They want to eat people but they're beating around the bush.
Gu Shanhai naturally saw through the Regent Minister's thoughts at a glance. These folks were truly interesting. Their vision wasn't grand, yet they aspired to bite off more than they could chew—weren't they afraid they'd end up bursting?
Over the past few days, he had also studied the function of the Goddess Statue. Its main functions were to summon heroes and bestow blessings upon them. The so-called protective ability was actually limited. The Demon King Army might be unable to break the Goddess's protection over the Royal Capital in the short term, but they didn't need to—just surrounding it for a year or two would be enough to starve the luxurious and lecherous nobles to death.
Of course, if the Demon King came, once the attack's strength reached a certain threshold, it would be possible to directly break the Goddess's protection.
