Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 632 Doomsday Seed Vault

Long Yin'er City has lost a little of the prosperity of the world, but it has more beauty wrapped in silver.

Looking down from the sky by the drone, in addition to the endless white, you can also see a touch of green, which is plant life growing in the snow.

Different from the scene imagined by the audience, Svalbard is not completely covered by ice and snow, and there are rare "vegetations" as far as the eye can see.

In low-lying and moist places, plants of various colors can always be seen.

There are flowers, grasses, and even a special plant - edelweiss.

The shape of this flower is very much like cotton, a white one, blooming in the mountains and plains.

There are no towering trees, no dense jungle, this touch of green is the "swan song" of summer in Svalbard.

Year after year, you can finally see those hardy vegetation in summer.

On the road, warning signs can be seen everywhere on the roadside, and the words on it are not "be careful of vehicles", but "be careful of polar bears".

Such a scene is absurd, as if he did not come to the real world, but to the polar bear kingdom in "The Golden Compass".

Bi Fang pointed to the sign with a smile: "Only the road signs in Longyin, Svalbard, are written like this, because there are nearly 5,000 polar bears in the entire area, but there are fewer than 2,000 permanent residents."

Yes, there are more polar bears here than the locals.

Although it is a habitable place, the low temperature throughout the year and even the endless snowfields make many people stay away.

With the depletion of mineral resources, the original gathering points of scattered people have disappeared. Only the city of Longyin remained.

"Eternal God Emperor"

Only 2,000 people live here all year round. Among the more than 2,000 people, Norwegians and polar bears are the main ones, and the rest are researchers from all over the world.

Of course, there are also some people who live scattered around Svalbard, most of which are gathered together, just to worry about polar bear attacks.

This situation reminded Bi Fang of the terrier that kangaroos invaded Uruguay.

"So, if there is an organized riot in polar bears, that means on average one person has to deal with more than two."

"This is the largest carnivore in the world, with a body length of two to three meters, and an adult male can often reach a weight of more than half a ton."

As the northernmost city on earth, it is only 1,300 kilometers away from the North Pole. It is also the only remaining large land except Greenland and is one of the strongholds of polar bears.

Walking on the path, Bi Fang even saw a polar bear looking at him from a distance, but as soon as they met, they fled in a hurry, all the hair fluttering in the wind.

【Hahaha, escape】

[Polar bear: I have looked at each other in the eyes, and it is the person I can't afford to offend]

[A cool behind the polar bear]

If people live there, there will be all kinds of infrastructure. Hotels, churches, post offices, and even pedestrian streets are just like any other city.

The only difference is generally that there are very few entertainment, transportation, financial and educational facilities.

But this is also an inevitable dilemma for Svalbard.

There were no cars on the road, and it seemed very deserted.

"The city itself is not big, so there is no need to drive, and it is usually only at birth and death that people drive to the coast to board ships or planes to leave."

"Is there no hospital on the island?"

"Yes, but everyone still goes to other places as much as possible. On the one hand, the local medical conditions are poor, and on the other hand, it is to protect the environment."

【? ? ? 】

【What does this have to do with protecting the environment? 】

The audience is a little hard to understand.

"I saw that you didn't read the ban carefully just now. Another article on it says that burial is not allowed."

"Svalbard, the only place in the world where birth and death are banned."

The audience was in an uproar.

What's the point of this?

Bi Fang explained: "This is actually for safety reasons, because the place is cold all the year round, and the ground is mostly permafrost, which makes the virus produced by the corpse easy to be frozen and preserved, and once the permafrost thaws, the virus will begin to spread. , will bring unimaginable disaster.”

"There is only a small cemetery in the entire city of Longyin, and this cemetery stopped accepting new bodies 70 years ago."

"Because of the poor local medical conditions, pregnant women who are about to give birth to children and people who are seriously ill will be taken out of this place to go to other cities in Norway to have children or be buried, so unless you die suddenly, you have no right to die here. of."

"Of course, there are no local regulations that prohibit birth and death. Everything is done to protect this pure land as much as possible."

In Svalbard, everyone is a guest.

In addition to polar bears, whales, arctic foxes, walruses, arctic caribou and other animals can be seen on the shore.

Snow creatures that are rarely seen in ordinary times can be seen everywhere here.

Everyone even saw a polar bear eating

But these are not the real purpose of Bi Fang's trip.

As a survival expert, somewhere on Svalbard, Bi Fang has been curious for a long time, and it is impossible to miss it this time.

Doomsday granary.

Also known as the Doomsday Seed Vault.

A strong doomsday wind made many viewers feel absurd. They heard it for the first time. Is there such a place?

what does it do?

"This doomsday granary is built deep underground in Svalbard ~www.novelbuddy.com~ is the last line of defense to ensure global food security."

"This seed bank can store 2.25 billion seeds for up to a thousand years and is designed to protect crop diversity and respond to disasters such as asteroid strikes and nuclear wars. The Norwegians also gave it a resounding name - Doomsday Dome ."

"Right now, about 100 million crop seeds from around the world are stored in cellars at minus 18 degrees Celsius."

[Hey, why do I feel a little nervous? 】

[Don't say it, I'm already nervous. 】

[What is the delusion that everyone is preparing for the apocalypse behind my back, and I am the only one who is drunk and dreaming to die? 】

[Already learning to survive in the video of Fangshen]

【Fang God! help me! 】

【Hold your thigh tightly】

[Wait, can you go to this kind of place casually? 】

"Of course not." Bi Fang reached into the inner pocket of his jacket and groped, as if looking for something. "This doomsday library has a weak presence since it was built, because there are almost no news reports about it."

"The only in-house shoot was in September-October 2008, when French photographer Caroline Pollan filmed the entire process of transporting plant seeds from a farm in India to a seed bank, and never again."

"Fortunately, I got a pass."

Bi Fang finally took out his hand from his pocket. It was a stamped document and a magnetic card.

Unfolding the document, the above is a very simple sentence, but the seal on it obviously has a very high permitting effect.

This is what Bi Fang asked for from the Norwegian government two days in advance.

The Norwegian side agreed very readily and mailed the corresponding documents directly.

"Let's go and show you the modern version of Noah's Ark!"