After the Wandering Earth sent more people to help manage the hive, Qiao Lu gradually didn't have to worry about the situation here.

He only needs to be responsible for connecting the minds of other people to the will of the hive, and the rest can be left to them to solve.

Qiao Lu's forte was not in management and operation, and he was happy to be a hands-off shopkeeper, and after using the mind gem to build a mental network for controlling the insects, he also handed over all the affairs to others to do.

Under the management of the coalition government, the development of the hive is also on the right track, and while more hatcheries are being built for the production of larvae, alien structures such as the evolution cabin, the blaster nest and the stinging snake nest have also been successfully hatched.

Now, in addition to jumping worms and worker bees, the hive can also produce poisonous blasters and stinging snakes, but if you want to continue to improve, you will need to gather more information about the technology of the insects.

On the other hand, the Wandering Earth Investigation Team is also further monitoring the surrounding situation, and when they find the nest that has not yet been controlled by the insect mother, they will immediately send someone to take over and further strengthen the alien insect power of the coalition government in Char.

Probably because the other worm mothers are also busy absorbing the nests into their own territory, the battle on Char is still in the stage of the enclosure movement, and all forces are concerned about occupying more borderlands, and there has not been too much border friction, so there has not been a large-scale conflict.

Thanks to the timely reaction and preparation of the Wandering Earth, it did not lose at the starting line in this enclosure sport.

The coalition government easily seized a large area of territory on Char, laying a good foundation for the ensuing division between the biters.

It is foreseeable that no Mother Worm will be willing to accept the control of humans other than the Queen of Blades, so I am afraid that they will unite first and drive the humans out of Char first.

Therefore, after the end of this enclosure movement, the territory of the Wandering Earth on Char will usher in a situation of enemies on all sides, so the coalition government has to prepare first.

In this way, the hives occupied by the wandering earth on Char have also become new human colonies.

The coalition government has sent a lot of people over, and they have to be given places to work and live, and they can't live in those slimy nests.

As a result, on Char's fungus carpet, there are both alien and human buildings, worker bees and carrier engineering mechs collect resources together, and jumping worms are used as military dogs to follow the Wandering Earth Survey Team on the expedition.

The harmony between humans and insects is also an unprecedented strange landscape.

The happiest are the scientists who study the technology of the insects, and now they can finally observe the evolution of the insects up close, and they can even make the insects dance for them if they want to experiment with how the samples work together.

In such a good experimental environment, the scientists on the wandering earth have a further understanding of the alien worm, and gradually began to study how to design the next evolution of the alien worm.

The current chief scientist who has come to Char to conduct research is Dr. Ariel Hansen from the Hyperion.

After the end of the Wandering Earth's war against the invasion of insects, she officially joined the Wandering Earth Central Academy of Sciences.

After all, the equipment on the Hyperion could not meet her research needs, and as a paratologist, she was more effective here.

When Jolu arrives at the human lab on the fungus blanket, Dr. Hansen is leading a team of scientists working on how to improve the genes of the jumping worms so that they can better cooperate with human forces.

Unlike other insect hives that are trying to strengthen the physical abilities of jumping insects, human scientists led by Dr. Hansen pay more attention to how to combine the strong flesh of insects with human technology to play a role.

For example, as a military dog, the jumping worm is more reliable and tough than any other canine animal, and scientists are trying to improve the genes of the jumping worm to further strengthen their sense of hearing and smell, and are more suitable as a military dog to cooperate with the investigation team.

On the other hand, scientists have also tried to equip the hoppers with firearms and weapons, so that they will not only rush to melee combat, but in most cases will only become cannon fodder.

As long as the pair of claws on its back for melee combat are degraded, the hopper can easily carry a machine gun or bazooka, and can climb over complex terrain for rapid maneuver strikes, and is far more adaptable to the harsh environment of the char than any armored vehicle or human soldier in the harsh terrain.

The only problem is that the hoppers are not yet able to reload, so they have to have the soldiers follow behind to help them reload, so that they cannot fight alone for long periods of time.

Therefore, the current design scheme of the armed jumping worm is still being improved, but in any case, the armed jumping worm equipped with firearms and weapons is much more powerful than the primitive jumping worm that can only show its teeth and claws, and can help the wandering earth to gain a greater advantage in the next alien civil war.

Dr. Hansen is experimenting with a new generation of armed jumping insects, and the first test is the use of heavy pulse rifles with a larger magazine capacity, combined with energy batteries that can be automatically replaced, which can greatly enhance the continuous combat ability of armed jumping insects.

In the test site, a jumping worm wearing a power exoskeleton was running fast with a heavy pulse rifle on its back. As it ran, the heavy pulse rifle continued to fire, hitting the surrounding targets with unerring accuracy, and it was a small armed combat vehicle.

However, the key to the mobility of the hoppers lies in their ability to climb over terrain, as demonstrated in the Battle of the Wandering Earth, where they can easily climb walls, burrow into ventilation ducts, and traverse all kinds of difficult terrain with no penetration.

Powerful mobility combined with the firearms and weapons equipped with the power exoskeleton undoubtedly make these armed hoppers even more terrifying combat units, and even cheaper than human soldiers.

"Well done." Qiao Lu couldn't help but applaud, "It looks like you've found the right way to make these jumping insects work." ”

Dr. Hansen, who was in charge of the project, shook his head modestly and said: "At present, their combat methods are still relatively simple, far from meeting the complex needs of the battlefield, and it is still far from truly replacing human soldiers in actual combat." ”

"In my opinion, it's already pretty good." Qiao Lu did not hesitate to praise, "But how the hell did you teach them to aim and shoot?" ”

Judging from the experiment just now, the armed hopper did not look at any target at all, but the heavy pulse rifle on its back could hit the target accurately, which is really incredible.

Dr. Hansen replied, "We didn't teach them to shoot, the heavy pulse rifle on the back of the armed hopper uses tactical eyepiece aiming, and the program automatically identifies the target to fire, and the hopper only needs to be responsible for moving." ”

Even Qiao Lu had forgotten that the Heavy Pulse Rifle was equipped with a tactical eyepiece, which made the jumping worm even aim and shoot differently, and only needed to run around with the Heavy Pulse Rifle on his back, and the tactical eyepiece would automatically aim and destroy the enemy.

This is really a perfect match, especially those ordinary jumping insects that can easily kite those that need melee combat, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is really not on the same level.