Volume 1 Three Months After the End of the World Chapter 56 Fu Wei's "Thumb Lab" Project
"Then why have you asked me to do it these days?" Yang Ao asked.
Shen Jin hesitated for a moment, "Because I can't bear to see other people begging in their eyes!"
"this……"
Yang Ao felt that Shen Jin was just trying to fool him, but he couldn't find any evidence.
"By the way, Fu Wei came to me yesterday and said he wanted to talk to you!"
"Oh? Isn't he growing vegetables in the greenhouse? Has he researched new vegetable varieties?"
It’s funny to say that after Shen Jin arranged these people, he also brought Fu Wei over.
Then Fu Wei, the potential winner of the Nobel Prize in Biology, was forced to grow greenhouse vegetables...
Old Wang from the Mediterranean looked at the tender and delicate Fu Wei and wanted to teach him a lesson, to show him that growing vegetables is not that simple.
The result was a slap in the face at the speed of light...
Fu Wei made some simple improvements to the greenhouse, adjusted the seed spacing, temperature and water content in the greenhouse, and the seeds came out the next day.
Lao Wang once suspected that he had been planting fake land.
Shen Jin went to the greenhouse area and found Fu Wei who was loosening the soil.
When he was rescued from the laboratory, he was so thin that his bones were visible. Now his body has almost recovered and has basically reached the physical strength standard of a normal person.
Shen Jin gave Fu Wei some preferential treatment in terms of food, which enabled him to recover so quickly.
"Brother Jin, look at the two hybrid vegetables I made, a cross between cucumber and eggplant. The cucumber's skin is smoother, but the inside remains crisp. The taste is definitely better!"
"Hmm? Cucumber + eggplant? Wow!"
Fu Wei looked puzzled: "Brother Jin, is there something wrong with this vegetable? Or is it a taboo?"
Shen Jin waved his hands quickly: "Ah... nothing, there's Lao Fu, you're almost 40, don't call me brother, just call me Shen Jin!"
"Okay, Mr. Shen!"
Shen Jin stopped correcting him, mainly because he felt it was very awkward to have a middle-aged man following him and calling him "brother".
Some people may like this feeling, but Shen Jin feels uncomfortable.
"What's the matter? I heard from Yang Ao that you have something to talk to me about?" Shen Jin was chatting with Fu Wei while observing the vegetables in the greenhouse.
The others had already been driven away by Yang Ao.
Fu Wei brushed the dirt off himself and wiped his hands with the towel he brought with him.
"Come, please sit down!"
He pulled Shen Jin to sit on a stool, which was made of leftover scraps from building a greenhouse. It was a bit ugly, but still sturdy.
Fu Wei took out his own paper and pen and pointed it out to Shen Jin: "Mr. Shen, this is a plan I have been thinking about in my spare time these days. I call it the 'Thumb Laboratory'"
There was a 3D perspective drawing on the paper, which was probably a building that looked like an inverted bowl, with various mechanical objects and instruments inside.
"This laboratory is a simplified version of the one built by Yang Ao's father. It has fewer functions and requires fewer people to operate it. Most experiments cannot be completed..."
"But?" Yang Ao couldn't help but interrupt.
Fu Wei smiled confidently, "That's right, but if this laboratory can operate normally, it can mass-produce 'Gene Optimization Drug 1.0'!"
Shen Jin and Yang Ao were shocked, their eyes widened instantly, "Mass production? The kind we drank?"
Fu Wei was very satisfied with their reactions, "Yes, copy it exactly!"
Shen Jin carefully looked at the various layout diagrams and experimental equipment in the laboratory.
"Hiss... As expected, I can't understand any of them!"
"Me too!"
But Shen Jin changed his mind and said, "No, even if you can draw this thing, where can you get the instruments and raw materials? We don't have so many strange glass bottles!"
Fu Wei was confident. "Glass containers are no problem. I can make them myself. Just give me a furnace that can burn glass. Of course, a furnace that is specialized in burning glass may not be easy to find. If I use a gas stove, I can burn it for a while and it will be done!"
"As for the equipment, we just need to go to my old lab, take down the broken ones and bring them back. There's a guy here who can repair electrical appliances. Let's work together and it should work!"
Shen Jin didn't expect that Lao Fu hadn't been idle these days. He started with a powerful move, "What about the raw materials? I heard from Yang Ao that these raw materials are not easy to get, right?"
Fu Wei sighed, "Yes, in this plan, the raw materials are the most difficult. Although we have mastered the atomic composition of the entire genetic medicine and can find some substitute raw materials to make it, we still need a large amount of prescription drugs to extract the chemical components inside!"
Shen Jin suddenly recalled that during the first month of the apocalypse, he seemed to have taken over several pharmaceutical factories?
I have too many things in my collection to remember...
"Ahem... In other words, if we build the 'Thumb Lab' according to your design, we can mass-produce genetic drugs as long as we have the raw materials?"
“That’s right!”
Shen Jin pondered for a moment, and then he thought of a question: if it is really possible to mass-produce genetic drugs, who should he inject them into?
This thing can produce pseudo-superhumans in large quantities!
And his current status is based on the premise that only he and Yang Ao are pseudo-supernormal.
If it can really be mass-produced and everyone becomes pseudo-supernormal, what consequences will it bring...
No, we have to be steady.
"Old Fu, I'll study your plan again. It won't be too late to do it once I get the medicine!"
"Mr. Shen, can you... use your earth-related abilities to create a laboratory environment? I'll burn the glass bottles and get ready!"
Shen Jin thought it was okay. Without the raw materials, no matter how good the laboratory was, it wouldn’t be able to produce anything.
"Okay, tonight. As for burning glass... I have something good!"
Lao Yang's eyes lit up. Although it could be done manually, he could save a lot of time if he had equipment to burn glass.
This lab will progress even faster.
When Shen Jin was about to leave, Fu Wei grabbed his hand and said, "Mr. Shen, you must believe me. I am a scientific researcher and have no interest in your management. To be honest, even if you set up a government agency in the future, it has nothing to do with me. I just want to make some contributions to this disaster and the remaining humans. After the thermal weapons become ineffective, humans can only use too little power. I am afraid that humans cannot withstand it..."
Shen Jin looked at Fu Wei's sincere expression and understood what he meant. This was a pure biological scientist. He knew that his duty was always to do scientific research. Even if Shen Jin wanted to revolt and build his own empire, it still had nothing to do with him. At his level, what he saw was not power and desire, but only the concept of "human beings".
Fu Wei wants to use his knowledge of biology to help humanity fight back against zombies.
"Okay, I'll remember that!"
In the evening, Shen Jin specifically told Yang Ao that he did not need a technician tonight, and then he went to the abandoned laboratory.
Use the [wrench] to dismantle those experimental equipments that are severely damaged.
"The industrial module is really powerful. A wrench helped me dismantle a large piece of equipment!"
In the past, if you used the cube-forming ability to violently dismantle it, there was a 50% chance that it would break and become a pile of scrap.
At that time, taking things apart depended entirely on your appearance. If you had a bad face, you would get nothing.
Now with a [wrench], you can completely disassemble the machine with 100% no damage.
Although the [Wrench] has durability, the more delicate the object, the higher the consumption.
But it is still worthwhile to consume some [Iron Ingots] in exchange for a complete machine.
In order to dismantle these things, Shen Jin brought three wrenches, and two of them were damaged before he finished dismantling them.
After I came back, I went to the warehouse again and took out some of the hard alloy exterior wall materials that were dismantled from the laboratory last time.
I built another [Iron Furnace] and took some daily consumable materials and put them all into the package.
Everything is ready.
Tonight, the night is dark and windy, perfect for building a laboratory!
