Chapter 329: Miracle of the Oasis on the Yellow River
Many sections of the Yellow River have begun to freeze, especially in the lower reaches where the water flow is slow, but the water level is during the dry season, so the ice does not affect Li Xiang's operations. Instead, it is the most suitable season for water conservancy construction.
When Li Xiang was dredging the Yellow River, Zhao Xueqing also brought his men to the saline-alkali land near the Yellow River in Lankao. Although there was heavy snow and the weather was extremely cold, with the intervention of state forces, a warm greenhouse was built on the saline-alkali land as an experimental base. The heating inside was good and it was as warm as spring.
Moreover, this is a business trip at public expense, so there is no need to pay for the various expenses out of pocket, and there is also a high allowance every month.
Zhao Xueqing brought some of her own people, one of whom was her cousin who had just retired from the army, named Han Qifeng, and was pulled into the team by her.
Because Lei Xiaohui has too many of her own people, there are dozens of people from Leijiagou headed by Lei Jiaming and Lei Xiaonan. They are all powerful "foreign aid". Zhao Xueqing also wants to have more of her own people in the team.
Not only Zhao Xueqing, Yao Yao also brought in several relatives. Although they each had younger brothers, their younger brothers were still too young to work in school.
Lankao Yellow River Shoreline Experimental Base.
The heavy snow formed a white curtain outside the explosion-proof glass. Under the LED fill light with a constant temperature of 25℃ in the greenhouse, Zhao Xueqing stepped barefoot into the culture tank. The black soil and salt frost on the soles of her feet mixed into mottled patterns.
On the ten-meter-long alloy laboratory table, 372 plant samples were waiting for inspection in petri dishes.
"Team Leader Zhao, this is the Siberian samphire that was just airlifted in yesterday." The researcher wearing thick glasses handed over a sealed jar, frost flowers condensed into spider-web-like ice patterns on the jar wall.
Zhao Xueqing glanced at everyone, naturally feeling somewhat smug. After all, she was just a high school graduate, and later followed Li Xiang, and with his encouragement, she got a correspondence college diploma, and later a self-taught undergraduate diploma. She worked very hard and did learn a lot, but the value of this diploma, if you want to delve into it, is really not worth mentioning.
But she won't write correspondence courses or self-taught exams on her resume, just write a certain university, bachelor's degree. Although she doesn't need to apply for a job, she will inevitably mention it in some work occasions, self-introductions, or some promotional posters. When you go out, your identity is given by yourself.
However, those who came to help her now were either masters or doctors from famous universities, some of them were returnees, and there were even senior engineers, associate professors, professors, etc. They were all very humble, calling her "Team Leader Zhao" or "Teacher Zhao". How could she bear this? It was normal for her to feel a little proud.
Zhao Xueqing is only in her early twenties, a young girl.
However, she always likes to be dignified and gentle, and will not show such emotions.
Moreover, once she gets serious about her work, she will put aside these distracting thoughts.
An emerald glow appeared on Zhao Xueqing's fingertips. The gray-green seeds in the jar suddenly trembled, and two embryos broke through the ice crystals and poked out. Old Wu, the engineer who was monitoring the salt content, had a tremble in his hand, and the pH test pen fell into the nutrient solution.
"The root toughness meets the standard, but the cold-resistant gene chain is missing 17%." Zhao Xueqing opened her trembling eyelashes, and green shadows like plant meridians remained in her black pupils.
She turned and walked towards the No. 3 test area, her hair brushing against a dead experimental reed - that was the "Salt-Resistant No. 3" that the original team had spent half a year cultivating. At this moment, when the girl passed by, the scorched yellow leaves actually exuded a shameful rusty red juice.
Today, the strength of Li Xiang's extraordinary team has gradually surfaced. After all, the "mysterious armored man" has traveled across the globe and can no longer conceal the fact that there are extraordinary people in this world!
As the end of the world is approaching, it will be beneficial to everyone if one's identity is appropriately exposed.
Everyone present had signed a confidentiality agreement. The country has a lot of confidentiality projects and a mature system, so there is no need to worry.
Zhao Xueqing knelt between the improved soil ridges and inserted her hands into the saline-alkali compaction layer. The spiritual power threads flowing out from her fingers drilled into the ground like dodder. The holographic projection fifty meters away showed the root network in real time: the originally rigid reed roots suddenly twisted like snakes, actively avoiding the high-salt crystal area; the root nodules of a wild tamarisk burst into fluorescence, absorbing the surrounding sodium ions into star-shaped crystals.
"Adjust the base pair sequence of gene editor No. 7." Zhao Xueqing said with sweat on her forehead, staring at the suddenly twitching Elaeagnus angustifolia seedling.
A doctoral assistant hurriedly operated the terminal, but saw the girl directly tear off three strands of her hair - the hair turned into green vines when it fell to the ground, entwined the roots of the sand date and injected light golden liquid.
The originally black roots stretched out instantly, and sprouted out at such a speed that even the high-speed camera left afterimages.
Oh my god, everyone was shocked.
So this is the strength of a superhuman. No wonder he has the rank of "lieutenant".
Someone murmured: "If he makes a contribution this time, Team Leader Zhao's rank will probably be promoted again."
As for Li Xiang's military rank, they dared not imagine it, it must have been promoted by more than one level.
As for why this can also be considered a military merit? If you make contributions in disaster prevention and relief, it is naturally considered a military merit.
Although meritorious service in non-war military operations, such as earthquake relief and flood rescue, is not "third-class merit in wartime", many places implement it according to the standard of "third-class merit in wartime", and the quantitative score for demobilization and resettlement is twice that of the third-class merit in peacetime.
Moreover, in history, anyone who participated in the management of the Yellow River and made contributions not only left his name in history, but also rose to prominence. What's the point of getting promoted to a higher military rank? For example, Wang Jing in the Eastern Han Dynasty made significant progress in the management of the Yellow River, and was promoted to the position of Imperial Censor, and his achievements in managing the river were recorded in history.
In addition, there are many such as Pan Jixun in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Penghe in the Qing Dynasty, Li Yumei in the Daoguang period, and the famous Lin Zexu.
Lin Zexu was a criminal when he was controlling the Yellow River. It was on his way to exile in Yili that he was ordered to participate in the blocking of the Yellow River in Xiangfu, Kaifeng. After performing meritorious service, although he was still exiled to Yili, he was re-employed in the 25th year of Emperor Daoguang (1845), and served as Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu, Governor of Shaanxi, Governor-General of Yunnan and Guizhou, and was also appointed as the Prince's Grand Tutor.
At the National Major Water Conservancy Project Command, Zhou, the former team leader, was shaking as he clutched an experimental report from three months ago: on the left side of the holographic screen were the 2,869 reeds they had transplanted, with scarlet data of a 3% survival rate and gray images of wilted plants; on the right side were Zhao Xueqing's seven-day results - 92% survival rates for Tamarix, 97% for Suaeda salsa, and 88% for improved Elaeagnus angustifolia, with a beating holographic model of the gene chain next to the emerald green percentages.
"This is impossible..." Engineer Zhou picked up a wolfberry plant cultivated by Zhao Xueqing, and when he dug his fingernails into the wood, a clear spring gushed out. The doctoral student who had followed him for 20 years suddenly screamed - the surveillance showed that in the open-air experimental field 200 meters away, the 5,000 seedlings transplanted last week were pushing away the snow, and their roots were weaving a green light network visible to the naked eye underground, and the salt crust collapsed into fine black soil wherever they passed.
I'll go.
Witness a miracle! Someone subconsciously reached for his phone and wanted to take a picture, but he quickly realized that taking pictures was not allowed at the scene. However, there was a surveillance video, which can be kept as confidential video material for the project team in the future.
The greenhouse suddenly alarmed!
A failure in the simulated flood system allowed highly concentrated salt water to flood into Test Area 3.
As the original team members retreated in panic, Zhao Xueqing ripped open the buttons of her lab coat, revealing a glowing vine-like tattoo below her collarbone.
"Don't close the gate!" She jumped into the salt water that was over her knees, her long hair floating like seaweed.
Through the muddy water, everyone was shocked to see countless fluorescent roots growing wildly from her feet - the brine quickly became clear with her as the center, and after 30 seconds, snow-white crystal columns formed a circular dam. A red willow tree penetrated the cracks in the crystal column and raised its head, its young leaves covered with salt grains stretched out like a victory flag.
When the alarm was lifted, Zhao Xueqing, who was soaked all over, was twisting the salt water out of the ends of her hair, and new data popped up on the holographic screen behind her: the survival rate of plants in extreme salt damage environments exceeded 85%.
The rescue team that rushed in wearing chemical protective suits froze at the door, and the sandbags in their hands fell down, smashing the salt crystals on the ground and also shattering the last doubts of the traditional Yellow River control team.
"This little girl... no, Teacher Zhao, is really hardworking!" Admiration rose in everyone's hearts.
Zhao Xueqing's ability was indeed powerful and could create miracles, but her style of doing things left a very deep impression on everyone. It was a spirit of daring to fight and not afraid of hardship or fatigue.
Many girls are delicate and afraid of hurting their hands when washing dishes or using detergent. Many girls don't even know how to wash dishes. However, Zhao Xueqing is so beautiful, but she handles the soil with her bare hands and feet, and she even took the initiative to jump into the muddy water. This professionalism deserves military merit.
Even Zhao Xueqing's retired cousin who came with her to work admired his cousin very much.
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Two months have passed, and the Spring Festival is approaching. The snowy weather has ended, the climate has warmed up, the weather is sunny, and the Yellow River dredging project has been completed. Only regular maintenance and inspection are required.
People who participated in this project were naturally amazed by Li Xiang.
This huge project that would have taken decades to complete was transformed into a whole new look in just over two months for the 5,464-kilometer-long Yellow River. It is simply unbelievable.
In fact, adhering to the craftsman spirit of taking his time to produce fine work, Li Xiang did this job with great care and strived for perfection. While working, he practiced at the same time, and all kinds of new insights emerged frequently, so it was a little delayed.
If we rush the work, it may be completed in a month.
Dredging the Yellow River is a high-intensity and very hard practice even for Li Xiang now. It is many times more intense than growing vegetables in the vegetable garden. Therefore, it is of great help to his practice. Li Xiang also took advantage of this training to be promoted twice, both of which were the kind of promotions that came only after he had consolidated his foundation to the point where it could not be consolidated any more.
Let's not talk about other things, just the earth-related superpowers, many of which he had never had the opportunity to use before, so he was not very proficient in them. However, when it came to dredging the Yellow River, he tried most of them and used them all to perfection.
The biggest gain among them was the "Star Meteor Flowing Sand". In the process of sinking the Yellow River bed, he needed to use his great strength and earth-related abilities to compress the river bed, make it solid, and sink it. Thus, he created this "Star Meteor Flowing Sand" by himself.
This skill can transform soil and rocks into microscopic star sand with a density comparable to that of a neutron star, with a single grain of sand weighing hundreds of tons. Sand grains can be freely manipulated to form offensive and defensive forms. For example, "Defensive Star Ring Body Protection": sand grains surround the body at hypersonic speed (such as Mach 20), forming an absolute defense layer (similar to the molecular tight structure of water droplets in "The Three-Body Problem"), which can withstand the impact of nuclear explosions.
There is also "Offensive·Galactic Outpouring", which involves compressing thousands of grains of star sand into the size of a pencil and shooting it out, with a penetrating power 10,000 times greater than that of a depleted uranium armor-piercing bullet.
Of course, he has not yet condensed that much star sand. Even if he condensed it, he probably wouldn't be able to activate it at his current level.
At present, he has only condensed three grains of star sand, each weighing one hundred tons.
He planned to condense at least a thousand of them. When his cultivation level improved in the future, he could increase the weight of a single grain of star sand, for example, a thousand tons or ten thousand tons per grain. This would be much more powerful than a bullet. If one grain was ejected, the person would die if it touched them, and would be killed if it touched them.
This can be said to be his biggest gain on this trip and one of his most powerful means of attack.
For this reason, he later selected high-quality Yellow River sand and stored 100,000 tons in the warehouse, which was just enough to condense a thousand grains. However, this kind of thing is a long and arduous process, and it takes about three days to condense one grain. He can only condense it when he has time in the future.
When Li Xiang condensed the fourteenth spiritual power vortex, there was no supernatural inscription accompanying him. However, when he condensed the fifteenth spiritual power vortex, there was a supernatural inscription "Invisibility" accompanying him with a clear and cold light.
This is also a very practical ability.
As for the extra-dimensional warehouse, after two consecutive upgrades, the warehouse has now been upgraded to a cube with a side length of 32,768 meters. The spatial volume has expanded to: 32.768 kilometers × 32.768 meters × 32.768 meters, totaling 35,184.37 cubic kilometers (1 cubic kilometer = 1 billion cubic meters, or 35 trillion cubic meters).
The previous estimate of the amount of Yellow River sand that needed to be desilted was only 32 trillion cubic meters.
Li Xiang's "extreme speed" has also increased, now it is Mach 23, and his "huge force" is 380,000 pounds.
The ability to sense the earth veins has made a significant breakthrough, reaching a radius of fifty kilometers.
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And "#Yellow River Miracle#" finally became a hot search. Such a big movement, such a big change, it is no exaggeration to say that it is a world-changing event. How could it be kept secret from the world? Moreover, this is the Internet age.
In the time-lapse photography that went viral on TikTok, the Xuanhe River in Zhengzhou dropped five meters in three days, and the ancient willow trees that had been withered for twenty years sprouted new buds again (thanks to Zhao Xueqing).
When the BBC reporter was broadcasting live from Hukou, a thousand-ton cargo ship loaded with coal was sounding its horn on a sea trial in the background.
Netizen @黄河鲤鱼精: "I am reporting this with my real name. The vibration in the tunnel scared away three nests of my fish fry!"
@Infrastructure Crazy Fan Club: "Seeing the crystal vein filter layer absorb heavy metals, this material dog knelt down and cried through three packs of tissues."
A Paris think tank report said: "The project has increased the value of land in the Yellow River Basin by more than one trillion yuan, and it is recommended that the European Union send a delegation to visit and learn from it."
Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" published a sour picture: a comparison of Mount Fuji and the terraced Yellow River coastline, with the title "The collision of tradition and super power."
In the futures market, Zhengzhou cotton contracts soared 17%, and the expectation of shipping resumption led coal mine owners in Shanxi and Shaanxi to order 10,000-ton cargo ships overnight.
At the bottom of the river, newly born Yellow River carp swam upstream, their scales reflecting the faint light from the crystal vein filter layer, like a flowing galaxy of stars.
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At the celebration banquet, Li Xiang and Zhao Xueqing were the center of attention, and new military ranks were also announced. Li Xiang was promoted two levels to "Senior Colonel" and Zhao Xueqing to "Captain".
Zhao Xueqing lagged behind Yao Yao before, but now she is on par with Yao Yao. Only Lei Xiaohui is still a "lieutenant" and is left behind by her two sisters. She is quite unhappy.
Li Xiang comforted her and said there would be opportunities in the future.
(End of this chapter)
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