Homo sapiens.

The filtered seawater is introduced into the cultivation tank, and then an appropriate amount of silica powder and other auxiliary materials (such as colorants, modifiers, clarifiers, etc.) are added.

After all the raw materials are injected, the water temperature is maintained between 35.8 and 37.2 degrees Celsius, and finally a special hormone and nutrient solution is added, and the glass sponge will quickly enter a growth state.

After 45 hours, the glass at the bottom of the cultivation tank will be 5 millimeters thick, and the raw materials are almost exhausted, leaving only some waste liquid and living cells of the sponge.

Use the grabbing equipment to take out the glass, remove the sponge cells attached to the surface, and a piece of flat glass with a length of 3 meters and a thickness of 5 mm is completed.

As for the sponge cells in the cultivation tank, except for the mother matrix at the bottom, all the remaining living cells are removed and used as raw materials for methane fermentation.

As for those waste liquids, they are actually seawater with relatively low nutrients and salt content, which can be directly discharged into the sea.

In fact, it is also possible to directly use fresh water for production, but this will increase the production cost. After all, fresh water is not as cheap as sea water, and the use of fresh water needs to supplement some other elements, which will further increase the cost.

However, the advantage of low-temperature glass technology is that the production cost is sufficiently low.

Ma Chi continued: "According to the test results, the cost of low-temperature glass is mainly concentrated on nutrient solution, hormones and ground silica powder, and the cost of equipment is much lower than that of high-temperature glass."

"How much lower than high-temperature glass?" Liu Zhifan was very concerned about this issue.

"The cost is 85-96% lower, which means that in the initial stage, we can hit the glass market in Southeast Asia and South Asia with low prices."

Liu Zhifan wrote down the data: "What about glass bottles and tempered glass?"

"The cost of glass bottles with a specific shape will be higher than that of flat glass, while tempered glass needs secondary processing and raw materials need to be adjusted. The cost is about 50-60% of that of ordinary tempered glass." Ma Chi said.

Others also reported on their own departments.

Because the production process of low-temperature glass and coral cement is different from the traditional technology, not only the energy consumption is reduced, but also the production equipment required for the production line is reduced a lot.

For example, the production line of low-temperature glass only needs cultivation tanks, injection machines, grabbing machines, pumps, filter tanks, water temperature regulators, post-production cell cleaning machines, conveyor belts, cutting workbenches, and equipment for mining quartz stones and grinding equipment.

The production line of coral cement is similar.

Qingye Group has enclosed a wasteland of 5 mu near Dawei Port, and obtained the mining rights of local quartzite mines and limestone mines.

Establish a cement and glass production base here, and at the same time use the transportation convenience of Dawei Port to export glass products to South Asia and Southeast Asia.

However, Liu Zhifan understands that foreign trade depends on cost-effectiveness and opportunities. Many companies have their own suppliers, and it is impossible to change suppliers all of a sudden because of the low price of Qingye Group.

However, in the local market of Hongshawadi, those small glass factories are definitely not the opponents of Aoba Group.

But he didn't want to rely solely on glass and cement. After listening to everyone's situation, Liu Zhifan came up with a plan of his own: "I plan to enter the beverage industry, and the FMCG industry is even better."

"Fast moving goods? Drinks?" Ma Chi frowned, he really didn't know much about this.

Liu Zhifan reminded with a smile: "We have an advantage that other beverage companies do not have, a huge advantage."

"Glass bottle?" Ma Chi responded.

"Yes, it is glass bottles. Do you know why glass bottles are eliminated by plastic bottles? Because of the difference in production costs, glass bottles weigh more than plastic bottles and are easy to break, but the key is still in cost."

Liu Zhifan dug out a document and put it on the screen.

"This is the cost difference between glass bottles and plastic bottles. Although glass bottles can be recycled to reduce some costs, the cost of traditional glass bottles is still high."

He called up another document: "This is the current packaging cost on the market. Whether it is a plastic bottle or a Tetra Pak, the cost is not low."

"It's really not low." Ma Chi also discovered for the first time that the packaging cost of a carton of milk actually accounts for about 20-30% of the sales price.

Liu Zhifan said confidently: "The production cost of our glass bottles is much lower than that of plastic bottles. Even selling mineral water can kill other companies."

"Selling mineral water?" The head of the technology department thought about it and found that the mineral water process is not difficult. They only need to import a set of water treatment equipment and a tinplate bottle cap production line to basically form a mineral water production line.

At that time, they will start a price war first, killing Hongshawadi's peers, and then relying on their technology and price advantages, they will enter the entire Southeast Asian market, and they will be able to dominate the beverage industry.

Soon Ma Chi and others agreed to Liu Zhifan's beverage strategy.

They will sort out these things and report to the headquarters regularly.

Chapter 54 Armament

Li Qingye put down the information in his hand, he was quite satisfied with the development of the Hongshawadi Branch.

In particular, Liu Zhifan can draw inferences from one instance and find out the hidden value from the advantages of the glass industry.

Wrote an encouragement letter and asked Philip to send it to the Hongshawadi branch, and at the same time asked Yang Mengjiao to pay attention to the safety work of the branch.

Speaking of safety, Li Qingye has achieved a lot in the past few months.

He told Feili to arrange the itinerary and prepare to go to the training base of the Blood Blade Special Forces.

The base is located on the southwest side of Luzon Island, the northwest side of the Visayas, and the east of Mindoro Island. The island is called "Banton Island", with an area of ​​tens of square kilometers. There is not much population on the island. There are only two small fishing villages.

Homo sapiens moved all the people from these two small fishing villages to other islands through the relationship of the Fernando family.

Now there is no one else on Bandon Island except the Homo sapiens.

The distance between Bandon Island and the nearby large islands is 24 kilometers away, and it is not around the waterway. There is no supporting port for private ships to berth, and few people will go there.

5 month 7 day.

Li Qing brought Philip and others to Bandon Island.

Bagheera, who is in charge of the Blood Blade Special Forces, has been waiting at the pier for a long time. At this time, the entire Blood Blade team has expanded to 685 people.

On the training ground, Li Qingye watched the combat training of the soldiers.

The advantage of soldiers over natural people is that they are not afraid of death and pain, and a lot of knowledge can be given through soldier programs, which saves the trouble of reading.

"Have you ever actually fought?"

Bagheera looked at him with extremely fanatical eyes, and then carefully replied:

"Half a month ago, through the relationship of the Lopez family, I found more than a dozen death row prisoners from the prison, and asked them to fight life and death with soldiers. Even if the death row prisoners were armed with guns and cold weapons, they still couldn't defeat the same number of prisoners. soldier."

"Is that so?" Li Qingye didn't think there was anything to be proud of.

You must know that the weapon equipment of the Blood Blade Special Forces, in addition to the weapons of the conventional special forces, there are many things unique to Homo sapiens.

For example, biological computers, Gu insect series, biological poisons, etc. These things are very powerful in special operations.

Who would be wary of a mosquito in a rainforest setting like Bandon Island?a spider?a fly?

Of course, the frontal combat power of the Blood Blade Special Forces is definitely difficult to fight against the large corps. The opponent can completely clean up the ground with incendiary bombs, thermobaric bombs, and cluster bombs.

As for the frontal battle, Li Qingye did not put his hopes on the Blood Blade Special Forces, after all, there was a specialization in surgery.

"This time I came over and brought you a batch of new equipment."

He clapped his hands.

Philip directed his subordinates to open the container.

There are boxes displayed inside. These boxes have various specifications and contain equipment for different purposes.

Fili opened one of the boxes, and inside was a special suit similar to a shark suit.

Li Qingye introduced them: "This is a white shark-type underwater combat suit, which allows the user to dive to a depth of about 100 meters, and does not need to carry an oxygen cylinder, because the combat suit itself can filter out the oxygen in the seawater, and at the same time It can also block infrared detection."

Bagheera immediately arranged for soldiers to come and try them on.

After wearing the underwater combat suit, it is like adding a layer of skin.

Not only is the ability to resist water pressure enhanced, but it can also be used for long-term underwater activities. The imitation fish gill system is on the back of the combat suit, which looks like a shark's dorsal fin.

This layer of bionic skin has the functions of heat preservation, anti-infrared detection, anti-cutting, bulletproof and increased swimming speed.

Through underwater combat suits, the Blood Blade Special Forces can completely swim to the enemy's territory in the high seas dozens of kilometers away from the coast.

Of course, the physical strength of soldiers is limited, and another auxiliary equipment must be used, that is, micro jet propulsion.

The micro-propeller is about one meter long, and its shape is similar to a gas bottle. It also carries two airbags for adjusting the depth. It can use the gas stored in the crystal sponge liner as power to save the user's physical strength underwater.

For areas with long coastlines, such as Hongshawadi, Luzon, Malaysia, etc., this kind of underwater sneaking is basically unstoppable.

Even America, which claims to be the strongest in the world, has no way to guard all the coastlines around the clock.

In addition to the white shark-type underwater combat suit, micro-jet propulsion, and retractable solar panels for charging.

The power generation efficiency of this solar panel is similar to that of ordinary monocrystalline silicon solar panels. The advantage is that it can be shrunk to the size of a tennis ball. After fully unfolded, the area can reach 5 square meters. It is also made of biological materials.

The solar panels can power the micro-thrusters, recompress air into the air storage tank, and also charge other devices.

In addition, there is also a tiger-type battle suit for land combat. This set of battle suits integrates a lot of biological technology.

Including: exoskeleton (ants), optical camouflage (butterflies), infrared failure (amphibians), thermal insulation (amphibians), bulletproof (chitin + diatom + non-Newtonian liquid), waterproof (shark + lotus leaf), anti Biochemistry (lotus leaf + crystal sponge), ultrasonic detection (bats), infrared detection (snakes), pheromone detection (insects), biological auxiliary computer, pheromone communication (insects).

This set of battle suits is almost a masterpiece of bionics.

In order to match this battle suit, Li Qingye also developed some other weapons.

For example: Gu insect nest, ultrasonic paralysis device, electric shock device, bomb dragonfly, etc.

With these new equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Blood Blade Special Forces has been raised to a new level. In jungles and cities with complex terrain, it is definitely a nightmare for the enemy.

For example, the bomb dragonfly, which implants high-explosive plastic explosives in the body of a genetically modified dragonfly, and this genetically modified dragonfly has highly toxic ingredients. Even if the explosion does not kill the enemy, if it is pierced into the body by the remains of the dragonfly, it will soon be poisonous. died.

There are also Gu insect nests, which can store some genetically modified insects such as poisonous mosquitoes, flies, wasps, etc. These genetically modified insects can be implanted with various proteins, toxins, parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses in advance.

If Li Qingye wanted to destroy the world at this time, he could do it with these things.

The terror of biologists lies in the living things themselves.

It is very difficult for other types of scientists to destroy the world, but biologists are different. Even a relatively simple laboratory, as long as it is crazy enough, can still bring unimaginable trouble to the world.

For example, the cultivation and genetic modification of superbugs are basically not difficult.

Previously, Li Qingye made the malaria parasites easily possess super-drug resistance, that is, through the cultivation of high-concentration anti-malarial drugs, the surviving malaria parasites were screened out.

There is also smallpox, which many people think has been defeated by humans.

As long as Li Qingye is willing, he can recreate a new type of smallpox from cowpox virus and monkeypox virus at any time.

Because from the perspective of gene sequences, vaccinia has the largest amount of gene sequences, followed by monkeypox, and finally smallpox (human pox).

The pox virus has a special ability, that is, "reduced evolution". As the name implies, the pox virus can increase its infectivity and lethality by discarding a part of its gene sequence.

Historically, smallpox actually consisted of multiple independent spillover events that evolved from other less lethal poxviruses.

have you understood?

In other words, as long as the four gene sequences in the monkeypox virus are deleted, it will become a new smallpox virus.

And is this kind of thing difficult?

No, it's not difficult at all.

Chapter 55 New Intelligence

After Li Qingye handed over the new equipment to the Blood Blade Special Forces, he ordered Bagheera to draw 200 people from the Blood Blade and prepare to deploy them to Hongshawadi.

On the one hand, it can secretly protect the Qingye Group, and on the other hand, it is to enhance the penetration of Hongshawadi.

After all, the northern part of Hongshawadi is not very stable now. It is more difficult to control the leaders in the places where the warlords ruled, than in the stable area in the south of Hongshawadi.

Sometimes fighting is essential, if you don't do it, others will force you to do it, otherwise you can only be torn to pieces, and that area will be more vulnerable to the weak.

However, it is still difficult for ordinary soldiers to form an absolute advantage by relying on hot weapons and the like.

Therefore, the Blood Blade Special Forces team is needed to take action.

Just when Li Qingye was planning to return to Caragua Island.

In the optical fiber communication network of the Blood Blade training base, an encrypted letter was transmitted, which was sent to Philip, the Minister of Internal Affairs.

After reading it, Fei Li immediately reported to Li Qingye: "Boss, Director Chen has received information that Yang Tianci will go to Bangkok, Siam on May 5 to participate in a secret business meeting."

"What are you talking about?" Li Qingye asked casually.

"Malaysia subsea oilfield cooperation."

"Seabed oil field? New Nanyang Company has this kind of business?" Li Qingye recalled the information, it seems that New Nanyang Company does not have related industries.

Fei Li immediately replied: "According to Yang Tiancheng's account, New Nanyang Company does not have an oil and gas exploration industry, but the insider of the Ministry of Security found a piece of information that New Nanyang Company and other partners seem to exchange benefits for a taxi software company. The stake was sold to Temasek Investments."

Li Qingye touched his chin lightly: "Temasek Investment? It was also this company that cooperated with Du Shuping back then to promote the listing of several subsidiaries of Xinxin Group. It is necessary to investigate this company in depth."

Immediately, he ordered Fei Li to inform Chen Jianxiong to find a way to infiltrate the inside of Temasek Investment Company and investigate the transaction between the other party and Du Shuping.

And he flipped through the information that Yang Tianci was going to Bangkok.

The Yang family has a close relationship with some Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia. This is something worthy of attention. For example, the Xu family in Luzon has a good relationship with Yang Haibo.

Regarding the matter that Yang Tianci and others are going to discuss secretly in Bangkok, Li Qingye will naturally not miss this opportunity.