Chapter 1301 - 1401: Mutual Generation and Mutual Restraint

In that case, it might not be worth the effort.

Therefore, the Gatekeeper wasn't planning to bring this mantis-like creature from outside the walls, which constantly spews acidic, corrosive liquid, back to the base.

After all, the Gatekeeper merely wanted everyone to treat this mantis-like creature as a living target, and not to endanger anyone's life. So, at this moment, the Gatekeeper was somewhat reluctant to leave this wall-dwelling creature alive.

In fact, the Gatekeeper realized that Fish Fin and the others capturing an insect-like creature from outside the walls was less preferable than capturing an animal-like creature from outside the walls. After all, whether they encountered wolves or leopard-like creatures from outside the walls, they didn't have other abilities, only a special ability coupled with a vast amount of Demonic Qi and Evil Qi, and other negative auras.

None of what could be called corrosive liquid.

Actually, if you think about it, these insect-like creatures from outside the walls don't seem to have any functional abilities other than the pincers in their hands, and they don't seem to have any special powers either.

If these insect-like creatures from outside the walls didn't have corrosive blood inside them, they would surely have been eaten to extinction by other wall-dwelling creatures.

The Gatekeeper thought that because this insect-like creature from outside the walls had corrosive liquid, it wouldn't be eaten to extinction by those animal-like wall-dwelling creatures. After all, wall-dwelling creatures want to grow strong, and devouring is indispensable.

Even though those animal-like wall-dwelling creatures also consume their kind, they prioritize devouring those wall-dwelling creatures with powers similar to their own and without special abilities; insect-like wall-dwelling creatures are their first choice.

But insect-like wall-dwelling creatures have blood with extremely strong corrosive properties, which means those animal-like wall-dwelling creatures cannot devour these insect-like wall-dwelling creatures.

After all, considering insect-like wall-dwelling creatures, unless the animal-like wall-dwelling creature has a large antibody, the highly corrosive blood of these insect-like wall-dwelling creatures can directly burn through the internal organs of these animal-like wall-dwelling creatures.

And those animal-like wall-dwelling creatures, once their internal organs are corroded by such highly corrosive blood, simply cannot recover. After all, conflicts of equivalent energy between them cannot be restored.

Even if they could recover, it would take a huge amount of time, and this time could vary from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

Of course, these insect-like wall-dwelling creatures are not without natural enemies; only the animal-like wall-dwelling creatures slightly more powerful than them can eat and consume them.

This more powerful ability would need to be at least one level higher in order to devour them safely, but those wall-dwelling creatures one level higher have already lost their interest in consuming them, as those creatures only slightly increase Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras.

So, at first glance, these insect-like wall-dwelling creatures seem very safe, but in fact, it's not the case, because if these insect-like wall-dwelling creatures can evolve blood with corrosive liquid, then surely animal-like wall-dwelling creatures can evolve stomachs to defend against the corrosive liquid inside these insect-like creatures.

After all, Mutual Generation and opposition are the source of life in all the world.

No organism can be invincible in the world, nor can any species live safely until death.

Although the lifespan of all wall-dwelling creatures is practically limitless, they will still be devoured by other more powerful wall-dwelling creatures, and massive devourings and battles happen daily beyond the walls.

If these creatures living outside the walls didn't engage in any battles or devourings, and if they all lived peacefully, then every square meter outside the walls would be occupied by a wall-dwelling creature.

Then, the world outside the walls would be entirely covered by these wall-dwelling creatures, reflecting their numbers.

Yet, precisely because they engage in vast amounts of fighting and devouring, it indirectly keeps the number of these wall-dwelling creatures from being too high, and in doing so, it protects the world inside the walls. After all, if the number of wall-dwelling creatures outside the walls grew too large, they might very well attack inside the walls.

Ultimately, both people inside the walls and wall-dwelling creatures outside the walls require vast resources, and if resources cannot be obtained in one location, war will ensue to plunder the resources of others.

And what will happen once these resources in one place are completely consumed? It will lead to plundering resources from other places, and if there are already other forms of life there, what will happen? Greater war and battle will occur, and resources will be seized to continue plundering and consuming in that area.

If the attacking side wins, they will devour all the resources in the area, along with the creatures originally consuming those resources.

Once the strengthened creature further consumes the resources until they are drained and continues attacking, and if it wins indefinitely, ultimately it will become a dominant force.

This principle certainly applies both inside and outside the walls, because resources represent everything. If one wishes to develop, resources are essential. No one wishes not to develop; even if one merely wants to strengthen oneself and become more powerful, one needs resources as becoming stronger equates to development.

If everyone wishes to completely occupy the territory outside the walls, they will have to eliminate those wall-dwelling creatures already on the land.

Do not entertain the thought that there are no wall-dwelling creatures on this land; it is impossible, as over such a long period, every piece of land beyond the walls has presented wall-dwelling creatures occupying it. Rarely does a vacant piece of land appear, for over tens of thousands, even millions of years, the creatures outside the walls have thoroughly seized resources.

Although the Gatekeeper couldn't understand why over tens of thousands, even millions of years, these wall-dwelling creatures never attacked inside the walls, although the Gatekeeper knew that it was the existence of the Gatekeepers' race that blocked those wall-dwelling creatures, but before the Gatekeepers existed, there was no one to stand in their way, yet they didn't enter inside the walls.

Which left the Gatekeeper quite bewildered.