The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A sudden wave of rats drew the Ruth Principality and several surrounding Principalities into desperation instantly. No one thought that the rat tide would appear so suddenly that it swept the entire Ruth Principality overnight, and It spread to neighboring countries. When these countries noticed and looked for countermeasures, the rat tide had already occupied half of the land of these principalities.

It’s just that their neighboring countries make decisions faster than themselves. All roads to the neighboring countries are blocked, and all borders are lit with rat repellents and rodent repellents. Not only are soldiers temporarily recruited. The Guardian, the Purification Order of Purification Fire and the priests stationed there, and the Purification Fire ignited, from the perspective of the situation, should be the decision of these countries to block the borders led by the Purification Fire Church.

Although this is very effective in preventing the spread of the rat tide to neighboring countries, for the Ruth Principality and several neighboring Principalities, they are equivalent to being plunged into hell. Death will not happen all the time, and it will not take a few days. People in these countries will die.

The reason why the Purification Fire Church will completely ignore the safety of the several principalities and the lives and deaths of the people caught in the rat tide, and make this inhumane blockade decision is entirely because of the situation of the rat tide and other rat tides. The situation is completely different.

In the past, when there was a rat tide, those Jerry rats would only get into the granary and other places where people store food, or get into people’s homes and bite things. Although they sometimes bite people, they are only a minority, most people. Even a child can drive and kill the timid Jerry Mouse with a stick.

For the people, the real disaster is that after the Jerry Rat stays in the human city for a long time, the plague will occur. It is almost impossible for anyone infected with the plague to be cured. The pain before death makes anyone who sees it feel terrified. This fear is also recorded in the form of paintings on stone tablets in some public places in the Duchy of Ruth.

It is precisely because of the people’s fear of the rat tide that even the adults in the family are recruited to fight on the front lines. The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled will still participate in the hunting season under the call of Ruth IX and do their best. Go hunt and kill Jerry Rats in the forest and in the mountains.

However, this time the rat tide is completely different from the previous ones, not only because this time the rat tide did not occur in the winter when the rats lacked food, but also occurred during the very important mating season of Jerry Rats, and even more because of this. The group of Jerry rats and rats in the second wave of rats is no longer as timid as it used to be. These groups of rats seem to have become violent rats, madly attacking all living creatures they see, from birds and beasts to cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs. Among its attacks, even humans are also attacked by them.

The rat tide erupted after nightfall. The first thing to bear was the people who were hired by Ruth IX to hunt Jerry Rats in the forest. No one knows the exact number of those people, but in the end only one horseman who watched the horse escaped. Escaped back to the castle, and reported the mutant rat tide to Ruth IX.

However, Ruth IX did not believe this, but locked up the horseman, because the horseman was completely incoherent, saying that the rat tide swallowed people and everyone was gnawed into bones, etc. So Ruth IX also missed the best time to escape.

After 　　 late at night, the rat tide rushed out of the forest and spread to the surroundings at a very fast speed. Most people were still asleep at this time, and they were submerged by the rat tide without any resistance.

The castle of Ruth IX resisted the rat tide a little bit, and the soldiers guarding the city gate also discovered the situation, and awakened Ruth IX and his family, but at this time the rat tide had surrounded the entire castle. There is no possibility of escape for the people inside.

Afterwards, the smaller cubs in the Jerry Rat Tide got in from the sewer drain of the castle, avoided the castle walls, and began to spread inside the castle. The soldiers could not stop these ferocious Jerry Rats at all. He was gnawed into bones soon.

Knowing that he could not escape, King Ruth IX did not want to die under the bite of Jerry Rat, so he shut himself and his family in the study room at the top of the castle, set fire to himself, and the Church of Purification Fire stationed here The priest resisted the rat tide with the purification fire of the church for a while, and through a kind of magical technique, he informed all the sacred fires of the church churches of the purification fire.

As a result, because it was late at night, most of the people in the church had already rested. Only a few ascetics would recite prayers around the flame vessel, and none of these ascetics were near the Duchy of Ruth. After these news, I thought that this matter had nothing to do with my church duchy, and I thought that the churches in the churches in the duchy of Ruth should have received similar news and would deal with it, so I didn’t care about it. .

It was not until the next morning that the news that spread throughout the entire Purification Fire Diocese was taken seriously by the Purification Fire Church and ordered the churches of the relevant Duchy to investigate the matter. Only at this time the entire territory of the Ruth Duchy had been rattled. Covered, and the rat tide has also crossed the border, spreading towards the surrounding Principality at an extremely fast speed.

And when the confirmation about the rat tide came back to the Purification Fire’s Main Sanctuary, the Principality of Ruth’s surrounding churches had fallen. Facing these crazy Jerry Rats, none of the brave soldiers could resist. What's more, the slightly more combative adults of these duchies have been transferred to the front line. It is hardly necessary to think about the fall of these duchies and they have become settled, and the dukes of these duchies also escaped for the first time. With their own kingdoms, these few religious principalities are even more unable to organize resistance forces.

In the end, the Church of Purification Fire made the decision to abandon these duchies. Before the rat tide spread to other duchies, it blocked the rat tide in these duchies, because it was obtained from the priest who sent the message. Knowing that the fire of purification has a strong deterrent effect on the rat tide, and drugs such as repellent powder can also drive away the rodents, so they timely made up for defense at the borders of these principalities, creating a line of defense of purification fire, which effectively blocked it. The rat group spread further.

However, the matter did not end there. A rumor has begun to appear in the country controlled by the Purification Fire Church, saying that the reason why the rat tide appeared so abrupt and so strange is entirely because the Purification Fire Church is going on. This war is an unrighteous battle. This war has angered the gods, so the gods will send punishment and warnings.

Although such rumors will not shake the belief of the people at the bottom of the Church of Purification Fire, it has become the best way for those who are unwilling to participate in this religious war to escape from the war, especially for those low-level families who are forced to recruit. It will push the flames in the dark and let this kind of rumors spread more widely.

In the face of such rumors, although the Church of Purification Fire knew that it might have been secretly created by the spies lurking in the various religious principalities of the Otter Federation, it could not find a good way to solve it, and could only claim to the public that this mutant rat The tide is created by the Ottoman Federation using the power of evil, and the Church of Purification Fire will take part in this campaign more firmly, and strive to eliminate the evil and faithless nation of the Ottoman Federation.

Although this explanation does not have much effect, it at least gives the Church of Purification Fire an excuse to reasonably suppress the church’s control of the country’s dissatisfaction with participating in this war against the Otter Federation, because as long as someone dares to use the rat tide as an excuse Complaining about the church's decision to enter the war, the church has an excuse to treat it as a spy.

It’s just that even if the church screams that it will not withdraw from the coalition forces, the energy of the church has to be shifted from the battlefield to dealing with the rat tide that has swept through several principalities. It originally supported some manpower, weapons, and food. It also stopped temporarily, and it is not easy to say anything about this in other church countries.

At the same time, in the small town outside Mount Jeridos, the birthplace of this mutant rat tide, Petistan looked desperately at the few bones in his home that had been gnawed beyond recognition by Jerry Rat. The characteristics of the clothes and the stumps recognized that this was her family.

　　 Although, in the camp of the Duke's hunting ground, she saw the tragedy of corpses in the camp, and felt a little uneasy in her heart when she thought of the crazy state of Jerry Rat, but she still had a glimmer of hope.

On the way home, he saw the bones that had been bitten by the Jerry Rats, the desolate villages and everything on the way. His anxiety became stronger, until he saw the bones scattered on the ground at home. After recognizing that the bones belonged to her family, the anxiety in her heart turned into despair and enveloped her. She also sat on the ground, staring blankly at the bones in front of her, sadness filled her chest, and tears could not stop flowing out. .

Sylvia walked to the corpse of a killed Jerry Rat, kicked it casually with his feet, and said, "How can these Jerry Rats become so manic? It feels like they are infected by the power of the abyss. ?"

"Didn’t we have checked it before? These Jerry Rats don’t have any traces of the power of the abyss." Leo shook his head and said, “But Jerry’s behavior of attacking all goods is also very abnormal. It should be Jerry Mouse's nest consciousness that has a problem, such as evolution."

　　 "Evolution?" Sylvia was stunned, wondering: "Does evolution make them crazy?"

"Evolution does not happen, but hunger will." Leo thought for a while and said: "The young Jerry Mouse wants to give birth to a core of consciousness from its incomplete nest consciousness, and it needs a very strong emotion as a guide. Let all Jerry Mouse’s limited thoughts be concentrated in one emotion, and then use this emotion as the core to build the nest consciousness. Hunger is a very easy emotion to achieve, and Jerry Mouse is a low-level creature without much wisdom. It also has this kind of emotion, and this emotion is very strong, and it is easy to maintain for a long time, and it will not cause a single consciousness in the rat group to resist."

　　 Sylvia frowned and said solemnly: "That is to say, this mutant rat tide will not disappear until the core of the nest consciousness of Jerry Rats and Rats is completed."

Leo said: "If I had not inferred wrong about the nest consciousness, it should be like this." After speaking, he paused again and continued: "But the church of Purification Fire should be involved in this matter, right? After all, the rat tide has destroyed so much here, it is estimated that it has destroyed the entire Ruth Principality."

　　 Sylvia shook her head, seeming to disagree with Leo's point of view, and said: "I think no matter whether the rat tide is as you guessed it, the Purification Fire Church will not do its best to clean up the rat tide."

　　 "Why?" Leo asked puzzledly.

Sylvia raised her finger and pointed in the direction of the Haute Federation, and said: "Don't forget that they have another thing more important than fighting the rat tide. I guess they will block the border and wait for the rat tide to recede. As for They don’t care about the people in the Duchy of Ruth. All the people in the Duchy are dead. It’s a good thing for them. They can take over everything in the Duchy, don’t forget these Jerry Rats. Living creatures and food, but not gold coins. The people here are all dead. Those unowned wealth naturally belong to the Church of Purification Fire. Not only do they do not lose, but they just plain a large piece of land and wealth."

"It's possible, but it's not necessarily." Leo also didn't recognize Sylvia's statement, saying: "If the Purification Fire really uses this method to occupy the wealth of a church country, what about other church councils? Look, they will definitely be wary of the Purification Fire Church, lest it become the second Ruth duchy, so the benefits of the church's actions outweigh the disadvantages."

Sylvia disagrees. In her view, Leo’s shortcomings only need to create some public opinion, and then subtly influence those principalities. After a period of time, the forgetful people will soon forget this matter. As for the dukes of the high school duke, they will never have other ideas.

　　 However, UU Read www.uukanshu.com Sylvia is not going to argue with Leo, anyway, this kind of thing has nothing to do with them, they just pass by here.

Although a bit cruel, she felt that the rat tide was a good thing for them, because in this way, Petistan would have nothing to worry about and could go on the road with them and leave the country directly without them having to stay here. Go down, a waste of time.

　　 Sylvia walked to Petinstein's side, squatted down, handed a handkerchief over, and said, "I think you should wipe away your tears now, put your family's body away, and find a place to bury it."

Petistan looked at the handkerchief. From the material and production, she could tell that the handkerchief was very valuable. She didn't dare to take it. She just raised her arm and wiped her tears with her sleeves, but she couldn't wipe it off no matter how she wiped it. The tears couldn't stop flowing out, and finally she gave up wiping the tears, got up, walked into the room, looked for a few pieces of clothing, picked up the bones of her family one by one, and put them in different clothing.

　　 After finishing the bones, she walked silently to a small hill behind the house, dug a big hole, buried the bones of her family, and made a simple tombstone with the broken door panel to insert on it.

　　 After doing all this, her tears stopped, and she stared blankly at the cemetery she built for her family, and then fainted.

　　Https://

　　Genius remembers this site address in one second: 　Mobile version reading URL: