From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 458: Beasts Biting Each Other
The steam train finally started moving, with a creaking sound. Even after replacing the fully automatic biological mining slaves, the dilapidated train tracks had not seen any particularly good improvements.

In the university, in the night, this empty train was puffing out steam.

This track is no longer as busy as it once was. After hundreds of years of mining, this huge lead mine has long been riddled with holes. Every rotation requires moving an extremely long distance deep underground.

It was like driving through a pitch-black mine tunnel without a trace of light. The surface and middle layer ore veins had been completely mined out. Except for the supporting frame, most of the facilities had been removed. Even the mining lamps had been removed by the greedy guys from the Mining Commission. These old miners described the journey into the mine tunnel as a march towards hell.

Every time you go underground, it is never smooth. Death is commonplace and any small accident may leave you dead. They have always been using their lives in exchange for a life that can barely go on.

This is a cold mining planet. Most of the cities on this planet are mining cities. There is no choice in life. On this planet, you either choose to mine or you choose to mine.

It has always been like this. Even though Lao Kuangao would sometimes feel a little confused when listening to the things described on the radio, the cold snowflakes would always tell him again and again that those things were too far away from him.

Curled up, shivering, buried in the snow, in this cold carriage that was running at a hum.

Once upon a time, along this stretch of road, a large number of ratmen would gather together, crowd together, laugh, and enter the deep underground together.

Once upon a time, the old miner thought that the world would never change again, and he would keep mining until the day he died in the mine and could never climb out. But all this changed almost instantly.

They completely replaced those rigid, silent, cold machines standing on the train.

But life has to go on. On this cold planet, they have been mining. They have been mining all their lives and they don’t know how to do anything else. They can’t leave here.

The steam train entered the mine, the temperature was slowly rising, and the world became dim in an instant.

The ratmen have low-light vision, which is a very practical skill, but in this deep mine, even low-light vision is of little use.

Low breathing sounds were heard in the darkness. In this extremely quiet environment, the biological miner sitting on the steam train noticed something strange. A red light suddenly lit up, driving away the darkness for a short time.

But this light also broke the silence, and an old rat man curled up in the corner of the carriage was illuminated. In this faint red light, at this moment, the illuminated guy had an extremely horrified expression on his face.

After the shock came fear and brutality. The old miner tightly grasped the weapon in his hand, an old miner's knife, with an extremely ferocious expression. He couldn't die here, at least not now.

He slowly climbed up from the carriage and looked at what he had found not far away.

The one who discovered the old mining draft was a biological mining slave, who looked like a rough steel rat man made of steel. The red light that illuminated the old mining draft was the red searchlight on the head of this biological mining slave.

It seems that a fight in the dark is about to take place, but the development is always somewhat unexpected.

The train passed a bend and the old miner fell on the smooth surface of the carriage due to the violent vibration. His head was broken and bleeding as he rolled. The old guy was about to fly out. If he really fell from the steam train, he would be dead. In this dark mine tunnel, if he left the steam train, no ratman could crawl back to the ground alive, not even the most experienced ratman miners. They couldn't do it.

Lao Kuangao was about to roll out. At this moment, his face was full of despair.

At the critical moment, a metal arm grabbed him.

Not long after, the steam train returned to the smooth track again, and the old mining manuscript fell into the carriage again. A man and a machine looked at each other at this moment, but the atmosphere was not so tense anymore.

Lao Kuangao wanted to thank him, but the guy opposite him was just a cold machine.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

The biological miner withdrew his gaze, the red light went out, and everything returned to darkness again.

He did not take any action regarding the existence of the old mining manuscripts.

He is just a cheap machine, produced and brought here just for mining. Apart from this, his existence has no meaning, which also means that he doesn't have to do anything except mining.

The atmosphere suddenly became dull.

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There is still some time before those guys' crazy and whimsical immortality plan is launched. The publicity has already begun, but various preparations and implementation are not so easy.

The Ratman Empire is too big. It is impossible to transform all the ratmen by just thinking of a glorious evolution.

The rat engineers are designing the future social structure, the social structure of the rat people.

These guys are desperate and don't care about the consequences, but they also admit that they need more manpower to join them. At the same time, how can they maintain the stability of such a country in the Skaven Empire where disease, aging and decay are fading away?
This plan was boosted by the unlocking of an additional technology.

The Ratmen engineers successfully transcended the distance limitations of the interstellar empire in the vast physical universe.

Communication limit, they successfully broke the communication limit.

Coming from the artificial brain, they discovered that if several sufficiently powerful biochemical brains were running the same set of memory templates and were simultaneously stuffed into the subspace, then a synchronous server that transcends spatial limitations would be born.

This is definitely a great creation.

To be honest, the Ratmen engineers don’t really care about the future of the Ratmen Empire. Many of them are crazy people who only want to see results and don’t care about the process.

Their actions could lead to the collapse of the entire Ratman Empire.

They have always been crazy, extremely radical crazy.

The fact is, although they dominate this era, they are not the absolute rulers of this era.

Rat bureaucrats, rat protestants, and rat warlords, together they clamp down on these curious beasts who allow their curiosity to climb freely.

But why, why is this immortality plan still being promoted?

Everyone wants to witness immortality. Life is indeed a fascinating thing that can make these guys make concessions without any prior agreement.

Maybe the rats were really cursed by the long claws, or maybe it was just their nature. After all, the lives of these guys were too short. Even after so many years of the Golden Age, the lifespan of the rats still did not exceed 100. Without any means, an ordinary rat would die at 80 years old.

Even if you use some means, living to a hundred years is almost the same.

One hundred years, one hundred years, this is not a very short number, but the rat people are already a standard cosmic race. Compared with this unimaginably vast physical universe, a hundred years is still short.

But there is no way.

The rat people are a race with flaws, or rather, all their advantages are based on a common flaw.

The brevity of life.

These weak creatures suddenly come into this world, spend a few short years amidst the chirping and noise, and then disappear.

Among the rat people from generation to generation, there are many geniuses and those with extraordinary talents, but they are all like short-lived flames, and the short lifespan has shaped many of the rat people's characteristics.

Impatience, eagerness for quick success, and respect for life.

These are all related to the brevity of life. Precisely because of the brevity of life, one cannot see far into the future and must face the world eagerly. Slowly planning these things will not be considered by the rat people at all.

Despite the progress of civilization, the thoughts and culture of the rat people are still so poor, even poorer than before.

This is not surprising. The scale of distance has been lengthened, but the scale of life has not kept up. These guys simply don't have time to really think about anything before death arrives, and at the same time, their faith is gradually fading.

Most of the rat people spend their whole lives running around for cheap things that can flow out of huge factories like a tsunami. A small number of rat people find that after having everything, they have no other pursuits except to squander what they have unscrupulously.

Once upon a time, the temple guards devoutly built temples one after another, and were even willing to stand in the temples of God until their death.

Now, those ratmen bigwigs were fiddling with the rare items they had collected from various planets, and all they could do was simply and crudely compete with each other.

In each extravagant event, they show off their so-called style, but at the same time they nervously spy on those around them who can stand with them. They are afraid of falling, jealous of their companions who surpass themselves, and greedily desire more.

But what exactly are these guys craving?

It's not about honor, they simply don't believe in honor. It's not about faith, these guys have no faith. Yes, it's about material things, all they have is a comparison for material things and extravagance.

How sad it is! Can you imagine that in such a huge empire, the smart guys, those guys standing at the top, are empty-headed and only have defensiveness, jealousy, and comparison with the equally smart guys around them?

They are even more like beasts driven by desire than those ratmen engineers and these lunatics.

At least, at least these rat engineers really want to see the result. No matter which came first, the chicken or the egg, what they care about is holding the egg.

As for these rat-men bigwigs, they just move forward mechanically in their desires.

This state is boring, so now, they long for a longer life.

Of course, the entanglements between these bigwigs are very complicated and twisted. It will probably take a long time before they can really come to a conclusion about all this.

These guys will decide the future of the rat people.

Rat engineers, rat bureaucrats, rat warlords, rat protestants, rat businessmen.

To be honest, each of these guys is a group of extremely excellent beasts. Yes, beasts. The rat people have never completely stepped into civilization. These guys each have their own shortcomings.

Uncontrollable desire, empty grasping for more, tyrannical conquest, chaotic faith, ugly greed.

They are all wild beasts. Without Qi's suppression, they are tearing each other apart. It is extremely chaotic, but they decide the future of the rat people.

Perhaps after the rats are truly freed from the limitation of life span, they will be able to be liberated and face the cold physical universe more peacefully and rationally? Or maybe it will be worse? But one thing is certain, this group of guys really need a leader, a rat emperor.

It's too chaotic! We need a big purge!

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Above the empty and dark starry sky, a huge warship is moving forward.

This battleship is very unremarkable, with no identification markings on its exterior. It also seems that the radar on the battleship has been silenced, and it is painted black. If it weren't for the blue flame on its tail, it would be really hard to spot such a moving battleship in the universe.

Of course, whether it has its own characteristics also depends on who it is compared with.

If you have ever been lucky enough to encounter them and survive, you will probably never forget them for the rest of your life, and will feel an involuntary shudder at the sight of such a dark warship.

The current Ratman Empire is in chaos, with all parties fighting each other intensively, except for a certain group of guys, a group of guys with extremely simple minds.

The Ratman Guardian, the Warp Supervisor, the Demon Slayer, the Psionic Hound, the Loyal Servant of the Ratman Emperor, the Planet Destroyer, the Ratman Inquisition.

These guys were dealing with the subspace invasion before Kai went into hibernation, and these guys were still dealing with the subspace invasion after Kai went into hibernation.

If you are targeted by them, you will be in big trouble.

Because when these guys deal with those potentially contaminated areas and ratmen, the most common method they use is only one, and that is killing!

Now, a team of Inquisitor Knights of the Inquisition have tracked down an unusual clue that they are about to verify.

If it is just a misjudgment, then nothing will happen. They will come quietly and leave quietly, but if it is true, a massacre is inevitable.

(End of this chapter)