The first snowflakes of winter fell on Arya's palm, then melted into a crystal clear droplet, which was scattered into her hands along with the other snowflakes that followed. Arya looked up, goose-feathered snowflakes pouring in, and under the gray sky, it seemed as if there was an endless winter.

Arya lowered her head so that the snowflakes that fell from her eyelashes fell to the ground. Then take out the clear glass bottle and gently dial the thin layer of snow into it. It was the first snow in the second Allied cluster, and she had to test for harmful substances before the snow covered the canopy of the plants in order to develop a plan for the protection of plants in the open air.

Pedestrians on the road looked hurried, since Haike Yingzhou was occupied by the Kamon people and the ecological resource supply chain was cut off, the speed of the Blue Domain parent star's management of the atmospheric environment has stopped. Arya and other biologists did their best to ensure that these dying plants survived late autumn, but everyone knew that the coming cold winter was only the first vanguard of this army of evil spirits that devoured the ecology, and the worse was yet to come.

The deterioration of the atmospheric environment is accompanied by a gradual loss of confidence in the ecology. Since news of the rout on the front lines reached the Blue Domain, the entire planet has been engaged in another panicked mass manufacturing campaign after a major riot. Industries no longer care about costs and put all their capacity into producing useful things. In particular, in the metal smelting and warship parts processing industries, the round-the-clock production has overdrawn all the mineral deposits of the Blue Miles people in the past 10 years.

Although the Blue Domain home planet has very little production function, and is divided into another continent far from the colony. However, the extremely high-speed production and processing and frequent transportation still dealt a fatal blow to the weak climatic environment that was difficult to recover.

The chimney forests of Moya, which are responsible for production and processing, have been rekindled after more than 20 years of climate control, and the exhaust gases and heat generated have caused six acid rains in Moya.

"The global natural environment is a unified whole, and the so-called geographical division is simply a dream." Despite Arya's repeated appeals, in the face of the emergency of the army - "no one cares about the climate, such an important but not urgent thing." After all, we also have air-purifying ships, and corrosion-resistant buildings that are habitable enough. Lan Yongxu, who advocates manufacturing, clarified.

As a result, the number of ships coming and going became more frequent, but soon Elia's "holistic theory of environmental unity" came to fruition. Under the frequent disturbances of transport ships, the speed of atmospheric flow is unprecedentedly active. This greatly advanced the prediction of Arya and others that the acid rain would spread to the Celestial Continent. The light rain at the end of autumn, dripping and withering the leaves of the withered yellow trees, was the beginning of another decay.

Arya leaned over again, picked up the last yellow leaf that had just fallen from the treetops, and hurried aboard the airship that took it.

Arya likes to stay in the lab, which is so busy and isolated that it doesn't seem to be too distracted by the apocalyptic atmosphere outside.

"Professor Elijah." Yuan Fengying's voice interrupted the attention she had just gathered for the experiment. "Can we talk alone?"

Arya smiled and nodded in agreement, handing the snow sample to Liu Furong. The reception room in the laboratory is very small, and the transparent glass wall does not bring too much privacy to the visiting guests, in fact, Yuan Fengying was not a guest in the first place.

"In response to your request last time, I have solemnly negotiated with Lan Yongxu and them, and from today onwards, all transport ships entering and leaving the atmosphere of the home planet will be suspended. Swap for an airship for transitional transport. ”

Arya wondered if it was too late to make up for the arrival of the army in this place, the manufacture of what should have been made, and the destruction of what should have been destroyed.

But after thinking about it, I thought about it again and considered that since he led the Gaia ecological expert team back to the Blue Domain, the principle director has indeed been a hundred times more serious about his opinions than before, and it is difficult to count what to do.

"Airship? Is it enough? War is about to begin. ”

"Hey!" Yuan Fengying sighed, her face obviously haggard: "It's difficult to change the choices of those chairmen and even heads of state about war. However, the war is about to start, and production will slow down, and the pressure on transportation may not be great. I'm here to ask for your opinion: What is the probability that we will survive this winter? Are there any other resource supply issues that I can coordinate? ”

"The results of the experiment have not yet been released, and more than 50% of the vegetation will die. If the supply of ecological resources cannot be restored within one year, it is fortunate that it can survive two years. ”

"I have also tried my best to maintain the supply route, and it is almost impossible to maintain it."

"What do they think about the air purifier?"

"Looks like you've been in the lab for too long, and you haven't been home for a long time. The buildings of the settlement are full, and people are still in the shadow of the meteorological disaster of more than 20 years ago. Calls for the opening of air-purifying ships are growing day by day. ”

"To change the natural environment, we must first improve the natural climate. The decontamination ship is a measure that puts the cart before the horse, and it can indeed purify the air to a certain extent, but it will completely destroy the climate and environment that has been on the right track for a long time. ”

"I know, I'll do it."

Alia believes that Yuan Fengying will definitely go back to negotiate, after all, when it comes to politicians, this chairman is older than the newly appointed qualifications. But when she thinks of the people's demands, she is also a little powerless: when will the shortcomings of the blue region be changed?

The two were relatively silent, each lost in thought. Until Liu Furong took the test results of the snow flakes to the living room.

"The good news is that none of the 6,000 snow flake samples, including the one you collected, exceeded the chemical composition and radioactive substances. The bad news is that the number of hazardous substances in the samples tested is increasing from the center of the colony to the West Coast, which means that disaster is looming over us. ”

"Is it necessary to seal off the plants in advance?"

"Chief Principle, have you been a politician for a long time and have you forgotten all the basic ecological theories? Can the protective shield save them for a while, but can it save the entire ecology? The flowers that grow in their own closed greenhouses, do you let them come out and withstand the wind and rain, and they still live? ”

Compared with Aliya, Liu Furong extremely looks down on a politician like Yuan Fengying to be the chairman of the ecological board, and of course she is unceremonious. This made Elia in the middle a little embarrassed.

"The chief is probably speaking the voice of the majority. This is where the ecological research institute is not understood, and many people say that environmental protection is important, and in their hearts they may also recognize the importance of environmental protection. But once environmental protection is compared with other things, the importance of environmental protection is automatically relegated to the back. That's why there is the so-called 'expedient measure' of 'covering the plants with protective shields'. ”

"So it's not for nothing that Blue Domain can get to this point today!" Liu Furong had just said a word, but was interrupted by Arya again.

"We have analyzed enough of these lessons in ecological research, but in fact, the public understands very little. I think that's something that President Principle can help us a lot with. ”

Yuan Fengying has lived to this day, and she has not been able to meet a few people who really understand her, so she just cast a grateful look at Alia, and then ignored Liu Furong's aggressiveness.

"I will contact the information center to promote this. I will also do everything in my power to stop the construction and opening of those air purifiers. But before Yuan Fengying finished speaking, Liu Furong walked straight out of the reception room.

"Gaia's ecologists, most of them. It's no wonder you'll see you later. ”

"Heh, Professor Arya doesn't need to care about this for me. If I don't understand this, I still care about it, what else should I be the chairman? ”

Arya thought about it, but couldn't find anything to divert from, so he had to return to the topic of plant shields: "Actually, in order to prevent the addition of protective shields to plants, Gaia ecologists and Blue Domain ecologists have also split into two camps, and it took a long time to argue to reach a unified idea. In addition to increasing the potential of the plants themselves to resist the harsh environment, the purpose of not wearing protective shields is to try their luck and try to screen out species that can survive even in harsh natural environments. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the idea of 'smart choice', right?"

"yes, it's a new concept that's not very mature."

"Can I give an opinion on the study of this concept, but I don't know if the major is professional or not?"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"With such a small number of plant samples in the blue zone, it is very unlikely that plants can survive in the harsh environment of the blue zone. If we were in Gaia and simulated a harsh environment like the Blue Zone, would we be able to increase the probability of screening? ”

"I have considered this problem, such a laboratory, to involve the water environment, soil environment, air environment, it needs a lot of space, and in such a large space, it is difficult to establish an ecological laboratory. Moreover, a large number of creatures in the Blue Domain will dynamically change the environment in which they live, and even if such a laboratory is built, it is difficult to achieve dynamic consistency with the Gaia environment for a long time, which has no control significance. What's more, the group of people in the Blue Zone are extreme environmentalists and will not allow such a thing to happen. ”

"In other words, theoretically it has some feasibility to save the home planet, but it is very difficult to operate, right?"

"It can be understood that way."

"Okay, I'll try to push forward. Is there anything else you need? ”

"There is also a need for some labor workers. Although plants need to be exposed to the air, it does not mean that snow cover them for a long time. Snow from the canopy needs to be cleared manually, not by machine. ”

Yuan Fengying finally heard something she could do, and couldn't help but be relieved: "Okay, leave this matter to me." ”