"Gods, please give us a revelation of where the fate of the Fang Kingdom will go next?"

Cat eaters silently pray in the bottom of their hearts.

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

Because, apart from piety, it has no choice but to have nothing.

This time, on the top of the black rock, there was still not the slightest sign of revelation.

The cat eaters can only suppress their disappointment and anxiety, and return to Luminous City with the scarred winners.

However, before it could set foot in the walls of Luminous City, a thunderbolt of news almost knocked it down.

"You're leaving?"

Its gaze was incomparably sharp, like an ice pick, piercing the dozen or so patriarchs waiting at the city gate.

These patriarchs are all the same identity as it, the small and medium-sized nobles of the Long Fang Kingdom, after the disappearance of the national teacher, the undead general fell into a coma, and the four major families killed each other and weakened each other to the extreme, they took advantage of the situation to rise and control the supreme power of the Long Fang Kingdom.

For more than a month, these patriarchs have been loyally supporting the Cat Eater, helping it to keep the Fang Kingdom from collapsing.

But now, they have joined forces and proposed to the cat eaters that they are ready to take most of the remaining elites of their family to leave the Luminous City, leave the radiation range of the Fang Kingdom, and even leave the edge of the known underground world to live in the darkness even farther away.

"Why!"

The cat eater was so angry that his eyes were full of Venus, and his ears were full of "buzzing", both angry and confused, "Our ancestors worked hard to establish Luminous City, which is the most magnificent city in the underground world, the core of the Fangs Kingdom, and the soul of the Rat civilization!" Why do you turn your backs on the creation of your ancestors and hide in deeper darkness? ”

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

The patriarchs had obviously been planning for a long time, and they calmly explained to the cat eaters, "It is under the leadership of the national teacher that Luminous City can maintain such a huge scale and complicated order, so that hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rat clans plus more slave soldiers and wild rats gather together, and they are still in order."

"Now that the national teacher is gone, we have experienced several serious infighting in a row, including the war with the mutant insects, which has also greatly consumed valuable materials.

"Now, there are signs of order collapse in Luminous City - with the rapid consumption of various materials, more and more rats have become panicked, and even full of aggression towards their compatriots, and there are many female rats who are no longer willing to breed, and even the cubs that are bred are weak and sickly, and they can't live for a few days.

"Many battle-hardened elites are tired of continuing to fight mutant bugs; Killing these mindless bugs has neither a rich reward nor the slightest pleasure, even if a hundred mutant worms are exchanged for a valuable soldier, it is still a very lossy deal.

"The recruits are full of enthusiasm and screaming, but they are good for nothing but spirit, many recruits are sent to the battlefield after only a few months of birth, and in addition to being too excited, their combat skills are lackluster, either being dragged into the abyss by mutant worms in just a few rounds, or quickly getting tired of them after growing up quickly.

"There are all kinds of signs that our race has reached the limit of expansion, and this war is falling more and more towards the abyss of uncontrollability, and if we don't divide the overly large race and let some of the rat race leave far away, the catastrophe will come soon."

"Cat eaters, you should know what rats do."

A wise man with white hair said earnestly, "When there is enough food and space, the rats reproduce desperately, and soon expand their numbers to tenfold, hundredfold.

"When the limit is reached, a mysterious switch is turned off, and the rats become irritable and vicious, refusing to reproduce the next generation, and instead resorting to cannibalism to control the population.

At this time, the best way is to split, a litter of rats into five nests, ten nests, and some of the rats go away to maintain harmony with each other.

"A few days ago, the struggle for power and profit of the four major families certainly had the element of ambition, but it was also inevitably controlled by nature, and it was because the ratio of our race and resources reached the limit.

"Cat Eater, we admire the courage you have shown in all the battles, especially the fearlessness you have shown when following the national teacher and the immortal general in the battle to destroy the snake demon, we are not willing to unite to besiege your family like the three major families besieging the Great Axe family, and we are not even willing to expel your family.

"Then, let's leave here with the necessary supplies, find a new home, build a new city, and the Luminous City, the most glorious city in the underground world, will be completely yours!"

"No—"

The cat eater blushed and said, "You can't go, we are far from reaching the limit of breeding, and Luminous City is enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of rat clans!" ”

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

The wise man with white hair sighed, "But the national teacher has fallen, and no rat clan can have its wisdom and prestige, and can manage a city with millions of rat mouths in an orderly manner, you can't, all our wise men combined." ”

"However, only a city with a rat population of hundreds of thousands, millions of rats, is 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, only, only when the number accumulates to a certain level, will it appear...... Only the emergence of division of labor and cooperation, class differentiation, and cultural exchanges can promote the germination of civilization, so we must defend the luminous city at all costs! ”

"Why do we have to be 'civilized'?"

The wise man said, "We have the strongest physique in the underground world, and we have a mind that is more intelligent than ordinary underground creatures, even if there is no city, no writing, no language, no rules that bind us, we can just spread in all directions, and we can survive, why do we have to crowd into the luminous city and pursue the ethereal 'civilization'?" ”

"This ......"

The cat eater was stunned and couldn't speak for a long time, "Isn't it a natural thing to pursue civilization and keep evolving, the national teacher once said......"

"When the national teacher was here, he gave us the mission of the gods, and also told us that defeating the insect tide and the snake demon is the final test of the gods for us, as long as we cleanse our bodies with the fire of glorious war, our heroic spirits can soar to heaven under the blue sky and white clouds."

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

"Now, we have lost our guide, and it is impossible for us to eradicate the insect tide and complete the mission of the gods, and we have completely failed.

"What, then, is the use of 'civilization' for us?"

The cat eater was stunned for a long time, and in the depths of the mung bean's small eyes, blood gradually burst out, and it gritted its teeth and said: "We will definitely be able to complete the mission of the gods and completely defeat the insect tide!" ”

"How to beat?"

The wise man said, "Cat Eater, you know the situation inside the kingdom better than us, our food, weapons and strategic materials can't last too long, and now, everyone can barely support it with one victory after another, arousing the excitement of the spirit."

"However, more and more victories mean that we have captured more and more territories to garrison, and the logistical supply lines are becoming longer and longer, and it is more and more prone to negligence, harassment and even cutting by mutant insects.

"As long as a defeat breaks the dream of 'the invincibility of the kingdom', the exuberant spirit of the rat people in the past will quickly cool, and when the time comes, their faith will completely collapse, and the luminous city will face a total collapse at any time.

"Even if the mutant 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 attrition, not to mention, we haven't sent an exploration team to find food for a long time, the earthworm pastures and plantations around Luminous City have just been rebuilt, and they can't provide enough food for hundreds of thousands of mouths, and the reserve warehouse is about to bottom out, cat eaters, how are you going to feed all the rats in Luminous City? Could it be that your so-called civilization is to return to the bloodiest wilderness and let us gnaw on the flesh of rats? ”