Compound Eyes Targeting System

"Welcome, welcome, Gwen. Having a top student like you come intern at Umbrella Corporation has suddenly made me realize that my company must already be quite impressive in the public eye."

"President Wang, you're too modest. Umbrella Corporation is now a massive company with a market value of hundreds of billions, and its potential is enormous. In my eyes, it will definitely rival Stark Industries and Osborn Industries in the future."

Gwen was wearing a white suit today, along with a knee-length skirt, giving her a neat and capable appearance.

Her long blond hair was tied into a ponytail behind her head. It swayed from side to side as she walked, making her look full of energy.

Compared with Eastern women, Western beauties tended to mature earlier. As a result, the period between sixteen and twenty was the peak of their looks.

Gwen happened to be nineteen today, right in the prime of her beauty. Her face was full of collagen, rosy and glowing, making her exceptionally pleasing to the eye.

After bringing Gwen to his office, Wang Khan asked whether she had any requests.

"This is my first internship, so I don't understand anything. Just assign me whatever work you want, boss. But if possible, I'd like to do research related to biology, preferably as a laboratory assistant."

"Biological research, is it? From the looks of it, your major focus at university was biological science, right, Gwen?"

"Yes. I once attended Doctor Connors's lectures, and I'm very interested in his research on Cross-species fusion. However, his research has now run into a bottleneck, so I want to try another field and understand biological science from a different angle."

The moment he heard about Doctor Connors and Cross-species fusion, Wang Khan knew that the plot of The Amazing Spider-Man would probably still play out, though it would be somewhat different.

"Gwen, since you study biology, you should be familiar with Darwin's Evolutionism, right? In your opinion, is this so-called Evolutionism actually correct?"

"Well... I don't think answering simply with 'correct' or 'incorrect' would be rigorous. Although Darwin's Evolutionism is the mainstream theory, in the end, it's still only a hypothesis. With the current level of technology, we can neither prove that it's correct nor prove that it's wrong. So even now, it's merely a theory, not the truth."

Wang Khan smiled when he heard this.

"Then in your opinion, what is truth?"

"I don't know. When I first began studying biology, I regarded Darwin's Evolutionism as the truth. But as my studies deepened, I discovered many problems that Evolutionism couldn't explain. Even in the academic world, the debate over Evolutionism has never stopped. On the contrary, many new theories have emerged from Darwin's foundation, such as Theory of Evolution, Ecosystem Evolution Theory, and others... They all have their own arguments, and some of them are quite reasonable. But in my opinion, none of them can be called the truth."

Wang Khan waved his hand.

"Forget it. We could talk about these theories for a year without necessarily explaining them clearly. Let me ask you from another angle. In your opinion, which organism in nature has evolved the furthest and can adapt to its environment the best?"

"Well..."

Gwen was somewhat unable to answer. Seeing this, Wang Khan did not press her.

"In my opinion, the most thoroughly evolved, perhaps even perfect, organisms on Earth are insects. Insects have had their current forms for hundreds of millions of years. Over all that time, aside from changes in size, their body structures have remained almost exactly the same. And don't you think that an insect's body, with a hard shell growing on its exterior, is actually best suited to Earth's environment?"

Gwen blinked.

"That does seem to make some sense."

"Exactly. Now, on the other hand, look at mammals. Soft skin and muscle grow on the outside, while hard bones grow on the inside. Compared with Earth's ever-changing environment and the dangers that appear in nature from time to time, this is truly ill-suited. From the perspective of Evolutionism, the body structure of mammals clearly goes against the principle of survival of the fittest."

As he said this, Wang Khan raised a hand to stop Gwen from speaking.

"Of course, I'm not trying to overturn Evolutionism. So far, Evolutionism remains the mainstream theory of biological evolution. I'm a practical person and have no interest in theoretical matters. What interests me is how to transplant the functions of other organisms that are superior to humans through biological science."

"Like your Spider-Sense System?"

Gwen finally understood Wang Khan's line of thought and interjected.

Wang Khan nodded slightly, then pushed the notebook on the desk toward Gwen.

"The Spider-Sense System was created based on spiders' warning mechanisms, and the new project Umbrella Corporation is about to launch will make use of them."

Gwen took the notebook and found that it contained a large amount of biological information on dragonflies, spiders, and even flies. She pondered for a moment and quickly thought of something.

"The compound eyes?! President Wang, is the company going to research the compound-eye function of insects next?"

"As expected of a top student. You figured it out so quickly. That's right. Insects' compound eyes possess dynamic vision far superior to human eyes. High-speed movement that appears as nothing but an afterimage to humans is merely slow motion approaching stop-motion animation to insects."

"I want to use this compound-eye function to create an auxiliary targeting system. Once successful, it will greatly enhance the aiming and shooting abilities of police officers and soldiers. This system will also become the core technology of another major business for Umbrella Corporation."

"Is it for military use again?"

Gwen frowned slightly. Wang Khan smiled.

"Little girl, don't be so naive. Many of the inventions you see today were initially created for military use. And war is the greatest driving force behind technological progress. Although this fact is both ironic and helpless, reality is often this frustratingly absurd."

"All we can do is give back to society as much as possible after making money and help those who need help. That way, at least we can have a clear conscience."

Wang Khan spoke with great righteousness, but he did not actually believe a word of it himself. His purpose in creating all kinds of weapons was to make money and raise his social status. As for whether they would trigger a war, he believed that had nothing to do with him.

Even in ancient times, humans fought with stones and wooden clubs. What truly determined war had never been weapons, but the people who used them.

In any case, Gwen was drawn in by the new project Wang Khan had described and joined it.

Wang Khan then told her to familiarize herself with the company's environment first and begin her actual internship tomorrow.

After sending Gwen away, Wang Khan returned to Laboratory Zero and began studying Thor's blood once more.

After marveling countless times at the strength of Thor's bloodline, Wang Khan asked Red Queen a very practical question.

"Red Queen, use your computing power to analyze this. If I fought Thor while he was holding Thor's Hammer, what would my odds of victory be?"

"Guardian, according to my calculations, your chances of defeating Thor are less than 10%."

"What the hell?! Less than 10%? Did you fail to factor in the Vibranium suit?"

"Guardian, if the factor of the Vibranium suit is excluded, your chances of victory are less than 1%."

"We're almost at a thousand recommendations. Once we reach a thousand, I'll add another chapter. Let's go!!"