Nepal.

Kathmandu.

Since becoming part of Homo sapiens, the pace of development has been almost a day.

It only took about half a year for the local residents to go from being at a loss and resisting at the beginning to being fanatical and supportive.

The more this kind of impoverished countryside is, the more powerless it is to resist the high-welfare offensive of Homo sapiens.

The mountain people, who have been poor all their lives, have long lost their enthusiasm for all kinds of fanciful ideas, after all, everyone has a scale in their hearts.

Those forces that have appeared on the scene can boast about how good they are, but when the mountain people go home and see that there are still a few barren lands and life as usual, they will believe it.

Some people may believe it at first, but after so many years of cruel reality, the mountain people have also become realistic and indifferent.

This is also the reason why the locals showed distrust and resistance after the Homo sapiens company entered Nibora in the beginning.

It wasn't until everyone's lives changed at a speed visible to the naked eye that the mountain people let down their guard and turned to actively embracing the arrival of Homo sapiens.

With a population of only about 29 million, 90% of the territory is high-altitude mountainous area, and there is little agricultural potential, but the hydropower potential is not small.

After opening up the Assam region and the Great Underground Railway in Nepal, Homo sapiens imported a large number of various daily necessities and construction materials here.

This includes the construction of 30 medium-sized hydropower plants and 3 nuclear power plants.

At the same time, the exploration of mineral resources in Nepal is also in full swing.

Weng Xuehai and his entourage, who had previously carried out geological exploration in the Zhu Domain, had completed the preliminary exploration of the strata within 5,000 meters underground in the Zhu Domain, and now they are entering Nibora for exploration.

In the Gandaki district on the west side of Kathmandu.

There are quite a few peaks here that are three or four thousand meters above sea level.

Weng Xuehai and his entourage, led by a local guide, set up camp in a nearby river valley, where the higher elevations were covered in a layer of snow because it was winter in the northern hemisphere.

"Hu ......" took a sip of hot tea, and Weng Xuehai spit out white mist: "If it weren't for the assistance of exoskeletons, I wouldn't dare to enter the mountains in this season." ”

At this moment, his satellite phone rang, and he quickly put down his teacup and connected the phone: "Hey......"

"Dr. Weng, please be ready, there is an urgent mission that requires your cooperation, and a Thunder Dragon Ground Effect Ship will come to pick you up later......"

Hearing this, Weng Xuehai didn't think about it: "I understand." ”

After hanging up the phone, he quickly called his deputy over and asked the other party to lead the team temporarily, while he and his assistant quickly packed up their personal belongings.

Forty-six minutes passed.

A small Brontosaurus ground effect ship sped in mid-air, and then slowly anchored in the snow not far from the camp.

The cabin opened, and several soldiers in combat-type exoskeletons jumped down.

"Doctor, this is our ID, this is a temporary requisition order......"

Weng Xuehai glanced at it roughly, and then nodded: "Let's go!" ”

"Please."

Boarding the small thunder dragon ground effect boat, Weng Xuehai and his assistant looked out the window at the colleagues who came to see them off, and also beckoned.

Woowoo...... The turbojet engine propelled the Little Brontosaurus off the ground and flew quickly towards Kathmandu to the east.

Because it is on its own turf, the Little Thunder Dragon ground effect ship does not need to fly close to the ground, coupled with the upgrading of technology, after applying the technology of some Jinpeng transport aircraft, the cruising speed can reach about 600 kilometers per hour.

Soon the small Brontosaurus was near Kathmandu and landed at the plateau military airfield on the west side of Kathmandu.

Weng Xuehai was taken deep underground at this air base and then taken by subway to Lower Kathmandu, the underground city of Kathmandu.

Lower Kathmandu is deep underground in the northern mountains of Kathmandu.

Weng Xuehai is very familiar with this place, because his temporary dormitory is here.

Inside the base master's office in the dungeon.

Weng Xuehai saw a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the internal service department, this person had a relatively rare heterochromatic pupil, and the pupils of his eyes were brown and blue.

"Hello, Doctor, I'm Moses, head of the Crisis Emergency Office of the Department of Internal Affairs, please be seated."

After taking his seat, Weng Xuehai did not beat around the bush and asked directly: "What is the specific task?" ”

"The back office needs to build a few ultra-deep shelters, and I need the doctor's help picking out a few suitable locations." Moses got straight to the point.

Weng Xuehai was stunned for a moment: "Shelter? How deep does it need to be? ”

"The deeper, the better, preferably with granite formations and mountains above."

"Is that so?" Weng Xuehai turned on the holographic projection system of the tablet and projected a holographic map of the Nigerian region, and then he pointed to the northeastern part of Gurneri district:

"This area is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, there is a large ice sheet, and there are a lot of granite rock formations underneath, which should meet the requirements."

Then he added: "There are two large iron mines below, which were discovered some time ago, and I don't know the technical limits of the underground engineering department, if it can withstand the high temperature and high pressure erosion underground, then it can be built as much as possible." ”

Moses gave him a rough overview of the technical aspects of underground engineering: "Now we can build safe underground cities at a depth of about 5,000 meters underground, while shelters can be built deeper due to their particularity. ”

"I see." Weng Xuehai re-estimated and soon found more than a dozen positions.

Without exception, these locations are relatively stable geologically stable areas above 5,000 meters above sea level, with ice sheets above and granite formations underground.

Weng Xuehai then took the initiative to introduce Moses to the details of these locations.

Soon Moses chose seven of them as alternatives, and then he continued to ask: "Doctor, you also did the geological exploration of the Zhu domain and the Zhemengxiong area, and you also chose a few suitable locations over there. ”

"No problem."

Weng Xuehai also called up the geological holographic map of the Zhu domain and Zhemengxiong area, and after a while, he circled 6 candidate sites.

Moses chose three more alternatives.

This adds up to a total of 10 alternative locations.

This is only a preliminary determination, and further exploration will be needed to determine the final location.

In the future, these ultra-deep underground shelters will become part of the Hades Project.

Of course, Project Hades is more than just a super-deep vault, at its core is a special database.

To be precise, these shelters are not intended for people, but are backup memories of all new humans, as well as genetic samples.

Including Li Qingye's memories and genetic samples, they will be stored in it.

These ultra-deep shelters contain only life support and cloning pods, various equipment to restart civilization, no new human administrators, and are managed by supercomputer artificial intelligence.

The passage to the outside world, after it is completed, will also be sealed, leaving only a fiber optic cable to transmit data, which is convenient for new humans to update the memory database.

The requirement for these ultra-deep shelters is that they can operate continuously for about 100 years in a closed state in a low-power mode.

Here's another backup that Homo sapiens has prepared.

The Kolu Project was prepared for the evacuation of people on a large scale; The Ice Domain Project and the Abyss Project are special shelters for small-scale personnel; The Hades Project is a refuge for Homo sapiens' memories and genes.

The final plan of Katsura Palace is to consider that in the most extreme case, once the earth is no longer viable, the civilization fire of Homo sapiens can use the lunar base as a temporary transit station to escape to other planets.

(End of chapter)