162: Chapter 162 Shen Wanyu, Mushroom Nerve

The small fishing boat did not fly very high.

Through the cockpit, one could see a grand avenue on the Antarctic continent below.

This avenue, like a giant dragon, wound its way from the landing port all the way to the Great Wall Station. It was one hundred and fifty meters wide with twenty lanes, and currently, many infrastructure vehicles specialized for transport were driving on it.

On both sides of the road, engineering facilities were sparsely distributed.

The closer to the landing port, the more engineering facilities there were.

In the middle section, they gradually decreased.

Near the Great Wall Station, they suddenly became numerous again.

"The construction environment is still a bit harsh."

"If it were even slightly better, with the speed of Dragon Country's infrastructure mania, this avenue would have long been covered with all kinds of human engineering projects."

Jiang Chen thought to himself.

After all, it was Antarctica, with its polar nights; it was only convenient to carry out daily infrastructure work near the landing port and the scientific research station.

Before long.

The small fishing boat followed the transport plane and arrived at the Great Wall Station.

This Great Wall Station was located behind a towering mountain and built along its slope.

A part of it was even built into the mountain and underground.

This was perfect for avoiding the severe cold.

The transport plane stopped not far from the research station.

Jiang Chen also parked the small fishing boat at the airfield.

He walked out together with Xue Yao.

When the small fishing boat was parked in the water earlier, Commander Li Jing hadn't noticed the Horse Terracotta Warriors.

Now that the Horse Terracotta Warriors had appeared and were currently stationary at the airfield, looking like mechas, they caught his eye.

Commander Li Jing immediately walked over with a look of wonder and couldn't help but ask Jiang Chen, "General Manager Jiang, what breed are these horses of yours? They can actually fly?"

Jiang Chen smiled. "Mecha horses."

"Incredible! I heard before that your Longke Academy developed some kind of robotic birds, and now you've made mecha horses?"

Commander Li Jing clicked his tongue in amazement and couldn't resist walking around one of the Horse Terracotta Warriors.

Each Horse Terracotta Warrior was also equipped with a soldier figurine, so he naturally assumed they were mecha-men from the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals series.

"General Manager Jiang, you are part of our Dragon God's establishment after all. When are you going to equip our aircraft carrier with some of these cool mecha horses?"

Commander Li Jing rubbed his chin and couldn't help but speak up.

The more he looked at these mecha horses, the more they looked like Terracotta Warriors. This made him start fantasizing: wouldn't it be incredibly cool if he were riding one of these flying mecha horses?

No way.

He had to get one to ride.

"Uh, this... these are very rare!" Jiang Chen said with a light laugh.

These ten Terracotta Warriors were truly unique.

He had wandered the Pacific Ocean for so long, through deviations and magnetic storms, and had only managed to encounter these ten.

He said, "How about this? I'll have the military factory customize a batch from the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals series for you later. That batch also has ones that can fly."

Currently, those assigned Heavenly Soldiers and Generals included the earliest long ming aircraft carrier and the newly launched Sister Li.

As for the Dragon Soul and Dragon God, they were temporarily equipped with very few.

They mainly relied on Gene Warriors.

"That works too!"

Commander Li Jing immediately clapped his hands.

These mechas needed to be allocated in batches by the Longke Academy. The long ming aircraft carrier got the first pick due to its proximity, and the Sister Li was the latest favorite to be launched; he would have to start competing with the Dragon Soul to snatch some up.

The group chatted as they went.

They left the airfield.

And entered the scientific research station—the Great Wall Station.

The massive mountain gate, covered in ice and snow, opened automatically.

A tall, thin young man wearing orange thermal clothing welcomed them. "Commander Li, everyone, welcome to our Great Wall Station! I am Cai Minghui; you can call me Xiao Cai. My teacher worked overtime too late last night and is still resting, so I came to greet you!"

"Professor Shen worked overtime again?"

Commander Li Jing frowned slightly.

Professor Shen was the director of the Great Wall Scientific Research Station and the primary person in charge.

Before Commander Li Jing arrived, he had told the research station staff, so Professor Shen definitely knew. He didn't expect this guy to still give him no face at all and miss the chance to meet again.

However, Commander Li Jing could understand.

Professor Shen was a straightforward person, obsessed with scientific research to the point of being unable to extricate himself.

Professor Shen probably didn't really care much about when he, Li Jing, arrived.

"Yes, there's been some progress in the research recently. Teacher stayed up all night working. It was only after we persuaded him that he went to rest; otherwise, he really would have struggled for twenty-four hours a day."

"But don't worry, we've already prepared the items the Longke Academy wants."

"They can be taken away at any time."

"If you want to take a tour, I can act as your guide for the whole trip."

Cai Minghui said enthusiastically.

He was Professor Shen Wanyu's prize pupil.

He had followed his teacher here to conduct scientific research in crop science.

It had been three or four years now.

He was quite familiar with the Great Wall Station.

"Everyone, let's take a tour; we won't be coming here often in the future."

Commander Li Jing said to Jiang Chen and his group.

Jiang Chen and Xue Yao exchanged a look.

Since they were already here, they might as well take a look around.

"May I be so bold as to ask what exactly is being researched here at the Great Wall Station?"

Walking behind Cai Minghui, Jiang Chen asked.

Commander Li Jing helped introduce them to each other. "This is General Manager Jiang, Jiang Chen, the overall head of the Longke Academy's Heavenly Soldiers and Generals project. This is Xiao Cai, a top student who graduated from the Dragon God Academy. His teacher is Professor Shen. Before Professor Shen came to the research station, he was also the Head of the Dragon God Academy. I remember you guys are doing something related to crop science, right?"

"You flatter me!"

"It is indeed research regarding crops."

Cai Minghui adjusted his glasses and said very modestly.

crop science?

Jiang Chen's eyebrows twitched.

Doesn't crop science mainly study rice, wheat, fruit, vegetables, and other agricultural crops?

Was the Antarctic continent also planning to work on genetically modifying these foods?

When Jiang Chen first learned that Professor Shen was the head of the Great Wall Station, he thought the man researched something like engineering.

He hadn't expected it to be crop science.

But he thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out what could be researched regarding crops in this frozen wasteland of Antarctica.

Just as Jiang Chen was wondering.

The group turned left and right, passing through an unknown number of security checkpoints.

They entered a laboratory where everyone was wearing hazmat suits.

However, Jiang Chen and the others only stood at the entrance of the lab.

Through the thick transparent glass on the doors and windows, they could see many researchers studying crops inside.

A large number of crops were growing in artificial farmland.

Jiang Chen just took one look and his eyes widened.

Because the crops inside were not quite normal.

"Wow, what big mushrooms."

Xue Yao also let out a cry of surprise.

She used her hands to gesture the size.

The mushrooms planted in that field were actually as big as a human head.

If these were taken back, wouldn't they last for a week?

"Are these mushrooms edible?"

Jiang Chen was also very curious.

Cai Minghui smiled. "These genetically modified mushrooms are mainly for research, not for eating... Furthermore, these mushrooms are not nerve-less mushrooms; they have nerves."

"Mushrooms with nerves?"

"Aren't mushrooms fungi? Where would the nerves come from?"

Jiang Chen was even more puzzled.

As fungi, mushrooms, like other fruits, do not have nerves.

They aren't animals.

Where would nerves come from?

"This..."

Because it involved research content, Cai Minghui was hesitating on how to answer.

Just then.

An old professor's voice drifted over.

"All things have spirits, and mushrooms are no different."