Lambi Island.

It is a tropical island located at 11 degrees north latitude and 98 degrees east longitude.

The whole island presents a northwest-southeast trend, with a length of 31.8 kilometers from north to south and a width of 4~24 kilometers from east to west.

The reason for choosing this place is that the island is large enough to cover 188 square kilometers, and at the same time it is remote enough.

On the other hand, because of the topography of the island, a semi-enclosed bay with an area of nearly 200 square kilometers has been formed.

This topography is convenient for the Aoba Group to build some secret industries in the interior of the bay.

The name of the external project of Lambi Island is the Seaweed Breeding Base of Lambi Island, which is not a sheep's head selling dog meat, but a real seaweed breeding base.

It's just that the seaweed cultivated here has a special variety.

When Kevin and the Bloody Blade Special Combat Team and ordinary soldiers arrived here, they immediately put on special bio-type protective suits.

The construction of the factory, the breeding pond, and the wave fence have been completed, and some of the secret facilities are built in the mountains and underground.

Kevin passed by the pond, looked at the rows of seaweed soaked in the seawater, and quickly instructed the soldiers in charge of managing the place: "Change the access route, don't go directly past the seaweed pond." ”

"Yes."

The seaweed particles are then crushed by a conveyor belt and fed into methane digesters to produce methane gas.

This methane gas is stored in storage tanks made of crystal sponges, which are used to generate electricity and power equipment on the island.

And the residue after fermentation is the real purpose of Kevin's coming this time.

Inside the mountain, there is a thick cement protective layer and a lead plate barrier layer.

The fermented seaweed residue is dried at high temperatures and stored in lead tanks inside the mountain.

"How much is the current production?"

The soldier manager replied coldly: "It can produce 300 tons of dry food every month, and if the area of the breeding restaurant is expanded, the output can continue to increase." ”

Kevin touched his chin: "300 tons of dry material? What is the average abundance? ”

"The average abundance is between 0.73%~0.88%." The soldier manager replied.

"In other words, 300 tons of dry material can refine 2.1~2.4 tons of uranium oxide?" Kevin gave a rough estimate of the approximate amount.

"Yes, but the proportion of uranium-235 in these uranium oxides is only about 0.7%."

Kevin wasn't disappointed, after all, this was just the beginning.

He was sent to Dawei Harbor, where one of his core missions was to secretly build a uranium refining base.

And the Lambi Island base was established for this purpose.

In fact, the uranium abundance of seaweed fermentation residues is already very high, at least an order of magnitude higher than that of general grade uranium ore, which is about 0.05%~0.2%.

And uranium ore, the mining points on land, the great powers all know it, and even monitor it all the time.

Small quantities can also be purchased under the pretext of laboratory research, and it is simply impossible to purchase large quantities.

In the process of developing seaweed technology, Li Qingye had made many by-products, such as potash seaweed, which is used to refine potash.

In addition, there are indeed scientists using seaweed to refine uranium elements in the world, and Li Qingye gave full play to the advantages of his biotechnology to transform uranium-rich seaweeds that specifically absorb uranium elements.

It is important to know that the total amount of uranium in the ocean is more than 2,000 times that of uranium ore has been discovered on land, with a total reserve of 4.5 billion tons.

Instead of looking for minerals on land, it is better to extract them directly from the ocean.

The advantages of this are, firstly, that it is cheaper, and secondly, that it is better concealed.

Of course, the crude ore extracted from seaweed can only be stored in the underground warehouse of Lambi Island, and there is no way to purify it.

The main thing is that uranium enrichment requires large centrifuges and massive amounts of electricity, and large centrifuges are equipment that the great powers have guarded against to defend.

Li Qingye doesn't want to be focused on by the powers now, so naturally he will not buy centrifuges or develop centrifuges.

But the absence of centrifuges does not mean that uranium enrichment cannot be carried out.

In fact, the bio-enrichment method can also purify uranium and separate uranium-235 from it.

This technology is called the reverse biological purification method by Li Qingye, which is to use the different weights of uranium-238, uranium-235, and uranium-234 to cultivate bacteria that only absorb uranium-238.

As long as uranium-238 is separated, all that remains is uranium-235, and uranium-234, which is very low in content.

At this time, among the remaining uranium compounds, the purity of uranium-235 will reach more than 99.9%, which is directly weapon-grade.

Moreover, the energy consumption of this technology is very low, the concealment is very good, and there is basically no need for a series of large centrifuges and power stations, or even a small workshop to complete the purification work.

But this technology is only an idea at this time, because the bacteria that specialize in absorbing uranium-238, Li Qingye has only cultivated a few semi-finished products, and the recognition rate between the three isotopes of uranium is relatively low.

In addition, uranium itself has nuclear radiation, which is very disturbant to bacteria.

But Li Qingye is not in a hurry, as long as this technology is completed, with a large amount of artificial uranium ore on hand, a large number of high-purity uranium-235 can be obtained soon.

Therefore, the task of the Lambi Island base at this stage is to continuously produce uranium-rich seaweed and store these uranium-containing residues.

However, the Lambi base is not the only uranium production base, there is also a hidden island in the Luzon archipelago that is doing the same thing.

Bioenrichment is a promising frontier technology.

And the ocean is a huge reservoir of resources.

With the world's land resources already carved up, Homo sapiens can only ask for resources from the ocean to complete the early stage of obscene development.

After inspecting the Lambi base, Kevin plans to continue to increase the scale of the infrastructure to at least 1,000 tonnes per month of dry feed for seaweed residues.

For nuclear weapons, in fact, Kevin, these cobweb managers, attach more importance to it than Li Qingye.

After all, they are already deeply tied to the Homo sapiens company, if they don't want to be manipulated and destroyed by the great powers in the future, they must not only have enough strength in conventional weapons, but also be able to compete with the enemy in unconventional weapons.

And nuclear weapons, as the best of the unconventional weapons, are very modest as a strategic deterrent, and are not as frightening as biological weapons.

After all, nuclear weapons can be tested to let others know that you have them, while biological weapons have no way to test them in the open.

Kevin is now eager for Homo sapiens to develop a nuclear weapon right away so they don't need to hide in the shadows.

After secretly returning to Dawei Port, he quickly reported to the branch through the internal fiber optic cable the situation of the Lambi Island base, as well as the funds and resources needed for the next expansion.

In this regard, Ma Chi directly approved the expansion plan.

At this time, Dongggyi, with the entry of the Aoba Group, began to transform from a backward agricultural city to an industrial city.

In other words, the entire Shan State Plateau is changing, including the Golden Triangle, which has been in a state of chaos, and there is also an eerie calm at this time.

But this calm, the outside world does not know much at this time.

On the one hand, Honsawwady's external access is very limited.

On the other hand, the gangs of the Golden Triangle have all been cleaned up by Yang Mengjiao and Domino, and they have either been swallowed up or turned into fertilizer for the rainforest.

In this case, of course, very little news gets outside.

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