I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 623 - 521: Biological Research Lab

Inside the Research Center, there is a dedicated biological cloning laboratory.

This was specifically constructed when Chen Xin was studying gene improvement in wolves, and the greatest achievement here was the large wolves that played a crucial role in the Southwest earthquake.

They were all bred here.

However, after enough populations had been bred, these wolves were transferred to other places for reproduction and training, with the Research Center here only responsible for subsequent research, as well as the cultivation and improvement of a small number of individuals.

So when Chen Xin came to this laboratory, most of the incubation chambers were empty, with only a few containing new embryos being incubated. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Academician, what brings you here?" A researcher who was working saw Chen Xin arrive and quickly greeted him.

Chen Xin nodded in response and then said, "The people over at the Dome City said that constructing an ecosystem requires animals to join the ecological system, so they need us to breed new animals here, so I came to take a look."

Hearing this, the researcher nodded knowingly and said, "Indeed, the urban-level ecosystem cannot be complete without the participation of animals. When Professor Li was researching the ecological agriculture system, he considered having us breed a batch of animals to participate in the ecological system.

But at that time, the calculation results showed that if animals were bred to join the ecosystem, because the ecological agriculture system wasn't large enough, the small number of animals would not only be difficult to maintain, but breeding animals itself was troublesome and very costly, so in the end, we chose to maintain the ecological agriculture system using automated machinery or manually.

Now, with the construction of an urban-level ecosystem, the participation of animals has become very necessary!"

Hearing what the researcher said, Chen Xin stroked his chin and asked, "I understand the importance of animals in the ecosystem, but it's not like it's impossible without them, right?"

In Chen Xin's view, the scale of the Dome City is not particularly large, although it requires building the largest artificial ecosystem in history, with the foundation of previous ecological agricultural system research, constructing an ecosystem composed only of plants is not impossible, and the participation of animals is not particularly necessary.

"Although that can be done, maintaining the operation of the entire ecosystem would be too high a cost." The researcher had also considered similar issues and responded to Chen Xin: "It's not just about plant pollination, animals themselves are part of the ecological loop, and if this part is missing, relying solely on external force to maintain operations would be more trouble than it is worth.

Moreover, the inclusion of animals makes the ecosystem more complete and stable, after all, we are only imitating nature, and only the ecosystem formed by nature itself is the most stable and perfect."

To the researcher's remarks, Chen Xin could only partially agree.

Animals, as part of the ecosystem, certainly make it more complete and make the entire ecosystem more stable and less prone to collapse, but the ecosystems formed by nature themselves are not stable.

As the natural environment changes, animals and plants are constantly evolving, and natural ecosystems themselves are not unchanging.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many times of niche replacements in the history of natural evolution, ousting old dominators and allowing new species to rise to the top of the food chain.

However, Chen Xin wouldn't say these words because he was there only to confirm the status of the biological laboratory and to see if it could embark on subsequent animal breeding work, not to discuss evolutionary biology with the researchers.

"How many incubation chambers do we have available now?" Chen Xin glanced at the empty chambers around him and asked the researcher.

"There are a total of one hundred and twenty incubation chambers here, only twenty are currently in use, the rest can be activated at any time." The researcher was naturally very familiar with the situation here, so he replied without hesitation.

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction and told the researcher, "In that case, prepare for the breeding of animals. As for what animals are needed, I will confirm with the project team over at Dome City and then allocate embryos and gene samples from the national Seed Bank."

"Okay, Academician, we'll be ready." The researcher agreed immediately, showing an excited expression. After all, now the biological laboratory had little work to do, and having new tasks was undoubtedly something to be happy about.

Moreover, the researcher could tell that this is a major research project, as humanity has never tried to construct an urban-level ecosystem before, which is of significant importance in researching how humans can coexist with the natural environment and construct ecological balance.

It is doubtlessly far more grand in scale and meaningful compared to Federation's previous Biosphere 2 experiment.

After all, the Federation's Biosphere 2 experiment was frankly just a few scientists and some simulated ecological environments; they did not construct a complete ecosystem, nor did they try to let humans and the ecological environment coexist.

The key is that their experiment ultimately failed completely for various reasons.

As a researcher who comes from a biology background, he was naturally familiar with this part of history, and he sincerely hoped that Flame Country could achieve a satisfying success in this regard by genuinely constructing a city ecosystem that could effectively and smoothly operate, realizing harmony between humans and the environment.

This research was epoch-making even before the disaster, let alone now, when the external ecological environment has been completely extinguished and collapsed, and only humanity can rebuild the ecosystem in a greenhouse environment.

If humans cannot achieve harmony with the environment, then it would mean failure to reconstruct Blue Star's ecological environment, which would be a huge disaster for humanity.

Although Blue Star itself does not need humans to reconstruct the ecological environment, and mass extinctions have happened more than once on this planet, with the global extinction of fauna and flora not being a one-time event, the natural environment can recover on its own, but it would take at least several decades or even millions of years.

For Blue Star itself, this might just be a fleeting moment, but for humanity, this exceeds the entire timeframe of human development from its initial evolution to the current civilization.

Humans cannot wait for that long, nor can they allow the natural environment to evolve naturally, because no one knows whether the naturally evolved environment would still be habitable for humans.