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

Chapter 1 Mushroom Specialists

985.M30，第30个千年的第985年，即公元29985年。

Solar Star Region, Hive World - Epiphyte.

Lower nest, area 8, loading and unloading platform.

In the train carriage waiting to be loaded, several loaders hid in a corner where the supervisors could not see and took a rest.

The dull boy walked into the carriage and put down the metal box in his hand.

Although he was exhausted and out of breath, the boy turned a blind eye to the lazy loaders and never complained.

The stevedores in the corner watched the boy leave, looked at each other, and chuckled.

"What a stupid boy."

"With him here, we feel much more relaxed."

"Hey hey hey."

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Terra time, the last box of goods was put on the truck, and today's moving work was completed.

The supervisor came over to count the goods, took out a stack of plastic cards, and handed them to the foreman of the loading and unloading team:

"Here, this is today's salary, twenty ration cards for each person. There is another truckload of goods to be moved tomorrow morning, so come on time and don't be late."

"Yes, sir. I've got it in mind."

The contractor took out five ration cards, stuffed them into the supervisor's pocket, and smiled ingratiatingly:
"This is a gift from our brothers to you. Please leave a good job for us tomorrow."

The supervisor hummed lightly, quite satisfied, and left with his hands behind his back.

The contractor waved to his men and shouted:

"Come on, come on, everyone. Twenty ration cards for each person. Except you, Li Nuo, you only have ten."

The contractor slapped the ration card on the boy's chest and said earnestly:
"Li Nuo, after your father died, we didn't give his job to someone else. Instead, we let you take on this job. This was entirely for your father's sake. You are still young, and there is no one else to support at home. Your burden is much lighter than ours. So, you take less and we take more. Do you have any objection?"

Li Nuo is the dull boy in the loading and unloading team, he is fifteen years old.

He had just finished studying Low Gothic and mathematics at Xiachao College when he received the tragic news that his father had died of overwork in a decoration factory.

There is no such thing as work-related injuries in the hive world, let alone any subsidies such as pensions or consolation payments.

After losing his father, the family income was cut off. Li Nuo had to give up his plan to learn a craft in college and stepped onto the loading and unloading platform to start a life of hard work.

Facing the hypocrisy of the contractor, Li Nuo was like a void.

He swallowed all the negative information from the outside world without responding to any emotional fluctuations.

After putting away the ration card, Li Nuo walked towards the factory gate. His back looked desolate and lonely, and it seemed that he had not yet recovered from the grief of losing his father.

When Li Nuo walked away, the stevedores grinned, their brows filled with joy at having succeeded in their clever trick.

"Boss, you still have a way to easily trick a stupid boy into working for us."

"Haha, not only do we have less work to do, but we don't have to pay out of our own pockets to please the supervisor. Life is so comfortable!"

The contractor was surrounded by his workers, looking very proud. He waved his hand and said:
"Come on, guys, let's go to the nearby tavern and have some fun."

The group ran towards the door happily, running towards the alcohol and the shaking bed.

What the stevedores didn't notice was that the boy who had left alone earlier was looking at them with indifference.

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What a pathetic bunch of Lower Nesters you are! Why should the Emperor's glory shine upon you?

Li Nuo withdrew his gaze from the stevedores and walked quickly towards his residence.

Everyone thought he was an orphan who was experiencing the pain of losing his father.

This is not the case.

He is a traveler.

Seven days ago, the original owner of this body cried to death in bed because of his father's death. Li Nuo was hit by a dump truck in the original world, and his soul traveled through time and occupied this body.

From then on, the owner of this body was no longer a young boy who was inexperienced in the world.

Li Nuo knew very well what the contractor had done to him.

Exploitation, oppression, and withholding of wages reveal the ugliness and hypocrisy of human nature.

Li Nuo had a plan in mind that could change his own destiny, so he had no time to worry about trivial matters.

Today is a critical day for executing the plan.

Once he succeeds, he can say goodbye forever to a life of doing hard physical labor in exchange for a meager income.

We walked in silence until our residence was right in front of us.

It was a tin house inherited from the original owner's father.

Li Nuo took out the ration card hidden under the bed and put it in his arms.

Including the inheritance from the original owner and his own wages, he had accumulated more than a hundred ration cards.

After going out, he went straight to the roadside stall selling mushrooms.

The stall owner is a white-haired old man who makes a living by selling edible mushrooms and leads a comfortable life.

The mushrooms he sells have an average taste, but they are free of germs and pests, so you won’t get sick even if you eat them raw.

This mushroom smells lightly like the legendary milk, so it is called milk mushroom by the Xiachao people.

"Fresh milk mushrooms, three ration cards per box. Some yellow milk mushrooms, one ration card per box. Which one do you want?"

The stall owner sat in a rocking chair, swaying back and forth in a leisurely posture.

The main food of the Lower Nest residents is synthetic starch, usually in the form of starch porridge.

Three ration cards can buy a large bowl of starch porridge at the starch pool, which is equivalent to a meal for a loader.

A box of milk mushrooms can only make a stevedore only about 50% full at most.

From the perspective of filling the stomach, milk mushrooms are less cost-effective than starch porridge.

However, since starch porridge has a bad taste and contains many mineral elements that are harmful to the human body, the mushroom stall has always done good business, and even the yellow milk mushrooms will be sold out.

Li Nuo patted his bulging pockets:

"I'm not here to buy mushrooms. I want to buy the mycelium, culture medium and nutrient solution of milk mushrooms."

The stall owner stopped the rocking chair and squinted his eyes to observe the young man in front of the stall.

There was a hidden gleam of greed in his eyes, as if he had seen a big fat sheep.

"One bottle of mycelium costs eighty ration cards. I'll give you twenty ration cards for the accompanying culture medium and nutrient solution. I can tell you the cultivation method for free, but I have to say one thing in advance. Growing mushrooms is not as easy as you think. If the mushrooms don't grow, I won't refund your money."

"I understand." Li Nuo took out the ration card and placed it on the stall.

The old man sat up straight, holding the money in one hand and the goods in the other.

The mycelium is encapsulated with opaque brown glass.

The culture medium is packed in several bags, weighing a total of more than 300 kilograms. The main component is soil that is not contaminated by pathogens.

Thirty liters of culture medium are divided into five spray bottles.

"You have to listen carefully to what I say next."

The stall owner lay back in the rocking chair, rocking his body and saying:

"After you go back, find a few clean containers, pour the culture medium into them, cover them, and let the culture medium sit for two days.

"On the third day, use a shovel to turn the culture medium over and spray the nutrient solution. After all the nutrient solution is sprayed, sow the mycelium into the culture medium.

"You need to go to the Water Guild every day to buy purified water and spray it on the culture medium. If everything goes well, on the sixth day, you will be able to see milk mushrooms emerging from the culture medium. After another seven days, the milk mushrooms can be picked."

The stall owner paused and smiled kindly:
"Did you remember what I just said? Don't blame me for not reminding you that mushroom cultivation is not something that can be done successfully in one go. If you fail this time, you can buy another batch of mycelium from me. I'll give you a 20% discount."

The stall owner went over the process of growing milk mushrooms again, appearing to be very dedicated.

The stall owner's products were all of good quality, and no one had ever returned them or argued with him. But when Li Nuo asked about the key to growing mushrooms, the stall owner was vague. He avoided talking about the room temperature for growing milk mushrooms.

As for the humidity and light requirements of the cultivation environment, the stall owner simply said it was up to him.

The stall owner remained tight-lipped about whether ventilation is needed after sowing and how long each ventilation should last.

Not to mention the time and amount of spraying "mushroom water" and "mushroom fruiting water".

These are the key factors that determine whether mushrooms can grow successfully.

The stall owner's intention of concealing key information is self-evident. He simply wants to cultivate a sucker who will keep buying mycelium from him.

Li Nuo will not be fooled by the other party, nor will he become the other party's cash cow.

Before traveling through time, he was a master's student at the Agricultural University, majoring in applied mycology.

Due to his busy studies, he has no time for dating or playing games. At most, he watches game videos and acts as a cloud player.

For the Warhammer 40k world, he is a standard cloud hammer.

After crossing, it took him two full days to adapt to the dirty and messy environment of the lower nest area.

The good news is that, just like other time travelers, he also gained a system unique to him.

This became his hope for survival in the desperate situation in Xiachao.

After five trips between the stall and his residence, Li Nuo finally moved all the things back home.

Close the doors and windows, draw the curtains, and light the promethium lamps in the house.

The light blue illuminates the room. The furniture in the room is all in the iron window style, simple and shabby.

Li Nuo opened the brown glass bottle containing the mycelium, stared at the gray substance inside, and said silently in his heart:

"Analyze the mycelium."

"bass----"

After the illusory prompt sound, a white light curtain appeared in the field of vision.

【Name: Improved milk mushroom mycelium】

【Analysis results:】

[Good quality strains, high purity, dense and vigorous mycelium, strong vitality, no foreign bacteria, insect pests and toxicity detected. ]

[After this mycelium was improved, the mushroom yield increased significantly, but the price was that the mushroom spores were inactive and could not grow into new mycelium. ]

Spores are the "seeds" of mushrooms.

After the initial development of the spores, hyphae are formed, and the hyphae continue to grow and become mushrooms.

This is the development process of mushroom fungi - mushrooms are what people commonly call "mushrooms".

Mushrooms have a cap, and spores are usually hidden in the gills of the cap.

The mycelium of this milk mushroom has been modified.

The mushroom yield was increased, but the spores on the mushrooms were inactive and could not develop into mycelium, let alone turn into mushrooms.

This undoubtedly cuts off the possibility of multiple cultivation.

The milk mushrooms sold at the stalls are all grown using this mycelium.

It’s not a big problem, Li Nuo can accept it.

“Starting to simulate the cultivation of milk mushroom mycelium.”

【The simulation is about to start. 】

[During the simulation, the system will provide the sunlight, water and air required for the simulation. ]

【Please select the culture medium and nutrient solution you want to use. 】

Li Nuo gestured with his hands on the bag and spray bottle:
"Just use the stuff in front of me."

【Please set the simulation parameters. 】

Li Nuo hesitated for a moment and reported a string of information:
"Standard atmospheric pressure, room temperature 30 degrees, relative air humidity 80%, light intensity 400 lux, proper ventilation, keep the temperature of the culture medium at around 30 degrees, avoid direct blowing on the mushroom body, and use clean water to water the mushrooms."

[The simulation parameters have been set, and the simulation cultivation begins. ]

【On the first day, you ferment the culture medium. 】

[On the third day, after the culture medium has fermented, you spray the nutrient solution to make the culture medium evenly dry and wet, and then sow the mycelium. ]

[On the fourth and fifth days, you find that the temperature of the culture medium reaches 32 degrees. You take appropriate ventilation measures to cool the culture medium.]

[On the sixth day, you found hyphae that had drilled out of the soil. What did you decide?]

Can you see mycelium emerging on the sixth day?
It’s worthy of being the Warhammer world, the mycelium develops very quickly.

Li Nuo was secretly shocked and said in his heart:

"I decided to spray the mushrooms with water, with a larger amount, at least twice the usual amount, and increase the ventilation to maintain a relative humidity of 80%."

[On the sixth day, you spray the mycelium in the soil with mushroom water and increase the ventilation to maintain the relative humidity of the air at 80%.]

[On the ninth day, you found small mushroom buds in the soil. The surface of the mushroom buds was slightly shriveled...]

"Wait." Li Nuo stopped the simulation and ordered:
“Re-simulate cultivation. Adjust the relative humidity of the air to 85%, reduce the light intensity to 300 lux, and keep other parameters unchanged.”

【Simulation parameters have been adjusted.】

【The second round of simulation begins. 】

【On the first day, you ferment the culture medium. 】

【...】

[On the ninth day, you found small mushroom buds in the soil. The surface of the mushroom buds was plump and round, indicating that there was enough water. You sprayed the mushroom buds with water for fruiting.]

Well, very good. The air humidity was a bit low before, and the light intensity was a bit high, which caused the mushroom buds to appear a bit shriveled.

The adjusted air humidity and light intensity are just right.

Li Nuo nodded secretly and continued to check the simulation information.

[On the thirteenth day, under your careful care, the mushrooms grew to the standard size. You picked the mushrooms and obtained 30 kilograms of milk mushrooms.]

[Simulation ends. 】

[The simulation plan has been recorded. ]

【Congratulations on your successful cultivation. 】

[Consume the culture medium, nutrient solution and mycelium used in the simulation, and perform the simulation settlement. You will get 30 kg of milk mushrooms. ]

【Do you want to proceed with the settlement? 】

Wuhu, it’s done!
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Note 1: The Water Guild is a commercial guild that controls water resources and is responsible for managing and operating the hive's water pipes, valves, and water purification plants.

Note 2: Mushroom-setting water and mushroom-fruiting water are usually ordinary clean water. They are called mushroom-setting water and mushroom-fruiting water only when they are used to promote mushroom setting and fruiting in the key stages.

Note 3: The author is a self-taught mycologist and is not a graduate of a related major. The professional knowledge mentioned in the book cannot withstand scrutiny, so please bear with me and don’t take it too seriously.

Note 4: Regarding the system-related settings, the author will give an explanation that is consistent with the world view in the main storyline.

Note 5: It is not recommended to grow mushrooms at home as it can easily lead to "mushroom lung".

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