Chapter 357, Soul Engine, New Ecology of Ratmen, Black Water
The long-lasting war has begun to escalate.
More things were thrown into the battlefield, desolate mountains, and underground rat cities.
Research on gray stone has finally made some progress.
A cylindrical thing with a faint blue color was born in the underground rat city. A soul engine that uses those blue bones as power and can release energy stably was born.
It was very rough and crude, but it finally allowed the rat people to truly take that crucial step in the use of soul energy.
It also means that an independent branch has finally been born again in the Ratman School of Engineering.
Soul Technology.
And it’s not just that.
On the same day, also in the desolate mountains and the underground rat city, the rat-man high priest who was dealing with various forces was waiting for a suitable defector.
A big-clawed priest who was about to rot in the corner of this majestic city, he rushed in front of Sheng Qi at all costs.
He looked dusty and had an unspeakable stench all over his body, but he knelt down in front of Sheng Qi regardless of anything.
Not every Greatclaw priest is able to live a decent life, especially in this twisted realm.
The operation of a majestic underground city cannot be separated from the maintenance of the priests of the Big Claw. Such a huge task has been divided into tasks that are assigned one by one. In this chaotic affairs, not every task can be Such decency.
Blackwater, he is a guy waiting to rot at the bottom of the city.
The Underground Rat City has undergone many major reconstructions and modifications, in order to pave the way for the expansion of the city and to deal with the problems encountered in the expansion of the city.
This is indeed a glorious city.
It’s just that countless rat people live in it, and the filth they bring is also countless.
Feces, corpses, wastewater, and all kinds of things need to be dealt with and dealt with.
As a result, an unprecedented sewage system was born in the Underground Rat City. Three main roads running through the entire city, plus countless wastewater canals that merge into the main roads from various places, together constitute this system. The context of the sewage system.
How to describe this system? Each of the three main roads is wide enough to accommodate three second-generation Skaven warships traveling side by side.
Countless sewage, urine, feces, corpses, mixed with all kinds of imaginable and unimaginable things, flowed in this sewage system that spread all over the underground rat city like a spider web.
Finally, he was dumped into the desert behind the barren mountain range.
Obviously, the Rat People have no idea of environmental protection, but in order to avoid the unspeakable stench that is often accompanied by the water they drink, they did not hesitate to use the desert behind the barren mountains as sewage discharge land.
After all, is there anything else that can make these eyesores and filth disappear faster than that piece of useless land with only countless gravels?
There seems to be no more.
The Big Claw Priest who originally built this system wanted to solve the problem of sewage discharge once and for all, and also to prevent this system from quickly losing its effectiveness in the subsequent expansion of the city.
Leaves a great deal of redundancy.
It’s just that he still underestimated the complexity of the things that would be thrown into this sewage system, and the shamelessness of his colleagues.
Since the completion of this sewage system, the underground rat city once had a completely new look. The rat corpses that always appeared in the corners and dark places of the city seemed to disappear overnight.
It certainly wasn't good hygiene that changed the Rat People's behavior.
It's just that they found a better place to go for these things.
No matter what you have to deal with, what could be simpler than dumping it directly into this ditch.
Corpse born from murder and robbery, some waste produced in the breeding house, abandoned rat planting bases born in the growing room, and various small items discarded.
The most outrageous thing was the group of big claw priests in the industrial area.
They forcibly dug a trench underground in the industrial area, connecting it to the sewage system, and directly introduced the wastewater produced in countless smelting processes into it.
All of this has made the sewage system that was originally adequate become stretched, and the redundancy reserved during construction is being consumed very quickly.
As a last resort, the Skaven Council created many new positions for Big Claw Priests to maintain the sewage system, which was newly built and began to become congested not long after it was built.
There is no way. After all, the last congestion caused the overflowing sewage to flood the entire Lower Town of the Underground Rat City.
That day was truly a disaster.
Countless ratmen swam in the sewage surging in the underground tunnels.
In the stench, in the unspeakable horror.
The rat people floating from the water were crowded in the sewage, like a group of wriggling maggots floating on the surface of the cesspit.
Even though the disaster subsided quickly, the underground rat city still stank for a long time.
During that period of time, the face of the white rat turned green in a state visible to the naked eye.
Undoubtedly, someone had to come forward to support the project. The big-clawed priest who was in charge of this project was directly pushed out and his head was beheaded in the original temple.
This unlucky guy died unjustly, but he can only take the blame for such a thing happening. After all, the guys who dump excess garbage into this sewage system can be said to be of all kinds, including almost everyone. group of ratmen.
The only option is to ask him to die.
Afterwards, after countless indicators were distributed and a large number of Big Claw priests entered the system and began to maintain it, such a tragic situation never happened again.
This sewage system has really brought about a lot of changes to the rat people.
It can even be said that a new ecology was born in the Underground Rat City.
The industrial wastewater, culture media, waste nutrients, and small objects that poured into this set of ditches unscrupulously, these things quickly brought changes to this huge sewage system, and also attracted Those who prowl the dark corners of the city flood into this sewage system.
A variety of mushrooms appear in these ditches, pipes, and sewage rivers, many of which have a certain value.
A kind of light green mushroom with red spots. This kind of mushroom has become a special item sought after by rat caravans recently.
Because of its special effects and uniqueness.
The Rats discovered that this strange mushroom that grows in sewage pipes, and only in sewage pipes, has an excellent hemostatic effect and is also extremely delicious. Well, the latter may be incidental, after all, this kind of strange mushroom Mushrooms are really good at treating trauma.
With a little juice and a blood mushroom, there is still a certain possibility of survival even if the stomach is opened.
It’s incredible. In addition to this special effect, this mushroom seems to be able to grow only in these ditches, pipes and sewage rivers that flow with sewage.
Many Big Claw priests who run cultivation rooms have put their thoughts on such mushrooms, but no one has made any progress yet.
After being discovered by the Skaven caravan, such mushrooms quickly became popular all over the Skaven Empire. But there is one strange thing. Those who buy these mushrooms are usually not the Skaven mercenaries or Skaven who are facing battles. Warriors, but the rat priests are particularly eager for such mushrooms.
It’s hard to comment. No matter how delicious this mushroom is, it grew in that environment after all.
It’s not just these special mushrooms. Salvage discarded small objects in sewage rivers and pipes, and use magnets to pick up free iron filings. The free iron filings contained in this sewage system are somewhat It's too much, and it comes from the industrial wastewater that continuously flows into it.
These are valuable things.
In the Skaven Empire, those free people can still open workshops and be hired as Skaven mercenaries, but they, the lowest level guys, are regarded as defective products and pitifully despised. Guys, there is nothing they can do, and there is no chance to stand in the sun.
The birth of this sewage system has attracted almost all the attention of these miserable guys.
All kinds of Skaven guys who have been stubbornly living in the shadows for a long time under the long-term pursuit of the Skaven mercenaries, these Skaven guys who are outside the mainstream Skaven.
They gathered together and started a brutal war to fight for the ditches where feces and urine flowed, and for the sewage pipes that ran through the underground rat city.
Yes, perhaps war is more appropriate to describe this situation.
These guys paint various patterns on their bodies with blood, use tribes as their organizational form, and hold various weapons.
They were almost frantically fighting each other in these pipes and ditches.
During that period of time, there were several times, dozens of times more rat-man corpses than usual, floating in the sewage mixed with feces and urine, and those strange mushrooms ushered in a new era. The waves are huge and prosperous.
The war lasted for a long time, and these barbaric and crazy guys finally divided their spheres of influence.
It also brought various special mushrooms to the rat caravans, in exchange for some poor blood mushrooms, and the possibility of obtaining various mainstream things in the rat empire. sex.
Unexpectedly, these blood-stained blood mushrooms, which were obtained with countless corpses and deaths, were used in exchange for the most, not all kinds of weapons, armor, and food. , are not exchanged for these things.
Instead, they were exchanged for those sacrificial utensils, sacred stone slabs, and blood-gold seeds, in exchange for these things and things related to the great gods.
In the boundless suffering, most of these miserable guys have been huddled in the darkness of the underground city all their lives. The great god has become their uncollapseable pillar and their only comfort.
In the end, they are not real rats, they are also rat people, and they are not too aware of the guys walking in the light of this city.
They are not rats, they are rat people too.
It's just a pity that their suffering is not taken seriously.
Until the end of this cruel war, no one had ever laid eyes on them. Except for the mushrooms that made the Big Claw Priests particularly happy, they had nothing to care about.
And even the control over these turbid sewage is so shaky.
The benefits brought by the mushrooms attracted the Skaven mercenaries, and the arrival of the Big Claw Priest brought the authority of the Skaven Council here.
But there is no good news.
The turbid sewage that makes their blood flow is not something that the big claw priests who arrived here value.
Heishui was extremely dissatisfied with his experience.
In an internal struggle, he was defeated directly and was stuffed here, into this smelly ditch.
Even the interests that are gradually sprouting here make those rat caravans deliberately stop.
But in Heishui's view, this is just a stinking ditch, a stinky ditch flowing with stinky black water.
Even after some time passed, he still could not accept the reason for his failure.
That day, he raised his head high. He thought he would be promoted. After all, a manager who managed the upper-level streets disappeared. What was the reason for his disappearance? No one will care about this, and a position is vacant, which means that he has a chance to climb up.
Escape from the lower neighborhoods and become a more respectable and superior Priest of the Great Claw.
Originally, he thought so. After all, the only one in this area who could compete with him was the young Great Claw Priest, and he was still an idiot. There was no reason for him to lose, absolutely not possible!
Then he lost.
Failed for a damn, ridiculous reason.
He still remembers what that damn old guy from the upper-class neighborhood said to him.
“A guy who doesn’t even have a name is so disgraceful!”
That’s it! that's all! He just lost. Damn it, does that idiot have a decent name?
That idiot is called Big Claw. Is this name a decent name?
Leaving his name vacant does not mean that he cannot get a name by himself, but it represents his ambition. Among the rat priests, if you can be given a name by a superior rat priest, then This means that this rat priest appreciates and accepts you, and it also means that you have become the person who can legitimately inherit various inheritances after the death of this high-ranking rat priest.
Of course he had had such a dream, longing to be admired by a superior rat priest.
But it is a pity that what awaits is such humiliation.
He simply couldn't stand such a failure. The first time he arrived at this smelly ditch, he gave himself a name in anger.
Black water, he gave himself a name, just like the dark and smelly water in this flow.
There is no reason. In anger, he gave himself such a name casually, but so what?
Even if it is dark, smelly water, I will move forward and continue to flow.
With this idea, Heishui started his new career.
After some time, he was defeated.
Desperately, he realized that if he continued to stay next to this dark, smelly water, he would begin to rot and stink.
As a place that is almost a reserve, he simply cannot find any opportunity to climb up here.
He is about to rot and stink.
Until a piece of news came.
The newly appointed rat-man high priest, Sheng Qi, will come to the lower city. Here, he will see many big-claw priests and rat-man mercenaries gathered in the lower city.
(End of this chapter)