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

Chapter 108 Chapter 107 The Fountain and the Golden Spatula
"Welcome, welcome, welcome~ Hahahaha, it's really rare that our hive city has the honor to welcome a Mechanicus sage to visit us."

Hakas, the son of the chief of the Coin Guild, rushed to the front of the welcoming team.

He expressed his enthusiasm with an overly exaggerated tone of voice and body movements.

His unrestrained behavior soon met with a heavy blow.

The stick came from the silent Crusaders.

These armed men in dark red robes are not popular among people outside the Mechanicus.

The various colored tubes were covered by their burqas, hidden in places that were difficult for others to see.

Also covered up were the rotten pieces of meat that had been neglected, the engine oil stuck on the sliding rods and gears, and the strong sweat and sour smell left over from not taking a bath for years.

They do light incense burners and use the aromatic materials inside to soothe the machine spirits, but don't assume that the smell coming from the incense burners is necessarily fragrant.

It is actually a gas that can strongly irritate the human respiratory system.

With such a complex mixture of smells, the body odor of the Crusaders is enough to make people who are not used to it feel nauseous.

Khakass was caught off guard by the sudden stench.

The bright smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and then...

"vomit----"

Vomit a lot.

Wherever the Crusaders passed, it was like a flying creature passing through, causing a series of retching and nausea.

Baron Dam glanced at the nobles who were madly vomiting gastric juice and food residues, shook his head slightly, and led the team to walk around them without speaking to them.

Do you think it's easy to be a bodyguard for the oil man?
Ha ha.

Except for a very small number of clean-loving Mechanic Priests and Skitarii, almost all members of the Mechanicus are smelly.

You nobles are behaving like this when you see the Skitarii. If you really saw the mechanical servants in the Forge World, you would probably have a mental breakdown on the spot.

Behind the crowd surrounding the dock exit, two figures slowly emerged. They were Li Nuo and Isabel.

Both of them knew about the oil man's arrival in advance and put invisible nasal plugs in their noses to filter out the odor, so they could remain calm.

Dam led the team through the crowd and came in front of Li Nuo and the others.

Li Nuo took out the data tablet he used in the upper nest and handed it over.

The Skitarii leader pulled a line from his sleeve and connected it to the data pad.

A red beam shot out from the prosthetic eye and swept across Li Nuo's body from top to bottom.

The sound of electricity and low Gothic electronic voice came from the throat of the Skitarii:

"Biometrics passed///Identity code correct//Confirmed to be Li Nuo, a civilian from Epimate Upper Nest."

The Skitarii leader retrieved the pipeline.

Li Nuo put the data pad into his pocket and extended his right hand to the Knight of the Guardian:

"Welcome, Baron Dam, I'm Li Nuo, and the person next to me is my partner, Isabel Kram. We have prepared everything, follow us."

Li Nuo looked young and immature, with a scholarly air of someone who had just graduated from school, and was wearing a white robe as a researcher.

Isabel is obviously more mature and stable than him, and has more social experience.

In order to match with Li Nuo, she also wore a white researcher's robe today, and used a single ponytail and square-frame glasses to make herself more dignified.

Dam's eyes moved across the two of them, and he did not show any contempt for Li Nuo because of his age.

"Hello, Li Nuo, Isabel. Sage Lilalu has entrusted me with full responsibility for this mission. Please lead the way."

"Please." Li Nuo and Isabel shook hands with Danm, stepped aside to make way, and invited him to get on the transport vehicle.

Two transport vehicles, one large and one small, were parked on the platform. The Crusaders rode in the large transport vehicle, while Li Nuo, Isabel and Dam sat in the medium-sized transport vehicle with a conference table.

The noble representatives who came to the port to welcome the sage had just recovered from the shock brought by the Crusaders.

After discovering that the Sage's private affairs were related to the youngest daughter of the Kram family, many communications requested access to the Kram family, trying every means to get information about private affairs.

These communication requests are doomed to fall on deaf ears and receive no response.

As early as five or six days ago, when Delton told Lino that the representatives of the Forge World were about to arrive, Isabel had made adequate preparations.

She would not allow anyone or any force to interfere with Li Nuo's meeting with the representatives of the Forge World, not even her own people.

She persuaded her father to protect her from prying eyes from inside and outside the family, and only after Li Nuo met with the representatives of the Forge World would she selectively reveal part of the truth to the family.

Isabel turned off the communication function of the data pad, and so did Li Nuo.

They accompanied Baron Dam from the Upper Nest to the Lower Nest, introducing the scenery and facilities along the way.

Half an hour later, everyone arrived at the starch factory in Xiachao and got off the car in the garage.

Li Nuo knew that he was sometimes not good at speaking, so he simply let Isabel introduce the production process.

"Baron Dam, let's go to the workshop where the reactor is located first. There, we can visually see the entire process of converting the promethium refining residue into starch paste."

Isabel led the group to the third-floor corridor of the production workshop with a smile on her face.

From here you can overlook the entire workshop and have a panoramic view of all the pipelines, reactors and instruments.

The servo skull beside Danm flew off the corridor and shuttled between the production equipment, continuously emitting scanning beams to collect information.

After scanning a circle, the servo skull flew to the corner of the workshop and hovered over a pipe transporting liquid.

One after another, red beams of light shot out from the skull, repeatedly scanning the composition of the liquid in the tube.

Danmu raised his hand and pressed his right ear, making a gesture of answering the communication beads call, and asked with his head tilted:

"Isabelle, Sage Lilalu asked me to ask you what is the potion you use to transform the residue of promethium refining? Would you mind introducing its composition to us?"

Isabel looked at Li Nuo, and Li Nuo naturally took a step forward and took over the topic involving professional fields.

The Servo Skull returns, the camera trained on Li Nuo, with Sage Lilalu watching him from behind the scenes.

Li Nuo said calmly:
"This drug is the patent of our Umbrella Group. To the outside world, it can be temporarily called 'Promethium Refining Residue to Starch Drug', or 'Residue to Starch Drug' for short.

"It is essentially a synthetic catalyst. Within the group, it is called an activated carbon-loaded metal oxide sterilization and disinfection catalyst. Just like its name, it performs well in the three aspects of adsorbing metal ions, preserving carbohydrates and sterilizing and disinfecting..."

Li Nuo spoke out the speech he had prepared.

He repeatedly told himself that he would never tell the truth even if he was beaten to death.

You must absolutely, absolutely, absolutely not tell the other party that the main ingredient of the medicine comes from a kind of mycin.

In the scientific system of the human empire, mycobacterium is an antibiotic specifically used to target bacterial and fungal infections. It is impossible for it to have the functions of killing viruses, adsorbing metal ions, and preserving carbohydrates.

Once the raw material of the drug is defined as mycin, there is only one outcome that Li Nuo will face:
That meant he was immediately judged as a technical heretic by Sage Lilalu.

The Crusaders would immediately capture him and escort him to the ship, where Sage Lilaru would personally dismantle his body and brain and search for his memories.

It was precisely because of this unbearable consequence that Li Nuo wisely converted the amylin into artificial synthetic materials in advance.

In this way, even if Sage Lilaru asked for samples and tried to replicate the same materials in his own laboratory, Li Nuo would not panic at all.

"Do you have a sample?" Lilalu's voice came from the servo skull.

"Of course." Li Nuo took out a glass jar and handed it to Baron Dam.

The servoskull projects a scanning beam toward the light grey powder in the glass jar.

The light intensity of the light beam continued to rise, the flashing frequency also accelerated at the same time, and the crackling sound of the electric current became louder and louder.

The servoskull circled the glass jar slowly, flying around and around.

After a full 10 minutes, the skull stopped scanning. A burst of white smoke floated out from the gap in the metal shell, with a faint smell of burning.

"Crackling." Sparks flew and a few flames shot out from under the outer shell.

The skull swayed as if it was about to fall from the air.

The leader of the Skitarii rushed forward to catch the skull and repaired it with the tools they carried with them, thus preventing the skull from spontaneously catching fire due to overload and overheating.

A low Gothic voice with a murmur came from inside the skull, sounding very uneasy:
"This potion...its properties and ingredients have not yet been classified. It is completely different from any substance recorded in the Holy Database. It is a brand new product. Tell me, Li Nuo, who invented such a novel creation?"

"Sage, I am the inventor of the potion." The voice in the skull became more excited, so much so that the sound device cracked and howled:

"You?! Are you telling me that you invented such a complex compound all by yourself, without the help of holy machinery or the guidance of divine wisdom? No, that's impossible. This is beyond the capabilities of an unenhanced mortal skull and is unprecedented. Please explain in detail the entire process of how you accomplished this feat!"

The skull splatters motor oil and sparks, and the intermittent static noise foreshadows the turbulent waves in the sage's heart.

Never doubt the intellectual thirst of the Lilalu sage.

As a high-ranking figure among the mechanical priests, it is precisely because of his almost fanatical worship and obsession with knowledge that he was able to stand out from the crowd of mechanical priests and become a high-level priest of the sage level.

Li Nuo knew very well that if he didn't demonstrate the process of synthesizing compounds, he would not be able to overcome this hurdle today.

"Please follow me to the laboratory, where I will walk you through the entire process of making the potion."

The skull was repaired by the Skitarii and the ability to fly was restored.

It flew up from the hands of the Skitarii, hovered in front of Li Nuo, and said tremblingly:

"Thank you for the light of knowledge that has shone upon me. I swear in the name of Ohm Messiah that I will keep the production process confidential. Please lead the way, Linuo. Dam, Snail-63, you two will wait outside the laboratory door and are not allowed to come in."

Baron Dame bowed in response.

The leader of the Skitarii, Snail-63, responded with a rapid-fire binary voice.

The group left the starch factory and boarded the transport truck again.

After a while, the transport vehicle stopped in front of the medical laboratory purchased by Li Nuo.

The Skitarii surrounded the laboratory, and Dam stood guard at the door.

Isabel contacted the law enforcers and asked them to come and help evacuate the onlookers from the lower nest.

Some noble spies who received the news appeared in the streets and secretly observed the situation around the laboratory.

Inside the laboratory, there are so many pharmaceutical equipment that they almost fill up the entire space.

The servo skull hovered at the height of the beam, watching Li Nuo's every move.

Li Nuo didn't waste any time and started making the potion directly.

The core raw material he presented to the sage was not amylin, but an artificially synthesized compound.

Let’s take penicillin, the most famous of the many mycins, as an example.

The core structure of penicillin is 6-APA. By extracting this substance as a precursor and then going through fermentation, extraction, purification and synthesis, the famous amoxicillin can be produced.

The same is true of the relationship between amylin and artificial compounds.

Li Nuo activated the system's automatic simulation function, found the core structure of amylin, extracted it as a precursor substance, and significantly modified the molecular structure of the precursor substance while ensuring that its effect remained unchanged.

Finally, after more than 10 days of simulation, the system produced an artificial compound with the same effect as amylin but a completely different molecular structure.

As long as Li Nuo didn't say it, no one would know that the artificial compound was made with reference to amylin.

However, the sage's desire for knowledge is extremely strong.

After Li Nuo demonstrated the entire production process, Lilalu couldn't wait to ask:
"Where do you get the precursors for your artificial compounds?"

This question hits home.

Li Nuo spread his hands and said helplessly:

"Sir, to be honest, I don't know where the precursor substances come from. There is a freezer in the corner, which is my compound library. It contains thousands of artificial compounds, all of which are mass-produced using combinatorial chemistry technology.

"As you can see, my conditions here are too simple. I don't even have an instrument that can perform high-throughput screening of compounds. If it weren't for luck, I wouldn't have been able to invent a drug that can convert residue into starch."

The servoskull floated over, scanning the various powders in the freezer.

After a while, a long sigh came from the skull.

The compound library is too cluttered and most of the compounds have no labels.

It can be seen that Li Nuo is usually obsessed with experiments and cannot spare more time and energy to carefully manage his own compound library, which is understandable.

In the absence of accurate records of the sources of the precursor substances of a compound, it is impossible for anyone to trace the source of the precursor substances unless Om Messiah appears.

"Hey, Li Nuo, you should have found a helper earlier to organize the compound library and experimental data for you on a daily basis."

Lilalu complained.

Li Nuo smiled bitterly and said nothing.

The servo skull floated over and hovered in front of Li Nuo, emitting a beam and scanning the other party's biological signs again:

"In the hive, talents like you will be buried. Only under the light of Om Messiah can your wisdom...wait...you have been genetically modified?"

"Yes, sir. My real identity in the Hive is the Governor's agent. Chemical research is my hobby. Don't be fooled by my tall and strong figure. In fact, I am only 15 years old this year and have not yet reached the age requirement to become a mechanical priest."

One must be at least 21 years old to become a Mechanic Priest, this is a hard requirement of the Mechanicus.

Before meeting the age requirement, anyone who aspires to become a Mechanic Priest must undergo extremely rigorous academic training.

After spending several years in heavy study and passing the final examination, one can undergo basic mechanization transformation and become a mechanical priest of the lowest level.

From then on, he embarked on the narrow path of the Mechanicus's cattle and horses.

Sing praises to the parts of the assembly line, or regularly repair the fixed robot servants on the assembly line, take time to research research projects, learn obscure mechanical knowledge, and write research papers.

This kind of life may be a paradise for those who are obsessed with academics.

But Li Nuo doesn't want to live such a life.

There is no other reason.

During the Horus Heresy, Mars also experienced the Great Schism.

The loyal Mechanicus members suffered heavy losses, with most of them killed or wounded.

The rebel members of the Mechanicus founded the Dark Mechanicus and have since fled into the Eye of Terror.

Joining the Mechanicus now is like joining something else.

Moreover, the tendency of division within the Mechanicus had already appeared before the Horus Heresy.

There are conflicts among academic cliques, open and covert struggles, and numerous internal factions. The complexity of the personnel relationships is comparable to that of palace fighting dramas.

There is really no need to join such a force.

Faced with the olive branch thrown by Lilalu, Li Nuo decisively used his age and identity as the Governor's agent to get away with it.

Lilalu understood Li Nuo's meaning and did not force him. He just controlled the skull to fly towards the door:
"Although your invention was based on luck, I recognize your achievement. You can discuss the deal with Dam for the residue of promethium refining. In addition, give me a can of chemical synthesis. I want to enter its characteristics and molecular structure into the Holy Database. I will sign you as the inventor of this compound."

"Thank you, sir. I feel relieved by your words."

One man and one skull walked out of the laboratory.

Isabel gave him a questioning look, looking a little nervous.

Li Nuo nodded with a smile.

Isabel felt relieved, with a smile on her face. She invited Dam to get in the car and go to the conference room of the starch factory to discuss the details of the cooperation.

Li Nuo doesn't have to worry about the follow-up matters, Isabel and Dam will take care of everything.

As an observer and technical consultant, Li Nuo witnessed the entire process of the contract from scratch, and finally signed his name on the contract with the "mechanical skull" pattern.

According to the terms of the contract, the forging world Demos will provide a long-term and stable supply of promethium refining residues.

Over the next three months, the daily volume of residue transported will be 1 tonnes.

Every 30 days, the transport capacity increases by 1 tons, and starch factories and bakeries need to expand production accordingly.

This cycle of expansion was repeated several times, and eventually, within one year after the contract was signed, the capacity for processing residues was increased to 10 tons per day, perfectly meeting the needs of the foundry world.

Isabel is in charge of day-to-day production affairs.

All Li Nuo had to do was provide medicine.

There is no doubt that the residues from promethium refining have become a source of profit.

The medicine formulas and core raw materials that Li Nuo masters are the golden shovels to dig out the fountain of profits.

(End of this chapter)