(The reader老爷s who had been aggressively tipping wanted an extra update, and Panda didn't see it. I'll add an extra update today, and should be able to add another one tomorrow.)
For the next three days and nights, the company employees on Birong Star continuously took capsule spacecraft to various sampling points.
The samplers wore green chemical suits, like explosion-proof suits, and moved clumsily like bears.
This set of clothing was worth five hundred thousand and could protect them from nuclear radiation, toxic gases, and toxic fungi for a short period.
The sampling cans were borrowed from the military's biological laboratory. Each can had a capacity of 12 liters, a metal casing, and a metal tag on top.
The cans were also expensive, costing ten thousand each. The military laboratory was initially hesitant to lend them, but after receiving Jiang Ye's written order, they immediately handed over the entire warehouse of sampling cans to Zhijun Technology Company.
The sampling process was actually quite simple. Upon reaching the designated location, they would dig the soil with a shovel and pour it into the can up to the marked line.
If there were insects or plants in the soil, they would also dig some up and put them in the can.
Finally, there was the air sampling. They would hold the can and run around the vicinity, then seal it.
There were 26,000 sampling points, and each point required four cans.
Within three days, all 104,000 sampling cans were airlifted back to Jiang Ye Star by spacecraft. The military specifically dispatched a company of soldiers to the space station to maintain order and escort the trucks carrying the sampling cans away, box by box.
Next, it was time for the Zhijun to eat dirt.
The sampling cans were sent to the Zhijun pool and dropped in one by one according to the Zhijun's requirements.
The liquid in the wine pool churned, and the white Zhijun, like some kind of deep-sea worm, clung to the sampling cans and forcefully twisted them open.
Then, they quickly absorbed the air that gushed out of the cans.
Next, they devoured the soil, small animals, and plants inside the cans.
In less than three seconds, the Zhijun would update the analysis results in the database.
Jiang Ye was very surprised by the Zhijun's ability. The soil and air looked ordinary, but they contained a vast amount of information. This included the general biological composition of the area, the potential biological composition that the environment could develop, climate changes, different gases in the air, pollen, spores, pheromones, the fertility of the soil affected by fungal activity, various types of pollution, and so on.
If it were handed over to a laboratory for analysis, a large team using equipment worth hundreds of thousands might need a week to get detailed results. But the Zhijun, with a "twist and lick," could figure everything out.
Three days later, all sampling points were analyzed.
The Zhijun had mastered the environmental information of Birong Star and began to create biological organisms.
Before the creation, they sent a message to Jiang Ye.
[Zhijun: Master, we are about to officially start creating targeted biological organisms.]
[Zhijun: Based on the current situation on Birong Star, we plan to create an environmental improvement organism and a carnivorous organism first.]
[Zhijun: The environmental improvement organism will be modified from sunflowers. Sunflowers have excellent nuclear radiation absorption capabilities, and can effectively clean up radioactive substances in water, air, and soil. However, traditional sunflowers have too low absorption capacity, so we will use sunflowers modified with genes from turnip and cockscomb flower.]
Jiang Ye: "Sunflowers can not only absorb nuclear radiation, but more importantly, they can also produce sunlight."
[Zhijun: ???]
[Zhijun: What do you mean?]
Jiang Ye: "It's nothing, just an old joke. You guys carry on."
The Zhijun had already issued an order through Liu Jizi, and the company employees purchased a truckload of fresh genetically modified sunflowers overnight and sent them to the Zhijun pool.
The workers, following the boss's orders, directly threw the sunflowers into the pool.
The wine liquid immediately churned, and countless white fish-like Zhijun clusters swarmed forward, as if they had been starving for a long time, quickly devouring the sunflowers.
Then, there was a lightning-fast evolution.
Every time the Zhijun completed a task, they sent real-time messages to Jiang Ye.
[Sunflower deconstruction complete]
[Starting gene splitting]
[Replacing ribonucleic acid genes with silicon ring genes. This gene is less prone to mutation and extremely difficult to integrate into other ribonucleic acid gene organisms, thus preventing gene environment pollution.]
[Gene replacement complete, only retaining the ribonucleic acid genes of chloroplasts.]
[Longevity gene induction, extending sunflower lifespan from 120 days to 360 days.]
[Longevity gene induction, extending sunflower lifespan from 360 days to 1280 days.]
...
[Longevity gene induction, sunflower lifespan reaches ten years. This gene modification is complete.]
[Improved leaf area gene, sunflower leaf area increases by 5%... 15%... 50%... 100%...]
[Sunflowers will develop larger leaves, with mature leaves nearly the size of banana leaves.]
The Zhijun stopped working here and requested a new batch of wine and a ton of plant culture medium.
The company employees immediately got busy, preparing the solution from the adjacent warehouse according to the formula. After testing, they input it into the pipelines, and within an hour, the liquid in the entire Zhijun pool was replaced.
The Zhijun became active, like a pool full of white fish.
Then, a mass of green, the size of an egg, rapidly condensed.
In less than five minutes, the green elongated, rooted, and sprouted leaves.
Jiang Ye watched the scene through the monitor, witnessing the leaves grow larger and larger, reaching the size of banana leaves.
Perhaps the lighting in the Zhijun pool was too dim, and some nearby Zhijun spontaneously illuminated, casting golden light upon the sunflowers.
Jiang Ye was surprised. Did the Zhijun have this function?
Could they be put in glass bottles and used as light bulbs?
This foolish thought flashed through his mind. Using hundreds of billions of painstakingly cultivated Zhijun for lighting would be too wasteful, almost like gold foil toilet paper.
The green leaves of the sunflowers unfurled and swayed, gradually growing large golden flowers.
Over the next two hours, the sunflowers in the wine pool seemed to transform into some kind of hallucination or magic.
The leaves and large flowers continuously withered and scattered throughout the pool.
However, the roots and stems remained alive, constantly sprouting new buds and leaves, and regrowing.
Time seemed to flow rapidly, with the center of the pool experiencing a year's passage every ten minutes.
After two hours, the entire surface of the Zhijun pool was covered with giant withered leaves, resembling countless small boats.
Jiang Ye gasped. The Zhijun's ability was incredibly heaven-defying!
The Zhijun, possibly verifying that the previous modifications were successful, devoured all the sunflowers and continued their work.
[Improving sunflower root system... Roots will become sturdier and stronger, reaching ten meters underground to clear a larger area of radioactive elements.]
[Improving sunflower stems... Significantly thickening the xylem, transforming sunflowers from herbaceous plants into woody plants, i.e., sunflower trees.]
[Continuing to improve sunflower stems... Sunflower trees will become sturdier and taller, growing more trunks and branches, all of which can bear sunflowers and cover a larger aerial area, absorbing nuclear radiation from the air.]
The stems seemed difficult to improve, and the Zhijun worked for over ten hours.
By the end of the first day's modifications, the originally normal sunflowers had become unrecognizable, mutated into another species, like alien sunflowers.
This level of evolution would definitely require at least a million years.
Jiang Ye's hair stood on end as he watched.
He suddenly thought of one thing... he absolutely could not let the Zhijun leave the Zhijun pool.
The ability to modify organisms in this way was truly terrifying!