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

Chapter 279 The Green-Skinned Conman

Li Nuo never imagined he would see so many, so many Zerg ships.

At the farthest point of sight, there was a colossal biological ship that blotted out the sky.

It was so enormous that its silhouette filled the entire background of the field of vision.

At a slightly closer distance, there were bee-like ships with bio-cannons protruding from their bows, Tyrannosaurus Rex with chitinous shells covering their upper decks, Voidwalkers resembling seahorses, shells, and conches with enormous mouths, and Razor Demons shaped like serrated daggers…

Almost every biological ship that should be in a Zerg hive fleet is here.

They roamed, tumbled, and stopped abruptly in the air, displaying their menacing array of naval guns, much like they were participating in an air show.

The boys were stunned, staring blankly as the bee-like ships swarmed towards them like bees.

Li Nuo was the first to recover from the shock:

"Don't just stand there! Open the net gate! The wind's blowing hard, get out of here!"

The young helmsman quickly turned the rudder.

The reconnaissance ship made a sharp 180-degree turn and accelerated forward.

The network accessor fired a beam of light, and the network gate opened to the reconnaissance ship and the swarming bee ships that followed closely behind.

The reconnaissance ship plunged in.

As the netgate was about to close, the two Wasp ships burst into flames and accelerated sharply, following closely behind the reconnaissance ship as they entered the netgate.

"Boss! A bug-like ship has followed us in!"

Shout to Dongdong.

Back in his own territory, Li Nuo was no longer flustered.

The portal to the cosmic hall is still open, and I can call for reinforcements anytime, anywhere. These two bee-like ships have no chance of escaping.

"Launch stasis beams to distract enemy ships and call for reinforcements to the space hall."

"hold head high!"

"Great!"

The Noisy Boy and the Cannonball Boy responded one after the other.

A dark green beam of light shot out from the side and landed precisely on the two bee-like ships.

The stagnation field caused the Bee-Bug ship's cruising speed to plummet to one-third of its original speed, and it could no longer travel at near-light speed.

The brash boy sent a message to the Space Hall, and five green-skinned frigates immediately rushed to reinforce him, expected to arrive on the scene in no more than half a minute.

The swarm ship changed course and aimed its bio-gun at the reconnaissance ship.

"Sizzle—Bang!"

"Sizzle—Bang!"

The two bee-like ships opened fire simultaneously, one firing a large fireball and the other firing plasma bombs.

"WaaghWaaagh!" the young helmsman shouted, his hands spinning rapidly as he turned the rudder.

The reconnaissance ship maneuvered in an S-shape, narrowly avoiding close-range fire from the enemy ship.

Before the swarm ship opened fire again, five green-skinned frigates arrived at the scene via sub-light-speed travel.

Li Nuo opened the local communication channel and gave the following order:

"Destroy one, disable another, and bring me the commander on board, alive!"

The leader of the five green-skinned frigates responded, and a spectacular dogfight in space immediately began.

They rolled around the bee-like ship, unleashing a barrage of fire from the broadside cannons and the machine guns on the hull.

With just one salvo, the bee-like ships that launched fireballs were reduced to countless fragments and exploded.

After the second salvo, the plasma bomber's propulsion system was destroyed, and most of the hull was damaged, but the "bridge," where the bug's will resided, was preserved.

The greens boarded the insectoid ship and forcibly entered the "bridge," where they engaged in a fierce battle with the insectoids of all sizes.

The Palu fleet's combat power is now vastly different from what it used to be; such intense combat no longer requires Lino's personal intervention.

He waited on the ship for more than ten minutes, and then the man carrying a tall tank entered the bridge.

The contents of the jar bear some resemblance to squid.

It has more than a dozen tentacles covered with suckers, and two black, hollow eyes on its bald forehead.

Unlike typical Tyrannosaurus bugs, this bug, known as the Insectoid Mother Bug, lacks a hard chitinous exoskeleton, menacing mouthparts, and other aggressive organs.

Of course, the insect ship can also be seen as part of its body, with the biological turret array as its weapon and the shipborne shields and chitinous armor as its outer shell.

Its tentacles are the medium for transmitting nerve signals; the more tentacles it has, the more ship devices it can control at the same time.

A creature capable of multitasking like this would certainly be intelligent, and might even be able to communicate across species.

The technician attached electrode pads to the mother insectoid to collect its language signals, and then used a universal translator to convert the Tyranid language into Low Gothic.

Thus began a historically significant exchange between the Greenskins and the Terran Zerg.

"Eat, break down, reproduce, evolve. You are all food, and Behemoth will devour you."

Behemoth is probably the name of the will of tendrils.

The tendrils are equivalent to the Space Marine Legions of the Imperium of Man, and the will of the tendrils corresponds to the Legion Primarch.

In the Large Magellanic Cloud, there is more than one hive tendril; Behemoth is just one of them.

The insectoid queen in front of me is the commander of the bee-like insectoid ships under Behemoth's command.

The network disconnected the "network" connection between the Zerg Queen and the Tendrils' will.

At this point, the Zerg Queen's intelligence level had severely declined, and she was unable to obtain any information from the will of the tendrils.

Pain Boy conducted a series of tests on the queen beetle and drew some preliminary conclusions.

First, truth serum has no effect on the Zergling Queen.

Secondly, the gene sample of the Zerg Queen was unremarkable and did not contain any gene fragments related to "interstellar travel".

This is a bit strange.

The Terran ships are biological ships; they are alive, and all their actions are directly controlled by the Zerg Queen.

If the Zerg Queen does not possess the genetic fragments related to "interstellar travel," then how does the Zerg ship conduct interstellar travel?

Pain Boy also discovered another puzzling thing.

The Zerg Queen does not possess gene fragments related to "evolution," and it cannot autonomously choose the path and direction of evolution.

Based on the conditions necessary for mutations in biological evolution, Linuo suspects that the evolution of the insectoid race depends on some kind of chemical substance.

This substance is likely secreted only by the will of the insect hive.

Similarly, the interstellar travel of the Tyranids may also require the Hive Will to initiate it.

With many questions in mind, Li Nuo devised a strategy to extract information.

This strategy is cunning and treacherous, insidious yet efficient, and perfectly suited to the current situation.

"Do you know where this is? This is the Netway! The cosmic transportation hub created by the ancient sages!"
"With the Internet Access Device, we green-skinned old men can go wherever we want. Even if we have to cross two large star systems, it will only take us less than half an hour. Isn't that much more efficient than yours?"

"How about it? Cool, isn't it? Awesome, isn't it?"

Li Nuo stood with his hands on his hips, enthusiastically boasting about his company's online gaming technology.

The mother insectoid's eyes were initially fierce, as if she wanted to devour the green-skinned creature in front of her alive.

But when the green-skinned old man started boasting about the network technology, the Zerg mother's eyes suddenly cleared up considerably. The same distance of 10 light-years would take at least 5 years to traverse in subspace with navigation, while the Zerg hive fleet's gravity-based navigation technology would take 5000 years, whereas transiting through the network would only take half an hour.

Wouldn't it be better to use the time saved to eat and drink?
"Look me in the eyes and tell me loudly, do you want the green-skinned old man's internet access device?"

Li Nuo pointed to the large iron box in the bridge.

The boy had painted it all over in bright colors, and it looked like a green graffiti artwork.

Li Nuo was worried that the Zerg Queen wouldn't understand what a network accessor was, so he simply had his guys quickly create a holographic animation.

As he pointed his finger at the access device, the holographic screen began to play a video of the access device opening the door.

Now the Zerg Queen understood, her eyes becoming even clearer, just like a college graduate seeing a high-paying job with weekends off:
"I want the web portal. I want to dedicate it to Behemoth!"

Li Nuo waved his hand, ordering the fart spirit to drag over a spare network access device and place it in front of the insectoid mother ship:
"Look, I happen to have an extra one here. How about this, you answer a few questions for me, and I'll give it to you."

"Go ahead and ask, Green Skin."

Li Nuo took out his data tablet to make notes:

"My first question is, how do you conduct interstellar travel?"

“Narvhal, open the wormhole. We will enter the wormhole and begin our interstellar journey.”

Narwhal…

Hmm, that sounds like the name of some kind of insectoid ship.

"What does a narwhal look like?" Li Nuo asked.

The mother insect in the jar said:
"Similar to a whale."

Li Nuo looked at the boy looking for Dongdong and asked in orcish slang:
"When we encountered the Zerg before, did you find any trace of narwhals when searching for Dongdongqi?"

"No, boss." Dongdong shook his head repeatedly.

After a moment's thought, Li Nuo asked the queen beetle of the nest again:
"You're not kidding me, are you? Why didn't we see any narwhals before?"

The insect queen's tentacles slowly wriggled on the inner wall, making a sticky, sizzling sound.

"I'm not kidding you. Narwhals are very sensitive to changes in gravity. They're protected inside the ancient ship. They only appear when we need to open a wormhole..."

In order to obtain the network access device, the Zerg Queen introduced herself.

The Terran Zerg destroyers are named "Hoeing Ships".

The frigate is called "Terran's Siren".

The light cruiser is named "Voidwalker".

The cruiser was nicknamed "Razor Demon".

The Terran battlecruiser, corresponding to the Terran Empire's battleship, is called the "Devourer".

The battleship corresponds to the flagship of the Terran Empire and is called the "Hive Mothership".

Above the mothership is the "Ancient Ship," which rivals the Glory Queen-class battleships of the Human Empire.

The will of a tendril is generally found within an ancient ship, with the Zerg mothership being the most important "network" node of the tendril.

When Li Nuo arrived in the real universe, he saw a biological ship so large that it could serve as a backdrop.

This ship is an ancient vessel.

A tentacle named Behemoth lives inside and protects the narwhal.

When the Zerg fleet needs to warp, the narwhal will come to the outside of the ancient ship, use gravity technology to lock onto the target planet, and open a wormhole portal.

At that instant, the target planet of the wormhole will experience extremely strong gravitational changes, ranging from a magnitude 8 earthquake to plate rupture and planetary deformation.

The Zerg fleet enters the wormhole portal, and just before reaching its destination, the narwhals return to the ancient ship to avoid the gravitational field of the star near the destination.

Narwhals are extremely sensitive to gravity.

The gravitational field of a star is strong enough to cause a narwhal to explode.

With the narwhal returning to the ancient ship, the wormhole closed.

The fleet was still several light-years away from its destination, and it would travel there by sub-light-speed travel.

This is the entire process of the Zerg hive fleet's interstellar invasion of planets.

As a Cloud Hammer expert specializing in microbiology, this was the first time Li Nuo had learned about the habits of the Tyranids in such detail.

To master the interstellar travel technology of the Tyranids, one must venture deep into the ancient ships and obtain genetic samples from narwhals at close range.

Li Nuo decided to take on this task personally.

"The second question," Li Nuo asked while making notes on the data board.

"How did you evolve specific organs? For example, your enemies possess incredibly powerful laser weapons, capable of piercing your vital organs. What specific actions would you take to counter them?"

The Zerg Queen said:
"The digester breaks down useless organisms to obtain biomass, which is then transported to the hatching tank. Behemoth puts the genetic material into the hatching tank, where the corresponding species are cultivated."

Li Nuo seemed to understand something and nodded, saying:
"In other words, the process of evolution is actually decomposition and remodeling, not the direct growth of corresponding organs on the body?"

"Yes."

Li Nuo noted this down, planning to visit the hatchery while obtaining narwhal gene fragments to acquire the so-called "genetic factors".

Since this material can guide the cultivation of specific species in incubation ponds, it is highly likely to be a high-end genetic engineering material that integrates gene editing tools, gene expression vectors, and mutagens, making it of great research value.

Li Nuo asked a few more questions, then waved his hand, signaling the technician to activate the stun gun.

"Sizzle—Crack! Crack!"

A million volts of current filled the tank, charring the mother insectoid to ashes. The network access device used to lure the mother insectoid was also pushed back to the warehouse by the fart demon.

"Wow, boss is really cunning!"

"The more insidious, the more powerful; the boss is the best at scheming!"

The farting devil and the brat are spouting rainbow farts.

Li Nuo waved his hand, ordering the fleet to remain on guard:

"Listen up, everyone. I'm going to send a few of my best, most Waaagh lads to the Ancient Ship. This mission is very dangerous, and I'll ask the High Priest to lend a hand and have Brother Gao Mao protect the lads. Anyone who wants to go, step forward."

The young man and the scoundrel on the bridge took a step forward in unison, full of fighting spirit.

The chances of being protected by Mao's second brother are not many.

Compared to death, missing the opportunity to be protected by Mao Zedong is the most unacceptable thing.

"Great! You're all very brave! Here's what we'll do: I'll draw lots. It'll be fair, just, and transparent. Whoever gets drawn will go!"

Li Nuo was extremely satisfied with his son's energy and spirit.

The tendrils are not fools.

The opening of the Internet Gate earlier must have already alerted Behemoth.

When the gate to the web is opened for the second time, it is very likely that insects will swarm into the gate.

Li Nuo must be careful.

after an hour.

Hundreds of Paru ships gathered here, preparing to deal with the Zerg fleet that was crowding into the network.

Five Blood Raven Boys boarded the shuttle and headed to the real universe.

Li Nuo possessed the five-person team leader, took out a "talking spirit" and swallowed it.

(End of this chapter)