Cave Refuge

At the beginning, whether they were Slave Rabbits or Martial Rabbits, they all intended to help their kin swiftly establish a firm foothold here.

It goes without saying, millennia-old habits and instincts caused those Slave and Martial Rabbits to hold Cultural Rabbits in high esteem deep in their hearts.

Just as the old saying goes, those who betray are often the literate. What good could come of those who, in the most challenging times at the Flower Planting Zoo, abandoned their beliefs to side with Eagle Sauce?

Though they might have held status in the Flower Planting Family, at that time, ordinary rabbits lacked the money, opportunity, and ability to leave the Flower Planting Family for Eagle Sauce.

Upon arriving at Eagle Sauce, they found themselves in unfamiliar territory and their status plummeted. The standard of living might have been decent, but they could not command the respect they had once enjoyed at Rabbit's Home.

Moreover, having no stable source of income upon their arrival, some of them shamelessly turned their thoughts to exploiting the Slave and Martial Rabbits who had always been their helpers.

Though these betrayers initially tasted success, the Slave and Martial Rabbits were no fools, and having survived in Eagle Sauce for so long, their mentality began to shift.

Initially, they had helped Cultural Rabbits wholeheartedly for the sake of kinship, but they never expected Cultural Rabbits to repay kindness with ingratitude. Consequently, the Slave and Martial Rabbits gradually distanced themselves.

The history of the Eagle Sauce Zoo's construction is not long, and when the Slave Rabbits arrived, it was the zoo's early days. Even though they came as slaves,

Over time, the surviving Slave Rabbits have largely achieved middle-class status or higher, while any who never escaped slavery have long perished.

The circumstances of the Martial Rabbits are much the same. Penniless upon arrival, they made their living in the early days of the Eagle Sauce Zoo through sheer physical prowess.

Violence, while it cannot solve all problems, can certainly settle most of them.

Just like the Slave Rabbits, as long as the Martial Rabbits didn't perish, those that survived often attained middle-class wealth. After all, the early strugglers from the lower ranks had largely died off.

But Cultural Rabbits were different. Bringing some assets with them, they didn't dare to fight and strive like Martial Rabbits in the early days, nor did they live through the era of the Slave Rabbits.

Therefore, the majority of Cultural Rabbits had to start from the bottom when they arrived. Most had sat comfortably in the middle to upper echelons within the Flower Planting Zoo, only to become the lowest rung upon coming here.

Many Cultural Rabbits completely lost their balance, as they were unable to accept life at the bottom. Most degenerated quickly, squandering the assets they brought and ending up destitute on the streets.

And even those Cultural Rabbits who adjusted did so by abandoning their scholarly knowledge for blue-collar jobs.

Despite the propaganda on the Eagle Sauce side, that blue-collar jobs offer high pay and good benefits; socially, they were far from the esteemed status of cultural workers at Rabbit's Home.

As times moved on, the first generation of Slave and Martial Rabbits aged, and their descendants received Eagle-style education. As the saying goes, the most direct way to destroy a race is to obliterate their culture.

While it cannot be denied that some rabbits still admire the culture of the Flower Planting Family, truly, a few generations later, those living in the Eagle Sauce Zoo could no longer be considered of the Flower Planting line.

After all, several generations down the line, these rabbits, let alone learning Flower Planting culture, could not even speak the basic language. Such animals can only be said to have Rabbit blood, not truly be of the Flower Planting Family.

The group of rabbits found by Dong Tianyu, without going into details, appeared to still communicate in the common tongue after his observations and not the language of Eagle Sauce.

The natural disaster had already been wreaking havoc for several years, and these rabbits still used Mandarin Chinese in their conversations, indicating they were neither so-called Eagle Second Generation nor those Cultural Rabbits.

Because upon arriving at the Eagle Sauce Zoo, those Cultural Rabbits would immediately abandon Mandarin and switch to the Eagle language, deeply believing it to be more noble than Mandarin.

In fact, the reason those Cultural Rabbits behaved this way was due to the 'information cocoon' they were once trapped in, brainwashed by various foreign forces into thinking that any animal from an overseas zoo was a noble, protected species.

But as times changed, and even though sources of information increased, their minds had been brainwashed for so long in their youth that they still felt inferior when dealing with foreign animals, despite being aware of more facts now.

However, with the birth of the younger generation of the Flower Planting Family, and as the strength of the Flower Planting Zoo continually grew, the self-confidence of its newborn animals also steadily rose.

Moreover, as information became more diverse, many of the young animals, upon learning about other zoos, discovered that foreign zoos were not as strong as their own, leading them to grow increasingly confident when facing foreign animals, abandoning any sense of inferiority.

Therefore, the attitude of the new generation of rabbits when dealing with foreign animals evolved from 'Wherever we fall short, we will immediately improve' to 'A wild boar can't appreciate fine bran.'

This shift in attitude was actually the most direct manifestation of the rabbits' growing confidence.

So the rabbits who stayed on the Eagle Sauce side, still using Mandarin many years after the arrival of the natural disaster, were essentially those who had come over as tourists, on business trips, or for study, staying temporarily at the Eagle Sauce Zoo.

Those rabbits who had already decided to settle long-term at the Eagle Sauce Zoo had long since abandoned Mandarin, making Eagle language their lingua franca.

That being so, Dong Tianyu, upon confirming that those rabbits on the ship all conversed in Mandarin, prepared to go over to understand their situation.

If after boarding the ship, the rabbits expressed goodwill, Dong Tianyu might well lend them a hand conveniently.

Having settled this thought, Dong Tianyu released his Invisibility Spell and propelled himself towards the ship's deck with Sword Flight.

After Dong Tianyu dispelled his invisibility, and his altitude had decreased only a little, a lookout on the ship spotted him and immediately sounded the alarm.

As the ship's alarm blared, a number of armed persons emerged from the cabins, and under the lookout's direction, all heads turned towards Dong Tianyu's location.

When they saw Dong Tianyu riding his Flying Sword and gradually flying towards them, everyone's expression turned to utter astonishment, for all rabbits, regardless of age and sex, were familiar with Sword Immortals.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu's appearance, standing atop a Flying Sword and controlling its flight, closely matched the image of a Sword Immortal in their minds.

Not to mention, just Dong Tianyu's mode of arrival alone might have provoked an aggressive response had he appeared before other animals.

But appearing before rabbits, everyone instinctively relaxed, as in the hearts of most rabbits, the majority of Sword Immortals were considered righteous figures.

As Dong Tianyu stepped off the Flying Sword, allowing it to hover behind him, the people on deck finally snapped out of their shock. Yet, faced with Dong Tianyu, this stranger who had appeared out of nowhere, they did not raise their guns to aim.

At that moment, a middle-aged man with a resolute face stepped forward from the crowd. The aura he exuded made it evident that he must be a military man.