Volume 3 Chapter 85 The Strange Xiangxi, a research project that smells and changes color
After revisiting the delicious frog meat again, Li Sheng made another video call with Tia. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the next morning, he called Zhang Feng and them after breakfast, asking if there was anything he wanted to deal with. The answer was, "No." ”
So he went into space again. It would be morning, and he was still over the creek.
Although the frogs were barely visible, he sensed for a while that there were actually quite a few hiding under the pebbles. Their skin looks like the color of a stone, curled up under the stone, and at first glance it will make you feel like a pebble. He found something like eggs sticking to some of the pebbles near the surface of the water. This must have been born last night.
He had no intention of staying here any longer, and the air was surrounding him, and he began to slowly rise into the air.
However, he had only risen to less than half a meter before he immediately stopped, and then thought about floating through the forest upstream.
When he came to the edge of the forest, there was no dirt, only a flower with an area of more than two hundred meters was about to bloom.
What caught Li Sheng's attention was that these buds looked very much like roses, and the petals of the same flower, different buds were blooming, but the edges of the petals were in a variety of colors. Black, blue, red, yellow, purple, green, pink, orange, and a flower bud is all available in all colors other than black.
There are eight colors of flowers in one flower?
He kind of didn't want to leave. If the petals of this flower are bright and pure enough, and the flowers are large enough, he can take them out and grow them into flowers.
Other colors, black, blue, green, and colorful are all four flowers that are sure to fetch a lot of money. However, he is also a little worried, if this flower can be propagated by cuttings, it is useless for him to cultivate it, and it will not take a year to let people plant it. Because it's completely natural.
He hesitated, and finally waited for the flower to bloom at least halfway before leaving. So he continued to look around to see if he could find anything else that interested him.
When he waited until noon, the sun was shining directly overhead, and the wild roses were still only a little more open. But Li Sheng smelled a musky aroma like an orchid. The aroma permeates the "river valley" formed by the forests on both sides.
He was shocked, where did the aroma come from? Was it poisonous? He didn't know anything and didn't dare to be careless. He flew up to the heights, and did not stop until the aroma had faded considerably.
He hesitated for a moment, and went to the forests on both sides of the "river valley" to probe the woods, and found that there was no such fragrance in the forests. There weren't many flowers on the side of the creek, so it couldn't be the scent of flowers.
He sniffed the fragrance carefully for a while, and did not feel any discomfort, on the contrary, he felt that his mind was clear. Slowly, he found that the closer he got to the ground, the stronger the scent. Eventually, he found some clay in some pebble piles, and the clay was warm and giving off a rich fragrance. The fragrance is more natural than any perfume.
Could it be that there are some microorganisms in the soil that can give off the fragrance? The water temperature slowly drops, and the aroma slowly dissipates. Is it because of the sun?
Li Sheng thought for a while and felt that it should be related to temperature. He decided to take it back and test it to see if there were any bacteria that could give it that scent. If you can artificially grow that kind of bacteria, you might be able to make a perfume.
He removed the pebbles and found some of the same clay. But I couldn't find many, only a few kilograms or so. Carefully slam the clay into a box and put some water in it before putting it in the storage space. He saw that the flowers had not yet bloomed, and he did not intend to wait any longer.
This creek made Li Sheng very curious. There are so many frogs, there are colorful roses, and there is fragrant clay.
He thought about it for a moment and decided to think about flying first.
As a result, he flew more than ten kilometers and found more than a dozen pieces of that kind of flower. He finally saw the blooming flowers. The color of the petals is very positive and vivid. The flowers are about the same size as the regular rose type. This is indeed a rose.
This rose should be used as a special cash crop. Whether or not it can be made farm-specific is another story.
He just cut some branches with flowers and continued to fly upstream.
Finally he came to the edge of a cliff. It was a cliff tens of meters high, and he knew that this should be the stepped terrain boundary between the lakeside plain and the plateau, but the rest of the place was a huge slope, and he had never noticed a cliff here before.
There is a cave about three meters in diameter at the bottom of the cliff, from which the creek is left.
Li Sheng was very curious about this cave. Where does the water come from?
Although the cave was dark, he was not worried about danger inside. He rummaged through the storage space and found a flashlight, and he flew in. The cave is certainly naturally formed, and the size of the interior and entrance is not much different. The strangest thing is that after two or three hundred meters into the cave, the temperature begins to rise slowly.
Li Sheng didn't know how high the temperature was inside, but it didn't seem to be depressing, which meant that there must be vents inside.
Dozens of meters deeper, he found some vine-like plants on the cave wall. All are black leaves. The further you go inside, the more numerous these vines become, and the vines droop from the top of the cave to the stream at the bottom of the cave, and the cave grows larger and larger.
A plant that doesn't need photosynthesis to survive? It's a really strange space. Li Sheng stopped his body and thought about it for a while before deciding to continue flying forward. But he couldn't fly too fast, because there were so many vines hanging from the roof of the cave that he couldn't get rid of them as he flew.
The cave was deep, but it wasn't too complicated, there were no forks, and it wasn't particularly curved.
He didn't know how long he had been flying. When he pushed aside the last wisp of vines, a circular cave hall with a height of one hundred meters and a width of more than hundreds of meters suddenly appeared. There are a large number of huge cracks around the cave hall.
The water is no longer visible here, but the water seeps out of the cave just under the rubble at the bottom of the cave. Li Sheng felt that the problem here had suddenly decreased a lot, at least lower than just now.
And Li Sheng smelled a very peculiar fragrance here, very strong, but not uncomfortable. In the light of the flashlight, he saw countless flying insects. He flew to the cave wall and found a strange layer of large colonies on the wall. It looks like a Ganoderma lucidum, but the whole body is white, and some sticky white emulsion is secreted from the mushroom umbrella. And some white Hu Feng was collecting those lotions.
He carefully observed for a while, only to find that the mucus was not actively secreted by the white Ganoderma lucidum, but by those bees who had pierced the surface of the Ganoderma lucidum with tail needles.
It took him hundreds of millions of days to figure out the situation in this cave hall. Those Hu Feng nested in the cracks or on the top of the cave hall, and fed on honey from the dense white reishi secretions on the cave walls.
Inside those white reishi mushrooms are viscous, translucent liquids, and the smell is the same as that of reishi, but more intense.
There's a simple ecosystem with a single line.
The bottom of the cave hall is relatively flat, and there is a deep pool about ten meters square in the center, and there is a spring in the middle of the pool, which is supposed to be the source of the stream.
And let Li Sheng understand how this cave hall was formed, the red crystals wrapped in stones with honeycomb holes on the ground. If he was not mistaken, it was rough ruby.
Rubies are formed from volcanoes. If he's not mistaken, this place must have been a volcanic den. And that cave is supposed to be a lava tunnel.
When he returned to the passage, he found a lot of red crystals on the ground. It was not found only a few tens of meters closest to the entrance of the cave. It is believed that the lava of the volcano failed to break through the cave and slowly turned into an extinct volcano. It's just that it sounds a bit fanciful. Could it be that the lakeside plain outside the cave suddenly subsided? Otherwise, how could these tens of meters block the strong pressure of the volcano?
He couldn't figure out how this lava nest came to be like this, but thinking about why this space existed was still a mystery, he didn't bother with this question anymore.
He was now thinking about whether to transplant the bees and the white reishi mushroom to the farm. If you want to transplant, the cost is relatively high. Because they have to survive in a dark, humid and constant temperature environment.
It is not difficult for a farm to create such an environment, but the main problem is cost. He decided to go back and think about it first. At least let's see what the results of the white reishi and those honey tests are.
Li Sheng wandered around the space for seven or eight days, finding more than a dozen things that might all the way to the farm. Some things were sent to outside testing facilities for testing. Some of them are doing experiments on their own.
However, there are some that he is also considering whether to transplant them.
After Feng Xiaoting left for more than half a month, he finally returned from Huaxia. Li Sheng received a special call from Huang Lei. Huang Lei pointed out one thing, that is, Feng Xiaoting is a very important person, and I hope he can protect it.
Although Li Sheng didn't understand why Huang Lei specifically mentioned this matter. However, he still specially arranged for Zhang Dingbian to bring a few people to take the E195 that he had not yet taken to Brasilia to pick up people.
After Feng Xiaoting returned to the farm, he immediately found Li Sheng and explained what happened during his stay in Huaxia: "Mr. Li, Huaxia is going to send four researchers and twelve experimental assistants over. Their idea is joint research. What do you think?"
Li Sheng was a little strange: "That research of yours is so important, and you need to find so many assistants?"
Feng Xiaoting shook his head and said, "I really want to find an assistant." But they don't want to be my assistants. ”
"What do you mean?" Li Sheng asked with a frown. "It's not the same as we said before. ”
Feng Xiaoting was a little crying and laughing, and said, "They fell in love with my research. They wanted to share their research results, so they wanted to do joint research rather than help me find the right assistant. ”
Li Sheng looked at him and said, "Joint research, what conditions are given over there?"
"They can bear part of the research costs and part of the experimental work. Originally, they wanted to share information and study separately. But I said that the research resources are only available on our farm, and the equipment on the farm is the best. So they agreed to send someone over. ”
Li Sheng smiled and asked, "With so much attention over there, what are the prospects for your experiment?"
The corner of Feng Xiaoting's eyes twitched slightly, and he said something that made Li Sheng change color: "If we can find a way to find the core gene segment, we can find the premise of the cells and viruses we need to deal with." For example, if we can know the characteristics of the core gene segment of cancer cells, we can find ways to change their genes so that cancer cells can be inactivated without harming normal cells. In that way, we will have the possibility of completely solving viral diseases like hepatitis B and all tumors and cancers. (To be continued.) )