The Laboratory

After more than half a month of integration and adjustments, the Homo sapiens Company finally entered a state of normal operation.

And through connections in Hong Kong, Li Jinglan contracted the entire construction of the laboratory to a company specializing in building laboratories.

At the same time, he also spent hundreds of thousands of US dollars to smooth things over with the officials in Luzon, obtaining the necessary permits to establish the laboratory.

These days, Li Qingye has been living a reclusive life on the island, researching theories such as biochemistry.

Suddenly, the doorbell of the villa rang. The security guard responsible for the villa's security brought in Li Jinglan and a refined middle-aged man.

"Boss, this is Mr. Fang Wensi, the business manager from New Sea Engineering Company."

The refined middle-aged man quickly extended his hand: "Boss Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Fang Wensi, and I look forward to your guidance in the future."

After shaking hands, Li Qingye smiled and said, "Please sit down. Jana, please bring over a pot of tea."

After sitting down, they chatted for a few more minutes before Li Qingye got to the point: "Manager Li, you should have already informed your company. My company needs to build a biological laboratory, with a total investment of 50 million US dollars."

Fang Wensi took out a thick catalog of scientific research equipment and handed it over: "Yes, I am already aware. This is our company's catalog of scientific research equipment configurations. Please take a look and see if there's anything you need to add or adjust."

Li Qingye began to flip through the catalog and the list of recommended instruments from New Sea Company.

The basic instruments included: tissue homogenizer, ultra-fine pulverizer, separatory funnel, Soxhlet extractor, solid-phase microextraction device, rotary evaporator, centrifuge, refrigerator, liquid nitrogen tank, and pure water system. More than ten sets of each of these devices were included.

The following equipment consisted of mid-range devices.

These included: gas chromatograph, high-performance liquid chromatograph, supercritical fluid chromatograph, high-performance capillary electrophoresis instrument, protein purification system, UV-visible spectrophotometer, infrared spectrometer, molecular fluorescence spectrometer, photosynthesis meter, open-path oxygen analyzer, implantable physiological signal wireless telemetry system, IKA-C2000 oxygen bomb calorimeter, microplate reader, biochemical analyzer, and polymerase chain reaction instrument.

Further advanced instruments included: atomic emission spectrometer, atomic absorption spectrometer, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, mass spectrometer, laser confocal scanning microscope, flow cytometer, transgenic instrument, gel imaging system, gene differential system, semi-dry transfer unit, hybridization oven, UV crosslinker, electroporator, sequencer, bioreactor, fermentation engineering equipment, and cryo-electron microscope.

Additionally, there was a computer system.

Li Qingye's previous laboratory in Jiangcheng did not have many advanced experimental instruments.

Of course, he was not overly ambitious. For many instruments that required manufacturer cooperation to operate, he directly removed them from the procurement list.

After all, there were many things in his laboratory that could not see the light of day. If manufacturer technicians frequently needed to come over for assistance, it would increase the possibility of leaks.

He also unhesitatingly refused Fang Wensi's suggestion to use the computing services of other commercial computing service companies.

It was a joke. Borrowing the computing services of these commercial companies would be no different than blowing himself up. As for the so-called spirit of contract, it was just something to listen to.

He would rather use his own self-built servers than any equipment on the public network. He even required New Sea Company to strengthen the network isolation facilities when designing the laboratory.

After selecting the equipment and discussing some details of the laboratory, both parties quickly signed the contract.

After Fang Wensi left.

Li Qingye gave a few more instructions to Li Jinglan, and then he, along with more than a dozen bodyguards, headed to the office building that had been relocated to Darte Port.

After all, the New Sea Engineering Company's construction team and technicians from the instrument manufacturers would be coming to Calagua Island next, and he did not want to be in a crowded and conspicuous environment.

The entire project was expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

Li Qingye did not want to waste the next six months. Since his brain had been developed, he had been studying all sorts of knowledge day and night.

After all, time was running out for him. Whether it was for revenge or simply to survive, these were crucial matters.

He currently had nearly 100 million US dollars in cash flow. Biochemical research, compared to physics research, materials science research, and mechanical research, was less costly. This money could support him for at least two to three years.

Moreover, Li Qingye had a huge advantage that others did not: his brain had been developed. Super-analysis and super-deduction allowed him to quickly derive a large number of theoretical models, and he only needed to conduct verification experiments.

Coupled with the Jianmu Factor, it was itself a huge treasure trove.

For the next six months, Li Qingye would immerse himself in learning new knowledge as much as possible.

Anyway, it was the information age now, and he could find a vast amount of scientific research information through the internet.

Of course, Li Qingye did not fully trust the papers and knowledge on the internet. After all, academic fraud was not unique to China but was a widespread phenomenon globally.

During his studies over the past month, he had discovered more than 300 problematic papers through super-analysis.

For example, papers by Gregg Semenza, such as: "Anthracycline Chemotherapy Inhibits HIF-1 Transcriptional Activity and Tumor-Induced Mobilization of Circulating Proangiogenic Cells," "Hypoxia-Induced Factor-Mediated Coordinated RhnA-ROCK1 Expression and Signaling in Breast Cancer Cells," "Hypoxia-Induced Factor...," and "Breast Cancer Stem Cells...," had serious issues.

This guy was even one of the Nobel Prize nominees.

Because these papers had problems, any papers that cited them were also affected, which was simply a catastrophic disaster.

After all, using incorrect knowledge would naturally lead to compounding errors.

Faced with a vast database of papers, he could only sift through them, extract relatively correct knowledge, and fill his Memory Palace.

In this learning process, he also discovered a lot of useful knowledge and information.

It was like an alchemist refining qi, reaching the effect of separating the false from the true during cultivation.

Furthermore, he was not just studying biochemistry. He also dedicated three hours each day to studying other subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, mechanics, paleontology, and geology.

After all, the various disciplines of modern science were not isolated systems but were interconnected and mutually influential.

By studying other disciplines, he even achieved effects like learning by analogy and reaching the same destination by different routes.

At the same time, he was also learning about instrument equipment. To reduce the possibility of laboratory leaks, he could only rely on himself now.

He didn't aspire to replicate these devices, but at least he needed to know how to repair and debug them.

Through his connections with New Sea Company, he asked instrument manufacturers to provide detailed maintenance and operation manuals. On the surface, the manufacturers had no objections, but secretly, they would deliberately obscure some key data.

However, they underestimated Li Qingye's learning ability.

In the process of understanding instrument equipment, he self-taught software programming, electronic repair, electrical repair, and computer skills.

As time went by, Li Qingye's knowledge structure became increasingly comprehensive and profound, and various pieces of knowledge were rapidly integrated.

For example, in computer technology, he had been searching for new knowledge for the past six months. Sometimes, he had to dig into deep web information hidden beneath the surface web, which honed his hacking skills.

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