Homo sapiens

It’s still January 28, 2023.

Deep under the vast and inaccessible Southern Ocean, in an area called the Astronaut Sea, five submarines sailed silently in it.

These five nuclear submarines are Pacific-class battleships - No. 5 Southern Ocean; Super Luzon-class - Motor; and No. 34, 35, and 36 of Orca class.

Carlos Don Quijote, the captain of the Southern Ocean, also serves as the commander of this task force. The fleet internal affairs officer is Li Xin and the fleet psychological counselor is Wu Yongxing.

Carlos looked at the chart. At this time, their location was in the Astronaut Sea in the Southern Ocean, less than 172 kilometers away from Enderby Land in Antarctica.

After replenishing supplies from the secret submarine base on the south side of Sumatra Island in Southeast Asia, they have been submerged.

"Report, the penguin station in Casey Bay has sent us an inquiry signal." The signal soldier interrupted Carlos's thinking.

"Reply them and say we will arrive at Casey Bay in five hours."

"yes."

On the magnetic field radar, you can see various magnetic field signals around you. After being integrated by the supercomputing magnetic field radar imaging system, it becomes a three-dimensional image.

Except for their five submarines, there are not many signals from man-made objects on the surrounding seafloor. However, there are many fishing boats fishing for krill on the sea.

Since it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the kangaroo countries and New Zealand, which are close to Antarctica, will fish for seafood in the Southern Ocean.

Of course, given the vast area of ​​the Southern Ocean, it would seem deserted if dozens of fishing boats spread out over it.

The Homo sapiens company has two scientific research stations in Antarctica, one is the penguin station in Casey Bay in Enderby Land, and the other is the blue whale station on Mill Island near Queen Mary Land.

After five and a half hours of diving, they finally entered Casey Inlet.

However, the task force did not emerge from the sea. Instead, it followed a small hidden trench and entered a huge undersea tunnel.

The radius of this undersea tunnel is 240 meters. The Penguin Station employees used bacterial corrosion technology to erode the ground and excavated the huge undersea tunnel for more than half a year before completing it.

In order to prevent the entrance of the cave from being discovered, a special combination of genetically recombined seaweed was used to form a mimic layer similar to rock at the entrance of the cave.

At this time, the seaweed mimicry layer had opened, and the huge Southern Ocean slowly drove in.

The channel is on the continental shelf, with an average water depth of 350 to 400 meters, and a thick layer of glaciers above it, which basically blocks the entry of ordinary civilian ships.

After passing the 6.3-kilometer-long undersea tunnel, the Southern Ocean finally arrived at its destination, which is a large submarine port.

The port has 20 berths, two of which can accommodate 100,000-ton vessels.

After the Southern Ocean surfaced, it carefully adjusted its hull on the water in the port so that it could sink quickly when leaving.

More than an hour later, the other four submarines also surfaced and anchored at their respective berths.

The rectangular base is spread out on the pier.

"Carlos, welcome to the Antarctic branch."

After Carlos saluted, he smiled and shook his head: "This is my honor."

Li Xin, who was transferred to be the director of the Internal Affairs Department of the Antarctic Branch, and Wu Yongxing, the psychological counselor of the branch, also greeted Fang Zhan.

Suddenly they all fell silent, staring solemnly at the Southern Ocean's cargo hold door.

A special survival capsule was being carefully transported down by the soldiers, and the glass window of the survival capsule was also covered.

Fang Zhan turned his head and asked softly: "Is this the thing in the mission?"

"Yes." Carlos nodded.

"Then I'll go over and set up this life-support capsule first."

Wu Yongxing, a psychological counselor on the side, followed.

Soon, the life-saving capsule, escorted by Fang Zhan, Wu Yongxing and their team, arrived in a special room deep in the base.

Several technicians checked the wiring and various backup equipment.

Wu Yongxing asked: "What is the security level here?"

"Level A1, as long as you are not hit head-on by a ground-penetrating hydrogen bomb, even if a full-scale nuclear war breaks out outside, you can sit back and relax here." Fang Zhan replied directly.

But Wu Yongxing shook his head: "We need to prepare more backup power supplies and backup life-saving cabins. Another safe house is not enough. This is the key to the company's ability to continue."

"One is not enough? But even if we build a few more, we won't be able to use only one."

Wu Yongxing expressed his thoughts: "It can be done this way. During the expansion of the base, safe houses should be arranged along the subway. If there is a problem in one of the safe houses, the life-saving capsule can be quickly transferred to other safe houses."

"Is this so?..." Fang Zhan thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, I will arrange a design team in a few days to adjust the construction plans for each area."

Wu Yongxing reminded: "Remember, the purpose of this base's existence is to serve the life-support module, and everything else must make concessions for this."

"Yes, I will definitely urge the design team to make corrections."

Wu Yongxing turned his head and looked at the life-sustaining cabin that had been connected to the power supply of the safe house. His eyes were full of enthusiasm. He then clasped his hands together and bowed slightly.

After a final inspection, the group of people exited the safe house.

The super alloy door of the safe house slowly closed.

Fang Zhan, Wu Yongxing, and the three leaders of the maintenance team have the authority to open the safe house.

Inside the base chief's conference room.

Fang Zhan briefly introduced the situation of the base to everyone: "Currently, our base has three 50-megawatt thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors, two of which are in operation and one on standby."

"The base has 3,827 employees, mostly young families. The base's food can sustain the daily needs of 20,000 people."

"In terms of weapons, it is equipped with 5,000 sets of exoskeleton armor and 3,000 sets of working exoskeletons. Small arms and ammunition can be produced by ourselves."

"In terms of people's livelihood, hospitals, schools, and various entertainment facilities have been built here..."

Carlos looked through the introduction of the base: "Our task force will also be stationed in the Antarctic branch in the future, so we need to add our 7,252 people, and the food production line should be increased."

Li Xin, who is in charge of internal affairs, calculated: "Taking into account the future increase in employees and just in case, the base's food production line must reach the level of 100,000 people."

He went on to say: "In addition, various facilities must have safety backups and dispersed placement to prevent problems in one area from causing the entire base to shut down."

Carlos also added: "We still need to reserve a few more emergency escape routes. No one can predict the future situation."

No one else has an opinion on this either.

After all, the base in Antarctica was set up to restart human civilization after the destruction of the world.

Otherwise, the Homo sapiens company would not have gone to such an inaccessible area like Antarctica to build such a huge underground base.

The selected people are all married young people, and they have been carefully selected to ensure that even if only this base is left in the end, these people can still reproduce a healthy population.

Various facilities throughout the base have characteristics that can be quickly replicated.

At the same time, it also needs to ensure a high degree of self-sustainability and does not require external input of materials.

This is due to the previous series of practices of the Assam branch of the Homo sapiens company, which has perfected various underground survival technologies and the technology to achieve material self-sufficiency in an isolated environment.

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