Homo sapiens.

"It is to use silver-based superconductors as the material of the track. The temperature at an altitude of 50 meters is generally lower than minus [-] degrees Celsius. Silver-based superconductors can directly achieve superconductivity without additional refrigeration."

Liu Zhifan suddenly realized: "So it is."

Asuofang pointed to the sunken track again: "The reason why the track is designed like this is mainly to strengthen the restraint. Even if it suddenly loses control, the train cannot derail."

At this moment, a train quickly passed by.

Yin Tianfeng, the person in charge of the Stratospheric Railway Operation Company, whispered to Liu Zhifan: "Minister, this is from Bukit Station in Sumatra Island. The distance is about [-] kilometers, and it took less than an hour."

"This speed is still too slow." Liu Zhifan was a little dissatisfied.

Asuofang quickly explained: "Minister, this is because the equatorial stratosphere railway has not yet been fully opened. Once the entire line is opened, it will be able to use the extreme speed of 2400 kilometers per hour across the Pacific Ocean, Ceylon Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean."

Of course, Liu Zhifan is very clear about this.

The reason why the speed of the stratospheric railway cannot be increased now is very simple, because there are too many stops on land, which drags down the overall operating speed.

The Pacific Ocean, the Ceylon Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean have only a few small stops in the middle. In this plan, they often do not stop, and they can move forward at full speed throughout the journey, and the speed can naturally soar to 2400 kilometers per hour.

"By the way, chief engineer Asuo Fang, the train is running at high speed, will there be a supersonic sonic boom?"

Asuofang nodded: "It is true that a sonic boom will be produced, but because the air in the stratosphere is thin, the sonic boom will be very weak and will basically not affect the ground."

Liu Zhifan saw the large solar panels on the floating platform again: "Is solar power used here?"

"This is actually specially designed for future consideration."

"Designing for the future?"

Asuo Fang nodded: "Yes, it is designed for the future. Once the equatorial stratosphere railway is completed in the future, half of the entire line will receive solar energy. This is a fixed power station."

Then he added: "The silver-based superconductor on the railway can be used as a transmission line to realize the transmission of current with ultra-low loss."

Liu Zhifan understood immediately.

After all, on the equatorial railway, half of the area will always be directly illuminated by the sun. This is the true sun that never sets.

In this way, solar power generation is not tasteless, coupled with high-temperature silver-based superconductors, this makes the equatorial stratosphere railway a huge solar power station, and the power generation is very stable.

After all, there is no shelter in the stratosphere, and it is also directly exposed to the sun for a long time. This amount of power generation is definitely not a small number.

In this way, the equatorial stratospheric railway can be completely self-sufficient in electricity, and even has a lot of wealth.

Simply kill two birds with one stone.

Liu Zhifan turned his head and asked Yin Tianfeng: "Tianfeng, next you have to cooperate with the various transportation systems on the ground to ensure that the logistics can be unimpeded."

"Yes, I will definitely arrange it." Yin Tianfeng quickly replied.

After staying on the stratosphere platform for more than half an hour, Liu Zhifan was quite satisfied with the equatorial stratosphere railway.

A train that can bear a load of several thousand tons runs at a high speed above the stratosphere, and the fastest speed is almost twice the speed of sound. This thing can completely replace many planes along the way.

After all, the speed of civil aviation airliners usually does not exceed 900 kilometers per hour, and the load is only dozens of tons.

In the face of stratospheric railways, civil aviation airliners or transport aircraft, there is really not much advantage.

After Liu Zhifan inspected the project, he wrote a detailed report to Li Qingye.

Chapter 544

Galaxy 2, February 10nd.

Balkans.

Southern part of the Nemanja Republic.

A city with fluttering snowflakes, a towering border tower, and a quiet forest.

The city and the mountains and forests are clearly separated, and the surrounding fields have long been deserted.

"It's snowing again..." Cage, the security guard in charge of sentry tower 5066, leaned against the railing, looking at the vast expanse of white mountains and wilderness.

"Cage, you'll be on vacation in a few days, do you want to travel to the space city?" Another black-haired security guard asked while observing the situation on the south side with a telescope.

Cage thought for a while: "I heard that traveling to the space city requires half a month's vacation. Agatha just got pregnant a while ago, and I don't want to travel far."

Hearing the words, the black hair didn't hesitate. At this moment, he found three hot spots in the jungle on the south side rapidly approaching: "Cage, there is a situation."

In an instant, Cage opened the safety of the assault rifle and aimed at the three hot spots that were approaching.

In the forest, three figures in down jackets sneakily approached the sentry tower under the cover of bushes. As they approached the sentry tower, their speed became slower and slower.

One of the middle-aged men looked at the row of barbed wire around the sentry tower with a hint of helplessness on his face.

At the junction of Nimanya and other regions, there are only sentry towers and no barbed wire fences, except for the Black Bird Land where there are barbed wire fences.

At first, Blackbird Land didn't care, and happily followed the Europa Consortium.

It's just that with the passage of time, the entire Europa Commonwealth is now experiencing frequent problems. As the core of the Europa Commonwealth, France, Western Rome, and Germany have to give priority to self-protection at this time.

The so-called adversity sees the truth, for the Europeans who put their interests first, they have no concept of giving charcoal in a timely manner.

Under such circumstances, the three cores of the Europa Commonwealth will naturally have to give up some places where they cannot make ends meet, and the Balkans will bear the brunt.

Especially for blackbird land with very small economic interests, the aid was directly cut by 80%.

Blackbird Land, which used to be able to rely on aid and tourism industries, plus the economy of the garrison, lived relatively comfortably, but now it suddenly became difficult.

America, which could no longer maintain its global deployment, was very decisive and sold half of the bases and equipment in the Mediterranean to the Europa Consortium.

The U.S. military base in Blackbird Land was naturally cut down. Currently, the Europa United Army does not have many troops stationed here, only two regiments and one radar station.

As for tourism, let alone.

Now, even the middle-class people in the Europa Commonwealth are not in the mood to travel around, but are looking for ways to make money and maintain a decent life. Unnecessary expenses such as tourism must be cut off immediately.

Aid, tourism, and garrison consumption have all decreased, and their own agriculture cannot withstand the devastation of natural disasters, nor does it have rich mineral resources, so life suddenly becomes very difficult.

Although the people in Blackbird Land made a fuss several times, it was a pity that it was of no use.

The Homo sapiens company has always disliked people in Blackbird Land, especially those who have grown up, otherwise they wouldn't have set up a large circle of barbed wire here.

The middle-aged man came to the barbed wire fence, picked up a wooden stick with a pair of white underwear tied on it, and shook it in the direction of the sentry tower, hoping to attract the watchtower's attention.

However, Cage and Black Hair on the sentry tower were unmoved.

After the three people approached, the sentry tower has identified their specific identities through pheromones.

"Cut, you are a piece of rubbish." Cage despised these three guys.

From the intelligence database, these three guys are notoriously idle in Blackbird Land. They have done a lot of things to exclude and harass the Nemanya people in the past, and they have also published a lot of hostile remarks against Homo sapiens on the European and American Internet.

Now seeing that Blackbird's welfare is no longer available, and the Europa Consortium's assistance has decreased, they thought of Homo sapiens and wanted to come over to grab benefits.

This kind of person is directly on the blacklist, and there is no way to join Homo sapiens company.

The black hair raised the assault rifle directly.

Bang bang bang!

A few bullets passed by those three guys, splashing some snowflakes.

The sudden gunshots scared one of the young men to pee directly: "Hoo hoo... I'm not going!" After speaking, he ran away.

The middle-aged man was also pale, but he looked at the tower fiercely, keeping this incident in his heart, and after throwing down the branch, he also stepped back away from the barbed wire.

After leaving the barbed wire, the three of them stayed in a log cabin.

"Boss, what should we do now? Those bastards won't let us go." A young man with triangular eyes was warming himself by the fire while speaking.

And the young man who had just changed his diaper-wet underwear had a silent expression on his face, and he was obviously very annoyed and unable to hold his head up for his performance just now.

The middle-aged man ignored the pissing man, but gritted his teeth and said: "Homo sapiens must have blamed us because Blackbird didn't want to cooperate with them back then."

"What should I do? Now the supermarket's prices have increased several times, and my little savings is almost used up, bastard! If I knew it, I would have saved more money!" The triangular-eyed words were full of complaints.

The middle-aged man lit a cigarette: "Huh..." He exhaled a smoke ring, and then he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Since there is no way to go through the Blackbird Land, then we can make a detour, and there are no restrictions on other places."

Hearing the middle-aged man's proposal, the triangular eyes suddenly lit up: "That's right! As expected of the boss, as long as we pretend to be people from other parts of the Balkans, Homo Sapiens will definitely not be able to find us."

"Haha..." The middle-aged man laughed triumphantly.

Obviously they don't know that the Homo sapiens company has the genetic and pheromone data of everyone in the world, and it is impossible to get away with it.

The three of them roasted for half an hour, then hurried back to their small town.

The humble town is also covered by ice and snow.

The streets are deserted, and occasionally a few pedestrians are in a hurry.

Passing by the only bakery in the town, the three of them were going to buy some bread, and found a price increase notice hanging on the door of the bakery.

The triangular eyes glanced at the price, and were immediately taken aback: "Is this a robbery? 5 times the price?"

The bakery owner spread his hands in embarrassment: "Don't blame me, the price of flour has risen a lot now, and the electricity and heating bills add up, and I don't make any money at all."

"..." The middle-aged man struggled for a while, gritted his teeth and took out most of the money in his pocket: "Give me 30 kilograms of the cheapest whole wheat bread."

The boss didn't take the money, but shook his head: "Visa, check it out, the current limit is 2 kilograms per person per day."

"What?" The middle-aged man clenched his fists.

But the bakery owner didn't mean to be accommodating. He was not afraid of the three of Visa, because his brother-in-law was the sheriff of the town.

In the end, the three of Visa could only buy 6 kilograms of bread to go back.

As soon as he got home, looking at the two chattering old men, Visa went into the kitchen without saying a word and started making bread. He made bread from the remaining flour at home.

After all, he was going to other places, and he didn't have much money on him, so he could only rely on his bicycle, so he had to prepare dry food by himself.

As for whether the flour in the house ran out, whether the two old people would starve to death, he didn't care at all.

After baking bread all night, the three of Visa finally prepared 60 kilograms of bread and left the town while no one noticed them pedaling their bicycles.

Chapter 545 Gradually Tighten Up

Along the snowy road, the three of Weisa rode their bicycles for about two days and finally came to another city.

The city is in the west of Nemanya, about 4.2 kilometers east of the city, is the border of Nemanya. There is no barbed wire fence on the border here, only a row of wooden fences and sentry towers.

The weather was getting colder, and the three of them bought some hot food in this small city with only 200 euros left on their bodies.

Inside a pizzeria.

The steaming Neapolitan pizza and three free cups of hot water are the three of them's lunch today.

Visa is very painful because the nine-inch pizza costs 20 euros.

The young man who was scared to pee before couldn't wait to pick up a piece of pizza, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed: "For the first time... I think this...is delicious..."

"An Kai, don't eat so fast, if you choke, don't blame me for not reminding you..." Triangle Eyes also grabbed a piece of pizza and gobbled it up while it was hot.

At this moment, a few more customers came to the pizzeria.

"Cough cough..."

The weak cough made Weisa subconsciously glance at the other party.

The coughing person was an old man wearing a black cashmere coat, and beside him were two middle-aged men and a woman.

"Father, would you like something to eat?"

"Cough cough... eat it!... cough cough... I have no appetite!"

The woman helped the old man to sit beside the fireplace, while one of the two men went to order food, while the other stared closely at the surroundings.

Visa guessed that the other party was a rich man or a couple, so he didn't dare to continue to look at the other party, but buried himself in eating pizza.

The old man has been coughing intermittently since he sat down, obviously not in good health.

Visa, who has relatively sensitive ears, vaguely heard the words of the middle-aged woman. In the previous town, Visa, who had received tourists from other parts of Europa, recognized that it was German.

"Father, I have contacted an organ supplier who can help us find matching lungs and livers from Eastern Europe."

"Cough cough... Lisa, I'm sorry to trouble you... cough cough..."

The middle-aged woman quickly stroked the old man's back.

After a while, the man with glasses who went to order food came back.

Looking at the old man's pale face, the man with glasses was also very helpless. Sitting on a wooden chair beside him, he poured a cup of hot water for the old man: "Mr. Campbell, Ms. Lisa, shall we return to the Alpine Federation tomorrow?"

Lisa Campbell shook her head: "I want to try again."