Tunnel Rat
Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his days... Read more Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his ... more>>Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his days... Read more Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his days repairing the machinery that keeps the habitat livable and tinkering with the prosthetics that help his twisted body move about through the small tunnels and air shafts that are his world. He's as much a piece of discarded machinery as the equipment he keeps running. Given a chance at being someone different will he become a hero and live in the sunlight? The light beckons, but there are secrets buried in the ground. Ancient mysteries left by races that delved deep and stayed below. Maybe only a tunnel rat could find them? Collapse Grimdark, LitRPG, Magic, Male Protagonist, Non-human Protagonist, Virtual Reality, Weak to Strong, Character Growth, Modern DayI'm up to ch175 and loving it. Fantastically crafted story and characters. It's both serious and silly. A fairly grim world (well two worlds) but at the same time the story doesn't take itself so seriously all the time. It manages it well with a good balance of both.And it manages to keep the comedy both fresh, subtle, absurd and normalized. I typically can't stand most comedic stories because it usually ends up with memes constantly over the top, becoming major nonsensical plot points and beaten until it's dead.Tunnel Rat manages it into an enjoyable companion which aids the progression of the plot rather than leading and replacing it.And the lore is both rich and consistent, as are the physics of both machines and magic. The terminology isn't just novel gobledigook slapped together but close enough to IRL terms and meanings that even I, an engineer, am not bothered by it like I am with majority of stories on here.Definitely worth a read.It’s a very wierd story, or should I say a story that isn’t of the usual norm. Like who makes the main character a rat? Especially a deformed one. XDOverall tho, the plot and world building, both real and virtual is very interesting. I found it to be a nice story. There are many small cons like some chapters being just about the stats of the player, however, I’ll still give this a 4/5 or 3.9/5.This so confusing, it starts out dealing with a vault like dwelling living, then vr gaming, AI controll things and people who live out of the vault dwellings. To much is crammed into this story.imagine being a ratRats are pretty neat. Very smart. And not at all as dirty as they're often portrayed. They're just prone to disease because of how successfull a species they are at surviving in all kinds of environments, and any species that reaches a certain density of population is liable to get ravaged by disease. *cough* covid *cough*JkkjkkIt's most likely a bot. He not only copies the novel, but also its assessment from the source site. If you need to put an integer (3,4,5) then vote 1 time, and if fractional (4.5, 3.5) then vote several times to display the average number as it should. (I translate with Google, sorry ^^)Who is the person giving 3-star ratings to the new Novels please leave a review. I would appreciate it I heard from some comments that it is the lord of ranobes himself when he thinks those novels are mid and not truly worth like 4.5+ starsHe just gives every novel 3 stars so the first vote won’t sway the ratings too much and influence potential readers back<<
《Tunnel Rat》The Newest Chapter
- Chapter 350: Scavengers go Scavenging
- Chapter 349: Sending a Message
- Chapter 348: Discreet Friends
- Chapter 347: But about those ingots...
- Day 1: Nothing Changes, Everything Changes
- Chapter 346: The Legacy of Black Eddy
- Chapter 345: Standing Guard
- Chapter 344: Fifty-Five Fathoms Beneath the Sea
- Chapter 343: Salvaging the Situation
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《Tunnel Rat》All Section Catalog
- Chapter 1: Milo
- Chapter 2: Heist
- Chapter 3: How about a nice game of chess?
- Chapter 4: Nowhere to run.
- Chapter 5: Shadowport
- Chapter 6: Rat on the Roofs
- Chapter 7: Lights End
- Chapter 8: The Basement
- Chapter 9: Shroom gathering
- Chapter 10: Cheating with Physics
- Chapter 11: Real World Problems
- Chapter 12: Leveling Up
- Chapter 13: Bad to the Bone
- Chapter 14: Why do you have dead worms in your pocket?
- Chapter 15: Making new friends.
- Chapter 16: Wash Day
- Chapter 17: Unchained
- Chapter 18: Apple core, nothing more
- Chapter 19: Cichol
- Chapter 20: Accidents
- Chapter 21: Stinky Cheese!
- Chapter 22: Clan Business
- Chapter 23: Little bugs, big bugs, bugs for dinner.
- Chapter 24: Home, sweet home.
- Chapter 25: Once a hacker...
- Chapter 26: Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes?
- Chapter 27: Kicking over the hornets nest.
- Chapter 28: Corpse Run
- Chapter 29: Shroom Grinding
- Chapter 30: Salvaging Parts
- Chapter 31: Decisions, Decisions...
- Chapter 32: Actions have Consequences
- Chapter 33: The Dragon is Wounded
- Chapter 34: Delivery Boy
- Chapter 35: Delivery Boy, (2)
- Chapter 36: Cheese and Apples
- Chapter 37: Lurking
- Chapter 38: Caught between a rock and another rock.
- Chapter 39: Rocky Rewards
- Chapter 40: Which rock?
- Chapter 41: Gears turning
- Chapter 42: Volat-Repax
- Chapter 43: Research
- Chapter 44: Grinding
- Chapter 45: More grinding.
- Chapter 46: Scavenging
- Chapter 47: Spare parts?
- Chapter 48: Subragators and Throttlecogs
- Chapter 49: Bucket Time
- Chapter 50: The reward for a job well done...
- Chapter 51: Dreams of the past
- Chapter 52: BoomBoom!
- Chapter 53: Solutions, not problems
- Chapter 54: Chase me!
- Chapter 55: Extra Clever Traps
- Chapter 56: End of the Tail
- Chapter 57: Waking up
- Chapter 58: Waking up Again
- Chapter 59: Partings and Choices
- Chapter 60: So small!
- Chapter 61: Polite Engineers Share
- Chapter 62: Destructive Testing
- Chapter 63: The calm before battle.
- Chapter 64: Old friends, new friends
- Chapter 65: We're going to need a bigger boat.
- Chapter 66: Herald
- Chapter 67: Breaking Bad
- Chapter 68: Broken Things
- Chapter 69: Blame Sydney
- Chapter 70: Like rats fleeing a sinking ship
- Chapter 71: Defenders Assemble!
- Chapter 72: The Big Bang
- Chapter 73: It's the End of the World as we know it, and I feel fine.
- Chapter 74: Stretched Thin
- Chapter 75: Broken?
- Chapter 76: Interlude: Behind the Curtain
- Chapter 77: Can't Fix Stupid
- Chapter 78: Family
- Chapter 79: Caged
- Chapter 80: Double Blind
- Interlude: Tap, Tap, click
- Chapter 81: Story time
- Chapter 82: Cheese Thief
- Chapter 83: Last Meal
- Chapter 84: Snack Time
- Chapter 85: Thinking
- Chapter 86: Talking with Wally
- Chapter 87: Crossroads
- Chapter 88: What do you do with a boy like Milo?
- Chapter 89: Talking with Hekate
- Chapter 90: Options
- Chapter 91: Leveling Up
- Chapter 92: The Rune-Boned Scout
- Chapter 93: Fire and Flood
- Chapter 94: Gert is a Big Doody-Pants
- Chapter 95: Cheesey Deals
- Chapter 96: Scavengers
- Chapter 97: Natural Enemies
- Chapter 98: Looking for a friend
- Chapter 99: Second Home
- Chapter 100: Limburger Hollow
- Chapter 101: Overdue Books
- Chapter 102: I have found my people!
- Chapter 103: Tail-Fighting 101
- Chapter 104: Dinner with Brutus
- Chapter 105: Cheese Class
- Chapter 106: Breakfast with Larry
- Chapter 107: Friendly Sparring
- Chapter 108: Snacks
- Chapter 109: Hamsters Hopping Happily
- Chapter 110: Silently Sampling Sumptuous Succulent Shrooms
- Chapter 111: Making friends along the way
- Chapter 112: Spiders don't keep score.
- Chapter 113: Things get mixed up
- Chapter 114: Partner Perspective
- Chapter 115: A place to think
- Chapter 116: Clean Pants!
- Chapter 117: Tunnels and Traps
- Chapter 118: A visit to Larry's House
- Chapter 119: Three on One
- Chapter 120: Cookies for Heroes
- Chapter 121: Clan Secrets
- Chapter 122: Operation Larry
- Chapter 123: Clumpybigtoe
- Chapter 124: The Rational Decisions of Students of the Arcane Arts
- Chapter 125: The Duel
- Chapter 126: and another duel
- Chapter 127: Final Duel
- Chapter 128: Circles
- Chapter 129: Jelly beans are Hero Food.
- Chapter 130: Dinner with Arlothe
- Chapter 131: Sparring
- Chapter 132: Not-Sneaky guys
- Chapter 133: Different Like Me!
- Chapter 134: Midnight at the Library of Death!
- Chapter 135: Bad Guys!
- Chapter 136: Because we care
- Chapter 137: Tunnlemuggles
- Chapter 138: This is a wrench...
- Chapter 139: Scouts doing what scouts do best.
- Going Forward (non-story update)
- Chapter 140: Poker and Pings
- Chapter 141: And Poison makes Four
- Chapter 142: Runes and Repairs
- Chapter 143: Iron Spider
- Chapter 144: Too much Bleu
- Chapter 145: Dwarven Holiday
- Chapter 146: Conclave
- Chapter 147: Investigations
- Chapter 148: A visit with the Eels
- Chapter 149: March of the Spiders
- Chapter 150: The Raid
- Chapter 151: Pickled Picnics and Plucky Puffyfurs
- Chapter 152: The Cheese Caravan
- Chapter 153: Further Investigations
- Chapter 154: Words in the Dark
- Chapter 155: To the end.
- Chapter 156: Jellybean break
- Chapter 157: Raiding the Ratkin Dungeon!!
- Chapter 158: The Big Scary Noise
- Chapter 159: Dwarven Thunder
- Chapter 160: Tasty New Cheese
- Chapter 161: The Iron Spider takes the Scenic Route
- Chapter 162: Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere!
- Chapter 163: Salvaging the Situation
- Chapter 164: When some idiot screws up your crafty plans....
- Chapter 165: Wait...you have beer?!
- Chapter 166: Larry 1, Reality 0
- Chapter 167: The Battle of the Gathering Fields
- Chapter 168: Healing and Puffcakes
- Chapter 169: "Magic Cheese"
- Chapter 170: Blood work
- Chapter 171: This will hurt a lot!
- Chapter 172: Smiling
- Chapter 173: A delicate mix of strength, torture, and compassion
- Chapter 174: Someone is Sad
- Chapter 175: Battlelines are drawn
- Chapter 176: Parley
- Chapter 177: Don't bring a Mace to a Spider Fight.
- Chapter 178: When you're hungry and craving pancakes.
- Chapter 179: Anime and Deathrace 2020
- Chapter 180: Sour Pickles
- Chapter 181: Recovering
- Chapter 182: Thank you for Contribution
- Chapter 183: Claw Master Inc
- Chapter 184: Party Research
- Chapter 185: The Road to Bloth
- Chapter 186: Who ordered an elevator?
- Chapter 187: Diagnostics
- Chapter 188: Seeking Sanctuary
- Chapter 189: Unified Runic Theory
- Chapter 190: Dangerous Knowledge
- Chapter 191: Physics isn't always your friend
- Chapter 192: Forces in motion
- Chapter 193: Anime
- Chapter 194: Going in Style
- Chapter 195: Astraeus
- Chapter 196: End of a Cycle
- Chapter 197: Post Surgery
- Chapter 198: Boosting to a Higher Orbit
- Chapter 199: Pre-Party shake-up
- Chapter 200: Party Time
- Chapter 201: Getting the gang together.
- Chapter 202: Warming Up
- Chapter 203: Pre-Launch Maneuvering
- Chapter 204: Last minute changes
- Chapter 205: The Stars at War
- Chapter 206: The Stars at War (2)
- Chapter 207: After party
- Chapter 208: A new variable
- Chapter 209: Complications
- Chapter 210: Connections
- Chapter 211: Solutions
- Chapter 212: Conversations
- Chapter 213: Reaching Out
- Chapter 214: Unhinged
- Chapter 215: Protection
- Chapter 216: Security
- Chapter 217: Surprise!
- Chapter 218: Family Time
- Chapter 219: Spoils of War
- Chapter 220: Downward Path
- Chapter 222: Sundering for Science
- Chapter 221: Cracking Rocks
- Chapter 223: Paperwork
- Announcement Concerning the Future of my stories (Non-Story)
- Interlude: The Snow over Yakayama
- Interlude: The Snow over Takayama
- Chapter 224: He's Alive!
- Chapter 225: Of Wizards and Liches
- Chapter 226: Time for Schooling
- Chapter 227: Just a quick explore and then a trip home
- Chapter 228: Catch that Lizard!
- Chapter 229: Guard Duty
- Chapter 230: On Patrol
- Chapter 231: Dressing for Success
- Chapter 232: After the Dust Settles
- Chapter 233: Just a small slice, please.
- Chapter 234: A little lost Kulag...
- Chapter 235: Return of the Righteously Vengeful Empress
- Chapter 236: A Place with Uncomfortable Memories
- Chapter 237: Conversation between two people unused to having friends.
- Chapter 238: Date Night
- Chapter 239: Fish Taco Tuesday
- Chapter 240: The Dreadful Secrets of the Mysterious Claw Master Corporation!
- Chapter 241: Hunting the Alphabet
- Chapter 242: Excavations
- Chapter 243: Tunnel Rat
- Chapter 244: Moves on Chess Boards
- Chapter 245: Eric has Three Bosses
- Chapter 246: Lab Work
- Chapter 247: Deeper Investigations
- Chapter 248: The Second Chess Match
- Chapter 249: More Power to the Engines!
- Chapter 250: [Welcome, Milo!]
- Chapter 251: ICARUS
- Chapter 252: VIP Quarters
- Chapter 253: Downtown
- Chapter 254: Murder on the Habitat Express
- Chapter 255: Frank goes on Vacation
- Chapter 256: John pisses off Milo. Milo goes shopping.
- Chapter 257: Someone Borks up.
- Chapter 258: Hello Children.
- Chapter 259: Hot Real Estate Market
- Chapter 260: Rhebus decides to move in.
- Chapter 261: More Lab Work
- Chapter 262: When you need a hero, but get a Sidekick...
- Chapter 263: Find another way
- Chapter 264: Eric has three Plans
- Interlude: Flower Town
- Chapter 265: Duct Crawling
- Chapter 266: "You knew? How did you know?"
- Chapter 267: Shhhh! We're hunting Doctors!
- Chapter 268: Poker Night
- Chapter 269: Unexpected Vacations
- Chapter 270: The Friend you haven't met yet.
- Chapter 271: Victor is still Causing Trouble
- Chapter 272: Victor has Concerns.
- Chapter 273: John tries to help...Milo does Brain Surgery
- Chapter 274: Victor has money? Let's fix that.
- Chapter 275: You must gather your party before moving on
- Chapter 276: Old Secrets and Buried Bones
- Chapter 277: Early Christmas
- Chapter 278: Welcome to Manpower
- Chapter 279: Making sure Sleeping Beauty gets her rest.
- Chapter 280: In Good Faith
- Chapter 281: Let me not die in Battle without my Name
- Chapter 282: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Chapter 283: Aftermath
- Chapter 284: Bunnies!
- Chapter 285: Unknown Player
- Chapter 286: Facts and Consequences
- Chapter 287: The Great Data Heist
- Chapter 288: Run, Run, Ramona!
- Chapter 289: Trouble with Paperwork
- Chapter 290: New Game, My Rules.
- Chapter 291: Men in Tights Day
- Chapter 292: Focusing on what's important in Life
- Chapter 293: Security Upgrade
- Chapter 294: Dead Trees
- Chapter 295: Quantum Guessing
- Chapter 296: Problem Children
- Chapter 297: Back to School
- Chapter 298: Mind Splitting and Clog Eaters
- Chapter 299: Crazy Busy
- Chapter 300: Strange Messages
- Chapter 301: Pre-Game Party
- Chapter 302: Gearing Up
- Interlude: The Snows over Cygnus Four
- Chapter 303: Cheating like Milo
- Chapter 304: He's Sneaky and Cheating!
- Chapter 305: Looking for Jeremy
- Chapter 306: Desperately Seeking Jeremy
- Chapter 307: The Lower Decks
- Chapter 308: The First Glorious Adventure
- Chapter 309: Tanstaafl!
- Chapter 310: On a Highway to Hell
- Chapter 311: Geometry
- Chapter 312: You don't get to win.
- Chapter 313: Diving In
- Chapter 314: Impatiently Waiting on Milo!
- Epilogues
- Interlude: Between the Old and the New
- Chapter 315: Lunch Money or Bruises?
- Chapter 316: No Soup for You!
- Chapter 317: Run, Run, Tallsqueak
- Chapter 318: CoffeeQueen
- Chapter 319: SOS
- Chapter 320: Game Night
- Chapter 321: Interface
- Book 2 Epilogue
- Chapter 322: Rusty doesn't get to Win
- Chapter 323: Everyone Wants a Nap
- Vacation!
- Chapter 324: Self Diagnosis
- Chapter 325: Back in the Shadows
- Chapter 326: The High Cost of Fish Tacos
- Chapter 327: Fish or Cut Bait
- Chapter 328: Parley
- Chapter 329: Return to Sender
- Chapter 330: Cannonball!
- Chapter 332: Taking out the Trash
- Chapter 331: The Iron Orca
- Chapter 333: Sharks
- Chapter 334: Night of a thousand Clogs
- Chapter 335: Breaking for Lunch
- Chapter 336: Playing Games
- Chapter 337: Troublemaker
- Chapter 339: No one gets to Win.
- Chapter 338: Captain's Game
- Chapter 340: Four Shades of Grey
- Chapter 341: A Landslide of Luck
- Chapter 342: Captain's Honor
- Chapter 343: Salvaging the Situation
- Chapter 344: Fifty-Five Fathoms Beneath the Sea
- Chapter 345: Standing Guard
- Chapter 346: The Legacy of Black Eddy
- Day 1: Nothing Changes, Everything Changes
- Chapter 347: But about those ingots...
- Chapter 348: Discreet Friends
- Chapter 349: Sending a Message
- Chapter 350: Scavengers go Scavenging
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