Chapter 35: Seed Bank
"What do you mean......" Chen Zhi thought for a moment, and he knew Mo Ye's thoughts.
Mo Ye snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, I'm going to go to the Arctic Ocean to find that Doomsday Seed Bank." ”
But Chen Zhi shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "It shouldn't work, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank has been flooded several times in the last century. Now I am afraid that it has been flooded by glacial meltwater. ”
Listening to Chen Zhi's words, Mo Ye also nodded in approval, but he still planned to go to the North Pole, what if the Svalbard Global Seed Bank was not flooded?
If it hadn't been flooded, Mo Ye would have brought those seeds back.
Although it cannot be planted now, and it will not be planted in the next one or two hundred years, once the pH level in the soil is restored, those seeds will come in handy.
It has been raining acid for more than a month, almost all herbivores outside Australia have become extinct, and there are very few plants left. But life is tenacious, and even in areas covered by acid rain, there are still living creatures, but the vast majority of them are carnivores.
They survive by eating dead animals that have not yet decomposed, and it is only a matter of time before they become extinct. Because for a short time, they will never be able to eat meat again.
In the ocean, a few kilometres or so, the food chain is also on the verge of collapse, only for microorganisms to become extinct under the influence of acid rain.
Two months into the mass extinction, buffalo, wildebeest, cheetah...... Almost all kinds of animals that were once familiar have become extinct, not only because of disasters such as shock waves, but also because of the reproductive factor.
Even if the mother conceives and gives birth to a child, the child will die quickly in extremely harsh circumstances. The last remaining specimens would starve to death, and newborn toddlers would be killed by the environment, a result that led to genocide.
Earth's creatures have been caught in a series of great catastrophes. Shockwaves swept across the globe, horrific earthquakes followed, global fires spread, acid rain washed the earth, and more than half a month of darkness wiped out life on Earth.
In the space of two months, the number of extinctions was staggering, and all sorts of smaller creatures began to burrow down, desperate to find food underground, but all in vain.
The soil layer is empty except for garbage and plastic buried deep underground.
And that's not all, the survivors who survive will enter a new ordeal - the bitter cold!
Although the earth has regained its light with the help of Moqi, the world is about to enter the palace of winter. The heat generated by the impact of the lucky ones causes the oxygen to combine with the sulfide to produce a large amount of sulfur dioxide!
This gas lingers in the atmosphere and is not taken away by the foam, and they allow sunlight to pass through but leave the heat of sunlight behind, producing the opposite effect of carbon dioxide.
The cold room effect is at work. It will rain heavy snowflakes in a week or two, relying on these snowflakes to further destroy the earth's life.
After resting on Mount Everest for a day, Mo Ye drove the Liuli and flew Chen Zhi towards the Arctic Doomsday Seed Bank. If you're lucky, the Doomsday Seed Bank hasn't been destroyed yet.
There is no air in the wormhole in space-time, which is equivalent to vacuum packaging of seeds, and Mo Ye is collecting some snow to cover the seeds, which is equivalent to vacuum and refrigerated packaging, so that the activity of the seeds can be well guaranteed.
"Mo Night, Svalbard's global seed bank is almost here." For a few minutes, Chen Zhi, who was sitting in the data position, looked at the Tianyan Field Field Surveyor on the screen and reported, "But I hope you don't have too much hope, after all, the power of the lucky one is so huge." ”
"I understand, I understand." Mo Ye nodded, glanced slightly at the specific direction of the Doomsday Seed Vault on the Sky Eye Vision Surveyor, and then manipulated the Liuli to slide downward.
Within seconds, Mo Ye was able to see the ground with his naked eyes.
"The situation is not optimistic." Mo Ye's face was full of melancholy. The Svalbard archipelago below in the Arctic Ocean is almost gone, leaving only one or two small dots. Mo Ye shook his head, sighed helplessly, and said, "It seems that the Doomsday Seed Bank has been flooded. ”
"Huh? Can you see that? Chen Zhi kept looking down, but he couldn't see anything except the blue sea.
"Can't you see?" Mo Ye glanced at Chen Zhi behind him with some surprise, and said, "The two points below are so clear, you can't see them?" ”
"Two points? Where's a little bit of it? Chen Zhi listened to Mo Ye's words, and directly converted the radar screen of the Sky Eye Field Surveyor into a video screen, and then enlarged the scale, as the scale became larger, the picture on the screen became more and more refined.
"Damn, there are really two places that haven't been flooded by the ocean." Chen Zhi glanced at Mo Ye in front of him with some consternation, and said, "Your eyes are so good?" ”
Mo Ye continued to adjust the direction of the Liuli and said, "Directly search for the coordinates of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. ”
"Latitude 78°14′09", longitude 15°29′29"E." Chen Zhi blurted out.
"Latitude 78°14′09", longitude 15°29′29"E". OK, let's go! Mo Ye quickly found this specific coordinate on the Sky Eye Field Surveyor, and the picture detected by this coordinate showed that it had been covered by the ocean, that is, it had been flooded.
However, it is not a big problem, the Liuli has amphibious capabilities and can sneak in the sea. Immediately, Mo Ye also drove the Liuli directly to approach the coordinate point, and after splashing a column of water several meters high on the sea, the Liuli plunged into the sea.
Chen Zhi watched the Liuli dive into the water in amazement, and said in surprise: "The Liuli can still dive?" ”
"Of course." Mo Ye smiled: "Awesome, right? ”
"Awesome." Chen Zhi nodded perfunctorily, his eyes constantly looking around the scene outside the protective shield.
Large and small layers of ice are suspended on the surface of the sea, and when viewed from the sea, those ice layers are even more beautiful than from the outside. I just didn't see any marine life around. Horned whales, beluga whales, white fish......
Although the water outside the Liuli is clear, it is extremely cold.
Soon, the Liuli found the Svalbard Global Seed Vault submerged in the sea, but Mo Ye faced a new problem - how to get in?
After the Doomsday Seed Bank was flooded several times in the last century, the entrance has been made closed, and water cannot enter. If Mo Ye wants to enter, he must open the entrance to the seed bank, and once the entrance is opened, the sea water will rush into the flooding of the seeds.
"No, Mo Ye, let the Liuli float to the side and look at the entrance tunnel." Chen Zhi soon realized that something was wrong.
The entrance tunnel had been destroyed by the shockwave, and although the entrance was intact, the tunnel was partially dilapidated, and the inside of the seed vault had been soaked in seawater.
(PS: Yesterday I went to Liaoning to play a drifting outside, and I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning and arrived in Changchun at 8.30 p.m., and I slept without a word, and finally found that waiting for the car and taking the car is the most wasteful thing to do)