[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te":3,"chapter-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-38":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm in Warhammer, Please Don't Praise the Doraemon Machine God",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2264861,4422,"Chapter 38: Make the Fool Eat Gourd Seeds!","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>Asford, Fardia City, Upper Nest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Block 33, Ninth District, Eighteenth Residential Zone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun stood beside this broad street, gazing at the exquisitely crafted metal signpost,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>according to Leina’s words, the Ninth District was an old area of Fardia City’s Upper Nest, so ancient its history stretched back over ten thousand years,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this large district also marked the boundary between Upper Nest and Lower Nest, and the two had entered the Upper Nest through its massive entrance gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as an old district with deep history and proximity to the Lower Nest, the streets here remained wide and the buildings immaculate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the air still carried the scent of chemical purifiers, yet compared to the Lower Nest, it was refreshingly clean,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the lighting was bright enough to replace the sun, with buildings connected by straight arched bridges, horizontal walkways, and covered corridors, all adorned with luminous lights that shimmered like a constellation at a glance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>beneath these structures lay shops and private workshops, while neatly arranged stalls along the roadside sold goods produced by these workshops,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after living so long in the cramped alleys of the Lower Nest, Zhou Yun felt dizzy upon arriving in the Upper Nest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it even reminded him faintly of the city he had lived in during his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun walked east along Block 33, observing the goods sold along the street,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asford’s major factories primarily produced military equipment, yet everything sold on these streets came from private workshops,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these private workshops purchased raw materials from starships arriving from alien worlds, processed them, and sold the finished goods on roadside stalls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prices of these goods could turn any Lower Nest dweller pale and make their fingers tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but Zhou Yun had money,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina the big fool—no, Leina—had bought two Upper Nest access passes from him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at four times the price, one of which belonged to Zhou Yun himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet when Zhou Yun received the passes from the PDF guards at the Upper-Lower Nest checkpoint,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina still widened her eyes in shock, exclaiming repeatedly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she marveled both at Zhou Yun’s connections to powerful figures who could make the PDF bend the rules, and at how utterly worth every credit it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Zhou Yun’s conscience stir uneasily,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet the moment he took the massive sum from Leina, his conscience settled instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After arriving in the Upper Nest, Leina did not move,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>instead, she found a roadside stall with near-perfect familiarity and sat down, as if waiting for someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Leina waited, Zhou Yun wandered the nearby streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though his pockets held considerable money, it was all local Asford currency, useless outside Asford,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Empire was vast, nearly every planet had its own currency system, or formed currency alliances with neighboring star systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asford’s currency was anchored to bloodstones stored in the Viceroy’s vaults, each Asford coin exchangeable for a fixed quantity of bloodstone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a blood-red gem commonly found on Baer, resembling the blood of Saint Guilliman, even the Blood Angels often wore them as adornments,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>thus, Asford’s currency was called Bloodcoin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun exchanged seventy percent of his money for bloodstones, including the funds from the automatic infantry rifles and the two access passes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then sold the bloodstones through his fourth-dimensional pocket, netting a total of 660,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun’s savings now reached 1.4 million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He retained thirty percent in Bloodcoin for daily expenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun stopped at a roadside stall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a food stall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asford’s native sun emitted toxic radiation, making normal crop cultivation nearly impossible,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>food supplies came almost entirely from nearby agricultural worlds, harvested from endless farmlands shrouded in thick yellow-green fertilizer atmospheres.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The food sold at this stall was almost entirely processed from gourd crops,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>sliced into chunks, their pulp dull yellow and oily, resembling fat, of an unknown gourd variety,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and palm-sized, roasted seeds of giant gourd crops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun could easily imagine how massive these gourd crops must be,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>almost certainly giant, high-yield varieties cultivated on agricultural worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Want some roasted gourd seeds? Or grilled gourd pulp?” asked the Upper Nest woman tending the stall, beaming brightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun glanced at the woman and noticed her mental state was clearly far superior to that of Lower Nest residents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out several Bloodcoins and bought a chunk of oily, dull-yellow gourd pulp and a bag of roasted gourd seeds from her stall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun carried the roasted gourd seeds back to Leina’s stall and sat across from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eat?” Zhou Yun pulled out a palm-sized seed from the bag and waved it at Leina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pushed the bag toward her and cracked open the massive seed with his teeth himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant seed was satisfying to eat, releasing a rich aroma of plant oils in Zhou Yun’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina stared in surprise at the seed Zhou Yun offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These seeds were huge—only nine fit in the entire bag,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I ate these as a child. I remember they were expensive even for the Lower Nest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina picked up one seed and said hesitantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You shouldn’t have spent so much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No problem—the money was all taken from you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun chewed the seed but did not voice this thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swallowed it and nodded to Leina. “Just eat yours.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In our homeland, offering gourd seeds to a friend like you is tradition.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Leina even gave Zhou Yun a look of gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before she could put the seed in her mouth, she suddenly remembered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, didn’t you say last time—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That your homeland’s tradition was to tease fools by buying them gourd seeds?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina the big fool—no, Leina—immediately widened her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cough. Cough.” Zhou Yun cleared his throat and smoothly changed the subject: “What are we waiting here for?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, we’re waiting for that calculator and mathematician.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina pried open a seed and nibbled it slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So easily fooled. Even easier than Ogre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun glanced at Leina,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he realized her overall intelligence was normal, even notably sharp,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had seen her handle gang affairs and calculate accounts with exceptional efficiency,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this at least proved Leina was not mentally impaired in any physiological sense—indeed, she looked perfectly normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But… she seemed to display a strange dullness and foolishness in certain matters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this appeared more psychological than physiological,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>psykers were often affected by the Warp, slipping into mental illnesses,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>such as mania, irritability, depression, autism, eccentricity…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leina might have been deeply warped by the Warp,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but her symptom was… occasionally becoming an idiot?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun even suspected this occasional idiocy was her psyche’s instinctive self-protection, cleverly shielding her from true madness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after all, Ogryns were generally more resistant to Chaos corruption than other humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun’s mind spun with wild thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look, she’s here—the calculator and mathematician I told you about.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun followed Leina’s pointing finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1129,"2026-06-19T20:02:14.192Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","acd0da4cf0012567936a457452464853b8db1d1146f138251814597c6340f903","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-39","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-37",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-doraemo-cover.jpg"]