In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

The meeting room fell into dead silence.

Being caught in a dilemma is the most difficult situation to resolve.

These once-powerful generals no longer have the fervor they displayed when leading millions of troops into battle.

"The genetic evolution speed of a Tier 3 monster is... too fast."

An elderly general with gray hair sighed heavily.

"Our heavy industry's modernization is starting to fall behind this pace."

"Conventional tactics have indeed reached their limit."

At this moment of extreme oppression, Su Ran slowly stood up.

"We are now using precious human lives and non-renewable resources to fill a bottomless pit."

The generals looked unwilling, but they couldn't refute it.

With the harsh winter approaching in November, the war has dragged into its most dreaded quagmire.

"In the past week, a total of 1,642 requests for high-end combat support were sent to the Awakener Headquarters from various war zones."

We don't even have half that number of fully-fledged squads that we can deploy at any time.

Su Ran left her seat and strode to the holographic globe.

With a flick of the finger, the coordinates are zoomed in and fixed on a red dot inside the map of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Jiangcheng.

"We have been fighting this war using human thinking."

Su Ran pointed at the pulsating red dot, her eyes filled with hope.

"Build guns, build cannons, train awakened individuals. That's all correct."

But faced with a species that treats the entire Earth as a petri dish, evolving at a frenzied pace every day, our productivity ceiling simply cannot compete with their irrational rate of evolution!

"Perhaps we should consider a new model of warfare."

Li Guodong's eye twitched slightly, as if he had guessed something.

"Xiao Su, are you referring to... the mother nest in Jiangcheng that's about to advance?"

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the conference room instantly shifted from dead silence to noise.

The current situation is extremely delicate, and the attitudes of many generals toward the Mother Nest remain ambiguous.

Compared to the elusive prospect of success, most people fear the devastating consequences of losing control.

Li Guodong does not believe that now is a good time to bring up this sensitive topic.

"That's right."

Su Ran nodded decisively, without any hesitation.

Most of the high-ranking officials present were more or less aware of the Academy of Sciences' "captive breeding program".

Behind this lies the concept of a "Warcraft Legion," which would completely overturn the existing form of warfare.

It sounds extremely tempting, but the real risks are also extremely terrifying.

Using mutated creatures to fight against mutated creatures was still a distant prospect for everyone present.

"Advisor Su, using mutated creatures to fight against mutated creatures is indeed a remarkable strategic concept."

A senior staff officer frowned and raised a question.

"but……

At this stage, this is all still in theory; we don't have any successful cases of practical operation and real-world application!

"Yes, Advisor Su, although Comrade Bai Lu's mind control experiments have made breakthroughs, aren't they still stuck at the final step?"

"This is ultimately raising a tiger that will eventually harm us!"

Another conservative officer couldn't help but speak up in rebuttal.

"The current situation has become unstable, and we have not yet collected any data on fourth-order aliens."

If the Jiangcheng mother nest goes out of control, it will be a time bomb that backfires and destroys our own internal structure!

"There's no 'what if'."

Su Ran abruptly turned her head, her sharp gaze sweeping over the officer who had raised the question like a blade.

"Besides, who told you that our Great Xia has no real-world examples of using mutated creatures to help us in battle?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

All the generals frantically searched their minds: when had the Great Xia army ever used mutated creatures on a large scale?

"Have you all forgotten?"

Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Su Ran directly gave the answer that had been prepared in advance.

"That 'living wall' we built along the border, swallowing everything?"

"The inducible phagocytic carpets we injected with gene inhibitors...aren't they the best precedent!"

This question, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, plunged the entire room into a deathly silence.

Yes, fungal carpet.

That thing is essentially a mutated creature, but now it has become the most impregnable defense line protecting the Great Xia homeland!

"Advisor Su, but what you need now is a 'legion'!"

The general in charge of defense took a deep breath and finally grasped the core pain point.

"No matter how strong Comrade Bai Lu is, she is still just one person!"

A person's mental strength has its limits. So what if she can control one, ten, or even a hundred fourth-tier monsters?

Faced with a global mutation wave affecting billions, the power of an individual is ultimately as insignificant as an ant in the apocalyptic torrent.

He stared intently at Su Ran.

"Relying on one person's miracle to reverse the global situation is not in line with our military philosophy, nor is it a scientific way to save the country."

After listening, Su Ran did not rush to refute.

That's absolutely right.

At this stage, the awakened ones are certainly far from being able to influence the entire situation on their own.

"The general is right. Individualism today certainly cannot save the world."

Su Ran raised his hand, and the space flickered, revealing a crystal core weapon that appeared out of thin air, attracting everyone's attention.

"Crystal core weapons—those of you here should all be familiar with them, right?"

Everyone was puzzled by Su Ran's inexplicable question, but they still nodded subconsciously.

Su Ran continued speaking to herself.

"From the time we obtained the design blueprints for crystal core extraction to the large-scale deployment of crystal core weapons in actual combat, it only took us three months."

"The most terrifying weapon of Great Xia has never been some invincible awakened one, but our globally dominant scientific research and heavy industrial system, capable of crushing everything!"

Su Ran changed the subject and introduced a new term.

"I wonder how many of you here are familiar with the 'brain-computer interface' project that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is simultaneously conducting?"

Many people looked blank; this was the first time they had heard this term.

Brain-computer interface? Whose brain would it be connected to?

Do those mutated creatures that only know how to kill still have brains?

Many people had big questions in their minds.

"The goal of this project was never to assist Bai Lu. On the contrary, it was a project that ran parallel to the 'captive breeding plan'."

Its purpose is to analyze, strip away, and ultimately transform the unique "spiritual imprint" of the White Deer into a replicable, mass-producible industrial module!

boom!

It was as if a bombshell had been detonated in the center of the conference room!

The veteran generals' pupils constricted, and gasps of astonishment rose and fell.

Mass production... a spiritual stamp?

Su Ran's voice was filled with a chilling sense of grandeur:

"The gamble to turn the tide of battle is never just on the Broodmother."

On the contrary, the subjugation of the entire mother nest not only verified the feasibility of humans controlling mutated creatures in combat.

This is also to provide firsthand, core data for the "brain-computer interface" project!

"As long as this project succeeds!"

Su Ran pointed at the magnificent landscape outside the window and roared out.

"Even an ordinary soldier without awakened superpowers could one day command a squad of mutated beasts to charge into battle!"

He looked directly into the trembling eyes of every general present and asked in a deep voice...

"Generals, if you miss this opportunity, you will have to wait until the next wave of advancements."

What kind of situation will we face then?