Chapter 258, The Big Shot at the Table

This call includes all residents in the city, even those poor guys, and the thin men in the slums are also within the call.

This is of course good news for them. If the ordinary residents in the city of Waves are just struggling to support themselves, these poor guys in the slums are almost on the verge of death.

The doubled food prices have already made these poor people start to get food from various places.

Rat jerky has been popular among them recently. Even though there is no shortage of food in the city, they simply cannot afford the overly expensive ordinary food.

Yes, it is the kind of rat jerky you think of, the kind of rat jerky with hair, hands and feet.

The city defenders did not exclude these poor guys, but due to general malnutrition and too thin bodies, most of the guys are not even qualified to be consumables.

Fortunately, they are still recruiting sweepers. After the brutal battle, this time they need a lot of sweepers.

The blackened old lantern was held high. In the dim light, on this dim street, thin men gathered one by one. Inexplicably, it was a bit scary, which made the city guards who came here raise their voices a little louder.

But these guys were not dangerous. They were very calm and waiting to be selected.

Not long after, a group of thin men were taken away from this street.

In fact, the problem facing this street is far more than just the lack of food. Lighting is also a big problem. Compared with other areas of the city, this area is particularly dim.

There is only a very long distance to see a flickering oil lamp.

Light is a very important thing, especially after the world enters the dark night, the residents of the city of waves are trying to maintain the light.

When the world falls into darkness, some sneaky guys hiding in the dark will become particularly active.

There is no lack of traces of ratmen in the city. In a very short time, these sneaky guys are everywhere in the city. However, these ratmen are not large-scale, and there is no leader who can command and command all of them. They do not pose a particularly serious threat. They will only roam in the city when chaos begins to spread, or when an area is completely plunged into darkness, these sneaky guys will begin to gather and become active.

The city affairs officer is trying to avoid this situation. The darkness will attract the gathering of ratmen in the city. This is a very dangerous situation, not only because of what these guys do in the dark, but also because the ratmen may decide on the leader and leader when they gather together.

But his words are not taken seriously. Compared with the possible crisis, the confrontation between the two sides inside and outside the city wall is obviously more dangerous and direct.

Fortunately, things did not develop to such a critical situation. Above the nobles' mansions, there is an uninterrupted lighting technique rising, and the bright and soft light dispels all the darkness.

Ordinary urban communities are also lighting torches and placing candles, and even the richer ones can use some bulky magic props.

The Golden Wheatfield Academy in the Wave City is not particularly good at making and using various magic props, but this kind of incompetence is only relative, just not so brilliant and proficient. Facing the threat of ratmen, the academy began to change direction. Benefiting from the surge of magic tides, some magic-driven weapons should be put into use soon.

It may not wait until that time. This research has some big and small problems. This Golden and Wheatfield Academy is indeed not good at making and using various magic props.

That thing that can occupy a small square and is carved with complex and scattered patterns, and the cost is not cheap, is only used to cast lighting spells to the sky at regular intervals. Even so, it still needs to be charged by the magician every once in a while, so that it can operate smoothly.

But only wealthy neighborhoods can afford such tools. The most common situation is to light oil lamps, plug in torches, and hire a group of mercenary teams to wander around the neighborhood.

These have nothing to do with the residents in the slums.

Except for a strange guy, a hunched knight wearing old armor.

Wandering in this chaotic and barren area, fighting in the dark and resting in the light, you can see him stepping into the darkness with a pitchfork in his hand, and you can also see him returning to the block where the light still exists with blood all over his body.

However, it is said that the light still exists, but in fact it is just a small oil lamp, a little bit of weak flames, illuminating a small area in the street. You can see that after the battle, this weird knight sat down on the street without caring about his image, resting against a simple shack.

A very strange guy.

Only when the city guards arrived in the slums, this place will really come alive.

This weird knight also witnessed this scene, leaning against the old shack, casting curious eyes, and was a little moved by the conditions offered by the city guards.

But in the end, he still didn't stand up.

He wanted to drink a glass of beer. He missed the old oak cup with some mottled mold spots and the beer in such an oak cup.

But in the end, he just watched silently.

The residents in the slums have not yet adapted to the existence of this uninvited guest. The world teaches them to be vigilant.

Sitting cross-legged in the street illuminated by the dim light, he was in a daze silently.

Of course, he was not in a daze all the time. The Vatican knights came to this area several times and distributed some free food, and he never missed it.

After participating several times, there was a bulging pocket on his waist. This guy was not honest. He was not soft-hearted when taking advantage of those knights. He tried every means to dig into his pocket.

His pocket was bulging, and he took out a piece of bread from it. It was still the kind of bread that was bland and tasteless, but he ate it with relish.

There were neither flowers nor applause for what he did, but he didn't care much.

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A new batch of guards climbed up the towering city wall. The first scene they saw was the continuous corpses. These piled corpses were not easy to deal with. The ratmen's corpses were easy to deal with. Pushing down the city wall, there would be a fire soon, but the corpses of human guards mixed in with the ratmen could not be dealt with so carelessly.

If you claim to be a civilized person, then some sense of ritual is indispensable. The city hall has set aside a cemetery area for burying soldiers who died in the war.

So, sorting out the piled bodies one by one has become a must.

The thin men climbed up the city wall, sorted the bodies, hung thick hemp ropes around their waists, and began to descend along the city wall to pick up the scattered weapons. They were very busy, but the newly recruited guards, these recruits, seemed a little overwhelmed.

Standing blankly on the city wall, looking at the piled bodies in front of them, in fact, what they saw was only a little left from the brutal battle. More of them were piled up under the city wall. The piled rat bodies were thick and dense, but they were not clear. Unless the many military mages cast illumination spells to the sky to illuminate this area, the traces left by the battle would not be clear.

With some hesitation, these recruits.

As his eyes swayed left and right, regret was a very normal expression, but it was obvious that it was not so easy to run after getting on the pirate ship.

A tall knight came behind the team of recruits and just stood still. His original impetuousness immediately disappeared, and he looked honest.

Amidst the loud shouts, these recruits were assigned to their respective positions. They were not qualified and needed to be tempered, but this was not a big problem. After experiencing a battle and fighting in that terrifying scene, everything would be smooth sailing after surviving.

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Outside the city of Jilang, the rat camp hidden in the dark.

This camp welcomed some visitors.

Some visitors who were still quite important, one by one, the rat lords.

They arrived at the camp of the Eastern Expeditionary Force almost at the same time.

Even if they arrived together, there was a certain risk in facing the manic guy Rat War, but these guys still came.

For the special eyes of the Ghost Eyes, this is a very precious commodity, which contains extremely huge profits. Such profits are enough for them to abandon those dangers and come to this camp in person.

Moreover, they did not arrive one by one.

If possible, these guys don’t mind kicking their colleagues out and monopolizing this extreme profit, even if they give up some profits.

There is only one problem. The partner of cooperation is Rat War. Well, this is a big problem.

The rat lords pulled their colleagues and arrived at this camp together. In the center of the camp, in the wide tent sewn with various leather materials, the two sides formally sat down and began to negotiate.

The time of arrival has been selected and is particular.

The blue eyes produced by the Ghost Eyes are ultimately just a special organ. Even if they are contaminated with magic, they will inevitably go corrupt.

Of course, there is a way to preserve the quality. The rat lords found that as long as they mobilize the elements to focus on these ghost blue eyes from time to time, they can prevent the occurrence of rot.

But this method requires enough rat priests to cooperate, which is a condition that Rat Zhan lacks. The blue eyes in his hand are already rotting.

The rat lords seized this point and delayed time to force Rat Zhan to surrender.

Of course, this underestimated Rat Zhan.

The two sides quarreled fiercely in this tent. When they got angry, they were also showing their teeth and claws. Even violent magic fluctuations appeared in the tent from time to time.

Obviously, this was the situation that the rat lords had messed up. As rats, these guys were much crazier than the priests of ordinary races even as priests.

It is really possible to turn into a self-destructing truck and die with you.

But in the end, when these rat lords left, their faces were particularly gloomy. Obviously, they did not get any advantage.

Rat Zhan would rather wait for those precious eyes to rot and be destroyed than to do this business with these rat lords.

This made the rat lords look unhappy, but in the end everyone maintained some decency and did not really fight. Even if it was a rat war, they had to think about the price they would pay if they left all these guys here.

The logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Force still relied on the channels and caravans in the hands of these guys. Moreover, it was not that no one was watching him from above.

Of course, it was Rat War. Even if the logistics were controlled by these guys, they could still show such an attitude.

Rat War was very clear about the character of these rat lords, or these rat priests.

Taking over the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Force brought these guys extremely high benefits, so it was never him who had to take the initiative to maintain all this, but these rat lords.

In fact, even though these rat lords were very unhappy with Rat War in this negotiation, in the end, they never raised the issue of cutting off logistics as a bargaining chip.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for these guys to be so tolerant, that is, you have to have the qualifications to negotiate with them.

The two sides parted unhappily, and the subsequent twists and turns will definitely not stop. The rat lords will not give up. They are indeed unable to challenge Rat War militarily, but the circulation and trade of resources in the Rat Empire cannot bypass them.

Of course, Shu Zhan would not give in easily. He was unwilling to compromise with the rat lords even if he watched the precious things in his hands being destroyed. The reason was not complicated, and it was even very simple.

For the sake of profit, in order to monopolize the huge profit that might appear.

He instinctively wanted to take everything because of greed. Although Shu Zhan and these rat lords were almost the absolute top of the rat empire and real big men, these guys were still so rude when eating at the table.

They even bared their teeth to protect the food.

The negotiations ended unhappily, and the war was about to continue. In the complex camp, the number of rats gathered did not decrease. It was still so boundless and difficult to count. Every day, there was still a steady stream of young rats sent to this camp.

Shu Zhan was indeed using these guys as consumables.

The flag was waving, and a new round of war was about to begin. The noisy camp was briefly quiet. Many ratmen did not understand what was happening and were confused. Soon they would be pushed onto the battlefield in confusion. The guys who had just arrived here.

War did not bring no changes. There were also many ratmen. At the moment when the flag was waving, there was a trace of fear on their faces. The fear was hard to shake off, but it seemed calmer, especially when compared with the confused companions around them.

If these guys could survive after a few more extremely tragic wars, they should become senior ratmen warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force.