18: Chapter 18 Fishing in the Sea of ​​Souls

As it turned out, after waiting for half a day, only Ivankov came to apply for the position of Minister of the "Diplomacy + Exploration" Department.

Everyone else was still f***ing watching from the sidelines!

It seemed it was time for a decisive military victory.

Cheng Yu had just stood up when one of his clones came to report, "Our drinking water has run out, and the rate of fresh water production via distillation cannot keep up with our consumption."

The Emperor sat back down and asked, "Minister Ivankov, what can be done about this?"

Ivankov had no solution either; he was no deity.

In the Cheng Tianxiao star system, the soil on all planets had an extremely high salt content; the oceans were salty, the glaciers were salty, and even the rain had a faint salty taste.

Li Yu Planet, although a moon, was no exception.

Furthermore, this salt was slightly toxic; once it penetrated the skin, it easily caused warts to grow.

This had even led to the emergence of a special profession within Cheng Yu's empire known as "Wart Removers."

The sole job of a Wart Remover was to remove warts from others every day.

...

"Is there drinking water in Warp?"

Cheng Yu suddenly had this whimsical idea.

"You absolutely must not, Your Majesty!"

Minister Ivankov advised, "Although Warp contains everything imaginable, there is nothing it does not have."

"However, only those Chaos Daemons dare to drag people and things from the real universe into it; I have never heard of anyone daring to bring things out of it."

"At best, you might bring out some profane objects; at worst, you might bring out Chaos Daemons, and then the empire would be in grave danger!"

Ivankov's earnest advice had absolutely no effect.

The basic needs of the billions of clones had to be met.

Contacting Chaos creations might bring big trouble, but if these clones were allowed to spiral out of control, the trouble would be even greater.

"If we do not enter Warp, we die; if we remain thirsty, we die; if we wait for death, we die—might as well risk death for the empire!"

Without further ado, Cheng Yu immediately began to muster his troops.

The "Ms. Zhang from the Sales Office" warband, the "Director Feng from the Admissions Office" warband, the "Station Master Chen from the Lottery Center" warband... and dozens of other warbands set off immediately.

They activated their Geller Field and bravely ventured into Warp to collect usable resources, especially drinking water.

The home planet lacks fresh water; the home planet lacks fresh water!

...

Warp, also known as the Sea of Souls, is the aggregation of intense emotions from all conscious life.

Of course, this was just the one-sided view of the experts in the Corpse Emperor Empire.

Besides this, there were many other ways to interpret it.

Among them, the one Cheng Yu agreed with most in his past life was the "Material World as an Island" theory.

Warp is the true universe; the universe is inherently chaotic and disordered.

The material world is merely an island of sanity within endless, raging waves, occupying only an insignificant fraction of the true universe.

And sooner or later, it will be swallowed by the tsunami.

The reason those truly powerful Warp entities have not attacked the material universe is simply because they haven't noticed such a tiny thing.

Things like Slaanesh, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Khorne are nothing but worthless scum in the true Warp, mere brats who like to play with toys.

The big ones haven't even arrived yet.

Armed with such a fearless guiding ideology, dozens of warbands entered Warp.

Although the Geller Field was activated, its power was nowhere near enough.

The hundreds of thousands of clones were simply forcing their way in.

If the gateway hadn't been so small, Cheng Yu would have even wanted to shove tens of millions of clones in at once.

...

The hundreds of thousands of clones were scattered the moment they entered Warp, and nearly half of them lost contact instantly.

As for the remaining half of the clones, they witnessed all sorts of scenes.

Some clones saw endless, towering mountains with faint moonlight, and amidst the pervasive miasma, they seemed to hear the howling of wolves.

Some clones saw desolate, lonely, uninhabited cities, where amidst the heavy ghostly shadows, they seemed to see Zhao Zhen, Li Yu Planet, and Liu Fei Planet, all wearing wedding dresses and waving at them with smiles.

Some clones exploded due to decompression in a vacuum.

Some clones were crushed flat in the deep sea.

Less than one in ten clones managed to enter a relatively stable environment.

Only one warband was still able to maintain a complete formation; they were the "Boss Yang of the Barbecue Shop" warband, who were staying at the very center of the Geller Field.

Incidentally, this Boss Yang used to run a barbecue shop downstairs from Cheng Yu's home in his past life, and he never cleaned up after closing, which led to cockroaches crawling around the first floor even in broad daylight.

Two-thirds of the "Boss Yang of the Barbecue Shop" warband still retained their ability to act.

Warp they entered was... a huge, boundless swimming pool.

The entire warband had fallen from mid-air, so quite a few people died instantly upon hitting the tiles.

The clones immediately began to divide the labor; most collected fresh water, while the command staff anchored Warp coordinates and repaired the engines for the return journey.

One of the clones had just tasted a mouthful of the water in the pool and confirmed that it was indeed drinkable fresh water.

Then, a hand reached out from the pool, grabbed him by the scalp, and dragged him under.

The other clones nearby hurriedly grabbed his lower body and wrestled with the hand from the deep end.

The warband commander, "Sharingan" Tattoo Cheng Yu, immediately gave the order for all clones carrying weapons to fire freely into the deep end to see what kind of thing was hiding in there.

All sorts of Ork-style big shootas and small shootas roared, kicking up countless splashes.

What finally floated up was actually a giant squid.

This thing looked very disgusting; it had many eyes on its head, and the ends of its tentacles looked just like human hands.

Without a word, the clones began to dismember the squid, throwing away the disgusting parts and keeping the relatively normal parts, which were still edible.

On Cheng Yu Planet, meat was a very scarce resource.

Many clones never tasted a single bite of meat from birth to death.

Today, we've really struck gold.

...

Cheng Yu's main body received the intelligence and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Ivankov, however, was full of worry, because based on his experience, all acts of demanding things from Warp... ended in tragic results.

That year, Ivankov was eighteen, and his personal maid was also eighteen; on a starry night...

"Stop, don't reminisce."

Cheng Yu waved his hand, and more warbands began to reinforce the designated coordinates, also carrying water pumping equipment.

He didn't know what Warp really was, and he had no ability to research it for the time being.

But now it contained things he needed, and that was enough; no matter the price, it was worth it.

...

This coordinate was named "Water Extraction Point," and a large number of warbands established outpost bases there.

Cheng Yu certainly intended to use this as a long-term water supply base, but the creatures inside Warp clearly did not agree.

A large number of bizarre creatures crawled out from the depths of the pool; the human-handed octopus was just one of the most normal types.

However, every single Warp creature was eventually defeated by the clones with their lives, and their corpses became the empire's new provisions.