Homo sapiens.

"Caesar, please order." Waiting guard Andreev took a step forward respectfully.

"Let Carl from the Fresh Belia Institute of Biology come here!" His voice had a kind of vicissitudes and powerlessness that could not be concealed, and he was just like Lucia at this time, full of desperation.

"Yes." Andreev nodded.

After a while, Carl, the head of the Fresh Belia Institute of Biology, appeared in the study.

"Caesar, Ulla!"

Caesar waved his hand: "Okay, Karl, let's talk about the business!"

Carl took a deep breath: "Caesar, we have obtained some samples of super monkeypox through the channel of the Europa Consortium, and we are currently studying it."

Caesar gently rubbed his temples to relieve the groggy mind.

And Karl continued: "Although no vaccine or specific medicine has been developed, I have found some useful things based on the breeding conditions of super monkeypox."

"Oh?" Caesar looked expectantly.

"The first discovery is that super monkeypox has some special intermediate hosts, such as fleas, cockroaches, and blue-green algae, which is the fundamental reason why they can spread across the sea."

"However, this discovery is not important. After all, we cannot exterminate fleas, cockroaches and blue-green algae in nature. Perhaps those safe houses that defend Homo sapiens can effectively block the penetration of super monkeypox."

Caesar shook his head: "There are too few safe houses. Even if we use the nuclear bunkers left over from the last century, our safe area can only accommodate 200 to 300 million people at most."

Carl hesitated for a while, but still expressed some opinions: "Actually, super monkeypox is not invincible. As long as we adopt the safe house standard and carry out comprehensive disinfection of tap water and non-packaged food, we should be able to prevent it."

"Oh!...I know, but how to solve the problem?" Caesar is also difficult!

Lucia has a lot of resources, but the industry has declined terribly. Even the heavy industry with a solid foundation has become unsustainable at this time.

He was extremely sad in his heart, and it seemed that he was going to his uncle's house for help again.

Caesar really didn't want to go if he could, but now he has no other choice.

Carl didn't see the pain in Caesar's heart, and continued to retreat and put forward some other ideas: "Caesar, in fact, our climate is very conducive to preventing the spread of super monkeypox."

"The temperature?" Caesar thought about it.

"Yes, the temperature is below 5 degrees Celsius, and insects such as cockroaches and fleas are basically inactive, and the suitable breeding temperature for super monkeypox is 20 to 37 degrees Celsius. area of ​​the circle."

Caesar turned his head and said, "Andreev, tell Tatyana to come and see me."

Taking advantage of this gap, Caesar continued to discuss the details with Karl.

About four or ten minutes later, Tatyana, who hurried over, walked into the study.

"Tatiana, if we restart the northern cities, can we sustain it?" Caesar asked directly.

"Restart the northern cities?" Tatiana frowned. The department she was in charge of was the newly established Ecological Production Department, whose main job was to study how to maintain normal agricultural and industrial production under extreme weather.

In order to cope with the increasingly long freezing period, many cities in the northern part of Lucia have been withdrawn and moved southward one after another.

Now Caesar asked again whether the northern city could be restarted. She was caught off guard by the question, but Tatyana soon realized it because she recognized Karl's identity.

"Is it because of the threat of super monkeypox?" Tatiana asked rhetorically.

Caesar nodded: "You guessed it right. Super monkeypox cannot spread in areas where the temperature is below 5 degrees Celsius. Now the northern cities are frozen all year round. If we can restart the northern cities, we can use the low temperature to stop super monkeypox. invasion."

Hearing this thought, Tatyana also fell into deep thought.

Now if you want to restart the northern cities, there is still time, after all, some cities have been abandoned for less than a year or two.

The question is how to solve the problem of food and food?This flaw made Tatyana fall into deep thought.

Then the heads of other departments also arrived one after another.

Although these guys have their own ghosts, but in the face of the unreasonable super monkeypox, they also let go of the idea of ​​​​infighting at this time and discussed how to deal with it.

In fact, they have held no less than 10 similar meetings, but each time they did not have a good plan.

At this point Caesar finally made up his mind.

Because time waits for no one, once the cold winter passes, it means that the super monkeypox will arrive in Lucia with the spring.

Caesar said in a low voice: "Our only choice is to move the population to the north of 60 degrees north latitude before the arrival of spring. Even in summer, the temperature there is below 5 degrees Celsius. The farther north, the safer."

"But what about the food?"

"There is only one way to set up a department specializing in the production of food and agricultural products, and then adopt militarized management, let these people wear special protective clothing and carry out agricultural production in the warm southern region."

"We can use it as an industrial zone in the north, and greenhouse agriculture should be gradually promoted."

"I have an idea. The densely populated big cities are too dangerous, and the supply pressure is too great. If they are fully relocated to the north, I suggest scattered resettlement..."

At this moment, they finally stopped talking, but brainstormed and made suggestions.

After all, if they go on and on, once the super monkeypox is killed, the consequences will be unimaginable. They don't want to be full of pockmarks and impotence. If they really become pockmarked and impotent, they would rather die.

Although the north is covered with ice and snow all the year round, and it will get colder and colder in the future, the cold is also a natural barrier.

Even if the conditions are a little bit harsh, it is better than pockmarked face, impotence, and sterilization.

What's more, they are now more worried about America. After all, America is extremely chaotic, and all forces are fighting each other.

And there are so many biological laboratories in America, who knows how many terrifying microorganisms there are.

If something terrible leaked out.

The warm regions in the middle and low latitudes definitely bear the brunt.

Caesar doesn't want to be on tenterhooks all day long. If they migrate to the north in an all-round way, they can use the low temperature as a barrier to prevent the entry of microorganisms.

After all, no matter how terrifying the infectivity of microorganisms is, they are organisms after all. When organisms encounter ultra-low temperatures, their activity and reproduction will be inhibited.

As for the harsh climate in the northern region, it is not a big deal for Lucia who has mastered the nuclear fusion technology of the ground furnace. She can rely on the energy of the nuclear fusion power station to resist the ultra-low temperature of the ice age.

As long as there is life, there is hope.

If everyone is dead, then everything is meaningless.

Therefore, the management of Caesar and Lucia decided to quickly restart the northern cities and transport all the food to the north for storage in order to deal with possible biochemical crises in the future.

The cold climate saved Lucia again.

Of course, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the northward migration plan, Caesar had the cheek to go to his uncle for help.

Chapter 584 It's Like a Dragon

Unconsciously.

The time has come to Galaxy 4, January 1th.

Although there have been varying degrees of confusion around the world due to the spread of super monkeypox.

However, Homo sapiens is still as stable and safe as ever.

After a full year of construction, the Stratospheric Railway connecting Southeast Asia to Africa and running through the east and west sides of the entire Ceylon Ocean has been officially completed.

The Ceylon Ocean Section of the Stratospheric Railway, with a total length of 4725 kilometers, is one of the three ocean sections of the equatorial stratosphere railway, and is also the shortest part of the three oceans.

Li Qingye just happened to be free recently, so he came to the southern part of Meroe via a synchronous robot, which happened to be located in the equatorial region.

On the north side of Lake Victoria.

You can see an Optimus Pillar, which is the local Lake Victoria Skytrain Station.

After arriving here by air train, there are dozens of carbon nanotube composite cables in the sky above the Lake Victoria Air Rail Station. The position of the cable city is tens of meters, reaching a height of [-] meters in the stratosphere.

And on the stratosphere at [-] meters, there is a large "white cloud".

If you look carefully, you can find this "white cloud" with various lines and mechanical parts on it, that is the stratosphere station of Lake Victoria.

At this time, Li Qingye's synchronous robot was taking the elevator together with several security personnel, and quickly headed towards the high-altitude stratospheric station.

Through the window of the elevator, you can overlook the entire Lake Victoria and the surrounding tropical rainforest.

As Homo sapiens comprehensively promotes the industrialization of agriculture and the indoorization of agriculture, the scale of Homo sapiens' farms around the world is decreasing.

Especially in the tropical rainforest area, many farms in the tropical rainforest have stopped developing, and only temporarily retain the previously developed cultivated land.

After all, Homo sapiens' indoor agriculture now produces 18.6 billion tons of grain a year, plus some of the reserved open-air farms and synthetic food, a total of 32.7 billion tons of grain was produced last year.

And Li Qingye has ordered to continue to increase the proportion of indoor agriculture and synthetic food, and gradually phase out some open-air agriculture that is not of much value.

At this time, the tropical rainforest on the African equator is within the scope of returning farmland to forest.

After all, the soil in the tropical rainforest is poor, and deforestation can only be planted for three or four years. After that, unless organic fertilizers and chemical fertilizers are regularly added, the soil nutrients will be depleted, causing crops to fail to grow normally.

Therefore Homo sapiens has decided to return most of the cultivated fields located in the tropical rainforest.

On the one hand, this is to protect wild animals and plants, and on the other hand, it is also to reduce production costs.

Although the one-time investment cost of indoor agriculture is relatively high, as long as the construction of facilities is completed and various genetically modified crops are added, the land utilization rate will increase dozens of times, and the production efficiency per unit planting area is almost 4 times that of open-air agriculture. ~6 times.

Taking wheat as an example, wheat can only be planted for one season in mid-to-high latitudes, and two seasons at most in areas with warmer mid-latitudes.

However, indoor agriculture can achieve the production intensity of four seasons of the year.

In addition, indoor farming has another advantage, that is, it can reduce genetic pollution. Although the crops of Homo sapiens use genetic recombination technology instead of old-fashioned transgenic technology, there is still the possibility of genetic pollution.

In particular, food crops with a large planting area are usually surrounded by wild species of the same family and genus.

This can easily cause genetic drift.

And this kind of situation is not that the Homo sapiens company is unfounded, but has indeed happened many times.

The reason why Li Qingye is very cautious about genetically modified organisms entering the natural world is because he is worried that the genes of genetically modified organisms will contaminate the genes of wild species.

Indoor farming does not have this hidden danger.

……

Withdrawing Piao Yuan's thoughts, he has already arrived at the Stratospheric Station.

Standing in the waiting room of the station, he looked at the endless stratospheric railway, which looked like a black dragon in the sky.

Due to the near-vacuum environment, the train does not generate strong shock waves and noises during high-speed running.

Two 10 minutes later.

A maglev train stopped in the waiting lane of the station.

"Dear passengers, train No. 34002 from Africa to Southeast Asia is about to set sail. Please get on the train as soon as possible under the guidance of the flight attendants..."

Li Qingye walked onto the train without saying a word.

Many passengers in the same company, seeing Li Qingye in the form of a robot, immediately looked at him very curiously.

Of course, these passengers are all employees of the company, and they naturally know that the company has recently launched a device called a synchronous robot, which can be used for field trips.

At present, this kind of equipment is mostly used in the inspection work of the management.

As soon as they saw the synchronous robot, many people guessed which department's management it was. Although they were very curious, no one rushed to say hello.

After 15 minutes, the train started slowly.

When the magnetic levitation and the magnetic field propulsion system start together, the train starts to move at a uniform acceleration.

This maglev super high-speed train, fully loaded with 1500 passengers, will increase its speed to a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour in 2400 minutes.

Looking at the endless blue sky outside the window, everyone did not feel any discomfort, nor did they notice the terrifying speed of the train at this time.

After all, the outside of the car window is too monotonous, and there is no reference at all.

The 4735-kilometer east-west width of the Ceylon Ocean was crossed by trains in only about two hours.

This speed is amazing.

If you take a plane, it will take at least 3 times more time.

Passenger transportation is not the core business of the Stratospheric Railway. The core business of the Stratospheric Railway is actually freight, and the ladder to and from the near-Earth orbit in the future.

Although it may take several years for the ladder project to start, the relevant design team of Homo sapiens has already been doing various technical verifications.

Li Qingye learned part of the progress through the internal briefing.

The difficulty of the current ladder project lies in how to build the structure near the limit of the Karman line.

If it is Venus, this project is not too difficult. After all, the atmospheric concentration of Venus' atmosphere is hundreds of times that of Earth's, which means that its buoyancy is also hundreds of times that of Earth's atmosphere.

But the buoyancy of the earth's atmosphere is not enough to support such a huge megastructure.

And the design teams of those research institutes also gave related solutions.

For example, the hard arch bridge structure, this scheme is to combine the floating platform of the equatorial stratosphere railway through hard materials, and then form an integrated ring.