Cave Refuge

While another zoo chose the industrial model, in this model, each park produced only one type of product, and acquiring other survival supplies required exchanging with other parks.

Compared to the basic supplies produced in the Plantation Garden, the products from these parks generally underwent extensive processing.

If one were to say that traditional manors could sustain themselves completely with minimal dependency on the outside world,

then those parks, producing only one type of product, greatly depended on the outside world.

After all, they could not manufacture the other necessary materials themselves, so they had to rely on external trade, yet their advanced manufacturing technology allowed them to produce a large quantity of goods each month.

At the very beginning, when products from the parks stagnated in sales, they attempted to sell them to the Manor Lords.

Upon receiving and trying these products, the Manor Lords also thought them to be good and continued purchasing them.

Under normal circumstances, with both parties selling and buying completely different things and even complementing each other perfectly, this situation theoretically constituted the most perfect state.

However, due to an upheaval at another zoo, the parks suddenly needed more chimpanzees to produce their products.

Additionally, each manor typically housed hundreds or even thousands of people, but only the Manor Lords, who held the power of life and death, would purchase products—all chimpanzees were personally owned by the Manor Lords.

Consequently, to acquire more chimpanzees and increase their potential customer base, the parks initiated a conflict between the north and the south.

Although the slogans at the time were thunderous, the true motivations were not as noble as those slogans suggested.

Indeed, because the park administrators utilized the chimpanzees, they initially treated them well after winning the war.

At that time, the park administrators sincerely provided preferential treatment to the chimpanzees, making sure they had money to buy their products.

However, things changed when an outsider joined and became a zoo administrator, and thus the insidious plot of favoritism and assassination silently emerged.

Regrettably, this plot usually worked on most animals, but when applied to chimpanzees, their inherent weaknesses led to uncontrollable outcomes.

Although an unforeseen issue arose, it did not affect their plan to usurp the positions of naturally existing species; since the overall direction was correct, they continued executing their plan.

But the natural disaster put them in a state of being too preoccupied with their own survival to maintain control and support, leading to a rapid decline in the circumstances for the chimpanzees.

In reality, it was quite simple, because the patronage-murder scheme created by the managers before the disaster, though it didn't harm the protected animals, did damage to the ordinary animals in the zoo.

Before the disaster, these ordinary animals from Eagle Sauce Zoo kept their distance from the chimpanzees due to pressure from the upper echelons.

However, once the natural disaster struck and the pressure from above was lost, the ordinary animals' attitude towards the chimpanzees immediately began to rebound sharply.

It should be noted that even before the disaster, these ordinary animals had significant grievances against the chimpanzees, and now, without top-level pressure, these grievances turned into bullets that directly pierced the bodies of the chimpanzees.

Of course, this was the situation for ordinary animals facing the chimpanzees while the protective animals also changed from their originally amiable attitudes.

At this time, giant ships, much like the manors of old, had captains who wielded the power of life and death over everyone on board, just like the Manor Lords of the past.

That was why the larger the ship, the more it required a substantial number of lower-class laborers, and the best source of these laborers were the chimps that had been displaced by the flood.

As soon as these chimps were rescued onto the deck, they were immediately confined in the lower hold. At first, these chimps would resist, shouting all kinds of grand slogans.

However, whenever someone tried to incite a riot, there would be ruthless jail guards who would suppress them directly with high-pressure water cannons.

At such times, the grand slogans that were once hailed before the natural disaster became nothing but a joke. If any chimp in a cell tried to resist, the other chimps in that cell would also be implicated.

The milder punishment was being directly washed with high-pressure water cannons, but a more severe punishment was starving the entire cell. If any chimp still harbored thoughts of rebellion, the supervisors would order the other chimps in the cell to beat the troublemaker to death. Otherwise, the entire cell would be starved until the troublemaker died.

Because of this, the larger the ship, the higher the mortality rate among the chimps.

Under these circumstances, the number of animals wandering alone in the outside world decreased sharply, and the majority of the animals in the Eagle Sauce Zoo that had survived until now had mostly gathered around these large ships.

The majority of the survivors in Eagle Sauce had now gathered together, forming various fleets.

As no one cared about the previously-promoted plan before the natural disaster anymore, the chimps on most ships had essentially become the lowest class of laborers.

No one cared about the feelings of these laborers anymore, nor did anyone advocate for their rights and benefits for any reason.

These chimps were seemingly thrust back to the era of the Plantation Garden, where the slightest slip-up could result in successive punishments.

Wishing to fight back was impossible; after all, the punishment of bearing collective responsibility wasn't understood only by the ancient Rabbits.

Because the zoo in Eagle Sauce had turned into what it was now, the majority of the fleets were dominated by the words of their captains.

Thus, in Eagle Sauce, it was either very hard to encounter any strangers for a long time, or one would directly encounter an immensely large fleet.

Because the target he was searching for was very conspicuous, Dong Tianyu prepared to ascend again, as he had always known from childhood the principle of seeing further by standing higher.

But just as Dong Tianyu was preparing to increase his flying altitude, he suddenly felt a tremor in his mind, and immediately looked upwards.

He confirmed that the sky above was clear, with no clouds of rain or thunder gathering, and then slowly continued to raise the altitude of his Flying Swords.

Having been once bitten by a snake, Dong Tianyu remained fearful of the well rope for ten years; the incident that happened a few days ago still filled him with trepidation whenever he thought about it.

As the Flying Swords continued to rise, Dong Tianyu kept a careful and vigilant watch on his surroundings. Should there be any sign of a peculiar change in the environment, he would instantly control the Flying Swords to depart from that place.

Perhaps the previous occurrence had truly been an accident, as this ascent was very smooth, and nothing unexpected happened until Dong Tianyu stopped rising.

After ensuring the safety of his surroundings multiple times, Dong Tianyu finally took a deep breath, and then took out a telescope from the Storage space to check if there were any fleets nearby.

As for why Dong Tianyu, who already possessed Divine Sense with a considerable range, would still use a telescope at this time,

the reason is actually quite simple. Although Divine Sense is capable of reconnaissance, it's only effective within its range.

But with the telescope, Dong Tianyu could see situations ten kilometers away. Although the view might be a bit blurry, it indeed possessed a scouting range far exceeding that of Divine Sense.