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Chapter 1199 Chapter 121. Rat Man Craftsman
Gale cooperated and removed the evil spell, leaving behind a rat-man who was incontinent, lying on the ground and twitching.

Annan had little sympathy for it. The guards said it was the most ferocious and almost ate the bakery's owner.

He walked up to the ratmen craftsmen and asked, "Who is your leader?"

"Annan is a human being respected by the elders, and his words are equal to mine." Gale's words floated from behind.

A figure walked out from among the ratmen.

The Stoun Ratmen are closer in size to humans than other clans, but they do not include the Stoun craftsmen who spend all day in their underground hives.

But it can also be said that the Stoun ratmen follow the path of blood. They will mate with whatever race they need power from, and then select excellent genes through continuous breeding...

Maria is a product of this system, as is the ratman craftsman, but not all of them, so she still retains many ratman characteristics.

Without the cloak to cover it, the ratman craftsman's huge and deformed arms were revealed, and the muscles almost overwhelmed his head.

"Human stuff..." Even the ratman's unique shrill voice became deep.

"My name is Annan."

"Annan stuff..."

Annan always had a high tolerance for people with abilities, so he didn't mind it calling him that. He just smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

"No, name."

Annan asked about other things: "Did you run out with the rat people to do bad things?"

The chief ratman craftsman shook his head.

"If it wasn't you, why didn't you stop them?"

"Why do you want to stop it?" asked the leader of the ratmen craftsmen.

"because……"

Annan was speechless and did not dwell on the issue.

"This is the territory of humans. You should know that humans are different from ratmen. For example, we don't attack each other, and we don't rob each other..."

"Neither will Rat-Man."

"Then why do you..."

"Because you are human toys." The ratman craftsman leader's words suddenly became smooth.

Annan was speechless and even wanted Gale to continue.

"Forget it this time, since you don't know anything. But if something like this happens again, there will be punishment according to the laws of Liberty City... I think Gale and the elders will stand on my side."

Gail walked up to Annan at the right time and stared at the group of lowly brown rats with disdain.

The ratmen craftsmen expressed their submission.

"Luo Xi, send someone to count the damaged shops and have them ask the City Lord's Mansion for compensation."

Annan asked the ratmen craftsmen again: "Do you know what you are going to do?"

The chief ratman craftsman shook his head.

"I haven't told them yet," Gale said.

"Then follow me first."

Just as they finished their breakfast, Annan took them directly to the Forest Mountain. For the next few months, these ratmen craftsmen would stay here.

"The place you are going to next is the reason why I invited you here... It is a secret project in Liberty City, so please keep it confidential." said Annan and the ratmen craftsmen.

Annan didn't know which of them was the undercover sent by the rat elders, but if he wanted them to work willingly, he had to let them know that they were participating in a secret. "You are the same as other workers, with a daily salary of 2 to 3 silver coins and hours of rest every day. The only thing you need to pay attention to is to abide by the laws of Liberty City."

Paying wages - this was a temporary decision made by Annan. Paying an extra hundred people's wages would not cost much, but the ratmen who had the money would need to spend it, and spending money meant contact with humans, and contact with humans would give them a chance to be changed by the Free City.

When we arrived at the busy construction site, Yili had already led the workers to build a temporary shed.

The arrival of the rats attracted the attention of the workers, but they had been informed last night that a group of rat colleagues would be coming, so they just watched curiously.

Yili, who was as tall as a tree stump, was rushing towards this side. Annan looked at the figure beside him and suddenly let out a light exclamation.

"Little Small?"

"Lord Annan..." Little Smokey bowed when Annan called him by his name.

"Why are you here?"

Annan remembered that little Smo stayed in Free Blade, and his eldest sister was impressed by his leadership ability and arranged for him to study in the school.

"I found that I liked the feeling of clanging in the mine." Little Small smiled shyly.

Annan wanted to say that tunneling was different from mining, but when he thought about it carefully, there didn't seem to be much difference.

The commander of the Free Blade wore a set of Fast clothes and came to do hard labor. Annan suspected that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome...

But little Small looked like he was enjoying it.

After confirming that he was mentally sound, Annan handed the ratman over to Eli and stood aside to watch the tunnel excavation work.

Annan was very curious about what the ratmen craftsmen used to dig holes. They didn't have claws, so it couldn't be rodents, right?
Then he saw the ratmen craftsmen walk to the baskets they brought on their backs, lift the tarpaulin, and take out gauntlets inlaid with three sharp metal pickaxe heads one after another. They put them on their hands, stood in front of the rock wall, and scraped off layer after layer of debris like they were cutting wood, at an astonishing speed.

The digging speed of these one hundred ratmen craftsmen is enough to match that of eight hundred human workers... But on second thought, they are craftsmen of the ratmen clan rather than laborers, so it is normal for them to have some skills.

The width of the tunnel was limited. Seeing how capable they were, Yili decisively transferred all the ratmen craftsmen to be the main force to dig with all their might, while the human workers were responsible for delivering sand and gravel and widening and reinforcing the tunnel.

The workers were also divided into day and night shifts, and with the addition of ratman craftsmen, Ili Stonecrush assured Annan that before the autumn harvest, the soldiers from Liberty City would be able to reach the Franco territory directly.

"Don't say it so harshly. The Franco Territory is our trading partner," Annan corrected.

Looking at the baskets of gravel being carried out of the tunnel, Annan couldn't help but feel jealous.

Talents like this...should belong in Liberty City!

……

The same fiery gaze also appeared on Little Smalls.

While he was staring at the ratmen craftsmen, his fellow workers, who had been with him for several days, were also staring at him.

"Little Si Mo, you...you can actually talk to Lord An Nan?"

"I did some things for Lord Annan when I was in the kingdom." Little Smo said modestly, proud of it but not showing off.

But it was enough for the workers to make a fuss.

Before they could ask anything else, Yili came over and said, "I'll give you a task. How about looking after the rat craftsmen?"

"Me?" Little Small pointed at himself.

"Aren't you curious about the ratmen craftsmen? I'll give you a chance to observe." Eli obviously knew that he had a former Freeblade commander under his command, and he noticed his curiosity.

"Can you do it?"

"give it to me!"

Eli was pleased with Little Smokey's spirit, pointed at his clothes and added: "Change your clothes before you go over. The ratmen are rather...snobbish. If you dress like a commoner, they won't listen to you."

(End of this chapter)