Warhammer 40: Saviors Emerging from the Bottom

The addition of the sage from the Cult of Mechanics made up for the lack of technical personnel in Xiao Yi's team. Over the next few days, everyone began to dismantle the useless parts of the corpse starch factory, following Friedrich's advice.

The dismantled raw materials were processed by Xiao Yi and eventually turned into weapons and other useful items.

Friedrich was very interested in this ability to alter matter. He had repeatedly asked to observe the process of altering matter up close and record the data, but Xiao Yi refused each time.

Xiao Yi had no intention of letting any mechanical engineers know that he possessed this ability. In the eyes of those tech enthusiasts, his existence was comparable to a warehouse full of STCs (Standard Template Constructs). If he weren't facing a sage with a relatively open mind, he might have been captured and dissected for research.

Unfortunately, his miraculous ability to twist a whole piece of steel into a laser gun had already spread throughout the camp, and Friedrich could hear all sorts of rumors about it just by taking a stroll outside.

After his requests were rejected several times, Friedrich changed his approach and tried to sneak into Xiao Yi's workplace, and unsurprisingly he was caught.

"What are you doing here?"

"As long as it allows our unit to observe the process of matter transformation up close, you can name any conditions you like."

"I already said that all of this is just hearsay. I can't change the atomic structure of steel to turn it into a new substance. I just used psionic energy to teleport the steel to the warp and then traded it with another guy who needed it."

"This unit has never said that you can change the atomic structure. All of this is just a lie you used to deceive this unit. Moreover, this unit's logical thinking engine cannot deduce what kind of creature in the subspace would exchange an equal weight of steel for a mechanical arm part. The condition of equivalent exchange simply does not hold."

I wish I hadn't fixed your arm.

Just as Xiao Yi was racking his brains about how to get rid of Friedrich, Aria came looking for him.

"Redmond and his men are back, this time bringing back over a hundred survivors."

This gave Xiao Yi an excuse to get away.

"I'm coming right now." With that, he dashed off.

Friedrich watched Xiao Yi leave, then turned to look at Aria, who was sticking her tongue out at him, and two flames lit up on the screen on his face.

"Our organization will never give up on exploring knowledge!"

Over the past ten days, in addition to reinforcing the factory's defenses and turning it into a fortress, Xiao Yi and his group have also been sending out search teams to look for useful supplies and survivors hiding in the corners.

Of course, searching by manpower alone is very slow. In order to unite the surviving humans in the factory area, Xiao Yi had Friedrich repair the communication equipment in the factory area and reveal the location of the survivor camp to everyone who could hear the broadcast.

Doing this certainly comes with certain risks, but it's all worth it. As of now, the number of people in the camp has swelled to about 4,500.

To prevent any survivors from other places from being infected with the plague, Xiao Yi and Aria would personally examine each person. Although they did not possess medical skills, they could see the traces of Nurgle contamination on human souls.

By combining some simple checking methods, you will almost never make a mistake.

To prevent the camp from collapsing from within, Xiao Yi made many efforts. For example, the drinking water had to be sterilized at high temperatures in a large pot engraved with the Emperor's Holy Words, and the corpse starch sticks that were eaten had to be boiled in water into a paste-like substance.

These methods are quite effective when the number of people is limited, but they are not a long-term solution. To completely get rid of the plague, we must find a way to develop a vaccine, but it is impossible in the short term given the current situation.

When Xiao Yi arrived at the entrance, a group of people dressed in long robes, completely covered up, were looking around at their surroundings. Unlike the other survivors who were nervous when they first arrived, they had stiff, mechanical smiles on their faces, as if they were being forced.

"Redmond." Xiao Yi beckoned Redmond over.

"Where did you find these guys?"

"It's less like we found them and more like we stumbled upon them. We ran into these strange guys on the way back. What's wrong with them?"

"This is a huge problem." Xiao Yi looked up at the group in front of him; the souls of each of them were shrouded in a disgusting, excrement-green hue.

Because of past survivor attacks, Xiao Yi and his team do not trust unchecked survivors. Before an individual is checked, the search team must maintain a distance of at least ten steps from them. Violators will be subject to the most severe punishment, regardless of whether the contact causes serious consequences.

That's why Redmond and his team maintained a safe distance from each other throughout the journey; otherwise, the entire exploration team might have ended up like the other side.

"Create distance and prepare for battle."

"Understood." Redmond nodded and began to convey orders to the soldiers beside him with his eyes.

At first, the people infected by the plague did not realize that something was wrong until the flamethrower soldiers arrived.

"The False Emperor's lackeys have already sensed the anomaly, and they immediately charge forward, bestowing the Father's blessings upon those stubborn fools."

The infected, who had been standing there in a daze, immediately pulled out various types of pistols from under their robes and began firing.

"Holy crap, they actually have guns?!" Redmond was somewhat surprised as he looked at the infected who were firing wildly with faith.

As a gang leader who had been in the underworld for many years, Redmond had an understanding of how to conceal firearms on his person, but even so, he couldn't figure out that the other person was hiding a gun.

However, seeing those slower-reacting guys in the opposing team pull out pistols and machetes from the openings in their stomachs, I instantly understood everything. Hiding a gun on your person is completely different from hiding a gun inside your body.

"Don't they feel pain?"

"Judging from the level of infection, they probably can't feel pain anymore. Everyone be careful, the bullets they fired also carry germs. Protect yourselves first before you fight back."

Xiao Yi cracked his knuckles, preparing to rush forward and deal with the guy in the infected group who was constantly twisting his body, looking like he was performing some kind of ritual.

In Warhammer 40K, a world with warp and evil gods, charlatans are far more terrifying than tanks; who knows what strange things they might summon with a single sacrificial ritual.

"This is bad! A large number of plague zombies are approaching us."

"Hmm." Xiao Yi, who was just about to charge, paused for a moment. It seemed that the other party also knew very well that he could not take down the entire shelter by relying on his own strength.