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Li Nuo piloted the shuttle and landed smoothly.

Centered on the entrance to the vault, within a radius of two thousand meters, the turf was torn up everywhere by the bombs, and the dark brown topsoil was covered with hideous wreckage and charred black patches.

The number of Space Beast clansmen has sharply decreased to just over a thousand.

At this price, the Onier's ground forces were completely annihilated, and all eight frigates on the planet's orbit were lost.

Now it depends on the response of the Onier Group.

If they want to fight, Li Nuo will accompany them.

If they don't want to fight and want to slip away, Li Nuo doesn't plan to pursue them either. He still understands the principle of not chasing desperate foes.

After giving the beasts the order to drag the shuttle into the ground, Li Nuo found a spot in the shade of a tree on the edge of the battlefield and quickly performed the "online" and "offline" operations.

"Offline" on the spot, his consciousness returned to his human body.

"Online" again, his consciousness crossed the sea of stars and arrived above the planet.

Taking this opportunity, Li Nuo took a closer look at the raiding fleet.

Very good, very good, the only remaining cargo ships in the fleet are leaving the planet.

When Li Nuo's consciousness arrived above the planet, the cargo ships had just put down the shielding panels, covering all the portholes, which was a sign that they were about to enter subspace.

After another "online and offline", Li Nuo's consciousness once again arrived above the planet.

This time, he saw the cargo ships opening the subspace entrance and turning into streamers of light, shooting into it.

At this point, the Onier fleet that plundered the planet was either dead or had fled.

Li Nuo pondered that the Onier Group should not come again.

It is a cold trading group that is obsessed with making money, not a human empire that desires to conquer the galaxy.

The development momentum of the green skins on this planet is unstoppable, and continuing to send ships here is purely a losing proposition.

Therefore, the ships or fleets that appear in the planet's orbit next time are very likely to come from the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo's goal for the Bone Drinkers' actions is to capture samples alive, rather than slaughter them all.

From this point of view, close combat will be indispensable in the next battle.

Building a near-ground orbital aircraft and transporting the orcs to the sky to launch a boarding battle and capture the Bone Drinkers alive in battle.

This is a line of thought that fits the orcs' daring and fighting style.

However, although Li Nuo is an orc, his brain is still his own.

He thought of another more ingenious combat strategy.

Xiaoxi's husband, after being infected by the Bone Drinkers, once made a harsh statement before his death.

This harsh statement was spoken by the Bone Drinkers controlling Xiaoxi's husband, representing the true thoughts of the entire Bone Drinker civilization.

In this statement, the Bone Drinkers said that the vault on this planet is the legacy of their civilization, and the orcs should not try to occupy it.

Obviously, the Bone Drinkers have a certain obsession with the vault here.

Does this mean that something in the vault is not available elsewhere, and the Bone Drinkers must get it?

Li Nuo felt that this was very likely the case.

Using this treasure as bait to lure the Bone Drinkers deep into the vault, and then catch them in an urn, wouldn't that get a living experimental sample?

As long as there is a living Bone Drinker in hand, he can use fungal simulation to dig out all its secrets, and whether the other Bone Drinkers live or die is not important.

At this thought, the combat strategy in Li Nuo's mind became clearer.

He controlled his body in space and walked out of the bushes.

On the battlefield in front, the orcs were dragging the four shuttles into the cave, the Pain Boy was treating the wounded, and the Mechanic Boy was tinkering in the cockpit of the shuttle, transforming the control panel into his favorite look.

Xiaoxi led the revenge team back to the vault and brought back the alchemical potions that Li Nuo had prepared in advance from underground.

They poured the potion into a watering can, diluted it with water, and sprayed the light green liquid on the corpses of the orcs and the Onier.

The potion is rich in the fermentation liquid of corpse-eating fungi, and the corpses will be decomposed by the potion and turned into liquefied ammonium nitrogen fertilizer to soak the soil.

When orcs fight and die, they will unconsciously spread a large number of reproductive spores.

After the previous battle, the battlefield was already covered with a layer of reproductive spores.

The appearance of liquid nitrogen fertilizer promotes the accelerated development and growth of spores.

In at most 5 Terra hours, thousands of orc boys and several squigs and gretchin will grow out of the ground.

[You led the Space Beast clan to a victory.]

[Your clan annihilated approximately 90,000 enemy troops, score + 90,000.]

[Your clan destroyed 8 raiding ships converted from frigates, score + 8000.]

[You received 6224 likes from Space Beast members, score + 18672.]

[You have earned a total of approximately 116,000 points.]

[Remaining simulation points: 676,000 points.]

With the departure of the transport ship, the battle was declared over, and system messages appeared in his field of vision.

But why can destroying ships also earn points?

Is it because the machine spirit of the ships was killed?

Li Nuo didn't quite understand and didn't have time to think about it carefully for the time being.

He closed the message interface, came to the front of the revenge team, and communicated with them in the Bone Drinker language:

"Xiaoxi, how are the casualties in your team?"

The primitive people who participated in the revenge have basically adapted to the existence of green-skinned creatures.

Li Nuo's physique is the most burly among the many green skins. The primitive people's eyes are mostly filled with respect and awe, and there is no longer any fear.

"Lord, we lost one-third of our people. We sent their bodies to the incinerator. The survivors are only slightly injured and will not hinder work."

Xiaoxi led the primitive people to bow to Li Nuo, changing the previous habit of kneeling and kowtowing at every turn.

"You are all good. I recognize your combat effectiveness and cohesion, but now is not the time to celebrate. New enemies may appear at any time. Xiaoxi, you should remember what the Bone Drinker said before his death, right?"

Xiaoxi knew that Li Nuo was referring to her husband who was infected by the Bone Drinkers, and a faint sadness flashed across her face.

She and her teammates looked at each other, nodded slightly to each other, and their expressions became solemn and solemn:

"Yes, Lord. We are well aware that the battle is not over. In fact, each of us is prepared to die with the Bone Drinkers. We will use our lives to tell the Bone Drinkers that we are not their slaves."

Li Nuo scanned the crowd and saw the same expressions as Xiaoxi on their faces. Pairs of eyes filled with the power brought by revenge and resistance, regarding death as home.

"You come with me. I want to discuss something with you. The rest of you continue to spray the potion."

"Yes, Lord."

Li Nuo walked towards the cave, and Xiaoxi handed her watering can to her deputy and followed Li Nuo's pace.

The two entered the underground and stepped into the vault.

The orcs' production and animal husbandry work are carried out in the clan camp outside the vault. The vault door is guarded by a squad of orcs. Only Li Nuo's orc guards and Xiaoxi are allowed to enter here on weekdays.

"Xiaoxi, has the collection in the vault been inventoried?"

"Lord, I have completed the inventory. Due to the urgency of time, I was unable to compile a list and can only describe the situation here to you orally."

"Speak, I'm listening." Li Nuo stopped at the door and asked the orc squad guarding here to wait outside the door first.

The vault became quiet. Xiaoxi recounted the results of the inventory, emphasizing two collections.

The first collection is the Bone Drinker gene editing equipment absorbed by Li Nuo.

That thing is as high as three meters, five meters wide, shaped like a skull hand with five fingers pointing upward, and weighs at least one ton.

"Lord, my ancestors once said that this equipment was passed down from the previous civilization, and the Bone Drinkers value it very much. But the strange thing is that it's gone. I don't understand why this is…"

Li Nuo touched the bridge of his nose guiltily, coughed lightly, put his hands behind his back and said:

"I forgot to tell you. I asked the beasts to move this machine away. I have a use for it."

"So that's how it is." Xiaoxi pointed to a corner of the vault and changed the subject:

"Lord, the second important collection I want to talk about is there. It is a Bone Drinker breeding machine."

Li Nuo was stunned, "Breeding machine? To breed Bone Drinker babies?"

"No, Lord. The breeding machine is used to help the Bone Drinkers conceive new life."

Xiaoxi walked and talked, telling the process of the Bone Drinkers' reproduction in detail.

The Bone Drinkers are a gestalt civilization, which can reproduce asexually and sexually.

The life form parasitized by the Bone Drinkers can reproduce sexually through the life form's reproduction method.

This method of reproduction is relatively secretive and can directly transform the new generation into Bone Drinkers, but the disadvantage is that the reproduction speed is slow.

The Bone Drinkers' asexual reproduction is achieved through spores, which is similar to Rhizopus.

A special structure called sporangiophore will form on their mycelium.

The tip of the sporangiophore expands to form a sporangium, which ruptures after maturity and spits out parasitic spores.

After the infected person passes the initial infection stage, they can spit out a wave of parasitic spores every 30 days, and the number of spores is less than 10.

Spores can be transmitted through air, water, feces, and skin contact.

If you want to speed up the asexual reproduction, you must carry out reproduction in the culture tank of the breeding machine.

According to the oral history passed down from our ancestors about the previous civilization, the most valued individuals by the Bone Drinkers – those with high intelligence and advanced education – were periodically arranged to witness the Bone Drinkers' asexual reproduction.

They would stand before machines towering over twenty meters, observing the entire process of giant sporangiophore stalks splitting open within cultivation tanks.

Under the care of the breeding machines, the sporangiophore stalks could grow to several meters in length, and from their emergence to their rupture, it only took 24 hours.

At the moment of splitting, millions of parasitic spores would spray out from the enormous sporangium, the white light emanating from the spores instantly filling the tall cultivation tank, filling onlookers with awe.

"Wait, white light?" Li Nuo slowed his pace. "Isn't the light of the parasitic spores supposed to be blue-violet?"

Li Nuo had previously seen the Bone Drinkers' parasitic spores on the body of a corporate spy, and the spores' light was indeed blue-violet, not white.

Xiao Xi frowned slightly, pondering before replying:

"Blue-violet? … Hmm … Master, the ancestors told me it was white. As far as I remember, the ancestors never mentioned blue-violet parasitic spores to me."

Li Nuo took a slight breath, recalling the deeper meaning behind the blue-violet light, and almost blurted out a curse in front of Xiao Xi.

Damn it, the Bone Drinkers might have been tainted, and tainted by the Blue Furry Bird.

Of course, there was another explanation.

The parasitic spores on the corporate spy might have mutated, and the external manifestation of the mutation was the emission of blue-violet light.

Color changes due to mutation are quite common in the fungal kingdom.

But this is the Warhammer world, so when it comes to taint, it's better to believe it exists than to believe it doesn't.

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Li Nuo gradually realized the seriousness of the matter.

There was a certain probability that the ships appearing in the planet's orbit in the future would be controlled by the Blue Furry Bird's followers.

The Blue Furry Bird's attitude towards its followers is different from that of the other three Chaos Gods.

Khorne is generous with blessings to those who are good at war, and no matter who they are loyal to, Khorne will greatly praise their bravery.

Nurgle and Slaanesh's followers can also gain some benefits after making sacrifices.

Only Tzeentch, that bastard, likes to kick away the ladder after crossing the river.

He emphasizes seeking variables in his plans, using variables to achieve his goals, and finally transforming the subordinates who execute the plans into Chaos Spawn.

Looking at the breeding machine in front of him.

The main body of this device is a glass tank and a base, with a built-in energy system, nutrient generation system, and ecological maintenance system.

After loading plasma reactants, nutrient materials, and pure water, it can operate on its own, allowing a single parasitic spore to thrive into a "reproductive machine."

The original spore was only the size of a ping-pong ball, but after being cultivated by the breeding machine, it can grow to five or six meters in diameter.

Its hyphae will intertwine together, forming a sporangium, and producing ping-pong ball-sized parasitic spores.

The entire process only takes about 10 Terra days.

In the present time when the Bone Drinker civilization has just recovered, such an important "troop production" machine will definitely be valued by the Bone Drinkers.

Li Nuo was now basically certain that the thing the Bone Drinkers couldn't forget was the breeding machine.

His original plan was to use the breeding machine as bait to catch a live specimen of a Bone Drinker.

But after discovering that the Bone Drinkers might have sided with the Blue Furry Bird, Li Nuo was worried that what he would catch would not be a Bone Drinker sample, but a Chaos Spawn.

Li Nuo reached out to the machine, which occupied more than one hundred square meters, and his fingertip touched the metal shell, and several lines of system information refreshed in his vision.

Eh? This machine can actually be used to upgrade the system?

[You have touched the "Bone Drinker's Breeding Machine."]

[The fungal simulation function has been temporarily enhanced, adding the following simulation options:]

[1. Large-scale automated cultivation of Bone Drinkers.]

[2. Bone Drinker gene purity comparison and adjustment.]

[3. Bone Drinker spore selection, that is, automatically clearing spores with gene purity below the threshold, and only retaining those with purity above the threshold.]

[Absorbing this machine can permanently upgrade the system function.]

[Do you want to absorb it?]

This machine can compare gene templates and adjust the gene purity of Bone Drinkers!

Could it be that there is a perfect Bone Drinker gene template in the machine?!

Li Nuo's heart beat faster.

He pulled out the machete he carried with him and pried open the machine's casing, revealing various pipelines.

With a clatter, after an orderly disassembly, a logic circuit board was found by Li Nuo from the machine.

Holding this thing in his hand, the system message popped up again.

[You have touched a logic circuit board containing genetic information.]

[This object carries the "Bone Drinker's Standard Gene Template."]

[Bone Drinkers are fungi, and their gene template belongs to the fungal category.]

[Do you want to store the gene template in the gene library?]

The corners of Li Nuo's mouth couldn't help but curl upwards.

Today is a good day!

A great day!

He didn't get the Bone Drinker spores he had been thinking about, but he got the Bone Drinker's gene template!

And it's a perfect version of the gene template!!

Li Nuo immediately muttered in his heart:

"Store it in the gene library."

The logic circuit board in his hand did not change in any way, but the gene template recorded in it had already appeared in the gene library.

The standard gene template carries a perfect gene fragment sample, representing the most perfect form of a life form.

When the Space Marine Apothecaries have the gene template of the Primarch, they can use this template to create the gene-seed of the Legion.

Similarly, if Li Nuo has the Bone Drinker gene template, he can create "Bone Drinker gene-seed".

Put this gene-seed into a suitable individual to cultivate it, let it transform the individual, and you can get a life form whose gene fragment is similar to that of a Bone Drinker.

This process is exactly the same as how Apothecaries use gene-seed to transform recruits into Space Marines.

Li Nuo operated a few times in the system interface with his mind, and immediately started a fungal gene simulation experiment.

[You have selected the "Bone Drinker's Standard Gene Template" as the experimental object.]

[You use a single-molecule gene sequencer to test this template, searching for gene codes related to "Chaos".]

[…]

[Testing is complete, no gene codes related to "Chaos" were found.]

Oh yeah!

Li Nuo cheered in his heart and continued to check the system messages.

[You use a variety of gene editing tools to try to insert the Bone Drinker's standard gene template into the expression vector "CVCPSE-ABB-15" yeast.]

[Gene editing work begins.]

[Day 1, you treat yeast cells with lithium salt to increase the permeability of the cell membrane, so that the gene template can easily enter the cells…]

[Day 15, the yeast fully expresses the effect of gene editing.]

[You have obtained a gene editing product.]

[You use a single-molecule sequencer to test it.]

[Testing is complete.]

[Using the Bone Drinker's standard gene template as a reference, the gene purity of the gene editing product is 39%, which can be regarded as a subspecies of Bone Drinker.]

[Congratulations on the successful simulation!]

[Please name the gene editing product.]

Li Nuo thought for a moment and entered a name with his mind:

Bone Drinker-like No. 1 - Gene purity 39%.

After the naming was completed, Li Nuo launched a gene analysis on Bone Drinker-like No. 1.

In the holographic image presented by the system, the yeast, which should have developed in the form of colonies, has now become a single individual.

This thing is a Bone Drinker-like.

This object has a round body, white and fat, about three centimeters in diameter, with small protrusions distributed on the surface, and rod-shaped objects on top of the protrusions, with small tentacles extending from the ends of the rod-shaped objects.

Its appearance is similar to the Bone Drinkers Li Nuo had seen before, but its own light is pure white, not blue-violet.

After launching the gene analysis, the system presented all the gene fragments and gene functions of this object.

When he saw one of the gene functions, even Li Nuo couldn't help but feel a shock!

[Gene Fragment: Sample22 - Clone001 - Frag000011]

[Function: This gene fragment is related to the communication method of Bone Drinker-like.]

[After the Bone Drinker-like develops to a certain life stage, it will give birth to mental communication ability, adding a new fungal ability - mental network.]

[After this fungal ability is activated, you can establish a mental network with a specific object and conduct mental communication with it regardless of physical barriers.]

[Due to the gene purity being less than 80%, this fungal ability is not yet available.]

Mental communication network!

One of the signature skills of the Bone Drinker civilization!

Although it is not yet available due to insufficient gene purity, this is still a means of interstellar communication that breaks away from the shackles of the Empire.

Li Nuo was surging with excitement, calmed his mind, and checked other gene functions as quickly as possible.

"Xiao Xi, I'm thinking, don't disturb me."

"Yes, Master."

Xiao Xi stood aside without daring to speak, waiting silently.

Li Nuo propped his head, staring at the logic conduit in his hand, his eyes flickering slightly.