Chapter 188, The twisted technology tree of the ratmen, the sore on the grassland

Chapter 188, The twisted technology tree of the ratmen, the sore on the grassland

The war between the ratmen and the wolf orcs has entered a new stage.

The wolf orcs left temporarily and headed deep into the grassland, but this did not mean the end of this war.

The ratmen's gains were not as rich as imagined, at least not as rich as Rat War expected, but the wolf orcs had gone far away.

There was an illusion of punching cotton, which made Rat War particularly annoyed, but there was nothing more to do.

He really hated the vast grassland in front of him.

The scarlet pit where Rat War was entrenched had become the new starting point for the ratmen to set foot in the vast grassland in front of them. More and more ratmen arrived from the rear, and then used this as a starting point to spread to the depths of this vast grassland.

The wolf orcs did not completely abandon this area of ​​grassland. Many wolf knight teams were left behind, both as scouts and still harassing the rear of the ratmen until a trade route was completely formed.

Fortresses and outposts were built one after another.

This is just one of them. At the same time, a real underground tunnel has entered the excavation stage and will start from the grassland city and connect to the scarlet pit where the rat war is now entrenched.

This is a real big deal, built by the rat lords.

In order to take all kinds of mineral deposits on this vast grassland, resources bring covetousness and greed. The rat lords may not be very clear about the role of each mineral and the value of each vein, but they are convinced by the guidance of the great gods.

Long ago, when the great gods were active and cast oracles from time to time, there was an oracle that is still being executed by the rats and is still regarded as enlightenment by the rat priests.

Stockpile ore, stockpile all kinds of ores.

Not only because of the gods, but also because of interests, the rat industrial zone in the desolate mountains is no longer limited to smelting iron ore.

There are rumors that a ratman councillor who is about to die seems to have mentioned the idea of ​​casting a statue of the god. It will be a huge statue, and not only that, this statue of the great god will be cast using a newly discovered metal.

Another useless stone has discovered its true power in the flames.

A bright yellow metal will be used to cast the statue of the god.

At this time, there are several veins storing the new metal on this grassland. The ratman lords who are keenly aware of the opportunity began to prepare in advance.

If the statue of the god cast with this bright yellow metal can be recognized by the ratman parliament.

There is no doubt that this new metal will soon become the most popular thing in the ratman kingdom.

Anything related to the gods will be sought after by the rats to the greatest extent and can also bring the greatest profit.

After successfully promoting the wolf beastman's leather to be popular in the ratman kingdom, these ratman lords have reaped a wave of dividends and naturally want to bet again, especially when the wolf beastman has temporarily gone away and the leather purchased by the caravan is decreasing.

If they could hold those veins in their hands, the blood mushrooms would flock to them.

Very smoothly, the rat lords successfully obtained those occupied veins from Shu Zhan, even though Shu Zhan offered a price that he thought was extremely high.

In the pretended distress of the rat lords, these veins were easily embraced by them. At the end of the transaction, Shu Zhan grinned and cunningly announced that those coal veins were not included in the transaction.

None of the rat lords had any objection to such a change. After the transaction was reached, they left in a hurry, leaving Shu Zhan with a gradually stiff mouth.

Obviously, these rat priests had something to hide from him, but he didn't know anything about it.

Shu Zhan began to inquire about the news.

He felt that he was taken advantage of by those rat lords.

After the ownership of the veins was settled, the planning of this underground tunnel was put on the agenda.

Obviously, they needed a smooth passage. In order to transport resources smoothly, they united all the rat lords in office on this grassland, and the construction of this underground tunnel officially began.

They were not the first group of people in the rat kingdom to build such a straight underground tunnel.

After a rat priest submitted the idea of ​​underground tunnels to the rat council, the first special underground tunnel in the underground rat city was dug out, and the giant rats were witnessed to be several times faster in this straight underground tunnel.

This thing started to spread from the underground rat city as the starting point.

It can bring a lot of convenience. Relying on these special underground tunnels, it can reach any place in the rat kingdom faster, more convenient resource exchange, and faster mobilization of personnel, but this is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that the underground rat city will greatly strengthen its control over other rat cities.

Areas that were previously unreachable and seemed too far away may be brought under the control of the underground rat city again.

This underground tunnel that runs through all cities on the grassland was promoted by the temple guards and the rat lords.

Shu Zhan knew nothing about this. His information was as scarce as ever, which was also related to the fact that he was now entrenched in the depths of the vast grassland.

Soon, a straight underground tunnel would extend from the underground Rat City to connect to the first city built by Shu Zhan on this grassland, Grassland City.

The underground tunnel connecting every city on the grassland will be built by the rat lords, and the two underground tunnels will be connected in Prairie City.

The impact this will have is still unknown.

But the cause of all this was really just an idea put forward by an ordinary ratman priest.

The rat people are still as bloody and cruel as ever, but their technology is advancing very fast. This phenomenon is not normal, but it is reasonable.

In a normal civilization, the progress of technology and civilization will probably be in a state of mutual advancement, and civilization exists as the soil of technology.

But the civilization of the rat people is obviously not normal, and the progress of science and technology also brings some commonalities.

The stone carvings and the recent leather carvings are to record one's own achievements. As for the more uses derived later, that is a follow-up derivation. The initial use is to record the sacrifices and gains made by the rat priests to the gods. achievements.

It stands to reason that the rat kingdom should have derived writing a long time ago. The soil for the emergence of writing has long been mature, but so far, the communication between rat people is still carried out through the mutual handover between rat people.

The same is true for the smelting of metals. For war, to collect more sacrifices, and to offer war and victory to the gods, other aspects are slow and rigid.

The rat people have long since learned to use wheels, and they have also learned to use metal, but until now, the rat caravans on this vast grassland are still using the most primitive wooden wheels, and the shadows of metal wheels are still there. Didn't show up.

If it weren't for Du Yuan's gift of the Cold Soul Giant Bell, and the rat priests began to use metal to build various giant bells as decorations, as symbols of status, and by the way led to the expansion of the use of metal in other directions, then it is estimated that until now , the metal smelted from the barren mountains and the furnace city can only have two uses at most.

Forge weapons and create more complex weapons.

But on the other hand, the progress of the rat people's technology is extremely rapid. The metal smelting level of the rat people has caught up with the wild boar people from scratch in a very short period of time. Now the exquisite armor produced in the barren mountains is far behind. It is harder and lighter than the original Wild Boar Knight's plate armor.

The same is true for large war equipment.

The rat trebuchet siege crossbows in the Western Expeditionary Force under Sheng Qi have become more and more complex and sophisticated. Of course, when they disintegrate, they will also bring about a grander scene.

It comes from the promotion of the huge group of priests in the Ratman Empire.

As long as religion does not involve heresy trials, then in most cases, priests will be the primary productive force of science and technology, and will the rat people judge heretics?

Yes, any other race is a heresy, so why can the Skaven's technology advance so fast?

Because countless rat priests are frantically sharpening the sharp blades in the hands of the rat kingdom to make them sharper and stronger when killing heretics. That blade is the technology of the rat kingdom.

Looking at it this way, it seems that the extremely twisted technology tree of the Skaven Kingdom makes sense.

And there are really many priests under Du Yuan, very many, very many.

For the rat people, the more priests there are, the faster the technology climbs. The faster the technology climbs, the more distorted the technology tree becomes.

The number of rat priests in the rat empire is still increasing.

It is foreseeable that the Ratmen's technology tree will probably become more and more distorted.

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Shu Zhan discovered a blind spot. After that transaction, Shu Zhan was suspicious and sent people to investigate what happened recently. After some investigation, he really learned something.

Found a problem.

A very serious problem was discovered!

It was so serious that Rat Zhan let out an angry roar from the bottom of his heart.

"You despicable food-stealing rats!"

He discovered that the corpses of the wolf-orcs collected by the rat-man caravan from his place were transformed into exquisite leather materials that cost at least two hundred blood mushrooms to purchase, and the supply was still in short supply!

At this moment, Shu Zhan really felt a heartache, and the anger that followed. Next time the caravan in the hands of the mouse lords wanted to trade with Shu Zhan again, they would not be so It was so easy, Shu Zhan felt that he had been taken advantage of.

Rat Zhan did find out some information, and the information he found was indeed important, but it didn't seem that important.

Taking Prairie City as the starting point, the underground tunnel that will penetrate the grassland has entered the construction stage. Due to the excessive looseness of the grassland soil, the Big Claw priests did not choose to dig underground there.

Instead, a trench was dug in advance, and neat stone slabs were laid in it to form a tunnel structure that also served as a load-bearing structure.

Countless slave rats are surging on this vast grassland under the command of the Big Claw Priest. The ability of these senior priests who took over as rat lords to mobilize resources is better than the previous contractor on this grassland. These are composed of various colors. The rat people got together and gradually jointly invested people who didn't know how high they were.

A large number of slave rats were mobilized to join in the construction of the tunnel, amidst the sharp roars and whippings of the Big Claw Priests.

This tunnel is spreading deep into the grassland at an extremely fast speed.

It brings up a problem, a serious problem.

The towering mountains that separate the grasslands from the wetlands serve as stone mining sites for the rat people. Whether it is the construction of this long tunnel or the construction of the rat cities on the grasslands, all the materials are mined from this towering mountain range. Come.

Mined by slave rats who cling to the mountains like ants.

The work of the rat people involves great losses. The Big Claw Priests are not willing to equip these slave rats with too sophisticated tools, but both the construction of the rat people city and the construction of this stretching tunnel require that neatness. slate.

Often only one out of twenty mined stones is qualified. The rat people don't care about this yield rate, they are just sending out more slave rats.

The damage caused by the rat people to this towering mountain range is real, although the short time the rat people dug into this towering mountain range is not worth mentioning at all.

But those abandoned and randomly thrown stones are a huge problem.

The places where the Ratmen mine stone are often built along rivers, because relying on rivers can more easily transport stone down the mountains.

The places where stone materials are discarded are often close to rivers. Stone materials are mined near rivers, so naturally the garbage is discarded nearby.

As for the excavated stones blocking the river?

If it was blocked, I would just find another river to open it up. The Rat Man's solution to the problem was very simple and crude, and it also created a simple and crude disaster for the Four Seasons Ranch under the towering mountains.

The Four Seasons Ranch relies on the nurturing of the rivers formed by the melted snow on the towering mountains to be called the Four Seasons Ranch.

But the ratmen's simple and crude mining is blocking most of the rivers in the mountains.

And a possibility is slowly emerging.

If the rat people continue to build cities on this vast grassland, if the rat people continue to exploit this towering mountain range, will one day this towering mountain range that separates the grassland wetland, this eternal towering mountain range, will Will it be completely lost in history due to the greedy demands of the rat people?

Don't know.

The Four Seasons Ranch is gradually moving towards desertification, with Prairie City as the starting point.

The land is stained with red, the air is gradually drying, the grass no longer grows, and all living things are extinct. Only the rat people linger here.

And this area is still spreading, as if a stubborn disease has arisen in this vast and vast grassland, a disgusting, twisted and expanding bad sore has grown.