Chapter 408, The life-sucking vampire

Chapter 408, The life-sucking vampire

Did the establishment of the Rat Empire bring more and better changes to the rats?

No, maybe not.

Time flies fast on such a vast scale as the universe.

Two hundred years have passed since the rats successfully stepped into the starry sky.

Colonial cities fell on the seven planets that formed the subspace corridor, and the Rat Empire also expanded rapidly.

In two hundred years, many changes were born in the Rat Empire.

These crazy guys promoted many things.

But a faint sense of decay was entangled with the entire Rat Empire.

A real disconnection was born in the advancement of time, from those blood mushrooms, from the scarlet filtered out by the rotten corpses.

Life essence has never been able to prolong life endlessly, even with the soul gem.

The effect will continue to decay with use. This is not an eternal elixir of immortality.

But it is indeed a miracle-like thing. With the life essence of the soul gem, it decays again and again, but when you use it, it will always be effective.

It's nothing more than a doubling of the dosage.

From one drop, to a mouthful, to double, to the end, these rat nobles, bigwigs, rulers, greedy monsters, were completely immersed in the extremely bright pool water.

The rats had nothing to do with vampires, but at this moment, these guys were more like vampires than vampires.

The Rat Empire entered a completely solidified state. Sheng Qi is still the rat priest to this day, and those greedy guys have also regained their youth one by one.

But Qi is old. He abandoned the blood mushrooms and abandoned the temple guards on the day the Rat Empire was established. I just don't know if he regretted it later.

The emperor of the empire, after still resolutely resisting the tentacles of the remnants of the Rat Council fifty years ago, he never obtained the life essence that could be used to prolong his life.

These remnants, well, maybe it's right to call them that, after all, the great gods have all left, and it's more than appropriate to call them remnants. They want to use the scarlet blood to turn into reins and put the reins around Qi's neck.

But they didn't expect Qi to be so resolute.

Even the capital of the Rat Empire has been moved, leaving the distant temple, leaving this small planet, and moving to the end of the Miracle Channel, the last of the seventh planet.

Is it all worth it? After all, what those greedy guys want is not that expensive.

It's just those lowly ratmen.

Or those lives that can be used for sacrifice.

A drop of life essence requires enough blood mushrooms to fill a room, and the number of creatures that need to be killed can be piled up into a small mountain.

And a small mouthful of life essence requires tens of thousands of lives.

How exaggerated is the life required for the blood pool that was built to maintain these corrupt vampires?

Such a horrible demand made it difficult to maintain even the external plunder.

They could only focus on the other ratmen around them, who were becoming more and more prosperous with the development of the starry sky.

The curse on Long Claws continued after all. He did not become a god, and these deformed ratmen who fiddled with his corpse could not become gods either.

These guys who could not live without the essence of life became like stink bugs that could not live without water, clinging to all ratmen and greedily sucking blood.

But in fact, even here, the conflict between Qi and these guys was not so difficult to mediate. After all, what these guys wanted was not excessive. Even if the number was so exaggerated, the ratmen could actually support them as long as the number of these greedy vampires did not expand indefinitely.

Would Qi take those lowly guys too seriously? I'm afraid not.

In fact, the bottom of the Rat Empire had always lived a bad life. There were some changes compared to before, but it seemed that nothing had changed.

Roaring factories, puffs of black smoke, sharp and scolding rat supervisors, rat nobles who opened factories, unimaginably meager rewards, and the work that seemed to never stop.

The fallen code did change some things. There was no more unreasonable killing, no more wanton buying and selling, and even the rat breeding house was swept into the garbage dump.

But nothing seemed to have changed.

The big claw priest, the rat priest, and the country that was so deformed that it was unimaginable.

These things seemed to have reappeared just by changing their names.

As for why, why nothing has changed.

After the rat empire had walked through this period of stable and miraculous road, the exploration of the physical universe was deadlocked. The terrifying physical scale between stars was something that every race that stepped into the starry sky had to face.

There were not many roads to choose from. Either increase the speed of the spacecraft to the limit of the physical universe, and then use a series of means such as hibernation capsules to carry out this long exploration, or take a shortcut and explore the physical universe through the subspace.

This is not an easy task, especially when the technological leap of the ratmen is so exaggerated.

Positioning, star maps, navigation, and the experience of subspace exploration, all of these are problems, but you expect the rats to stop patiently and climb the technology tree based on the resources on the seven planets, which is almost impossible.

These impatient guys chose the simplest and crudest way to carry out this interstellar expedition.

Exhaustive.

While building a large number of large-scale star fleets, they constantly throw various reconnaissance ships into the subspace and use these rat scouts to carry out exhaustive.

This is not useless. At least in these years, there are really three relatively stable subspace passages explored by the rats.

These three passages lead to three star fields, and have become the source of suffering for these humble guys in the rat empire, with constantly sent indicators, never-stopping blast furnaces, increasingly bloated cities built on mineral veins, and these seemingly free, but pitiful guys who live in exhaust gas and die on steel.

It was still the firewood that was constantly burning. It seemed no different from before. Their burning brought prosperity to the Rat Empire and the Rat warships that were formed in the outer orbit and in the starport.

It created the burning flames in the eyes of the Rat Emperor.

Qi did not treat these guys in the Rat Empire preferentially. He did not love these lowly guys. In essence, there was no essential difference between burning these guys in the Rat Empire and turning them into corpses floating in the blood pool.

But Qi burst out with an unspeakable disgust for the group of vampires.

He was not even willing to make any compromise with these rotten guys.

Indeed, he did not care about those lowly guys, but he did not allow these greedy blood-sucking insects to snatch anything from his clenched hands.

Even the passing of life and the aging of the body could not move him at all.

He was the Rat Emperor!

This is very rat-man, very rat-man, very much like the rat-man under Du Yuan, a crazy guy who is really ignited by the fire of desire, extreme and paranoid.

The real tough guys among the rat-men have never been afraid of death.

But this also stimulates the irreconcilable contradiction.

The contradiction between life and death.

There is no doubt that those guys want to survive, those greedy vampires, and Qi is gradually becoming an obstacle to their survival.

Now, the contradiction has not completely erupted.

Because of the mutual fear.

These greedy vampires, their influence on the rat-men is still too great. Even if Qi has separated them from the Rat Empire, their influence is still spread all over the Rat Empire with their faith.

Even if it is really necessary to decide life and death, it has not reached the best time.

For the time being, they can only wait.

On the other hand, those guys who have transformed into vampires are also waiting, and they are less anxious than Qi.

After all, time is on their side.

Even if Qi is so stubborn, how long can he be stubborn? If he dies, then everything will still go according to their will.

So, this strange balance appeared.

The two sides maintained such a strange balance in mutual entanglement and peeping.

The rats are still young, but the rat empire is inexplicably so corrupt and rigid. Today, nothing happened and everything is the same as before.

………….

The third planet colonized by the rats is a high-quality mining planet named Steam and Steel, but the big claw priests prefer to call it another name, Black Iron Star.

This is the source of raw materials for the first, second and third fleets being built by the rat empire, these three interstellar fleets, and even many fleets in the future.

This is a gray planet, a relatively young planet, and the core of the planet is still in a state of agitation that has not subsided. There are a large number of volcanoes, rifts, and geothermal resources that are so exaggerated that if you just make a deeper hole in the rock crust, it will gush out.

The movement of volcanoes and the core of the planet brings a large number of rare minerals to the surface. The huge rift can be used as a natural mine, and the surging geothermal heat is simply a natural cheap energy source.

This is an extremely high-quality planet suitable for mining. If the building damage and earthquakes caused by its too frequent geological activities can be solved, then this planet can also become an industrial planet that is extremely suitable for industrial activities.

Can the rats solve this problem?

Of course, although with the progress of the times, the rats' increasingly large cities have to spread to the surface and the sky, in order to avoid the damage of geological activities to the city, and to avoid the damage of the rat city to the geological structure.

Well, this is a situation that is difficult to describe. It can only be said that when the rats dug the city deeper underground, they finally encountered the insurmountable marginal effect.

The exaggerated rat holes made by these super-evolved rats, although not to the extent that the planet is unbearable, have reached a level that they themselves cannot bear.

The magma that could erupt and flood the entire city, the unstable crust structure, the frequent earthquakes, the collapsed urban areas, the toxic gases buried in the underground caves, and of course, the groundwater, all these messy things are making it increasingly difficult for the rat people to bear.

So, they had to move most of the city's structure to the surface.

But this does not mean that the rats have learned nothing in their struggle with the insurmountable marginal effect of the underground city.

Their structural and architectural studies have been perfected. In short, they have no problem dealing with the restlessness of the young Black Iron Star.

As a matter of course, Black Iron Star became the industrial center of the Rat Empire, attracting most of the Big Claw Priests who walked on the road of machinery. No, it seems that it is no longer appropriate to call them Big Claw Priests now. These new generation of rat engineers still have faith, and even believe in the great god who is a bit mysterious in legends and epics.

Although they themselves may not know this.

Because now, the symbol representing the rat engineers is the technician badge derived from the Gear Church, which is a badge with a huge claw mark as the base and embossed metal gears.

The spirit of gears, the spirit of machinery and metal.

This is the object of their faith.

Undoubtedly, this also comes from the great god, but with the passage of time, such a connection is gradually being forgotten.

Now, these rat engineers no longer have the iconic big claws. These big claws that will appear due to labor have gradually become the symbol of those wild rats.

But some things have not changed. These guys are still a little bit nervous. At the same time, the aesthetics of liking big and strong, and the design concept that does not pay attention to user experience, these messy things have been inherited.

It can be said that good things cannot be learned, and bad things are passed on for thousands of years.

The gathering of these guys on the Black Iron Star naturally made the Black Iron City an extremely important technological node in the Rat Empire.

Under the coverage of so many halos, a star port was officially landed on the outer orbit of this Black Iron Star thirty years ago.

Today, the Rat Empire, including the original planet transformed from the corpse of the small plane, controls a total of eight planets.

Among these eight planets, except for the original star, Shenqi, which is the starting point of the Miracle Bridge, and the fortress at the end of the Miracle Bridge, only Black Iron Star has a star port.

However, it is not surprising that Shenqi and the fortress, which is now the capital of the Rat Empire, have star ports. The symbols and significance of these two planets are extremely important.

Compared with the above two planets, Black Iron Star cannot be compared in most aspects, but it can have a star port only because of a very simple reason.

Value.

Its value is huge!