Chapter 401, The world turned into a cage
The skinny slave rat danced on the top of a low mountain. In front of him, a large number of soul gems piled up.
He was bargaining.
Towards the beam cast from the sky in front of him.
Towards a group of unknown things.
The hand behind the slave rat riot finally showed its traces.
A beam of light, a hazy silver beam of light.
Incredible, like a miracle. Of course, such incredibleness is only for those who have not left the planet or have not dealt with the Eldar. In fact, this beam of light has another more understandable name.
Tractor beam.
Projected by the anti-gravity module loaded on the spacecraft, the function is to load materials into the spacecraft more conveniently.
At this time, the Eldar in the spacecraft once again cheered.
After boxes of ether crystals were put into the spacecraft, all they had to pay were some brainwashing devices, some learning devices, and various ancient beam weapons that could be printed in batches.
All of this is done without much effort. All you need to do is invest in raw materials. The nano-production station used as emergency repair equipment can produce these in large quantities.
Although only an Eldar reconnaissance ship arrived here, a small auxiliary spaceship that is insignificant to the Eldar, in fact, this spaceship has the ability to dominate the direction of the first-level civilization.
If it weren't for the fact that the things read from the memory were too terrible.
They only need to show up in the capital of the Ratman Empire, and with the spaceship shield that is almost impossible for the Ratman to penetrate, they can easily crush the entire Ratman Empire.
But now, not only did they not do this, but they only dared to contact these rioting slave rats as if they were avoiding something, with a look of hiding their heads and showing their tails.
Some of the images read from the Ratman priests who were sent to the sky and frozen into popsicles were too horrifying.
Involving the origin of the ether satellite and ether comet.
It is hard to imagine that if these two things were fabricated by an indescribable creature, history is still particularly young, and they were given to the rat people on this planet as a gift.
It is too unbelievable that a creature called a god can do such a thing.
Later, their detection of the ether comet confirmed the authenticity of the extracted memory fragment. The ether comet was too young, and the ether satellite was the same.
And in their subsequent landing operation on the ether satellite, the reconnaissance ship could not help but become disabled when approaching the blue comet. Everything was stopped. If they had not reacted quickly and quickly pulled away, they would probably fall to the ether satellite and die.
All this seems to confirm what is recorded in the memory fragment.
It also makes them become cautious.
In fact, there is no need to be so careful. The disability they experienced when approaching the Soul Moon is not a setting that Du Yuan has set for the Soul Moon that is unique to the rat people.
It was just that the overwhelming soul energy interfered with the control system of their reconnaissance ship.
It was strange to say that after Du Yuan crushed several so-called arks in the chaotic space, he also found some interesting things.
The real core of these Eldar warships, the control system of the warships was not a completely mechanical creation, but a living state, as if the artificial soul was the technology that could make all the gods of death jump up in an instant to fight against the rebels.
Then, the reason why these Eldar warships could not get close to the Soul Moon was very clear.
These too weak artificial souls could not withstand such an impact. With such a terrifying size of the Soul Moon, I am afraid that just getting closer would kill the main control AI of the reconnaissance sword with radiation alone.
But these Eldar crew members did not know this. They only thought that it was really like the frantic whispers in the soul fragment of the rat priest. This was a gift specially prepared for them by the god, an unimaginable terrifying life, and a gift that belonged exclusively to them.
So, such a tactful exploration and repair began.
The captain of the reconnaissance ship did not forget that she was only driving a reconnaissance ship, and the reconnaissance ship also did not forget that it was only a reconnaissance ship.
They were not the main force of the Eldar, and they were not even qualified to be a decent tentacle.
Encountering such an almost unreasonable situation, it was no longer a fabricated god, as if it really existed. They were not qualified to touch and deal with it. As long as they brought back the situation here after completing the repairs, they would have done what they had to do.
This was a decision made by the captain and the ship. They were quite sure, but the other crew members on the reconnaissance ship were more eager to move.
After all, as long as there was a piece of ether crystal, it would be enough to change their fate. Now, the ether crystals on this planet cannot be said to be everywhere, but it can be said to be rich to a certain extent.
Although the captain and the ship were also afraid of the hidden god, they were also eager for these precious gems.
Thus, the first official contact between the Eldar and the Skaven began in such an awkward manner.
It was said that they had put some thought into the first contact with the slave rat leader.
It is hard not to suspect that the beams falling from the sky imitated the situations recorded in the history of the ratmen when the gifts fell.
Sure enough, the first contact, the rioting slave rat leader, the thin slave rat, was extremely terrified and kept bowing until suddenly, he seemed to react to something.
He became furious, roared loudly, and even tried to attack the tractor beam in front of him.
The first contact fell in an extremely bleak situation.
The reason also made these elves inevitably stunned.
When the tractor beam fell, the rioting slave rat leader wanted to beg for the gift in his enthusiasm.
What he wanted was not something very complicated and difficult, and it was even very simple. He wanted to become a ratman priest.
Well, in his long career as a slave rat, his biggest wish seemed to be just to become a ratman priest at the beginning. Perhaps during the period when he was still a slave rat, this wish was even more humble, and it might just be to become a big claw priest.
But the Eldars definitely couldn't give this.
As expected, the slave rat leader became furious. He beat the tractor beam and the guy behind it into heresy. If the tractor beam hadn't been hit, the guy would have rushed over and started biting.
Such a miserable first contact made the Eldars look unhappy, but fortunately, a group of rat mercenaries who came here to suppress them gave them a chance.
These rioting slave rats were beaten and fled, and they were about to be caught and sold as goods again.
At this time, the real contact finally began.
The Eldars provided weapons and equipment to the rioting slave rats, and the rioting slave rats handed over all the soul gems they had obtained along the way to these guys.
On the hill, after delivering a few boxes of soul gems, various things continued to appear and piled up into a hill.
But the slave rat leader's expression was not happy, and his eyes on the tractor beam in front of him were particularly fierce.
This is a paranoid guy, especially paranoid.
His wishes, goals, and what he wants to get seem to have never changed.
He wants to become a rat priest.
This is something that doesn't seem so difficult, but it's almost impossible to ask for.
Those who can become rat priests are rat priests, and those who can't will always be like that.
It's a bit confusing, but it's true. Only those who can become rat priests can become rat priests, and those who can't become rat priests will be in vain no matter how much they kneel.
But he doesn't seem to be willing.
He just wants to be a rat priest.
In that riot, they were running in the dark, and he was not the initiator, but just surged with the guys around him. In the unreasonable anger, the guys around him fell one by one, and unknowingly, he rushed to the front and rushed to the damn big claw priest.
At that time, he thrust the spear in his hand into the chest of the damned guy without hesitation, watching him struggle and fall down. The slave rats around him rushed over and lifted him up high. He became the leader of this group of guys.
But after that chaotic night, he fell into deep confusion.
What should he do? On the ruins, he pondered such a question.
Soon, he got the answer.
He wanted to become a rat priest.
This is a very simple wish, but how to achieve it.
After another period of thinking, he got the answer from the mumbling of several old guys.
The history of rats is far more than the patterns neatly placed on the stone slabs of the temple by the temple guards. It is also spread through the word of mouth of many rats, evolving into vague stories and legends.
Among them, there are many such descriptions.
Get the gift of God and become a great guy.
He is currently walking on such a path.
So, he started to move. After conquering another rat city on the border, the old slave rats asked him to give himself a name, and then he gave himself a name.
He was called the Gifted Rat, and the purpose of this name was clear at a glance.
But how to get the gift was still so confusing.
But he instinctively felt that he needed more slave rats, more slave rats, so a riot began to spread.
This riot was particularly casual, but it seemed to be very consistent with the temperament of the rats.
All the mess started like this.
But it had to end in blood and fire.
With these many things, facing the next suppression and the rat mercenaries rushing here, there was some suspense about who would win and who would lose.
But how to get the gift?
This is still a question that has no answer for the time being.
This guy who named himself the gift, he murmured day and night for this.
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As the suppression war was about to begin, the temple guards also came to cause trouble for the ratmen merchants in the waste city.
The fall of the mining cities in the rolling hills made the various resources in the Waste City scarce, so the sea route became particularly important.
Now, the offensive and defensive situation is different, and the pirates are starting to abuse again.
For a while, the rat merchants were even more anxious.
In such a chaos.
The Rat Empire was very reluctant to take a breath from the peace again.
At least, at this time, the bigwigs in the Rat Empire still had the energy to curse loudly in the Rat Parliament.
Although the west coast of the main continent is now a mess, those guys who were cheated by the rat guys in the Waste City are also extremely angry and began to capture islands on the waterway to recover their losses. At the same time, the suppression war is about to start, and there is no sign of stopping the riots everywhere.
But it is harmless, everything is so peaceful.
The Rat Empire is still thriving today!
In this meeting, the bigwigs in the Rat Empire determined some topics.
First, unify the steam rail standards everywhere.
Second, build more steam rail networks.
Third, open up the network between cities.
Fourth, the manned steam train is officially opened.
A series of topics are held around steam trains, which seems to show the attitude of these guys towards some things.
Everyone is tacitly avoiding civil war, but at the same time tends to further expand the liquidity within the Rat Empire. This is a strategy that everyone can benefit from.
These topics were passed at full speed.
Everything is indeed thriving.
These greedy guys are forced to adapt to this peaceful era.
This planet formed by the small world is indeed too small. It can no longer accommodate the increasingly expanding rats and is gradually becoming a cage.
Fortunately, the rats will not be trapped on this small planet like most races, constantly making compromises or repeating wars and self-destruction until extinction.
Their gods have prepared a ladder for them.
And encourage them to walk towards the stars.
They will not be trapped in this cage for a long time.
Although I don’t know why these noisy guys are so favored.