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

Chapter 145: Battle between One-Man Army
Everyone who has participated in the cold trade knows that there are two cold trade groups in the Misty Star Region that the Imperial Law Enforcement Department has never been able to clean up.

One is the Ounye Group formed by the Ounye people, which is famous for its reproductive ability comparable to that of cockroaches and the abuse of quick-growing hormones.

The other is the Black Scythe Group, which started out with the Arceus's art of transformation.

Not long ago, Black Scythe, following the Lord's guidance, successfully obtained the long-dreamed-of strain and actively infected Ake Haires.

Thanks to the Lord, the Black Scythe Group still retains its self-awareness after being parasitized by the fungal alien commonly known as the Bone Drinker.

They have not become slaves of the Bone Drinkers and have absolute control over their bodies.

Not only that, they also gained the vast knowledge and powerful abilities of the Bone Drinkers.

The current Black Scythe Group can use the Arceus' ability to change their bodies and biological characteristics at any time, and can also use the Bone Drinkers' mental network to achieve interstellar communication.

Using the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinkers to control mortals has also become the secret skill of the Black Scythe Group.

Nedlevin XV was implanted with parasitic spores by Black Scythe 1 and has since become a slave of the Black Scythe Group.

The Lord taught Black Scythe 1 a psychic ritual.

He performed this ritual in a closed room to help Nedlevin XV quickly get through the initial stages of infection.

The infection work that originally took 24 hours to complete was compressed to only half an hour.

When Nedlevin XV walked out of the reception room, his every move was exactly the same as usual, but his consciousness and soul had been completely controlled by Black Scythe 1.

Nedlevin XV led his son to the Governor's Office and gave up control of the Thinker.

Black Scythe 1 can use the powers of a sector governor to the fullest extent.

He opened the database interface and entered a string of spatial coordinates.

About five months ago, the Black Scythe Group, under the guidance of the Lord, plundered a planet with primitive civilization and took parasitic spores, gene editing equipment and breeding machines from the Bone Drinkers' treasure house on it.

It was this looting and massacre that caused the Black Scythe Group to attract the attention of the Imperial Law Enforcement Department, and they went into hiding for almost two months.

Some time ago, the Onye Group also discovered a planet with primitive civilization.

After hearing the news, Black Scythe 1 bribed two Onyx people to act as his spies and closely monitor the situation on the planet to see if there was a treasure trove of the Bone Drinkers as well.

Black Scythe 1 was lucky, as the Bone Drinker's treasure trove also appeared on that planet.

Praise the Lord, this must be a gift from the Lord.

The spatial coordinates that Black Scythe 1 input at this time came from the spy he personally planted in the looting fleet of the Onye Group.

The pixels on the screen flashed rapidly, and the thinker found the corresponding position in the map of the human empire based on the spatial coordinates.

On the plan view of the Milky Way, in the northeastern corner of the Nebulous Star Region, at the outermost edge of the area that the light of the Astronomican can reach, there is an area called the Midrach Expansion.

The light of the Astronomican flickers there, and the Midrak Expanse often loses contact with the Empire, so it has not yet been officially incorporated into the Empire's territory.

The planet that Black Scythe 1 wants to find is in this expansion area.

There is a Bone Drinker treasure house buried deep underground on that planet, which contains a very precious Bone Drinker breeding machine.

Heijian1 already has one such machine, and now he plans to get a second one.

"Look here, this is the planet with the breeding machine on it." Black Scythe 1 pointed to a small white dot on the screen and asked Ned Levin XV to come over and take a closer look:
"You arrange for an armed merchant fleet to go out with my plundering fleet and take the shortest route. We must seize the machine before the orcs dismantle it. Do you understand?"

Nedlevin XV has become a servant of Black Scythe 1, codenamed Black Scythe 15.

The two could have communicated through the Bone Drinkers' mental network, but Black Scythe liked the feeling of ordering the Moff around, so he chose to use a more primitive method to command him.

Ned Levin leaned in to check the planet number on the screen, recorded it on the data pad, and bowed respectfully to Black Scythe 1:

"Yes, sir. I will arrange five armed cargo ships to cooperate with your operation. Don't worry, the navigators of the cargo ships are all trained by the Niedlevin family. Even if I set the destination to the edge of the empire, they will not disobey my orders."

Black Scythe 1 sat in the Governor's chair, propped his feet on the ebony table, and said while shaking his ankles:
"Your five armed freighters will also participate in the war, and all the people on board must be infected with the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinker. Is that okay with you, Your Excellency the Governor?"

"Of course I have no objection. It is the lifelong honor of a humble reptile like me to serve you, Your Excellency." Nedlevin bowed deeply, his face full of resignation, without any trace of the arrogance that a star governor should have.

"Very good, Black Scythe 15. Call your lovers one by one. I have heard about the tricks you governors play for a long time, and today I have to learn a lot."

"As you command, my lord. It will be an honor for us."

Nedlevin's lovers entered the Governor's office one by one, and bursts of terrified screams rang out in the closed room, as if something terrible was happening.

at the same time.

The armed cargo ships arranged by Ned Levin met up with Black Scythe's plundering fleet.

There was a minor conflict between the two fleets.

The crew of the armed freighter includes spies arranged by the Imperial Law Enforcement Department.

After discovering that they were forced to be infected with a certain strain, the agents united to launch a resistance, inciting the freighter crew to riot, so that they could take the opportunity to get into the shuttle and escape from the armed freighter.

The marauding fleet put down the rebellion with bloody means, capturing Imperial Law Enforcement agents and bringing them back to the ship.

During the subsequent parasitic spore implantation process, some law enforcement agents who were hiding very deeply and did not participate in the riots were pulled out.

What catches these spies out is the Bone Drinker's characteristic - Gestalt.

Anyone who is completely parasitized by the spores will have their memories and knowledge inserted into the Bone Drinkers' mental network, shared by all individuals in the network, commonly known as the brain network.

Each individual possesses all the memories and knowledge of all members. The individual is the whole, and the whole is the individual. This is the most prominent feature of Gestalt civilization.

The parasitic spores that infected the crew were transformed by the Black Scythe 1's psychic energy and carried the power of the Lord.

Common parasitic spores that share the infected individual's knowledge and memories with all other Bone Drinkers.

The parasitic spores transformed by Black Scythe 1's psychic energy are different.

When an infected person joins the mental network, his knowledge and memories will only be known to Black Scythe 1, and other members have no right to know.

The control over the infected is also held solely by Black Scythe 1, and will not be contaminated by other members.

After the spies of the Imperial Law Enforcement Department were completely parasitized, all the information including the orders they received from the Law Enforcement Department, their life experiences, information about their wives and children, and their contact information with their superiors, entered Black Scythe 1's mind.

Such terrifying information collection capabilities and group control power all rely on parasitic spores blessed by the Lord.

It is hard to imagine what the Nidlevin star zone will become when tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of parasitic spores are widely spread.

For Heijian 1, forming an army by himself is by no means a luxury.

After a long time, the turmoil in the fleet subsided and they officially set out for the Midrak Expanse.

Inside the office of the Star Governor, the screams gradually subsided, the expensive carpet was covered in blood, and the scene was in ruins.

As an Arceus, Black Scythe 1 likes slime-like bodies, which gives him an almost morbid desire to torture them.

At this time, Heijian 1 was lying on the sofa in his bathrobe, with a look of comfort and enjoyment on his face.

"Black sickle 15, before the breeding machine arrives, I want you to use the parasitic spores I gave you to infect all those who can come into direct contact with you, and also prepare a space workshop to imitate the breeding machine."

"Yes, sir. I will prepare a space workshop to imitate the breeding machine as soon as possible. But there is one thing you must know."

Ned Levin fell to his knees:
"My Lord, the people I can directly contact include a member of the Mechanicum. His name is Morg. I am afraid I cannot parasitize him because he is a xenophysiologist."

When he heard the title of "Alien Physiologist", a trace of fear flashed across Heijian 1's face.

Before the Nidlevin sector was incorporated into the Empire, there were a large number of alien civilizations.

After these alien civilizations were destroyed, they left behind inestimable alien legacy.

The Mechanicus is very interested in this place and has assigned a group of mechanical priests specializing in alien biological research to be stationed here.

Nedlevin XV himself was also interested in aliens and alien creations.

He collected aliens through the Black Scythe Group and the Guards, and secretly played with them under the nose of the Mechanicus. It was tense and exciting, and he never got tired of it.

Because of this, Black Scythe 1 knew Nedlevin very well, and with careful planning, he turned him into a servant.

Now, the problem facing Black Scythe 1 is how to deal with the mechanical priest named Morg.

This guy was specifically responsible for contacting Nedlevin XV. The two often communicated through the internal network and occasionally met.

As soon as they meet, mistakes are bound to happen.

There is no way the bacterial strain in Black Scythe 15 could avoid Morg's alien biological scanner.

"Listen carefully, you and Morg will not meet for three months. When the breeding machines in the expansion zone are delivered to you, you will do your best to imitate the machines and spread the parasitic spores, and strive to infect 10% of the population in the star zone within these three months. By then, even if the scum of the Mechanicum discovers the existence of the Bone Drinkers, they will not be able to stop this feast."

"Yes, my lord."

Black Scythe 1 was satisfied with the way the Star District Governor obeyed his orders.

It's a pity that he has other breeding machines to obtain, and has no time to enjoy the good life of a star governor here.

The first breeding machine obtained by Black Scythe 1 was placed on its own territory, producing parasitic spores day and night and infecting the Arceus people.

The second one, which is coming soon, is dedicated to infecting humans in the Nidlevin sector.

The third, fourth, and fifth stations that arrived later also had their own infected targets.

We must spread the Bone Drinker plague as much as possible before the Mechanicus discovers any trace of the Bone Drinkers. We must not slack off.

"Okay, Black Scythe 15, I'll leave by boat now, and you will still be the governor of this star area." Black Scythe 1 stood up, put on his clothes, and walked towards the door.

"You are welcome to visit me anytime." Ned Leven followed Black Scythe 1 like a pug.

Black Scythe 1 stopped, looked at the Stardust outside the colorful French window and asked:

"How long will it take for the fleet to reach that planet?"

"My lord, thanks to the protection of my Lord, the warp channel is open all the way. The fleet will be able to arrive there in 18 Terran days at most."

"Okay, I get it. I will personally command the fleet to fight the orcs and capture the machine in one fell swoop."

The Lord taught Black Scythe 1 a mysterious psychic ritual.

Relying on this ritual, Black Scythe 1 can single-handedly control tens of thousands of Bone Drinkers to fight for him, truly a one-man army.

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After 13 days.

It’s 5pm Terra time.

Li Nuo came out of the private laboratory with a faint smile on his lips.

The genetic recombination experiment was successful.

He combined the genes of the orcs and the mudmen to create a special warfare boy who could transform.

The Special Warfare Boy is an Orc who specializes in infiltration, sabotage, and espionage. He is relatively short in stature and not as strong as an ordinary Orc Boy, but he is as light as a swallow and agile.

The reproductive spores isolated from this orc were deeply transformed by Li Nuo and integrated with the transformation ability of the mud man.

Aren't the Alpha Legion good at disguise?

OK, everyone. The preparation plan for the Alpha Orc Legion has taken a big step forward.

From today on, orcs can also have the ability to transform. After dinner, Li Nuo couldn't wait to log on to the space "account" in his bedroom.

In the past 13 days, the clan population has achieved rapid growth thanks to the "Growth Spirit" and has now reached a level of 3.

This only counts Orcs, not Squiggles and Squiggs.

Counting all those still breathing, the total number of Space Beast Clan members might exceed 4.

With such a large number of orcs and fart spirits, it is impossible for them all to be crowded in the cave outside the treasure house.

Under Li Nuo's careful arrangement, 3 orcs were divided into 10 orc companies, digging new underground caves around the treasure house.

Arrange one orc company in each underground cave, and deploy them in a dispersed manner to avoid being wiped out by the enemy.

There are secret passages throughout the caves, connecting to the cave complex where the treasure house is located.

The orcs are fully armed and carry heavy firepower weapons. They strengthen the fortifications in their respective caves to ensure that each cave can withstand strong acids, poison gases, liquid flames, collapses, and explosions.

If necessary, 3 orcs can collectively return to defend.

The first company of space beasts is the most elite, with the beasts serving as the company commander, while the remaining companies are led by orc guards.

The primitive revenge team of Xiaoxi was defined as a mortal auxiliary army, following the first company and responsible for spraying alchemical potions.

After Li Nuo "came online", he went straight to the breeding machine.

His research task tonight is to find a way to perfectly hide the special forces boy in the breeding machine.

This requires the use of various orc witchcraft such as "Brother Mao's Black Hair" and "Brother Mao is Quiet".

The Special Forces Boy will follow the machine to the Bone Drinker's territory.

Li Nuo only needs to find out the location of the Bone Drinkers' lair through the special forces boy, and then he can circle out the Bone Drinkers' activity range and the main infected population.

This way, they can effectively prevent their nests from being infiltrated by bone drinkers.

Time passed quickly as I was studying, and before I knew it, it was the second half of the night.

Li Nuo had just stuffed the special warfare boy into the machine when the noisy box on his waist began to make the sound of a wild beast.

"Boss! There is a reaction in the Warp. A fleet is approaching our planet from the Warp! Come to the star map and take a look!"

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

There is a fleet approaching the planet, could it be the Bone Drinkers' fleet?

Li Nuo asked the special forces boy to hide in the machine, turned around and ran as fast as he could, rushing into the cave where the first company was.

In the center of the cave is the object finder and the dot map.

These two devices were made by Li Nuo himself, and both are products of the highest specifications under current production conditions.

The dot map projects a holographic image one and a half meters above the ground, using a virtual pixel dot map to depict the situation of the fleet.

A fleet is sailing in the warp, and it is not clear how many ships are in the fleet.

The ship's warp observation image is a large dark red block, which represents non-Orc life forms in the Ork star map.

15 minutes later, Dot Dot issued a warning sound that the subspace entrance was opening and closing.

The screen of the dot map automatically switched from the subspace observation map to the starry sky remote sensing map.

1200 kilometers away from the planet, eleven ships sailed out of the subspace entrance.

Six of them were looting ships of unknown origin.

They were converted from Sword-class frigates. They were solid, heavy, and equipped with void shields. The original laser turret arrays were removed and replaced with missile launchers that could be used for air-to-ground missions.

Five of them are armed cargo ships, the specific models are unknown. It looks like the cargo holds outside the side of the transport ship have been removed and missile launchers have been installed, and there are no void shields.

It is worth noting that there is a huge spray paint on the armed freighter with the words "Nedlevin Star Sector - No. 65 Armed Freight Fleet" written on it.

When Li Nuo saw these words, he was stunned and felt like his brain was freezing.

What's going on?
An armed freighter in the Nidlevin sector was hijacked by a marauding fleet?
"Beast, pass the order down, have all companies prepare for battle, stay where they are, and do not leave the underground area."

"Yes, boss!" The beast picked up the noisy box and whined and wailed to convey the order.

On the holographic image, eleven ships arrived at the uppermost level of the near-ground orbit and flew towards the top of the treasure house.

The object finder detected an increase in the electromagnetic signal above the planet. This was because the Auger matrix on the ship was scanning the planet.

Due to the low level of the ships, their Auger matrix performance is limited, and both the scanning range and penetration are far inferior to those of cruisers.

In the human empire's ship system, only cruisers and above have the ability to scan the entire globe, but they can only penetrate about a hundred meters of soil. When encountering rock layers or mineral veins, the penetration power will be greatly reduced.

The Bone Drinker Vault and the caves that Lino had the orcs dig were very deep, five hundred meters from the surface, far beyond the scanning depth of the eleven ships.

Sure enough, the ship failed to find the orcs hiding deep underground, and Li Nuo's finder did not send out an alarm as if it had been scanned by the Auger matrix.

To prevent an ambush underground, the fleet sent a personnel shuttle to the ground to observe the cave entrance up close.

Li Nuo pressed the switch button on the device.

The holographic image switched from a star map to a surveillance perspective, showing the scene near the cave entrance.

Four shuttles landed and about two hundred shrimps got off.

They wore plastic bulletproof armor and carried laser rifles and automatic pistols.

Judging from their appearance and body shape, they can indeed match the Human Empire.

"Boss, who are the enemies this time? I thought they were purple-skinned people." The beast pointed to a corner of the holographic image, "Those unlucky guys are about to step into a minefield."

There are minefields within a radius of three kilometers around the cave entrance. The mines are randomly distributed, depending on the preferences of the fart spirit. In some places, the mines are dense, and in some places they are sparse. The main thing is to be random.

Ten shrimps recklessly rushed into the minefield, and soon there were explosions.

At this moment, a strange scene appeared.

The shrimp that landed on the surface were not equipped with any communication equipment, no tactical headsets, no communication backpacks, and even the finder had no extra communication signals.

Yet, they all gathered in an orderly manner towards the place where the explosion occurred, without any verbal or eye contact from beginning to end.

This phenomenon is very abnormal.

The beast didn't notice, but Linuo would never miss it.

“There’s something wrong with these shrimps.”

Li Nuo said in a deep voice:
"Among Xiami's individual communication devices, the most advanced one is the communication rosary. It can realize encrypted communication, making it difficult for our finder to detect the communication signal. But this thing is very expensive, and these Xiami are just ordinary soldiers, and there is no way they are qualified to be equipped with communication rosary. But you see, they didn't even have basic communication, and they took turns to cover each other and went to the explosion site. Do you know what this means?"

The beast knew the characteristics of the Bone Drinker, and after a little thought, it understood:
"Boss, I understand. These shrimps are parasitized by the Bone Drinkers. They are all infected and can only communicate through the mental network. There is no need for speech or sign language."

"That's right." Li Nuo nodded and ordered:
"Have each company check the traps in the tunnels and confirm that everything is ready. All of them should go into silence. If anyone dares to make a noise, I'll kick his ass. Once you find the enemy passing through the traps, open fire immediately."

"Yes, boss." The beast picked up the noisy box and muttered Li Nuo's order in a low voice.

After a while, the communication signals on the finder disappeared one after another, and the communication network in the underground area was silent, without any unnecessary sound.

When the orcs become disciplined, they will show extremely terrifying cohesion and ability to act. This is the huge transformation brought about by gene editing.

Time passes as Xiami keeps making mistakes.

Within half an hour, more than a thousand shrimps were killed by landmines.

From this, it is not difficult to see that this group of shrimps currently lack experience in large-scale group battles.

Very, very scarce.

Li Nuo even suspected that this group of shrimps infected by the Bone Drinkers had never experienced a large-scale group battle, so much so that they only thought of using missiles to actively detonate the mines after their casualties exceeded a thousand.

Missiles rained down from the sky, dust flew, thick smoke rose, the mines were basically cleared, and the road to the cave entrance was unobstructed.

However, the trap planned by Li Nuo was not that simple.

After hundreds of shrimps entered the cave entrance, the beast pressed the button at the right time.

"Boom——"

An explosion occurred in the cave, sending sand and rocks flying everywhere. The entrance, which was originally over a hundred meters wide, was suddenly filled with fallen rocks and mud.

Xiami quickly started the work of digging and reinforcing the cave.

But after digging the road, they found that it was a dead end.

Yes, a dead end.

About six hundred meters after the cave entrance, there was originally the entrance to the Howling Passage, but it was now blocked by a solid steel wall, leaving no gap for outsiders.

When they saw the "Wall of Sighs", all the shrimps raised their arms in unison, made obscene gestures in the direction of the steel wall, and uttered the same dirty words:
"Damn orcs, you rotten maggots in the cesspool are even more cunning than I thought. I #$@#!" x9999
Thousands and tens of thousands of repeaters complained together, what a grand scene it was.

The beast was completely stunned.

Li Nuo's face darkened as he realized that something was not right.

These shrimps are controlled by the same consciousness.

According to the knowledge that Cloud Hammer possesses, the Bone Drinker civilization does not have a superior consciousness that can control all individuals.

Multiple individuals can be controlled by the same higher consciousness, which is a unique feature of hive civilizations, such as the Tyranids.

The Bone Drinkers are a Gestalt civilization.

Each individual has distinct characteristics and independent consciousness, but they share the spiritual wealth of the entire civilization with each other.

It is absolutely impossible for all Bone Drinkers to perform the same action at the same time.

But the scene before him was contrary to the knowledge that Yunchui had mastered.

There is only one reason for this, and that is that every one of the Bone Drinkers who arrived on the planet this time has been corrupted by Tzeentch, and therefore they will obey the unified command of a higher consciousness.

In other words, after being corrupted by Tzeentch, the Bone Drinkers are no longer simply a Gestalt civilization, but a combination of Gestalt and Hive.

They can not only share information on the spiritual level, but also obey the instructions of the same higher consciousness when necessary.

The mere thought of such an alien civilization is chilling.

"Beast, pass the order down, tell all the boys to be extremely vigilant and not to be infected by the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinker. Prioritize killing anything with blue-purple light or feathers, and don't let any of them go."

"Yes, boss."

Li Nuo turned his head to look at the stream beside him and said in the language of the Bone Drinkers:
"Keep an eye on your people and don't let them get infected. All humans on the surface are hosts to the Bone Drinkers, and the Bone Drinkers in them have been modified to transform the hosts into servants of a higher consciousness. If anyone is infected and the fungal phage virus doesn't work, you must kill yourself with poison as soon as possible. Do you understand?"

Xiaoxi was inoculated with "fungiophage virus warts" and had a capsule made of highly toxic substances in his mouth. He was unable to speak and could only nod with a solemn expression in response.

The same was true for the Avengers behind her. Each of them, with the belief of dying together with the Bone Drinker, resolutely stuffed the poison made by Li Nuo into their mouths.

The "warts" and the poison capsules form a double insurance to ensure that primitive people who are susceptible to infection by bone drinkers will not be parasitized.

Li Nuo solemnly promised them that after the battle, the survivors could enjoy his genetic modification and get rid of the genetic defects that made them easily parasitized by Bone Drinkers.

(End of this chapter)