Chapter 361 Industrial Machine, Immortal Path Overtakes
"The correspondence between particles and the Five Elements Symbols has changed from one-to-one to one-to-many... This is not an area I am good at."
Tang Mudao frowned, shook his head and looked at Cheng Yun beside him.
Cheng Yun also looked helpless: "I have no idea."
At the table, Old Man Bai was also studying the data given by Madam Xuanhua. He nodded as he read, "This experiment was not bad. We tried dozens of ways to refine the golden elixir."
Indeed, Madam Xuanhua is a master of refining equipment and has gone through the training of the "Golden Elixir Project". Maybe she has not yet mastered complete scientific thinking, but she always knows some simple ideas.
In terms of the steps of the formation of the golden elixir, there are three steps: fusion, fission, and finally aggregation, which is the combination of the five elements and particles.
Mrs. Xuanhua’s idea was very simple. She repeated the third step: that is, she tried to add another five-element sub-symbol to the single five-element sub-symbol particle.
But it won't work anyway.
Madam Xuanhua not only tried more than a dozen golden elixir techniques in the Jiushan Sect, she even tried out some of the techniques she had mastered for a long time.
But none of them succeeded.
After reading the experimental records, everyone present was at a loss. Zheng Fa saw that no one could come up with any good ideas at the moment, and he didn't want to waste time, so he simply stood up and said to Old Man Bai and the others, "Well, everyone go back and think about it, and I'll ask Team Leader Yang for advice."
As he walked out the door, he felt footsteps following him. When he turned around, it was the old man in white.
"Professor Bai?" Zheng Fa couldn't help but be curious. Did this old man have an idea?
"Zheng Fa, I think the scale of the nursing home should be expanded."
Zheng Fa stopped and looked back at the somewhat serious old man, waiting for what to say next.
"You may have also felt that our knowledge is not enough to advance the next step of research..."
Zheng Fa nodded silently.
For example, the current problem is actually beyond the scope of the core people in the nursing home. Zheng Fa is now unclear about what subject this thing belongs to, and it may not even be able to solve it with existing subject knowledge.
Ultimately, it’s a lack of talent.
"Even if we ask someone through Team Leader Yang, to be honest, all they can provide is theoretical analysis."
As they walked, they came to the pavilion of the nursing home. An old man and a young man stood side by side in the pavilion, watching the fish swimming in the water outside the pavilion.
Now that the nursing home is full of spiritual energy, the fish have grown fat and big, and their scales are sparkling in the sun.
The old man continued, "But we know that there is always a layer between theory and reality. For many things, only experiments, I mean, only experiments in a spiritual environment, can really understand them clearly."
What the old white man said makes sense.
The similarity between the underlying laws of the modern and the mysterious world has greatly benefited Zheng Fa’s previous research, and may even bring considerable benefits in the future.
But on the other hand, aura is by no means an optional variable.
The deeper you explore the way of immortality, the greater the influence of spiritual energy will be, and the more different the theoretical framework will naturally be from modern science.
Indirect consultation through Team Leader Yang will ultimately be like scratching the surface, and I'm afraid I'll reach a dead end one day.
Expanding the scale of nursing homes, that is, allowing more people to participate in immortal research and conducting field experiments in a spiritual environment, may be the way to break the deadlock.
"It would have been fine if there wasn't enough spiritual energy before, but now I think it's time." Zheng Fa agreed with the old man's last words. As his cultivation level advanced, the amount of spiritual energy in Hongshan increased dozens of times compared to before.
Now Tang Lingwu is almost at the stage of building her foundation.
…
"President Zheng!" Team leader Yang came hurriedly, his face full of joy, "Have you decided to recruit more people?"
“Yes, nursing homes need more talent.”
The old man’s suggestion was very correct. In the beginning, the nursing home was established for the purpose of building a laboratory for cultivating immortality.
In the past, there was not enough spiritual energy. Now that the concentration of spiritual energy has increased and there are methods to produce spiritual materials, the conditions are ripe.
Zheng Fa looked at Team Leader Yang. He and Team Leader Yang had had a pleasant collaboration in the past. Moreover, it would be troublesome for him to recruit people one by one, so it would be better to go through Team Leader Yang's channel.
Team leader Yang nodded and took out two large folders from behind him.
"This is?"
Zheng Fa couldn't help but become curious.
Team leader Yang pursed his lips and said frankly: "President Zheng...we made a plan."
"...contingency plans?" Zheng Fa felt something in his heart. "How many contingency plans have you made against me?"
“…”
Team leader Yang gave a dry laugh and remained silent. It was unclear whether he was unable to answer or he just didn't know how many there were.
The old man stood aside and shook his head gently. It is conceivable that Zheng Fa's existence made many people happy and worried.
Seeing that the two looked unhappy, Team Leader Yang explained, "In fact, it's more about the deduction of the spiritual energy after it spreads..."
"President Zheng, it can be said that since the emergence of nursing homes, there have been more and more such plans..."
This is normal.
Zheng Fa took two folders.
Then Team Leader Yang whispered, "In fact, I heard them say that Dean Zheng's personality might be one of the best scenarios in the simulation..."
Old Man Bai agreed after hearing this. It cannot be said that Zheng Fa is a man without desires, but he does not pose much harm to modern society. He even seems a little too much of a homebody.
Zheng Fa also understood what he said. He looked up at Team Leader Yang, thought for a while, then suddenly looked at Old Man Bai, then looked at Tang Lingwu who was feeding the fish in the pavilion, and couldn't help laughing: "Maybe, it's because I met some very good people."
Team leader Yang was stunned, and suddenly looked at the old man Bai with a look of relief on his face.
The old man was stunned for a moment, then slowly straightened his chest. For a moment, his face was filled with the pride of a savior.
Zheng Fa's words came from the bottom of his heart - it was a blessing for him to travel through time to the modern era when he was hungry and cold... and for the modern era as well.
Modern welfare made him know for the first time what it felt like to be full after eating meat...
He didn't have a good life on the farm. Because of Manager Wang, not many people on the farm were close to his family.
In comparison, the help he receives now, the people he meets, and the warmth he experiences are even more precious.
On the other hand, he now has a deeper understanding of the Xuanwei Realm.
The turmoil caused by the Great Freedom Demon Cult was not considered that big in Master Chengkong's eyes. At the celebration banquet a few days ago, so many multi-infants who had transformed into gods only showed relief - they obviously did not feel that they had suffered much loss in this battle.
But Zheng Fa still remembered Gaoyuan, Chenjun, and those unknown people who had died.
This is what the spiritual world is like. On the other hand, he is even more cautious about the modern world - based on his knowledge, he doesn't know whether his rash changes can make the world a better place.
But in the final analysis, it was meeting his high school teacher, Lao Chen, meeting Old Man Bai, and meeting Tang Lingwu that made him inexplicably cherish this world.
With these thoughts in mind, he looked at the two plans given by Team Leader Yang:
"The nursing home plan..."
Zheng Fa opened the document, looked at it for a while and then looked up. He didn't know how to comment, so he just handed the document to the curious old white man beside him.
The old man lowered his head and looked for a long time. After a while, he looked at Team Leader Yang with a strange expression.
"You mean, no matter who Zheng Fa wants, just make a list, and these people...will have to retire on the spot, oh no, be retired?"
Team leader Yang explained: "President Zheng, this is the method that will cause the least public opinion and will attract the least attention from the outside world."
"We make full use of the name of a nursing home, and outsiders don't know what Hongshan is doing."
"This way, there will be less trouble."
This plan... is quite consistent with his previous personality.
He is a person who fears trouble and pays great attention to the atmosphere of the nursing home - he doesn't care about confidentiality, but he also doesn't like to be too prominent and attract all kinds of attention, nor does he want to have too many miscellaneous people in the nursing home.
Team leader Yang and his team proposed this plan, which was aimed at his personality.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Team Leader Yang seemed to have misunderstood and said, "If you think that Dean Zheng is not low-key enough, we can also let them die..."
“…”
"Fake! Fake!" Team Leader Yang waved his hands hastily. "It's like the top-secret project before. We hide our identities and don't communicate with the outside world. We will restore our identities later!"
The old man's face was a little distorted: Let's not talk about whether this method is good or not, but he has heard of it... There are many such people in some missions that can truly affect the fate of the country.
The problem is, Team Leader Yang told Zheng Fa to randomly pick anyone, and whoever he picked would die...
He didn't even ask what Zheng Fa was going to do...
The resources provided and the sincerity shown are even more terrifying.
Zheng Fa thought about it and refused: "Not really, I just want some peace and quiet, not this kind of thing."
He looked at the second plan and laughed as soon as he saw it: "The Immortal Cultivation Research Institute Plan..."
As soon as Zheng Fa saw the name, he understood its meaning. He flipped open the book and saw that it was indeed true: "Study for postgraduate study, and then cultivate immortality?" The old man laughed as he saw it. "Graduate student for cultivating immortality?"
Team leader Yang explained: "President Zheng wants manpower, and what he needs most is naturally researchers."
"For the first contingency plan, we wanted to directly invite the country's top scientific researchers to come to Hongshan."
"The second plan is different. We are worried that you, the dean, will want to train new people, but they can't be too new. At least they must have received relatively high-quality university education..."
"Dean Zheng, how many people do you want to recruit? I can find you the best scholars and the best students in the country!"
Zheng Fa and Old Man Bai looked at each other and felt that Team Leader Yang and the others had thought things through quite thoroughly.
"Let's do this on a two-pronged approach... Let's not talk about the newcomers, but we should arrange for experts in some fields as soon as possible."
What Zheng Fa cares most about now is the research on the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method.
Team leader Yang took the two plans, looked at Zheng Fa, and suddenly sighed.
"What's wrong?"
杨组长笑了声，说道：“我是在想，也许从此之后，整个教育体系，不，科研体系，都要被这个养老院改变了……”
郑法还没说话，就听杨组长又说道：“郑院长，你知不知道，这两年有多少人曾经问过怎么加入养老院……”
说到这里，杨组长忽然满脸古怪：“要不，养老院还是改个名字？不然日后的最高学府叫养老院，实在不大好听……”
“毕竟……谁会不想修仙呢？”
看着杨组长匆匆下山，白老头忽然朝着亭子里的唐灵妩看去，唐灵妩正在喂鱼，她小手轻洒鱼食，池中那些大胖鱼你争我抢，激烈异常，甚至还有跃出水面，跳到唐灵妩面前，似乎在展示自己的。
池水一片激荡，再不复往日的清澈，却又显得分外有活力。
白老头一阵恍惚，忽然有种感觉，今日之鱼池，竟有点像明日之世界。
……
养老院扩招还需要些日子。
郑法也不是干等着，他生了个丹鼎——或者说，他用体内生成的灵材粒子，炼成了个丹鼎。
想要在现代产生灵材，就得借助金丹。
想要产生金丹，郑法自己再结一个不大可行，起码郑法没听说过玄微界有双黄丹。
那就只能采取外丹的思路，就得有个丹鼎。
因此这玩意，可以叫现代修仙工业的母机了。
丹鼎既成，郑法也不耽搁，直接借着这丹鼎练了个神霄外丹。
如今炼制神霄外丹对他的挑战极小，但郑法看着这外丹，还是有点心疼：
说到底，真正的仙道工业母机是他自己。
这丹鼎也好，外丹也好，消耗的都是他体内的灵材粒子，或者说，消耗着他的天罡地煞气。
好在他体内天罡地煞气百倍于旁人，这点消耗不算大。
问题是不能一直如此。
从现在看来，金丹只能将一种灵材转化成另一种灵材，所以如今在现代，灵材都只能出自郑法自身……
要是真算起来，灵气也是他散发出来的——他简直是哺育了这世界的仙道。
现在的问题是，如果想要进一步发展养老院，恐怕还得找到将普通物质变成灵材的法子。
见外丹炼成，一旁的白老头等人，就围了过来。
他们看着浮在空中的神霄外丹，又是好奇又是敬畏。
“这就是外丹？”
白老头脸上写满了好奇，还伸着手，似乎是想摸一摸。
郑法点点头，又笑道：“也可以说是，可控核反应堆。”
白老头嗖的一下，缩回了手，换了个名字，他就碰都不敢碰了。
“倒也没有这么不稳定。”
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一旁的唐灵妩笑着道：“灵气有了，灵材有了，就等那些脑子灵的人了……”
白老头却想起了杨组长的话：“科研体系改变不改变我不知道，我就知道……有些人的命运，得变了！”
……
半月后，程运匆匆从机场接到了个中年人，这人快五十岁，脸上还有些风霜，从飞机上下来的时候，他站在人流中，脸色非常茫然。
“老板！”
程运朝他挥手，这男子循声望来，见是程运，整个人才像是活泛了起来。
他坐上程运的副驾驶，才苦笑道：“我前天还在准备点火实验，昨天才知道课题组直接解散了！”
“上面说说这个项目，不做了！”
说着话，他右手捏拳，一拳捶向屁股下的座椅，显然被突如其来的变故弄得愤愤不平。
“我们花了多少钱，多少时间，多少人？”
他还在喋喋不休，程运却暗暗抿了抿嘴巴。
这中年人姓王，是他读博时候的导师，两人关系极好，他后来的工作，都有这位导师的一份面子。
王教授在核物理方向算是一方年富力强的山头，这些年一直在主持一个核工程项目。
这项目确实花了不少钱，更不用说这些研究人员了。
但自从郑法的外丹炼成之后，这方向就算是死了——不是不行，而是不需要了。
起码国家资金不会再大规模投入这方向。
在国内，除了上面，没有谁有能力再启动这样的项目，对王教授这方向的科学家来说，日后经费恐怕都有限。
也正是因为如此，程运才向郑法推荐此人。
这次养老院的扩招规模比较大，又因为事情比较离奇，时间还紧，杨组长她们也来不及一一解释。
在京城附近的人还听闻过一些内情。
但王教授却一直在西北做研究，又是个双耳不闻窗外事的性格，自然是不理解。
“老板……”
程运想解释什么。
“唉，我准备出国了……”
“……”
程运看向王教授，就见他眼睛有点红，他看着程运笑了笑道：“我这一夜都没睡着，恰好，之前还有国外大学在邀请我做访问学者……”
“也不知道上面找我干什么，但我决定了，不干！见了你，我就去国外散散心。”
听他语气，竟有些心灰若死的模样。
“老板，核聚变已经成了！”
“……”
王教授一呆，瞪着一双兔子眼，看着程运。
“成了？”
“成了！”
程运狠狠点头。
“……”王教授闭了闭眼睛，半天后才睁开，“你再说一遍？”
看他的表情，似乎觉得自己方才因为没睡好，出现了幻听。
“我说，可控核聚变，成了！”
程运一字一顿地说道。
王教授这才确认自己没听错，可他像是没听懂一样，皱着眉头问道：“怎么忽然就成了？”
“哪来的材料？”
“什么时候有的技术突破？”
“哪个项目？哪个单位做出来的？”
“国内我没听过，国外我也没听过！这也能弯道超车？不……这都不是超车了，这是石头里蹦出了个孙猴子……”他的问题一个接着一个，显然脑子比方才都混乱，但言下之意都是不信。
“老板，我就是接你去那单位的！你的项目没有了，那边的项目需要你！”
王教授精神一振，瞪着眼睛望着前方，似乎是觉得车开的太慢，一路上在副驾驶上扭来扭去，像是这座位上面有根刺一样。
“到了？”
他走下车，侧着头，看着养老院门口那牌子，似乎是不大敢相信，又闭上了眼睛，再睁开，见还是个养老院的名头，不由回头怀疑地看着着程运。
“你是说，这个单位？做出来的可控核聚变？”
程运点点头。
“养老院？”
“老板，具体的我一时也跟你解释不清楚，你进去就知道了。”
程运无奈道，有些事，实在只能眼见为实。
王教授将信将疑地随程运走进了院子，直接往会议室走去。
养老院的主楼中多了不少外人，特别是会议室里，更是人头济济。
王教授一进会议室，就呆了下。
“周院士？”
“陈老？”
“唉……您老怎么也在这里？”
王教授一路点头哈腰打着招呼，恍恍惚惚地走到自己在角落的位置，目光在周围人上转了一圈，朝身边的程运小声问道：“这怎么回事？”
“像老板你一样……”
“什么一样？”
“要么被退休，要么失业了……”
王教授呆了呆，看着这一圈德高望重的老前辈，心中的郁气居然莫名就消散不少……
就听程运小声道：“老板，别说学生不孝敬你，你信我，这是您老这辈子，最大的机会……”
王教授狐疑地看着他，又看看这一屋子的大牛，越发沉默。
杨组长和汤慕道并肩走了进来，将会议室的投影仪打开，才朝着满屋子的学者说道：“自我介绍一下，我姓杨……”
“大家有人可能听说过一些传闻，也有人完全不知道。”
“对那些传闻，有人可能相信，也有人可能怀疑，但我以我的名誉，和国家的名义保证，我接下来所说的一切，都是真的……”
会议室的人都静静地听着她说话。
大家又不傻，这么一屋子人，除了国家意志谁能让他们莫名其妙地聚到一起？杨组长从养老院开始讲起，随着她的讲述，幻灯片上放着养老院的种种成果。
一开始讲到修仙的时候，屋子里的人脸上大多写着荒谬两个字。
但后来杨组长就说到了九山一号这种新稻。
再便是新一套的广播体操。
接下来，就是新研究出来的各种灵药。
这里面，前两样在社会上已经流传开了，会议室的人或多或少都听说过，此时也不由窃窃私语，因为这些实证，信的人开始多了起来。
等到最后，杨组长讲起了金丹。
渐渐地，王教授瞪着眼睛，似乎是眼珠子太疲劳，看不清幻灯片上面的字，他脖子向前，整个人伏在会议桌上，眼神震动。
不只是他。
这里面有不少核工程或者核物理的研究人员。
此时个个都像他一样，脖子像大鹅一样伸着，生怕错过了一个字。
等杨组长说完，一时间，会议室里面都是沉默。
竟没有人说话。
似乎所有人都不知道该说什么。
“修仙……修出了核聚变？”
Professor Wang heard someone ask loudly, his voice was a little distorted, as if it was about to explode.
Indeed, this thing sounds more outrageous than a monkey popping out of a stone.
"yes!"
"Really?"
"If you pass the dean's assessment, you will see the real thing."
"What happens if it doesn't pass?"
"It's nothing, but everyone will lose this memory..."
As soon as these words were spoken, people in the meeting room started discussing again.
Professor Wang suddenly turned his head, looked at Cheng Yun, and whispered, "What kind of golden elixir project did you participate in?"
Cheng Yun nodded with a proud expression.
"Is it all true?"
"Absolutely true!"
"Well..." Professor Wang's voice immediately lowered, and he whispered in Cheng Yun's ear, "Is there any trick to the test?"
“…”
Cheng Yun looked at Professor Wang and saw that he was alive and eager to find a job again. He felt amused and said with a teasing expression, "Boss, you are not going abroad?"
"Fuck off, do they know how to cultivate immortality?"
(End of this chapter)