Sea Monster

"Chief Chen, please wait!"

Chen Shouyi stopped at the door and watched the deputy minister leave, lost in thought.

Has the food shortage really gotten this bad?

He thought for a moment, then opened his hand.

A faint flame bloomed in his palm. The water molecules in the air instantly split into hydrogen and oxygen, while carbon and other elements were drawn from the soil in the courtyard. Under Chen Shouyi's direction, they quickly assembled into starch...

A few seconds later, a glistening white grain of rice appeared out of nothing.

He shook his head. The rice crumbled back into nothingness, dissolving into scattered atoms.

It's far too inefficient!

Although this kind of synthesis used far less energy than compressing atoms—so little, by comparison, that it was almost negligible—it was also more complicated.

Every millisecond, he had to manipulate billions upon billions of atoms, carrying out countless chemical reactions according to the atomic ratios of glucose molecules. Processing information on this astronomical scale would have made an ordinary person's scalp crawl.

He estimated that he could produce only a few hundred tons of starch in a day.

It was a drop in the ocean.

He shook his head and put the thought aside. He turned to head back to the bedroom, but Chen Xingyue called out to him.

"Brother, are you going to visit Ba Nation?"

"Yeah. I'll probably be there for a few days, starting five days from now." Chen Shouyi saw right through her at a glance. "But don't even think about it!"

"W-why not?" Chen Xingyue's face fell. She had just been secretly getting excited.

"I'm going there on business, not for fun. Besides, Ba Nation is under the control of a Savage God, so there's some risk. If you want to go, we'll talk about it