bookbashuk Chapter 39 The Lies That Must Be Exposed
Chapter 39 The Lies That Must Be Exposed
Yi Yin chuckled.
"Snowclaw Duke? That's the old black cat with the white claws. That guy is so cunning; he's trying to provoke you with his words."
He knows you need the approval of the aristocratic circle of the rocky hills, so he'll pressure you relentlessly to see how much he can squeeze out of you.
Ultimately, you're just a viscount. How much help can a viscount like Huru, with his small vassal territory, provide in a war?
Isn't that asking a cat to do something it can't?
He wanted you to ask the humans for help, but Ilya told me that the humans wouldn't overly intervene in cat society; they had their own concerns.
Humans can exchange the pleasure of petting cats for some help as a trade; this is an unspoken understanding among humans. However, excessive intervention in cat disputes is not allowed.
Bell also said that the energy between heaven and earth is conserved. If the human race in the east uses their supernatural powers more often, the continent in the west will experience floods and droughts, and in the end, both the human and cat races will suffer.
Ilya couldn't possibly violate the tacit understanding of humanity so easily, even though she was the seventh seat of the Council of Human Hearts. This Council of Human Hearts was established to punish madmen who disregarded the rules.
Sofia remained silent.
Madmen were once the greatest calamity on the continent.
Because they lost men and the possibility of reproduction, a large number of humans fell into unprecedented mental confusion, which can also be seen as the disorientation of irritable older women after menopause.
When humans with extraordinary powers develop mental problems, it naturally brings misfortune to all living beings on the entire continent.
Rational humans choose to pet cats to maintain their mental peace, which is also the biggest reason why humans appeared in cat society. Women need to find spiritual comfort and a substitute for men.
Some women who couldn't control themselves did many horrific things, such as abusing their supernatural powers, causing frequent disasters on the continent, and forcibly giving birth to half-cat, half-human mutants.
Ultimately, these madmen were wiped out by the traditional human race, who could no longer tolerate them.
After this battle, the human population dwindled even further. The remaining humans, having learned their lesson, established the Council of Hearts and Minds to prevent the recurrence of such madmen and to nip any signs of madness in the bud.
Sofia sighed.
"Of course I understand what you're saying. I also know that Duke Snowclaw has dug a pit for me to fall into. No matter whether I can get help from the human race or not, the result will not be a good thing."
That's why I thought of your corn.
Humans cannot be deeply involved in the cat wars, but the cats should have no problem eating the food sent by humans, right?
Food is the most important thing for people. No matter how big the world is, eating is the most important thing. Whether it is people's livelihood or military affairs, we cannot do without the support of food.
As long as I can provide enough food, the Snowclaw Duke's harsh treatment of me will be easily resolved.
All the nobles would believe that I made sufficient contributions, and that no human supernatural power intervened to cause the calamity.
Yi Yin stroked his chin, pondering.
"That makes some sense."
Sofia sighed.
"I need the support of the nobles, and I need to gain a foothold in the scree hills."
Most importantly, I need the aristocratic circles to speak up for me and expose the Regent's lies!
The Regent's main reason for slaughtering the royal family was the imminent return of the two gods. The existence of the Mankikan bloodline would enrage the two gods, causing them to destroy all the cats.
But the truth is that the two gods have never returned in the past thousand years, and this rumor is just an excuse for the regent to launch a coup!
Only by exposing this lie can I have a chance to revitalize the royal family and revive Mankiham!
Yi Yin scratched his head; he understood Sophia's worries.
Why does the seemingly joking question of whether something is capitalist or socialist hinder reform and opening up, causing widespread doubt? It's because without changing the consensus across society, all efforts will be inefficient and unlikely to succeed.
Sofia was not concerned with debunking the rumors themselves, but rather with eliminating the political predicament that was unfavorable to the Manquican royal family and breaking the moral high ground of the regent's coup.
Without resolving this political issue, there is absolutely no chance of reviving the Mankik royal family.
The two gods are about to return. But will they really come back? And how long will it be?
The Regent fooled the entire cat clan with a vague concept. Is it really true that the cat clan elites are stupid and that everyone from top to bottom is a single-minded idiot?
That's not the case.
Rather, the royal family of cats had long since come to dislike having a high-ranking yet declining and powerless royal family continue to sit on their heads and oppress them.
So, they went with the flow.
Sophia understood this principle, but she had to expose the Regent's lies, drain the water from the nobles' self-deception, and leave the boat adrift and without direction.
Only by solving this problem will the Mankikan royal family have a chance to make a comeback.
The road ahead is long and fraught with obstacles, but we must take it one step at a time, always clearing away the obstacles in our path and solving the problems that lie ahead.
But is the return of the two gods a lie? Sofia didn't know, nor did she want to know. She only wanted to reverse the political situation and carve out a way for the Manquican royal family to revive.
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Life is full of vicissitudes, and it is extremely difficult to accomplish anything. Who doesn't want to make a living?
Princess Sofia, the gnome cat, was thinking about what she could do for the Manquican royal family.
On the boundless plateau north of the scree hills, the chiefs of the nomadic cat tribes, each from their own standpoint, desperately seek a way to survive in order to ensure the continuation of their tribes.
The boundless plateau to the north of the scree hills exhibits three layers of geographical features.
In the north, near the snow line, the permafrost connects to the frozen snowfield, and the periglacial landforms give rise to stone rings, stone sea landscapes, and giant erratics covered with a transparent ice shell.
During the brief snowmelt season in summer, thousands of cirques are formed, their waters turning emerald green due to algae growth.
The Midwest is dotted with giant rock formations, which were sculpted from ancient sandstone layers by a constant northwest-moving hurricane. The rock walls are covered with honeycomb-like holes, forming natural acoustic resonant cavities inside.
The resulting sandstorms continue to expand eastward, forming a grid-like canyon belt and creating vast Gobi deserts rich in minerals.
A crescent-shaped mobile grassland belt is distributed between the southern terraces at the lower edge of the plateau. The soil is barren and can only grow grass, which moves and withers with the seasons.
Underground rivers formed oases, which were irregularly distributed along the edge of the plateau, and developed into settlements that facilitated trade and exchanges with various parts of the south.
At this time, in the crescent-shaped grassland zone in the southern part of the plateau, the spring breeze brings warmth, and the pasture sprouts.
The chiefs of various clans of the nomadic cats also gathered here, where they would hold a general meeting of chiefs after the shaman's ritual to worship the Earth Mother.
A massive bonfire was lit, and Ner'zhul, chieftain of the Shadowmoon clan, stood on the altar, inviting the gaze of the Earth Mother.
This hairless Sphynx cat, with its wrinkled skin resembling antelope hide, stared wide-eyed and muttered to itself, seemingly saying something incomprehensible.
Not far away, the clan's warriors were gathered around a campfire, shaking hands, bumping shoulders, and shouting about blood and thunder, power and glory, communicating with each other in their own way.