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

Chapter 230 The End of Cole Fallon

"Hallucination? Ha!"

Li Nuo chuckled softly, her fingers gently rubbing together.

The lid of the amniotic fluid tank was lifted off by an air hand.

Cole Fallon's head was lifted out by the hand of air and moved close to the four demon corpses on the ground, allowing him to feel the despair in their eyes, the stench of their bodies, and their miserable deaths up close.

"Impossible...this is impossible..."

Cole Fallon muttered to himself as if he had lost his mind, his eyes silent, his faith beginning to crumble.

Li Nuo put its head back into the amniotic fluid container.

Every few hours thereafter, the green-skinned old man, dressed as a cloaked figure, would bring four demons to judge Cole Fallon, periodically tormenting his nerves.

The mountain built from the corpses of demons gradually crushed its faith, cognition, worldview, and reason.

Cole Fallon went from initial madness to fear, confusion, and distress, eventually becoming numb.

The worship of demons and the supreme god did not bring it any hope of survival.

Whenever the demon leader was put on trial, Cole Fallon would shout prayers or hurl curses.

But it was all in vain; the demon died anyway, and Cole Fallon remained trapped in the jar.

It desperately longed for the gods of the highest heavens to hear its call and rescue it from this dark and hopeless place.

The miracle it had hoped for did not come, as if the gods had completely abandoned it.

Isolated, helpless and hopeless.

Driven by his survival instinct, Cole Fallon compromised with the mysterious man in black, even at the cost of abandoning his former noble status and pride, and groveled in the amniotic fluid tank.

"This... sir"

Cole Fallon spoke with difficulty, trying to appear humble:
"I am willing to submit to you, and I will do whatever you say."

"Submit? You've misunderstood, Cole Fallon. I have no intention of gaining your loyalty."

"So what are you doing...?"

"I was just venting my anger, and I've vented most of it now." Li Nuo said calmly, as if he were talking about something trivial.

"Do you see those four demon leaders in front of you? After they die, it will be your turn. Don't worry, after you die, I will also capture Loka and Eribas for judgment. The three of you will not return to the embrace of the so-called Chaos Gods. You will die silently like chickens and wild dogs."

Li Nuo waved his hand.

Eight orc guards, each over four meters tall, escorted the four demon leaders to a nearby location.

With a flash of light, Gauss's blade struck, and in a swift motion, four ugly and grotesque heads rolled to the ground.

The headless corpse of the demon leader was carelessly tossed onto the pile of corpses, like worthless trash.

The amniotic fluid jar was opened by the hand of air, and the head inside floated in the air, with the gleaming green Gaussian blade raised high.

Cole Fallon was terrified and hurriedly cried out in pain and pleading:
"My lord! My lord! I beg for your mercy and compassion! I will tell you everything I know! The Chaos Gods commanded us... no! It was Chaos shit who bewitched me, Aurelion, and Erebas! It's all Chaos shit's fault! We were just careless!"

The orc boy raised his Gauss Heavy Axe; with just one command from Lino, Cole Fallon's lowly life would come to an end.

Li Nuo asked calmly:
"How did Chaos bewitch you? Let's start from after the destruction of the Perfect City."

In the normal Warhammer lore, after the destruction of the City of Perfection, Logar went through a period of depression for more than half a year before, persuaded by Erebas and Cole Fallon, he went to the vicinity of the Eye of Terror to search for traces of the gods.

This journey lasted for nearly a year, and ended with the three leaders of the Word Bearers surrendering to the Chaos, and several companies becoming the Enchanted Children.

However, in the Warhammer world where Lino lived, the three giants joined the fray too quickly. Almost as soon as the City of Perfection was destroyed, the three of them went to the Eye of Terror.

It's obvious without much thought that there's something fishy going on here, and it could very well lead one to discover the truth behind the abnormal timeline, which is why Li Nuo asked this question.

"After the perfect city was destroyed...after it was destroyed..."

After several days of shock, Cole Fallon was already incoherent.

It kept repeating the same words, gradually regaining its memory:

“I… I remember now! After the destruction of the City of Perfection, we returned to Kirkith to regroup. Aurelion remained secluded, and Eribus and I were helpless to do anything about it, until one day…”

Cole Fallon's pupils contracted, his expression turned to fear, and his voice trembled uncontrollably:
“Until one day, an irresistible psychic power enveloped Aurelion's writing room, and Eribus and I were both present. The three of us were unable to move and could only endure the whispered murmurs. I don't know how to describe that voice—cold, merciless, devoid of any emotion. It told us that if we wanted to see the true gods, we should go to the ‘Great Eye’ as soon as possible, where we would obtain everything we desired…”

Li Nuo stood with his hands behind his back, pondering as he said:

"You mean, that voice was a 'male' voice?"

"Yes, sir, yes, I am 100% certain that the speaker used a male voice, and that he was speaking High Gothic."

Li Nuo glanced at the orc boy beside him.

The other person was holding a device that was connected to the back of Cole Fallon's head.

This is a lie detector that determines whether Cole Fallon was telling the truth by directly monitoring changes in brainwaves.

The orc boy nodded slightly to Li Nuo, indicating that Cole Fallon had told the truth and was not lying.

"Do you know who controlled you with psychic powers that day?"

"We don't know, sir. We also want to know the answer."

Have you found any clues?

“Sir, there are very few clues. We have checked the psionic monitoring devices, the Auger Matrix, and various scanners, but to our surprise, they did not record that mighty psionic power.”

Li Nuo pondered for a moment and asked:
Why do you feel that spiritual power is immense? Is it simply because you cannot resist it? Or is it that it has exerted some kind of psychological influence on you?

“I think it’s both,” Cole Fallon said respectfully.

"When that power acted on the three of us, we were inexplicably filled with intense worship, and we were instantly subdued by him. No matter what he said or did, we felt that he was right, and we would obey his every command, just as if he... he was a true god."

Cole Fallon glanced timidly at the cloaked figure before finishing his last sentence, fearing that the other party would suddenly attack after hearing the word "god".

Thankfully, the cloaked man probably felt that he, as the company commander of the Word Bearers, was still useful and did not show any murderous intent.

"Anything else? What else can you tell me?" Li Nuo asked.

"I know a lot more! Like my Cruel Quest Chapter, my Orc Corruption Project..."

Cole Fallon couldn't wait to reveal all the information he knew, and dared not delay.

The Brutal Seeking Chapter was the Space Marine force aboard the Lunar-class cruisers. Currently, apart from Cole Fallon, all other members of the chapter have been reduced to cosmic dust.

The warband carried a psionic potion that could corrupt orcs, the main ingredient of which was a purified concentrate of ghost mushrooms.

By administering a potion to orcs and combining it with a psionic ritual, one can forcibly instill in them the concepts of "life and death," making them realize that "life is only once," and forcing them to accept the corruption of chaos in order to "survive."

Cole Fallon also provided a list of orc forces corrupted by the Cruel Quest Chapter, including the Chaos Orcs from Apimatt DE.

Li Nuo carefully put the list away and asked:
“Very good, Cole Fallon, you made the right decision.”

“My lord, it is the greatest honor of my life to serve someone like you. Those scum who call themselves supreme gods are utterly insignificant…”

"call--"

A whoosh of wind swept past as Gauss's heavy axe slammed down. "Thud!"

Cole Fallon's head exploded, splattering blood and debris across the ground.

Li Nuo lifted his hood, revealing his space-age appearance.

The tall figure beside him was also revealed; it was the Beast, and the other orcs were the guards of the Space Beast Clan.

This is deep within the network outpost of the Palu warlords.

Next to the outpost is the Webpath Graveyard, teeming with demons, where countless demon troops reside, with a dozen or so commanders "refreshing" every day.

Originally, the demon leader was supposed to be killed by the Palu Expedition.

After Cole Fallon arrived, Lino deliberately ordered the beasts to capture the demon leader alive and escort them to Cole Fallon for a merciless trial.

This process lasted for about three days, during which a total of eighty demon leaders were tried. Cole Fallon finally couldn't take it anymore and voluntarily confessed the information.

With the intelligence in hand, our adoptive father of Loka, the company commander of the Word Bearers, is naturally useless.

One swing of the axe, and it's done for.

As for why truth serum isn't used...

It wasn't that Li Nuo didn't want to use it, but rather that after Cole Fallon became demonized, he became completely immune to Truth Potion.

"Beast, clean this place up."

"hold head high."

Li Nuo took the data tablet containing the intelligence and left the interrogation room, going to the next room.

This is a temporary, multi-functional laboratory.

Cole Fallon's head is submerged in amniotic fluid, while its limbs and torso are being dissected and studied to unravel the mystery of the "Blessed Son."

At the same time, fungal gene simulation was performed concurrently to recreate Cole Fallon's gene sample as much as possible and explore the various effects of chaotic corruption on gene fragments.

After three days of intensive research, many mysteries have come to light.

First, let's discuss the principles and mechanisms of the "blessed son".

Simply put, it's similar to fungal infections and parasites.

However, the demons that parasitize the host's body need to absorb both physical and spiritual nutrients.

Physical nutrition includes carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, some metallic elements, and some subspace energy.

Mental nutrition refers to the host's emotional fluctuations.

This fluctuation will be carried on warp energy and absorbed by the demon along with it.

Since the parasitic mechanism of demons is similar to that of fungal infections, is there any way to prevent it beforehand and intervene during the process?

Yes, brother, yes.

The first approach is to have the same psionic field as Lee Ge, completely isolating the chaos from the outside.

The second approach is to administer a vaccine.

It is currently uncertain which vaccine is suitable to combat the demon.

The urgent task remains to conduct atavism experiments using fungal gene simulation to increase the degree of atavism of ancient crystal fungi, rather than developing a vaccine against the devil.

The current situation is:

Cole Fallon’s physical body and the demon within it have been physically erased.

The demon projection was unable to return to the warp due to the isolation effect of the network.

After losing his physical body, the demonic projection was completely annihilated, and the cause of Cole Fallon's death was not revealed.

Needless to say, Fallon's soul also vanished when his physical life force returned to zero.

Li Nuo carefully recalled several times the process of capturing Cole Fallon alive.

The Lunar-class cruiser's star map, Thinker array, navigation database, the Mechanic's implants, the Space Marines' emergency communicators, etc.

Everything that could potentially expose their secrets was crushed to dust by the pirate fleet's light spears and macro cannons, leaving no possibility of repair.

Li Nuo thought that by paying attention to these details, he could rest easy.

However, after obtaining information about Cole Fallon, he discovered that there was a certain chance he would be exposed.

The Cruel Quest team came after "Big Black Tooth".

Before the chapter set sail, Cole Fallon was on Loka's expeditionary fleet.

Both Loka and Iribas knew that Cole Fallon's target was "Big Black Tooth".

After Cole Fallon went missing, the first thing Loga and Irebas thought of was "Big Black Tooth".

They will send people to track down "Big Blacktooth" and search for any clues related to Cole Fallon.

The ship identification codes of the pirate fleet were once recorded by Apimatt's Space Guard.

In extremely rare circumstances, the Whisperers might be able to discover the whereabouts of "Big Blacktooth" by accessing Apimatt's military database.

Li Nuo originally wanted to "go offline" now and delete the relevant data records.

But that won't work.

He has the authority to delete data in military databases, and can completely cover up related records.

However, he did not have the authority to delete the data in the Mechanicus priests and the Thinkers of the Mechanicus, and doing so would arouse suspicion.

"Fortunately, the orc pirates' ships have the potential to grow. With just a little modification, I can make the ship's structural and mass parameters not match the signature codes in the military database."

"In addition, I can also control the pirate fleet to harass several other hive cities or space stations. In this way, the orc pirates' harassment of Apimatt will not seem so prominent."

"Going further, eliminating Loka and Irebas is also an option."

Li Nuo squinted and pondered, knowing that killing the Primarch could not be rushed. If he was not careful, he would attract the hostility of the entire human empire, and then the disguise of "Big Black Fang" would definitely be stripped off.

Then look at the data panel in your hand.

What should we do with these orc troops corrupted by Kohl Fallon?
Li Nuo's eyes flickered slightly as he conceived different plans in his mind.

A flash of inspiration!
Li Nuo's eyes lit up as he came up with a great idea.

The human empire doesn't care whether the orcs defect or not.

The Terra Research Institute and the Mechanic will only regard the mixed-breed orcs as a mutation unique to aliens.

but!

The Orc Empire cares.

Which orc leader could accept his underlings becoming someone else's lackey?!
What's the difference between this and a minotaur?

(End of this chapter)