Chapter 1 Digging a Fish Pond

Rumble, rumble!

Today was the third day after Li Tianran eliminated Wells. So far, his fish pond had been dug, and the muddy soil had been transported out of the farm.

Due to the farm's original irrigation system, the farm used a well instead of tap water. So Li Tianran connected a plastic water pipe, more than ten meters long, to the well's pump head. After closing the gate, the groundwater surged into the empty fish pond!

To this day, although the daytime temperature remained around -20 degrees Celsius, the underground temperature wasn't as low. The clear, cold groundwater continued to flow into the fish pond, and the water level slowly rose, gradually filling the three-meter-deep pond.

He opened the mall.

"Resources category. Animal husbandry category. Fish category. Disinfectant, purchase 30 liters!"

"Cost: 3000 points!"

Several exquisitely packaged buckets of disinfectant appeared in front of Li Tianran. He picked up a bucket and poured the disinfectant into the fish pond water.

Building a fish pond has never been an easy task.

The soil often contains toxic and harmful substances such as heavy metal salts. Before stocking the pond with fish, it must first be soaked and disinfected. Then, it needs to be splashed with slaked lime for a second disinfection process, which can both clear the muddy water and prevent fish diseases.

After completing the two disinfection steps, it's also necessary to spread basal fertilizer in the pond to promote the reproduction and growth of plankton, providing an ample supply of natural feed for the fish.

Generally speaking, basal fertilizer mostly consists of livestock and poultry manure, such as from pigs and cows, plus some moss.

For Li Tianran, these things were readily available on the farm and didn't require much effort to purchase.

Watching the water slowly seep into the ground, Li Tianran dug up some of the sludge in the fish pond that had been soaked in disinfectant.

"Disinfected pond mud

Lead content: 0.0001%

Sodium content: 0.09%

Calcium content: 0.1%

Magnesium content: 0.1%

Evaluation: This is high-quality lotus pond mud. The content of heavy metals harmful to the human body has been reduced to a minimum, and the calcium and other elements beneficial to the human body exceed those of ordinary soil. It is especially suitable for the breeding of microorganisms and is the best choice for raising fish and growing rice!"

Li Tianran then looked at the soil next to it that had not been soaked in disinfectant.

"Radiated land

Lead content: 3%

Mercury content: 8%

Beryllium content: 7%

Calcium content: 0.005%

Evaluation: This is radiated soil, containing a large amount of heavy metal pollution. Almost no plants can grow on this land. Even if they do, they are sinful flowers full of toxins! Unless... you can find seeds that resist and are immune to heavy metal radiation!"

The difference could be seen by comparing the two types of soil.

If he directly injected water into the undisinfected fish pond and released the fish fry, those toxins wouldn't kill the level two fish fry, but they would cause all the microorganisms in the fish pond to disappear, leaving nothing to grow!

In this way, the cost of raising fish would greatly increase!

"Although the level two fish fry are not afraid of temperature changes, aquatic plants and microorganisms are. It seems that a heating system is still needed in the fish pond." Li Tianran muttered to himself. He found the materials for the heating pipes in the resource category of the mall.

"Adding a heating system to a fish pond, I'm probably the only one in the world doing this, right?"

Li Tianran smiled. Adding a heating system to the fish pond was obviously an extra expense, but in order to allow the fish fry in the fish pond to grow faster, he didn't hesitate to invest a huge amount of capital.

In other words, wasn't he earning points to improve his current living situation?

No sooner said than done!

Soon, a large pile of ceramic pipes specially designed for heating appeared on the land in front of him.

Li Tianran needed to connect these pipes to the boiler, and then wait for the first batch of disinfectant water in the fish pond to completely settle before installing them.

This was a big project.

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At the same time, at an abandoned factory site less than a kilometer from the farm, more than a dozen large machines were working feverishly on construction.

The original factory had been completely demolished, and they were now building a brand new building.

This building was extremely special. The reinforced concrete used to build the columns alone were special products not available on the market.

"Everyone, please be careful! Don't damage the materials. They are aerospace-grade materials for manufacturing the laboratory. If they are damaged, we will have to wait at least three more months to get the quota!"

A young man in a suit and leather shoes held thick blueprints in his hand, with a "Level One Architect" badge hanging on his chest.

He was an outstanding architect from the parent company of Tianrun Company. He came to Nancheng a day ago to help Bai Jingyan build a laboratory.

"Engineer Wang." At this moment, Bai Jingyan walked over from a distance, shook hands lightly with the architect, and then pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, saying, "At this rate, how long will it take to complete at the earliest?"

"At least a week." The architect, known as Engineer Wang, thought seriously for a moment, and replied, "The main difficulty is that the storage room you requested needs to be able to withstand a frontal impact of 200 tons of force, so I have to carry out special structural reinforcement of the control room."

"A week..." Bai Jingyan squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then nodded and smiled: "Thank you for your trouble."

"..." Engineer Wang glanced at Bai Jingyan, then hesitated, and then asked curiously, "Researcher Bai, I have a question... The purpose of this laboratory is just to make it easier for you to research drugs for acute illnesses, so why should the storage room be strengthened to that extent?"

"The bearing capacity of 200 tons is not even reached by the Berlin Wall, which is known as the Wall of Steel. I always feel... this doesn't look like a laboratory, but like..." Engineer Wang thought for a while, weighing his words in his mind: "A prison, a cage! A cage holding monsters like Godzilla!"

Hearing this, Bai Jingyan's expression did not change, and he smiled and said, "Engineer Wang, you have such a rich imagination! I have to admire you."

"Actually, the reason why I require such a high-intensity research institute is because in the head office, there have always been people fiercely opposing the drug research proposal, so I was forced to leave Modu and come to a remote place like Nancheng. I am afraid that someone from the head office will attack my research institute in order to abort this plan... You know the people in the head office, they are divided into different factions for the sake of interests, they can do anything, they may use tanks..."

"And now the world is so chaotic... I am a researcher who has no power to restrain a chicken, and I don't have the ability to protect myself, so I have to pin my hopes on the strength of the research institute itself." Bai Jingyan smiled gently and elegantly, his smile made him look weak and gentle: "If possible, I would even like to build a research institute to military base standards."