Deep under the vast and inaccessible Southern Ocean, in an area called the Astronaut Sea, five submarines sailed silently in it.
These five nuclear submarines are the Pacific-class battleship No. 5 Southern Ocean; the Super Luzon-class battleship Madagascar; and the Orca-class battleship No. 34, 35, and 36.
Carlos Don Quixote, the captain of the Southern Ocean, also serves as the commander of this task force, the fleet internal affairs officer is Li Xin, and the fleet psychological counselor is Wu Yongxing.
Carlos looked at the chart. At this time, their location was in the Astronaut Sea in the Southern Ocean, less than 172 kilometers away from Enderby Land in Antarctica.
After replenishing supplies from the secret submarine base on the south side of Sumatra Island in Southeast Asia, they have been submerged.
"Report, the penguin station in Casey Bay has sent us an inquiry signal." The signal soldier interrupted Carlos's thinking.
"Reply them and tell them that we will arrive at Casey Bay in 5 hours."
"yes."
On the magnetic field radar, you can see various magnetic field signals around you. After being integrated by the supercomputing magnetic field radar imaging system, it becomes a three-dimensional image.
The rectangular base is displayed on the pier.
Except for their five submarines, there are not many signals from man-made objects on the surrounding seafloor. However, there are many fishing boats fishing for krill on the sea.
"One is not enough? But even if we build a few more, we won't be able to use only one."
A specially made survival capsule is being carefully transported down by the soldiers, and the glass window of the survival capsule is also covered.
Otherwise, the Homo sapiens company would not have gone to such an inaccessible area like Antarctica to build such a huge underground base.
Carlos looked through the introduction of the base: "Our task force will also be stationed in the Antarctic region in the future, so we need to add our 7,252 people, and the food production line should be increased."
After a final inspection, the group of people exited the safe house.
The port has 20 berths, two of which can accommodate ships of 100,000 tons.
After all, the base in Antarctica was set up to restart human civilization after the destruction of the world.
More than an hour later, the other four submarines also surfaced one after another and anchored at their respective berths.
Fang Zhan briefly introduced the situation of the base to everyone: "Currently, our base has three 50-megawatt thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors, two of which are in operation and one on standby."
Of course, considering the vast area of the Southern Ocean, dozens of fishing boats would appear deserted.
Carlos also added: "We still need to reserve a few more emergency escape routes. No one can predict the future situation."
No one else has an opinion on this either.
At this time, the seaweed mimicry layer had opened, and the huge Southern Ocean slowly drove in.
The Homo sapiens company has two scientific research stations in Antarctica, one is the penguin station in Casey Bay in Enderby Land, and the other is the blue whale station on Mill Island near Queen Mary Land.
Soon, the life-saving capsule was escorted by Fang Zhan, Wu Yongxing and their team to a special room deep in the base.
Suddenly they all fell silent, staring solemnly at the cargo hold door of the Southern Ocean.
Wu Yongxing asked: "What is the security level here?"
"Is this so?..." Fang Zhan thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, I will arrange a design team in a few days to adjust the construction plans for each area."
However, the task force did not emerge from the sea, but followed a small hidden trench and entered a huge undersea tunnel.
Wu Yongxing expressed his thoughts: "It can be this way. During the expansion of the base, safe houses should be arranged along the subway. If there is a problem in one of the safe houses, the life-saving capsule can be quickly transferred to other safe houses."
Since it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia and New Zealand, which are close to Antarctica, will fish for seafood in the Southern Ocean.
"Yes." Carlos nodded.
After five and a half hours of diving, they finally entered Casey Inlet.
"Yes, I will definitely urge the design team to make corrections."
"In terms of people's livelihood, hospitals, schools, and various entertainment facilities have been built here..."
"Level A1, as long as you are not hit head-on by an earth-penetrating hydrogen bomb, even if a full-scale nuclear war breaks out outside, you can sit back and relax here." Fang Zhan replied directly.
Wu Yongxing reminded: "Remember, the purpose of this base's existence is to serve the life-support module, and everything else must make concessions for this."
"The population of the base is 3,827, mainly composed of young families. The food in the base can sustain the daily needs of 20,000 people."
After passing through the 6.3-kilometer-long undersea tunnel, the Southern Ocean finally arrived at its destination, which is a large submarine port.
Only Fang Zhan, Wu Yongxing, and the leader of the maintenance team have the authority to open the safe house.
But Wu Yongxing shook his head: "We need to prepare more backup power supplies and backup life-saving cabins. Another safe house is not enough. This is the key to the company's ability to continue."
Fang Zhan turned his head and asked softly: "Is this the thing in the mission?"
Inside the base chief's meeting room at the base.
"Carlos, welcome to the Antarctic."
This undersea tunnel has a radius of 240 meters. The Penguin Station employees used bacterial corrosion technology to erode the ground and excavated the huge undersea tunnel for more than half a year before completing it.
Li Xin, who is in charge of internal affairs, calculated: "Taking into account the future increase in population and just in case, the base's food production line must reach the level of 100,000 people."
The channel is on the continental shelf, with an average water depth of 350 to 400 meters, and a thick layer of glaciers above it, which basically blocks the entry of ordinary civilian ships.
After the Southern Ocean floated, it carefully adjusted its hull on the water in the port so that it could sink quickly when leaving.
After saluting, Carlos smiled and shook his head: "This is my honor."
Wu Yongxing, a psychological counselor on the side, followed him.
"In terms of weapons, it is equipped with 5,000 sets of exoskeleton armor and 3,000 sets of working exoskeletons. Small arms and ammunition can be produced by ourselves."
The super alloy door of the safe house slowly closed.
In order to prevent the entrance of the cave from being discovered, special combinations of genetically recombined seaweed are used to form a mimic layer similar to rocks at the entrance of the cave.
"Then I'll go over and set up this life-support capsule first."
Wu Yongxing turned his head and looked at the life-saving capsule that had been connected to the power supply of the safe house. His eyes were filled with enthusiasm. He then clasped his hands together and bowed slightly.
Li Xin, who was transferred to be the director of the Internal Affairs Department of the Antarctic Region, and Wu Yongxing, the district psychological counselor, also greeted Fang Zhan.
He went on to say: "In addition, various facilities must have safety backups and dispersed placement to prevent problems in one area from causing the entire base to shut down."
Several technicians checked the wiring and various backup equipment.
The selected people are all married young people, and they have been carefully selected to ensure that even if only this base is left in the end, these people can still reproduce a healthy population.
Various facilities throughout the base have characteristics that can be quickly replicated.
At the same time, it also needs to ensure a high degree of self-sustainability and does not require external input of materials.
This is due to the previous series of practices of the Homo sapiens company in the Assam region, which has perfected various underground survival technologies and the technology to achieve material self-sufficiency in an isolated environment.
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