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

Chapter 172: Whatever the Sister of Silence Says

"Aren't you the guy who went to Baiguo Manor to discuss business? How did you become the deputy governor?"

The bearded judge looked surprised and looked up and down at Li Nuo in disbelief. Then he realized that it was not a good idea for him to be so startled.

He looked back at the psychic expert and Sister of Silence, coughed lightly and said:

"Lino Wilsey, what's the situation now? Any clues about that Gamma-class psychic?"

Li Nuo recognized the judge.

About half a year ago, when I went to Baiguo Manor to purchase shares in the manor, I happened to meet a group of people from the other party visiting the manor.

At that time, the Judge, psychic experts and silent sisters were hunting down a group of illegal psychics who deliberately destroyed the production facilities of the Upper Nest. The mastermind behind these psychics was Kadori of the Lewei family.

I was an unknown person at that time, so it's no wonder that the judge made such a fuss.

Li Nuo extended his hand to the other party:

"We speculate that the Gamma-class psyker may have gone to the Lower Nest and the Bottom Nest. The garrisons there are searching for traces of illegal psykers. I believe there will be clues reported soon. What is your name?"

"Oh, I was negligent." The judge who looked like a Terran shook hands with Li Nuo:

"I'm Justro Andrew, you can call me Andrew. If you allow us, we would like to go around the hive. You know, we have our own battle-tested methods on how to capture an illegal psyker on the run."

"No problem, go ahead." Li Nuo took a data tablet from Tido and handed it to Judge Andrew. The data tablet contained the key to the non-controlled area, which could ensure that the Ministry of Justice and the Star Language Court had unimpeded access in the hive.

The judge discussed with the silent sisters in the team. The latter made a series of gestures and led a team of silent sisters from the black ship away alone. Before leaving, she took away the data tablet given by Li Nuo.

The Sisters of Silence are nominally subordinate to the Astronomican, but in reality they only obey the orders of the Emperor.

They are an independent armed force with clear internal division of labor and flexible transformation of functions.

The current team of Silent Sisters consists of five people, and is classified as a hunter team. They are usually responsible for searching and transporting psychics. When encountering illegal psychics, they will serve as armed investigators and psychic catchers.

The captain of the team is the high-ranking nun Watiya Koven, who has a sharp gaze, a heroic bearing, and an aura of majesty without even being angry.

The four team members behind her were hollow girls who had taken a vow of tranquility in the past two years. They were official members and followed Watiya out for training.

The five nuns walked through the crowd without saying a word, requisitioned the transport vehicle brought by Li Nuo and left the airport.

As they walked away, the depressing atmosphere at the scene gradually dissipated.

The Sisters of Silence have the ability to isolate themselves from the subspace. People who get close to them will feel the "vacuum" and "silence" at the soul level. This is a mental reaction caused by the isolation of the soul from the subspace.

The entourage, including Tido, all showed some degree of discomfort. They tried hard not to make any sound, and now they can finally take a breath.

Li Nuo felt a little surprised.

The shortest distance between Sister Silent and him just now was only two meters, but the discomfort he felt was not as strong as that felt by Tido and others.

This may have something to do with his psychic field.

His psychic field can weaken all negative effects from the soul level, including the characteristics of the Sister of Silence.

So, the characteristics of the Sister of Silence may not mean anything to him.

"Come on, Wilsi, we will escort you back to the Royal Court. We will temporarily protect your safety until Lord Vatiya catches the illegal Gamma-level psychic."

Judge Andrew waved his hand carelessly, and the team of arbitrators behind him boarded another transport vehicle.

Li Nuo smiled at the other party:

"Thank you for your help. I am relieved to receive assistance from the Terran Law Department and the Star Tongue Court so quickly."

Weird.

I'm so nervous, okay?

The gamma-level psychic has been killed by himself.

Even if the Sisters of Silence turned the nest upside down, they would not be able to find any trace of this psychic.

If he had known that the Sister of Silence would come so soon, Li Nuo would have gritted his teeth and pretended that he didn't know that the Gamma-level psychic would go to the Bottom Nest.

Now that the person is dead, what can I say to Sister Silent?

As soon as his thoughts raced, Li Nuo boarded the transport vehicle and chatted with Andrew about the origins of the Gamma-class psychic:

"Andrew, the illegal psychic is named Gennaro Meslaton. He is from the industrial world Meslaton and is the sixth in line to the throne of the world's governor's family..."

Li Nuo recounted the transaction between himself and Meslatton, using the surveillance video of the battle between local bailiffs and the Bone Drinkers as evidence.

Epimet's Legal Department is directly under the jurisdiction of Terra. As the judge of Terra's Legal Department, Andrew has the authority to access the data of the Hive Legal Department.

After verifying Li Nuo's statement with his own authority, Andrew gradually realized the seriousness of the matter:
"According to the sailing records of the armed freighter that Gennaro was on, this guy went to three other hive worlds before arriving at your hive."

"Oh, is that so?" Li Nuo and Tido looked at each other, and they had some more guesses in their minds.

Andrew said as he flipped through the data records:

"What's interesting is that the delegation led by Gennaro had 15 people when they first set out from Meslaton. When they passed through the first imperial world, one person left the team and stayed in that imperial world. The same was true for the two imperial worlds they visited later. One person was arranged to stay in each imperial world. When they arrived here, the number of representatives dropped from 1 to 15."

Andrew paused and asked in a more serious tone:
"I need to confirm this, Mr. Wiltshire. You did take action only after you determined that all 12 of them were Bone Drinkers, right?"

"That's right." Li Nuo explained:
"Of these 12 people, 3 were detected by the agents' sensors, 6 were exposed after taking the Bone Drinker's authenticity potion, and the remaining 3 were exposed because they lost contact with their peers."

"What is the authenticity test?" Andrew asked curiously.

Li Nuo snapped his fingers at Mona, and the female agent guarding the corner of the carriage took out a glass bottle filled with white powder.

Li Nuo took the bottle and placed it in front of Andrew, making a gesture of invitation:
"This is the Bone Drinker's authenticity test. When the dosage reaches 10mg/10kg, its authenticity test effect will quickly become apparent. A normal person will not experience any external changes, but the Bone Drinker's host will show discomfort due to the rapid increase in blood pressure, such as bloodshot eyes, red ears, and significantly accelerated heartbeat and breathing rates."

"This invention is really great. Is it your masterpiece?" Andrew's eyes lit up and he picked up the glass jar and carefully observed the powder inside.

"Of course not." Li Nuo laughed, "This is the work of Father Collier Jersey. She is the owner of the Martian Magma City and a true master of the Mechanicus."

Praise Jersey's title and identity.

With this shield, Li Nuo felt much more relaxed and no longer had to bear the excessive halo of "genius".

Andrew seemed to understand something after hearing Jersey's name:
"As expected of Master Jersey. With her giving you advice, the level of public security in Epimate will definitely be guaranteed. Do you mind if I take this bottle of authenticity tester?"

"No, I don't mind. There are still many in the Royal Court. You can take as many as you want."

Andrew put the potion bottle into his pocket and smiled in praise:
"Thank you for the material support. I will keep a record of it. I seriously suspect that the three imperial worlds that Gennaro passed through were also infiltrated by the Bone Drinkers. I need a more efficient means to detect the enemy, such as your authenticity test potion."

"It is my honor to serve the empire. I wish your team a successful start in advance." Li Nuo has learned this routine and gave Andrew his blessing with a sincere smile.

This "business compliment" came to an end after entering the Royal Court area.

Andrew led the arbitration team to assist in the defense of the Royal Court area, while Li Nuo and Tido went to the office to handle official business.

Shatana sat firmly in her tent and did not ask Li Nuo to increase the security of the cabin.

From this point of view, the strength of this lady Astropath is probably not low, and she does not take the threat of illegal gamma-level psychics seriously at all.

Having said that, Li Nuo still sent a guard troop to garrison there in advance, and also introduced his personal astropath to Andrew to make sure the scene was well prepared.

After a while, the planetary defense force of the bottom nest sent a warning message, saying that the patrol team going to the treasury had lost contact, and the mechanical priest stationed in the treasury had also disappeared.

Lino passed the message to Andrew, who sent it to the Sister of Silence.

After a while, the Sisters of Silence arrived at the treasure house of the Bottom Nest and saw a pit with a depth of five meters and a diameter of about twenty meters.

The surface of the pit showed severe crystallization and carbonization, as if a huge fireball had exploded here.

But what was strange was that apart from this pit, there were no other traces at the scene, even the team of recruits and the mechanical priest were nowhere to be seen.

The five silent sisters gathered around the pit and conducted some deductions and discussions, and finally came to a reasonable conclusion:

The illegal gamma-class psyker exploded.

Yes, he exploded. Because he was very confident in his psychic power, he launched an extremely powerful psychic spell in the treasure house of the bottom nest.

While the spell was being cast, the squad of recruits and the Mechanical Priest put up some kind of resistance, causing a deadly psychic backlash.

Eventually, the recruit squad and the Mechanical Priest sacrificed their lives and forced the Gamma-class Psychic to self-destruct, forming a huge psychic fireball or electric ball with a temperature of over 20,000 degrees and a duration of one minute.

The surging wave of energy vaporized the people at the scene, leaving behind a huge crater.

This is how it happened.

The brave recruits and mechanical priests defended Epimet with their lives!

Whatever the Sisters of Silence say is what it is. They are professionals, how could they make mistakes?

After hearing this inference, Li Nuo applauded and immediately drafted a notice to publicly commend the new recruits and the mechanical priest.

The families of the five new recruits were promoted to live and work in the middle nest, and from then on they were freed from their status as people of the lower nest.

How to reward the sacrificed Mechanical Priest became a small problem.

Li Nuo checked the database and found that this mechanical priest had no parents in both physiological and legal terms. He was born in a breeding factory on Mars and was a product of artificial synthesis. He was truly fatherless and motherless.

After careful consideration, Li Nuo decided to send the letter of commendation and the bonus to the mentor of the mechanical priest.

In addition, Li Nuo plans to purchase mining equipment from other places.

He came up with an idea: he would buy it from the same place as the Imperial Fists.

The Imperial Fists are the Space Marine Legion that guards Terra, so they will certainly be very strict in selecting equipment suppliers.

After investigation, it was found that the mining equipment distributed by the Imperial Fists to the imperial worlds under its jurisdiction came from the industrial world of Piloraven in the Solar Star Region.

The price is more expensive than that of Meslatun, but it is a fine product selected by the Imperial Fist.

After some communication via astronomical language, Li Nuo readily placed the order and asked Pirolavin to ship the equipment directly to Granite 5.

A "farce" caused by the revenge of the Bone Drinkers came to an end.

Li Nuo had a premonition that this kind of accident would happen again in the future until the Bone Drinkers were completely wiped out.

After bidding farewell to the black ship, he began to deal with the security loopholes exposed by the accident.

First of all, the scanning intensity is still not enough.

The main force of the scans at present are the Governor's agents patrolling the airport and the armed guards of the airport.

Scanning ships one by one is too slow, too inefficient, and not enough of a deterrent.

Li Nuo invested heavily in building a ten-meter-high scanning tower, using a high-power Auger matrix to regularly scan the entire airport.

Every ship within 100 kilometers of the airport will be scanned by the scanning tower.

Combined with a dynamically updated security database, this level of scanning power will definitely detect the Bone Drinkers in the first place.

But Titus raised an objection:
Many ships were unwilling to be scanned, and even though the airport control tower stated that the scan was only for Bone Drinkers, these ships expressed strong opposition and protest.

Li Nuo didn't quite understand why this happened.

After Tido explained, Li Nuo understood.

The wind can come in, the rain can come in, but the king and the scanning signal cannot come in.

"Li Nuo, we can't scan every corner of their ships, and they can't use the Auger matrix to scan our hives. Especially the Royal Court area. Scanning the Royal Court area is tantamount to provocation."

Titus sat at the table and explained patiently:

"It is their business if there are Bone Drinkers on other ships. If a Bone Drinker does not leave the ship and enter the dock, we cannot take any coercive action against it because the ship it is on is not our territory.

"Similarly, scanning signals cannot enter other ships without authorization. The scanners of agents and harbor guards are low-powered and difficult to detect. But the scanning tower is different. Its signal is very strong and it is difficult to bypass the ship's Auger matrix. So, I suggest you try another way."

"Choose another way..." Li Nuo paced beside the table, thinking deeply.

Scanning is not the point. The real point is that Li Nuo is worried that the Bone Drinkers will do something desperate.

For example, driving a cargo ship into an air port, and after parking the ship, overloading the ship's engines to deliberately create a plasma explosion.

An explosion of this magnitude could easily destroy the airport and orbital tower, causing huge losses.

He would need to pay hundreds of millions of throne coins for this, while the Bone Drinkers' losses were just a few infected people and a randomly picked cargo ship.

It was precisely because of the fear of such a terrorist attack that Li Nuo thought of expanding the scanning signal to 100 kilometers around the airport and deeply scanning every ship.

However, what Tido said makes sense.

Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you. If you do not want others to use the Auger matrix to scan the royal court area, then do not use the scanning tower to scan other people's ships.

This principle of equivalence also applies to the human empire in the Warhammer world.

"Tido, do you have any good suggestions?" Li Nuo asked as he sat back at the table.

"My suggestion is that you share the security database with the visiting ships and let them scan themselves with their own Auger matrices. It takes at least half an hour from the time the ship leaves the warp to the time it enters the port. This half an hour is enough for us to transmit the security data related to the Bone Drinkers to them."

Titus raised her index finger and shook it:
"However, there is a disadvantage to doing this that cannot be ignored. If there are Bone Drinkers on board, our security data will be mastered by them. They will make adjustments accordingly to avoid our scans."

What Tido said makes sense. Sharing the security database is an idea, but the fear is that the database will fall into the hands of the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo and Tido invited the heads of the Hive Department to join in.

Everyone brainstormed together in the conference room and discussed for several hours, and finally came up with a relatively perfect solution.

The inspiration for this idea comes from the commander of the airport orbital tower.

This man's name is Hanrabi Wenger.

He was a man of about fifty years old, with half black and half white hair. He had contracted lung disease due to cosmic radiation in his early years, so he had to replace his respiratory system with an artificial one, and his vocal cords were turned into a sound array device.

"Lord Wilsey, I think we can start with supplies."

Wenger said through the throat sound array device:

"According to my experience, every ship will carry out two replenishment operations after docking, one is to discharge sewage, and the other is to replenish fresh water. The airport will charge a fee for this. Only after paying the fee first can the visiting ships carry out water replenishment. You have promoted a series of sewage pool monitoring measures in Xiachao, right? You may be able to use the same measures to monitor the sewage discharged by ships."

Ou Liwen, the head of the engineering department who was in charge of the monitoring project of the Xiachao sewage pool, nodded:
"I agree with Wenger's proposal, but there is a technical difficulty that needs to be overcome. The sewage pool we monitor in the Lower Nest is mainly used to hold domestic wastewater. The sewage of ships contains not only domestic wastewater, but also lubricating fluid for transmissions, coolant for ship engines, condensate from air circulation systems, etc. The molecular formulas of some of these chemical components overlap with some of the metabolites of bone drinkers, which may cause misjudgment."

Everyone nodded slightly in agreement.

Li Nuo sat in the main seat and asked:
"Wenger, when ships discharge sewage, do they separate the water?"

"No, sir. They will mix all the sewage together and discharge it, and it will be processed by the water purification plant at the airport."

Li Nuo asked again:

“Can we require ships to separate different types of sewage and then discharge them in different categories?”

Wenger pursed his lips and shook his head, squeezing out the wrinkles on his forehead:

"I'm afraid not, your Excellency. We have no right to ask them to do so."

Li Nuo thought for a moment:
“How much engine coolant do we collect from visiting ships each year?”

The so-called engine coolant refers to light water radioactive material containing a large amount of water.

Compared with general light water radioactive materials, the ship's engine coolant contains more water, which can account for more than 90% of the total mass.

Therefore, in many extreme situations, crew members can stay alive by drinking engine coolant.

Wenger pulled up the relevant records on his data board:

"Last year alone, we collected about half a million cubic meters of this contamination. The radioactive waste in it accounted for one-third of the total radioactive waste produced by the hive last year."

(End of this chapter)