Beyond physical cordons, Meng Chao felt that the Ratfolk Rebel Army needed to erect psychological cordons as well.
He had noticed that many Ratfolk who had suffered relentless bullying harbored bone-deep hatred toward Clan Warriors, yet they did not guard against their "fellow Ratfolk" in the slightest.
Under the psychological suggestion of sharing the same misery and hating the same enemy, even strangers who had met by chance could easily bare their hearts to one another.
That was wrong.
Meng Chao felt that he had to remind the "Great Horned Rat God's messenger" that, in many cases, the lackeys raised by Clan Warriors were even more terrifying than the Clan Warriors themselves.
One had to know that Ratfolk were divided into "wild rats" and "house rats."
There was no need to mention the house rats, who had served as slaves for generations and had been taught from childhood to be utterly loyal to their masters.
Even the "wild rats" whose homes had been destroyed and whose loved ones had been slaughtered by Clan Warriors might, after a period of captivity and conditioning, forget their hatred, lose their humanity, and willingly help the tiger commit evil.
In order to win their masters' favor and shed their lowly status, these people would not hesitate to sell anyone's life, as well as their own souls, in exchange for their masters' "blood bestowal."
Countless resisters on ancient Earth had not died directly at the hands of their enemies, but had been betrayed by traitors and died at the hands of those they trusted without reservation.
Therefore, if the Ratfolk Rebel Army wanted to accomplish anything, it had to screen its recruits. It could not toss every stinking fish and rotten shrimp into its basket.
Especially the "house rats" of the major Lineages. No matter