Chapter 412, the guy trapped in the past
This is not good news. The connections she has accumulated, the relationships she has maintained, the patrons, these things, these things, two hundred years have passed, and there is nothing left. It’s just hard to say.
In short, as time goes by, nothing she relies on may be left.
This was clearly demonstrated when she returned to the mothership and was first sent to a pale interrogation room. No one came to visit her for a long time, and she looked like no one cared about her.
In a quiet room.
The terminal in her hand vibrated, and a few lines of words were typed and projected into her line of sight.
"It seems that you have nothing left."
Such words did not anger the tall captain, and her current mood was unexpectedly stable.
In this pale and empty room.
She denied the words that popped up in the terminal and whispered quietly to herself in the empty room.
"No, I still have you!"
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God Qi Star, barren mountains, underground rat city.
Today’s Underground Rat City is no longer worthy of its name.
A towering, unimaginable steel city rises from the ground.
It directly encompasses the entire barren mountain range of Rat.
This is still the center of the Rat Empire, one of the centers, and it still represents the beliefs of the Rat Empire.
After the advent of the interstellar age, the power of the Rat Council, or in other words, the priests of the Rat Temple, experienced a surge.
On an increasingly large scale, the Rat Empire needs a link to connect the entire Empire.
On the scale of the universe, this is an insurmountable dilemma.
The rat people now only occupy eight planets, but this unimaginably broad scale has already brought countless problems that are difficult to solve.
With the increasing distance and inconvenient transportation, even if there are Miracle Corridors to maintain the loyalty of each planet to the Skaven Emperor, after all, the Skaven fleet will not stop at every planet every moment. .
Rebellion, rebellion, and the tendency of separatism that is gradually rising.
These are the specialty dishes that an interstellar empire must taste.
Ever since, a link, a link that can run through the Ratman Empire from top to bottom, has become extremely important and necessary.
The question then becomes, what can best serve the purpose and best serve as such a link.
It seems that the answer has already appeared, and there is nothing to hesitate about, that is faith.
As the rat people expanded, their belief in that great god was carried into the starry sky and fell on all eight planets.
These rat-man councilors have done a great job. The rat-man believers who believe in the great god have reached the highest peak in history, and they have also raised the power of these rat-man councilors to an unparalleled level.
If Qi hadn’t judged and prepared for this possible scene earlier, he would have cut off half of the Gear Church from this group of guys, and separated these guys and most of the attached ones. The Great Claw Priests in the structure of the Skaven Empire were twisted into Skaven Engineers.
Otherwise, at this time, I am afraid these rat councilors will be the real controllers of the rat empire.
However, even if these are suppressed, as the belief spreads, these guys are still vaguely trying to take half of the Rat Empire into their hands.
The current power status of the Skaven Empire, fortress, steam and steel, transit and commerce, these three planets and the Skaven fleet are in Kai's hands, while all other planets have entered a A see-saw state.
It looks like a bad attitude, but it is actually not good.
Qi was able to suppress this group of temple priests, but he could not completely suppress them. This was the source of the turmoil.
When this group of guys raise the banner of holy war, almost every rat planet will have rat believers respond. This will increase depending on whether the planet is prosperous or not.
That flag, that flag depicting the great god, is still able to respond to hundreds of responses in the Skaven Empire. The Skaven priests of these temples can stir up an uproar with this sacred flag just by waving it lightly.
But the more this happens, the more he sees those ugly and greedy vampires doing such things, the more Qi becomes disdainful and scornful of them.
There is no doubt about the greatness of the gods, but can they really have anything to do with the gods now?
A bunch of bastards, squirming maggots, stupid idiots, stinking rotting bugs.
Kai commented on these guys like this.
Of course, don’t look down on this group of rat-man temple priests like Qi, who even moved the capital of the rat-man empire to the last stop of the Miracle Road early on. But in fact, there is still a relationship between the two sides. There is a connection.
It’s just that the connection is not particularly close, and it all depends on the maintenance of the two rat men.
The first is Shadow. The rat assassins are still active on the God Qi Star. Shadow follows the instructions from two hundred years ago and is still guarding the high priest of the rat people.
The second is Sheng Qi. Sheng Qi, the second high priest of the Rat Man Empire, was the puppet who was supported by Qi to take the position of high priest. Now he has become the bridge between Qi and the temple priests. Contradictory key figures.
It is really hard to imagine that these two guys have maintained a good relationship over the past two hundred years, and even until now, it is very strange.
In the original temple.
Sheng Qi has not become as young as he imagined. On the contrary, he now has an old posture, with dry hair, stooped body, cloudy eyes, and an extra handle in his hand. stick in hand.
Logically speaking, this should not be the case. In the turmoil, he has long been a simple puppet. As the high priest of the rat people, he will not be short of mushrooms, and he will certainly not be short of life. Essence.
Even if maintaining life and restoring youth requires consuming countless life essences and piling up these precious things to create an unimaginably extravagant blood pool, it is still possible. affordable.
But today, he looked very old.
In the original temple.
The sacred pillar still stands, the blood pool has never dried up and lacked sacrifices, the cold soul giant bell also stands quietly on the top of the pyramid, and blood mushrooms are still emerging continuously.
Each sacred object remains the same as it did more than two hundred years ago.
After so long, here, everything here still looks like it has not changed, as if time has been frozen, all of this is the result of Sheng Qi.
In the Skaven Empire, the Skaven have experienced many things and undergone many changes over the years. The Skaven Priests have also experienced that series of changes, and even such turbulence has been particularly violent among them.
When the rat people walked out of the starry sky, discovered the first planet on this miraculous path, and began to try interstellar colonization in excitement.
There was a lot of wailing in this underground rat city.
That time, a full third of the rat priests went crazy. This was an even crazier turmoil, coming from those desperate rat priests.
In the past fifty years, in fact, regarding that cruel fact, perhaps many rat priests felt that they were well prepared, or perhaps the production of the essence of life made them a lot more excited, and they felt that it was okay. wait. But when the day came, these guys discovered that things might not be what they thought.
That day, in the underground rat city, the crazy rat priest once again started the crazy killing. In the midst of wailing and desperate sobs, he waved the weapons in his hands, smeared his body with blood, and They rushed towards the original temple crazily.
The temple guards who were supposed to stop these crazy guys did nothing until the door of the original temple was carefully pushed open by these crazy guys.
Until that dim divine pillar appeared in the eyes of all the rat priests.
Until the confused guy sitting in the original hall appeared in the eyes of all the rat priests.
This is how the turmoil ended.
That day, the underground rat city was full of corpses, all of them corpses of rat priests. The sacred pillars dimmed, and the rat priests also lost the ability to release divine magic.
They all had to accept a fact that they were unwilling to accept.
Maybe, maybe the great god really left.
Before that day, Sheng Qi was panicked about this possibility, but he was not desperate. Strictly speaking, he had never been pious. Even if he was the rat-man high priest, he had never been pious. Master more divine arts and mad transformation techniques. He only knows mad transformation techniques.
After all, although the great gods have been watching the rat people, they are still too far away from these guys.
He could not see the great gods, nor did he hear the preaching of the great gods.
But he is already very lucky. At least, he has truly received the gift from the gods. Although he was only connected with it, it was used to set off the arrogant rat-man commander in the original temple. A foil to the fearsome high priest.
But he has received a gift, and this is what countless rat priests in the rat empire have been longing for all their lives.
He still felt that God was far away.
He felt that he was not religious.
The departure of the great god may make him more worried about his power.
Until, until that day really comes.
Sheng Qi was not as calm as he expected. That day, an indescribable sense of panic gripped his heart.
Not fear, not despair, but panic.
He was the guy who was sitting unconsciously in the original temple.
That day, he stared blankly at the dim pillar, at the sacred pillar.
Desperate wails and sobs echoed in his ears.
Since that one hundred and fifty years later, he has often wandered in this original temple, and the desperate wails and sobs still echo in his ears.
He may be more religious than he thought.
He may be more inseparable from the great gods than he thought.
Kowling in this great palace where everything seems to have remained unchanged, bowing in front of the sacred pillar that has been dimmed for 150 years, Sheng Qi bowed devoutly.
"Great God."
Just raised his head, but nothing has changed.
Long gaze.
Until a young rat man boy came behind him at some point.
"High Priest, the temple meeting is about to begin."
The boy spoke when Sheng Qi noticed him, Sheng Qi nodded to this, and slowly moved from kneeling to worship. Stand up in the posture, holding the wooden stick to support yourself to stand up.
The rat priests who had experienced the turmoil a hundred and fifty years ago quickly built a new city in the underground rat city, the new city built on the surface. The more majestic temple left the old city as if fleeing.
They didn’t dare to come back, and they didn’t dare to face all this.
Just when Sheng Qi was about to leave this already dim palace, he paused, stopped, and turned his head.
Everything in this temple has not changed. It has not changed at all from its appearance more than two hundred years ago, but everything has changed.
The degeneration of the rat priests, who quickly transformed into a group of greedy vampires, started at an irreversible speed only after that accident.
Sheng Qi is a talented person after all. He is not like those guys who live in fear and cannot face all this.
It’s just that sometimes having courage is more cruel.
After the god left, Sheng Qi found that he was far more pious than he thought.
After the great god who was aloof and had no real sense of reality really left, he found that he was far more pious than he thought.
At this glance, Sheng Qi looked at it for a long time.
Sheng Qi seems to be stuck in the past. Who would have thought that this guy who has always been lucky is a trainee god who only knows the magic of madness. He is always in a mess and is despised by white rats. Who can Thinking that he would eventually become the rat-man high priest, it was as if who could have imagined that he was actually a devout rat-man priest and was still trapped in a past that was so long ago that it was unimaginable.
One hundred and fifty years have passed.
These one hundred and fifty years were twice as long as his previous life, but he was firmly trapped, trapped by that short past.
What a freak.
In the end, Sheng Qi left, and silence returned to the original temple.
Sheng Qi has done a lot in these years, and he himself has also changed a lot.
This once underground rat city has been completely reduced to a slum. The rat people have gone to the stars to extend their lives, but even this still important city, the center of the rat empire center, But he still has that thin and scurrying rat-man.
While rushing to attend the temple meeting, riding in the luxurious aircraft, Sheng Qi looked out the window and saw a group of thin rat boys running around on the roadside.
It’s just his luxurious aircraft that seems to frighten the skinny rat boys.
It’s not surprising that after so many years, those big shots are still deadly to these ordinary ratmen.
Shortly after he left, several rat guards came here and put down the cave mushrooms in their hands.
That's probably why Kai nodded to him all these years.
Sheng Qi has become senile over the years, but he has become more kind and willing to set his sights on more rat people.
I don’t know why.
(End of this chapter)