Chapter 16 Seed Banks

The two of them headed north again, leaving the sea of fire behind.

"Originally, it was a fun little amusement where visitors could follow some tips to find small prizes in the maze, such as small sculptures or processed fossilized amber and the like... But I didn't expect it to become a real dungeon maze now. Tina's voice came from the sound of an urn on the tin can.

"Look east, what do you see?" Andy looked over and saw that it seemed to be a flat land, but now the concrete foundation had been completely unrecognizable due to the cracks in the earthquake.

However, Andy could guess what this was used for, because there was a smashed aircraft not far away, the whole of the aircraft was black with heavy protective armor, and a rotor was installed on each side of the wings that could be adjusted freely, and below were three retractable landing gears, with wheels at the ends.

"This used to be the tarmac? Is that what it's called? Andy was a little confused, he vaguely remembered reading the newspaper when he was in the territory of the NcR, which mentioned that the NcR army had been given a name after capturing the evil enclave fortress Navarro base

The tiltrotor helicopter of the "Flying Bird", this kind of aircraft has great maneuverability and flexibility. In addition, one of the high-ranking Asuka that was originally used to carry enclave officers was captured by the NcR and repainted to become the special aircraft of the President of the NcR, which is also called

"Xiongli One". But President Tandi was too old to go out in a flying plane, and the so-called presidential plane soon became something that had been parked in the hangar and eaten dust.

"Yes, the tarmac." Tina was a little surprised.

"I thought you wouldn't even recognize it, but at least you still know about the existence of airplanes, don't you? My expectations for survivors further west seem to be a little more optimistic. Andy stared at the deformed, rusty bird that had been stoned for a moment, and then looked away.

"West.... Anyway, there are a lot of Vault dwellers and some organizations that have been passed down from before the war, and a lot of what happened in the past is still happening now, very different from the situation where almost everything started over here from the primitive tribal period... But I don't know if it's going to be a good thing all the time. ”............... After a short period of progress, a large building appeared.

Standing in front of the building, Andy looked a little strange.

"Uh... Actually, when I first saw it, I thought it was a little strange, did the exterior design of this building have something to do with some factors that I am embarrassed to say directly? Tina cautiously scanned the surroundings.

"I know what you're thinking, the architect of this building designed it with the elements you mentioned, because he thought it would be in line with the building's ethos. The power of reproduction is one of the great powers that human beings have realized in ancient times that they reside in every human being, and the power of reproduction implicates human instincts, allowing the number of human groups to continue to increase... This power is equally distributed among all living things, it is the essential carrier of life, the foundation of evolution and continuity. Andy listened to this narrative and nodded, if you put aside those non-serious ideas, the exterior of this building can be said to be a magnificent work of art on an aesthetic level.

It is a longitudinal rod-shaped building with a spindle-shaped top, which gradually widens at the back to connect two large spherical transparent glass areas, and the design concept of this huge glass dome is almost exactly the same as that of the garden area, which seems to have been created by a single person.

The entrance to the building front is this

The end of the "stick", but the shape of the entrance looks a bit like a butterfly, and it can be divided into several layers.... It's completely intentional in every sense of the word.

"See those poles?" Tina stretched out her mechanical finger to a circle of long, indeterminate poles evenly distributed around the perimeter of the seed vault building, each made of a black, hard metal, with occasional blue electric glows on its surface, visually more than three meters tall and similar in width to a large tree.

"Those are the rods of the repulsion field, which are specially made and are usually on standby to save energy and reduce the probability of failure, but once it senses the presence of a possible invasion, it will activate immediately..... Aggressive creatures will be forcibly ejected, and if they force their way in, they will suffer a lot of damage. Andy looked at the tall high-tech poles and realized that this was definitely a forbidden place for minepools, but it was really that.

"If I'm not mistaken, you said that this building is full of biological dNA information, so it doesn't seem like there is such an urgent need for security, right?"

"It's not just dNA information." Tina corrects Andy's opinion.

"Any biological samples that the SA could find before the war, including tissue samples and living germ cells, were stored in seed banks and cryopreserved, by specialized cryopreservationists, until the world was restored to a suitable biosphere recovery program, and they remained safely there."

"You can't even imagine how much manpower and material resources were consumed by this collection project back then, and what is even more terrifying is that despite the maximum secrecy efforts, we have found that this project has shown signs of leakage, and some groups with unknown motives even seem to have begun to organize certain operations...."Andy looked at her suspiciously.

"It's just biological samples." Tina came to the repulsion field, and the thing immediately activated, and a blue light curtain instantly generated and surrounded the seed bank.

"Nobody knows what those people think... I'm afraid it's the bA people, for them, carrying out infiltration and sabotage operations is the first motive, and the more we act secretly and invest in huge projects, the more they will focus on them and try to get in the way.... Surely you haven't heard of the Niagara Falls wreckage, have you? Andy shook his head of course, he hadn't even heard of the name Niagara.

"At that time.... Forget it, it's all old accounts, to put it simply, the SA Army is preparing to install some kind of experimental device on the exposed riverbed after the drainage under the pretext of renovating the waterfall, but it was infiltrated by bA spies, and the waterfall was re-channeled, resulting in a sabotage incident with heavy casualties. Tina shot a bolt of light, and the repulsion field flickered twice before shutting down.

"This is already the best defense we can find against bA stealth armor, and even if an infiltrator is lucky enough to sneak in, his equipment will lose its effect." The two walked in, and Andy only saw Tina shoot various beams of light, and the automated security devices along the way shut down.

The two of them entered through the middle gate, and the walls and roof of the shed were deliberately coated with a special 3D pleated coating, and they advanced in it as if they were advancing in the organs of some kind of giant beast.

The lights shine brightly, and this is one of the few areas where the nursery has an adequate energy supply, and even after the earthquake, Diana sacrificed her energy to keep the place running.

Further ahead, there is a closed security door. Two sentinel robots suddenly moved out from both sides, roaring and intercepting in front of the two.

"Stop! You have entered a high-security area, and any unauthorized access is considered illegal. "Red light shoots from the robot's head, and the muzzles of the laser machine guns on both arms are callous, and the slightest disagreement will turn the life in front of it back to its original elemental form.

Tina's head glowed with two rays of light. Andy was already ready to move forward, after all, Tina was unimpeded along the way, but who expected that this time it would not be like this.

"Authentication failed! Repeat, certification failed! The accuracy of the key cannot be verified, and the facility is locked down according to emergency response procedures! Any visitor must leave the area within a minute or be shot! Andy couldn't help but look at Tina in surprise, only to see that she was also surprised.

"Oh? ..... Why is that? "The robot will not answer this kind of question at all, and the cold muzzle of the gun has been raised.

"Leave now!"