Chapter 183: The irascible Bai Xiangdong
No. 3 said slowly: "Now, the Moon City is probably divided into two factions, one is the administrative faction led by Burton and the other is the scientific research faction led by Bill.
“In addition, there are business corps hidden in the dark, led by Baker.
"There are some contradictions in the future development strategy of Moon City, and Director Di seems to be inclined to the Burton faction, so he was jointly controlled by Bill and Baker several times.
"In order not to cause greater internal conflicts, Director Di is preparing to preside over the work of Mars City."
Jiang Yu asked: "Martian City has been built?"
"It's still under construction," replied No. 3: "But now there are more than a thousand people living on Mars, most of which are your supporters.
“There is a small part of it, some adventurers.
“Whether it is your supporters or adventurers, you are not willing to accept the mayor sent by the PDC.
"Because Director Di is your assistant, and I visited Mars two years ago, your supporter Aiwu and Wu, and I hope Director Di can become the mayor of Mars City.
"Adventurers are more willing to accept Director Di's leadership than the bureaucrats sent by the PDC.
"Mars has a voyage of more than two months from Earth, and Mars is on the other side of the sun for several months, no spacecraft will go to Mars.
"Some people described this as the voyage from Europe to the New World in the Age of Discovery. At that time, the voyage time was similar to that from Earth to Mars, and it had to be in the right season to sail!
"The super long sailing time makes Mars City highly autonomous now, and the PDC can only respect the choices of Mars residents."
Jiang Yu nodded: "So that's it."
Then he asked: "Di Fengyi seems to have decided to work in Mars City, and even has chosen his successor. So is he willing to go to Mars City?"
"You have to be willing if you don't want to." No. 3 smiled and said, "This is not what I said, it is Thirty-six."
Jiang Yu asked with a smile: "What else did he say?"
No. 3 said: "Thirty-six also said that Di Fengyi failed to always represent your position. When internal personnel such as Burton clearly supported one of them, he made the Moon City power system you had built before tilt.
"If Director Di continues to stay on Earth, it will easily cause further conflicts within the Moon City."
Jiang Yu nodded: "I'll make a conclusion after I go to the moon!"
After saying that, he looked out from the window at the clouds outside and did not continue the topic.
No. 3 said again: "The last time I met Dr. Bai Xiangdong, he seemed a little irritated.
"I called yesterday and asked, and Dr. Bai Xiangdong's irritability has not improved. I hope you can be mentally prepared."
Jiang Yu was stunned: "Why is he irritable?"
"It is said that the pressure is too great. At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Star Defense had issued a notice to Dr. Bo's planning group. If there is no useful result, the planning group will be cancelled at the end of the year."
Jiang Yu frowned and said, "Is the Star Defense Ministry brain disease? 70% of the funds of the Bai Xiangdong project team come from Moon City. Everyone still shared the research results. Why do they still push such good things out?"
No. 3 said: "I heard that it is because Bai Xiangdong's experiment does not conform to the current moral concepts of human beings, and it is extremely dangerous, which completely goes against the original intention of the plan.
"In order to avoid being captured by world public opinion, the Ministry of Star Defense decided to cancel the program group."
Jiang Yu scratched his head: "If I'm not wrong, the director of the Star Defense Department has changed people again, right?"
"Yes," replied No. 3: "As soon as the new director came to power, he proposed the policy of focusing all his energy on the space industry.
"Now the PDC countries are dividing the interests of the moon and Mars, and each has made great investments.
"This is a contest in space, and the new director's policy is to avoid China's defeat in this contest."
Jiang Yu nodded: "It's very good, and I'm ready to do it comprehensively."
He praised No. 3. No. 3 seemed to have done some homework and named the interests of it.
When we arrived at the northwest airport, it was already night, so Jiang Yu and his group stayed in the military hotel at the airport.
The next morning, Jiang Yu and others took a helicopter to Bai Xiangdong's laboratory.
Now all the people from the Black research team have withdrawn, leaving only Bai Xiangdong's laboratory, which looks a bit deserted.
Jiang Yu jumped out of the plane and saw Bai Xiangdong, who was waiting on the edge of the apron, with a gloomy face.
The two shook hands, and Jiang Yu smiled and said, "I heard that you have a bad temper recently?"
Bai Xiangdong waved his hand: "If you stayed in such a place where birds do not shit 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 his shoulder: "This kind of day is about to end!"
Bai Xiangdong smiled and said, "Yes, I'm going to be unemployed. Damn, these short-sighted bureaucrats!"
He waved his hand in front of his eyes again, as if he wanted to drive away something: "Let's go, I'll take you to see the achievements of these years."
The group entered the experimental building together. While walking inside, Bai Xiangdong said, "The experiment of mechanical prosthesis stopped four years ago.
"Even with the blessing of machine prosthetic limbs, human power is still limited, at most it is to carry more weapons...
"What's the point of experimenting? Bring a robot dog on the battlefield, what weapons can't you bring?"
Speaking of this, he glanced at No. 3: "The highest achievement of this experiment is right next to you, and it can turn human warriors into No. 3.
"But the degree of improvement in physical fitness is limited, and they are required to give up their physical body, so no one is willing to do so."
While complaining, Bai Xiangdong took Jiang Yu to a laboratory with anger.
The walls of the laboratory are also obviously made of metal, with a metal rectangular column in the middle.
After closing the air and closing the door, the metal on the outer layer of the column rose, revealing the tempered glass cover inside.
The light inside also turned on randomly, and Jiang Yu saw a gray irregular object in the glass cover.
Bai Xiangdong pointed to the gray object and said, "This is a type I cultivated based on Gu Zhize's discovery. Well... I don't know what to call it, so I just gave it a code name called No. 7 Bacteria."
Speaking of this, he smiled: "I have been in contact with Gu Zhize. His experiments are too conservative. I dare to guarantee that his experiment results are not as good as mine.
"Look, it wakes up."
Jiang Yu saw that the No. 7 bacteria in the glass cover began to move. They quickly stacked together and quickly formed a human shape!
Jiang Yu was a little unbelievable in his eyes: "Is this a bacteria?"
Bai Xiangdong laughed: "I didn't expect it! Of course, they are not bacteria. To be precise, they are variants of fungi!
"Gu Zhize's research reminded me that in nature, there are organisms similar to interchange of cells at the bottom of the cell. Will the changes in their state be the key to opening up the human gene shackles?
"Have you heard of slime mold? That thing has 720 genders, and it's hard to tell whether it's fungi or animal.
"For example, there is a species of platycodon, which is like a single-celled animal at the beginning, but when it reaches the breeding stage, hundreds of thousands will gather together, forming a fungus like a mushroom!
Chapter completed!