Chapter 1855

He could only shake his head.

Li Ruanyu said, "Commoners and us are actually no different — their thoughts run the full gamut. When they're still commoners it's fine, but the moment they become territorial nobles, especially great territorial nobles, they'll have their own subordinates and very high authority. At that point, there's not much difference between loyalty and obedience — loyalty drops just as fast as obedience does, and very quickly."

"Understood…"

"Hehe."

Li Ruanyu always liked to laugh with a "hehe."

In his original world, that kind of laugh had somehow become a kind of mocking smile.

But on Li Ruanyu's face, that laugh looked very elegant.

She explained a great deal.

Zhao Chi listened, deeply struck.

Even though it was all just Li Ruanyu's personal view, Zhao Chi still found it very convincing.

Even if there were errors, it would be because Li Ruanyu's information was wrong — not because she wanted to mislead or deceive Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi sighed. "I really didn't expect it to be like this. But there's one thing you didn't mention, Sister — no matter what, nobles are terrifyingly strong, and ordinary people can hardly catch up to them. So why were those werewolves able to easily corner them? In the face of absolute strength, ambushes are almost meaningless, right?"

Li Ruanyu nodded.

"You're right, but the premise — as you yourself said — is 'in the face of absolute strength.' But don't forget, this world has many races. Werewolves may not be as numerous as humans, but they're still one of the major races, and they have nobles too. If werewolf nobles ambush human nobles, the effect would be very strong. And… before that, there were also problems within the human nobles themselves… it's very complicated, so I won't say more."

Zhao Chi said in surprise, "So these werewolves are actually far stronger than we imagined?"

"Right. I'm not sure how you view werewolves, but werewolves' strength is indeed extreme — at least several levels above the Heavenly King Army."

"Yeah… werewolves who can pin nobles into a corner are of course terrifyingly strong too. But last time when we went to the central district and fought werewolves, I didn't feel they were that strong. Were those not the main werewolf force?"

Li Ruanyu laughed. "Zhao Chi, your powers of observation really are quite good. You're right — last time when we reinforced the nobles, of course we weren't fighting the main werewolf force. The werewolf main force is all in Central District 1, locked in combat with the nobles' main force — they can't possibly leave District 1."

"So it really was like that."

"Mm, your guess is very accurate. And last time when we helped the nobles, we sent out a full five regiments, plus the nobles of District 9 fighting together — of course we could drive them back. And don't forget, the enemy retreated voluntarily and didn't lose too many core troops."

"Understood…"

"As for what you said… not feeling the werewolves were that strong? I actually don't quite understand. Is it because the werewolves you connected with were themselves relatively weak in combat power, so you thought werewolves were weak?"

It must be like that.

Previously, Zhao Chi hadn't fully grasped his own combat power — the werewolves he connected with were all around 8,000 combat power, so of course they were easy for him.

But one can't use these weak werewolves to compare with werewolves as a whole.

Zhao Chi realized he had indeed been somewhat one-sided.

"Any other questions, little brother?"

Although Zhao Chi felt deeply shaken at this moment, Li Ruanyu of course felt nothing of the sort.

She watched Zhao Chi with a light laugh.

Zhao Chi also laughed and said, "Of course there are."

"You really do have a lot of questions. Go ahead and ask — in a while I'll be asking you too, and I'll grill you until there's nothing left."

"Mm, since the World Stone has been taken by the nobles, is there any other way for us to obtain it? A stable way?"

"No."

"Huh? No?"

"Mm, no."