Guizhou Province, yl City Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

In the work area of ​​the ultra-clean vaccination room, two researchers who were wearing full-body protective clothing and were not distinguished by men and women were doing a job that seemed to be a bit unlucky compared to this high-end and atmospheric laboratory.

They are peeling rice.

In front of the two, there was a bottle of carefully selected rice seeds. These seeds were all full and huge, golden in color, and there was no trace of mold on the surface. They were the best rice.

What the two of them had to do was to remove all the rice that looked hundreds of times looked like before and they were hand-taken off the husks.

This is a tedious and boring job, but their eyes are extremely focused, and there is no unnecessary movement except for occasionally chatting with each other.

After peeling until his eyes became sore, one of them said:

"Senior brother, I can't do it anymore. This thing is too eye-consuming. How many have you peeled?"

The senior brother in the female voice glanced at the triangle bottle that was squeezed aside and said:

"169. I'm almost 17 sets, where are you?"

"My 12 groups. Hey, my hands are still too raw, and I can't peel them quickly. Senior brother, is it still too late to induce them today?"

Induction in girls' mouth refers to rice callus induction, which is the first step in gene editing experiments. Only after the induction is completed can callus be infected with Agrobacterium that has been transferred to the gene editing vector, thereby changing the characteristics of rice genes and achieving the purpose of gene editing.

After the callus is induction, they will continue to do Agrobacterium activation, expand culture, infect and co-culture, screening and culture, and seedlings to take root...

After all these steps, one to two weeks of observation, a gene-edited rice can be transplanted into the soil and then observed after it is mature.

This is a long process. Although it is not as accurate as other physics or chemistry to control atoms, if any of the steps problems occur, it will lead to failure of the entire experiment.

The boy put down the rice in his hand, gently shook his wrist and moved his neck, and then answered:

"It's three o'clock in the afternoon now, and we have to do 50 sets of inductions. It's definitely too late to rely on the two of us. But Xiao Liu and the others will come here later. If you work overtime tonight, you should be able to finish it."

"I'll finish it later. I'll take you to Boss Wang's lychee garden to steal lychees.-----Learn smartly this time, don't grab a tree and grab it. Then the tree is on the side of the road, and the trees next to it are full of trees. Just the bare tree you stole, do you think you're scolded?"

A trace of grievance was revealed in the girl's eyes. She muttered a few words in a vague way, and then said:

"Then their lychees are just for people to eat... They are not experimental varieties, just eat some..."

"The point is that you steal lychees? Remember what Boss Wang's face meant when he was picking lychees? Others know how to pick some of them and pick them. What about you? If I hadn't watched you, you would have picked all the fruits of the whole tree!"

"...I know, I just think I'm stupid."

"Don't you think you are stupid? Okay, don't be wronged. People criticize you for being just having fun with you. In this year, when isn't the lychees in our yard eaten half of them first? Just don't take them to heart."

The girl nodded and replied:

"I didn't take it to my heart, I just felt quite stupid..."

While talking, she subconsciously raised her hand to rub her eyes. She was stared at the boy opposite and was so scared that she quickly put her hand down.

After a moment of pause, she sighed in her sterile suit and asked:

"Senior brother, do you think our experiment will be successful? Is that a&c-bemax editor reliable?"

Hearing the girl's question, the boy thought silently for a moment, and then replied:

"I have read the documentation of a&c-bemax. This editor is not the kind of new experimental editor you think that it has every year. It is a complete, verified and tuned experimental data, and has high stability. In terms of performance and practicality, this editor has no problems."

"But the problem is that although this editor integrates the characteristics of many editors on the world, it is different from all editors. Therefore, it actually takes a lot of time to learn and become familiar with this editor from scratch."

"Okay, now the contradiction is here, and we don't have so much time to study. Because according to the above arrangement, the topic of increasing production through krn2 editing we studied this time is used to deal with the food battle in the Ugly Kingdom, and we must use the fastest time to achieve results."

"So the difficulties are also obvious. How do we balance speed and accuracy, and how can we ensure success in one go when using this editor."

"This is the biggest difficulty we are facing now."

The girl who listened opposite nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask:

"So what's the solution? We can't just bet on luck, right?"

The boy chuckled softly and replied:

"Don't say it, it's really a gamble on luck. However, the way we bet on luck is a bit special - have you seen the Wandering Earth? There is a concept called saturation rescue."

"What we do now is, saturation experiments."

"According to the news I have received, all the Agricultural Science Institutes and the Agricultural Science Institutes in the country that have the conditions to do gene editing experiments have begun to contact this editor. We are one of the earliest to use and one of the first to start vaccination."

"If our experiment fails, there will be nearly a hundred chances nationwide."

"Among these opportunities, even if we succeeded once, even if we only raised one, it means that our experiment was successful."

"Although it's all a gamble of luck, we are doing our best to eliminate those uncertainties."

"To put it in a vulgar chicken soup, it is probably that the harder you work, the luckier you are?"

"Hehehe...it seems to be the reason. Senior brother, if our experiment is successful, how much do you expect this new variety of rice to increase yield?"

"Theoretically, it's about 20%---it mainly depends on the final ear formation. At that time, you can watch it and go to the fields often, so don't let the birds ruin our experimental fields."

"I know, I know. Senior brother, can you go with me then?"

"Can I not go with you? If you, a girl, go to the field alone, my backbone will be poked."

When the boy heard the boy's words, a trace of sweetness appeared in the girl's eyes, but she also felt a little suspicious and disappointed.

However, this disappointment was quickly diluted by the boring work that continued. They sat opposite each other in the laboratory and were busy until after 7 o'clock in the evening before completing the dehulling of all the seeds.

After this, they had no chance to go out for a rest.

If the explants are not disinfected and inoculated immediately, the longer these seeds are exposed to the air, the greater the impact on experimental stability.

But the workload for the next time is too great. I am afraid that it will not be done overnight with both of them.

--- Fortunately, after half an hour of operation, the agreed reinforcements arrived one after another, and the sterile inoculation room immediately became lively. The colleagues who were already familiar with each other were operating with laughter. Before they knew it, the time came to 12 o'clock.

After completing the sealing of the last petri dish, everyone walked out of the sterilization room. When they took off their protective suits and walked into the hall, they saw that things were already placed on the floor in a corner of the hall.

Boss Wang, who had criticized the girl for "not stealing things even if she steals things", was sitting next to the pile of things on the ground, holding a cigarette in her mouth, looking drowsy.

Seeing everyone coming out, he shook his head and stood up, walked to the girl and said:
Chapter completed!