Chapter 174, The background of the rat people, the crazy things you can meet
Travel through the dark underground city through the dark tunnel.
The strength of Qizhan has been completely lost.
He needs help.
Back in Prairie City again, he needs to recruit strength here and also seek help from a guy.
In the noisy ruins, Qi, who was wearing a suit of armor, easily squeezed through the crowd of rat people in front of him.
With their awe and fear in their eyes, they walked through this bustling and crowded market.
In the center, a rat man raised the wooden sign in his hand high, and his sharp and excited shout attracted the attention of everyone present.
Another rat man who could briefly remember his achievements. What he did, Qi paused and listened briefly.
Killed a goat orc?
Just killed a satyr orc?
I couldn't help but feel a little more stunned, followed by silence.
Is this what I was looking up to before?
He raised his head and looked at the guy in the middle of the noisy ruins who raised his spear high and looked excited. He withdrew his gaze and looked around, also looking at the people around him who showed desire and enthusiasm. Jealous poor guy.
These guys are so humble.
Taking a step forward, an ordinary rat man in front of him blocked Qi's path, and there was a collision between the two. However, when the ordinary rat man turned around and saw the armor covered with battle scars on Qi's body, he turned around in horror. Lowered his waist.
These guys are so humble, but who would have thought that he was one of these guys not long ago.
A bad young guy.
There is no going back. He will never go back to be with these miserable and humble guys, even if he dies.
Either, stand high or die.
Brutally knocking away the rat men gathered around him, he strode towards the depths of this noisy ruins.
The flag no longer belongs here.
Even now in the eyes of Rat Zhan, he is just a slightly interesting guy, a fun thing.
But it is no longer possible for him to return to his humble dust-like self not long ago.
Depths of the noisy ruins.
Flag found what he was looking for.
A slender guy, a dwarf mouse who paints patterns on various leather materials.
Fat's sudden visit.
The other guy next to the slender little mouse man was a little more wary, held the small buckler in his hand, and pulled out a short spear.
But the dwarf mouse with the painted pattern stopped the movement of the guy next to him.
With the final stroke, a complicated pattern was imprinted on the leather in his hand.
It seems that the paintings are the patterns belonging to the gods in the temple.
His craftsmanship is very exquisite, no less than those great craftsmen who specialize in painting the patterns of gods, but he lives in this small corner, in this messy environment.
Qi is very grateful to her. If it weren't for her, he would still be the confused and miserable guy wandering in this noisy ruins.
The short rat man also recognized the flag. To be precise, he recognized the rough flag carried behind the flag.
He placed the leather in his hand carefully, with a smile on his face.
"Hey, isn't this a former customer?"
His eyes fell on Qi, especially on the armor covered with blood and stains, and his smile became even bigger of brilliance.
"It seems that what I said was right, you do need a flag."
………….
Qi didn't buy another flag, but he got a piece of news.
Following the news, he stood in front of the temple in Prairie City and looked at the temple with intricate carvings in front of him.
Great gods are worshiped inside.
Even if this guidance comes at a price.
Some special items carved with complex patterns.
His chance was in the temple in front of him. He took a deep breath and stepped into the temple, towards the corner of the temple.
Finding the inconspicuous stone room, I took a deep breath and had nothing to hesitate.
Qi put down the battle flag beside him, took a deep breath and knelt down heavily.
Once you kneel down, it’s a day.
Finally, the door of the stone house was pushed open.
A figure appeared in front of him.
Wearing exquisite armor, the glorious armor surface has fine and complex lines all over the armor, highlighting the status of the person wearing the armor.
The superior gaze was cast on him through the gap in the visor.
Raise your head and look at the high gaze.
Qi is looking for an opportunity to change his destiny.
A chuckle was heard.
"I thought you rat warlords would all have the same bad temper and pride as your proud commander."
Qi lowered his head.
“I am not a rat warlord yet.”
“But you can be, right?”
Raising his head suddenly, he was waiting for such a sentence.
"Do you want to become a rat warlord?"
In the tone of the figure in front of him that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
Qi lowered his head again.
He always had no choice.
Qi offered his loyalty, that worthless loyalty, just like he said to Rat Zhan, and he still gave such a mediocre but correct answer to the big man in front of him.
Learn the expressions and movements of those poor guys who once gathered in front of him, and learn the expressions and movements of those defective slave rats when they offered their loyalty to him.
What he didn't realize was that neither the rat war nor the big man in front of him.
They all don’t believe in the word loyalty, even if you declare loyalty to them, there is nothing wrong.
Whether they choose you depends on something more real and cruel.
value.
Rat Zhan did not immediately promote Qi to become a rat warlord because he felt that Qi had no more value.
At this point, the situation is the same.
Qi did not receive direct help, but a piece of information was handed over to him.
Three fuzzy areas were drawn out.
Nothing else.
He is not yet a Skaven Warlord and does not deserve more investment. He must also show his value.
Qi sold himself to two parties at the same time, the first time in exchange for the possibility of becoming a rat warlord, and the second time in exchange for the possibility of becoming a rat warlord.
Leave the palace of the great god.
Take a deep breath.
He will never give up.
Holding the simple flag in his hand, the flag turned back and took steps towards the grassland city behind him.
This was seen by the figure in the temple.
At least he is not stupid, and he got such an evaluation.
Qi couldn't directly give this information to Shu Zhan. He couldn't explain how he got these judgments. The rat war is not stupid, and the head-shaking explanation will only bring one result, the sight of being scrutinized, which also means death.
It's the right thing to do if you can't. The flag itself has no reason to be able to find the enemy's gathering position faster than those rat knights running wildly on the grassland.
If done, it would bring suspicion.
Unless this thing can be more absurd.
A ridiculously humble guy, because of an idea that was almost impossible to realize, led a team of weak and weak guys deep into the hinterland of the vast grassland and brought back traces of the enemy.
No! Not only to bring back traces of the enemy, but also to bring back a victory!
That night, Qi once again pulled together a team, a team composed of all kinds of defective ratmen.
It is still the same as last time. After having no choice, the only choice is to recruit the most inferior and inferior slave rats.
Qi’s expression was not as relaxed as last time.
But he still held the battle flag tightly in his hand.
He had no more options.
It's either do it or die, that's all.
………….
On the vast grassland.
The construction of the Skaven's seventh city began.
Although Rat War is aggressive, it is not reckless.
The connected cities are the confidence for his attack and the key to maintaining the logistics of his huge army.
Facing this vast grassland, he had no other choice but to hibernate and wait.
The army in hand began to grow again while dormant and waiting.
The resources consumed to build a city are not a small amount, and it takes time. The first prairie city closest to Prairie City has not completely stopped construction yet.
This is still under the condition that Rat War’s requirements for cities are not strict.
Just some places where large numbers of Skaven can gather.
But even so, these cities are built with a large number of blood mushrooms.
There are seven such bottomless pits on this grassland at this time.
But it has no impact at all on the rat war.
Shu Zhan didn't put a single blood mushroom into it, so of course he still had energy left, and he even continued to expand the Dire Knight.
In fact, the city construction of the rat people, or the city construction ability of the rat people under Du Yuan, is quite rogue.
Because the biggest problem in building a city is skipped.
Population.
Normally speaking, a city of an ordinary intelligent race usually starts with a certain tone and then slowly expands it.
Because of population limitations.
You can't endlessly draw people to fill newly established cities.
We can only rely on the passage of time to slowly expand the settlement until it finally becomes a real city.
This is true even for the wild boars whose ideas were plagiarized by Rat War.
The cities they built in the lush forests at the beginning, except for the waste city that was renamed by the rat men to take charge of industry, none of them met the standards.
Compared to a city, it might be more appropriate to call it a military fortress.
If the quilboars can really fill these hastily built cities with quilboars, then it will not be so easy for the rat men to attack the dense forest defense line.
Because of population limitations.
But the Ratmen don't have this problem.
Because the Skaven have a crowded city far beyond the current era.
Underground rat city.
A true mega city.
The population gathered in the over-expanded underground rat city, not to mention supporting seven cities, can still be supported even if ten or twenty rat cities are built, even for this bloated super city. Even for a giant city, it's not a big deal.
This war can be said to be supported by the Underground Rat City.
This is the Underground Rat City, the first city of the rat people, a city favored by the gods, a super giant city that alone can support the existence of a kingdom structure.
Although Du Yuan has been tinkering and not understanding the extremely confusing logistics of the rat people, the rat people themselves are also tinkering and not understanding.
But if we only look at the scale of the Ratmen's logistics, it is absolutely huge, extremely bloated and huge.
This huge and chaotic logistics gave birth to super giant cities like the Underground Rat City, and also provided a solid backing for the rat people's foreign wars.
Waiting and dormant are definitely not a failed strategy for the current rat people.
In the support of the Underground Rat City, whether it is the Western Expeditionary Force conquering the rolling hills, or the Eastern Expeditionary Force currently advancing deep into the grasslands.
Both armies are far from reaching their limits.
Mouse Zhan has the capital to wait and hibernate, although he doesn't like such pauses very much, and he has been a little restless recently.
Because a piece of news came.
The rat war far away from the desolate mountains is indeed not sensitive to what is happening in the desolate mountains.
But this does not mean that he cannot even control the grassland he currently occupies.
When the huge temple guard passed by the Furnace City, Rat War got the news.
Obviously, these guys will not gather here for no reason.
But what exactly are you going to do?
Mouse Zhan didn’t know, and then he was angry.
“Those two losers! Useless things!
I will definitely hang those two useless idiots when I go back! ”
That day, Shu Zhan made such harsh words.
And decided to do it when the time comes.
The two mice who were left in the barren mountains The human warlords are really innocent. They may not be that good, but they would never dare to hide such news.
It's just that some guys don't want this news to be known by Rat Zhan.
But so what, after Shu Zhan returns, he will still hang those two idiots.
The confused Shu Zhan had to face this unexpected incident.
After a brief thought, Rat Zhan took the Fierce Knight and Rat Knight in his hands and turned back from the depths of the grassland and began to return to his base camp on the grassland, Prairie City.
At the same time.
The group of rat lords finally arrived on this grassland.
The escorting temple guards did not send them directly to the cities on the grassland.
On the contrary, they all settled in Prairie City temporarily.
Of course, the temple guards have good reasons for doing this.
Firstly, these newly arrived rat lords obviously do not understand the situation for the time being, and they indeed need to stay for a while.
The second is that several cities on this grassland are still in the construction stage and have not been completed at all.
Of course, there are definitely risks in doing so.
Having gotten the news, Shu Zhan is rushing towards here with his own bodyguards.
Although this guy hasn't figured out what happened yet.
But he will understand sooner or later.
And these guys who were appointed as rat lords were not going to deal with him.
They are all senior rat priests. These six rat lords are all senior rat priests.
As we all know, the most annoying group of guys in Rat War are the rat priests, especially the senior rat priests among the rat priests. They are especially disgusted.
(End of this chapter)