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

Chapter 81 Alien Mural

There was not a single person to be seen in the human settlement near the cave.

There was no blood, no corpses, no signs of fighting inside or outside the house, the promethium lamp inside the house was lit, a campfire was boiling water and heating cans, and food crumbs were scattered around.

There are traces of human life everywhere, but not a single living person can be seen.

The onboard radar of vehicle No. 3 released an invisible force field that quickly scanned the surrounding space.

A series of footprints were captured by the radar and marked as dotted lines on everyone's holographic goggles.

Li Nuo's sound array device was connected to the team's sound array, and thus also received the scanning results from the radar.

Following the dotted lines, the footprints on the ground show a certain pattern.

There are more than 10,000 people in the settlement.

After hearing the broadcast, these people left their houses, came to the main road of the settlement, formed three columns, and entered the caves in an orderly manner.

The footprints started from the settlement, extended to the entrance of the cave, and disappeared into the darkness deep in the cave.

There was a sandstorm here before, which only subsided an hour and a half ago.

The footprints on the ground are relatively clear and not covered by sand and dust, which means that the footprints were left after the sandstorm ended.

"Why is there no one here?" asked Vegetto.

Li Nuo thought for a moment and responded, "The people who usually live on both sides of the Howling Passage are illegal forces that have defected to the Mihe Church. The Mihe Church may have gathered these people at its headquarters."

"Oh, that makes sense." Vegetto called his teammates on the communication channel, "Car No. 3, can you see the scene inside the cave clearly?"

"Captain, there is interference in the cave, and the scan results are all garbled."

Garbled code? … Li Nuo became alert and looked back at car No. 3, fearing that the garbled code mentioned by the other party was the legendary chaos code.

Li Nuo was worrying too much. Car No. 3 was safe and sound and showed no abnormalities.

Vegetto drove the speeder towards the settlement, "It doesn't matter if we can't scan it, as long as this road is confirmed to lead us into the bottom nest."

Li Nuo reminded in the communication channel:

"Everyone, the psychic effect of the Howling Passage is quite strange. We'd better be careful and don't get too close. If Master Osgus is sure he wants to take this route, he must prepare anti-psychic devices in advance."

Vegetto grinned, "You don't have to worry about that. The young master's hunting suit has a built-in anti-psychic device, which can easily crush a gamma-level psychic."

Seeing Vegetto so confident, Li Nuo stopped talking.

The Imperial Medical Department has developed a grading system for psychics.

At the top are the Alpha+ psykers, also known as super psykers.

Below the super psychics, the psychic levels from high to low are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc.

The anti-psychic device that can fight against gamma-level psychics is enough to crush more than 95% of psychics. It can be said to be half a step to invincibility.

When recalling this knowledge in his mind, Li Nuo suddenly found that he seemed to have hit a BUG.

According to this classification system, although he can display a variety of "psychic powers", he will be classified as a ρ-level psychic, that is, an ordinary person, because he has no psychic reaction.

This is a bit outrageous...

While Li Nuo was thinking, the convoy circled the settlement and stopped at the entrance of the cave.

Vegetto commanded the people in cars No. 2 and No. 3 to set up a temporary base.

Li Nuo carefully observed the inside and outside of the cave, searching for possible pathogens.

There was no yellow-green liquid on the ground and walls, and the "body fragrance" of the loving father was not present.

This is good news.

After a few minutes, Vegetto's voice rang out over the communication channel:
"You stay here to guard the base. Kang Wen and I will go back to lead the way for the young master. Don't let anyone get close to here before we come back. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Captain."

Metal baffles and searchlights formed the wall of the temporary stronghold. Two anti-gravity armored vehicles were parked in the middle of the wall, and the people in the vehicles were on guard with guns on the roof and behind the wall.

Their equipment is extremely sophisticated, with carapace armor, bolters, holographic helmets, breathing apparatus, melta grenades, and more.

Vegetto waved to Li Nuo:

"Hurry, get in the car. We have to get back as soon as possible. The young master will come to the nest in three hours."

Li Nuo got back into the speedboat.

With a hum, the anti-gravity vehicle accelerated, and dust flew up on both sides of the speeder boat.

The figures of the two turned into tiny black dots and disappeared on the horizon covered with yellow sand.

Time passes while waiting.

An hour later, the cleaning operation began and the hunting team was allowed to enter the lower nest.

Two hours later, dozens of black dots appeared on the horizon.

The guard guarding the cave picked up the telescope and looked into the distance, marveling:
"Look, why are there so many armored vehicles?"

Li Nuo also asked a similar question when he met with Osgers.

Those who appeared in the convoy included not only Ogsger and his armed retainers, but also four other hunting lords of the Vogues family, their armed retainers, and the governor's agents who accompanied them.

Didn’t you say you would lead the way for Ogsger?
Why are the other four hunting lords here too?

That's the smart thing about Ogsger and his father.

Ogsger is a descendant of the Garmin branch of the Vorges family.

The reason why this branch of the bloodline has been able to continue to this day is not because of competing for power with the direct line, but because of its clear understanding of itself.

They knew they didn't have what it took to become governor, so they simply devoted themselves to serving the direct descendants of the Vauques family.

The Garmin line had held a seat in the Governor-General's cabinet since about a hundred years ago.

When Osgers survives his father's retirement, he will become the new cabinet minister.

The current governor had a daughter in his old age and has only one direct descendant, Titus Vorges.

In a few years or decades, Tido will most likely become the Governor-General of Osgos.

In addition, the Osgus family carefully calculated that there were four generations between Osgus and Tido.

The hive city prohibits marriage between direct blood relatives or branch blood relatives within three generations.

Osgus and Titus are four generations apart, which meets the requirements for marriage.

The two are very close in age and there is no so-called generation gap, which undoubtedly provides a valuable opportunity for marriage.

If successful, the middle name Garmin will become the surname of the hive governor.

Therefore, as soon as Ogsger got the information about Lino, he shared it with Tido.

In order to win people's hearts, Tido shared the information with three other hunting lords.

In this way, the five hunting lords temporarily formed a group, first took the fruits of victory, and then distributed the harvest according to the proportions agreed upon by the elders in the family.

Li Nuo did not comment on this, as long as the nobles were happy.

A piece of information was sent back and forth and turned into four favors. This is really unique.

As for the nonsense that the Garmin lineage wholeheartedly serves the direct descendants, haha, this kind of talk is good enough to fool the direct members of the Fugais family, don't try to fool a time traveler like me.

There is a great enemy called Chaos in this world.

Even Horus, the good boy in the eyes of the Emperor, was fooled by Chaos, let alone the nobles who were blinded by profit.

The convoy stopped near the entrance of the cave.

The armed retainers were the first to get off the car.

This group of people wore carapace armor, held bolt guns, wore holographic helmets, goggles and breathing masks, and had a uniform look. Their factions were distinguished by armbands and identity codes.

There were five hunting lords, each with a hundred armed retainers, and several of the governor's special agents.

The appearance of nearly six hundred people made the deserted settlement more lively.

Armed retainers spread out, scanning the settlement with various handheld instruments.

After confirming that there were no enemies, diseases, or traps nearby, the five hunting lords got off their vehicles.

The equipment of the male hunter is very similar to that of "Doctor Octopus" in the "Spider-Man" series of movies.

Four powerful mechanical arms extended from the mechanical backpacks on their backs.

The robotic arms can be extended and shortened freely, and each hand is equipped with a weapon or shield, which can be controlled only by intracranial implants.

The sensor array in the helmet helps the wearer automatically lock onto the enemy, automatically fire, and automatically use the mechanical arm for close combat and to resist attacks.

The wearer can leave all the offense and defense to the robot arm, and only needs to talk trash in battle.

The armor protecting the torso and limbs is suspected to be made of ceramic steel and refined gold. It is thick, solid, and simple in shape, like the heavy armor of a medieval knight. It is powered by built-in electronic muscle bundles and fusion battery packs.

According to Vegetto, this Hunter Lord weapon is the strongest of all the Hunter Lord equipment known so far, and its name is "Soucho".

The only female hunting lord on the scene was wearing an armor called "Female Chieftain".

This set of Hunter Duke weapons only has three mechanical arms and its combat capability is slightly weaker, but it is equipped with a variety of stealth devices, which can achieve a nearly perfect stealth state.

In addition, Li Nuo saw something familiar on the arms of these five hunting lords - a "mirror shield" device.

Unlike his own "Mirror Shield", which is a replica, the "Mirror Shields" of the five hunting lords are all genuine. The genuine "Mirror Shield" can not only resist energy attacks, but also absorb and store energy, and then release it through weapons to enhance the killing effect.

To sum it up in one sentence, strong and invincible.

Anyone wearing this kind of Hunter Lord Arms can stay idle during a battle without any problems, because the Hunter Lord Arms will handle everything on their own.

"Kang Wen, come here." Ogsger called Li Nuo on the communication channel.

Li Nuo walked in front of the five hunting lords with steady steps, bent his right leg, touched the ground with his left knee, leaned forward slightly, lowered his head, and saluted with standard etiquette:
"Miss, Master, Kang Wen is here to report."

Osgus pointed at Li Nuo, turned sideways and said to the hunting lords around him:
"This is Kang Wen who provided me with the roadmap... Kang Wen, stand up, I want to ask you something."

Li Nuo stood up. His height was almost the same as the five hunting lords. He just happened to meet the eyes of the female hunting lord Tido Vogues.

Tido has a delicate and small face, pink lips, and her nose and eyes are hidden behind black goggles.

Even though she was wrapped in heavy armor with only the lower half of her face showing through the helmet, she was enough to make any man who saw her feel shaken.

Li Nuo took a quick glance and then looked back at his current customer.

Ogsger has three white eyes, thin lips, and a pair of shrewd eyes under the transparent brown goggles, as if they are flashing with calculating light all the time.

"Kang Wen, how much do you know about the Bottom Nest?" Osgus asked in the elegant tone of a young master.

Li Nuo bowed his head slightly, "I'm sorry, Master, I don't know much about the bottom nest."

"Hmm." Osgus snorted.
"How about this, you call a few agents and go to the bottom nest to investigate first. Miss Tiduo will be waiting for your good news here."

"Yes, Miss, Master. I will go and gather people right away." Li Nuo responded calmly.

Ogsger waved his hand:

"Go quickly and come back soon. Don't let Miss Tiduo wait too long."

Li Nuo took his leave and called Tarenso, Wick and Mona on the communication channel.

The three opponents were assigned to different hunting lords.

After asking their patrons, the three of them came to the entrance of the cave to meet Li Nuo and stepped into the darkness together.

The night vision module of the holographic goggles automatically turned on, and dense footprints appeared in the field of vision.

Talenso nudged Li Nuo with his elbow and asked:

"After you handed the route map to Ogsger, did he give you a reward?"

Wick was curious about this question and listened attentively.

Li Nuo sighed softly in the internal communication channel:
"Oh, forget it. Ogsger only gave me 10 credits as a down payment, and the rest will be given after the cleanup operation is completed."

"Damn, the advance payment is only 10." Talenso exclaimed.

Wick laughed:

"I told you, given Ogsger's personality, he would pay 20 at most in advance, not a cent more. I didn't expect him to be even stingier than I thought, and only gave 10. You have to accept the loss, Talenso, pay quickly."

"Damn, Ogsger's stinginess is beyond my imagination." Talenso fiddled with the data board. "Wick, there is no signal here. I will give it to you when we return to the Eighth District."

"Okay, okay, just remember it." Wick smiled from ear to ear.

It turns out these two people were betting with me, no wonder they asked me how much money I got... Li Nuo rolled his eyes at them.

Mona on the side shook her head helplessly, and it was unclear whether she was secretly complaining about the bet between Wick and Talenso, or lamenting Ogsger's stinginess.

“Sizzle, sizzle—”

A faint noise flashed across the channel.

The four of them all became serious and carefully checked the data collected by the sensors.

The psychic readings rose slightly, and the air was flowing out from deep within the cave. It was moderately polluted, had a high chance of causing illness, and carried a slight amount of radiation.

There is an intermittent signal source far, far below, which may be sent by some kind of signal relay device.

After walking forward for about a minute, the four saw the rumored Howling Passage.

The passage is about three kilometers long and extends downward in a spiral.

After several flares were fired, the lighting conditions of the holographic field of view improved significantly, and the faces protruding from the wall became increasingly bizarre.

The light from the flares flickered slightly, casting shadows on people's faces.

The faces are still, with different expressions, sad, happy, desperate, painful, or hideous.

The eerie atmosphere grew rapidly with the changes in light and shadow. Invisible rhythms disturbed the air, and layers of whispers appeared in the ears of the three people.

The illusion created by the Howling Passage appeared.

The whispers lingering in their ears caused the four people to react to different degrees.

Wick shivered as if he was frightened, stroked his arm, and gasped, "Hiss, this damn place gives me goose bumps."

The sound of the liquid pump injecting into Tarenso's body was heard, and he shook his head and showed off:
"I feel much better after taking the valproate. Do you want some? I still have some."

"Keep those medicines for yourself." Wick pressed on his wrist armor, and a popping sound came from inside the armor.

Three seconds later, his voice became exceptionally calm, as if he had entered a sage moment, "I'm fine. Kangwen, Mona, don't just stand there, inject the antipsychotic drug quickly."

Mona replied calmly, "I've already been injected."

Wick shrugged. "Oh, okay. You looked the same before and after the injection, so I thought you forgot."

"I have a question." Li Nuo asked thoughtfully, "Are the hallucinations you hear loud?"

Under the influence of the drug, Wick turned into a poker face and nodded expressionlessly in response:
"Yes, it's very noisy, just like a bar at midnight."

Talenso said, "I feel better than Wick. The sound of the hallucination is about 50 or 60 decibels."

Mona nodded, "My situation is similar to Tarenzo's."

Li Nuo discovered the problem.

The murmurs he heard were very faint, similar to those he had heard when he had been digging for ghost mushrooms in the Kram cigarette factory.

If measured with a number, it is about 10 to 20 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of turning pages of a book.

The phantom sound created by telepathic psychic energy was so faint that Li Nuo doubted that he could pass through the passage without any drugs.

That’s quite interesting. Could it be that this ability to resist hallucinations is also a plug-in gained after traveling through time?
Li Nuo thought about it and gave himself an injection for the sake of caution.

The drug took effect quickly, thinking became dull, and emotional fluctuations were smoothed out by an invisible hand.

The four of them formed a formation of two in front and two behind and stepped into the passage filled with human faces.

“Da, da, da——”

The footsteps were neither fast nor slow, the air was eerily quiet, and the faces of the people around seemed to come alive under the changing light and shadow, their mouths slowly opening and closing, and their pupils seemed to follow the movement of the four figures.

"Those faces seem to be looking at us," Wick whispered in the internal channel.

Talenso sneered:
"Tsk~ Are you scared, Wick? My sensors show that the position information of the faces has not changed. If you are scared, why don't you just not look at them?"

Li Nuo asked:
"Have you looked closely at the mural here? I don't think it's a human face."

None of the four are timid people.

After hearing what Li Nuo said, the team immediately slowed down their pace and moved closer to the wall on the left.

The pattern on the wall became clearer.

The four of them couldn't help but widen their eyes.

If the drug wasn't still effective, they would probably be making strange noises at this moment.

"Oh my god, it really isn't a human face." Talenso's artificial eye sizzled as he analyzed the wall:
"It looks like some kind of insect or plant pattern. I can't find any corresponding information in the database."

Wick stretched out his right hand, and his fingertips followed the pattern on the wall and moved to the end of the passage:

"Look. The patterns on the wall are connected and can be extended forever."

Li Nuo had another opinion in his mind, but did not say it immediately.

He felt that these patterns were both a whole and could be broken down into countless individuals.

Before the time travel, there was a game called Snake.

The pattern on the wall resembles a snake of astonishing length.

Each section of this "snake" can be separated separately to form a short "snake".

Putting the short "snakes" together forms an extra-long "snake" that runs across the entire wall.

It is obvious that the content on the wall has some connotation.

Considering that this is the Warhammer world, the origins of the murals are nothing more than those.

Li Nuo used the identification spell to take a look.

Just as he expected, this painting was not simple and was actually a work left behind by an alien civilization.

【Name: Works of Alien Civilization】

【describe:】

[An alien civilization once took root here. They created their own culture. This corridor may have a special meaning in civilization. The patterns on the corridor wall may contain important clues you want to know.]

(End of this chapter)