Chapter 1708 Antarctic Space City (third update, please subscribe)
The aircraft slowly lowers its altitude.
Bai Zhicheng looked down at the land below through the porthole.
The vast ice field flashed with dazzling white light in the sun, like an endless silver ocean. The cold wind rolled up fine snow particles, forming white vortexes in the air, like ghosts dancing on the ice field.
In this snowy and ice, a huge glass dome suddenly stood, like a crystal ball embedded in the silver world. The glass surface of the dome reflects sunlight, emitting a brilliant light, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding ice and snow. There are vaguely high-rise buildings, green trees and winding roads inside the dome, as if they are a miniature city in a crystal ball of ice and snow.
Bai Zhicheng's eyes were staring at the dome, his eyes wide open, and he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him.
He remembered Yinglong when he left - a small seaside town. The cold wind whistled and the waves hit the reefs on the shore. Throughout the year, he was always covered with ice and snow.
What about now?
Which now, what appeared before him was a place covered by a glass dome, like a city of the future, forming a sharp contrast with the ice and snowy Antarctic outside.
In fact, before that, he learned from his father's letter that Yinglong is now
Compared with the past, Yinglong has become a huge laboratory, covered by a large glass cover.
Listening to his father's description, Bai Zhicheng thought Yinglong had become a huge greenhouse, because there was a greenhouse here before leaving Yinglong, so it was not unfamiliar with greenhouses.
But who would have thought that this dome was so big that there were even tall buildings inside.
"Dad really doesn't know how to take pictures!"
Looking at the dome in front of him, Bai Zhicheng had only this idea in his heart. In the past few years, his father would take photos to him every year, but he had never taken the full picture of the dome, so he was so surprised.
Actually, what if you see it in the photo? There is still a big difference between photos and real objects. "That's Yinglong." Chen Fangkai, who was sitting next to him, pointed to the dome outside the window, and said with a little pride in his tone. He was also a passenger on the plane and a participant in Yinglong's construction.
Bai Zhicheng nodded, although his heart was full of strangeness now. "I know, but my Yinglong is not this. He was originally by the beach."
He never thought that the place where he was born would become such a place full of futuristic feeling. But this is not where he was born - because it is inland, more than ten kilometers away from the sea.
There are ice and snow all year round.
The plane continued to lower its altitude and landed at the Ice and Snow Airport one kilometer away from the Dome City.
Bai Zhicheng put on a heavy down jacket and walked off the plane with Chen Fangkai and other passengers. The cold wind blew towards him, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck, but his eyes never left the huge glass dome.
"Let's go, the car is waiting there."
Chen Fangkai said, taking him toward the parking lot.
The car is a tracked snowmobile that Bai Zhicheng had seen in the past. The expedition team used it to cross the Antarctic continent for the first time. After the crossing, they gave the car to Ying Long.
However, these are obviously not those old cars.
Bai Zhicheng nodded and got into the car with Chen Fangkai and the crew. The driver in the car was Uncle Dong, but he obviously did not recognize Bai Zhicheng. After all, he was only 10 years old when he left.
The car slowly started and drove towards the dome. As the distance gets closer, the details of the dome become clearer. He saw that the glass surface of the dome was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the surrounding ice and snow scene, like a huge crystal palace that wrapped the entire town.
The details of the dome gradually became clear. He saw visible buildings and green trees hidden inside the dome. "It's like a greenhouse." Bai Zhicheng murmured to himself, his tone full of emotion.
Chen Fangkai smiled and patted his shoulder: "Young man, you will know when you go in. It's even more magical inside."
The car was parked under the parking shed outside the dome, and the driver, Uncle Dong, reminded everyone to get off the car and transfer to an electric car. "There is no fuel truck in the dome, the cars inside are all electric." Uncle Dong explained. "Also, all of us need to change clothes, disinfect, and personal belongings. We need to pack them first and kill them before we can enter Yinglong."
I still need to kill them?
Bai Zhicheng's face was full of questions. What's going on?
Everything was like a science fiction movie. Bai Zhicheng, like everyone else, entered the transfer room, took a shower, sanitized it, and then changed into clothes. Then, he followed the others into the transit channel.
The passage is as warm as spring, which contrasts sharply with the ice and snow outside. When entering the dome through the passage, another disinfection was carried out, just like it was separated from the space capsule. They only left the passage after the disinfection was completed.
Get into an electric car.
The car slowly drove into the inside of the dome, and Bai Zhicheng's eyes couldn't help but widen. The scene in front of him completely stunned him - several tall buildings stand on both sides of the road, and steel columns support the dome on the roof. Obviously, those buildings also serve as support bodies, with green trees and electric cars driving on the road are quiet and orderly, with a faint fragrance of flowers in the air, as if they are in a tropical city, not an ice field in Antarctica.
The car stopped in front of a building. After the passengers got off, Bai Zhilong stood in the street in a daze, looking at everything around him.
"This... is this still Yinglong?" Bai Zhicheng murmured to himself, his tone full of disbelief.
What is the difference between here and the mainland?
If you have to say that there is one, most of the trees here are fruit trees.
"What the hell is this place?"
At this moment, a boy of seven or eight years old suddenly ran to him, stared at him with his head raised for a while, and then shouted excitedly: "Brother! You must be my eldest brother!" Bai Zhicheng was stunned for a moment, and then recognized the boy in front of him - this was his younger brother who was born after he left, Bai Zhijie. He bent down and hugged his younger brother, a warm current surged in his heart. "Zhijie, you have grown up so old." Bai Zhicheng said with a smile. When he got up, he saw a man standing not far away, his father. My father was wearing a T-shirt and a gentle smile on his face. This was the first time Bai Zhicheng saw his father dressing like this - after all, Yinglong in the past was bitingly cold even in summer.
"Dad, I'm back."
Bai Zhicheng walked forward, his voice choked.
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Bai Dapeng patted his shoulder, his eyes full of relief:
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back. Let's take you home. Our home is different from the past..."
He looked up at the dome. Through the glass, he could see the scene of the Antarctic outside in the ice and snow, but inside the dome was warm as spring and full of vitality.
"This is really... incredible." Bai Zhicheng murmured.
The father smiled and patted his shoulder: "Let's go, go home. You... Auntie, you are still waiting for you."
Bai Zhicheng nodded and followed his father and brother towards the direction of home.
Bai Zhicheng's return caused a lot of sensation in Yinglong.
After all, he was one of the first children in the town to leave and go to study in the local area, and he was the first to come back. Neighbors surrounded him, wanting to know the current situation of their children from him. While answering everyone's questions, Bai Zhicheng told them that the gifts he asked him to bring are now being disinfected and distributed to neighbors after receiving them.
When the neighbors gradually dissipated, Bai Zhicheng finally had the opportunity to carefully look at this brand new Ying Long. He noticed that this place is not just a small town covered by a dome, but more like a huge laboratory. Between the tall buildings, some strange equipment and signs can be vaguely seen, and the air is filled with a breath of intertwined technology and nature. "Dad, what's going on here?" Bai Zhicheng couldn't help asking.
The father smiled, with a little pride in his tone:
"The Yinglong now is not just Yinglong. It is 'Ecosphere No. 1'. According to Lieutenant Colonel, this is a large biological laboratory. It is said to simulate an independent ecological environment,"
"It is to form a self-circulating ecosystem through the glass dome, and the test results can determine whether an ecological environment that can operate independently like the earth in a harsh environment."
Although Bai Zhijie next to him is only seven years old, he heard from the teacher in school and explained: "The purpose of this experiment is to explore the interaction network in life systems with different regional structures based on various biomes, and prove that artificial closed ecosystems can self-sustain themselves in space or other celestial bodies and support human habitation."
Bai Zhicheng was stunned. He never thought that the seaside town he was born would one day become an ecosystem built for space experiments.
He looked around, his heart full of shock and doubt. "So, everything here... is for space experiments?" Bai Zhicheng asked.
Bai Dapeng nodded: "It's almost the same. You don't know that the soil here is specially designed. I heard that it is similar to the ones on the moon. It is transported in specially sealed boxes. Scientists are here to simulate and study how to make humans survive in space."
The reason why the soil is specially modulated is to make the environment here as close to the moon as possible. After all, the moon will be the space station of the future. If humans want to survive on the moon, they must carry out agriculture there, so all the environments in the agricultural area are simulating the moon.
Bai Dapeng works in the "Moon Farm". Of course, his work is to simulate the lunar environment as much as possible, which is to cultivate various crops planted in a laboratory-like environment, and tomatoes and fruits.
To some extent, here is now the sEA's lab for exploring space. But for the outside world, this is just Yinglong.
Bai Zhicheng was silent for a moment, and a complex feeling surged in his heart.
He never thought that Yinglong would become such a place full of futuristic feelings in the years he left.
Looking at the son beside him, Bai Dapeng asked:
"Zhicheng, are you really planning to do that when you come back this time?"
"Hmm..."
Bai Zhicheng nodded and said:
"This is our Antarctic. If someone is traveling through time, it must start with us."
(End of this chapter)