I cultivate mushrooms in warhammer

The news of the Governor's daughter's engagement spread throughout Upper Hive, becoming the headline of the Upper Hive news the next day.

Correspondingly, the name of Willsick began to circulate among the noble circles and well-informed Upper Hive elites.

With the Governor's encouragement, the three keywords—mysterious, low-key, and focused on scientific research—became people's deepest impression of the Willsick family.

When the Governor publicly announced the cooperation between the Hive World and the Forge World, the resulting uproar quickly spread throughout Upper Hive.

Small families that made a living by processing promethium refining residue directly cried out that the new technology had cut off their lifeline, and their funding chains were likely to be broken as a result.

Families whose main business was importing food were in agony, as the synthetic starch prepared with the new technology was so cheap, safe, and environmentally friendly.

From then on, Epi-Mete would bid farewell to imported food forever.

Some people cried, and naturally, some people laughed.

Many industries used synthetic starch as raw material, but the families engaged in these industries soon stopped laughing.

Reno did not intend to let the profits go to outsiders.

Just as he had helped the Steel Coin Clan grow stronger when he played the role of the Mad Doctor Sack, Reno decided to use his human identity and cheat to help the Voges family reach a new level.

He spent a few days preparing his residence and laboratory in the Royal Court District.

After that, he spent another three days conducting Waaaagh simulations, automatic fungal simulations, and practical operations in the laboratory.

When he walked out of the laboratory, he brought with him a complete set of plans related to deep-processed synthetic starch, as well as all the formulas that matched this plan.

Thus, an industrial chain with several links came into being.

Converting promethium refining residue into synthetic starch was the first link in this industrial chain.

Reno himself firmly controlled this link and would not hand over the production process and formula of starch to the Voges family.

Synthetic starch was made into starch sticks, which was the second link in the industrial chain.

After the starch sticks were made, if they were not sold in time, this part of the unsold starch sticks would be reprocessed and fermented to make alcohol.

According to the degree of fermentation, the taste and quality of the liquor presented three grades, corresponding to high, medium, and low-end alcohol respectively.

High-end alcohol could be made into liquor, mid-range alcohol was used to produce medical alcohol, and low-end alcohol was used for industrial production.

At this point, the industrial value of synthetic starch was squeezed clean.

In addition to the two links of producing synthetic starch and selling starch sticks, the remaining links were all contracted by the Voges family's factories.

With such a large industrial gift package sent out, Reno's status in the Voges family suddenly rose a few points.

One who eats another's food is short of speech, and one who takes another's gift is short of hand. This sentence also applies to the Hive World.

Reno couldn't guarantee that no one would engage in small actions in the dark, but at least on the surface, no one would jump out and openly provoke him, this son-in-law.

After brushing up the Voges family's reputation, Reno turned his attention to his own base.

Currently, his main profit came from synthetic starch, and a small part of the profit came from tobacco.

During these few days of contact with the Voges family, many people related to Tido came to inquire about the same thing:

Could we, the members of the Voges family, also participate in the production of synthetic starch?

Reno's attitude was:

Don't even think about it.

The base is where my lifeline lies, and it must not be contaminated.

Without a base, I am nothing.

Without a base, my source of funds can only rely on the Voges family.

Reno was very clear that the base must be firmly controlled by himself, so that he could truly occupy a place in the Hive City.

His base, with the Umbrella Group as the carrier, had already achieved some success and a stable network of contacts in the synthetic starch and tobacco industries.

If the Voges family wanted cheap synthetic starch, no problem, they could go to the starch factory set up by Umbrella in the Lower Hive to buy it.

The new synthetic starch was cheap and safe, and its production capacity would be completely controlled by Reno in his own hands, so as to control the supply of many downstream industries.

As for investing in the Umbrella Group, the starch factory, and the Ginkgo Manor, that was even more of a dream.

A group of people who had only met him a few times came over to reap the benefits under the banner of Tido. Their skin was really thick.

The above were Reno's inner thoughts.

He didn't say it directly, but just slipped away on the grounds of doing experiments, not wanting to have much contact with these greedy Voges family members.

What made Reno more gratified was that when the Voges family members came to cadge, Tido and Lord Voges did not get involved.

Tido wholeheartedly helped him prepare the laboratory and residence.

Lord Voges established the Willsick family's file at the fastest speed, granting the son-in-law the status of a nobleman.

After Reno repeatedly refused the Voges family members to intervene in the Umbrella Group, Voges specifically mentioned this matter in a family internal meeting.

Voges warned the restless family members not to disturb Reno's experiments, and not to have any unrealistic ideas about his group.

Voges' words still carried weight.

Since then, Reno's laboratory had become much quieter, and life had gradually gotten on the right track.

"Finally, things are arranged properly." Reno placed an order on the communicator to purchase holographic equipment for Leia, then stood up and stretched greatly.

Not far behind him, Isabel and Tido were using an electron microscope to observe the microscopic structure of the compound, whispering to each other in low voices.

Isabel used to manage the cigarette business for the Kram family.

Now, she had handed over all her work in the Kram family to other family members and became the professional manager of the Umbrella Group, helping Reno manage the daily affairs of the Umbrella Group.

Giving up her past achievements and throwing herself into a new group with all her heart, this courage made Reno admire her.

Reno provided Isabel with a high commission, which completely made up for the economic losses she suffered due to giving up the industry in the Kram family.

Reno did not have to worry about the operation of the Umbrella Group, and he could put his time and energy into more strategic matters.

In the foreseeable future, he would take over the position of Governor from Voges.

At that time, riots would be inevitable.

In order to suppress the riots with thunderous force and consolidate his rule as Governor, Reno must have a strong army.

Solving the rebel army outside the Hive City and fully grasping the control of the Planetary Defense Forces had become one of his current options.

"Tido, let's go find Delton." Reno waved to the two ladies who were whispering, "Isabel, the task of transporting the catalyst is entrusted to you."

Isabel pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose and responded.

Tido trotted all the way to hold his arm and followed Reno out of the laboratory.

Reno chose to produce the catalyst needed by the starch factory in his own laboratory.

He made a large-scale improvement to the catalyst and produced a concentrated catalyst.

Only 200 kilograms of concentrated catalyst were needed every day to meet the current production needs of the starch factory.

Isabel needed to regularly transport the concentrated catalyst to the starch factory, and this process was accompanied by the Governor's agents, so there would be no mistakes.

Reno and Tido left the laboratory and came to the internal elevator in the Royal Court District.

When Reno came to see the Governor with Delton, he took this elevator.

It was connected to Delton's agent base.

The elevator descended at a constant speed. Before long, Reno and Tido reached the end point and saw Delton waiting here.

The three of them twisted and turned in the base, passed through layers of checkpoints guarded by combat servitors, and entered the deepest part of the base.

Here, a cogitator array was placed, consisting of three cogitators, specially used for storing data and analyzing data.

Delton knew that the two were coming and had prepared first-hand information related to the rebels, the Planetary Defense Forces, and the Wanzer family in advance.

Communication recordings, surveillance footage, combat cameras, financial transactions, personnel changes, and other information were all available.

Delton took the lead in opening a document and introduced:

"When I read the information, I found many suspicious points. I have listed them all here, and you can use them as a reference. In general, the Wanzer family played the role of an intermediary between the rebels and the Planetary Defense Forces. They were careful enough when doing things, but they still revealed clues in many details…"

Delton swiped the document, describing his discoveries and inferences with reference to the information above.

The more Tido listened, the more nervous she became, and she held Reno's arm tightly.

Reno had long expected the Wanzer family to do this, and he seemed calm. On the contrary, Delton's intelligence analysis ability made him look at him with new eyes.

When he used to work under Delton, he only felt that the other party commanded well, and his action and judgment were above the standard line.

But at this moment, Delton's thinking was clear, his logic was smooth, and he strung together thousands of clues in a way that peeled away the cocoon, forming a complete network of clues.

Reno gradually realized that Delton's thinking, vision, and experience were not simple, and could never be cultivated by the military academies of the Hive City.

"The Planetary Defense Force's casualty figures from the past 8 years are inflated. The actual casualty rate is lower than the reported numbers. At least a third of the soldiers registered as dead are merely missing, not truly deceased."

Delton scrolled through the document, pointing to several surveillance screenshots within the file:

"These are surveillance images from before the commencement of Operation Sweep. The individuals appearing in these images have disguised themselves, altering their appearances and body shapes. However, unbeknownst to them, since I assumed the position of Chief of the Governor's Agents three years ago, all the cameras in the Under-Nest have been upgraded, equipped with biometric recognition modules. The identification results indicate that these fellows, who claim to be scavengers from the Ruin Zone, are actually former Planetary Defense Force soldiers who were registered as dead six years ago."

Delton pressed a button on the keyboard, and the surveillance screenshots in the document transformed into surveillance videos, playing automatically.

In the video, the soldiers who were supposed to be dead but were actually alive were dressed in the style of Ruin Zone scavengers, pushing a cart into the Eighth Sector.

They bought a lot of medicine and daily necessities in the Eighth Sector, and then pushed a cart full of goods back to the Ruin Zone.

The document scrolled down, and another picture appeared on the screen.

The photographer stood inside an underground passage, with a pile of collapsed rocks and gravel not far ahead.

There were two rails in the tunnel, with obvious traces of oil on them.

The oil was relatively fresh, presenting a semi-solidified state.

It was imaginable that before the collapse of the underground passage, these two rails were frequently used, which is why there was still oil that had not dried out.

"Ladies, this picture was taken during Operation Sweep. The shooting equipment is the combat recorder of an armed retainer. The shooting location is in the underground area of ​​the Ruin Zone. According to this armed retainer, he personally witnessed two trains driving side by side leaving the Ruin Zone, and then the tunnel was blown up by pre-buried explosives."

Delton clicked on the picture.

The picture turned into a video, replaying the scene of the tunnel collapse.

In the video, the armed family exclaimed:

"Damn it! How could there be cars driving outside the Hive City?!".

Tidor covered her mouth in surprise and asked:

"Are these two railways connected to the wilderness?"

"Yes, ma'am." Delton opened the planning map of the Ruin Zone.

From the picture, Lino and Tidor could intuitively see the direction of the rails.

Before the Seventh Sector became the Ruin Zone, these two rails were used to transport military supplies for the Planetary Defense Force.

They should have been abandoned.

But now, they are in good condition, with no signs of rust.

All of this reveals abnormality.

Lino asked:

"Can we track the trains' whereabouts through orbital satellites?"

"No. I used the augury array of the orbital satellite to scan along the route of the train tracks several times, but I couldn't find any trace of the train. I suspect that someone installed an anti-scanning field in the train tunnel to cover up the train's whereabouts."

Delton raised a finger, emphasizing:

"What's more interesting is. After the end of Operation Sweep, I reported this matter to the Governor. Lord Voges ordered the 8th Guard, which is responsible for supervising the Planetary Defense Force, to investigate the whereabouts of the train. The 8th Guard reported that there were no extra trains and supplies that shouldn't have appeared in the Planetary Defense Force."

Lino and Tidor looked at each other, the latter worried, her delicate eyebrows furrowed.

Delton spread his hands:

"Obviously, someone is lying. If the train did not appear in the Planetary Defense Force's camp, then it most likely went to the rebels. In order to investigate the matter clearly, I sent all the members of the 7th Guard assigned to me by the Governor to search for the whereabouts of the train. There are no clear results yet."

Delton manipulated the Cogitator a few times, and brought up the combat recorder screen of the 7th Guard.

The holographic device projected dozens of perspectives, all from the 7th Guard who were searching for the train in the underground passage.

These images are real-time.

It is not difficult to see that due to the overly developed underground transportation network outside the Hive City, the search progress is very slow.

Delton made a gesture of invitation, vacating the control of the Cogitator for Lino and Tidor to browse the data.

A global map appeared on the screen of the Cogitator, marking the troop deployments of the Planetary Defense Force and the whereabouts of the rebels.

The state of engagement between the two can be described as blossoming everywhere.

On the entire planet, there are three combat areas with a scale of tens of thousands of people, and countless areas with less than tens of thousands of people.

Hive City Epimeteus is the only Hive City on the planet of the same name, built on the highest mountain range on the planet.

The water and plants on the planet's surface were paid to the Adeptus Mechanicus as the cost of building the Hive City.

The ocean dried up, the river was cut off, and the forest disappeared like a shadow of the past.

Today's Epimeteus is shrouded in sand and dust, with howling winds and dust all day long.

Under such circumstances, the rebels are still active.

They fight with the Planetary Defense Force everywhere underground, often attacking Planetary Defense Force strongholds.

It is really hard to imagine how this group of rebels, without the supply of materials from the Hive City, has persisted until now.

"Delton, I would like to ask. Is it possible that the rebels' supplies come from outside the planet? For example, a cargo ship with an anti-scanning field lands on the ground and hands over the supplies to the rebels."

"Theoretically feasible, a deeply modified cargo ship is enough to bypass our orbital satellites and monitoring stations. However, when this ship performs warp travel, the warp entry it creates will definitely be detected by our orbital satellites and monitoring stations. Currently, there are no monitoring records of unfamiliar ships entering or leaving the warp space in our solar system."

Delton's words made sense.

The movement of warp travel is very large, and can be observed in any corner of the solar system.

The warp entry created by the Geller field will have a huge impact on various spatial parameters such as gravity, time flow rate, and physical coefficients, which is far from being covered by an anti-scanning field.

Assuming that there are alien cargo ships providing supplies to the local rebels, the cargo ships will definitely arrive at the solar system where Epimeteus is located through warp travel.

As long as it is warp travel, warp signals will definitely be monitored and presented in the monitoring log.

The possibility of falsifying the monitoring log exists, but it is very low.

The main reason is that there are various types of monitoring stations that monitor warp signals, and the people who install these devices come from different forces.

Some monitoring equipment is deployed by the Planetary Defense Force, and some comes from the Governor's Guard.

Some are deployed by the Hive City Law Enforcement Department, and some are deployed by the Imperial Department of Military Affairs.

Even the ships passing through Epimeteus have such monitoring equipment.

The monitoring log of a single monitoring device may be falsified, but the possibility of falsifying all monitoring devices at the same time is absolutely equal to zero.

Therefore, the rebels' supplies must come from Epimeteus itself, there is no second possibility.

"The combat power and credibility of the Planetary Defense Force are ultimately a bit weak. It would be great if I could control a combat force that belonged exclusively to me."

Lino pondered to himself while reading the intelligence.

On this planet, the Planetary Defense Force may be able to show off, enough to suppress the rebellion and deter the petty thieves.

But in the larger context of the entire Imperium of Man, the combat power of the Planetary Defense Force is approximately equal to trash.

They can't even deal with the cunning thieves that may appear in the future, let alone confront the Space Marine Legions that rebelled in the Horus Heresy.

Considering these factors, a more ambitious and arduous plan appeared in Lino's mind.

That is to use the [Mushroom Farm] system, magical spores, and Ork witchcraft to create a special force completely under his control.

Lino has already thought of the code name for this plan, which is called the "Mushroom Protects the Country Plan."

As a consideration, the combat force that he plans to create can be called "Mushroomstartes" or "Mushroomterstellar Warriors."

His system products easily attract Nurgle.

Therefore, the Mushroomstartes should first focus on loyalty and Chaos resistance, followed by combat ability and concealment.

Relying on the many characteristics of fungi, Lino is confident that he can improve the combat power of the Mushroomstartes to the level of Space Marines, and ensure that they never betray and are always loyal.

It would be even better if the Chaos resistance could be fixed at positive infinity.

Creating Mushroomstartes is destined to be a big project.

It may take a year or longer before the first experimental subject that can be used in the public eye appears.

In Lino's vision, it would be great if he could directly control the Mushroomstartes like possessing an Ork, so as to ensure that the Mushroomstartes would not fall or be corrupted.

Lino looked at the system interface, his thoughts fell on the Waaaagh simulation, and his thoughts were surging.