Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 379: Moon Farm Starts! (4.6k, supplemented on 5.17th)
Bai Zhen took out the precious samples he had dug up on the moon.

He also took out the moonlight peridot and jade rabbit stone he had discovered.

Bai Zhen used these things as bargaining chips to trade with Solance: "Shall we use the most ancient barter?"

"Barter?" Solance and Daigo looked at Bai Zhen in confusion.

I don’t understand what is so precious in the center of the universe that could be exchanged for these samples.

Bai Zhen nodded affirmatively: "Exchange a lunar base with me."

Moon base!

Solance and Daigo's eyes widened in shock.

They didn't understand what Bai Zhen wanted the moon base for.

Bai Zhen continued, "I hope you can help me build a private moon base. Of course, you only need to help me build the modules of the moon base. I will figure out how to transport it there, which should save a lot of money."

If you ask whether it is expensive to build a lunar base, the answer is yes.

The cost of just one set of space suit can be over 3000 million Alliance coins, and the lunar base he wants will integrate energy, protection, oxygen generation, temperature regulation, protection from cosmic rays and other functions, as well as a series of cutting-edge technologies such as indoor gravity adjustment equipment. The cost of building such a place can easily be tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions.

According to him, the lunar base where he had stayed before cost a total of 2000 billion Alliance coins from the initial research to the construction.

After a brief moment of surprise, Solance calmed down.

What he was most curious about was why Bai Zhen wanted a private moon base.

Solance asked his own question: "Can I ask why you want a private moon base? You don't want to travel there, do you?"

Bai Zhen's physical fitness allows him to go into space easily, so there is no need to spend tens of billions to build a lunar base.

Bai Zhen said frankly: "To be honest, I want to grow vegetables on the moon. If I want to grow vegetables, I need a lunar farm."

Bai Zhen's reason was so simple that everyone present felt like he was joking.

But Daigo, Rico and others who knew the truth knew that Bai Zhen was not joking, and he really wanted to open his own Richen Farm to the moon!
Solance confirmed again and again: "You mean, you want to conduct scientific research on plant cultivation on the moon?"

Bai Zhen nodded affirmatively: "When I was digging on the moon, I found liquid water in the caves beneath the ground. Except for the bad soil and the large temperature difference, everything else is fine."

"Wait! Liquid water!???"

Everyone exclaimed again.

Previous studies have suggested that there may be water inside the moon, but now it is confirmed? ?

"Yes, it is indeed liquid water, but we don't know the composition of this water. Sample No. 52 contains water."

As soon as Bai Zhen said this, everyone immediately started looking through the pile of samples and soon found three samples numbered 3.

One of them actually contained liquid.

Seeing this, everyone gasped.

The gold content of this pile of samples is still increasing!

"Damn it! I really want to study this sample right away!!"

Everyone began to wail.

Solance couldn't sit still any longer. He took two or three steps forward, shook Bai Zhen's hand, and said very seriously: "Please move to my office, and let's talk in detail about the cooperation on the lunar base!"

Bai Zhen nodded, and under the reluctant gazes of those researchers, he temporarily put the pile of samples back into Xie Mi's small spiritual world.

On the way to the office with Solance, Daigo pulled Bai Zhen behind him and asked Bai Zhen in a low voice: "The portal in your house can also connect to the moon, right?"

Things like farming cannot be done by simply letting them grow remotely; it requires constant care.

Daigo doesn't think that Bai Zhen will live on the moon permanently, or let Rayquaza take him to the moon every day, so there is only one truth, that is, Bai Zhen can connect the portal to the moon.

Bai Zhen just laughed and said nothing.

The cooling time of the portal is 180 days (mentioned in Chapter 17). The portal can not only connect different worlds, but also connect two places in the same world.

There is less than a month left until the portal cooldown ends.

When the lunar farm is completed, we will connect our own island to the lunar base.

Seeing that Shiraishi said nothing, Daigo guessed the truth.

He kindly reminded Bai Zhenyan in a low voice: "Don't let anyone else know about the portal!"

Although Bai Zhen's vegetables, Pokémon and his personal strength broke some rules of reality, the impact was not significant. However, if others knew that he had a portal that could connect to other worlds and other planets at will, Bai Zhen would definitely be in a lot of trouble.

For example, the universe is very large, so large that the currently observable universe is 960 billion light-years. If Bai Zhen can set up a portal at the end of the universe and then teleport back to Earth in an instant, then by then, there will be countless people who want to control Bai Zhen.

And most importantly, Bai Zhen's portal has completely destroyed the current aerospace technology. In order to allow this industry to develop normally, Bai Zhen should not interfere or expose it too much.

Bai Zhen nodded. He naturally knew the seriousness of the matter.

Following Solans to the office, Bai Zhen began to discuss the construction plan of the lunar base with Solans in detail.

Bai Zhen put forward his own requirements.

This discussion lasted for four or five days. Because there were many details and procedures that needed to be discussed, Bai Zhen also stayed here for a while.

On November 11, Bai Zhen finally confirmed the cooperation plan with the alliance and Dewen Company.

The farm is roughly located on the back side of the moon. The back side of the moon is a good place where one can observe the universe very well. If Bai Zhen wants to settle on Mars in the future, it will be convenient to start from the back side.

Moreover, since it is a farm, there is still a demand for transactions, and the only people on the moon who might buy his vegetables are the scientific researchers who come to the moon.

Setting up the base on the back of the moon will also make it convenient for Bai Zhen to sell vegetables to the alliance. The price of vegetables on the moon is countless times higher than that on the ground. When food is scarce in the early stages, it is not completely impossible to sell a pound of vegetables for hundreds of thousands of Alliance coins.

The construction budget for the entire lunar farm was set at 700 billion Alliance coins.

The Moon Farm is divided into two parts.

The first part is a well-equipped central base that can meet all survival needs on the moon.

In addition, the base will include facilities such as energy stations.

In the future, the energy used by the entire lunar farm will be Devin's [∞ Energy].

[∞ Energy] is analogous to [nuclear fusion] in the previous life, where a small amount of matter can produce a large amount of energy.

The Haiyuan No. 1, which is equipped with [∞ Energy], would have been a nuclear-powered submarine without the risk of nuclear leakage in the previous life. Moreover, this energy can be used for war or for peace.

A nuclear fusion reactor is more than enough to run a farm.

If Bai Zhen wants to activate this small device, he only needs to charge his Pokémon with 1% of their life energy every six months.

The little bit of energy that is lost can be fully recovered within half a year, so there is no need to worry about shortening your life.

Dewen's [∞Energy] technology is already quite mature and can stand the test of the market.

It is said that the next generation of rockets are all prepared to be equipped with [∞ energy] devices. If this is really realized, it will not be a dream for humans to land on Mars or even fly out of the solar system in the future.

In addition to energy issues, this base also includes intelligent central control and energy shield systems.

The intelligent central control can assist in managing all matters within the base, and the energy shield system uses the same technology as the protective barrier around the Pokémon battle field.

However, this intelligent central control and shield system are both the best in the world, and the price of a system can reach more than 50 billion.

Bai Zhen was very willing to spend money on this. He didn't want his farm to be smashed to pieces by a meteorite just after it was built.

The central base of the first part will be divided into four cabins, that is, the four parts will be built one by one, then transported to the moon and assembled together.

Each cabin has an area of ​​about 1 square meters and is divided into living area, warehouse, experimental area, and leisure and entertainment area.

The four cabins together, including the excess space, cover a total area of ​​approximately 5 square meters (about 220 meters long and wide), which is roughly the size of seven standard football fields.

The second part is the farm. Bai Zhen specifically requested that the crops on this farm should be grown on the ground instead of in a planting cabin.

The reason why Bai Zhen spent hundreds of billions to build this lunar farm was to see whether the weightless environment and cosmic rays in space could cause mutations in his own plants.

Deoxys is a Pokémon that was created when its DNA was transformed by cosmic radiation.

Bai Zhen did not expect his own plants to evolve into new life forms like Deoxys. He just hoped that these plants would mutate so that he could select the best mutated varieties and start breeding them.

Bai Zhen can fuse plants and cultivate plants, but he has no way to make the plants mutate themselves.

Although the fusion of plants can also allow him to create new varieties, the human brain can never compare with the wonders of nature.

Those Pokémon, humans, and even various magical plants and minerals are all products of nature, which are beyond Bai Zhen's reach.

Even if you have creativity, it will run out one day.

Mutations can be benign or negative. Individuals with benign mutations pass on their genes, which is called evolution.

If we can combine plant fusion, plant enhancement and plant mutation to create god-level plants, then it would be worth spending hundreds of billions, let alone tens of billions.

Back to the farm, the farm will be used for planting on the surface of the moon. The outer layer of the farm will be covered by a glass-like dome, and Bai Zhen can decide whether to reflect cosmic rays through a switch.

The farm will adopt fully automatic management, including irrigation, status monitoring, temperature management, etc.

The only things that Bai Zhen might need to do himself are hoeing the land, planting seeds, and harvesting.

Another point worth mentioning is that the farm will also be equipped with protective shields to protect against general meteorites, and there will also be rail transport vehicles for transportation, which will deliver the goods to the central warehouse via tracks.

The farm is also divided into blocks, with the central base as the center and eight circular farms extending outward in an "M" structure in eight directions.

After confirming the draft, Daigo said to Shiraishi, "The construction period of the lunar base is divided into 12 phases in total, and it is expected to be completed in 2 years."

“How long will the first phase take from now?”

"If the procurement goes smoothly, the first phase can be completed within three months, and then you can transport the living cabin to the moon first."

If you want to settle on the moon first, you don’t have to wait for the entire lunar farm to be fully built. As long as the first cabin is built, you can go to the moon to place a portal first. After the other cabins are built, you can just assemble them together like Lego. This is something that modern technology can do.

"Three months?"

Daigo thought Bai Zhen was complaining about the slow speed, so he explained: "This speed is already the fastest in the world. I will give priority to your production tasks. After all, this is a big project, and our company can make a lot of money."

Bai Zhen waved his hand and said, "I'm not complaining about it being slow, I just feel it's a little fast. After all, it takes at least two months to make a space suit, but this 10000 square meter space capsule only takes three months."

"So that's what you're worried about. You have to know that the smaller and more sophisticated the aerospace objects are, the harder they are to make, and the more requirements there are for something, the longer it takes to make it. There are many requirements for space suits. For example, a space suit has 12 layers, and the astronauts have to be flexible and soft when wearing it.

Your cabin is very simple, with a shell and various devices and furniture inside. The difficulty and process of making it are not as difficult as a space suit, and it takes about the same three months. "

"I see."

Bai Zhen also felt at ease to leave professional matters to professionals.

As for where the 700 billion budget for construction came from, Bai Zhen sold all the samples he obtained from the moon and the dozens of tons of lunar soil that had been excavated but not dumped to the Alliance and Devin Company, earning about 650 billion Alliance coins.

With the remaining 5 billion, plus the 99 million Alliance Coins given to him by Daigo, and the one ton of moonlight peridot raw stones he dug out from the moon mantle, one or two hundred moon stones with a purity below 20%, and all the jade rabbit stones below 700 carats, he packaged them together and sold them to Dewen Company. He successfully raised billion Alliance Coins.

He now has the best Lv.5 moonlight peridot left on him, which is grade B and weighs about 400 grams.

除此之外，还有3块纯净度99%以上的月之石，8颗20克拉以上及2颗25克拉以上的玉兔石。

Plus the S-level gems, Jade Rabbit Stone [Polar Day] and [Polar Night].

For these things, Daigo directly offered 70 billion Alliance Coins to buy them, but of course Bai Zhen didn't sell them.

For the two gems, [Midnight] and [Midnight], Daigo is willing to pay 50 billion Alliance Coins alone.

These two gems were the most beautiful gems he had ever seen! There was no problem in saying that they were the best in the world!
The most expensive gem in the world today is said to be in the hands of the royal family of a kingdom, with a market value of at least 25 billion Alliance coins.

But that gem was only of A-grade quality, three levels lower than the S-grade of [Polar Day] and [Polar Night].

In addition, these two gems come from deep within the moon. Apart from Bai Zhen, it is almost impossible for anyone to go there to mine. It can be said that they are unique in the world.

Seeing that Bai Zhen was unwilling to sell it, Daigo had to give up: "If you change your mind, you can contact me at any time. I can add a little more to the 50 billion."

"I won't change my mind." Bai Zhen handed the black cloth bag containing the Jade Rabbit Stone to Daigo and said, "You should know the world's top gem craftsman, right? Do me a favor and help me make these gems into the world's most perfect jewelry. You can offer any price."

Daigo was stunned for a moment, then he understood Bai Zhen's idea. He shook his head helplessly, feeling that Bai Zhen was really willing to spend a lot of money.

Daigo took the bag and said to Bai Zhen: "I'm doing you this favor for free. If you get rare gems again in the future, you must consider me first."

"If there's a chance to get it again, I'll consider it."

After getting Bai Zhen's promise, which was not really a promise, Daigo readily agreed to Bai Zhen.

As for what Bai Zhen said, finding the best craftsman?
Sorry, it is definitely not enough to give such a good raw stone to only one gem craftsman. Since it is to be made into jewelry, we will ask all the top gem craftsmen in the world to design and create it.

We must create the most perfect jewelry in the world!
(End of this chapter)