Abandoned the Immortal Cultivator, returned to his hometown to farm and sing

Chapter 959 952. Immortal Grass

Listened to Luo Yihang's arrangements.

Shi Juan was immediately confused, "No, Boss, this is more troublesome than digging a hole and filling it with water, and it also goes against our original intention."

Luo Yihang waved his hand and explained, "There is a difference. Large-scale infrastructure, mechanization, and labor saving. If Engineer Liu can design a special Honghu pendant, the unmanned tractor can work 24 hours a day. That's a matter of money."

I have tried using drones to replenish water before, but the amount is too small, and it can only be sprinkled on the surface. It evaporates too quickly in the desert and cannot be stored.

Use an iron net to condense water and directly replenish it into the lower layer of sand and soil. With a continuous supply of water, it will eventually be able to survive.

They are not real guerrillas. It is a new era and supplies can be delivered.

However, an iron net of one hundred meters by ten meters, or one thousand square meters, would definitely weigh more than ten tons, while the condensed water would be only five tons per day.

Only five cubic meters.

Luo Yihang had no idea whether it would be successful if he was asked to plant grass on a hundred acres of land deep in the desert.

Give it a try.

"The investment will be very large. Combined with our Malan grass, the speed will also be very fast. We have to try our best to get the middle. It's a last resort. Let's just use it as a backup." Luo Yihang added.

Then, he looked at Shi Juan and the others and said, "Let's go back and see if Wen Ying has made any breakthroughs. Then we can go back and cultivate the second generation of Malan grass with all our strength."

This means that this experiment has failed.

Shi Juan and the others looked dejected when they heard this. They had worked hard for several months, but it was all gone in one day.

The old branch secretary was also a little reluctant and asked, "Are you leaving?"

Luo Yihang nodded and smiled, "Yes, old Party Secretary, the rainy season is over. After a few days of summer, the evaporation will be even greater, and there will be no hope. I am sorry to have disturbed you for several months and caused trouble to you and the village."

"It's not a bother, it's not a bother. What are you talking about?" The old branch secretary waved his hands again and again, "We are looking forward to your coming."

"But you said, wait until autumn. I will come again in autumn and trouble you again."

"You are always welcome. Piyingtai Village will always be your second home..."
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Return to Ping'angou.

In the hall outside the laboratory.

The long table was put together again.

Samples and reports were spread out on the table, and people sat in a circle, all looking gloomy.

Shi Juan and her team struggled through thick and thin for several months, experienced failure again and again, and finally faced complete failure.

My mentality is a bit broken.

Wenying, who was sitting at the head, was calm and looked through the reports and samples calmly.

He even smiled a little, "Failure is nothing, you just get used to it. In agricultural breeding, failure is the norm. I think everything went too smoothly before, which was a little abnormal."

This is said, like a sarcastic remark.

Luo Yihang chuckled twice, but no one else said anything.

Wenying raised her head and looked at Luo Yihang. She put one corner of the report on the table and pointed the other corner over. She used the report as an arrow, "Boss, you are the most incredible. The sixth group you selected was actually successful. The direction is very correct. The foundation is laid. The rest is just to build up. If there are problems, just solve them. We have already walked 90 miles, and the rest is just a short distance. It's easy. Otherwise, you can throw another shoe?"

She was using Luo Yihang to restore the confidence of Shi Juan and the others.

Luo Yihang curled his lips, "I was throwing darts, not shoes..."

As he was talking, Qin Qiuyan came out of the laboratory, holding the oldest sample in his hand. "The age test results are out. The survival time is 80 to 90 hours."

It’s not even the four days that Shi Juan estimated. This is bad news.

It can grow to 22 centimeters in less than four days, which is good news.

The breeding business is always like this, there is shit hidden in the honey, there is good and bad, it seems that there are not enough skill points, so there is no hexagonal warrior.

After Qin Qiuyan came out to report the results, she also felt that the atmosphere was not right, and then introduced the progress of the laboratory: "We have made many attempts in the past few months. We have tried to continue to accelerate growth, improve water utilization, and increase seed volume to store more nutrients. All failed. We failed eleven times in total. Now we are constructing the seventh set of samples for sequencing." He expressed his heartfelt praise, "Breeding 4.0 is awesome. It can fail so many times so quickly. If it were me before, it would take five or six years to fail eleven times."

You mean you're pretty happy?

This girl's nerves are made of steel.

Look at other people, after failing five times they feel like they are going to die.

We are all engaged in agriculture, and we know that the difficulty of field experiments and the effort spent on laboratory research are not necessarily more or less.

After living in Ping'angou for a long time, Qin Qiuyan's personality has become much more cheerful. At least, she is no longer socially anxious in front of acquaintances.

Then, as we were talking, we got off topic.

"The new probes are great, very easy to use, the editor is also easy to use, and the sample preparation system is also easy to use..."

It’s useful, right? But it’s too damn expensive.

Hearing what she said, Luo Yihang covered his chest and said, "Don't tell me, it hurts."

Wenying smiled when she heard this, "Oh, I won't show you the super-calculated bill for now."

"…" There are still experts? You're quite humorous, right?

Luo Yihang was feeling "distressed", but Wen Ying had already changed the subject and said to Qin Qiuyan, "We have ruled out eleven wrong directions."

Okay, that makes sense.

After going off topic for a while, Luo Yihang turned back to the main topic and asked, "Do you have a direction for the next step? How to solve the current problem?"

"Yes." Wenying was full of confidence. She returned to the laboratory and took out a box of dried... er, soil crust? Soil crust?

It's all withered and yellow, dried up, and dead beyond all possibility of dying.

"What is this? They are all dead." Luo Yihang asked curiously.

"It's a kind of moss." Wenying smiled and shook her head, "It's not dead."

As he said this, he picked up a bottle of water on the table and poured it on the crust.

And counting, "One, two, three!"

huh~~
A miracle occurred.

The dry crust suddenly stretched out and turned from yellow to green.

"What the hell!" Luo Yihang was so shocked that he almost jumped up.

“What the hell!” Shi Juan and the others were also shocked. They woke up completely and could not speak clearly. “This…this…it was so fast…”

"Resurrected?"

"It's dormant recovery." Wenying corrected the wording and explained, "Erythromyces dentata can tolerate more than 98% of its cells being dehydrated, achieving 'dryness but not death', entering deep dormancy, and can quickly recover, turn green and resume growth after encountering water. It has extraordinary resilience."

It was fast enough, in just three seconds, the color turned green.

Then Wenying took out a magnifying glass from her pocket and put it close to the moss leaf. "Look carefully. The white tip of its leaf is an extremely efficient water collection and water delivery device that can quickly absorb water from the atmosphere."

"What you are planning to do is..." Luo Yihang hesitated while speaking.

After all, it's incredible.

Wenying nodded, "If we combine it with horsetail grass, the problem will be easily solved."

(If you don’t understand the picture, you can search for CCTV’s agricultural introduction, the three-body plant)

(End of this chapter)