Chapter 395, Plague, Clusters of Skaven, and Deteriorated Bloodline
In a very short period of time, the Skaven sent rockets into the sky one after another.
There are many more unlucky guys floating outside the planet.
But strangely, the group of uninvited guests disappeared.
This pursuit of quick success began to shift the Skaven's technology tree.
Rockets, rockets, the ratmen everywhere are talking about these pillars that can fly into the sky, and the big claw priests in every industrial area have been working overtime to study these things recently.
In such an impatient environment, it's hard to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
However, it is indeed the temperament of the Rat Man.
Except for one rather weird guy who is incompatible with most ratmen.
Barren mountains, underground abyss.
Gray Stone's recent working area has been crowded to a certain extent. Originally, this deep underground abyss belonged to him, but recently there have been some uninvited guests visiting.
The group of big-claw priests from the aberration school took over all the squirming flesh and blood in the abyss.
Undoubtedly, this is an offense.
It’s just that Gray Stone showed a state of indifference to this offense.
Ever since he obtained that batch of information from humans, he has plunged headlong into the research and reproduction of the magic engine, until today.
He has been doing this for such a long time.
It’s not that there is no progress.
But the progress is not encouraging.
This may be why those guys from the distortion school dare to enter this abyss with such arrogance.
Sheng Qi and the temple guards all came to find Gray Stone during this time.
It's just that Gray Stone was very calm about this, or this stupid guy has always been very calm.
Today, Gray Stone is still conducting his experiments, and a complex system is gradually taking shape in front of him.
Just suddenly, something went wrong somewhere.
The blue lightning suddenly broke away from this complex system composed of large and small gears, complex nested mechanical structures, various magic patterns, and some special materials, and suddenly collapsed.
The blue lightning struck Gray Stone fiercely, and he instinctively closed his eyes at this moment.
Under the fur, a layer of fine prismatic scales helped Gray Stone resist such an attack.
The faint blue lightning turned Gray Stone's fur black, but it couldn't do anything about the scales under Gray Stone's fur until it was completely dispersed.
This is what the long claw left for him, a remnant of the ceremony to become a god.
Longclaw exploded into a pile of rotten flesh in his arrogance, and the strange experimental products he tinkered with were also ushered in liquidation.
Except gray stone.
Before he knew it, the fine scales had covered Gray Stone's entire body, and some deeper changes were gradually taking place.
To a certain extent, there is nothing wrong with the idea of long claws, but it is a pity that his experiment ended up being a little worse and missing something.
From ordinary things to extraordinary things, losing the ordinary essence, and moving upward step by step. This is the best way for ordinary things to get a glimpse of the power of gods.
It’s just that the long claws are still urgent, or in other words, at that time, there were too few things that could provide the long claws with a step-by-step rise in rank.
So much so that this guy was swallowed up step by step by his own desires during the long wait, until he finally exploded into a puddle of rotten flesh.
Now, things are different.
The generous Du Yuan has already sown this key and those resources.
What else can be more suitable for transformation than the soul gems and ether crystals purified from the chaotic thoughts that Du Yuan washed away, the chaotic thoughts that wrapped around Du Yuan's body? ?
No more.
The faint blue lightning scattered on the gray stone left something behind.
Something was engraved on the scales.
A very beautiful transformation is taking place on Gray Stone's body.
It can only be said that the way the rat people use soul gems today is really a bit shoddy and wasteful.
After all, even if antimatter can really be used to light torches, its real use is not just to light torches.
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Under the scarlet grassland.
In the intricate underground tunnels.
In an abandoned underground outpost.
A very large group of rat ghouls gathered here.
This group of guys are the remnants of the previous turmoil, and they are also the test subjects specially used by one guy to experiment with the things in his hands.
Skaven Ghouls are a very special group of guys.
They are not the kind of mindless and inferior undead creations, or top-notch zombies, and they are different from serious ghouls.
To put it bluntly, it is more like a state of degenerating into a beast.
Ever since Du Yuan first repaired the deteriorating bloodline of the rat people, this group of rat ghouls has gradually emerged among the rat people.
The fur on the body falls off, and the person becomes more sensitive to sounds, prefers darkness and is afraid of light. The skin begins to thicken and looks like tanned leather, and the food preference will shift significantly.
They prefer to eat their own kind.
There is also the desire to have a person who is no different from an ordinary rat man.
Hungry for more blood mushrooms.
The Skaven Ghouls were transformed from Skaven who devoured a large number of Skaven corpses.
The Skaven Ghouls are not particularly contagious.
The reason for this change is more likely that the degraded genes washed by Du Yuan once again began to manifest in these guys.
The breeding house model still does too much damage to the rat-man bloodline. Although Du Yuan has made several remedies, the deteriorated bloodline seems to have never been washed away, but is still hidden. In every Skaven body.
The eating of each other by rat-men will induce the appearance of these deteriorated bloodlines.
In fact, there are still many things that can be unearthed in this kind of deterioration. For example, during the last turmoil, some special rat ghouls were born.
After the gathered rat ghouls attack the city and a special lucky person eats enough blood mushrooms, the second round of transformation will occur.
The King of Skaven Ghouls will be born.
That's a special guy who can guide ordinary rat ghouls.
To some extent, this is even the prototype of a cluster state.
Countless ordinary rat ghouls gathered around the rat ghoul king.
This is a very special transformation. If Du Yuan didn't take action to cleanse the blood of the rat man, maybe in hundreds or thousands of years, a new kind of rat man would be born in this sea of chaos.
A new kind of rat-people that form groups.
It's just a pity that this deterioration was interrupted.
The possible new rat-men have also become the shadows buried in the degraded bloodline.
The current rat ghouls have long been unable to cause any trouble.
Even the birth of the special Skaven Ghoul King was the same.
These guys can no longer cause any trouble, times have changed.
Under the attack of that magic weapon, no matter how huge the group of rat ghouls gathered, they would only be a group of beasts that could only moan and roar.
For the rat people, it no longer has a particularly big impact.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, no one will take the initiative to touch these deteriorated bloodlines.
After all, it's hard to say anything else. Such a degraded bloodline can definitely be a good hand against the Rat Man himself.
But no one would seek death like this.
This abandoned underground outpost is home to a large number of rat ghouls. The closer you get to the center, the more brightly colored mushrooms attract your attention.
These mushrooms pop up from every corner.
Moist, dry, rock walls, wood, or living rat men or rat ghouls.
Some ratmen have already discovered the existence of these degraded bloodlines.
As expected, research without any scruples began.
Blackwater is observing a thin ratman.
A very thin rat-man, almost skin and bones. This poor guy is still alive, and his body is still trembling weakly, but he probably can't react.
A giant white mushroom emerges from the rat-man's eye and grows vigorously.
Like a big mushroom umbrella held on the head.
It’s hard to imagine that such a huge mushroom would sprout from such a thin guy.
But it is obvious that the mushrooms cultivated by Heishui are not for eating.
The sharp knife fell on the body of this thin rat man, but he felt a trace of resistance, showing a texture like cowhide, just like those rat ghouls.
Heishui nodded with satisfaction and recorded the test item.
Looking back here, in the center of the abandoned outpost surrounded by many rat ghouls, there are densely packed rat men hanging high.
All kinds of wails echo each other here.
At the same time, strange-shaped mushrooms appeared on the bodies of each rat man.
There is no need to doubt the rat people's ability to seek death. Blackwater has not only begun to study this degraded bloodline, but also begun to study how to use his own plague and those mushrooms to help other rat people actively awaken. Such a bloodline.
In short, this guy is tinkering with a plague specifically targeting the Skaven themselves.
Obviously, Blackwater has already achieved certain results on this matter.
The much tougher skin on this poor guy's body is a reflection of his achievements.
Actually, this guy has tinkered with a lot of strange things. When the last turmoil just started, he came here just because of the smell.
The reason why the turmoil was so serious must be due to his contribution.
A large number of bizarre plagues have been wreaking havoc for several rounds.
But he himself seemed dissatisfied.
Those messy plagues always escape one limitation, that is, they will inevitably appear a little weak when faced with the superb resistance of the rat people.
This is why, although he was clearly studying plague, he managed to get a lot of supplies by accident.
The Rat Man's adaptability and resistance are superb. Coupled with Du Yuan's several efforts to optimize the bloodline and the powerful vitality provided by the blood mushroom, these add up to make half of the plague. It has no effect, and 70% of the remaining half can be quickly adapted. The symptoms of the remaining three layers will change during the confrontation, and they are no longer so fatal.
This made Heishui very helpless.
Ever since, after another iteration, the plague he developed once again became a strange supplement.
He angrily left the sewage pipe in the underground bookstore and came to this scarlet grassland.
In this way, the rat ghoul that should have slowly disappeared into the history of the rat people was rescued by him.
Originally, these degraded bloodlines will be gradually abandoned with the iteration of the rat people from generation to generation, and will no longer be manifested, becoming one of the abandoned segments at the bottom of the bloodline.
That swarm of rat-men will never appear again.
But there happened to be an extra guy like Heishui.
In a sense, Sheng Qi has a good vision. He has indeed found a talent.
If the black water continues to plow deeper, maybe the rat people will find another way to destroy themselves.
Although this may not be the first case.
Long Claw’s plan to become a god also has this possibility.
As for why we should tinker with something that seems extremely dangerous and has no benefits.
It can only be said that in order to kill the rat people more efficiently, they have never given up thinking on this point.
Such a study probably had Sheng Qi’s tacit approval.
I hope Sheng Qi will be able to grasp it by then.
By the way, this is not the only little surprise that Blackwater has concocted. The reason why he is able to carry out his own experiments unscrupulously surrounded by a large group of rat ghouls relies on one of them. A very special rat ghoul king.
A special ghoul king whose whole body is covered with mushrooms, but whose eyes are not so dull and has a vaguely intelligent aura.
He was hung high in the center of the laboratory. At this time, he was silently watching the black water moving back and forth in the experiment, seeming to be learning something.
This is also a masterpiece created by Heishui, a unique product.
Even Black Water is a precious orphan that I don’t know how to copy.
It is also an extremely dangerous thing.
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Blackwater's time is running out. Those rat warlords can no longer withstand the pressure from above. Soon a complete liquidation will begin, and he must be there in that liquidation. Before paying, he had to finish what he had to do, give up what should be given up, and leave behind what should be left behind. This testing ground had to be abandoned. In such a situation, he couldn't help but feel a little more anxious.
I hope Heishui and Shengqi can grasp it.
Heishui was busy wandering around in front of the test subjects. The expressions on his face ranged from thinking to excitement, from excitement to annoyance, and the Ghoul King whose body was covered with mushrooms He also saw every scene of Black Water clearly.
His eyes fell on Heishui and never left.
But Heishui seemed to be unaware of this, and eagerly carried out the actions in his hands.
(End of this chapter)