Gou is a dark elf in Warhammer

Umatadan couldn't understand it, but he was greatly shocked.

At first, he saw a strange scene, a primate with unique plant fibers on its skin, standing in his field of vision, with its back to him, shaking rhythmically.

He wondered what Daxus wanted him to see, the study of primates? The imitation of strange movements? Or the biological analysis of the weaving from some fern?
The scene flashed by for only a few seconds, and then a very special white chicken appeared. This chicken was extremely strong, muscular, and much larger than other breeds. Its genes had obviously been carefully designed and regulated, and the muscle fibers in its body had been artificially enhanced to meet some special needs.

Looking at this too-perfect chicken, he vaguely realized that this was not a natural evolution, but a new type of experimental organism that could be used for efficient meat production. From a biological point of view, he believed that the cell metabolism rate in this chicken was extremely high and the protein synthesis pathway was greatly optimized.

Then, the scene captured by Umatadan changed, and he entered a laboratory full of scientific and technological atmosphere. Countless transparent culture fluid devices were arranged neatly, and tiny cell colonies were suspended in the liquid. He knew that here, the continuous liquid culture method was used to cultivate cell lines that did not produce toxins.

Through directed culture and gene editing technology, these cells are precisely designed to be production machines that do not pose a threat to the environment or the host. As the culture time progresses, these cells are separated by centrifugation to precipitate the required protein substances. Subsequently, the protease is broken down and spliced ​​to transform these cells into highly nutritious synthetic meat.

Although the process was abstract and ad hoc, with many logical and procedural errors, the moment he saw the final product, he understood what Dacus meant.

Then he saw the production process of plant meat, which does not come from animals, but is recombined by plant cell walls and proteins through biotechnology to imitate the texture and taste of animal muscles. The plant cell tissue culture method is used, combined with protein recombination technology, to precisely control the texture and flavor of plant meat, making it infinitely close to natural animal meat in appearance, taste and nutritional value.

Umatadan was very calm. He was not shocked by Dacus's knowledge. He thought it was natural for Dacus to know this. The bioengineering technology shown in these scenes did not exceed his cognition. In his cognition, the structure and evolution of organisms were not just the product of nature, but were controlled by the will of the ancient saints. Every cell, every muscle, and even the fiber of the plant were reshaped and designed to adapt to new functions and needs.

But the next scene made his emotions fluctuate. He saw Daxus standing up and approaching the soul pod. Even in the picture, he could feel the inexplicable familiarity, a power that made him feel relaxed and happy. When Daxus gently touched the leaves, the soul pod gently unfolded, revealing the core hidden deep inside.

The core of the soul pod is a light body shining with mysterious light, like a gem. It is not just a material existence, but a pure energy condensation. The light emitted by the gem is unpredictable, sometimes like silver moonlight, soft and peaceful, sometimes like golden sunlight, blazing and warm, which makes him feel a resonance from the soul. He sees the endless universe flowing in it, the stars dancing in it, and time stagnating in it.

"Soul Pod!" The word came out of Umatadan's mouth.

"Have you seen it?" Daxus asked with a gleam in his eyes, looking at Umatadan with an inexplicable look.

Seeing Umatadan nod, he revealed a look of realization. Yes, it was right. There was no doubt that Athel Loren was an indispensable part of the big plan. The other world was more complicated and important than he had imagined. This was also the reason why the first generation of Slanchikota arranged for the second generation of Slannarhap to go there before Chibakuten, and why Narhap was kept on standby.

The noble spirits nurtured by the soul pods will take on different forms, bringing endless joy and hope to the world with their colorful forms, all based on the love, hopes and dreams of the growers.

The birth of every noble spirit is the bloom of a miracle. They have different shapes, some are like tiny elves, and their wings are as transparent as crystal, shining with colorful brilliance in the sunlight. Some are like elegant flowers, fragrant and exuding a refreshing fragrance. Some are like tiny wood spirits, agile and agile, wandering in the forest with endless curiosity.

The growth process of each soul pod is a process in which the grower devotes his heart and soul and emotions. When the heart is filled with dreams and expectations for the future, these emotions will be integrated into the soul pod and eventually manifested in the form of spirit.

Through Umatadan's reaction, he now has a deeper understanding of the Great Forest, the Otherworld, and the Soul Pod.

The Great Forest and the Other World are like a reflecting pond. The Old Saints or the First Slann knew of the existence of Ithil and reached into the pond to grab the pure spiritual energy from Ithil. This is the manifestation of the Song of Spirits.

The spiritual energy is then placed in the soul pod, in the other world, to be nurtured as needed.

Then the spirit was born, a strange soul was born.

Dacus looked at the Shilan. Did he seem to understand the mechanism of soul infusion? At this moment, he seemed to have glimpsed the secret hidden in the deepest part of this world. It was not like what he thought before, that Master Ke extracted essence from his own soul and soul-infused the Shilan who were about to be born. Instead, it should be like what he was thinking now, giving the Shilan wisdom through the soul pod.

The Shilan, who are endowed with wisdom through the spirit song and the form of soul pods, may be a kind of spirit in a certain sense? Or a variant? Just like the southern tangerines and the northern tangerines.

"No wonder." He sighed. After thinking it through, he understood why all kinds of evil people flocked to Athel Loren.

He felt no surprise, no pain, only calm.

He was like a bystander, watching the gunner calculate, load, and fire. Did he learn it? No. Because what he saw was just the appearance. After watching for a long time, he learned how to load and fire, and could fire the shells, but he didn't know where the shells would go. Calculation was the core, which was in the hands of the ancient saints and the first generation of Shi Lan. Without learning, he would never learn it. He didn't think he was a super genius who could learn without a teacher.

This is his current dilemma. He may have found a way to create Shilan, but...

And there were some things he couldn't explain. Why were the corrosion resistance of Jingpo and Shilan so different, one was so high and the other was so low? Was it because of different breeding processes? Or was it an unfinished project? At first, Shilan and Jingpo were carefully polished by the ancient saints, but later they ran out of time and could only use them as a makeshift?

The soul pod that nurtured the first generation of Shilan was even stronger than the one he had seen in the other world, dozens of times stronger? Or, the souls of the Shilan were not nurtured through the Song of the Soul, but a method that looked very similar to the Song of the Soul, but was actually nurtured in another way?

He shook his head and plunged into the pool again. He forced himself to calm down. His mind was a little confused. He first thought of white-feathered chickens, but he was a little wrong at first... He thought of that person. Then he thought about plant meat and cell-cultured meat, and finally he thought of soul pods inexplicably. He didn't think this was a stream of consciousness. The former and the latter had no connection at all. He only thought of soul infusion, and from soul infusion he thought of soul pods. He didn't have the idea of ​​rushing back to Azore Loren to conduct experiments, not at all. There is no shortage of Shilan now. Nearly a hundred Shilan led by six second-generation Shilan are more than enough. What the Lizardmen lack now is military strength. It is better to develop honestly and complete the current major plan than to draw lots. The creation of Shilan should be handed over to Master Ke and Master Qi, and his task is to resurrect Master Ke and Master Qi.

"Can cell-cultured meat be rolled out on a large scale? Cost, time, and output?" After calming down, he stood up from the water, with a hint of expectation in his eyes when he asked.

When Umatadan heard this question, he shook his head slightly. After a moment of silence, he conveyed his thoughts to Dacus through telepathy.

A clear picture began to emerge in Dacus' mind. He saw the scene of cell meat production, in a huge laboratory, huge culture tanks filled with viscous culture fluid, cells rapidly proliferated in the liquid, and cells were continuously extracted through industrial continuous culture methods.

However, what appeared on the screen was not efficient meat production, but some insurmountable problems presented to him by Master Wu. To realize the industrial production of cell-based meat, a rigorous bioreactor system is first required.

These systems must maintain an extremely precise environment to ensure that cells grow and reproduce under optimal conditions. The culture tank requires constant temperature control, and even slight temperature fluctuations will affect the metabolic rate and product quality of the cells. In addition, the pH value of the culture medium, the supply of nutrients, and the oxygen concentration must be precisely adjusted. Deviations in any of these controls may lead to abnormal cell growth or undesirable changes in the metabolic products in the culture.

In these production processes, equipment maintenance and operation costs are extremely expensive, and large-scale bioreactors require a continuous and stable energy supply. In order to ensure the sterility of the environment, the reactor and its surrounding areas also need to be frequently disinfected and maintained. Minor cracks in the equipment and failure of the filtration system will cause contamination of the culture medium, resulting in the invasion of cells by external pathogens. Once contamination occurs, the entire production batch will be scrapped and may even cause the spread of harmful cells.

In extreme cases, some mutant cells may even develop drug resistance, making the culture process more dangerous and difficult to control. Once these drug-resistant cells spread into the natural environment, they may also cause damage to the ecosystem, and extremely terrible things will happen...

The more difficult problem is that cells themselves are not immutable. Even after careful selection and gene editing, cells may still mutate during long-term reproduction. These mutations may cause cells to no longer produce the required metabolites, or begin to synthesize unwanted or even harmful byproducts, or even synthesize some kind of object and crawl out of the vessel.

Dacus could not understand, but he was greatly shocked.

He could see two words from the whole picture: it could work, but it also couldn't work. Besides, it involved bacteria and was linked to that person, which was also very risky. In addition, the culture medium, that is, the nutrient solution, was expensive, and the scale-up of the bioreactor was also a problem.

It seemed that he was overthinking it. He also thought of asking Master Wu to develop cell-cultured meat and produce a protein structure similar to meat fibers.

It didn't matter that it lacked the texture and bite of real meat. It was even less of a problem if it was soft and unnatural. Because he had never intended to let the elves or lizardmen eat it from the beginning. Cell cultured meat was prepared for labor dispatch and behemoths. It was good enough to have something to eat and be full. When the elves returned to Elsing Alvin, they might be able to destroy the human breeding and animal husbandry industries in one fell swoop through dumping.

The result...

He was too lazy to ask about plant-based meat.

The raw materials of plant meat are soybeans, peas, and wheat, and the proportions are determined according to taste and flavor. The raw materials are roughly the same as traditional soy products, and the nutritional value is similar. The difference is that the taste is closer to real meat than various traditional soy products.

Long before the term "plant meat" came into being, there were vegetarian meats that used soy protein, peanut protein, wheat gluten and other plant proteins as the main raw materials, and were processed through puffing and extrusion to form vegetarian meats with a texture similar to that of meat tissue. Vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian meat patties, vegetarian ham sausages, vegetarian chicken, etc. are all examples of vegetarian meat.

Plant-based meat is easier to produce than cell-cultured meat, but plant-based meat is not real meat.

Plant-based meat lacks certain essential nutrients in terms of nutritional composition, which means that the nutrition is unbalanced. From the perspective of nutritional value, plant-based meat is a supplement to animal meat, not a substitute. Moreover, the digestive system of carnivores is more suitable for breaking down and absorbing animal protein and fat, and has limited ability to digest plant ingredients. Long-term consumption may cause carnivores to show fatigue, decreased activity, or even abnormal behavior.

The dispatched laborers eat small heads, while the giant beasts have big heads. The giant beasts are divided into omnivores and carnivores. Velociraptor, Ankylosaur and Triceratops are omnivores, eating whatever they can get. Tyrannosaurus and Cold Lizard are pure carnivores. Feeding Tyrannosaurus with plant meat is a spicy way for the lizard breeders.

This is the Lizardmen side, and on the Duruchi side, none of those evil things don't eat meat. Different things are different in the north. Due to the special geographical environment of Naggaroth and the erosion of Deha energy, even some elven war horses need to eat meat.

Then he pointed to his head. As Umatadan watched, the picture in his mind gradually became clearer.

A chicken, a white chicken.

This chicken is not just an ordinary poultry, but an experimental creature that has undergone rigorous genetic screening and optimization. Its size far exceeds that of conventional domestic white-feathered chickens, exuding a sense of strength, and can be called a "big white-feathered chicken." Its muscle contours are extremely obvious, its thick chest muscles almost stretch out its feathers, and its strong thighs seem to have been trained countless times, showing that it is stronger than any traditional broiler.

In Umatadan's opinion, this chicken was even stronger than the one he had just seen. It seemed to have reached the end of evolution. Its genes had obviously been carefully designed and bred into an unparalleled meat-producing machine.

This is Dacus's improvement on the traditional recessive white-feathered chicken, which has greatly optimized its growth rate and meat quality. Recessive white-feathered chickens have become the mainstay of broiler production due to their high meat yield and rapid growth, but this final version of the chicken goes far beyond this standard. The muscle fibers in its body are not only large in number, but also denser, with precise fiber arrangement, and can efficiently synthesize protein.

Through the frequent and almost endless eating scenes of chickens, Umatadan discovered that the cellular metabolic rate of this chicken has also been adjusted, and the biological design is extremely clever. Through gene editing, the cellular respiration efficiency of this chicken has been significantly improved, and the number of mitochondria in muscle cells has increased, making the growth rate extremely amazing. In addition, the bone strength has been enhanced to support its extraordinary weight and muscle density without overloading the bones due to its large size.

"Okay!" (End of this chapter)