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

Chapter 82 Ake Haileis (Please read the fourth update 44, extra update for the leader Fox Li does not eat pears)

While Li Nuo was thinking, Tarenzo snapped his fingers.

"Guys, I know what these images are. They're not bugs or plants, they're human tail vertebrae."

Wick was a little puzzled:

"Ah? The coccyx? And it's a human coccyx? Why do you say that?"

Tarenso turned on the flashlight of his laser pistol, illuminating a certain pattern:
"This pattern is the clearest. Look carefully, isn't this our tail vertebrae?"

Li Nuo observed carefully and retrieved the human skeleton diagram from the database for comparison.

Tarenso was right. The pattern on the wall was indeed carved according to the human coccyx.

Wick was amazed and wondered why so many tail vertebrae patterns were carved on the wall and why they were deliberately made to look like human faces.

Mona took two steps to the side and found a few equally clear patterns, confirming once again that the patterns on the wall were carved in imitation of human tail vertebrae.

Li Nuo fell into deep thought.

The connection between the human tail vertebrae and alien civilization reminded him of a very unpopular alien civilization in the history of Warhammer 40k.

This alien civilization only has a few lines of records in the chronicles about its existence, and there is no official novel related to it, so no blogger has made a short video about this civilization.

Li Nuo noticed the background setting of this alien civilization by chance.

Let me think, what is this civilization called? ... Li Nuo's brows gradually tightened, and he tried his best to recall this information.

The drug injected earlier was taking effect, and his thinking was unusually slow. For a moment, he couldn't remember the name of the alien civilization related to the human spine.

The four continued along the Howling Passage, bypassing dozens of spiral bends and arriving at the end of the Howling Passage.

This is a vast underground space made of steel, rivets and rocks, filled with tents made of cloth, like a refugee camp.

The bottom nest information provided by the father body shows that the top layer of the bottom nest is where the vagrants live.

The degree of variation among this type of people is relatively mild, and their individual strength is not strong.

They were excluded by the illegal forces of the Bottom Nest and had no right to compete for the ghost mushrooms, promethium ore, mutant plants and other things of the Bottom Nest. They could only survive in the cracks between the Bottom Nest and the ruins area.

The space where the four people are currently located is a settlement of vagrants.

Just like the situation on the ground, all the people here were called away by the Mihe Church, leaving behind their belongings and camps.

In the center of the settlement, a faulty communications repeater crackled with sparks.

Talenso repaired the repeater, while Li Nuo and the other two were on guard.

When the concentration of antipsychotic drugs drops below a certain critical value, brain activity returns to normal.

Information about the alien civilization surged into his mind like a spring, and Li Nuo felt a chill down his spine.

He remembered it all.

In the early days of the Great Crusade, an alien species called "Ak'Haireth" appeared in a remote area of the Solar Segmentum.

This alien is both predatory and parasitic.

Their favorite food is human spinal cord.

Once inside the human body, they feed on the spinal cord for nutrients, a process that can cause back discomfort.

At first, people just felt a little itchy on their backs, but later it developed into severe pain that even medicine could not suppress.

This symptom earned Aker Hailes the nickname "The Bone Drinker".

The life forms parasitized by the Bone Drinkers will become puppets controlled by the Bone Drinkers.

Bone Drinkers are connected through spiritual networks that span geographical distances, completely ignoring physical barriers.

They have two biggest peculiarities.

First, the Bone Drinkers are a Gestalt civilization.

Each of them possesses all the knowledge, memories, and abilities of the entire group.

In other words, unless they are killed all at once, the ones that escape will surely make a comeback with all the achievements of civilization of the entire race.

Not long into the Great Crusade, the expedition encountered the Bone Drinkers.

At that time, the Primarch of the VIII Legion had not yet returned, and they, together with the Space Wolves, launched an extermination operation against the Bone Drinkers, but failed.

In the later period of the Great Crusade, which was the period in which he was living, the Bone Drinkers frequently appeared at the junction of the Solar Sector and the Obscure Sector, attacking hive cities, merchant ships and space stations.

By 986.M30, Bone Drinkers were appearing on a large scale, attracting the Alpha Legion's encirclement and suppression, and eventually completely exterminating them.

The Alpha Legion was able to defeat the aliens not because they were stronger than the Space Wolves and the VIII Legion without a Primarch, but because the culture and structure of the Alpha Legion were somewhat similar to the Gestalt civilization, and therefore they were able to grasp the Bone Drinkers' weak points.

The second unique feature of the Bone Drinkers is their life form.

Bone drinkers are fungi.

That's right, fungus.

Because it is a fungus, Li Nuo specifically searched for background knowledge about the Bone Drinkers.

Fungi are something that can easily infect and parasite humans if they are not careful.

Activities such as growing mushrooms and smoking Polygonatum odoratum may lead to fungal infections, which are difficult to eradicate.

The parasitic ability of the Bone Drinker is countless times stronger than that of ordinary fungi.

Even Space Marines can be infected by inhaling air containing large amounts of Bone Drinker spores, and may even become Bone Drinker puppets.

For a bunch of weaklings like them whose immunity is less than one-tenth of that of the Space Marines, direct contact with the Bone Drinkers' spores is like looking for death.

Li Nuo frowned, his eyes moving slowly around the corners, constantly releasing identification skills and analyzing fungi, searching for the whereabouts of the Bone Drinker.

His eyes met the particles swirling in the air and he threw an identification spell at them. The system responded that this was just ordinary dust, not the spores of the Bone Drinker.

Li Nuo did not dare to relax and continued to detect.

Mengna vaguely heard Li Nuo's heavy breathing, raised her hand and patted his arm:

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Li Nuo shook his head slightly, realizing that he was a little too nervous.

If the spores of the Bone Drinker really appeared on a large scale in the Bottom Nest, what he and others would have to face would definitely not be an empty camp, but a group of infected people with extremely predatory desires.

"It's okay, Mona, I'm just wondering where the people here have gone." Li Nuo took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Guys, I found something interesting, do you want to come and see it?"

Tarenso called out on the communication channel, and the repair tools in his hands started to hiss as he quickly repaired the damaged pipes and electronic circuits.

Li Nuo and the other two gathered around, and Talenso pulled out a tube from the base of the communication repeater and connected it to his own data board.

Data from the datapad is shared across the agents' internal communication channels.

A three-dimensional map appeared in Li Nuo's holographic vision.

Wick whistled excitedly:

"Wow, Tarenso, this couldn't be a map of the entire Bottom Nest?" "Haha, man, you guessed it right. Before this communication repeater was destroyed, it transmitted a map of the Bottom Nest. This part of the information happened to be saved in the cache, and I found it. This is just my first discovery. Look at this."

Talenso stood up triumphantly and plugged in the power to the communication repeater.

The sound of electrophoresis came from inside the wall, and crackling electric sparks spread along the cables buried underground.

The communication repeater vibrated and buzzed twice, then began to operate reluctantly.

The holographic map in the four people's field of vision began to refresh dynamically, and a large amount of graphic information was marked out.

The bottom nest covers an extremely large area and was originally a flat cylinder.

After years of excavation by the Hehe Church, the bottom nest now looks like a funnel extending downward.

The closer to the center of the bottom nest, the deeper the artificial excavation.

The deepest place in the center of the bottom nest is the headquarters of the Reconciliation Cult.

As luck would have it, the four of them were right above the headquarters of the Reconciliation Cult at that moment.

There were numerous steel passages, suspension bridges, and suspended corridors between them and the headquarters of the Mihe Cult, and the terrain was as complicated as a maze.

Theoretically, a vertical passage can be created through blasting, leading directly to the headquarters of the Hehe Cult at the deepest part of the Bottom Nest.

There are numerous red exclamation marks on the holographic map.

Talenso poked an exclamation mark with his fingertips, and the surveillance footage popped up on the map.

In the picture, a humanoid monster covered with pustules and sores is digging ghost mushrooms under the command of a group of people in uniform.

The latter has a "big circle within a small circle" pattern on its body, which is the symbol used by the Hejiao in Dichao.

Anyone who wears this kind of clothing is a false father of the Reunification Church.

Those rotten monsters driven by the pseudo-father should be the pseudo-offspring.

They dig up ghost mushrooms very quickly.

The blue-purple light emitted by the mushrooms did not cause them to hallucinate, but instead prompted them to speed up again and again, just like stimulants.

By clicking on different red exclamation marks, the surveillance images presented are similar, all of which are scenes of the Mihe Sect quickly digging ghost mushrooms.

After they dug out the roots of the mushrooms, they transported them non-stop to the headquarters of the Reconciliation Cult in the deepest part of the Bottom Nest.

Wick Environmental Protection rubbed his chin with his arms and analyzed:

"It looks like the Mihe Cult is planning something big."

Talenso pointed to the only blue exclamation mark on the holographic map:

"The place marked with an exclamation mark is the headquarters of the Reconciliation Cult. How about we click on it and take a look?"

Wick raised his chin and said, "Just click on it. Who wouldn't want to see it?"

Talenso tapped the blue exclamation mark with his fingertips, and new surveillance footage appeared.

A large group of cultists knelt around the several-meter-high sculpture.

They held the roots of the ghost mushrooms in their hands and ate them frantically, while kowtowing to the sculptures one after another

At the feet of the sculpture there is a person with only the left half of his head. He is the leader of the Reconciliation Church, code-named "Father". He is leading the believers to worship the sculpture.

The sculpture looks very strange and the carving technique is extremely simple.

The four of them looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out what it was.

Remarkably, the sculpture glows.

Every time the cultists kowtowed several times, the sculpture would light up red at a very small amplitude.

A hundred meters behind the sculpture, a stone door more than ten meters high appeared on the mottled rock wall.

The stone gate was half open, with some transport vehicles parked at the door, and guns, ammunition, glass jars and other things scattered on the ground.

The style of this stone door is completely different from the bottom nest.

The bottom nest is the foundation of the hive city constructed of steel, while the stone gate and the walls on both sides reveal the weight and simplicity of history.

Wick elbowed Talenso:

"Can you adjust the angle of the surveillance camera? It would be great if we could see what's inside that stone door."

"Let me try." Talenso operated a few times on the data pad.

The surveillance camera panned and zoomed in, just in time for the crack in the door.

Inside the stone gate is a rock hall with a primitive style and hundreds or even thousands of pillars.

On the floor of the rock hall, rows of tall rock shelves stood there, with many glittering things piled up in the shelves.

At first glance, there are ghost mushrooms, mysterious books, coins, gems, strange devices, unknown potions, old swords and vehicles, etc.

There is no doubt that this rock hall is the underground treasure house discovered by the Bridging Cult after years of excavation!

Talenso clapped his hands excitedly:
"We'd better send the communication signal to the ground, so that the hunters can have a good look at the situation of the headquarters of the Reconciliation Cult! I guarantee that the hunters will go crazy for this!"

"Hurry up! Don't let the cultists continue to defile the things in the treasury!" Wick rubbed his hands together, staring at the treasures in the stone gate with shining eyes, wishing he could go over and plunder them right now.

Talenso activated all functions of the communication repeater, and a strong signal pulse penetrated the wailing channel and rushed to the ground.

After a while, Tarenso contacted the hunting lords and happily reported the situation underground.

Mona didn't say anything and appeared calmer than Wick and Talenso.

The same is true for Li Nuo.

He glanced at Talenso without leaving a trace, then narrowed his eyes and stared at the communication repeater, a series of questions emerging in his mind.

Who destroyed the communications repeater?
Why didn't the person who destroyed it erase the data in the cache or destroy the cache directly?
Talenso is proficient in electronic mechanics. He can skillfully repair the communication repeater and operate it, which is not a big problem.

But isn’t this all a bit too coincidental?
It was as if someone had made a detailed plan behind the scenes, just waiting for them and their group to carry it forward.

Li Nuo stared at the [blue] exclamation mark on the holographic map in deep thought, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came into his eyes.

Wait a minute!
Why is this exclamation mark blue?
And it looks like a "9".

Li Nuo glared fiercely!

Oh my goodness, I forgot there were sacred numbers in the Warhammer world!

I'm such an idiot!

Xiao Li, the Cloud Hammer player, realized it later but finally reacted.

It's not his fault.

He loves fungi more than numbers.

Even when watching short videos about Warhammer, he deliberately picked those related to fungi and didn't pay much attention to information other than fungi.

Otherwise, he would not have known about the extremely unpopular fungal alien called Ake Hares.

　I don’t have enough time today to write a thank you note for the monthly tickets and recommendation tickets. I’ll make up for it tomorrow!
　　Thank you for reading and collecting!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)