Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

When the gentry realize that the polar regions are not only harsh and cold places, but also contain vast amounts of gold and silver treasures, they will strongly support them.

Military leaders naturally dislike enduring hardship in harsh, cold regions. If someone discovers a way to make money in such a place, it's a pleasant surprise, and eventually, the officials won't object.

Why? Polar scientific expeditions are massive projects. Imagine how much manpower and resources Kazdel invested. In the eyes of bureaucrats, manpower and resources are simply "greater power" and "more lucrative opportunities." No one is more interested in large-scale national projects than bureaucrats.

This implies the need to expand bureaucratic authority and the collective, and also means the flow and accumulation of a large amount of material wealth. How could a bureaucratic group that relies on its ability to control both the top and bottom possibly oppose this?

Although the Great Yan Dynasty couldn't come up with much money, the gentry class had plenty. In this regard, the bureaucratic class never cared whose money they were being paid; it was all the same, all the same.

Since the five forces of the Great Yan Dynasty reached a consensus, and given their ambiguous relationship with Kazdel, they naturally assembled a team that was no less powerful than Kazdel's, and perhaps even stronger, with astonishing courage and speed.

There were more than a dozen land-based ships, fully equipped with cold-weather gear, weapons, ammunition, and firepower. It could be said that even the Great Yan Capital Garrison Army could not assemble such a complete set of equipment during the Naval War.

Then they disappeared on the ice field, and it wasn't until two months later that a dilapidated polar lander returned, still shaken.

"A bunch of idiots~" Sister Ling, who was drinking in the tavern, almost spat out her drink after hearing this. If Da Yan really copied Kazdel's homework completely, and wasn't too greedy, and focused on treasure hunting, he could return with a full load.

But what about them? A dozen Abaddon-class armed transport ships stormed in. Do you think the demons are all small fry?

The exit point of the Great Yan is itself a promontory of the ice field. The density of demons here is incomparable to that of Kosichie. They are so high-profile, and there is no satellite cannon to save them. The fact that one of them managed to escape alive is enough to demonstrate the technical and experiential advantage of the Great Yan people in fighting demons.

Even so, it only made Da Yan restrain itself a little. This restraint meant that their shipyard received three new orders. This time, they were not Abaddon-class ships, which were Da Yan's treasure ships, but were directly replaced by the largest Dragon Palace-class ships.

There was no other way. Even the artifacts and wealth brought back by survivors who hadn't dug more than a couple of shovelfuls were enough to make the Great Yan Dynasty pull out all the money in its coffers to build a massive shipyard. This put the Great Yan shipyards, which had been anxious about the future after the completion of the Kazdel supporting order, at ease. These three ships would be enough for them to enjoy.

"It would need to be bombed with a nuclear bomb." After reading the news about Da Yan, the doctor, Lao Xia, and Master Nian reached the same conclusion. Although it's not very good on the battlefield due to its mobility and speed, it seems quite suitable if you just use it as a mobile mining platform and fortress to mine in enemy-occupied territory.

The Dragon Palace-class is larger than the Arctic Beast, and its entire body is covered with anti-evil-corrosion metal. It adopts Kazdel's negative pressure design, designed to unfold like a mobile city upon arrival at its destination, with the central area being a sealed excavation zone. What follows is the enjoyable grave-digging time.

The structure and armor strength of this thing are beyond the reach of demons; even railguns would need at least two rounds to destroy it completely.

"After all, it was used to move mountains in the past~" A large number of rocks were piled up in the central area and then dragged away, turning them into artificial mountains around the city or that could move with the city.

"Compared to shaping the landscape, this was actually the main job. I remember that their original purpose in designing this was to bring back the facilities and mineral reserves from the polar regions. Later, due to various reasons, the project was abandoned, and Da Yan used these ships as engineering vessels."

Later on, the Great Yan stopped undertaking large-scale projects, and these engineering ships themselves became obsolete. In the end, they could only be used by the emperor to inspect the regions as mobile palaces and government centers. Now that the emperor has been confined to the inner palace, this function has finally become obsolete.

"It's a wonder they were able to find the design drawings. However, the construction of this thing won't be fast, especially since it will require a lot of modernization."

As long as the money and benefits are in place, there's nothing the people of Dayan can't do—including turning this mobile palace into a mobile fortress, crammed with expensive divine light cannons so thick that people can't even step on it.

In the past, equipping the border with even one of the Great Yan's "Cosmic General Cannons" would cause a half-month-long debate between the court and the people. Now, they've simply placed two of these things at the four corners, as if they were free.

Based on the principle that no matter who fights the demon, it doesn't matter who fights the demon, the doctor and the Great Yan Celestial Master's Mansion exchanged information, and thus, the technology to turn demon crystals into blank white crystals appeared in the Great Yan territory.

Although the correct use of white crystals has not yet been found, its current uses are enough to make the entire Da Yan family open their pockets. It is a bit difficult to expect the people of Da Yan to explore new markets. Their nature and business habits mean they do not like to take risks—stability and continuity are the typical characteristics of Da Yan's industry and commerce.

However, if the neighbors make money in this industry, then the people of Dayan will definitely be the first to follow suit.

Just like a joke from the Dragon Gate: if a Kazdelman opens a Rabbit Fast Food restaurant on the street and the business is booming, then within a month, at least four fast food restaurants of the same style will open on the same street, all run by people from the Great Yan.

Now the Kazdel people have brought back a large number of precious artifacts, technological remnants, and valuable ancient steel materials, as well as white crystals. They are exhibiting them extensively domestically and reaping praise and tourism revenue internationally. If they can make so much money by sending just one ship, of course I'll send three!

The fastest breakthrough in the research on white crystals came from Lao Xia. He didn't intend to use these primitive demon cells as a kind of nano-bioengineering machinery, nor did he restore their function as an ecosystem recombination tool like the doctor did. Instead, he simply used them as a special kind of single-cell cluster.

A ring-shaped device containing "carbon dioxide, water, 95% nitrogen, and a little mineral" moves up and down at a constant speed in a transparent liquid. Upon closer inspection, there is a double-layered filter in the center of the ring, and even more centrally, a piece of white crystal, or more accurately, a plate made of white crystal.

"Since it's a single-cell cluster, even if the cell nucleus is made of Originium, the organelles and a significant portion of it are normal biological cell structures." Otherwise, the demons wouldn't be so troublesome, nor would they be able to reshape and maintain the ecosystem.

"I tried to let them generate and reproduce normally, and then I decomposed them into the original blank Originium crystal nuclei through these two decomposition layers, leaving only the parts that are equivalent to cell nuclei and cell walls. Then they will use the Originium effect field to form new cells on their own. As long as more than 2/3 of the organic mass is cut off at once, they can produce them continuously."

Old Xia pointed to the rows of transparent pipes in front of him and said that inside each pipe, there were several rings moving up and down meaninglessly, like Griffin's logistics robotic arms.

"Simply put, I raise them like a cluster of single-celled organisms. I don't need them to do anything. I just need them to use environmental materials normally, replicate and synthesize themselves in an environment with abundant energy and Originium particles, and I control the amount of Originium particles I give them to prevent them from multiplying into new demons."

"What about output?"

"They have all kinds of structures, including amino acids, fatty acids, monosaccharides, and polysaccharides. By adjusting other ingredients, they can even produce various specific hormones and immune antigens. It's really amazing."

It is almost a universal cell, designed to be converted into any biological cell for use in creating plants, animals, and insects on barren planets, almost equivalent to the mother of life.

"In our area, this would be considered a doctoral research topic, and it's eligible for patents and inclusion in the Star Alliance's national technology database. Well, that's about all it can probably get into."

Because they have more advanced micromechanical technology and DNA organ technology, they don't need to acquire the target organism's information like demons do, and they won't experience this troublesome iteration and evolutionary runaway.

Whether a technology is good or not is not simply determined by how many high-tech gimmicks and eye-catching cutting-edge terms it has. Controllability, stability, and definability are the key to a technology. Uncontrollable, unstable, and undefinable technology is nothing more than a different kind of bomb.

The early inhabitants of Terra then gave everyone a demonstration, albeit with a heavy heart, of what would happen if a sufficiently advanced black technology possessed the aforementioned characteristics.

"It will probably be included in our archives and textbooks." This is the truth. From now on, the first class for every freshman in Lao Xia's major will probably be "From Single Cell to Ecological Catastrophe: The Iterative Evolution Design Principles of Terra Demons," so that they can intuitively and systematically understand the tragic consequences of doing so.

It's estimated that the words "Terra" and "demon" appear frequently in pre-employment training for related industries. If the sun weren't about to explode, some companies and organizations would probably regularly organize their employees to come to Terra for safety training, conducting on-site safety education by pointing to the ruins of the Arctic.

"That would be a great honor." The doctor wasn't being sarcastic. Even if it was used as a negative example, it was still a beacon of civilization, meaning that you had set an example for other civilizations on this path, eliminating a wrong option for them, which seemed a bit ridiculous and embarrassing.

In reality, for researchers, a single success is not that important. On the contrary, a classic and instructive failure or mistake is more important. A single success cannot guarantee success for future generations, but a classic failure can help them avoid countless failures.

Just as it's not the last steamed bun that fills you up, but the three bowls of rice that precede it, the fact that Terrans were included as a negative example shows that they have reached the level of interstellar civilization in this technology, at least as fellow travelers, or even pioneers to some extent—because those who copy others' homework don't have that opportunity or qualification.

"What about the output-to-input ratio?"

"Not bad. The main advantage is that this thing can be manufactured industrially. Using it to produce food is a bit wasteful, unless it's used on the Ark. However, it would be great for producing medicine."

There is no more direct way to solve the disease than by directly synthesizing antigens and immune hormones. If the evil cells were not so wicked, the treatment effect could actually be expanded even further.

"The specific principle is very simple: introduce the patient's somatic cells to make the demon start to mimic them, then introduce pathogens or diseased cells, and the demon will start its own immune response. Then find a way to separate them so that the demon's mimic cells cannot be directly destroyed by physical methods."

It will automatically begin synthesizing various biological weapons used by new immune cells according to the original program, and then extract these antibodies and inject them into the patient.

"These demons have a really good ability to mimic and learn; they can fool the human immune system. Basically, the immune cells and antibodies they synthesize will be regarded by the human body as being produced by itself."

In this way, any disease except parasitic and fungal diseases can be cured with medicine, which is a veritable panacea, including cancer, because you only need to extract the cancer cells and let the demonic mimic cells recognize them, and then the immune cells synthesized by them will be in a state of combat stress from the very beginning.

Instead of the normal situation where normal immune cells cannot distinguish between normal cells and cancer cells in time, causing the cancer to spread, this method only requires injecting these high-density immune cells into the cancer site, and everything is solved. As for the problem of accidentally killing normal cells... it is at least much more reliable than chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

"Can Oripathy be cured?"

"Yes, uh, it can be temporarily cured. The Demon Mimicry itself uses Originium as its cell nucleus, unlike normal Terran cells which only have Originium in their cytoplasm. Therefore, in order to reproduce and remain dormant in the human body for a long time, they must stimulate normal cells to expel excess Originium. I have found it. In this way, Oripathy can be reversed from stage 3 severe to stage 1. Uh, it can only be reversed to stage 1. A complete cure is impossible."

Unless every Terra baby undergoes gene editing—though Old Xia has already put that project on his schedule—natural reproduction is impossible on the Ark; otherwise, controlling the population curve would be difficult, and death would be inevitable.

If artificial insemination is used, then each newborn fetus can be edited so that the Terrans will no longer suffer from Oripathy once they reach the target planet. However, the equipment that Lao Xia has is a bit difficult to use for complete gene editing, but it would be much simpler to just knock out the artificially added abnormal genes in each embryo.

"This technology should also be shared with the Great Yan."

"why?"

"There's no other way; we have to rely on them to withstand the pressure."

"No, I mean why not auction it off?"

"Hmm?" The doctor looked up at Old Xia, who looked completely innocent. "That makes sense. Let's auction it off then." Others might not know, but Rhine Lab would definitely sell their parents to buy it, otherwise bankruptcy would be just around the corner.

Moreover, no one cares about the free gifts. In contrast, the things that are bought at a high price are different. We have already spent a lot of money to buy the industrial production technology and supporting technology for white crystals. If we don't have white crystals, isn't that a sunk cost?

This forces Columbia, Ursus, and Great Yan to increase their investment without hesitation. No matter how many failures they experience, they cannot stop their continuous assaults on the Arctic. The more they fail, the greater their sunk costs become. The only way to recoup their investment is to establish a stable collection site in the Arctic.

How many patients and potential patients are there for Oripathy? Leaving aside Oripathy, what about ordinary illnesses? Who in this world doesn't get sick? Even Lao Xia catches a cold! [The cold virus can't be symbiotically immune; it's different every time.] So, what kind of revenue does this cheap and effective panacea production line represent...?

Chapter Seventeen: Ironman Difficulty

Chapter 17

"Who came up with this terrible idea of ​​auctioning off the project?" With a "smack," Kal'tsit slammed the project proposal on the table, with Swire and Snowstalker beside her. It was clearly a collective interrogation by the Kazdel Finance and Logistics Department.

“I offered it. Simply giving the technology to the Great Yan is useless. They often put things away without paying a price. In contrast, auctioning can not only increase the other party’s sunk costs, making it impossible for them to give up, but also give us resources.”

"So whose idea was it to give away this even worse one for free?" Kal'tsit's face darkened even more. She thought this idea was bad enough, but it turned out to be even better than the previous one.

“Him!” Old Xia decisively betrayed the Doctor, and then Kal'tsit took a breath, “Doctor, if you don’t understand economic matters, you’d better not meddle.”

"In short, an auction is absolutely out of the question. While it's true, as Boss Xia said, the buyer would incur a significant sunk cost and be unable to relinquish the technology, an auction can only sell to one person. This means those who don't buy it will immediately try to intercept it. This technology has a huge impact on the medical technology and industrial planning of various countries; if they can't get it, they'd rather destroy it," Kal'tsit explained. "Therefore, if we use an auction, not only is it uncertain whether Great Yan can afford it, but if they find that buying it is less costly than using money to shut down their competitors..."

"What about auctioning off the usage rights?"

"If everyone has it, they will unite to drive down prices and try every means to monopolize it. In reality, no one will use it on a large scale unless they are sure that the profit is high enough." Compared to competing by updating technology, it is better to have a simple and cost-effective price war and start involution directly.

"Therefore, we absolutely cannot auction it off, much less give it away. The only solution is..."

“We’ll set up a company and release some project information to stimulate the market,” Swire said with a sigh. “Let’s create some market turmoil first, and then…”

"Then they announce insufficient production capacity, unable to provide enough products, and seek partners?"

"It's a little better, but still not good. They'll announce that they've missed the deadline, and they'll definitely send people to contact our researchers behind the scenes, and then make exorbitant demands."

“The price for bribery may be high for an individual, but it’s negligible for the country and the company,” Lao Xia retorted.

"No, we just have this intention. Under the pressure of bankruptcy, they will soon use all their own methods. At this time, we will reach direct political or economic agreements with everyone who seeks the technology. At this time, everyone thinks they are the first to get it. Technological advantages cannot be maintained for long, so what will they do?"

Kal'tsit elaborated on the whole plan, explaining that it was not a sale or aid, but a political exchange, and a secret deal at that.

In this case, they all suspect that others have also obtained it, but they are unaware of the progress of others. And as long as Kazdel operates well, everyone will think that they are the first to get it. This first-mover advantage is fleeting. The optimal competitive strategy is not to suppress the opponent - because you don't know whether the one you are suppressing has obtained the technology.

If the other party has not obtained it, and you have concentrated your resources on the wrong target, then you will only be hunted by other hidden hunters, actively dragging every related company and country into this dark game. In that case, they will neither be as wary of each other and fight each other like when it is given away, nor will they unite to suppress Kazdel and the buyer like in an auction.

Their only optimal solution is to monetize as quickly as possible, leverage their first-mover advantage, expand production lines, and fill the market first. Then, they can use users to control other countries. To expand production lines as quickly as possible after Kazdel, they need a large amount of raw materials. Therefore, they must attack the demons and invade the Arctic region as much as possible.

As long as Kazdel doesn't expand its production lines on a large scale and remains in a state of repeated delays, they won't be too wary. Moreover, with the political and economic resources they acquire in exchange, Kazdel can do even more.

"So that's how you got Rhodes Island's funding?"

"Otherwise what?" Kal'tsit rolled her eyes at the Doctor. This guy only cares about making plans, but he doesn't actually care about money at all. You're saying the Doctor has ever directed escort missions or other money-making operations? Are you kidding me? Do you think these jobs just fall from the sky?

If you hadn't leveraged Rhodes Island's medical resources and pharmaceutical technology to gain favors and connections without any investment, would you even have gotten these simple yet highly rewarding commissions?

Rhodes Island, or the former Tower of Babel, acquired its funding and political connections in this way. They lacked the ability and resources to fully monetize these resources themselves. Therefore, they used these technological advantages to form alliances and engage in various economic and political collaborations. Only by acting as a qualified arbitrator and intermediary could they secure so many high-quality commissions.

Of course, it was also necessary to create market fluctuations in the stock market of Longmen in order to obtain a large amount of funds. Kal'tsit had caused just as many economic crises as Lao Xia, but the latter set off a fire that spread everywhere, regardless of the consequences, while the former was a steady stream of money that was secretly made by colluding with the powerful and wealthy oligarchs of various countries to harvest the resources and funds of retail investors and small and medium-sized enterprises. In fact, he had a better reputation.

"Um, may I mention something? If we're planning a private transaction, it's best to acquire these resources as soon as possible, as we still have a funding gap," Xuezhi said after everyone had finished talking, revealing a bill full of deficits and shortfalls that was smeared on the doctor's face.

"We still have some resources accumulated in the past few years, but now we are all in the net expenditure and we can hardly see any returns. Everyone should find a way to generate returns as soon as possible, otherwise we will go bankrupt in five years at most."

"Is the gap really that big?"

"Well, Longgang Smelter and its shipbuilding supporting plants consume more than 6000 million tons of ore every year. Among them, the source stone ore comes from the source rock mining site, and we can barely meet our needs at present, but the key iron ingots are completely insufficient."

Longgang cannot directly smelt ore; instead, it uses iron ingots and other materials to further smelt and synthesize special alloys. Therefore, it is necessary to establish an upstream ordinary steel plant to produce large quantities of iron.

Iron oxide is a byproduct of iron ore smelting using Originium smelting technology, meaning...

"We need a lot of iron ore and to produce a lot of steel, right?" The steel produced will not be in short supply, because it is all crude steel and will soon be used as a raw material in the next stage of production.

The laying of tracks and various infrastructure projects, as well as the shelter plans of various countries, all require a large amount of steel. This also means that the price of iron ore that Kazdel is buying from the world market has skyrocketed, and the cost of buying finished iron ore is even higher.

This means that Kazdel's foreign exchange reserves shrank rapidly, and the money it had previously saved almost instantly fell into Rembitox's pocket.