Gu Cheng was curious but didn't dare to ask, Ye Han was the opposite, he planned to satisfy his curiosity: "This thing is just put away casually, aren't you afraid of losing it?" ”

"Of course not!" Gu Cheng said, "This thing climbs slowly, it can't go far at all, and every snail has a biochip in its brain, which can control the range of activity of the snail, so that they can only move in the designated area, and they will definitely not be lost." ”

"Mercenaries don't steal?"

"I stole it, but the consequences were very serious, and then I didn't have the courage to steal."

Ye Han was a little confused: "What kind of serious law?" ”

Gu Cheng said: "It's a long thing to talk about...... The giant snail is not aggressive, when it encounters other insects, it is the life of being eaten, that shell looks strong, in fact, it can be topped for a while, the ranch just opened for a while, because of this loss is not small, and then the above thought of a lot of ways, and finally installed a biochip on the snail, use the chip to control the range of activity, use the chip to position, and use the chip to alarm when encountering wild giant insects. ”

Speaking of this, Gu Cheng changed his tone: "Then, there is a batch of armed drones for the ranch, and the drones are used to patrol the ranch, once the snail sends out an attack alarm, the drone can be nearby to support and kill the insects that attack the snail...... In the past few years, the insects near Qingtang have almost died, and now not only drones, but also many mercenaries have been guarding the ranch for many years...... There are definitely losses in stocking, but not a few in a year. ”

This time, Ye Han finally understood, but only a little understanding, he was still full of curiosity about the snail ranch: "So advanced? "Even the biochips are used, and this place is definitely the most modern giant insect ranch!

"It's okay." Gu Cheng said nonchalantly, "There are many similar giant insect ranches, both at home and abroad, all of which are insectivorous giant insects...... Most of us have snails here, and some of them raise genetically modified locusts......"

"Locusts?" Ye Han was shocked again.

"Well, locusts that weaken their hind legs and wings, but this thing doesn't have as much meat as a snail, the meat quality is not as good as a snail, and the self-defense action without a shell is poor, and now basically no one raises it."

Ye Han sweated profusely, thinking about it, let him choose between snail meat and locust meat, he must choose snails instead of locusts: "Have you ever raised anything else?" ”

"There are some ants too." Gu Cheng said, "But the ants are not specially raised, the main reason is that the border ant colony is too big, and they have been hunted regularly in the past few years, you know." ”

Ye Han really understands that now that materials are scarce, no resources can be wasted, especially food.

Gu Cheng said: "You may not know very well, 40% of the meat in China comes from the giant insect ranch, think about it, how much insect meat the giant insect ranch produces in a year!" ”

Ye Han was a little unconvinced: "Won't it?" I didn't run into a few along the way! ”

Gu Cheng smiled: "All you see are breeding cattle, and real beef cattle can be sold when they grow to the size of a football." ”

"Isn't it wasted?"

"Of course not, the giant insect has a long growth cycle when it is large, and it is too wasteful to kill it when it grows up, and the size of the football is the most suitable...... Now is not the spawning period, and when there is a chance in the future, you can come and watch the breeding cows lay eggs, hundreds at a time, and when the eggs hatch, the mountains are full of large and small snails, and they can't be counted! ”

Ye Han has seen a lot of insects, and the appearance of snails all over the ground can indeed be imagined: "How big is this ranch?" ”

From the first giant snail to the present, more than ten minutes have passed, the convoy has driven more than ten kilometers, and the snails encountered along the way are not 100 but 80, but Qingtang City still can't even see a shadow.

"I don't know much about this, but I know that the ranch is at least dozens of times larger than the city!" Gu Cheng said.

Ye Han couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The change is really too great!" ”

"yes, it's changed so much!" Gu Cheng nodded in agreement, "A few years earlier, who would have thought that the giant insect could also become an industry?" ”

The two of them said that they had changed a lot over the years, but Ye Han was referring to the fact that after waking up, what the two people said was not the same thing, Xiao Yuan and the others understood the reason for this, but Gu Cheng didn't know it at all.

Ye Han suddenly thought of something again: "Isn't there any plan to expand the pasture above?" There's a big shortage of meat right now, right? ”

"It's really not small, but the cost of ranching is too high, the meat mainly comes from seafood, shrimp and crabs are not small, and mollusks such as squid, sea cucumbers, and starfish have also begun to become huge, which are all good sources of meat."

Ye Han nodded knowingly.

Seafood is indeed a good source.

It has something to do with aliens, who have a layout on the ocean floor, and the continental shelf is full of alien giant vines, and many aquatic creatures feed on this giant vine, so the marine life population has exploded.

Compared with the high cost of grazing, the cost of fishing is almost negligible, which is simply a huge profit!

If all countries in the world let go of Kejin fishing, no amount of seafood can fill the stomachs of billions of people, but now, the country that has this technical strength and dares to run to the sea can be counted on one hand, plus the supply of meat is always limited, and the huge ocean is not bad for this seafood.

Now that he knows what he should know, Ye Han is curious about the development of agriculture in recent years.

Gu Cheng did not disappoint Ye Han, and introduced the development of agriculture.

To put it simply, agriculture is also developing at a good pace.

On the one hand, in the interest of the great progress of soilless cultivation technology, all over the establishment of space-type indoor farms, although there are high costs, time-consuming and laborious shortcomings, but in order to ensure food security, no matter how many difficulties must be overcome, in recent years, only indoor farms produce grain, accounting for three percent of the country's total output.

On the other hand, based on the progress of gene technology, the yield of grain crops, the ability to resist diseases and pests and other key indicators have been greatly improved, and the grain yield per mu has doubled, which has played a pivotal role in alleviating the grain shortage.

As for whether it is genetically modified, hehe, I can't eat enough, who cares about this? To put it mildly, nowadays even people are genetically modified products, so what does it matter if the grain is transferred or not?

There is also a very key reason for aliens!

It seems that eight poles can't be beaten, but Gu Cheng understood it as soon as he talked about it in detail - in order to deal with humans, the insects released by the aliens are all aggressive carnivorous insects, they only like to eat meat, and they disdain the plants that can be seen everywhere, and only those wild giant insects that eat vegetarian food have the bad habit of destroying crops everywhere.

And this giant insect has always been the focus of the northern capital, after several years of eradication, now the number of agricultural giant pests is very small, what is more strange is that the alien giant insect often feeds on wild giant insects, and the contribution to human agriculture is not small.