From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 307: The Broad Prospects of the Demonic Biological Industry
In fact, Sheng Qi was worrying too much. The island residents did not have such a deep foundation.

After all, the rapid launching of one ratman warship after another relies on an industrial system that is gradually taking shape.

After most of the warships in the hands of these island residents were destroyed, only two or three large and small ships were left in a short period of time. Even though the shipyard was working at full capacity, it would still take some time for the new batch of sailing warships to be launched.

During this period of time, the residents of these islands probably won't be able to cause any trouble to the rat people.

In terms of industrial capacity, even the human empire as a whole is far inferior to the ratmen.

Although in terms of magic equipment, the rat people will be beaten.

However, if we look at metal production capacity and industrial scale, then the target of the beating will obviously be someone else, and it will be the Ghost Eye people who will be beaten by the Skaven.

The military-industrial system in the Ratman Empire is highly independent, large and complex.

During this period, they never stopped expanding those high-speed tunnels, but these additional high-speed channels were not used for traffic, but mostly for transportation duties.

Countless giant rats travel back and forth in these tunnels day and night, heading for huge industries and countless large and small mines.

Iron ore, copper ore, gold mine, coal mine, and miscellaneous things were all carried out from underground by these greedy rats with an unrestrained attitude, and then filled into the hot blast furnaces.

This is not a highly efficient cycle, but the scale is undeniable.

In a very short period of time, the scorching flames, the continuous blast furnaces, the countless mineral veins and the endless slave rats, all these things combined together to build an industrial system that was large enough and spanned the ages.

This extremely large-scale industrial power is being dragged down by the rat people's overly deformed technology tree.

For a long time, the needs of the rat people were so simple: spears, armor, and catapults.

Such demands have meant that the industrial capabilities of the ratmen have never been very impressive. After all, even if you can cast a lot of spears in a day, what can you change? The only change is that the wooden spears in the hands of the ratmen warriors have become iron spears. Of course, this is also a change, but the progress brought about by the ratmen holding iron spears and the ratmen holding wooden spears is not obvious.

Even those bulky war machines are the same. Even if you make these catapults bigger, how much iron can be consumed?

Every day, new blast furnaces are built in the Skaven Empire.

The huge production capacity has already resulted in substantial waste. Take Furnace City for example. This earliest industrial city in the Ratman Empire has fallen into complete failure in terms of production capacity, technology, and sales channels.

It is completely unable to compete with the industrial area in the Desolate Mountains and the abandoned city run by the ratmen priests.

Those blast furnaces that had been running day and night had begun to idle, as if they were being driven by inertia to continue production. The Ratman Empire was no longer short of coal. Even not far from the Furnace City, a coal mine with quite good reserves was discovered.

It was found on a dry riverbed.

In fact, since the establishment of Furnace City, the environment of this area has begun to change drastically.

After all, the rats have no concept of protecting the environment. The river's diversion was caused by the rats' violent exploitation of a mineral vein. The earth, which had been hollowed out, could no longer sustain itself, and a hideous large pit appeared in the originally lush forest, causing the river to divert and exposing the coal mine to the rats.

A large number of metal ingots are cast every day, but there are not many buyers.

So, these metal ingots were piled up high, forming a small hill, and just left there, with no one paying attention to them.

If nothing unexpected happens, the fate of Furnace City will basically be decided.

After the mineral veins in this area that are of no cost to the rats are exhausted, the industrial power in the Crucible City will enter an irreversible decline and collapse. This veteran industrial city of the rats will be reduced to an ordinary rat settlement, serving as a stopover for the increasingly prosperous pilgrimage craze.

This is something that is very likely to happen. Rise and fall are normal things in the rapidly iterating Ratman Empire.

How many years did it take for the once prosperous outpost to become the quiet fortress it is today?

Even pilgrims would not stop at the outpost, as the name of the small temple was once sacred.

However, Furnace City was still quite lucky. The stagnation of the war brought about some changes. In the near future, the Knights Templar were forcibly casting the land bridge, and in the distant future, the ratmen began to build steel battleships on a large scale.

The ratmen's steel warships continued the style of the Big Claw Priests, getting bigger and bigger.

This time it is finally not a small fight. On this endless sea, these big ships can really be piled up to an unimaginable scale.

The most important thing is that the huge production capacity brought by such a huge industrial scale will finally be put to good use and it will also bring an opportunity, an opportunity for integration.

The Ratman industry, which has spanned the ages, is actually still operating in the same way as a small workshop.

It cannot be said that there is no linkage between the three major industrial centers, Desolate Mountains, Slag City, and Furnace City, but it can only be said that there is no linkage at all. In fact, Furnace City was almost bankrupt due to the recent run.

Perhaps some sustained megaprojects could change that.

Although it is hard to say whether it can be done, after all, some contradictions in the Ratman Empire are so simply laid out in the open.

Perhaps this generally independent industrial model of small workshops will eventually give rise to several megacities of unimaginable size, rather than uniting and complementing each other. This is also a possible scenario.

But these are things for the future.

At least now, all kinds of measures have been completed. Compared with the slightly conservative, or quite conservative shipbuilding industry of the island residents, the Ratman Empire, which has been rapidly building docks and shipyards on the rolling hills and beaches, is about to really start to exert its strength.

The day of beating up primitive men at sea is apparently not far away.

Of course, this is not the worst situation for the island residents.

A strange plague began to spread on Hurricane Island.

First you'll be hungrier than usual, then your stomach will gradually swell, and finally it'll turn into a nightmare situation with countless parasitic beasts wriggling in your body. The situation will depend on the constitution of each infected person.

People with good physical constitution may be infected for a long time without showing any obvious symptoms, while people with poor physical constitution may die in just a week.

Such a huge gap is not good news. As a plague, an excessively high mortality rate is not an advantage. Fortunately, those guys with strong physiques made up for the spread of this plague.

The transmission route of these parasitic monsters is extremely dependent on water sources. When the host shows the slightest symptoms, preparations for spread have already begun.

A large number of eggs are laid in the host's intestines and stomach, and these eggs will eventually be excreted through feces. If they flow into the water, anyone who drinks water in this area may be parasitized soon.

And not only that, after becoming monsters, these parasitic worms have acquired a certain ability to survive outside the body, and can move independently in the outside world even if they are separated from the host.

This is a very bad situation, because these parasitic worms have another characteristic, delicious. Eating these things is not a good situation, often at this time, these parasitic monsters still have a large number of unexcreted eggs in their bodies.

This is truly a vicious infection strategy.

Although most intelligent creatures would probably stay away from some delicious parasitic worms, those with less intelligence would not be so particular. Birds, beasts and fish would all become part of the infection process.

As expected, the plague broke out on Hurricane Island.

The culprit is a sneaky guy.

Sheng Qi didn't make a mistake in who he was. Well, he didn't seem to have looked at the annoying big-clawed priest for even a second.

But there is no doubt that this guy is a genius. He was able to successfully sneak onto Hurricane Island despite the highly alert patrol fleet and spread the plague. He is simply a genius, a genius who became a stealth ratman.

The plague was beginning to spread, and these islanders were only the second victims of it.

In fact, these parasitic beasts can bring more than just this horrific plague. As a real beast, these parasitic beasts are also precious to some extent.

There are probably many other areas where these guys could come in handy.

The first item is definitely eating. In fact, as a creature that can naturally contain magic power, eating the flesh and blood of these guys should be able to have a good tempering effect on one's own body.

Moreover, this kind of tempering does not conflict with the improvement brought by blood mushrooms. Blood mushrooms with high enough purity will bring optimization to the eater starting from the essence of life, while using the flesh and blood of Warcraft relies on the magic power remaining in the flesh and blood to gently temper one's body.

The logic behind the two effects is not contradictory and can even be superimposed. What’s most commendable is that these parasitic monsters are quite delicious.

It's just an effect.

In fact, these tangled, dangerous worms can be used in a myriad of ways.

Magic materials, engraving inscriptions, making potions.

Naturally born monsters do not need too much processing. Even if they are beaten into a pool of turbid juice and then drank in one gulp, it can bring good recovery effects.

Those gentle elemental forces can effectively replenish the magic power in the body.

Especially in an elemental disorder area that has been bombarded by too much magic in a short period of time, these gentle elemental forces are obviously so precious.

These parasitic monsters have broad prospects, but before using them, there is a premise that cannot be ignored.

You must have a way to eliminate the parasitic abilities of these products created by parasitic beasts.

This is a very crucial point, otherwise the plague may come again at any time.

You wouldn't want your army to be fine the day before and then lie down with their hands on their stomachs and wail the next day.

Fortunately, the rats have the ability to deal with this trouble.

Unfortunately, the way the rat people deal with these parasites has great hidden dangers.

Black blood mushrooms are essentially a form of pollution. Using black blood mushrooms to treat these parasitic monsters is indeed effective, but it is still a temporary solution and not a permanent cure. It only turns the plague in one's body into a more terrifying pollution that accumulates deep in the spirit and flesh.

It's hard to say whether such an exchange is worth it.

After all, the overall crazy character of the rat people has always been closely related to the blood mushrooms.

On the island reef, Sheng Qi finally got rid of his weak state.

When climbing onto the top of the battleship, it can be seen that this guy has lost a lot of weight. Although he is not as miserable as the time when he was drifting in the storm, but judging from the storms he has experienced in this ocean, he can obviously be said to have been through a lot.

The surviving ratmen of the Western fleet on the islands and reefs are crowding and boarding the bathtub warships that are docked.

The second-generation Ratman warships were too bulky to get close to this island and reef belt, so they needed these first-generation warships as a transit point.

These survivors all had more or less dazed looks on their faces, and it was obvious that what they had experienced during this period was not a pleasant one.

The sacred pillar carved from the wooden mast was carefully brought onto the warship by Sheng Qi and placed carefully.

In the past, he had some complaints about those noisy bells, but after experiencing that blessing, he became visibly more pious.

Pray devoutly to the sacred pillar.

Singing the greatness of the great gods.

Of course, what happened during this time was certainly more than just becoming more religious for him.

In a way, Sheng Qi has become more ferocious.

Gazing at the huge island not far away from afar, his expression became ferocious and dangerous.

Indeed, it's time to end everything.

He conveyed his current thoughts to the group of Big Claw Priests.

"Slaughter all those heretics, for the great God!"

Sheng Qi issued this order with a grim expression.

At this moment, he actually had a sense of being a leader, but his ferocity was not similar to that of the manic guy Shu Zhan, but more like that of the arrogant guy.

Just a little more similarity.

The ratman fleet is about to arrive again. I hope that the island residents are prepared this time. It doesn’t matter if they are not prepared, they will just be slaughtered.

This is the anger from the commander of the Ratman Western Expeditionary Force, Sheng Qi.

(End of this chapter)