Chapter 1,248 Colonial War Report

After all, a game is just a game. When one party starts to be unable to hold on, it will be less fun to continue.

After Natasha finally lost her fatigue and began to beg for mercy, Jiang Chen teased her a few times, then turned over and took the initiative in the game. After a high-pitched cry, he hugged her with a face of exhaustion and satisfaction. The golden cat" fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, when the first ray of sunlight passed over the window eaves, Jiang Chen opened his eyes.

He turned over lazily, and when he saw Natasha standing by the bed and getting dressed, he couldn't help but joked, "I didn't expect you to get out of bed before me. If I had known I wouldn't have I should trust the look on your face.”

"You also know that I was born as an agent," Natasha curved the corners of her charming mouth, shook the hair in front of her forehead, stretched out her hand to tie her blond hair behind her head, and said with excitement, "You can still fuck me. It just means that your skills are inferior to others."

"Come on, I'm just letting you, why don't you give it a try tonight?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.

"I return to Xia Shiyu today," Natasha said with a smirk as she turned Jiang Chen's back with her golden ponytail, "You can 'vent' all your dissatisfaction with me on her."

She walked to the door triumphantly. Natasha, who had just opened the bedroom door, suddenly felt her knees weaken and her whole body dwarfed, almost losing her balance and lying on the door frame.

Sure enough, this appearance of nothing was all a show of force on her part.

Turning back to meet Jiang Chen's teasing gaze, Natasha glared at him fiercely, closed the bedroom door and walked away.

Jiang Chen silently blessed her in his heart, wishing her not to fall again, then he got up, put on his clothes and pants and walked out of the bedroom.

…

The Biotechnology Summit is still being held. The scientists who protested for three days but failed to pressure the Star Ring trade have dispersed and boarded the plane back home in disappointment.

The Devil's Acid developed from the bodies of devil bugs has been designed for industrial production by the Chemical Engineering Research Institute of Future People Heavy Industries, and two large chemical plants have been built in the New Matt District for production. It is expected that this acid will be used in future human biopharmaceutical factories, future human heavy industry factories and large shipyards on synchronous orbit, to replace trifluoromethanesulfonic acid that needs to be used in some links of the original production process.

It is expected that this small change will increase the production capacity of Future Heavy Industries by 1-5% in the next year.

Even though this number seems small.

You must know that in the future, the total industrial production capacity of Renhe Heavy Industry will be almost equivalent to that of an average developing country.

Not only devil's acid, but also some organic materials absorbed from the horny armor of devil bugs are also used in the military industry to optimize composite materials on exoskeletons. It is expected that the armor weight of the optimized exoskeleton will be reduced by 1-3%, while the material strength will increase by 5%.

Also, don’t underestimate the improvements in these points. Originally, the US military's M-series assault rifles had difficulty penetrating exoskeleton armor at medium distances without the use of special warheads. Now with this 5% "armor improvement", I'm afraid their rifles will be even more nervous.

As for the reduction in armor weight.

No one will complain that their equipment is too light, especially for infantry fighting in a hail of bullets.

This kind of technological advancement caused by biological research has happened to Deathclaw before.

Jiang Chen vaguely remembered that Jiang Lin had discussed this issue with him a long time ago. Some of the materials in the bulletproof plates on the earliest K1-type exoskeleton were taken from the horny armor on the Deathclaw's head. The mother of deathclaws he once killed directly caused the K1-type 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 seriously at the time. After all, at that time, his power could not be said to be very great, either in the last days or in this world.

It is precisely because the Star Ring Trade has developed to its current scale that this small change can bring about a geometric increase in the overall combat effectiveness of his troops...

Research on devil bugs continues.

Researchers from all over the world, who live and eat in the laboratory, are like treasure hunters in a maze, searching for more amazing treasures on the specimens of devil bugs...

At the same time, a battle report and a supply list floated from Mars, tens of millions of kilometers away, and were delivered to Jiang Chen's hands.

…

In the past week or so, the Expedition has killed a total of 500 devil bugs, but only 21 specimens were able to be recovered. Most of the devil bugs died in the flames of ground-penetrating incendiary bombs.

One-third of the one hundred rounds of ground-penetrating bombs have been used. At the same time as this battle report was sent, the Expedition also sent a supply list.

"Two hundred rounds of ground-penetrating incendiary bombs, 10-ton small-caliber mass bombs, and 50-ton mass bombs for infantry combat vehicles, as well as a lot of weapon batteries... This is burning money too fast, isn't it?" With this list in hand, Jiang Chen couldn't help but say.

"The consumption is really shocking." Kerwin nodded in agreement.

"I really want to know now how many incendiary bombs are needed to bring our Mars colony back to normal." Pointing to the list in his hand, Jiang Chen pointed out the crux of the problem in one sentence.

If you don't know how many enemies are left, no matter how many bugs you kill, it will have no meaning for the Star Ring trade.

Obviously, Kerwin also saw this.

However, he didn't have a good explanation for this problem.

"The activity range of devil bugs is five kilometers below the surface. This range has exceeded the perception of our life detection devices. Now we can only use seismic waves to analyze the porosity of the formation to determine the layers where they may exist, and then blindly shoot there ..." At this point, Kerwin sighed, "I also know that this is very inefficient, but at present it seems that this is the most efficient way."

How can this be called a solution?

After hearing Kerwin's words, Jiang Chen shook his head.

He has read the memories of the Gaia civilization. The devil bugs 3.7 billion years ago were able to penetrate fifty kilometers deep underground and move in the mantle.

The further down you go, the more high-altitude strata and hollow layers where oxygen-producing fungi may exist, and the greater the space for devil bugs to survive and multiply. If earth-penetrating bombs are used, it will be difficult to cover all the strata with a depth of only five kilometers. If this number is enlarged to fifty kilometers, the number of missiles required will be an astronomical number.

And at this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered the scene he had seen in the memory of a harmonious civilization.

The Brahma arrived in Gliese 581g alone and established a colony in the New World. Eventually, the expansion of the colony's size and living space finally angered the arthropods living underground. In hundreds of years of war, they initially had the upper hand, but were eventually driven back into synchronous orbit.

History is so similar...

The only difference is that the Expedition is backed by the Star Ring Trade.

"I'm worried about one thing now." Jiang Chen thought.

"What's the matter?" Kerwin looked at Jiang Chen blankly.

"If our behavior becomes a part of natural selection to some extent and contributes to their evolution..." Jiang Chen frowned slightly, crossed his arms and thought, "Would it be possible in the end, even with incendiary bombs? It’s also difficult to eliminate them.”

Devil bugs can survive on a time scale of 3.7 billion years, which is enough time to wipe out countless civilizations, level mountains, turn forests into deserts, and evaporate oceans... but it still cannot eliminate these future civilizations. Civilized bug.

They are like cockroaches.

Even tougher than cockroaches.

From this point of view, arthropods do have an advantage over mammals in terms of survival.

"It's impossible..." Looking at Jiang Chen's serious expression, Kerwin, who was originally confident, became a little uncertain.

In his knowledge, no carbon-based creature could withstand the heat of the flames.

This is indeed true, but it cannot be said to be completely correct.

Is it really impossible?

I hope so.