Chapter 358 Sunda Ancient Land
The Java Sea between Borneo and Java.
Deep under the sea, a huge underground tunnel runs through the Java Sea, connecting Borneo with Java Island.
Li Qingye is inspecting the construction of the underwater base here.
Wu Yebo, who was in charge of the Java area management, introduced the entire project to him.
"Since the company has taken back the various submarine oil and gas fields that it had previously sold, we have now built eight large underground base cities in the Java Sea."
The holographic map in front of me is completely different from the Southeast Asian maps published by ordinary publishing houses.
Thanks to technological development, the definition of territory within the Homo sapiens company includes the sea areas it controls.
The area controlled by Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia includes both territorial waters and exclusive economic zones.
At this time, the Java Sea region belonged to the Java region.
Li Qingye looked at the enclosed Sundaland, which was the shallow sea territory currently being developed by the Homo Sapiens Company.
The so-called Sundaland refers to the period during the last ice age when a large part of the world's water resources were occupied by ice sheets, resulting in sea retreat.
The sea level at that time was 80 to 100 meters lower than it is now.
As a result, the ancient Sundaland emerged from the sea and became connected to the Indochina Peninsula.
The entire Sundaland includes the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra Island, the Strait of Malacca, Borneo, Java Island, the Java Sea, the waters around the Natuna Islands, and the waters around the Gulf of Siam (Lake Siam).
The total area is approximately 4 million square kilometers.
Now 95% of the area of Sundaland is under the control of Homo sapiens, so the Homo sapiens company uses its technological advantages to secretly build cities hidden under the sea.
These cities are built under rock layers several hundred meters thick, and with nearly a hundred meters of sea water, their defenses are higher than some land bases.
After all, today's missiles cannot penetrate nearly a hundred meters of water and then penetrate several hundred meters of rock.
Water has a very strong slowing effect on high-speed flying missiles. Normally, ground-penetrating missiles cannot penetrate the seabed rock because their kinetic energy has been completely dissipated by the water.
Of course, Li Qingye is very clear that once a war really breaks out, it will most likely be a nuclear bomb attack.
However, seawater can also suppress the destructive power of nuclear bombs during a nuclear strike, especially in sea areas with a depth of more than 1,000 meters, where nuclear explosions are difficult to strike.
America and the Russians had conducted various underwater nuclear explosions in the past. Even Big Ivan, which was said to be able to move plates, could not destroy targets below 3,000 meters on the seabed.
Li Qingye has already felt the undercurrent in the world at this time. The rise of Homo sapiens will inevitably lead to heavy losses for other powers.
Although most of the bosses behind the scenes are cowards, there are always some "mutants" among humans.
It is possible that someone could not bear the blow and planned to die together with the Homo sapiens.
There are crazy people everywhere.
Therefore, Li Qingye secretly convened the management and held a secret meeting in October last year to discuss how to deal with the desperate measures of the great powers.
After discussion, a total of five plans were developed.
They are the Ice Domain Plan, Gui Palace Plan, Ancient Land Plan, Abyss Plan, and Hades Plan.
The Icefield Project is the previous Antarctica base.
The Guigong Project is to build a lunar base and enable permanent human presence on the moon.
The supporting facilities of this plan currently include the construction of five space bases, namely: Honsawadi-Hugaon Space City, Luzon-Medan Space City, Ceylon Space City, Egypt-Kharij Space City, and Mada Island East Space City.
The underwater city in the Java Sea that Li Qingye is currently investigating is part of the ancient land project.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Wu Yebo shook his head: "It's all for the company."
“ Has the stepped city here been planned?”
"Some of them have been planned, but the number is relatively small. Currently, only two suitable locations have been identified."
Li Qingye looked at the holographic map and immediately understood the difficulties of the Java area.
Although the Java region has the Java Sea, which covers an area of more than 800,000 square kilometers, the Java Sea is not suitable as a construction area for a stepped city because it is too shallow.
Stepped cities cannot be built on the continental shelf for safety reasons. After all, high-powered nuclear bombs still have considerable destructive power in shallow seas.
The deep sea area in the Java region is located in the Ceylon Ocean in the south. Java Island is located at the junction of plates, which is also not conducive to the construction of underground bases.
Therefore, it can only develop towards the Makassar Strait in the direction of Sulawesi Island.
The ladder city in the deep sea area is the core of the ancient land plan and is equivalent to a special safe house.
Once a war breaks out in the outside world, people can quickly take the subway from the shelf city on the seabed to the safer deep-sea ladder city for refuge.
Therefore, around the underwater city of Sundaland, there must be sufficient stepped cities to temporarily accommodate hundreds of millions of people.
Of course, Li Qingye has a very clear positioning for the ladder city, which is a safe haven.
The ladder city does not need too many houses and supporting facilities, because most of the people who enter here will be forced to be wrapped in life-support bags and hibernate in order to reduce the resource consumption of the base.
Therefore, the stepped city is designed to be very compact. After all, people in hibernation do not need to move, eat, or take a bath, so they only need an area of a few square meters.
Each stepped city can accommodate at least 1 million people for refuge and can keep them alive in life-support bags for about 3 years.
The reason why it is three years is mainly because the dormancy of the life-support capsule has side effects.
Currently, we can only guarantee that there will be no side effects . After about half a year, slight muscle degeneration and memory loss will occur.
Once it exceeds two years, the muscles will further degenerate, and at the same time, 20-30% of the memory will be lost, and the sequelae of memory confusion will appear.
By the third year, the body will basically reach its limit, and if it is not awakened and rehabilitated, it is likely to be life-threatening.
Therefore, forced hibernation is best awakened within three months.
Li Qingye, who often hibernates, has a deep understanding of hibernation techniques.
This dormancy is necessary for survival and stability.
After all, once a war breaks out, various civilian facilities will also be affected. For non-combat personnel, reducing resource consumption by hibernation will help concentrate most resources on the military field.
After inspecting this underground base city, Li Qingye did not stay here, but took the subway to the eastern coast of Borneo.
The eastern coast of Borneo is separated from Sulawesi Island by the Makassar Strait.
Throughout the Makassar Strait, more than a dozen stepped cities have been planned on the seabed. Two have been built and the others are under intensive construction.
However, Li Qingye did not come here to visit the Step City, because he had previously inspected the Step City on the seabed of the Sulu Sea in the Luzon Islands.
This time he came to eastern Borneo mainly to inspect the 9th Shipyard of the New Luzon Shipbuilding Group.
The shipyard was only established in October last year and is mainly engaged in the manufacture and research and development of special ships.
The subway was not directly connected to the shipyard, so Li Qingye got off in a surrounding city and took a minibus to the shipyard.
The shipyard is on the side of a mountain, with part of the factory building at the foot of the mountain and the other part inside the mountain.
As soon as he entered the shipyard, Li Qingye saw a familiar figure.
