Chapter 78 Let’s Start from Scratch
“Are there any new items in the redemption mall at the base?” Jiang Yunqi walked in, skillfully picked up the little black cat lying on the sofa, and gently stroked its black and soft fur with his slender white fingers.
Gu Hua was already used to Jiang Yunqi coming over every now and then to stroke the cat. The tip of her pen paused on the white A4 paper for a while, thinking of what she had researched two days ago, and nodded: "Yeah, I figured it out with Brother Xie."
"It's a revised version based on the original nutrient solution." Gu Hua took out a test tube from the drawer below, pulled out the chair, and sat on the sofa. "Most of the substances in the nutrient solution are not available on Blue Star. I can only rely on the existing mutant materials to conduct experiments. Fortunately, Brother Xie and Senior Sister helped. To avoid other incidents, I'll give it a new name."
Jiang Yunqi raised his eyes, glanced at the viscous liquid in the test tube, and asked: "What's the name?" "
Satiating agent." Gu Hua pursed her lips and smiled, "Brother Xie said that this name is easy to understand."
"Is there any difference in the effect?" Ever since he tasted the various foods on Blue Star, Jiang Yunqi lost interest in nutritional supplements. Unless he had no other choice, he didn't want to drink nutritional supplements anymore.
Gu Hua opened the lid of the test tube, and the faint scent of mango filled her nose: "Nutrients are definitely more effective and can ensure an adult feels full for 24 hours."
"The effect of satiety agents is greatly reduced and can only last for 6 hours."
"The only thing that can surpass nutritional agents is probably the variety of flavors." Gu Hua stepped forward, "Would you like to try it? Mango flavored."
Jiang Yunqi had never eaten mango, but he could imagine the taste of this fruit from the faint fruity scent emitted by the satiety agent: "No, you keep it."
"I made a bet with Brother Xie." Gu Hua smiled and put the test reagent back into the drawer.
"What bet?"
"On whether you would take a sip."
Jiang Yunqi asked again, "So did you lose or win?"
Gu Hua spread her hands and shrugged, "Obviously, I lost."
"Xie Ge is so childish." Jiang Yunqi lowered his head and rubbed the black cat's chin with his fingers, and the cat purred comfortably.
"Sister Gu! You researched the things on the bulletin board outside, didn't you?"
The door was suddenly pushed open, and Tang Yichao rushed in from outside, holding the desk with both hands. Even though her hair was messy and there were blood stains on her clothes, she still couldn't hide her sparkling almond eyes.
Gu Hua was stunned for a while, and was hit in the face by the cold wind.
The first people she noticed were Gu Bingchen and Xie Er who came in behind Tang Yichao.
Gu Bingchen was dressed neatly, with his arms folded, leaning against the door frame. He stared at Jiang Yunqi who was stroking the cat with his phoenix eyes, and said sarcastically: "I was wondering why you were unwilling to go out together, it turns out that your heart is in Cao's camp, but your body is in Han."
Jiang Yunqi looked up and smiled, "Are you back?"
Gu Bingchen snorted coldly and sat opposite him: "What else? If you don't come back, the target will be seduced away."
"Meow meow meow!"
The little black cat felt a chill on his back, his fur stood up, and the desire to survive came up. He quickly broke away from Jiang Yunqi's arms and ran out the door quickly.
Jiang Yunqi couldn't help but laugh at the smooth movements: "Why is it so afraid of you?"
Gu Bingchen was happy to see the little black cat's insight, and said casually: "Maybe it's guilty."
"Oh! Sister Gu, tell me quickly, the things on the bulletin board outside are what you studied, right?" Tang Yichao swayed his body and shook his head left and right.
Gu Hua helplessly held his forehead: "You are so sure, do you still need to ask me?"
Tang Yichao put his hands on his hips: "Of course, I still have to confirm it."
"How does it taste?" He did not forget the nutritional supplement that Long Yilan had given him to taste. The taste was not satisfactory, like sticky tap water, "It should be much better."
"You will know after trying it." Gu Hua threw a sample over.
Tang Yichao opened the lid impatiently, drank it all in one gulp, smacked his lips, and had an unclear expression.
Gu Hua supported her chin and tilted her head slightly: "How is it?"
"It's not delicious, but it's not unpalatable either. It tastes better than nutritional supplements, like liquid food flavoring."
"Well, that's a very fair evaluation." Gu Hua naturally knew the shortcomings of the satiating agent. "The taste is definitely lacking, and it can be further improved in the future. Uncle Yao suggests setting the price lower. What do you think?"
Xie Er filled a cup of hot water from the water dispenser by himself. The steam blurred his glasses. He said gently: "Didn't we develop this thing for those survivors without superpowers?"
Gu Hua gestured: "So I set the price at 3 crystal cores."
Tang Yichao compared the prices of materials in the mall and found that it was 2 crystal cores lower than the price of biscuits.
"In addition to exchanging crystal cores, you can also use points." Gu Hua considered everything she could think of, "More points, 15 points are needed."
Tang Yichao compared subconsciously, and counted on his fingers, and it was actually half the price of the biscuits. He touched his stomach and suddenly thought that now that he had drunk the satiety agent, wouldn't he be unable to eat that night? !
Seeing Tang Yichao's expression like being struck by lightning, except for Gu Bingchen, everyone else was somewhat confused.
"Lin Yu...Did you see him today?" Gu Hua bit her lip and frowned, and this tangled expression seemed to be hesitant.
Tang Yichao showed disgust: "I saw him. It's really unlucky!"
He didn't have any opinion on Lin Yu. He mainly disliked Lin Zijin, so he didn't like Lin Yu and his group.
"They also went out to do the mission. After all, most of their food and drink here are at their own expense." Gu Bingchen took over the conversation, "We met once when we entered the base."
Gu Hua let out a long sigh and said, "I... I changed my mind."
Tang Yichao: "What do you mean?"
"I want to go to Dijing."
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the three people fell on her. The first person to understand why Gu Hua changed her decision was Xie Er.
"You think the facilities in Dijing are better, right?" Xie Er and Gu Hua were immersed in research in the laboratory during this period, and both of them noticed the defects and shortcomings of the equipment.
Experimental materials are a problem, and outdated equipment is also a big problem.
Gu Hua hung her head in disappointment. If Xie Er hadn't provided her with equipment from the interstellar space, she wouldn't even be able to make the satiety agent.
"Are you sure?" Jiang Yunqi respected everyone's choice. "You have to know that you won't have your own laboratory in Imperial Capital."
"I know, so I contacted my former fellow apprentices." Gu Hua pursed her lips. All she could do was contact acquaintances. "I've made plans to start over."
Gu Bingchen's venomous tongue attacked indiscriminately, even allies. He sarcastically said, "Start over? Imperial Capital is a complicated place. You actually think you have a chance to start over?" Even
a Meicheng base could be in such a mess, let alone the capital of the country, the most prosperous Imperial Capital base.
"Opportunities are always accompanied by challenges. I...I must go there." Gu Hua was not a fool. She understood the implication of Gu Bingchen's words. It happened that she knew what was going on, so she had to go to Imperial Capital once.
Xie Er heard this without any hesitation: "In that case, I will go with you, and someone will take care of you on the way."
Tang Yichao raised his hand actively while stealing a glance at Gu Bingchen's expression: "Then...then I will go too, I am not sure if Lin Yu and the others can escort you to the Imperial Capital safely."
Gu Bingchen and Jiang Yunqi were speechless.
Gu Bingchen was the first to speak, with a lazy smile on his handsome face: "Why? I am not that kind of dictator, I can go if I want."
"Come to think of it, I haven't been to the Imperial Capital for a long time, so let's go together." He leaned against the sofa, his hands on the back of the chair, and his tone was as relaxed as if he was going on a trip.
Jiang Yunqi smiled faintly: "It is definitely safer to go together when traveling."
The few of them hit it off and made a new decision.
Their thoughts stopped there, and they watched Lin Yu's cheerful back as he left, and began to plan for the future again.
Yao Dong knew they were leaving, so he came over specially, carrying large and small bags of dried goods that his father had just made.
"It's a thousand kilometers away, bring more food from home." Yao Dong sat on the sofa and panted, his slightly wrinkled face full of worry, "You're leaving tomorrow, it's too sudden, otherwise I could get more supplies for you."
His current mood is like "a father worries when his son travels a thousand miles away", and he always feels that the things he prepared are not enough.
Chu Wanyue was pulling a small stool to count the supplies. Hearing this, she looked up and smiled, "Uncle Yao brought enough things, especially this bacon, which can last us a long time."
"Oh, you went to the Imperial Capital, and I can't help you much." Yao Dong sighed deeply, a little regretful that he didn't greet the people from the Imperial Capital.
Tang Yichao took a bite of biscuits and said, "Don't worry, it will be fine."
Xie Er came down from the stairs, with a faint tiredness lingering between his eyebrows. He took a small black box and handed it to Yao Dong: "The key is your fingerprint."
Yao Dong subconsciously pressed his thumb on the lock core.
With a crisp sound of "click", the small black box opened, and inside was a chip and a silver-white box-shaped object.
"The black box only recorded your fingerprints. The second key is your mental power." Xie Er didn't say what mental power was. In short, only Yao Dong could open this thing.
"The chip is the key to the main library. It contains all satiety agents. I have handed over the specific formula to Ms. Peng. She will lead the laboratory to produce and put on the shelves the subsequent satiety agents." Xie Er picked up the thing that looked like an air conditioner remote control.
He pressed one of the switches and said, "This thing... let's call it a connector."
The materials were really limited, so Xie Er modified a degraded version based on the interstellar military connector: "The use of the connector is the same as that of a walkie-talkie."
"If the base encounters any difficulties, you can use this to pass on the message to us."
"Note, there are only three chances."
Xie Er emphasized the key words.
Yao Dong's thoughts were very complicated, half of them were worried and concerned, and the other half was surprised.
This kind of connector was a treasure in an era without the Internet and signals.
His fingers trembled slightly, and his warm palms warmed the cold machine shell.
"Once I leave this time, I don't know when we'll see each other again." Yao Dong clenched the palm of his other hand, feeling heavy-hearted.
Tang Yizhao sat up from the sofa, his almond-shaped eyes clear and bright, flashing with a determined light: "Maybe, when we meet next time, this damn doomsday will be over!"