Zhou Yuan is a Chinese scientist similar to Qi Ruixiang, whose research focuses on seawater desalination and seawater material extraction, as well as marine ecological biology.

Since Zhou Yuan entered the Huaguo Starry Sky Jade City, his place of work was not in the inner area of scientific research around Jasper Lake, but in some strange buildings by the sea to study the seawater. The topics of study are, of course, desalination and extraction of seawater substances.

Zhou Yuan's IQ is extremely high, but his EQ is extremely low. He has repeatedly made achievements in his scientific research, but his life is very bad. He is only obsessed with scientific research and is indifferent to things other than scientific research, which is simply another version of Qi Ruixiang.

After entering Jasper City, although he was not arranged to the inner area of scientific research, Zhou Yuan didn't care. As long as he can study the sea every day and do the work he loves.

Since he started working, Zhou Yuan was surprised to find that everyone who had a little relationship with him seemed to be lucky and supported by nobles. And these people, whether they are relatives or friends, are always in keen contact with him and show great concern for his work, rather than being indifferent to him as before.

Zhou Yuan was puzzled by this.

However, he is not good at communicating, and he does not like to socialize, especially he does not like to talk about his scientific research with people who do not know how to do it, so he still lightly perfunctory a few words about these people's inquiries, and he has not mentioned them until now.

This made his former relatives and friends helpless.

Zhou Yuan didn't know that the root cause of all this was that Chen Yue had said to Chen Suping, 'These strange buildings on the seaside of Jade City are the real future of mankind'. And the above also knows this sentence. For this reason, the upper echelons of the Chinese state even built more strange structures in a top-secret naval base. After all, these strange buildings were originally built by the engineering troops of the Chinese military. They have a full copy of the blueprints in their hands.

After the construction is completed, it must be operated effectively, right? For this reason, the upper echelons of Huaguo are very concerned about the operation of these seaside buildings. And the relatives and friends of Zhou Yuan, who is in charge of the operation here, are 'lucky'.

It's a pity that Zhou Crude Oil doesn't enter, and he hardly leaves his laboratory at ordinary times. This makes the relevant departments of China can only call in vain, and can only learn about the progress of scientific research here through other channels.

In fact, scientific research projects on desalination and extraction of seawater substances are not new and have been carried out for many years. Although there is no shortage of fresh water on the earth as a whole, the freshwater part is extremely uneven, and many countries and even coastal countries lack fresh water. After years of research, mankind has made certain achievements in seawater desalination. It's just that it's still far from satisfying the needs.

The extraction of seawater materials is a more ordinary scientific research project. After all, almost all the substances on the periodic table, whether precious or ordinary, can be found in seawater, but the content is somewhat different.

Seawater contains more than 80 percent of the earth's available natural elements. Today, when the available natural resources on the surface are depleted, the incalculable amount of seawater has undoubtedly become the last resource reserve of mankind.

Countries around the world have been investing in the old and sophisticated scientific research project of seawater material extraction, so the outside world does not think that the seawater research project in Jasper City is too strange. Before Huaguo Star announced the results, the outside world would not pay too much attention. Except for Huaguo.

Zhou Yuan was called by Chen Yue alone to talk more than two months ago, and he was extremely excited when he came back. He passed the analysis test of the super-intelligent Xiaoqian, and was selected by Chen Yue into the 'True Dragon Project'.

After joining this project, Zhou Yuan got real scientific research materials about these strange buildings on the seaside. In this way, he was exposed to a whole new world.

And since then, Zhou Yuan has also found that at least two-thirds of the staff in these buildings by the sea have been transferred, and then many new faces have been added.

No matter how low Zhou Yuan's EQ is, he can know that the people who are working here now should be the same people who joined the great plan as him. Zhou Yuan burst out with great enthusiasm for scientific research and devoted almost all his time to the laboratory. He wanted to see the scientific research materials given by Chen Yue come true as soon as possible.

After entering May, Zhou Yuan's work, whether it is seawater desalination or seawater material extraction, has gradually gained eyebrows.

One day in mid-May, a scientific paper signed 'Zhou Yuan' was published in the Huaguo section of the Star website without warning.

The title of this paper is: On the Mysterious Element in the Sea - Element 17 I.

The paper claims that the seawater research team led by Zhou Yuan in Huaguo Starry Sky stumbled upon traces of a completely new substance that had never been found in the earth's scientific and technological community during its research on seawater desalination and the extraction of marine materials. They have conducted follow-up research on this new substance, and have preliminarily mastered the physical and chemical properties of this new substance, as well as a relatively reliable extraction method. Zhou Yuan's team named this new substance - Element 17 I.

As for why it was so named, the paper does not give an explanation.

The discovery of a new substance is, of course, a major scientific and technological achievement. But in the modern world, it's not too big. Whether the matter is important or not depends on what kind of effect this new material has and what effect it has on human society.

However, after reading this paper, it is found that if the physical and chemical properties of element 17 I mentioned in the paper are completely true, the importance of this new substance to human society on earth cannot be overstated.

Because the paper claims that element 17 I has extremely strong biological activity. Although this biological activity cannot directly affect the human body, it can improve the growth efficiency of various plant bodies several times and ten times and promote the continuous production and optimization activities of the genetic structure of related plants. After the genetic structure of the relevant plant body is continuously optimized and stimulated, the biological activity in the products can even be increased by several times, tens, or even dozens of times, hundreds of times compared with before.

The sentences used in this description are too scientific for the average person to understand. But those who can understand it are suspicious in their dreams and can't believe it at all.

What does this mean? It means that Zhou Yuan's research team has mastered a technology for extracting a new substance, Element 17, from seawater. Although this new substance cannot be directly absorbed and utilized by the human body, it can be used in various plant lifeforms. It can increase the growth efficiency of various plant life forms by several times or more than ten times, and can also increase the nutritional value of the final products of plants to the human body by dozens or even hundreds of times.

People who understood this implication immediately realized that if the news of this new substance was true, if this new substance could be mass-produced and its production cost was acceptable, would there be a famine in the world?

No, absolutely nothing.

In fact, even with the current agricultural products on the earth, if they are relatively evenly distributed, they will be able to fully meet the needs of the eight billion people on the earth, and there will be no famine on the earth. But why do so many earthlings still die of hunger every year, this is naturally because of the control of capital. Capital wants to make huge profits, so it artificially controls the circulation of agricultural products.

Even if it is as powerful as China, a considerable proportion of the production and price of edible oil in its agricultural products are controlled by domestic and foreign capital. The government of Huaguo has done its best, but it has only ensured the food security of staple foods.

If the world's crop production is instantly magnified by several times or more than ten times, then the grain merchant groups on the earth can really wash and sleep. Because control at that time no longer makes sense. If they continue to control, will they produce mountains of crops every year and leave them moldy?

This is not to say that all the grain chambers are unemployed, and the grain still needs to be circulated. It's just that there will never be a shortage of food, and the grain merchants no longer have the basis and necessity to hoard them. If they still have to forcibly control it, I am afraid that they will pay ten times more energy and cost than before, and they may not necessarily achieve the desired results.

To put it bluntly, as soon as Element 17 I is born, the food interest groups in human society will be dissolved, and human life will be fundamentally better. Because element 17 I can not only multiply the yield of crops, but also increase the nutritional value of crops dozens of times!

How is this not a dizzying super-gospel for the entire human world on Earth?

How is it that in the blink of an eye, the global society has ushered in such a great happiness? This is the real feeling that instantly flooded the hearts of the people of the world who understood the true meaning of the paper in the Huaguo section.

After a brief period of consternation, the world Internet was immediately filled with a tsunami of heated discussions from people from all over the world. The people of the world did not hesitate to smash the most lofty praise language to the Star Group and the Huaguo Starry Sky.

As for Zhou Yuan, he was ignored by people. Because people know that Zhou Yuan must be like Professor Stephen who made up the preparation of gastrodin and coralin, he was guided by the scientific research direction from the Star Group to achieve such a huge scientific research achievement, which can be remembered in human history!

At this moment, the influence of Star Group in the hearts of human beings on the earth once again surpassed the influence caused by the launch of the first generation of Xuanwu's universal operating system, and once again reached an unprecedented peak!

And in the midst of this global jubilation, the ruling classes of several powerful countries are feeling panicked.

The ruling stratum of these countries that feel panicked is the most dominant in the United States.

The presidential palace of the Green Palace immediately held an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the huge impact of the latest scientific and technological achievements launched by the Star Group on the country.