Chapter 376

Outside Moscow, Soviet National High-Tech City.

After nearly three years of construction, the most core part of the high-tech city: the Soviet National Laboratory has been largely completed.

Among them, the most important part of the National Laboratory: the "Void Particle" Research Institute, was the first to be completed and has been operating for more than a year.

As the highest national secret laboratory, the Void Particle Research Institute has the strictest security and confidentiality measures in the Soviet Union.

Its research facilities are all built underground, while the ground part is the barracks of the garrison troops.

With such a high-level facility, even if Murphy was the final initiator of the project, he needed to prepare various procedures in advance to enter.

Fortunately, Barty Crouch Jr. beside him is now the Director of the 15th Bureau of the KGB, responsible for the construction and defense of the entire high-tech city together with several military generals. Leading Murphy to visit naturally saved a lot of trouble.

"Mr. Murphy, look here," a female guide in Soviet military uniform stood beside Murphy, handed a tablet computer to him, and clicked on an application file on it, "This is the research institute map."

Umbrella had entered the Soviet Union more than three years ago and assisted in the construction of the high-tech city. Various technologies were basically not hidden. The tablet in Murphy's hand was actually a mobile terminal that Umbrella was developing and perfecting. Before entering the market, it first took the order of the high-tech city and became a part of the "advanced technology" in the high-tech city.

"Our current location is the front-end outpost, and all personnel entering the research institute need to pass through here for identity verification."

"Below is the vast research institute. The research institute currently has 34 floors, each covering an area of about 300 to 400 hectares, and many advanced technologies have been used to widen the space. At the same time, the research institute is continuing to expand downward, and it is expected that 20 new classification project laboratories will be added this year."

Murphy just glanced at the map and roughly understood the structure of the research institute.

The Void Particle Research Institute was basically modeled after the Magic Research Institute, but the scale was expanded by more than hundreds of times.

Here, just a Spell Research Institute occupies three floors of underground space, with tens of thousands of researchers, dozens of high-standard experimental sites, and various specialized laboratories.

Almost every spell Murphy knows has a dedicated research group or laboratory.

Potions, magical animals, magical plants, etc., are not inferior to the Spell Research Institute, and all are large in scale.

But the largest, and the core institution of the entire research institute, is the Magic Energy Research Institute.

It is equivalent to the spellcasting path group led by Haldane in the Magic Research Institute, except that it stripped away research topics such as spells and is only responsible for studying the essence of magic and revealing its most basic laws.

It is probably similar to the positioning of basic physics in Muggle science.

Murphy roughly browsed the introductions of various research departments. The research here is in communication with the Magic Research Institute in the UK. Basically, Murphy can know major research results immediately, so he has no great interest in visiting projects that are the same as those in the Magic Research Institute, but he is quite interested in visiting some special projects.

"This Magic Energy Fertilizer Research Institute is the one studying Moon-Obsessed Beast excrement, right?" Murphy asked.

"Yes, Lord, cough, Lord Murphy," Barty said diligently, "According to the plan, this is one of the key research projects. It is on the 26th floor, between the Magical Plant Research Institute and the Magical Animal Research Institute."

"Let's go see this."

After establishing diplomatic relations with Great Britain, the embarrassing situation of food and daily necessities shortage in the Soviet Union has been greatly alleviated, but the food problem is not only related to the Soviet Union, but also one of the ultimate propositions that can determine the fate of humanity. It was listed as a key project from the beginning.

There was no relevant research in the Magic Research Institute, and Murphy was quite curious about this.

Coming to the elevator room, the guide said: "The Floo Network Research Group is cooperating with the Ministry of Magic and the Arkaim Magic City to study the construction of the local Floo Network, but for the time being they have not found a suitable solution. For confidentiality reasons, the Floo Network fireplace cannot be set up inside the research institute for the time being, so we can only take the elevator up and down."

Murphy knew about this project. The operation of the Floo Network is based on a large magic facility in the Ministry of Magic. Its theoretical scope can cover an entire country, and you only need to register the fireplace on the management side to enter the fireplace through Floo powder.

But based on confidentiality requirements, if you want to use the Floo Network fireplace in the research institute, you must ensure that the fireplace here cannot be discovered by other Floo Network management facilities.

This problem requires researchers to conduct deeper research on the basic principles of the Floo Network.

Several people walked into the elevator, but Murphy said "Eh?", "This elevator is actually enchanted?"

In his magical vision, a layer of magic was flowing in the elevator box, and through the partition, one could see dense magical runes.

"Yes," the guide said, "This is the latest achievement of the Anti-Gravity Technology Development Group. They are one of the several project groups formed by the cooperation of the Enchantment Research Institute and the Spell Research Institute, and it is also a national key project."

"The main structure of this elevator box uses Ohalite steel—that is, magic steel. They added a magic circuit in the box and enchanted the Levitation Charm on the magic steel. This set of elevators, in addition to the ordinary gravity traction method, can also achieve lifting by adjusting the efficiency of the Levitation Charm."

"It can even increase gravity by applying a reverse Levitation Charm to the people in the elevator box, offsetting the weightlessness effect and achieving extreme speed transportation. However, their enchantment of the Slowing Charm is not very mature. When using the extreme speed mode, it will conflict with the reverse Levitation Charm, causing a feeling of intermittent weightlessness and overweight, so we won't demonstrate it..."

The Magic Energy Fertilizer Research Institute occupies an entire floor of space. This is not only because their project is indeed important, but also because they need quite a lot of space to serve as experimental fields to verify the effect of the fertilizer.

A slightly fat, bald old man is the director of the research institute, named Trofim Vavilov. It is said that he once suffered persecution, but he had already been rehabilitated a few years ago after Murphy controlled the situation in the Soviet Union.

Trofim did not know that the other party was the person who saved his fate, but he was very enthusiastic, always praising the current situation, the research conditions here, the support provided by the country, etc.

This might be a sequela brought about by those bad years. Murphy interrupted his words and asked directly: "Is there any clue about the growth-promoting components in Moon-Obsessed Beast excrement? Can industrial production be achieved?"

Trofim realized that the other party was not here to listen to nonsense, thought for a while and said: "In fact, we have already found the key components for growth promotion. We even completed its industrial manufacturing process."

"However, industrial production is difficult."

"Oh?" Murphy was a little curious, "Why? Where is the technology stuck?"

"No, the technical difficulty is not great. But the industrial production of magic energy fertilizer requires a lot of magic energy. About thirteen or fourteen kinds of magic energy minerals need to be synthesized in this process, eventually forming a kind of magic energy organic matter."

"Our industrial process is not mature enough. The magic energy loss rate in the whole process is too high. Producing one kilogram of magic energy fertilizer requires 3-4 times more magic energy consumption than producing magic energy steel. But magic energy is too scarce, and this kind of high-energy-consuming project is difficult to get rations."

"Even the experimental materials in our laboratory are not enough."

"Are you saying, magic energy is insufficient?"

(End of chapter)