Chapter 2189 The Abundance of Food
After hearing that the troops who were going out to explore actually brought back this good thing, Lan Nuo personally came to the planting site of the insect. As the technical backbone of the underground base, a considerable part of the memories retained by Lan Nuo and others are about the technology left over from the Shanhe Republic.
As the basic resource of the cultivation world under the immortals, there is naturally no reason not to study. How to use the Quandan Gu more efficiently and make it last for long-term resources is also an important research topic.
This time, Lannuo and others brought a large number of high-end scientific researchers and engineers. They specially opened a mineral vein area in the deepest part of the underground and began to plant special metal deposits to facilitate the crystallization and output of Yuanshi.
Usually, this kind of insect is more casual when using it. In most cases, it is planted on the ground and then let the source of live water flow out. Then you just need to wait quietly.
A lake full of spiritual energy will naturally be generated underground, and a mineral vein will be generated around the lake. Just mining in this area can continuously harvest Yuanshi.
However, this simple and crude planting method cannot obtain the greatest profit. The reason is actually very simple. Planting it directly and collecting it is similar to the slash-and-burn planting in the most primitive period. Although it is simple and effective, it is actually much worse in terms of harvest than intensive cultivation or even scientific management.
At present, the underground base is not short of people, but what is lacking is resources, so naturally we must use our rich human resources to maximize every profit as much as possible.
Artificial ore deposits are a technology similar to intensive cultivation. In essence, this is still a labor-intensive industry, but it can increase the ore output to a little five times or even more than extensive planting.
In short, it is to use metals that can guide the flow of vital energy to build a polygonal mesh to guide the flow of vital energy while implanting crystalline condensed nuclei on the nodes of the mesh. This not only can the utilization of vital energy more effectively, but also increase the yield and burst out the yield in a shorter time.
Even in Beiyuan, the ordinary spring egg Gu will take at least 3 to 5 years to completely exhaust, releasing all the energy stored in it. However, under the premise of efficient crystallization, the spiritual energy can be squeezed out in theory within half a year. The short-term squeeze may lead to a certain reduction in the theoretical limit output. However, under scientific management, it can still produce about half of the output than the original mining model.
If the water flows slowly and slowly, the number of crystal nuclei is controlled in a moderate manner and the sufficient vitality in the surrounding ecological environment can be maintained. In theory, the maintenance time can be even longer than in the natural state. The total output will be much higher.
But what needs to be solved at present is an imminent resource crisis, and it is a last resort to give up certain long-term returns.
Almost half of the spring egg gu is efficiently squeezed in a short period of time after planting, while the other half is used as a strategic reserve for long-term combat.
With the attention of countless people, the engineering team quickly completed the production and installation of the deposit. On the screens and curtains of the many imaging tubes at the underground base, the construction workers placed the precious insects in the center of the deposit. After contacting the deposit, the insects began to crack and a pool of springs emerged from the eggshell. After the springs fell to the ground, they began to gush outwards, forming a small lake.
The water of the lake continues to flow along the shape of snowflakes toward the mineral deposit that expands outward hexagonally. When flowing to each node, a node is slowly lit up, releasing a firefly-like fluorescence. Above these nodes, there are small crystals slowly generated at a speed visible to the naked eye, which are the Yuan stones that have not yet been fully mature.
As time goes by, these juvenile stones will gradually expand, forming a hard shell, and eventually becoming a Yuan stone that everyone is familiar with, and it is also the common currency in the mortal world in this world.
At this moment, cheers came from the underground base. Even those who had just joined the underground base and had not yet understood the various advanced technologies here could deeply understand what that scene on the screen meant.
They successfully survived the most difficult moment. Now that the most exhausting time of resources has passed, the half-hungry and half-full rationing system will be gradually lifted in no time.
This is true. It is estimated based on the current output. In the next six months, before the ten efficiently collected spring egg gus were exhausted, the resources of the underground base would have a considerable surplus. With the part searched by the troops outside, the surplus would be even greater. It was about to collapse and was finally revived.
Lan Nuo, who was from the production department, looked at the crystal crystals growing on the screen and couldn't help but show joy. He couldn't help but think: "Food is the most important thing for people. My edible fungi culture department is also the main food production organization. In the past, I could only get seven or eight hundred yuan stones every day, and the production equipment could not operate at full power. I don't know how much materials I could receive this time, and I hope I could use all the culture medium warehouses of several bacteria."
Other staff members in the same department also have the same thoughts. They are also clever and can't cook without rice. Although there are no shortage of production equipment, petri dishes, and there are more than a dozen large biochemical culture tanks. However, their own true energy is limited. Even if each person activates all the true energy in his body, he squeezes himself dry every day, and the edible fungus that can be cultivated is only three to five tons. The output of hundreds of people in the entire department is really a drop in the bucket compared to the current population of tens of millions of underground bases. Even if there is a small amount of Yuanshi, it will only be five or six pieces in one person's hands. If you really want to do your best to promote the killing move, it will be used up in half an hour, or even less than half an hour.
It is not much more than their natural recovery in a day. But at that time, no matter how much they apply to their superiors, they cannot apply. After all, all departments lack Yuanshi, and the shortage of combat departments is even more severe than that of them. The production planning committee's heads are almost reflective, and they can't wait to break a Yuanshi into three petals. It cannot meet the needs of each department. It can only reduce the indicators to the level that is possible. It calls on workers in various departments to overcome the current difficulties and give full play to their subjective initiative to solve problems. But some things are really not subjective and active. Especially for food, things related to the material body and material basis.
This time the situation seemed to have changed. As soon as Lan Nuo saw the broadcast on the TV of the camera tube, he heard the sound of the elevator rumbling. It was the freight elevator descending and heading to the underground high-temperature zone, which is the ecological cultivation zone where they are located, and the sound of transporting materials.
The growth of fungi requires relatively high temperature and high humidity. Their factory is just next to the power plant and steel smelting plant. The waste heat from the two factories is directly transported to heat them up. The ambient temperature in the factory is maintained above 45℃ for a long time. Only the rest area where employees rest can maintain the temperature below 30℃. However, with the shortage of resources in all aspects, they were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner in the rest area. As a result, in the past few weeks, hundreds of employees in the department were resting at a high temperature of more than 30 degrees Celsius. The air conditioner was blown directly into the compartment where they sleep, ensuring that the ambient temperature could be relatively comfortable at least when they were sleeping.
Although the supplies have not been delivered yet, everyone at least felt that the temperature in the rest area had dropped. The organization was willing to turn on the air conditioner, which means that the supplies were really starting to be abundant.
As the rumbling sound stopped, the elevator stopped at the entrance of the ecological cultivation layer. The thick steel gate opened and a forklift directly pushed a large box of Yuanshi and transported it in. The employee responsible for handing over the materials was stunned on the spot. Even at the stage of the richest supplies in the underground base, he had never seen so many rough stones. The size of a rough stone is only the size of a thumb, and a suitcase can hold more than 100 pieces. Such a forklift would probably have tens of thousands of Yuanshi.
"This is 50,000 yuan stone, all of which have just been picked and harvested. It is your ration for the next week. I have agreed with you in advance. Although the supplies are abundant now, you can't waste them for me. All of these have to be used to run the idle production tanks. We have to come with 10 times the supplies, not to mention that the output is ten times more than ten times, so the people must see the results."
It was the first time Lan Nuo saw the Mediterranean leader who was connected with his department. He was so red like today. In the past, the production planning committee members all looked worried and bitter and revengeful. I remember that the young man in front of him looked younger than him. After only a few days, he looked older than him, but his smile now really tasted like before the war broke out.
"Please rest assured by the organization. Now there are enough resources. We can activate the joint killer move and directly launch the growth and cultivation formation. As long as the formation is successfully driven, the ecological cultivation area will form a positive ecological cycle. The strains will naturally absorb the heat energy in the environment. At that time, the temperature here will not only be suppressed. The yield will definitely not be as simple as 10 times." Lan Nuo has a solid foundation, so he dares to pat his chest here to ensure that it is.
Although their department has not been able to carry out a lot of production work due to lack of resources these days, it has not been lost in theoretical research and technological improvement. Now that the resources are in place, the technology accumulated before should have explosive growth.
Yuanshi was quickly sent to various feed outlets, and more than 100 employees were busy, performing their own duties, and activate killing moves on their jobs. In the huge cultivation tanks, the strains began to realize internal circulation. Originally, because of insufficient starting force, various bacteria could not form a self-circulating ecosystem. The killing moves of life could not use the endless characteristics to accelerate the reproduction of these strains. But now with sufficient energy, after the complete ecological cycle was built, simple bacteria and fungi were no longer independent individuals, but formed huge communities. A clearer division of labor began to appear between each other.
In the huge liquid platform connected to many culture tanks, different colonies gather and stick together like Tai Sui in nature, and finally form a complete integration. The bacteria seem to be omnipotent and can be digested and decomposed. But that is just the appearance that people see. Too many substances may be harmful to the bacteria. In nature, we see all kinds of things that will become moldy at will, but once they are put in the laboratory to cultivate, the unlucky graduate students will find that they will die if they raise, and the bacteria they cultivate are not as tenacious as they look in nature.
The same is true for large-scale fungal farming. Whether it is toxic and harmful chemicals or mixed bacteria, under normal circumstances, it should be avoided as much as possible, otherwise it will greatly affect the yield.
But as these bacterial species are under the influence of killing moves, they begin to form together, differentiate themselves, and divide their labours with each other. The situation begins to gradually become different.
In the liquid culture environment, they gradually differentiated into completely different forms like different tissue cells of an organism. They built a sac that looked like a huge stomach. The acidity inside the sac is rapidly increasing, and the pH value quickly dropped below 1. The digestive ability of most scavengers is much stronger. In the sac, there are also mycelium-like structures, which increase the contact area with the internal liquid and further accelerate the absorption speed. They also have a muscle-like structure, allowing these myceliums to swing, stir up the liquid in the sac, increase the contact area, and accelerate the flow of liquid, thereby accelerating the absorption.
The huge sac is like a huge stomach, and the substances put into the feeding port are being digested and absorbed by this huge structure at an incredible high speed, then converted into organic matter and stored, and transported to the production line. Most of the things they swallowed are domestic waste. If they had not differentiated or had no killing moves, they would have been poisoned or infected by other bacteria and viruses before they had not been differentiated or had no killing moves. But at this moment, they seemed to have an additional immune system, completely ignoring the harmful substances in these domestic waste, and even actively separating them and venting them along special artificial pipelines.
A large number of bacterial species have formed a huge and efficient negative entropy collection system. It is converting massive organic matter at a rate of at least ten times higher than before, with the output from about 10,000 tons per day. It has expanded to now, and the output of their department alone is enough to barely support the staple food shortage of tens of millions of people.
【To be continued】
Chapter completed!