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

Chapter 316 Super Thinking Power

"...Efficient, secretive, and do not alert the Omniscient God Cult."

Horus explained the function of the ten routes, and concluded by saying:
"I don't know much about Wangdao. If you think I've said anything wrong, you can point it out directly."

Li Nuo stared at the Milky Way's planar map for two seconds, and roughly guessed that Horus's understanding of the current state of the network was almost zero:
"Horus, do you know that the net-path city beneath the Golden Throne is called Karata? Before my fleet arrived, it was teeming with demons, roughly estimated to be no less than three hundred million."

Horus nodded and said:

"Yes, I heard the Imperial Guard describe how your fleet annihilated the demons. You used devastating weapons to cripple the enemy, then overwhelmed them with firepower and numbers. It was a magnificent battle."

Li Nuo pointed to the route on the holographic map:
"But do you know, Horus? The number of demons in other parts of the Web Path is about the same as in Karata. Before entering Karata, my fleet passed through six Web Path nodes, each of which contained hundreds of millions of Web Path demons."

Horus was slightly moved, and a few wrinkles appeared on his forehead:
"You mean, the number of demons in the Web Path actually far exceeds the human empire's predictions? Our ten planned routes are crammed with demons?"

“That’s right. So if you want to use these ten routes to get to Alteramar quickly, you first have to find a way to avoid the demons on the routes. Either eliminate them or rush through them in one go.”

Li Nuo's words made Horus take a deep breath, while the mechanical sage beside him emitted a crackling static noise, clearly also shocked by the orc's words.

Theoretically speaking, the portal opened by the God Emperor would be more efficient than the Internet Path.

The problem is that the God-Emperor's portal is achieved through the warp.

The subspace of Altrama and the surrounding area was firmly controlled by the Jekyll and the Beast.

Let alone the God-Emperor's portal, even a merchant ship from the human empire would get lost in that warp and be tossed into some remote corner by Tzeentch to be ravaged.

That's why Horus and the others thought of using the network to quickly reach Alteramar.

However, their understanding of the current state of the internet meant that this plan involving the internet was doomed to fail.

To get rich, build roads first.

To take advantage of the convenience of the internet, you must first cleanse the internet of evil.

Li Nuo thought Horus and the others would understand this principle.

Horus, along with the mechanical sages and the mortal think tank, discussed for half an hour and came up with another plan.

They reduced ten routes to one.

The new route starts from the Arathor Sector and arrives at a network node near Altramor.

This node is defined as a "transfer node".

The transit node branches into two to five short routes, each corresponding to a partition of Altrama.

In this way, the expeditionary force will stay together for most of the march, only splitting up when they reach the transit point near Altramor.

The cohesion of the expeditionary force has improved, giving them more confidence in facing the demons blocking their path. At the same time, the difficulty of exploring the route has been greatly reduced.

The number of short routes branching off from a transit node should be at least two, and five would be even better.

In the best-case scenario, the punitive forces will launch attacks on all five districts of Altramar simultaneously.

Li Nuo approved of the new plan, but at the same time, he also had a problem:
"Horus, why don't you concentrate your forces, take one district first, establish a forward base, and then attack the next district? Attacking five districts at the same time, wouldn't your forces be too scattered?"

"Let the expert answer this question for you. Annabella Midini, please resolve our orc friend's doubts."

Horus looked at a woman standing in the back row.

It was a navigator with three eyes, in his thirties, with a beautiful face, long hair curled up and tied at the back of his head, forming a flower bud, which was then covered with a light blue headscarf.

Standing at 1.8 meters tall, her white robe uniform as the chief navigator made her figure appear even more slender.

The crowd parted to make way for Annabella, who spoke in a serious yet slightly anxious tone:

"Mr. Speth, when you rescued Lord Lupecal from Altramor, you must have noticed a significant anomaly in Altramor's warp. There, psionic rays similar to startorches appeared. These rays could guide the ships of the Cult of the Omniscient, fulfilling the basic requirements for interstellar communication for the Cult's star-speakers."

"The device that emits this light is a type of alien technology called Pharos."

"According to documents declassified by the Imperial Military Affairs Department a thousand years ago, Pharos achieved point-to-point connections through quantum entanglement technology in the real universe, a technology that does not involve subspace."

"But now Pharos can radiate psionic light, illuminating the warp."

"The Chaos Enemy corrupted and transformed it, giving it the ability to deploy soldiers and weapons over extremely long distances, regardless of physical barriers."

Annabella picked up the data panel from her waist, opened a video file, and handed it to Li Nuo for review.

The video footage shows just how powerful Pharos was after the transformation.

It uses quantum entanglement technology to precisely locate a point tens of thousands of light-years away, and then uses the Chaos Demon's subspace travel technology to project a group of warriors in Alteramar to their destination over an extremely long distance.

The delivery process appeared to last only thirty seconds.

The Ultramarines of Altera will transform from phantoms into physical forms amidst a flash of psychic energy, carrying Alpha-level psychic fluctuations, and will eventually arrive at their destination safely.

This ultra-long-range delivery capability, which ignores physical and distance barriers, is truly astonishing, even more efficient than network channels.

Fortunately, it has obvious flaws.

The energy consumption in the subspace is enormous; it may be necessary to drain the psionic energy of a large number of psionicists at once in order to deploy dozens of warriors.

In addition, as a product of quantum technology, PHALOS has very high requirements for the magnetic field environment in which it is located and the magnetic field environment of the target location.

If the magnetic field environment in a certain star region is chaotic, PHROS's positioning function will be severely interfered with.

Ottara has at least five replicas of Pharos, with at least one in each district, located in the district capital, heavily guarded and heavily defended.

Assassins from the Inquisition, agents from the Imperial Military Service, and spies within the Space Marines all attempted to sabotage Pharos, but none succeeded.

Only a massive army can destroy these evil devices.

"Otlamar's testing of the device is accelerating. In the past month, Otlamar has deployed no fewer than two thousand soldiers to the Solar System to carry out sabotage operations. The video you are seeing now is from an illegal military operation that took place three days ago."

Li Nuosi nodded thoughtfully:
“I understand. The modified Pharos is extremely threatening and is particularly suitable for carrying out decapitation operations. We do need to launch attacks on all five divisions simultaneously. Putting aside whether we can destroy the Pharos device in the division capital, just disrupting the magnetic field environment with electromagnetic interference devices is enough to paralyze Pharos.”

“Yes, that’s right.” Annabella put away the data panel, nodded to Horus, and returned to the queue.

Now that things are clear and everyone has reached a consensus, let's get started.

Li Nuo obtained the complete plan from Horus, discussed the details of the plan with the think tank, the mechanical sage, and the commander of the mortal troops on site, and then left Terra Palace.

Before leaving, Lino promised to provide the Empire with a network access device so that the Imperial fleet could travel within the network.

These network access tools are special versions with a limited number of uses. Once the number of uses is exhausted, they will automatically destroy themselves and are protected by anti-cracking mechanisms.

The human empire has been unable to figure out how the orcs' "I think power" works for so many years, so it's impossible for them to crack the network access provided by the Paru Empire.

Horus, having acquired the network access device, smiled and asked the Paru fleet if they needed supplies. He assured them that he could provide ample weapons, ammunition, food, fresh water, and fuel, and that they should simply tell him what they wanted.

Li Nuo declined Horus's proposal, not because he wanted to save the empire money, but because everything the Palu orcs used had its own set of regulations that were incompatible with those of the human empire.

For example, weapons.

The Palu orcs' commonly used explosive guns have a larger caliber than those of the human empire, and their explosive charge is about 1.3 times that of the human empire's.

For example, freshwater.

Just like the Black Veil Psionic Field they had before, the Palu Orcs will not be able to break through the Palu Psionic Field as long as they do not eat anything containing subspace components or inject themselves with drugs containing subspace components.

To eliminate the Palu psionic field, all food and water for the Palu fleet are produced by the eco-ships within the fleet, and when there is a shortage, they are sent over via a portal.

Food and water given by others must be inspected, modified, and cooked before they can be consumed. Li Nuo found this troublesome and worried about food safety, so he simply refused them all.

After leaving Terra Palace, Blood Raven leader Kron piloted his reconnaissance ship to the Cosmic Hall of the Ancient Military Fortress. Lino possessed Kron and initiated a communication request to the crystal within the Cosmic Hall.

The crystal glowed faintly, and a message appeared on the communication screen.

Hey kid, what are you up to?

Li Nuo opened the data panel, connected it to the noisy box with a pipeline, and imported the pre-planned route map from the data panel into the message box.

"I want to take a look at the status of the network nodes along this route."

The route map originates from the Rebellion era and was drawn by the Paru Empire when they were exploring the Webpaths. It can take you directly from the Arathor Sector to western Alteramar.

A roadmap for an era of rebellion may not be applicable to an era of apostasy.

Linuo consumed 6421 tons of single crystals to obtain information about the route.

I took a look for you; the situation on this route is pretty bad.

It has 9 network nodes, 7 of which contain at least 1 million junk items. The remaining two don't have junk items, but their main entrances are broken; you need to fix the main entrances before you can pass through them.

How many single crystals are needed to repair the main gate?

One of the main doors isn't badly damaged; I figure 50 tons of single crystal should be enough. The other door is a bit more troublesome; I can't repair it without 120 million tons of single crystal.

This round trip involves 170 million tons of single crystals.

Grit your teeth and work towards your path to godhood.

Li Nuo inquired about the cost of using "Shoot Him" ​​and "Kill Him" ​​to eliminate the demons, and found that it was more economical to use the fleet to clear them out himself.

Back in the real universe, bring in 30 massive bombs from the Palu homeworld, and replenish with troops, ships, and supplies.

The massive cleanup of online demons has begun.

The five network nodes were cleaned up within five days, averaging one node cleaned up per day.

On the sixth day, Li Nuo consumed 50 tons of single crystals to repair the network gate.

The repairs will take three days, giving the Paru fleet a chance to rest and regroup.

Three days later, the demons at the seventh and eighth network nodes were cleared, and the fleet arrived at the gate of the ninth node.

120 million tons of single crystals were sent to the crystal in the cosmic hall, and the Web Gate began to repair itself, which was expected to take six days.

While awaiting restoration, research on the ancient orc leader made groundbreaking progress.

A research report with both scientific value and historical significance appeared before the witch doctor boy, Sak.

Li Nuo immediately possessed Sack's body and reviewed the report.

The contents of the document almost made him go crazy with joy.

Experiments have shown that when the gene fragment of the ancient orc leader is fused with the sealed yeast, it can achieve near-perfect expression on ordinary orc spores.

The ancient orc leader's genetic purity is 87%.

The spores containing his gene fragments, after developing into Palu Boys, have a gene purity of 85%, losing only 2% of their gene purity.

By injecting nucleotide repair fluid, the gene purity will return to 87%, ultimately making him exactly like the ancient orc leader!
Li Nuo suppressed his restless heart, put down the report, and went to the experimental site.

Palu, the experimental subject, is undergoing a series of tests to comprehensively evaluate his physical fitness, intelligence, chaos resistance, and mental acuity.

When Li Nuo arrived, the test was nearing its end.

With excellent physical fitness, one can maintain current bodily functions without exercise.

They are quick-witted, highly intelligent, and have a strong memory.

The chaos resistance is constant at 100%, and as long as the Palu psionic field does not collapse, it will never be corrupted by chaos.

As for my ability to think, that's quite astonishing.

Without possessing the genetic fragments of Pain Boy and Mad Doctor, an ordinary boy named Palu managed to devise the sorcery recipe for "Growth Spirit"!

By observing the effects and raw materials of the "Growth Spirit," and by practicing with an alchemical crucible, he devised a sorcery recipe with a 90% accuracy rate after more than thirty attempts.

The product of this formula only has half the effect of a normal "growth agent", but it is still very impressive.

Besides the sorcery recipes for alchemical potions, the blueprints for mechanical sorcery, the surgical plans for modifying biological weapons and armor based on Tyran genes, the bio-cultivation plans, the genetic modification plans, and so on, all yielded basically correct results in the experimental subjects.

It's like a large AI model; it can always come up with something, but there will always be some minor flaws.

Fortunately, these flaws can be repaired by asking questions repeatedly.

Li Nuo moved his fingers and created a simulated archive for the experimental subject, naming it "Ancient Orc Boy".

He ordered his men to take the test subjects to the Heart of Fire's warehouse.

A moment later, the Heart of Fire was placed a hundred meters in front of the test subject. The technician started the device and demonstrated how to use the Heart of Fire to the test subject.

Paidi has been studying the Heart of Fire whenever he has free time lately, and he is standing aside now, curiously observing the experimental subject.

Li Nuo possessed the experimental subject and personally experienced the power of "I Think" in the version of the ancient orc boss.

He focused his attention, gazing intently at the heart of fire.

As the psionic rays, capable of altering the appearance and structure of objects, acted upon the artificial hills in the distance, several lines of system text appeared in the field of vision.

[Searching the genetic database of "Ancient Orc Boy" in search of the sorcery blueprint for "Heart of Fire".]

【Search completed.】

Search results: 1 item.

【Name: Universal Drawing Sheet】

【illustrate:】

[A blank blueprint for brainstorming.]

Draw whatever you want on it.

Attention is your paintbrush, and versatile psionic materials are your paints.

Whether you can create the final product depends on whether you have enough universal psionic materials.

[Note that the consumption of universal psionic materials is not linearly related to the difficulty of finding the solution.]

When the target of the search becomes extremely difficult to crack, the consumption of universal psionic materials will increase exponentially.

hiss - huh -

Li Nuo took a deep breath, his heart pounding wildly.

Upon seeing the blueprints for the Universal Thinker, he didn't think of the Heart of Fire in front of him, but rather of the modified Pharos that could deploy combat units over extremely long distances!
If we could get our hands on the blueprints for the Pharos modified by Tzeentch, the Paru Empire's mobility in the real universe would be absolutely explosive, and its interstellar travel capabilities would undergo a qualitative change.

With this in mind, Li Nuo decided to give the ancient beastman leader, "My Thinking Power," a simple and easy-to-remember name.

Ah!
Let's call it Super Imagination Power!

(End of this chapter)