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

Chapter 117: The Germ State Project
Li Nuo returned along the same route wearing the hunting lord equipment. This scene was seen by the guards along the way, whose eyes were almost popping out.

There is an unwritten rule in the aristocratic circle and the aristocratic entourage circle that whoever can obtain hunting equipment as a reward will gain the complete trust of the head of the family and can be said to become a confidant in one fell swoop.

When Li Nuo first joined the Fugais family, why did so many family members come to him to ask for money?
It's because he doesn't have hunting equipment.

A son-in-law without hunting equipment is at most a pendant of the family. To put it more bluntly, the governor himself just wants to indirectly control the new technology by marrying his daughter.

But these days are different.

After the son-in-law had the hunting equipment, his relationship with the Fugais family became a legitimate marriage.

Yes, marriage.

According to another unwritten rule, family marriages are signaled by the gift of hunting equipment.

Generally, the powerful family sends hunting equipment to the weaker family to show that the former treats the latter fairly.

From today on, Li Nuo is no longer a son-in-law.

He suddenly became a "noble son-in-law", the son-in-law of the distinguished governor, with a status equivalent to the "imperial son-in-law", "prince" and "duke" in the 0k to 2k era of ancient Terra.

This shift in identity is also reflected in status and power.

Not long after Li Nuo returned to the laboratory wearing the hunting lord equipment, the governor's personal guards delivered the governor's letter of authorization.

The letter was in two copies, one was made of parchment for collection, and the other was electronic data for daily use.

The letter states three points:

First, from today onwards, Governor Lord Vogues officially grants Lino Wilsey the position of Deputy Governor, and he can freely choose whether to exercise the relevant powers.

Second, Lord Vorges granted the Welsh family permission to establish an armed guard.

Third, Lord Fugas recommended the Welsh family to join the Hive Noble Council. After the council’s review and approval, Li Nuo can freely choose whether to participate in the affairs of the council.

The letter contains a large number of authorization serial numbers, which include but are not limited to:

The power to access the Governor's database, the power to mobilize the planetary defense force, the power to mobilize and create new Governor's Guards, the power to implement the Governor's Guard genetic modification project, the power to build new mansions and transform existing mansions, etc.

Among all the authorization serial numbers, there are two authorization items that are very special.

One is an authorized project to form a hive fleet, and the other is to build a hive space station.

With these two authorizations, Li Nuo can establish his own space fleet and orbital space station in the name of the Welsh family and the deputy governor.

Of course, he would have to pay for building the fleet and the space station himself.

The average auction price for second-hand cruisers eliminated by the Imperial Army is about 500 million throne coins.

The total cost of hiring crew members, renovating ships, purchasing supplies and equipment is over 100 million throne coins.

It would cost 600 million to buy a second-hand cruiser for interstellar business. This expense made Li Nuo feel overwhelmed.

Of course, you can also choose the second best option and use a transport ship to do business, but its safety and efficiency are far inferior to that of a second-hand cruiser.

Li Nuo calculated that he couldn't afford even the cheapest transport ship for the time being.

The construction cost of the hive space station is even more outrageous.

The smallest space station costs 1000 million throne coins, not including the cost of purchasing equipment and daily maintenance.

In short, a series of authorizations from his father-in-law gave Li Nuo unparalleled power and status.

How much waves he can make with these licensing projects depends entirely on his own abilities.

Without talking about the long term, let’s solve our own security issues first and build an absolutely loyal armed guard as soon as possible.

Li Nuo bid farewell to Tido and took off his hunting equipment in the study.

After pondering for a long time, Li Nuo finally decided to upgrade the system now.

Of course, not absorbing the entire suit.

Li Nuo only planned to absorb the genetic engineering module.

He opened the back panel of the suit and placed his hands on the module.

With a thought, the black module disappeared without a trace, and the rest of the suit remained unchanged.

Li Nuo tried to put on the suit, and tried to move around in the study and activate its different functions.

Thanks to the modular design of the Hunter Lord equipment, after absorbing the genetic engineering module, except for the missing functions related to genetic engineering, all other functions of this equipment have been fully retained and do not affect the use of the suit.

Li Nuo took off his suit, nodded with satisfaction, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

After taking a shower, he lay flat on the bed, clicked on the save file of Technician Boy Gujia, and ate a magical spore.

Under the arrangement of the orc pirate leader Big Black Tooth, the work of building the statue is progressing at full speed.

Jiba disassembled the statue into hundreds of parts.

The larger parts will be forged by a group of technicians led by Jiba using hammer forging.

Smaller parts, such as the sculpture's fingers, hair, beard, etc., are polished and manufactured by Guga.

Polishing of spirit bones is achieved through fungal simulation.

As a technician boy, Gu Jia does not have a system of his own.

Therefore, the work of polishing the bones must be performed by Li Nuo personally.

He estimated that if he worked "online" for five hours every night to polish the spirit bones, and after 30 consecutive days, the sculpture would be completed and he could obtain 1.5 tons of subspace energy single crystals.

This many single crystals are more than enough to create three sets of weapons and equipment.

Using it together with the hammering technique solved the problem of the source of cutting-edge equipment for Junstat and himself.

Now, the key difficulty of the Junstat plan lies in the selection of personnel.

Who will serve as the germstat, closely protecting his own safety and becoming the strongest line of defense?
Li Nuo's requirements for candidates are absolute loyalty and strict compliance with orders.

After considering many options, he finally decided to use orcs.

But, these are not ordinary orcs.

There are many advantages to using orcs as germstats.

The most obvious benefit is that I can simulate the projection onto Junstat through Waaagh and control him personally.

Secondly, after the mad doctor and the technician boy serve as germstats, they can cast corresponding witchcraft.

The same is true for Psycho Boy.

The Psionic Boy was transformed into a Junstat, whose function is somewhat similar to that of the think tank in the Space Marine Legion, and can be called the Junstat Think Tank.

Similarly, the mad doctor who is proficient in medical treatment and biochemical transformation, corresponding to the pharmacist of the Space Marine Legion, can be called the Fungus Pharmacist.

The Technician Boy's role as Junstat is the technical sergeant of the Space Marine Legion.

Orcs with special uses such as mad doctors, technical boys, and psychic boys are defined as "weird boys".

A strange boy, corresponding to a special type of soldier in the Space Marine Legion. There is a ready-made template that can be used to transform the orcs into bacteria.

Li Nuo is fully capable of creating an alternative "Space Marine Legion".

This shows how well the orcs and Junstat fit in.

The key now is how to completely control the orcs' behavior, thoughts and instinct to spread reproductive spores without possessing them.

This requires genetic modification.

The genetic engineer type hunting lord equipment can just help.

This set of hunting lord equipment can perform most of the genetic modification steps.

There are only two steps that Li Nuo needs to do by himself.

The first step is to collect gene fragments, and the second step is the final genetic modification results of the experiment.

These two links are the beginning and end of genetic engineering, and all the links in between are done by the Hunter Equipment.

While possessing Gu Jia, Li Nuo could collect genetic samples from the technician boy.

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Somewhere in the galaxy, the Orc Pirate Fleet is building its third ship, and the scene is in full swing.

Li Nuo picked up a pile of bones and found a place with few people to sit down.

While starting the automatic simulation of polishing the spirit bones, he also devoted part of his mind to thinking about the orc machine that collected genetic samples.

The system message refreshed while he was thinking.

[Searching the genetic knowledge base of the technician boy. 】

【Search completed.】

【Search results: 3 item. 】

【Search result 1: Genetic mechanical claw. 】

【Search result 2: Genetic inspection warehouse. 】

【Search result 3: FindDongDong - Gene Scanning Module. 】

The object finder is the shipborne radar, which corresponds to the Auger matrix on the ships of the Human Empire.

After adding the gene scanning module, the finder can be used to scan the gene fragments of all organisms on a planet.

Such a large shipborne equipment is definitely not something that Li Nuo can operate alone.

All in all, the genetic mechanical claw is the most suitable.

Li Nuo spent 500 points to exchange for 50 skill points and learned the production drawings of the genetic mechanical claw.

He took a pile of scrap copper and electronic components, polished the bones with his left hand, and welded the parts with a laser gun in his right hand.

Both hands started working at the same time, and after a while, a genetic mechanical claw covered with rust and dents came out.

Don’t underestimate this thing, its effect is very clear.

Li Nuo picked up the mechanical claw, pointed the laser emitter in the center of the claw at himself, and pressed the switch.

The sharp claws of the mechanical claw operated on their own, extending a needle to pierce Li Nuo's skin and collect his blood.

The pain from the wound did not make Li Nuo feel uncomfortable, but instead made him more motivated and excited.

This strange physiological reaction comes from the orcs' instinct.

Li Nuo suppressed his instinct and did not let it evolve into a desire for destruction. The blood collected from the body was sealed in a brown glass tube.

A laser beam as thin as a hair shoots out from the laser emitter in the center of the claw.

This beam is a black technology created by mechanical witchcraft. It can quickly cool the blood, keeping it at around 4°C for a long time, inhibiting enzyme activity and preventing gene degradation.

In addition, it can remove impurities in the blood that are not relevant to the extraction of genetic samples.

In the blood, genetic samples are mainly found in white blood cells.

Plasma and red blood cells would only interfere with the collection of genetic samples.

These impurities are removed by the laser beam, leaving only the white blood cells.

Under the action of the light beam, the cell membrane and nuclear membrane of the white blood cells rupture and the genes are released.

The liquid in the glass tube is divided into two layers, an upper layer and an lower layer.

The upper layer is the gene solution, and the lower layer is impurities such as hemoglobin, phospholipids, ribonucleic acid, broken cell membranes, etc. left after the white blood cells rupture.

At this point, the work of extracting genes has come to an end. Next, the gene solution needs to be extracted from the glass tube and stored separately.

Li Nuo doesn't need to go through so much trouble.

He hid the glass tube in his arms so that the orcs and fart spirits around him wouldn't notice it, and activated the upgraded system function.

"System, deposit the gene solution into the fungal warehouse."

At the command, the genetic solution in the glass jar disappeared and a system message popped up.

[You have collected a genetic sample from the technician Gujia, which has now been stored in the gene library of the fungus warehouse and can be used for automated genetic engineering simulation.]

[The genetic samples were detected to contain triple helix structures, which correspond to the genetic structures of fungi, plants and animals. ]

You can only run simulations on fungal-related gene fragments.

[It is recommended to first replicate the fungal genes on the gene sample to obtain a new gene sample, which will be used as the simulation object. ]

Genetic simulation can only work on fungal genes, which makes Li Nuo feel a little regretful.

But it doesn’t matter, the orcs’ fungal genes alone are already very powerful.

Let's study this part of the genes thoroughly first, and then consider using other genetic equipment to study the orcs' plant and animal genes in the future.

Li Nuo silently thought in his heart:
"Confirmation of duplication of fungal genes on genetic samples."

[It has been detected that you are currently performing another fungus simulation.]

[The simulation equipment used in this project does not overlap or conflict with the upcoming fungal gene simulation.]

[Fungal genetic simulations can therefore be carried out simultaneously with simulations of cultivated fungi.]

The equipment used for the two simulations are completely different, so there will be no conflict if they are carried out at the same time. This is the first time Li Nuo has discovered this small detail.

If you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with the system settings.

This is like in a microbiology laboratory, there are culture rooms for cultivating fungi, as well as gene amplification rooms, sequencing rooms, editing rooms, etc. for genetic research.

Rooms for different purposes are independent of each other, the equipment is not universal, and they can be activated at the same time.

The operating logic of the system is consistent with this, so fungal gene simulation and fungal cultivation simulation can be carried out simultaneously.

Li Nuo asked the system to start the automated gene replication simulation.

Here we have to mention a major highlight of the Hunter's equipment.

The genetic engineer type hunting lord equipment comes with a complete set of black technology to generate the consumables needed for genetic engineering.

These raw materials are mainly various mixed liquids and various enzymes.

Li Nuo couldn't understand how the Hunter Equipment could generate and store such a large number of things, but the fact was so outrageous.

This function of automatically generating substances is also available in other styles of Hunter Lord suits, and it is even more exaggerated. Some can automatically generate food, and some can automatically generate ammunition and explosives.

Shortly after the fungal gene simulation was automated, the new gene samples were deposited into the gene library.

The number of samples is 100, labeled as Technician Boy Fungal Gene Sample No. 1 to No. 100.

Li Nuo casually clicked on a sample and threw it out for fungus analysis.

【Analysis successful.】

[Name: Technician Gujia's Fungal Gene Sample No. 1.]

【Analysis results:】

[The fungal gene sequence written by the ancient saints, most of the gene fragments are lost or irreparably damaged. ]

[The system predicts that this gene sample is only about 30% complete compared to the Technician Boy's fungal gene sample during the War in Heaven.]

[Fungal genes determine the orcs' living habits, reproduction methods, and growth paths.]

[The knowledge related to mechanical witchcraft has been encrypted by the ancient saints. You need to upgrade the system before you can crack it. Once the crack is completed, you can learn mechanical witchcraft without spending any skill points.]

[The information and knowledge recorded on the genetic sample are as follows:]

[Gene fragment: Sample01-Clone001-Frag00001]

[Function: This gene fragment is related to the directional growth path of reproductive spores, and determines that the reproductive spores sown by Gujia will have a greater probability of growing into a technician boy. ]

[Gene fragment: Sample01-Clone001-Frag00002]

[Function: This gene segment determines the hobbies of the technician boy. Due to this gene segment, Gu Jia will have a special liking for machinery. ]

【...】

A vast number of gene fragments were refreshed before his eyes, and the mysteries of life contained in the genes were presented to Li Nuo without reservation.

At this moment, Li Nuo deeply understood the extraordinary significance of genes to organisms.

A creature's behaviors and habits, such as what it likes to eat, what it hates, and how it reacts to danger, are basically determined by its genetic fragments.

By changing the genetic code on the gene fragment, it is possible to tamper with the character's appearance, behavioral habits, way of thinking and other elements, just like shaping the character in a game.

After reading all the gene fragments, Li Nuo was basically sure of one fact:
The fungal gene fragments of the orcs are related to the reproduction and living habits of the orcs.

This coincides with the results of fungal analysis.

Let’s look at the identification results of the orcs’ plant genes and animal genes.

The information on the identification interface shows:

Plant genes determine the orc's metabolism and appearance.

As a result, orcs appear green and can perform efficient photosynthesis.

Animal genes determine the orcs' physiological structure and physical growth path.

Affected by this, the orcs' organs show a trend of redundant growth, and they often grow more organs and muscles.

The orc Junstat can wear armor, so appearance is not important, so whether it can be simulated with plant genes will not hinder Li Nuo from creating Junstat.

The individual strength of orcs can be adjusted through witchcraft and equipment.

Therefore, animal genes are not important either.

The only essential element of a germstat is absolute loyalty.

The orcs' reproduction and living habits determined by the fungal genes are completely in line with Li Nuo's needs.

Didn't he want Junstat to be absolutely loyal?

OK, it's very simple, he just needs to issue a simulation command.

"System, help me screen out all the gene fragments related to loyalty."

[Screening completed, the results are as follows:]

【...】

More than 20,000 gene fragments were eliminated by the system, leaving only about 300.

Each one has to do with loyalty and following orders.

For example, this one:
[Gene fragment: Sample01-Clone001-Frag10013]

【Function:】

[This clip determines the degree of worship that Gujia has for his superiors. Influenced by this clip, Gujia's degree of worship for his superiors is medium. After tampering, the degree of worship can reach absolute worship. ]

If you push the level of worship to the maximum, Junstat's loyalty will absolutely explode.

This is a way to gain absolute loyalty, but it is not very reliable.

Lino remembered the Horus Heresy.

There is no need to explain the extent of the Primarchs' worship of the Emperor; it has definitely reached a level where they need the care of the Gene-Father at all times.

The benefit of such a level of worship is obvious, and that is that the Primarch will obey the Emperor's orders.

But don’t forget the downside.

Once a "daddy's boy" loses his father's attention, he is likely to go to extremes due to the huge psychological gap.

Horus the Great is the most typical example.

In the Battle of Ullanor, Horus rescued the Emperor from the Ork War Boss and killed him on the spot, thus establishing his extremely high prestige and ascending to the position of Warmaster.

Just when Horus thought that his father would continue to accompany him in his expedition to the surrounding areas of the Milky Way, the Emperor suddenly gave up command of the expedition fleet, returned to Terra, and worked on the entrance to the Webway under the palace.

Without his father's love and care, Horus felt extremely empty inside, and Chaos took advantage of the situation.

Chaos gave Horus the fatherly love he lacked, thus deeply corrupting him.

Referring to this future history, Li Nuo felt that letting Junstat completely and blindly worship him might not be a good thing.

If I disappear for some reason in the future, Junstat will be in chaos.

"I have to learn from the Emperor's lesson. I must make the Junstat absolutely loyal to me, but at the same time, I must make them have a certain level of critical thinking ability, be able to distinguish right from wrong and loyalty from treachery, and not be corrupted by Chaos.

"The same is true in other areas. I must never make the same mistakes that the Emperor made."

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