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"Blood pressure 40/70, low blood pressure!"

"Heart rate 35, weak pulse, administer a cardiac stimulant!" The noisy voices surrounded me like a hallucination, making me feel as if I were floating in a void cloud, light and airy, without any sense of reality.

"Stop the heartbeat! Pacemaker! 3...2...1!" A loud electromagnetic noise shattered the illusion, followed by a wave of pain throughout the body. The heart felt like a dying machine, making its last stand.

"A potent treatment injection of 2mg intravenously!" A strange, viscous, silvery-gray liquid was slowly pushed into the vein, and countless micro-machines, less than 100 nanometers in diameter and resembling viruses, began to spread automatically and frantically reproduce themselves using the body's substances.

While highly effective emergency treatments are available, potent injections can also cause reversible and severe damage to other organs and tissues in patients because they essentially work by robbing Peter to pay Paul. Generally speaking, they are the kind of treatments that allow you to survive until you need to be rushed to the hospital for emergency care.

"Hemostats! We must remove the remaining part, otherwise..."

"Pay attention to the blood pump and blood pressure, keep the blood transfusion going." "Pfft!" A piece of bloodstained metal was forcibly pulled from the dissected body and thrown onto a tray, followed by a second one, along with some fragments and the warhead of an etched bullet.

"Remove the necrotic tissue, scalpel!" Dr. Warfarin's expression was extremely grave; the doctor's injuries were already very serious at that time.

While the hibernation chamber has certain functions in maintaining life and accelerating recovery, it also means that after such a long period of time, some debris that could originally be removed will need to be removed by cutting off the surrounding tissue that has grown together.

Many of these fragments are located near the heart, surrounded by proliferating connective tissue. Blood vessels must be carefully avoided when removing these tumor-like structures and extracting the fragments from within.

If the medical department hadn't replenished some of the medicines Lao Xia manufactured and his advanced equipment, even the Blood Demon doctor might not have been confident that he could have completed the surgery and that this man would still be alive.

"A potent treatment injection, another one, 4.5mg, intravenous injection!" The effect of the previous injection was almost over, and a booster injection was needed immediately. "One miniature pacemaker! Two muscle enhancers!" Three small oval devices were carefully installed on the heart. While continuously releasing microcurrents to stimulate the myocardium, they would also gradually inject micromechanical components to enhance the function of the heart muscle.

The surgery lasted almost six hours before it ended. The discarded cotton balls used to stop the bleeding nearly filled the trash can, and the various metal scraps and biological tissues on the tray made people wonder why this person was still alive.

Fortunately, with the help of some medical equipment from the Star Alliance, the surgery was successfully completed. All foreign objects were removed, and the damaged internal organs were properly treated and protected.

How long do you expect him to wake up?

"It depends on him. If he's lucky, it'll be a few days; if he's unlucky, it'll be a few months."

Will it leave any lasting effects?

"It's possible, but uncertain."

“I understand.” Kal’tsit nodded, looking at the masked man. “Wake up soon, Doctor.”

Meanwhile, at the farm, Talulah's office—or rather, the empty room of the farm's elementary school—was a mess, filled with a jumble of papers and students' homework.

"The harvest statistics are out. The total sown area is 2116 hectares, including 600 hectares of wheat. Rice is not suitable for growing in cold environments due to irrigation systems."

So there are only about 200 hectares, 1000 hectares for the second round of sugar beets, and the rest are various vegetable greenhouses and about 2 hectares of sugarcane in the volcanic ash area. Alina threw a stack of statistical documents in front of Talulah.

"The harvest is down 11.6% compared to the previous quarter. Is there a problem?"

This is also what the infected workers are most worried about. They are used to a good harvest, and a sudden decrease in the harvest will indeed make them uneasy. After all, everyone knows that their current life is based on the harvest from the farm.

“I asked Mr. Xia, and he said it’s a trait degeneration. We need to switch to other crops. He will take the time to guide us in breeding and trait restoration. Although these crops are high-yielding, they cannot be planted too many times in a row.”

Talulah seemed much calmer. "Boss Xia told us to plant rapeseed next season."

Which type of rapeseed?

"First rapeseed, then winter rapeseed." The oil from the former is mainly for consumption, with the seeds containing 40% oil. The roots, stems, flowers, and leaves can all be eaten directly, and it also has medicinal value for reducing swelling and relieving pain.

However, it is relatively sensitive to climate and is not suitable for sowing in the spring and autumn when the snowfield environment is relatively harsh.

The latter is much more resilient because its oil is a standard industrial feedstock, usable in lubricants, nylon, bioplastics, and more. It's also one of the largest industrial crops on Covenant agricultural planets. Finally, after processing, it can even replace some low-octane fuels.

Of course, the Alliance does not need fossil fuels for energy; it relies more on the petrochemical industry, which has a very high demand for polymers, long-chain polymers, nylon-like materials, and bioplastics.

In particular, organic bioplastics are similar in properties to plastics, but they are completely different things.

Even in Terra, the oil products produced there can greatly reduce the cost of various Terran industrial products and reduce the operating costs of mobile cities, making it the second most valuable Terran hard currency after food.

"Shall we start seedling cultivation now?" Alina flipped through the nearly frayed pages of "A Simple and Easy-to-Understand Agricultural Crash Course That Even a Monkey Can Learn."

Although the title is slightly insulting, after reading it, both Alina and Talulah had to admit that 95% of the infected on the farm were worse than monkeys.

Winter rapeseed fry need to be sown sparsely, with 6 plants per mu being optimal. They should be sown in the most fertile areas of gradually extinguishing volcanic ash, in late autumn. A lot of manpower is needed for management to ensure that there are no pests or diseases and that the roots are white and vigorous. About 20 days later, they are transplanted into the field.

The ideal row spacing is 30 cm and the plant spacing is 15 cm. There's no need to worry about that, as there are professional transplanting machines designed by Yike Shifu. Apart from being prone to breaking like a clock, they have no other drawbacks. They transplant seedlings with the precision of a clock, making them very efficient.

However, there's a problem: these seedlings are extremely delicate. Raising them requires great care, and transplanting them requires keeping them with fertilizer, soil, and pesticides. Furthermore, it's very troublesome to avoid transplanting seedlings that have been left overnight.

This means that everyone on the farm has to do this work, and it's truly exhausting for the young man. He has to work from six in the morning until midnight, and nobody can rest.

The reason why this crop cannot be grown in other parts of Ursus is that it requires meticulous cultivation and is very sensitive to the fineness of the soil. Given that Ursus mostly relies on manual labor for cultivation, such deep cultivation could be fatal.

The farm is much simpler. The largest agricultural machinery, tractors modified from Titan chassis, rumble past, crushing stones into powder. Then, a layer of fine soil made from a mixture of volcanic ash and artificial soil is laid on top.

After that comes sowing base fertilizer. Incidentally, winter rapeseed, or European rapeseed, is what we mentioned before—

It's one of those things that will kill you if you don't give its seedlings 25 kilograms of carbon soil fertilizer.

It needs not only carbon fertilizer, but also calcium, fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer, and boron fertilizer, especially boron fertilizer. Similarly, if you don't provide it, it will die. That's right, you also need to apply boron to its roots.

Winter rapeseed can be sown in Ursus in late autumn, grows in winter, begins to bear fruit in spring, and can be harvested in early summer. This stuff in the Covenant grows much slower.

However, it is more adaptable to low-temperature environments, and the proportion of oil in its pods is also higher, with the number of pods being more than 1.2 times that of normal rapeseed.

If hydroponically grown, it can be harvested at least five times a year for industrial use. While the farm does not have the capability to process it into interstellar industrial polymer materials and chemical products, it can still be used to manufacture soap, nylon, paint, lubricant, and grease.

In addition, it can also be used to manufacture stabilizers used in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

However, this puts too much pressure on the farm's industrial capacity. The current requirement is to manufacture some soap and send some to Lungmen for processing into finished oil products, such as lubricating oil and grease.

It is a standard high-yield cash crop and the only cash crop suitable for the Ursus snowfield. If Lao Xia orders a batch of processing and chemical equipment for the farm later, it can be processed into biofuel. Biofuel should still be somewhat useful in Terra, at least for heating.

Some vehicles and equipment with low energy consumption can also be converted to internal combustion engine mode, without the dangerous and troublesome Originium engine or the less dangerous but more troublesome tower power furnace.

Compared to winter rapeseed or European rapeseed, rapeseed is not as difficult to grow. Its main product is edible rapeseed oil, which is the most fragrant if you plan to make some stir-fries.

Cooking oil, the second largest hard currency in Ursus after vodka, is mainly supplied to surrounding cities and sold locally in Ursus. Places like Londo have to wait until the planting base in Old Xia's Kazdel is established, and then large-scale peanut cultivation will begin, with peanut oil as the main product.

However, before anything else can begin, there is one very important thing to do: manually kill pests and diseases. Cold-region ecosystems are already very fragile. With Lao Xia's violent blasting of mountains and clearing of fields, most of them have already died out. Without the restraint of natural enemies, insects, which are tenacious creatures, quickly spread in this fragile ecosystem.

At the same time, a large number of pathogens begin to invade, especially fungi, and a small number of bacteria as well. If these things are left unattended, they will not only cause large numbers of crops to die, but may also lead to parasitic infections in humans.

The farm's ultimate weapon is Old Xia's standard agricultural pesticide, "Silence"—it kills everything that touches it, no matter what it is.

The area that was sprayed was completely silent. Before spraying, all livestock and birds had to be locked up, and people had to stay in a safe area to keep the room as sealed as possible.

The advantage of this stuff is that it leaves no residue and decomposes quickly. The disadvantage, or rather another advantage, is that it is extremely toxic. If even a tiny bit gets on your skin, you'll be dead in a minute, less than the time it takes for one blood cycle to complete. If it takes more than 10 seconds, there's no need for rescue.

The biggest drawback is photosensitivity, so it's best to spray it at dusk or night. It will decompose quickly under sunlight by noon the next day, and there will be no residue left by the morning of the third day.

If it weren't for its extremely potent toxicity, which is almost lethal, Talulah would have loved to use it as a weapon.

However, this was too lethal to civilians, but it was not effective against soldiers hiding in well-sealed compartments, so she did not intend to use it.

In addition to insecticides, other medications to kill harmful bacteria and fungi are also needed.

In short, over the past few days, ghostly figures could be seen appearing on the farm at night from time to time. The colorful medicinal mist shimmered in the morning sunlight, and the surroundings were deathly silent, with no sounds of insects or birds.

Fortunately, the disinfection process did not last more than a few days, and the surrounding area returned to its lively state. The infected people opened the irrigation ditches to irrigate the paddy fields. After the rice's second leafing and ineffective leafing period, it is necessary to irrigate quickly. This is the time when rice needs the most water in its life cycle, and the water level in the paddy fields needs to be kept above 90%.

After entering the grain-filling stage, the water level needs to be reduced to about 70% until the rice husks turn white. Before the harvest, the water level should be lowered again until the rice is completely drained at harvest time to prepare for harvesting the rice.

Forget about things like foliar fertilization; just one irrigation and drainage cycle is enough to test the intelligence and comprehension of the infected.

But it doesn't matter. We showed them a few experimental plots of land what a complete crop failure or low yield looked like, and they understood it almost instantly and learned very quickly.

Famine is a great teacher, second only to nature. After gaining a very clear and profound understanding of the logic that if they don't learn, there will be no harvest, and if there is no harvest, there will be no food, the Ursus bears made great strides in their learning and comprehension.

The irrigation and drainage cycle is now being managed quite well, although there are still problems such as not draining the fields during the ineffective leaf-forming period and draining too early during the effective leaf-forming period, resulting in poor rice growth.

However, the genetically modified Covenant rice withstood these man-made challenges very well, and in the end, it only served as a minor punishment of a 20% reduction in harvest.

Instead of simply sterilizing them, leaving everyone to wait in a sorry state for the next few months, enduring deprivation and wage cuts.

Although the harvest was much smaller than the same period last year, the grain sacks were still piled up to the brim, and the air was filled with the sweet aroma of beet juice.

As for the livestock on the farms that had endured the most arduous labor during the previous harvest season, they were also enjoying the sweet sugar meal.

During the sugar beet harvest season, it means that all the livestock on the farm, except for dairy cows, laying hens, and draft horses, are entering the last month of their lives. Feeding them sugar meal is to fatten them up as quickly as possible. The purpose of fattening them up is obvious to anyone who knows.

Especially the carefree big white pigs, every guy passing by the pig farm looks at these fat pigs eating heartily around the trough with kind and expectant eyes.

Because in less than two months, they will be able to go to the slaughterhouse 500 meters away and be stabbed.

Compared to these meat-producing animals, laying hens and dairy cows have a much more leisurely life. The former only needs to lay eggs every day and can happily roam around the free-range chicken farm. The latter even has dedicated personnel to feed them, clean them, massage them, and treat all diseases. As long as they can produce milk, everything is fine.

After two years of continuous breeding, raising, and herd expansion, the farm now has a small surplus of dairy cows to sell, enough to meet its own needs. Of course, before it could even be sold to Schutzburg, Rhode Island intercepted and bought them all.

The cold-stamped fresh milk, combined with freshly squeezed sugar, and a touch of farm-grown high-quality cinnamon and cistanche, is incredibly sweet and delicious.

"Freshly made eggnog, while it's hot!" Fresh milk, cinnamon, cloves, fresh eggs, and vodka, the eggnog, simmering over a low flame, was placed on the office desk. "Boss, where did you get this good stuff?"

“Miss Talulah is making eggnog with the extra milk, I went to get it…” Uncle Ace sat down in an empty seat in the Operations Department. “This is a delicacy that only Ursus nobles can enjoy.” Spices, milk, eggs, and vodka—who the hell has the money to drink like this if they're not a noble!

"Miss Talulah can do this? I always thought she was the kind of person who was completely taken care of by Miss Alina in her daily life."

“They are nobles after all, so it’s normal for them to be able to make such luxury items.” Ace shed his usual serious mask and rubbed his hands together impatiently. “Go get the cups, let’s enjoy the luxury of the nobility too.”

"Woo...woo...woo—" The piercing alarm interrupted everyone's happy time; it was a completely unfamiliar alarm sound.

"All combat personnel, return to your posts immediately! Rhodes Island is about to set sail!" Not only Rhodes Island, but all farm rest areas and settlements sounded alarms. "Yeti Squad support personnel evacuate! Shield Guards, grab your weapons and prepare for battle!" Patriot's voice rang out over the loudspeaker.

"what happened?"

“A small number of demonic fragments have gone south, it’s not a big problem…” These small fragments are indeed not a big problem for the Patriots, but if someone gets infected, that would be a big problem.

"Can you handle it?"

"Yes." "Sir Patriot, take all your equipment, don't be overconfident..."

"I know!"

"Titan Company, all leave canceled. Immediately check vehicle condition and ammunition inventory. Depart in half an hour!"

"Maintain the original mission of the outpost, and be alert for possible infiltration attacks!" The plains in the distance remained unchanged, showing no sign of demonic invasion. However, the tense atmosphere in the air was genuine.

"Master Ke, is your self-propelled artillery ready yet?"

"It's still early, let's make do with Titans! This artillery project is canceled, don't ask me why, it's your boss's decision!"

Chapter 54 KFC's Home-Style Dishes

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Near the temporary defensive line in the north of the farm, "Titan crews, get into position quickly!" Four tanks slowly entered the field, and the temporary engineers on both sides quickly grabbed shovels and piled dirt behind the tanks. If the twin main guns of these things were to fire simultaneously, the recoil would cause the tanks to slide backward several meters. Without obstacles, they would probably slide all over the field during rapid firing.

Originally, Mr. Ke planned to design a pair of robotic arms at the waist to stabilize the vehicle body, but after seeing the design drawings of that complex hydraulic and linkage structure that had to withstand such impact forces, he was persuaded against it by others.

Titans are inherently difficult to repair, and this is only because the materials used in these things are of high quality; the problems are mostly minor issues like jamming or poor contact.