Ling Zikai smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang, I'm afraid that the person who said this is a drunkard who doesn't mean to be in the bar!"

Zhang Jiefang snorted coldly and said: "Some people want to muddy this puddle of water and fish in the muddy waters! I just don't know if they have such a big appetite." ”

Ling Zikai knew that Zhang Jiefang was now facing the same situation as Zhang Tianming at the beginning.

The current governor is about to retire, and as deputy secretary and executive vice governor, Zhang Jiefang has a high voice for taking the throne, but he also faces some competitors. Ling Zikai has the label of the old Zhang family on his body, and after the Musen Company was sealed, someone took the opportunity to fan the flames.

Ling Zikai told Zhang Jiefang about the matter of Musen Company.

Zhang Jiefang was silent for a while after hearing this, and said, "Zikai, before the final investigation results come out, can you suppress this matter first?"

Ling Zikai said with some puzzlement: "Uncle Zhang, those infectious pathogens are like they have been ignited*, they will break out at any time, the longer it drags on, the greater the consequences, time waits for no one!"

"I know this, but the fact that Musen Company was able to reach a bundle with the local government department to sell seedlings must have some ulterior insiders behind it, and the interests involved will not be a few people. Our task now is not only to remove the infectious pathogens from the forest, but also to cut off the hidden social cancer. It's like a doctor always has to do some sterilization and anesthesia preparations before surgery!"

Ling Zikai understood what Zhang Jiefang meant, he wanted to set aside a little time for him to make the layout, obviously he also wanted to use this matter to seek some of his own demands, or reach an agreement with some people.

Ling Zikai naturally would not refuse this request, and agreed to it.

When she went, Gu Yina went all the way and it only took two and a half hours. It was Zhang Jun's car that came back, he didn't dare to drag like Guina, and he had dinner in the service area halfway, which took more than four hours, and when he returned to Baishan City, it was already midnight.

returned to the Baishan Hotel, opened a new room, let Gu Yina and Zhang Nan sleep together, and Ling Zikai and Zhang Jun squeezed into the same room.

He had been running around in the car from afternoon to night, and Ling Zikai also felt a little tired, so he didn't alarm the others, and fell asleep after returning to the room.

The next day, after Lin Xing'an arrived, Ling Zikai briefly told him about the situation.

Lin Xing'an didn't say a word, and Zhang Nan went straight to Lin University with those plant specimens for testing.

Ling Zikai, Zhang Jun and Gu Yina went to the hospital and asked Ru Xue some questions.

From Ru Xue's mouth, Ling Zikai learned that in the past few years, almost all the seedling supply in Moluo County has been monopolized by Musen Company. In the beginning, they also offered some saplings of regular varieties. But three years ago, they started pushing fir, saying it was a new variety that the company had bred. That is, in the past three years, the planting of fir trees has accounted for nearly eighty percent of the share.

Ling Zikai was startled, and immediately called Zhou Wentao and asked him to immediately investigate the sales list of Musen Company, and count how many fir tree seedlings have been cultivated and sold in recent years, as well as the sales area.

Soon, Zhou Wentao had a reply.

Over the past few years, the company has cultivated nearly one billion seedlings, and basically all of them have been sold, and the sales area is almost all over the entire northern province.

Know Hearing this data, Ling Zikai hurriedly reported the situation to Zhang Jiefang, and asked him to notify the forestry departments in various places to immediately investigate whether there was any death in the forest land planted with fir saplings provided by Musen Company.

Later, Ling Zikai did not stay in the hospital for long, but went to Lin University, wanting to sit there and wait for the test results to come out.

On the way to Lin University, Ling Zikai suddenly thought of the fact that his father owed Musen Company for the seedlings at the beginning, would he also buy some fir saplings?

Immediately, he hurriedly called Du Juan to ask.

Hearing Ling Zikai's inquiry, Du Juan felt a little strange: "At the beginning, we heard that Musen Company had cultivated a new variety of fir trees, so we specially purchased some seedlings and went back to plant them, about 50,000 of them, right?"

"Where are the saplings planted?"

"It's on the hill near the meadow near Weiyang Lake, haven't you seen it before?"

Hearing what the cuckoo said, Ling Zikai really remembered that he had planted a large area of fir trees on the side of the meadow, but he hadn't noticed it before: "How are those trees growing now?"

"When I first planted it, it was growing okay, but since this year, some trees have shown signs of wilting. I don't know why, but I asked Professor Lin to see it, and you can ask him when you go back! Why do you suddenly care about these things?"

"I'm just asking!"

Before the final test results came out, Ling Zikai didn't want to tell Du Juan the truth.

After waiting for more than an hour under the experimental building of Lin University, Lin Xingan and Zhang Nan came out.

From Lin Xing'an's grim expression, he could already guess the test results.

Without waiting for Ling Zikai to ask, Lin Xingan handed him a stack of test data sheets in his hand and said: "We have tested the plant specimens for DNA molecules, exogen proteins and nucleic acids, and we can conclude that the fir trees of Musen Company are genetically modified plants. ”

"What is the cause of the death?"

"After analyzing the base pairs and peptide chains, we found that some sites had several extra base pairs, and in others, several base pairs were missing, resulting in a misalignment of the coding order. This misalignment triggers abnormalities in the genetic information. Academically, this is called frameshift mutation.

The frameshift mutation gene in turn causes changes in the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain, which seriously affects the structure and function of proteins and enzymes. “

Regarding the knowledge of genetically modified organisms, Ling Zikai is a complete layman, even if Lin Xing'an has explained it in great detail, he still knows nothing. Fortunately, he doesn't need to study this esoteric expertise now, just know that there is something wrong with these fir saplings.

"Uncle Lin, can you know if this frameshift mutation is caused by man or natural environment?"

"It's hard to know for sure, maybe because the technology is immature, which has caused defects in the cultivation process, or it may be because of the mutation caused by the external environment. But in either case, unstable genetically modified plants like this are not allowed to be promoted and applied, and Musen must take full responsibility. ”

If it was only the mutation of the seedlings' genes that caused the death, then what about the gray breath that I sensed in the forest?