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

Chapter 23 Understanding Stupidity

Transaction location.

Li Nuo put down the bag full of mushrooms and waited for a while.

Leia and her rat-skinned companion Da Zhuang arrived at the scene.

As usual, the two parties completed the transaction of ordinary mushrooms first, and let Da Zhuang leave with the mushrooms on his back.

After the rat-skinned man walked away, Laiya looked Li Nuo up and down, "Why do I feel like you have grown taller?"

"Yes, I am undergoing body modification and will be taller in the future." Li Nuo smiled, "How is the production of the illustrated guide going?"

Laya took out a diary from her inner pocket:

"Here, open it and take a look. I recorded information about fifteen kinds of living and non-living things. I know you like fungi, so I specially recorded the six most common fungi in the ruins. The fungus samples are in my bag."

"Thank you for your concern, Laiya." Li Nuo thought:
"I've been in some trouble lately and I need your help."

Laiya glanced at the bruises on Li Nuo's face and tapped her chin:
"Well, I see. Who beat you up like this? Lure him over here, and I'll bring some people to beat him up."

"That's not necessary. The help I need from you has nothing to do with the wound on my face. It was left over from training."

As Li Nuo spoke, he accidentally twitched the wound on his face and took a breath:
"Shh, that hurts. Leia, do you have any way to fight against the psionic energy?"

"Psychic power?" Leia frowned, "Did you provoke a psychic?"

Li Nuo made up an excuse and explained:

"You could say that. That guy can make people hallucinate. I want to find a way to counter his psychic power."

"No wonder you were beaten so badly. Did that man use illusions to confuse you first, and then took the opportunity to beat you up?"

It is obvious that Leia made up the process of Li Nuo's murder in her own mind.

Li Nuo was too lazy to elaborate, he just nodded and agreed with this statement.

Leia took out a glass tube the size of her little finger from her pocket:

"Try this, coldleaf tincture. Drink it when you're hallucinating, it should help you get rid of the hallucinations. I won't charge you for it, just consider it a gift, I have plenty."

Li Nuo wanted to accept it, but suddenly remembered what Robnos said when he injected the enhancer:

After the booster injection, you cannot drink water or eat food.

Robnos did not say what the consequences would be of forcing people to drink water or eat, but it is estimated that it would cause serious side effects.

If you can't even drink water, then drinking tinctures containing chemical ingredients is definitely not an option.

Li Nuo waved his hand:
"Laya, that guy's hallucination is very special. During the period of the hallucination, I can't drink water or eat, otherwise I will die on the spot."

Leia was stunned:
"It's really bizarre. I've been wandering around the ruins for so long, and this is the first time I've heard of this kind of psychic power."

Li Nuo spread his hands, looking helpless.

Leia put away the tincture and rubbed her brows lightly, "Then can you afford a psychic blocker?"

Without waiting for Li Nuo to answer, Laiya glanced at Li Nuo and gave the answer in advance:
"Well, it seems that you can't afford a psychic blocker like me. I guess only people in the upper nest can enjoy that thing. In this case, there is only one suggestion I can give you."

Leia raised her index finger and shook it:
"That is to temporarily turn yourself into an idiot so that you can't have hallucinations."

Huh? What the hell is turning yourself into an idiot? ... Li Nuo was stunned.

When Leia saw him like this, she knew that he couldn't understand the meaning of "idiot".

"Take a look at page 10 of the illustrated guide. It records a monster that can cause people to hallucinate."

Laiya helped Li Nuo look through the diary.

There are hand-drawn pictures on this page.

The picture depicts the interior scene of a rock passage with uneven rock walls covered with strange patterns.

If you look closely, the patterns are clearly human faces.

They opened their mouths wide and screamed silently, as if they were suffering in pain.

Below the picture it says:

"The Howling Passage. Anyone who enters will be affected by the psychic energy of the mind system. Horrible images will appear before their eyes, and they will hear painful howls. Those who cannot bear the hallucinations will be sucked into the rock wall and transformed into new human faces. "How to deal with it: Take drugs to make yourself lose the ability to hallucinate."

Laiya says:
"This passage is located on the only way between the ruins area and the bottom nest. People passing by usually take antipsychotic drugs before passing through it. If there are no drugs available, swallowing mushroom spores with similar effects is also possible. For example, this."

Leia flipped a few pages back and came to a section introducing a certain kind of fungus.

A mushroom with a white umbrella and a red cap appeared in the illustration. There were colorful spots on the cap, which looked a bit creepy.

Its introduction reads as follows:
"Stupid Mushroom, a psychic fungus that automatically sprays spores around.

"Its spores can freeze a person's thinking ability, causing them to fall into a state of brain freeze, like an idiot.

"These spores are not without benefits. Experiments have proven that when a person falls into a state of brain freeze, their brain will be protected by a psychic barrier, thus temporarily immune to the hallucinations caused by psychic energy."

Li Nuo seemed to be thinking:
"Interesting. Using spores with negative effects to counter the psionic energy that creates illusions has the effect of adding up two negatives to a positive. Is this the wisdom of the ruins?"

Leia smiled:
"It's not really the wisdom of the Ruins. This method of fighting fire with fire is mostly passed down by the mutant gangs and cultists in the Underhive. By the way, the fungus sample is in my bag."

Leia opened her backpack and took out a glass jar.

Li Nuo aimed at the mushrooms in the jar and threw out the analytical fungus.

【Name: Stupid Mushroom】

【Analysis results:】

[Strange predatory fungi can live a saprophytic life in the absence of prey animals. 】

[This mushroom has been contaminated by other bacteria and is poisonous. Its medicinal value lies in the psychic effect of its spores.]

【Bacteria ability: Brain rigor.】

[Unlocking requirement: 100 skill points. After the fungus is tamed by you, the unlocking requirement is reduced to 1 skill point. ]

【You only need to remove the bacteria contamination to complete the domestication. 】

Brain freeze?
Skills that stiffen the brain?
If we use this ability to deal with those fussy loaders, wouldn't we be able to turn them all into wooden stakes?

Li Nuo is full of expectations for the effect of brain freeze surgery.

If it actually works against hallucinations, that would be great.

"I'll go back and try it out later." Li Nuo took out a sample mushroom and handed it over:
"Put the mushrooms away first. Wait until I finish looking through the illustrated guide that I've collected this time, then you can go back. I'll be quick and won't waste your time."

Laiya received the mushroom and couldn't wait to take out one and eat it, smiling and saying:

"I'm not in a hurry. Just take your time. If you can't handle that psychic, lure him over here and I'll find someone to teach him a lesson. Just give me five kilograms of sample-grade mushrooms."

The road is really wild.

Li Nuo declined politely but awkwardly, while discussing the cigarette trade with Laiya, he read the illustrated book.

Premium grade Kram cigarettes were sold at a counter price of 200 ration cards per box, with a box containing ten cigarettes, which translated to 20 ration cards per cigarette.

All the cigarettes on the counter were divided up and were in short supply all year round. The common people had to go to private cigarette stalls and buy them at the price of twenty-five ration cards per cigarette.

The price for recycling cigarettes at these stalls is twenty-two ration cards per cigarette, there is no limit on the quantity recycled, and the transaction is done on the spot.

So, Li Nuo and Laiya agreed:

Starting from the next transaction, both parties will settle accounts with premium cigarettes, one cigarette for every two kilograms of mushrooms, and the remainder will be paid with ration cards.

In this way, the two of them got a satisfactory transaction plan.

Li Nuo went home with the fungus sample and ration card provided by Laya.

In order to complete the house purchase as soon as possible, he increased the amount of mushrooms to be traded next time to 80 kilograms.

After deducting the cost of cultivation, the number of ration cards he would have by the evening after tomorrow should be enough to pay a down payment for a house.

Of course, the most critical thing now is to fight the mortality rate of the enhancer.

Every day when he got the injection, Li Nuo was always nervous, fearing that his eyes would roll back and his life as a time traveler would end hastily.

(End of this chapter)