As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 160 Clark Island
The plan is to officially land on the moon in early 2024.

The schedule is about five years faster than originally planned.

Not only has it launched a series of lunar probes this year, but it also plans to launch at least three unmanned rockets to simulate the moon landing before the official moon landing.

The moon landing and even the space engineering is not only an extremely complex systematic project, but also involves the calculation of a large number of complicated mathematical equations.

The failure of the launch of Russia's predecessor, the N-1 rocket, was largely due to the fact that their thruster duct design was not well considered.

The fluid mechanics of the propulsion exhaust gas produced by the combination of a large number of engines was not calculated properly, resulting in all four test launches of the N-1 exploding. In the end, the economy could not bear it and it had to be abandoned.

Although many calculations can now be performed by computers, there are still many complex calculations that computers cannot perform.

Not to mention that the Russians have put all their magic brains into mathematicians.

At that time, America invested about 200 billion US dollars in the moon landing project, while Russia only invested 40 billion.

As for the Europa Alliance, let's first figure out how to use the lunar probe. In 2012, it said it planned to land on the moon in 2018, with an estimated investment of 5 million pounds.

There is no shadow yet.

We haven’t even taken the first step, let alone landing on Mars.

The Europa Alliance is qualified to participate in the new generation of scientific and technological revolution, but its progress in the aerospace field is very slow.

Neon and England are the slowest. It would be strange if an alliance that is holding each other back could progress quickly.

Zheng Li naturally welcomes the increased investment of various countries in scientific research.

Relying on bio-cloud mining, Zheng Li cashed out the BTC obtained from mining at a high price and purchased an island in Malaysia through his new avatar.

The purchased island will be used as a specialized research base for magical plants.

Because Malaysia and Siam are friendly to foreign capital, they are the hottest markets for island trading in Southeast Asia. The influx of a large amount of international capital has made the islands of these two countries very hot.

A large number of buyers come from Russia.

By 2023, as the situation becomes turbulent, hot money will gradually withdraw from the island trading market and island prices will fall.

Especially for undeveloped virgin land, a suitable area would only cost around two million square meters.

Zheng Li only had requirements for area and privacy, he had no requirements for the view.

This kind of island is not very expensive and has permanent ownership.

After purchasing it, spend money to build some infrastructure.

If the area is large enough, you can even build a small wizard tower.

Only the mage tower will be built by him, and other infrastructure can be handed over to the construction unit.

When the island purchased by Zheng Li was delivered in September, Zheng Li's clone B went directly to the place he named Clark Island.

Clark is the English translation of Zheng Li’s previous name in the Mage Alliance, which is also a kind of commemoration.

This clone of his was a white person, and his identity was that of an Englishman purchased from the black market.

It is equivalent to selling you the identity of an Englishman who came to Southeast Asia for tourism and died in an accident.

It’s hard to say what the accident was.

It wouldn't be out of place if the island purchased by the white people was called Clark Island.

(The reason why I'm called Clark is not because I like Superman comics, but to commemorate Arthur Clarke.)
In fact, what Zheng Li wanted to call the island the most was Magic Island - Magic, but he was afraid of attracting attention.

What you need to do before you can't withstand the nuclear bomb is to stay alive and develop. Although you have three burrows now, there is still a risk of being exposed.

What if the method of biological signal transmission is deciphered by the people from Blue Star?

Fortunately, Zheng Li deployed the biological cloud in the Pacific Ocean to avoid this situation.

Scientists on the Blue Planet have deciphered the way biological signals are transmitted and are able to detect the sources of the signals, and will only find that a large number of signal sources are in the Pacific Ocean.

Signal noise would obscure his true location.

After clone B moved in, the interest group that had sold his identity to him saw that Zheng Li was alone on the island and had not hired anyone else.

They tried to go to the island to rob other gangs, but after walking around the island, they didn't find anyone.

When they were about to leave the island, Zheng Li remotely cast a spell of amnesia on them, erasing all their memories of the past six months, and then filled them with new memories.

Completely erased myself.

After cleaning up the mess, Zheng Li knew that he could finally start the subsequent construction.

What he needs now is people, so he asked the Lion City R&D center to create a few more clones and then send them to Lion City.

Similarly, the clones are equipped with low-level artificial intelligence through the biological cloud, allowing them to perform physical work according to commands.

Clone A and Clone B are operated by Zheng Li himself. Zheng Li can also change the object of operation when necessary.

Clark Island does not need Blue Star’s research equipment. Since the main purpose is to cultivate magical plants, all it needs is Zheng Li’s ability to cast spells.

Zheng Li at the R&D center in Lion City developed the genetic map of the magic plants, Zheng Li in Kuala Lumpur used magic to transform the magic seeds, and then Zheng Li on Clark Island cultivated the magic plants.

Perfect closed loop.

For crops of this size, such as seeds, Zheng Li could easily transport them directly from Kuala Lumpur to Clark Island.

After Zheng Li mastered magic, he could naturally perform all the spells he had cast before. However, due to physical limitations, the effects of the magic he could use were more or less weakened.

Like teleportation, it was previously possible to teleport large objects across planets.

After arriving at the Blue Planet, we can only teleport tardigrades to Pluto.

Tardigrades are not even as big as ants.

Zheng Li was very dissatisfied with the fact that his abilities had been severely reduced, and he needed magic plants to transform himself.

We are not using magic plants to make potions here. The effects of potions are difficult to determine and their stability is very poor.

The Medieval Era potions of the Mage Alliance have been eliminated.

What Zheng Li needs is to transform himself according to some genes of the magic plant or certain characteristics of the plant itself.

When Zheng Li built the third cave, the new graphene coating production base of Ke Chuang Bio officially started construction.

The production base was built in Gusu.

The investment in a new graphene coating production base is as high as billions. This base does not produce new graphene coatings, but produces graphene coating manufacturing equipment.

Graphene coating manufacturing equipment is to new graphene coatings what photolithography machines are to semiconductors.

After Ke Chuang Bio's new cathode material patent was approved, many people realized this.

By the time Jiangcheng and Jinling came to us and hoped that Kechuang Biotechnology would set up the base there, Gusu's production base had already begun construction.

(End of this chapter)