Chapter 389, Building a huge temple

Chapter 389, Building a huge temple

Of course, it is meaningless to just appease the group of rat warriors.

The bigger problem is that after the war ended and the objects of plunder were lost, the output of the rat empire could not maintain the operation of this huge empire.

Blood mushrooms are not real currency.

It cannot be distributed at will. If there are fewer sacrifices, there will be fewer blood mushrooms. If there are fewer blood mushrooms, everything will be wrong.

It is not that no one in the rat empire has discovered this problem, and it is not that no one has tried to solve this problem.

The rat farmers are an attempt to this.

It is just not enough.

Far from enough.

Even if the temple guards use all the land on the main continent to feed goblins and turn this planet into a goblin planet, the sacrifices produced are far from enough for the huge rat empire today.

No matter how you tinker with those goblins, the gains brought are impossible to be better than destroying a group of heretics, demolishing a city, destroying a country, and burning an empire. It is not better than these, this is certain.

Throughout the Rat Empire, these guys have long been spoiled by the endless war.

How could they look down on these goblins?

But they have to admit that these greedy guys have to admit it.

Now, the rats look around, there is no war anymore, maybe there are still some guys hiding in some corners, hiding in that hidden place, but a truly commendable opponent has completely disappeared.

Even if they look down on these goblins, they are the only ones at present.

Instinctively, these guys began to cut their expenses.

The first to be hit were the fun things selling points in the rat city decorated with various colored magic lamps.

Decorations, sacrificial utensils, weapons with carved patterns, hair smoothing services, wailing concerts, corpse soap.

These things that have been selling well for many years have no market at once.

This is a matter of urgency.

After all, the backs of these best-selling products can almost cover all groups in the entire Rat Empire.

The changes in habits represented by these things are more meaningful and important than they seem. It is far from being as simple as losing some of the guys who are dressed up and covered with all kinds of ornaments.

Decorations, sacrificial utensils.

These are the only pillars of those super-standard industrial zones besides weapons and siege equipment.

Without war, weapons and siege equipment stopped production. If these things lose demand again, then these super industrial zones will have to face stagnation in operation.

Perhaps the black smoke that never stops rising in the desolate mountains will finally stop?

Those other things are also more or less involved in something.

The cost is fatal.

It can even be said that it involves the entire rat empire.

Because they represent the only pillars left of the rat empire after losing the war.

A reform swept the rat empire not long ago, and the rat cities were broken from their independent state by the rumbling steam trains.

More efficiently absorb resources to carry out crazy expansion and transformation of those major cities.

But now, the war is over, blood mushrooms have become valuable, the production of weapons and siege equipment has begun to stagnate, those fancy gadgets are no longer so attractive, and they have all begun to decline.

Those super cities can still hold on, they are big enough.

But what about the others, those independent cities that were forcibly beaten out of self-sufficiency, what about them?

Those steam trains that were roaring back and forth are gradually disappearing.

Those various materials that were brought are also gradually disappearing.

Various resources are piled up in cities, piled high, but these things have become worthless after losing the steam trains that are coming and going.

These guys who were beaten up by the righteous iron fist of the Ratman Council not long ago, they suddenly found that they seemed to be abandoned.

They gave up all kinds of workshops in their hands and humbly chose to exchange various resources for blood mushrooms. In the end, before the resources around the city are exhausted, you don’t even want the resources?

Huh?

The leaders of these resource cities, the rat priests who were big shots but not that big shots, were dumbfounded.

Then, there was a wave of evacuation.

These guys abandoned the cities, lands, and resources they operated, and began to flock to those super cities.

Then, there was another wave of guys who were dumbfounded.

Those humble rat freemen, those abandoned slave rats.

They were the most vulnerable group of guys in the rat empire.

Hunger, followed by hunger.

After the rat priests’ strategic shift, they were no longer qualified to bargain with those big shots, and the steam train was completely stopped.

A great famine appeared.

Of course, this process was not so fast, and even in many resource cities, the rat priests and rat lords made various choices.

Some guys chose to leave, and of course there were also those who chose to stay.

They began to take this opportunity to restore those rat workshops, cave mushroom cultivation rooms, and breeding rooms.

But when a few unlucky guys made the choice to abandon the city, things were destined to become chaotic.

In hunger, those abandoned guys, those left in empty cities, filed out and passed through the underground tunnels that were built.

Like a virus, like a plague, it began to run wildly through the intricate underground tunnel lines built by the Rat Man Empire.

Of course, you can't blame them. After all, these guys have no other demands and just want to survive.

But things are getting more and more confusing here.

The sadistic Skaven guys once spread throughout the Skaven Empire.

Block tunnels, stop trains, sneak into rat cities that are still functioning normally, and rob and steal wantonly.

And this is a chain reaction.

Every time a city goes bankrupt, countless rat-man victims will flood into the underground tunnels.

Let the traffic in an area be paralyzed for a long time, and try to attack those cities that can still function normally.

This will make the Skaven cities that are still functioning normally unsustainable and eventually go bankrupt, and then release a larger group of Skaven victims again.

As chaos spread, even the Twin Fortresses began to frequently fail to contact the Underground Rat City.

More and more ratmen began to pour into those huge super cities.

They brought confusing news and fear for the future.

The circulation of blood mushrooms has dropped again.

Even the wealthy rat priests began to save.

In order to deal with this situation, the big figures in the Ratman Council frequently held various meetings during this period.

Finally, in the quarrel again and again.

The result is no result.

There is no doubt about the greed of these guys, and there is also no doubt about their lower limit.

Is it really difficult to solve this mess?

It's not that difficult. There is only one problem now, and that is the lack of blood mushrooms.

And why is there a lack of blood mushrooms?

Because after the war stopped, the ratmen who owned the blood mushrooms began to tightly cover the blood mushrooms in their arms, unwilling to let them out at all.

Don't say more, as long as these guys in the Ratman Council are willing to let go of their hands covering the blood mushrooms, then this chaotic situation will not be so bad that it will get worse.

But who would want to do that? The blood mushrooms in his arms belong to him, but the blood mushrooms released may become those of these guys.

As long as not all the guys relent at the same time, then the guy who relents first will completely become the victim.

Amid such precautions, the chaos was allowed to unfold.

Everything is going wrong.

All kinds of problems since the war stopped.

The huge rat-man empire even showed signs of crumbling at a certain moment.

This is less than two years after that victory!

Of course, does anyone want to save this.

Of course there is.

What people didn't expect was that it was Sheng Qi who took the lead to break the stalemate.

He was the first to lose.

That day, he slapped the table with a ferocious expression and roared loudly.

"If you want a civil war, then get out of here now and raise your troops. If you don't want a meaningless fight to the death, then raise this fight together!"

Just for these guys on the field.

Sheng Qi's roar was nothing.

There was an indelible gloom on Sheng Qi's face.

When the second rat-man parliament was convened, Sheng Qi had already thrown all the blood mushrooms in his hands at the chaotic rat-man empire. Those various small objects and sacrificial supplies that had been extremely expensive in the past were all in the The long table where the meeting was held was piled high.

The bright magic lamps cast light, and in this light, these things made of blood gold reflected different colors in the eyes of the rat council members with different expressions.

During this meeting, Shengqi made a proposal and it was successfully passed.

The construction plan was launched by Shengqi and the loyalist rat priests, temple guards, rat lords, rat priests from other parties, and Big Claw priests.

They will build huge temples in each of the three rat-man super cities, huge temples dedicated to the great gods.

A super temple made entirely of blood gold.

On that day, a large number of blood mushrooms were thrown into all sides of the Skaven Empire.

Those crumbling resource cities once again welcomed steam trains.

This is an extremely ambitious plan.

The Ratmen once again began to build huge temples. While offering sacrifices to the great gods, they also wanted to pull up the Ratman Empire that was about to collapse.

Those super industrial areas began to operate again, the silent blast furnaces were ignited again, and various ores were put into the blast furnaces.

In the wails of the slave rats and the roars of the greatclaw priests.

It's like going back to the past.

The super-industrial area is beginning to recover.

Of course, it’s not just super industrial areas.

Those steel trains that had been stagnant for a long time began to move again.

Although these temples have not started to be built, it doesn't matter. You just need to know that they will be several temples of unparalleled size.

In short, materials, ores and labor are needed.

Sheng Qi, the ratmen councillors and the ratmen parliament did not help all the resource cities.

Instead, they selectively pulled up the resource cities with the blood gold veins. In addition, there are also those more important cities.

Those cities that occupy important positions.

In this diffuse chaos, almost two-thirds of the resource cities were directly abandoned by them.

This is a very cruel choice, but these Sheng Qi and the ratmen councillors are indifferent to making this decision.

In the chaos, the abandoned cities were destroyed one by one, and countless ratmen chose to leave these abandoned cities in hunger. It was not easy to move forward in the tunnels full of toxic dust.

But they had no choice.

Before going to exhaustion in a toxic environment, the first thing that came closer was hunger.

Moving forward in chaos, being killed by ratmen from other cities, now, these hungry guys with no other choice have completely become the source of disaster.

Every rat city that survived was resisting their invasion.

Sheng Qi's decision saved many surviving rat cities, and the steam trains that came and went once again ran through the rat empire.

But no one cared about these hungry guys and they were directly abandoned.

This is an extremely large number.

Millions, millions, no, ten million, tens of millions, or more.

No one can count them clearly.

With the surviving rat cities on guard against these hungry people, attacking cities is becoming more and more difficult to achieve.

And the food brought by intercepting and attacking steam trains is obviously a drop in the bucket in their huge number.

In desperation, they began to leave the underground tunnels, trying to find food on the ground and survive.

Like locusts, they gnawed everything on the surface, leaving patches of bald land, and soon they were blocked.

For the sake of the stability of the city and the safety of their own ranches, the rat lords and rat farmers began to hire large groups of rat mercenaries to clean up these hungry guys.

This added a lot of tasks to the huge rat mercenary groups that retreated from the main continent.

They began to organize attacks on these desperate guys.

After several large-scale hunts, these hungry rats returned to the underground tunnel network in fear.

In this complex underground tunnel.

Even the most ferocious rat mercenaries, when they could not deploy formations and could not use war equipment, had to consider the possibility of being killed by a rush.

They were safe here, but the problem also appeared again.

Hunger.

In the deep underground tunnel.

Pairs of red eyes stared at each other.

In the unbearable hunger, some bad things happened.

It is not clear how these guys survived the long hunger.

But soon after, a huge number of rat-man zombies appeared in this underground tunnel, and along with these rat-man zombies appeared pale skeletons scattered everywhere.