Sue remained at the Iron Gate. The command building of nearly 10,000 square meters is vast and vast, and it is not a problem to accommodate all the soldiers under Su. Most of the rooms in the building were closed and abandoned, and Su and Hu occupied the top two floors, but they still felt empty.

For the first time, after the incorporation of Ledesma's troops, Sue's warriors exceeded a thousand, and these warriors needed to rule over a vast area of 300,000 square kilometers, which was a drop in the bucket. However, the number of inhabitants of the Iron Gate has dropped to 20,000, and Midnight City has dropped to less than 40,000. Most of the population fled to the wilderness to escape the fighting. When the area becomes quieter in the future, the fleeing people return, after all, there is not enough food and water in the wilderness, and there is no basic order.

In this area ruled by the Soviets, there were about a million people living in it. That's a staggering number, but the foundation was laid during the Ledesma era. Quinn had already told Su that he needed to expand his army as much as possible in order to consolidate his rule in the Western Regions of the Great Lakes, and Su's own desire was not so strong.

The energy, smelting, and military industries of the Steel Gate, the food industry and water purification technology of Midnight City, and the biological and genetic engineering of Crane together form a complete industrial and economic system, and relying on a population of nearly one million, the potential strength is indeed likely to explode in a year or two, greatly expanding the scope of the control. If the water purification technology that Midnight City has been researching can be broken through, and the growth cycle and fertility of human beings in the new era can be shortened by several times, perhaps the population may exceed 10 million in less than 50 years. Even now, it is not difficult for Su to form an army of more than 10,000 people, at most the equipment and ability are almost there.

Su stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, just in time to see the majestic steel mill in the distance from his vantage point. The steelworks are one of the representative products of human industrial civilization in the old era, and the steel mill at the Steel Gate covers an area equivalent to half of the city, and the steel mill that once had six blast furnaces is now only using one small electric furnace. Even so, only half of its capacity is utilized.

Although he relied on the number jù to process far more than the human brain of the old days and memorized hundreds of economics books, Sue still knew only a little about economics. He knew that the magnificent industrial empire he had seen in front of him could easily support tens of millions of people and 100,000 troops if it really reached its potential.

Su suddenly remembered Dragon City, and what had happened in the Dark Dragoon. It was only when he began to govern a piece of land on his own that he truly understood the prosperity and power of the Bloody Council. Nearly a thousand dragoons correspond to nearly 100,000 servants, and to support such a large armed force, at least dozens of times the population is needed. In this way, in the area ruled by the Bloody Council, I am afraid that there are really nearly 10 million people.

The strength of the Bloody Council also lies in the technological power that far surpasses that of other regions, and they have even begun to control and transform the environment in the Dragon City area. The radiation range of Longcheng, which crosses the river and borders the sea, should be much higher than that of the inland area, but under the effect of the defensive force field, the radiation in the urban area is much lower than that of the inland. Before Sue was forced to leave Dragon City, the Bloody Council activated three new large force field generators in Dragon City. Under their protection, the radiation range in Dragon City has dropped even further, not much higher than in the old era. Even people from the old days can survive in this environment.

The Bloody Council is also working to improve humanity's own resistance to radiation, and dozens of models and dosage forms of anti-radiation agents are the product of this effort. At the same time, the standard formula of various abilities can also be regarded as such, because as the ability increases, most people's ability to resist radiation will increase, and the body's utilization and absorption of nutrients will also increase. As far as Su knew, long-acting anti-radiation agents with no particularly strong side effects had been developed, and could be used in small batches for high-level dragoons. This agent can provide radiation protection to humans for up to half a year, allowing ordinary people to live in most known areas. Colonel Su's authority was able to know such information, which meant that the council was preparing to put this potion into production on a large scale.

In the new era, humanity's greatest enemy is not mutated creatures, but the ubiquitous radiation and harsh environment. Of course, the capable are not subject to these limitations, but since the day the ability appeared, there has been a constant debate about whether the capable person is a human being or not. After nearly a hundred years of development, this controversy has tended to subside.

No matter how you look at it, the Capable have gradually separated from ordinary humans and become a new race, rather than a class in the old sense.

However, Su had a long-unresolved doubt in his heart, that is, for some reason, the Blood Council didn't seem to be particularly interested in external expansion, basically the main force of external expansion was the low-level dragon riders, and those really terrifying characters, such as the Spider Empress, stayed in the nest for many years, and didn't move around much at all. If Lanaxis had been dispatched, perhaps the Radiant Crusade would have been wiped out long ago.

On the small table next to Su, there was a reconditioned electromagnetic kinetic energy rifle. Having escaped the crisis of genetic disintegration, Quinn has been able to make its alloy bullets in small batches. This electromagnetic kinetic rifle did not accompany Su for a long time, but it repeatedly saved his life. With its great power and speed, it has become a nightmare for ordinary people. But by the time Su was now Cheng Dù, its limitations had begun to emerge. For example, the effect on Crotina is very limited, and if you change to Pandora, the gun is almost useless.

So, where does the future of humanity go? Will we continue the original path and develop a technological and mechanical civilization, or will we devote ourselves to biochemical technology and take ability as the core of development? From the current point of view, the ability has completely overwhelmed the technology. For example, Sue single-handedly destroyed the entire ruling base of Ledesma. In the face of unchecked capabilities, the number of conventional weapons and ordinary fighters is meaningless. However, the development of science and technology takes time to accumulate, and the current level of human science and technology has just touched the application of electromagnetic kinetic energy.

But advances in capabilities also drive advances in technology. The most important point is that the ability of the human brain is not what it used to be, not to mention the perversion of Helen, that is, Su herself, the brain's processing ability is no worse than that of the small computer of the old era, and with the enhancement of ability, this ability is still rapidly improving. In the old days, people needed twenty years to learn knowledge, and it only took two or three years for those who had the ability to evolve their intelligence.

Su's thoughts were like being immersed in the long river of history, drifting with the waves, drifting farther and farther. However, a sharp scream pulled his thoughts back, and he remembered that today was supposed to be the day of Li's birth, and the delivery room was next door. And this scream should have come from a nurse who helped deliver the baby.

Sue's figure flashed, and he had opened the door of the delivery room and rushed in.

In the center of the delivery room was a midwifery bed, and Lili was lying on her back, her pale face covered with sweat. There was a puddle of water between her legs, not blood. In the clear water, a small fusiform creature less than 20 centimeters was tumbling. Its skin is blue-black, and its soft, flexible body seems to be completely boneless, like a large Ru worm. There were no organs or limbs to be seen on its body, only a small opening at one end, and it was still spewing water outward, and its body shrank accordingly, soon shrinking to about ten centimeters.

Before entering the door, Sue's perception had completely enveloped every corner of the delivery room. He knew that this little thing was Liz and his own child, and what it spit out was pure water, and there were no impurities at all. Li's abdomen has been completely flattened, and the nutrient solution that was originally full of nutrients should have been absorbed by it, and the water should be discharged instead. Its body is not simply shrinking, but readjusting its body structure, the body is increasing in geometric progression, the outer skin is also thickening, and the defense ability is also rapidly improving. The internal structure of its body gradually takes shape, and if it enters an environment of strong radiation, the radiation that penetrates the skin will interact with a special layer of tissue under the skin, thus generating a large amount of heat energy, which is one of the energy sources on which it can survive.

It is fully transforming into combat and survival in harsh environments.

This change is a bit strange, and newborn beings should instinctively rely on their parents. Even if you transform your body, you should change to a high growth direction, rather than strengthening your survival and fighting abilities as soon as you are born.

It's a lot like the living weapons that are made purely for battle. Such a thought suddenly appeared in the depths of Sue's consciousness.

Biological weapons?!

Sue never remembered seeing any living weapons, and Matham might have been counted as one. However, Masem is still developed based on human genes, with limited combat power and many defects, and his intelligence is also affected, and his growth is almost zero, at most he is just a modified person, which is completely different from the definition of biological weapons that emerges in Su's consciousness.

In Su's consciousness, those real biological weapons are brand new species, which can quickly change themselves with changes in the environment, and have high intelligence that is not inferior to the wisdom of Cheng Dù, cruel, cold-blooded, and efficient. With enough food, they can fully grow in a matter of days and evolve a variety of organs adapted to the task at hand. They are born entirely for missions and killing, but possess consciousness and intelligence of their own, but the directives planted in a deeper plane than genes make them completely incapable of disobeying their masters.