Chapter 413, The Curse of Eternal Life
In that drowsy meeting, these temple priests entrenched in the New Holy City, entrenched in this steel city towering into the sky, they made a decision A decision.
They are also going to start the construction of the star fleet. This is something that must be put on the agenda, in fifty years, no, thirty years, no, twenty years!
In twenty years, they will build a complete star fleet in the star port outside Shenqi City.
This was not a good idea and would greatly arouse Qi's nerves, but he was still pushed through in this meeting.
Obviously, some guys are anxious, and Qi's suppression of them makes the sacrifices that can be sent to the altar less and less, but they, these rotten vampires, need to consume more and more lives every moment.
These seven ropes cannot be stopped.
He is really old, his heart is old, and his condition is no longer good.
Two hundred years have passed, and the rat people have finally shown more respect. Although there may be familiar figures from two hundred years ago on the field, these guys no longer make a fuss at such meetings. , insulting each other.
During the conversation, opening one's mouth is interest, keeping one's mouth closed is belief. The fate of a rat city is in the waving arms. In the sparse conversation, the fate of a planet is put on the table.
There is no doubt that they do have such rights.
The vast and boundless scale of the universe allows the rat people to grow without limit, and the endless growth of the rat people also makes the power in the hands of them, the carnivores, expand like a balloon.
Greed can be amplified without limit, desire can be amplified without limit, everything can be amplified without limit.
But all this, this one makes Sheng Qi feel sleepy. He is old after all.
The meeting is over.
Just as Sheng Qi left, an eager figure came closer.
A dusty guy.
He is also a guy who still plays an important role in the Skaven Empire.
Blackwater.
Over the years, various strange spores produced by the black water have spread throughout the Rat Empire and brought about many strange changes. It can be said that this guy is the founder of traditional Chinese medicine in the Rat Empire.
The medical system in the Ratman Empire is inseparable from his existence. Those greedy Ratman doctors were born from the use of various spore powders.
Of course, the relationship between the two parties has now changed, and is more similar to the battle between pharmaceutical manufacturers and those agents.
The development of Skaven surgery came from the battle between the pharmaceutical giant Blackwater and his agents. Those Skaven doctors were unimaginably greedy, and at the same time, Blackwater's greed was no less generous.
Too much reliance on those strange spores will inevitably be harvested by the black water again and again. In order to obtain greater benefits, these guys began to explore medicine.
Of course, there were definitely various tragic processes during this period. After all, the rat people did not pay attention to rat rights, and they also had the habit of playing with flesh and blood.
Through the selfless dedication of each of the wailing guys, the medicine of the rat people came from behind and made great strides forward.
Of course, these guys are not reliable.
Now, if you want to find a rat doctor to cure your illness, there may be some problems, but it is really not difficult to ask them to modify your injured part and fill it with some steel machinery. .
To a certain extent, the rat people's medical technology has gone astray. It has neither gone in the direction of genetic modification of distorted flesh nor in a conventional direction.
But inexplicably, it has come to a path that is difficult to describe, such as mechanical transformation, prosthetics, and the addition of universal spores.
But it’s not surprising if you think about it carefully, because the objects of rat medicine are not the rat army or rat meat-eaters at all, but the free rat people, those who have just climbed up through the bureaucratic structure of the rat empire. The rat middle class.
Cheap and makeshift, such labels have made machinery, gears, steam, and the dangerous symbiotic spores popular in this industry.
Coupled with the unreliable guys like the rat doctors, you may only have a small scratch, and they can cut off your arms randomly and replace them with a pair of rusty steel limbs.
This does not even make a difference whether you are a rat free citizen or a rat bureaucrat.
It can be said that the entire Ratman Empire has long complained about these quack doctors, but they cannot do without them.
But in a way, these guys are indeed very important.
Whether it was a fight in an alley, poisoning by harmful gases, having your hands crushed by huge gears while working in a factory, or being infected by an unknown virus.
These quack doctors can always provide solutions at an acceptable high price.
Cut off the limbs, replace the mechanical limbs, cut off the liver and lungs, replace the mechanical branches, then match them with symbiotic spores, mix a large number of different types of symbiotic spores, and then inject them into the body.
If you can get through it, congratulations, then you are fine, and even your life will not be affected much. Those mechanical limbs and mushrooms that slowly grow in your torso, they can It's a good replacement for your original limbs. It's not delicate or comfortable, but it can be used.
And if you can't get through it, then you're dead, simple, efficient, and make do.
The black water has become more and more nourishing under the support of the rat doctors.
He still looks that young, waving his arms in front of Sheng Qi, but now his expression seems a little eager and angry.
"The High Priest of the Seventh Rope! The High Priest of the Seventh Rope! Those bastards, those smashers, them! They are doing some tricks again!"
He spoke eagerly.
Not long ago, Sheng Qi was robbed in a warehouse in the New Holy City.
The thing stored in that warehouse is nothing else, but blood mushrooms.
The old Sheng Qi did not show too much excitement.
Actually, these blood mushrooms are no longer particularly important to him, but whether they are important or not, they do not tolerate the prying and provocation of others.
Sheng Qi left a faint sentence.
"Kill them."
As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely luxurious aircraft arrived in front of Sheng Qi.
It is a foolish behavior to peek at a high priest who stands at the top of the empire, but some guys who have no way out ignore it.
This essence of life, this eternal life, is not a gift, but more like an ongoing curse, especially when you cannot afford the price you will pay for extending your life. This is a rat priest with a crazy look on his face.
He is the leader of all this, and he is also the daring prisoner, not for anything else, but simply to continue to live.
The blood mushroom can already be regarded as equal to life in the rat-man empire at this time.
There are naturally countless people who are crazy about this thing.
Having done all this, he would not be stupid enough to stay in this new holy city for too long. He had prepared a medium-sized cargo ship early.
At this time, a large number of blood mushrooms loaded into boxes were neatly stacked in the transport ship.
He didn't do all this by himself. In fact, when he learned the location of the blood mushroom warehouse, he knew that he was involved in a cruel power struggle.
It’s just that he himself did not have the right to refuse all this, just like he had done before, the big shots who were more noble than him showed a price in front of him that he could not refuse no matter what. , so, naturally, he took the bait himself.
Qi's blockade of the rat priests was not to the extent that the superior temple priests were desperate, but the reduced sacrifices made those who were counting on the essence of life to hang their lives. Those rat priests who stood in a position that would not be given up no matter what, successfully felt despair.
Just like this guy.
He is a young ratman born in a new era, the ratman interstellar era. He was born in a small ratman city on a colonial planet. He was extracted from the polluted wastewater by the ratman priests in the small town temple. Abandoned toddlers picked up.
Speaking of which, his survival depends on Sheng Qi's reform of the Ratman religion.
It was the first hundred years since the Skaven took to the stars. With more and more rebellions and widespread separatism, the Skaven were in need of a strong bond. This was simply natural. At that time, they had just come out of the last war. The opportunity for the Skaven Rebellion to shadow the Skaven Priests was that at that time the Skaven Priests led the faith in the great god, but it was unable to fulfill the role of this strong bond.
The beliefs of the rat priests are too broad. At the same time, this group of rat men who have just recovered from the rebellion are also feeling uneasy.
The schism of the Gear Sect is what happened at that time.
Sheng Qi stood up at this time and compiled a complete set of scriptures. This was the only way to stop the trend of fragmentation among the rat priests.
In this scripture, Rope Seven categorically places the great god at the top of everything, and adds a series of dogmas to the Ratman Church.
In those kinds of clearly defined dogmas, the Skaven Church truly breathed a sigh of relief and began to spread to every planet colonized by the Skaven Empire.
Among them, there is the principle of kindness. Although it is despised by many guys who have survived from the old era, it is this one that saved him.
The scriptures warned the rat priests to be merciful, so he was picked up from the turbid sewage by the rat priests in the small city.
In this way, he grew up in the temple, witnessed the death of the rat-man priest, took over the not-so-resounding name from his hands, and officially began to climb upward year by year. own story.
He respected Sheng Qi very much. If it weren't for Sheng Qi, he might not have survived, but he also resented Sheng Qi because now, Sheng Qi could move forward calmly in such an old posture, but he was about to die.
It was obviously not easy, and he finally got out of that small city and came to Shenqi City. When he landed in this new holy city, his name began to become louder.
But he is really going to die.
After Qi began to blockade and suppress the rat priests, those guys in the new holy city who thought they had obtained tickets to eternal life began to fear.
Every temple meeting, every temple meeting, they are like the humble rats, eagerly waiting, waiting for the rationing quota that may be determined in just a few words from those big shots. .
For them, this is the boundary between life and death.
He has survived three rounds. In these three rounds, he was not the unlucky guy who was kicked off the list. Until the fourth round, his name no longer appeared on the list.
At this time, he couldn't accept it, shouting in extreme fear, under the prying eyes of the rat priests around him.
This kind of look is very familiar to him. In the previous three rounds, he looked at those unlucky people the same way.
It’s just that he can’t change anything. He can only wait for death in despair. At this time, the irresistible bait was placed in front of him, and he decisively bit the hook.
The process of escaping was not that smooth.
Soon, a group of spaceships with piercing sirens rushed out of the towering new holy city.
He blended in the queue of ships heading to the star port and was inconspicuous.
But it seemed that they were locked, and those small battleships rushed towards him at an extremely fast speed.
Damn it, no more pretending.
The big shot didn't completely push him into a dead end. As long as he could successfully rush into the star port, he and the blood mushrooms in the transport ship would disappear soon due to the big shot's arrangement.
This is his only way to survive.
There is not much to worry about.
With a ferocious look on his face, he roared loudly at the console of the transport ship.
“Stop those reconnaissance ships!”
As a rat priest who once climbed into the immortal list, he certainly has his own power, and even the power in his hands is not small. Perhaps this is why the big man values him.
A group of rat mercenaries funded by him drove various spaceships to mix in this crowded queue.
The star port of God Qi Star is not in another location, but hangs high on this new holy city. Every day, various ships come and go, and together they form this crowded queue.
But at this time.
A battle broke out just above the new holy city, in full view of a large number of ratmen.
The rat mercenaries under him played a certain role in the fate. The scout ships that rushed towards him were entangled, and they were unable to break free for a while.
And he took this opportunity to increase the power of the cargo ship to the maximum, and rushed towards the star port in the sky regardless of it.
In this crowded queue, there were various rat-man warships in all directions, but he almost did not hesitate to choose to run into them. Amidst a series of sounds, this man with a ferocious face, The guy with red eyes started his crazy escape.
(End of this chapter)