Homo sapiens.

Although they didn't want to cooperate with the Homo sapiens company, but they were not able to do it themselves, so they took the initiative to contact the Homo sapiens company, used gold to several scientific research stations such as the Dimon Diville station, purchased a batch of living materials, and entrusted Homo sapiens The company transports the past.

For the sake of gold, Homo sapiens agreed to the purchase contract.

a few hours later.

Under the illumination of the aurora, a convoy of snowmobiles drove a batch of living supplies to the gate of Dimon Diville Station.

Ma Wen, who was packed tightly, saw the convoy at the door, and hurriedly led the expedition team members out to move things.

"Let's count!" The escorted new humans handed over a list of supplies to Marvin.

"Hoo hoo..." Ma Wen saw the new human beings in very thin clothes, and a hint of envy flashed in his eyes, but he still hurriedly took the list and counted all kinds of things.

Mainly vegetables and fruits, nuts and mushrooms, meat, eggs, milk, grains and condiments, as well as some emergency food and cooking bags with their own heating packs.

Then there are some common consumables for experiments, and some daily necessities, such as shampoo, shower gel, antifreeze, baby warmer, paper towels and the like.

Marvin raised his head: "Excuse me, why is there no fuel?"

"Our scientific research station doesn't use fuel. You can consider pulling wires from our side, otherwise we can't do anything." Maung Dan, who led the team, spread his hands.

"..." Marvin had no choice but to accept this plan.

After all, this is Antarctica, and you can live for three or four days without food. If there is no heating, it may turn into a popsicle in a few hours.

Chapter 519 Gradually Expand

Inside Dimon DeVille's station.

The scientific expedition team, which received a lot of packages, is sorting out these things. After all, this is food for the next few months.

After opening the incubator of vegetables and fruits, a team member looked at the signs of other incubators: "Purser, why are there so few fruits and vegetables? This amount of vegetables and fruits, with so many of us, is not enough for a week, right?"

Marvin immersed himself in sorting out the incubator of carrots: "The seal station will send vegetables and fruits over once a week, don't worry."

"I see, that's really great." The team member picked up a cucumber and wiped it, then gnawed it.

It is very difficult to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in Antarctica. In the past, they could only eat fresh vegetables and fruits when the supply ship came over. After that, they could only eat canned fruits, freeze-dried vegetables, and vitamin tablets.

"Purser, can the supplies at the seal station be maintained for a long time?" Some team members are more concerned about the future.

"It should be possible!" Marvin didn't dare to guarantee it. After all, it is hard to predict whether Homo sapiens will fight the Europa Consortium in the future.

"May the world be peaceful!"

"Homo sapiens is really rich, and they even send fresh fruits and vegetables to the seal station every week."

"It doesn't have to be sent from outside, or it may be planted by the Seal Station itself."

Everyone chatted in a hurry. Although many people did not have a good impression of Homo sapiens, they did not fall into a daze.

Dr. Vichy, who was not involved in the arrangement of materials, was currently recording the 12-hour snowfall by the snow collector on the roof.

The assistant took a flashlight and carefully observed the six snow collectors on the roof.

"Doctor, 12 millimeters of snow in 3.2 hours."

Dr. Vichy wrote down the data in his notebook, and then he looked at the total accumulated snowfall this year has reached 266.9 millimeters.

According to the records of previous decades, the average annual snowfall on the edge of Antarctica’s shelf is about 500 millimeters, and the months with more snowfall are the winter months from April to November.

Apparently the snowfall has increased this year.

This is the third consecutive year that Antarctica has experienced positive snowfall growth.

Regarding this situation, Dr. Vichy is somewhat worried, especially when he is connected with the abnormal and extreme weather around the world this year, which makes him even more uneasy.

Increased snowfall means that the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet will continue to increase.

The expansion of the ice cover will expand the reflection area of ​​the ice surface, which in turn will lead to an increase in the scale of the earth's reflection of solar radiation, which will cause a further drop in polar temperatures.

A further drop in polar temperatures will lead to a reduction in the evaporation of water from the ice.

The ice sheets at the north and south poles will become thicker and larger.

When a large amount of fresh water is fixed on the ice sheets with a thickness of several thousand meters in the north and south poles, it will inevitably lead to a gradual drop in sea level, and large-scale sea retreat is not an idea, but is about to become a reality.

Dr. Vichy was a little helpless, turned his head and looked at the seal station not far away.

Among the aurora.

The Seal Station is like a huge city.

No, this is a city in the first place.

Unlike the Dimon Deville Station, which relies solely on icebreaker supplies, the core supply method of the Seal Station is the sky elevator.

The 16 cables form 4 groups, relying on the airship platform at an altitude of [-] meters to pull these cables so that they are firmly taut and will not be disturbed by the polar wind.

4 sets of cables are exactly 4 elevators, which can run 4 elevator cabins.

In addition, Dr. Vichy also knew that the underground part of the seal station must have penetrated into the underground rock formation, otherwise it would not be so stable.

Many Antarctic scientific research stations, especially those on the edge of the continental shelf ice sheet, will face a life-and-death problem.

That's the ice breaking off, causing the glacier to move.

Back then, the Antarctic scientific research station in Great Britain did not pay attention to this problem, causing the entire scientific research station and the fault zone glacier to become an iceberg floating freely in the sea.

Therefore, in order to cope with this situation, if the scientific research station is to be built on the ice sheet at the edge of the continental shelf, a fast-moving scientific research station (similar to a caravan) must be used.

But the seal station is obviously not like this, it is set up here directly.

According to Dr. Vichy's experience, he is very sure that the seal station must have penetrated the 2200-meter ice layer and laid the foundation in the underground rock formation.

Only in this way can the displacement caused by ice breakage be effectively resisted.

Of course, without the technology of Homo Sapiens, it would be difficult to manufacture such an ultra-deep foundation.

Dr. Vichy, who was standing on the top of the building, looked at the brightly lit seal station, feeling somewhat complicated and powerless.

At this time, the seal station was inside.

Maung Dan, who escorted the daily necessities to the Dimon Deville Station just now, is in the base chief's office, reporting the situation to the base chief Xin Dixie.

"...I got them to accept the power transmission plan on the pretext that there was no fuel at the base."

Cindy West was very satisfied: "You did a good job. You have controlled their energy and living supplies, and they will not be left to them in the future."

It can only be seen from the holographic map on one side that there are currently several scientific research stations of the four major forces in the entire Wilkes Land.

Without exception, these scientific research stations are "closely protected" by the scientific research stations of the Homo sapiens company.

In order to completely occupy the entire Wilkes Land, Homo sapiens made a lot of small moves. In addition to closely protecting the scientific research stations of the four major forces, it established a large number of new scientific research stations.

These scientific research stations are set up every 50 kilometers. Through this method of staking the land, Homo sapiens has now completely controlled the entire Wilkes Land.

And deep underground in these scientific research stations is the most important gold producing area of ​​Homo Sapiens, which produces about 200 tons of gold every month.

It's a secret that deserves so much attention from Homo sapiens.

Now Wilkes' underground mining area is continuing to expand production, and it is expected to increase the gold production capacity to about 400 tons per month by the end of this year.

Syndish looked at the climate analysis report in his hand: "Maung Dan, you have recently strengthened the monitoring of Dimon Diville Station, and you should also pay more attention to weather changes."

"Changing weather? Is it snowing?"

"It's not just snowfall, it's glacier activity."

"Glacier activity?" Maung Dan immediately understood.

As an investigator of the Seal Research Station, I naturally know the situation in Antarctica.

Since Antarctica is different from the Arctic Ocean, the underground here is rocky. If the snowfall continues to increase, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the weight of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The increased weight of the ice sheet can cause glaciers to slide and even trigger earthquakes.

Maung Dan left Sindy West's office and went back to prepare to use magnetic field detectors to strengthen the monitoring of geological changes throughout Antarctica.

And Cindy West is thinking about the list of materials that need to be applied to the head office next.

Especially in terms of strengthening various scientific research stations and underground bases, the head office needs to provide a batch of exclusive equipment and parts.

After all, as time goes by, the Antarctic ice sheet may expand and thicken in the future, and it may also cause various geological disasters.

Reinforcement work is urgent.

In fact, Homo sapiens' other bases in Antarctica are also gradually improving the structural strength of the bases, especially the secret base of the Ice Hell Project.

On the other side of the Arctic Ocean, the situation is similar to Antarctica, with increasing snowfall and thickening and expanding ice sheets.

This May and June is destined to be a noisy season.

5 Chapter Twenty

The South Ceylon Ocean, not too far from the seal station in Antarctica.

There are not many islands here, just a few small archipelagos.

For example, in the famous Kerguelen Islands, the headquarters of the South Ceylon Ocean Branch of Homo Sapiens is set up on the Kerguelen Islands.

The South Ceylon Ocean Branch is considered to be one of the Homo sapiens companies with a relatively high latitude, and its south is almost at about 49 degrees south latitude.

Because it is located deep in the ocean, there is no shelter in all directions, so the climate is similar to the polar climate, except that the summer is relatively warm.

The reason why the Nancilan Ocean Branch moved its headquarters to the Kerguelen Islands, which is not a shit, is very simple, because the strategic location here is very critical.

The Kerguelen Islands are located at the junction of the Ceylon Ocean and the Southern Ocean, and just in the center between Oceania, Antarctica, and Africa. The location is very critical.

Another reason is that the Kerguelen Islands themselves are actually the top of a submarine mountain range called the Kerguelen Ridge.

At this time, the 20685 Security Regiment of the Kerguelen Islands is manipulating three air and space patrol ships to conduct reconnaissance over the surrounding waters.

There are various detection equipment on the patrol ship.

Captain Simon is looking at the mimetic holographic map integrated from the magnetic field radar data. Since it is a vast sea, the magnetic field here is relatively monotonous.

Suddenly Simon's eyes narrowed, and he stretched out his hand to enlarge the holographic map of one of the areas. As the map was enlarged, the situation in this area was also clear at a glance.

I saw that in this sea area of ​​2500 square kilometers, there is no longer a vast sea, but there are more than a dozen mountain peaks with relatively high heights.

Of course, these mountain peaks are in the sea at this time, which is actually a submerged reef.

But Simon stared at one of the reefs: "Wu, come here."

Wu Kang, who was in charge of hydrographic surveying and mapping, put down his work and walked over.

"Captain, what's the matter?"

"Look at this reef." Simon pointed to the reef he found.

Wu Kang glanced at it: "Reef No. 28702? Huh?"

Apparently, Wu Kang also discovered the problem, so he quickly continued to zoom in on the holographic map, picked up his tablet computer, and entered the command to detect again.

In less than 2 minutes, the refreshed holographic map still hadn't changed much.

"It is 1.3 meters out of the sea, and the area is 2.7 square kilometers. This place is now a small island."

Simon asked: "Could it be the reason for the low tide?"

But Wu Kang shook his head: "No, it's high tide now, and there is still 1.3 meters above the sea surface, which means that this reef now has long-term land above the sea, and this can be called a small island."

Simon looked at the location of this reef, which is about 267 kilometers away from the Kerguelen Islands.

To the southeast is Heard Island controlled by the Kangaroo Country, which is also 261 kilometers away.

Simon made a decisive decision: "Adjust the flight direction and head towards this island at full speed."

"Yes."

Three air and sky patrol ships quickly flew over the island that had just emerged from the sea.

As the airship reached the island, the data from the magnetic field radar became more refined.

The island presents a northwest-southeast orientation, with a middle height of about 1.3 meters and surrounded by rocks below 1 meter.

Due to the year-round attack by waves, the surface of the island is rugged, and there are still many underwater creatures attached to the rocks, such as corals and seaweeds.

One of the patrol ships landed in the center of the island.

Simon and Wu Kang landed on the island.

"The area is not bad, but it is too narrow and long, and the width is only about 130-200 meters." Wu Kang checked it visually.