Chapter 389: Making Food
The improvement of science and technology across the board has brought more benefits to He Hao.
The first is to forge a large amount of iron, steel, and alloy through an automatic production line to produce composite metals. Then the raven will design the drawings and mass-produce modified car parts.
Forging is a compression consumption, and 1,040 tons of 3,120 tons of various metals are left in the end. The same is true for 3,540 tons of rubber and other chemicals, with only 30% left. But the quality has been improved by several grades, which can be said to take the essence from the dross.
He Hao didn't dare to put all these materials into production, and it only took 2% to make enough goods to satisfy the wandering survivors.
Hard tires: 400 trays.
Composite metal protective plate: 1000 square meters.
Split shaft: 100 sets.
Vacuum hanger: 400 sets.
Pararesistive engines: 100 units.
High-precision electronic accessories: 100 sets.
That's nearly 70,000 hard goods! Survivors are bound to go on a buying spree! In addition, He Hao also used gene decoding technology to make drugs from the purchased zombie materials.
Trans serum: 480 vials.
Amplification potion: 12,900 pills.
The former is a life-saving medicine that does not worry about sales, while the latter is just the icing on the cake for the team, if it is not for a special task in a large number of corpses, I am afraid that few people will care, so He Hao left 10,000 capsules, planning to trade as a trade item next time he trades with the Elephant Mound Chamber of Commerce. The remaining 2,900 pills were shipped to the Brilliant Fortress for sale along with the trans serum.
Now that outer space technology is already complete, He Hao plans to expand his food reserves, after all, food is the hardest commodity in the last days, and it will never go out of style.
Through the walkie-talkie, He Hao ordered Cao Lei, who worked on the farm, to bring an adult beef cow to the base. During this time, He Hao asked Raven about the details of the operation of the biological replication center. The first thing to know is that it is a rectangular building with an area of 80 square meters and is only 2 storeys high. It is composed of 3 parts: the main cell collection room, the replica fission chamber, and the power system hangar.
After the main body enters the cell collection room, it will be injected with the original organism gene solution, which is generated by energy crystals through the 'nutrient pump' that comes with the collection room. Each 10g of energy crystals can be diluted into 500 ml of gene solution. To fill the entire collection room, 120 liters are required. Therefore, a single batch of replication cloning requires at least 2400 g of energy crystallization as a warm-up start.
The replica fission chamber is a spiral-shaped, double-decked chamber with 50 cloning sites at 80 cm apart. This means that if the cloning units are too large, they will be reduced in number. The fission chamber needs 20,000L of gene solution to be filled, and this investment is very huge for He Hao, which is a full 400,000g of energy crystallization!
If it weren't for the important supplies of food, He Hao probably wouldn't have bothered to do so - as he dropped the stored energy crystals into the powertrain hangar, the collection chamber and the fission chamber began to spew out a large amount of emerald gene fluid, which looked like boiling water, making a 'gurgling' sound, and bubbling with a huge series of bubbles.
The sturdy beef cattle seemed to be frightened, and kept rushing and scurrying in the collection room, causing the high-powered forged glass to make a dull 'thump' sound. It wasn't until the nutrient solution submerged it that the brainless animal lost consciousness and fell into a deep coma - a large number of metal signal needles were densely coiled around it, and if you looked closely, you would find that they were all clusters of metal wool. When this metallic velvet wraps the beef cattle, it becomes a black cocoon.
There is no need to worry about the damage that metallint can cause to beef cattle, because they have only a very small number of units that penetrate the body through the sweat pores on the skin and swim down the capillaries into the internal organs. When the collected biological information of the main body was transmitted into the fission chamber, an astonishing scene occurred - the unfilled energy liquid was like a stormy wave, churning up and down along the spiral double cabin, as if because of the circulatory system, these gene fluids seemed to be endless.
The catheter, which was driven by the fluid, floated as if it had come to life. At the top, instead of a green egg, a large mass of fleshy viscera emerges, followed by bones, and beyond the bones are sinew.
A full 60 clones swayed with the flow of fluid, like aquatic plants in an undercurrent. It was not until the injected gene fluid was close to saturation that the surging fluid gradually calmed down. Eventually, it stopped at the moment of filling. At this time, the replica of the beef cattle also has a rough outline. Through the glass, you can see that the body that seems to be rotting begins to grow granulations. After all the organs and nerves are generated, there will be red lightning bolts shuttling across each replica - activating life!
All that's left is to wait, and in another three quarters of an hour, the first replica cloned cows have been born at the Brilliant Base. The wool weight of cloned cattle is nearly 500Kg, and 200Kg of fresh beef can be produced by simply slaughtering and killing meat. 60 heads is 12000Kg. The military once priced fresh beef at 10Kg/220g of energy crystals. The price of this batch of meat will reach an astonishing price of 26,400g, although there is nothing on the books, but you must know that this is the wealth produced by the brilliant base in one hour, and the cost will be lower and lower - the completion of a batch of replication and cloning of gene fluid in a full cabin only consumes about 4%. A little calculation, the final income minus the input cost, the net profit will be 260,000!
He Hao estimated the number of copper coins released before, and planned to sell the fresh beef in small packages, which was conducive to getting rid of it quickly, after all, it was the height of black Yao, and no stupid survivor would buy 10Kg in one go. At the same time, the price was set.
Fresh beef: 1Kg/22 copper.
He Hao planned to produce these 60 cattle to test the water first, and the slaughtering work was completed by Cao Lei and the breeding staff. The toothpicks were then transported by the convoy to Brilliant Light Packaging, where there were plenty of people and could be delivered to the Brilliant Fortress for sale in a few hours......
In addition to meat, dry food is also essential.
With high-speed plant catalysis technology, He Hao plans to take action on the crops in Tenglong Mountain, after all, he has a lot of seeds in his hands. It's pointless to keep it in use. Although wetlands are scarce, the short growth cycle is an advantage – good for protection.
The technological achievement of high-speed plant catalysis is actually about 1.5 square meters of honeycomb metal plate, bury it in the ground, and then plant any plant on it, which can grow efficiently. It only takes a few moments or hours. It can complete a growth cycle of several quarters or even years.
Plant-catalytic plates can be manufactured by automatic production lines. Just put some ordinary metals and a small amount of precious metals. After all, this thing is not meant to be used for combat, and there is nothing wrong with using high-quality materials, but it can't be wasted extravagantly - as the metal from the scraps is thrown into the automatic production line. A shiny plant catalytic plate was made.
He Hao couldn't wait to take one and ran back to the surface. He was going to experiment with bread trees first.
With the help of Tan Tan, He Hao uprooted trees, buried boards, and backfilled, all in one go. With a little watering, a miracle happens. The small sapling, which is less than half a meter tall, began to grow at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and even the crackling sound of the wood expansion could be clearly heard.
"Oh my God!" Tan Tan was so frightened that the kettle in his hand fell to the ground. The water was sprinkled all over the ground. But just as He Hao let out a permeating laugh of joy, the bread tree withered in an instant.
"What's going on!" He Hao frowned, annoyed - it turns out that high-speed catalytic plants need a lot of water and nutrients. No matter how high the technology is, it cannot be separated from the essence of all things in nature.
After lamenting the price of a bread tree seedling, He Hao persevered and continued to experiment with the next one - there is no easy task in the world; Success in vain!
In the end, at the cost of 10 plants and 5 hours, He Hao finally catalyzed a seedling into a mature tree. Although it is only 8 meters tall and about 7 years old, it bears 100 huge breadfruits. The harvest is so rich thanks to catalysis, as the high speed of growth avoids pests and natural disasters.
Looking at the leaves that broke the sunset, He Hao couldn't wait to climb up like a child, and with a wave of his iron arm, he knocked down the whole fruit, and then carried it to the canteen, roasted it with a fire, and made sweet and soft dry food. Each fruit weighs 1,400 g, and even after drying, it has more than 1,000 g. It is rich in starch and has a strong feeling of satiety after eating.
A single bread tree can produce a minimum of 100-120 breadfruits. 80 trees can be planted around the fence, and 9,600 breadfruits can be produced in five hours. It is different from corn, wild vegetables, meat, and river fresh. It's a real store of dry food, and it's also a delicious delicacy. So He Hao also slapped the price of breadfruit.
Breadfruit: 500g/5 copper.
When He Hao walked out of the cafeteria, he found that the bread tree had withered - this is the disadvantage of plant catalysis. Only one crop is produced!
"My fruit!" He Hao ran under the fence like crazy, trying to hold on to the fallen tree. But even if you lift it up, it doesn't make any sense. Because its roots have long since withered and its leaves have rotted. Fortunately, Tan Tan was clever and collected more than 50 large seeds during the survival of the bread tree.
Seeing this, He Hao breathed a long sigh of relief. He pondered as he ate the roasted fruit. Although high-speed plant catalysis has many shortcomings, there is no reason to give up. It is only necessary to send additional people around the planting field to complete the work of planting, harvesting, and collecting seeds every day. Although it is very busy, the benefits are great. You can figure it out with a single finger. 80 bread trees, 1 day and 2 cycles, can produce 192,000 worth of breadfruit. However, at present, there is a shortage of manpower and a shortage of catalytic plates. This production is not yet reached. Moreover, it is not practical for all plants to catalyze. Therefore, it is tentatively planned to catalyze the planting of bread trees. As for corn and vegetables, they continue to grow naturally – after all, the canals are all covered and large quantities of planting are just around the corner.
He Hao swallowed the last bite of the roasted fruit and planned all the supplies for the second phase in his mind. When it only takes another 2 days, after all the production, packaging, and transportation are completed, you can see the benefits. When the time comes, as many copper coins he releases, he will be able to recover them with interest. The energy crystals were safely in their pockets, and the survivors got everything they needed.
A sound economic system brings real happiness to all......