Shu Huangfeng also took a small sip. "The most crucial thing is the Wine Lees!"
"To cultivate this Wine Lees, we spent two thousand years... It seems it was made with some kind of... San Dong Insect..."
Humans had naturally purchased this strange Wine Lees as well. The price... one Spiritual Essence.
It truly was good stuff. Humans could cultivate mutated fruits on a large scale, requiring little effort while yielding great returns.
They also ate some local specialty—aged cured meat. It was a chunk of monster flesh that had been stored away for who knew how many years, and chewing it felt like chewing wood.
Still, it contained quite a bit of energy!
It was somewhat like Fire Lizard meat.
Upon closer tasting, it was hot and spicy, with quite a nice flavor.
Lu Yuan said, "The Rat King is wealthy, yet can only live a life exposed to wind and dew. Truly a legendary ascetic."
Shu Huangfeng sighed. "We roam the world because we have no choice... Who wouldn't want a better life?"
"But we have already become part of an anomaly. We must rely on Spiritual Essence to maintain our sanity." He pointed at his own head.
"And our race has no future left. Our population has been fixed, our ability to produce Spiritual Essence is not high, and we have no way to reproduce the next generation."
"If we want to live, we can only trade!"
"Earn a little here, earn a little there, and perhaps we can make it through this era."
That was indeed true. After observing them for the past month, Lu Yuan had found that this civilization was truly stagnant. There was not even a single child...
Many high-status ratfolk simply drank themselves into a stupor every day. They did not even