Jungle Throne

twenty years ago.

It was snowing heavily and the wind was biting cold.

After this ice season is over, next year when the snow melts, Meng Yan will be eligible to return to the lion tribe to compete for the head lion.He is considering whether to go back and compete for the title of lion.

The lion tribe has a rule that all lion orcs who have left the lion tribe and survived outside for five years can come back to participate in the battle for the head lion, and the one who becomes the head lion can stay in the lion tribe. wandering outside.

Not only Meng Yan, almost most of the lion orcs who have reached a certain age hate this rule.Because once the lion orcs reach a certain age, they have to leave the lion tribe to make way for the younger generation, and they have no chance to come back throughout their lives. Only the next lion can come back.Therefore, in order to stay in the lion tribe and end their wandering days, every year when the snow melts, dozens of wandering lion orcs will rush back from all directions, just to grab that position. One can imagine how tragic it is.

But this provision has never been abolished.

The purpose of this regulation was to reduce the hunting pressure of lions and increase the survival rate.Every tribe has gradually come from the era of food scarcity to the present food abundance, and the lion tribe is no exception.

Since the food intake of one orc is equivalent to the food intake of several non-orcs, assuming that the amount of food returned by each lion group hunting is constant, for every more orc in the lion group, several non-orcs will be hungry.If there are a few more orcs, the non-orcs in the entire pride will starve.Unless you come back with more food each time.This invisibly brings hunting pressure to the lions.

Moreover, because the amount of food in an area is limited, it does not mean that the more orcs there are, the more food they hunt.Each part of the food chain must always maintain a certain ratio, so that the ecology can maintain a balance, and excessive hunting will destroy the balance.

Therefore, in order to ensure sufficient food sources throughout the year, the number of orcs in the lion pride cannot exceed a certain number, so the excess orcs can only leave and live in other farther places, otherwise it will affect the survival of the tribe.

In order for the tribe to continue, the lions and beasts actually didn't care about leaving. What they cared about was that the tribe was not allowed to take away their partners.It is different from the wizarding age, because the glorious age for orcs was the darkest for non-orcs.At that time non-orcs were like slaves and tools of orcs.But later, when the orcs paid a painful price for dealing with the beast gods, the non-orcs who were unwilling to succumb to oppression united and launched a struggle against the orcs.

The process is not described in detail.No matter what, the orcs who had lost their strength were still stronger than the non-orcs. As a result, in this battle between the orcs and the non-orcs, most of the non-orcs were killed or injured, and the rest fled to the depths of the forest, and some stayed behind.Because of the scarcity of the remaining part, their status has been greatly improved for the continuation of the tribe, and they have become the key protection objects of each tribe.Therefore, these lion orcs who left the tribe can only be lone rangers for the rest of their lives.

Despite the development up to now, the number of orcs and non-orcs in each tribe has reached a balance, and there are even more non-orcs than orcs.But non-orcs are still precious to some tribes.It's okay to lose one or two, but there must be no mass loss.If every orc who was about to leave the lion tribe took away a non-orc, regardless of whether the non-orc who left the tribe could survive, how many of them would be left in the tribe after a few years?

This is the idea of ​​fire.

But the lion at the time didn't think so.He felt that the departed lion-orcs brought non-orcs with them to live in a new place, and if all went well, they would form the embryonic form of a lion group in a few years.Then, one lion group, two lion groups... A new lion clan can be formed after a few years.

Thus there are two lion tribes.The lion tribe will not perish.

As a result, there was a disagreement between a conservative and a liberal, Meng Huo and the head lion at that time.As the last priest of the lion tribe, Meng Huo did not allow such a situation to happen.So, he found Meng Yan, who was the youngest but most potential, and got rid of any threatening lion orcs for him, and supported him to become the head lion of the lion tribe.

It can be said that without Menghuo, there would be no Mengyan who has been the lion of the tribe for more than [-] years.

Meng Yan is grateful to Meng Huo.So in the beginning, Meng Huo did what he said.

However, Meng Yan is an orc, and he also has ambitions.Especially after sitting on the lion head, the status is equal to the priest, so how can he be willing to obey Meng Huo's orders all the time?When he found that the other party always meddled in everything and didn't give him face, so that he couldn't step down, resentment arose.

Thus, conflicts erupted.

Meng Yan knew very well that the previous head lion was killed because of a disagreement with Meng Huo, and he was supported to take over.But this time he had the same disagreement with the other party. If he didn't do something, at some point, he might be replaced by another young lion orc, and he would end up in the same fate as the previous lion.

For example, that Mengbei who stood on the side of Menghuo.

Meng Yan also wanted to follow the example of the other party and support her son to take the position when she was old.After all, there is a blood relationship, and it is easy to control.However, although Meng Lie, who is the most suitable age, has a clever mind, he always thinks about opportunistic tricks, so his strength is not so good, not even half of Mengbei's.

Meng Yan didn't want to die, and didn't want to live under the priest forever.In addition, the superiors are always suspicious, he suspects that Meng Huo wants Meng Bei to replace him as the lion head, so he can only act first and kill Meng Bei to prevent problems before they happen.

When Menghuo left the lion tribe to go to the snow mountain, it happened to be the time for the lions to fight. It was the best time to kill Mengbei during the fight.But Meng Yan didn't expect that he still overestimated his son Meng Lie.

Obviously he has taken advantage of the right time and place, more than half of the lions participating in the competition are his own people, and he also told him where to hunt for food.But Meng Lie decided to set up some kind of long fruit trap, attacking all lions regardless of enemy or friend, what a clever fart!It's stupid as hell!Even the entire pride of lions had a tusk knocked out to save their lives.

As a result, Meng Yan had to do it himself.

As expected, because of the participation of the head lion, the tacit understanding and balance between the lions and the lions were broken, and no one obeyed the other. The whole tribe completely tore apart the superficial peace and fell into greater chaos and stalemate. .

Those who take advantage of the fire to loot, those who wait and see what happens... Everyone takes the lion group as a unit, and everyone cares about their own. No one dares to leave the territory of their own lion group at will, for fear that other lion groups will take advantage of it after they go out.Conflicts often occur, but no one dares to do their best, for fear of being taken advantage of by a third party when they lose both sides in the fight.

The same is true for Meng Yan.He is old and force is no longer an effective solution to problems.Now he only needs to suppress the lions standing on the side of the priest, while waiting patiently, waiting for the news of those stray lion orcs coming back to die in the fire, and then he will happily give up his position to them .As long as it's alive, is there anything wrong with a lion head?

The several lion groups that were suppressed hoped that the priest would return to the lion tribe as soon as possible, but the other party did not return for a long time.Only Meng Yan and one of his lion or beast confidants knew the inside story and the reason why the other party did not return.

Therefore, under such a situation, the lion tribe ushered in the next year's snowmelt.