Chapter 169, The Wolf Knight Commander's Doubts, Flag and His Defective Slave Rats

There are always young guys who do a lot of absurd and bizarre things for a lot of things.

This young rat warlord is the same.

The only difference between him and those bizarre guys is that he did half of it.

He was not killed by the ram knight on the battlefield, nor was he executed by the rat warrior who was in a bad mood.

He might even become a real rat warlord, although the possibility is not high.

But he feels that he can do it.

Full of confidence.

He even gave himself a name, Qi!

Yes, Qi!

Those fluttering battle flags, the battle flags in his own hands, and the battle flags in the hands of the commander-in-chief, these are the most sacred things he has ever seen.

Named himself like this.

He will become a rat warlord and have his own flag.

Although before that, he must be a vanguard in the cruel war and survive six wars.

Can succeed.

But before that, he has to pull up his own team.

Volunteered to participate in the defense of the city under construction.

Leading a team of people with obvious confusion on their faces, and even many members are limping.

There is no doubt that most of these guys should be slave rats, and they should be slave rats who were abandoned or fled spontaneously because they were injured in heavy work.

Such situations are not uncommon.

Whether in the underground rat city or the newly built grassland city.

The escaped slave rats will hide in every corner of the city and live in the shadows.

Become part of the huge and complex city.

Become the real rats among the rat people, relying on the redundancy and waste produced by the city to survive.

And they will spontaneously gather together and exist in the form of tribes.

It is very interesting that these escaped slave rats also believe in gods devoutly, and there is mutual hostility and conquest between tribes.

Even in the urban area where they survive, the waste and redundancy produced by the city are obviously enough to support the existence of both sides.

The reason for the war is for the gods, and the conquered enemies will be killed in front of the altar with random paintings.

Their war is not for food and living space, but also for faith.

Even if the great gods seem to have never focused their attention on the guys gathered in these dark corners.

And this young reserve rat warlord, Qi, somehow managed to capture a slave rat tribe hiding in the dark corner of the grassland city.

Facing Qi, who was wearing full body armor, these guys trembled and chose to surrender.

Then they were taken away from the grassland city and stepped onto the vast grassland. Most of them had the uncontrollable confusion on their faces, and a small number of them had a little more desire in their eyes while thinking.

Carefully avoiding other rat troops passing around, they followed closely behind Qi, who was leading the battle.

Unexpectedly, they did not have much resentment towards Qi, who forced them to be conscripted.

Maybe it was because of the words that Qi casually said when he was conscripting.

"From today on, you are my warriors!"

It was just such a simple sentence.

But it gave these humble guys some hope.

Staggering and limping, they followed Qi on the vast grassland covered with snow.

This was an extremely simple rat team.

Even in the mixed scavenging team, the captains of those scavenging teams, no matter how poor they are, will find a way to fill their teams with some healthy slave rats.

It can also make themselves feel more at ease.

The ratman city under construction ushered in its first batch of defenders, a large number of rabble.

Outside the ratman city, the wolf knight commander who was peeping from afar frowned.

The arrival of the ratman troops was a little beyond his expectations.

Were the sheep orcs and argali tribes on the grassland defeated by such an enemy?

Even if it was not so clear from a distance, the group of rats gathered together, the messy group of rats, looked really without any threat.

Just a glance, a word involuntarily appeared in the mind of the wolf orc commander.

Weak.

You can't have any expectations for most of the ratman scavenging teams, it is unrealistic.

In fact, most of the rat scavenging teams are here to make up the numbers, hoping that this group of mobs gathered together can attract more attention from enemies outside the city and provide some cover for the material transport teams trekking on the grassland.

The construction of the city cannot stop.

Under the drag of soft soil, the excavation of underground tunnels has also encountered great problems. Each section of the underground tunnel must be reinforced before it can be put into use.

It is not that they are worried about the safety of the rats traveling in the underground tunnels.

But if the tunnels collapse frequently, they cannot be used to transport materials at all.

Those rat cities that are closer to the towering mountains are okay, but this city is really deep in the grassland.

Even if this group of joint investment rats are determined to build such an underground tunnel, the investment is indeed too high.

The builders of these cities are not those wealthy priests who came from the underground rat city.

The only way is to rely on slave rats to pull and carry resources on this grassland.

Even the giant rats had to stop at the last city.

Because the group of argali knights had already robbed a group of teams carrying giant rats to transport supplies.

The loss caused by the large number of giant rats was really unbearable.

But the construction of the city could not be stopped.

Too much investment, too much investment.

Fortunately, there were still some turning points.

Even though the enemy was weak, the commander of the wolf knight was still very cautious.

There had always been only a small group of argali knights wandering around this ratman city.

The half-erected low wall made of stones and the dense trenches dug around the city played a certain role.

It could greatly limit the mobility of the knight units.

But those transport teams were not so lucky and did not have much deterrence.

The running argali knights could easily defeat a large transport team in a charge.

At this time, you could see a large number of slave rats running wildly on the grassland in panic.

In a harassing argali knight.

The wolf orc commander was among them.

He looked at the large amount of supplies abandoned by the transport team in front of him with doubts.

Large pieces of stone.

Only large pieces of stone?

Where is the food?

He cast his eyes on the messy camp not far away. So many people gathered, but why were the only logistics transportation these large pieces of stone?

Unable to help, the wolf knight commander's eyes became more confused.

However, this question did not confuse the wolf knight commander for too long.

He soon got the answer.

Starting from the rat city, the surrounding grasslands are becoming desolate at a very fast speed.

The joint investors who hired the scavenging team did not care about food.

They did not care about logistics.

But so many rats always have to eat, but on this grassland, they are not so lacking in plants.

The grassland has been destructively excavated.

Even the tough grass roots were not spared.

Although even rats cannot bear eating grass for a long time, they will gradually become weak.

But this problem is obviously just a problem that needs to be adapted for the slave rats.

Slave rats are not qualified to be picky eaters.

The weakness caused by eating grass is solved by a simple method.

That is to eat more grass.

Even if they are obviously full, the slave rats will not give up eating, because the energy in the grass is too low.

Only by stuffing enough grass into their stomachs can they ensure that they will not become weak in the day-to-day fatigue.

But sometimes they can't grasp the importance and will eat themselves to death.

This habit has doubled the consumption of grassland by slave rats. The grassland near the grassland city has shown signs of desertification. The lush grassland is gradually turning into a barren Gobi, where rat people gather in large numbers.

In the city.

Behind a low wall, Qi and his team are stationed here.

This reserve rat warlord is obviously not rich.

At this time, he was squatting on the ground and eating grass with his subordinates.

But even though he was eating grass, he still ate much better than his slave rats.

At least he ate the freshest parts of the grass, and he didn't have to collect the grass himself.

A fat worm was carefully pushed up by a thin slave rat.

It was taken by Qi.

Just to ask a question.

"Sir! Sir! Can we really become your warriors, those rat warriors?"

He asked carefully.

This is a thin guy. It is precisely because of his thinness that he does not even have the qualifications to become a rat warrior. He spent his childhood in the breeding house and was directly sold as a slave rat.

For such a question, Qi patted the thin guy carelessly.

"Of course! As long as you gather under my flag and offer loyalty to me!"

Such a move made the thin slave rat feel a little more flattered.

But at this moment, many of the defective rats gathered around Qi raised their heads with desire.

A large part of the slave rats that escaped were due to various defects. Only those with defects were more likely to escape.

Because whether it was the slave owner who was in charge or the big claw priest, there was a high probability that a disabled and useless guy would be ignored.

Of course, it was also possible to be executed as a sacrifice.

If it weren't for the negligence of the temple guards.

The temple guards had a certain discrimination against slave rats. These hard-working guys were thin, unqualified, and even dirty.

It always felt like throwing them into the blood pool was a kind of defilement.

Therefore, there was a quantitative requirement for the sacrifice of slave rats. A certain number of them must be drawn at one time before they can be thrown into the blood pool as sacrifices.

Of course, this discrimination was not only aimed at slave rats, but also at goblins, fishmen, and temple guards.

It's just that the latter two often gather together, and you can probably catch a lot of them at one time, and slave rats still have a certain value.

At least it's not cost-effective to buy slave rats and sacrifice them directly.

So although slave rats will be sacrificed.

But it was a lot of trouble overall, giving these guys the possibility of escaping.

And now, the carefree Qi is willing to give these guys a chance.

This sentence was firmly remembered by many defective slave rats.

Especially the thin slave rat who was patted on the shoulder by Qi.

There was a little more excitement on his face, and he couldn't help muttering to himself.

"Loyalty!"

But they didn't hear the last sentence, or in this excited mood, they deliberately ignored Qi's last sentence, of course, they might not understand it.

"As long as you accompany me through six wars."

An even more impossible goal.

It's hard to say whether Qi can survive six wars and let Mouse War fulfill his promise, let alone these defective and inferior slave rats.

But strangely, at this moment, these defective slave rats gathered around Qi were a little more energetic.

It seemed that at this moment, they finally crawled out of the dark corner.

Focus their fanatical eyes on the carefree Qi who was chewing fat insects.

Qi was aware of it belatedly.

The armor was pushed up, revealing Qi's appearance.

An ordinary gray-haired ratman.

An ordinary young gray-haired ratman stood up from the ground, raised his arms high, under the gaze of this group of defective slave rats, under the gaze of his own soldiers.

He showed a carefree smile.

"Believe me, I'm Qi!"

Saying his unknown name, he looked a bit like a warlord.

Although it felt a bit strange.

Such behavior is undoubtedly an alternative among ratmen.

A strange guy.

But it was undoubtedly very effective.

The eyes cast on him became more fanatical, and he easily gathered the loyalty of this defective ratman tribe under his command.

Until a crossbow arrow flew across the sky and hit the low wall next to Qi with a sound of breaking through the air.

Not far away, a city defense crossbow placed in the city was triggered, but it was obvious that the guy who fired was not accurate enough, and almost hung the flag on the low wall.

Flag immediately wanted to curse.

But from a distance, he saw that the guy with poor accuracy had finished reloading again.

Suddenly, he didn't care about much and lay down quickly.

"Damn guy! Don't let me catch you later!"

He cursed.

It tasted right, it was still a ratman.

A strange ratman.

The wolf knight commander finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched the first tentative attack. A group of argali knights were pushed out to attack this ratman city that had only just begun.