Chapter 1035 In the face of natural disasters, mankind has never surrendered
When the Holy Sword of Physics was inserted into the crack of the door, Jack also participated in breaking the door. Even the thick door built by ancient humans still had a gap open.
The door gap doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be big enough for one person to squeeze in sideways. The two of them felt a sense of suffocation when they entered it. The door originally isolated this place from the outside world. After too long, the oxygen inside was obviously insufficient.
Bernadette wanted to summon a large amount of air to flow in, but was blocked. Not only did Lanno not let the air flow in, but he removed the jack and let the heavy iron door close again.
He took out an oxygen bottle and handed it to Bernadette: "This place may have existed for a long time. If it is a relic from tens of thousands of years ago, then you must not let air enter here. Otherwise, if it comes into contact with oxygen, the remains here will be destroyed."
Most of the documents will weather in a short period of time, and most of the paper documents will probably be difficult to preserve in this environment. To be on the safe side, it is better not to open the door."
When Bernadette heard that tens of thousands of years ago, the expression on her face suddenly became wonderful: "You haven't studied history at all, have you? Tens of thousands of years ago was the first era, or even an older period. At that time, human beings
It is still a vassal of other races, how can it possibly leave behind magnificent ruins? Even if the history here exceeds ten thousand years, it was before the First Era. How could there be civilization at that time?"
In the first era, both humans and other races were all crazy and chaotic. Not to mention civilization, tribes were rare. And the previous steel gate, you can tell from its smooth surface that it was anything but ordinary.
civilization can create.
When Lan Nuo saw the steel gate, he had already judged from the painting style that it was a human relic before the end of the world. The painting style was too similar to some important bases in the 21st century, but he also
There was no rush to refute.
Lan Nuo turned on the flashlight, and the two of them moved forward in the dark and cold corridor. The doors of the rooms on both sides were locked. There were lamp-like things above the corridor, but the switches on the wall could no longer control them.
, a long period of time has completely damaged these devices.
Continuing forward, a door opens at the end of the corridor, and you can see a hall. There are glass display cabinets one after another in the hall. The top of the hall is a hard metal skeleton. The skeleton is divided into two layers.
The two layers of the skeleton are actually made of transparent glass. This makes a huge spherical glass dome appear here, but it is now buried under thick ice and snow. Even if you can see the glass above, it is pitch black outside.
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This crystal palace-like underground ruins made Bernadette's eyes widen. She could even imagine how magnificent this hall would be under the Antarctic daylight.
Lan Nuo did not pay attention to the glass dome above his head. This kind of crystal palace-like building may be considered magnificent in this era, but in his previous life, this thing was only a little better than the shopping malls in third-tier cities. There is nothing surprising.
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He looked at the glass display cabinets. Many of the locks on the cabinets were broken. You could easily open the glass cabinet doors and you could see the frozen soil inside. Because the climate here is extremely cold and the frozen soil
Although the plants among them have withered, they still retain roughly the appearance they had when they were still alive.
"These should be potatoes. What was originally in the cabinet here was wheat? Hmm... This should be tomatoes. They are a bit rotten. They are almost invisible. Hmm... There is a frozen leaf. Is it coriander or coriander?
celery?
The ones in the larger cabinet here should be woody plants, but they seem to have failed to grow and died. These should be poplar saplings, the ones here are pine trees, and..." Lan Nuo said one by one.
He could distinguish the frozen plants, some were vegetables and grains, and some were trees or fruit tree saplings. Presumably this was originally a botanical garden for outsiders, but due to some changes, no one took care of it.
The Antarctic base lost its heating, the temperature dropped sharply, and the plants withered and froze to death here.
Bernadette also saw these plants. Without any explanation in words, she could probably guess what happened here?
There were signs next to these glass cabinets, with words she didn't recognize written on them, but she could tell that one of the words was the same as the words left on the land of Russell.
"What's written on this?" Bernadette asked, pointing to one of the signs.
Lan Nuo took one look at it and read it out: "Soybean, soybean is an annual herbaceous plant in the Fabaceae family. The soybean stems are thick, upright, and densely covered with long brown bristles. The leaves usually have 3 leaflets; the stipules are veined and covered with long hairs.
Yellow soft hair..."
The translated meaning is easy to understand. It is an introduction to the various crops in the glass display cabinet. Although Bernadette is not a cultivator and cannot recognize all the plants in it, quite a few can still be distinguished through the plant remains inside.
of.
"This used to be a museum?" Bernadette was a little confused: "A botanical museum dedicated to displaying plants? But why should it be built in Antarctica? These plants should not be able to survive in Antarctica. It would be extremely difficult to maintain their survival. Is it possible?
Was this palace built by an ancient noble who loved plants?"
Lan Nuo was noncommittal, but he already had a guess in his heart. The effect here might be exactly the opposite of what Bernadette guessed.
Lan Nuo searched in the hall for a moment, and soon found the sign of the safe passage, and could go all the way down the passage. The two of them went down the stairs. There were no extra floors in the middle, only a door.
The heavy isolation door was violently opened by two people.
After going down for about fifty meters, they finally came to an open underground space after opening a door that was as thick as the top.
There are glass jars and metal boxes placed here, and some tables have glassware that looks like anal butts.
This thing is very familiar to Lanno. It is often mistaken for anal sex by netizens, but it is actually a container specially used to hold seeds. These glass containers also contain seeds of various crops, and they seem to be placed as samples.
On the table.
As for the metal cabinets inside, most of them are refrigerators and the like, and there are also a large number of seeds stored at low temperatures. Bernadette looked at the large number of seeds stored in the base in surprise, overturning her previous guesses, here
It cannot be a palace built by any noble, but it should be an important facility specially used to store plant seeds. The hall above should be used for outsiders to visit, and the basement is the real main body of the building.
Just when the two of them were trying to distinguish what these seeds were, the light of the flashlight in Lan Nuo's hand suddenly swept across a human-shaped shadow. The human-shaped shadow in the darkness immediately made the two of them shrink, and Lan Nuo immediately turned on the flashlight.
The light turned to the position of the shadow. What made them relieved was that they did not encounter any ghost, it was just a corpse leaning against the refrigerator. The corpse had been dried, and the skin was tightly attached to the bones, perhaps because
It was extremely cold here, and it was a sterile room where seeds were stored. The corpse did not rot. Lan Nuo came to the corpse and observed the other party's attire.
Judging from the uncorrupted clothes on his body, he should be wearing a blue protective suit, shoe covers on his shoes, and his hands should have been wearing gloves before. It was obviously for working in a sterile room.
This outfit.
Lan Nuo's clothes split open when he touched them lightly. The long time made everything extremely fragile. Inside this layer of isolation clothes, this person was wearing a shirt with a pocket on the chest.
There seems to be a notebook among them.
Lan Nuo took out the notebook and opened it and found that it was written in English. Bernadette came over to look at the contents of the notebook, and then her eyes were blank, as if the genetic lock had been unlocked, revealing her body that had not been contaminated by knowledge.
Pure eyes.
These were not words left by Emperor Russell, so she couldn't even guess the meaning of these words.
Lan Nuo was able to fully understand what was written inside. The long time had made the paper in the notebook very fragile, so Lan Nuo turned it over very carefully.
"This is the fifteenth day that we have lost contact with the outside world. That damn satellite TV has not broadcast any news since it reported the fall of New York. We have closed all external channels. We must hold on.
, even though humans outside may have become extinct.”
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"We have lost contact with the outside world for two months, and there is not much energy left in the base. I hope the plants in the thermostatic chamber can leave seeds as soon as possible."
"Seventy-three days have passed. The base has already implemented a rationing system, but the fuel that everyone can get is getting less and less. The temperature is dropping. We may never be able to wait for rescue. Maybe everyone outside is already dead.
Now, we are the last human beings..."
"On the 108th day, I haven't eaten for three days. I have run out of food and am so hungry..."
"I can't remember how long it has been. My watch has been frozen. I just saw my mother in my dream. I might be dying."
"Another comrade died of starvation. I no longer have the strength to carry his body. Maybe I will become one of them soon."
"Is it finally my turn? Will I starve to death even though I still have fat on my belly? Lin said that the plants in the incubator have set seeds, and the last plant seeds have been stored in the cold storage. What should be done?
It’s already done…”
"Lin is also dead. Before he died, he asked me to eat his body. I refused. I am left alone. What's the point of living? I hope everything we do is really meaningful!"
The note ends abruptly here, and there is no further content. Presumably the owner of this diary died here after writing this diary.
"What's written on it? You seem to be able to understand it." Bernadette is now used to Lan Nuo's magic. He seems to have a special ability to recognize various languages.
Lan Nuo briefly described the contents of the diary. After hearing this, Bernadette couldn't help but wonder: "Why did they starve to death? There is obviously food everywhere here..."
At this point, she couldn't help but shut her mouth because she had roughly guessed what had happened here.
This should be a place where ancient humans stored various plant seeds. The purpose should be to prevent disasters that would lead to the extinction of various plants, especially various important food crops.
And the people stationed here, even if they starved themselves to death, did not touch these seeds one bit, just to leave hope for future generations. If an extremely terrible ecological disaster really occurs on the earth, they will use these seeds.
If the seeds are eaten, then if there are survivors in the future, there is really no hope of restoring the planet's environment.
Lan Nuo stared at the corpse in front of him for a long time, and then bowed deeply to the corpse. In the face of natural disasters, there will always be people who show miraculous bravery. No one in this world remembers them, but they are undoubtedly
The hero of mankind also truly saved mankind.
"Senior, everything you have done is meaningful. It is these seeds you have preserved that have allowed humanity to thrive after the end of the world. You can rest in peace."
Bernadette was still a little confused at this time. She was not a biologist, so she was not particularly able to understand how great what these people had done.
"Remember the plant remains we saw in the exhibition hall above? Those remains are almost exactly the same as the crops we grow in farmland now, but under normal natural selection, tens of thousands of years would definitely be enough to make those plants
Crops have become all kinds of strange and unlikely to be exactly the same as the plants that took humans thousands of years to domesticate.
The original seeds of the plants we plant and eat come from here, or from other plant gene banks similar to this. Plants that have been artificially domesticated only need a few seeds in their wild state.
Generations will be completely eliminated, and if we need to re-domesticate these plants, then we don’t know how much it will cost to improve them to what they are now.”
Bernadette didn't expect that what her father left for her would be such a relic. Russell just told her that when she reached Sequence 2, she would come to Antarctica to explore this relic. Now she probably understood what it meant.
She only felt that the sage's potion in her body was being digested rapidly. The moment her emotions resonated with the emotions of this corpse, the sage's potion had already begun to be digested rapidly. A sage does not have to be glorious.
Bright may be as unknown as the person in front of him. No one knows his name so far, but he and the other people who protect this place are enough to become a civilized sage and a civilized hero. A certain belief is crossing the line.
Thousands of years passed, washing away Bernadette's soul.
