Chapter 379: The Skaven Empire strides forward
Railway tracks run through cities, and steam locomotives puffing out dark smoke advance through the tunnels with harsh sounds.
A new source of power can bring about many changes.
The Ratmen are rapidly exploring the potential of these magical steam engines.
All this came from the urging of that war.
War and desire are indeed driving the rat people forward rapidly.
More ores, more steel, controlling a larger area, making oneself more luxurious, all of this is pushing the rat people forward.
Huge war instruments, fortresses and weapons on the battlefield, steel pillars in cities, huge warships advancing on the ocean.
Better decorations, more exquisite robes, more sacrifices when offering sacrifices, and even the cane in your hand needs to be inlaid with more faint blue eyes.
Needs, wars, desires, these are intertwined, and the rat people ushered in their own golden age.
Magic leads to lightning, and complex pathways tame this dangerous and unruly force.
The artificial light was finally able to shine in the underground city of the Skaven, and began to spread rapidly to the entire Skaven Empire.
In the Rat Man Empire, there is an unknown underground city on the border, near the lush forest.
Today, the whining sound sounded again.
This is the deepest part of this underground city, a place similar to a platform, where many rat people are waiting eagerly.
The steam train has indeed greatly connected the cities of the rat people, such as here.
In the past, cities in the Skaven Empire, places where a large number of Skaven gathered, could actually be regarded as independent kingdoms.
Each rat city has its own breeding room and planting room. It may not have a complete industrial area, but there are still some scattered craftsmen's workshops.
The gathering of these things makes every rat city naturally have a certain degree of independence. Even if they do not communicate with other rat cities or the rat council for a long time, It can also operate independently.
It is impossible to completely connect the rat cities by relying on those rat caravans.
In the past, what truly connected the Ratman Empire was faith.
Now, the situation has changed a little. Those bulky machines that operate with harsh noises and constantly spit out pungent black smoke have given all the ratmen a surprise.
That is a terrifying amount of transportation.
The shaking bell made a dull sound, and the harsh and sharp friction sound was transmitted from the depths of the tunnel, echoing in the ears of all the ratmen present.
It is said to be a platform, but in fact it is just an underground tunnel that has been hastily widened.
At this time, the rat men standing on this simple platform raised their heads and looked forward to it.
The scary monster started to slow down.
Acrid black smoke first diffused from the passage.
The exhaust gas released by the incomplete combustion of the large magic steam furnace is terrifyingly poisonous, especially when it accumulates in the closed underground tunnel.
It’s just that these rat people waiting here don’t care about this at this time.
Almost impatiently, he leaned towards the dark and deep track in front of him.
When the huge steam train came to a halt, these rat men also started their actions. Regardless of the scalding temperature, they climbed straight towards the dark steel monster in front of them.
While climbing, he also started shouting loudly.
"Me! Me! Let me come! Let me come!"
The scene suddenly became chaotic.
But what greeted them was the big stick that was swung down mercilessly. On the long and narrow carriage carrying various goods, tall rat men wearing various equipment began to wave the short iron rods in their hands mercilessly.
On their heads they wore fully wrapped leather helmets. The helmets looked strange, with only the protruding cylinder and the two glass windows at the eyes the most conspicuous.
Ratmen were constantly being beaten and falling down, wailing in pain, but these guys wielding sticks showed no mercy.
In the chaos, there was inevitably an accident. A rat man quietly bypassed these heavily armed train guards and snatched something on the carriage, which was a small dazzling golden item. The clock should be a small pendant for the rat priests to hang on their waists.
Unspeakable ecstasy appeared on the face of this rat man. He nimbly bypassed the iron rods swung at him by the train guards and was about to escape into the chaotic rat man and disappear. .
At this time, the rat guard standing at the front of the train slowly took off the short-barreled rifle on his back. This was a cannon fodder-type magic energy rifle. The unstable energy storage pattern made The noise it made when it was launched was particularly violent.
It was a loud, harsh sound.
The thief was penetrated by the magic energy beam coming from behind at the moment he was about to escape. He fell heavily to the ground, and the place became quiet for a moment.
Under the gaze of the rat people, the rat guard came to the fallen rat thief, picked up the small golden bell that fell on the ground, and slowly fell to the ground. The rat-man thief rubbed it on his body.
At this time, the front of the steam train slowly opened with a burst of hot steam, and a big-clawed priest with various complicated pendants on his body appeared on the scene.
He did not take another look at the dead rat man, but instead focused his gaze on the rat men who gathered around the train.
At this moment, these rat men gathered together, raising their heads, with a bit of desire on their faces.
To be fair, these guys are really not that good. They are short, thin, and some of them still smell bad, but they are indeed cheap enough.
I gestured casually.
Circle some rat guys.
"Okay, it's just you, work quickly! Work quickly!"
The selected ratmen were in indescribable ecstasy at this moment, while the faces of those who were not selected were There was obvious disappointment on the screen.
The train guards jumped off the dark steel train one by one, holding handfuls of short-barreled magic guns in their hands. They stopped any inappropriate thoughts. The rat man who was selected soon began today's work.
They began to busily unload items from the metal train.
Soon, a shipment of wood from nearby forests will be reloaded onto the train.
The arrival of these steam trains almost destroyed this border city, destroying the breeding houses, planting rooms, and scattered rat workshops in this humble rat city.
How can these backward workshops in this city be able to match the output of the super-large industrial zones in the major rat cities.
Weapons, war instruments and steel from the barren mountains, young ratmen from the Waste City, cave mushrooms and various strange commodities, various metal ingots from the Furnace City.
After the steam train appeared, these things were dumped on the entire Skaven Empire in a dumping manner.
Those inconspicuous rat cities, those rat cities in border areas, and their various industries were completely destroyed in such a flood.
During this period, many rat cities were destroyed, and those that were not destroyed were mostly transformed into first-class resource cities.
For example, this rat city on the edge of a lush forest. Its current role is to provide logs to those increasingly large and prosperous cities. This is also its only role.
The trains that come and go bring all kinds of things non-stop every day, and then regularly take away a large amount of logs from the city.
Such a process has almost destroyed the future of this city, but of course, these steam trains arriving with a whine are not without other benefits.
Some epitome of the prosperity of those vast cities was brought to this city.
The rat priests who dominated this city also wore a variety of gorgeous robes during this period. They moved their residences to the very center of the rat city. upper layer.
Bright magic lamps were lit in this dark underground.
A large amount of blood mushrooms flowed into their pockets.
After all, the blood mushrooms are so simple. As long as you organize the slave rats, cut down the dead trees on the ground one by one, and then drag them into the rat city, then everything will be done. All is well.
As long as the incoming steam trains take away the wood, a batch of blood mushrooms will come to their hands.
Of course, it’s not like there aren’t some guys who are thinking about resisting, and they can’t do this anymore, but that resistance has no effect at all.
After all, as long as this steam train exists, all kinds of extremely cheap goods will continue to arrive.
And if those who resist look more carefully and resist the laid railways and underground railways, then something more terrifying will happen.
There is no need for those rat lords who hold high the freedom of business to take action. The rat council itself and the loyal rat priests will attack you without hesitation.
After all, they are building this railway to prevent rebellion from happening. If you resist, do you want to rebel?
A rat city with a large workshop and built near a large mineral vein was attacked without hesitation due to such suspicion. In just one day, an intruding rat city The human army was the various rat priests and the rat lord in this city who were hanged high together.
The rat lord who was hanged did not even cause any decent disputes.
After all, the rat councilman who protected him was a guy who stood up for free trade from the standpoint of Waste City.
Railways run through each rat city.
The chaotic cities and the Rat Empire were connected together as a whole, which also brought about the decline of the originally independent Rat cities. Over a certain period of time, the overall strength of the Rat people declined.
But it has supported another super city and a super large city that is heading towards a super city.
After the Underground Rat City, Waste City was officially promoted to a new super city in the Rat Empire. The Furnace City, which was already declining, was affected by the Rat Fleet’s terrifying demand for steel and the This time, the Rat Man Train reaped the biggest dividends by running through the entire territory.
In the process of the Rat cities declining and turning into resource cities, the biggest beneficiary is the Furnace City. Massive amounts of various minerals are transported to the Furnace City by the Rat trains. After simple smelting, the metal ingots turned into pieces and flowed to all parties in the Rat Empire again.
The huge demand generated by this made those truly huge rat industrial zones operate at high speed for the first time, and they felt the difficulty.
These rat industrial zones almost all chose the same solution, expanding and expanding again. Steam engines and magic energy technology were introduced into the operation of the industrial zones, and excess production capacity was dumped into the rat cities.
After defeating their counterparts in cities one after another, several super industrial areas were born that were truly terrifying and completely different from the previous ones that relied solely on piling up slave rats to build towers.
I don’t know if such an exchange is a good thing.
But the Rat Man Empire was actually ignited during this change.
The overly bloated architecture has been optimized.
Several super cities serve as the center, heart, and greedy stomach of the empire, and the resource cities are the mouths of greed.
The rise and fall of cities has a fixed template.
The Skaven discovered a resource, and a sentry tower was built. Soon after, a small town was established, and a city took shape, and then the Skaven train ran through this humble city.
Fanatical prosperity began. Countless rat people came here to explore the resources here, replacing the endless blood mushrooms and various cheap commodities. The city prospered rapidly until the resources were exhausted. Dry up, until that dark train never comes here again.
Without the blood mushrooms and various cheap commodities, the city quickly declined, either starting to breed goblins, or depending on the geographical location, it served as an inconspicuous transit station. cycle.
Everything is concentrated, and more things can burst out in those super cities.
Magic lamps, steam mining equipment, scrolls of gods derived from totem patterns, a concert praising the gods, the Rat Man’s first high-power telescope for stargazing, the Rat Man’s mapping star picture.
Of course, it’s not just these.
In the dim light lit by dim lights.
Goblin Tannery, Corpse Soap Ground, Heretic Leather Shop, Lizardman high-end boots.
These strange things were also born in this prosperity, leading the fashion trend of the rat priests.
The Rat People have indeed begun to make great strides in all aspects.
(End of this chapter)