Chapter 582: Fortune and Misfortune
Lucia.
Kremlin.
The fireplace was burning with pine wood. Caesar, who was already extremely old, was warming himself by the fire while flipping through recent briefings.
He was too tired, not only physically exhausted, but also mentally feeling powerless.
"Andreev."
"Caesar, please give me your orders." The captain of the guard, Andreev, stepped forward respectfully.
"Let Carl from the Fresh Belia Biological Research Institute come over!" His voice had an unconcealable sense of vicissitudes and powerlessness. He was just like Lucia at this moment, full of decadence.
"Yes." Andreev nodded.
After a while, Carl, the director of the Fresh Belia Biological Research Institute, appeared in the study.
"Caesar, Hurrah!"
Caesar waved his hand: "Okay, Carl, let's talk business!"
Carl took a deep breath and said, "Caesar, we have obtained some samples of super monkeypox through the channels of the Europa Union and are currently studying them."
Caesar gently massaged his temples to relieve the grogginess in his head.
Carl continued: "Although no vaccine or specific medicine has been developed, I have found some useful things by studying the breeding conditions of super monkeypox."
"Oh?" Caesar looked expectant.
"The first discovery is that super monkeypox has some special intermediate hosts, such as fleas, cockroaches, and cyanobacteria, which is the fundamental reason why they can spread across the sea."
"But this discovery is not important. After all, we cannot exterminate fleas, cockroaches and blue algae in nature. Perhaps those safe houses defending against Homo sapiens companies can effectively block the infiltration of super monkeypox."
Caesar shook his head. "There are too few safe houses. Even if we use the nuclear bunkers left over from the last century, our safe zone can only accommodate 2 to 3 million people at most."
Carl hesitated for a moment, but still expressed some opinions: "In fact, super monkeypox is not invincible. As long as we adopt the standards of a safe house and conduct comprehensive disinfection of tap water and non-packaged food, we should be able to prevent it."
"Oh!... I know, but how do I solve the funding problem?" Caesar is also in a difficult situation!
Lucia had a lot of resources, but its industry was in a terrible state of decline. Even its heavy industry, which had a strong foundation, had become unsustainable.
He felt extremely sad and it seemed that he had to go to his uncle's house for help again.
If possible, Caesar really didn't want to go, but now he had no choice.
Karl didn't see Caesar's inner pain and continued to offer some other ideas: "Caesar, in fact, our climate is very conducive to preventing the spread of super monkeypox."
"Temperature?" Caesar pondered.
"Yes, when the temperature is below 5 degrees Celsius, insects such as cockroaches and fleas will basically not move, and the suitable breeding temperature for super monkeypox is 20 to 37 degrees Celsius. Most areas in our country are covered with ice and snow for a long time, especially those close to the Arctic Circle."
Caesar turned around and ordered, "Andreev, ask Tatyana to come see me."
Taking advantage of this gap, Caesar continued to discuss the details with Carl.
About forty minutes later, Tatyana hurried over and walked into the study.
"Tatyana, if we restart the cities in the north, can we survive?" Caesar asked directly.
"Restart the northern cities?" Tatyana frowned. The department she was in charge of was the newly established Ecological Production Department. Its main task was to study how to maintain normal agricultural and industrial production under extreme weather conditions.
In order to cope with the increasingly long freezing period, many cities in northern Russia have been abolished and moved south.
Now Caesar asked again whether the northern city could be restarted. She was caught off guard, but Tatyana quickly reacted because she recognized Carl's identity.
“Is it because of the threat of super monkeypox?” Tatyana asked.
Caesar nodded. "You guessed right. Super Monkeypox cannot spread in areas where the temperature is below 5 degrees Celsius. Now the northern cities are frozen all year round. If we can restart the northern cities, we can use the low temperature to block the invasion of Super Monkeypox."
Hearing this idea, Tatyana also fell into deep thought.
It is still not too late to restart the northern cities now , after all, some of them have only been abandoned for less than one or two years.
The problem was how to solve the problem of food and grain. This difficulty made Tatyana fall into deep thought.
Subsequently, heads of other departments also arrived one after another.
Although these guys had their own ulterior motives, when faced with the unreasonable super monkeypox, they put aside the idea of infighting and discussed how to deal with it.
In fact, they have held similar meetings no less than 10 times, but each time there was no good solution.
At this time Caesar finally made up his mind.
Because time waits for no one, once the cold winter is over, it means that super monkeypox will arrive in Lucia with the spring.
Caesar said in a low voice: "Our only choice is to move the population north of 60 degrees north latitude before spring arrives. Even in summer there, the temperature is below 5 degrees Celsius. The further north, the safer it is."
"But what about food?"
"There is only one way, which is to set up a department dedicated to the production of food and agricultural products, and then adopt military management, let these people wear special protective clothing, and carry out agricultural production in the warm areas in the south."
"We can use the north as an industrial zone, and greenhouse agriculture should also be gradually promoted."
"I have an idea. Cities with too dense a population are too dangerous, and the pressure on material supply is too great. If we move them all to the north, I suggest dispersing them..."
At this moment, they finally stopped arguing and instead put their heads together and came up with ideas.
After all, if they delay any longer, once super monkeypox comes, the consequences will be disastrous. They don't want to have pockmarks on their faces and suffer from impotence. If they really become pockmarked and impotent, they would rather die.
Although the north is covered with ice and snow all year round and will become increasingly colder in the future, the cold is also a natural barrier.
Even if the conditions are a little tough, it is better than having a pockmarked face, impotence, and sterilization.
What's more, they are now more worried about America. After all, America is in great chaos and various forces are fighting each other.
There are so many biological laboratories in America, and who knows how many terrifying microorganisms are inside them.
If something terrible gets leaked again.
The warm areas in the middle and low latitudes will definitely be hit the hardest.
Caesar didn't want to live in fear all day long. If he moved completely to the north, he could use the low temperature as a barrier to prevent microorganisms from entering.
After all, no matter how terrible the infectiousness of microorganisms is, they are still living things. When living things encounter ultra-low temperatures, their activity and reproduction will be inhibited.
As for the harsh climate in the northern region, it is no big deal for Lucia, who has mastered the nuclear fusion technology of the underground furnace. She can completely rely on the energy of the nuclear fusion power station to withstand the ultra-low temperatures of the ice age.
As long as you live, there is hope.
If people die, then everything is meaningless.
Therefore, Caesar and Lucia's management decided to quickly restart the northern city and transport all the food to the north for storage in order to deal with possible biological crises in the future.
The cold weather saved Lucia again.
Of course, in order to ensure that the northward migration plan could proceed smoothly, Caesar shamelessly went to his uncle for help again.
