Chapter 1061

Blue Star's past is a thick and cruel war history book.

Ever since humans first appeared on the continent in the primitive era, the smoke of gunpowder on this planet has never stopped for a moment.

However, it is precisely this endless competition that has caused them to go extremely fast on the road of technological development.

Around 1,800 years ago, it reached the level before humans on Earth crossed over.

And as the three pillars of Blue Star.

Corporations, foundations, academies.

Before time travel, even after experiencing a nuclear war covering the entire planet, they still retain the same strength as they did in their heyday.

If it wasn't for the outbreak of time travel, according to Su Mo's optimistic estimate.

At most another hundred years, they will be able to break through the shackles completely and touch the edge of the interstellar humans.

Of course, this is just an 'optimistic' estimate.

The research of controllable nuclear fusion is not the end point of a first-level civilization. The inexhaustible supply of energy only makes human beings no longer have to worry about survival.

If you really want to sail between the stars and advance to the second-level civilization, the more important thing is how to use energy.

Just like the special ore fragments derived from the power stone, it can amplify ordinary energy by a thousand times.

Only when this stage is reached can we talk about advanced civilization.

Therefore, for the mysterious and powerful academy, Sumo did not have the slightest fear and awe that the Blue Star people mentioned.

In his eyes, the other party was actually a treasure.

A treasure trove of knowledge that is long enough to be excavated by humans on Earth!

Soon, the off-road motorcycle crossed the border of the territory and continued to drive towards the bunker in the south.

Unlike Nengche who had to take a detour for safety, Sumo was basically advancing along the edge of the southern suburbs of Qinggang City because he was alone.

It only took about two and a half hours to arrive at the pumpkin bunker, which used to take five hours.

After a day of renovation and construction, the simple camp of the Western Suburbs Alliance has taken a preliminary shape.

In the open space directly opposite the fruit forest, the ingenious bunker residents have built two neat rows of wooden barracks, a total of fifteen.

There is also a small two-story building, which should be used as a meeting room for the alliance.

Curls of cooking smoke floated into the sky from a barracks at the head of the row, and a little smell of rice was carried by the wind to the surroundings.

On the edge of the camp, there are still many bunker residents operating concrete machines to build the first line of defense here.

In front of the camp, Su Deben, who had changed into the bunker's characteristic clothing, was standing at the door and looking into the distance.

He only heard the roar of the engine from far to near, and saw Su Mo's figure appeared at the end of his field of vision.

"The progress here is very fast!"

Before the motorcycle stopped, Su Mo's praise had already floated over.

"Didn't you meet those academy guards when you came here?"

"No, they probably have already gone to the city."

Handing over the car to the guards who rushed over to stop, Su Mo took off his helmet, revealing his handsome face wet with hot sweat.

To be honest, when he chose this path, he really had the idea of ​​bumping into that group of academy guards.

But along the way, the other party seemed to have disappeared, leaving no trace behind.

It has something to do with that group of people flying in the air, but much more.

Su Mo guessed that the other party still deliberately concealed their whereabouts. After all, this arrest mission did not conform to the academy's style.

"I have to trouble you to preside over the overall situation here."

"No trouble, the two captains are quite talkative, and here are all Blue Stars, it really feels like coming home to communicate with them." Su Deben said with a smile.

Su Mo also smiled.

The Western Suburbs Alliance seems to be the weakest among the three refuges, but Tianyuan Refuge ranks first in terms of status.

This is related to the fact that Liehu has passed the age of fighting for power and profit, and it is also related to the worst location of the Jucheng refuge.

Both have various concerns, which actually makes Tianyuan Refuge the "big brother" of the three.

"I've made an appointment for you to speak with the bunker owner, but I'm finding it difficult to get information from her."

"How to say?"

"When people are under high tension, they will always subconsciously avoid some questions." Su Deben had a trace of doubt in his eyes: "I had already tested her when I received the news of the arrival of the academy guards yesterday, but I feel It's kind of weird that she doesn't show the excitement and sense of belonging that I understand when it comes to college."

It's like a person fell into a large pit surrounded by desolate people. He must be excited when he hears someone passing by outside.

The excitement in his bones couldn't be hidden.

It is mentioned that there may be a branch base guard of the academy passing by here recently, going to another place to perform tasks.

Although the owner of the bunker behind the screen showed surprise, Su Deben didn't feel how excited he was.

This is not at all like the normal reaction of a person who has been cornered in a safe house that cannot be opened, waiting for rescue.

"Perhaps what she wants to go to is not the sub-base of the academy."

Su Mo nodded slightly: "But this is a good thing for us, as we can get more information."

In front of an unremarkable residential house.

Nat, the captain of the bunker's guard, walked in front, and respectfully opened the door to give way to the entrance.

"Dear Tianyuan manager, please forgive the master for not being able to have a face-to-face conversation with you."

"It's okay, you can go to work."

Casually signaling that Nat doesn't need to accompany him, Su Mo walked into the house, and saw a 30-inch screen in the middle of the empty room, and the bunker owner waiting behind the screen.

Similar to the previous information, it looks like a western woman in her forties.

However, perhaps because she was going to meet with one of the managers of the Western Suburbs Alliance today, she deliberately changed into a formal dress and put a light makeup on her face.

His eyes fell on the other's face with a little anxiety. After the two looked at each other for a while, Su Mo didn't choose to go straight to the point. Instead, he asked an unimportant question.

"Ma'am, you look very young, thirty-five at the most, I guess?"

Katerina behind the screen was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect Su Mo to ask such a question.

But when she heard someone say that she was only thirty-five years old, she was still a little happy in her heart, and said happily:

"Of course more than that. In fact, if calculated according to the standard years of age, I am now a 130-year-old old man."

"One hundred and thirty years old?"

"Yes, because of the academy's sleep technology, the age of most people sounds exaggerated." The woman took a deep breath and said slowly: "Please allow me to introduce myself first, Katerina, a second-level student in the academy." Researcher, the main direction of research is biotechnology. As for this pumpkin bunker, it is a manor I bought near the holy city of Bokelo."

Su Mo noticed that the other party emphasized the pronunciation of the five words of the second-level researcher.

Obviously, it was Su Deben's little temptation before that made her realize something.

However, Su Mo's eyes lit up after hearing the other party's research direction.

It seems that the research base of that college is also in the direction of biotechnology?

If they are all in the same field, perhaps Katerina will know more information than imagined?

"Sumo, the manager of Tianyuan Refuge, one of the members of the Western Suburbs Alliance."

After briefly introducing his identity, Su Mo didn't hide too much, looked at her and said directly:

"I heard the news that you sent people before, and you are looking for the guards of the college. If this is the case, then I can tell you clearly that we found the traces of the guards of the college just yesterday. Do you want to contact them?"

"Is that the guard that belongs to the base?"

Katerina showed an expected expression, and there was not much surprise in her tone.

"Unfortunately, I need to go back to the holy city, back to the college instead of going to a professor's private estate."

"Oh? But they said they were the guards of the Kyushu Great Rift Valley Base."

"The Great Rift Valley of Kyushu? That's one of Professor Ernest's research bases. Well, it can be regarded as half of the college's sub-base."

Without seeing the smile hidden in the corner of Su Mo's mouth, Katerina explained to herself:

"The model of the academy is somewhat different from that of foundations and enterprises. It does not set up a sub-base in every place to maintain its prestige. In fact, there is only one academy, and that is the academy held in the holy city of Bokeluo."

"It's just that if every professor in the college wants to build a research base outside the holy city, the college will give a certain amount of support, either technical support or human support. Professor Ernest's research The direction is the direction of biological evolution, and the scale seems to be quite large in Kyushu, and it is no problem to say that it is half a sub-base of the academy."

Maybe it's because I haven't talked to anyone for a long time, or maybe it's because I want to explain clearly the relationship between the college and the college's sub-bases.

Facing the handsome and young Oriental face behind the screen, Katerina sat on the sofa and talked eloquently.

Kyushu's geographical position on Blue Star is almost the same as that of Antarctica on Earth. It is a deserted place, where birds don't shit, and is far away from the bustling world.

Of course, it is also far away from the turbulent wars.

Many professors in the college are willing to build their research bases there to carry out scientific research tasks like hiding from the world.

But that being said, the professor himself would not go to such a place to live an ascetic life with the researchers.

They still stay in the holy city, and they will only monitor the progress of the mission through remote conference calls and receive the final research results.

This is no different in behavior from those professors who "steal" research results from researchers.

It's just that the former is taking it directly without reason, while the latter is using the research funds given by the college in exchange for results.

In essence, they didn't pay anything, they were just a transfer station for research results.

"The guards at the college sub-base are not regular troops. Most of them are mercenaries hired by professors or people who have retired from the college guards. If I go there, it will be regarded as a research labor squeeze. I might as well stay in the underground safe house Comfortable."

Hearing Katerina's undisguised contempt, Su Mo couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

It seems that the interior of the academy is not monolithic either.

Although it has not established strongholds around the world like the Foundation, it seems that there are many factions inside.

"So... if these sub-bases are attacked, will the academy track down the killer?"

"of course!"

Katerina showed an unexpected look: "Professors of the college are not ordinary researchers. They only enjoy benefits and have no rights. To a certain extent, professors are already high-level inside the college and can command the guards."

"And no one will attack the academy's research base. What can they get, a bunch of encrypted instruments by the academy? Some research papers that have no practical application significance? Or some nerdy researchers who are willing to be squeezed by the professor?"

"If it's just for the living supplies and some research stored inside, believe me, if the invaders can defeat the defending guards, there will be no shortage of things that can be seen everywhere."

All right.

If you think this way, no one will target the academy's sub-base.

Forces capable of promoting research dare not offend the academy, and forces incapable of research do not need these research materials at all.

Su Mo thought about it, and immediately said:

"Can you tell me about the academy? To tell you the truth, don't look at me as a shelter manager, in fact I'm also very interested in scientific research."

"Do you do research?"

Katerina's expression was a little unnatural, obviously she didn't believe that such a young face had anything to do with scientific research.

Unless the other party is also an old man who has been lying in the sleeping cabin for dozens or hundreds of years.

But just when she was hesitating how to say no, a voice came from the speaker behind the screen:

"Yes, I'm currently researching how to strongly stimulate the sleeping junk (garbage) gene, so as to allow the organism to obtain a rapid increase in ability in a short period of time."

"Yo, do you still understand gene awakening?"

When mentioning her field of expertise, Katerina's pale face suddenly turned rosy.

"Let me guess, are you stuck in the step of observing the fission of receptor amino acid macromolecules?"

Gene awakening, an old-fashioned project in the academy, is something that almost every researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences will try.

As early as hundreds of years ago, when the Blue Star humans realized that the expression of external abilities was related to their own gene level, this research was put on the agenda.

According to many research results, the stronger the gene expression ability, the stronger the multidimensional attributes such as physical fitness, intelligence, and strength that humans can display.

It's just that due to some special reasons, even the best athletes have less than one-fifth of the transcriptional expression related to sports in their genes.

In other words, with the current level of human evolution, it is impossible to stimulate the remaining four-fifths of the gene release potential.

Suddenly discovering this phenomenon, there was a wave of gene liberation in the blue star biological world at that time.

Similar to the "gene lock" in the novel.

The more locks you open, the stronger the ability the external gene host can gain.

It can even screen and delete bad genes to achieve a more perfect evolution.

It's just about the evolution of the human body, so how can this research go smoothly?

Just observing the fission of the acceptor amino acid macromolecules has blocked Blue Star researchers for nearly 50 years!

"Of course not. The use of amino acid macromolecules to stimulate gene expression can only randomly release gene transcription and promote human evolution, but the uncontrollable randomness in it will increase the risk of gene disorder, and eventually cause fatal effects such as chain breaks. What we are studying is directional stimulation, you should know, using special molecular bodies to construct a gene evolution environment, so that the gene can be stably expressed and released under induction, driving the evolution of the organism."

"What?"

Katerina was startled, with a surprised expression on her face.

It's not because of the special way Su Mo said, but because the other party seems to understand something?