Homo sapiens

Amazon rainforest area.

As the largest tropical rainforest on earth, it is very difficult for cities and people here.

On the one hand, it is because of the high temperature and rain all year round, which makes the construction of infrastructure very difficult, and maintenance is even more troublesome.

On the other hand, the land here is very barren, otherwise the cultivated land of the Redwood Federation would not be concentrated on the Redwood Plateau.

The Marquez family once lived in a small town in the Amazon rainforest.

Before the year before the year before last, he thought life was just like that, living in a small town.

until one day.

A force called the Homo Sapien Company entered the Amazon rainforest, and the Marquez family became temporary employees of the Homo Sapien Company.

At this time, he was building an overhead railway.

A huge construction airship is parked on the hollow pipe that has been driven deep into the ground. The airship is temporarily docked on the pillars.

Marquez is wearing a work-type exoskeleton and is cooperating with the construction airship to assemble various modules.

Suddenly, a sound came from inside his helmet.

[Please leave your job immediately and return to the airship. The rainstorm will arrive in 20 minutes...]

Marquez turned his head and glanced to the southeast, where a large black cumulonimbus cloud was rolling in.

He didn't panic. He tidied up the work area in an orderly manner, then was taken to the temporary elevator and took the elevator up to the construction airship's rest cabin.

Captain Li Xiong counted the number of people, then picked up the walkie-talkie: "Everyone is here, let's take off!"

The pilot in the cockpit immediately replied: "Copy that."

The construction airship released the temporary buckle between it and the column, then quickly evacuated and climbed to high altitude.

Although the ability of large airships to withstand wind and thunderstorms is quite good, there is really no need to carry out construction in the storm.

If struck by lightning, even with an exoskeleton and armor, the body may not be able to withstand it.

"The rainforest is trouble, it rains every day," Marquez complained.

Li Xiong opened the refrigerator in the cabin: "What do you want to drink? Get it yourself."

After taking off his exoskeleton, Marquez grabbed a bottle of sugar cane juice.

Another local employee was leaning against the window: "Boss, didn't the company decide to set up a protected area in the Amazon rainforest? Why do we still need to build an overhead railway?"

After drinking more than half of the sour plum juice, Li Xiong burped: "Hiccup... Not all areas are designated as nature reserves. Those areas that have been developed need to be readjusted and planned."

"What is there to build in this damn place?" Marquez has lived in the Amazon rainforest for more than 20 years and has no good impression of this place at all.

Li Xiong also understands the mood of locals like Marquez. After all, the living environment in the Amazon rainforest is indeed too harsh. Even if the Homo sapiens company has various technologies, it still encounters a lot of trouble here.

The new cities invested by Homo Sapien Company here all adopt special designs.

It uses part of the technology used to build overhead railways and directly uses hollow pipes as foundation columns to build a city similar to stilt houses.

The entire city often has a gap of about 50 meters from the ground.

The previous Amazon towns were largely abandoned. After all, the infrastructure of those old towns was too poor and they were often flooded.

The locals didn't pay much attention, and most of them happily went to settle in the new city.

About 47 kilometers northwest from the construction airship, there is a new city - Nepenthes City.

A very distinctive name. This is also a commonly used naming method for new cities in the Amazon rainforest, which is to use the more common or unique local flora and fauna as the name of the city.

After all, there were too many repetitions of city names in the past.

Nepenthes City is a small city with a population of 320,000.

Marquez, who works in the construction of airships, and his family live in this city.

Marquez's sister Julia, as an ecological investigator in the area, was driving a hovercraft with several colleagues to observe the restoration of vegetation on the nearby river.

A colleague frowned: "The forest recovery speed here has not met expectations!"

Julia put down the telescope: "It may be related to the pollution caused by lead-zinc mining here before."

"This kind of ecological restoration work is too difficult."

"Go back! The cumulonimbus clouds will reach us in an hour."

"All right!"

The hovercraft turned around and headed back toward Nepenthes City.

As the hovercraft gets closer and closer to Nepenthes City, the majestic city outline becomes more and more clearly visible. Julia and others are no longer surprised by this majestic city.

There are currently dozens of these stilt cities in the Amazon rainforest.

Nepenthes City is just an inconspicuous one among them.

The entire Nepenthes City is not a whole, but is divided into five urban areas, each of which is about 500 meters apart.

The hovercraft stopped below the XC area, and there was a small dock below.

Not a moment.

A large elevator descended to the river. The driver drove the hovercraft into the elevator. After the buckle device inside the elevator stabilized the hovercraft, it began to lift upwards.

Cumulonimbus clouds in the distance are also close to the city.

The moist wind blew the tips of Julia's hair. She sat on the edge of the hovercraft and looked at the endless forest sea.

The distance of 50 meters flew by.

The lift came to a steady stop in the lift station.

At this time, it started to rain heavily outside.

But this does not affect the inside of the city, because Nepenthes City has a dome, and the entire city is wrapped under the dome.

After walking out of the elevator station, Julia came to the first block of the XC area.

On the 50-meter-high ceiling above the block is a simulated sun, which is specially designed to reduce the sense of depression.

The entire XC area is divided into 4 floors of blocks, each floor is 50 meters high. Inside the block are streets, alleys and various buildings.

The climate simulation system on the first floor of the block sets the climate here to a subtropical climate, which is also one of the more common simulated climates.

Julia and her group drove a shared car back to their office building.

The streets of this neighborhood are full of artificial cultivation institutions for various tropical plants. In fact, the entire XC area is a scientific research work area.

The daily life areas are in Zhongcheng District, DC District and Nancheng District, while the production area is in Beicheng District.

The pillar industries of Nepenthes City are tropical rainforest biological research, breeding, and auto parts.

As for transportation in this city, in addition to some of the overhead railways that have been opened to traffic, the other two modes of transportation are airships and airplanes.

Airships and planes can land directly on the dome deck above the city, eliminating the need to build an additional airport.

As for ground roads, Nepenthes City, like other new cities in the Amazon rainforest, has few ground roads to connect with the outside world.

This kind of planning is actually based on the local natural environment and is adapted to local conditions.

Building roads in the Amazon rainforest is really a hassle. The cost is higher than building an overhead railway, and the maintenance costs are also prohibitively high.

Back when the economy of the Redwood Federation was relatively good, many roads were built in the Amazon rainforest. Now those roads have become bumpy, and even the roads have disappeared in some places.

The Homo sapiens company learned from the experience and lessons of the Redwood Federation and gave up the idea of ​​building ground roads and went directly to overhead railways and airships.

Therefore, if you want to enter the Amazon rainforest area now, without going through the overhead railways and airlines controlled by the Homo sapiens company, you can only traverse the uninhabited virgin rainforest, and the risk has skyrocketed.

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