Chapter 465, The Second World and the Gods in the Cloud
The expansion of the Rat Empire has pressed the accelerator button, and countless flesh and blood factories, in conjunction with assembly plants at all levels, are rapidly occupying various planets within the Rat Empire.
Crazy mining, these guys are like mechanical locusts eating planets one after another.
According to statistics from the Skaven Royal Engineers Association, every day, approximately one trillion biochemical machines of various types are produced throughout the Skaven Empire. These machines are simultaneously deployed across a vast territory. At the same time, this is not the limit of productivity. This number is growing every day.
The invasion of subspace has been contained. In the longevity plan, most of the rat people have obtained eternally healthy bodies and lifespans that have doubled compared to before. At the same time, the upper limit of the life span of the rat people is still increasing. .
Five hundred years, seven hundred years, one thousand years, with a large enough experimental sample, these rat engineers seem to have truly become gods. They willfully and unscrupulously carry out genetic experiments on the rat species. Adjustment.
Becoming more powerful, able to adapt to most atmospheric environments, doubled in repair ability, and able to directly breathe sulfide gases, these series of changes are occurring extremely quickly.
In fact, even a large enough experimental sample allowed the rat people to come into contact with the truly taboo aspect. In terms of the soul, they still have no clue about the adjustment of their souls, but they have really begun to come into contact with some strange things, thoughts, desires, and... There are those wandering warp spirits who use this discovery to extend their lives.
I have to admit that these rat engineers are indeed smart enough, although they are really, really crazy.
They began to actively cultivate the gods who were controlled by them. This started when they discovered that various desires and thoughts were connected to those subspace evil gods.
The principle is probably this.
Control your own thoughts, feed specific thoughts to a specific subspace spirit, push it to the throne of god, and completely turn it into a wish-granting machine that responds to requests.
This is difficult for ordinary intelligent races to do, but it is not difficult for these rat engineers who play with biochemical technology.
All it takes is to mass-produce those special rat-man brains and refine one thought into them, which is to be sad, desperate, happy, no matter what kind of emotion it is, it must be repeated continuously.
"Respond, respond, request, respond!"
Repeat such thoughts, and supply the desire produced to a specific person in a steady stream.
The case was solved. These biochemical brains were actually rat men. They were just castrated rat men who could only mechanically repeat technical templates in most aspects.
These Skaven engineers now want to do the same thing to the selected warp spirits as they did to these biochemical brains. Through such repeated thoughts and desires, they will induce these confused warp spirits to actively transform into a Similar to the state of a tool, and then turn this tool into a real god.
Did they succeed? They did. Skaven engineers called such things cloud gods.
These cloud gods possess all the power of gods, and their success actually relies on the mist and uncertainty of the subspace spirits themselves.
The rat people did not fully understand what a soul was, but they were the first to start artificially creating gods. As expected of them.
This kind of situation belongs to the fact that the cause is not understood but the result is achieved. As long as these cloud gods give divine power, the resuscitation of the soul does not seem to be a difficult thing.
However, this is actually more of a benefit for a small group of people. After all, the rate at which desires, thoughts, and these things are converted into divine power is not particularly high.
Next came some changes that completely established the names of these cloud gods.
Virtual reality is very popular. In order to avoid the contamination of the subspace to the gods in the cloud, these gods created by the rat people are stuffed into the virtual reality network, a virtual world created by the rat people.
At the same time, a new currency was born, a virtual reality currency called desire coin. This thing is a currency that is quantified and embodied by all the emotional ups and downs produced by the rat people in this virtual reality network.
It seems hard to understand, but a simpler explanation is that these desire coins are the embodiment of the soul traces left by the souls of the rat men in this virtual world.
The ups and downs of emotions come from the agitation of the soul, and the agitation of the soul will become the food of the gods in the clouds. After they eat the agitation, the currencies left behind will be embodied as these desire coins. .
While the above situations are going on, those cloud gods also exist as servers in the second world of virtual reality.
This is a very genius, very crazy, and quite characteristic of the rat people.
These desire coins replaced the status of all equivalents in the Rat Man Empire, and it became the ultimate currency. There is no other reason, just because they can exchange these desire coins for the control of the cloud gods, in exchange for their Gifts and powers.
This alone is enough to overwhelm everything else.
The birth of such a structure and the emergence of gods in the cloud, these things even overwhelm the promotion of the longevity plan and the popularization of biochemical machinery.
The rat people seem to have followed the same path as the gerbil people, being addicted to the second world of virtual reality and unable to extricate themselves. However, what is different from the unlucky gerbil people is that these guys have real abilities in the second world. There is a god that has unparalleled power.
At its peak, each rat planet had its own second world, and in each planet's second world there was a unique cloud god.
Until the passage of time and the advancement of science and technology, the power of these cloud gods continued to be elevated, and the second worlds of the rat planets had the conditions to connect with each other.
A chaotic carnival begins.
By the way, there is something very interesting in this reality, and that is the rise of the world architect and the rise of the rat culture giant.
Strange game worlds, special scenes where all kinds of desires can be vented, and unimaginable entertainment venues, these things are rapidly rising in the second world of Ratman, and they are all free and available to everyone. A Skaven reads and plays.
This kind of architecture originates from the rules left by the rat engineers after they established the trinity architecture of cloud gods, virtual worlds, and desire coins.
If you can make other rat people violently emotional in the second world, then you will be able to obtain a large part of the desire coins born from the emotional excitement. All of this is based on this rule.
After all, the number of desire coins a person can produce in his lifetime is limited.
To put it cruelly, this set of rules and the development of virtual reality, the logic of how everything operates is based on feedback after a resource that the Skaven have never been able to utilize on a large scale is now being used efficiently.
That is the soul. In the past, the rat people squeezed the body to the maximum, and at the same time squeezed the soul trapped in the body. Now, the rat people squeeze the soul to the maximum, and they are disdainful of the body.
The birth of desire coins is accompanied by the wear and tear of the soul. For a rat man, the more soul coins he produces, the more wear and tear his soul undergoes, which is not a good thing.
If you have no way to let the gods in the clouds send blessings to repair your tired soul, then after experiencing such wear and tear, you will be greeted by a faster soul silence.
It seems that a happy utopia was born, but in fact it was just the rat engineers who incorporated every rat into a more decent soul factory.
In this soul factory, there is no such thing as unemployment. From the moment a rat man is born, he will have a body that will not get sick and grow old, and extremely abundant material conditions. Before he reaches adulthood, he will go through a period of If you pass the education during the period, you will advance to the next stage and become a real elite in the Rat Man Empire with the right to stay away from the second world. If you fail, then boundless happiness will begin.
Endless games, all kinds of weird and fantastic worlds, worlds with targeted desires, and those who rack their brains and do whatever they can to please them and let them capture the super monsters who produce a lot of emotions and desire coins. Cultural companies.
Until their souls become old and dull, unable to reproduce the coins of desire, and peacefully go to death.
But is this a bad thing? It's not necessarily true. At least compared to the future, this situation can be regarded as the most peaceful and prosperous period that the rat people are experiencing, and it can even be called a utopia.
Rat people born during this period will all be told this passage.
Don't be depressed, don't be restrained, indulge as much as you want, be joyful as much as you want, joy is boundless!
Extreme prosperity, unparalleled prosperity, and even power began to rise continuously.
With the power of those cloud gods, the rat people once suppressed all other subspace gods in the controlled area and suppressed those messy subspace spirits. These have become extremely powerful in a very short period of time over hundreds of years. The gods in the clouds broke into this misty and chaotic subspace like patrol police, waving the sticks in their hands, and whipped the subspace evil gods who were eyeing them with evil intentions.
For a while, they were beaten to the point where they were called ghosts crying and wolves howling, and they were called clear and upright. It is difficult to say the other things, but the rat people were definitely the first race to increase the strength of the evil gods of subspace.
Everything is booming, and the rat people seem to have no opponent in the entire physical universe.
After all, there are one hundred and thirty-six miles, one hundred and thirty-six planets, and one hundred and thirty-six gods. Who wouldn’t be confused after seeing this?
But it cannot be said that there are no hidden dangers at all. The Eldar fleet lost in the chaos of space and time finally ran out from the center of the chaotic physical universe.
But how should I put it, time didn't seem to be on their side. To be more precise, they came a little too late, a little too late.
In the galaxy on the edge of the Rat Empire, an ordinary void suddenly began to ripple violently. As a huge crack was torn open, a huge interstellar fleet appeared in the empty void.
The commander of this Lord's fleet is an old female Eldar, who is also a powerful warp leader.
For a long-lived race like the Eldar, aging is an unusual situation, because most of them can maintain their youthful appearance until the moment of death.
This old female Eldar is a matron, which is also an unusual title, indicating that she leads an Eldar clan and probably once owned an Ark Mothership.
Only the Eldar clan that owns a mothership that can be used for various migrations in the stars can be recognized as a clan.
The current configuration of this fleet is obviously too unsatisfactory for a matron, but it is not surprising. After all, the number of motherships lost in the war that lasted for countless years is really not a small number.
There are even a large number of clans that disappeared or even were removed from the list during the war.
In the last stage of the war, the matron's Ark Mothership was destroyed. However, she still retained a complete large fleet, and she still had hope of having an Ark Mothership again, but this hope has changed over time. The passage is getting smaller and smaller.
As a last resort, she snatched the conquest mission and left the battlefield without hesitation, preparing to go to the edge of the universe to find that small galaxy where a large number of unknown ether crystals were true or false.
To be honest, it is really difficult to determine whether this galaxy is true or false. After all, the person who gave this information was a small reconnaissance ship that disappeared during the war five hundred years ago and was involved in a subspace storm. Captain, even the captain of the reconnaissance ship came back alive.
It is really difficult to think about how credible the words and information given by the people involved in the subspace storm are.
Anything could happen in the subspace, and she had never seen anything more bizarre than this in her long life.
Let’s just assume it exists this time.
"A small galaxy with a large concentration of ether crystals located at the edge of the universe!"
Ether crystals are too precious for the Eldar, and at the same time, she also wants to take the remaining strength of the clan to temporarily stay away from the increasingly cruel and chaotic battlefield, that is, she doesn't care so much.
I just don't know why, but she felt a little uneasy after successfully completing the subspace jump.
As a powerful navigator, her feeling is definitely not that of letting go for no reason, but where does this uneasiness come from?
What I came to was just the barren and desolate edge of the Milky Way?
(End of chapter)