"Where do we start?" Zhou Kuang rubbed his hands excitedly, as if he couldn't make up his mind.

"Anywhere." The veterinarian asked curiously. "What's the research?"

"Huh? A lot. Zhou Kuang wrenched his fingers and said, "For example, there are more than a dozen laboratories with different focuses on the study of exoskeletons, such as hatching and growth, living habits, virus pathology, genetic mutation, language decipherment, physiological weaknesses, etc. ”

"So much?" In the veterinarian's impression, the first laboratory is still at the level of studying alien spaceships and exoskeletons, who would have thought that the current laboratory has so many different classifications, and various research topics surprised him.

"How?" Zhou Kuang shrugged. "There are also more than a dozen disciplines such as flight power, defensive armor, internal structure, handling and manipulation of spaceships. In total, there are more than 30 research groups, and there are two research groups belonging to the laboratory that are not in the laboratory. ”

"Not in the lab? Research what? "The veterinarian's brain is a bit underwhelming.

"One is the flight power group, and they took the young spacecraft to do observation experiments...... The spaceship does not fly, and it is not easy to study; The other is the Defensive Armor Group, which experiments with the damage of various weapons to biological ships...... Well, the use of captured bio-ships and the wreckage of destroyed bio-ships requires the use of high-powered weapons, so the experiment must be conducted outside the base. Zhou Kuang scratched the back of his head helplessly, "A few days ago, the defense armor group had already applied to the base to use nuclear weapons. ”

The veterinarian's heart thumped and skipped a beat, and he didn't know what to say.

Those who engage in research really can't look at it with normal people's thinking.

The two chatted while walking, and soon turned into a spacious passage, Zhou Kuang pointed forward: "This is the hatching and growth laboratory, hehe, if you didn't get the larvae and eggs of the Outer Bone Man, this laboratory would not have been built, in order to hatch the eggs of the Outer Bone Man, I took a lot of effort, and I also dug up two egg hatching experts from the farms on the earth." ”

The veterinarian was stunned for a moment, and then laughed dumbly: "You incubate the eggs of the exoskeleton people as eggs?" ”

Zhou Kuang pouted: "It's all eggs, what's the difference?" It's not as big as an ostrich's egg. As he spoke, he quietly leaned into the veterinarian's ear, "I still haven't figured out how much the eggs of the Outer Bone Man are, if there is economic value, maybe in the future Lao Tzu will open a farm to sell the eggs of the Outer Bone Man." ”

The veterinarian almost didn't throw it up, and waved his hand again and again: "It doesn't matter how much you sell, you want to sell it to me anyway." ”

He was very repulsed by Zhou Kuang's idea, although they were friends and foes, but the Outer Bone Man was also a kind of intelligent creature, not a beast without intelligence, and the offspring of intelligent creatures......

In an instant, the veterinarian felt that a corner of his heart had collapsed, but after all, he was a strong-willed warrior, and he quickly came out of the confusion.

Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood.

Sensei said that it was the egg of the Outer Bone Man, and even if it was the flesh of the Outer Bone Man, he could swallow it all the way - if it weren't for the human fighting back with all their might and hurting the Outer Bone Man, would they treat the human as a sapient creature?

Thinking about Mars, the veterinarian thinks that even if there is a table in front of him, he can swallow it all.

Zhou Kuang didn't care, his face was proud: "If you don't eat, some people rush to eat...... However, the egg production of the exoskeleton is not high, unlike insects that lay hundreds or thousands of eggs at one time, for the time being, it is just a plan. Of course, if you want to eat it, I can find a way to get you a taste. ”

"Let's talk about it when we have a chance." The veterinarian looked at the exoskeleton juveniles jumping up and down in the laboratory through the intended glass, without the previous resoluteness.

The juvenile Exoskeleton on the other side of the glass is no different from the adult Exoskeleton, and in the corner of the glass wall is a plaque with a few lines in standard block letters:

Subject: Exoskeleton larvae.

Developmental time: two years.

Developmental form: invariant.

……

"They're only two years old?" The veterinarian's eyes widened in surprise.

The test subject inside the glass wall is about 1.3 meters tall, and its limbs are very flexible, comparable to the monkeys in Huaguo Mountain.

"Isn't that weird?" Zhou Kuang smiled slightly, "Based on the current analysis of observational data, the development time for them from larvae to adults is only about four to five years, which is much faster than that of humans, and we guess that this is because their brains are relatively small in weight and do not need to learn as much knowledge as humans." ”

"I don't really understand."

"Hehe, do you know which kind of offspring of the creatures on Earth need the most care?" Zhou Kuang answered the question.

The veterinarian hesitated: "I don't know, it seems to ...... It's human, right? ”

"That's right, it's human." Zhou Kuang nodded, "The offspring of many animals are born with the ability to run and jump, such as fawns. ”

"In order to survive, the fawn must get up as soon as possible, otherwise it will become food for carnivores." The veterinarian finally found an opportunity to show that he wasn't useless.

"That's true, but do you know why human children are so vulnerable?" Zhou Kuang then asked, but without waiting for the veterinarian to answer, he said the answer to himself, "Actually, it's not that human babies are fragile, but because human brains are very developed." Let's take the deer as an example, when the fawn is born, the brain is already mature, but when the baby is born, the brain is still in an immature state, if you wait until the brain is fully mature...... It is impossible for any child to be born naturally. ”

"I see what you mean, you're saying that exoskeletons develop faster because they have much smaller brains than humans?" It dawned on the veterinarian that he was still young and didn't even have a girlfriend, let alone a child.

"That's it, remember that white specimen you sent?"

"Specimens?" The veterinarian was stunned, and his brain almost didn't crash for a moment.

"Uh, captive." Zhou Kuang explained embarrassedly, "After staying with this group of ruthless animals for a long time, it is inevitable that they will be black." ”

Ruthless?

The veterinarian is almost fainting, how can you describe that?

"We studied the structure of the white bone man, and found that its brain capacity is more than twice that of ordinary exoskeleton people, although it is much worse than humans, but among the outer bone people, it is absolutely outstanding." Zhou Kuang showed a look of reminiscence, "We believe that this is not an accidental phenomenon. ”

The veterinarian had a flash of inspiration: "You mean that the society of the Outer Bone People has a clear division of labor like ants?" ”

Zhou Kuang bowed slightly: "There are too few experimental targets, and it's just a guess at the moment." However, the Outer Bone Man is willing to exchange so many human captives for it, even if the brain grows on the ass, he can guess the importance of the White Bone Man. It's a pity. ”