Chapter 266, the First Blood Mushroom Crisis

The moment of abundance is about to end.

In this small world, most places are slowly moving towards death.

Plants of various abundances gradually die as time goes by.

First, various delicate flowers, then shrubs, big trees, and finally even the vines clinging to the big trees all die.

This world is suddenly missing an important piece of the puzzle.

The output of food in the external environment has stagnated.

This is a very serious problem.

The rats did not turn around for a while, and the breeding houses continued to reproduce disorderly and violently.

Until the big claw priests suddenly and directly realized the problem that could not be avoided.

Food, food, and food.

There is no need to worry about the large number of young rats in hand for the time being. Anyway, they can all be stuffed into the rat caravans that travel back and forth between the front and the rear.

But those immature young rats have become a big problem.

Famine began to emerge in some areas of the Rat Empire, suddenly, very abruptly, as if the rats had never thought about this problem the day before, but today they had to struggle for food.

During this period, the rats continued to expand cities, and urban communities appeared one after another. Workshops and breeding houses became the most popular industries, and something that could not be ignored was missing in normal operation.

Planting room.

It is not surprising that eating cave mushrooms is really a torture, not only those mushroom slices that are dried like cowhide, but even fresh cave mushrooms are definitely not delicious.

Take a bite, and the strange and slippery mucus will fill the cavity, with the unbearable strange fishy smell and a hint of imperceptible sweetness. This is the experience that cave mushrooms can bring.

In the long-term cultivation, the cave mushrooms now grown in the Rat Empire are no longer the same thing as the cave mushrooms given by Du Yuan at the beginning.

The big claw priests did not sort out a set of effective agricultural rules, but they were not stupid. The main body of the cave mushroom, the mycelium spreading in the culture, was perceived and recognized by them. At the same time, almost instinctively, the breeding had already started on the cave mushroom.

The cave mushrooms that grew more, bigger, and more adaptable gradually emerged in the deep underground caves of the Rat Empire.

The big claw priests were very interested in growing mushrooms. After all, the gift of God that emerged in the blood pool was in the form of a mushroom. They were very interested in blood mushrooms.

But no one would offend those lunatics. The temple guards could not tolerate any blasphemy against the temple of God.

The direction of cultivating cave mushrooms does not include a word, delicious.

This created his unpalatable and weird taste, and also brought about a surge in production capacity. The cities of the rats were supported by cave mushrooms.

Cave mushrooms are a very important thing. For a long time, they have been a necessity that they never had to think about how to consume.

Although it is despised by almost all rats, its status is unquestionable. The white mushroom that became popular not long ago did not shake the status of cave mushrooms at all.

In rat cities, free people, workshop owners, mercenaries, warriors, priests, these are ultimately a minority.

The real cornerstone of these cities has always been the countless slave rats, and these cave mushrooms are specially supplied to slave rats.

The instant abundance brought several rounds of population explosion to the rats, and also buried a crisis.

The newly established city ignored the existence of the planting room in this instant abundance. After all, those high-ranking rulers never eat cave mushrooms, and those decent rats who have just gained freedom will never go back to eat these disgusting mushrooms to reminisce about their past.

In this abundance, as long as some rats are sent to walk around, there is no shortage of food.

This crisis has been foreshadowed for a long time. As time goes by, it has become increasingly difficult for the ratmen running on the ground to harvest excess food, but it seems that not many ratmen care about this.

Until now, this crisis has completely emerged and hunger has really arrived.

The breeding house began to recycle ratmen babies to reduce food consumption.

The price of cave mushrooms began to rise, and the economic system built by the ratmen based on the value of blood mushrooms began to fluctuate violently.

This thing is really very primitive.

In essence, the ratmen just added a link to the most primitive barter, and added a thing that can interpret the value of everything, blood mushrooms.

Everything is tied to blood mushrooms.

The ratmen are very accustomed to this model.

In the past, if two ratmen bought and sold a slave rat, they would generally have one or two rounds of disputes.

One ratman may think that the slave rat is worth a piece of leather, while the other does not care about the leather and just wants a pot of berries. This is a very troublesome situation.

Until the formation of this rough system, now all ratmen recognize a unified price, blood mushrooms.

At a certain moment, a slave rat is worth three blood mushrooms. At different times, this price is not fixed, and the price of slave rats also fluctuates. It may be more expensive or cheaper, but it is not important.

What is important is that all ratmen recognize the blood mushrooms' interpretation of the value of slave rats.

Blood mushrooms are very advantageous in this regard. They are naturally precious and necessary.

In a very short period of time, blood mushrooms exist as a currency, anchoring everything in the Rat Empire.

This has brought great convenience to the expansion of the Rat Empire, but there is a problem. After the blood mushrooms completely anchor other things and this system is formed, it means that the blood mushrooms themselves are also included in the cycle and will change due to the turmoil of things in this system.

The price increase of cave mushrooms has led to the scarcity of blood mushrooms.

A very strange change, the increase in blood mushrooms should be tied to the Rat War, although it may still be affected by one thing now, those goblin farms, but it should not be linked to cave mushrooms and this famine.

The Rat Farm has been expanding steadily, and the Rat's foreign war can be considered smooth, but blood mushrooms have gradually become scarce during this period.

The turmoil brought about by this has affected the entire Rat Empire, and even the richest underground Rat City has been implicated.

The Ratman Council will distribute blood mushrooms to the Ratman priests who undertake some basic work in the city every once in a while. The number of blood mushrooms distributed is fixed and there is no change. Generally speaking, it is enough to meet daily consumption and there can be some surplus.

This is the treatment that the most orthodox Ratman priests can get.

An enviable treatment.

But recently, these guys have obviously had some difficulties.

The Ratman priests have recently had some rigid needs. In the hot desire for comparison, many things have become absolute rigid needs.

A good-looking staff, this is certain, it can make you hold your head high when facing other Ratman priests.

Luxurious leather, objects engraved with divine patterns, stone walls carved by famous craftsmen, and those strange things from heretics, with different stories and great gods.

These are necessities and cannot be lacking.

But there is this problem, these things all need blood mushrooms.

In a very short time, all kinds of things in the rat kingdom began to rise in price, so these wealthy rat priests soon faced a choice, whether to continue to maintain their pomp or save more blood mushrooms as their own rations.

The impact of this famine was unexpectedly large.

Slave rats were the foundation of the rat empire and the wealth of the rat bigwigs.

After the financial system around blood mushrooms gradually took shape, slave rats were clearly marked with prices, but their situation was actually improved.

With the price tag, it turned from a weed into an asset.

You will trample on the weeds on the roadside for no reason, but you probably won't damage your assets for no reason. Blood mushrooms are precious, and slave rats that need to be exchanged for blood mushrooms naturally make these guys more valued.

In order to prevent problems with their assets, workshop owners, farmers, mercenary captains, big claw priests, and rat priests all began to buy cave mushrooms without hesitation.

This famine is not as serious as imagined. For the rats, after long-term cultivation and selection, the output of cave mushrooms has already reached an unreasonable level.

Although the plants in the world died on a large scale, the trunks and dry branches were always preserved. These are the materials for the rats to cultivate mushrooms.

It is a very simple thing for the rats to expand the output of cave mushrooms.

But how to say it, this group of guys is really rude and barbaric.

After this problem appeared, a large amount of hoarding, in a very short time, the cave mushrooms that were originally ignored were swept away in cities one by one.

And this momentum is still spreading.

Gradually, more and more rats realized a problem. Cave mushrooms seem to have become incomparably important now.

This time it’s bad.

The planting room began to raise the price of cave mushrooms, and the breeding room soon followed suit. The slave rats began to raise the price, as if it was the fall of dominoes.

A strange situation appeared.

On one hand, there was a shortage of food, and a large number of slave rats died of hunger. On the other hand, there was a shortage of food, and the breeding room raised the price of the slave rats produced.

In the interaction between the two vicious situations, the price and demand of slave rats began to soar. They have never been so valuable.

It also brought about a violent economic turmoil.

Everything began to rise in price, and too many things were related to slave rats.

As if it was a farce, and as if it was a mutual follow-up, everything in the Rat Empire began to rise in price impatiently, as if as long as it did so, more blood mushrooms would be embraced by these guys who run the industry.

Then, as expected, blood mushrooms began to become scarce. No ratman was qualified to regulate the value of blood mushrooms, and no ratman had the ability to control the output of blood mushrooms. Such a thing that was not defined and controlled by ratmen was a gift from God.

After being incorporated into the simple economic system, it was inevitably affected by other things in the system.

The problem became more serious and absurd.

In a very short period of time, the price of a slave rat reached twenty blood mushrooms.

The big claw priest who maintained the planting room and the breeding house seemed to have made a profit all at once. For every cave mushroom and slave rat sold, a huge amount of blood mushrooms would be pocketed.

The rat priests who maintained the caravan seemed to have made money. The blood mushrooms that the caravan could earn from running back and forth increased tenfold.

All the rats seemed to have made money. A large amount of blood mushrooms were put into the circulation of this system.

No matter what they did, they got more blood mushrooms. There was only one problem. The more blood mushrooms they got, the fewer rats could afford to eat blood mushrooms every day.

Blood mushrooms were needed for everything, and the amount of blood mushrooms needed was increasing.

All of a sudden, things seemed to have returned to the starting point. The more they took, the more they had to spend. It can only be said that the rats had been messing around and inflated themselves.

But blood mushrooms really have production capacity limits. Blood mushrooms are truly precious things. The rats are really consuming blood mushrooms every moment.

The inflation of the rats did not seem to stop despite the concerted efforts of all parties in the Rat Empire.

Gradually, the output of blood mushrooms began to fail to keep up with the daily expanding demand in the Rat Empire.

By analogy, it is probably that a country's printing press cannot keep up with the demand for currency. You know, blood mushrooms are not just a piece of paper. You can print any number you want.

And there is no substitute. The economic structure of the rats is guaranteed by blood mushrooms. All goods output is false. The motivation for the rats to engage in trading activities is also very simple. Everyone really needs blood mushrooms.

And now, blood mushrooms are kidnapped by the inflated prices.

A real famine has appeared.

It is a very absurd situation.

The rats are obviously not short of food, the breeding house is not short of young rats, the output of slave rats, the workshop is not short of weapons, the victory of the war has brought a large number of sacrifices, and the expanding rat farms are also producing continuously.

The rat empire is obviously spiraling upward, but the connection of all this, the exchange of things, and the support point of buying and selling behavior, blood mushrooms, have collapsed.

A spear now requires more than a hundred blood mushrooms, and the Eastern Expeditionary Force needs tens of thousands of spears for a purchase. In other words, the number of blood mushrooms required for a transaction has reached one million.

What's more, there are many other things, so large that even if all the blood mushrooms in the entire Ratman Empire were taken out, it might not be enough to sustain the resources consumed by the Eastern Expeditionary Force in a war.

This is a very absurd situation, but all parties who created this are unwilling to give in.

If the price is restored to the original price, after giving in, the items in hand will be sold in batches. This is very simple and will not be unsalable. There is just a problem. If you do this, if the other things are still the same price, then you are finished.

Selling 10,000 slave rats, and then the blood mushrooms obtained cannot even replace the needs of cultivating 100 slave rats.

No one is willing to take this risk.

Everything in the Ratman Empire is gradually coming to a halt.

An extremely absurd situation actually happened in the Ratman Empire at this time.