Room 7901, Underground Base 1, Tao Yun Lake.
Less than half a year after the eruption of the world's number one active volcano, Ding Yun's family, following the principle of proximity, moved from their home to this location and began to live collectively.
Central heating, central cooling, and mess hall meals.
This was done to minimize energy consumption to the greatest extent possible.
However, Ding Yun did not move in. She had concluded her work on superior seed cultivation at her own research institute and began to shift her research focus towards the popularization of artificial starch.
And she was no longer limited by the factor of reasonableness.
While she had done some unconventional things previously, they had generally maintained a degree of reasonableness, were explainable, and supported by cause-and-effect. But doing so was far too slow.
Many things were inconvenient to use.
If it continued like this, even if the population decreased by seven to eight hundred million, she might not be able to produce any reasonable results.
She believed that given the current situation, even if some of her results were unreasonable, the authorities would not scrutinize them too deeply, or rather, would be more willing to call the unreasonable a miracle. After all, in a life-or-death situation, whether something was reasonable or scientific was simply unimportant.
Therefore, Ding Yun simply abandoned the idea of rationalization.
She officially began to use things from her soul space without reservation, as well as the knowledge stored in her mind and the replication function of the treasure basin in her hand.
She performed many operations.
But overall, she only accomplished two things.
The first was to build a conventional controllable fusion power station to provide sufficient energy for the treasure basin, enabling it to exert its extreme continuous replication capabilities.
The second was to analyze the treasure basin. Yes, Ding Yun began to analyze and research her own golden finger.
Regarding this, Ding Yun did not expect to be able to fully replicate the treasure basin. She only hoped to analyze a portion of its functions and then artificially create mechanical equipment capable of mass production, which would consume little energy to continuously manufacture or replicate artificial starch, thereby alleviating the famine.
These two tasks, though stated as just two, actually involved tens of thousands of processes.
Ding Yun first designed and built a few robots, then replicated thousands of identical robots to assist her in operation and manufacturing, and in continuously replicating rare materials. Only then did she obtain sufficient energy after one year and perfectly complete both tasks after two years.
The equipment she created, which could continuously produce artificial starch by simply charging, was still basin-shaped. However, its exterior was no longer retro; it was full of technological flair. To reflect its food-producing characteristic,
Ding Yun specifically named it the Shen Nong Basin.
This Shen Nong Basin could convert five kilowatt-hours of electricity into one jin of artificial starch, with a conversion efficiency of one hundred jin per hour. Compared to the national population, this was indeed a drop in the bucket. However, this was not the only one. Ding Yun could continuously produce or replicate them using the treasure basin.
And this was only a small Shen Nong Basin.
With the corresponding technology, it was entirely possible to create Shen Nong Basins thousands of times larger.
Therefore, there was no need to worry about the conversion efficiency.
As the technology was breakthroughs were made and the Shen Nong Basin was manufactured, Ding Yun quickly replicated tens of thousands of Shen Nong Basins with her treasure basin and began selling them online.
Although most of the population had already been relocated to various ground or underground bases, the logistics industry still existed, albeit much slower than before. Coupled with Ding Yun's explicit use of keywords such as starch and artificial starch on the product page,
Therefore, anyone looking to find any remaining survivors online or seeking potential food sellers would have, nine times out of ten, seen the Shen Nong Basin advertised by Ding Yun. Even if most didn't believe it, there were always a few who wanted to take a gamble, or perhaps to debunk it, and purchased her Shen Nong Basin.
As long as someone purchased it.
News that this thing was real would inevitably spread.
Not to mention that the number of buyers was not small.
As those buyers received their Shen Nong Basins within the next three to five days, and after connecting them to the power source with a mixture of doubt and prepared disappointment, they either couldn't contain their screams or laughter, or they couldn't help but cry, with some even touching or licking the freshly produced raw starch.
After experiencing the initial ecstasy and calming down, and finding that while this thing consumed a considerable amount of electricity, it produced one hundred jin of artificial starch in just one hour, they naturally rushed to recommend it to friends and family, or posted related information on their social media.
Some also left positive reviews on the website.
And promoted it on other platforms.
In addition, they all hurried to buy more online, fearing that this item would run out of stock or become difficult to obtain.
Although most people still suspected these messages were from paid promoters, as long as one percent of people believed them.
The final conversion rate was still quite good.
Furthermore, many buyers' relatives and friends actually lived nearby. A short walk brought them to their neighbors, who could easily come over to see the actual product, thus seeing is believing.
And then they became completely convinced and rushed to purchase.
Before long, the Shen Nong Basins replicated by Ding Yun were sold out. However, she had ample energy, so she quickly replicated another batch with the treasure basin.
She continued to list them and sell them.
At the same time, she waited for the authorities to contact her.
She did not have a direct channel to communicate with agencies like the National Grain and Oil Administration, so she could only sell the Shen Nong Basins online for now, waiting for others to find her. Once she conveyed the relevant technology to the National Grain and Oil Administration and other related agencies, she would be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
She would no longer have to worry about the collapse and chaos of the nation.
Regardless of anything else, Ding Yun still hoped to live in a country with order. Even if the order was poor or weak, having order was much better than having none. The human heart that had lost order and moral constraints
was something one dared not speculate about and could not hold illusions about.
Although the reaction from the National Grain and Oil Administration and the Artificial Starch Technology Breakthrough Team was a bit slow, they still found Ding Yun through the online shopping platform on the same day the relevant news fermented and contacted her. After confirming their identities, Ding Yun packaged the relevant technical schematics and sent them to them.
However, even so, they personally visited Ding Yun's research institute and were completely stunned by the small conventional controllable fusion power station within the institute.
This information was then escalated through various channels,
and people were dispatched to perfectly protect the area.
Following this were harmonious exchanges, expressions of attitude, benefits, and a series of procedures. Ding Yun also cooperated fully, stating that she could hand over the technology, but she must receive all the honors and benefits she deserved, her family must be well taken care of, and she needed to rest for a while.
Then she would continue with research in other areas.
The authorities naturally accepted everything and quickly went to pick up Ding Yun's relatives and arrange accommodation for her.