In a secret base near Jiuquan for designing spacecraft, Yang Zhou was watching the staff assemble the large aircraft.

As early as 2012, it was publicly reported in China that a spacecraft similar to the X-37B was being studied, but it was not as large as the X-37B.

This is an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of flying across the atmosphere.

It is also mentioned in the relevant literature as part of the "space defense operation".

Of course, more and more information was revealed later, and this small aircraft was also called Dongfeng-21D, Jian-20, Shenlong and so on.

Yang Zhou had heard of it before, but he only came into contact with it personally this time.

It turns out that it is not just small unmanned aerial vehicles, scientists are already designing enlarged versions of space-carrying vehicles.

And it is precisely the large space plane capable of transporting satellites, independent capsules to space.

It's just that because many technologies are not mature enough, they have never been launched.

With supermelt materials, the project team has made a breakthrough again, and this time Yang Zhou has brought a source of fire!

When Tinder independently modified many engine parts and the internal metal of the aircraft, the structural strength was improved again.

With supermelt materials on the outside to withstand the high temperatures of the atmosphere, and a spark source on the inside to modify the metal, the project finally succeeded.

Yang Zhou has been in the Jiuquan secret base for more than half a month, and he will soon be able to witness the departure of the first unmanned aerospace aircraft in China.

In order not to waste this first flight, the spacecraft also carried a capsule of more than 10 tons.

The unmanned space shuttle will catch up with the Huaguo space station on autopilot, release the independent space capsule, and try to assemble the space capsule with the cooperation of the three astronauts of the space station.

Instead of having the idea of succeeding once, everyone was ready to give it a try.

There was nothing in the capsule, and even if it failed, the loss was not particularly large.

And the aerospace plane, that is absolutely impossible to damage.

Everyone is very confident in that.

Professor Zhang said happily: "It seems that in a day or two when the weather is right, we will be able to make our first flight, I am really looking forward to it!" ”

"Fortunately, it can definitely be successful, but it's a pity that the role of the fire source this time is only to strengthen the structure, and there is no more effect." Yang Zhou shook his head and said.

Professor Zhang didn't know how powerful the fire plant was, he always thought that the source of fire was just strengthening, and he didn't understand what Yang Zhou said.

Puzzled: "Yang Zhou, do you suspect that the source of fire is not just to strengthen metal?" ”

"Yes, I'm thinking that the source of the spark is similar to the spark of the Transformers in the fantasy work, why didn't the metal evolve and have special abilities, and this time there was almost no engine enhancement." Yang Zhou explained.

"It's good now! I hope nothing happens, this big guy is worth more than billions. Professor Zhang said optimistically.

Yang Zhou nodded, said that he was a little tired, and was going to rest early, and then left the assembly workshop and came to the room arranged for him by the base.

When there was only one person, Yang Zhou immediately returned to the mysterious space, ready to persuade Tie Dan to sell some more fire plants, this time he must let Tie Dan make the genes in the fire plants more complicated.

"Iron Egg, not there!" Yang Zhou sent a message.

Soon Tie Dan replied: "Yang Zhou, it's not class time today, why is it early." ”

"I want to discuss something with you, Tie Dan is now in the space base, I just saw the aerospace plane just designed by our country, but because of engine problems, the flight power is not enough, even if through other plant materials, a larger aerospace plane can be designed, but still can't transport too many things, can you help me?" Yang Zhou asked directly.

has been with Tie Dan for so long, knowing that Tie Dan is a more honest person, Yang Zhou will no longer beat around the bush, and will say anything directly.

Tie Dan is indeed relatively simple, but he has mastered the entire genetic database and knows a lot of things.

For example, Yang Zhou said that the aerospace plane, Tie Dan can immediately search for what an aerospace aircraft is from his own gene pool, and immediately understand what it is.

After reading the introduction, Tie Dan explained: "Aerospace planes are very basic extraterrestrial and extraterrestrial vehicles, why don't you design spaceships, just like what I'm doing now." ”

Iron Egg is collecting more steel, and then it can use its own fire source to directly transform steel into an interstellar spaceship.

In this way, he can be considered to be out of the current barren planet.

Yang Zhou was a little speechless, but patiently explained: "We don't have such technology, aerospace planes are all designed with great difficulty, in my world, my country is not the most powerful, there is another power, we are catching up with their technology." ”

Tie Dan didn't know how to help Yang Zhou, the data was too big, and he couldn't transmit so much data to the chat bar.

For example, if you only use imaginary words for typing, it will take at least a few decades to transmit and design the latest spaceship.

The most important thing is that the experience of Tie Dan has little effect on Yang Zhou.

Because this is using his special ability to transform metal, he now has countless nanoworms in his body, and the program will drive the nanoworms to copy and then assemble the ship.

Now Iron Egg is transmitting nanoworm manufacturing technology, and in the past two months, 1% has not been transmitted.

"Say, how can you help me, I really can't help you." Iron Egg asked.

"I want to ask for some more fire plants, but this time in the fire plants, I hope you can store more genetic code information! The more the merrier! Of course, I won't let you work in vain, this time I'm willing to pay a high price to buy, how about ten times the price, you have enough experience points, and you can buy countless metal plants. ”

"10 metal vines are completely insufficient, I have now developed a new type of plant, called Chaotian vine, it also has the ability to absorb metal, if you plant a few hundred, you will soon be able to leave the current place!" Yang Zhou said his conditions.

After hearing this, Tie Dan really began to think seriously, the current development is indeed too slow, and the metal vine absorbs very little metal.

There are only 10 strains in number, and if it continues like this, I really don't know if it will take decades or hundreds of years to get enough steel.

Of course, after Iron Egg has more steel, he can choose to modify some other machines and use his body to mine various metal ores.

The speed will be a little faster, but it should also be taken into account that if the entire planet is a low-quality mineral, and only by collecting mineral sands for super-enriched plants to absorb metal elements can it be easily extracted, then it is necessary to trade with Yang Zhou again.

Tie Dan didn't hesitate for long, so he agreed, but he wanted to inspect the goods to see if the Chaotian vines were as efficient as metal vines, and if not, he would still buy metal vines.

Yang Zhou suddenly became excited, these days he has also transformed the Chaotian vine, nothing else has changed, the ability to absorb metal, that is an infinite number of times.

After all, Chaotian vines can grow up to more than ten kilometers, and metal vines are only the size of ordinary vines.

In addition, the most important thing about Chaotian vine is that it uses a lot of high-level genes, not only the fire gene but also the genes of the creation mushroom.

That's the most important thing!

Yang Zhou immediately promoted the Chaotian vine he had developed, saying that the trade would trade the genetic code to Tie Dan at that time.

Because this new species is also related to the tinder gene given by the iron egg.

The rest of the supermelt material genes, Yang Zhou didn't know if the iron egg could be used, anyway, the tinder genes from the last transaction could not be modified supermelt materials.

It took an hour or two for Yang Zhou to finally convince Tie Dan to sell another 10 grams of fire plant genes to the maximum.

And these genes are traded at 1 gram and 1 gram.

In order for Yang Zhou to put forward new genetic requirements at any time, Tie Dan will integrate him into his own genetic reserve alone.

Of course, this also facilitates Yang Zhou's trading, otherwise according to 10 times the price, these 10 grams will require 1 billion experience points, and Yang Zhou's experience points are not enough to use.

1 gram transaction costs 100 million experience points, and Yang Zhou's experience points can be used repeatedly.

Later, when Tie Dan obtained 100 million experience points, he could buy plant seeds from Yang Zhou with his backhand, and the experience points returned to Yang Zhou's hands again.

The mall does not even charge a handling fee in this regard, and if you make a few more transactions, the seemingly impossible transaction will be completed.

In the first transaction, Yang Zhou bought 1 gram of fire plants, and before the transaction, Yang Zhou asked: "What can be transformed in this gram?" Can you integrate your nanoworm technology into the genes of this gram of igneous plants? ”

"No, nanoworms are not separate metals, they involve a lot of technology, and they cannot be achieved by igneous plants, including spaceships, nor can they be modified by ignition genes alone, and many of them need to cooperate with each other to be realized." Iron Egg replied.

"And what's in this?" Yang Zhou asked expectantly.

"The super engine you want in the atmosphere, this can be directly achieved through the igneous plant, but it requires a lot of metals, and if you study the genes of the igneous plant, you will see the annotations inside, and you will understand what metal is needed, and then you can make a super engine." Tie Dan replied.

Yang Zhou didn't ask any more questions, but couldn't wait to choose to spend money to buy the genes of the fire plant this time.

The last plant gene was completely given by Yang Zhou at random from the iron egg, and it is likely that most of the genetic data in it was deleted, leaving only a lot of basic modified genetic information.

However, this time, Tie Dan added engine technology to the genetic information of igneous plants specifically for Yang Zhou.

Yang Zhou knew a long time ago that genes can record countless information.

Scientists have long written papers on human genes, such as human genes, and scientists have found that 95% of human genes are invalid information.

And the superfluous information, I don't know what to do at all.

At that time, scientists suspected that this genetic information was actually a kind of annotation.

It's similar to a programmer writing code, with a parentheses and a comment on the code, so that the next person who writes software will know what it means by reading the comment, and can move on.

This also shows that it is not easy for human beings to evolve into what they are now.

Human genes and plant genes are completely different, and the plant gene system can be translated, so Tie Dan said that Yang Zhou can understand it.

However, the translation of the system also has limitations.

Now he can't translate the genetic code of the genesis mushroom, and Yang Zhou still hasn't figured out the hundreds of base types.

Yang Zhou only understood some of the tinder genes last time, and knew that there was no hidden danger, but this time Tie Dan was even more intimate, and specially gave a note.

Then there is no need for a system gene simulator this time, and Yang Zhou can directly use the system to translate what each piece of genetic code means.

After spending 100 million experience points, after receiving the fire plant, Yang Zhou immediately began to study.

After a long time, Yang Zhou woke up from the shock.

Because this time he gained too much, not only did he know how to transform the engine, but also learned an advanced engine manufacturing principle.

The main thing is to understand what the hell is going on with iron-based plants!

If you think about it, let a fire gene turn countless elements into a single plant with living organisms.

This means activating the metal elements from start to finish, allowing them to come to life.

In the past, when encountering iron-based plants, it was impossible for iron to have life and enter the cell cycle.

Now Yang Zhou knows the solution of the fire source, which is equivalent to building a special metal life development embryo from scratch, and then designing the genetic details of the embryo to make this metal grow specifically.

At present, the direction of design growth is the engine!

There are many kinds of engines, such as those with thermal energy that turns into kinetic energy, and those that explode into kinetic energy.

Like automobiles, and now there are rotary engines, which explode in the cylinders and drive the rotors to rotate and finally to the tires.

And Tie Dan knew that what Yang Zhou needed was a spacecraft engine, so the type of engine given was naturally a jet engine.

Our rockets eject thrust from the combustion of chemical fuels, and in the universe there are ion engines that eject ions.

Now this engine plant, in fact, resembles a jet revolver.

The ejection is still gas, but this gas is continuously sprayed and can be maintained for a long time, and the small revolver only used the jet to maintain the direction of up and down, left and right.

The energy used is also very clear, and biological plants absorb various nutrients energy, water, and sunlight.

Metal plants no longer absorb nutrients, but all kinds of strong metals, and even radioactive substances, sunlight, and water.

Of course, the reason for the demand for water is mainly because of the hydrogen and oxygen elements in the water.

This time it was destined to be traded for a long time, because Yang Zhou couldn't wait to plant an engine plant and see what it would look like.

There are many kinds of engine plants, naturally.

This is similar to the variety of radishes, which have large radish, small radish, red radish, and white radish.

The basic genes of different varieties are the same, but some genes are different, so while you can modify the genes of igneous plants, you must choose the engine in that direction.

Tie Dan reminded: "There are many kinds of engines for you to choose from, suitable for most of the environment of the planet and the universe, and can absorb all kinds of energy, I don't know the specific environment over there, just send them all to you, you can only choose one, this 1 gram of fire plant, can only make a metal plant seed, it is not a transformation of large metal, so you have to choose carefully." ”

After reading the information, Yang Zhou laughed wildly in his heart.

Who said that he could only have one choice, Yang Zhou is now frantically launching replicating spores to replicate the genes of fire plants in all directions.

In the future, he wants an engine, he just needs to copy the spores and change them into engine plants, then everything will not be a problem!

The engine plant is a little different from other plants in that it is not planted in the soil, but needs to be planted in an ultra-high temperature environment.

In fact, it's like refining something, first throwing the fire source into the furnace, then adding all kinds of metals, and even radioactive substances, and then refining it all the time, at this time the engine plant begins to grow slowly.

When the growth was ripe, I turned on the stove and saw a brand new engine lying in the furnace.