Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 637 Doomsday Library

Snow.

Extremely thick snow.

The door of the vault at the end of the corridor was covered with frost. Bi Fang reached out and touched the wall, feeling the snowflakes that had crystallized. An astonishing chill spread from his fingertips to his palm, as if trying to freeze his blood.

When Bi Fang took his hand away, the gap between his fingertips and the frost had frozen, and there were still broken ice crystals on it, a layer of white cold frost.

The temperature here is even lower than outside.

And behind this big iron gate covered with frost is the real seed warehouse.

A lot of checkpoints, let everyone see what is the real layer of defense.

The iron gate was opened, and the cold frost visible to the naked eye flowed out, and the cold wind poured into the tunnel, causing Bi Fang to squint his eyes. After a while, the light and shadow became clear, and he finally saw the real scene inside the Noah's Ark.

big.

very big.

Like a giant warehouse.

A room the size of a super-large conference room is lined with supermarket-like shelves, and boxes of seeds on each shelf store samples of seeds from various countries.

Bi Fang walked row by row, 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 various countries are transported to the island by air, some in wooden boxes, some in cardboard boxes, and X-rays are used to detect the box samples. It will be unsealed.

Barrett led Bi Fang among the shelves, introducing them one by one.

Most of the samples are packaged in foil bags, with 200-300 seeds in each bag.

The seed bank stores backup samples. All institutions have physical samples stored locally. These institutions are also seed banks built by various countries, but due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, they need to be backed up in the Doomsday Seed Bank.

[Have the seeds in this been used? 】

[You are stupid, this is the Doomsday Seed Vault, when did you encounter the Doomsday? 】

Some viewers raised questions, but there were immediate objections.

Bi Fang forwarded this question to Barrett, but unexpectedly got a positive answer from Barrett.

These seeds have been used once since they were built.

The audience fell silent for a while.

【Hiss, can't we hide what happened in 1999?】

[Stop the broadcast, stop the broadcast quickly! ! Do you want to be a sinner of mankind? 】

[Forget, meme pollution is about to appear]

[Shut up, if you signed a non-disclosure agreement, stop talking! 】

The construction of this doomsday warehouse started in 2005, and it was completed and put into use in 2008. It was never used in 1999. Bi Fang said seriously.

Barrett was a little confused. He looked at the barrage, and there were both Chinese and English on it, but even in English, he didn't know the combination of words. Did something happen in 1999?

I was like nine years old?

what are you guys saying?

It's a joke. Bi Fang was rather embarrassed.

Okay. Barrett shrugged, but didn't care, and continued, At that time, I was using Yu Youli, who was still in the civil war.

The Yu Youli civil war in September 2015 resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and about 11 million people being 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 Youliya to withdraw seeds from the 'Doomsday Seed Vault' for the first time. Their researchers applied to us to withdraw the 325 boxes previously deposited here, totaling 116,000 crop seeds' backups ', nearly 130 boxes of which were used to sow seeds and reinvent agriculture.

That is the first time since the establishment of the World Seed Vault, and it is also the only time so far.

The water friends were shocked, it turned out to be Yu Youli Ya?

This seed bank contains the seeds seen and harvested in the history of human agricultural civilization in the past 2,000 years. They are the fruits and crystallization of farmers' hard work in the past thousands of years. They are connected to our past and future agricultural development. .”

Yu Youli's situation made everyone realize that it is very necessary to establish a seed bank.

Each warehouse can store 1.5 million samples. At present, only one warehouse is open for use, and the rest are still closed.

In addition to food, there are many seed backups of rare plants,

Our aim is to provide a safety net against accidental loss of species diversity in the event of a major global or regional event.

It functions like a safe in a bank, allowing specialized organizations or governments to hold seed custody for 'deposits' and only they have access to it.

So theoretically, no tourists are allowed to visit here, and only one reporter has visited here in history, and Mr. Bi Fang can be said to be the second.

Barrett looked up at the drone in mid-air and said with a smile.

[Boss Fang has a lot of face! 】

【Envy, when can I get this treatment】

[You must first have a recognized, meaningful, and widely circulated world number one title, then have a considerable political identity, and at the same time have a symbolic meaning in a certain way, and have made many pioneering moves that shocked the world, It should be fine. 】

[I am Nima. . . 】

[Slowly puts out a question mark]

[What political identity does Fang Shen have? 】

【Old Fang is the school丨Officer】

With the passage of time, although Bi Fang didn't deliberately use it as a gimmick, his identity in this regard has long been spread.

In order to facilitate the security check when boarding the plane, everyone gradually knew about it, and everyone knew that there was such a thing.

[Almost forgot, Lao Fang is still the school official]

[Your sister, look at her twenty-five-year-old, then look at mine, don't talk about it, go to sleep for a while, there is everything in the dream]

The whole warehouse is huge and cold.

Nearly ten degrees lower than outside.

Various sensors and cameras are also installed in the seed bank for remote real-time monitoring.

Bi Fang saw with his own eyes a camera that had been following them closely.

Actually, there are more than 1,700 gene banks in the world, but many of them have potential safety hazards. For example, the seed banks of Aqong Khan and Iraqi were completely destroyed, and Feilibing was destroyed by natural disasters such as typhoons.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters may cause rare collections to be destroyed. This is similar to the extinction of dinosaurs. If they are gone, they will be completely gone. It is precisely because of the awareness of the fragility of the world's gene pools that we have created the Svalbard Global Seed Bank. thoughts.

Barrett's words were full of confidence.

Although the temperature in the room itself is not high, the Doomsday Seed Bank is still equipped with a cooling device to ensure that the temperature of the seed bank is kept at minus 18 degrees Celsius, so that the seeds can be stored for a long time, which can theoretically be preserved for thousands of years.

From a functional design point of view, the seed bank can withstand most natural and man-made disasters, including the impact of asteroid impact or nuclear war.

At the same time, its remote geographical location also adds a lot to its own safety. This is the archipelago closest to the Arctic. There is no more desolate and remote place than this.

Barrett said as he walked, which opened the eyes of the audience in the live broadcast room.