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

Chapter 178: The Word Bearers' Imperial Guards' Idiot Aura
The purple-skinned man is showing the way to the Randan Alliance!
To be precise, it is the Bone Drinkers who are showing the way to the Randan Alliance!

Once the Randan Alliance completes signal calibration, their fleets will be able to travel directly to the Milky Way via subspace navigation, without the need to rely on triangulation for short-distance jumps.

From this point of view, the two planets of the purple-skinned people have become the bridgehead for the Randan Alliance to return to the Milky Way.

The long, thin thing on the planet's surface must be some kind of warp beacon.

Li Nuo was a little curious about the structure and principle of this thing.

In his impression, there are two beacons of the Human Empire.

One is the well-known Astronomican, which is a typical subspace beacon.

The other was the Pharos Device used by Guilliman during the Horus Heresy when he was secretly planning the Second Imperium.

This thing is a technological product of the Necrons, which uses quantum entanglement to achieve point-to-point connection in the physical universe.

Pengpa concluded that the purple-skinned people's planet was emitting subspace signals, so the slender building should be some kind of psychic device.

Li Nuo roughly guessed how this psychic device worked.

The purple-skinned people create subspace fluctuations through living sacrifices, and then use some kind of psychic ritual taught by the blue-haired big bird to convert the subspace fluctuations into subspace signals and transmit them out.

The principle of this method is similar to that of Terra's Astronomican. Both "living fuel" will eventually die tragically, but one uses the despair of the sacrifice, while the other consumes the mental energy of the psyker.

Destroying the purple-skinned people's subspace beacon can delay the arrival of the Randan Alliance.

But this cannot solve the problem of the planet Palu being harassed by the Bone Drinkers and the Randan Alliance.

Li Nuo looked at the beast in deep thought:

"How much cationic explosives do we have in stock now?"

Beast took out the data pad and flipped through it:
"It weighs about 100 tons, and can be used to build a giant bomb."

100 tons, one giant bomb could blow everything up... Li Nuo secretly estimated the power and felt it was not enough.

The medium-sized ones are more than enough to attack ships below the flagship level, and the giant ones can attack flagships and large space fortresses.

The cationic storm formed by the ancient giant explosion can cover one-third of the planet.

Asteroids can destroy the moon.

The Moon class is capable of destroying planets.

If you want to kill the purple-skinned men in one fell swoop, you have to use Moon-level weapons to blow them all up.

A rough estimate is that the amount of cationic explosives needed to blow up such a bomb is about 10 billion tons.

This will take time to produce.

Li Nuo secretly thought, it would be great if he could get two whirlwind torpedoes from the Human Empire.

There should be weapons in Orc technology that are as awesome as the Whirlwind Torpedo.

But the problem is that the power of thinking can only be triggered when the orcs have seen something specific, and it cannot be imagined out of thin air.

The things that Li Nuo had thought of before, such as the calculator, the finder, and the cationic bomb, were all thought of because he had seen the real things.

The same goes for whirlwind torpedoes.

Li Nuo had to see the true form of this thing first before he could activate his power of thinking.

But it is impossible to even see such a national treasure.

How can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed? However, the overall strength on my side is not enough, so things are indeed a bit difficult.

Li Nuosi thought about it and couldn't find a good solution, so he could only remind:

"We have to prepare for the worst, that is, the purple people and the Randan Alliance join forces to attack our planet. I have prepared a crisis plan, you listen carefully..."

While Li Nuo was preparing crisis plans for the Hive City, he also prepared several sets for his own planet Palu.

From the extermination order, to the beyond-visual-range strikes of the Necrons, to the joint encirclement and suppression by the Space Marine Legions, every crisis was taken into consideration by Li Nuo.

First of all, production facilities such as farms, ranches, mushroom fields, machine workshops, smelters, forges, etc. on the ground were gradually moved underground.

The sunlight needed for crop growth is guided underground through optical tubes in peacetime, and artificial sunlight is used in wartime.

The same is true of air and water, which are obtained from the earth's surface in peacetime and from artificial sources in wartime.

That's where Hydrogen Squig comes in handy.

Li Nuo gave the beast a bag of genetically modified yeast.

This yeast is named "hydrogen-oxygen yeast" and is specifically used to decompose water to produce hydrogen and oxygen.

Hydrogen will be made into a combustion aid for plasma reactors, and oxygen will be directly discharged into underground facilities to participate in the air circulation of the artificial ecosystem.

The source of water is easy to solve.

Clean water can be obtained by drawing seawater from the ocean and heating it into steam through a steam shaft.

After all aspects of light, water, air, food, purification and recycling of pollutants are handled in place, an artificial ecosystem that can operate underground for a long time is formed.

".Finally, we will cover the entrances and exits of the shafts and disguise them as ordinary grass, hills or forests. In this way, when we all hide in the underground space below 300 meters, the surface terrain will be similar to the primitive jungle. The enemy's scanning signal cannot penetrate 300 meters of soil, and they will not be able to find our traces. We can catch them off guard."

Li Nuo finished explaining the crisis plan in one breath. Aaron and Zarg didn't have enough brain capacity, so they didn't understand it. However, Beast followed the boss's train of thought.

"My head is so itchy, I feel like it's going to grow a brain." Aaron muttered while scratching his head.

"Me too." Zarge added.

Beast wrote down the boss's words on the data pad and asked:

"Boss, what if the enemy uses extinction weapons like whirlwind torpedoes against us?"

Just make a big fuss, what else can we do... Li Nuo smiled secretly and said:
"I've thought about this. We'll use the surface-to-air weapons in the combat zone to intercept first. It would be best if the interception is successful. If not, we'll hide below the artificial magma belt, where the extinction weapons won't be affected."

"Yeah, I remember that."

Li Nuo checked the contents of the beast's record and added a few missing parts.

"By the way, Beast, how long will it take for us to build the imitation purple-skinned ship?"

"There's still about half a month left."

Li Nuo calculated the date.

It is now May 5th, and half a month later it will be around June 19rd.

On May 5st, I will trade the formula for synthetic starch. After the formula transaction is completed, I can devote myself to dealing with the Randan Alliance and the Bone Drinkers, and I can personally command the imitation ship.

Li Nuo nodded:

"Then let's take action. Just do as I say. I will find a way to deal with the alliance between the Purple People and Ran Dan."

"okay."

"hold head high."

Li Nuo poked the jar with his staff:

"Pumpa, you should keep an eye on the purple-skinned people. If they send any more subspace messages, you must tell me immediately."

"Good drop."

Li Nuo and Beast exchanged glances and "went offline" where they were.

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In his residence in the Epimet Royal Court, Li Nuo opened his eyes in the morning light, and the system text refreshed.

【This Waaaagh simulation ends. 】

【Settlement in progress.】

【You received 1719 likes from the Steel Warrior Tribe, and your score is +5493. 】

[You led the Steel Warrior Tribe to destroy 104 Necromancers, and your score is +1040. ]

[You led the Steel Warrior Tribe to eliminate 1743 living metal spiders and beetles, and your score is +8715.]

[You led the Steel Warrior Tribe to eliminate a chief technician of the Tomb World, and your score increased by 1.]

[You led the Steel Warrior Tribe to destroy a Necrons stronghold, the stronghold integrity is 1%, score +3.3. ]

[This simulation has earned a total of 148248 simulation points. ]

[Remaining simulation points: approximately 712 million. ]

Eh?
The Necrons have a very high kill score.

The points provided by a Necron Warrior are almost the same as those of a low-level demon.

You can also get points by destroying Necrons' strongholds.

The enemies of the Old Ones in the War in Heaven are mainly the Necrons, Daemons of the Warp, and C'tan.

Judging from the kill reward rules, it was a foregone conclusion that his system originated from the ancient saints. Li Nuo thought for a moment, turned over and sat up, quickly put on his clothes, and started his day's work.

如今已是5月19日，距离交易配方的5月31日只有12天的时间，各方面的事宜正在加紧推进。

The number of trading partners that have signed trading contracts has reached 120.

One-tenth of the transaction partners pay in full and enjoy a 6% discount, and the transaction amount is 6 million Throne Coins.

The remaining transaction objects will use installment payment, with a down payment ratio of 15% and a down payment amount of 1.5 million Throne Coins.

In order to welcome the upcoming trading representatives, Li Nuo started preparations half a month in advance.

The airport's sewage diversion renovation work has been completed, and visiting ships will discharge domestic wastewater, engine coolant, exhaust gas and oil and other pollutants separately.

After domestic wastewater enters the sewage pool, a special person will test whether there are metabolites of bone drinkers in it.

Li Nuo improved the inspection method.

The original testing method was to put fluorescent tracers into the sewage pool.

It's different now.

The wastewater passes through a dense filter screen coated with a permanent fluorescent tracer.

Regardless of the concentration of metabolites, the filter will fluoresce as long as there are metabolites of bone drinkers in the sewage.

After this new type of wastewater testing network was put into use, the test results received one after another really amazed Li Nuo.

Bone Drinkers arrive at the hive almost every day on ships.

The density of these bone drinkers is not high, with only one appearing on average per day. Moreover, they will not disembark, but will just follow the passing cargo ships, stay briefly at the airport, and then leave.

It was obvious that the Bone Drinkers had already made Epimet a key target of attention, and they sent people to check on the situation every day, ready to counterattack at any time.

Li Nuo didn't dare to take it lightly.

He asked Amy, the acting commander of the Governor's Agents, the inspector of the Hive Law Department, and Harper, the commander of the Planetary Defense Force, to jointly conduct a detailed search inside and outside the hive.

Amy was in charge of commanding the Governor's Guard to search the Royal Court District and the First District.

Hive Adeptus Affaires searches the second to tenth sectors of the hive.

The Planetary Defense Force launched a carpet search in the wild.

After searching the entire planet, no Bone Drinkers appeared. Li Nuo felt relieved and concentrated his efforts on guarding the airport, while also planning a plan to test the Word Bearers.

We have to thank Epimet's climate for this.

When the hive city was built in the early years, the Governor's family used the forests, minerals and water resources on the planet to pay for the construction costs, resulting in an extremely harsh ecological environment for the entire planet.

Sandstorms, acid rain, and thunderstorms appear alternately, which are totally unsuitable for the survival of the Bone Drinker's parasitic spores.

The natural barrier formed by severe weather just cuts off the path for parasitic spores to spread in the wild.

As long as the planet is bad enough, no living creature can survive. Only the artificial environment of the hive city can have a glimmer of hope.

This is also a black joke in the Warhammer world.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to August 5th.

In order to welcome the trade representatives, Li Nuo wore the governor's uniform, which was very rare.

This is a layered robe, divided into five layers from the inside to the outside.

The innermost layer is a cotton shirt as soft as a girl's delicate hands, the outermost layer is a colorful and gorgeous jacket with gold and silver embroidery, and the three middle layers are responsible for bulletproof, fireproof, electrical protection, strong acid and alkali protection, and poison protection.

Under this wide robe, Li Nuo was covered with personal protective equipment - waste shield generator, anti-psychic device, poison gas alarm, force field beads.

Anything that can save your life should be carried on your body.

After this kind of dressing up, he changed from a well-proportioned young man into a tall man with a slightly fat belly.

He was so cautious simply because there were so many people coming today and they were so diverse.

In order to ensure that the process of escorting the formula is foolproof, representatives from all parties are accompanied by highly combat-capable armed personnel.

The Space Marine Legion's trading representative was followed by a company of veterans and think tanks, all wearing fine power armor.

The star governor's trading representatives are the governor's personal guards, each of whom wears a set of extremely expensive custom-made power armor.

The governor of the star region, who was on good terms with the Mechanicus, even commissioned a team of intelligent robot soldiers to escort the formula.

The wandering merchants were not to be outdone.

Customized power armor, a team of anti-gravity motorcycles, hired psychic experts from the Astronomican Court, Justice Department judges who somehow "colluded" with the Rogue Traders, and Ogryn bodyguards wearing specially made power armor.

The empire during the Great Crusade was truly powerful, with an overwhelming amount of weapons and equipment, and all kinds of combat units of the human empire took turns appearing on the stage as if they were participating in a reality show.

The good news is that on this day when many forces gathered together, the Bone Drinkers did not dare to cause trouble, and there was peace inside and outside the hive.

The bad news is that the future rebels have also sent their own representatives and are trying to show goodwill to Li Nuo, attempting to win over this governor who focuses on scientific research to their own camp.

The first to bear the brunt are those who love to talk big.

Lorgar, Erebus, and Kor Phaeron did not appear at the scene. The trading representative they sent was named Xaphen.

Xia Fen was wearing a set of finely crafted power armor with the "Jagged Sun" logo on the metal arc surface of the shoulder. The power armor was painted mainly red, and the pious scripture worn on the right shoulder had no characters on it, only a piece of white paper.

Judging from the red skull pattern on the shoulder armor, Xia Fen should be a priest in "Jagged Sun".

The Word Bearers were the only legion during the Great Crusade to have a priest as their commander.

As for the meaning of "Jagged Sun", Li Nuo had already learned about it through public data. This is a chapter from the Word Bearers Legion.

"Mr. Wilsey, nice to meet you. I am Xia Fen, the chaplain of the 7th Company of the Jagged Sun."

As a Space Marine, Xia Fen kept a low profile and even bowed slightly to Li Nuo, expressing some purposeful kindness and gentleness.

He has obvious Kochi features, with high cheekbones, nasolabial folds, and thin lips. He is intimidating when he is serious, but refreshing when he preaches.

Of course, public preaching is a thing of the past.

Since the destruction of the City of Perfection, the Word Bearers have abandoned their former teachings under the supervision of the Custodians.

They burned the "Sacred Words", bid farewell to their past beliefs, and expanded their territory like normal Space Marine legions.

But this is just an appearance.

If the Word Bearers truly embraced the Imperial Truth, they should not have retained the position of "Chaplain" within the Legion.

But the fact is that after the destruction of the City of Perfection, the Word Bearers not only retained the position of "priest", but also allowed the "priest" to hold regular internal lectures with obvious missionary characteristics.

The Custodians of the Word Bearers knew of these events, but they turned a blind eye to them. (Note 1)

This scene is simply unbelievable.

As Cloud Hammer, Li Nuo felt that the Imperial Guards were truly unreliable when he saw the relevant short video.

People are preaching to your face, and you don't even do anything about it.

Then what use does the emperor have for you bunch of golden corns?

No wonder the Emperor's dick was pierced by the webway demon...

"Mr. Xia Fen, you are too polite." Li Nuo bowed with a smile, "I am honored to receive the friendship of the Word Bearers Legion."

Xia Fen smiled slightly:
"Lord Lorgar hopes to conclude a longer-term trading contract with you after this transaction is completed. In the name of the Primarch, this will be a contract that is beneficial to both of us. I hope to discuss it with you in detail after the formula transaction is completed."

"No problem, Mr. Xia Fen." Li Nuo extended his right hand towards the banquet door behind him and invited the other party to enter.

"Then I look forward to hearing from you." Xia Fen nodded slightly, her feet wrapped in ceramic steel leaving dents on the soft carpet.

He entered the venue with a few followers, and did not notice that Li Nuo's lips were trembling slightly.

"Amy, the Word Bearers have arrived, ready to execute the 'Prophecy' plan."

"Copy that, start taking action."

Li Nuo used the communication beads to talk to Amy who was behind the scenes, then smiled and welcomed the next trading team.

Today he wanted to test whether the Word Bearers had been corrupted by Chaos.

In normal Warhammer history, the Word Bearers Legion would have completed their "pilgrimage" by this time.

Under Lorgar's orders, the Jagged Sun Chapter entered the Eye of Terror, shut down the ship's Geller field, and faced the truth of the Warp.

The Space Marines who returned alive from this "pilgrimage" all became "Blessed Sons".

The so-called blessed children have another name, that is, the possessed warrior, which means a space warrior with a demon in his body.

In normal Warhammer history, Xiafen is an enchanter, and the earliest member of the Word Bearers to become an enchanter.

Li Nuo planned to test Xia Fen and find a chance to force the demon out of his body, so as to uncover the truth about the Word Bearers' betrayal.

The Imperial Guards who are responsible for supervising the Word Bearers have not been able to discover the demon in the body of the enchanted warrior. Li Nuo believes that his chances of success in forcing the demon out are low.

But he was going to give it a try anyway.

(End of this chapter)