled cities!
The complex composition of the Walled City Alliance itself doomed them to be timid in everything they did.
Before doing anything, the first thing to consider is how to guard against these allies from within.
"Hey!"
Rabindranath Tagore let out a disdainful sneer, unwilling to entangle Antonios too much in words.
They have already clashed over this issue more than once, and even if they do, it is just a rehash of the same old tune.
It's absolutely impossible to get these cunning guys to admit that they made a mistake in their decision-making.
It's timid to do anything, and it can't be the climate at all.
He didn't agree with many of the ideas of the two idiots in front of him, but there was one thing he had to agree with, if they continued like this, they would collapse first without the Legion of Eternal Night to fight them.
Tagore turned his head to look at Clayton the Scavenger and said, "Give you another chance, if you can't say something substantial, don't blame me for not giving you face, I'll go first, I don't have time to talk to you here." β
"Lord Tagore, don't be impatient!" Clayton, the Scavenger, said, "Originally, I wanted to propose that we go further in cooperation, and we should contribute to build a fortress on the border between the two sides, so as to resist the harassment of the Legion of the Eternal Night, and at the same time, completely cut off the problem of the people in our territory fleeing, but just before coming, I just received a message!"