Homo sapiens

With money opening the way, Li Jinglan soon purchased a large number of mature or semi-mature eels in the coastal areas of southern Fujian Province.

These eels are then transported to Calagua Island through specialized live seafood transport ships.

at the same time.

Li Qingye also received another news.

Through a satellite phone, Kangnan, who was out fishing for eel fry, reported an important piece of information to him, that is, the number of glass eels in the wild eel breeding waters near the Luzon Trench has become extremely rare.

According to communications between Kang Nan and more than a dozen colleagues, the number of glass eels at this time is only a few tenths of what it was in previous years.

Many fishing boats have been busy for several weeks and only caught dozens of kilograms of fry. In previous years, they could catch several tons of fry, which is a steep decline.

Li Qingye naturally understood that the consequences of overfishing were beginning to show, and at the same time, this was also an opportunity and a huge outlet.

When wild resources are scarce, the price of fry will quickly rise, and it will also stimulate capital investment.

Now he must quickly develop low-cost eel breeding technology to prevent other companies from developing similar technologies.

Currently, the research institution with the most in-depth research on artificial eel propagation is a research institute from Japan. They have been able to realize artificial propagation of eels, but the production cost is too high.

The technology developed by Japanese research institutions promotes mature eels to enter a reproductive state through hormonal stimulation and environmental regulation.

The current production cost of a captive-bred eel reaches $60,000.

The wholesale price of wild eel fry is US$7,000 to US$12,000 for 5,000 glass eels.

The price difference between the two is too big, and artificial eel fry are not competitive at all.

Li Qingye had read relevant papers from that research institute, and even used hacking methods to turn the other party's network upside down.

Although the research institute concealed some key data, it recently reduced the production cost to about US$40,000 per unit.

But Li Qingye is not optimistic about them, because the key to this artificial breeding technology lies in special hormones, and the cost of those special hormones is there.

He used data from Japanese researchers to derive a set of techniques.

"The key lies in the eel's special sex hormone. Currently, this hormone cannot be synthesized artificially, and several alternative hormones are not cheap and can easily cause developmental abnormalities in eel." Li Qingye clarified his thoughts.

Soon he was experimenting.

First, through the combined effects of various hormones and the stimulation of simulated environmental pressure, the eels enter a state of sexual maturity.

That special eel sex hormone was found and extracted.

By comparing the gene sequences of eels before and after sexual maturity, we found some gene sequences that may be related to sexual maturity.

The next step is very simple, which is to use CRISPR sequences and building blocks to inactivate part of the eel genes.

After more than a month of research, he quickly identified the eel's sexual maturity gene sequence, cut out these genes, and inserted them into yeast through CRISPR-Cas9.

Soon under environmental pressure, the genetically recombined yeast rapidly produced eel sex hormones.

In addition to equipment, the production cost of this hormone has dropped significantly, about $5 per gram.

This is still the production cost of using a laboratory solution. If an industrialized production solution is adopted, the production cost will continue to decrease.

With this special eel sex hormone, he quickly injected it into the mature eels.

In the C5 area of ​​the experimental base.

A dozen employees responsible for checking eel breeding tanks took pens to record the conditions of each tank.

Li Qingye and Li Jinglan looked at the conditions in each water tank.

"Has it been successful?" Li Jinglan was very excited. Looking at the glass eels in the water tank, he seemed to see gold swimming.

Li Qingye said calmly: "Well, the technology has matured. Two mature eels can produce 1 to 3 million eggs. Without the interference of other predators, 30% of these eggs can develop into glass eels."

"Boss, we are prosperous. The price of an eel fry in January this year has reached 30,000 US dollars, and it is still out of stock."

Li Qingye ordered: "Take people to China, Japan and Southeast Asia as soon as possible, and sell the eel fry we have in small batches, but don't expose that we have artificial breeding technology."

"Work hard, and the company will give you dividend shares in the future. Also, let Kangnan come back! There is no need to catch fish anymore, he will follow you first."

"I understand, I will do my best." Li Jinglan smiled broadly.

Looking at Li Jinglan who was leaving in a hurry, Li Qingye's expression was very calm, but his eyes were somewhat meaningful.

Betrayal is human nature.

His father believed too much in his so-called beliefs, and was stabbed in the back again and again by his former like-minded partners, and eventually his family was ruined.

'It is better to implement the means than to believe in the belief. Father, I will not be naive, and I am not qualified to be naive. ’

Li Qingye thought silently with his hands in his pockets. The white coat on his body was white and cold, and he walked towards the direction marked Area A.

The entire scientific research base is divided into four levels of areas: A, B, C, and D. Among the two areas, AB, only Li Qingye has permission to enter.

Although he has been studying eel breeding technology for more than a month, in fact, this is just one of the small projects.

How difficult it is to survive in this cruel world and to be an upright person.

Without strength, the Homo sapiens company cannot be defended.

If you don't want to be treated like a dog, you can only beat those who want to train dogs to death.

While studying eel reproduction technology, he started a research project on biological weapons.

Enter the core area A.

Looking at the orange liquid in the glass reagent bottle, there are some cells floating in it that are difficult to detect with the naked eye. This is Plasmodium, a microorganism that can cause malaria, modified through genetic recombination technology.

Li Qingye carried out a comprehensive transformation on it.

First, its drug tolerance has been improved, and no anti-malarial drugs on the market have an effect on it;

Second, the reproductive ability is knocked out, making it impossible for malaria parasites to reproduce naturally.

Third, the dormant gene sequence of the tardigrade was inserted, giving it a latent period of about 7 years.

Fourth, the insect metamorphosis gene sequence is inserted. Once activated by special pheromones, they will wake up from their dormant state and begin to go on a rampage and cause destruction.

Fifth, the cell symbiosis model is to ensure that malaria parasites will not be digested and decomposed by the human body during their dormant period, and the cells Li Qingye chose to parasitize are human brain cells.

At present, [Gu Type 1—Plasmodium] has completed preliminary preparation.

But Li Qingye still felt that it was not perfect because [Plasmodium Type 1] still had some shortcomings.

For example, it can only be injected through a syringe. This is too obvious. How can he deceive others into injecting? This is a problem.

Another problem is that the special pheromones that need to be used during the activation process also need to be injected, which increases the uncontrollable factors.

He now has to find a way to solve these two problems.

And for this external trigger type, if you are prepared, you can wear protective clothing to isolate the trigger of the pheromone.

Now it seems that the three-corpse brain pill that is triggered internally on a regular basis seems to make some sense.

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