As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 74 Better Seeds

"Among these seeds, I feel that these ones are of better quality, especially this one. I can feel its gushing vitality."

For this purpose, all the security guards of the Agricultural Research Institute were replaced by more professional security personnel, and Hua Guo also prepared a new resume for his new identity.

Jiang Yan came to the Agricultural Research Institute with a team of six people. The other five people all had their own secret identities. On the surface, they were researchers in Jiang Yan's team, but secretly they served Jiang Yan.

It's not just about makeup, it also includes blood tests, physical examinations, and reporting Jiang Yan's latest feelings back to the Abnormal Things Investigation Bureau.

After the emergence of Magic Coin, especially after the artificial magic brain was confirmed, China established a special Abnormal Affairs Investigation Bureau, which was fully responsible for magic-related matters.

(Don’t worry about the name of this organization, it was just chosen randomly. I just chose this name because it sounds good to me.)

"Are you sure?" Dong Wenxu, a researcher in charge of batch genetic mutation of soybean seeds, was full of doubts.

This new researcher is too arrogant. He picked up the seeds and took a look at them and determined that these seeds are of better quality?
This batch of seeds was processed in batches by Dong Wenxu using a combination of X-rays and chemical mutagenic agents to induce mutation.

It is not like the most popular operation method in the agricultural research community today, which targets some known mutants and works on the gene fragments where these mutants are located.

Radioactive probes are used to determine the gene fragment associated with a mutant of known function. Once the gene fragment is located, directed mutagenesis or hybridization is used to cause the gene fragment to change again.

Since the functional modules associated with this gene fragment are known, the control experiment only needs to be designed specifically.

However, after the new researcher Jiang Yan arrived, Dong Wenxu was directly transferred to Jiang Yan's team, which he was not very willing to do.

Although Jiang Yan studied at prestigious universities, all the papers he published are blank. As a researcher, isn't it a sheer misconception that the team leader has never published any papers?

The institute said that Jiang Yan had been engaged in secret scientific research before, and was recently transferred to their research institute because of his age, so he had never published a paper.

What made Dong Wenxu even more unbearable was that Jiang Yan asked him to use the traditional radiation method to process seeds of major crops such as wheat, rice, barley, and soybeans in large quantities.

After Dong Wenxu finished processing, Jiang Yan would pick it up and look at it for a long time, closing his eyes from time to time, and then tell him which seeds to plant.

I knew it was unreliable from the beginning, but Dong Wenxu didn't expect it to be so unreliable. Choosing seeds was like drawing lots.

Every day, Jiang Yan selects the induced seeds, and then he and several other researchers go to the agricultural science institute to plant them in the soil.

Dong Wenxu didn't know when this would end. Under this person in charge, he had no hope of publishing a paper. He didn't know if he could find a teaching position in a 211 university, let alone an ordinary one.

Originally, I came to the Institute of Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a postdoctoral fellow in order to publish more papers and strive to get into a 211 university and start as an associate professor. "It seems that my life is bleak," Dong Wenxu thought.

"Teacher Jiang, isn't our method a little too random?" Dong Wenxu couldn't help it, he reminded the other party very tactfully.

Jiang Yan didn't care. As a person who had experienced the boundary between life and death, Shennong, who had already pledged his life to the country, couldn't and wasn't in a good position to explain this to him.

Could it be that I have a magic brain that can sense which seed has stronger vitality?
Jiang Yan had no choice but to say, "Please believe me, you can only believe me. If these seeds do not show some superior characteristics, I will allow you to transfer to other groups." Dong Wenxu was also carefully selected. He is calm and taciturn, has no overseas study experience, and his ancestors for three generations have undergone political review before he could join Jiang Yan's group.

But Dong Wenxu himself didn’t realize how lucky he was to be able to join this group.

Hearing Jiang Yan say this, Dong Wenxu had no choice but to answer yes.

After Dong Wenxu left, Jiang Yan continued to study because he had changed his direction and now his research had expanded to all major crops. He still had a lot of lessons to catch up on.

After Jiang Yan was injected with the standard magic brain, he was surprised to find that he could sense the good and bad of creatures. It was just a feeling. He could feel which seed was better among the same seeds.

After discovering and confirming that Jiang Yan indeed possessed this ability, he was transferred to the Agricultural Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

"I hope you will continue to make outstanding contributions to China's agricultural independence and major crop security. We will no longer have to rely on overseas and can leave more profits for our vast number of farmers."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The location has changed, the work content has changed, but what remains unchanged is the original intention, the determination and belief to make a small contribution to China's agriculture.

China is a populous country with a huge demand for food, but it relies heavily on imports for seeds.

China feeds 7% of the world's population with 20% of the world's farmland. To accomplish this feat, China's use of fertilizers has tripled over the past 30 years, with an average efficiency of 3%, compared to a world average of 32%.

Eighty percent of soybean imports depend on imports, with imports increasing from 1995 tons in 30 to 2017 million tons in 9500, accounting for two-thirds of the world soybean trading market.

(The above data comes from the "China Agricultural Yearbook" 1982-2017 published by the Ministry of Agriculture of China)

China relies heavily on imports for seeds. In 2018, China imported more than 7200 million kilograms of crop seeds, with an import value of 4.75 million euros.

It is precisely because of this environment that Jiang Yan can come to the Agricultural Institute without having to stay in the secret base.

After finishing a day's work, Jiang Yan got up and opened the magic forum page. There was still only Merlin's post hanging there.

His mind was full of questions and he wanted to ask Merlin, what exactly is the magic brain? Why did the magic brain injection give him this ability?

Is this ability technology or magic?

In addition, can this ability evolve to more accurately detect what aspects of good seeds are good?
These problems are like a cat scratching its itch to him. If they cannot be solved, they will keep lingering in his mind.

I can only force myself not to think about it when I am working.

Thanks to Xuewufeiyu and akwep!!! for the reward~
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(End of this chapter)