It took about ten minutes to zoom in on the strategic map with his mind, and it took the stone to figure out what was going on.

At first, he targeted the "Orgrimmar", which was closest to the nezumi nest, after all, it was the closest, but after studying for a long time, he found that there was nothing unusual at all, so he had to shift the target, until he moved his eyes to the "Iron Forge" to the north, and found something strange.

As his mind took control, the strategic map began to zoom in, like a camera closing the distance, and more and more details began to show.

From the terrain and landforms, to the rivers and trees, and even the buildings in the caves, they are all displayed on the map, and more importantly, it is still three-dimensional, and even the underground tunnels are clearly drawn.

Ironforge was originally a dwarven fortress, but as he learned more about it over the years, Stone discovered that there were more tunnels hidden underground than the original tunnel leading to the Frontier Prince's Domain.

In the face of these dim and complex underground passages, he didn't dare to explore casually at first, for fear of encountering any accidents, and he mainly focused on passive supervision and defense, until he had accumulated enough two hundred Squiger jumpers, and then began to conduct small-scale active searches, but so far, all the tunnels explored have collapsed and blocked due to disrepair, and they are impassable at all.

He would rather all these passages be blocked, after all, no one wants some strange visitors to suddenly appear in their territory, this is no joke.

So he asked the Squiger jumpers to go through every passage and every fork in the road to make sure it was a dead end to return.

Now, with the strategic map, they don't have to work so hard, and all the tunnels, including the ins and outs of each branch, are clearly marked, as long as the middle display is disconnected, it means that the road is impassable, and it is worthy of the name.

At a glance, most of the passages were disconnected, but the reason why he was able to find the problem was because in a certain tunnel, he saw dozens of small green dots representing his own green-skinned boy, which should be the Squigg Jumper who was searching, and this tunnel was one of the very few tunnels that were not damaged, and more importantly, the destination it led to was the stronghold of the "Red Fang Tribe" he just saw, Steel Rock!

As mentioned earlier, the lair of the newly emerged nezumi clan is next to the "Steel Rock", and it is very likely that it is not far from their underground, so maybe these night goblins encountered some rat cubs when they were on an exploration mission!

In order to confirm his judgment, the stone turned his gaze to the rest of the territory, and everything was as usual, without any problems, so it was almost certain that the source of the message just now was "Ironforge Fort".

After figuring out the reason, Stone immediately killed the tavern, kicked several leaders who were still hangover one by one, and asked them to quickly assemble the team and pull these green-skinned boys to the "Ironforge Fort", while he himself, riding alone on the gray and white spider Atrak, rushed back to the place of the incident as soon as possible.

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At about the same time as the stone arrived at the "Ironforge Castle", the forty or so Squigg jumpers also returned from the unknown underground tunnel, just in time to collide with the head of the wind and dust.

As soon as he saw them, he knew that he was right, because these night goblin riders had clearly experienced a battle, many of them had wounds, and their numbers had been reduced - according to his arrangement, the team that went out to search the tunnels every time was fifty people, and more importantly, in the team they came back, there was also a serious Skaven Rat Man!

These night goblins are also considered enlightened, and after encountering the enemy, they did not kill them all, but knew that keeping a prisoner was very critical to the stone, and he didn't say a word, and quickly asked his men to take the nezumi to a stone house, and he wanted to ask him personally.

In appearance, this rat man is a little taller than a goblin, standing on two feet, looking skinny and extremely shabby, so the stone can judge that this should be the lowest slave rat.

Speaking of the Skaven race, their origin is no longer verifiable, but it is only mentioned in some ethereal legends, and even in the official narrative of some human countries, the nezumi do not exist at all.

However, those who really know the inside story know that this is just an excuse for many rulers to cover up their incompetence and pass the buck, and in fact the nezumi not only exist, but also spread throughout the Warhammer world.

According to Stone's knowledge of the background of the Warhammer in his previous life, the Nezumi were born about a thousand years ago in the Imperial Calendar, and they first appeared in the second of the Three Southern Kingdoms, at the junction of Estaria and Tiria, a city now known as the "Skaven Demon Capital", and to this day, it is also the base camp of the Nezumen.

The city was originally a thriving town where humans and dwarves lived on the surface, while dwarves lived underground as usual.

Until one year, when the two good races died themselves, they suddenly decided to build a tower in the middle of the city to praise all that the gods had given them, and in their plan this great tower would rise to the sky, so that the piety of the believers could be revealed.

As the old saying goes, the spectacle is misguided, and this tower has been repaired for hundreds of years, but it is still far from completion.

At this moment, a mysterious man in a gray cloak suddenly appeared in the city, declaring that if he added a little to the top of the tower what he wanted, the tower would be completed overnight.

As soon as they heard about such a good thing, the humans and dwarves, who had long been tormented by this building, did not think much about it, and immediately agreed to him.

By the next day, he had done just that, and not only was the tower completely built, but a huge bell had appeared at the top of the tower.

Just as everyone was cheering, the mysterious man disappeared without a trace, but the big bell suddenly rang, thirteen times in a row, and then extremely bad weather swept through the city, and within a few days, there was even black hail.

At the same time, the inhabitants of the city noticed that a large number of rats had appeared in the city, and they were infesting in groups and eating up all their food stock.

The starving humans began to die, and they had to turn to the dwarves underground, only to be answered by closed doors, and the dwarves said they were not protecting themselves.

In the following days, in this city shrouded in darkness, with the thirteen strange bells that appear on time every night, the status of humans and rats is reversed, and the weakened former begins to become the prey of the latter, and more and more people are attacked by a large number of rats, and the end is to become a pile of bones.

The remaining desperate humans decided to force their way into the dwarven underground fortress to escape, but when they broke through the gate and entered the dark tunnel, they found the corpses of the dwarves and the rats like a tide.

After two hundred years of extinction of the city's humanity and dwarves, a new race, the Skaven, began to emerge and over the next few thousand years, from the place known as the "Corrupt Swamp", to the world of Warhammer.

They built their own city, Skaven, on the ruins of the city, and centered on it, through endless underground passages, to all corners of the world.

PS: It's three o'clock in the morning, and I received a monthly pass from several book friends when I coded the word, and I can only say that the Xiuxian Party is too aaagh! Finish! Thanks for your support! And I wish you all a Happy New Year!