Chapter 412, The guy trapped in the past

Chapter 412, The guy trapped in the past

This is not good news. The connections she has accumulated, the relationships she has maintained, the protectors, these things, these things, after two hundred years, it is hard to say what is left.

In short, in the flow of time, the things she relies on may not be left at all.

This point was fully demonstrated when she returned to the mothership and was first sent to a pale interrogation room. No one came to visit for a long time, and it was a state of no one caring.

In the quiet room.

The terminal in her hand vibrated, and a few lines of words were typed and projected into her sight.

"It seems that you have nothing left."

Such words did not anger the tall captain, and her current mood was unexpectedly stable.

In this pale and empty room.

She denied the words that popped up in the terminal, and whispered to herself calmly in this empty room.

"No, I still have you!"

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Shenqi Star, Desolate Mountains, Underground Rat City.

Today's Underground Rat City is no longer worthy of its name.

An unimaginably tall steel city rose from the ground.

It directly encompassed the entire desolate mountain range.

This is still the center of the Rat Empire, one of the centers, and still represents the beliefs of the Rat Empire.

After the advent of the interstellar era, the power of the Rat Parliament, or the priests of the Rat Temple, has skyrocketed.

On that increasingly large scale, the Rat Empire needs a link to connect the upper and lower parts of the Rat Empire.

The scale of the universe is an insurmountable dilemma.

The rats now occupy only eight planets, but this vast and unimaginable scale has brought countless difficult problems.

The distance is widening, the transportation is inconvenient, even if there is a miracle corridor to maintain the loyalty of each planet to the Rat Emperor, but after all, the Rat fleets will not stop on every planet every moment.

Rebellion, lip service, and the gradually rising tendency of division.

These are the specialties that an interstellar empire has to taste.

Therefore, a bond, a bond that can connect the whole Rat Empire, becomes particularly important and necessary.

Then the question is, what can best serve as such a bond?

It seems that the answer has already appeared, and there is no need to hesitate, that is faith.

The faith in the great god was brought to the starry sky as the rats expanded, and fell on these eight planets.

These rat councilors did a good job. The rat believers who believed in the great god reached the highest peak in history, and also raised the power of these rat councilors to an unprecedented level.

If Qi had not made a judgment and precaution against this possible scene early, he would have forcibly separated half of the Gear Church from these guys, and twisted these guys and most of the Big Claw Priests who were attached to the structure of the Rat Empire into rat engineers.

Otherwise, at this time, I am afraid that these rat councilors would be the real controllers of the Rat Empire.

However, even if these were suppressed, with the spread of faith, these guys were still trying to take half of the Rat Empire into their hands.

The current power status of the Rat Empire, Fortress, Steam and Steel, Transit and Commerce, these three planets and the Rat Fleet are in Qi's hands, and all other planets are in a state of stalemate.

It looks bad, and it is indeed bad.

Qi can suppress this group of temple priests, but he can't suppress them completely, which is the source of unrest.

When this group of guys raised the banner of holy war, almost every Rat planet would have Rat believers respond, and this would increase depending on the prosperity of the planet.

That flag, the flag depicting the great god, can still be responded to by a hundred people in the Rat Empire. These temple Rat priests can stir up a commotion with just a slight wave of this sacred flag.

But the more this happened, the more Qi looked down on those ugly and greedy vampires doing such things.

The greatness of the gods is beyond doubt, but can they really have anything to do with the gods now?

A bunch of scum, wriggling maggots, stupid idiots, stinking and rotting bugs.

Qi commented on these guys like this.

Of course, don't look at Qi's contempt for these rat temple priests, and even moved the capital of the rat empire to the last stop of the miracle road early, but in fact, there is still a connection between the two sides.

It's just that the connection is not particularly close, and it depends entirely on the maintenance of two rats.

One is Ying. The rat assassins are still active on the Shenqi Star. Ying follows the instructions given two hundred years ago and is still guarding the rat priests.

The second is Sheng Qi, the second high priest of the Ratman Empire, a puppet supported by Qi to the position of high priest, but now he has become the key figure to bridge the contradiction between Qi and the priests of the temple.

It is really hard to imagine that these two guys have maintained a good relationship in the past two hundred years, even until now, which is very strange.

In the original temple.

Sheng Qi has not become as young as imagined. On the contrary, he now has an old appearance, with dry hair, stooped body, cloudy eyes, and a wooden stick in his hand.

Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. In the turmoil, he has long been a simple puppet. As the high priest of the rat people, he will not be short of mushrooms, and he will certainly not be short of life essence.

Even if maintaining life and restoring youth requires consuming countless life essences and piling up these precious things to create an unimaginably extravagant blood pool, it is still affordable.

But today, he looked very old.

In the original temple.

The sacred pillar still stands, the blood pool has never dried up and lacked sacrifices, the cold soul giant bell also stands quietly on the top of the pyramid, and blood mushrooms are still emerging continuously.

Every sacred object, they still maintain the same appearance as they did more than two hundred years ago.

After so long, everything here still looks like it has not changed, as if time has been frozen. These are all the contributions of Sheng Qi.

In the Skaven Empire, the Skaven have experienced many things and undergone many changes over the years. The Skaven Priests have also experienced that series of changes, and even such turmoil has been particularly violent among them.

When the rat people walked out of the starry sky, discovered the first planet on this miraculous path, and began to try interstellar colonization in excitement.

There was a lot of wailing in this underground rat city.

That time, a full third of the rat priests went crazy. This was an even crazier turmoil, coming from those desperate rat priests.

In the past fifty years, in fact, regarding that cruel fact, perhaps many rat priests felt that they were ready, or perhaps the production of the essence of life had given them a lot of enthusiasm, and they felt that they could wait.

But when the day came, these guys discovered that things might not be what they thought.

That day, in the underground rat city, the crazy rat priests once again started crazy killings. In the midst of wailing and desperate sobs, they waved the weapons in their hands, smeared their bodies with blood, and rushed towards the original temple crazily. Come.

The temple guards who were supposed to stop these crazy guys did nothing until the door of the original temple was carefully pushed open by these crazy guys.

Until that dim divine pillar appeared in the eyes of all the rat priests.

Until the confused guy sitting in the original hall appeared in the eyes of all the rat priests.

This is how the turmoil ended.

That day, the underground rat city was full of corpses, all of them corpses of rat priests. The sacred pillars dimmed, and the rat priests also lost the ability to release divine magic.

They all had to accept a fact that they were unwilling to accept.

Maybe, maybe the great god really left.

Before that day, Sheng Qi was terrified of this possibility, but he was not desperate. Strictly speaking, he had never been considered pious. Even though he was the rat-man high priest, he had never mastered more divine arts. , Mad Transformation Technique, he only knows Mad Transformation Technique.

After all, although the great gods have been watching the rat people, they are still too far away from these guys.

He could not see the great gods, nor could he hear the preaching of the great gods.

But he is already very lucky. At least, he has truly received the gift of the gods, although he was only connected with it. In the original temple, it was used to set off the arrogant rat-man commander and the terrifying man. the high priest.

But he has received a gift, and this is what countless rat priests in the rat empire have been longing for all their lives.

In this way, he still feels that God is far away.

He felt that he was not religious.

The departure of the great god may have made him more worried about his own power.

Until, until that day comes.

Sheng Qi was not as calm as he expected. That day, an indescribable sense of panic gripped his heart.

Not fear, not despair, but panic.

He was the guy who was sitting unconsciously in the original temple.

That day, he stared blankly at the dim pillar, at the sacred pillar.

Desperate wails and sobs echoed in his ears.

One hundred and fifty years since then, he has often wandered in this original temple, and the desperate wails and sobs still echo in his ears.

He may be more religious than he thinks.

He may be more inseparable from the great gods than he thought.

Kowling in this great hall where everything seems unchanged, kowtowing in front of the sacred pillar that has been dimmed for 150 years, Sheng Qi kowtows devoutly.

"The great god."

Just raised his head, but nothing has changed.

A long look.

Until a young rat man boy came behind him at some point.

"High Priest, the temple meeting is about to begin."

The boy spoke when Sheng Qi noticed him. Sheng Qi nodded, slowly stood up from the kneeling position, and held the wooden staff to support himself.

The rat priests who had experienced the turmoil a hundred and fifty years ago quickly built a more majestic temple in the new city of the underground rat city, which was built on the surface. It was like running away from the old city.

They dared not come back, nor did they dare to face all this.

Just as Sheng Qi was about to leave this dim temple, he paused, stopped, and turned his head.

Nothing in this temple has changed. There is no change compared to the appearance of more than two hundred years ago, but everything has changed.

The degeneration of the rat priests and their rapid transformation into a group of greedy vampires began at an irreversible speed after that incident.

Sheng Qi is a talented person after all. He is not like those guys who live in fear and cannot face all this.

It's just that sometimes having courage is more cruel.

After the god left, Sheng Qi found that he was far more pious than he thought.

After the great god who was high above and never felt real really left, he found that he was far more pious than he thought.

This glance, Sheng Qi looked for a long time.

Sheng Qi seemed to be stuck in the past. Who could have thought that this guy who had always been lucky, an apprentice god who only knew how to berserk, often in a mess, and despised by the white rats, would eventually become the ratman high priest, just as who could have thought that he was actually a pious ratman priest, and was still stuck in the past that was so long ago that it was unimaginable.

One hundred and fifty years have passed.

These one hundred and fifty years are twice as long as his previous life, but he was firmly trapped, trapped in that short past.

What a freak.

In the end, Sheng Qi left, and the original temple returned to silence.

Sheng Qi did a lot of things in these years, and he himself has changed a lot.

This former underground rat city has completely become a slum. The rats have gone to the starry sky to prolong their lives, but even in this still important city, the center of the center of the ratman empire, there are still those thin rats wandering around.

When he was rushing to attend the temple meeting, he was riding on the luxurious aircraft. Sheng Qi looked out the window and saw a group of skinny ratmen wandering on the roadside.

But his luxurious aircraft seemed to make those skinny ratmen particularly frightened.

It was not surprising that after so many years, those big men were still deadly to these ordinary ratmen.

Not long after he left, several ratmen guards came here and put down the cave mushrooms in their hands.

This may be the reason why Qi nodded to him over the years.

Sheng Qi has become old and frail over the years, but he has become more kind and willing to focus on more ratmen.

I don't know why this is.