Chapter 500: Rebirth of the Rainforest
Amazon rainforest area.
As the largest tropical rainforest on earth, it is very difficult for the cities and people here.
On the one hand, due to the high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year, the construction of infrastructure is very difficult and maintenance is extremely troublesome.
On the other hand, the land here is very barren, otherwise the Redwood Federation’s arable land 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 last, he thought that life was just like that and he just lived in a small town.
Until one day.
A force called Sapiens Inc. entered the Amazon rainforest, and the Marquez family became temporary employees of Sapiens Inc. without knowing it.
At this time, he was building an overhead railway.
A huge construction airship is parked on a hollow pipe that has been driven deep underground, and is temporarily docked on a pillar.
Marquez, wearing a work exoskeleton, is working with the construction airship to assemble various modules.
Suddenly, a voice came from inside his helmet.
[Please leave your work station immediately and return to the airship. Heavy rain will arrive in 20 minutes...].
Marquez turned his head and glanced towards the southeast. A large, dark cumulonimbus cloud was rolling in.
He was not in a hurry. He first tidied up the work area in an orderly manner, then went to the temporary elevator and took the elevator to the personnel rest cabin of the construction airship.
Captain Li Xiong counted the number of people and then picked up the intercom: "Everyone is here, let's take off!"
The pilot in the cockpit immediately replied: "Received."
The construction airship released the temporary fasteners between it and the pillar, then quickly created a vacuum and climbed into the sky.
Although large airships are very resistant to wind and thunderstorms, it is really unnecessary to carry out construction in a storm.
If struck by lightning, the body may not be able to withstand it even with an exoskeleton and armor.
"The problem with the rainforest is that it rains every day," Marquez complained.
Li Xiong opened the refrigerator in the cabin: "What do you want to drink? Get it yourself."
After Marquez took off his exoskeleton, he grabbed a bottle of sugar cane juice.
Another local employee leaned against the window and said, "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 most of the sour plum juice, Li Xiong burped. "Burp... Not all of them are nature reserves. Those areas that have been developed need to be readjusted and replanned."
"What's there to build in this damn place?" Marquez has lived in the Amazon rainforest for more than 20 years and has no good feelings about this place at all.
Li Xiong also understood the feelings of the locals like Marquez. After all, the living environment in the Amazon rainforest was really too harsh. Even though the Sapiens company had various technologies, it still encountered a lot of trouble here.
The new cities invested by Sapiens Company here all adopt special designs.
It is to use part of the technology of building overhead railways, directly use hollow pipes as foundation columns, and build a city similar to stilt houses.
The entire city is often about 50 meters away from the ground.
However, many of the former Amazon towns have been abandoned. After all, the infrastructure of those old towns was too poor and they were often flooded.
The locals didn't care too much, and most of them happily moved to the new city to settle down.
About 47 kilometers northwest of the construction airship, there is a new city - Nepenthes City.
It is a very distinctive name, which is also a common naming method adopted for new cities in the Amazon rainforest, that is, using local common or unique animals and plants as the name of the city.
After all, there were too many .
Nepenthe City is a small city with a population of 320,000.
Marquez, who works on a construction airship, and his family live in this city.
Marquez's sister Julia, an ecological investigator in the area, was driving a hovercraft with several colleagues to observe the recovery of vegetation in the nearby river.
A colleague frowned and said, "The forest recovery speed here has not met expectations!"
Julia put down the telescope: "It may be related to the pollution from the lead and zinc mining here before."
“This kind of ecological restoration work is too difficult.”
"Let's go back! The cumulonimbus clouds will reach us in an hour."
"All right!"
The hovercraft turned around and returned towards Nepenthe City.
As the hovercraft got closer and closer to Nepenthes City, the magnificent city outline became increasingly clear. Julia and others were no longer surprised by such magnificent cities.
There are currently dozens of these stilt cities in the Amazon rainforest .
Nepenthe 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 stops just below the XC area, with a small dock below.
After a while.
A large elevator descended to the surface of the river, and the driver drove the hovercraft into the elevator. After the clip device inside the elevator secured the hovercraft, it began to lift upward.
Cumulonimbus clouds in the distance are also approaching the city.
The damp wind ruffled Julia's hair as she sat on the edge of the hovercraft, looking out at the endless sea of forest.
The distance of 50 meters passed in a flash.
The lift stopped steadily in the elevator station.
At this time, it started to rain heavily outside.
But this does not affect the city, because Nepenthes City has a dome and the entire city is wrapped under the dome.
After exiting the elevator station, Julia arrived at the first block of the XC area.
On the ceiling 50 meters above the block is a simulated sun, which is specially designed to reduce the feeling of oppression.
The entire XC area is divided into 4 blocks, each 50 meters high, and the blocks are filled with streets, alleys and various buildings.
The climate simulation system of the first-floor block sets this place 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 lined with artificial breeding institutions for various tropical plants. In fact, the entire XC area is a scientific research area.
The daily living areas are in Midtown, DC and Southtown, while the production areas are in Northtown.
The pillar industries of Nepenthes City are tropical rainforest biological research, breeding, and auto parts.
As for transportation in this city, in addition to the overhead railway that has been opened to traffic, the other two modes of transportation are airship and airplane.
Airships and airplanes can land directly on the dome deck above the city without the need to build a separate airport.
As for the ground roads, Nepenthes City, like other new cities in the Amazon rainforest , has few ground roads connecting to the outside world.
This kind of planning is actually based on the local natural environment and is carried out according to local conditions.
Building a road in the Amazon rainforest is really a scam. The cost is higher than building an overhead railway, and the maintenance cost is also frighteningly high.
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 in some places the roads have even disappeared.
The Sapiens Company learned from the lessons of the Redwood Federation and abandoned 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, you can only cross the uninhabited primitive rainforest without going through the overhead railway and airline controlled by the Homo Sapiens company, and the danger level increases sharply.
