Ratfolk are not "rat people".

Unlike pure-blooded species such as "Ratmen", "Tauren" and "Wild Boars", Ratmen are full-blooded hybrids.

Initially, it was because of the rat men's cowardice and escape in a glorious battle thousands of years ago that led to the failure of the entire war.

The rat people were deeply hated by all the Turan people, who believed that they had unclean blood flowing in their bodies and were not worthy of the blessings of the ancestral spirits, let alone the power of the totem.

The five major clans joined forces and exiled all the rat people, driving them to the barren mountains and rivers on the edge of Turanze, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Gradually, the Turan people named the cowards, cowards, surrenderers, and escapees of their respective ethnic groups as "cowardless rats" and deported them to the rat people's exile.

In order to survive, these dishonorable cowards and runaways had to stay together with the rat people, and even intermarry with each other to reproduce.

There is no other way. Apart from sharing the same sympathy and sympathy for each other, they really can't find any noble Turan warriors to continue their humble bloodline.

In this way, from generation to generation, the characteristics of different ethnic groups continue to blend and mutate.

Today, the appearance of the rat people is completely different.

The true "pure-blooded Ratmen" have long been extinct.

Most rat people, to a greater or lesser extent, will exhibit the characteristics of tauren, wild boars, elephants, and even golden lions, lizards, and jackals.

In fact, because the characteristics of too many ethnic groups conflict with each other, most of the characteristics are offset.

Their hair keeps falling off, their skin is smooth and delicate, and they look a bit like the blond barbarians in the fertile land north of Turanze, which is said to be eternally illuminated by the holy light.

This is what Ye Zi and his brother are like.

Except for their gray-brown curly hair, their tails that were rolled into small balls, and their pointed ears, they really looked like barbarians who had blended into the Turan people.

This appearance is also one of the important reasons why rat people suffer from discrimination.

Therefore, Ye Zi has seen all kinds of strange rat people.

Standing at over an arm's length, he is an authentic "pure-blooded rat-man" who looks like a giant rat standing upright from a human body.

He has the blood of the Elephants, is over three arms tall, and can swallow a dozen Datura fruits in one meal.

From protruding tusks, to huge horns soaring into the sky, to being covered in long hair, scales and carapace.

From having wings to swinging a scorpion tail.

He has seen everything from rat people who are full of strange fragrance and have natural hallucinogenic abilities to chameleon-like people who can change their skin color at will and perform various mimicry.

But I have never seen a guy with hair and eyes that are as black as a starless night.

Moreover, except for his hair and beard, his skin was smoother and paler than Ye Ye and his brother, with a swollen to translucent texture, almost like a floating corpse soaked in a swamp.

"poor guy!"

Ye Zi couldn't help but think to himself, "How much must he have suffered for such an ugly appearance!"

There is also discrimination among the rat people.

The rule is, whoever has more obvious animalistic characteristics and is less like a naked human being, and whoever has less cowardice, despicability, lowliness and unclean blood in his body, will be nobler.

On the contrary, whoever has smoother skin, less hair and animalistic features, means that he is more cowardly, despicable, lowly and unclean, and less worthy of regaining the blessings of ancestral spirits, the highest glory, and the protection of totems.

Of course, the more we should be discriminated against.

Growing up, Ye Zi and his brother had to suffer a lot in order to look like humans.

Even their mother, who loved them from the bottom of her heart, couldn't help but sigh when she saw the two brothers naked.

I am worried that they may not be able to find a good furry girl in the future.

But compared with the guy in front of me, even the hair on the leaves has not yet fully grown, and it can be said to be full of animality.

"Which clan's blood is flowing in his body?"

Ye Zi pondered, "Both leopard men and bear men have warriors with black hair, but after constant mixing of blood, there are very few who are like this guy, without any color at all.

"Furthermore, apart from black hair and black eyes, he doesn't have any characteristics of a leopard or a bear.

"At first glance, he looks like a naked worm, an ugly human being, too weak.

"It's just, where did such a weak guy get such serious injuries?"

This ugly rat with black hair and eyes was crisscrossed and densely packed, and the injuries covering his whole body were so heavy that Ye Zi had never seen them before.

It was as if he had been chewed by a hundred hungry totem beasts.

He was soaked in rancid sewage for ten days and nights in the deepest part of the dungeon.

There was not a single piece of good meat to be found all over his body.

It's either a raised swelling or a gaping wound like a baby's lip.

For some reason, the wound didn't rot.

Probably because the blood inside has long since drained away, leaving only an empty body.

Even the little bugs that can devour courage and soul disdain him.

No one, not even the clan warriors who bear the power of the totem, can survive with such serious injuries.

"He...is already dead, right?"

Ye Zi found that the dark eyes that had been staring at him for a long time were unblinking and motionless, and the light inside had long since solidified.

The shriveled chest of the ugly rat people has long since ceased to rise and fall.

The nostrils close to the surface of the sewage could not emit even a weak stream of air, causing even the slightest ripple.

The leaves don't even feel the slightest bit of life or temperature.

Except that it hasn't rotted yet, this is an out-and-out corpse.

only……

I don’t know if it’s dazzling or not.

Ye Ye suddenly saw that near the heart of the black-haired ratman, there seemed to be a cluster of scarlet hyphae flashing in a bone-deep wound.

Ye Zi was startled, rubbed his eyes, and looked intently, but saw nothing.

The leaves became scared.

He knew what was going on.

The black-haired rat people were infected with the plague.

Therefore, other rat people are as afraid of it as a tiger and dare not approach it.

Plague is probably the only thing that Turan warriors fear.

It's not that I'm afraid of death.

Rather, the plague is invisible and it is difficult to find specific ways to fight the plague happily.

Besides, contracting the plague, lying on the bed wailing, struggling, and dying.

This is really the most shameful way to die.

The black-haired ratman was so ugly and most likely infected with a strange plague. Naturally, no one dared to come forward and touch his body.

As for why the clan masters didn't throw this body out to avoid infecting all the rat people in the cage?

Haha, noble men will not care about the lives of just a cage of rat people.

If all the rats in the cage were infected, the worst possible outcome would be to leave them to fend for themselves, and then burn the depths of the dungeon and bury them completely.

This is the simplest and most effective way.

The leaves subconsciously retreated.

But behind him are the hungry red-eyed rat people.

And he had been around the black-haired rat people for too long.

His legs were covered with small wounds from the many hardships he had endured over the past few days.

Like the wounds of the black-haired rat people, they were soaked in sewage.

If the black-haired rat people were really infected with the plague, their bodies would be crawling with tiny bugs that could devour their courage and soul.

These little bugs could just follow the sewage and get into his body.

Besides, where can we retreat to?

The entire dungeon was knee-deep in sewage, and there was no dry place.

Even if you squeeze through the red-eyed rat people and run to another corner, can you avoid the invisible bugs?

Realizing this, Ye Zi was completely desperate.

He abandoned himself and sat next to the corpse of the black-haired ratman.

"Mom, is this my fate? In a dark dungeon, like this ugly uncle with black hair and eyes, I will die quietly. My body will be soaked in sewage, rotting slowly, and being eaten by small insects bite by bite.

?

"fair enough.
To be continued...