The knight, a close knead, saw the Earl Watson's distress, and he very carefully proposed: "Your Excellency, perhaps we should focus on the immediate gains first. And then, what about the rest of the story? ”

That's pretty much the answer Earl Watson needs now. The reason why it is not entirely is because the words came from the mouth of a knight who is close to him, and not from Watson himself. It has always felt that it is a resolute and resolute dark nobleman, and it has never hesitated. But no matter what, Earl Watson had to admit that the Dark Knight's words and deeds were really caring, and he was always able to say very difficult things for himself, saving his indispensable face in front of other followers.

The Earl nodded: "This time, you will be responsible for leading the attack!" ”

It's a bonus. According to the rules of the dark world, after the battle with the Human Empire, especially on the occasion of victory, the bravest and first summoned dark creatures have the qualifications to pick the loot first. Whether or not it has its own benefactor, or has some other reason become a brave man, it must always follow this rule that all dark creatures approve of when it comes to choosing the spoils of war.

……

Su Hao's convoy returned safely to Konoha Town. He didn't know anything about what was happening behind him, but when he walked into the commander's office, he saw Dai Xiaolou sitting in the chair that originally belonged to him, sipping coffee leisurely.

"Your life is much faster than I ever imagined."

Dai Xiaolou looked at Su Hao who walked into the room and smiled: "How does it feel to go on an outing in the wild?" Do you regret that you should have asked for a young and beautiful secretary to be sent to you when the Legion was deploying soldiers? Hehe! If that's what you think, it's too late. I can help you apply, and the odds of getting approved should be high. ”

"The condom manufacturer should ask you to be a spokesperson, or you can create your own sex clothing brand called Playboy. ”

Su Hao has long been accustomed to this kind of gag: "You have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing." Go ahead! What happened this time? ”

Dai Xiaolou leaned forward, folded his fingers, and put his chin on his fist: "You need to undergo an operation." ”

Su Hao, who was unfastening the bolts of the shoulder armor, stopped his movements, turned around, and asked suspiciously, "Surgery?" What surgery? ”

"Your genetic sample has been approved by the Holy See, and the 101 training camp has issued you a certificate of qualification. According to the relevant regulations, you are already a member of the officially recognized legion, and your body has been trained in battle, and you have passed the initial period of adaptation. Now, it's time for you to give back to the Legion and do your duty. ”

Dai Xiaolou's next words solved Su Hao's confusion: "Each legion member must be implanted with two genetic glands. You must nourish them with your own flesh and blood. When these glands mature, they are removed from your body and implanted in other recruits. ”

It's not a secret.

The division of the legion was a practice of the human empire in the Third World during the long war period. In order to further expand the armed forces, the new main corps was split from the old corps. They carried two genetic glands per Legionnaire to permanently fix the Legion's combat effectiveness. Although it took up to several years, it ensured that there was no exclusion between the new recruits and veterans of the legion.

Not all clans have a complete profile. In the aftermath of the wars, there was always a part of the Legionnaires who went missing. There are many reasons for this outcome. Perhaps it was the negligence of the searchers, or it could be that the fighting was so fierce that part of the fighters lost contact. There is evidence that these warriors did not abandon their original ideas, and still based on the genetic glands in their respective bodies, they produced more imperial warbands in different spatial domains. In this case, how many new warbands have appeared, there are fundamental statistics. Add to that the fact that a large number of relevant records were lost in the turbulent years that followed, and much became a secret.

These warbands were much smaller than legions, but they still adhered to the Holy See canon, as well as strict organizational forms and tactical dogmas. They worship the emperor and fight tenaciously in their respective spatial realms. Despite the loss of the space converter, a unique combat culture related to the space domain has also developed. The practice of using genetic seeds to create a fighting bloodline has become the most profound imprint of the human empire. As far as the information currently available, there are about two thousand Imperial battle teams scattered in various space domains. In order to reclaim these lost warriors, the Emperor sent a large number of reinforcements to re-establish new spatial passages.

The surgery that Dai Xiaolou said specifically refers to this kind of thing.

"According to the normal establishment, the number of fighters in each independent war group should be about a thousand. The biggest limitation in the expansion of the legion is the genetic glands. Although the Holy See has a large number of biological slaves that can provide glands in batches, they still need to be implanted in the warrior's body and nourished in battle before they can become a legion recruit. ”

Dai Xiaolou kept smiling: "Don't resist this kind of thing. In fact, even I myself cultivated two genetic glands in the beginning. It takes five years from implantation to maturity. No one can do a second implant. In other words, you only have the opportunity to breed two genetic glands in your lifetime. Don't see this kind of thing as a burden, you should take it as an honor, a responsibility. Only heroes who have gone through hundreds of battles will be considered the bravest and most promising. Two hundred warriors, this is the greatest help the Legion can give you. From now on, the responsibility and future of the warband depend entirely on you. Recruits can qualify through guò competitions and be tested by adversity or the most sacred rites. Each of them has great value, and can carry genetic glands just like you, expanding the entire warband for a long time to come. ”

Su Hao keenly sniffed the hidden part of Dai Xiaolou's words: "The entire battle group must be expanded in this way?" I can't get more people to replenish? ”

"I brought you a hundred mature genetic glands. On top of that, you can extract genes from yourself or other fighters to generate new glands in the creature pod. This can be done with the cooperation of the Holy See, who can provide you with a complete set of operating equipment individually. Of course, if you need biological slaves, you can recruit them yourself, or extract criminals directly from the Wehrmacht and Imperial prisons. ”

Dai Xiaolou did not answer Su Hao's question directly: "Regarding the application for the emblem of the war group, the legion headquarters has already approved it. This is a new military flag, take a good look, is it what you imagined? ”

As he spoke, Dai Xiaolou took out a roll of black cloth made of composite materials from his military backpack. It was a square banner a meter square, all black in color, so strong that it was almost impossible to tear it with your hands, and in the center was a bright red dragon with sharp fangs baring at everyone who saw it.

Red Dragon Warband, this is the name of the wargroup proposed to the headquarters of the "Iron Warriors" Legion when Su Hao was appointed to become a major, as well as the emblem.

Staring at the battle flag in his hand, Su Hao didn't speak for a long time.

"Of all the warriors who make up a warband, there can only be one warband mentor, that is, the supreme commander."

Dai Xiaolou's voice continued to echo in Su Hao's ears: "He must be a leader who has been tempered by years in the crucible of war. His combat prowess is unsurpassed, whether it is a firearm, a sword, or an unarmed hand, and his sheer rank means that his journey has been littered with the corpses of countless enemies who have fallen at his hands. But it is still not enough for the Supreme Commander to be the chief warrior of the warband. At the same time, he must be a first-class tactical expert, based on the Holy See's Holy Texts, honed in countless battles and decisions. His warriors are also his brothers. That's what genetic glands are all about. The Supreme Commander knew how to save the lives of the fighters and had to shelter these noble fighters. Ancient knowledge lives on because of his existence, and of all the risks he has to face, the most severe is actually the power in his hands - an entire combat team, enough to destroy a spatial realm. The Legionnaires were able to feel the bravery of the Supreme Commander and became the point of contact that drove them to die for it. However, he must not be arrogant, otherwise he will inevitably produce depravity behind the emperor's back, and even provoke anger and punishment from the Supreme Court. You have to be vigilant at all times, and every qiē action must consider its meaning and consequences. ”

These words are like exhortation, but more like extremely severe admonition. After saying the last word, Dai Xiaolou's face regained calm, and he looked at Su Hao, waiting for an answer from him.

There is no more sincere persuasion than this. Su Hao already knew very well that as the supreme commander of a combat team with an independent number, he could cultivate genetic glands through guò, thus creating a large number of absolutely loyal collectives of his own. This method of reproduction is no different from that of "worker bees" that use their own blood. It's just that it takes longer and the process is more cumbersome. However, the resulting legion recruits are extremely strong in combat and can also be recognized by the Empire.

What could be better than that?

Su Hao shook his head secretly in his heart. This qiē is what he wants the most. Dai Xiaolou is equivalent to sending a pillow when he was sleepy. Moreover, it is the most fluffy and extremely comfortable kind.

He had one last question: "Are there any additional restrictions?" ”

Su Hao saw Dai Xiaolou smiling and shaking his head at himself.

"So, let's start the operation as much as possible!"

Su Hao was also infected by the joke cells on Dai Xiaolou's body: "I never thought that a man could actually become a father by himself." Women appear superfluous in this kind of thing. And, once twins. ”

……

The operation didn't last long, at least that's what Su Hao himself thought. People who are anesthetized always feel that they are more awake than others. This kind of thing is actually not difficult to understand, no one wants to feel weaker than others, even under the influence of drugs, they will still show their toughest, even stubborn side. Drunks who drink too much always like to chatter for the same reason.

Su Hao slowly stroked the wounds on both shoulders that were sewn up with biological threads. Surgery has been invented since time immemorial, but when it comes to body restoration, the human empire still uses extremely ancient sutures. Of course, there are more advanced approaches. It is a method of using a weak laser knife to cut directly through the surface of the wound, and the physical cauterization of the wound plus the growth of the cells is promoted, so that the patient can rely on its own regenerative function to obtain repair. However, this approach has raised many doubts, and opposition has even come from within the Imperial Academy and the Holy See. The former is purely scientific and a normal physiological response, and it is believed that laser cautery has little effect on sealing blood flow to wounds. The latter, however, felt that it was necessary to re-test this "war-use convenient repair method", after all, both front-line soldiers and medical officers felt that its effect was not as good as expected. In contrast, it is better to have a traditional suture method.

For this kind of dispute, Su Hao has never been interested. All his thoughts were on his body. The two genetic glands that had just been implanted in the body were mutually repelling from the black particles. This point was already noticed by Su Hao, who was lying on the hospital bed and was being anesthetized. Apparently, the black particles didn't like the two outsiders that suddenly appeared. They felt extremely strong danger - for the black particles themselves, not from Su Hao himself. It was not the two viruses fighting for food or a place to live, but the control and dependence of Su Hao, the host. The black particles are very sensitive to foreign substances, and they immediately attack the genetic glands, fighting to the death for the evolutionary dominance of each newly generated cell. Although the genetic gland will also fight back, the strength and intensity are far inferior to the black particles that have occupied Su Hao's body for a long time. In this case, the winner of each confrontation is often black particles.

For Su Hao, this kind of time is simply a kind of torture. He had been developing a high fever for several days after the transplant was over. This means that countless cells carrying new genes, or viruses, have radiated from the inside of the glands and spread all over Su Hao's body, looking for every place that may be enriched and modified by them. It's no different from a group of outsiders suddenly breaking into your home. However, the gene cell must do so. They want to expand more space, so that the cells in Su Hao's body can fully evolve, so as to obtain their own space and conditions for survival.

The black particles will definitely fight back. This kind of war at the genetic level is not transferred by human will at all, and even Su Hao himself feels powerless. He knew his physical condition, and he knew that the black particles were angry, frantically devouring the genetic cells that entered his body. They control the components of their original bodies, spawning more of their kind at an incredible speed, striking, devouring their opponents again and again with overwhelming strength and ferocity, under the premise that it is impossible to back down.

The effect of the counterattack was obvious, and the genetic glands were forced to shrink the line of defense, and were rigidly compressed by the black particles in a fixed area of their own. However, the war does not end there, and the devouring of genes can never be like the human war, because the surrender of one side ends there. The black particles treat the genetic glands implanted in the body as food, soaking through them little by little, occupying them everywhere. Eventually, the original cellular consciousness of the genetic glands was completely lost, and they were left with only two empty shells, or rather, fortresses of black particles that retained a fixed shape.

Su Hao's body system tended to collapse, and quickly became complete under the powerful repair effect of the black particles. All of these injuries remain at the cellular level, and the internal organs and the circulatory system of body fluids remain stable and impossible to detect by normal means. The medical officer in charge of the operation and postoperative treatment could only see the appearance, seeing that Su Hao's whole body organ function failed in a short period of time, and then quickly recovered as if he had been injected with some kind of miracle medicine. Then by the total failure again without warning, and then recovered...... The process was confusing to them, but they couldn't figure out the problem, so they could only explain it with vague words like "postoperative comprehensive reaction".

This is barely justified in terms of basic biological principles. The technology of implanting genetic glands is inherently complicated, but for practical reasons, many of the steps have been simplified by the Holy See and the main legions of the Empire. Now the whole operation process is very convenient, and the time required is more than 10 minutes. However, implanting a gland is ultimately different from the recipient. Their cell rejection may be intense or they may coincide with each other. Side effects and maladaptations certainly exist, but in the face of the bravery of the legionnaires, as well as the comparison of many successful cases, the repulsion effect of about one percent is often ignored or even completely ignored.

"His reaction was normal. Fever, temperature rise, confusion, all these are normal reactions after surgery, and there is no need to worry. ”

"We have to perform hundreds of implants every year, and Major Su is in good health and very healthy, don't worry, he will wake up soon."

"His recovery period may have been a little longer than normal. It is essential to add high protein and nutrients to his diet, especially multivitamins. He is a good man, and the emperor will bless him. ”

Vimore and Reilly were very worried about Su Hao's condition, but the medical officer in charge of the operation didn't care, always using words like these to persuade them. It's not that the doctor is cold-blooded, it's that he's seen too many worse situations. Even those people from before have survived, and Su Hao has no reason to lose to them.