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

Chapter 134: Heretical Technology, but Really Delicious

"Wow, that's awesome, Boss! Is Second Brother showing up?!"

[The weak orc boy gave you 10 likes, score +10. ]

System text floated before my eyes.

When I rescued the primitive man before, a message of likes also appeared.

Li Nuo didn't want to think about using the primitive man to earn simulation points for the time being. He raised his foot and kicked the little orc on the butt:

"Let me in quickly, you're full of jingles, you want to be the war boss."

The brain freeze spell on the female primitive was lifted, and the man and the beast entered the stone building at Li Nuo's urging.

Li Nuo found a secluded corner and squatted, paying close attention to the dynamic information on the system interface.

Half an hour later, the little orc ran out of the building happily, looking very excited, as if he had found a lot of gold:
"Boss! Boss! Brother Gao, I saw a lot of big cans with shiny treasures and hard iron lumps inside. We can definitely make a big fortune here!"

"Wait, don't come over here yet." Li Nuo used brain freeze to freeze the little orc and carefully checked the system interface.

Click to redeem reward 2, Li Nuo uses the little orc as a simulation object.

The system starts calculating the integration cost of the simulation.

[The simulation object is the Almighty Boy, and the starting price for the simulation is 100 magical spores. ]

[The simulated object has not been mechanically modified, has not been corrupted by chaos, has not been affected by other negative effects, and is not in combat. ]

[The final simulated price is 100*(1+0%)=100 magical spore. ]

The so-called "all-round boy" was a name given by Li Nuo.

This type of orc has not yet reached the level of omnipotence. It has only integrated a small part of the gene fragments of various orc units such as the Technical Boy, Pain Boy, Mad Doctor, Livestock Boy, Fighter Boy, Chariot Boy, Psychic Boy, and Witch Boy.

These gene fragments from different orc units are not yet perfect and require more coordination and running-in with each other before the all-round boy can bring out the advantages of different orc units.

The scale of this genetic project is so huge, involving genes from plants, animals and fungi, that the system can only provide limited help.

The current total R&D progress is only about 1%, and there is still a long way to go.

In Li Nuo's vision, the final product of the Almighty Boy will be used to develop a new generation of bacteriastat.

However, it is too early to say this now.

The all-round boy in front of him is the bait released by Li Nuo, with the purpose of luring the Chaos Demon into the trap.

Since the system determined that the Almighty Boy had not been corrupted by Chaos, the stone building should be safe.

Li Nuo snapped his fingers, releasing the little orc's brain freeze, and officially stepped into the door of the stone building.

The little orc followed beside him, dancing with excitement:
"Boss, I saw a big treasure with a propeller. I'll make you a big click-click machine. There are a lot of stinky things in that place. I think I can raise a dozen Squiggs..."

The little orc chattered non-stop.

Everything he saw triggered his power of thinking, allowing him to discover the corresponding witchcraft in the genetic knowledge base.

From animal husbandry witchcraft, mad doctor witchcraft, mechanical witchcraft, to psychic witchcraft and sacrificial witchcraft, this little orc spoke very clearly.

The research and development progress of the Almighty Boy is currently only 1%. It is hard to imagine what will appear when it reaches 100%.

I wouldn't accidentally create an ancient orc, would I?
Li Nuo narrowed his eyes, and suddenly felt that developing an all-round boy so early was not a good thing. His current strength was too weak, and he was very likely to suffer backlash.

Looking sideways at the jumping little orc, Li Nuo wondered whether he should send him off now to avoid any trouble.

Perhaps feeling the coldness in Li Nuo's eyes, the little orc shuddered, fell to his knees with a thud, and cried loudly while holding the boss's thighs, with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Boss, don't abandon me. I'll do whatever you tell me to do. My life belongs to you. You can eat Squig's meat and I'll eat Squig's poop, or you can eat me, but don't drive me away..."

"Okay, get up." Li Nuo rolled his eyes, thinking that he shouldn't have added the gene fragment of "stupid boy" to the all-round boy.

This funny behavior of wagging the tail and begging for mercy comes from the most special unit among the orcs - the stupid boy.

The stupid boy is a rare orc with high emotional intelligence. He laughs when he should laugh and cries when he should cry. He can provide great emotional value to other orcs and is very popular among the orcs.

Therefore, in the orc community, stupid boys are generally regarded as mascots.

There is only one stupid boy in the Steel Warrior Tribe at present.

The relevant gene fragments in the little orc's body were extracted from this stupid boy.

"You said it yourself. You do whatever I tell you to do. From now on, if I find out you do something you shouldn't do, I'll hang you on the propeller and whip you."

The little orc burst into laughter, and his mood instantly turned from gloomy to bright. He stood up quickly and wiped the snot off Li Nuo's legs. "Okay, boss. The boss is the best, the boss is the most powerful, the boss is the most..."

"Quiet, I'm thinking." Li Nuo clenched his right fist and knocked on the little orc's forehead.

"Oh oh oh." The little orc covered his mouth, widened his eyes, and looked up at his boss with admiration.

Li Nuo's eyes fell on something that he was very familiar with.

It was a rock passage occupying the road ahead, extending diagonally downward in a spiral.

There are a large number of carvings on the walls on both sides of the passage that resemble human coccygeal vertebrae.

There is no doubt that this is a wailing passage.

The same thing happened in Epimet's bottom nest.

But the wailing channel in front of him was different. It did not emit psychic fluctuations that would cause auditory hallucinations.

At this moment, it was as quiet as an ordinary alien civilization site, without any special features.

Li Nuo stepped into the downward spiral passage and reached the end ten minutes later.

When I saw the sight of the finish line, the words “as expected” came to my mind.

This is a vast underground cave with traces of artificial carving, and it is estimated to cover an area of more than 10,000 square meters.

Stone pillars with carvings stand here, emitting a faint white light, barely illuminating every corner of the cave.

The underground grottoes have five floors, each with the same layout. They are spacious and quiet, filled with the dusty historical atmosphere and a large number of traces of human activities.

At the end of the fifth underground floor, two stone doors over twenty meters high appeared on the wall.

The stone door had been opened, revealing a gap large enough for two people to pass side by side.

Although the scene inside the door was within Li Nuo's expectations, his heartbeat still uncontrollably quickened.

Tall rock shelves were lined up in the treasure house, with pottery jars, glass jars, and culture chambers neatly arranged on each level.

Among the various containers, there are jewelry, antiques, safes, technical data and other items.

A plaque with cuneiform writing was embedded into the outer shell of the container.

This is a treasury built by the Bone Drinker civilization. Its layout is very similar to the treasury that Lino had seen in the Epimet Nest before, but there are obvious differences in the collections in the treasury.

Is this a coincidence, or some kind of plan by the Bone Drinker civilization?

Two primitive men were lying behind the door of the treasure house, with food scraps on the ground beside them.

The male primitive was snoring. The female primitive brought Li Nuo a pile of canned food and bottled purified water, then lay down beside the male primitive and fell asleep.

The canned and assembled plastic water are well preserved. The inner layer is metal packaging and the outer layer is vacuum bag. There is no leakage or bulging of the bag.

Li Nuo was not hungry for the time being, so he asked the little orc to keep watch at the door while he went to collect upgrade items.

After entering the door, a green cursor is marked by the system deep in the third row of shelves from the left.

That is the upgrade item closest to Li Nuo.

As we got closer, a cylindrical metal can appeared in front of us, with a thick layer of dust covering the surface of the can.

The green cursor hovers inside the can, and we have to find a way to open the can.

Li Nuo swept away the dust on the surface of the jar and found the keyhole where the mechanical key could be inserted.

He used the mechanical wizardry he had learned to make a universal lock pick on the spot.

After a series of clicks, the mechanical lock was released and the curved outer shell of the tank popped outward.

The upgrade item pointed by the green cursor is a light green bead, which is larger than the magic spore and about the size of a ping-pong ball.

Li Nuo held it in his hand, and system text appeared.

【Name: Magical Language Spores.】

【Type: Ancient Saint's creation.】

[Sole Purpose:]

【Eat me! 】

【illustrate:】

[This item carries the production drawings of the "Universal Translator" and the "Speaking Spirit". These two drawings have been lost and have never appeared in the existing orc genetic knowledge base. They can only be unlocked by eating this drawing. ]

[The universal translator can automatically translate foreign languages. The "Speaking Spirit" can allow you to permanently learn a foreign language you want to learn. ]

Is this thing for eating?

Li Nuo stared at the spores on his fingertips, then swallowed them in one gulp. Then his body shook, and a large amount of information appeared in his mind, which he quickly digested and memorized.

This state is similar to when I activated the power of thinking. Li Nuo learned two orc technology blueprints without much effort.

When the wave of information in his mind receded, Li Nuo took out the orc fungus materials in the fungus warehouse and made a "talking spirit" on the spot for his own use.

When drinking the "Speaking Spirit", Li Nuo silently said to himself "I want to learn the language of the bone drinkers", and then drank it in one gulp.

As the potion takes effect, knowledge of the Bone Drinker's language appears in the mind.

Li Nuo looked around and his eyes fell on the huge stone tablet standing in the center of the treasury. After reading the words on the stone tablet, Li Nuo roughly understood the purpose of this treasury.

This is not a place where the Bone Drinkers store treasures, but a secret base for them to restart their own civilization.

On every row of shelves, there are items that will help those who open the treasure house learn the language of the Bone Drinkers.

The crystal matrix, enclosed in an exquisite crystal jar, would attract the Ark Eldar, and within it were psionic codes written in the languages of the Eldar and the Bone Drinkers.

The psionic potion, which is sealed in a vacuum package, can be consumed by any intelligent race. The psionic effect of the potion will instill the language of the Bone Drinkers in them.

A variety of language carriers meet the needs of different civilizations and races to quickly learn the language of the Bone Drinkers.

Among the many language carriers, there is also a language carrier specially prepared for humans - a vacuum-packed data cassette.

These language carriers do not allow their users to be parasitized by bone drinkers.

While helping visitors learn the Bone Drinker language, they also convey a request from the Bone Drinker civilization:

Visitors to the Vault may use and possess any of the Vault's contents at will, including the Bone Drinker's parasitic spores.

If the visitor is hostile to a certain civilization, he can release parasitic spores into the territory of the hostile civilization.

The Bone Drinkers will help visitors infect hostile civilizations so they can rebuild their own civilization.

Any visitor who releases parasitic spores will gain the friendship of the Bone Drinkers, who promise not to actively infect the planet where the visitor is located after the visitor meets certain requirements.

Of course, visitors to the Vault are not required to help the Bone Drinkers rebuild civilization.

But remember, everything has a price.

Visitors who only take treasures from the treasury but do not help the Bone Drinkers rebuild civilization will be
Then, when the Bone Drinker civilization revives in other corners of the galaxy, planets that only demand treasures and do not help the Bone Drinker civilization rebuild will be liquidated by the Bone Drinkers, and the Bone Drinkers will inevitably make these greedy planets pay a heavy price.

The Bone Drinkers do what they say, and they have the ability to do it.

Before being besieged by the Eighth Legion of the Human Empire and the Space Wolves, they secretly built no less than 100 treasuries in the Nebulous Sector and the Solar Sector. Each treasury corresponds to a planet with a large number of intelligent life.

All it takes is one visitor to the vault to release the parasitic spores, and the Bone Drinker civilization will return to exact revenge on the greedy Demanders and the Imperium of Man.

Planets of the human empire that help the Bone Drinkers rebuild their civilization can be excluded from the revenge plan if the conditions are met.

The Bone Drinkers' plan to rebuild civilization has actually begun to show results.

The stellar waste area of Nidlevin XV is an example.

Perhaps one or more people or aliens who disliked Nedlevin XV dug out the Bone Drinkers' treasure trove, learned their language, and learned of their plans to rebuild civilization.

These people or aliens, out of hostile intentions, released the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinker into the territory of Nidlevin XV.

As a result, Nedlevin XV was in trouble, the Bone Drinker civilization began to be rebuilt, and he got the Bone Drinkers' promise that his own territory would not be actively infected by them. It can be said that he achieved three goals with one stone.

Li Nuo had no doubt that someone or an alien would do this. After all, the Warhammer world was never short of ambitious people and unscrupulous warmongers.

Without further ado, Li Nuo figured out the situation and turned around to run towards the second upgrade item.

This item is a magical spore packed in a ceramic jar, there are 13 of them, and their uses are the same as the existing magical spores.

The nameplate on the pottery jar reads "Suspected orc reproductive spores, purpose unknown."

It seems the Bone Drinkers have studied the magical spores but haven't figured out what they are.

Li Nuo collected the 13 magical spores and found the third upgrade item.

This thing was a bit unexpected. It turned out to be a gene editing device made by the Bone Drinker civilization.

The Bone Drinkers love stone and bone, so this device makes extensive use of these two materials.

It covers an area of more than five meters and is at least ten meters high. The main structure looks like a skeleton hand with the palm facing up.

The five bony fingers of the skeleton hand have different functions, corresponding to:

Obtaining gene probes for gene samples,
A transmitter that fires a mutagenic laser,
A force field scalpel that efficiently cuts experimental samples.

Laser stitcher for efficient stitching of samples,

And the genetic device unique to the Bone Drinker civilization, the fungal gene recombination device!
When Li Nuo saw the identification results of this device, he was stunned and instantly experienced the feeling of the oil man when he saw the "technological heresy".

Alien technology is technological heresy, and in the name of Ohm Messiah, they should be destroyed immediately, but they smell really good.

No wonder there are some mechanical priests within the Mechanicus who are specifically responsible for archaeology.

In the Warhammer world, archaeology can indeed lead to technological development.

Is it still heresy to call the recovered technical data? It is obviously lost human technology.

The more Li Nuo looked at the gene editing equipment, the more envious he became, and he almost drooled.

Bone Drinkers can parasitize any living organism. Such powerful parasitic ability comes from their unparalleled fungal gene recombination technology.

simply put:
The Bone Drinkers have added to themselves the genetic ability to merge with any life form.

If the target of parasitism is human, then the gene fragments of the Bone Drinker will spontaneously recombine and fuse with the human gene fragments, forming a gene fragment that possesses both fungal and human characteristics.

Similarly, if the target of parasitism is a plant or animal, the gene fragments of the bone drinker will merge with the genes of the plant or animal to produce gene fragments that contain fungal characteristics.

Among the new gene fragments, the gene codes from the Bone Drinkers account for the majority, which allows the Bone Drinkers to achieve control and dominance over the infected.

Without saying a word, Li Nuo absorbed this gene editing equipment of a completely different style and upgraded the system on the spot.

【Upgrade completed! 】

[The fungus simulation function has added a new automated simulation option: fungal gene recombination. ]

【This function can transform the gene fragments of non-fungal organisms into fungal gene fragments. 】

[The purity of the transformed gene fragment will be greatly reduced, but it can be used for fungal gene simulation. ]

Li Nuo's heart was pounding and he could hear the roar of blood rushing in his ears.

From now on, he can indirectly edit the genetic fragments of non-fungal life forms!

The significance of this upgrade is enough to make any scientific researcher dizzy.

But soon, Li Nuo forced himself to calm down.

As a graduate student in the field of microbiology, he has the proper ethical and moral concepts in mind.

He knows what kind of research can be done and what cannot be done.

While Li Nuo was warning himself, the system also sent a reminder.

【system hint:】

[Automated gene recombination functions may cause unexpected major disasters.]

【Therefore, this function is limited to use in simulated space and cannot be performed in the real universe. 】

[The products made by this function will be sealed in the fungal warehouse and placed in a state of time stasis without thoughts and consciousness.]

[Please be careful when using this type of product. ]

Take a deep breath and calm your excitement.

Li Nuo walked around in the treasury, stopping from time to time to look at other collections.

Many of the collections appear to have been destroyed by primitive people, but many are still intact.

There are all kinds of things including mecha engines, power armor components, automated assembly tables for weapons and equipment, plasma furnaces, etc.

Before building a treasure house, the Bone Drinkers will first explore the planet's conditions and determine which life forms on the planet have greater development prospects.

Humanoid life forms currently dominate this planet, so most of the treasures in the treasury are things that can be used and studied by humanoid life forms.

If primitive people had enough time to study these things, perhaps there would be a technological explosion.

Unfortunately, before they touched the threshold of civilization leap, they were targeted by the Cold Trade Group.

"Huh? What is this? A control device?"

Li Nuo stopped at the topmost shelf and his eyes fell on the only collection on that shelf.

It was a mechanical button placed on a circular column with a stone tablet next to it.

The cuneiform inscription on the stele reads as follows:

Visitors who discover this treasure house can use it as a temporary shelter. After pressing the button, the security facilities arranged by the Bone Drinkers outside the treasure house will be activated.

Security features include a large protective force field and a rocky passage that swallows up any unwelcome visitors.

After the rock passage and protective force field are activated, they will collapse on their own after 9 to 10 years due to energy exhaustion.

Apart from this, there is no other way to close the rock passage and protective force field.

The layout of the security facilities is drawn on the stone tablet.

The protective force field is spherical and has a large coverage area, which can include the treasure house and five levels of underground caves.

The Howling Channel is at the edge of the force field, half inside the force field and half outside the force field.

After the force field is turned on, the Howling Passage is the only entrance and exit. The five underground caves are the places left by the Bone Drinkers for visitors to reproduce and engage in production work.

Overall it looks pretty good.

As long as the force field can be activated normally, it will be no problem for humans inside the force field to survive for 9 to 10 years.

It must be said that the Bone Drinkers have gone to great lengths to encourage visitors to help them rebuild civilization.

(End of this chapter)