In the next few days, Song Lan ignored what was going on outside the window and focused on work.

Because he found it much harder to turn a civilian with a gun into an elite machine gunner than it was to go into battle himself, after all, reality is not a game, and in 2166 there were more than 50 good brothers each.

Even with the financial assistance of the Twelfth Nation, they could only maintain their daily expenses, which was simply not enough for all of them to equip their entire staff with exoskeleton armor, which made him deeply aware of the sadness of not mastering the core technology.

The pricing power is always in someone else's hands, and even if you sell you some defective products, you can't do anything about it.

So, what core technology does District 17 have, or what core technology has he mastered?

Psionic energy.

Song Lan got an answer almost immediately.

Some time ago, he traveled and gave him a new understanding of the two natures of spiritual energy.

The domination of the interfering psionic energy and the annihilation of the destructive ability are not easy to experiment with in Sector 17.

Especially the latter, if he came to the 17th district to kick him like this, it would be tantamount to dropping a nuclear bomb on his own home, and before others came to attack them, he would blow himself up first.

The battle with the Scarecrow convinced him that psionic destruction was no worse than the war weapons on the market, so the question now was how he could use psionic energy in the arms industry.

Although he gave up the idea of making the enforcers become psionic powers, if he could weaponize the psionic energy, he would be able to increase the firepower of the enforcers by several stages in a short period of time.

The difference between dropping a tactical nuclear bomb and dropping a destructive psionic bomb seems to him to be only the difference in name, but the actual effect is similar.

In a sense, he himself is equivalent to a psionic power station, but now there is only one power station in the base, and there is no barracks or research institute, so he can neither explode soldiers nor climb technology.

So Song Lan decided to think from two different directions.

The CTEA-32 gene agent developed by the Barossa Group can make people unconscious and become a tool to follow the most primitive instincts, but the Death Crab, which is another example, has developed a certain level of intelligence after mutating, and it is not until he really starts to think about it that he finally understands why the Scarecrow is so eager for a way to communicate with the Death Crab.

Because this is most likely the key to solving the problem that CTEA-32 causes the injector to lose consciousness, unfortunately the scarecrow's preconceptions and resistance to psionic energy prevent him from taking this idea further.

The secret to making the Death Crab wise and being able to communicate with him in a simple way is probably in the psykerics.

With this in mind, Song Lan launched an experiment.

As an enthusiastic citizen, of course, it is impossible for him to directly select a few random passers-by to inject them with CTEA-32, and then inject them with psionic energy to observe the situation.

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So he asked Lu Xiang to help him catch more than 20 horn insects as experimental subjects.

Hornworm is the most common mutant creature in Area 17, which is a product similar to the fusion of the praying mantis and the unicorn fairy, the adult body has a thumb-size, a pitch-black shell, and a pair of sickle-like pliers, often haunts the dirtiest and messier areas of the 17th District, because it will cause harm to people, so it is the focus of prevention and control all year round.

The course of the experiment did not go well.

Hornworms don't possess psionic powers, and in the first few days they were brought back, Song Lan was the target of their attacks, and he was often caught up by hornworms flying up and scratching a pincer when he was observing them up close.

They don't look very smart, more than 20 hornworms act unorganized, unenterprising, even if he deliberately feeds more food, they don't know how to store food, they look like they sit and eat empty.

But after a few days of continuing to infuse hornworms with psionic energy, a clear division of labor has emerged in this mini-society.

An individual that was larger than the other hornworms became the king worm, and under its division of labor, the more than 20 hornworms were divided into regular troops, surprise attack teams, and transport teams.

On a dark and windy night in the moon, this army of hornworms officially declared war on Song Lan.

Under the command of Wang Worm, the surprise attack team and the regular army pinned down Song Lan on the frontal battlefield, while the transport team quietly infiltrated the refrigerator and stole two extra-large portions of fried rice.

The victory of this "fried rice battle" surprised Song Lan, and in just a few days, this mutant insect with a loose social form actually took a big step forward in the evolutionary chain.

Not only that, but the king worm gave full play to its personal influence, attracting a steady stream of hornworms to their home.

The large ecological tank that was originally used to hold them has now become a fortress for hornworms, and the number of troops has increased from more than 20 at the beginning to nearly 100 now.

This experiment was severely criticized by Lu Xiang.

Because these hornworms often leave the castle in the middle of the night, raid the refrigerator, and steal her supper.

After being stolen for supper again, Lu Xiang, who was furious, directly pulled the king worm out of the fortress, put a gun against its head, and warned it that if it stole supper again, it would make its head bloom.

Seeing that they were the objects of Song Lan's research, Lu Xiang spared Wang Worm's life.

Then something that shocked Song Lan even more happened.

In the face of Lu Xiang's threat, this king worm was intimidated.

The two sharp pincers drooped down, prostrate on the ground, and looked up at Lu Xiang with a gesture of flattering and begging for mercy.

After that night, the hornworm's movements changed significantly, and each time before the attack on the refrigerator, the king worm would fly out of the ecological tank to observe the situation.

If Lu Xiang is not at home, they will carry out the attack plan, and if Lu Xiang is at home, they will transport a small amount of grain back to the fort with Lu Xiang's consent.

Song Lan saw that the time was ripe, so she carried out the experiment to the next stage.

Teach them to trade and negotiate.

Work in exchange for food.

Wang Worm has a strong learning ability, and it quickly established a win-win relationship with Lu Xiang through negotiations.

It sends its right-hand men to investigate crimes, and once it finds a den of criminals, it can be rewarded with a large amount of food.

In just a few days, the investigation ability of the Seventeenth District Law Enforcement Department has taken a qualitative leap, and even Captain Doug doesn't know how the supervisor manages to sit in the office every day and find out those remnant gang nests with a single finger.

With the continuous improvement of wisdom, the army of hornworms and Song Lan have become more and more harmonious.

There were no hornworms attacking Song Lan anymore, and even the hornworms in this city that had not yet been incorporated by the king worm would fly up to greet him cordially when they saw Song Lan.

As a result, a rumor spread in the law enforcement department.

This made Lu Xiang have to call Song Lan, who was addicted to experiments, to the office at noon, "Pay attention to the experiment of hornworms, there are already people in the department talking about you behind your back." ”

"What are you talking about me?"

Song Lan clasped his hands around his chest, and he was full of a sense of accomplishment these days.

He could imagine the reaction of his colleagues.

I'm the swarm.

When commanding the army of hornworms, he inevitably had such thoughts.

Presumably, his colleagues must also be very envious of this......

However, Lu Xiang's next words shattered Song Lan's illusions, "They talk about you not paying attention to personal hygiene, you don't take a bath when you go home for several days, and you have worms on your body." ”