Chapter 174, the Background of the Rat People, and the Chaos that Can Be Encountered

Walking through the dim tunnels in the dim underground city.

Qi's power has been completely depleted.

He needs help.

Returning to the grassland city again, he needs to gather strength here, and also seek help from a guy.

In a noisy ruin, Qi, wearing a suit of armor, easily squeezed out the crowded rats in front of him.

In their eyes of awe and fear, he walked through the bustling and crowded market.

In the center, a rat raised the wooden sign in his hand high, and the sharp and excited shout attracted the attention of all the guys present.

Another ratman who was enough to be engraved with merit for a short time, what did he do, Qi paused and listened briefly.

Killed a sheep orc?

Just killed a sheep orc?

There was a little more surprise, followed by silence.

Is this what I was looking up to before?

He looked up at the guy in the middle of the noisy ruins, holding up his spear with an excited look on his face. He retracted his gaze, looked around, and looked at the poor guys around him who were showing their desire and jealousy.

These guys are so humble.

He took a step forward, and an ordinary ratman in front of him blocked Qi's way. There was a collision between the two. However, when the ordinary ratman turned around and saw the battle-scarred armor on Qi's body, he bent down in fear.

These guys are so humble, but who could have thought that he was also one of these guys not long ago.

A defective young guy.

There is no way back. He will never go back to associate with these pathetic and humble guys, even if he dies.

Either, be high above or die.

He violently pushed away the ratmen gathered around him and strode towards the depths of this noisy ruin.

Qi no longer belongs here.

Even if he is now just a slightly interesting guy and a fun thing in the eyes of Rat War.

But he could no longer return to the humble dust-like self he was not long ago.

Deep in the noisy ruins.

Qi found the target he was looking for.

A slender guy, a dwarf rat man who painted patterns on various leather materials.

Facing Qi's sudden visit.

The other guy next to the slender dwarf rat man was a little more alert, holding the small round shield in his hand and pulling out a short spear.

But the dwarf rat man who painted the pattern stopped the guy next to him.

The last stroke fell, and a complex pattern was imprinted on the leather in his hand.

It seemed that the painting was the pattern of the gods in the temple.

His craftsmanship was very exquisite, not inferior to those master craftsmen who specialized in depicting the patterns of gods, but he lived in this small corner, in this messy environment.

Qi was very grateful to her. If it weren't for her, he would still be the pathetic guy wandering around in this noisy ruins.

The short ratman also recognized Qi, or more precisely, the rough flag on Qi's back.

He carefully placed the leather in his hand and smiled.

"Hey, isn't this a former customer?"

His eyes fell on Qi, especially on the armor covered with marks and blood, and his smile became even brighter.

"It seems that what I said at the beginning was right, you really need a flag."

………….

Qi did not buy another flag, but he got a message.

Following the message, he stood in front of the temple in the grassland city, looking at the temple in front of him with intricate patterns.

There are great gods enshrined in it.

Even if this advice comes at a price.

Some special items with intricate patterns.

His chance is in the temple in front of him. He took a deep breath, stepped into the temple, and headed towards the corner of the temple.

He found the inconspicuous stone room, took a deep breath, and there was nothing to hesitate about.

Qi put down the battle flag beside him, took a deep breath and knelt down heavily.

He knelt for a day.

Finally, the door of the stone house was pushed open.

A figure appeared in front of him.

He was wearing exquisite armor, and the shiny armor was covered with fine and complex patterns, showing the status of the person wearing the armor.

The high and mighty gaze was cast at him through the gap in the armor.

He raised his head and faced the high and mighty gaze.

Qi was looking for an opportunity to change his fate.

He heard a chuckle.

"I thought all of you rat warlords would have the same bad temper and pride as your proud commander."

Qi lowered his head.

"I'm not a rat warlord yet."

"But you can be, right?"

He raised his head suddenly, and he was waiting for such a sentence.

"Do you want to become a rat warlord?"

In the half-smile tone of the figure in front of him.

Qi lowered his head again.

He has never had a choice.

Qi offered his loyalty, a worthless loyalty, just like what he said to Shu Zhan. He still gave such a mediocre but correct answer to the big man in front of him.

He imitated the expressions and movements of those poor guys who had gathered in front of him, and the expressions and movements of those defective slave rats when they offered their loyalty to him.

What he didn't realize was that neither it was the rat war nor the big man in front of him.

They all don't believe in the word loyalty, even if you declare loyalty to them, there is nothing wrong.

Whether they choose you depends on something more real and cruel.

value.

Rat Zhan did not immediately promote Qi to become a rat warlord because he felt that Qi had no more value.

At this point, the situation is the same.

Flag did not receive direct help, but a piece of information was put into his hands.

Three fuzzy areas were drawn out.

Nothing else.

He is not yet a Skaven Warlord and does not deserve more investment, and must show his worth.

Qi sold himself to two parties at the same time, the first time in exchange for the possibility of becoming a rat warlord, and the second time in exchange for the possibility of becoming a rat warlord.

Leave the hall of the great god.

Take a deep breath.

He will never give up.

Holding the simple flag in his hand, the flag turned back and took steps toward the prairie city behind him.

This was seen by the figure in the temple.

At least it's not stupid to get such an evaluation.

Qi couldn't directly hand over this information to Shu Zhan, and he couldn't explain how he got these judgments.

The rat war is not stupid, and the head-shaking explanation will only bring one result, the sight of being scrutinized, which also means death.

It's the right thing to do if you can't do it. The flag itself has no reason to be able to find the enemy's gathering position faster than those rat knights running wildly on the grassland.

If it did, it would bring suspicion.

Unless this thing can be more absurd.

A ridiculous and humble guy, because of an almost impossible idea, led a team of weak and weak guys deep into the hinterland of the vast grassland and brought back traces of the enemy.

No! Not only to bring back traces of the enemy, but also to bring back a victory!

That night, Banner once again pulled together a team, a team composed of all kinds of defective ratmen.

It's still the same as last time. With no choice, the only option is to recruit the most inferior and inferior slave rats.

Qi's expression was not as relaxed as last time.

But he still held the battle flag tightly in his hand.

He had no more options.

Make it or die, that's all.

………….

On the vast grassland.

The construction of the Skaven's seventh city began.

Although Rat War is aggressive, it is not reckless.

The connected cities are the confidence for his attack and the key to maintaining the logistics of his huge army.

Facing this vast grassland, he had no other choice but to hibernate and wait.

The army in hand began to grow again while dormant and waiting.

The resources consumed to build a city are not a small amount, and it takes time. The first prairie city closest to Prairie City has not yet completely stopped construction.

This is still under the condition that Rat War’s requirements for cities are not strict.

Just places where large numbers of Skaven can gather.

But even so, these cities are built with a large number of blood mushrooms.

And there are seven such bottomless pits on this grassland at this time.

But it had no impact at all on the rat war.

Shu Zhan didn't put a single blood mushroom into it, so of course he still had energy left, and he even continued to expand the Dire Knight.

In fact, the city construction of the rat people, or the city construction ability of the rat people under Du Yuan, is quite rogue.

Because the biggest problem in building a city is skipped.

population.

Normally, a city of an ordinary intelligent race would start with a certain tone and then slowly expand.

Because of population limitations.

You can't endlessly draw people to populate newly established cities.

It can only rely on the passage of time to slowly expand the settlement until it finally becomes a real city.

This is true even for the wild boars whose ideas were plagiarized by Rat War.

The cities they built in the lush forests at the beginning, except for the waste city that was renamed by the rat men to take charge of industry, none of them met the standards.

Compared to a city, it might be more appropriate to call it a military fortress.

If the quilboars can really fill these hastily built cities with quilboars, then it will never be that easy for the ratmen to attack the dense forest defense line.

Because of population limitations.

But the Skaven don't have this problem.

Because the Skaven have a crowded city far beyond the current era.

Underground Rat City.

A true megacity.

The population gathered in the over-expanded underground rat city, not to mention supporting seven cities, can still be supported even if ten or twenty rat cities are built, even for this bloated super giant city. It doesn't hurt your muscles and bones.

This war can be said to be supported by the underground rat city.

This is the Underground Rat City, the first city of the rat people, a city favored by the gods, a super giant city that alone can support the existence of a kingdom structure.

Although Du Yuan has been tinkering and not understanding the extremely confusing logistics of the rat people, the rat people themselves are also tinkering and not understanding.

But if we only talk about the scale, the logistics of the rat people is absolutely huge, extremely bloated and huge.

This huge and chaotic logistics gave birth to super-giant cities like the underground rat city, and also provided solid support for the rat people's foreign wars.

Waiting and hibernation are definitely not a failed strategy for the current rat people.

In the support of the underground rat city, whether it is the Western Expeditionary Force that conquers the rolling hills, or the Eastern Expeditionary Force that is currently advancing into the depths of the grassland.

Both armies are far from reaching their limits.

Rat War has the capital to wait and hibernate, although he doesn't like such a pause very much, and he has been a little uneasy recently.

Because of a message.

Rat War, who is far away from the Desolate Mountains, is indeed not sensitive to what happens in the Desolate Mountains.

But this does not mean that he can't even control the grassland where he is now entrenched.

When the huge temple guard passed by the furnace city, Rat War got the news.

Obviously, these guys will not gather here for no reason.

But what are they going to do?

Rat War didn't know, and then he was angry.

"Those two good-for-nothings! Useless things!

I will hang those two useless idiots after I go back!"

That day, Shu Zhan made such a cruel statement.

And he decided to do it when the time comes.

The two rat warlords left in the Desolate Mountains are really innocent. They may not be so outstanding, but such news is absolutely not to be concealed.

It's just that some guys don't want Shu Zhan to know this news.

But what's the matter? Shu Zhan will still hang those two idiots after he goes back.

The confused Shu Zhan had to face this sudden incident.

After a brief thought, Shu Zhan led the fierce knights and rat knights in his hands and turned back from the depths of the grassland to his base camp on the grassland, the grassland city.

At the same time.

The group of rat lords finally arrived on the grassland.

The escorting temple guards did not send them directly to the cities on the grassland.

Instead, they all temporarily settled in the grassland city.

Of course, the temple guards had a good reason to do so.

First, these rat lords who have just arrived obviously don't understand the situation for the time being, and they really need to stay for a while.

Second, several cities on this grassland are still under construction and have not been completed at all.

Of course, there are risks in doing this.

Rat Zhan, who got the news, is rushing here with his personal guards.

Although this guy hasn't figured out what happened yet.

But he will understand sooner or later.

And these guys who were appointed as rat lords don't get along with him.

They are all senior rat priests, and these six rat lords are all senior rat priests.

And as everyone knows, the group of guys that Rat Zhan hates the most are rat priests, especially the senior rat priests among the rat priests, who are particularly disgusting.