I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 155: A frog in a well knows nothing about the power of steel

In response to Li Nuo's question, the four primitive people headed by Xiaoxi had their eyes flashing slightly and anticipation appeared on their faces. It was obvious that they had already made a decision in their hearts.

"Sir, we wish to return to human civilization."

Xiaoxi spoke Low Gothic, and although his pronunciation was a little unclear, communication was generally not a problem.

When Li Nuo brought books to the beasts, he had a vague premonition that Xiaoxi and the other four would choose to leave the orcs' territory, so he also brought them books.

These books are contained in yeast cartridges, and the text information on them can be read and stored by data boards.

The Orcs' datapad is similar to that of the Human Empire and can also read the information on the yeast cartridge.

Beast, Creek and the other three each had a data tablet, and whenever they had free time they would immerse themselves in reading.

Over the past ten days, Xiaoxi and his three companions have been diligently learning Low Gothic on their own in order to return to human society.

"Give yourselves the injections first. I'll go look for human civilization nearby. Another orc will take you there by boat later. His name is Sack."

"Thank you, my lord."

Xiaoxi led the primitive people in kneeling and worshipping

Li Nuo did not refuse this time, as long as the other party did not shout words like "God's power is evident".

Xiaoxi and the other three gave themselves acupuncture.

Li Nuo took the syringe and turned to leave.

"Sir." Xiaoxi caught up from behind, holding a pendant in his hand.

Li Nuo stopped and turned to look.

Xiaoxi knelt on one knee and handed the pendant to him. Her eyes were red and tears were gleaming faintly.

"Sir, please accept this pendant. I'm afraid I won't see you again in this lifetime."

After spending so much time together, Xiaoxi knew that the green-skinned uncle reproduced asexually, but this prevented her from feeling grateful to the green-skinned uncle who saved her.

Li Nuo couldn't stand this sentimental scene, so he picked up the pendant and held it in his hand, then walked towards the treasury door.

"If you can flexibly apply the knowledge you've learned over the past month or so, you should be able to leverage the power of human civilization to reach space. The planet we're on is located in the northeastern corner of the Midrak Expanse, at the specific coordinates MDLK/115.994.485/V.III.IV/12-7."

Li Nuo read out a string of code, stepped out of the door, turned around and looked at Xiaoxi, who was crying, and waved goodbye:
"I look forward to the day when we meet again. Goodbye, Xiaoxi."

Li Nuo's consciousness seamlessly switched to Sack, controlling the shaman boy to enter the bridge.

"Hey, Pumpa, how's the reconnaissance going? Have you found any planets with intelligent life?"

Li Nuo came to the dotted picture and stopped.

Pumpa laughed in the can:

"Master Wuji, I discovered a planet of shrimps. I like shrimps. They're soft and thin, and they'll die if you hit them with a hammer. Shrimp are really fun, especially their flesh..."

Li Nuo knocked the can with his staff and glared at Pumpa:
"Did you forget what I said before? You can kill shrimps, but you can't eat them, otherwise you will become as useless as shrimps."

"Oh yeah, I can't eat dried shrimps. Eating dried shrimps will make me weak."

Pumpa smiled ingratiatingly, spitting out a string of bubbles from the jar and said:
"Boss, I've taken a closer look. Besides our planet, there are three other planets within 1000 light years that show signs of significant life activity. I've displayed them on the dot map."

The dot chart hummed, and a holographic screen appeared before his eyes. Pumpa listed the images and descriptions of the three planets.

One of the planets has a human civilization, about 12 light years away from the space beast's planet.

However, the civilization on this planet follows the path of magic rather than science.

Li Nuo saw rock giants on the surface of the planet that were as big as mountains.

These behemoths have exquisite buildings, gardens, and waterfalls, and the humans living in them drive elves similar to light balls to serve them.

The magical civilization in the Warhammer world will definitely not have a good ending.

This statement is not alarmist.

The magic mastered by such civilizations is psionic in nature, and ultimately cannot escape the corruption of Chaos.

Once the human empire discovers the magical civilization, there is only one word: kill.

Killing all the people of the magical civilization and then migrating a group of people from within the empire to become new residents has been a practice since the Great Crusade.

It is precisely because of this that many lost worlds and alien civilizations discovered by the Empire will turn to Chaos in despair.

The good news is that the magical civilization discovered by Pumpa is located in the Midrak Expanse, which is extremely far away from the heart of the empire.

It is estimated that Xiaoxi and his three companions will never see the expeditionary fleet of the Human Empire in their lifetime.

"That's all. I'll send four shrimps here later. Pumba, write down the location of this planet."

"Okay, boss." Pengpa marked the dots on the map.

Li Nuo looked at the briefings on the other two planets, his eyes slightly fixed.

He discovered traces of the Onye people.

The two planets are located in the same solar system, a full 997 light-years away from the space beast's planet.

The two planets seemed to be at war, and there were strong magnetic storm signals in the space between them, which were caused by the explosion of the ship's plasma reactor.

It's quite interesting, the people of Oune don't seem to be a monolithic group.

Li Nuo pointed at the diagram:

"Pompa, keep a close eye on the movements of these two planets. If any ships from there approach us through the warp, you must inform me immediately."

"No problem, sir. How about we go and beat up those purple-skinned people?" Pengpa was eager to try inside the can.

"Let's not look for them for now. Let's build a few spaceships first."

Li Nuo left the ship and found Ailon to explain the situation.

Although Ailon was confused about the witch priest's plan to escort four shrimps off the planet, he still agreed and offered to escort them throughout the journey.

After the Space Beast Clan joined the Steel Warrior Tribe, the Steel Warrior's witch priest was a Space Beast.

Li Nuo selected 10,000 Space Beast boys and 10,000 Steel Warrior tribe boys to board the ship in the identity of Sack.

And so, the ship carrying the four primitive people set off.

Ork ships do not require the light of the Astronomican of the Imperium of Man to navigate.

Therefore, in the expansion zone, the subspace maneuverability of the Ork ships should be considered T0 level.

Two Terra hours later, the ship arrived above the magical civilization.

The energy torrent caused by the subspace exit attracted the attention of the top powerful people in the magic civilization.

On the surface, several rock giants as big as mountains stopped, and the magnificent palaces above their heads lit up with a hazy magical light.

This is a defensive measure. The ships of the Steel Warrior Tribe detected an energy reaction similar to a protective force field.

Li Nuo led the four primitive people onto the Kada transport plane, drove out of the ship, and flew towards the land below.

At the same time, several flying vehicles made of shells and pearls took off from above the rock giant's head and landed on the ground together with the Kada transporter.

The humans on the Shell Pearl Vehicle have pointed ears, and both males and females have whiskers similar to squid tentacles.

The language they used was not Low Gothic.

But that's okay.

Li Nuo made a universal translator in advance.

Place this device with a large speaker in the center of the field, and the local language will be translated into orc slang, and orc slang will be translated into the local language.

After some communication, the local civilization who called themselves the Zhensai people accepted the existence of aliens and figured out the purpose of the green-skinned creatures and the four humanoid creatures.

"Sark, what value can these four humans, who can't even protect their own civilization, bring to us? We don't feel obligated to accept them."

The leader of the Jinsai people is a man who calls himself "Ings".

He is over two meters tall, with a slender body, three tentacles with jewel rings on his chin, and small bumps distributed regularly on his body, resembling a pearl necklace.

He was wearing fine coral armor, standing on a shell vehicle, raising his chin slightly, and looking down at the four rough-skinned primitives with a condescending attitude.

The universal translator translated his words verbatim.

The green-skinned uncle didn't care about it. They came here just to escort Sack, but the four primitive men were disappointed.

Li Nuo pointed at Xiaoxi and the others with his staff:
"Their experiences are the reward for taking them in. From their experiences, you can find inspiration to prevent the destruction of your own civilization."

"Haha, destroy our civilization? Just with that metal thing up there?"

Ings had a sarcastic smile on his face as he looked down upon the Steel Warrior Tribe's spaceship.
"This continent once had nations as obsessed with metal as yours, but they were all annihilated by the deep sea magic and rock magic of our people, the Jinsai. We need learn no lessons from the defeated. I refuse to accept these four humanoids, even though they bear some resemblance to us."

"I am willing to accept them."

Another voice spoke.

Li Nuo looked over when he heard the voice and was surprised to find that the person was petite. Although he was a Zhensai, he might not be the same species as Ings.

Her status was probably not as high as Ings's, and the coral armor on her body had only a few decorations.

She stood on a vehicle made of two five-meter-wide shells, with five softly glowing light balls floating around her. They were magical creatures similar to jellyfish.

Essentially, this magical creature is a projection of some Warp creature into the physical universe, and its original form may have been corrupted by Chaos Daemons.

When Li Nuo's gaze shifted over, the female Zhensai tapped her chin and said:

"I am Fernica Janese. I am willing to accept the four humanoids you have sent me, provided that their experiences can truly bring us profound enlightenment as you claim."

Li Nuo glanced at Xiaoxi and the other three, who nodded to him.

"Fenjia, you won't regret it. So I'll leave them to you." Li Nuo gestured to Xiaoxi and the other three, and then made a gesture to Aaron beside him, asking him to put away the translator.

"We will not disturb this planet anymore. Goodbye everyone."

Li Nuo led the orcs back to the Kada carrier.

Ailon muttered dissatisfiedly:
"I want to give that Ings a blast for mocking my spaceship."

The Kada transport took off and rose towards the ship above.

The four primitive men and Fenjia stood together and flew to the palace above the rock giant's head in a shell vehicle.

Ingus had a bad look on his face, and there was a hint of provocation in his eyes as he looked at the ships above his head.

He whispered a few words to the female Jinsai he was traveling with, then flew to his palace in a vehicle.

"Upon return, summon the Grand Mage immediately and use legendary ocean magic to attack that ship. I want to see what these green-skinned creatures are capable of."

However, what Ingels didn't expect was.

Before the great magicians under his command could gather in place, a huge "meteorite" was ejected from the steel ship.

"boom!"

The sound of the gunfire resounded throughout the sea of clouds, and the sound waves pushed away all the clouds within a thousand meters around the ship, forming a large blank area.

"Snapped!"

A steel shell with a diameter of 300 meters fell on Ings' palace.

The gravitational potential energy of the shells themselves easily overwhelmed the magic shield outside the palace.

The translucent shield shattered like an eggshell, and the hard shells slammed into the palace, crushing the magnificent buildings wherever they passed.

A deep pit suddenly appeared on the top of the rock giant's head.

Just when the Zhensai people thought that this was the full power of the huge steel projectile, the shell exploded from the inside out.

“Boom boom boom————”

A deafening roar erupted, and metal fragments more than ten meters wide flew everywhere.

Ings's rock giant let out a wail as his head was blown to pieces.

The giant's body couldn't stop tilting sideways, and fell to the ground amid the screams of many Zhensai people.

"Bang! Boom boom boom——"

The earth shook, dust and smoke rose into the sky, and the rock giant was smashed into pieces.

Such a horrifying scene made the other rock giants silent, and countless pairs of eyes hiding in the buildings looked at the steel ship in the sky in horror.

Aaron's loud voice came through the loud speaker outside the ship:

"Wow! I only fired one shot and it fell! It's really not my fault! I thought it could withstand at least three shots! Forget it~ The shrimps here are too weak, let's go back and do the big work~"

The ship rose high into the sky with the roar of its engines.

The rock giant below fell to the ground, reduced to a dead object, without even the slightest ability to resist.

Li Nuo looked through the porthole at the Zhensai people on the ground, feeling a little speechless.

Why did Ings think that metal creations were vulnerable to deep sea and rock magic?
This actually has to do with the distribution of resources on this planet.

The Steel Tribe's ships are equivalent to the Terran Empire's battleships, with global scanning capabilities.

The scan results of the dot map show that the planet has very few metal resources, and most of them are soft silver and mercury.

How strong can a metal object made with just these two things be?
I'm afraid any random orc boy could pry it apart with his bare hands.

Just because they could defeat a metal creature of this level, the people of Zhensai could boast that they were invincible in the world of magic. They are really a bunch of frogs in a well.

Li Nuo shook his head slightly and ordered the ships to return along the same route.

Settling Xiaoxi and the other three down finally puts my mind at ease.

The ship successfully arrived at the planet of the space beast, and the megalith construction plan moved forward at full speed.

The orcs are digging a vertical tunnel that goes more than 30 kilometers underground.

At the end of this channel, the asthenosphere in the upper mantle appears, which is the source of magma.

Under the influence of high temperature and high pressure, the material in the asthenosphere flows slowly, driving the movement of the crustal plates.

The massive amount of magma provides a huge amount of heat.

The blueprints for the transformation of the boulder include plans for the use of the asthenosphere.

The Space Beasts and the Steel Warrior Tribe joined forces to use the heat of the asthenosphere to build a high-pressure shaft that spews out boiling steam 24 hours a day.

The heating efficiency of the steam shaft is comparable to that of a ship's plasma reactor, and can be converted into mechanical energy through boilers and turbines, and then converted into electrical energy through a magnetic field.

With these steam shafts, a series of facilities such as excavations, smelters, steel mills, and machine shops have abundant energy.

Most importantly, the steam shaft can drive the surface-to-air cannon.

There is an anti-aircraft weapon for low-ground orbit on the boulder, called Gogo's Big Black Tube.

This thing is a macro cannon that is fired at the sky.

The barrel extends from the surface all the way down to the asthenosphere.

There is a magnetic induction coil inside the barrel that is more than 30 kilometers long.

The enormous pressure of the asthenosphere pushes the shell upward.

The metal shell cuts the magnetic induction coil to generate an electric current.

The current magnetizes the coil, temporarily strengthening the barrel into a railgun barrel.

The projectile is accelerated by the magnetic field and eventually reaches the first cosmic velocity when it leaves the barrel.

The first cosmic velocity is the minimum speed required to enter low-Earth orbit, which is about 8 kilometers per second, equivalent to 2.8 kilometers per hour.

After the projectile is fired, it adjusts its flight attitude and continuously obtains power through the nozzle on the surface, and will eventually hit a spacecraft in a low-Earth orbit at a speed slightly lower than the first cosmic speed.

It doesn’t matter if one shell misses the target, we can just make a few more big clarinets.

Anyway, these big black pipes can be used as steam shafts in peacetime, so it’s never too many to build as many as you can.

"What a group of cute green-skinned palus~"

One day a month later, Li Nuo stood on the top of the mountain as a shaman priest and looked down at the construction site below.

More than a dozen deep pits with a diameter of more than 100 meters appeared on the vast plain. Each pit represented a steam shaft that was being constructed at a rapid pace.

At the end of the plain, a barrel-shaped building stood there.

Thick white steam floated out from the top of the building, and the steam merged with the clouds in the sky, like a paintbrush in the sky, which was beautiful beyond words.

That was the first steam shaft to be completed and put into use.

With this successful case, the green-skinned Palu became more and more motivated. They would go underground and dig shafts on their own without even arranging supervisors.

On the other side of the hill below were vast greenskin agricultural areas, swarms of Fartlings and Stockboys, surrounded by Squiggs driven by them.

There is an agricultural area surrounded by steel walls, which is personally guarded by the shaman boy Sak and Zarg.

That's where the magical spores are cultivated on a large scale.

At this moment, the daily output of magical spores has reached 1000.

As long as he accumulates more than 800 days, Li Nuo will be able to forcibly possess an orc at the level of a warlord.

"Boss~" The beast came to the top of the mountain excitedly, pointing at the vertical shaft in the sky, dancing with joy:

"The big black pipe coil in the vertical shaft is ready. Once Tech Guy and Tech Boy make the cannonballs, we can fire cannons into the sky. The Xiami Empire definitely can't make a treasure like ours! Haha~"

The Xiami Empire refers to the Human Empire.

The Beast had read many books about the Human Empire and had a good understanding of the situation in the empire.

He often compares aspects of the human empire to those of the orcs.

Li Nuo glanced at the excited beast and couldn't help but smile:
"We and Xiami Empire each have our strengths. We should learn from Xiami Empire's strengths and discard their weaknesses. Do you understand?"

"Yeah, I understand." The beast scratched his head:

"I think so. The Xiami Empire is just a green-skinned shrimp in a shrimp shell, and we are shrimp in a green-skinned shrimp shell. If we could record our cultural traditions and enact laws like the Xiami Empire did, we would definitely be more powerful than the Xiami Empire!"

"Okay, give it a try," Li Nuo said with a smile. "Aren't there many legal works by Malcador in the books I brought you? You can start drafting our legal provisions right now. I'll check on your progress from time to time."

"Really?" The beast opened his eyes wide with excitement.

"Of course."

"Okay, Brother Go, I can definitely write our own legal provisions." The beast pounded his fist on his chest, making a banging sound.

"I believe you can do it. I have to go now. When I come over tomorrow, I'll bring you some other books, mainly poetry, entertainment, historical texts, and the like."

"See you tomorrow, Boss!"

Li Nuo said goodbye with a smile and went underground.

The beast did a good job in managing the orcs, which saved him a lot of worry.

Li Nuo planned to copy all the public data of the Human Empire and give it to Beast to read, so that it would be much more convenient for him and Beast to discuss governance policies in the future.

(End of this chapter)