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After hearing that the troop that went out to explore actually brought back this good stuff, Lan Nuo personally came to the planting site of the Gu worm. As the technical backbone of the current underground base, Lan Nuo and his team still have a considerable part of the memories about the technology left over from the Shanhe Republic.

As the foundation resource of the cultivation world below the immortals, it is natural that there is no reason not to study Yuanshi. How to use the spring egg Gu more efficiently and make it produce resources efficiently and sustainably is also an important research topic.

Lan Nuo and his team brought a large number of high-end scientific researchers and engineers with them this time. They opened up a mineral vein area in the deepest part of the underground and began to plant special metal deposits for the crystallization and production of Yuanshi.

Normally, this kind of insect is used casually. In most cases, it is planted in the ground and the spring water is allowed to gush out. Then all you need to do is wait quietly.

A lake full of spiritual energy will naturally form underground, and a mineral vein area will be formed around the lake. You only need to mine in this area to continuously harvest Yuanshi.

But this crude and simple way of planting cannot achieve the maximum benefit. The principle is actually very simple, planting directly and then collecting, which is similar to the slash-and-burn farming in the most primitive period. Although simple and effective, the harvest is actually much worse than intensive farming or even scientific management.

At present, the underground base is not short of people, but resources, so it is natural to make use of its abundant human resources to maximize every profit.

Artificial mineral deposits are a technology similar to intensive farming. In essence, it is still a labor-intensive industry, but it can increase the output of ore to 1.5 times or even more than extensive farming.

In short, it is to use metal that can guide the flow of vital energy to build a polygonal grid, guide the flow of vital energy, and implant crystal condensation nuclei at the nodes of the grid. In this way, it can not only use the vital energy more effectively, but also increase the output and make the output explode in a shorter time.

Ordinary spring egg Gu, even in Beiyuan, takes a relatively short time, at least 3 to 5 years to completely dry up and release all the vitality stored in it, but under the premise of efficient crystallization, theoretically, the spiritual energy in it can be squeezed out within half a year. Squeezing in a short period of time may lead to a certain reduction in the theoretical limit of production. But under scientific management, the production can still be about half more than the original mining model.

If we adopt a long-term model, control the number of crystal nuclei in moderation, and maintain sufficient vitality in the surrounding ecological environment, then theoretically the duration can even be longer than in the natural state, and the total output will be much higher.

But what needs to be solved now is the imminent resource crisis, and giving up certain long-term benefits is inevitable.

Almost half of the spring egg Gu are efficiently exploited in a short period of time after being planted, and the other half is used as a strategic reserve for long-term combat.

Under the attention of countless people, the engineering team quickly completed the production and installation of the ore bed. On the numerous CRT screens and curtains in the underground base, the construction workers placed the precious Gu worm in the center of the ore bed. After it came into contact with the ore bed, the Gu worm began to crack, and a spring emerged from its eggshell. After the spring took root on the ore bed, it began to gush out spiritual springs continuously, forming a small lake.

The water in the lake flows along the hexagonal mineral deposits that expand outward in a snowflake shape. When it flows to each node, a node is slowly lit up, emitting a glow like a firefly. On these nodes, small crystals are slowly forming at a speed visible to the naked eye. They are the Yuanshi that have not yet fully matured.

As time goes by, these young stones will gradually expand, forming a hard shell, and eventually become the Yuanshi that everyone is familiar with, which was once the universal currency of 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 learned about the various advanced technologies here could deeply understand what the scene on the screen meant.

They had managed to survive the most difficult times. Now that the most depleted resources were over, the daily half-starvation and half-full rationing system would be gradually lifted soon.

This is indeed the case. According to the current production, the underground base will have a considerable surplus of resources in the next six months before the ten efficiently collected spring egg Gu are exhausted. And with the part brought back by the outgoing troops, the surplus will be even greater. The situation that was on the verge of collapse has finally been revived.

Lan Nuo from the production department couldn't help but show joy when he saw the crystals growing on the screen. He couldn't help but think: "Food is the first necessity of the people. My mushroom cultivation department is also a major food production organization. In the past, I could only get 700 to 800 Yuanshi every day, and the production equipment couldn't run at full capacity. I don't know how much supplies I can receive this time. I hope I can use all those mushroom culture warehouses."

Other staff members in the same department had the same idea. They were also like a good cook who could not cook without rice. Although there was no shortage of production equipment, culture dishes, and more than a dozen large biochemical culture tanks, their own true essence was limited. Even if each person activated all the true essence in his body and squeezed himself dry every day, the amount of edible fungi that could be cultivated was only three to five tons. The output of the entire department with hundreds of people was a drop in the bucket compared to the current population of tens of millions in the underground base. Even if there was a small amount of Yuanshi to supplement, each person would only have five or six pieces. If they really had to go all out to promote the killer move, they would use it up in half an hour, or even less than half an hour. It was not much more than the amount they could recover naturally in a day. But at that time, no matter how much they applied to their superiors, they could not get it. After all, all departments were short of Yuanshi, and the shortage in the combat department was even more severe than theirs. The heads of the production planning committee were almost reflecting light, and they wished they could break a piece of Yuanshi into three petals. They could not meet the needs of various departments. They could only reduce the indicators to a possible level as much as possible. We call on workers in all departments to overcome the current difficulties and use their subjective initiative to solve the problems. But some things really cannot be solved by subjective initiative. Especially when it comes to food, which is related to the physical body and the material foundation.

But this time the situation seemed to have changed. Not long after Lan Nuo saw the report on the CRT TV, he heard the rumbling sound of the elevator. It was the sound of the freight elevator descending to the high-temperature area underground, which was the ecological cultivation area where they were, transporting supplies.

Fungi need relatively high temperatures and high humidity to grow. Their factory is right next to a power plant and a steel smelter. The waste heat from the two factories is directly transported to their side for heating. The ambient temperature in the factory is maintained above 45 degrees Celsius for a long time. Only the rest area for employees can maintain the temperature below 30 degrees Celsius. However, due to the shortage of resources in various aspects, they were reluctant to turn on the air conditioners in the rest area. As a result, hundreds of department employees have been resting in temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius in the past few weeks. The air conditioners are blown directly to the compartments where they sleep to ensure that the ambient temperature is relatively comfortable at least when they sleep.

Although the supplies have not been delivered yet, everyone can at least feel that the temperature in the rest area has dropped. The organization is willing to turn on the air conditioner, which means that the supplies are really starting to become abundant.

As the rumbling sound stopped, the elevator also stopped at the entrance of the ecological culture layer. The heavy steel gate opened, and a forklift directly pushed a large box of Yuanshi in. The employee in charge of handing over the materials was stunned on the spot. Even when the underground base was the most abundant in materials, he had never seen so many raw stones. The size of a raw stone was about the size of a thumb, and a suitcase could hold more than a hundred pieces. A forklift like this must have tens of thousands of Yuanshi.

"Here are 10 yuan of stones, all freshly harvested. They are your rations for the next week. I've told you in advance. Although we have enough supplies now, you can't waste them. These must be put to good use. Put those idle production tanks into operation. We have requested times the supplies. Even if we don't say that the output has increased tenfold, we must at least let the people see the results."

This was the first time Lan Nuo met the Mediterranean leader who was in contact with his department. He looked so radiant today. In the past, the members of the Production Planning Committee all looked sad and bitter. He remembered that the young man in front of him looked younger than himself. But after just a few days, he looked older than himself. However, his smile now really had a bit of the flavor of before the war broke out.

"Please rest assured, organization. We have enough resources now. We can activate the joint killer move and directly deploy the growth and cultivation formation. As long as the formation is successfully driven, the ecological cultivation area will form a positive ecological cycle. The bacteria will naturally absorb the heat energy in the environment, and then the temperature here will not only be able to be suppressed, but the output will definitely not be as simple as increasing tenfold." Lan Nuo has a solid technical foundation, so he can guarantee it here with confidence.

Although their department has been unable to carry out a lot of actual production work these days due to lack of resources, they have not fallen behind in theoretical research and technological improvement. Now that the resources are in place, the technology accumulated before should also have an explosive growth.

The Yuanshi was quickly sent to each feeding port. More than 100 employees were busy, each doing their own job, and came to their own work station to activate the killing move. In each huge culture tank, the bacteria began to realize internal circulation. Originally, due to insufficient initial driving force, it was impossible to make various fungi form a self-circulating ecosystem, and the killing move of life could not use the characteristics of endless life to accelerate the reproduction of these bacteria. But now that there is sufficient energy, a complete ecological cycle has been built. Simple bacteria and fungi are no longer independent individuals, but have formed a huge community. A clearer division of labor has begun to appear between each other.

In the huge liquid platform connecting many culture tanks, different colonies are like the Tai Sui in nature, gathering and sticking together, and finally forming a whole. Fungi seem to be omnipotent and can digest and decompose everything. But that is just the appearance that people see. There are too many substances that may be harmful to fungi. In nature, we see all kinds of things that will mold casually, but once they are cultured in the laboratory, the unlucky graduate students will find that whatever they raise will die. The cultured bacteria are not as tenacious as they seem in nature.

The same is true for large-scale fungus farming. Whether it is toxic and harmful chemicals or miscellaneous bacteria, under normal circumstances, they should be avoided as much as possible, otherwise it will greatly affect the yield.

But as these strains began to combine with each other under the influence of the killer move, they began to differentiate and divide the work among themselves. The situation began to gradually become different.

In the liquid culture environment, they gradually differentiated into completely different forms, just like different tissue cells of an organism, and formed a sac that was like a huge stomach. The acidity inside the sac increased rapidly, and the pH value quickly dropped to below 1. The digestion ability was much stronger than that of most scavengers. And inside the sac, there were mycelium-like structures that increased the contact area with the internal liquid, further accelerating the absorption rate. There was also a muscle-like structure that allowed these mycelium to swing and stir the liquid in the sac, increasing the contact area while speeding up the flow of liquid, thereby speeding up absorption.

The huge capsule is like a huge stomach. The materials put into the feeding port are being digested and absorbed by this huge structure at an incredible speed, and then converted into organic matter for storage and transported to the production line. Most of the things they devour are domestic garbage. If they were not differentiated and blessed with killing moves, they would have been poisoned to death or infected by other bacteria and viruses. But at this moment, they seem to have an extra immune system, completely ignoring the harmful substances in these domestic garbage, and even actively separating them and discharging them through special artificial pipes.

A large number of bacteria species formed a huge and efficient negative entropy collection system. It was converting a large amount of organic matter at a rate at least ten times higher than before. The output increased from about a thousand tons per day at the beginning to more than ten thousand tons per day now. The output of this department alone was enough to barely meet the staple food shortage of tens of millions of people.

[To be continued]

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