Chapter 315 - The Book And The Cat Must Be Fated (1/2)

Twelve Arms the octopus, the one-eyed octopus, seven-limbed octopus, black dolphin, white dolphin, octopus demons of all sizes and the normal octopuses were in absolute shock when they heard that.

A moment later, they set their eyes on the black cat who suddenly appeared from thin air.

They could see the black cat pacing elegantly on air, it had a trustworthy smile on its face as it said to the “fishes” present, “Tom the black cat, at your service.”

The “fishes” looked at each other and wondered, ‘Why is this cat here?’

None of the “fishes” spoke, and the situation was extremely awkward.

Tom maintained a smile on its face, but it was silently cursing, ‘What a bunch of village octopuses, how dare they not know about Sir Tom?’

If it had appeared in those giant octopus tribes, their leaders would surround it and treat it as an important guest.

In the earlier years, it had already noticed the potential of these octopuses, thus it taught them Morse Code. Now, they started using it as a noble language, such that this foreign language was used on formal occasions…

A short while later, Twelve Arms broke off the awkward atmospheres, it smiled simply. “I think I’ve seen you before, you probably communicated with Leader Hercules in my former tribe. Sir Cat, I wonder, how would you like to help us?”

Tom the black cat sighed in relief, finally there was an octopus from the big city who had seen the world…

Tom thought to itself, ‘That’s what I’m saying, Sir Tom has a broad network of friends, there’s a saying that rings well, who in the world doesn’t know the cat?’

It still could recall Hercules, which was a strong octopus, and was the leader of a giant octopus tribe.

When Twelve Arms the octopus mentioned “Hercules”, it finally remembered this octopus that had once ruined its plan…

Previously when five hundred thousand octopuses attacked the human’s city, in order to fight for the power to be the first to enter the city, twelve tribes decided to have a tug-of-war.

Wasn’t the “rope” used during the tug-of-war this twelve-limbed octopus?

The fellow had an innocent mind, which was probably easy to be fooled.

When Tom thought about this, it said slowly, “I want to tell you that talking is pointless. If talks could solve the conflict between both parties, why do you think humans invented cannons, tanks and airplanes?”

The one-eyed octopus said happily, “That’s because they’re dumb and greedy, they can never be satisfied, so they need airplanes to steal from one another. Us octopuses are smart and easily satisfied, jars will be enough…”

Tom thought to itself, ‘Wow, they actually replied like that?’

Tom the black cat was startled upon hearing that, but was not flustered. It had seen many situations, wasn’t it just an easy job to trick a few octopuses who had never seen the world?

Why did it want to use the world of Iron Chancellor “Bismarck”?

It was because after the small conflict just now, it had an epiphany, that octopus tribes were actually like Prussians in history, there was a uniform demand.

A unified war of the Octopus Empire would clearly be a huge profit generator!

At once, it said, “If that’s the case, why does this seven-limbed octopus want to farm fishes to eat?”

“Uh?” The one-eyed octopus was at a loss for words, it then pointed at the seven-limbed octopus madly. “The reason is very simple, this fellow is trying to show off after gaining power and wisdom. They no longer want to eat fishes in the sea and only want to eat specially farmed ones, and even pollution-free products…

“It is being picky, hence its demand towards such luxury items can’t be approved, jars are our necessities.”

“What do you mean by luxury item?” The seven-limbed octopus was extremely discontented when it heard that. “Didn’t you hear what I said? It’s for our children and our future generations in case they’re harmed and poisoned by the rubbish in the sea from humans, then they won’t be as smart as we are now.”

Twelve Arms was absolutely clueless about settling this confusing situation, what were “necessities” and “luxury items”?

On its head that looked like a pillar, two eyeballs were turning around innocently, it subconsciously looked towards its dolphin partners.

Unfortunately, its two dolphin partners were immersed in this huge unprecedented debate, they had no time to respond to it.

“Haha,” Tom the black cat laughed, “You octopuses have sapience and wisdom, it’s normal to have such differences. You should read more of human’s historical books, move towards countries from tribes, and move towards cooperation from providing for yourselves.

“Now your conflict is like a replication of human history, you can actually refer to the human’s way of solving problems.”

It looked up and said to the one-eyed octopus, “Don’t you want the fishes you eat to be fresh and unharmed, so that you’ll have healthy and smart future generations?”

It then said to the seven-limbed octopus, “Don’t you want to use jars without worries, so that your future generations won’t have to be worried of all dolphins and sharks?”

Twelve Arms was dizzy from listening to all of that, he wondered, ‘What does this Sir Black Cat want to do?’

It saw both leaders from the octopus tribes nodding one after another.

At this moment, Tom the black cat said again, “Actually everything is very simple, you just have to become one tribe, unify your management and cooperate with one another. Some will produce jars while others farm fish, then conflicts like this won’t happen anymore.”

Twelve Arms vaguely understood when that was said – it seemed like this should be it, at least in the tribe where Leader Hercules was, everyone listened to it so there were seldom conflicts as such?

Both the seven-limbed octopus and the one-eyed octopus looked at each other then said in unison, “Who will become the leader of the tribe then?”

Since they were smart, they had already understood the benefits of being a leader. A leader had more food, greater attraction towards female octopuses, could talk more and worked less…

Twelve Arms on the other hand had never considered this problem, it felt that being an innocent octopus and to crawl back into its jar after eating was the biggest blessing.

Now that the octopus leaders from two small tribes had mentioned it, a bolt of lightning struck through its mind.

So that was how it was, it finally understood that Leader Hercules had always discriminated it and previously looked for excuses to shoo it away for the very reason that it was worried that it would snatch its position away…

Once it thought about this, it wanted to return very badly to verify this with Leader Hercules, but it then heard Tom the black cat speak again.

“Haha, this fight for the leader’s position is just like what I’ve said, it can’t be decided through anyone’s talks, it has to be done through iron and blood!” Tom the black cat said faintly.

That was right, those years when Prussia and Austria fought for the hegemony to unify Germany, was there a result from just talks? In the end, who did those German states have to listen to?

The one with the biggest fist.

It pondered proudly, by the looks of it, both parties would certainly have a huge fight and had conflicts that involved blood;

As for the twelve-limbed octopus, it would certainly understand very quickly that only by bringing a whole octopus tribe together forcefully, these internal tragic events of killings would never happen again…