As the lights in the rest area dimmed, the roar of machinery on the nearby construction site continued, including the distant power station, where the plume of smoke rose like a mist from the huge chimney.

The construction site here has been working 24 hours a day since it started a few months ago, and the workers are divided into three batches, and the work is carried out in eight-hour shifts to ensure the construction period. In order to catch up with the progress, there were many people who fell ill from exhaustion during this time, but fortunately, the medical facilities in the camp were very complete, and the people who were in the situation were fine.

On the mountainside, there is also a small camp at the entrance of the Doomsday Seed Bank, and the mountain road has been wrapped in the camp, and when the camp is fully completed, the seed bank will be connected to the foot of the mountain.

More than a dozen nuclear reactors have been installed at the foot of the mountain, and the remaining ones are being hoisted, from where the equipment responsible for energy conversion and transmission spreads all the way to the mountainside, looking like vegetation covering snow-capped mountains.

Among these nuclear reactors, four groups are from China, and they are all thermal neutron reactors. The principle of operation is that the reactor is first irradiated by a neutron source, and the neutrons bombard the uranium-235 fission to release the binding energy of the nucleus. This energy is mainly embodied in the kinetic energy of the fission fragments, which are converted into internal energy by the collision between these fragments and fragments, fragments and fuel cladding, and then the heat is brought to the secondary circuit by the working medium of the primary circuit (such as water, heavy water, or helium, nitrogen dioxide and liquid metal sodium, etc.), and the water vapor evaporation of the secondary circuit drives the steam turbine to generate electricity.

The nuclear reactors that will be used to make the 2010 project will be powered by these nuclear reactors, which convert nuclear energy into heat and steam generators into electricity. This sounds similar to how a thermal power plant works, but in fact, in terms of equipment, nuclear reactors and steam generators function like fossil fuels and boilers in thermal power plants.

Fossil fuels alone would not have been enough to hollow out the coal mines beneath Longyearbyen, so the coal here could only be used to power construction sites and civil facilities. Nuclear energy, which is millions of times more dense than fossil fuels, has become the first choice for everyone to promote "Glacier Action", because the fuel of nuclear energy is small, easy to transport and store, and it does not emit huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere like thermal power generation, nor does it produce carbon dioxide that aggravates the greenhouse effect.

"Can we make it?" George Mather, who was leading the team inside the Doomsday Seed Vault and was busy trying out equipment, suddenly raised his head and muttered to himself, he lifted his glasses, and his eyes were quite tired.

"What's wrong? Doctor. Rubin, one of his assistants in the camp, asked in some surprise.

"We only have this one chance, and we haven't tested it yet," George Mather said, "three years, this time to cross is more than three years, which is faintly beyond the limits of our capabilities, and it is still theoretical. ”

"I can understand your feelings," Robin nodded, "but if we have a 1 in 10,000 chance, we'll have to try, and that's what you told me on the way to Longyearbyen." ”

"Really?" George Mather smiled, "I hope God bless us." ”

"Can we make it?" In the fleet departing from Bohai Bay, an old man had just returned from a meeting to his cabin, and he sat on the edge of the bed in the cabin, looking out the window at the deep sea.

The time traveled has been extended to three years, which is already the limit of the combined capabilities of the countries, and it is likely to continue to be extended, as this will happen if the progress of the project is slowed down a little.

Dr. Qin Yi is now on his way to Longyearbyen, and he is not in charge of the construction of the camp and the construction of equipment, so he is a little worried about the progress there.

The plans of this operation are interlocking, and they affect the whole body, and Qin Yi's worries are not groundless. He is concerned about this action, and he is also concerned about the future of humanity.

Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang couldn't sit still on the boat, and they couldn't wait to fly to the pole immediately. The two went to the Changping Research Institute a while ago, and later set off from Bohai Bay to the polar regions with Yanjing researchers.

"Now I think back to the first time I met Academician Qin in Chongming, I said that Mi Guo has an advantage over us in the research of cracking alien civilizations and conquering zombie viruses, he said not necessarily, I thought he was just joking at the time, and now I know that our Huaguo really has the confidence to say this." Zhang Dada leaned against the side of the ship, letting the night breeze gently blow his face, his eyes looking at the dark sea.

"Huaguo Nan Powan (NO.1)," Zhao Kang also shouted his heart excitedly, he and Zhang Dada saw the biggest miracle of the day at the Changping Research Center, and the shock of the two at that time is beyond words.

It was classified as an S++ secret by Huaguo, and the traitor Zhang Wenzhuo could not access it at the beginning, and this secret was hidden in the Changping Research Institute, where the predecessor was the Yenching Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The miracle that Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang saw there was a person, to be exact, a person whose appearance was no different from that of a zombie. At that time, the two of them were taken to a secret room inside the research institute, and when they saw this person, they were shocked, thinking that the zombies in the research institute had escaped.

"Don't be afraid, I won't bite you." "Zombie" grinned, and he walked towards Zhang Dada and them on the infusion stand.

At that moment, Zhang Dada already felt that his calves were trembling, and he wanted to escape, but he couldn't open his legs.

"It's okay," Qin Yi's voice calmed down the panic in his heart like a tranquilizer.

The flesh on the face of the "zombie" was rotten, worse than the disfigured appearance of sulfuric acid, and a slight trace of brilliance could be seen in his eyes, although the whites of the eyes had taken up ninety percent of the eyeballs, but it was this glimmer of brilliance that made others feel that he was different from the zombies.

The name of the "zombie" is Wen Fuchang, he was originally a researcher at the Yenching Institute of Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was picked up by Ge Congxian's helicopter team to Changping when the corpses were surrounded there. Later, Wen Fuchang was unfortunately infected with the virus in the research, so he decisively used the drug under development on himself in advance for testing.

The bag hanging from the infusion shelf was filled with brown potions, which were continuously injected into his body along the infusion tube. Wen Fuchang not only used the infusion rack to hang the medicine bag, but also used it as a crutch to assist him in walking.

"You...... Are you really not a zombie? Zhang Dada stammered this sentence at the time.

"Have you ever seen a zombie that can speak? And laughs. Wen Fuchang said this, he opened his lips, which had rotted out a third of them, revealing the teeth inside, "I didn't mean to scare you, I just wanted to try to laugh at you." ”

"This ...... What's going on? Zhao Kang was in the same shock as Zhang Dada, he turned his head to look at Qin Yi who had brought him over, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"This is Professor Wen Fuchang, he is a member of our Changping Research Institute, and he is our companion." Qin Yi introduced to them, "The potion that Professor Wen is using is our biggest research achievement. ”

"God, now you've developed a medicine to defeat the zombie virus!" Zhao Kang exclaimed.

"No, not yet, we have only taken a small step in this direction," Qin Yi's voice was very calm, not as fluctuating as Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang.

"What about other countries? Where are they in their research? Zhao Kang asked again.

"None of them left the starting line yet." Qin Yi said, "We have found a breakthrough in the direction of genetics, and Professor Wen's sacrifice has helped us a lot in our research, because a living person can give back a lot of valuable data." ”

"Hehe," Wen Fuchang laughed, his smile looked very crazy, but Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang were not as scared as before, "Old Qin, don't praise me, without this medicine to hang my life, I'm afraid I would have become a corpse a long time ago." ”

Wen Fuchang rolled up his sleeves, one of the needles was inserted directly into his wrist, and the brown liquid was injected into his body, and the flesh near the needle was a little white, and it looked different from other places. The rest of the skin is ulcerated, and even unhealthy muscle tissue can be seen inside.

"What does it mean to take a small step? Academician Qin? Zhang Dada looked at Wen Fuchang, and then asked Qin Yi.

"The only breakthrough we have made in our research on zombie viruses is genetics. This...... Thanks to the successful transfer at the Yenching Institute of Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, our researchers, equipment, and materials have been preserved and sent here. Qin Yi's mind came back to the tragic afternoon that happened in the capital at that time.

"We sacrificed more than a thousand fighters."

There was a hint of sadness in Qin Yi's voice, although more than a year had passed, that day had been engraved into the depths of his memory.

"Does that mean that the zombie virus is related to human genes?" Zhao Kang has not experienced the defense of the Yenching Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so he can't empathize like Qin Yi, and what he is interested in now is the zombie virus, because this virus is currently a common problem for all mankind.

"I can't give an accurate answer to this question now, because we have only found a breakthrough in genetics, as you can see now, in Professor Wen's body, we have retained his 'humanity', or life, but his body tissue is still undergoing irreversible changes, which are no different from zombies."

"The relationship between viruses and genes, from my personal intuition, is yes, but to analyze it rigorously from a scientific point of view, I still need more experimental data to corroborate. As you can see, our medicine works, but it falls far short of it. ”