Chapter 360: Positioning of the Plan
Nepal Branch.
Kathmandu.
Ever since the Sapiens Company established a fully-powered branch in the local area, the development speed here has been almost rapid.
It took only about half a year for the local residents to go from being confused and resistant at the beginning to being enthusiastic and supportive.
The more impoverished and remote the place is, the less able it is to resist the high welfare offensive of the Homo sapiens company.
The mountain people who have lived in poverty all their lives have long lost their enthusiasm for all kinds of fantastic ideas. After all, everyone has a scale in his heart.
Those forces that appear on the stage can brag about how great they are, but when the mountain people go home and see that they still see a few barren pieces of land and live the same life as before, there is no way they will believe them.
Maybe some people believed it at first, but after so many years of cruel reality, the mountain people have become realistic and indifferent.
This is also the reason why the locals showed distrust and resistance when the Homo sapiens company entered Nepal at the beginning.
It was not until everyone's lives changed at a speed visible to the naked eye that the mountain people let down their guard and began to actively embrace the arrival of Homo sapiens.
Nepal has a population of only about 29 million. Since 90% of its territory is high-altitude mountains, it has basically no agricultural potential, but it has considerable hydropower potential.
After opening the underground railway between Assam and Nepal, the Homo Sapiens Company imported a large amount of various daily necessities and construction materials into this area.
This includes the construction of 30 medium-sized hydropower stations and 3 nuclear power plants.
At the same time, the exploration of mineral resources in the Nepal region has also been fully launched.
Weng Xuehai and his team, who had previously conducted geological exploration in Zhuyu, have completed preliminary exploration of the strata within 5,000 meters underground in Zhuyu, and are now entering Nepal for exploration.
In the Gandaki district on the west side of Kathmandu.
There are many mountains here with an altitude of three to four thousand meters.
Led by a local guide, Weng Xuehai and his team set up camp in a nearby river valley. As it was winter in the northern hemisphere, the areas with higher altitudes were covered with a layer of snow.
"Huh..." After taking a sip of hot tea, Weng Xuehai exhaled white mist: "If it weren't for the exoskeleton, I wouldn't dare to go into the mountains in this season."
At this moment, his satellite phone rang. He quickly put down his teacup and answered the call: "Hello..."
"Dr. Weng, please get ready. There is an urgent mission that requires your cooperation. A Thunder Dragon ground effect ship will come to pick you up later..."
Hearing this, Weng Xuehai said without thinking: "I understand."
After hanging up the phone, he quickly called his deputy over and asked him to take charge of the team temporarily while he and his assistant quickly packed up their personal belongings.
46 minutes passed.
A small Thunder Dragon ground effect ship came flying from mid-air and then slowly landed on the snow not far from the camp.
The cabin opened and several security guards wearing combat exoskeletons jumped out.
"Doctor, this is our employee ID, and this is a temporary conscription order..."
Weng Xuehai took a quick look and nodded: "Let's go!"
"please."
After boarding the Little Thunder Dragon ground effect craft, Weng Xuehai and his assistant looked out the window at their colleagues who were coming to see them off, and waved.
Woo woo woo... The turbojet engine pushed the small Thunder Dragon ground effect ship off the ground, and then it flew quickly towards Kathmandu in the east.
Since it is on its own territory, the Little Thunder Dragon ground effect ship does not need to fly close to the ground. In addition, after technological updates and the application of some of the technology of the Jinpeng transport aircraft, its cruising speed can reach about 600 kilometers per hour.
Soon the little Brontosaurus ground effect ship was near Kathmandu and landed at the airport inside the plateau west of Kathmandu.
Weng Xuehai was taken deep underground to the base and then took the subway to Lower Kathmandu, the underground city of Kathmandu.
Lower Kathmandu is deep underground in the mountains north of Kathmandu.
Weng Xuehai is very familiar with this place because his temporary dormitory is here.
Inside the base manager's office in the underground city.
Weng Xuehai met a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the office department. This man had a rare pair of heterochromia, with one pupil being brown and the other green.
"Hello, Doctor. I am Moses, the head of the Crisis Response Office of the Internal Affairs Department. Please take a seat."
After taking his seat, Weng Xuehai asked directly without beating around the bush: "What is the specific task?"
"The Internal Affairs Department needs to build several ultra-deep shelters, and I need the doctor's help in selecting a few suitable locations." Moses went straight to the point.
Weng Xuehai was stunned for a moment: "Shelter? How deep does it need to be?"
“The deeper the better, and preferably with granite rock formations and mountains above.”
"Is that so?" Weng Xuehai turned on the tablet 's holographic projection system and projected a holographic map of the Nepal region. He then pointed to the northeast of the Karnali region:
"This area is over 4,000 meters above sea level, and there are a lot of ice sheets. There are a lot of granite rock formations underneath, so it should meet the requirements."
Then he added: "There are two large iron mines below, which were discovered some time ago. I don't know the technical limits of the underground engineering department. If it can withstand the high temperature and high pressure erosion underground, then we can build as far down as possible."
Moses gave him a rough technical overview of the underground project: "Now we can build a safe underground city at a depth of about 5,000 meters underground. Due to its special nature, the shelter can be built even deeper. The depth I am talking about is the altitude depth, and the height of the mountains and plateaus is not taken into account."
"I understand." Weng Xuehai recalculated and quickly found more than a dozen locations.
Without exception, these locations are all above 5,000 meters above sea level, with ice sheets above and granite rock layers underground, and are areas with relatively stable geology.
Then Weng Xuehai took the initiative to introduce the specific conditions of these locations to Moses.
Moses quickly selected seven of them as candidates, and then he continued to ask: "Doctor, you also did the geological survey of Zhuyu and Zhemenxiong areas. You should also select a few suitable locations there."
"no problem."
Weng Xuehai then called up the geological holographic map of Zhuyu and Zhemingxiong areas, and soon circled out six candidate locations.
Moses selected three more candidates.
There are a total of 10 alternative locations.
It is only a preliminary determination now, and further exploration will be needed to determine the final location.
In the future, these ultra-deep underground shelters will become part of the Hades Project.
Of course, the Hades Project is not just a super deep shelter, its core is actually a special database.
To be precise, these shelters are not prepared for humans, but for the memory backup and genetic samples of all new human employees.
Including Li Qingye’s memories and genetic samples, all will be stored in it.
These ultra-deep shelters only have life-support capsules, cloning capsules, and various equipment for restarting civilization. There are no new human administrators, and they are managed by supercomputer artificial intelligence.
After it is built, its passage to the outside world will also be sealed, leaving only an optical cable for transmitting data to facilitate new human employees to update the memory database.
The requirement for these ultra-deep shelters is that they can operate continuously for about 100 years in a closed state in low-power mode.
Here is another backup prepared by Sapiens.
The Ancient Land Project was prepared for the refuge of large numbers of people; the Ice Domain Project and the Abyss Project were special shelters for small numbers of people; and the Hades Project was a refuge for the memories and genes of Homo sapiens.
The final Guigong plan is to consider that in the most extreme case, once the earth is no longer habitable, the civilization of the Homo sapiens company can use the lunar base as a temporary transit station to escape to other planets.
