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Base 001, the highest level biosafety laboratory.

All the lights were focused on the specially designed vacuum isolation chamber in the center of the control panel.

There was a small piece of soil floating there.

It's only the size of a fingernail, with a rustic, dark yellow color. It looks unremarkable and even has a slightly earthy smell, as if it were just dug out of the ground.

But at that moment, the air in the entire laboratory seemed to freeze.

Su Qingge, the top biologist in China, was staring intently at the microscope screen.

Her hands gripped the edge of the control panel so tightly that her knuckles made a cracking sound as she struggled to keep up.

Her breathing was rapid, like that of a drowning person, each breath accompanied by violent trembling.

"It's breathing."

Su Qingge's voice was hoarse and dry, carrying a sense of weakness and bewilderment after witnessing the collapse of faith firsthand.

Chen Xi stood behind her, hands in his pockets, looking calmly at the clod of earth.

The Nine Heavens Breath Soil bestowed by the Jade Emperor certainly did not disappoint him.

"Be specific."

Chen Xi spoke, his tone as calm as if he were asking about today's weather.

That calm voice, like a needle, pierced Su Qingge's extremely tense nerves.

She turned her head sharply, and her beautiful eyes were now filled with a flame of terror and fanaticism!

"This isn't matter! Chen Xi! Don't you understand? This isn't matter! This is the law!"

Su Qingge's voice was so shrill it was almost out of control.

"Its microstructure completely contradicts the periodic arrangement of any element on Earth! It's self-replicating! It's eating! It's consuming free particles in the air, then turning them into... turning them into itself!"

She practically screamed it out.

"We just put in one gram, and now... now it's become 1.2 grams!"

"And this is only in a vacuum! Given enough energy, it could assimilate the entire Earth into soil!"

Chen Xi raised an eyebrow slightly, finally showing a hint of interest.

"So, what you plant in this thing will grow?"

"Not only that!"

Su Qingge stared at Chen Xi's calm demeanor as if he were a monster, and quickly pulled up a set of data.

It was a shriveled, completely lifeless weed seed that had just been planted.

On the screen, the moment the seed came into contact with the soil, its entire genetic chain underwent a cataclysmic change!

Break, then rebuild!

That wasn't a random collapse, but a precise editing process akin to the "hand of God"!

"It's optimizing genes!"

"It eliminated all defective, redundant, and fragile gene segments like garbage!"

"All the advantageous traits representing growth, strength, and adaptability are amplified and reinforced infinitely in a way we cannot comprehend!"

Su Qingge swallowed hard, her throat dry and sore. She pointed at the wild grass on the screen that had suddenly sprouted tender buds and even glowed with a faint golden light, her voice trembling.

"This is creation... Chen Xi, this is a creation miracle only found in mythology!"

Just then!

"Bang--!"

The heavy alloy door of the laboratory was violently slammed open.

Li Guobang strode in like an enraged lion.

His face was ashen, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was clutching a document in his hand, the paper crumpled and almost torn.

Something's happened.

Li Guobang's voice was terrifyingly low, each word suppressing a raging fire about to engulf the heavens.

Chen Xi turned around, gave Su Qingge a "continue" look, and then led Li Guobang to the outside corridor.

"Have the four major grain traders, ABCD, joined forces?"

Chen Xi leaned against the wall and asked casually.

Li Guobang suddenly looked up, his bloodshot eyes filled with astonishment: "You...you guessed it all along?"

"They've lost the pharmaceutical war, they've lost the chip war, and they don't have many cards left to play."

A cold, mocking smile curled at the corner of Chen Xi's lips.

"Food is the most important thing for people. If they don't want us to live, the most direct way is naturally to cut off our food supply."

"More ruthless and vicious than starvation!"

Li Guobang's chest heaved violently as he slammed the document onto Chen Xi's chest, his movements trembling with despair.

"It's a seed!"

"Just half an hour ago, the Western Union's agricultural ministries issued a joint statement, citing the risk of 'unknown genetic contamination' in the growing environments of all crops in China, and activated the highest level of biosecurity measures!"

"Using patent protection as an excuse, they have indefinitely halted the export of all high-end genetically modified soybean and corn seeds to us!"

"And the core breeding stock of pigs and chickens! All of that has been stopped!"

Li Guobang, a tough guy who hadn't even blinked in the midst of gunfire, now had eyes that were completely red.

"Chen Xi, do you know what this means?!"

"We can be self-sufficient in staple foods, but we rely on their soybeans and corn for 80% of the feed for our livestock industry!"

"Without seeds, our land won't produce enough fodder next year!"

"Without feed, pigs will starve, chickens will starve, and meat prices will skyrocket! Ordinary people will have no meat on their tables!"

"They're going to starve our livestock industry to death this winter! They're going to throw our country into chaos! They're going to make us kneel down and beg them for food!"

He wasn't afraid of war.

What he fears is that the rice bowls of 1.4 billion compatriots will be in the hands of others!

That kind of fear is sharper than any enemy's bayonet, capable of instantly shattering a soldier's strongest spine!

The air in the corridor seemed to freeze, and every speck of dust exuded a suffocating despair.

Chen Xi quietly looked at Li Guobang, noticing the tears welling up in the old general's eyes.

"The FAO report has also been released."

Li Guobang took a deep breath, his voice hoarse as if sandpaper was being rubbed.

"If the seed problem cannot be solved, China will face a food shortage of at least 20 percent next year."

"Twenty percent..."

"That's enough food for 300 million people!!"

Li Guobang could no longer control himself and grabbed Chen Xi's shoulder tightly, like a drowning person grasping at the last straw.

"Chen Xi, is there any other way? Tell your uncle, is there any other way?!"

"Could we...could we ask those gods for some seeds? We'll trade them for something! Anything will do!"

"But we don't have that many things to exchange! This is a shortage for 300 million people! That's an astronomical figure!"

Chen Xi did not speak.

He simply reached out and gently patted Li Guobang's large hands, which were trembling violently with fear and anger.

Then, little by little, with an undeniable force, he removed his hand from his shoulder.

"Old Li."

Chen Xi's voice was soft, yet it carried a chill that could freeze one to the bone.

"They want to choke us on the stomach."

"They think that as long as they control our livelihood, we have to wag our tails and beg for mercy like dogs."

Chen Xi slowly turned around, his gaze piercing through the thick isolation glass, looking at the Nine Heavens Breath Soil floating inside the laboratory.

The dark yellow light seemed to ignite two clusters of dark hellfire deep within his pupils.

"Then let's get a new stomach."

Li Guobang was completely stunned: "Change...change your stomach? What do you mean?"

Chen Xi did not explain.

He picked up the laptop, the screen lit up, and a satellite map appeared.

That is the northwest corner of China.

A vast expanse of yellow.

The Taklamakan Desert, the Sea of ​​Death.

"Notify the Engineering Corps."

Chen Xi's finger pressed heavily on the yellow area that represented despair and death, his tone sharp and his words resounding.

"I want to cultivate a future here."

"Farming? In the desert?!"

Li Guobang's eyes widened, almost wondering if Chen Xi had been driven mad by the immense pressure.

"The annual rainfall there is less than 100 millimeters, but the evaporation rate is as high as 3000 millimeters! It's a giant furnace! Forget about farming, not even a blade of grass can survive!"

"That was before."

Chen Xi put away his phone, slowly straightened his collar, and looked down at a group of ignorant ants with a disdainful gaze.

"Since Westerners think their seeds are made of gold, then let them keep them to be buried with us."

"We don't need any charity from them."

"Because starting today."

Chen Xi pushed open the laboratory door and strode inside, his silhouette stretched incredibly long and resolute under the light.

"We'll set the rules."

"We'll build the land."