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Chapter 140 An unexpected surprise!

Chapter 140 An unexpected surprise!

Li Nuo piloted the shuttle and landed safely.

With the cave leading to the treasury as the center, within a radius of two kilometers, there was grass everywhere that had been blown up by bombs, and the dark brown fertile soil was covered with hideous debris and charred black blocks.

The number of Space Beast Clan members has been reduced to just over a thousand.

As a result, the Onie people's ground forces were completely wiped out, and all eight frigates in the planet's orbit were destroyed.

Now it depends on the reaction of the Onye Group.

If they want to fight, Li Nuo will accompany them.

They didn't want to fight and wanted to escape. Li Nuo didn't plan to chase them either. He understood the principle of not chasing a desperate enemy.

After giving the order to the beast to drag the shuttle underground, Li Nuo found a piece of land in the shade of the trees at the edge of the battlefield and quickly performed the "online" and "offline" operations.

"Go offline" on the spot and the consciousness returns to the human body.

Once again "online", the consciousness travels through the sea of stars and reaches above the planet.

Taking this opportunity, Li Nuo took a closer look at the looting fleet.

Good, very good, the fleet's only remaining cargo ship is leaving the planet.

When Li Nuo's consciousness reached the sky above the planet, the cargo ship had just lowered the blinds, covering all the portholes. This was a sign of about entering the subspace.

After going online and offline again, Li Nuo's consciousness arrived above the planet again.

This time, he saw the cargo ship open the subspace entrance and turn into a stream of light and shoot into it.

At this point, the Onyen fleet that plundered the planet was either dead or escaped.

Li Nuo thought that the Onyeh Group would probably not come again.

It is a cold trading group obsessed with making money, not a human empire hungry for galactic conquest.

The development momentum of the greenskins on this planet has become unstoppable, and continuing to send ships here is purely a loss-making business.

Therefore, the next ship or fleet that appears in orbit around a planet will most likely be from the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo's goal against the Bone Drinkers is to capture specimens alive, not to kill them all.

In this sense, close combat is essential in the next campaign.

Build a low-orbital vehicle, transport the Orks into the sky, launch a boarding battle against the enemy, and capture the Bone Drinkers alive in battle.

This is an idea that is in line with the orcs' daring and fighting style.

However, although Li Nuo has the body of an orc, his brain is still his own.

He thought of another more sophisticated battle strategy.

After Xiaoxi's husband was infected by the Bone Drinker, he made some cruel remarks before he died.

These harsh words were uttered by the Bone Drinker husband who controlled the stream, and they represent the true thoughts of the entire Bone Drinker civilization.

In this speech, the Bone Drinker said that the treasure on this planet is the heritage of his civilization and the orcs have no right to take it.

It's obvious that the Bone Drinker has some obsession with the treasure vault here.

Does this mean that there is something in the treasure house that is not available anywhere else, and the Bone Drinker must get it?

Li Nuo felt that this was most likely the case.

Use this treasure as bait to lure the Bone Drinker deeper into the treasure house, and then catch him in the act. In this way, you can get a living experimental sample.

As long as there is a living Bone Drinker in hand, he can use fungal simulation to dig out all its secrets. It doesn't matter whether the other Bone Drinkers are dead or alive.

With this thought, the battle strategy in Li Nuo's mind became clearer.

He controlled Space's body and walked out of the bushes.

On the battlefield ahead, the orcs were dragging four shuttles into the cave. The Pain Boy was treating the wounded, and the Technician Boy was tinkering in the shuttle's cab, modifying the control panel to his liking.

The revenge team led by Xiaoxi returned to the treasure house and brought back the alchemical potion prepared by Li Nuo from underground.

They poured the potion into a spray bottle, added water to dilute it, and sprayed the light green potion on the corpses of the orcs and Onye people.

The potion is rich in fermentation liquid of corpse-eating fungi. The corpse will be degraded by the potion and turned into liquid ammonium nitrogen fertilizer to soak the soil.

When orcs fight and die, they unconsciously spread large numbers of reproductive spores.

After the previous battle, the battlefield was already covered with a layer of reproductive spores.

The presence of liquid nitrogen fertilizer promotes the accelerated development and growth of spores.

When there are up to 5 Terras, thousands of Orc Boys and several Squiggs and Farts will grow out of the ground.

[You led the Space Beast Clan to a victory. ]

[Your clan wiped out approximately 9 enemy troops, and your score is +9. ]

[Your clan destroyed 8 frigate-converted raiders, score +8000. ]

【You received 6224 likes from Space Beast members, and your score is +18672. 】

【You get about 11.6 points in total. 】

[Remaining simulation points: 67.6 points. ]

With the departure of the transport ship, the battle was declared over and a system message appeared in the field of vision.

But why can you get points by destroying ships?

Is it because the ship's machine soul was killed?

Li Nuo was a little confused and didn't have time to think about it carefully.

He closed the message interface, came to the front of the revenge team, and communicated with them in the Bone Drinker language:
"Xiaoxi, what are the casualties of your team?"

The primitive people who participated in the revenge have basically adapted to the existence of the green-skinned creatures.

Li Nuo's physique was the most muscular among all the greenskins. The primitive people looked at him mostly with respect and awe, and no longer showed any fear.

"Sir, we lost one-third of our men. We sent their bodies to the incinerator. The survivors were only slightly injured and did not hinder their work."

Xiaoxi led the primitive people to bow and salute Li Nuo, changing their previous habit of kneeling and kowtowing at every turn.

"You are all great. I recognize your fighting ability and cohesion, but now is not the time to celebrate. New enemies may appear at any time. Xiaoxi, you should remember what the Bone Drinker said before he died, right?"

Xiaoxi knew that Li Nuo was referring to her husband who was infected by the Bone Drinker, and a hint of sadness flashed across her face.

She and her teammates looked at each other, nodded slightly, and their expressions became solemn and serious:

"Yes, my lord. We know that the battle is not over. In fact, each of us is ready to die with the Bone Drinkers. We will use our lives to tell the Bone Drinkers that we are not their slaves."

Li Nuo glanced at the crowd and saw the same expression on their faces as Xiaoxi's. Their eyes were filled with the power of revenge and resistance.

"Come with me. I need to discuss something with you. The rest of you continue spraying the medicine."

"Yes, my lord."

Li Nuo walked towards the cave. Xiaoxi handed his watering can to his deputy and followed Li Nuo.

The two went underground and stepped into the treasure house.

The orcs' production and animal husbandry work are carried out in the clan camp outside the treasury. The gate of the treasury is guarded by a team of orcs. On weekdays, only Li Nuo's orc guards and Xiaoxi are allowed to enter here.

"Xiaoxi, have you finished counting the treasures in the treasury?"

"My Lord, I have completed the inventory. Due to time constraints, I was unable to compile an inventory, so I can only dictate the situation here for you."

"Go ahead and talk. I'm listening." Li Nuo stopped behind the door and asked the orc team guarding the place to go outside and wait.

The treasure house became quiet. Xiaoxi recounted the results of the inventory, emphasizing two collections.

The first collection was the Bone Drinker gene editing device absorbed by Li Nuo.

The thing was three meters high and five meters wide, shaped like a skeleton hand with five fingers spread upward, and weighed at least one ton.

"Sir, my ancestors once said that this equipment was passed down from the previous civilization, and the Bone Drinkers valued it very much. But strangely, it disappeared. I don't understand why this happened..."

Li Nuo touched his nose guiltily, coughed lightly, put his hands behind his back and said:

"I forgot to tell you. I was the one who asked the beast to move this machine. I have a use for it."

"So that's how it is." Xiaoxi pointed to a corner of the treasure house and changed the subject:

"My Lord, the second important collection I want to talk about is there. It is a feeding machine for bone drinkers."

Li Nuo was stunned. "A feeding machine? Raising Bone Drinker babies?"

"No, my lord. The breeding machines are used to help the Bone Drinkers give birth to new life."

As he walked along the stream, he talked, describing the reproduction process of the Bone Drinkers.

The Bone Drinkers are a Gestalt civilization, capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction.

Life forms parasitized by bone drinkers can reproduce sexually through the reproduction method of other life forms.

This method of reproduction is relatively covert, and can directly transform the new generation into bone drinkers. The disadvantage is that the reproduction speed is slow.

Similar to Rhizopus, bone drinkers reproduce asexually through spores.

A special structure called a sporangium forms on their mycelium.

The tip of the sporangium swells to form a sporangium, which splits open when mature and spews out parasitic spores.

After the infected person passes the initial infection stage, he will be able to spit out a wave of parasitic spores every 30 days, with the number of spores being less than 10.

Spores are spread through air, water, feces, and skin contact.

If you want to speed up asexual reproduction, you need to breed it in a culture tank in a breeding machine.

According to the history of the previous generation of civilization narrated by the ancestors, the most intelligent and educated people who were most valued by the Bone Drinkers at that time were regularly arranged to visit the Bone Drinkers' asexual reproduction.

They would stop in front of a machine that was over twenty meters tall and witness the entire process of the giant spore stalks cracking in the culture tank.

Under the care of a breeding machine, the sporangium can grow to a length of several meters, and it only takes 24 hours from its appearance to its cracking.

When the cracks opened, millions of parasitic spores gushed out from the huge spore sacs, and the white light of the spores instantly filled the tall culture tank, shocking everyone. "Wait, white light?" Li Nuo slowed down his pace, "Isn't the light of parasitic spores blue-purple?"

Li Nuo had seen the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinker on corporate spies before. The spores glowed blue-purple, not white.

Xiaoxi frowned slightly and replied thoughtfully:

"Blue-purple? ... Um... My Lord, our ancestors told me that it was white. As far as I can remember, our ancestors never mentioned blue-purple parasitic spores to me."

Li Nuo took a deep breath, thinking of the deep meaning contained in the blue-purple light, and almost cursed in front of Xiaoxi.

Hell, the Bone Drinker might have mixed up his throw and thrown in the blue-feathered bird.

Of course, there is another explanation.

The parasitic spores on the corporate spy have mutated, and the external manifestation of the mutation is the emission of a blue-purple light.

Color changes due to mutation are quite common in the fungal world.

But this is the world of Warhammer, and it is better to believe in things like confusion than not to believe in them.

Li Nuo gradually realized the seriousness of the matter.

In the future, there is a certain probability that the ships that appear in the planet's orbit will be controlled by the believers of the blue-haired bird.

The blue-haired bird's attitude towards its believers is different from that of the other three chaos enemies.

Khorne blesses those who are good at fighting, and no matter who they are loyal to, Khorne will praise their bravery.

The followers of Nurgle and Slaanesh can also gain some benefits after their efforts.

Only Jianqi is a jerk who likes to destroy bridges after crossing them.

It focuses on finding variables in the plan, using variables to achieve the goal, and finally transforming the subordinates who implement the plan into chaos eggs.

Look at the feeding machine in front of you.

The main body of this device is a glass tank and a base, which has its own energy system, nutrient generation system and ecological maintenance system.

Once loaded with plasma reactants, nutrients and pure water, it can operate on its own, allowing individual parasitic spores to thrive and grow into "reproductive machines."

The original spores are only the size of a ping-pong ball, but after being cultivated in a breeding machine, they can grow to a diameter of five or six meters.

Its hyphae will entangle together to form sporangia, which will produce parasitic spores the size of ping-pong balls.

The entire process only takes about 10 Terra days.

At a time when the Bone Drinker civilization has just been revived, such an important "troop-exploding" machine will definitely be taken seriously by the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo is now basically certain that the thing that makes the Bone Drinkers obsessed with this place is the breeding machine.

He had planned to use the breeding machine as bait to catch a live specimen of the Bone Drinker.

But after discovering that the Bone Drinker might seek refuge with the big blue-haired bird, Li Nuo worried that what he had caught was not a Bone Drinker sample, but a Chaos Egg.

Li Nuo stretched out his hand towards the machine that covered an area of more than 100 square meters. His fingertips touched the metal shell, and several lines of systems were refreshed in his field of vision.

Huh? This machine can actually be used to upgrade the system?

[You have come into contact with the "Bone Drinker's Breeding Machine."]

[The fungus simulation function has been temporarily enhanced, and the following simulation options have been added:]

【1. Cultivate bone drinkers in large quantities and automatically. 】

【2. Comparison and adjustment of the Bone Drinker's genetic purity. 】

【3. Bone Drinker spore selection, that is, automatically remove spores with genetic purity below the threshold, and only retain those with purity above the threshold. 】

【Absorbing this machine can permanently upgrade system functions. 】

【May I ask if you have absorbed it? 】

This machine can compare genetic templates and adjust the genetic purity of the Bone Drinkers!

Could it be that there is a perfect Bone Drinker genetic template in the machine? !

Li Nuo's heart beat faster.

He pulled out the machete he carried with him and pried open the outer casing of the machine, revealing all kinds of pipelines.

With a clang, after a period of methodical disassembly, Li Nuo found a logic circuit board from the machine.

Holding this thing in hand, the system message popped up again.

You have come into contact with a logic circuit board containing genetic information.

[This item carries the "standard gene template of the Bone Drinker."]

[Bone drinkers are fungi, and their genetic template belongs to the fungus category. 】

[Should I deposit the gene template into the gene library? 】

Li Nuo couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

Today is a good day!
Great day!

He didn't get the Bone Drinker spores that he had been longing for, but he got the Bone Drinker's genetic template!

And it is a perfect version of the genetic template!!

Li Nuo immediately said in his heart:
"Deposit it in the gene library."

There was no change in the logic circuit board in hand, but the gene template recorded in it had appeared in the gene library.

The standard gene template carries a perfect sample of gene fragments and represents the most perfect form of a living organism.

Once the Space Marines' apothecaries have the genetic template of the Primarch, they can create the Legion's gene-seed based on this template.

Similarly, now that Li Nuo has the Bone Drinker gene template, he can produce the "Bone Drinker gene seed".

By cultivating this gene seed in a suitable individual and allowing it to transform the individual, a life form with genetic fragments similar to those of the Bone Drinker can be obtained.

This process is identical to the one used by Apothecaries to transform recruits into Space Marines using gene-seed.

Li Nuo used his mind to operate a few times in the system interface and started a fungal gene simulation experiment on the spot.

[You choose the "Standard Gene Template of the Bone Drinker" as the experimental subject.]

[You use a single-molecule gene sequencer to test this template, searching for genetic codes related to "chaos."]

【...】

[Testing completed, no genetic code related to "chaos" was found.]

Oh yeah!
Li Nuo cheered in his heart and continued to check the system messages.

[You use a variety of gene editing tools to try to insert the standard gene template of the Bone Drinker into the expression vector "CVCPSE-ABB-15" yeast. ]

【Gene editing work begins.】

[On Day 1, you treat yeast cells with lithium salts to increase the permeability of the cell membrane, making it easier for the gene template to enter the cell…]

【On the 15th day, yeast fully expressed the effects of gene editing. 】

【You have obtained a gene editing product. 】

You use a single-molecule sequencer to characterize it.

【Verification completed.】

[Using the standard gene template of the Bone Drinker as a reference, the gene purity of the gene editing product is 39%, which can be regarded as a subspecies of the Bone Drinker. ]

【Congratulations on the simulation success! 】

【Please name the gene editing product. 】

Li Nuo thought about it and input a name with his mind:
Type 1 Bone Drinker - Genetic purity 39%.

After the naming was completed, Li Nuo launched a genetic analysis on Bone Drinker Type 1.

In the holographic image presented by the system, the yeast that should have developed in the form of a colony has now become a single individual.

This thing is a bone drinker.

This creature has a round body, white and plump, with a diameter of about three centimeters. There are tiny bumps on the surface, and above the bumps are rods, with tiny tentacles extending from the end of the rods.

Its appearance was similar to the Bone Drinker that Li Nuo had seen before, but the light it emitted was pure white, not blue-purple.

After launching genetic analysis, the system presents all the gene fragments and gene functions of this object.

When seeing one of the gene functions, even Li Nuo couldn't help but tremble in fear!
[Gene fragment: Sample22-Clone001-Frag000011]

[Function: This gene fragment is related to the communication method of bone drinkers. ]

[When a bone-drinker develops to a certain stage of life, it will develop the ability of mental communication and a new bacterial ability - mental network.]

[After activating this ability, you can establish a mental network with a specific object and communicate with it mentally regardless of physical barriers.]

[Since the gene purity is less than 80%, this bacterial ability is temporarily unavailable. ]

Spiritual communication network!

One of the signature skills of the Bone Drinker civilization!

Although it is temporarily unavailable due to insufficient genetic purity, it is nonetheless a means of interstellar communication that breaks free from the constraints of the empire.

Li Nuo's heart was pounding, but he calmed his mind and checked other gene functions as quickly as possible.

"Xiaoxi, I'm thinking, don't disturb me for now."

"Yes, my lord."

Li Nuo leaned his head against the wall, staring at the logic circuit in his hand, his eyes flickering slightly.

Xiaoxi stood aside, not daring to make a sound, waiting silently.

(End of this chapter)

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