On the Red Sea coast on the border between Asia and Africa, winds from the African desert often send hot air currents and reddish-yellow dust and fog, making the sky dark and dark red.

This is the hottest sea in the world, which is suitable for the reproduction of organisms, so a kind of red seaweed blooms in the surface seawater, making the sea water slightly red, hence the name Red Sea.

On both sides of the river, especially along the African coast, there is a continuous stretch of reddish-yellow rock walls that reflect the sun's rays onto the sea, causing the sea to shimmer red.

A special transport ship of the Planetary Council, with a huge container guarded by 70 heavily armed soldiers, is speeding through the area, and its destination is a hidden military base in the Arabian Peninsula.

The military base has been remodeled for the upcoming mission, with a large in-ground pool designed at a depth of 70 meters.

At the same time, the base also brings in seawater from 13.7 kilometers from the Red Sea, which is continuously fed through huge pipelines. After a 15-month period of seawater culture, it is made a petri dish with higher salinity and organic matter.

Trailing behind the transport ship is a lightweight destroyer with a displacement of 3,700 tons, which is a small destroyer specially designed for the pursuit of fast mobility, but the weapons and equipment on board are old, the service life is very long, and it has reached the point of decommissioning.

There is no way to send such a ship to escort the ship, and the military agency of the "Planetary Council" here, the closest military base to East Africa, is currently the only one that can serve as a sailing escort.

The military's demands were urgent, and there was no time to dispatch other ships.

Underground of a hidden military base.

"How long will it take?"

A somewhat raunchy, middle-aged man with two rows of shiny medals on his military uniform asked.

"There are about 29 hours left, and it's a communication from about half past one o'clock in the afternoon today, Dr. Su, look." One of the guards raised his arm, and an arc-shaped light screen instantly appeared in the air, and he looked at the communication records on it.

The man known as Dr. Su glanced at him, waved his hand and mumbled, rubbed his temples, and turned away from the lab with some anxiety.

The guard glanced up at the other researchers in the lab behind the hexagonal glass, with a wall of changing digital information in front of them, and followed quickly.

The floodgates of the underground research room closed silently behind the two men, and not far away, on the brightly lit observation deck, two researchers erected the data on the instruments in front of nervous analysis, with shimmering water beneath them.

"Wait, Dr. Su, come and see this!" A researcher noticed Dr. Su passing by and hurriedly stopped him.

Dr. Su stopped, looked at the light screen pointed by the researcher, and couldn't help frowning, "Why is the temperature of these nutrient solutions so unstable?" ”

"The cyanobacteria that were put in 20 days ago are reproducing too quickly, and their heat has a photophage syndrome effect after reaching a certain size, and it is difficult to control the population."

"They were labeled as a whole with a fluorescent agent, injected with nitrogen, and the population changes were observed and recorded for 3 hours. If it still can't be controlled, clean it every hour to eliminate the excess cyanobacteria and control it within 1 degree, which can not be higher. ”

"Yes, we're trying to do that, but we'd like to ask for your opinion first."

"You don't have to ask for my opinion, you make your own decisions. There are still 29 hours to arrive, and I have only one request: be sure to control it accurately, and there must be no mistakes, do you understand? ”

"Okay, okay!"

The researcher sensed Dr. Su's impatience and immediately assured.

Dr. Su is the lead ecological researcher of this research project, and although he was appointed in a hurry, no one doubts that his ability is at the top of the curve.

He also has another identity, another doctor on the "Pacific" starship - Su Qingyu's father Su Zhe.

He was originally working at the Planetary Council's 8 research base in the mountains of central Asia and has been working on similar projects for nearly 43 years. However, the discovery was so significant that the military agency asked him to be involved in any case and to lead the project.

"Huh...... Where did my notebook go? Why can't I find it again......" He took the super-fast elevator up to the ground, and then remembered, as if he had forgotten his notebook.

"Hmm, you, go down! I went to the research room in the middle with a huge hexagonal glass and looked for it, and my notebook seemed to have fallen somewhere. ”

"Yes!" The military guard immediately trotted all the way and took the elevator back to the ground.

"Huhu—Dr. Sue, I've found you! Come with me, an emergency meeting of the military. ”

A soldier who had just come off the helicopter shouted at him out of breath as he ran from the tarmac, went straight to the emergency fire ladder, slid to the floor of the hall, and panted.

"Huh? What's going on? Dr. Su looked at him in surprise.

"I don't know, I'm ordered to pick you up. Let's go! ”

Dr. Su frowned, as if he had a premonition that something bad was wrong, and quickly ran up the stairs leading to the tarmac with the officer.

……

The Red Sea was cloudy, and it seemed that the wind blowing from the desert carried a salty smell.

The speed of the transport ships is slowing down, the waterways through this sea are not very calm, and the wind and waves tend to rise.

Not only is there a large area of red algae and a reef area in this area, but it also looks like the weather is a bit strange today.

The captain of the transport ship was obviously an experienced veteran driver, but the passages and weather that he was already familiar with might not be a big problem, but the more than a hundred soldiers on the ship made him very uncomfortable, and he always felt like he was being watched, so he was extra careful this time.

"Phew! This weather! He spat on the deck and cursed.

The voyage was risk-free, with steep cliffs on both sides and the occasional seabird flying over the crew's heads. But there was a strange discovery from the crew – the seabirds didn't seem to be the white-collared gulls that are commonly found here.

"Those birds look beautiful, their heads and necks are black, they don't look like seagulls, huh?" A soldier on a destroyer said, looking at the sky.

"You landlubber knows a fart! That bird is rare, I guess it's a black-headed hemp owl flying from Egypt. They are said to be the birds of the north and it is too hot for them here. The other guy with a cigarette in his mouth said, raising his arm and aiming his gun at the birds.

"Hey, what are you going to do? Bird hunting? The first soldier was a little surprised.

"Hehe, what are you panicking about? I don't have that much shooting skills, I just look at them with a scope. He said as he continued to look with his scope.

"I'm just reminding you that there is a penalty for stealing...... Hey? Don't you think the trajectory of those birds is very unusual? ”

"Ahh Oh my! The soldier's mouth was wide open, his surprise overflowing, and he shouted for no reason.

"The eyes of those birds...... What's going on? ”