Chapter 307, the broad prospects of the demonized biological industry

Chapter 307, the broad prospects of the demonized biological industry

In fact, Sheng Qi was still overthinking. Those island residents did not have such a deep foundation.

After all, the rapid launch of the rat warships relied on a set of industrial systems that were gradually taking shape.

After most of the warships in the hands of these island residents were damaged, only two or three big cats and small cats were left in a short time. Even though the shipyard was already working hard, it would take some time for the new batch of sailing warships to be launched.

During this period, these island residents may not be able to trouble the rats.

In terms of industrial capacity, even if the human empire as a whole is taken out, it is much inferior to the rats.

Although the rats will be beaten in terms of magic equipment.

But if it is put into metal production capacity and industrial scale, then the target of the beating will obviously be changed, and it will be the Youyan people who will be beaten by the rats.

The military-industrial system in the rat empire is highly independent and huge and complex.

During this period, they never stopped expanding those high-speed tunnels, but these additional high-speed channels were not used for transportation, but mostly assumed transportation responsibilities.

Countless giant rats travel back and forth in these tunnels day and night, with their destinations being huge industries and countless large and small mines.

Iron ore, copper ore, gold mine, coal mine, and other small things are all being carried from underground by these greedy rats without any restraint, and then filled into hot blast furnaces.

This cannot be considered a highly efficient cycle, but the scale is beyond doubt.

In a very short period of time, the scalding flames, continuous blast furnaces, countless mineral veins and endless slave rats, these things combined together to build an industrial system that is large enough and spans the times.

This extremely large industrial force is dragged down by the rats' overly deformed technology tree.

For a long time, the rats' needs were so meagre, spears, armor, catapults.

Such demand has made the industrial capacity of the ratmen not very outstanding. After all, even if you can cast more spears in a day, what can you change? The change is nothing more than the wooden spears in the hands of the ratmen warriors become iron spears. Of course, this is also a change, but the progress brought by the ratmen holding iron spears and the ratmen holding wooden spears is not obvious.

Even those bulky war machines are the same. Even if you repair these catapults to be bigger, how much iron can be consumed?

Every day, new blast furnaces are rising from the ground in the ratman empire.

The huge production capacity has already caused substantial waste. For example, the Furnace City, whether in terms of production capacity, technology, or sales channels, this earliest industrial city in the ratman empire has fallen into complete failure.

It is completely difficult to compete with the industrial zone of the Desolate Mountains and the waste slag city operated by the ratman priests.

Those blast furnaces that never stop working day and night have begun to run idle, as if they are driven by inertia to produce. The current Skaven Empire is no longer short of coal. Even not far from the Furnace City, a coal mine with quite good reserves has been discovered.

It was discovered on a dry riverbed.

In fact, since the establishment of the Furnace City, the environment in this area has begun to change drastically.

After all, the Skavens have no concept of protecting the environment. The river diversion comes from the violent mining of a mineral vein by the Skavens. The earth that has been hollowed out of its bones is unsustainable. A hideous pit appeared in this originally lush forest, causing the river to divert and exposing this coal mine to the Skavens.

Every day, a large number of metal ingots are cast and formed, but there are not many buyers.

So, these metal ingots are piled up high, piled into a small hill, and placed there, no one cares.

If there is no accident, the fate of the Furnace City will basically fall.

After the mineral veins in this area, which are of no cost to the rats, are exhausted, the industrial power in the Furnace City will enter an irreversible decline and collapse. This industrial city of the rat elder level will be reduced to an ordinary rat settlement, as a place for the increasingly prosperous pilgrimage craze.

This is very likely to happen. Prosperity and decline are normal in the rapidly iterating rat empire.

How many years did it take for the once prosperous outpost to become the quiet fortress it is now?

Even those pilgrims will not stay at the outpost. Once upon a time, the name of the small temple was not sacred.

However, the Furnace City is still quite lucky. The stagnation of the war has brought some changes. The temple knights are forcibly pouring the land bridge. In the distance, the rats have begun to build steel battleships on a large scale.

The rats' steel battleships continue the usual style of the big claw priests, bigger and bigger.

This time, it is no longer a small fight. On this endless sea, these large ships can really be piled up to an unimaginable scale.

The most important thing is that the huge production capacity brought by such a huge industrial scale will finally be put to use, and it can also bring an opportunity, an opportunity for integration.

The rat industry that has transcended the times is actually still just a small workshop-like operation model.

It cannot be said that there is no linkage between the three major industrial centers, the Desolate Mountains, the Waste City, and the Furnace City, but it can only be said that there is no linkage at all. Even the Furnace City has been squeezed and is about to go bankrupt recently.

Perhaps some continuous super projects can change this situation.

Although it is hard to say whether it can be done, after all, some contradictions in the Skaven Empire are so simple and exposed.

Perhaps this kind of generally independent industrial model of small workshops will eventually give birth to several super cities of unimaginable scale, rather than moving towards mutual union and complementarity. This is also a possible situation.

But these are things for the future.

At least now, various measures have been completed. Compared with the shipbuilding industry that is still slightly conservative or quite conservative for the island residents, the Skaven Empire, which has used extremely fast speed to fill the hills and beaches with docks and shipyards, is really starting to exert its strength.

The day of beating the primitive people at sea is obviously not far away.

Of course, this is not the worst situation for the island residents.

A strange plague began to spread on Hurricane Island.

First, they were hungrier than usual, then their stomachs gradually swelled, and finally it became a nightmare situation, with countless parasitic monsters wriggling in their bodies. This situation depends on the physique of each infected person.

People with good physiques may not show too obvious symptoms after being infected for a long time, while people with poor physiques may only need a week to reach the end of their lives.

Such a huge gap is not good news. As a plague, a high mortality rate is not an advantage. Fortunately, for the spread of this plague, those guys with strong physiques made up for it.

The transmission route of these parasitic monsters is extremely dependent on water sources. When the host shows symptoms slightly, preparations for spread have already begun.

A large number of eggs are laid in the host's stomach and intestines. These eggs will eventually be excreted through feces. If they flow into the water, then anyone who drinks water in this area of ​​water will be parasitized soon.

And not only that, after becoming a monster, these parasitic worms have acquired a certain ability to survive outside the body, and they can move independently in the outside world even if they are separated from the host.

This is a very bad situation, because these parasitic worms have another characteristic, delicious.

Eating these things is not a good situation. Often at this time, these parasitic monsters still have a large number of unexcreted eggs in their bodies.

This is really a vicious infection strategy.

Although most intelligent creatures probably stay away from some delicious parasitic worms, those without much intelligence will not have so many requirements. Birds, beasts and fish will become a part of the infection process.

As expected, the plague broke out in Hurricane Island.

The culprit is a sneaky guy.

Sheng Qi did not make a mistake. Well, he didn't seem to look at the annoying big claw priest more.

But there is no doubt that this guy is a genius. He was able to successfully sneak onto Hurricane Island under the highly alert patrol fleet and spread the plague. He is simply a genius, a genius who became a stealth ratman.

The plague began to spread, and these island residents were just the second victims of the plague.

In fact, these parasitic monsters can not only bring this terrible plague, as a real monster, these parasitic monsters are also precious to some extent.

Perhaps there are many other aspects where these guys come in handy.

The first one is definitely eating. In fact, as a creature that is born to contain magic power, eating the flesh and blood of these guys should have a good tempering effect on your body.

Moreover, this tempering does not conflict with the improvement brought by the blood mushroom. The blood mushroom with high purity will bring optimization to the eater from the essence of life, while using the flesh and blood of the monster relies on the magic power remaining in the flesh and blood to gently temper your body.

The logic of the two effects is not contradictory, and can even be superimposed. What is most valuable is that these parasitic monsters are quite delicious.

This is just one effect.

In fact, these entangled dangerous worms can be used in many aspects.

Magic materials, engraving inscriptions, making potions.

Natural monsters do not need too much processing. Even if they are directly beaten into a pool of turbid juice and then drank, they can bring good recovery effects.

Those gentle elemental forces can effectively replenish the magic power in the body.

Especially in the elemental disorder area bombarded by too much magic in a short period of time, these gentle elemental forces are obviously so precious.

These parasitic monsters have broad prospects, but before using them, there is a premise that cannot be ignored.

You must have a way to eliminate the parasitic ability of these products made by parasitic monsters.

This is a very critical point, otherwise the plague will come again at any time.

You don’t want your army to be fine the day before, and lie down and hold your stomach and wail the next day.

Fortunately, the rats have the ability to deal with this trouble.

Unfortunately, the rats' way of dealing with these parasites has great hidden dangers.

Black blood mushrooms are essentially a kind of pollution. Using black blood mushrooms to deal with these parasitic monsters is indeed effective, but this is still a temporary solution. It only turns the plague on oneself into a more terrifying pollution that accumulates in the depths of the spirit and flesh.

It is difficult to say whether such an exchange is worth it.

After all, the overall crazy personality of the rat people has always been inseparable from the blood mushrooms.

On the islands and reefs, Sheng Qi finally got rid of that weak state.

When he climbed onto the top of the warship, it can be seen that this guy has lost a lot of weight. Although he is not as miserable as the time when he drifted in the storm, he is obviously experienced from the wind and waves he experienced in this ocean.

The surviving Western fleet rats on the islands and reefs are crowding to board the bathtub warships that have docked.

Because the second-generation rat warships are too bloated, they cannot get close to this island and reef belt, so these first-generation warships are needed as a transit.

The faces of these surviving guys were more or less dazed. Obviously, what they experienced during this period was not wonderful.

The wooden mast carved into a sacred pillar was carefully brought onto the warship by Sheng Qi and carefully placed.

In the past, he had some complaints about those noisy bells, but after experiencing that blessing, he became more pious with his naked eyes.

Pray devoutly to the sacred pillar.

Sing the greatness of the great god.

Of course, what happened during this period of time was certainly not just more pious for him.

To some extent, Sheng Qi became more fierce.

Looking at the huge island not far away from a distance, his expression became ferocious and dangerous.

Indeed, it was time to end everything.

He conveyed his current thoughts to the group of big claw priests.

"Kill all those heretics for the great god!"

Sheng Qi issued such an order with a cold expression.

At this moment, he really had some sense of leadership, but this kind of ferocity, showing no similarity to that manic guy, Shu Zhan, but more like that high-handed guy.

A little more similarity.

The Ratman fleet is about to come again. I hope that the island residents are prepared this time. If they are not prepared, it doesn’t matter. They will just be slaughtered.

This is the anger from the commander of the Ratman Western Expeditionary Force, Sheng Qi.