A strange world

Chapter 1199 Section 121. Ratman Craftsmen

Gail cooperated and removed the evil spell, leaving behind a ratman who was incontinent and twitching on the ground.

Annan had little sympathy for it. The guard said it was the most brutal and almost bit the boss lady of the bakery.

He walked up to the ratman craftsmen: "Who is your leader?"

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

A figure walked out from the ratman.

Compared with other clans, the Stuhn ratmen are closer to humans in size, but they do not include the ratman craftsmen who stay in the underground nest all day.

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

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

Without the cloak to cover it, the huge arms of the ratman craftsman, which could be described as deformed, were exposed in front of him, and the muscles almost squeezed out his head.

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

"My name is Annan."

"Annan stuff..."

Annan always has a high tolerance for people with skills, and doesn't mind it being called that. He just smiled and asked: "What's your name?"

"No, name."

Annan asked other questions: "Did you run out with the ratman to do bad things?"

The leader of the ratman craftsmen shook his head.

"Since it's not you, why don't you stop them?"

"Why, stop them?" The leader of the ratman craftsmen asked back.

"Because..."

Annan was speechless and didn't hold on to this question.

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

"Ratmen won't do that either."

"Then why are you..."

"Because you are human stuff." The leader of the ratman craftsmen suddenly became smooth.

Annan was speechless and even wanted Gale to continue.

"Forget it this time, because you don't know anything, but if something similar happens again, there will be punishment by the laws of Free City... I think Gale and the elders will stand on my side."

Gale walked to Annan at the right time and stared at the group of low-level brown-haired rats with pride.

The rat craftsmen expressed their submission.

"Luoxi, send people to count the damaged shops and ask them to ask the City Lord's Mansion for compensation."

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

The leader of the rat craftsmen shook his head.

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

"Then follow me first."

They just finished breakfast, and Annan took them directly to the forest mountains. In the next few months, this group of rat craftsmen will stay here.

"The place you are going to next is the reason why I invited you... It is a secret project of Free City, keep it confidential." Annan said to the rat craftsmen.

Annan didn't know who among them was the undercover planted 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 enjoy twelve hours of rest every day. The only thing you need to pay attention to is to abide by the laws of Free City."

Paying wages - this was a temporary decision made by Annan. Paying wages for one hundred more people doesn't cost much money, but the rats with money need to spend them, and spending money means contacting humans, and contacting humans will have a chance to be changed by Free City.

Arriving 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 were notified last night that a group of rat colleagues would come, and they just watched curiously.

Yili, like a tree stump, was rushing over here. Annan looked at the figure beside him and suddenly exclaimed.

"Little Smo?"

"Lord Annan..." Little Smo, who was called by Annan, saluted.

"Why are you here?"

Annan remembered that Little Smo stayed in Freeblade, and his elder sister was impressed by his leadership ability and arranged for him to study in the school.

"I found that I liked the feeling of clanking in the mine." Little Smo smiled shyly.

Annan wanted to say that tunnels were different from mining, but after thinking about it carefully, there seemed to be no difference.

The commander of Freeblade, wearing a set of Fast clothes, came to work as a hard laborer. Annan suspected that he had post-traumatic stress syndrome...

But Little Smo seemed to be enjoying it.

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

Annan was very curious about what the ratman craftsmen used to dig holes. They didn't have claws, so they couldn't be rodents, right?

Then he saw the ratmen craftsmen walk to the baskets they carried, lift the tarpaulin, take out the hand guards inlaid with three sharp metal picks, put them on their hands, stand in front of the rock wall, and scrape off layers of debris like logging, with amazing speed.

The digging speed of these 100 ratmen craftsmen is enough to match that of 800 human workers... But on second thought, they are craftsmen of the ratmen clan, not laborers, so it is normal for them to have some skills.

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

The workers were also divided into day shift and night shift, and with the participation of rat craftsmen, Eli Gravel assured Annan that soldiers from Free City would be able to reach Franko's territory directly before the autumn harvest.

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

Seeing baskets of rubble being transported out of the tunnel, Annan couldn't help but feel hot in his eyes.

Such talents...should belong in Liberty City!

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The same fiery gaze also appeared on Little Small.

While he stared at the rat-man craftsmen, his fellow workers who had been with him for several days were also staring at him.

"Little Small, you...you can actually talk to Lord Annan?"

"I helped Lord Annan with some things when I was in the kingdom." Little Small said modestly, feeling proud of it but not showing off.

But it was enough for the workers to raise a fuss and cry.

They wanted to ask more, but Yili came over and said, "How about giving you a task to look after the rat craftsmen?"

"Me?" Little Small pointed at himself.

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

"Can you do it?"

"Leave it to me!"

Yili was pleased with Little Small's spirit, pointed to his clothes and added: "You should change your clothes before you go there. Rat people are more... snobbish. If you dress like civilians, they won't listen to you."