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

Chapter 195: I Have My Own Alien to Take the Blame
The Word Bearers and the Bone Drinkers are in a superior-subordinate relationship, but they are not of the same mind.

The appearance of the Chaos Orcs in the Epimet sub-sector was arranged by the Word Bearers' Chief Priest Erebus.

This bastard who called himself "The Hand of Fate" and was also known as the "Apostle of Darkness" planned a series of vicious events including Lorgar's surrender, the corruption of Horus, and the Istvaan Massacre.

If he appeared in front of him, Li Nuo guaranteed that he would kill him in the second without hesitation, and even the chaotic enemy would be unable to be stopped.

For no other reason than to vent his anger.

There was no way. After learning the whole story of Horus Heresy, Cloud Hammer was very angry and needed to use Erebus's head to vent his anger.

The device used by the Bone Drinkers and the Grim Seekers to communicate is a communicator suitable for the local system.

This means that the Grim Quest Chapter is currently within the galaxy.

Li Nuo activated the subspace walking, came to the communicator, and wrote down the communication parameters of the device.

The communication radius is 2500 million kilometers, the communication delay is 10 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds, the communication protocol is "Okaliu Dios-T11-Pufevadi", the equipment is produced in "Mars", and the production number is "TXX-12"...

Don't underestimate these parameters. If used well, they can help you catch more Bone Drinkers and Word Bearers and lock down the traces of the Grim Quest Chapter.

Li Nuo wandered around in the treasury and did not find the potion that could corrupt orcs, but he found a filing cabinet.

On the desk near the filing cabinet, there are some scientific and technological materials and a thinker for calculating and storing data.

Li Nuo also recorded the parameters of these things and quickly read the contents of the information.

This sight made his heart skip a beat.

The Bone Drinkers are actually researching a way to infect orcs 100% of the time!

When Li Nuo was researching the first and second generation vaccines, he had conducted experiments on the orcs on the planet Palu.

The results of the experiment showed that even without vaccination, the chance of an orc being infected by a bone drinker is less than one in a million.
This is mainly caused by the orcs' gene fragments being too stable, making it almost impossible for them to be reorganized and fused by the Bone Drinkers.

Almost impossible is not absolutely impossible.

Through a large number of fungal gene simulations, Li Nuo discovered that the gene fragment numbered "Frag077117" is the key to the orcs being infected by the Bone Drinkers.

When no changes are made to this fragment, the infection rate is less than one in a million.

If gene editing is performed, the infection rate will fluctuate randomly between 0.1% and 99%.

Fungal genes simulate the RNA vaccines currently under research, which can reduce the infection rate to 0% and lock it down.

Li Nuo watched patiently, trying to determine the current progress of the Bone Drinker's research.

Fortunately, fortunately, it is a blessing for the unfortunate ones.

The Bone Drinkers have very limited highly educated and intelligent people at their disposal, and their research progress is relatively slow. They have only advanced to fragment Frag000052, and there is still a long way to go to reach Frag077117.

Without more help and scientific research equipment, their research speed will remain at its current level, and it is estimated that it will take 5 years to discover Frag077117.

Having said that, Li Nuo was still a little worried.

The Bone Drinkers' mental network is like a distributed computer.

They can divide the orcs' genetic samples into dozens of segments, each segment will be managed by a scientific research team, and dozens of scientific research teams will work in parallel.

If this is true, perhaps within a year, the Bone Drinkers will be able to discover the secret of Frag1.

"Things are a little tricky."

Li Nuo frowned slightly and stared at the researchers' every move.

He was thinking about how to deal with the Chaos Orcs and Bone Drinker scientists.

Using the fungus ability and the headshot technique to kill all of them instantly can indeed solve the problem immediately, but it will also leave many hidden dangers.

Researchers will use mental networks to transmit images of their own death.

The Bone Drinkers and Word Bearers will be alerted by this.

They might set some kind of trap to lure the murderer into the trap, which would undoubtedly be disadvantageous to him. Li Nuo first rejected the plan of taking action immediately.

Secondly, personally leading the orcs to attack the planet, or cultivating one's own forces on the planet, is not a perfect solution and has serious flaws.

Li Nuo could not tolerate the possibility that his orcs would be corrupted by Chaos.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Nuo came up with a relatively perfect plan, which was to first find an opportunity to blow up the base set up by the Bone Drinkers in the subspace, and then follow the information in the base to find other strongholds and blow them all up.

Starting from the root, eradicating the bone drinkers will solve 99% of the problems.

"I have to keep an eye on this group of researchers. They don't have much consumables and need to be replenished regularly. There may be ships docked in the near-surface orbit of this planet. These ships will provide me with clues and guide me to find the subspace base of the Bone Drinkers..."

Li Nuo secretly planned in his mind and started a relatively long surveillance operation.

Two days were spent under surveillance.

Li Nuo finally waited for the day when the consumables were used up.

The scientific researchers in the treasury stopped working and headed to the ground under the escort of the Chaos Orcs and a group of boys.

Li Nuo arrived at the surface earlier than them and was looking up at the ships in orbit near the ground.

Due to the long distance, he could only use identification to confirm the basic information of the ship.

[Name: Sword-class frigate with unknown number]

[Description: A partially modified Sword-class frigate, with enhanced cargo capacity and weakened firepower. It can jump into the subspace at a faster speed while being fully loaded.]

Use Sword-class frigates to transport experimental supplies?

Really rich and powerful.

Li Nuo narrowed his eyes and stared at the black spot in the sky.

A cargo shuttle descended from the sky and landed in a clearing in the woods with the roar of its engines.

Li Nuo thought for a moment, and taking advantage of the opportunity when the Bone Drinkers were moving the goods, he crouched down and got into the cargo shuttle, then rose into the sky with them.

As the altitude increased, the ships in near-ground orbit became clearer and the paint on the armor plates came into view.

"Urgadilla-Logistics Formation-T13. Where is Urgadilla? Such a strange name, it shouldn't be a star region in the Solar Star Region."

Li Nuo remembered the name "Ugadilla".

After following the shuttle aboard, the ship quickly jumped into the warp.

This was the fastest, smoothest and coolest experience that Li Nuo had ever had in all the subspace navigation.

He had never felt warp navigation so smooth.

Daily flights are often bumpy, as if you were on an airplane encountering turbulence.

But this time, the frigate shook slightly in the physical universe, but after entering the subspace, it became quiet and peaceful without any ripples.

What is even more exaggerated is the sailing speed.

From jumping into the subspace to jumping out, the subjectively felt length of time was only 7 hours.

In other words, during these 7 hours, the frigate went directly from the border between the Solar Star Region and the Hazy Star Region to the border between the Taiping Star Region and the Solar Star Region. The spatial span of the physical universe reached 7000 light years!

It can travel 7 light years in 7000 Terra hours, and the navigation efficiency is off the charts.

This is one of the benefits of mixing.

Following the Chaos Demons, the Warp is so gentle and the navigation is smooth.

The frigate entered cruise mode, the Geller force field was turned off, the baffles covering the portholes were retracted, and a strange planet came into view.

This is a hive world. Looking down at the surface from a low-ground orbit, Li Nuo saw at least three hive cities.

The frigate docked at the largest hive.

The crew members were chatting and laughing as they moved supplies, and it was completely invisible that they had ever encountered orcs before.

Li Nuo wrote down the name of the nest city and did not get off the boat.

He found that most of the shipped materials were consumables needed for gene editing experiments, and suspected that the ship would also transport supplies to other experimental bases.

After waiting for half an hour, the frigate set sail again.

This time the subspace voyage was also extremely fast, and it took only one hour to return to the physical universe.

This time the destination is another green planet that has not been developed by the Empire, with dense vegetation, sufficient water, an atmosphere and appropriate gravity, and only one star around it.

Scientific researchers who looked like Kochis appeared on the surface of the planet, and they were followed by a group of orcs who had also surrendered.

Li Nuo wrote down the space coordinates on the navigation computer and recorded the planet named "Oslak-NE-33".

The frigate set sail for the return trip, returned to the hive world, loaded another batch of supplies, and headed to the next location.

After spending a night on logistics and subspace navigation, Li Nuo discovered two primitive planets with orcs. Due to time constraints, he did not go to the ground to explore the details of each planet.

Judging from the intelligence we have obtained, Erebus is playing a big game.

The Word Bearers' 300-plus worlds are in the Pacific Segmental Region, where they are madly producing troops day and night, but they are still not satisfied and are trying to use the parasitic spores of the Bone Drinkers to control the Orcs and produce more "soldiers".

For this reason, Li Nuo only wants to say one thing:
Damn Erebus, I'm going to blow up all these planets with a huge blast!
The orcs are my little brothers, and you, a bastard like you, Erebus, dare to get involved!

It’s up to you whether I blow you up or not!

Li Nuo was furious and went online every night to track the frigate.

Every time he passed by a planet or an imperial world, he would spread the special warfare spores he made himself.

First plant orc mushrooms, then plant explosive "mushrooms" like the shocking bang bang, use the orc mushrooms to drive the explosive "mushrooms" and let the Word Bearers know what a fucking surprise is!
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At the same time, Li Nuo was growing mushrooms.

The home planet of the Word Bearers is Kochis, and their capital is Valadesh.

Moonlight lilies bloomed along the streets, and on the terrace of the spire temple, Erebus, dressed in a white priest robe, bathed in the light of the morning sun, preached loudly to the crowd on the street.

"Two hundred years ago, our revered Aurelion started a holy war here and ignited the world. He dreamed of the coming of the gods. He had visions and was in a trance. Nightmares disturbed him night after night. He often woke up at dawn and found himself bleeding from all seven orifices, with the faces of the gods imprinted in his mind.

"Aurellion waged a holy war here in our father's name. Yet, when he finally descended from the sky and saw the seas of blood and rivers of tears we shed for him, he cared little. He rejected the scriptures and teachings we spent years studying, the meaning we gave to our lives.

“Although it is painful, we all know that He is the only one and He is where our faith lies.

“He said that natural disasters are trials, man-made disasters are sin-purification, plagues are purification, and despair is the path to salvation. Do not be afraid of the suffering that destroys the body, because He brings liberation to the soul.

“Therefore, wherever He sees, there will be natural disasters, man-made disasters, plagues, despair…”

The two sentences in the "Sacred Words" were swapped in order by Erebus, and the meaning was very different, but the audience on the street didn't care.

For them, what the shepherd said was scripture.

"Dang~dang~dang~"

The bell tower rang seven times in succession, marking the end of the sermon.

People put their hands together, paid high respect to the preacher, and then turned around and left to start their day's work.

Erebas looked down at the crowd below, his eyes flickered slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

He stepped into the corridor and was met head-on by the chief astropath of the 1301st Expedition Fleet.

"Is there any important news?" Erebus rolled up his sleeves, washed his hands in the ivory sculpture basin, and took a towel from the waiter to wipe his face and neck.

The Astropath was more than a meter shorter than Erebus, so he could only tilt his head back to speak:

"Sir, a combat order has been received from Terra. Expedition Fleet No. 1301 must reach the Onyet system in the Midrak Expanse within two Terran months and build a fortress world there."

Erebas' face was covered by a towel. His stern expression was slightly moved, showing a hint of surprise, but it was well concealed by the towel.

He put down the towel with a calm expression and took the letter from the Astropath:
"I see. I will discuss this with Aurelion."

The Astropath bowed and walked away backwards.

Erebus opened the envelope and checked the astropathic communication code and encrypted sentences, confirming that the letter was indeed from Terra and that the content was consistent with what the astropath had dictated.

This caused a hint of gloom to appear in his eyes.

He came to the scriptorium at the top of the spire, knocked on the door, and entered after receiving Lorca's response.

"Aurellion, the Hook has failed. The lion did not kill his own cubs."

Luo Jia shook his head after hearing this:
"It doesn't matter. This is just a small plan based on scattered prophecies. Success is naturally gratifying, and failure is also natural. As long as our main plan remains unchanged, it's fine."

Erebus put the letter on the table, pushed it to Lorgar with his fingertips, and said in a deep voice:
"In fact, there have been some changes to our main plan. This is an order from Terra. According to the combat instructions, the 1301st Expedition Fleet is to station in the Ounie star system and build a fortress world. In our plan, we were supposed to go to the Corridor of Pain within two months."

The Word Bearers have several fleets, of which the 47th and 1301st are the most important.

The ease on Luo Jia's face disappeared and his expression became solemn.

The letter was signed by Malcador, the chief of the wartime council, indicating that the combat orders came from the Imperial Chancellor rather than the Emperor.

"This damn old..."

"Shhh."

Erebus raised his index finger to his mouth and waved his other hand nervously to interrupt Lorgar's complaints.

Luo Jia held back the rest of his words, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down:
"Write a statement to the Wartime Council and replace Expedition 1301 with Expedition 3305. The reason is that Expedition 1301 is suppressing a rebellion in the Pacific Sector. The ten companies of Expedition 3305 can also complete combat orders."

Eribas thought for a moment and nodded:
"Well, I think Malcador will accept our application. I have one more thing to tell you. Before receiving this letter, I didn't know that the 'Hook of Suicide' had failed. The leader of the Bone Drinkers, Morka, did not mention this to me."

"Huh?" Luo Jia was a little annoyed.

Erebus fanned the flames:

"This is a betrayal to some extent, don't you think? We were ordered to prepare an action plan and have the right to be the first to know about changes in the plan, but Mocha did not cooperate with us. I think we must respond and punish Mocha to prevent it from making more outrageous moves."

Luo Jia stood up, put his fingertips on the edge of the table, and replied thoughtfully:

"You're right. I don't want to see the same situation again. Bring me the communicator. I want to talk to Moka directly."

Erebus left the scriptorium and when he came back he had a small communication device in his hand, which looked like an ordinary walkie-talkie.

In fact, this communicator does not transmit any communication signals.

It contains a Bone Drinker's spore, as well as a matching sound unit and pickup unit, which allow the Bone Drinker to communicate with Lorgar across the air.

"I am Lorgar Aurelion, reporting your situation, Morka."

Mocha is the leader of the Bone Drinkers chosen by the God of Wisdom. His predecessor was Black Scythe, the head of the Cold Trade Group.

Black Scythe advocates launching a large-scale infection to transform a large number of important officials and ordinary people into Bone Drinkers.

Mocha's strategy is quite different.

He prefers to infiltrate the Imperial middle echelons, converting key personnel such as company commanders, supervisors, factory owners, senior managers, and ship's fire control team leaders into Bone Drinkers.

But this does not mean that he gave up the middle and senior levels of the empire.

Targeting wandering merchants and governors of all levels, Mocha used coercion and inducement to force them to regularly offer sacrifices of high education and high intelligence.

For example, Gennaro Meslaton of the Meslaton family was the first sacrifice pushed to Mocha by his family.

Mocha has a trump card.

The Bone Drinker base he built was hidden in the Warp and located in a place where the light of the Astronomican could not reach, which made him invincible when facing the Human Empire.

Lorca's opinion of this man can be summed up in two words:

Cunning and insidious.

Considering that Mocha is a loyal supporter of the God of Wisdom, it would be more appropriate to describe this guy as wise and meticulous.

"Mocha?" Luo Jia waited for more than ten seconds and received no response, so he asked again.

Ten more seconds passed, and just when Luo Jia was about to get impatient, there was finally a response from the communicator.

"Dear Prophet, I'm sorry I'm late, what can I do for you?"

The speaking voice is synthesized by a sound array device, so it is impossible to distinguish between men and women. The tone is also very smooth, and there is no discernible emotional ups and downs.

"Why didn't you report the situation of the 'Suicide Hook'?" Luo Jia went straight to the point and started to ask.

Mocha was silent for a few seconds:

".Prophet, this is indeed my fault. I encountered an unexpected situation. You may not know that a strange psyker has infiltrated the Broken Claw Order. It was he who thwarted our plan. I am investigating the arrival of this psyker so that I can respond in time when you ask."

Luo Jia accepted Moka's words, slowed down his tone and asked:
"Tell me, how is your investigation going? How did this psychic disrupt the plan? What is his origin?"

"Prophet, do you know the little robed man on Caliban?"

Luo Jia looked puzzled.

Erebus interjected:
"I've heard the legend of those little creatures."

Lorgar looked at his chief priest.

Erebus explained:
"It is said that in the forests of Caliban, there are several unknown monsters, or aliens, lurking. The so-called little man in robes is one of them. That's all I know."

"Yes, Lord Erebus is right." Mocha paused:

"My allies on Caliban revealed to me that the inner circle of the Dark Angels highly value the robed men, and even regard them as their most reliable allies. These robed men are suspected to have very strong psychic talents. I suspect that the psyker who secretly assisted the Broken Claw Order team is a robed man. The official name of this kind of creature is 'Dark Watcher'."

(End of this chapter)