It''s not always cheese''s business to attend formal occasions. As early as his training in grey tower, he hated various etiquette courses. That''s not to say that he thinks these rituals are useless. On the contrary, cheese knows that complicated rituals and elegant conversation are of great importance to its users. But he never thought that he would be one of them, he never thought he would be a man in power. Because he''s a caster, he just wants to explore the unknown side of the world, not waste energy and time on the known side.


    So when Gloria asked cheese to say something to the mice at the beginning of the celebration, the mage was in a rather awkward position. Especially when the Baroness of the rat man had made an almost perfect opening speech before him. Although the mouseman''s facial expression is not easy to guess, cheese has a lot of reasons to believe that Gloria''s smile is not all ceremonial smile, she must be in this way a small revenge for this closed tutor and feel heartfelt pleasure.


    Cheese looked at the crowd of rat men gathered in the underground square, their eyes reflecting the light from the torches. This scene will make people who don''t know about the rat people feel creepy, but a few people standing at a higher position in the square know that in front of them are not a group of hairy monsters, they are also living human beings like themselves. In addition to the information that Gloria had just told herself, cheese already knew why the Baroness had to bring herself to the scene of the ceremony even if she did not want to get rid of Elsa. So he cleared his throat and began to speak.


    "Today is the fifth celebration. At this time five years ago, Ms. Gloria suggested to me that a celebration be held to rejuvenate the depressed. I agreed. Now it seems that her advice has worked. Look around us, my friends, in five years you have turned the den into a castle, a feat I never expected. "


    Indeed, in the past five years, every valley rat spent all of their time to build and transform their homes, and they can afford such praise. Other people standing behind cheese can''t help but applaud with the rats. This underground city also has something they pay for.


    "You dig rocks, you build farmland, you direct water, and after all this, no one can say that rat man is a beast. No matter how your appearance changes, it turns out that I didn''t look away. You are still descendants of this land. " Instead of using the word human, cheese uses the vague term "descendants of the land" to describe rat people. As a witness who personally participated in the whole rat man plague, the mage knew this very well.


    However, not all rat people can accept this fact, especially the more timely rodent people saved by cheese medicine, they still clearly retain the memory of being human, and some of them even have uninfected relatives living in other parts of the kingdom. Therefore, there are still some rat people in the valley city who think that they are human beings. No, it should be said that most of them think so. But the problem is that in the past five years, the valley seldom interacts with the outside world, because Marcus circled in the black lion, and cheese set up the image of a powerful wizard outside. The rat talent was able to gain this precious time to consolidate itself. But such complacency will not last long, and cheese has no plan to make the rat people really become a kind of hermit race and live here forever. Therefore, if we don''t try to make them understand and communicate with each other, when the rat people who regard themselves as human beings and the human beings who regard rat people as monsters meet again, sooner or later, the war will ignite between the two races, and then he may not be able to protect them as he did five years ago. In particular, when the rat side started the war first.


    That''s what Gloria asked cheese for. As the virtual leader of the rat people, Gloria can not directly explain the possible danger of the group, because she does not have such a position, because she is also a rat man. Cheese is different. He is not a rat, and the rat people don''t regard him as a human because he is a wizard. His identity is beyond the race. In this way, he was able to say what Gloria couldn''t say in his capacity as a rat man mentor, and to avoid certain events.


    "I don''t know how many of you have left the valley in recent years, not much, because I can imagine their hostility to us without going outside. But is that wrong? If it was not you who were infected five years ago, but them, the people who are hiding in the ground today would be different. Humans fear rat people, so it''s natural to hate them. Rat people were rejected by human beings and killed by human beings, so it is natural that they turned to hate human beings. But what are the two natural outcomes? Did you spend precious lives from the plague and build this magnificent underground city just to be a murderer? That''s really pathetic. "


    Cheese words, let just still cheering rat people silence. Some mouse people lowered their heads, some looked at him and waited for answers, and some began to show boredom and dissatisfaction in their eyes. He saw it all. That''s why the mage doesn''t like to be a leader. Every eye on the scene, whether good or bad, right or wrong, is like a chain around the cheese, which makes him unable to break free and drag him into the endless quagmire of the secular world. But can he escape? Grey tower, there is only one in the world. If he had escaped, he would have to hide in the only tower outside the world, and never look out until he died. Because that''s what the outside world is like."I see that some of you are pregnant and some of you have children, which is good. This means that we have a future. You are not the remains of a plague. You are rat people, and your descendants will also be rat people. So, I hope you can think for the children born in this city. Even if you have already tasted the evil outside, they should not have never known what things look like in the sun all their lives. It''s too heavy to say that on such a day, but it''s been five years and it''s time to think about it. "


    "Can''t you tell us the answer? Just like you told us how to plan a city? Can''t you tell us what we should do? We will act in accordance with your instructions, even if we can''t understand, even if we are dissatisfied, we trust you completely! " A rat man boldly said that he was the minister who had asked Gloria cheese if he would attend the ceremony.


    Cheese looked at the rat man, then at the other rat men. "I asked the angry lion a question five years ago, and his answer made me decide to take the side of the rat man. Today, I want to ask you this question, but I don''t want your answer, because this question is no longer my question. You have to ask yourself, rat man, is it human or monster? "


    With that, the mage turned and left the underground square. He whispered as he passed Gloria, "so I said, I''m not good at this."


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