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The alarm of the 'Find Thing' device was loud and accurate.

Li Nuo's mood was heavy and complex.

He had discovered a very tricky problem.

He couldn't input the molecular formula of the 2nd generation Bone Drinker metabolite, which he had just obtained, into Epimetheus's security database.

Because Epimetheus currently didn't have the ability to detect this molecular formula, and the Steel Brave Tribe currently had a chance of discovering it.

Importing the molecular formula into Epimetheus's database could indeed detect Bone Drinkers with updated metabolic patterns, but don't forget, the Bone Drinkers were a Gestalt civilization.

Epimetheus had just discovered traces of the Bone Drinkers and was carrying out extermination work.

The question of how Epimetheus could discover the Bone Drinkers' whereabouts would then spread within the Bone Drinker civilization.

The Bone Drinkers might realize that there was some kind of connection between the Orks and Epimetheus.

This possibility wasn't high, but it definitely wasn't zero.

Invisibly, his existence would have a certain chance of being noticed by the Bone Drinkers.

That wouldn't do.

Why was he able to thwart the Bone Drinkers' conspiracies multiple times and retreat unscathed now?

Wasn't it because he was behind the scenes?

In the space station, it was the "invisible enemy"—the Special Ops Kid - Bond—who stopped McGee from blowing up the space station.

On the Steel Ingot, it was the Ork tribe's shaman - Sack who saw through the Bone Drinkers.

The Bone Drinkers' current target of hatred was entirely the Orks.

With the Ork disguise in front, Li Nuo could remain steadily behind the scenes, handling everything with ease.

Importing the molecular formula of the 2nd generation metabolite into the hive city database had a chance of revealing his identity.

Similarly, promoting the vaccine against Bone Drinkers to the hive city wouldn't work either, as it could also reveal his identity.

These two restrictions made Li Nuo feel like he had a bone stuck in his throat, extremely uncomfortable.

He had to think of a way to protect Epimetheus while preventing himself from stepping into the limelight.

Li Nuo fell into deep thought, and the atmosphere in the bridge became silent.

Beast understood Boss's style well and discussed it with Airon in a low voice.

The two walked out of the bridge, leading the Kids to inspect the ship again to ensure that no spores were left behind.

After an hour passed, Li Nuo came up with a plan.

"Airon, destroy that ship. Beast, after returning to the ground, have Pain Boy make more vaccines, and synchronize the Find Thing device's database on the bridge to the Find Thing devices on the ground."

"Aye."

"Yes, Boss."

The Orks evacuated from Oman's ship and returned to the Steel Ingot.

Oman's ship was a battleship-class vessel, relatively large in size.

Two medium-sized Tick-Tock Boom-Booms paralyzed the ship's engines, turning the ship into a large fireball falling towards the surface.

The Steel Ingot returned to the ground camp.

Here stood an iron tower over a hundred meters tall, with an electromagnetic launcher on top connected to a giant Find Thing device underground.

After the database was updated, a strong electromagnetic pulse emanated from the iron tower, quickly sweeping across the Ork camp.

The scanning results were good, with no parasitic spores remaining.

"Beast, from now on, scan every hour. Suspend the construction of the two vertical shafts and transfer the Kids to build more scanning towers, expanding the scanning range to the entire globe as soon as possible. Especially the ocean. We can't leave the seabed out."

Beast realized the seriousness of the matter from Li Nuo's expression and nodded repeatedly:

"Alright, Boss. I'll personally supervise the Kids to build the scanning towers."

"Also, although celestial bodies are sparse outside the galaxy, we can't let our guard down. Usually, have Pompa explore places outside the galaxy more often, striving to find the accurate location of the Raddan Alliance as soon as possible."

"Aye, Boss, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it."

Li Nuo patted Beast's arm with satisfaction:

"I'm leaving first, I have urgent matters to deal with. I'll come again tomorrow. The production and vaccination of the vaccine must also continue to be promoted. I will research a new generation of vaccine formula, and you will still organize the production and vaccination then."

"Okay, see you tomorrow, Boss."

The existing vaccine, after taking effect once, only leaves antibodies in the Ork's body for about two days, requiring re-vaccination to maintain immunity against the Bone Drinkers.

The new generation of vaccine needs to solve the problem of repeated vaccinations, striving to achieve lifelong immunity with one vaccination.

Li Nuo "logged off" on the spot.

[Waaaagh simulation ended.]

[Settlement in progress.]

[You led the Ork tribe to a victory.]

[Your Ork tribe annihilated approximately 120,000 enemy troops, score + 120,000.]

[Your Ork tribe destroyed 7 light cruiser-class alien ships, score + 14,000.]

[You received 60,743 likes from the Ork tribe, score + 157,000.]

[You have earned a total of approximately 290,000 points.]

[Remaining simulation points: 2.74 million.]

Epimetheus, Royal Court District, office.

The light of the setting sun pierced his eyes, Li Nuo rubbed his eyes and woke up from the chair, finding a blanket on his body.

"You're awake."

Tido poured a glass of warm water and placed it in front of Li Nuo, "I saw you were asleep, so I went to Brandy's place and got a blanket."

Li Nuo smiled at Tido, picked up the water glass, took a sip, and asked:

"Have you contacted Jersey?"

"I have contacted her, she suggested that we customize heavy-duty maintenance servitors. According to the current surplus production capacity of Lava City, she can provide me with 500 servitors per month. She can accept synthetic starch to offset the Throne Gelt."

Tido smoothed her long skirt, leaned against the edge of the desk, and calculated with her fingers:

"I've calculated it. We can currently assemble a combat servitor team of up to ten thousand. For this, the expenses we have to bear include the purchase cost of the servitors, maintenance fees, the Mechanicus priest's commission, and the construction cost of the servitor workshop. If these costs are paid with starch, the purchase cost of the servitors will be exactly one hundred million tons of synthetic starch, and the remaining costs will total about one million tons of synthetic starch per month."

Li Nuo quickly did the mental calculation:

"That is to say, we only need to save money for half a year to pull together a combat servitor team of ten thousand?"

"Yes."

Tido touched her chin with her fingertips:

"As for the logic conduits for the thought space, Jersey said that this thing cannot be installed alone. You need to implant calculus modules, skull armor, nerve contacts, internal battery packs, and intracranial circuits first. After all these basic implants are installed, then you can install the logic conduits for the thought space."

"So many implants need to be installed first. I thought I could just install the thought space."

Li Nuo didn't know much about the Mechanicus's bio-modification, and now he realized he was taking things for granted.

"Yeah, I just found out there are so many procedures to go through."

Tido crossed her arms, pinched the fabric of her sleeves, and rubbed it gently, with a tangled expression:

"Also, Jersey told me that after installing so many implants, half of my face needs to have artificial skin transplanted to cover the metal shell of the skull armor. I don't really want to do that. However, you're right, we really need to firmly control the top armed personnel in the hive city, so I think I should be able to adapt to the skull armor, right…"

Tido was forcing herself to sacrifice her appearance and part of her body for the future of the hive city and Li Nuo's arrangements.

Li Nuo listened in silence.

He thought that if he used the 'I Think It Is So' power on the thought space, he might be able to retrieve the corresponding Mechanicus witchcraft blueprints.

When that time came, he would have more options to choose from.

Li Nuo held Tido's hand and rubbed it, saying:

"Let's put the thought space thing aside for now. We can take a step back and use the cogitator array to control the servitors. If we protect the cogitator array, we can still firmly control the servitor team."

"Mm-hmm."

Tido smiled, both happy and guilty.

Li Nuo said:

"Contact Jersey again, let's go to Mars as soon as possible. I want to see the logic conduits for the thought space and finalize the servitor customization contract with her in person. Also, I have some research questions I want to ask her."

"Okay, then I'll go find Ms. Shatana."

Tido took the blanket from Li Nuo's body and folded it, while pondering the content of her communication with Jersey, and walked towards the door.

The door opened and closed, and the room became quiet.

Li Nuo sat up straight, bent his arms and placed them on the table, his back of his hands supporting his chin, his eyes flashing rapidly.

In order to prevent his Ork disguise from being recognized by the Bone Drinkers, Li Nuo prepared to find a mouthpiece for himself.

By inducing the mouthpiece to discover the Bone Drinkers' 2nd generation metabolites and vaccines, he could transfer the hatred from the Bone Drinkers and avoid his Ork disguise from being exposed at the same time.

The only regret was that most of the honor and rewards brought about by this were destined not to fall on his head.

It could be said that there were gains and losses.

Exchanging the loss of some honor and rewards for the safety of himself and the hive city was a worthwhile deal.

Overall, Li Nuo felt that Jersey was a good mouthpiece candidate.

Before the Horus Heresy, Li Nuo planned to find an excuse to bring Jersey to the hive city to help her avoid the Great Schism on Mars and save her life.

When Mars became a mess, Jersey would have nowhere to go, and he could rightfully invite her to become his personal Mechanicus priest.

"Yeah, let's do it this way."

Li Nuo nodded to himself and opened the comm-device to check the information related to the "Raddan Alliance."

As a few lines of text came into view, Li Nuo gradually realized that the news of the Raddan Alliance's return might be true.

These lines said:

"890.M30, several Space Marine legions and mortal auxiliary forces won a great victory against the Raddan Alliance. Since then, the Raddan Alliance has disappeared from the Milky Way."

A great victory was not a complete victory, and disappearing was not complete annihilation.

This indicated that more than a hundred years ago, it was indeed possible that a fleet of exiles had escaped the Milky Way.

Li Nuo looked at the distorted image on the wall of the secret room and silently added the Randan Alliance to the list.

Two days later, in the early morning.

A Moon-class cruiser from Mars entered Epimeteus's spaceport.

Li Nuo and Tido, escorted by the Governor's agents, boarded the ship and set off for Lava City on Mars.

Mars's atmospheric environment is even harsher than Epimeteus.

It never rains here, and thick smoke and dust float all day long, and the stinking clouds produced by the foundry are so numerous that they are suffocating.

Lava City is located on the edge of the Daedalus Plain, on the south side of Arsia Mons.

Scorching lava sloped down from the crater, flowing along the scorched mountainside into the lava lake at the foot of the mountain.

In the center of the crimson "lake," a huge complex of buildings constructed of steel and rock stood there.

This is Lava City, a foundry city that has embraced the lava.

Directly above Lava City, at an altitude of about one hundred kilometers, the "Iron Ring" composed of countless space stations occupies Mars's near-Earth orbit.

This is a true "Iron Ring," connected end to end, just encircling the entire Mars.

Countless cargo shuttles and elevators connect the "Iron Ring" with the foundry cities on the ground, transporting personnel and materials back and forth in a cycle.

The Moon-class cruiser docked in the "Iron Ring's" dock, where Li Nuo and Tido met Romu 31, who was waiting for them.

This Guardian is Jersey's personal bodyguard.

He and his subordinates are connected through Jersey's mind space, sharing vision, senses, thought data, and memories with each other.

Therefore, every one of Jersey's guards can be called Romu 31.

Talking to any one of them is like talking to Romu 31.

"Welcome to you both."

Romu 31 stepped forward, the dark red cloak on his body carrying a slight fragrance, dispelling the terrible smell of engine oil and exhaust gas in the dock:

"Please follow me, Ms. Jersey has specifically set aside 5 hours today to meet with you both."

Romu 31 led Li Nuo and Tido into the elevator and went directly to Lava City below via the orbital elevator.

Rows of black buildings magnified in the field of vision, and countless servitors and assembly lines came into view, everything was in order.

When the distance was close enough, the decorative patterns on the outer wall of Lava City came into view, which were glyphs drawn with unknown equations and charts, which were dazzling.

The orbital elevator car passed through the window on the roof of the city center and entered a magnificent palace.

Black and white marble bricks pieced together to form the floor, the doorways and windows were in the Gothic style, and the light of the lava passed through the stained glass, casting brilliant beams of light into the room.

The elevator door opened, and Li Nuo and the others saw the main character—Collier Jersey.

This lady is definitely an oddball among the Mechanicus priests, an oddball among oddballs.

She is tall, with full breasts, draped in a red cloak with gold trim, and wearing bronze-colored corset armor, without concealing her curves.

Such practices are often criticized and ridiculed by her peers, but Jersey does not take it seriously, and even replaces the incense and masks commonly used by her peers with perfume and sunglasses.

Li Nuo had seen Jersey's fan art and had mental expectations for this.

Tido was unprepared, this was the first time she had seen a female Mechanicus priest dressed like this.

This is not a dull oil-obsessed person, she is simply the cover girl of the fashion magazine in the first district of the hive city!

"Wow, sister, you are so beautiful."

Tido exclaimed involuntarily with little stars in her eyes.

Jersey was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly:

"Giggle, Tido, you were so serious in the Star Language communication, I didn't expect you to be quite cute."

Tido smiled embarrassedly and shyly.

Li Nuo bowed and saluted:

"Good day, Ms. Jersey, I am Li Nuo Wilshire. I extend my greetings to you on behalf of Hive City Epimeteus."

Tido raised the hem of her long skirt with her right hand, pressed her chest with her left hand, and crossed her left and right feet back and forth, giving a ladylike greeting.

Jersey gestured to Romu 31 and gave an order through the mind space, and Romu 31 turned and walked away.

Jersey snapped her fingers and took the lead to walk towards the gold-inlaid gate guarded by combat servitors not far away:

"You two, follow me. I'll take you to see my collection first."

Jersey was wearing long boots with magnetic modules on her feet, and she walked with a vigorous and heroic spirit.

Tido was watching from behind with her mouth watering.

Li Nuo was a little puzzled by this, why didn't he, a man, have any thoughts about Jersey's appearance and figure, but Tido's reaction was so strong?

Could it be that sometimes, women are hornier than men…

Li Nuo didn't understand, so he could only quietly poke Tido to get her to restrain herself.

Tido lowered her head embarrassedly, "Sister Jersey is so handsome, I thought the Mechanicus priests were all smelly."

Li Nuo glanced at Tido, "She has a pickup implant."

Tido pursed her lips tightly and dared not speak.

Jersey looked back with a smile and gently shook her eyebrows, seemingly a little proud.

The combat servitor guarding the exhibition room opened the gold-inlaid gate, and the three stepped into it.

Here was covered with soft red carpets, and rows of vertical glass display cases were neatly arranged.

In the very center of the venue, a black and gold logic conduit was placed in a two-meter square display case.

Now it was Li Nuo's turn to show an intoxicated expression.

That logic conduit was very exquisite, like a computer motherboard shrunk to one-third of the size of a palm, densely packed with conduits and contacts forming a striped pattern with a mechanical aesthetic.

The last time he saw a regular pattern with such artistic atmosphere was on the microscopic structure diagram of the subspace energy single crystal.

Tido poked Li Nuo, asking her fiancé to restrain himself.

"Cough cough."

Li Nuo coughed lightly and came back to his senses and asked:

"Ms. Jersey, is this the logic conduit of the mind space?"

Jersey smiled and hooked the corner of her mouth:

"That's right. However, I have to correct one point. This thing was not actually invented by me, Master Cass, and Master Lazlo. Its technical blueprints come from the relics of the lost Dark Age of Technology. We just built it according to the blueprints."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

Li Nuo knew the inside story for the first time, "Can I take a closer look at it?"

"Of course, please do."

Jersey snapped her fingers at the servo skull in the corner.

The servo skull floated over with the low hum of the engine, providing goggles for Li Nuo and Tido.

The goggles had a magnifying effect, and more details of the logic conduit could be seen after wearing them.

Li Nuo put on the goggles, stood against the glass display case, and observed intently.

He clicked on the system interface in his mind and manually exchanged the 5th reward option for Waaagh simulation.

【Reward 5: One offline search opportunity.】

【Exchange price: Several simulation points. The amount of points consumed is linked to the search results you finally choose, which is 10 times the learning cost of the search results.】

【Searching the genetic knowledge base of the Techboy - Gork, searching for mechanical witchcraft related to "Mind Space".】

【…】

【Search completed.】

【Search results: 1 item.】

【Name: Gork Goggles.】

【Exchange price: 10,000 skill points.】

【Description:】

【Do you want to know if the gretchin are working properly?】

【Have you ever had a headache because the boyz were messing around?】

【Do you want to figure out who smeared snot on your shoes?】

【Well, you're in luck!】

【Hurry up and put on these goggles!】

【Even if the Ork boyz and gretchin are standing behind cover, you can still see them through the goggles! Command them!】

【Of course, the premise is that these boyz and gretchin recognize your boss's status.】

【Remaining simulation points: 2.74 million.】

Li Nuo was moved.

He had been using noisy boxes to command the Orks before.

This method of command was a bit inefficient, and the communication channels were easily monitored by the enemy.

After obtaining the gene template of the Bonesinger, he originally wanted to try to extract the gene fragments related to the spiritual network and implant them into the Orks, which could greatly improve the Orks' coordinated combat capabilities.

But after thinking about it, Li Nuo felt a little uneasy.

If the Bonesinger was corrupted, then the Orks carrying the gene fragments of the Bonesinger would have a greater chance of being corrupted.

So, Li Nuo dismissed the idea.

The mind space has three functions:

First, wireless command, second, shielding chaotic code, and third, a visual data interface in the cranium.

The Gork Goggles replicated the first function.

Since this goggles is Ork technology, it is immune to chaotic code itself, so the Gork Goggles comes with the second function of the mind space.

Of the three functions, only the visual data interface function has not been replicated.

The visual data interface is not necessary.

He has a system, and the system interface alone takes up some vision, so there is no need for an extra virtual interface.

As for Tido, after she wears the Huntsman suit's holographic goggles, she can also see the virtual interface in the holographic field of vision.

Therefore, the key function of the mind space is wireless command.

The Gork Goggles replicates this function, which can already meet all the needs of the two of them.

Li Nuo operated on the system interface with his mind and exchanged the drawings.