I cultivate mushrooms in warhammer

Chapter 82: Ak' Haireth (Seeking Follow-up Reads, Fourth Update 44, Bonus Update for Alliance Leader Fox Doesn't Eat Pears)

While Li Nuo was pondering, Tarenzo snapped his fingers.

"Guys, I know what these patterns are. They're not bugs or plants, but human tailbones."

Wick was a little puzzled:

"Huh? Tailbones? And human tailbones at that? Why do you say that?"

Tarenzo turned on the flashlight on his laser pistol, illuminating a certain pattern:

"This pattern is the clearest. Take a closer look, isn't this our tailbone?"

Li Nuo stared intently, pulling up a human skeleton graphic from the database for comparison.

Tarenzo was right; the patterns on the wall were indeed carved according to human tailbones.

Wick clicked his tongue in wonder, puzzled as to why so many tailbone patterns would be carved on the wall, and deliberately made to resemble human faces.

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

Li Nuo fell into deep thought.

The connection between human tailbones and the alien civilization made him think of a very obscure alien civilization in Warhammer 40k history.

This alien civilization was only recorded in a few lines in the chronicles, and there were no official novels related to it, so no bloggers had made short videos about this civilization.

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

Let me think, what was this civilization called?… Li Nuo's brow gradually furrowed as he tried his best to recall information about this.

The drugs injected earlier were in effect, and his thinking was abnormally sluggish, so he couldn't remember the name of the alien civilization related to the human spine for a while.

The four continued to advance along the Howling Passage, bypassing dozens of spiraling downward bends, and arrived at the end of the Howling Passage.

This was an underground space made of steel, rivets, and rock, covering a wide area and filled with tents made of cloth, like a refugee camp.

The underhive intelligence provided by the Father showed that the uppermost layer of the underhive was the residence of nomads.

These people had a relatively mild degree of mutation, and their individual strength was not strong.

They were excluded by the illegal forces of the underhive and had no right to compete for the underhive's ghost mushrooms, promethium ore, mutated plants, and other things, so they could only survive in the cracks between the underhive and the ruin zone.

The space the four were currently in was a settlement of nomads.

Just like the situation on the surface, all the people here had been called away by the Reconciliation Church, leaving behind all their belongings and camps.

In the center of the settlement, a malfunctioning communication repeater crackled with sparks.

Tarenzo repaired the repeater, while Li Nuo and the others were responsible for guarding.

When the concentration of antipsychotic drugs dropped to a certain critical value, the brain's activity returned to normal.

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

He remembered, he remembered everything.

In the early days of the Great Crusade, an alien called "Ak' Haireth" appeared in the remote areas of the Sol System.

This alien combined predation and parasitism.

Their favorite food was human spinal cord.

After parasitizing the human body, they would absorb spinal cord to obtain nutrients, a process that would make people feel discomfort in the back.

At first, people only felt a little itchy on their backs, but later it turned into a sharp pain that even drugs could not suppress.

This symptom gave Ak' Haireth the title of "Bone Drinker."

The life form parasitized by the Bone Drinker would become a puppet manipulated by the Bone Drinker.

The Bone Drinkers were connected through a mental network that spanned regions, completely ignoring physical barriers.

Their greatest peculiarity was two things.

First, the Bone Drinkers were a Gestalt civilization.

Each of their individuals possessed all the knowledge, memories, and abilities of the entire race.

That is to say, unless they were all killed at once, the survivors would surely carry all the civilization achievements of the entire race to make a comeback.

Not long after the Great Crusade began, the expeditionary force encountered the Bone Drinkers.

At that time, the Primarch of the Eighth Legion had not yet returned, and they and the Space Wolves carried out an extermination operation against the Bone Drinkers, but they failed.

In the later period of the Great Crusade, that is, the period he was in, the Bone Drinkers frequently appeared at the junction of the Sol System and the Halo Stars, attacking hive cities, merchant ships, and space stations.

By 986.M30, the Bone Drinkers appeared on a large scale, attracting the encirclement and suppression of the Alpha Legion, and finally were completely exterminated.

The Alpha Legion was able to defeat this alien, not because they were more powerful than the Space Wolves and the Eighth Legion without a Primarch, but because the culture and structure of the Alpha Legion were somewhat similar to the Gestalt civilization, so they could grasp the key points of the Bone Drinkers.

The second peculiarity of the Bone Drinkers was their life form.

Bone Drinkers were fungi.

That's right, it was fungi.

Because they were fungi, Li Nuo specifically searched for background knowledge about the Bone Drinkers.

Humans could easily be infected and parasitized by fungi if they were not careful.

Behaviors such as growing mushrooms and sucking jade bamboo may lead to fungal infections, and they are difficult to eradicate.

The parasitic ability of the Bone Drinkers was countless times stronger than that of ordinary fungi.

Even Space Marines could be infected by inhaling air containing a large number of Bone Drinker spores, and even become puppets of the Bone Drinkers.

His group of war-five-trash whose immunity was less than one-tenth of that of Space Marines, directly contacting the spores of the Bone Drinkers was purely like holding a lantern in the outhouse—courting death.

Li Nuo frowned tightly, his eyes slowly moving on the edges and corners, constantly releasing Identification Technique and analyzing fungi, searching for the whereabouts of the Bone Drinkers.

His eyes met the particles rolling in the air, and an Identification Technique was thrown over, and the system feedback that this was just ordinary dust, not the spores of the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo didn't dare to relax and continued to detect.

Mona 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 Drinkers really appeared on a large scale in the underhive, then what he and others would have to face would definitely not be an empty camp, but a group of extremely predatory infected people.

"It's okay, Mona, I'm just thinking about 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 take a look?"

Tarenzo called out in the communication channel, the repair tool in his hand buzzing, quickly repairing the damaged pipes and electronic circuits.

Li Nuo and the others surrounded him, and Tarenzo pulled out a pipe from the base of the communication repeater and connected it to his data pad.

The data on the data pad was shared in the agent's internal communication channel.

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

Wick whistled excitedly:

"Wow, Tarento, could this be the map of the entire Undercity?"

"Haha, you guessed it, buddy. This communication repeater transmitted the Undercity's map before it was sabotaged. This part of the data was conveniently saved in the cache, and I found it. This is just my first discovery. Take a look at this."

Tarento stood up triumphantly and connected the communication repeater to a power source.

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

The communication repeater buzzed and vibrated twice, barely managing to operate.

The holographic map in the four people's view began to dynamically refresh, and a large amount of icon information was marked.

The Undercity is extremely vast, originally a flat cylinder.

After years of excavation by the Reconciliation Church, the current Undercity looks like a funnel extending downwards.

The closer to the center of the Undercity, the deeper the artificial excavation.

The deepest part of the Undercity's center is where the Reconciliation Church's headquarters are located.

As luck would have it, the four people were directly above the Reconciliation Church's headquarters at this time.

Between them and the Reconciliation Church's headquarters were many steel passages, drawbridges, and suspended corridors, the terrain as intricate as a maze.

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In theory, a vertical passage could be created by blasting, directly reaching the Reconciliation Church's headquarters in the deepest part of the Undercity.

There were numerous red exclamation marks on the holographic map.

Tarento poked a certain exclamation mark with his fingertip, and a surveillance screen popped up from the map.

In the picture, humanoid monsters covered in pustules and sores were digging for ghost mushrooms under the command of a group of people wearing uniform clothing.

The latter had a "large circle enclosing a small circle" pattern on their bodies, which was the mark used by the Reconciliation Church in the Undercity.

All those wearing this kind of clothing were pseudo-fathers of the Reconciliation Church.

Those rotten monsters driven by the pseudo-fathers should be pseudo-progeny.

They were digging ghost mushrooms very quickly.

The blue-purple light emitted by the mushrooms didn't cause them to hallucinate, but instead prompted them to dig faster and faster, like a stimulant.

Clicking on different red exclamation marks presented similar surveillance screens, all showing scenes of the Reconciliation Church quickly digging ghost mushrooms.

After digging out the roots of the mushrooms, they transported them non-stop to the Reconciliation Church's headquarters in the deepest part of the Undercity.

Wick crossed his arms, stroked his chin, and analyzed:

"Looks like the Reconciliation Church is brewing something big."

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

"The place marked by this exclamation mark is the Reconciliation Church's headquarters. How about we click on it and take a look?"

Wick raised his chin, "Click it. No one refuses to watch something for free."

Tarento tapped the blue exclamation mark with his fingertip, and a new surveillance screen appeared.

A large group of cultists knelt around a sculpture several meters high.

They held the roots of ghost mushrooms in their hands and frantically gnawed on them, while repeatedly kowtowing to the sculpture.

Next to the sculpture was a person with only the left half of his head, the leader of the Reconciliation Church, codenamed "Forefather," who was leading the congregation in worshiping the sculpture.

The sculpture's appearance was very strange, and the carving technique was extremely crude.

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

It's worth noting that the sculpture was glowing.

Every few times the cultists repeated the kowtowing action, the sculpture would light up with a very small degree of red light.

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

The stone door was half-open, and some vehicles used for transportation were parked at the entrance, with firearms, ammunition, glass jars, and other things scattered on the ground.

The style of this stone door was completely different from that of the Undercity.

The Undercity was a hive city foundation constructed of steel, while the stone door and the walls on both sides revealed a sense of history and simplicity everywhere.

Wick nudged Tarento with his elbow:

"Do you have a way to adjust the angle of the surveillance camera? It would be best to see what's inside that stone door."

"I'll try." Tarento operated on the data pad a few times.

The surveillance camera panned and zoomed in, just aiming at the crack in the door.

Inside the stone door was a rock hall with a primitive style, with hundreds of tall pillars standing there.

On the floor of the rock hall, rows of tall rock shelves stood there, and many shiny things were piled up in the shelves.

At first glance, ghost mushrooms, mysterious books, coins, gems, strange devices, unknown potions, old knives, swords, and vehicles were all available.

Without a doubt, this rock hall was the underground treasure trove discovered by the Reconciliation Church after years of excavation!

Tarento clapped his hands excitedly:

"We better transmit the communication signal to the surface so that the hunt-chieftains can take a good look at the situation in the Reconciliation Church's headquarters! I guarantee that the hunt-chieftains will go crazy for this!"

"Send it, send it! Don't let the cultists continue to defile the things in the treasure trove!" Wick rubbed his fists, staring at the treasures inside the stone door with shining eyes, wishing he could go over and search through them now.

Tarento activated all the functions of the communication repeater, and a strong signal pulse penetrated the Howling Passage and rushed towards the surface.

Before long, Tarento contacted the hunt-chieftains and excitedly reported the situation underground.

Mona didn't speak, appearing more calm than Wick and Tarento.

Li Nuo was also like this.

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

Who sabotaged the communication repeater?

Why didn't the person who sabotaged it simply erase the data in the cache, or directly destroy the cache?

Tarento is proficient in electronics and mechanics. He can skillfully repair the communication repeater and control it, which is not a big problem.

But isn't all this a bit too coincidental?

It's as if someone is formulating a detailed plan behind the scenes, just waiting for his group to let this plan proceed.

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

Wait a minute!

Why is this exclamation mark blue?

And it looks like a "9".

Li Nuo glared!

Oh, my God, I forgot that the Warhammer world has the concept of the Holy Number!

I'm really a big idiot!

Cloudhammer player Little Li belatedly realized and finally reacted.

It's not his fault.

He loves fungi more than he loves numbers.

Even when watching Warhammer short videos, he specifically chooses those related to fungi, and doesn't pay much attention to information other than fungi.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have known about such an extremely unpopular fungal alien like Ark Haleth.

There isn't enough time today to write the thank you content for the monthly tickets and recommendation tickets, I'll make it up tomorrow!

Thank you for reading and collecting!