It seems that everything is developing towards a normal steam city.

But there is a hidden crisis.

With the application of magical energy, there is no contamination on the surface.

People living in the steam city may not feel it, but Shen Shen, as the creator, clearly feels a corrosive force that has spread throughout all cities.

But don't forget, it's from Cthulhu.

Use comes at a cost.

Or rather...... It's not a power that should be used at all.

Pollution, Corruption, Mutation...... These elements have become one with the air and are pervasive in every corner of the city.

Slowly blends into all living bodies.

It's like an apple that has been eaten by insects, and it looks intact on the outside.

Maybe when you cut it, there will be worms inside, and there will be more than one.

Instead, there is no flesh, and the skin of the apple is wrapped in a wriggling mass of worms!

In the city, there are already some people who suffer from some strange diseases due to corrosion and pollution.

But humans didn't notice anything unusual at all.

At first, no one cared about some strange disease that was born......

Of course, freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

It will be a long process to have a greater impact on humanity.

As for what will happen, Shen Shen doesn't know, this is the uncertainty of independent development.

But there is more life in the Steam City than just humans.

Shen Shen had already noticed that there was already some remaining life in these cities.

Because the pollution has caused very noticeable changes, uncertainty has become more certain.

Shen Ash's consciousness gathered in the tavern in the city, and manifested as a middle-aged man dressed in ordinary clothes and walked in.

This is a place where people are mixed, not only the mess of people, but also the hygiene.

Bottom-level people in shabby leather jackets, throwing in coins, sour beer flowing from the pipes, talking loudly about the unpleasantness of a day's work.

scolded those bosses for constantly squeezing them.

Some middle-aged people, who were more elaborately dressed and looked like elites, also sat in the tavern, and they ordered a more expensive wine alone.

I walked to the women who were not there next to me and started talking.,Today is also going to be a night of stealing behind his wife's back.。

Mercenaries, who have tattoos on their bodies and even have their limbs replaced with steam prosthetics, are talking to some forces about hiring.

At some point, I'm going to do a raid on another group and grab more territory.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the steam city is no exception.

There were empty wine bottles piled up on the floor, as well as trampled vomit, and some food crumbs scattered everywhere on the ground.

The wooden planks on the ground have long been black and worn, and there are many holes in the corners.

The air is filled with stench, fragrance, sweat, wine, sourness...... Mixed together.

Inside, there was even more noise, one after another, and it was very lively.

Soon, however, there were several high-decibel screams, which overpowered all the noise and caused a moment of silence.

"Ahh Mouse! ”

"Scared me to death, how did that rat look like that."

Everyone's eyes followed the place where the screaming women were looking.

Several fat, shiny rats crawled out of the holes in the wooden planks in the corners.

Not afraid of the eyes of so many people, he ate the vomit and food crumbs on the ground openly.

However, compared to the fat and fearless nature of these mice, what attracted their attention the most.

Or are the bodies of these rats very weird.

One of the rats has a twisted pointed head, which looks like two heads are pinched together.

The other one has a lot of round bracts growing on it.

……

Anyway, these rats are not normal compared to normal mice.

But these people don't care.

"It's such a chic rat again, Sveck, you better clean up this tavern, don't spoil our interest."

"That's it, these rats are just like those bosses, disgusting and ugly, bad luck, Swick, you have to give me a discount today!"

"Little beauty, don't be afraid, put your arms around me, and I will protect you."

"Hey, free meat, who wants to add food?"

……

In the midst of the chaotic discussion of the crowd.

As someone pulled out a sharp knife, they skewered the rats and killed them, and threw them in the trash.

The tavern is back to its former bustle.

I had just tried to take a sip of the sour beer, and spit it out along with my saliva.

Then he looked at the rats that had been killed and smiled.

Shen Shen's consciousness began to spread, following the broken planks in the corners.

Underneath the planks are large and small holes dug by rats.

These holes are connected to sewer pipes, in this undisturbed underground world.

It is a beautiful home for rats.

Rats of all sizes gathered in groups, and some left the sewers in search of food.

There are also those who come back from outside.

And most of these rats have become abnormal.

The body has various degrees of distortion.

This is caused by the pollution and corrosion of magical energy.

These rats are the first to show noticeable changes.

Although the deformity has a great impact on most mice, they have difficulty moving and cannot eat......

But there are also some aberrations that don't seem to be very bad.

For example, some rats are larger, some have longer limbs, or are more stout.

Some even have extra limbs.

Shen Gray's gaze was on these distorted mice.

Polluting factors will always exist, and this distortion seems to be a kind of evolution to adapt to polluting factors.

Although under normal circumstances, this undesirable aberration is likely to approximate the extinction of a species.

However, with Shen Shen here, it is not a normal situation.

When thinking of the aberration and evolution of mice, Shen Shen already had a very good idea in his heart.

The world of the dead requires a large number of races to expand.

And as a mouse, the number has reached the target.

It's just that ordinary mice naturally can't do it, but these aberrant evolved mice ......

This reminded Shen Shen of a race about rats, the Skaven rat people.

The Skaven rat people have gradually evolved from ordinary rats to a vast demon rat empire.

They have intelligence no less than that of humans, and they have a huge number and great fighting ability.

This is very much in line with Shen Gray's thoughts.

In the aberration of the rats in the dead world, Shen Shen can forcibly intervene to make this a benign aberration.

It's like evolution.

Given the Skaven their rightful identity, they will eventually become a new race in the world of the dead.

Shen Ash smiled with satisfaction, the idea is there, and a certain amount of resources are needed to implement the plan.