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Under Mickey's explanation, the group came to this seed bank about three kilometers from the city.

　　The seed bank stands on the hillside of Svalbard Mountain opposite the Svalbard Airport, which is very sci-fi atmosphere. The appearance of the gate of the seed bank is very similar to the corner of the alien spacecraft that invaded the earth in the American science fiction blockbuster that year.

　　 Under the leadership of Mickey, everyone walked along a winding mountain road to the seed bank. After getting closer, Yang Jing felt the grandeur of this seed bank.

　　The section of reinforced concrete building exposed outside the mountain is just the gate of the seed bank. The height of this section of the building is more than twelve meters, and the width is about four meters. A thick gate divides the inner and outer world into two parts.

　　 At the entrance of the gate, there is a statue of a polar bear.

　　 Grid asked Mickey curiously, "What is the purpose of erecting a statue of a polar bear here?"

Mickey smiled and said: "The reason why a polar bear statue was erected here is another very interesting story. The Norwegian government was planning to build a seed bank here, but here is the world of polar bears. Near this mountain. And on this mountain, there are a lot of polar bears wandering every day. In the face of these powerful polar bears, the builders can only do both, feeding, and holding guns to protect them, and finally get the seed bank in peace. It was repaired. Then, when the seed bank was repaired, these polar bears became the natural defense of the seed bank. In order to express its gratitude to the polar bears, the Norwegian government erected such a polar bear statue at the gate of the seed bank."

　　 The group all smiled.

Mickey continued to explain: "This seed bank is built on the mountainside at an altitude of 130 meters. This height is sufficient to ensure that even if there is a nuclear war in the future, all the glaciers around the world will melt and the seawater will not be able to flood it. And here it is. In high latitudes, the cold is all the year round, and the seed bank is built in the permafrost. Therefore, even if the air-conditioning equipment in it completely fails, it can still be in a low temperature state all year round. In this seed bank, wheat and barley The seeds of important crops such as peas and peas can be stored for up to 1,000 years, while the longest viable sorghum seeds can be stored for about 19,500 years."

　　 Yang Jing asked curiously: "What is the structure inside?"

Mickey shook his head and said, "I haven't been in either, but I have heard others talk about the structure inside. This seed bank is more than 100 meters deep into the mountain and is entirely made of reinforced concrete up to one meter thick. The core area is the three side-by-side independent cold storage rooms at the end of the aisle, each of which is 27 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and 5 meters high. The metal doors of each cold storage room are covered with frost."

"At present, only one of the three cold rooms is used, and the other two are still empty. But this cold room is also equipped with three keys, one of which is worn by the director of the seed bank, and the other is held by the Norwegian government Here, the remaining key is not known who was wearing it. I am afraid that only the people of the Norwegian government know the true identity of the wearer of the last key. Only when all three keys are collected can the cold storage room be opened."

　　 Chris smiled and said, "This level of security is comparable to Fort Knox's vault."

Mickey nodded and said: "Almost, even if it is not comparable to the Fort Knox vault, it is estimated to be no different. This seed vault is built according to standards that can withstand nuclear bombings and resist a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Richter scale. I don’t know if the atomic bomb can withstand it, but what I know is that a week before the completion of the seed vault, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred here, and many buildings in Longyearbyen collapsed. But there is nothing here."

　　 Chris nodded and said, "This seed bank is really strong."

Mickey said: "That's natural. In addition to the ability to resist external forces, this seed vault is absolutely commendable in terms of internal security. From the door to the core area of ​​the three cold rooms, there is one in the middle. There are five explosion-proof steel doors in the one-hundred-meter-long tunnel. Without the corresponding keys and passwords, outsiders don’t even want to violently break there. Moreover, in this tunnel, there are people patrolling with guns 24 hours a day, especially. It is the three cold storage rooms in the core area, and it is even more impossible for outsiders to enter."

After a pause, Mickey said with a smile: "Less than half a month after this seed vault was built, Norwegian Crown Prince Magnus came here and offered to take a look at the cold storage in the core area, but was refused. After a while, former U.S. President Carter also came to visit the seed vault. At that time, he also offered to go to the cold storage room in the core area, and he also closed the door."

　　 Grid asked in surprise: "The security here is so strict?"

"Well, it is so strict. After all, there is the last hope of mankind. It is not something that anyone can enter. There is a saying that everyone agrees with us, that is,'Humanity will not perish, it is the final word.' The seeds of more than 800,000 kinds of plants are now stored here, and the seeds of genetically modified plants are not collected here at all, which guarantees the purity of the species. Therefore, for all mankind, it is an important place. However, it is only natural that security is so tight in places."

　　 Yang Jing asked: "Then are the seeds stored here useful?"

"Yes." Mickey nodded and said affirmatively, "The Syrian civil war in September 2015 killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced about 11 million people to become refugees. In the midst of the war, the Middle East was located in Aleppo’s main seed bank. It was destroyed and unusable. The Syrian civil war forced the Middle Easterners to take out the seeds from the Doomsday Seed Bank for the first time. The Middle Easterners first filed an application. After the application was approved, they took out the 325 boxes previously deposited here, totaling 11.6. Nearly 130 boxes of 10,000 crop seed backups. This is the first time since the establishment of the World Seed Bank."

　　 Mickey shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "See if you don’t see it, this is the great thing about this seed bank!"

　　 A group of people stood in front of the seed bank. On the opposite side of the mountain road is Svalbard Airport, and to the east of the airport is the bay. Longyearbyen is in the southeast of the seed vault, and many residents and tourists are walking through the small town.

A female bear with two little bear cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed vault. Maybe she had just had a good meal. This Niangersan just stood on the top of the mountain and watched these people silently, then shook her head and turned away. , The two little bear cubs behind its **** happily followed his mother while running around.

　　 Farther away, the glacier on the opposite side of the bay exudes a fascinating color that is almost golden under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a scene even more beautiful than a painting.

　　 The air is full of the smell of the sea, mixed with a hint of the fragrance of flowers and plants. Although it is already within the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that use the warm and short two or three months of summer to grow, bloom, and bear fruit.

　　 In that respect, this city is not brilliant. Bad weather, inconvenient transportation. Even food cannot be self-sufficient and can only be transported in from outside.

　　 is such a small city, but it contains a kind of greatness.

　　 Yes, it is because of the existence of this "doomsday seed bank" that makes this northernmost city in the world great.

　　 Perhaps in a certain year in the future, there will be a nuclear war like the one in the movie, or a biochemical war like the one in the movie, or even such a disaster.

　　 After such a disaster, if mankind wants to stand up again, this seed bank hidden in the mountain and the seed bank secretly built by other countries will completely become the last hope of mankind.

　　 This city uses her weak body to bear the last hope of mankind all over the world. Based on this alone, this city is enough to be called "great".

As if he felt Yang Jing’s thoughts, Da Bai leaned over, stretched out his tongue and licked Yang Jing’s hand, and laughed Yang Jing. The thought passed by Da Bai was very clear—I am still here. I will guard this city.

　　 At this time, another group of tourists came up from the bottom of the mountain. These tourists, large and small, seemed to come out together with a big family. Of course, these people are also led by a local guide.

　　 Mickey and the tour guide apparently have a close relationship. The two greeted each other a few words, and then Mickey took Yang Jing and the others away from the gate of the seed vault.

Going down the mountain ~www.readwn.com~ Mickey said: "In fact, in Longyearbyen, there is not only the seed bank we just saw, but also two seed banks on this mountain and the inevitably mountain. , One is a seed bank commissioned by Iceland to build the Norwegian government, and the other is a Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the scale of the two seed banks is not so large, and they are stored in Iceland and Norway. Plant seeds you own."

　　 In less than two hours, a group of people walked through the small town. Led by Mickey, the group came to a restaurant on the edge of the bay for dinner.

The arrival of 　　 greatly delighted the owner of the restaurant. Obviously, the owner watched yesterday’s live TV broadcast. However, because there were a lot of people dining in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his party were led to eat in a separate room to the east of the restaurant. No matter how the restaurant owner likes Da Bai, he will not let Da Bai appear in the restaurant.

　　 The food for lunch is very rich, mostly local specialties, such as whale meat and seal meat.

It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, Yang Jing directly spent two thousand US dollars to buy a newly caught seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a trolley, and let Da Bai enjoy it there alone. This seal-Dabai is very **** to eat. Of course it can't eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and the others will not eat.

　　 Although Dabai likes to eat meat, it prefers to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, many times after polar bears catch seals, they do not eat the meat of the seals at all, but only eat the fat.

　　 As for the remaining meat of the seal, it’s cheaper for those arctic foxes that follow behind the polar bear...