Industrial Cthulhu doesn't believe in the end times.

Chapter 145 Lighthouse or Compass

The fighting on the front lines is intense and fierce. Many people have unleashed their potential in such battles and reached higher levels. It must be said that war is indeed the most solid ladder on the path to the extraordinary.

After finalizing the plan, Liu Zhen prepared to mobilize manpower to form a commando team by drawing on the superhumans from various units. He also needed to consider the pressure on the entire front, since even if the total number of superhumans increased, each of them would still be in a relatively important position.

Especially when facing the zombie king's bizarre and troublesome special abilities, the superhumans who have reached the third level play an exceptionally important role. Under such circumstances, which army would complain about having too many superhumans?
"We still need to come up with a more reliable solution as soon as possible, otherwise our superhumans will eventually be bogged down on the front lines, which will be quite detrimental to the progress of the war."

“The research institute has already made some progress in this area,” Su Xun began. “I’ll take another look this afternoon, and if all goes well, we can resolve it soon.”

As the rear area of ​​the battlefield, Hailing County brought together senior officers selected from two army corps and many cities, establishing a professional staff team of considerable size.

Once the overall plan is finalized, any unexpected situations or incidents that arise on the battlefield will be handled and resolved by these individuals, rather than requiring Su Xun to do everything himself. This frees him from these tedious tasks, allowing him to focus on more specific issues.

The research team from the Taimon Base research area has a separate residence here, which serves as a temporary research institute and is also located in a school.

At Su Xun's level, there's no need for meals, and of course, there's no such thing as a lunch break. Here, there are only endless meetings to attend. After several meetings at noon, he took Jiang Yi with him to the research institute.

Yin Danyi drove them. Ever since she joined the guard platoon, she has followed Su Xun wherever he went.

“I’ve noticed you seem to really like school.” Yin Danyi drove the car into the campus and stopped in front of the teaching building that served as the research institute’s headquarters. She turned to Su Xun and said, “You really deserve the title of principal.”

Faced with Yin Danyi's teasing, Su Xun simply said, "You are now my guard platoon leader. If you keep talking nonsense, I can punish you by making you write a self-criticism."

"Principal, no, I mean Commander-in-Chief, I was wrong, I won't do it again!"

Shaking his head, Su Xun didn't really hold it against him. He had originally set up this guard platoon as a training course, and he only brought the other person in to keep this suspicious person in sight. The person was not from the military, and Su Xun didn't think he had high expectations of him.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that he has helped Su Xun handle a lot of things during this period, and the two have actually become quite familiar with each other.

Most of the people who came out to greet us were familiar faces; they all came from the research area of ​​the Taimon base. However, there was also an elderly man surnamed Shen, an expert in the field of neuroscience, who was specially recruited from Shanghai by the Jianghuai Corps to participate in the debugging work.

Of course, the assistance of high-level superhumans is also indispensable.

In order to develop cognitive anchors as soon as possible, the two corps provided tremendous support in terms of manpower and spared no effort in providing the necessary materials.

"You've all worked hard." Su Xun knew that these people had put in a lot of effort recently, as could be seen from the bloodshot eyes and haggard faces of them.

After all, in addition to establishing cognitive anchors, they also need to work on things like spiritual energy jet weapons and broadcast communication equipment.

He stepped forward and shook hands with each of them, and together they walked inside.

Tao Yue, who was standing nearby, felt aggrieved upon seeing this: "What about me? I'm working hard too."

"Of course, we know you've done a great job, our great prophet, we'll give you credit later." The girl wasn't very tall to begin with, and Su Xun casually patted her head, catching her off guard and leaving her unsure how to respond. "No need..." she stammered, head down, then seemed to realize something after a while: "Hey, I'm not a child anymore, why are you touching my head?"

Seeing that Su Xun had already walked inside and was talking to the engineers about technical issues without even looking back at her, she stomped her foot, went to Jiang Yi's side, and cried to her.

"Why does he like touching people's heads? He doesn't even ask if they like it. He's so mean. He's already short..."

Jiang Yi glanced at her but ignored her as well.

"This is the actual object that has been created so far."

To facilitate the transport of the equipment, their achievement was placed in the hall, visible as soon as one enters. The device had no outer shell; it appeared to be several stacked silver coils, gleaming with a metallic luster. The core of the device was encased within these coils.

"The silver-based alloy has excellent conductivity for spiritual energy, which has solved many problems that have troubled us for a long time. Cognitive anchors and broadcasting technology have some commonalities. After successful development, we may also have a great breakthrough in communication equipment in the future."

"The equipment itself should be fine. The main difficulty we are facing now is the frequency of spiritual energy output."

An engineer reported the current situation to Su Xun.

“We tested some soldiers whose cognition had been disrupted, but the results were not ideal. Some were only slightly affected, but still harbored great malice towards us, while others were directly unconscious. This state is difficult to apply on a large scale and be deployed to the battlefield.”

The anchoring technology that Su Xun organized using his memories from his previous life and gave to everyone was a relatively early product in his previous life. Given the manufacturing capabilities that remained at that time, this thing was naturally not a particularly complex product, and there was even a lot of room for improvement.

But while the structure is simple, the application of spiritual power by those extraordinary individuals in the past was not simple at all. They were able to accurately find the 'frequency' that affects human perception through cognitive illusions. This is no less difficult than handcrafting a nuclear bomb. How much effort and dedication did they put into it?
Su Xun didn't know the details, but he did know that now it was their turn to worry about this matter. After all, the situation they were facing was different, and some things couldn't be copied directly.

The previous spiritual energy broadcasting technology was relatively easy to understand; it could even be said that it was just using spiritual energy to simulate the effect of electromagnetic waves. However, the technology involved in the cognitive anchor point is much more in-depth and touches on deeper levels.

The signals it releases directly affect the human body and directly influence people's mental state. It can be described as a kind of mental broadcast, sending out a signal that serves as a 'cognitive benchmark'.

It is not a shield, after all, the secret realm is an environment that can nurture high-level alien species, and its own power is so great that it is irresistible.

As an anchor point, it acts as a lighthouse, or a compass, to let people know 'who I am' and 'what is real'. In the fight against the zombie king, this is the most powerful weapon.

The few psychic superhumans who have come here to help have all come, including the Sentinel and Xiao Zhenru who is currently on the front lines. The few high-level superhumans who remain here now are also here for this reason.

The expert surnamed Shen came here to study the effects of this technology on the human nervous system. Without the relevant equipment, he used the perception ability of a third-level superhuman to probe the neural responses.

Su Xun had repeatedly emphasized to others that the extraordinary were the most cutting-edge scientific research equipment, and this statement was perfectly embodied here.

(End of this chapter)