CHAPTER 747: CHAPTER 377: FOOD SYNTHESIS PLAN, MICRO MACHINES!

Hearing Su Yu’s words, everyone dared not ask more and had to turn and leave.

Without Su Yu’s permission, they couldn’t leave the Mechanical City to look for food outside.

However, since Su Yu could solve it, they were at ease.

As for Su Yu’s method, it was simple, because just as the Galaxy Battle Armor was telling him stories of the past, it mentioned one thing, and that was how the Empire used to produce food.

It was production, not planting, not breeding, not hunting.

Currently, the food in the Mechanical City mainly relies on hunting Radiation Beasts and then undergoing purification.

Another part relies on planting; with such a large place as the Mechanical City, it’s naturally possible to cultivate land.

However, the entire Mechanical City was only recently established, and the planted crops have just sprouted and are far from harvesting.

A thousand years ago, during the Human Empire’s era, the acquisition of food was advanced, relying entirely on mechanical synthesis to produce a rich variety of food.

After all, when humans were exploring the Star Sea back then, they couldn’t rely on hunting, planting, or breeding in the deep space of the universe to obtain food.

Convenient and quick food synthesis technology was essential.

Now, Su Yu plans to use this method to supply food for the entire city’s population.

The main components of grains and cereals are starch, while the main components of meat are proteins and fats.

The synthesis of these substances is not difficult for Su Yu now.

Moreover, the raw materials are easily obtainable, mainly carbon dioxide, water, and other substances, which can be obtained from the air; as long as there is energy, it is almost endless.

Although Su Yu hasn’t deeply studied chemical synthesis, with his current computational power and intelligence, learning it is simple.

The Galaxy Battle Armor can also provide a complete synthesis route. This kind of knowledge was not a secret in the Empire a millennium ago, and the Galaxy Battle Armor, living for so many years, has mastered a bit.

Even those Mechanic descendants have mastered food synthesis technology; in fact, those descendants have been eating synthetic food for thousands of years.

Su Yu only needs to design mechanical devices according to the synthesis route.

However, mere starch and proteins cannot be considered food.

Because those things have no taste, no texture, they can only be considered "medicine" to sustain life.

Looking at those Mechanic descendants, after eating synthetic food for ten thousand years, they crave it incredibly, as if they were reincarnated hungry ghosts now.

So, the true challenge of synthetic food is to synthesize food as delicious as natural food and with rich taste, which can be considered successful.

This is somewhat difficult and presents a small challenge.

"Then let’s try micro-mechanical..."

With a flip of his hand, Su Yu revealed something like dust.

This dust is practically undetectable, but with a microscope, one could see they are microscopic mechanical life forms.

These were the Mechanical Race that Su Yu obtained while researching the Hell Furnace!

These Mechanical Race were placed into the Hell Furnace by the [King] to endure torture.

Their bodies were mostly digested by the Hell Furnace, leaving only this minuscule amount like dust.

However, they didn’t die, for only living beings can endure pain and provide energy for the Hell Furnace.

Later, Su Yu, to defeat [King], researched the Hell Furnace and discovered these heavily tormented beings, extracting them.

Su Yu had not yet decided how to deal with them earlier.

These Mechanical Race weren’t all that bad.

They were considered a relatively pure and honest faction among the Mechanical Race, which is why they were abandoned into the Hell Furnace.

They weren’t all that good either; they had oppressed humans over the millennia, though not too excessively.

Thus, Su Yu did not cast them into the Hell Engine for torture, nor did he release them, instead leaving them in the Manifestation Space to sleep.

Now, Su Yu was thinking of them.

The state of these guys was somewhat peculiar, entirely in a dust-like state, similar to the mechanical cells of the Radiant Blueprint but also different.

Mechanical cells have no complete function on their own, nor do they have consciousness; only when combined do they form a complete Mechanical Creation.

Each of these miniaturized Mechanical Race members is a complete machine and cannot be combined.

Their state intrigued Su Yu.

Previously, Su Yu intended to research these beings to create microscopic-level Giant God Soldier Mechas, but after studying the Radiant Blueprint, Su Yu temporarily abandoned this idea.

But this doesn’t mean that these miniaturized Mechanical Race members are useless.

If utilized properly, these little things make excellent labor.

They can be used to synthesize food!

Su Yu wants to synthesize food, recreating the taste and texture of real food, requiring him to delve deeply into the microscopic and cellular level like true food.

After all, real food is essentially composed of the bodies of plants and animals built by various cells. Su Yu wants to synthesize it, must naturally refer to the real cellular structure for perfection.

However, doing so would be too troublesome, requiring synthesis and construction at the microscopic level.

Moreover, the quantity needed for synthetic food is massive, as millions of people need to eat.

This requires consuming an enormous amount of computational power and resources because delving into the microscopic level is not so simple.