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Tunnel Rat by The Walrus King

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
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    Could you tell me, is there a difference between the chapters here and the volume-based books (like on Amazon)? In the books, the first volume ends at chapter 60, and then there's an insert about a dream with Voltaclm and company and Milo's new Character
    Sheet, which happens in chapters 91+ here. What the hell?
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    Скавены...
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    • 2.0
    2.0
    Chapter 211 and the story's fixedly immature/young adult; spinning towards trillionaire crippled heiress Belinda, a vague love interest and whose great uncle is Milo's mortal enemy.
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    Very good but later the author stall way to much and write to many fillers in a way like changing pov or skiping moment that the reader is expecting like masives leveling ups is super annoying at least if you have a lot chapters to read (you will end skiping a lot), I don't know how reading only the last chapter feel haven't catch up yet
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      Well I just drop it the novel got to a point that have way to much IRL drama way to much with a lot of chapters and I dont want to keep skipping chapter so good bye
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    • 5.0
    5.0
    I'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.
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      Ch295. Still great. The author is a skilled writer. Enough said.
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    • 4.5
    4.5
    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. XD

    Overall 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.
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    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.
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    TrashNovel
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    imagine being a rat
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      Rats 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*
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      Imagine not being a rat smh
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    Jkkjkk
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    It'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 ^^)
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