Every day, Li Xu will come to the company early to enjoy the natural breath in the green corn field. If you spend a long time in the concrete forest, you will love the vibrant greenery more and more. But here is only corn, and the breeze is the only movement in the whole field.

"It would be better if you added birdsong." Li Xu looked at the sea of corn and sighed.

At this time, a pink elf also entered the farm and approached Li Xu, who was in a daze.

"Aunt Su'er, birds eat corn." Yaya has the same red hair as her mother, combed into braids, and wears a pink puffy skirt, which looks cute at a glance.

"Yaya is so beautiful today." Li Xu continued, "But there are birds that eat corn, and there are birds that eat pests. ”

"But there are no pests here, no pesticides." Yaya tilted her head.

"This, this, haha." Li Xu stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his neck, then changed the topic, "How did Yaya come here?" Didn't tell your mother? ”

"Aunt Su'er, my mother brought me here, and my mother bought me a happy farm and let me grow my favorite plants." Yaya hurriedly explained.

Li Xu knows Happy Farm. There is little green area in the closed city, and the tundra is basically outside the city. Some people want to experience farming life 300 years ago, while others want to get back to nature and decompress. That's why Oasis has launched a product, a real-life version of Happy Farm. Happy Farm uses artificial soil to simulate agriculture 300 years ago. Customers can grow any plant on the land they have purchased, and customers who do not have time to take care of the farm can also purchase a timed care service. If the customer is friends with the customer, they can also steal food.

"Well, Aunt Su'er knows." Li Xu squatted down and gently touched Yaya's head.

"Aunt Su'er, the plants planted by Yaya are growing well, do you want to visit Yaya's farm?"

"Okay, but now that Auntie is going to work, next time I have time, I will definitely visit Yaya's farm, okay?" Li Xu smiled.

"It's a word." Yaya gets the promise and happily sets off to the farm.

Saying goodbye to Yaya, Li Xu went to the laboratory and found that Chen Dai had come to the laboratory early.

"Xiao Dai, I'm done with the equipment in the lab, what should I do next?" Li Xu asked.

"Originally, I wanted you to participate in a few small projects to exercise, but now the company's situation is not optimistic, and I want you to directly participate in the research of new rice." Chen Dai's face was worried.

"I've heard the news that the company lost the lawsuit, can we make a new crop that can compete with the company in the future?" Li Su's heart sank when she heard the news of losing the lawsuit, although she hated the future company because of the application, but she had to admit that the technical background of the future company was still very deep.

"Yes, as long as the new rice is successful, there is hope for the company." Chen Dai talked about the rice that had recovered a little and began to introduce this key project to Li Xu in detail.

The photosynthesis carried out by plants is divided into two parts, light reaction and dark reaction, in which is a series of carbon compounds that form a cycle to fix carbon dioxide in starch. Most plants in nature are in the carbon-3 cycle, which has been used since billions of years ago. Rice and wheat are both carbon-3 plants.

It was only 3,500 years ago that carbon-4 plants appeared, and it was not until 6 million years ago that carbon-4 plants became ecologically important. The carbon 4 cycle is more efficient than the carbon 3 cycle for fixed carbon dioxide. At low carbon dioxide and high light, the carbon-3 cycle emits carbon dioxide. Thus carbon-4 plants gain an advantage in the tropics. Corn, a high-yielding crop, happens to be a carbon-4 plant, so transforming rice and wheat into a carbon-4 plant is a way to increase crop yields.

Compared with natural farms, three-dimensional farms require additional electrical input, land price and floor cost. Therefore, the best way to make a profit on a three-dimensional farm is to increase the growth rate of the crop, so that more batches of grain can be produced in a year. If you want to harvest more than once, you have to apply intensive light. In previous lives, rice in areas near the equator could be harvested three times a year, while temperate rice could only be harvested once a year. However, carbon-3 crops can reduce their ability to absorb carbon dioxide under bright light, so more batches cannot be harvested. The carbon-4 plant, which only appeared 35 million years ago, is an ideal three-dimensional farm crop, which can not only adapt to strong light, but also require less water than carbon-3 crops.

Therefore, if C4 rice is successful, it could turn the tide of corn as a staple crop for humanity, allowing Oasis to produce rice in large quantities and at low cost. Considering that rice tastes far better than corn, and its profits are much higher than corn after the transformation, this is the only hope to save the company.

For two months in a row, Li Xu threw himself into work 12 hours a day, and even soaked in the laboratory on weekends. Whether it is 15 years in the previous life or 15 years in the next life, Li Su has no work experience, let alone experimental operation experience, so Li Xu cherishes the opportunity to participate in new rice. This will allow her to actually learn more knowledge and get one step closer to realizing her dreams.

Chen Dai and Li Xu are the last to get off work every day, so the two often go to the Kelaixiang Hotel together.

The robot waiter transports the food to the table and uses the robotic arm to serve the food to the table.

"The C4 gene in corn cannot be expressed in rice cells every time." Chen Dai sighed.

"The vascular sheath cells of the rice itself are quite large, very close to the rosette structure of C4 plants, and it stands to reason that it should be relatively easy to transform into C4 plants." Li Xu picked up a slice of roasted beef and put it in his mouth.

"Don't talk about it, I think about it all day long, my head is big." Chen Dai hugged her head and said.

"Why don't you go shopping after dinner?" Li Xu proposed.

"Shopping?" Chen Dai has always been shopping online and has never gone shopping to buy anything.

"Well, shopping is also a way to relax, and you might come across something fun." Li Xu remembered that his favorite thing to do with his friends in his previous life was shopping.

"Since Xiao Su said so, I'll give it a try." Chen Dai also became curious in her heart.

Li Xu was dressed in a white Chinese stand-up collar embroidered white dress, plus a white shoulder bag, and her snow-white long hair was as white and beautiful as an angel. Chen Dai is a black A-line long skirt, a black cross-body bag, and a waterfall-like black medium length hair scattered over her shoulders, setting off her snow-white skin.

"The two of us are like black and white." Li Xu couldn't help but laugh.

"It's cream and chocolate, but you're the sweet cream." Chen Dai said as she stretched out her claws and grabbed Li Xu's chest.

"Then you're silky chocolate." Li Xu jumped away cleverly and took the opportunity to touch Chen Dai's buttocks.

"Female rascal!" Chen Dai shouted to catch up.

"The thief shouts to catch the thief!" Li Xu smiled and ran away.

Two young girls chase each other, and the streets are filled with a joyful atmosphere. In the distance, the sky was slightly bright, and the clouds in the sky were dyed red, as if the sun was about to jump out of the horizon in the next moment.