"How... What's wrong?" Sierki asked, looking bewildered. She had seemed somewhat calm, but was also feeling a little pressured.
"You haven't grasped the basic situation," the Dwarf Miner said with a smile. As 'old rivals,' Dwarfs were among the few who could openly slip information about Skaven into certain accounts. "There's no doubt that Skaven are behind these rats, just as your teacher said. In other words, we shouldn't just stay here and rest. We should find their lair and assess the situation. We could either seal it off and find the Ubersreik army, or wipe them out ourselves. And if we do that..."
"Find the Ubersreik army? Why? And weren't we only here to deal with the plague?" Sierki furrowed her brow slightly.
"Do you think your teacher mentioned the Skaven just so we could deal with them? Or, put another way, if the Skaven were so easy to handle, would your teacher have waited for us to arrive?" Lin Yun shook his head.
"Waited for us to arrive?" Sierki still seemed unable to follow.
"Never mind. We'll leave this to you." Lin Yun turned to the others. "Everyone else, get ready for battle. Olga and I will ask around to find out which way the rats came from, then look for a way in. You can take it from there, Ailee. There's no way they're just going to eat all the food and leave. Those Skaven will definitely come back up and carry off a huge amount of it."
"Understood. Leave it to me when the time comes." The young lady nodded.
It could be said that the young lady's presence was one of the biggest sources of confidence for Lin Yun and the others.
The reason the Skaven were so brazen was partly because their tunnels tended