When it was completely dark, the two hit the road again. This time, Laika let Chu Tianjiang follow closer, and the speed of the march was significantly faster than last night.

The desert was cold at night, but it didn't have much of an effect on Laika.

Before leaving, Laika went to pick up two sets of Legion's standard combat uniforms. This is a single combat uniform similar to the "Doomsday Warrior" system. Although all the soldiers of the Doomsday Empire have superpowers, they are all human beings, not invincible beings who are not afraid of anything. More importantly, superpowers also have limitations, especially for grassroots officers and soldiers, having superpowers does not mean having immortality. To this end, the Doomsday Empire has developed a lot of weapons and equipment to enhance the combat effectiveness of its soldiers, including this individual combat uniform.

Individual soldiers are made of a polymer material, using nanotechnology, and when weaving, the control program of the combat uniform is also written. Thermal insulation is the most basic function of combat suits, which can work normally between minus 100 degrees and 900 degrees, providing a more suitable internal temperature for the wearer. In addition, it also has a certain bulletproof function, to be precise, the protection ability against energy weapons. The most unique thing is its ability to control. That is, there is a set of control system interfaces in the palm part of the combat suit, which can be connected with various weapons, so as to control the weapon, so that the wearer can use a variety of high-tech weapons more conveniently.

For Chu Tianjiang, this combat uniform is just an ornament, but it is different for Laika.

Laika has superpowers in the spiritual realm, even if her physical strength is better than that of ordinary people, it is not much better, and in other aspects, it is not much different from ordinary people. If exposed to the freezing cold of minus 20 degrees Celsius for a long time, she will also get frostbite and even freeze to death.

"Before, I had a partner who was very similar to you." Laika glanced back at Chu Tianjiang. "He's excellent and has worked with me for 12 years."

Chu Tianjiang didn't say anything, this was Laika's memory, not Iska made it up. All Iskar did was change the image of the person in Laika's memory, and where he went. To put it simply, that person is dead, but after being manipulated by Iska, Laika still thinks that he is still alive, and his appearance is very similar to Chu Tianjiang, so he has a good impression of Chu Tianjiang, and even doubts.

"Similar to me?"

Laika nodded and said, "How did I know him?" ”

"Don't fight, don't know each other?"

Laika smiled and said, "You guessed it. After discovering my superpowers, I left my hometown, the village I never wanted to go back to. Maybe you won't believe it, but I have a family, but I'm not happy. After I was born, my father suspected that I was not his daughter. Although my mother has been very kind to me and has always cared for me, there is basically no place for women in this world. If I were just an ordinary person, I would live there forever, marry a man I've known since I was a kid as an adult, and live for him. If he is capable enough and can make enough money, maybe I will have children for him. ”

"You're not an ordinary person."

"Actually, everyone is not ordinary." Laika let out a long sigh and said, "Having superpowers is not necessarily a fortunate thing, because after having superpowers, you can no longer live like ordinary people, and you will inevitably live a strange life." ”

Chu Tianjiang didn't speak, in the legion library, he had already gained enough knowledge.

In the Doomsday Empire, there are special spies who search for children who are born with superpowers among the people. While most of them only need to be registered in the Imperial Government's roster of superpowers, some of them will be singled out, and some will even be sent to the Imperial Capital.

The vast majority of these people will receive rigorous education and training from an early age, and will become imperial soldiers as adults.

Rockwell is one such example.

Of course, if some children have strengthened their superpowers when they grow up, they will also be selected by the empire and will be trained in a targeted manner.

All in all, as long as you have superpowers, you have to give up everything you used to.

"It's just that I'm glad." Laika slowed down and let Chu Tianjiang come up. "Not only because I have superpowers and can leave the place where I was born, but also because when I was young, I didn't show up or be discovered by the Empire's spies."

"And that's something to be thankful about?"

"Do you think that being absorbed by the imperial authorities will definitely have a good result?"

"At least to be a soldier, and maybe an official of the Imperial Government. With your superpowers, you can definitely be reused. ”

What Chu Tianjiang meant was that Laika's superpowers were very unique.

Superpowers in the spiritual realm can be said to be the rarest and most important. In the Imperial Army, the superpower of most soldiers is nothing more than the enhancement of strength, or the ability to resist strikes better, only officers have mental control, and the higher the rank, the stronger the control. In addition, the Imperial Government needs such superpowers even more, because the person in charge of administration does not need too strong personal combat power, but needs a high enough IQ and strong control over the government agencies in charge. To put it bluntly, the military is to suppress and deal with others, but the officials are to manage and control others, and they need more mental control.

"What do you think?"

"Is that wrong?"

"You learned about this from the library, right?" Laika smiled and said, "Obviously, you don't know anything about this world. ”

"I really don't know, and no one tells me."

Laika sighed and said, "The materials in the Legion Library are from the Imperial Military Department and the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and they are public information, and anyone can see them. For a ruling group, only what needs to be made public by the people will be made public, and only what is done is for the benefit of the imperial authorities. ”

"This ......"

"Do you know the simplest arithmetic?"

Chu Tianjiang was stunned for a moment, revealing an expression of incomprehension.

"In the two hundred years before the outbreak of war, the total population of the empire had remained stable between 19 billion and 20 billion, and it had never exceeded this range. In a study by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, it was clearly mentioned that after the implementation of eugenics, a quarter of people were born with superpowers. In other words, one out of every four people is born with superpowers. What is this concept? Laika paused slightly. In the Empire, there are almost half a billion people with superpowers. Although only a small percentage of these superpowers are obvious enough and have real value, they are still an extremely large group. Even one percent means that almost 50 million people are born with superpowers that can influence other people. ”

"It's not a high percentage."

"It's not high, but it's a lot."

Chu Tianjiang smiled reluctantly and didn't argue with Laika.

"Previously, the empire had only one million troops, and the imperial government had less than ten million administrators. In other words, there are almost 40 million people who are born with powerful superpowers who cannot get their place in the military or the government, but these people are not a danger to society. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Anyone, after having superpowers, is definitely not willing to live like ordinary people, unless they can get more living space through formal channels, otherwise they can only realize their own value through some special methods and strive for more benefits for themselves."

"This ......"

"The problem is that the empire has never had a major upheaval in the last two hundred years."

"You're saying that the Empire secretly executed these people?"

"Is there a more plausible explanation?" Laika glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "Among the people selected by the spies, only one-fifth has a chance to become imperial soldiers or officials, and the other four-fifths are unknown, or have disappeared, they must have left this world. You may be confident, but I don't think it's possible to be part of the ruling group of the Empire with the superpowers I displayed at the age of sixteen. ”

"You escaped?"

"At the time, I didn't know any of this, I just wanted to leave that hellish place, find my own happiness, and live a completely different life." Laika smiled reluctantly and said, "You know, my superpowers are special, so survival isn't a problem for me. ”

Chu Tianjiang smiled, of course he believed in Laika's survivability.

"It's just that I was too young at the time, not yet sixteen years old, and I didn't know anything about the world outside the village and town where I was born, which is similar to what you are now."

"That's different, I'm not a teenager."

"It's really different, at least you know the priorities of the road and how to deal with emergencies."

"How did you meet him?"

"A chance encounter, to be precise, a mistake I made." Laika paused for a moment and said, "I can probe the minds of others, especially ordinary people, but I don't know how to distinguish between ordinary people and superpowers, let alone that some people have the same superpowers as me, or can fight against me. At the time, I thought I was the best. ”

"And then?"

"I met him and tried to steal his money."

"He caught you?"

Laika nodded and said, "Actually, he is about the same as me, and he is only in his teens, but he has been wandering in the city for four years, and he knows this world better than me. ”

"And then?"

Laika was silent, as if she felt like she had said too much.

Chu Tianjiang didn't ask, because he had known the Tao for a long time, and after that, Laika fell in love with the man who was four years older than her and lived with him.