Chapter 186 Super silk, worth hundreds of billions
The General Office of the State Council, from the mourning to the current joy, is all due to Rory.
The military and scientists have been given dark energy technology, and the most difficult things have been solved.
Premier Dai's phone call was really useful, the state purchased Luo Rui's super alloy, and the 5 billion funds in arrears had already been called to Huarui's account more than an hour after the prime minister's phone call was made.
Luo Rui became the first cow in the history of China to dare to go to the State Council to directly ask for money.
The arrival of 5 billion made Luo Rui feel very good, and he agreed to help the country develop gene science and technology, and after leaving the State Council, Luo Rui went to the biological research base of Lieutenant General Yan again under the protection of the agents.
An hour or so, Rory came to the mysterious biological research institute on the outskirts of the capital again.
This huge biological research institute with an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters is enclosed by a thick wall, and in addition to the underground laboratory, the enclosed area on the ground is stocked with many creatures, and now there are many more plants and insects.
Luo Rui glanced at it a few times, the flow of people in the base had increased at least three times, and the genetic technology provided last time, in addition to allowing the country to develop genetic potions and create mutant soldiers, scientists were also using those genetic technologies to try to develop various cash crops.
"Rory, welcome back, long time no see, I think you're crazy."
With a loud bang, the ten-meter-wide passage underground was opened, and Lieutenant General Yan walked out with the scientists laughing.
"Lieutenant General, is there any news of the werewolf?" Zhao Yang's sudden disappearance made Luo Rui feel very strange, and he didn't have to worry, now Luo Rui knows how to manipulate dark energy, even if anyone wants to use Zhao Yang's werewolf against him, Luo Rui is not afraid.
Lieutenant General Yan shook his head. Enthusiastically pulled Luo Rui: "Let's go into the underground laboratory and talk again!" Ah! These days, we are busy to death, and the central government has issued a lot of tasks. So far, we're not done yet. Just waiting for Rory to help us! You're our savior. ”
Luo Rui didn't want his mother-in-law to say too much, so he directly picked out the meaning: "Lieutenant General, the Prime Minister asked me to come here to help you cultivate genetic hemp trees, genetic silkworms, genetic cotton, and other things." Don't look for me! ”
Lieutenant General Yan smiled scoundrelly: "Luo Rui, anyway, the central government agrees, the technology patent you made belongs to you, those who can work harder, and you can also help with other genetic projects!" ”
"Let's take a look at the genetic projects about the clothing industry first, and then talk about the rest, when we have time."
Rory didn't want to be a mechanic for free, so he rejected General Yan's request to develop other genetic projects.
Take the elevator. Luo Rui, along with Lieutenant General Yan and others, sank to the underground laboratory.
On the 12th basement floor, the elevator stopped, and it was busy with scientists and graduate students. Countless. All of them are wearing masks and white coats. Many of the equipment and machines in the field have almost doubled. Those high-level molecular machines made Rory greedy.
Compared with this national laboratory, Luo Rui feels that his Huarui company's laboratory is too shabby, but there is no way, the national development technology is full of efforts, and the mobilization ability is not comparable to Luo Rui. The computing power of the supercomputer Tianhe-2 alone is an advantage that Rory will never have.
"Nima, how good it would be if the country lent me the 'Tianhe-2'. With the computer's 33.9 billion calculations per second, I'm developing a variety of technologies. It's sure to do more with less. No, after helping the country this time. This request must be made to them, so that our Huarui company's laboratory computer can be connected to Tianhe-2. With this big killer, Lao Tzu will be much cooler when he starts experimenting. ”
Luo Rui was obsessed with supercomputers, and Lieutenant General Yan and others had already taken Luo Rui to a laboratory.
The laboratory is about 100 square meters in size and is made entirely of tempered glass, with silkworms the size of sausages in a glass enclosure inside.
Lieutenant General Yan said distressedly: "Luo Rui, these silkworms have been modified by us using genetic technology, and they are dozens of times larger than ordinary silkworms. But grandma's, just eat without spinning silk, and do not lay eggs, this silkworm has now become a pest, except for eating mulberry leaves, it has no effect at all. I feel helpless! ”
Rory glanced at the sausage-sized silkworms through the glass, and was also startled.
"Let's go in and see." Rory took off his coat, changed into dust suits, wore a mask, and accompanied the scientist and Lieutenant General Yan into the laboratory.
In the glass cover, those sausage-sized silkworms, more than a foot long, looked like snakes, frighteningly large, a palm-sized mulberry leaf, eaten up in a few seconds, and the dung pulled out was as thick as a finger.
Luo Rui picked up a silkworm, pumped some body fluid with a syringe, and then did chemical analysis and genetic data analysis on the spot.
By comparing the genomes of silkworms, Luo Rui found that in order to increase the size of silkworms, scientists fused these silkworms with the genes of an insect that can secrete carbide, which can improve the toughness of silk, and also fused the rubber genes of a rubber tree to make silk super flexible.
Scientists had a good idea, but there was an error in the genetic arrangement, and the genes were damaged, resulting in these varieties of silkworms eating only silk but not producing silk.
Luo Rui analyzed the various genetic data of the mutant silkworm for three hours, and finally shook his head.
"Lieutenant General Yan, these variants of silkworms must be improved again. They are sensitive to light, and if the light is a little darker, they will be more active, so let me help you refine the new variety. ”
Lieutenant General Yan was overjoyed: "Luo Rui, you are really good, you discovered the shortcomings of our experiment so quickly." Well, what you need, we will provide you, how long will you be able to get new silkworm seeds? ”
"It may take days, after all, these silkworms are too big to satisfy their appetite by eating mulberry leaves. Aren't there many straws and wheat stalks and corn stalks that have become useless crops every year for our farmers? I intend to breed a silkworm that can eat any leaf, straw, straw, and corn stalks. ”
Lieutenant General Yan was a little crying and laughing: "Luo Rui...... Isn't it true that silkworms can only spit silk by eating mulberry leaves? Eat everything, that's locusts. ”
"Hehe, you're right, I want to transplant the locust gene into the silkworm. In this way, hundreds of billions of tons of rice straw and other crops can be discarded by Chinese farmers every year, which can be used as food for silkworms. Super silk can not only bring prosperity to the clothing industry. Farmers can also increase their incomes a lot. ”
Lieutenant General Yan and the others were speechless, and after being stunned for a while, they all went out. Leave the lab to Rory.
Rory started to get busy, in the lab. There are several computer-controlled intelligent robotic arms that can assist Rory in various experiments.
Rory listed the genetic data of 12 species of insects, including locusts, to find out the genetic characteristics in the genes of these insects, and rearranged their genes with silkworms.
It's a complicated and lengthy job, and the genetic data of each insect, if printed on paper, can be connected directly from the Earth to the Moon. Such a huge amount of data, even if it is processed by using 'Tianhe-2', it will take time, as long as one data link fails, the cultivated mutant silkworms will either die or spit out silk.
Rory kept busy, time passed little by little, and after ten hours, Rory got a new genetic reclassification method, and Rory extracted the part of the gene needed from various insects. Implanted on a mutant silkworm.
In just three minutes, the mutant silkworm hung up, and Rory's ten hours of hard work were completely in vain.
"I rub. Something went wrong. Scratching his head, Rory lay in front of the computer, looking at the huge data, carefully analyzing the reasons why the genes could not be fused.
One night passed, Luo Rui did more than a dozen experiments, and dozens of mutant silkworms died, but the experiment still failed.
"Damn, I'm impatient, I'll take shortcuts."
Rory rubbed his numb brain. It was decided to solve the problem fundamentally. Organisms are genetically capable because of the dark energy at work in their genes.
It is because various living beings have the ability to absorb different dark energies. So that their genes have evolved different abilities.
"I wipe, I directly use the 'energy seal'. Seal some dark energy on these silkworms to help them absorb dark energy and make them evolve more perfectly. ”
Luo Rui said to do it at the moment, after sealing several dark energy on the silkworm's body, the changes brought by the dark energy were obvious, and the silkworm's bearing capacity became super strong, and Luo Rui transplanted the genes of other insects to the silkworm again. The new variant of the silkworm is not dead and is very active.
Luo Rui became excited: "Let's see if this silkworm can produce silk." ”
Rory pointed into the communicator and ordered the graduate students to bring some plants.
Ten minutes later, several graduate students sent a large pile of washed and disinfected leaves at Rory's request. There are more than 30 species of leaves, and there are many common weeds, straws and other weeds.
Rory carefully picked up the plants and threw them into the glass cover, the snake-sized mutant silkworm was unusually ferocious, it was like a locust, it quickly gnawed at those plants, except for the bark, it ate all the leaves of any plant.
"Holy! This silkworm has such a good appetite! Several graduate students were stupid, the snake-sized silkworm ate a kilogram of leaves in less than a few minutes, and its appetite was terrifying.
Rory was also excited, and after the silkworm ate the plants, it took less than half an hour to pull up the dung. All the substances that were not conducive to its bonding were discharged. Rory took out the body fluid of the silkworm and tested it, and there was nothing abnormal in the silkworm's body, it digested those plants quickly. After putting in another kilogram of leaves, the silkworm suddenly became transparent after it was full.
Through the perspective observation of the instrument, Luo Rui found that the silk-making system in the silkworm began to make silk. It is estimated that it will take a day to convert nutrients into silk and then begin to form cocoons.
Luo Rui quietly observed the silkworm, for fear that it would have any accidents.
The lights in the lab were turned off, and Rory fell asleep inside.
The next morning, as soon as Luo Rui woke up, he found that the silkworm had been impatiently crawling around in the glass cover, its body was completely transparent, and the silk in its body could be clearly seen.
"This guy is going to form a cocoon." Excited, Rory threw a few thick branches into it.
The silkworm quickly climbed up the branches, like a person holding back its urine, and began to spit silk impatiently.
Thin silks are spit out from the mouth of the silkworm, and it takes two or three days to spit out the silk in the body. Luo Rui excitedly picked up a strand of silk with a camera and prepared to take it for testing.
The camera clamped the silk thinner than a hair, and Luo Rui pulled it several times, and it took dozens of kilograms of strength to tear off the strand of silk.
"Damn, the quality of this silk is too perverted." Luo Rui made a phone call in surprise and ordered several graduate students to take the silk for laboratory analysis.
Half an hour later, Luo Rui got a report from the graduate students, the new silk, the toughness is 15 times that of ordinary silk, no oil, no dust, not afraid of smoke, temperature resistance has reached 800 degrees, cold resistance, frost resistance, and various indicators have met the requirements of the experiment.
"Nima, it worked." Rory excitedly called Lieutenant General Yan.
Ten minutes later, a group of scientists, young and old, led by Lieutenant General Yan, came to the laboratory. Staring at the 500-gram giant silkworm in the glass cover, everyone was ecstatic.
The silkworm cocoon was very fast, and in less than half an hour, a huge cocoon the size of a basin was woven, which looked smooth and bright like a dinosaur egg.
"Rory, you kid made it!" Lieutenant General Yan hugged Luo Rui excitedly.
Luo Rui smiled: "I said it would be done in three days, and the time was just right." It is estimated that it will take two days for this silkworm to spit out silk, and it is estimated that a silkworm will produce about 300 grams of silk. It takes seven days for the silkworm to break out of its cocoon, at which point it will turn into a silkworm moth and lay 5 million silkworm eggs at a time. When you take the eggs it lays and hatch them, you will get new silkworm seeds. ”
"These silkworms grow ten times faster than ordinary silkworms, they molt once a day, and it only takes a week for them to grow from young silkworms. It can become a cocoon in half a month. And they are not picky eaters, do not pick on temperature, are highly resistant, and can eat any plant. Farmers can mow grass and pick leaves to raise them like pigs. A silkworm can produce 300 grams of dried silk and is worth more than 20 pieces. There is no problem for a farmer to raise thousands of them. Oh! This silkworm can be raised in three seasons except for winter. ”
A few graduate students who squeezed over next to him were already red-eyed: "Nima, a silkworm earns 20 yuan in half a month, and if you raise a thousand, you can earn 20,000 yuan in half a month, I'll rely on it!" Lao Tzu is no longer a graduate student, and he can earn 40,000 yuan a month when he goes home to be a farmer and raise silkworms! ”
Lieutenant General Yan was already so excited that his eyes were teary-eyed: "If this kind of variant silkworm is really as easy to raise as Luo Rui said, it can bring hundreds of billions or even trillions of wealth to the country at least a year, and farmers can also increase a lot of income, and can also provide at least millions of jobs. Excited, Lao Tzu is too excited. ”
"Luo Rui, I will report everything to the central government immediately, we have solved the problem of silk, do you want to consider developing genetic hemp tree and genetic cotton technology."
"I'm rubbing, Lieutenant General. Mutant silkworms will at least increase China's silk production by 100 times or even thousands of times! What hemp tree is still developing, we can use silk for rags in the future. From now on, our country is the real country of silk, and I envy those foreigners. As for cotton, I can help with it, and forget about the hemp tree. ”
"Okay, Rory, let's go to the lab area again." (To be continued)