RNP Chapter 25 Prayer of Atonement
Chapter 25 Prayer of Atonement
Luo Wei wiped the water droplets from his face and sat back down at the table.
He pressed the communication button on the table.
"Buck."
"Yes, advisor! What are your orders?"
Buck's loud voice came through the loudspeaker.
The background noise is the clattering of bowls and chopsticks.
"Today's green soup might taste a bit...unusual." Luo Wei carefully chose his words. "That's an improvement brought about by the new process. I need you to do two things."
"Please give your instructions."
"First, notify the canteen to add 20%... no, 30% sawdust and chaff to each pot of soup."
"Huh? Consultant, this soup finally tasted good, why did you add that stuff? It'll hurt your throat."
Buck was clearly puzzled.
"To increase our feeling of fullness," Rowe lied without batting an eye, "our food supplies are limited, so we have to be careful with our spending."
"Food that's too delicious can erode a person's will. What we need are warriors and laborers, not gourmets."
The rough texture serves as a physical reminder to the eater:
This is reality.
It is a world of suffering.
It's not some paradise.
Pain is the best wake-up call.
"Second," Luo Wei's voice turned stern, "starting today, adjust the broadcast content."
"I want to play the state religion's 'Atonement Prayer' 24/7, without interruption. Turn the volume up so loud it can drown out the sound of them chewing."
"Third, establish 'mental health supervision posts'."
"Every four hours of work, or if I see someone making that kind of... I mean, that kind of silly grin for no reason during a break, I go up and slap them."
"This is for their own good, to prevent them from going insane due to overwork."
"Well... okay, advisor. You're always right."
After hanging up the call, Luo Wei looked at the half-box of green soup that was gradually cooling down.
He picked up the spoon again, expressionless, and ate the rest of the soup, spoonful by spoonful.
Since you've decided to let others eat it, you must first get used to the toxicity yourself.
He is the alpha wolf here.
He had to be more resistant to poison and more clear-headed than anyone else.
……
Having dealt with the food crisis, Lowe turned his gaze to the corner of the office.
There was a special piece of equipment there.
A giant glass jar.
It contains a huge human brain.
Former manager Case.
Now, he is no longer the greedy fat man.
Instead, it's a wet server codenamed "Case".
Lo Wei approached the glass jar and tapped his fingers rapidly on the control panel.
Countless streams of data cascaded across the screen like a waterfall.
Freed from the distractions of physical desires, Case's brain displayed astonishing computational efficiency.
It not only perfectly took over the logistics monitoring inside the grain warehouse.
With Luo Wei's authorization, they began to attempt to infiltrate the public data network at the bottom layer of Nest City.
"The reported data is abnormal."
Luo Wei enters the command.
The data stream on the screen stopped instantly.
Then rearrange and filter out a few highlighted messages.
This is the underlying logic that Loewy set for Case:
Search for the "missing supplies".
In the Warhammer world, corruption is the norm.
However, the flow of embezzled funds often hides deadly secrets.
"Serious discrepancies were detected between the records and actual inventory at logistics nodes 404, 405, and 409."
Lines of cold, hard code appeared.
"The aforementioned nodes have nominally received 'waste disposal' orders from the upper-level nest city in the past three months, but the actual weight of waste entering the warehouse is zero."
"At the same time, the energy consumption of these three nodes is 500% higher than the standard value."
Luo Wei narrowed his eyes.
These three nodes are several small transfer stations located around the Seventh Grain Depot.
No supplies were stored, yet a huge amount of energy was consumed.
This indicates that they are engaged in some kind of energy-intensive activity.
And they didn't want anyone to know.
Under normal circumstances, this might just be a gang manufacturing illegal drugs.
But on the eve of the Nurgle plague outbreak, at this critical juncture...
Luo Wei pulled up the list of people in charge of these three nodes.
As expected, they were all unfamiliar faces.
In the deep tracing of the financial transactions, Case's mind also uncovered a deeply hidden account.
The last transaction recorded for that account was the purchase of a batch of expensive "life support system filter cartridges".
It's medical grade.
"It's not for curing illness," Luo Wei muttered to himself, "it's for 'cultivation'."
They were raising poisonous insects there.
The previous speculation has been confirmed.
The attack on the seventh grain depot was not an isolated incident.
This is a vast web, a series of plague breeding grounds that have been established in the shadow of the hive.
The Seventh Granary, due to Luo Wei's sudden emergence, became the only hole in this network.
Lo Wei felt a chill.
However, he quickly suppressed these emotions.
Fear is useless.
Information is the weapon.
He packaged all this data and attached the coordinates of several suspected "cult meeting points" deduced by the algorithm from Case's brain.
Then, he took out a black ring from his inner pocket.
That was a token given to him by Governor Alicia.
He embedded the ring into a specially designed groove in the communicator.
An encrypted quantum communication beam pierced through the thick radiation clouds and rushed toward the governor's spire atop the city.
……
The waiting time always feels long.
Luo Wei poured himself a glass of water.
There was a faint rusty smell in the water, but at least it was clean.
About ten minutes later, the indicator light on the communicator turned green.
The holographic projection lights up.
It was not the silver-haired, purple-eyed governor who appeared.
It was her head guard, Lilith.
The female warrior was covered in black armor and wore a breathing mask, revealing only a pair of sharp, hawk-like eyes.
The background is a dimly lit tactical command room.
The sound of an explosion could be faintly heard in the distance.
It seems that life isn't easy up there either.
"Advisor Lowe, the Governor has received your previous report. Regarding the results of repelling the first wave of 'pests,' she said... it was acceptable."
It's acceptable.
In the context of the imperial high command, this means "you've temporarily saved your head."
"Serving the God-Emperor is my duty." Luo Wei bowed slightly and performed a standard Imperial Eagle salute. "I'm contacting you this time with more important new intelligence."
He pressed the send button.
The data packet that had just been organized was transmitted through the encrypted channel.
Lilith's gaze swept across the holographic screen.
A few seconds later, her expression changed.
The initial indifference was replaced by a solemnity.
"How did you obtain these coordinates? This level of intelligence gathering is not the capability an agricultural consultant should possess."
"I used some private channels left by my former supervisor, Case," Rowe lied without batting an eye.
"That fat guy is greedy, but he's a genius at falsifying accounts and collecting dirt on people."
"I just found some interesting records among his belongings."
Blaming everything on the dead is the safest approach.
Lilith remained silent for a moment.
It seems they are assessing the credibility of this explanation.
Then she nodded.
"This intelligence is very valuable. The Inquisition's agents are looking for these rat holes, and your data has been a great help."
This is not only an affirmation, but also a warning.
The court has intervened.