A torrent of steel swept across more than half the planet, and standardized cities were soon built.
Not only that, but through the entire nation's combined efforts, the Plant People farming bases soon began to take shape as well.
The sociologists' efforts were indispensable to this. In a short time, they had developed a process for efficiently turning Plant People into food, which served as a guide for constructing the farming bases.
Xi Yan was now at the sociology department of the Academy of Sciences, listening to sociologists specializing in biology report to him on the production process.
"First, the Plant People's genome is very simple. We can make suitable edits to adapt them to our production process."
The leader of the Plant People research team opened a PowerPoint presentation and enthusiastically introduced their findings to Xi Yan.
"Then we discovered that there was actually no need for complicated genetic engineering at all. These Plant People adapt to their environment very easily, and they evolve extremely quickly."
"This is a Plant Person we bred for production after five days of research." The team leader pushed the door open and laboriously dragged in a small trolley carrying something that looked like a wooden barrel.
"We... accelerated their maturation... then... bred them!" The team leader struggled to pull the huge, fat Plant Person inside, explaining between gasps, "They only need to reproduce twenty-odd times under the growth conditions we set before they evolve to adapt to their environment."
"So you bred this thing?"
Xi Yan stared in shock at the enormous Plant Person, nearly two meters tall and a meter thick, and asked in disbelief.
"As much as I'd like to marvel at the wonders of nature, that's exactly what happened."
The research team leader slumped into a chair to catch a