Chapter 368, The Miserable Green Change and the Rat-Man Plague
With the application of soul technology, an imminent problem has also entered the attention of the big figures in the Rat-Man Empire.
That is energy, those soul energies, those bones exuding faint blue.
Soul technology is really easy to use, but these blue bones are not endless.
The underground rat city, that wriggling mountain of flesh, that land of flesh and blood, has become riddled with holes, with uncontrolled mining and excavation of the remaining corpses on top of the living rotten flesh. .
The output is getting less and less, but the demand for the blue bones in the ongoing war is getting bigger and bigger.
To this end, everyone is looking for ways.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to solve this problem. It is much simpler than imagined.
The rat people just need more blue bones, and the way to get more of these things is to put them in front of everyone.
Fill life into this mess of flesh, fill in those who are still alive or those who have just died.
Just like piling life into a pool of blood and offering sacrifices, he offered his life and soul to the squirming pieces of flesh in the abyss.
This is not a difficult thing, after all, the rat people have always done this.
But there is a problem.
If you pile the sacrifices offered on the altar into this pile of rotten meat, then in general you will inevitably have to think about the gains and losses.
Excellent sacrifices are expensive.
And at least at this moment, those blue bones are not expensive.
Not just a comparison of value.
What about the missing achievements? If you have to mobilize sacrifices from all over the empire, what about the transportation loss on the long road? These are all problems. These are all problems.
Of course, thinking and weighing can be done later, but now, in order to deal with this holy war, the rat people urgently need more bones, and need more such blue bones, To run those ferocious war machines.
They need a group of enough people who happen to be in the underground rat city and can be used as emergency sacrifices.
Which guys can meet this standard?
It seems that there really is.
In the recent period of time, there have been too many Skaven pilgrims from all over the Skaven Empire, so much so that they have blocked the city's long-distance movement.
In the dim abyss, Gray Stone witnessed a massacre, which was not just and open. The massacre was carried out in secret, and countless rat-man corpses fell from high places.
The spread of living meat, the spread of flesh riddled with holes, it began to eat in large mouths, quickly swallowing up the fallen corpses.
In three days, this piece of meat expanded three times.
It’s just not glorious.
Greystone has witnessed all this despicableness.
The despicability of the rat people seems to be engraved in their bones.
It’s just that the rat people have never been considered high-quality sacrifices. They have always been so until now.
There are too many of these guys who have been sacrificed, their thoughts are too messy, and they are too crazy.
The pollution has been accelerated. The bones produced in this big piece of meat, the remnants of the souls used as energy, are filled with more and more impurities.
Some thoughts are difficult to erase even in the rounds of pain and wailing.
Those crazy thoughts, those pious shouts.
There is no doubt that devout people are almost always a group of lunatics.
The group of slave rats and big-clawed priests who returned to this abyss again discovered something different in this piece of meat that was becoming more and more rotten and seemed to be infected with disease.
A spar, an irregular spar with a pale green color.
This incident quickly alarmed the big-claw priests who organized the gathering of meat. They also seemed to have little understanding of the pale green spar.
Many Big Claw priests gathered here.
More and more pale green crystals have been excavated, but the pale blue skeletons that should have appeared have disappeared.
A feeling of panic began to spread. I had to admit that the entire soul technology of the rat people was based on this big piece of meat. It was based on the blue bones dug out of the big meat. But now, this big piece of meat appeared. A little change.
However, this panic did not last long. A big-clawed priest raised a piece of pale green crystal while thinking. The radiant green that burst out from the inside had a strange beauty.
A kind of strange crystal stone, this is a kind of strange crystal stone, but the big claw priests present seemed to be in a panic and had no intention of looking at these strange crystal stones.
After all, if something goes wrong with all this, then it is estimated that everyone on the field will be hoisted high together before long.
Uncontrollable fear and panic, except for that guy who seemed to be a bit unique.
His name is Mine Draft, Mine Draft Rat. Just by looking at the name, you can intuitively feel where this guy comes from.
A great-clawed priest from the Mining Slave Rats.
Perhaps because he has been dealing with various ores all year round, he was not overwhelmed by fear, but was immediately attracted by these miserable green ores.
While thinking, he seemed to have thought of something. He grabbed a magic spear from the escort of an unknown big-claw priest on one side, and flexibly removed the blue bones on it. Next, he faced the pale green crystal in his hand.
Not inserted.
The big claw in his hand quickly polished it. Soon, a rough green cylinder appeared in his hand. This time he successfully completed the splicing.
In the moist green infiltration, this magic energy spear successfully completed the energy storage.
Pull the trigger and a green beam bursts out.
Maybe they, the Big Claw Priests, don’t have to worry about being hung up high for the time being.
Even if some strange changes seem to have occurred in this huge rotten meat, the blue bones that can be dug out from the big meat have turned into some strange-looking green crystals, but as long as this Green crystals can still be used as energy, so it's not a big problem.
Everything is business as usual.
Of course, it is not correct to say that there is no change at all, but this change seems to be nothing to the rat people.
Just another kind of pollution appeared in this deformed empire, in the capital of the Rat Man Empire, deep in the indescribable huge underground city.
A terrifying pollution born from the accumulation of countless souls.
But so what, another kind of life pollution that is no less inferior to soul pollution has infiltrated every aspect of the Rat Empire. These guys don't care about more pollution.
After all, what can this pollution bring to them? Crazy?
That’s nothing, is it?
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In the chaotic and complicated pipeline system of the Underground Rat City, it has been very busy recently. A new dispute breaks out over the discovery of a new mushroom.
A new green mushroom that can bloom in the dark.
These mushrooms appear in special places and have a very strange effect. They seem to bring happiness to those who take them, and even allow the ratmen who eat them to see gods in a trance.
It is very magical, and these are not the limits of this mushroom. It is said that if you eat it together with the best blood mushrooms, the taste that bursts out will be indescribable and unforgettable.
All of this has caused this green mushroom to be quickly fetched a jaw-droppingly high price.
It’s just that the same green color makes people wonder whether this mushroom is related to the anomaly in the abyss. After all, this sewage system really penetrates every corner of the underground rat city, even that area The dark abyss also has hidden branches.
Round after round of brutal fighting broke out, in order to compete for these green mushrooms.
Such things happen everywhere in this sewage system. It is really hard to imagine that such a place where all kinds of filth are gathered and the stench cannot be wiped away, would become so lively now.
Fights, fighting, robbery, betrayal, robbery, killing, all kinds of ugliness happened in those ditches, pipes and that dark, smelly river.
To a certain extent, the guy who led such a project is indeed a genius. The system he set up not only greatly relieved the pressure on the huge city of Underground Rat City, but also It is the ugliness and filth of this city that is brought together efficiently in a sense.
In the corner of this pipeline system, a camp fell.
Heishui is still viciously cursing the filth and stench of the environment today, but over these long years, he himself has gradually integrated with this environment.
Mushrooms have begun to grow on his dirty, tangled hair.
During this period of time, he has never given up researching those parasitic monsters, but there has been no improvement.
He was troubled, but there was nothing he could do.
Every method has been exhausted, but these parasitic monsters are still languishing and dying day by day.
But this cannot be blamed on these parasitic monsters.
It can only be said that the environment is too bad. It is true that they are monsters and parasites, but there are no monsters or parasites that really live in the cesspit.
Moreover, this cesspit is extremely smelly, with filth, toxic gases accumulated during fermentation, terrifying heavy metal siltation, various unstable spores scattered in the air, pollution of life, and pollution of souls.
All these and various types of pollution accumulate together to create an unprecedented cesspool.
Ordinary guys really can’t stay in such a terrifying environment.
This accumulation of pollution even shows the suppression of negative energy, or in other words, the rejection of magic and elements.
In this world where gods truly exist, the rat people engage in horrific blood sacrifices and are not afraid of the emergence of the undead because their sacrifices really point to real gods.
The reason why no undead sprouted in this sewage system where countless corpses are buried is because of the accumulation of horrific pollution.
To some extent, these filthy stinking waters can even have the same effect as the sacred water enshrined in temples.
The mixed pollution will destroy and erode the foundation of the undead's existence.
Of course, there are still differences between the two.
If you were splashed on your face by a bottle of ordinary holy water, nothing would probably happen, and you could even feel the light soothing you.
And if you are splashed by these horrible feces, in addition to the horrible stench, you also have to worry about possible unknown plagues and heavy metal poisoning, weak flesh and blood distortion, and possible unknown things. Whisper, these various negative states.
You allow these parasitic monsters to live in such an environment. This is really unfair to them.
To some extent, the resistance of the rat people is really amazing.
There has been no progress in the research on parasitic monsters, and Blackwater had to shift more of its energy to other aspects.
Just like the various mushrooms born in this sewage system.
Recently, he found a special kind of mushroom.
Opening the door made of messy items, a rat-man corpse appeared in front of him.
Picking up a sharp knife, his eyes fell on the belly of the rat-man corpse.
This unlucky guy apparently died in a sneak attack, with a small puncture hole appearing in his stomach.
Probably killed by a spear stabbed from behind. This kind of thing happens here all the time. It is not unusual, and it is not enough to attract Heishui's attention. What is really strange is that this What happens after the guy dies.
A mushroom sprouted on the corpse, sprouting from the small wound.
Where will these various mushrooms sprout? Obviously the corpse of the ratman is a good choice.
During this period of time, Blackwater collected many corpses of ratmen with mushrooms like this, and also dissected many corpses with mushrooms like this. He studied these mushrooms with interest, but he found nothing.
Although it didn't satisfy him very much.
A kind of turbid spore supplement. Compared with those big claw priests in the planting room who devote all their thoughts to the various mushrooms grown from spore germination, Black Water is obviously more Favored by these dusty spores.
This spore supplement can have an effect similar to madness, increasing strength and forgetting pain for a period of time, and the cost is not high, it is extremely cheap.
This is one of the successful blackwater researches.
The other type is trauma spore powder.
Sprinkle these spore powder on the wound, and the rapidly germinating spores will quickly grow into a mushroom, which can fill the wound well and stop bleeding.
In the follow-up, the mushrooms growing in flesh and blood can even be eroded by flesh and blood, and blood vessels and flesh will grow inside, truly healing the wound.
Of course, it is not without side effects. Whether it is spore supplements or these trauma spore powders, they all have the same problem.
That is backlash. The requirements for the user are not high, but your physique must be able to resist the invasion of these spores, otherwise mushrooms will sprout on your body and swallow your flesh and blood while you are alive. This is the best explanation for these dangerous spores.
Blackwater is not particularly satisfied with these results.
He feels that he should not be a healer, and every priest of the Great Claw is not interested in becoming such a role.
Getting more excited? Treat trauma?
What is this? What's the use of these? Every one of his colleagues will sneer at him after learning about these things he tinkered with.
But there is no better way.
Even if you are not satisfied, it is better than nothing.
Heishui completed the dissection, and he couldn't help but feel dejected when he thought about the scene of him delivering these things to the seven high priests soon.
Hmm..., how should I put it? Maybe this guy didn't react. In fact, maybe he was able to tinker with these two things. When used as supplements and trauma medicine, it is also possible that It exists as a kind of plague. After all, not everyone has the exaggerated resistance of rat people.
(End of this chapter)