The door to the torture chamber was ajar.

From time to time, there was a dull sound of percussion and a cry of pain.

Blood and other unidentified liquids trickled out of the crack in the door, giving off an unpleasant pungent smell, but it did not prevent Beria, dressed in military uniform, from sitting in the dim light and flipping through the files in his hands.

"Sir, the prisoner has passed out."

"Wake up."

The document in Beria's hand turned the page again.

…

The process of repeatedly swiping rewards is boring and boring, but the dedicated NKUD staff has been faithful to their mission.

It wasn't until Lu Fuyan's side brushed up on a more practical reward that the newly recruited agent Beria also accumulated enough experience points needed to level up in the process of "stopping Rodney's torture".

Considering that access to resources is relatively limited at this stage, it is unlikely that Lu will continue to expand the size of the intelligence organization in the short term.

Therefore, when choosing Beria's new trait, he deliberately distinguished himself from Abel, who was in charge of infiltration, and chose the [Torturer] skill that was more suitable for domestic counter-espionage operations.

This capability can significantly increase the probability of intercepting intelligence, and at the same time destroy the enemy's spy network in the country at a faster rate, which is a more defensive reinforcement.

Thanks to this, Lu someone's repeated teasing of the brainwashing progress bar has become easier, and even the idea of long-term card bug brushing experience was even born for a while.

… Poor Dr. Rodney has been influenced by "behavior inducement" without knowing it, and after ten minutes, the man in the mask who was full of oppression at the first sight was almost torn apart!

"It shouldn't be..."

"Could it be that there is a problem with the instrument reading? Wait, maybe it should be..."

"Still not right, why don't you reset the input and see?"

As the spy network established by the NKUD became more and more complete, Lu became more unscrupulous in influencing it.

He is no longer satisfied with simply modifying the "barrage" subjectively generated by the other party, and has gradually developed to the stage of actively making up new barrages or intercepting existing barrages.

Because of this, Rodney kept checking the status of the potion and the interference matrix, and did not think about dissecting the test subject at all.

Under the strict monitoring of the NKUD, even if the masked man had just raised the scalpel and the small electric drill one second, Abel could find various reasons to completely dispel the other party's attempt to conduct a destructive experiment in the next moment.

"I want to get a tissue section for further analysis"

- No, you don't want to

"Spinal fluid should be extracted to investigate the central nervous system"

- Lumbar puncture is too complicated for you to be sure

"It's also possible..."

- Why do you want to do so much? It must be a mechanical failure, continue to repair the interference matrix!

… Struggles like these are repeated in Rodney's conscious space, which leads to many incoherent and strange breakpoints in Rodney's daily actions.

It's just that at this moment, the doctor himself is completely unaware of this anomaly, and unconsciously embarks on the road of no return from an elite monster to a tool man.

As for the future use of tool man, Lu Fuyan has also designed many versions, and using it to brush agent levels is only the most basic category.

However, before going into detail about this, he decided to accept the scientific research award that he had managed to brush up.

Select the corresponding resolution, and [Victory of Free Will] will be displayed as complete.

There is a small green upward arrow after the National Stability column, and the 2% daily stability bonus is clearly in effect.

Lu took the opportunity to switch to the "Scientific Research" interface, ready to receive the highlight of this reward!

[Drawing Reward: Humanoid Primary Transformation Scheme]

Compared with the dispensable buff bonus at this stage, this scientific research drawing that can be put into production immediately undoubtedly solves Lu's urgent needs.

He couldn't wait to open the [Production and Construction] interface, and go all out to start the military production line to manufacture weapons and equipment, and then distribute weapons to the troops through logistics functions!

According to the prompts given by the system, the [Primary Transformation Plan] mainly strengthens the basic abilities of limbs and hands and feet, and after the complete transformation, it will provide all attribute bonuses including strength, agility, and healing ability.

The specific effect is not to mention tearing the slave owner, at least the ability to run away will definitely be greatly improved.

However, in the process of mobilizing the domestic industrial sector, Lu Fuyan encountered other difficulties...

According to the statistics of the logistics interface, there are currently only 5 factories in the First Republic that are modeled after the body.

Among them, 4 migrant workers mainly process various nutrients to maintain life, leaving aside for the time being. The only remaining 1 military industry simply cannot make up for the production capacity gap caused by large-scale equipment iteration!

According to the feedback from the [Production and Construction] interface, if the current production efficiency is maintained, it will take a total of 279 hours for the factory in Lu Fuyan's body to complete the installation of new weapons...

You know, this does not take into account the depreciation and consumption of combat units! In the event of a conflict, Lu can most of the people who can only cos the concave and convex man with a three-minute endurance time, and they do not have the ability to consume for a long time at all!

So, can we build more factories to expand production capacity?

Unfortunately, the answer is undoubtedly no...

The only world that slaves can access is the one-third of an acre in front of them, and Scarface, who plays the role of the cell boss, maliciously "added food" to Lu Fuyan's food.

With such a scarcity of supplies from the outside world, the First Republic is already stretched thin to maintain normal operations at this stage...

Relying on the [logistics] interface's string of resource reserves, where is the spare energy to build new factories and produce weapons and equipment to complete self-transformation?

"Since there is no hope of open source, it seems that we can only throttle..."

The total number of factories cannot be increased in a short period of time, but the production function can be adjusted.

In other words, in order to complete the production and installation of new weapons as soon as possible, it is completely possible to convert some civilian factories into military factories and improve production efficiency!

However, as a result, the production of [consumer goods] needed to maintain the normal activities of the human body will inevitably drop significantly.

In extreme cases, even if the weapons produced by the military industry meet the needs of the battle, Lu Fuyan himself is likely to starve himself to death before the weapons are installed...

The dilemma has almost cut off all hope.

But looking at the various bells and whistles on the system panel, Lu Fuyan suddenly realized that he had probably fallen into some kind of thinking misunderstanding before.

- The golden finger brought by the crossing made his body transform into a miniature virtual country. Therefore, when there is a problem in this country, Lu Fuyan, as an absolute leader, should not only study strategies from a personal perspective, but should stand in the position of a manager and solve the problems in front of him by governing the country!

"The shortage [of consumer goods] can be seen as a shortage of food supply, and if we can't expand arable land and increase imports in a short period of time, what else can we do to tide over the difficulties?"

Historically, there have been only a few ways to solve the food crisis.

Nowadays, the path of resources and science and technology cannot be followed, and Lu Fuyan can only turn to institutional and policy solutions.

As we all know, when the country's material supply is tight and prices fluctuate abnormally, the government will improve the market atmosphere by appropriately adjusting economic policies.

Whether it is President Teddy's New Economic Policy in the face of the Great Depression or the wartime "factory" doctrine implemented by the Great Mentor after the Foggy Moon Revolution, it is essentially to maintain a relatively stable social order by adjusting the relationship between supply and demand.

To paraphrase the actual situation faced by Lu Fuyan: since it is a fact that the scale of migrant workers cannot be expanded, why not simply reduce the people's demand for consumer goods and free up more production capacity for the production of military materials?

"The idea is there, but the question is how to turn the entire population into 996 workers without raising wages?"

It is important to know that in the real world, the adjustment of any country's economic policy may bring a series of complex impacts, so responsible decision-makers must repeatedly consider and verify before finally making a decision.

However, in the virtual realm that belongs to Lu alone, this process has been greatly simplified.

The abstract data panel gives room for many unreasonable policies to be enforced, just like the previous operation of repeatedly refreshing task rewards due to bugs.

In other words, with the right planning, he can completely reduce the cost of disrupting the market order to negligible...

After much deliberation, he finally got his idea on Dr. Rodney and the pesky Scarface.