Chapter 89 Change
"Quick! Quick!"
"Digging! Moving! Don't stop!"
The Skaven Overseer cracked his whip, sending sharp sonic booms through the air.
While it was scolding the rat-man excavation team who were shrunk and busy, it vigilantly raised its ears to detect the movement around it.
I am afraid that at the next moment, there will be terrifying metal puppets, moving their huge and heavy bodies, tearing their bodies into pieces.
Fortunately, every "miracle" God the Father sends is very reliable and worthy of the trust of all rat people.
Until the excavation team followed the direction pointed by Father God and dug a deep underground tunnel.
The stern-looking purple-nosed rat-man overseer fearfully touched his neck to confirm that it was still connected to his body.
"Light up! Light up! What a lazy thing!"
The rat-man overseer scolded again, and followed up with the rat-men who took turns to nail the miner's lamp containing the blue crystal stone fragments to the stone wall.
The familiar semi-dark environment gradually relaxed the nerves of all the ratmen who had been tense from walking through the giant cemetery.
Before following the Skaven excavation team, the overseer looked back enviously at the brightly lit Giant Cemetery, where the Skaven Engineers and Warlocks were screaming and arguing around the metal puppets.
Ratmen who possess knowledge, their status in ratmen society is undoubtedly the top group under the 10 leaders, followed by ratmen warriors who are strong, have rich hunting experience, and are in good health. Tribal ratmen, the lowest slave ratmen.
Fortunately, Father God is fair and treats all ratmen equally. Every ratman has the opportunity to obtain knowledge from the altar pillars.
And that's not all. There are rumors among the rat people that Father God has sent down new blessings.
Any ratman who performs well will get a chance to transform his body!
The rat-man overseer tightened his grip on his whip and quickly followed the excavation team.
I heard that those engineering wizards have come up with a new gadget to improve the efficiency of digging underground tunnels. It seems to be called a steam drill truck?
I don’t know how many slave rats will be killed due to malfunction when it is put into use.
He had to stay far away then to avoid blood splattering on him.
In the dark tunnel where the Skaven excavation team came, there was suddenly a rustling sound of clawed feet scratching the ground.
The rat engineering warlocks who were brainstorming and discussing excitedly fell silent in unison, and turned their heads to look at the entrance to the stone wall of the cemetery where they came from.
A giant insect poked its head out. Its skeletal, hard carapace reflecting the faint light and its extremely sharp and complex mouthparts made the engineering sorcerers shudder.
With such a huge size and hard appearance, at least the engineering warlocks present would never be able to compete with it with their physical bodies.
The compound eyes of the giant insect flashed with a faint light, as if it was exploring the strength and physical data of these rat engineer warlocks in the giant cemetery.
A mysterious smell erupted from the mouthparts of the giant insect, and the scent information conveyed in the smell made these rat people with a keen sense of smell quickly feel the kindness released by the split brain.
"Giant cemetery, half and half, do not interfere with each other."
Fragmented words were simulated quickly and shortly from the mouthparts of the brain. The rat engineer warlocks quickly understood the meaning of the brain, and a sense of joy at being able to communicate friendly with aliens filled their brains.
The rat engineer warlocks all moved to the side of the giant cemetery and looked at this strange giant insect with only a head and a chest with green eyes.
The hive brain crawled to the other side of the giant cemetery and hibernated quietly. The tentacles on its head were raised like antennas, detecting vibrations and smells in the air.
The dung gold spider scorpions, arranged in small teams, followed the underground tunnel opened by the rat-man excavation team under the instructions of the brain, and were divided on both sides of the tunnel to eat the excavated mud and rocks frantically. When the rat engineer warlocks saw so many dung gold spider scorpions, their eyes burst out with greed.
Ratman technology requires crystallized stone. The crystallized stone is produced from the dung gold spider scorpion. The dung gold spider scorpion is related to the strange giant insect in front of us.
The importance and status of the split-brain was instantly raised to an extremely high level in the hearts of these rat people.
"Zhizhi! Stone! Exchange!"
A bold rat engineer warlock stepped forward and pointed at the dung gold spider scorpions crawling towards the tunnel and said to the insect nest brain.
"Yes, enemies, flesh and blood, food, exchange."
The tentacles on the top of Branch Brain's head tapped up and down, forming an exchange contract with the rat people.
The rat engineer warlocks who had obtained a stable supply channel of crystallized stones were so happy that they high-fived each other, and the giant cemetery was filled with all kinds of rapid screams and trills.
The worker insects transformed from the insect nest appeared closely behind the team of dung gold spider scorpions.
They quickly built nests and nutrient pools around the branch-brain base station. The golden, waxy secretions covered the bottom and walls of the nutrient pool as the workers crawled.
After doing all this, they crawled to the nutrient pool and drained the energy-storage nectaries from their tails. Finally, the workers dragged their exhausted bodies and crawled to the mouthparts of the split-brain base station.
Splitbrain splits its complex and vicious mouthparts, chops up the bodies of these workers and eats them, digesting them into the abilities needed for daily activities such as transmitting information, collecting data, and issuing instructions.
Such an efficient and cruel behavior of making the best use of everything makes even the rat people feel ashamed.
The number of worker insects is getting larger and larger, and the rat people are beginning to feel uneasy.
Fortunately, assistance from the rat people arrived after these insect swarms.
The young ratmen, carrying dried wild fruits on their backs, panted and stacked them in the food storage area designated by the engineering warlocks.
Then they turned around and ran towards the entrance they came from, returning to their respective underground bases to participate in the work of reinforcing and building underground tunnels.
Rat-human engineering warlocks who specialize in machinery appeared in the underground cemetery driving the latest scientific and technological achievements of the rat-people.
An earth-drilling vehicle full of steampunk style rumbled over, its heavy tracks crushing rocks and leaving eye-catching ruts on the surface of solid granite boulders.
The rat engineer warlocks who stayed behind in the "Forest of Rocks" suddenly felt abandoned by the times when they looked at their compatriots standing on the steam drilling vehicles and showing off to them.
"You can't! Go back! Rebuild! Here, let's do it!"
The leading rat-man engineer warlock flamboyantly pressed down his paws, making a contemptuous gesture.
The remaining rat engineer warlocks were so jealous that they almost chewed their own teeth into pieces.
They silently picked up the metal puppets that had been dismantled by Father God, and walked dejectedly to the underground base where the camp fire was.
When they return to the underground city of the rat people, they will understand and restore the casting and operating mechanisms of these metal puppets.
Next time it's their turn to show off!
When the first group of rat engineer warlocks who stayed in the "Forest of Rock" returned to the dungeon of the rat race through the time and space channel, they were shocked by the completely unfamiliar building complex in front of them.
Underground stone pillars reinforced by cement, tracks paved with sleepers, steam mine cars whistling in and out, and crystal stone street lamps inlaid with light
Is this really the underground city where they once lived?
On the other side, Ye Xing also received the Dettol of Life condensed by the elves of the Fantasy Star World Tree.
(End of chapter)