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

Chapter 203: The Internet is a journey that can be taken at any time
The conditions offered in the other 10 letters opened Li Nuo's eyes.

Some people asked for 1 million throne coins right away, some asked for one month's starch production to offset commissions and war losses, and some asked for equipment to synthesize starch.

Li Nuo could see that ever since the success of the first starch formula transaction, he had become a hot commodity in the eyes of all parties, and everyone wanted to use the threat of orcs to bite off a piece of meat from him.

To his relief, White Scar did not ask for too much.

The 915th Expedition Fleet is fighting in the Far East Star Region and currently has no extra troops to help eliminate the orcs.

The Khan promised that by the middle of next year, the 915th Expeditionary Fleet would rest and recuperate on the Forge World of Riza.

If the orc threat has not been eliminated by then, the Khan will send several companies to provide assistance, and the terms of the assistance will be discussed at that time.

Riza is located in the westernmost part of the Far East Star Region, more than 5000 light years away from the Solar Star Region and not far from Epimet.

With Brother Khan as the trump card, no matter how much trouble the Chaos Orcs cause, he will not be forced to move out the Palu fleet.

Brother Khan, benevolent and righteous!
Li Nuo sighed inwardly, put the 11 letters back into the mailbox and asked:

"What does the Imperial Army say? Can they spare troops to help us eliminate the orcs in the near future? I would rather give the priority purchase right of synthetic starch to the Military Affairs Department."

Titus took out a letter expressing refusal and handed it over:
"The Military Affairs Department's operational plan is scheduled until the end of next year. At least before the beginning of the year after next, we are unlikely to receive support from the Military Affairs Department."

"Does the empire have to fight so many wars recently?" Li Nuo muttered and took the letter to read it.

Affected by the Ullanor Orc Empire, the Human Empire is busy with wars, and the mortal troops and Space Marine Legions are operating at full capacity.

The name "Ullanor" is very misleading, making people mistakenly believe that the Orc Empire only occupies the Ullanor star region.

But in fact, it's not.

The Ullanor region is located east of the center of the Milky Way, and has an extremely large number of planets. (Note 1)

With the Ullanor star region as its center, the surrounding 1000 light years are the territory of the Ullanor Empire, which contains countless megalithic orc space fortresses.

When he first tried the Waaagh simulation, the orc planet that Li Nuo arrived at was located on the edge of the Ullanor Empire. There were not many megalithic space fortresses nearby, so he was able to lead the Ingot to escape.

If it were the heartland of the Ullanor Empire, let alone escaping, it would be a problem whether the Ingot could take off normally.

The sky there has long been filled with megalithic fortresses, and the gravitational environment is extremely chaotic.

More than 50% of the mortal troops are fighting against Ullanor, and the rest are fighting fires and suppressing rebellions throughout the Empire. This is the true picture of the Imperial Army at present.

"Tido, send 500 million tons of synthetic starch to the Ministry of Military Affairs." After reading the letter, Li Nuo allocated a small portion of his free share and donated it to the Ministry of Military Affairs free of charge.

The Military Affairs Department described the Imperial Army's situation so direly in the letter, it would be unreasonable for me not to express my opinion.

"Yeah, okay, I'll take note of it." Tiduo put away the letter and asked:
"Then should we consider Briso Lestotte's conditions? If we add a deadline and a purchase quantity limit to the conditions we offer him, he should accept it. For example, we limit him to purchasing 85 million tons of synthetic starch at 5% of the market average price within three years. In this way, he can make a profit from the price difference, and we don't have to be exploited by him for a long time. It's a compromise."

Since the new synthetic starch formula was put on sale, the price of synthetic starch has continued to increase, up more than 30% year-on-year.

Why does the price go up when the supply of starch increases?
The answer is simple.

This is due to rising raw material prices.

The empire's population will not drop drastically in a short period of time. Eating is a basic need, and so is the demand for synthetic starch.

The demand for synthetic starch remains stable, and it is generally predicted that the population will increase further in the future. The demand for synthetic starch is expected to increase significantly, prompting people to stock up on starch in advance, resulting in a steady increase in starch demand.

On the other hand, the production of synthetic starches has increased as formulations are converted into products, increasing the demand for promethium refining residues.

The market price of residue has tripled since the beginning of this year, driving up the price of synthetic starch.

Even so, starch producers using new formulas are still profitable, with net profit margins remaining above 25%.

Feedbacked into Epimate's accounts, the net profit from 5 million tons of starch last year was 2.5 million Throne Coins, and this year it is 4 million.

It is not impossible to allocate 4 million from the 0.6 million and give it to Bries Restot.

Of course, the specific profit amount is not calculated in this way.

After Bries Restot bought 85 million tons of synthetic starch at 1% of the market price, he did not have to sell it immediately. He could wait until the price of synthetic starch reached its peak before selling it, thus maximizing his profits.

If the governor of a remote area urgently needed starch to pay material taxes, it was not impossible for Brissot to sell 5 million tons of starch at double the price.

Li Nuo considered it for a moment and gave a response:

"Let's go with the compromise you proposed. Our bottom line is 5 million synthetic starches. As long as he doesn't break the bottom line, he can ask for whatever price he wants. In addition, we have to add one more requirement. I hope he can eliminate the orcs within three months after receiving the advance payment. If he can complete it on time, we can bear half of the loss of personnel and materials."

"Okay, I'll reply to him then."

Tido secretly thought about the contents of the reply, picked up the letter box and left.

Two days later, the Rogue Merchant envoy stationed in Terra sent a reply.

The treatment offered by Li Nuo was very generous, and the traveling merchants, who were known for their pursuit of profits, had no reason to refuse.

The envoy accepted the deal on behalf of his master and conveyed the contents of the contract to Brissot himself.

Nine days later, a letter in astronomical language written by Brissot himself arrived in Shatana's hands.

He announced that the fleet had already set sail and was expected to arrive at Epimet in the 18th.

He hopes to obtain supplies and repair services in the hive, and when everything is ready, he will go and destroy the orcs.

Tido was relieved by the arrival of the wandering trader, as the orc threat in the sub-star region was finally resolved.

Time passed quickly while waiting for the wandering trader.

On the night after four Terra days, Li Nuo excitedly logged into the "account" of the witch boy Sack and faced his first webchannel access device.

Shiny polished shell, heavy metal texture, simple design style, and solid materials.

In the eyes of orcs, red runs fast and purple can be invisible.

The main feature of "Slippery" is that it can move quickly forward and backward and disappear into thin air at any time, so it was painted in purple and red checkered paint by the technicians.

Apart from the paint job, this web access device is pretty cool.

Li Nuo paced around the machine, surrounded by the cheering tech geeks and technician boys.

"Master Wuji! Let's go and try this machine!"

"Wow! I've heard that black bean sprouts are very fast! Finally, we can race on the web track like them!"

Li Nuo suppressed his excitement, checked the machine, and then waved his hand:
"Boys, load the machine onto our scout ship."

"Ho ho ho~"

The young technicians swarmed over and worked together to lift the web access device.

The fart spirit was not as tall as the technician boy, so he could only hang on the machine and be carried by the technician boy. His feet could not reach the ground, so he kicked around in the air.

The group happily arrived at the underground shipyard and stopped in front of a unique ship.

This ship is very different from the existing Palu ships.

The existing Palu ships do not have the "growth potential".

After the battle, the spacecraft wreckage collected by the ship must be recycled in the ground workshop before it can be made into shipborne equipment.

The design concept of the scout ship is quite different from this, but it is somewhat similar to the Orc pirate ship.

Its external armor and various decks can be freely disassembled and assembled, allowing DIY in both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

Adding small workshops, building new supply containers or adding additional external armor are all easy.

The factory parameters of the reconnaissance ship are a total length of 0.8 kilometers, a width of approximately 0.4 kilometers, and a mass of 2 megatons. It requires a minimum of 200 well-trained crew members to set sail, and the maximum acceleration in the space environment is 10G.

Judging from the data alone, this ship is smaller than the frigate of the Human Empire.

After several rounds of growth in the future, its size could reach the level of a light cruiser.

Li Nuo led the technicians into the bridge, personally installed the network access device, and then debugged it.

After some operations, the web access device is started.

It connects with the Psionic Boy on the dot map, and the Psionic Boy consumes universal psionic materials to scan the webway nodes around the planet Palu.

A holographic screen popped up, showing a network node map within a 1-light-year radius.

When seeing this picture, Li Nuo's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up.

There are more than 1000 network nodes on the three-dimensional node diagram.

The closer you are to the outskirts of the Milky Way, the richer the nodes are and the healthier they are!
The Milky Way is really a shithole!

After getting away from this cesspool, even the webway nodes have become abundant and healthy!
Li Nuo rubbed his hands excitedly and cast a series of identification spells, checking the network nodes one by one.

First, there are several types of secure nodes.

[Name: Bridge of Stars-N55-00A01.]

[Description: N55 is a network hub city built by the Ancient Saints. You can reach this city through this node.]

[Name: Star Bridge-T63-01A18.] [Description: T63 is a webway transportation hub built by the Ancients. It has multiple webway entrances and exits that can quickly reach other corners of the Milky Way.]

【Name: Bridge of Stars-A10-NO.258. 】

[Description: A10 is a webway military fortress built by the ancient saints. ]

[Before entering this node, please make sure you have access rights, otherwise you may be attacked by the military fortress - provided that the fortress is not paralyzed. ]

【Name: Bridge of Stars-B54-NO.113. 】

[Description: B54 is a subspace energy single crystal production base built by the Ancient Saints. ]

[This base is fully protected by the Webway military fortress. Before entering, you must ensure that you have access rights. ]

Single crystal production base!
There is definitely something you want in here!
Li Nuo's eyes lit up and he looked at the fungal gene simulation.

[Current simulation project: Experiment on the atavism of space crystal fungi. ]

[Simulation duration: 54 real Terra days.]

【Cumulative number of experiments: 1.6 times.】

[Best experimental record: Atavism degree 70.1%. ]

Over the past 54 days, the fungal genetic simulation has conducted 1.6 experiments.

In the most successful experiment, the degree of reversion of the Archaean crystal fungi reached 70.1%, with an increase of 0.1%, and the efficiency of producing single crystals remained almost unchanged.

In the ancient saint's single crystal production base, there might be ancient crystal fungi with a degree of atavism of more than 80%!
Just thinking about it makes people look forward to it!
Li Nuo calmed his mind and checked the network nodes marked as "unsafe".

【Name: Bridge of Stars-P11-$#@!@. 】

【illustrate:】

[P11 is a knowledge base node created by the Ancient Saints, carrying the scientific and technological information of the Ancient Saints. ]

[The node has been destroyed, and a subspace storm is raging inside. Visitors may be trapped in the subspace storm, or be drawn into a chaotic timeline. ]

It is common knowledge that the Webway is built in the Warp.

After its outer wall was destroyed, the energy of the subspace poured in, causing serious damage to the ecology within the Webway.

Li Nuo is temporarily unable to resist the subspace storm and stays away from nodes like P11.

[Name: Trace of the Eldar-V32-66T66. ]

【illustrate:】

[After the ancient saints' single crystal production base became unusable, the Eldar hunted powerful subspace creatures to obtain a substitute for single crystals - spirit bones. ]

[They will use psychic energy to drag the bodies of sub-space creatures into the webway, slaughter, divide and refine them, and obtain spirit bones from the opponent's psychic organs. ]

[V32 is such a warp creature cemetery built by the Eldar. ]

【It has been taken over by the daemons of Slaanesh.】

[Destroy the Slaanesh demons in it, remove the chaos corruption, and you can restart this cemetery. ]

What the hell!

A cemetery of subspace creatures that produces spirit bones!

If the atavism experiment of the ancient crystal fungus doesn't work, he might be able to mass-produce spirit bones in the subspace biological cemetery, and then use the ancient crystal fungus to crystallize the spirit bones into single crystals.

This method of obtaining single crystals is much faster than absorbing energy from the subspace.

Li Nuo's ideas were opened up and he had more plans for the Netdao project.

He picked up the Noisy Box and called the leader of the Blood Crow Clan, Kron.

Krohn was directing the loading of supplies on the lower deck of the scout ship.

Hearing the witch's call, he rushed to the bridge as quickly as possible and saw the purple and red webway access device at a glance.

"Wow~ Master Wuji, are we going to start exploring the webway? The crew and supplies are almost ready, and we can set off at any time."

Krohn wore red gloves and his eyes sparkled with delight.

His Blood Crow Clan has 20,000 official members and is skilled in reconnaissance, infiltration and espionage.

After training, 1000 elite soldiers emerged.

They have mastered the essentials of piloting reconnaissance ships, are able to leave the planet Palu for long periods of time to explore the webway on their own, and can use waste to strengthen and expand reconnaissance ships.

Li Nuo divided these 1000 elite soldiers into various units in the form of squadrons and teams. The squadron leader and Crohn himself both had simulation archives.

In this way, the entire reconnaissance team is under his control.

"Yes, Kron, Brother Gomao told me that it's time for us to explore the webway. Come here and let me teach you how to identify the webway nodes."

Li Nuo shared the identification results with Crohn, helping him to identify nodes of different colors.

At the end of the conversation, Li Nuo pointed his staff at one of the nodes.

"The first place we will explore is here. Star Bridge-T63-01A18. This is a Webway transportation hub. We need to go in and find Webway nodes to other corners of the galaxy to prepare for future battles."

"Okay, big guy." Krohn patted his chest.

"Go get ready, we'll set off in half an hour."

"Yeah!" Kron took the order and strode away.

"Master Wuji, I want to go to the webpath to play, too."

"Me too, me too!"

The fart spirits and boys around started to make a fuss, clamoring to follow the reconnaissance ship into the webway.

Li Nuo did not refuse. Of course, the elite special forces boys had to be deployed together with the elite fart spirits and the elite technician boys.

Otherwise, relying solely on the mechanical knowledge of the special forces guys, they would be at a loss once they encountered some difficult repair problems.

"You, you, you, and you...anyone I call upon, go get ready and set off with this ship later."

"wakaka!"

"Great! I can go racing on the webtrack!"

The fart spirit and the kid who were named ran away happily.

Those who were not named were shouting loudly, so Li Nuo hit them on the head with his staff, and the greenskins finally quieted down.

After a while, everything was ready.

Li Nuo waved his staff and cast a witchcraft spell on the crew of the reconnaissance ship, keeping their morale at the highest level.

He left the ship as a witch priest, watched the reconnaissance ship rise to a low-ground orbit, then read the archive of the Blood Crow boss - Kron, and personally commanded his first Webway exploration operation.

The reconnaissance ship accelerated in the atmospheric environment, and the smooth lines of the ship set off a tassel cyclone.

It rushed out of the high-altitude clouds like a giant whale and plunged into the vast void.

After an hour of directional cruising, the reconnaissance ship successfully arrived near the designated webway node.

The name of this node is Star Bridge-T63-01A18, which leads to the T33 Webway Transportation Hub Space.

A spontaneous online travel is about to begin.

"Attention, all teams. A node's security does not mean that the network space corresponding to the node is also safe. There may be bad stuff in there. We must not let our guard down."

Li Nuo activated the Noise Box and broadcast to the entire ship:

"Blue Fire Furnace Team, increase the furnace power and keep it above 85% accuracy. Helmsman Boy, prepare for tactical maneuvers. When the bombardment boy fires, don't hit the webway nodes. Now, activate the webway access device and calibrate the node information."

The Psychic Boy activated the access device and responded loudly:
"Boss, node calibration completed, confirmed to be Star Bridge-T63-01A18!"

Li Nuo's heart was pounding as he prayed silently that there were no hostile creatures like demons in the Webway transportation hub.

He took a deep breath, tried to calm his inner excitement, and said slowly:

"Activate the node, let's rush in."

The beam of light started from the bow, shot into the void, and collided with the brass-colored wall that suddenly appeared.

The dark gate of the webway was opened wide.

The scout ship accelerated forward.

At the moment when the stern disappeared into the gate, the outer wall of the webway and the gate disappeared without a trace. The void was quiet and distant, and the planet Palu was peaceful.

(End of this chapter)