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

Chapter 317 Pharos

The power of the Super Imagination Force is obvious; it is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.

It is a powerful weapon in one's own hands, but becomes a terrifying murder weapon in the hands of the enemy.

Lino raised the security level at Palu's back garden.

For all the orcs, farts, and skugs who were in Palu Homeland or had been there during the experiment, Lino decisively used an alchemical potion to erase their memories.

The research site was destroyed, the research data was erased after Li Nuo finished memorizing it, and all the instruments and consumables used in the research were turned to ashes.

The test subjects joined the personal guard of the witch boy Sak, becoming inconspicuous figures who were constantly monitored by Sak.

And so, the secrets about the Super Thinking Power were now entirely in Li Nuo's hands.

Six days later, the network portal was repaired, and the Paru Fleet entered the network node.

This node has three network gates.

Besides the main gate we came through, the other two gates lead to the southern section of Altrama and another network node, respectively.

According to Horus's plan, this place will serve as a transit point.

Li Nuo went to the Cosmic Hall and reactivated the "Let Me Take a Look" function to check the connection status between the transit node and various districts of Alteramar.

The results were encouraging.

The transit node is separated from the southern partition by only one network portal, while it is separated from the central, western, and eastern partitions by two portals. In other words, you have to go to other nodes first before you can open the portal to reach the corresponding partition.

The transfer node is the furthest from the northern sub-district, requiring passing through three nodes and a total of four gates to reach the destination.

Li Nuo informed Terra of the transit node information, requesting them to send people to take over and construct the forward base.

At the same time, he used the [Simulate Companion] function to summon beasts to the front line, leaving the task of cleaning up the network demons to them.

Li Nuo had more important things to do, which was to reverse engineer Pharos and obtain the blueprints for the device.

The more complex the device, the longer and more versatile the psionic materials required for contemplation.

Take Heart of Fire as an example.

During previous testing, Li Nuo discovered that it would take three days and three nights, plus several million portions of universal psionic materials, to come up with a usable blueprint.

Universal psionic materials can be exchanged through Waagh simulations, and the production and inventory of monocrystals in Paru Homeland are plentiful.

The key issue is the time it takes.

Li Nuo planned to first check how long it would take to obtain the blueprints of the Seekers, and then decide whether to activate the Super Seekers Power before the arrival of the punitive army or after the defeat of the Omniscient Church.

If it doesn't take long and the margin for error is high, then it's not too late to think about it after the Church of Omniscience is defeated and Pharos takes it into the Imperial Treasury.

If it takes too long and it's not suitable to stay in the empire's treasury for an extended period, otherwise people will become suspicious, then we must try our best to come up with Pharos's blueprints before the punitive army arrives.

In short, wait for the right opportunity and prioritize stability.

"Beast, I'm leaving the cleaning up of this junk to you. Contact me anytime if anything comes up. If I can't get there in time, and Shrimp is eager to see me, just keep them calm. I'll be there as soon as possible."

"Okay, boss."

Li Nuo gave the beast some instructions and then switched his consciousness from Space II to Kron.

The reconnaissance ship opened the network portal of the relay node and entered the real universe.

By scanning the environmental parameters, it was determined that this is the Octal sector of the Altrama South Division.

The capital of the Southern District is Anderman, which is located next to the Octal Sector, no more than 210 light-years away.

There's no need to find a network path for such a short distance; we can just travel directly through subspace.

The navigator, Sparkling Boy, closed his eyes in the amniotic fluid tank and observed the subspace.

"Holy crap, boss! Something's wrong with the warp!"

The shimmering boy projects images of subspace onto a holographic screen.

Normally, subspace should be a dynamic picture scroll that is ever-changing and colorful, with lines and blocks of various colors intertwined, constantly twisting, deforming, mixing and separating.

However, at this time, the subspace was undergoing a change that tended towards "order".

Subspace energies, containing various emotions, are categorized by color and placed in certain corners of the subspace by an invisible hand.

Red, representing anger, irritability, courage, competitiveness, and the desire to fight, is placed in the northwest direction.

Blue, representing intelligence, thinking, rationality, contemplation, and planning, is placed in the northeast direction.

Green, representing life, health, growth, optimism, and a love of nature, is placed in the southwest direction.

Purple, representing creativity, imagination, art, perfectionism, and self-love, is placed in the southeast direction.

Four different colors of energy, scattered haphazardly throughout the subspace, were now slowly converging towards a specific corner.

The energies of the other colors—black, brown, silver, and white—remained unaffected and remained in a state of chaos.

Li Nuo gleaned some clues from this scene.

As is widely known, the Warhammer universe is associated with the concept of the Chaos Octagon.

The northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast directions correspond to the chaotic evil gods Khorne, Tzeentch, Nagoro, and Slaanesh, respectively.

The warp energy favored by this evil god is converging in a specific direction, which may indicate that some conspiracy related to the Chaos God is brewing.

Once he's settled things with Pharos, Li Nuo plans to go to Terra to inquire about the situation.

The Chief Star Speaker and the Chief Navigator should have already discovered the anomalies in the subspace of Alteramar.

"Try to see if you can enter the subspace. Once inside, be careful to avoid red, blue, green, and purple subspace energies. I have a feeling that we'll be in trouble if we encounter these energies."

"Roar!" x2
Flashy Boy and Helmsman Boy responded.

The subspace portal opened, and the reconnaissance ship flew in, carefully avoiding the subspace energy of a specific color.

Due to the anomalies in subspace, the subspace journey, which should have been completed within two days, was delayed until three days later.

The reconnaissance ship left subspace and immediately activated all stealth measures, entering stealth mode.

This is Andrémão, the capital of the Otraman district, a civilized world.

The so-called civilized world refers to a world composed of various world forms common in human empires, including hive cities, as well as plate-level farms, resort paradises, industrial base facilities, and so on.

The most distinctive feature of this type of imperial world is that it can exist independently of other worlds, forming its own system and becoming self-sufficient.

The facilities on it are all designed for living and working needs. If there is an extra facility that is not related to production, it is most likely a copy of Pharos.

The reconnaissance ship circled Andemont several times at an altitude of 1200 kilometers above the Earth's surface.

By collecting geographical environmental information and electromagnetic signals, the Dongdong instrument discovered more than a dozen obvious anomalies.

After calculations, verifications, and deductions by the computer, the reconnaissance ship finally located a cave space about 200 meters underground.

Underground facilities are usually reinforced with ceramic steel structures, but no metal structures or lead plates to shield magnetic field signals can be seen in this cave space.

Furthermore, the cave contains valuable scientific instruments.

This is illogical. The only way caves can counter scanning is by using thick layers of rock and soil to weaken the scanning signal.

This method is rudimentary, but undeniably effective.

The detectors on reconnaissance ships can only see up to about 200 meters underground.

Only a small portion of the cave space was scanned, suggesting that Pharos might be hiding deep within the cave.

After thinking it over, Li Nuo decided to personally lead the team to infiltrate the area.

When they infiltrated Hera Fortress last time, the suppressive effect of Palu's psionic field on the power of chaos exposed their whereabouts.

This time, Li Nuo learned from his mistakes and used a special forces kid who didn't have a Palu energy field but was equipped with a single crystal armor to infiltrate.

Doing this would reduce chaos resistance to 99% and risk corruption, but Li Nuo felt it was worth it for the better stealth effect.

Furthermore, since the goal is to obtain Pharos's blueprints, an ancient orc boy with super thinking power is essential.

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the other side.

The beast led the team to clean up the junk.

With ample ammunition, the Paru fleet first used devastating bombardments to destroy most of the trash, then used ship cannons to pick off any stragglers, and finally collected the corpses of the trash and sent them to the psionic engine to be transformed into pure warp energy.

The psionic engine was mounted on the engineering vessel, which was then connected to the eco-vessel.

The subspace energy transformed from the demon's corpse will be delivered to the ecoship without leaving a single drop, "fertilizing" the ancient crystal fungi.

Despite the large amount of resources Li Nuo used to clean up the demons in the network, he actually reduced the net expenditure on single crystals from 150 million tons to just over 100 million tons by recycling and reusing the demon corpses.

Just as the beast was directing the battle at the front, a sword-class frigate from the human empire arrived at the transit point.

The ship's identification code was recorded by the Paru Fleet and it was registered as a friendly vessel, so it would not be driven away as long as it did not enter the controlled area.

It circled around the engineering vessel, the ecological vessel, and the logistics supply vessel, while secretly scanning the Paru warship guarding the area.

Before the searcher could detect its scanning signal, it shut down the Auger matrix and flew toward the Palu outpost, a relay node.

After a while.

Upon receiving news of the arrival of a special envoy from the human empire, the beast returned from the front lines to the transit node and met with the envoy.

The envoy was a state priest dressed in a light gold robe, who introduced himself as Oaklivan Montgomery, and was accompanied by an Imperial Navy captain and a Star Force captain.

After both parties verified their identification codes and confirmed that everything was correct, the Beast, representing Speth (Lino's name within the Empire), held a meeting.

Following his leader's instructions, the beast described the route map, the transit points, and the current status of the five forks in the road ahead.

Currently, only the God Emperor, Makado, and the old monster of the Spirit Clan know Li Nuo's true identity.

The others only knew him as a leader of the Palu orcs named Speth.

After listening to the beast's report, the Terra envoy first asked some questions about the details, and then steered the conversation toward the Palu orcs and Spes.

"Mr. Beast, thank you, Palu Beastmen, for your outstanding contribution in opening up the network route. Your bravery is evident to all. I have noticed that you have invested a great deal of strategic resources in this series of battles. Would you like our help to replenish weapons, ammunition, food, and fuel? In the name of the God-Emperor, the Empire has always been generous to its allies."

Supply replenishment... The beast pondered for a moment, it seemed that the boss hadn't mentioned replenishing supplies before leaving.

The boss can open a portal across sub-universes. If any resources are needed, they can just take them from the Palu homeland. Besides, the Palu orcs' weapons and ammunition specifications are different from those of the human empire, so they wouldn't be able to use them anyway.

It's likely that this question from the Terran envoy was part of a social interaction, expressing the speaker's hospitality as the host.

The beast analyzed silently, shaking its head:
"No need, we have enough supplies."

The Terran envoy paused almost imperceptibly, seemingly not expecting the orcs to refuse supplies.

He pointed to the eco-boat outside the porthole; the ship was enormous, with an eco-room covering more than several million square meters, and it looked like it consumed a lot of water resources.
"What about fresh water? Your eating habits are different from ours, which is why we have a special eco-ship for producing food. We can provide you with fresh water, which will be transported over by ten transport ships, amounting to approximately two million cubic meters."

Our eco-boat is used to grow mushrooms and convert single crystals.

The eco-boat has many hydrogen-oxygen Sgulpers, and the fresh water they produce every day is enough for our use.

Therefore, we do not need fresh water.

However, in Xia Mi's social perspective, wouldn't it be a bit impolite to refuse someone twice in a row?

The beast thought to itself that it should accept the other party's kindness, otherwise it would be too disrespectful.

But then I thought, in the Palu Empire, only the boss can make decisions!

We should ask the boss first.

"Um... well, our boss is fighting on the front lines. I'll talk to him about it. After all, two million cubic meters of fresh water is no small amount."

The Terran envoy nodded with a smile, "Please go ahead."

The beast pulled out its data tablet and sent a message to its leader.

The Terra envoy and the two military captains exchanged glances, then looked at the eco-ship and the engineering vessel, their eyes flickering as they pondered something.

at the same time.

Li Nuo successfully infiltrated Anderman and reached the underground cavern where Pharos was suspected to exist.

Once inside, you can clearly feel the change in the magnetic field.

Due to the presence of numerous communication devices, the Earth's magnetic field is usually quite "volatile," with various electromagnetic signals interfering with each other, eventually achieving a subtle calm amidst the chaos.

The magnetic field inside a cave is different.

An invisible hand smooths out the signal curve, the channel distribution is uniform, the number of access points on each channel is relatively even, and the boundaries between high, medium and low frequency magnetic fields are distinct.

Simply viewing the visualization of magnetic field vector data is a pleasure.

That's right, this underground cavern is definitely the location of Pharos.

Li Nuo accelerated his advance, concealing his tracks, and followed the winding stone cave path to a place a thousand meters underground.

There is a lot of concrete fill here, and the signs of human intervention are becoming increasingly obvious.

After descending for about two kilometers, we passed through a winding path and the view suddenly opened up before us.

A building resembling the Eiffel Tower came into view.

The building is about 200 meters high and is constructed of black metal. At the top is a prism that emits a rainbow of light.

Countless electronic devices are connected to it through a dense network of pipes, and a large number of oilers in black uniforms shuttle between the Thinker array. Fly-like servo skulls fly around the building, shooting out light screens and scanning parameters.

Psionic energy fluctuations emanated from the top of the building, forming rings of seven-colored light.

Most of the halo's light was absorbed by the force field surrounding the building, while a small portion dissipated and was neutralized by the concrete walls.

Li Nuo locked his gaze on the black spire that was shimmering with light and cast a detection spell.

(End of this chapter)