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

Chapter 148: Fungi Bring Radiation
Where the breeding machines will eventually be shipped to is an interesting mystery.

Until the final answer to the mystery was revealed, Li Nuo's daily life and work went on as usual.

Supervise the reconstruction of the Seventh District, check the daily production and sales of synthetic starch, check whether the information in each official document is true to the actual situation, and listen to the holographic reports of various departments in the hive city...

Li Nuo was kept very busy by various affairs.

As a last resort, he built himself a calculator and used it secretly in the office.

Now I feel much more comfortable.

Greenskin Technology is great. Once the data is fed into the calculator, automated office work can be achieved.

Li Nuo only needs to spare one or two hours to check the processing results of the calculator, and the rest of the time can be used to read textbooks on gene editing and simulate the production of vaccines to kill Bone Drinkers in the system.

Six days passed like this.

In the morning, in the office.

The bright artificial sunlight shines through the stained glass, casting colorful blocks of color into the house, and the sound of typing on the keyboard echoes in the silent house.

The servo skull was floating beside Li Nuo, holding a data tablet, and quietly accompanied Li Nuo through his busy time.

"Master, the Chief Transparent of the local Mechanical Monastery wishes to communicate with you."

Tongmingzhe is an elegant name for the electric monk.

The local electric monks are responsible for the power regulation of the hive city and the maintenance of facilities such as the artificial sun, power pipelines, and power hubs.

Of course, in the eyes of mechanical priests such as the Electric Monk, electricity should be called "source power", which is the sacred spark bestowed upon them by the Ohm Messiah.

"Please answer the call." Li Nuo paused the work in his hands and looked at the camera on the data board.

Brandi manipulated the servo skull to turn on the holographic projection, showing a bald man with electric patterns on his head.

"Under the witness of Om Messiah, we usher in a new day. May your mind always be as sharp and swift as the source of power."

The chief of the Transparent Ones is named Hewen Pulse No. 5.

He started with a few daily greetings, then said:

"Lord Wilsi, I have to tell you some bad news. Due to the transportation ban imposed by the Hive City on the Nidlevin sector, our radioactive waste has piled up and the warehouse will burst in five days. Before the radioactive waste taints the pure creations of Om Messiah, we'd better find a way to properly dispose of them."

Li Nuo thought for a moment and asked:
"If I remember correctly, the radioactive waste warehouse should have been full in 62 days, right? What caused it to burst ahead of schedule?"

"Your Excellency, you don't know this. This morning, the engineering team rebuilding the ruins dug up a pool of radioactive waste. In order not to delay the progress of the project, they moved the radioactive waste to a warehouse. The appearance of this pile of waste caused the warehouse to explode ahead of schedule."

Li Nuo nodded slightly and replied:

"Okay, I get it. I'll find a way to dispose of the radioactive waste as soon as possible."

Hewen Pulse No. 5 nodded in return:

"May the grace of Om Messiah never die in our batteries."

The holographic projection disappears.

Li Nuo ordered, "Call Tiduo."

"Okay, master."

Brandi dialed the comms.

Tido's holographic figure was projected.

"What's the matter?" Titus asked with a smile.

Li Nuo said:
"Has the Nidlevin Sector released the results of its investigation into the plague?"

"No. I sent a message to the Governor's Office and the local Mechanical Monastery. The Governor's Office did not reply. The local Mechanical Monastery said that they were not involved in the disinfection work in the plague area, so they did not know the situation on the scene."

"Is that so..." Li Nuo frowned and told him about the impending explosion of the radioactive waste warehouse:
".Please help me contact other imperial worlds and see who can take the waste materials in the warehouse. It's okay if the price is a little higher."

"Okay, I'll go ask Dad. I remember he has a list of the imperial worlds that are interested in receiving radioactive waste."

Half an hour later, the two communicated again.

In the picture, Tiduo twirled her chin lightly, with a serious expression:
"Li Nuo, after I got the list from my father, I checked the conditions of these imperial worlds one by one, and I found that they all had plagues recently. I sent you the list and the plague report."

Li Nuo received the document sent by Tido and opened it to check.

There are four alternative radioactive waste disposal companies, corresponding to four star district governors. Their territories are all located in the Nebulous Star Region, and they can be said to be colleagues of Nedlevin XV.

Competition among peers is inevitable.

Not long after the plague broke out in the Nidlevin star sector, plagues broke out in four other star sectors one after another, and the outbreak sites of the plague were all stellar radiation waste areas.

It's hard not to suspect that the five governors are using the plague to disrupt their rivals.

In the star message in recent days, we often see the public accusations of the five star governors, which is a real drama of eating melons.

Interestingly, none of the five governors made public the results of their investigation into the plague.

The onlookers still don’t know what pathogenic strain of the plague is.

It's as if this pathogenic strain is the secret of the five governors...

"Interesting." Li Nuo crossed his arms and looked at the desk in front of him.

It just so happens that I have almost finished my recent work and have some free time to do research, or I might as well deal with the problem of radioactive waste.

Li Nuo asked Tido to continue looking for a new radioactive waste disposal company, while he went to a private laboratory to conduct simulations.

At the door of the laboratory, Leia and Mona are on guard today.

After Leia joined the Governor's agent team, she had the best relationship with Mona.

Both of them are the type who like fighting and killing, and they will practice against each other in the training room of the base whenever they have free time.

In comparison, Wick is more lazy. He disappears as soon as he gets off work. It is said that he goes to accompany the girl he likes.

Seeing Li Nuo coming towards them, Laiya and the other person immediately stopped whispering, tightened their facial lines, and became serious, looking like a mouse seeing a cat.

Li Nuo couldn't help but smile, and walked into the laboratory to prepare for the simulation.

There are two types of radioactive waste: light water radioactive waste and heavy water radioactive waste.

The specific type of waste produced depends on the structure of the plasma reactor.

The Imperium's plasma reactors produce only light water radiation.

By adding cement, asphalt and other curing agents to light water radioactive materials and mixing them, solid light water radioactive materials can be produced, and then they can be launched into stars using cannons.

This is how Moffs like Ned Levin XV deal with radioactive waste.

Li Nuo would definitely not use this method.

The top priority is to use fungi to purify light water radioactive substances.

Before traveling through time, Li Nuo had read quite a few papers on this subject.

The cell walls of fungi contain a variety of functional groups, such as carboxyl and amino groups.

They can undergo ion exchange reactions with radioactive substances and then adsorb the radioactive substances onto the cell walls.

This step is equivalent to solidifying the radioactive materials to prevent them from spreading in the air, soil and water.

Li Nuo found many fungi with strong adsorption ability in the fungus warehouse, such as cocktail bacteria, water poccoccus, Aspergillus niger, many kinds of yeast and Rhizopus.

So, the question now is how to deal with the radioactive material adsorbed on the fungus.

Out of caution, Li Nuo decided to conduct the experiment on the territory of the Gangyong tribe, where the radioactive waste was also light water radioactive materials.

Click on the system interface and the archive information will appear.

[Archive 1: The witch boy - Sack.]

Archived briefings:

[The ship of the Steel Warrior Tribe has been completed, the ignition test flight was successful, and all ship functions are normal. Technician and Technician Boy are conducting the final inspection. It is expected that the ship will be officially launched later today.]

[In Sack's shack, there are 1372 magical spores waiting for you to collect. ]

A fulfilling work and life always makes time pass quickly, and before we knew it, the Gangyong Tribe was about to ascend to heaven.

Li Nuo took out the magic spores and swallowed them, then read Sack's save file.

His consciousness traveled through the sea of stars. After many days, Li Nuo once again saw the star region that was suspected to be the Ullanor Orc Empire.

While flying towards the planet where the Steel Warrior Tribe was located, Li Nuo saw an orc fleet also heading towards the planet.

The fleet has eleven powerful and cool large spaceships, which are equivalent in size to the cruisers of the Human Empire. They are extremely rough in style, like eleven giant toilets floating in space, covered with rust.

A human figure covering half of the ship was spray-painted on the side of the ship.

The main figure of the portrait is an orc wearing a horned helmet, with a ferocious and bloodthirsty smile on his face, blood flowing between his teeth, and some minced meat. Next to this portrait is a slogan:
"Either join our blood bull warlords, or become our food."

It turns out to be a warlord-level group of orcs, no wonder there are so many ships.

Li Nuo's consciousness penetrated into Sack's body, and Yu Zarg opened his eyes on his shoulder and looked around.

The Iron Tribe is no longer what it used to be. The buildings in its territory have changed from low steel shacks to a steel jungle.

Steel structures more than ten meters high rose from the ground, forming many orc dormitories that looked like chicken coops.

The technician workshop is located in a corner of the territory, spewing thick black smoke all day long. There is often black ash floating in the air, and the rain is also black.

The residence of the tribal leader Ailon is located on a hill. The top of the hill has been flattened and replaced with a steel structure. It looks square like an iron ingot, fully demonstrating the tough style of the Steel Brave Tribe.

Sack's shack is right next to Ailon's residence. It retains the wooden material and planting area, which is a unique landscape in the steel jungle.

Li Nuo tapped Zarg's helmet and pointed to the shack behind him:
"I want to make some new things. Bring me some stinky green mud."

"Ang." Zarg put the witch priest on his shoulder to the ground and walked away with heavy steps, the sound of his footsteps clanging.

After a while, a barrel of radioactive waste appeared in front of Li Nuo.

This thing emits a faint green light, like a pile of mud, and feels slippery and wet to the touch, hence the name green light mud.

Its name in the human empire is light water radiation.

Orcs are not afraid of radiation.

To be precise, their gene fragments are too stable and cannot be easily tampered with by radioactive substances.

Li Nuo can hold such a barrel of radioactive waste that terrifies humans and play with it in his hands, and even roll it into a "dung ball" and throw it on the stupid dog's face.

The stupid dog thought it was delicious, so he licked the green mud on his face into his mouth, then spat it out with a "puff" and left in shame.

Li Nuo chuckled, picked up the iron bucket, walked into the vacant planting house, and officially began the simulation.

"System, use water pococcus to absorb the radioactive substances in the light water radiation."

【The simulation experiment parameters have been set. 】

[On the first day, you select 1 pieces of domesticated water puck mycelium as experimental subjects, and use light water radiation as culture medium. Light water radiation comes with a certain amount of water and organic matter, so you do not need to prepare additional nutrients and irrigation water.]

【...】

[On the 172nd day, all the radioactive substances, organic matter and water in the light water radiation were absorbed by the water puck bacteria.]

[You have obtained 12 samples of severely mutated fungi.]

The 100 samples dropped sharply to 12, and the missing 88 all died from mutations caused by radiation.

The system interface displays holographic images of mutated water poccocci. They are bright green and look very radial.

Li Nuo habitually aimed at the holographic image to launch the fungus analysis function.

When he saw the analysis results, he was stunned for a moment, his eyes slowly widened, and he blurted out "Wow".

【Name: Mutated fungus with strong radiation.】

【Analysis results:】

Compared to normal water pococci, the fungus's genetic purity is less than 10%.

[It is not contaminated by bacteria, but has extremely strong radioactivity. ]

【Remove the radioactivity and the domestication is complete. 】

【Bacteria ability: irradiation. 】

[Unlocking requirement: 100 skill points. After removing the radioactivity, the domestication is complete. After domestication, the unlocking requirement is reduced to 1 skill point. ]

[Fungus ability effect: Consume some of this fungus to create a radiation source that can emit a large amount of radioactive metal particles. The more fungi are consumed, the more radioactive metal particles the radiation source emits per unit time.]

Li Nuo stood up from his chair suddenly, his body shaking with excitement.

His original intention was to find a way to purify light water radioactivity, but he never expected that he would create the Necrons' "Gauss weapons".

The principle of Gauss weapons is:

The magnetic field is used to confine and accelerate metal particles and then emit them in a directed manner. (Note 1)

The metal particles are the bullets of the Gauss weapon, and the magnetic field is the "gunpowder" that propels the metal ions.

The smaller the size of the metal particles, the stronger the penetrating power of the light beam emitted by the Gauss weapon. When the metal particles penetrate the target, they will leave the energy they carry in the target's body, causing damage.

The biggest difficulty in making Gauss weapons is how to process metal into particles with a small enough diameter.

Now, all I have to do is raise my hand and snap my fingers to create a radiation source that emits metal particles, completely skipping the process of processing metal.

The destructive power provided by this is difficult to estimate.

Li Nuo entered the shack and searched around, and found the sample of the special weapon he had tried to make for the Black Knight.

This is a specially made laser weapon and the energy magazine is empty.

Li Nuo removed the focuser, installed a magnetic field coil made of mechanical witchcraft, locked the energy magazine with his mind, spent 100 skill points to unlock new bacterial abilities, and launched irradiation.

The radiation source appears in the energy magazine, and the radioactive metal ions follow the optical path pipeline into the barrel and are then accelerated by the magnetic field coil outside the barrel.

Li Nuo aimed at the wooden wall of the shack and pulled the trigger.

"Buzz buzz buzz, Piu~"

A thin beam of green light shot out from the muzzle and fell on the rough wooden board.

A standard circular microhole emerged, with a few radioactive green dots remaining on the edge.

Li Nuo came closer to check the microhole and was surprised to find that there was also a small dot on the metal structure outside the microhole.

Zarge seemed to have heard some noise. He stopped by the metal building and stared at the small round hole on the wall, scratching his head.
"What happened? Why is the boss's house broken? Whoever did this, stand up!"

"Ahem." Li Nuo put the laser rifle on his waist, kicked open the door of the shack and walked out:

"Stop yelling, Zarg. I invented a new gadget and it went off accidentally."

"Yeah, so it was you who did it. It's okay then." Zarge shook his head and turned away.

Li Nuo observed the tiny holes on the metal wall, and through them, he could vaguely see the scene inside the house.

Awesome.

So cool.

The wall was at least ten centimeters thick, yet it was penetrated just like that.

If a ton of mutant mushrooms were used at once to attack the target, the destructive power would be unimaginable.

Li Nuo plans to transfer the radioactive waste in the hive to his own warehouse and use it all to cultivate mutant fungi.

To be honest, the purpose of this trip has been basically achieved at this stage of the experiment.

By storing the mutated fungi that absorb radioactive substances in a fungal warehouse, wouldn’t it be possible to solve the problem of the impending explosion of radioactive waste warehouses?

The only regret is that when cultivating mutated fungi, the fungi will absorb the water in the light water radiation.

Therefore, this method can only be used to convert radioactive waste into particle pellets for Gauss weapons, and cannot be used to obtain pure water.

When Li Nuo was about to "go offline", Zarge came back.

"Master Wuji, the boss is calling you. He said that the Blood Ox warlord wants us to join them. The boss wants to ask your opinion on this matter."

Blood Bull Warlord? …Li Nuo looked up at the sky and realized that the ship he saw at the beginning of the simulation had landed right above the tribal territory.

The orcs' ships look strange in shape, but they are actually very structurally stable and can withstand atmospheric pressure and enter the atmospheric environment.

The bottoms of the ten ships were not far from the ground. The orcs in the territory could see the painting on the bottom of the ships. It was the image of ten orcs in horn helmets with blood in their mouths.
Probably because he discovered that the Iron Tribe's spaceship would be ready for use soon, the Blood Bull Warlord came specially to recruit people.

Li Nuo thought about it and realized that the tribe joining the warlord was a big deal, so he had to help Ailon with advice.

He temporarily stopped "going offline" and followed Zarg into Ailon's residence.

Orcs don't have as many rules for meeting guests as humans. They just lead the guests to sit by the campfire, let the fart spirits bring wine and meat, and then the banquet can begin.

The warlord boss of the Xueniu warlord came personally to take the heads.

It was a humanoid beast nearly five meters tall, with muscles so big that it was eye-catching, and shoulders twice as wide as Aaron's.

He grew a Hair Squig on his head, whose thick body hair was dyed blood red and became the orc's hair and beard.

A shiny black horned helmet was worn on his head, with two horns pointing toward the ceiling like a sky-high braid.

(End of this chapter)