The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 188 The Violent Bai Xiangdong
No. [-] said unhurriedly: "Right now there are probably two factions in Moon City, one is the administrative faction headed by Burton, and the other is the scientific research faction headed by Bill.

"In addition, there is a business faction headed by Baker hidden in the dark.

"There were some conflicts among the three parties regarding the future development strategy of Moon City, and Director Di seemed to be biased towards the Burton faction, so Bill and Baker worked together to handle it several times.

"In order not to cause greater internal conflicts, Director Di is going to preside over the work of Mars City."

Jiang Yu asked: "Has Mars City been built?"

"It's still under construction," Three replied, "but there are now more than 1000 people living on Mars, most of whom are your supporters.

"There are also a small number of adventurers.

"Whether it is your supporters or adventurers, they are not very willing to accept the mayor sent by the PDC.

"Because Director Di is your assistant and went to Mars the year before last, your supporters Aiwujiwu hope that Director Di can be the mayor of Mars City.

"Compared to the bureaucrats sent by the PDC, adventurers are more willing to accept Director Di's leadership.

"Because Mars is more than two months away from the earth, and Mars is on the other side of the sun for several months, no spacecraft will go to Mars at all.

"Some people describe this as the voyage from Europe to the New World in the Age of Discovery. At that time, the voyage time was about the same as that from the earth to Mars, and the voyage had to be in the right season!

"The ultra-long voyage time has given Mars City a high degree of autonomy, and the PDC can only respect the choices of the Martian residents."

Jiang Yu nodded: "I see."

Then he asked: "Di Fengyi seems to have decided to work in Mars City, and he has even chosen his successor, so is he willing to go to Mars City?"

"If you don't want to, you have to be willing." No. 36 laughed and said, "I didn't say this, it was [-] who said it."

Jiang Yu asked with a smile, "What else did he say?"

No. 36 said: "[-] also said that Di Fengyi failed to represent your position all the time, and when Burton and other insiders had conflicts, he obviously supported one of them, which made the Moon City power system you built before happen. tilt.

"If Director Di continues to stay on Earth, it will easily cause further conflicts within Moon City."

Jiang Yu nodded: "I will make a conclusion on this matter after I go to the moon!"

After finishing speaking, he looked out of the window at the clouds and did not continue the topic.

Number Three continued: "When I saw Dr. Bai Xiangdong last time, he seemed a little irritable.

"Yesterday, I called and asked. Dr. Bai Xiangdong's irritability still hasn't improved. I hope you can be mentally prepared."

Jiang Yu was taken aback: "Why is he irritable?"

"It is said that there is too much pressure. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Star Defense has issued a notice to Dr. Bai's planning team. If there are no useful results, the planning team will be cancelled by the end of the year."

Jiang Yu frowned and said, "The Department of Star Defense must be out of their minds. Seventy percent of the funds for the Bai Xiangdong project team come from Moon City. The research results are shared with everyone. Why do they push such a good thing away?"

No. [-] said: "I heard that it is because Bai Xiangdong's experiment does not conform to the current human morality, and it is extremely dangerous, which has completely violated the original intention of the plan.

"In order to avoid being captured by world public opinion, the Star Defense Department decided to cancel the planning team."

Jiang Yu scratched his head: "If I'm not wrong, has the director of the Star Defense Department changed again?"

"Yes," No. [-] replied: "As soon as the new director took office, he put forward the policy of putting all his energy on the space industry.

"Now the PDC countries are dividing up the interests of the moon and Mars, and each has a lot of investment.

"This is a contest in space, and the new director's goal is to prevent China from losing in this contest."

Jiang Yu nodded: "Very good, the preparations are very comprehensive."

He praised No. [-]. No matter what kind of questions he asked, No. [-] seemed to have done some homework and named the stakes.

When they arrived at the Northwest Airport, it was already night, and Jiang Yu and his party stayed at the military hotel at the airport.

Early the next morning, Jiang Yu and others took a helicopter to Bai Xiangdong's laboratory.

Now the black research team has all withdrawn, leaving only Bai Xiangdong's laboratory, which looks deserted.

Jiang Yu jumped off the plane and saw Bai Xiangdong waiting on the edge of the plane with a gloomy face.

The two shook hands, Jiang Yu smiled and said, "I heard you have a bad temper recently?"

Bai Xiangdong waved his hand: "If you have stayed in this kind of place for more than ten years, and the results you have achieved are not what you want, your mood should not be much better."

Jiang Yu patted him on the shoulder: "The days like this are coming to an end!"

Bai Xiangdong smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm about to lose my job, what the hell, these short-sighted bureaucrats!"

He waved his hand in front of his eyes again, as if he wanted to drive away something: "Go, I'll take you to see the achievements of these years."

A group of people entered the experimental building together, and while walking inside, Bai Xiangdong said: "The experiment on mechanical prosthetics stopped four years ago.

"Even with the blessing of robotic prosthetics, human strength is still limited, the most is to carry more weapons...

"What the hell are you experimenting with? Bring a robot dog on the battlefield, what kind of weapon can't you bring?"

Having said that, he glanced at No. [-]: "The highest achievement of this experiment is by your side, which can turn human fighters into No. [-].

"However, the improvement of physical fitness is limited, and they have to give up their physical bodies. No one is willing to do this."

While complaining, Bai Xiangdong led Jiang Yu to a laboratory with an air-closed door.

The walls of the laboratory are also apparently made of metal, with a metal rectangular upright in the center.

After the airlock door is closed, the metal on the outer layer of the column rises, revealing the tempered glass cover inside.

The lights inside were also turned on randomly, and Jiang Yu saw a group of gray irregular objects in the glass cover.

Bai Xiangdong pointed to the gray object and said, "This is a species that I bred based on Gu Zhize's discovery, um... I don't know what to call it, so I just gave it a code name, No. [-] Bacteria. "

Speaking of this, he smiled: "I have been in contact with Gu Zhize, his experiments are too conservative, I can assure you that his experimental results are not one-tenth of mine.

"Look, it's awake."

Jiang Yu saw that the No. [-] bacteria in the glass cover started to move, and they quickly superimposed together, and they quickly formed the shape of a person!
Jiang Yu couldn't believe his eyes: "What the hell is this bacteria?"

Bai Xiangdong laughed loudly: "Didn't expect that! Of course, they are not bacteria, to be precise, they are a variant of fungi!
"Gu Zhize's research reminded me that in nature, there are creatures that are similar to the exchange of the bottom layer of cells. Could their state changes be the key to unlocking the shackles of human genes?
"Have you ever heard of slime mold? That thing has 720 genders, and it's hard to tell if it's a fungus or an animal.

"For example, there is Dictyostelium discoideum, which looks like a single-celled animal at the beginning, but when it reaches the breeding season, hundreds of thousands will gather together to form a mushroom-like fungus!

"So I used this strain to crossbreed with a Martian fungus, and combined with Gu Zhize's research results, I bred this guy in the glass cover, who seems to have group intelligence."

(End of this chapter)