"It's strange, this person is obviously not from our research institute, but why, it looks a little familiar?"

The two of them stared at each other with such big eyes, and after a few seconds, the director of the research institute standing behind him also turned his head and saw Xia Qi.

"Your Majesty? Wechen see Your Majesty!"

While speaking, the director directly pushed away the young man who had been scared stupidly, stepped forward quickly, and bowed to Xia Qi.

And the researchers, who were also taken aback, also hurriedly saluted.

At this moment, the young man who looked at Xia Qi before had a small heart, beating like a motor.

"Roar, it's over!"

dared to look at His Majesty, and looked up and down with those extremely disrespectful eyes, if he was to be investigated, he would have to be punished for a great crime of disrespect.

For a while, the young man was also panicked.

In fact, Xia Qi didn't take such a trivial matter to heart at all.

While motioning for everyone to excuse themselves and continue their work, he approached the director and learned about the current research progress.

Although this dark matter has the ability to mutate living things, once the transformation fails, it will only be a dead end.

For this point, Xia Qi had already confirmed it with his own eyes just now.

For the sake of the stability of civilization, Xia Qi naturally would not do anything crazy.

However, it would be too wasteful to throw aside such a substance that can transform elves into dark elves.

Simply, Xia Qi directly built such a research institute here, which was dedicated to the study of dark matter, hoping to find a way to reduce risks and improve the success rate of transformation.

However, it is unlikely that a research project like this will produce results in a short period of time.

And that's exactly what happened.

Although there are many organisms in the institute that have successfully completed transformation, the researchers have no idea what the principle is.

It should be said that the stronger the physical fitness, the higher the conversion success rate, but in their research institute, there is a guinea pig that has also successfully transformed.

As for the link between the duration of conversion symptoms and the success rate, it is also completely confusing.

The hyena's transformation symptoms just now lasted for more than seventeen hours, but in the end it failed.

In the previous conversion success cases, the fastest one took only 32 minutes, while the slowest one took 15 hours.

They couldn't find any pattern at all.

The director's report did not surprise Xia Qi, this was originally a difficult project, and the other party could study a result so quickly, so he felt strange.

Therefore, Xia Qi's attention at this time was mainly focused on another matter.

"These beasts, after completing the mutation, should have greatly increased their physical fitness, I want to know, how are their current combat strength, can they be compared to the first-order demonic beasts?"

Xia Qi's idea was very simple, there were still a lot of dark substances, and if the combat power of those mutated beasts was considerable, then he could completely capture some harmful beasts and transform them in batches.

Then, when the time of war comes, they will be thrown on the battlefield as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's ammunition and strength, and it would be great if they could inflict more damage on the enemy.

However, the director of the institute, who heard this, shook his head directly.

"Back to Your Majesty, after the mutations of these beasts, their physical fitness has indeed increased significantly, but there is still a big gap between them and the first-order demonic beasts. A pistol can still resist a few shots, but if you encounter a rifle or a grenade, it will hardly make up a combat force."

The words of the director of the institute almost directly cut off Xia Qi's thoughts.

At this stage, on the battlefield, the soldiers of the two armies will only be equipped with pistols, rifles and grenades, which is the normal configuration.

If these beasts can't carry their rifles, then it doesn't mean much.

At the same time, the director of the institute continued to talk.

"What's more, after these beasts have completed their mutation, the beast nature in their bones has been completely released, and they can't be domesticated at all. If you use them on the battlefield, one negligence will hurt your own people."

"If Your Majesty wants to see the combat effectiveness of this mutated beast with his own eyes, he can do it, and there is just a combat test today."

Confirming the combat effectiveness of these mutant beasts is also one of the tasks of the institute.

Everyone quickly moved to another courtyard, which was a bit like a small gladiatorial arena, and Xia Qi and the others stood on it, overlooking the entire arena.

After waiting for all the testing and recording personnel to be in place, a steel gate slowly rose in the arena, and with a furious roar, a mutated hyena rushed out of it.

As one of the harmful species, the hyena, which has a fairly strong physique and good combat effectiveness, has directly become the main experimental species of the institute.

There is an army to help them arrest them, and there is more than one hyena in this institute.

Unlike the hyena that died in the cage before due to the failure of transformation, this hyena that successfully mutated is not known how much stronger, and in terms of size, it is almost comparable to a small lion.

A pair of eyes exude a scarlet fierce light!

At this time, the mutant hyena that rushed into the gladiatorial arena looked extremely manic, and before the opponent appeared, it began to roar non-stop, and it seemed that its mood was extremely unstable.

This also made Xia Qi completely confirm that these mutated beasts are indeed impossible to domesticate.

The grumpy guy didn't have to wait long, and in the gladiatorial arena, another steel gate quickly rose, and out of behind that gate was the same hyena.

It's just that they are ordinary hyenas, and there are three of them.

Since you want to make a comparison, you have to use the same species, so that the difference can be more obvious.

On the other side, the director of the research institute also explained to Xia Qi.

"Your Majesty, the mutated hyena has a lot higher quality than ordinary hyenas in all aspects of its body, and if only one ordinary hyena is allowed in, then in a very short period of time, this hyena will be killed."

The experimental subjects are not endless, and at the same time, the research funds of the institute are relatively limited, and the army cannot be idle and help them catch hyenas all day long, so they have to save some use.

It is relatively safe to put three of them in at once to fight the mutant hyena.

Xia Qi, who understood the situation, just nodded lightly, his face was relevant.

Killing an ordinary hyena one-on-one doesn't mean much.

During this period, in the gladiatorial arena, the mutant hyena that found its prey had already pounced directly on the three ordinary hyenas who rushed in behind, and did not spare their hands at all because of their own race.

In the face of the mutant hyena's attack, the three ordinary hyenas were also aroused to be ferocious, roaring one after another, and launched an attack on the mutant hyena.

Unlike the rampaging mutant hyenas, the performance of the three ordinary hyenas surprised Xia Qi a little.

They were as cunning as ever, and they were directly dispersed into three directions.

When one of the hyenas is attacked, the other two will frantically bite at the mutant hyena.

But it's a pity that the mutated hyena's skin and flesh have become thicker, and ordinary hyenas have bitten several times, but they haven't left any wounds on the mutated hyena.

It directly attacked three with one, and the mutant hyena not only did not fall into the disadvantage, but pressed the three ordinary hyenas to fight.

You must know that those three ordinary hyenas are also very fierce, especially after being hungry for a period of time, they are also very ferocious.

But even so, it still can't beat the mutant hyena.

It can only be said that the improvement of mutant hyenas is indeed very large.

After a few rounds of confrontation between the two sides, the three ordinary hyenas were already painted on their bodies, and the excitement of the smell of blood made that mutated

Hyenas become more berserk.

As far as the current situation is concerned, if this continues, one of the three ordinary hyenas will soon die.

But just as Xia Qi was thinking so, the steel gate that had been closed opened again, and the institute actually released two more ordinary hyenas.

Five-on-one, the situation has clearly changed.

In the face of the ordinary hyena that gradually exerted its numerical superiority, the mutant hyena was no longer as reckless as before, and began to become a little stalemate.

As there were more and more wounds on both sides, Xia Qi also had a relatively clear understanding of the strength of this mutant hyena.

Facts have proved that after the successful mutation, the improvement in combat effectiveness is indeed great, but it has not reached the point he expected at all.

If it was only to this extent, then the cost performance of cultivating mutant beasts on a large scale would be too low.

The test of combat effectiveness should have been carried out almost completely, and the few soldiers waiting on it raised their rifles filled with *** in their hands, put down all the mutant hyenas and ordinary hyenas in the gladiatorial arena, and then grabbed them back into the cage.

The mutant hyena, after all, is a relatively rare successful sample, and the research institute still expects to take samples from it for study, but it can't let anything happen to it.

After confirming the research progress of the research institute, Xia Qi didn't stay longer and left soon.

On the way back, he also asked Eric Moonton about something.

"Eric, did you dark elves do anything similar to losing their minds when they were converted?"

"Nope."

Hearing this, Eric Multon shook his head.

"After transforming into a dark elf, some people's emotions may indeed become more irritable, but they have not lost their minds."

For this answer, Xia Qi nodded thoughtfully, and then didn't dwell on this issue, and directly shifted the topic to another matter.

At the same time, it is another reason why he came to the Dark Elf Administrative District.

"Eric, I need to confirm something with you about your dark elves' Black Sail battleship."

I only heard Xia Qi say with a serious face, "Do you think that in the next era, your dark elves' black sail battleship will still be able to come in handy? Is there still value in manufacturing?"

This is a very important question, a Black Sail Battleship is not cheap, let alone a Black Sail Fleet, the cost is too great.

If it wasn't necessary, Xia Qi didn't plan to spend this blood.

But the problem now is that it is difficult for Xia Qi to make this judgment by himself, because he has not seen the strength of the Black Sail Fleet.

So, he had to leave the problem to Eric Moonton.

Faced with this question, Eric Multon also fell into deep thought.

After some serious consideration, I only heard him speak in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I think that the Black Sail Fleet will be able to provide good combat effectiveness even in the next era."

"Why?"

"The reason why the era of big ships and huge guns will be replaced is because it is difficult for battleships to cope with the air attack of carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers. Once targeted, it will be directly sunk."

At this point, Eric Menton sorted out the thoughts in his head for a moment, and then continued, "However, our Dark Elves' Black Sail Battleship can hold up a protective shield and defend in all directions. Under normal circumstances, as long as there is enough energy, it is not a problem to resist the bombing of enemy bombers. At the same time, the speed of the Black Sail Battleship is actually affected by energy, and the speed ceiling is very high."

Next, Eric Menton directly gave Xia Qi a detailed explanation.

In a word, as long as the magic crystal is in place, the Black Sail Battleship can exert great power.

According to Eric Moonton, the formation of the Black Sail Fleet is a huge project that burns a lot of money.

However, with the resources in place, the Black Sail Fleet, as a magical fleet, fights

The force itself is also very impressive.

Even in the era ruled by aircraft carriers, there was the power of a great war!

Xia Qi was persuaded to build a small-scale Black Sail Fleet as a means of surprise victory at the necessary moment, which is not bad.

I'm afraid the other party wouldn't have thought that he would have such a fleet.

After this matter was decided, Xia Qi stayed in the Dark Elf Administrative Region for another two days, and after a brief field trip to confirm the current development status of the Dark Elf Administrative Region, he left.

The repeated long-distance travel made him very tired.

Originally, Xia Qi thought that after returning to Daxia City, how could he rest for a day or two first, and talk about what work he had later.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he stepped off the airship on his front foot, someone came to meet him on his back foot.