I am farming in the real world

Chapter 266: Data Fabrication: Desert Soybeans?

Night. Chen Jue, having just finished dinner with the leaders of YT County, took advantage of the dark and windy night.

He returned by car to the Flying Magic Cube parked at the closing area of the ecological protection project.

However, he didn't get into the Flying Magic Cube. Instead, taking advantage of the deserted area with no one around and no power lines or living people within several kilometers, he switched to Steve mode and took out a pixelated [Iron Shovel]. He began digging into the quicksand beneath his feet with a swishing sound.

With each swing of the [Iron Shovel], the quicksand below would sink down one block with a 'biu' sound.

[Iron Shovel: Tool, attack damage 4.5, durability (251/251). An MC tool used to make the collection of soil and other blocks easier.]

In MC, the tool used to dig sand for making glass is basically the [Shovel].

Compared to the [Pickaxe], the [Shovel] has a faster excavation speed when digging sand and soil.

If you start empty-handed, you can also punch sand with your bare hands, but be careful of the sand collapsing from above and burying you alive.

Fortunately, Chen Jue was a veteran MC player, and the [Iron Shovel] in his hands made a whistling sound.

In just a few minutes, he tunneled underground in a vertical shaft and joined the Iron Golems who were building the karez.

"Boss!"

The simple-minded Iron Golems stood at attention and saluted, their eyes glowing scarlet in the darkness.

Chen Jue took out a few stacks of torches and placed them around, then inspected the newly built MC karez.

The 'karez' is a type of underground water conservancy project created by the working people of the Xinjiang region in the long historical development of arid land.

Due to the high evaporation rate and low rainfall in the desert area, water is essential for survival in this land.

This 'karez', which includes a system of vertical wells, underground channels (underground canals), open channels (surface canals), and reservoirs (small reservoirs), can effectively draw out underground water resources and turn the desert into an oasis.

Of course, the main working principle of the karez is to use the natural slope of the mountain to divert the large amount of rainwater, glacier, and snowmelt that seeps into the ground in spring and summer to the surface for irrigation, so as to meet the production and domestic water needs of the desert area.

The reason why Chen Jue came to YT County to dig this MC karez this time was entirely for the 10,000 square kilometers of contracted land he had just signed.

Through the initial trial planting experiment, the 'Super Sand No. 1' soybean seeds showed 'good' adaptability on the slightly better Gobi Desert, and the growth was very gratifying.

However, when it came to the real Taklamakan Desert, it was a bit unaccustomed to the environment.

After all, no matter how heaven-defying 'Super Sand No. 1' is, it is still a plant, and it must rely on its roots to absorb underground water.

However, in the Taklamakan Desert, except for the edge area of the green belt ecological protection project, where you can see some water 10-20 meters below the surface, the closer you get to the center of the desert, the drier it becomes.

Sometimes, you may not even see underground water sources even if you dig 100 meters down.

In this harsh environment, planting 'Super Sand No. 1' soybeans will definitely result in as many deaths as are planted.

Therefore, there is the scene in front of you, the emergence of the MC 'karez', which uses the MC system to completely transform the desert environment.

However, the MC karez built by Chen Jue's Iron Golems is even more BUG-like than the traditional karez.

This thing is buried about 100 meters underground in the desert, and a new channel is dug every 10 meters, without upward vertical wells.

Even the water source does not need to intercept glacier meltwater, and MC block water is directly poured into the channel.

Under the BUG of 'infinite water', it only takes 1 or 2 months to realize the super-long karez that runs through the Taklamakan Desert.

Moreover, once this thing is built, it can create the illusion of a continuous supply of underground water resources.

In the future, even if a construction team accidentally digs up these MC karez, Chen Jue will not worry at all.

First, if you want to penetrate 100 meters deep, you must use large drilling equipment to have hope.

This kind of equipment will only appear in well drilling or exploration of mineral oil and gas resources.

This place in Taklamakan was almost explored by the predecessors in China half a century ago, and there is basically no need to worry about anyone coming here to dig resources again.

Secondly, at the same time of digging these MC karez, the necessary disguise work has not been saved.

For example, Iron Ninety-Six, who is at the forefront, is not wielding the MC [Pickaxe] in his hand, but a brushless electric pick purchased on the market, which is chiseling the square edges of the karez into uneven shapes of artificial excavation.

After that, every tens of meters, some dried and rotten wooden frames are placed on the chiseled ditches.

When someone really discovers this place in the future, they will exclaim that this is another great world wonder in ancient China comparable to the 'Great Wall'!

It may even hype up archaeological activities in the ancient Loulan Kingdom.

Maybe it can also breed several popular new tomb raiding works.

Of course, the reason why Chen Jue came down was also to see the evaporation of MC block water in the desert.

In the setting of MC, block water can penetrate sand and cobblestone blocks. Even when the two come into contact, there will be a visible dripping effect.

Players who like to mine, as long as they find water seepage or magma seepage on the blocks in front of them underground, it means that there is a water source or magma pool behind a layer.

"Boss, look! This water can indeed evaporate!" The follower, Lao Shang, touched the soil layer above his head with a sly smile on his face.

The water droplets hanging on it made Chen Jue look happy: "In this way, the evaporation of transforming the desert is guaranteed."

The reason why the desert is dry all year round and cannot grow vegetation is because its evaporation is far greater than its precipitation.

Take the Taklamakan Desert as an example. Its average annual evaporation is as high as 2500 to 3400 mm, while the average annual precipitation is only 10 to 20 mm.

It would be a miracle of life to grow plants in this kind of place where there is only outflow and no inflow!

Of course, the large-scale contracted trial planting of desert soybeans in YT County is only the beginning of the entire plan to short American soybeans.

The Loess Plateau, far away in the north-central region, is also undergoing a large-scale farmland excavation and transformation project after entering December.

A large amount of barren loess land on the top of the mountains was leveled by the construction vehicles stationed there.

So much so that it has been on the hot search several times because of this, and all kinds of self-media essays have begun to be published, hyping up that the above is going to completely transform the 300,000 square kilometers of the Loess Plateau into 45 million mu of farmland.

The official came out to refute the rumors and deny it, saying that it was purely fictitious and to listen less to the self-media's nonsense.

In short, all the sources are actually because the emergence of 'Super Sand No. 1' has completely changed the direction of domestic soybean cultivation planning at the end of 2024.

After inspecting these newly opened underground karez, Chen Jue looked back at Lao Shang with some resentment: "Didn't you dig out the ancient city of Jingjue? I still want to see how beautiful the Queen of Jingjue is."

Lao Shang looked speechless: "Boss! The ruins of the Jingjue Kingdom are in Hotan County! This is Yutian, even if you can dig up the ruins, it is the Loulan Kingdom!"