The door of the vault at the end of the corridor was covered with frost. Bi Fang stretched out his hand to touch the wall, feeling the crystallized snowflakes. The astonishing chill spread from his fingertips to his palms, as if his blood was freezing.
When Bifang took his hand away, the fingertips were frozen with the frost, and there were still broken ice crystals and a layer of white frost remaining on them.
The temperature here is even lower than outside.
And behind this big iron door covered with frost is the real seed warehouse.
The layers of levels allowed everyone to see what real layer-by-layer defense is.
The iron door opened, and the cold frost visible to the naked eye flowed out, and the cold wind poured into the tunnel, making Bi Fang squint. After a moment, the light and shadow became clear, and he could clearly see the real scene inside Noah's Ark.
big.
Very big.
Like a giant warehouse.
A room the size of a very large conference room is lined with supermarket-like shelves, and boxes on each shelf contain seed samples from various countries.
Bi Fang walked in rows, from Europe to Asia, from Norway to China, and every seed bag was filled with information.
"Seeds from each country will be packed in several large boxes. Seed samples from each country are transported to the island by air, some in wooden boxes, and some in paper boxes. After delivery, the box samples are inspected by X-ray.
Will open it."
Barritt and Bifang walked between the "shelves" and introduced them one by one.
"Most of the samples are packaged in tin foil bags, with 200-300 seeds placed in each bag."
"The seed bank stores backup samples. Each institution has physical samples stored locally. These institutions are also seed banks built by various countries. However, due to natural and man-made disasters, they need to be backed up in the doomsday seed bank."
【Have you ever used the seeds here?】
[You are stupid, this is the doomsday seed bank, when did you encounter the doomsday? 】
Some viewers raised questions, but some immediately objected.
Bi Fang relayed this question to Barritt, but unexpectedly received an affirmative answer from Barritt.
The seeds have been used once since they were built.
[Shut up, you signed a confidentiality agreement, don’t say any more!]
"The construction of this doomsday warehouse started in 2005, and was completed and put into use in 2008. It was not used at all in 1999." Bi Fang said seriously.
Barritt was a little confused after hearing this. He looked at the barrage. It was both in Chinese and English, but even in English, he didn't recognize the combination of words. What happened in 1999?
I think I was only nine years old at the time?
"what are you guys saying?"
"It's a joke." Bi Fang was quite embarrassed.
"Okay." Barritt shrugged, not paying attention, and continued, "The one used at that time was Yu Youliya who was still in the civil war."
"The civil war in September 2015 resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and about 11 million people forced to become refugees. During the war, the main seed bank in Aleppo in the Middle East was destroyed and could not continue.
use."
"This war prompted Yu Youli to remove seeds from the 'Doomsday Seed Vault' for the first time. Their researchers applied to us to remove the 325 boxes previously deposited here, totaling 116,000 copies of crop seeds' backup
'Nearly 130 boxes are used to sow seeds and reshape agriculture."
"That was the first time since the establishment of the World Seed Vault, and the only one so far."
The water friends were shocked, it turned out to be Yu Youli Ya?
"This seed bank contains seeds harvested during the development of human agricultural civilization in the past 2,000 years. These are the fruits and crystallizations of farmers' hard work over the past thousands of years. They connect our past and future agricultural development.
.”
Yu Youli's situation made everyone realize that it was very necessary to establish a seed bank.
"Each warehouse can store 1.5 million samples. Currently, only one warehouse is open for use, and the rest are still closed."
"In addition to food, there are also many rare plant seed backups,"
"Our aim is to provide a safety net to prevent unintended loss of species diversity in the event of global or regional events."
"It functions like a safe deposit box in a bank, allowing specialized organizations or governments to hold seeds for 'deposits' that only they have access to."
"So in theory, no tourists are allowed to visit here. Only one reporter has ever visited here in history, and Mr. Bi Fang can be said to be the second."
Barritt looked up at the drone in mid-air and smiled.
[Boss Fang has great face!]
[I’m envious, when will I get this kind of treatment...]
[You must first have a recognized, meaningful, and widely circulated title of No. 1 in the world, and then have a considerable political identity, and at the same time have symbolic significance in some aspects, and have made many pioneering actions that shocked the world.
That should be enough.]
【I'm crazy.
.]
[Slowly type a question mark]
【What political identity does Fang Shen have? 】
【Lao Fang is the school official】
As time went by, although Bi Fang did not deliberately use it as a gimmick, his identity in this regard had long been spread out.
In order to make it easier to go through the security check when boarding the plane, everyone gradually became aware of it, and everyone knew that this was the case.
[I almost forgot, Lao Fang is still a school officer...]
[Your sister, look at her twenty-five years old, and then look at mine, don’t talk anymore, just go to sleep for a while, you will have everything in your dreams]
The entire warehouse is very huge and very cold.
It's nearly ten degrees cooler than outside.
Various sensors and cameras are also installed in the seed library, which can be monitored remotely and in real time.
Bi Fang saw with his own eyes that a camera was following them closely.
"In fact, there are more than 1,700 gene banks in the world, but many of them have safety risks. For example, the seed banks of Aqionghan and Yin Latang were completely destroyed, and Fei Feibing was damaged by natural disasters such as typhoons."
"Both natural and man-made disasters may cause the destruction of rare collections. This is similar to the extinction of the dinosaurs. If they are gone, they will be completely gone. And it is precisely because of the recognition of the fragility of the world's gene banks that we have created the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Thoughts."
Barritt's words were full of confidence.
Although the temperature in the room itself is not high, the "Doomsday Seed Vault" still has a cooling device to ensure that the temperature of the seed vault is maintained at minus 18 degrees Celsius, so that the seeds can be preserved for a long time. In theory, they can be preserved for thousands of years.
"In terms of functional design, the seed bank can withstand most natural and man-made disasters, including the impact of asteroid impacts or nuclear war."
"At the same time, its remote location also adds to its security. This is the archipelago closest to the Arctic. There is no place more desolate and remote than here."
Barritt walked and talked, which opened the eyes of the audience in the live broadcast room.