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

Chapter 100: Sowing Orcs
"What did you say?! The navigator is the only one alive on the entire freighter?!"

Hakas, the son of a wealthy merchant, tried to control his voice and questioned his chief guard in a harsh voice.

His chief bodyguard was a bald man with no patterns on his head. He was extremely nervous when facing the young master's questioning:

"Master, it is absolutely true. Not long after the freighter arrived at the transit space station, the Eldar pirates attacked it. All the crew members on the freighter were killed, and the captain and the spy were also executed by the Eldar. Only the navigator hid in the crack of the cargo hold and escaped."

The spy carries a pathogenic strain, and his main function is not to spy on commercial intelligence, but to spread the plague in areas where cold trade is rampant.

This matter is the key to the cooperation between himself and Osgers.

Where there is plague, there are corpses.

With corpses, the ghost mushrooms have nutrients.

The personnel responsible for collecting and transporting the corpses have been almost arranged, and they can start work as soon as the plague spreads.

Now, the body has not been found yet, but the spy has died first.

How can this be good?

Khakass appeared panic-stricken and absent-minded.

Osgus pushed aside Hakas and came to the other side's guard captain, frowning and lowering his voice and asked:

"The cargo ship should have arrived at the space station seven days ago. How come we only received the astronomical message now?"

Osgesbihakas was calmer, and his words revealed a chilling coldness.

A drop of cold sweat appeared on the head guard's forehead. He raised his hand to wipe the sweat off and replied:
"Master Osgus, not long after the space station was attacked by Eldar pirates, the astropathic communication and subspace navigation there were severely disrupted. All rescue messages could not be sent out, and the ships in the space station could not leave.

"A group of Orc pirates appeared out of nowhere and launched a sneak attack on the Eldar pirates and the space station. The melee and looting lasted for five days and only subsided yesterday. The navigator was rescued by the Imperial fleet, and then the news was passed back to the hive through the Imperial fleet's astropath."

Osgus's eyes were gloomy and he gritted his teeth, "Damn pirates! Why did these scum show up at this time! "

Khakas wiped his cheeks with a handkerchief, forced a smile at the passing guests, and asked quickly in a low voice:
"Osgus, what should we do now? The cold trade merchants who are responsible for collecting the corpses have sent their representatives to attend the banquet. They will be here soon. How are we going to explain to them then..."

"Shut up! Do you want to die? How dare you say such things here!" Osgus wanted to tear Hakas' mouth apart!
This is the main entrance to the banquet, with a huge flow of people. There are at least eight hundred people who have sound-pickup implants installed in their bodies, if not a thousand.

If words like cold trade were heard by others, both himself and Khakass would be skinned alive!

Hakas is the youngest in the family and has no chance to inherit the position of head of the family. He spends his days eating and playing around, and is nowhere near as sophisticated as Osgus.

He suddenly realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, his face turned pale, his lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

"Let's go somewhere else and talk." Osgus glared at Hakas, reminding him to shut up.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the guests, Osgus found an opportunity to take Khakas and the other party's chief guard and run away, leaving the task of welcoming the guests to his own butler.

The three of them walked away quickly.

Li Nuo turned off the vibration sensor and seemed to be thinking about something.

From what Khakass said, it seemed that they were going to meet with representatives of the Cold Trade Merchants at a banquet.

Then can I find out the illegal businessmen by tracking Khakass and Osgus?

These illegal businessmen should be the target of the commander's trip.

Li Nuo squinted his eyes subconsciously. This was his habitual action when thinking, but he restrained himself.

The Terran merchant he is currently playing does not have this habit.

"Kang Wen, did you discover anything? Why are you distracted?"

The encrypted communication was connected, and Delton's voice appeared in Lino's mind through the communication beads.

Li Nuo looked up and saw that the officer was already more than ten meters away.

"Sir, I noticed something was wrong at the door. Hakas and Osgus had an argument, and they left temporarily."

"Oh? Really?" Delton stopped and looked around the banquet hall as if he was admiring it, his eyes sweeping past the door.

Indeed, there was no sign of Khakass and Osgus at the door, nor were there any noblemen to greet the guests on their behalf.

This is not in line with the style of large families that always pay attention to pomp and decency.

On a day as important as today, unless the head of the family dies suddenly, Hakas and Osgus must not leave without permission.

Did the heads of these two families die suddenly?
Obviously not.

But they just left like that without even deciding on a suitable person to replace them.

Delton smelled something strange.

"Conwen, I'll have the other agents keep an eye on Hakas and Osgus, and the two of us will continue our mission."

"Sir, got it." Li Nuo responded and quickened his pace to catch up with Delton.

The two chatted and laughed as they headed to the VIP lounge.

The banquets held by the top stars in Shangchao are not as simple as everyone gathering in a large space to eat.

There are many corridor entrances around the banquet hall, and there are VIP lounges of various sizes in the corridors.

The lounge provides unlimited drinks, tobacco, food, and snacks, as well as indoor leisure sports props and virtual scenes constructed with holographic devices.

If you like to gather in a large group, then enter the large lounge.

If you like to be alone, then find a minimal lounge with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city night view, a comfortable single sofa, a record player and a wine cabinet.

Providing a large number of social opportunities while fully respecting the personal needs of every VIP is the essence of top-tier banquets.

The most important thing is: there is no surveillance in the lounge.

The security personnel at the entrance review gate only recognize invitation letters, not people, and will not scan guests inside and out several times. This is a respect for visitors.

If you want to catch criminals who are impersonating others, you must scan them at close range and compare the vital signs data with the records in the database.

Li Nuo and Delton walked around in various lounges.

Every time a guest passed by, they would scan each other with a identifier hidden in their clothes.

From the time they entered the venue in the evening until the dinner started at six o'clock in the evening, the two scanned all the visiting guests.

Three alien businessmen caught Delton's attention.

Li Nuo and his companion did not meet these three businessmen and did not obtain their scanning results.

The agent responsible for monitoring the banquet said:
The three alien merchants walked into the main gate of the manor at 5:50 pm. As soon as they entered, they were led into the nobles' lounge by Osgus's captain of the guards and have not come out since.

Osgers again.

Delton and Li Nuo looked at each other, and the former said in a deep voice in the encrypted channel:

"Kang Wen, I'll give you a chance to prove yourself. If you can figure out whether those three alien merchants are illegal merchants without arousing suspicion from Osgus and others, I will allow you not to participate in combat missions in the future."

"Sir, I can use any means I want, as long as it doesn't arouse suspicion, right?"

"Yes, any means will do." Delton smiled slightly, "Let me see what you are capable of."

Li Nuo knew that the other party was testing his social and business acumen.

"Sir, let me ask you, do you think I would disguise myself as a waiter, knock on Osgus's door, chat with the people in the lounge, and take this opportunity to scan the three businessmen?"

Delton was stunned for a moment, "Isn't it? This should be the safest method."

Sir, it seems that you don't know much about the mysteries of psychic energy... Li Nuo took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and said slowly:
"In fact, I have mastered a psychic power that allows me to hear other people talking through the air."

Delton raised his eyebrows and looked Li Nuo up and down, his expression became strange:
"You have this psychic power, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Because the cost is quite high, sir. I might become permanently deaf." Li Nuo deliberately made the side effects sound more serious to prevent the other party from ordering him around without scruples.

"Oh...Is that so." Delton nodded after thinking about it. "Then go and give it a try. I'll be waiting for your good news."

Li Nuo stood up, left the lounge he was in, and walked towards Osgus's lounge following the map in his memory.

About fifty or sixty meters away from the destination, Li Nuo turned a corner, avoiding the sight of passers-by, and found a small empty lounge.

After hanging a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and locking it, Li Nuo activated his bacterial ability - vibration sensing - on the sofa.

A myriad of sounds crept into my mind, extremely noisy, as if hundreds or thousands of ducks were quacking around.

Li Nuo groaned and tried hard to hold on amid the raging waves.

"The wine here is pretty good..." "The waitresses in Epimet are much prettier than the last planet I visited..."

"Let's roll the dice. Whoever loses gets a smaller share of the profits..."

“Clatter, clatter…”

All kinds of sounds were running around in his mind. Li Nuo tried hard to search for the timbre of Osgus and Khakas, just like looking for the end of a thread in a tangled ball of wool.

Finally, five minutes later, he found it.

There were only four people in the Osgers' lounge.

One was Osgus himself, and the other three were unfamiliar voices, probably the three problematic visitors.

Khakass was not in the room.

Osgus picked up the glass and took a sip of wine, his voice sounding gloomy:

"Hey, guys, this is what happened. Our ship was robbed by pirates and we suffered heavy losses. The carrier of the pathogenic strain was also killed. When he died, the strain died too. I can't provide you with a second batch of the pathogenic strain in a short period of time. You have to find a way to create a plague or some other disaster on your own."

Osgers paused and emphasized his tone slightly:

"Anyway, I hope to see corpses as soon as possible. Lots of corpses. I don't care what methods your master uses, but you have to prepare the corpses needed by the hive. I will send people to the transfer station to receive them."

It turned out that Osgus was in charge of preparing the corpse.

Is he crazy?

Li Nuo thought this was crazy enough, but who would have thought that the three people who had a secret conversation with Osgus were even crazier.

"Osgus." The speaker was a human with a deep bass voice:
"Although we are a group of cold trade merchants, we still have basic credibility. Since we have received your deposit, the bodies will naturally be given to you. However, the source of the bodies is no longer the human pirates, criminals of the cold trade group, and fugitives of the empire as originally agreed."

Osgus asked, "Where are you going to get the bodies from?"

The bass laughed and said, "You don't want to know the answer, Osgus. You, the descendants of the hive nobles, will be terrified by the source of the corpse."

"No, you have to tell me the answer. I won't accept corpses of unknown origin. That will only limit the production of ghost potions even more."

The bass was silent for a few seconds, then he spoke in a tone that showed contempt for life:

"We have discovered an isolated planet with a weak civilization that has not yet been discovered by the Empire. The total population is about 300 million. We will destroy them and seize their mineral resources and corpses."

"Click." The sound of glass breaking.

Osgus crushed the wine glass, and the glass fragments pierced his palm, making him gasp:
"Hiss—damn it! Are you crazy? To kill 300 million people?! Just to make a deal with me?!"

"Don't sound so noble, Osgus. This is our way. When we prepare the body, you will beg us to sell it to you... Let's go out and have some fun and leave tonight."

The bass stood up with two followers, and without continuing to talk to Osgus, he opened the door and left.

There was no movement in the lounge.

Li Nuo wanted to turn off the vibration sensor, but suddenly he heard Osgus whispering like in a dream.

"Please guide me...please guide me...my psychic power...please guide me..."

"My psychic power, please tell me, should I continue trading with those bastards? Should I accept their bodies?"

what's the situation?
Osgus is praying for a response from his own psychic power?
Is his psychic power a legitimate psychic power?

Could it be that the big blue-haired bird was bewitching him?
"I saw it... Hehe, I saw it~" Osgus's laughter was very strange, inarticulate, and infatuated, as if he had fallen into a beautiful hallucination after taking hallucinogenic drugs:
"I have seen the future you described~ The corpses, the corpses of those slaughtered people, will bring me wealth and authority~ Hahahaha~~ I will occupy Tido! I will become the king of Epimet! Hahaha~~ Great~~ Such a wonderful future is what I want~~ Hahaha————"

There was no other movement in Osgus's lounge, only wanton laughter and endless mumbling.

…Well, Osgus, congratulations on getting the Chaos Corruption Pack, and good luck to you.

Li Nuo turned off the vibration sensor, thought for a moment, activated the communication beads, and relayed everything he heard to Delton.

The stories he relayed were so outrageous that Delton had no doubt about their authenticity.

It's obvious that this information could not be made up by a Hive agent, so how could it be fake?

Delton immediately replied:
"It seems that the Empire's restrictions on the use of psychic energy are justified. If everyone blindly follows the guidance of psychic energy like Osgus, the Empire will be in chaos."

"Sir, what should we do now?"

Delton pondered for a moment:
"I will go to Lord Fuges to discuss countermeasures. You are responsible for tracking the three merchants and looking for opportunities to scan them. Before I give you new instructions, stay where you are and do not act on your own."

"Yes, sir."

Encrypted communication ends.

Li Nuo sat in the lounge without moving.

When he heard that 300 million humans were going to be slaughtered, an idea popped into his mind.

I have to make it clear here that he is not a saint, nor a saintly bitch. He does not intend to save everyone, nor will he force others to save people.

The idea that came to him on a whim was not complicated.

That is to try to spread orc spores in the territories of those three merchants and let orcs grow in their territories.

Along with this idea, a more mysterious inspiration came to my mind.

The second reward options that can be redeemed for simulated points are as follows:

[Reward 2: Accurately match the orc you specified and simulate it. Exchange price: 100 points + some magical spores. ]

The plan to manually plant orc spores is linked to reward 2.

After an orc grew up on the territory of those three merchants, he could possess the orc himself. This way, he could play a game of directional time travel and spy on a lot of information.

Just thinking about seeing someone naked all at once is exciting.

"Calm down, calm down. Let's plant the orc spores first. The reproductive spores of orcs will grow wildly as long as they come into contact with nutrients. I have to find a way to control its growth rate, so that orcs won't grow before those three merchants return to their own territory."

Li Nuo started a brainstorming session in his head.

There are three main ways to slow down the growth and development of spores:
Lowering the temperature, lowering the humidity, changing the light, and adjusting the air composition are physical methods.

The use of preservatives and antifungal drugs can also delay development, which is a chemical method.

Microbial competition, such as the use of allicin in garlic to inhibit spore activity, is a biological method.

Li Nuo opened the fungus warehouse and scanned the various types of fungi with his mind, and an idea came to his mind.

He selected dozens of fungi and orc spores from the fungus warehouse and gave the system automatic simulation instructions:

"Using the orc reproductive spores as the experimental object, I used the fungi I selected and their metabolic processes, metabolites, and fermentation products to automatically simulate them, and try to inhibit the growth and development speed of the orc reproductive spores."

【Automatic simulation starts. 】

[On Day 1, you use Geotrichum chelsea to test the inhibitory effect. ]

【...】

Automatic simulation enters operational state.

Before the simulation results come out, go and complete the task assigned by Delton.

Li Nuo put his clothes in order, opened the door and walked out.

The speech session of the dinner had just ended, and Lord Fuges, supported by his daughter Tido, climbed the main staircase of the lobby and went to the reception room on the second floor to meet with dignitaries from all parties.

Everyone came to eat and chose from a wide variety of delicious food.

The dining session will last until eight o'clock in the evening, after which the highlight of the evening - the auction - will begin.

While looking for the three businessmen, Li Nuo took food from the dining table to fill his stomach.

To be honest, the food at the banquet was the best thing Li Nuo had ever eaten.

In order to cater to the tastes of guests from all over the world, all kinds of novel foods are available.

Li Nuo even saw a chef heating up canned ant cows on site, surrounded by a circle of fearless spectators...

Now that I'm here, I might as well try the canned ant bull food.

Li Nuo smacked his lips and moved closer.

(End of this chapter)