Annie Ho didn't want her father to always stare at the secrets of the person she wanted, so she changed the topic and said, "Dad, since you found that batch of top-secret metal materials in the administrative building of the old provincial capital, why didn't you take them back at that time?" ”

"We just scanned it from the air, and the ground was full of corpses. It can be said to be the most dense place for zombies in the southwestern provinces, and high-level zombies are everywhere. Without a fully armed regimental force, it is simply impossible to approach from the ground. Anne, Dad has another thing to tell you: our stocks of fuels, steel, specialty metals, and various chemical materials are decreasing every day; Machines that are still working are overloaded and wear out, and power supply will be a problem in the near future. The new provincial city is already in danger because of the depletion of industrial resources! ”

"Dad, then tell me how long the new provincial city can last?"

"A month at most, provided that there is no attack damage."

"What can I do?" Anne Ho began to worry.

"Annie, you don't have to worry too much. The sky is falling, and Dad is holding on. Dad is already working on a countermeasure. ”

"How are you going to deal with this serious crisis?"

"After observing, trying and summarizing this period since the end of the world, I think that we—not as an ordinary father and daughter, but as the head of the unrestricted military industry and the leader of a large-scale survivor team—must reverse the high-energy and high-consumption industrial model before the end of the world, and shift to a more end-apocalyptic environment-friendly super-energy mode of survival."

"Super mode?"

"Yes. Annie, you must have noticed that the earth since the end of the world has obviously been re-injected with an extremely powerful life energy, everything in nature is growing wildly, all kinds of species are mutating, and even humans have a lot of abilities. ”

"Not bad."

"What I am currently thinking about is how to use this unprecedentedly powerful life energy in an industrial mode to form a scientific and controllable industrial chain and use it to replace the traditional industrial model. Think about it, how much energy is contained in the mutant beast crystal, and if we can find a robust technical means to convert it into electricity, wouldn't the energy problem be solved? As long as the energy problem is solved, everything else will be easy. I was even thinking that if we mastered the mysteries of crystals, we would be able to mass-produce them. Life energy is like a dry battery, which is available anytime, anywhere. ”

"Dad, if your idea is realized, it will definitely benefit the entire human race."

"That's why Dad has to do crystal tests at all costs."

"Dad, didn't you say that you have been organizing forces to devote themselves to the research of the antidote to corpse poison? Where do we get that much manpower and material resources to carry out two challenging studies at the same time? ”

"Actually, I'm not just working on these two, there are two cross-generational experiments: one is mecha research that was going on before the end of the world and you've been working on, and the other is ability research. The research on the antidote to the corpse poison, the research on crystals, and the research on abilities were originally three separate projects, but their respective discoveries soon corroborated each other, so I reintegrated them into a cross-generational project - the Super Project! ”

"Project Superpower?"

"The Superpower Project is the most creative, promising, and challenging research to solve the apocalyptic crisis, and every one of its achievements is enough to upend the existing scientific edifice, and accordingly, every one of its advances requires extraordinary imagination, bold breakthroughs and transcendences of convention. Now that the Super Project has entered the most critical stage, we have summarized the main problems at present into three basic assumptions. ”

"What are the three basic assumptions?"

"Hypothesis 1: Meteorites bring powerful life energy to Earth; Hypothesis 2: Crystals are a completely new substance that contains great life energy; Hypothesis 3: Life energy is the key to solving various life problems. ”

"Dad, these three assumptions sound very ordinary, and they don't have that earth-shattering sense of shock."

"I'll expand it a little bit, and you'll know it's awesome. Take Hypothesis 1 as an example: meteorites bring powerful life energy to the Earth. How can you be sure that the life energy is brought by a meteorite? Isn't the most convincing evidence the search for the remains of meteorites and then examining and experimenting? ”

"Not bad. Have we found the meteorite wreckage? ”

"Dad is sorry to tell you: we searched for 150 kilometers around the new provincial capital, and found almost nothing. It seems that these meteorites have exploded cleanly after entering the atmosphere, leaving no residue behind. However, just when we were desperate, we stumbled upon a signal of a special substance in the ground near 20 kilometers northeast of the new provincial capital. The signals emitted by these substances are not the same as any of the substances known on Earth. Dad judged that these materials were likely to come from extraterrestrial meteorites, so he built an outpost in the vicinity at great cost, in order to be able to mine them safely and confidentially as soon as possible. ”

"Got it?"

"Not yet. These materials are buried so deep that the devil knows how they can go deeper than 500 meters underground without destroying the original surface. There must be something mysterious in it. ”

He Xiaotian took a sip and continued: "Let's explain Hypothesis 2: Crystals are a brand new substance that contains huge life energy. Our inspectors have told me with great certainty that crystals are made of a special element never seen on Earth, and that X has so wonderful properties that the mere observation and description of these properties would have yielded a series of the highest prizes in physics. But so far, we still know almost nothing, because many judgments about the characteristics of UEX have been denied. So, we have only proved that the crystal is a completely new substance, but we still cannot prove that this substance contains powerful life energy, at least we still cannot explain the mechanism of these energies. ”

"In other words, if we can clearly explain how the life energy in the crystal occurs, we will be able to grasp the mystery of the crystal?"

"Yes. We did a lot of physical and chemical experiments, but none of them could support each other with biological experiments. For example, physical tests tell us that crystals are not conductive; But the crystals on the living body can actually conduct bioelectricity. Chemical experiments tell us that crystals are extremely inert substances and do not easily undergo chemical reactions at all; However, once the crystals are ingested into the living body, they immediately burst out with powerful life energy and quickly dissipate. ”

He Xiaotian continued: "We also found some very interesting phenomena, such as: directly taking crystals to mutant beasts or humans often leads to serious consequences, and even death; But if the crystals are fed to the plants as fertilizer, they can be absorbed well; The vitality of these mutated plants cultivated by crystals is not only vigorous, but even fierce. We have conducted extensive tests on the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and naturally synthesized substances such as honey of these plants, and found that by eating these plants, the effect of absorbing crystals can be obtained, and there are no significant side effects in the short term.

"Dad, this is a big discovery. Have you brought some of this plant for me to taste? ”

"Anne, just to be on the safe side, it's better for our father and daughter not to eat these plants in the short term. In addition, these plants need to be cultivated with a large number of crystals, which is extremely expensive and small in number, and our relevant personnel have to use them to perform various experiments. However, Dad has selected an elite squad to take these plants for three meals a day. Judging from the observation of the past period of time, the physical attributes of the members of this team have skyrocketed, and one of them is randomly selected, which is enough to be on par with Wu Chaoqun and Lin Zaishan. ”

"Does it really have to be that powerful?"

"Of course. So far, however, they have not fought in real combat. Dad didn't want them to take risks until he was sure. ”

After another moment, He Xiaotian then said with great interest: "Now let's talk about Hypothesis 3: Life energy is the key to solving various life problems. We have conducted a large number of in vivo experiments using crystals as the medium, and found that daily intake of trace crystals can have positive effects such as eliminating wrinkles, removing scars, promoting wound healing, and enhancing immunity. If you increase your intake of crystals — not counting the elite squad that takes them — and you don't die, you will have a mutation in body form and physical abilities, and many people will become stronger and more agile. Even ordinary people can achieve superhuman physical fitness in a short period of time in this way. is that the safety factor is too low, and the probability of success is less than 1 in 1,000. ”

He Annie snorted coldly and said, "There must have been a lot of deaths in this experiment, right?" Dad, there are basically only a thousand people left in the southwestern provinces, and there are no more dead people. ”

"Don't worry, good girl. Dad is for the survival of the entire human race, not a butcher. He Xiaotian comforted He Annie a few words, and then said: "In the early days, after many people failed to take crystals directly, Dad changed his thinking and thought: Are there any survivors who take crystals and do not die, if one or two such people can be found for research, it will definitely help explain the mystery of crystals." Dad didn't know who had this ability, and it was impossible to force everyone to take crystals, so he came up with a solution, which was to take their blood, and then cultivate and replicate it in the laboratory. ”

"Dad, when did our unrestricted military industry have such a strong strength in biological and medical research?"

"Of course, we don't have this strength, so Dad specially 'invited' the elite experts of GD medicine, the most powerful GD medicine in the southwest provinces, to carry out this task."

"Your so-called 'invitation' should have been escorted by helicopter gunship, right?"

"My good daughter really understands me." He Xiaotian said with a smile: "The team's latest research work is to mix a part of the cultured blood as 'complementary food' when giving crystals to test animals, and the results show that the effects of different blood are significantly different; ”

"What? Dad, how did you get Lin Zaishan's blood sample? ”

"He went to the outpost a few days ago to carry out a clean-up mission, and I asked Chu Yanjiao to take it back by the way to avoid corpse poison under the pretext of a blood test, and we have cultivated a few cubic meters of blood samples from Lin Zaishan in the past few days. However, new trials show that the auxiliary effect is declining. Therefore, we guessed that some substances in Lin Zaishan's blood must have been diluted after cultivation, which caused the effect to decrease. If we can find these substances, it is equivalent to finding the primer of the medicine to take the crystals! ”

"Medicine primer? Are you saying that Lin Zaishan is a medicine primer? ”

"Don't be nervous, Anne, Dad won't move the forest. Dad just wanted to get some more blood from him, and the more the better, without jeopardizing his health and safety. This important task, which is related to the success or failure of the entire experiment and the future and destiny of mankind, only needs to be handed over to the person I trust the most, and at the same time the person who can best cooperate with Lin Zaishan-that is my precious daughter, you. A better user experience.