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Chapter 310 The Online Repairman Goes Online

In the Rebellion subverse, the Eldar network city beneath the Golden Throne is called Karata.

Assuming the layout of the network tunnels did not change due to the network tunnel war during the siege of Terra, then the network tunnel node where Karasta is located should still be "Eldar Scar - T1-09T26".

Lino possesses a network map covering one-third of the galaxy, created by the Paru Empire's network expedition team, which includes the route to Karata.

To find out what Karata was like during the Apostate era, we only need to sail there and take a look.

After bidding farewell to Sebastian, Lino piloted the Black Knight back to the cruiser.

The most suitable character for the reconnaissance network is Cron, the leader of the Blood Ravens, and the most suitable vehicle is the Blood Raven Clan's reconnaissance ship.

The reconnaissance ship is small in size and agile in movement, measuring 800 meters high, 600 meters wide, and 1200 meters in length.

Opening a portal with a diameter of over 800 meters would be enough to teleport a reconnaissance ship from the Rebellion Era to the Apostate Era.

The reconnaissance ship weighs approximately 3.2 tons. Including the Blood Ravens and various supplies inside, the total weight will not exceed 35 tons, which corresponds to an expense of 3.5 tons of single crystals.

The Paru Empire currently has three reconnaissance squadrons, and losing one reconnaissance ship will not delay the work of transporting planets and exploring the network.

Therefore, the only problem we face is to expand the radius of the portal.

Li Nuo opened the system interface.

[Paru Portal]

Diameter: 101 meters.

[Each meter of expansion requires 1000 tons of single crystals.]

With a flick of his finger, Li Nuo consumed 89.9 tons of single crystals to increase the diameter of the teleportation portal to 1000 meters, and then took some more single crystals from Palu Homeland to replenish his inventory.

After two days of intensive preparations, the reconnaissance ship was ready to set sail.

Li Nuo multitasks, frequently switching his consciousness between the Blood Raven leader, Kron, and the Black Knight, precisely controlling the reconnaissance ship to head towards the Apostate Era.

Finally, on the night of the third day, in a secluded corner of the Apostate Era, Li Nuo possessed the Black Knight, piloted the escape pod, and opened the Palu Portal alone in the vast void.

As the enormous golden halo appeared, Li Nuo couldn't help but feel glad that he hadn't let anyone witness the teleportation ceremony.

The appearance of the Palu portal was truly spectacular.

An invisible hand tore open a rift in the void, and boundless golden light poured out, with countless golden light spots shooting out in all directions like a torrential rain.

The reconnaissance ship burst out of the golden dimensional portal, and the golden gate closed immediately. The light spots that filled the void vanished in an instant, leaving only the light spots remaining on Li Nuo's retina to prove that the scene just now was not an illusion.

If Sebastian saw this move, the old man would definitely jump up on the spot, do a 360-degree spin in mid-air, and then do a full-body prostration.

Li Nuo steadied himself, piloted the escape pod onto the reconnaissance ship, and switched his consciousness to Kron.

The view shifted in an instant, from the cramped cockpit of the escape pod to the bridge of the reconnaissance ship.

After the escape pods were boarded, Li Nuo ordered the activation of sub-light speed travel to proceed to the nearest net passage gate.

The state of the internet during the apostate era was much worse than during the rebellion era.

Of the ten network nodes, five were destroyed, four were corrupted by chaos, and only one remained that could open the gate.

This is not a good sign.

Who knows, there might be a chaotic trap behind the gate.

The reconnaissance ship stopped after sailing for half an hour, and a beam of light shot out from the navigation tower, revealing the bronze-colored outer wall of the net channel.

The netgate opened, revealing complete darkness inside. The reconnaissance ship activated the Green Dam and the rubbish shields and flew inside.

After a brief feeling of weightlessness, the alarm began to sound in the bridge.

"Hey guys, we've got a big job! This place is full of junk!"

Dense red markers appeared on the star map, each representing a demon army of no less than ten thousand people.

The boy and the fart-headed man on the bridge both gasped in shock, and Li Nuo couldn't help but tremble as well.

That's absolutely outrageous.

This isn't the internet, it's practically the lair of internet demons!

Within a network space with a diameter of less than 10 million kilometers, there are no fewer than 1000 billion network demons!

The state of the internet during this apostasy era is so terrible!
Fortunately, although the number of demons was large, they still could not use spatial teleportation, and their vehicles were mostly dilapidated warships stolen from the human empire.

The next second after the reconnaissance ship appeared, several frigates with crooked navigation towers, rusty hulls, and armor gaps stuffed with branches sprang up.

These ships were possessed by Nurgle demons, and the ecosystem inside was extremely harsh and filthy.

Consequently, the cannons fired by the ships were transformed into plague shells filled with rotting matter.

"Bang bang bang-"

A salvo was fired, and several dark green shells pierced through the air.

The young helmsman spun the rudder at lightning speed, and the reconnaissance ship maneuvered nimbly, dodging the shells with a nimble turn.

Li Nuo calmly gave the order:

"Don't linger in the fight. Enter sublight speed travel and head directly to the next network portal."

"Okay, boss."

The helmsman pushed the control lever, and the reconnaissance ship accelerated immediately after a sudden stop, turning into a white streak and shooting out before crashing into the gate of the net channel.

The old-fashioned gate was in ruins, scarred by chemical substances and plasma storms.

It's clear that the demons in this network space have been trapped here for a long time and have been trying to find a way to blast open the network gate and leave.

Before the demon's ships could catch up, Li Nuo pressed the button on the web portal accessor.

The gate to the net passage opened slowly, bumping and jolting as if the internal transmission structure was severely damaged.

The reconnaissance ship plunged into the doorway, and the net gate slammed shut, the force of which caused a large number of single crystal fragments to fall off.

Li Nuo did not see the gate being damaged again.

He no longer cares about the state of the online gaming community.

His attention was completely drawn to the scene before him.

This is a net cemetery.

The Webpath Graveyard during the Rebellion was incredibly rich, teeming with warp creature materials that could be mined on the spot, at most some Webpath demons that resembled cockroaches.

But in the era of apostasy, with Mao Zedong at the top, this was not just a graveyard for online religions, it was a paradise for demons!
The heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidneys, and fat blocks of the Void Whale—each of these items was at least thousands of kilometers long—yet the demons had forcibly sculpted them into an enormous evil god sculpture!
Each sculpture corresponds to a demon faction. The demons of the four great evil gods occupy the largest warp creature materials to build the most magnificent evil god sculptures. The sculptures of the other demons are much inferior, but they can still be called amazing creations.

Between the sculptures lies a battle corridor built by demons.

The crisscrossing corridors connect the various sculptures, forming a large network that runs throughout the space.

The demons fought, fed, and had parties on it.

The arrival of the reconnaissance ship alarmed the demons, and dozens of ugly flying objects immediately surrounded it.

"Boss, things are not good."

Dongdong, the boy, typed on the keyboard and shouted:
“Those ships have psionic arrays, and the demons are using these arrays to unleash psionic rays similar to ‘stasis beams.’ Our ships are already enveloped by these rays and can no longer travel at sub-light speed.”

Subspace biological materials contain abundant subspace energy.

The demons of the Netpath Graveyard can extract this energy to reproduce, heal, or use it to cast psionic spells that do not require the warp.

Psionic spells such as casting bio-lightning and polymorph, as well as manipulating objects with telekinetic energy, can be cast without the warp.

The psionic beams fired by the demon ships are a large-scale telekinetic spell that can forcibly drag ships, preventing them from sailing freely.

Since we can't escape, let's fight.

A swift and decisive battle is necessary; lingering fighting is unacceptable, lest the reconnaissance ships be destroyed in a relentless war of attrition.

He thought for a moment and then gave the order: "Enter combat mode and prioritize taking out the enemy ships that are using psionic rituals to hinder our actions."

"Alright!" The kid and the fart-headed guy on the bridge responded in unison.

The reconnaissance ship's gun crew fired the first round of shells, and the cationic explosives formed a golden curtain in the air.

The demon ships, unaware of the power of the cations, crashed directly into the curtain and met their doom.

The demon ships with shields fared slightly better, as cations sparked large amounts of fire on the shield's surface, quickly neutralizing the shield's energy.

Without the protection of shields, the demon ships were immediately penetrated by cations, triggering a series of chain reactions.

"Sizzle—Bang! Rumble—"

The thrusters of a demonic ship suddenly exploded into fireballs, and the surging shockwave tore the ship to pieces from back to front.

Another demon ship was unable to dodge in time and collided with the fireball, instantly exploding into a second fireball.

The first round of firefight between the two sides ended with the reconnaissance ship remaining unscathed, while the demon faction lost two escort ships.

"Activate the Gaussian array," Li Nuo ordered the Gaussian team.

"Buzz, hum—"

A thick green beam shot out and crashed straight into a demon ship whose shields were flashing.

Billions of high-energy particles tore through the shield and poured into the ship's upper deck, giving the demon ship a complete penetration from front to back.

"Boom!"

The ship's engines were detonated, and a third large fireball appeared on the battlefield.

The reconnaissance ship rolled over and zigzagged, dodging another round of heavy artillery barrage and light spear bombardment.

In the second round of combat, the reconnaissance ship remained undamaged, while the demons suffered further losses.

"Boss, those junks are trying to board us. I've spotted dozens of fast-moving engine signals here, all from modified boarding ships."

Li Nuo nodded and gave the instructions:
"Bring them over, find the right moment to switch the form of the Green Dam, and use the gravity barrier to flatten the boarding ships."

"hold head high!"

Dozens of streaks of light with trailing flames rapidly approached.

The reconnaissance ship deliberately slowed down and reduced evasive maneuvers, enduring two shells laced with blood and acid to cause the Green Dam to flash.

The boarding ships, mistakenly believing that the orcs' shipborne shields were about to fail, immediately swarmed over and launched a surprise attack from all angles.

Just then, Green Dam Kid slammed the switch shut.

The light green ship shields turned transparent within seconds, appearing as if they were closed.

Overjoyed, they boarded the ship and accelerated rapidly.

"Bang, bang!"

"Bang bang bang, crack crack crack!"

The boarding ships crashed into the transparent shields and exploded one after another.

Their fragments did not scatter like in a normal explosion, but were compressed into flakes by the reconnaissance ship's shields and adhered to the shield surface.

This is the Paru Empire's trump card shield technology—shipborne gravity shield.

This shield has two layers, with a gap of less than 10 meters between them.

The pressure between the two shields will reach 100 times that of Terra, which is extremely terrifying.

Once the boarding craft enters the interlayer, it will be captured and crushed by the immense gravity, resulting in the scene where the boarding craft crashes into the ship's shields.

"Boss, the psionic beam has disappeared. The reconnaissance ship can enter sub-light speed travel mode. Should we activate sub-light speed travel immediately?"

The young helmsman asked a question.

The noisy boy then said:

"Boss, some junk is calling us. Should we pick it up?"

Li Nuo glanced at the demonic ships that had ceased their attack, pondered for a moment, and said:
"Warm up the sub-light speed engine, and start it only when I give the order. Answer that piece of junk's call."

"Okay." x2
The reconnaissance ship reduced its speed, and its sub-light speed engine was ready to be activated at any time.

The noisy boy pressed the key, and a holographic communication screen popped up.

The image shows a figure wearing a hood with antlers and mushrooms growing from it.

His hands were oddly shaped, like rotten tree roots, covered with tumors and abscesses.

The beard and long hair hanging from the hat were wet and sticky, as if covered with a layer of mucus.

You can almost smell the stench through the screen; this is definitely a minor leader in the Nurgle faction.

"What do you want?" Li Nuo asked coldly, arms crossed.

"You're actually orcs?"

The figure on the communication screen paused for a moment, seemingly not expecting that it was an orc talking to him.

It's not that the demons mistook them for someone else; the reconnaissance ship's appearance was simply too deceptive.

The ship was boxy, erasing the orcish features—namely, the exposed engines, the large exhaust pipes, and the wide-slit external armor plates—and there were no obvious markings.

In addition, with the "Mr. Mao's Quiet" force field activated, other ships cannot use scanning devices to see life signals inside the ship, and therefore have no way of knowing who the pilot of the reconnaissance ship is.

Li Nuo, too lazy to waste time arguing with the other side, said directly:
"Give us the way, or we'll keep fighting. I'll keep fighting until you're convinced."

"No, no, no, you can leave whenever you want. I'm just here to make a deal with you." The hooded figure lowered his posture and said in a pleading tone:
"You came through the Web Path, right? You must have a way to leave the Web Path. Help us open the gate to the real universe, and we will reward you handsomely. Whatever you want, we can give you."

Ha, another group of guys driven crazy by the internet.

When they were fighting the Webpath Graveyard during the Rebellion Era, Space and Beast encountered many creatures like this, who were determined to leave the Webpath.

Li Nuo was already used to this.

He did not reject the other party's suggestion, but instead asked:

"You must be a shrimp corrupted and twisted by rotten stuff. Why are you here?"

The figure opposite sighed:
“I was originally a member of the Terra Research Institute of the Human Empire. When the Web Path War broke out, I was swept away by the warp turbulence, but luckily I didn’t die. I was captured by the Nurgle demons, but I survived by using shipbuilding technology. I made a deal with the Nurgle demons. I helped them build ships, and they released me after they left the Web Path.”

"Oh, I see." Li Nuo thought for a moment, then asked:
"Do you know what happened to Karata?"

The figure paused for a moment, then murmured:
"Kalasta?... Hmm... That name sounds familiar. Are you talking about the net city beneath the Golden Net?"

“That’s right.” Li Nuo nodded slightly.

The figure pondered and said:

“I don’t know the current situation of Karata. But when I was swept away from Karata by the warp currents, it had already been occupied by demons.”

Li Nuo asked:
"Do you know how much junk is there?"

"I'm not sure about that, but it's probably dozens of times larger than our Web rift space. More importantly, there's a huge warp rift there. Demons can freely enter and exit the Web rift through the rift."

Just as Yun Chui had known, there was a subspace rift beneath the Golden Throne.

Once the God-Emperor rises, the warp rift will expand until it engulfs the Royal Palace and Terra, forming another Eye of Terror.

In other words, to enter Terra Palace from the web, you must first close this crack.

Li Nuo pondered for a moment, and his plan became clearer.

It's time to bring the network repairman online.

(End of this chapter)