We have to hurry up and have a boat trip in the middle. I hope we can get there before dark."
Bi Fang stuffed the documents and magnetic card back into the lined pocket, zipped it up, and started jogging in the direction of the seed library.
【Before dark? Is it very far away?】
[It was just bright when I got off the plane. Is Lao Fang planning to run all day? 】
[Fang Shen: I can hold on all day]
[Is it true? I don’t believe it. Come and try it (lift up your skirt)]
[You are stupid, this is in the North Pole, there are polar day and polar night. It is October now, and it will soon enter the polar night. The daylight hours are very short! I estimate it is only a few hours!]
"That's right." Bi Fang said with a smile, "Every year from November to February, the Arctic Circle will enter the polar night, and there will be no daylight. This is also the most difficult part of my survival the day after tomorrow."
Bi Fang plans to start live broadcasting on October 15th.
According to the Meteorological Bureau, this year's polar night will begin on November 2.
In other words, Bi Fang only has less than eighteen days to build a safe house that can last for a long time, and then the night will last forever.
Until February 13th, there will be no sunlight in the entire Arctic Circle.
Humans are diurnal animals.
Without the sun, you can imagine how difficult it is to find supplies in the dark!
And because there is no largest source of heat radiation, the temperature throughout the Arctic will continue to decrease.
hiss!
The audience gasped, so terrifying?
[I always thought that the polar night was completely dark for 24 hours, with only a few hours of sunshine.
.]
[Eternal Night sounds like the end of the world in a novel.]
[How scary, how many months of darkness? Can people really survive in this kind of environment for a hundred days? Not even the Inuit can do it, right?]
It was really hard for the audience to imagine how a person could spend a hundred days in the dark?
The road became more and more deviated, and after walking for less than half an hour, there was no one around.
After leaving the human city, the temperature has been dropping. After getting off the cruise ship, Bi Fang had to put on a hat to resist the wind and snow, and every step left deep footprints.
Surrounded by pure white snowfields, if it weren't for the footprints along the road, some might even wonder if Bifang had lost his way.
Until the sun was about to set, a rectangular concrete wedge appeared at the end of the snowfield, in stark contrast to the snow-capped scene, casting a long shadow under the white snow, resembling a huge battleship with only its mast exposed above the sea.
Bi Fang took off his hat, rubbed his hands, and took out the thermometer.
Sixteen degrees below zero.
The surroundings were desolate and the wind was freezing.
"Fortunately, it's not too cold. We finally made it before sunset." Bi Fang let out a long sigh of relief.
In fact, only five hours have passed since departure.
In early October, the days have become very short.
"Let's go, let's go there quickly."
Bi Fang pulled his feet out of the snow and ran towards the seed bank.
Upon entering, the audience discovered that this fortress has a strong futuristic atmosphere. Its square, wedge-shaped appearance looks like an alien spacecraft buried under the snow-capped mountains.
The frontmost layer is full of irregular reflective lenses, which look a bit like glass and reflect faint blue light.
On the slopes of the snow-capped mountains behind, several polar bears were wandering up there, watching the outsider Bifang from top to bottom, like defenders guarding the seed bank.
If the distance between the two sides was not more than 300 meters, Bi Fang would definitely run first as a sign of respect.
Bi Fang stepped onto the short bridge made of barbed wire and arrived at the gate of the doomsday seed vault. Before he could swipe his card, he heard the sound of the mechanism turning.
The door opened automatically, and a man with curly hair and eyes came out. When he saw Bi Fang actively shaking his phone, he smiled brightly and took off his gloves: "Welcome, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
"Hello." Bi Fang's sharp eyes saw that the live broadcast displayed on his phone was his own. It seemed that the other party was indeed waiting for him.
The man turned sideways and gave up his position.
Bi Fang entered and looked around curiously. It was also the first time he saw the interior of the seed bank. What he saw was a small tunnel-like room, which was filled with the sound of the operation of electrical and cooling equipment. The innermost
There is another door, which is opened with a password.
The man led Bi Fang to the door, introducing himself along the way and being very familiar with him.
Cowper Barritt, a scholarly man, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses that make him look full of knowledge.
"So you're the caretaker here?"
"Caretaker? Oh, no." Barritt shook his head, "The seed bank does not need a caretaker. I just took on the job of a 'tour guide'. To be honest, I only got here one day earlier than you."
Bi Fang was stunned.
Barritt said: "Only a few hundred people have visited the seed bank since it was built. There is no one on duty and everything operates automatically. In fact, if it really needs people to guard it to ensure its stable function, then we need to suspect that it is
It can’t really operate automatically in a doomsday crisis.”
[Wow, that sounds so cool]
【Real cowhide】
【It tastes like that.】
The two quickly arrived at the gate. Seeing Barritt about to enter the password, Bifang quickly covered the drone's lens.
Barritt smiled: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you see it. We will modify it after a while."
[That is, can there be more trust between people? 】
[Demet, Lao Fang, you don’t believe us!]
Bi Fang shrugged helplessly and put down his right hand that was blocking the camera.
With a sound of air valve deflating, the door slowly opened.
The strip lights slowly turned on, and everyone couldn't wait to look. Inside was a long concrete tunnel.
Barritt led the way: "When it was first established, workers dug a 120-meter-long tunnel inward to reach the permafrost zone inside the cave, which is the tunnel we are walking through now."
Barrit's voice echoed in the long tunnel, which was empty and far away.
The two walked together, and the drone followed them, taking everything in, feasting the eyes of the audience.
They had only seen such futuristic technology scenes in movies, but they never thought it would actually exist in reality.
"This seed bank is indeed a frequent feature in movies, and it appears in The Wandering Earth." Barritt saw the barrage and responded jokingly.
[Holy shit, why the hell do I feel so familiar? It really does]
【Real Cow】
[No more talking, I have already started building a bunker in the yard to prepare for the doomsday]
【You still have a yard? Now you're going to die like a dog!】
"Mr. Bi Fang is the first visitor to the Seed Vault this year." Barritt took Bi Fang for a walk in the long tunnel and told everyone a piece of news that surprised everyone.
"The first one?"
"The sample library is unmanned and is only open 2-3 times a year to accept samples and receive visits from important guests. So far, only a few hundred people have visited."
"Crown Prince Magnus of Norway visited the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in person. During his visit, he proposed that he would like to see the 'core area' of the seed vault, that is, the storage room, but was rejected."
"Ugly former President Carter came here with the staff of the Save the World Foundation, but still failed to enter the 'heart' of the seed bank."
The audience was stunned.
Did Lao Fang just bring them into this place?
【What is an important guest (tactical retreat)!】
After passing through this circular corridor more than 100 meters long, we finally came to a slightly wider room. In front of us was a large frozen iron door, and behind the door was a warehouse for storing seeds.
The door opened with a bang, and Barritt's voice was solemn.