After a brief greeting, Steiner began to take Chen Nuo and his party to visit the marine research base built here by the United Nations Environment Programme.

Because it is far from the mainland, the environment of the base is relatively simple, in addition to an airport, a Pacific environmental monitoring building, and an old accommodation building.

According to Steiner, this accommodation building was also a place where Japanese laborers lived before World War II, and it is quite historical.

However, the environment around the base allows everyone to sweep away the fatigue of sailing, the blue sea in the distance, the refreshing sea breeze, the palm trees swaying in the wind, and the white seabirds.

Jiangcheng City belongs to the hilly area, and there are high-rise buildings as far as the eye can see, and the vision is very narrow, but there is a wide field of vision here, which makes people's mood also broaden.

Yang Maixi may have seen such an open environment for the first time like Chen Nuo, and was excited to take pictures with the girls from the Ministry of Environment of China.

Jiang Li looked at Yang Maixi, her heart was itching, but she always remembered her task and did not participate.

Steiner explained the main function of the research base, which is located on the Pacific Circulation Belt, so it can detect the health of the Pacific Ocean.

"The species, temperature, and litter content in the circulation are indicators of the health of the Pacific Ocean." Steiner shook his head and said, "It's a pity that every year is not as good as the year." ”

Later, Steiner introduced to Chen Nuo the United Nations marine science and technology workers stationed in the base, who came from various countries, the shortest came here for three years, and the longest was a Mi countryman, who has been here for 25 years.

Chen Nuo admires these people very much, the human process needs these people's silent dedication, they may be a drop in the ocean in the long river of history, but their contributions to the earth's environment will eventually be remembered by history.

During the dinner, Chen Nuo, Jiang Li and others enjoyed Hawaii's unique hula dance and tasted local food.

Steiner also introduced the basic situation of the garbage island to Chen Nuo, "There was originally a small uninhabited island here, with an area of 20 square kilometers, because of the influence of ocean currents, more and more garbage is concentrated around the island, coupled with the unique climate environment of this place - the ocean current slows down, there is no wind, and the garbage will not leave after arriving here, and now the area is getting bigger and bigger, there are almost eight French areas, with an estimated total weight of 3.5 million tons, and we call it the eighth continent of the earth." ”

"The island is 1,500 kilometers from Hawaii and about this distance from San Francisco, and we can't clean up this garbage, and we can't haul all this garbage to the shore for disposal," Steiner said helplessly. ”

Steiner pinned his hopes on Chen Nuo, he said: "I have seen the magic of environmental protection bacteria in London, and this time I invite you to come to see if the Blue Star Group can deal with it, this time the United Nations has prepared 10 billion meters of knives to clean up the garbage." If your company has a way, the 10 billion meter knife will be all the funds of your company. ”

"1,500 kilometers from here?" Chen Nuo said with some surprise: "Then how do we get over?" ”

"Take a boat." Steiner said: "Come there on our research ship. ”

"How many days?"

"Three days!"

"I hope it's a pleasant trip! ”

Steiner laughs and says, "Of course, this is a travel route that has never been opened before!" ”

Read thousands of miles of books and travel thousands of miles.

Chen Nuo felt the artistic conception of this sentence for the first time on the scientific research ship.

In the vast sea, there is only one boat driving on the sea, and there seems to be no end to the road ahead. Human life has become infinitely small, but the meaning of human beings has become infinitely large.

Fortunately, there are only three days, otherwise Chen Nuo would not have seen any changes in his heart.

Yang Maixi embodies the value of her existence, and the rapeseed oil and seasoning oil she brought from Jiangcheng City have come into play.

Yang Maixi, who was tired of eating canned and dehydrated vegetables on the boat, dropped some fish in the sea with the crew, and then made a meal of braised fish.

The UN staff were full of praise for Yang Maixi's cooking skills, and Chen Nuo was also happy to be able to taste the good things of China in a foreign country.

Steiner picked up a piece of fish and said, "As an aside, don't think that the seafood here is so clean that we're far from land, but in fact they have a lot of microscopic plastic particles and heavy metals deposited in their bodies. ”

Steiner still took the fish into his mouth and said nonchalantly: "But it doesn't matter if you come out once in a while, I've never had such delicious food." ”

After lunch, Yang Maixi took out his mobile phone, took a selfie with himself and the ocean, and said: "I am now sailing in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and now I am 800 kilometers away from the nearest island, Hawaii Island, this is a wonderful trip, to show you what it feels like to have a vast sea......

The further you go, the more you understand that this is not a trip.

There are still 500 nautical miles away from the garbage island, and you can already see all kinds of human garbage such as plastic products floating on the sea.

It's strange that human activities have such a big impact on the earth, which is more than 1,500 kilometers away from both the country and Hawaii.

"Look!" Jiang Li pointed not far away and said.

A seabird, dead and having begun to decay, lies on a pile of plastic bottles, fluttering with the currents.

Steiner looked at it and said, "It's an albatross, it happens a lot." Looking at the ocean from the sky, these plastic products are like live fish, they accidentally eat the plastic, and then they can't eat anything, and then starve to death. ”

Jiang Li said very sadly: "Is it an albatross that has only one partner in his life?" ”

Steiner nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Immediately after that, no one spoke, because everyone thought of the albatross's home in the distance, where there were wives and children waiting for its return.

Yang Maixi did not dare to let the sailors fish in the sea at this time, except that all they caught here was plastic waste.

When there are still 100 nautical miles from the garbage island, the research ship is basically in the form of garbage and the carcasses of fish and seabirds, and the research ship will be very careful in the form, because a piece of garbage is entangled in the propeller, and they will not be able to go back.

Twenty nautical miles away, Steiner said, "The research ship can't go any further, let's go by kayak." ”

Chen Nuo asked Jiang Li to bring the environmental protection bacteria and related experimental equipment, and transferred to a kayak.

When he arrived at Junk Island, Chen Nuo saw a rather spectacular scene.

It seems that in the middle of the ocean, there is an island made of colorful artificial garbage, on which grass and even shrubs grow, forming a unique kind of ecosystem.

"Let's try it."

With Steiner's encouragement, Chen Nuo stepped on a large pile of garbage and did not sink.