Blacktail Hotel
As the most distinctive hotel in the entire Rat City and the one that receives the most foreign tourists, its status is also extremely high.
The boss, Congreve Blacktail, is a well-known strong man in Rat City.
However, such a hotel collapsed strangely at night. In addition to a large number of onlookers, several completely different noble ratmen also rushed over from the inner city.
One of them held a flute. When the flute sounded, a large number of rats drilled into the wreckage of the building to investigate. "Congreve is dead because he leaked the secret of the abyss..."
A certain opossum noble lurking underground made a sound from his belly: "What an idiot!"
Another noblewoman, whose pink tail was hidden by her long skirt, said:
“It’s not necessarily stupid.
Congreve was so timid that he could only hide in the cracks of the wall, but he was not so stupid.
He knew very well how serious it would be to reveal the secret of the abyss. It was very likely that he was forced or even misled mentally to say it out loud.
There is no doubt that one of the outsiders staying here must have extraordinary strength, completely superior to Congreve, and even more powerful than the rest of us.
Moreover, the incident happened in the wall gap space created by that guy Congreve, and there is no way to figure out the specific reason.
It's really dangerous~ How about we go and report it? If we let the adults know, maybe the matter can be resolved in advance. "
"Do you want to die? Fitch, if you report without any clues, you will be killed directly."
"That's right. Well, we can only pray that the other party is not here to cause trouble. It's just that Congreve is asking for trouble."
…
As soon as William left the hotel, he contacted yesterday's guide, Keith Whitetooth.
When Keith rushed over from home and saw the completely collapsed hotel, he was stunned with shock. Although he didn't know the reason, his intuition told him that it was most likely related to the young man in front of him.
"Boss, what happened to your clothes?"
"Something happened. Can you lend me some fabric?"
"Wait a minute, boss!"
Keith immediately transformed into a crawling mouse, quickly ran to a nearby shop and bought a piece of black leather that barely fit William's clothes and could be used as a patch with a little cutting.
William mainly wanted to cover his exposed butt, otherwise he would always feel cold.
"Where do you want to go today, boss?"
"Take me to the city center for a walk, and give me a formal introduction to Rat City. If I can't find a suitable hotel tonight, I can stay at your house, and I'll settle the expenses later."
"no problem."
Keith didn't ask about the hotel's affairs and devoted himself to leading the way.
The structure of Rat City is quite simple, roughly divided into two parts - the inner city and the outer city, or the noble area and the civilian area, and there is even a more solid wall of corpses in the middle.
The buildings in the inner area are all made of dark stone similar to the Black Tail Hotel, which is a special ore mined from the Dark Nest Mine. It is dark and rejects light, so that the entire inner city is shrouded in darkness all year round, which just happens to suit the nature of mice who like darkness.
William looked at the "Black Rat Guards" patrolling at the bottom of the corpse wall, wearing heavy armor.
"Can we go to the inner city?"
"Boss, are you sure you want to go in? Many rats that go to the inner city will be out of touch for a long time or even die. This is because the nobles living inside have the power to forcibly control the civilians.
If someone takes a fancy to us, they can take us to their home as slaves at any time and no one dares to resist. "
"It's okay, I'm here... If you can't get in, I'll find a way myself."
Keith would not waste such an opportunity to show off, and quickly said, "Yes, yes, yes, I have a friend who happens to be a Black Rat Guard. He will let us in as long as we pay a little money."
After some communication with Keith, it was easily bought off with just ten dollars.
The moment they stepped into the inner city, they were enveloped in pitch-black darkness. Even Keith, a rat, would tremble in such a dark environment.
but,
William did not feel any discomfort. He immediately turned his gaze to the center of the inner city, where stood a tall tower that was much taller than any other building, even taller than the city wall.
Strangely enough, given the height of the tower, William should have discovered it long ago, and could easily notice such a peculiar building even if he was standing outside the city.
"Keith, what's going on with this tower? Why couldn't we see it before?"
“The Dark Moon Tower is built with the purest dark stone. Its shape is revealed only in darkness. It is a very magical building.
It was built by the second city lord, and the position of city lord has not changed to this day.
The story here is also very bizarre.”
"Oh? Let's talk while we walk... Don't worry about us being targeted by the nobles. I have already released some kind of child interference."
"OK!
It is rumored that the first lord of Rat City when it was first established was a Knight of Tumor appointed by the Cancer Palace himself. He was also the only knight in the Knights Temperament with rat characteristics.
The reason for being stationed here is simple. One is to expand the power of the Cancer Palace, and the other is because of the Dark Nest Mine that can produce special dark stones.
The first city lord ruled the entire Rat City with absolute tyranny, forcing the rat people to reproduce wildly and supply manpower to the mines at maximum capacity. Every month, they had to deliver enough ore to the Cancer Palace so that he could benefit from the Cancer Palace.
However, this Knight of the Tumor did not enjoy the life of 'getting something for nothing' for long.
Among the millions of miners, there was a special one.
The mouse seemed to have divine power. He could always finish the mining work ahead of time. When night fell, he would climb to the top of the mine and admire the moonlight alone.
Gradually, he even stopped going back to the city and slept in the mines.
A few months later, the workers who worked in the mine discovered that there seemed to be a moon mark on the mouse's forehead.
While everyone was discussing this matter secretly,
The mouse suddenly disappeared and could not be found no matter how hard he tried. So people started to spread the rumor that he was blessed by the moon because he was too pious. He was eventually led to the moon and had the chance to be with the moon lady.
Later, many mice even began to imitate this, taking advantage of the breaks in mining to admire the moon.
Some idiots even delayed the mining work, which eventually incurred the wrath of the city lord, who chopped off the heads of the moon-watching mice on the spot and hung them at the entrance of the mine, and even issued a special order banning the moon.
Any act of looking up at the moon might be considered a crime, and from then on no mouse dared to be interested in the moon.
A few years later,
When everyone gradually forgot about this matter,
When the high-intensity work day and night caused a large number of rat people to be exhausted to death and public resentment arose,
One night, the rat people who returned from the mines suddenly found that the moon was big and round tonight. It even seemed that the moon was only a hundred meters above the city.
With the descending of a beam of white light, the long-lost mouse returned.
At the same time, the sound of fierce fighting could be heard from inside the city. The noise was so loud that it almost destroyed the entire inner city area... No one dared to approach, until a whole night passed, and the head of the first city lord was hung on the city gate.
Everyone was happy about this result, but they were also extremely worried. Killing the Knight of the Tumor was a serious crime that would inevitably draw the wrath of the Cancer Palace.
As expected, the Knights Templar came to investigate soon, and it was a large force of over a hundred people.
However, the massacre that everyone expected did not happen. Instead, a completely different woman walked out from the Knights Temperament, came to the rat who killed the Knight of the Tumor, and gave him the identity of the second city lord and knight.
With his rise to power,
Everyone's life became better, mining work was cut by at least 70%, and everyone loved the new king. They built the Dark Moon Tower according to his requirements, which enabled people to enjoy the moon at the closest distance and even climb directly to the surface of the moon using the tower.
pity,
With the advent of the world invasion, although we were not affected too much here, the moon was shattered.
The second city lord's personality changed drastically because of this, and the entire Rat City gradually became what it is today. Rat people like us who were born later have never seen this city lord, and we don't even know his name."
"Interesting story... So this tower also houses a knight of the Tumor from ancient times, who is also a giver of the moon."
"If he were still alive, yes.
Boss, you must not approach the tower~ Regardless of whether the city lord is still inside, there is currently a ban in Rat City, and anyone who approaches the tower without permission will be executed by the Black Rat Guards. "
"Yes, I understand."