The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 79
"The training of the investigation team is over, come out and assemble!"

Ickert yelled into the woods, and after a while, ratmen emerged one after another from the grass, piles of fallen leaves, bushes and tree branches.

Wearing camouflage cloths rubbed out with natural magic, they tremblingly walked towards Ickert.

Thankfully, the lord finally allowed them to rest.

Although each mouse was dizzy with hunger, their fear and obedience to Ickert drove them into a neat line.

Because if the queue is not neat, the clan chief will not let them eat.

"Well, today's performance is not bad."

Ickert said yes, but his words sounded different to the Ratmen.

Rat people who are familiar with Ickert know that when the clan leader says something is good, it is best to think about where he went wrong.

As a result, all Ratman's eyes went dark, and they could only use their last bit of strength to stand up straighter.

But Ickert really felt that their performance was remarkable today.

Hungry stomachs, bad stomachs, etc. are all biological problems. Physiological problems can be overcome, but they cannot be eliminated. He cannot turn the Ratman into a magic puppet.

Up to now, it has been a full stone since today's meal, and these rat people still insist on queuing up.

Even among the Ratmen, their performance can be called elite.

So Ickert didn't make it difficult for them any more, and after saying "disband", he directly ordered the guys to open the lunch.

The hungry rats rushed to the front, and what they saw were all kinds of insects, crawling all over the walls of the box.

If it was a human being, it would definitely show embarrassment when seeing these things, but for the rat people who were born as slave rats, these things are high-quality meat!
"Look, big white worm! Fat, tender, smooth white worm!"

shouted a Ratman, clutching a fat white worm in his hand.

"Oh! Damn it! That boy Rapa took the top spot for today!"

The rats who didn't get the fat maggot felt annoyed and could only watch as Lapa bit off the fat maggot, bursting out fresh juice, and chewing the meat full of nutrition and juice.

Not to be outdone, the other ratmen began to fight for the remaining food.

Targaryen had quick eyes and quick hands, and immediately fished out a two-handed spider from the box. According to the teaching of the clan leader, this thing should be called the black hundred-eyed spider.

The Clan Chief said the juice from this thing tasted like ice cream.

Although he didn't know what ice cream tasted like, Targaryen liked to suck this kind of spider, and he would suck out the flesh of his eight feet one by one after eating.

The Ratman who was hung in the sky smelled the smell of meat, so he let go of the mouse that was about to be eaten, and begged:

"Rapa, Targaryen! Come on, put me down! I want to eat! Eat!"

Rapa and Targaryen looked at Ickert in embarrassment, and after getting Ickert's consent, they let him down from the tree.

The Rat Man, who had finally regained his freedom, immediately rushed to the wooden box, but he was a step late, only to be disappointed to find that all the good things had been taken away by others.

"Rappa, damn it, Targaryen, you've got some of this left over for me? Thin squirrels! Half lost!"

As the Ratman spoke, he kept moving his hands, gnawing on the bugs that were trying to jump out of the wooden box while catching them.

"You are the worst, Bubble! You are as stupid as Popoch from the second brigade! Look, just because you eat dirt, the clan chief almost punished our entire brigade!"

Lapa on the side taunted that the rat people who had been punished collectively were really resentful towards this kind of pest.

"What's wrong with me eating dirt! I eat dirt because I'm hungry! It doesn't count, it doesn't count!"

Bubble quibbled, and then there was some material that he didn't do this, he was going to enter the Skryre clan's factory in Mordor, how did he become a soldier, and so on, which made the other rat people laugh.

The existence of this guy has become the joy of the investigation brigade.

"Stop laughing, the second meal is coming!"

Azio yelled to the rat people that in order to exercise the rat people's ability to survive in the wild, Ickert specially changed their daily lunch to wild food.

Including common insects and small animals in the jungle, as well as wild vegetables and fungi.

The first meal is a fixed raw food, which is regarded as an appetizer, and for the second meal, the rat people have to light a fire, set up a stove, and cook food by themselves.

At this moment Buble finally had a place to play. He stepped forward and quickly dug the stove, arranged the flue and covered it with dead leaves, and collected some flammable materials such as tree velvet , and finally put the wooden stick on the bowstring for lighting the fire, push it against the small groove and turn it to start the fire.

All the Ratmen watched intently. Although everyone knew this procedure, the one who did it best and the most proficient was Bubble, who could make everyone eat in the shortest time.

After a while, the small ball of tinder was drilled into smoke. Buble held it in the palm of his hand, blew out the flame with his mouth, put it in the stove to light the stick, put the iron pot on it and started cooking.

The first is stewed green yushi mushrooms with jungle slime juice, and some wild leaf leaves as spices.

Another Ratman saved the mealworms from the first meal, smashed them with his fingers and added them to the porridge to enhance the flavor.

In a short while, the delicious slime mushroom soup is ready.

Buble has also developed many new dishes based on local characteristic ingredients, such as grilled springtails and wild chili skewers, and breadworms mixed with wild coriander.

These Ratmen, in Windsor where the food supply is guaranteed, began to be more and more separated from the original food culture, no longer satisfied with the grain blocks and green mushrooms produced by the traditional grinder, and gradually began to think about cooking and desire.

Although this is limited to a small group of rat people in the territory, this situation undoubtedly means that the rat people have begun to have more pursuits and needs.

It is a good thing to have demand. In order to promote the industrial and commercial development of the woodland in the future, Ickert will sooner or later create various demands for the Ratmen so that goods can circulate between the territory and the empire.

Bubble, the rat, if it wasn't a rat man, Ickert wanted to transfer him to the cafeteria.

But it seems like a good idea to keep him as the cooking squad leader in the reconnaissance brigade.

After the reconnaissance brigade had a full meal, they were reassembled again. At this time, Genier also came to the brigade's training site, preparing to train their sense of smell.

For this reason, Jenier specially asked the rats to collect some feces of various animals. According to the teaching procedures formulated by Ickert, starting from the simplest, he taught the rats of the investigation team to face all kinds of strange things. Identify the characteristics of the smell, time.

At the same time, this is also a kind of will training. The rat people who have just finished eating must withstand the test and hold back from vomiting.

However, Eckert found that this is nothing to the rat people who have lived in the dirty underground for a long time. He seriously doubts whether these rat people will eat it when they are extremely hungry.
It's too bad he'll have to eat himself in a while!
It seems that he is still narrow-minded in training ratmen by human standards. He needs to open his mind and arrange more challenging training programs for the rats.

(End of this chapter)