Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 33 Internal Combustion Engine

Li Qingsong was somewhat shocked to see that the body fluids of this strange bird were not only rich in various amino acids, proteins and active enzymes, but also contained a variety of sugars.

Although the specific types are different from the life on Earth, there is no doubt that they are indeed the things that Li Qingsong is very familiar with.

This is a very strange thing.

Amino acids and proteins, among other things, appear to be unique to life on Earth. As a space-faring creature, does this strange bird maintain its life through the same mechanisms as life on Earth?
What is its relationship to life on Earth?
After thinking for a moment, Li Qingsong temporarily put aside his exploration of this issue.

Now the Deep Space Spacecraft has been controlled by himself and hidden in deep space, and the genetic analysis equipment is only on it.

"This type of life form seems to be based on DNA and RNA. Once this incident is resolved and the Deep Space spacecraft returns, we can perform a genetic analysis on it and everything will become clear."

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Li Qingsong's attention quickly shifted to another matter.

Since the body fluids of this strange bird are so nutritious... then, can they be used to cultivate clones?

One of the major limitations that currently prevents me from cultivating higher quality clones, thereby gaining more consciousness link shares and controlling more clones, is that I cannot produce more nutritious culture medium and cannot allow cells to develop according to the genetic optimization plan I have formulated!
The nutrition here does not only refer to sugars, proteins, fats and the like. If that were the case, Li Qingsong, who has grown so many beets and sugarcane, could easily soak the clones in white sugar.

But this obviously won't allow the clone to develop.

The nutrients needed by clones are concentrated on nutrients that are targeted at early cell division and early embryonic development, and require many requirements such as easy absorption, reasonable proportions, and reasonable types.

The more optimized the genetic plan, the higher the requirements for culture medium when cells develop according to it. Even a slight discrepancy can prevent cells from developing, or prevent them from developing according to the original plan, leading to overall deformity.

However, the nutritional type of this strange bird's body fluids seems to be very consistent with his own requirements!

Due to the limitations of current technical conditions, Li Qingsong can only make a rough judgment. As for whether the body fluid contains any trace impurities and how much they contain, he has no way of telling.

But it doesn’t matter, just use it first.

What should I do if there are really impurities and the cultivation fails?
If it fails, it fails. Just destroy it as a deformed fetus. What else can you do?
Li Qingsong was too lazy to even use mice, rabbits, pigs, cows, sheep and the like for the experiment. He simply took his own cell samples, filtered, purified and extracted the strange bird's body fluids according to the process, and poured them directly into the culture tank.

Not just one, they made 100 at once.

Whether it can succeed or not will be clear in half a year.

Since the physiological analysis of the strange bird could not be carried out for the time being, Li Qingsong stopped paying attention to it and shifted his attention to another matter.

Develop an internal combustion engine that uses methane and pure oxygen as fuel!
By now, Li Qingsong has discovered the limitations of electrified vehicles.

They place too high demands on the logistical network.

There must be an electricity grid and batteries. There must be a charging station within a radius of at most 200 kilometers of the workplace.

They can't get far from the base at all.

This model is not a big deal when there are no external enemies. The infrastructure can be gradually built on its own, and there is no need to worry about it being destroyed.

But the arrival of the strange bird immediately exposed this limitation.

Just like now, battery-powered reconnaissance vehicles can only go up to 200 kilometers away from the base, and cannot reach any further.

At present, I can't build an aircraft, so it's impossible to detect the world of Luoshen. But the internal combustion engine is different.

A car weighing three tons only needs eight liters of liquid methane and oxygen to run 100 kilometers.

The diameter of Roselle is about 2350 kilometers. One circle around Roselle is less than 7400 kilometers, so a car with 600 liters of fuel can complete one circle.

What's more, we have to develop tanks, armored vehicles and the like in the future. Charging is not so convenient in a battlefield environment, but replenishing methane and oxygen is much more convenient, and a methane tanker truck will do the job.

A combination of various factors led Li Qingsong to decide to develop the internal combustion engine.

The principle of an internal combustion engine is also very simple. It is nothing more than methane and oxygen burning in the combustion chamber to generate high-temperature and high-pressure gas, which pushes the piston and then drives the crankshaft to do work.

With current technology, Li Qingsong cannot achieve the same efficiency levels as in the Earth era, but there is no need to pursue such high standards. As the saying goes, as long as it works, it's fine.

So hundreds of clones were put into this work.

Still following the previous model, we now customize some parts in the laboratory and assemble the most primitive internal combustion engines. We try to make them run and perform external work, and then optimize the structure bit by bit to improve the performance.

Anyway, the principle is there, and it is not difficult to build a primitive internal combustion engine.

Subsequent improvement and optimization is a detailed job that requires a lot of time and technical accumulation.

But it didn't matter. Hundreds of clones, each mastering all the engine technology available at the time, simultaneously experimented with hundreds of optimization routes. A discovery by one clone was immediately shared with all the others, and further optimization and development continued based on that discovery. In less than ten days, the first practical internal combustion engine was complete.

At this time, hundreds of other clones who were developing transmission, body structure, steering system, and braking system also completed their own research and development work simultaneously.

So, this newly developed internal combustion engine "heart" was installed into the car body.

The gasoline-powered car built by Li Qingsong is about two meters high, three meters wide and five meters long.

Its body is fully enclosed, equipped with an air circulation system and a heat preservation system, and has certain anti-radiation properties.

The specially reinforced body allows it to withstand the short-range fire of the Assault Type 1 without breaking.

But if they continue to fire and attack, they won't be able to withstand it.

Its total mass reaches 2.8 tons, and when fully loaded, it can reach about 3.5 tons.

It is powered by two "oil" tanks.

One of the tanks has a capacity of 100 liters and is filled with methane, while the other has a capacity of 200 liters and is filled with oxygen.

If it is fully fueled, it can travel about 3,000 kilometers.

Besides that, it also has a spare fuel tank.

The spare fuel tank can be large or small, and can hold up to more than 1,000 liters of methane and oxygen, which can not only drive the car forward, but also provide breathing space for the clones.

At this moment, under the operation of the driver's clone, it suddenly roared.

(End of this chapter)