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

Chapter 292 The Subspace Fisherman
"Boss, I'm so disappointed."

Inside an observation post in the asteroid belt at the edge of the Paru star system.

The beast watched as Expedition 40 bombarded the star system, scratched his head, and said with great disappointment:

"I thought the Space Wolves were pretty strong, but they surrendered before we even went all out. And I noticed they don't seem to be very bright; all they know is fighting and killing. Most of them don't like to use their brains. Only that pointy-beaked kid with the wolf-head helmet can communicate with them."

The Beast, well-versed in Imperial literature and long yearning for Imperial culture, had his face-to-face interaction with the Primarch a kind of demystification.

Imperial writings are something that those who know them understand; they'll definitely only mention the good points and gloss over the bad ones.

The book describes the Primarchs as brave and wise warriors, but when you actually encounter them, you find that most of them are just like ordinary people with emotions and desires.

If the Primarchs were like this, what must the Emperors who created them have been like?
"Beasts, Primarchs, and Space Marines are all just tools of the Emperor. Apart from a very few Primarchs worth befriending, the rest are not worth our effort to cultivate relationships with. We can simply use them as tools."

Li Nuo, arms crossed, watched the 40th Expeditionary Fleet bombard the star system and asked:

"By the way, how's the expansion of the Netway Cemetery going lately?"

"Smooth sailing. Those bastards can't fly. They're no match for our naval guns."

The beast pulled out a data panel, opened the battle log, and showed it to Li Nuo, saying:
"We're attacking the Web Graveyard near Palu's Homeland. We estimate we can take it down in about two weeks. There are hundreds of millions of tons of subspace biomaterials there, enough for us to use for a year."

There is still some time before Expedition 40 leaves.

Taking this opportunity, Li Nuo and the Beast discussed the task of conquering the Web Graveyard.

Palu Home is located in a web space outside the Milky Way, where the density of web nodes is very low, with an average of only one or two web nodes per thousand light-years.

By clearing the demons from the Webpath Graveyard, you can collect the warp creature materials and production facilities within.

Beast's combat report indicates that a usable warp bio-factory exists within the Webpath Graveyard.

This is fantastic news.

This signifies that the Palu Empire no longer needs to travel far and wide in search of the Webpath Graveyard.

Once the subspace biological factory is repaired, subspace biological materials can be obtained continuously.

The so-called Warp Bio-factory is an ancient Eldar technological facility built by the Eldar. It is 1005 kilometers long and is mostly made of Eldar bones. Its main purpose is to capture and cut up Warp creatures.

Take the Void Whale as an example.

Activating the Warp Creature Capturer in the Factory will open a rift to the Warp in the Webpath Graveyard.

The trap will delve into the warp rift like a fishhook, using the warp creatures' favorite emotions as bait to lure them in.

Once the subspace creature takes the bait, the trap retracts into the net, dragging the "fish" into the net and placing it on the assembly line for decomposition. The subspace crack then closes automatically.

There are two points to note when going through the whole process.

The first step is to determine the "fishing location" to avoid catching the devil and to avoid "going home empty-handed".

The second thing to note is to prepare in advance for a demonic invasion.

Once the warp rift opens, demons will notice its existence, and during the fishing process, some demons will inevitably enter the net.

Furthermore, demons can also exist within the bodies of beings in the subspace.

That's how the demon army infiltrated the Internet graveyard.

"Boss, I had the technician check it out. We can fix the subspace bio-factory ourselves without Purple Bean Sprout's help. There's just one small problem."

The beast rubbed its chin, pondering as it spoke:

“We’re not familiar with the factory operations and don’t know how to find the right casting location. We’ll probably have to try a few more times before we can cast accurately. I’m thinking we might need to form a special Psykip team to find the most suitable casting location.”

“No problem, you talk to Patta about it, and I’ll have him give you a batch of psionic kids. Pampa and I will go help out the first time we cast the hook.”

"Okay, boss."

Two hours later, Expedition 40 ended its venting bombardment of the planet.

Another hour passed, and the expedition team completed its rest and began its subspace journey.

Pampa discovered that their course was pointing towards the Ulanor Orc Empire.

Seeing this, Li Nuo felt relieved; the unnamed imperial guard had perfectly accomplished his mission.

This guard was recruited by Kron, and his main task was to prevent conflicts between space beasts and space wolves.

He also took on another task: acting as a mouthpiece between the wartime council and the Space Wolves.

The Imperial Guard will inform Space Wolves that several major rebellions have occurred within the Empire during their time patrolling its borders, and Space Wolves must immediately go to quell them.

The primary targets of the suppression were Loka, who was associating with Ulgrik, as well as Karn and Forgrim, who were close to Loka.

Thus, the Space Wolf, having received its orders, set off without lingering in the Paru star system.

Let the Emperor and Macardo worry about the internal affairs of the human empire.

After Expedition Team 40 left, Li Nuo led everyone back to the Netway.

Airon guards Palu's homeland, while beasts and space continue their rampage through the graveyard.

Li Nuo then arrived in Comoros to check on the progress of the repairs to the Heart of Fire.

"Have you repaired several Hearts of Fire?" Li Nuo asked Isabella on the command platform.

Zidouya held the noisy box in her hand and gave orders to the technician below, her movements becoming increasingly skilled.

She took a moment to reply:

"Four have been repaired in total, and the fifth is under construction now. It will be completed soon."

As she spoke, Isabella's lips curled into a smile, unable to contain her joy.

Once she repairs the five Hearts of Fire, she will be free!
Damn greens, go to hell!

"Have you forgotten that you can't control your mouth and say whatever comes to mind?"

Li Nuo suddenly said something.

Isabella was startled, then realized that the other party had heard her comments about the orcs. She was flustered and could only cover up her embarrassment by ordering the technician boy.

A moment later, the fifth Heart of Fire successfully completed its trial run.

The technician transferred it to the engineering vessel, ready to transport it to Palu Homeland.

Li Nuo took out several syringes, put them in a box, and handed them to Isabella:

"This is a drug to repair gene fragments. You need to inject it every five days. After six injections, your gene fragments will be restored to normal. It also has another use, which is to erase your memories of this period. You should understand why I'm doing this. You know too many secrets about us, and you're still a black bean sprout. You might get eaten by Slaanesh one day. I have to be careful."

"Okay, okay, I understand, I understand."

Isabella happily hugged the box to her chest, waved, and ran away.

"No need to see me off, I'll go to the opera house myself and contact the clown troupe."

Isabella ran very fast and soon disappeared into the ruins of Comoros.

Li Nuo had no intention of stopping him. With five Hearts of Fire in hand, it was time to bring a star to Palu Homeland.

Moving a star requires four cores of fire to operate together, with one left as a backup.

With prior experience in relocating Planet Paru, moving stars will not be a problem.

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

With the five Hearts of Fire fully charged, Lino led the fleet to a single-star system outside the Milky Way.

This star system is very small, with only one sun and three planets.

Four centers of fire orbit the star, connected by pillars of light, forming perfect tetrahedrons, each face of which is an equilateral triangle.

The core of fire formed a tetrahedron that compressed the star, making it the size of a fist, and stored it in a dimensional pocket.

A gravitational singularity appears where the star originally was, used to simulate the star's gravity and maintain the integrity of the star system for six months.

A few hours later, the star entered the net and returned to normal at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from the planet Paru.

The engineering vessel once again activated the Heart of Fire, causing the planet Paru to revolve around its star while maintaining its own rotation.

Its orbital path is elliptical, completing one revolution every 12 months.

Every July, the planet Paru is closest to the sun, corresponding to summer in the northern hemisphere of Paru.

From that time on, Palu Homeland had its own sun.

Its seasonal patterns are very similar to the world before Li Nuo's time travel.

Meanwhile, the campaign to destroy the Netway Cemetery is progressing rapidly.

After the star relocation was completed, the four Hearts of Fire began to recharge. Li Nuo then allocated the unused Heart of Fire to the beast for assistance.

The Heart of Fire moved mountains and filled seas with overwhelming force, first frantically compressing the warp materials, crushing the rotten stuff inside, then rapidly expanding the materials, spreading them out so that the Netpath Expedition could penetrate every corner and sweep away the demons.

With the addition of the Heart of Fire, the Netway Graveyard was taken over by the Palu Empire in less than ten days.

Troops were stationed, outposts, collection stations, and logistics hubs were built, and large quantities of subspace biological materials were transported to Paru Homeland. Everything was proceeding according to plan.
In a corner of the Netway Cemetery, a unique building floats silently.

Its appearance is somewhat like that of an ocean-going fishing boat, but with fishing nets.

There is a crystal at the bow of the ship, ten meters high, pure white in color, which uses subspace energy as its power source.

The young technician repaired the crystal and activated it.

The crystal projected a subspace rift, two meters wide and three meters long, in front of the factory.

Pampa, immersed in amniotic fluid, closed his eyes and observed the subspace through the subspace rift.

"Holy crap, this place is a complete mess." Pampa projected what he saw onto the holographic screen.

As the screen popped up, the audience was treated to a dazzling spectacle.

Against a backdrop of ever-changing colors, all sorts of subspace creatures roam freely.

The spatial order of the subspace is chaotic. Some creatures that initially appear to be only the size of tadpoles can transform into enormous creatures like Void Whales in the next second. Other creatures have wings on their backs, resembling wasps, and initially occupy half of the field of vision, but can quickly shrink to the size of a grain of rice.

Li Nuo carefully examined the objects and recognized several types of subspace creatures that he had seen in short videos before his transmigration.

For example, Soul Catcher.

It was a giant "fishing net" that was adept at catching and killing souls, directly harming beings in the real universe at the soul level.

For example, the Soul-Eating Bee.

These warp creatures are relatively common on Prospero, the homeworld of the Thousand Sons.

It parasitizes and lays eggs in the host's brain through mental connection.

The process of insect eggs hatching can cause the host excruciating headaches.

This pain becomes nourishment for the insect eggs.

When the insect eggs hatch, the host will die.

This reproductive process occurs on a spiritual level, not a material level, and therefore cannot be cured by conventional medical means.

The common people on Prospero suffered greatly from the Soul-Eating Bees.

Although the Soul-Eating Bees are powerful and cunning, they are too small and contain too little subspace energy, making them unsuitable as raw materials for subspace bio-factories.

Li Nuo looked down at the data panel, and line after line of translated intelligence came into view.

Isabella's soul code contains knowledge of the ancient Eldar.

After several months of translation, this knowledge was transformed into Orcish slang, which included the ancient Eldar's experience in hunting Warp creatures.

The factory operation manual, written in orc slang, is somewhat comical.

"Hoho~ Kids, the fun hunt is about to begin!"

"Remember the first principle of warp fishing!"

"Always go where the fish are the most!"

"The Void Whale is a plump, big fish; the Enslaver is a medium-sized fish with many thorns; and the Soul-Devouring Bee is a small, stinging fish. But the Soul-Devouring Bee's hive is a good thing, especially the queen bee inside, which is plump, juicy, and tempting!"
"Now tell me, what kind of subspace creature do you want to capture?"

An input box appears on the data panel.

Li Nuo entered "Void Whale," and new text appeared.

"Very good! You have backbone!"
"You should know, kid, the lifespan of a Void Whale is extremely long."

They spend half their time sleeping, a quarter of their time hunting, and a quarter of their time pooping.

"Sleeping Void Whales will ignore your bait. Void Whales that defecate will spew corrosive clouds of gas in the real universe, which is extremely dangerous. Only Void Whales that are currently hunting are the best prey."

"Now, let's make the bait for the Void Whale. Quickly, do as I say..."

A recipe appeared on the data panel.

Li Nuo had prepared the corresponding bait in advance according to the recipe, so we can skip this part.

"The bait is ready! We'll find an area where no warp creatures roam before we drop the bait."

A line of text appeared on the data panel.

After reviewing it, Li Nuo gave the following instructions:

“Pampa, find a place where there are no warp creatures.”

"okay."

Pampa's consciousness traversed the subspace.

A dozen minutes later, he discovered an area filled with dark red mist.

These "clouds" are not clouds in the real universe.

They are actually a collection of emotions in the real universe, also known as "emotional tides," a term used by the ancient Eldar.

When a large number of life forms in the real universe rapidly develop the same emotion within a short period of time, clouds of the corresponding color will appear in the subspace.

Dark red clouds represent despair and suffering, and are often associated with mass incidents such as "bloody massacres" and "large-scale wars".

The emotions carried by the clouds and mist will attract subspace creatures to consume them.

Such a place is like a fishing spot set up by an angler, perfect for luring Void Whales onto the hook.

"Deploy bait."

Li Nuo waved his hand.

The young man next to the control panel pressed a button.

"Bang bang bang-"

With a dull thud, hundreds of iron barrels were launched into the subspace rift by cannons.

The holographic image showed a scene of an iron barrel tumbling in a red cloud of mist.

The detonation device inside the iron barrel was activated after the countdown ended.

Hundreds of iron barrels exploded at the same time, spilling the blood wine produced in Comoros.

The next second, the dark red cloud of light distorted, and countless subspace creatures traversed through the subspace, frantically devouring the blood wine and the negative emotions from the real universe.

Among the many subspace creatures, there is no trace of the Void Whale.

Don't worry.

Let the Void Whale fly for a while.

The number of warp creatures gathering at the scene was increasing, with Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaanesh demons everywhere, and many more whose names were unknown.

They fought fiercely for food.

Just as the situation was getting out of hand, a terrifying, gaping maw of the abyss suddenly appeared on the backdrop.

This mouth is so big, I estimate it to be at least 100 kilometers long and wide.

Its appearance startled the boy and the fart spirit who were watching the holographic screen, but the subspace creatures that were busy fighting for food failed to notice the mouth in time.

The abyss's gaping maw enveloped an entire subspace region, its upper and lower lips about to close, forming an impenetrable encirclement.

Li Nuo shouted the order:

"Launch the anchor hook!"

"Click, click, click, click!" The boys pressed the button repeatedly.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh——————"

Hundreds of fishhooks made of spirit bones burrowed into the subspace rift, hooking onto what was inside before the abyss's gaping maw could close.

boom!
The gaping maw of the abyss closed heavily.

No sound came from the holographic image, but everyone imagined a deafening explosion.

The young technician clattered away on the keyboard, manipulating the winch of the fishing hook.

The winch rotates at high speed, retrieving the fishing line.

A heartbreaking scene unfolded for the angler: the fishing line separated from the hook, the hook didn't come back, and only the bare fishing line was retrieved by the winch.

The abyss in the holographic image disappeared, and a large portion of the warp creatures and negative emotions were swallowed by the Void Whale.

The hooks launched by the subspace bio-factory failed to lift the subspace creature.

But don't panic!
Hunting subspace creatures is not fishing, and it is too early to judge whether it is an "air force" attack.

Those fishhooks swallowed by the Void Whale are no ordinary things.

In the ancient Eldar Empire, there was a high-risk profession called "Whale Belly Walker".

The whale-belly walker would be placed in a monocrystalline can and secured to a fishing hook.

When the Void Whale bites the hook, the Whale-Bellied Walker enters its body.

The Void Whale is at least 20,000 kilometers long and has a complete ecosystem inside, as vast as a continental plate.

The Whale-Bellied Walker disrupts the ecosystem within the Void Whale, rendering it vulnerable, sluggish, and powerless, before finally collaborating with the Warp Biofactory to complete the hunt.

There is no ancient spirit race at present, so Li Nuo arranged for a group of Blood Raven Boys to carry out sabotage operations.

How could I miss out on something so interesting?

“Beast, come with me for a stroll inside the Void Whale.”

Li Nuo lured the beast to a corner, whispered something to it, and began the Waaagh simulation.

As the Waaagh simulation began, Li Nuo's consciousness traveled from space to the Blood Raven leader, Kron.

The beast possessed Kron's second-in-command, Enlock, while his true form went into hibernation in the factory's command center.

Don't worry about the command center going into chaos; with Space Force here to oversee things, that's enough.

(End of this chapter)