Homo sapiens

Inside Dimondville Station.

The scientific expedition team has received a large number of packages and is sorting them out. After all, this is food for the next few months.

After opening the insulated box of fruits and vegetables, a team member looked at the signs of other insulated boxes: "Chief Purser, why are there so few fruits and vegetables? With so many of us, this amount of fruits and vegetables is not enough for a week, right?"

Marvin buried his head in sorting the carrot incubator: "The Seal Station will send vegetables and fruits once a week, so don't worry."

"I see, that's great." The team member picked up a cucumber, rubbed it, and started to eat it.

It is really difficult to eat fresh fruits and vegetables in Antarctica. In the past, they could only eat fresh fruits and vegetables when supply ships came over. After that, they could only eat canned fruits, freeze-dried vegetables, and vitamin tablets.

"Chief Purser, can the supplies at the SEAL station be maintained for a long time?" Some team members were more concerned about the future.

"It should be possible!" Marvin didn't dare to vouch for it. After all, it was difficult to predict whether the Homo sapiens company would fight with the Europa Consortium in the future.

"May there be world peace!"

"The Homo sapiens company is so rich that it delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to the seal station every week."

"It may not be sent from outside, it may also be grown by the seal station itself."

Everyone was chatting away. Although many people didn't have a good impression of Homo sapiens company, they didn't fall into madness.

Dr. Vichy, who was not involved in the material sorting work, was at the snow collector on the roof, recording the snowfall amount in 12 hours.

The assistant held a flashlight and carefully observed the six snow collectors on the roof.

"Doctor, 3.2 millimeters of snow fell in 12 hours."

Dr. Vichy wrote down this data in his notebook, and then he looked at the total accumulated snowfall this year, which has reached 266.9 mm.

According to records from previous decades, the average annual snowfall in the Antarctic continental shelf edge area is about 500 millimeters, and the month with more snowfall is the winter from April to November.

Obviously the scale of snowfall this year has increased.

This is the third consecutive year that Antarctica has seen positive growth in snowfall.

Dr. Vichy is somewhat worried about this situation, especially because of the unusual and extreme weather around the world this year, which makes him even more uneasy.

Increased snowfall means that the thickness of Antarctic ice will continue to increase.

The expansion of the ice cover area will expand the reflective area of ​​the ice surface, which will in turn lead to an increase in the scale of solar radiation reflected by the earth, which will trigger a further drop in polar temperatures.

Further drops in polar temperatures will lead to less water evaporation from the ice.

The ice caps at the North and South Poles will become thicker and larger.

When a large amount of fresh water is fixed in the ice sheets with a thickness of several kilometers at the North and South Poles, it will inevitably lead to a gradual decline in sea level. Large-scale sea retreat is no longer an idea, but is about to become a reality.

Dr. Vichy was a little helpless. He turned his head and looked at the seal station not far away.

In the aurora.

Seal Station is like a huge city.

No, this is a city.

Unlike the Dimondville Station, which relies solely on icebreakers for supply, the Seal Station's core supply method is the sky elevator.

The 16 cables are composed of 4 groups. They rely on the airship platform at an altitude of 20,000 meters to pull these cables tightly so that they will not be disturbed by polar winds.

4 sets of cables are 4 elevators, which can run 4 elevator cabins.

In addition, Dr. Vichy also knew that the underground part of the Seal Station must have penetrated deep into the underground rock formation, otherwise it would not be so stable.

Many Antarctic research stations, especially those on the edge of the continental shelf ice sheet, face a life-or-death problem.

That is the ice breaking, causing the glacier to move.

At that time, Great Britain's Antarctic scientific research station failed to pay attention to this problem, causing the entire scientific research station and the fault zone glacier to become an iceberg floating freely in the sea.

Therefore, in order to cope with this situation, if the scientific research station is to be built on the ice sheet at the edge of the continental shelf, a scientific research station that can move quickly (similar to a RV) must be used.

But the seal station is obviously not like this, but is set up directly here.

Based on Dr. Vichy's experience, he was very sure that the Seal Station must have broken through the 2,200-meter ice layer and laid its foundation into the underground rock formation.

Only in this way can the displacement caused by ice breakage be effectively resisted.

Of course, without the technology of Homo sapiens, it would be difficult to create such an ultra-deep foundation.

Standing on the roof of the building, Dr. Vichy looked at the brightly lit Seal Station with a somewhat complicated and helpless mood.

At this time, the seal station was inside.

Maung Dan, who had just escorted daily necessities to Dimondville Station, was in the base director's office reporting the situation to base director Xin Dixi.

"...I used the excuse that there was no fuel at the base to get them to accept the power transmission plan."

Xindisi was very satisfied: "Well done, we have controlled their energy and daily supplies, and they will no longer be able to control them."

It can be seen from the holographic map on one side that there are currently several scientific research stations of the four major forces throughout Wilkes Land.

Without exception, these scientific research stations are all "closely protected" by the scientific research stations of the Homo sapiens company.

In order to completely occupy the entire Wilkes Land, Homo Sapiens Company has made many small moves. In addition to closely protecting the scientific research stations of the four major forces, it has also established a large number of new scientific research stations.

These scientific research stations are arranged every 50 kilometers. Through this method of staking the land, the Homo sapiens company has now completely controlled the entire Wilkes Land.

Deep underground in these scientific research stations is the most important gold production area of ​​the Homo sapiens company, producing about 200 tons of gold every month.

This secret deserves so much attention from Homo sapiens.

Now Wilkes' underground mining area is continuing to expand production, and it is expected to increase its gold production capacity to about 400 tons per month by the end of this year.

Xin Dixi looked at the climate analysis report in her hand: "Maung Dan, you have recently strengthened the monitoring of Dimondiville Station, and you should also pay more attention to weather changes."

"Weather change? Snowfall?"

"It's not just the snowfall, it's the glacial activity."

"Glacier activity?" Maang Dan understood immediately.

As an investigator at a seal research station, he naturally knows the situation in Antarctica.

Since Antarctica is different from the Arctic Ocean, the underground here is rocky. If the amount of snowfall continues to increase, it will inevitably cause the weight of the Antarctic ice sheet to continue to increase.

The increased weight of the ice sheet can cause glaciers to slide and even trigger earthquakes.

Maung Than left Sindisi's office and went back to prepare to use magnetic field detectors to strengthen monitoring of geological changes throughout Antarctica.

Xindisi is thinking about the list of supplies that she needs to apply to the head office next.

Especially in terms of strengthening various scientific research stations and underground bases, the head office needs to provide a batch of exclusive equipment and parts.

After all, as time goes by, the Antarctic ice sheet may expand and thicken in the future, and it will also trigger various geological disasters.

Reinforcement work is urgent.

In fact, the Sapiens Company's other bases in Antarctica are also gradually improving the structural strength of the bases, especially the secret base of the Ice Prison Project.

Over in the Arctic Ocean, the situation is similar to that in Antarctica. Snowfall is increasing and the ice sheet is thickening and expanding.

This May and June is destined to be a bustling season.

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