Chapter 107 Mouse Village
After getting the anti-addiction drug, Xu Yang went to visit Sally under the leadership of Guan Wancang.
The most important thing about this trip is to try to free Sally from her stamp addiction, and the second is to understand the current living conditions of the rat people.
What they walked was not the usual roads and air passages, but the secret passages dug by the rat people in various parts of Aizu City, collectively referred to as the "big maze" or "rat passage", connecting various vents, shafts, ground structures, and sewers. , Abandoned subways and parking lots have already infiltrated Jincheng into a sieve.
Ratmen struggle to survive, but they are not popular, even the local black market and gangs do not want to contact them, making their situation especially isolated. To them, human society is a distant island.
The labyrinth rat passage is quite hidden, which can prevent prying eyes to the greatest extent, but it is also inconvenient for human beings to move.
Xu Yang bowed and walked through, and the others followed closely behind. The environment here was still too narrow for them, while the rats shuttled nimbly and at an extremely fast speed, passing by them like black shadows.
It would be quite a scary thing to walk here if you don't know that the rat people are not hostile.
Guan Wancang has a high prestige among the group of rats. It leads the way ahead, and the rest of the rats dare not disturb him. Only a few fat female rats, pregnant with many rat fetuses, are huge, like a hill, lying lazily on the ground. In the rat lane, other ratmen kept bringing food to feed them, Guan Wancang did not dare to disturb their spare tires, preferring to go around.
"Newborn children are our most important treasure." Guan Wancang said, "A second saint may be born among them."
"The probability must be very small." Xu Yang has never heard of other mouse witches, and Sally may be the first in the world.
"But that's an important hope." Guan Wancang sniffed the smell in the air, and it could distinguish tiny pheromones, "Humans are constantly spying on them, and the young and strong generation of ratmen have been killed and injured, only the saints able to protect us."
"What are the odds?" From Xu Yang's point of view, the Ratmen are absolutely incapable of surviving in front of the fully equipped company security team.
The rat tide 50 years ago was a hundred times larger than it is now, but it was easily beaten back underground by humans, and it was silent again, which shows the great difference in combat power between rat people and humans.
"We are better in news, but weaker in technology." Guan Wancang has a lot of mouse features, his beard is constantly trembling, and his voice is hoarse and sharp, "If we have advanced technology, everything will be different."
Guan Wancang took them away from Aijin City. After walking through the rat trail for half an hour, they arrived at a large hole in the ground where the sound of roaring water could be heard.
"Are we at the bottom of the sea?" Faroza closed her eyes, breathing in the moisture in the air.
The colorful behemoth in her mind roared. Farosa has absorbed a lot of power from the gods. The sea is like returning to her own palace for her. Sea water has always been the throne of the gods. Set sail.
"Yes, under the sea." Guan Wancang raised his head, pointing to the rocky top covered in shady, "This is where we hide, we call it the Black Abyss."
The Archipelago Continent is composed of a large number of fragmented islands. Yasuhiro City and Aizu City are naturally located on a large island, called "White Island". There is a narrow land bridge connecting the company headquarters to Shangjing, and the transportation is convenient.
Xu Yang raised his head, and directly above should be the beach of Anjiu City. While people were observing the marine garbage and the gloomy sunlight on the beach, there were also large groups of Ratman wandering below, living under the seabed.
Continuing to shuttle in the darkness, the homeland where the Ratman multiplied gradually approached.
Mouse Village has arrived.
Xu Yang saw the hazy light and took a closer look, but it turned out to be a huge square-cut giant mushroom field, from which grew countless mycelium-wrapped mushrooms, and the ratmen were very busy farming it.
"So it's by eating mushrooms?" Xu Yang couldn't help being curious.
These mushrooms emit light blue fluorescence during growth, so they are particularly eye-catching in the dark, like large flakes of blue paint splashed in the boundless darkness, immediately lighting up this underground world, and going forward, the vision will be more open, endless, the air Also slightly hot.
"It uses geothermal energy." Lila detected the situation ahead, "The rat people rely on geothermal power generation facilities to provide energy."
"Indeed." Guan Wancang led them through the road among the mushroom fields.
Some gray-haired male rats are working hard inside, taking care of the mushrooms and picking the mature ones, but there are not many of them, and there is not even a single black-haired rat. It takes a large number of female rats and mice to work together to maintain the mushroom field. Prosperity.
The previous strong attack on Aizu City has drained the future of this group, and it will take a very long time to recover. Xu Yang looked at the simple houses in the distance. Even the houses of the Ratmen were built by intertwining mycelia, and a large number of steel plates, wooden boards and nails were added together to barely form igloos, which looked extremely simple.
"Aren't you afraid that the sea will crush the cave and destroy you all?" Falosa was in high spirits. She felt that she could activate the power of the sea above and make these tens of thousands of surviving ratmen die cleanly. How fun!
"If we had other places to go, why would we choose to live here." Guan Wancang shook his beard angrily.
It brought Xu Yang and the others close to a huge unit embedded in the rock wall. This machine is like a giant black cone piercing into the depths of the earth. It is tightly stitched. The shell is made of alloy, which is indestructible. The orange light in the center is bright and emits billowing heat. , when it is in operation, it roars continuously, as if there is a thunder inside, sea water rolls into it for cooling, and at the same time releases a large amount of high-temperature steam.
The words "Yongsen Technology" are written on the shell of the giant cone. Xu Yang remembers that this is an energy company in the archipelago, but it has been closed for many years. The machine in front of them should be a large-scale submarine geothermal generator designed by them, with a huge shaft in the center, which is connected to the underground soda-water mixture to generate electricity.
Relying on the energy and heat brought by this geothermal generator, the rat people built a huge mushroom field to maintain their lives, and also went to Aizu City to collect garbage raw materials to obtain survival resources.
Surrounding the base of the generator are miscellaneous valuables such as silverware, circuit boards, human implants and canned food, with a small statue in the front shaped like a giant rat that controls lightning and fire. Over time, some skaven have worshiped the generator as a god.
Sally's residence is located in the center of the Ratman settlement, high above the ground, supported by huge metal pipes below, and only a ladder connects Sally's exclusive high-rise building to the ground.
"She's right there, our leader, our saint." Guan Wancang lingered for a while, then climbed to the ladder on all fours. Two black-haired rats came over with pistols and kitchen knives, pointing at it, He even pointed at Xu Yang and the others angrily.
It wasn't until Sally's voice came from a high place, indicating that Xu Yang and the others could climb up, that the two black-haired rats stopped entanglement and walked aside, but stared at them vigilantly, lest they would do anything harmful to Sally. safety thing.
The social class of the rat people is clearly defined, and it is clear at a glance. Xu Yang pondered in his mind while climbing up.
The lowest level is the gray-haired male rat, who is responsible for all the hard work and has no possibility of turning over. He will always undertake the most dangerous and tiring activities.
The next level is the female mouse, who enjoys the care of the gray hairy mouse, and because she can give birth, she receives a considerable degree of preferential treatment.
On top of that is the black-haired Shuoshu, who has become the backbone of the Ratman society by virtue of certain appearance and physical advantages, and may enjoy the priority to choose a mate to a certain extent.
Then there is the white-haired rat man, who has become a scholar, a think tank, and a key player in society because of his wisdom far surpassing that of other rat men, and has the ability to promote the progress of rat man society.
And the highest level is the Ratman with extraordinary power like Sally, who becomes the leader of the entire Ratman society because of his outstanding contributions and unique magic power.
Xu Yang climbed up the ladder, pushed the door and saw Sally, she was lying leisurely on a dilapidated sofa, her tail was raised from the middle of her buttocks, and she was swaying boredly, she was wearing simple pajamas, her body hair was still relatively lush, especially is the part below the abdomen.
"What do you want to do?" Sally had just finished sucking stamps, and two open green plastic bags were thrown on the ground. There was a sweet smell in the air, which made people feel dizzy. Faroza waved her hand, trying to fan away the disgusting smell.
"I brought some presents." Xu Yang put the detoxifier on the table, "Addicting to stamps will damage your health, and your clan needs you to stay awake. These detoxifiers..."
"Oh, leave it alone, I'll watch it when I have time." Sally closed her eyes, took a deep breath of the residual smell in the air, and then exhaled contentedly. She was intoxicated with bliss, which she did not want to leave under any circumstances.
"Cheer up, humans will launch revenge," Xu Yang said, "You have killed too many people before, and the company will not allow similar incidents to happen again."
"They once invited me to work at their place." Sally looked extremely lazy on the sofa, "I'll ask them to propose another invitation, and then I'll agree, won't it be resolved?"
"What kind of words are these?" Xu Yang shook his head, "They will only oppress you and deceive you."
"It will give me more stamps." Sally was limp and paralyzed, "...my clan and I can go to work, go to the ground... the ground is better than the Rat Village, and there is nothing in the Rat Village...I see On the ground...it's beautiful..."
"Your clansmen went to work, or did they rob or steal these stamps?" Xu Yang saw that there were still a lot of stamps in the cabinet beside him.
"What does it have to do with you? Haha..." Sally put her hands behind her head, and the stamps made her ecstatic, "You can visit the Mouse Village at will, and stay as long as you want, we can't afford the food , solve it yourself. Stamps can be drawn for one piece, as long as you pay enough money... and leave the preaching part to your own people."