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

Chapter 80: Exploring the Way Ahead (Fourth update, please read 24)

"Are you Kang Wen?"

The speeder boat hovered in front of Li Nuo, and the people in the car knocked on the door to attract Li Nuo's attention.

The man driving the speeder boat had a bald head, wore a black face scarf and goggles, and had no lines on his head.

He has no ears.

Where the ears should have been were replaced by a pair of three-centimeter-long spiral antennas, and the skin on both sides of the head was also made of metal.

"Yes, it's me. Who are you?" Li Nuo took out the data tablet and recognized each other's identity codes.

The man in the car pulled out a line from his sleeve and connected it to Li Nuo's data board:

"I'm Master Ogusger's chief of guards and technical advisor. You can call me Vegetto. You're quite capable to have obtained the route map so quickly. It seems that you, the agents working for the Governor, are indeed not simple people."

The screen of the data tablet flashed, reminding Li Nuo that he had obtained some permissions.

"I've added your biometric data and datapad signal to the team's whitelist. If there's a fight later, I don't want to see your head explode in the car."

Vegetto retracted the line and waved his hand:
"Get in and sit in the passenger seat. We're leaving now. Just leave your transport vehicle here. I've already told the officer at the customs, and he'll keep an eye on the vehicle for you. You can come back and drive it away when we leave."

"Okay, thank you."

Li Nuo climbed into the car and sat on the anti-gravity vehicle that was like a water bed.

The anti-gravity engine made a low humming sound, and the convoy shuttled through the streets, quickly approaching the ruins area along the route map given by Li Nuo.

There are many ways to enter the ruins area.

Not counting the small paths dug out by wanderers, scavengers, and mutants, there are more than twenty main roads guarded by law enforcers.

The road closest to the bottom nest is located in the southwest corner of the entire eighth district.

This is a waste incineration plant with poor air quality. Most of the people coming and going are construction vehicles and workers from the incineration plant.

The byproducts of incineration power generation will be transported to the ruins area by conveyor belts.

Since people were often needed to enter the ruins to inspect the conveyor belt, the owner of the factory applied for a clearance gate from the 8th District City Hall.

This checkpoint is the starting point of this journey.

When the group arrived here, the factory manager was already waiting on the roadside.

"You are all Master Ogsger's men, right? I warmly welcome you all. Please keep these things. From now on, you can come and go freely."

The manager handed over the keychain and permission card with a fawning smile.

Vegetto put away his things and asked:

"What did the Master tell you?"

"Master Ogsger has bought out the customs clearance rights for this checkpoint for the next month. Please rest assured that during this period, I guarantee that only Master Ogsger's convoy can pass through here."

The manager smiled with narrowed eyes.

I guess the price Ogsger offered was so high that the manager would be willing to sell his pants.

Rich families are generous and are very good at using money to open doors.

The checkpoint is built at the foot of a towering metal wall and is guarded by armed personnel from the waste incineration plant.

The thickness of the metal wall is astonishing, estimated to be at least a hundred meters, and the wall is filled with pipes and cables.

This is a huge barrier that separates the seventh and eighth districts.

After passing through the checkpoint and entering the tunnel that crosses the barrier, the air quality drops significantly.

After a while, everyone arrived at the other end of the tunnel and officially entered the stinking ruins area.

Garbage fragments and ashes piled up like mountains, the soil was dyed inky black, and the conveyor belts were fixed in mid-air by steel pipes and cables, crisscrossing and interweaving like a dense spider web.

The conveyor belt has its own searchlight. Hundreds or even thousands of light beams drop from the sky, illuminating the dense dust in the air.

In the dark corner where the light could not reach, the vague black shadows were startled by the convoy and moved quickly around.

"Car No. 3, begin scanning the surrounding environment and creating a holographic map."

Vegetto gave a command into the breathing mask.

"Zizizizi..." A burst of noise came from the communication channel, followed by a reply from Car No. 3:
"Received. Scanning in progress. The magnetic field environment here is very poor. I have found multiple levels of signal interference sources. It may be a black radio station set up by a local gang."

Vegetto asked:

"Can you hack in?"

"Let me try."

Li Nuo was staring at the route map in the passenger seat to avoid taking the wrong road.

He knew little about the communications technology of the Warhammer world, so he didn't interrupt.

The convoy weaved its way around the foot of the garbage mountain.

"Zizzi-"

Noise flashed across the internal communication channel.

The person in car 3 said:
"Captain, I've hacked into the local signal source. The channel is very noisy. You'd better listen."

"Okay, you can broadcast it publicly on our channel."

Within three seconds after Vegetto finished speaking, dozens of different voices appeared in the channel, the noise level comparable to a live music performance of a death heavy metal band.

"what----"

"Kakakaka————"

“They are coming!!”

"Don't come near me!"

“Da da da da——”

"Move that thing away, ah——"

There seemed to be a fierce battle going on around the source of the signal, and all kinds of harsh sounds made Li Nuo frown.

He thought of the fertilizer sold from the Bottom Nest to the Ruins.

Could it be that the side effects of these fertilizers have begun to erupt in the ruins area?
It seems possible.

Vegetto ordered: "Filter out sounds below 30 decibels."

"receive."

It became quiet.

Most of the sounds like dong dong dong and da da da disappeared.

Vegetto gave a few more orders, filtering out the noise of specific audio frequencies and tones, retaining a few recurring male voices.

At this time, everyone finally heard a clearer conversation.

"Has the message been sent?"

"Boss, I've been sending messages, but no one has replied to us."

"Damn it, get out of the way and let me speak." The speaker fiddled with the microphone, cleared his throat, and then shouted at the top of his voice:

"Hey! Everyone who can receive this signal, listen carefully! Something terrible seems to have happened in the bottom nest, and many monsters are rushing out from underground! If you don't go to the eighth district to get help, we will all die on this damn pipeline cliff!"

"Boss! The monsters down there are coming to kill us!"

"Grass!"

"Beep----"

The sound of gunfire exploded in the communication channel, causing a howl.

Vegetto turned off the external signal and asked with his head tilted:
"What are Pipeline Cliffs and Wailing Pass?"

Li Nuo remembered Laya's information within 0.1 seconds and responded immediately:

“Pipeline Cliff is the largest human settlement in the ruins area. It is built on the vertical section of the pipeline hub in the seventh district and is located in the central area of the ruins area.

"The Wailing Passage is one of the main roads leading to the Underhive in the Ruins. This passage has a psionic effect. It will first make people feel dazed, and then suck them into the wall and turn them into wailing human faces."

"Interesting bottom nest landscape. This is the first time I've heard of this kind of passage." Vegetto opened the data chart on the data pad and thought carefully about the route.

The route map that Li Nuo gave could bypass the pipeline cliff and reach the Howling Passage directly.

Whether the people on the pipeline cliff are dead or alive has nothing to do with us.

but.

The monster that attacked the pipeline cliff was related to him and others.

The Hunter has a kill counter on him.

The Hunter Lord can gain points by killing any hostile creature that is not included in the Hive Database.

A large group of monsters gathered near the pipeline cliff will undoubtedly provide Master Ogsger with a lot of points.

"I'll ask the young master. We'll do whatever he says."

Vegetto muttered, dialing out a communication request across the region.

He didn't succeed.

This was within Li Nuo's expectations.

Communications in the Seventh District had been cut off long ago, otherwise Leia wouldn't have to run to the Eighth District to make a phone call.

The prerequisite for restoring communications is to dig out the communication equipment and pipelines buried in the ground, and then ask the mechanical priest to perform a ritual... Well, no, it should be to ask the mechanical priest to overhaul it.

"Shit, I forgot we can't get public communication signals in this place. Well, that's what I can do."

Vegetto complained a few words and said in the communication channel:
"Guys, there may have been a big fight at the pipeline cliffs, but that has nothing to do with us. Just keep following the route map and ignore those distress signals."

"Received." x10
The convoy moved forward at a constant speed, drawing a holographic map of the surroundings in real time.

After leaving the landfill, the scene ahead shocked everyone.

The ceiling of the seventh district was shattered into pieces, and huge metal plates with a thickness of more than 100 meters were inserted diagonally into the ground, like giant axes piercing through the earth.

The foundation appears to be squeezed by continental plates, with various sharp mountains stacked one upon the other. From a distance, this place looks no different from the turbulent sea level.

Countless yellow sands slid down from the sky, forming a dazzling number of columns.

The sky is collapsing, the earth is breaking, and dust is everywhere. This is the true portrayal of most places in the ruins area.

Leia's life is really not easy. This place is simply not a place for human beings to stay.

Li Nuo felt emotional.

A strong wind blew, and yellow sand flew in my face, with gravel hitting my goggles with a crackling sound.

Wind and sand cannot stop the anti-gravity vehicle from moving forward.

The convoy sped up and rushed into the depths of the ruins area amidst the dust and sand.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the dust in the air formed a wall, sweeping towards the convoy from far away.

Li Nuo reminded:
"A sandstorm is coming. This extreme weather will occur in the ruins area every three to seven days, and each time it appears it will last for about half an hour. Should we find a place to take shelter first?"

"Sand storm? No problem, no need to hide." Vegetto smiled confidently and slapped the control panel.

"bass----"

A certain elliptical light blue force field enveloped the speedboat, isolating all the wind and sand outside, and the whistling sound in the ears became much smaller.

Damn, such an old antique actually has an onboard force field generator.

Li Nuo was a little dumbfounded.

Looking back, I can see that although the two cars behind me don’t have a force field, their hulls and the power of their anti-gravity engines are enough to resist the wind and sand.

The faster the car goes, the stronger the wind and sand become, but the car body remains motionless.

As we raced along the route, the strong winds gradually died down and the endless sea of sand reappeared.

An hour later, the convoy, moving at full speed, arrived at the rumored Howling Passage.

The entrance to the passage is located deep in a cave. Outside the cave is an important trading place where a large number of people gather and there are also a number of simple houses.

All of this is recorded in Leia's intelligence.

But now, it's dead silent here.

(End of this chapter)