After all, a game was just a game. When one side couldn't hold on any longer, it would be less fun to continue.
When Natasha finally couldn't hold on any longer and began to beg for mercy, Jiang Chen teased her a few times before he seized the initiative of the game. After a high-pitched roar, he fell asleep with the exhausted and satisfied "golden cat" in his arms.
The next morning, when the first ray of sunlight shone through the window, Jiang Chen opened his eyes.
He turned over lazily, and when he saw Natasha already standing by the bed and putting on her clothes, he couldn't help but tease, "I didn't expect you to get off the bed before me. If I had known, I wouldn't have trusted the expression on your face."
"You also know that I was born as an agent." Natasha's charming mouth curved up, and she flicked the hair in front of her forehead. She then tied her blonde hair behind her head and said excitedly, "If you still fell for my trick, it only means you're not as good as me."
"Come on, I was just going easy on you. Why don't we try again tonight?" Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.
"Today belongs to Xia Shiyu." The blonde ponytail swung Jiang Chen's back as Natasha said with a smirk, "You can 'vent' all your dissatisfaction with me on her."
Natasha triumphantly walked to the door, but just as she opened the bedroom door, her knees suddenly became weak. She almost lost her balance and fell on the door frame.
Sure enough, this appearance of being fine was all an act she put on.
Natasha turned around and met Jiang Chen's teasing gaze. She glared at him, closed the bedroom door, and stomped away.
Jiang Chen silently wished in his mind that she wouldn't fall again. Then he got up, put on his clothes, and walked out of the bedroom.
…
The Biotechnology Summit was still ongoing. The scientists who protested for three days and failed to pressure Celestial Trade had already dispersed. They disappointedly boarded the plane back to their country.
The Devil Acid researched from the Devil Worm had been industrialized by the Chemical Research Institute of Future Heavy Industries, and two large-scale chemical plants were built in the New Malaysia Special District for production. It was expected that this acid would be used in Future Biology's pharmaceutical plant, Future Heavy Industries' factories, and the large shipyards on the geosynchronous orbit to replace the trifluoromethanesulfonic acid used in some of the original production processes.
This small change was expected to increase the production capacity of Future Heavy Industries by 1-5% in the next year.
Don't underestimate this number.
The total industrial capacity of Future Heavy Industries was almost equivalent to an ordinary China company.
Not only Devil Acid, but some of the organic materials extracted from the Devil Worm's keratin armor were also used in the military field to optimize the composite materials on the exoskeleton. It was estimated that after the optimization, the weight of the armor would be reduced by 1-3%, and the material strength would increase by 5%.
At the same time, don't underestimate these few points of improvement. Originally, it was difficult for the UA Army's M-series assault rifle to penetrate the exoskeleton armor at mid-range without the use of special bullets. Now that there was a 5% "armor increase", their rifles would be even more anxious.
As for the reduction in the weight of the armor …
No one would complain that their equipment was too light, especially the infantrymen who were fighting in a hail of bullets.
This kind of technological progress triggered by biological research had happened before with the Death Claw.
Jiang Chen vaguely remembered that a long time ago, Jiang Lin once talked to him about this issue. Some of the materials in the bulletproof plate on the earliest K1 exoskeleton were taken from the keratin armor on the head of the Death Claw. And the Mother of Death Claw he killed directly caused the K1 exoskeleton produced by the Sixth Street military factory to have a 5% increase in defense compared to the previous model.
He didn't take these changes to heart at the time. After all, at that time, whether it was in the apocalypse or the modern world, his forces were not powerful.
It was because now that Celestial Trade had developed to its current scale, this small change could bring a geometric increase to the overall combat effectiveness of his troops …
The research of Devil Worm continued.
Researchers from all over the world who lived and ate in the laboratory were like treasure hunters in a maze, searching for more amazing treasures on the Devil Worm specimens …
At the same time, a battle report and a supply list floated from Mars tens of millions of kilometers away and were sent to Jiang Chen's hands.
…
In the past week, TS Expedition killed a total of 500 Devil Worms, but only 21 of them could be recovered as specimens. Most of the Devil Worms died in the flames of the incendiary bombs.
One-third of the one hundred rounds of incendiary bombs were used. At the same time as this battle report was sent, TS Expedition also sent a supply list.
"Two hundred incendiary bombs, ten tons of small caliber bombs, fifty tons of armored vehicle bombs, and a ton of weapon batteries … Isn't this burning through money a bit too fast?" Jiang Chen looked at the list in his hand as he commented.
"The consumption is indeed shocking." Calvin also nodded in agreement.
"I really want to know how many incendiary bombs are needed to return our Mars colony to normal." Jiang Chen pointed to the list in his hand and pointed out the key to the problem.
If they didn't know how many enemies were left, no matter how many bugs they killed, it would be meaningless for Celestial Trade.
Obviously, Calvin also saw this point.
However, he didn't have a good explanation for this problem.
"The range of activity of Devil Worms is five kilometers below the surface. This range has exceeded the perception of our life detection device. We can only use seismic waves to analyze the porosity of the formation, determine the layer they may exist in, and then launch a blind attack … "Calvin sighed," I also know that this is very inefficient, but it seems to be the most efficient method. "
How is this a method?
When Jiang Chen heard Calvin's words, he shook his head.
He saw the memory of the Gaia civilization. 3.7 billion years ago, Devil Worms could drill to a depth of 50 kilometers underground and move in the mantle.
The deeper they went, the more high-altitude layers and hollow layers that were likely to have oxygen-producing fungi. The space for Devil Worms to survive and reproduce would be larger. If an incendiary bomb was used, it would be difficult to cover the entire area by attacking a depth of five kilometers. If this number was scaled up to 50 kilometers, the number of missiles needed would be astronomical.
And at this time, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered the scene he saw in the memory of the Harmony civilization.
SS Brahma arrived at Gliese 581G alone and established a colony in the new world. Eventually, because of the expansion of the colony and the expansion of living space, it finally angered the arthropods living underground. In the hundreds of years of war, they had the upper hand at first, but in the end, they were driven back to the synchronous orbit.
History was so similar …
The only difference was that SS Expedition was backed by Celestial Trade.
"I'm worried about one thing now." Jiang Chen thought.
"What is it?" Calvin looked at Jiang Chen blankly.
"If our behavior to some extent becomes part of natural selection and facilitates their evolution …" Jiang Chen frowned slightly, crossed his arms, and thought, "Will in the end, even the incendiary bombs can't destroy them?"
Devil Worms could survive the time scale of 3.7 billion years. This time was enough to annihilate countless civilizations, raze mountains to the ground, turn forests into deserts, and evaporate oceans … but it still couldn't destroy these uncivilized insects.
They were like cockroaches.
Even more difficult to deal with than cockroaches.
From this point of view, arthropods did have an advantage over mammals in terms of survival.
"Impossible …" Looking at Jiang Chen's serious expression, Calvin, who was originally confident, became uncertain.
As far as he knew, no carbon-based creature could withstand the heat of flames.
This was true, but it was not completely correct.
Is it really impossible?
I hope so.
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