A pile of keys was cleared out in front of Xia Yunli, and there were even some strange small items inside.Xia Yunli took them together and then guided the convoy to the coal mine and small power station next to Longyearbyen.

Longyearbyen is a city of miners founded in the early 20th century by the Boston Arctic Coal Company of the United States, destroyed by the impact of war in 1943, and later rebuilt after the war.The mining industry has always been an important part of the city, and more than half of the city’s residents are employed by mining companies, whose lives are almost always around white snow and black coal.

On the other side of the hill near Longyearbyen, the "Doomsday Seed Vault" sits on the halfway side of the mountain, and the power station is in the foothills not far from it, because the original site of the seed bank is an abandoned coal mine, and the power station is built on the principle of proximity.

The electricity demand in Longyearbyen is supplied by the power station, which has been out of service for a long time, and there is no black smoke in the power station, and the roar of the machine can not be heard inside.Several tall chimneys with red and white paint towered in a factory building, and the top of the chimney was covered with snow.

The convoy entered directly through the gate of the power station, where there were more zombies, and Xu Yihang was curious that this extremely cold weather did not seem to have any effect on them, except that the movement became slower.

There are also a few zombies that fell to the ground frozen to the ice because of rain or ice, and although some people in the convoy wondered whether they still had the vitality to attack humans after thawing, no one tried to verify this, and the soldiers also filled the heads of those ice canoes when they solved the zombies near the convoy.

After searching the power station for a circle in the power station, the visible danger was removed, and finally stopped at the door of a factory building.

“That’s it,” Mr. Xia had previously looked at the internal map of the office at the power station’s door, and the plant in front of him now is the power transmission equipment room of the power station.“The strength of those of us alone cannot put the power stations back together in a short period of time, so they can only beat the idea of their reserve power.”

“Reserve the power supply?”Xu Yihang is not well understood.

"Longir city is built on the mountain, which is full of coal mines, and the residents here are almost all serving the mines and power stations, so this small town is born for mining."Now the "doomsday seed bank" is located here, its importance is no less than the coal resources here, so the local government on the basis of the power station and prepared the reserve power, these devices are for the power station and the doomsday seed bank reserve power, in case of emergency, after all, the town is good, the seed bank is good, their normal operation is inseparable from electricity.

“The electricity stored in these reserve power supplies is used to cope with special circumstances and to facilitate the recovery of the power station after accidents and other reasons.”Xia Yunli continued, “What we have to do now is to restart the storage equipment and restore the electricity inside the seed bank, because in addition to lighting and temperature control, there are five gates that need electricity to open.”

“It feels complicated,” Xu Yihang thought about, becoming more and more curious about the situation in this seed store.

Entering the power transmission equipment room of the power station, Xia Yunli began to look for that set of reserve power.This set of equipment is still the first time he visited the "doomsday seed bank" when listening to the local management to introduce, now it is useful, of course, we can also violently break the door, but then the seeds stored inside are completely exposed to the outside, which is equivalent to indirectly destroying the hope of mankind to cope with natural disasters.

From the power station, we saw some light in the middle of the mountain, the reserve power has been re-opened, at this moment Xia Yunli is sitting in the car pointing to the lighted place to tell everyone that is the "doomsday seed bank" door.

“Is that the door?How does it look like a rectangular box that comes out of the snow."Big Fei looked at the building on the distant mountainside at the window of the car, and asked somewhat curiously, in his impression, this mysterious place gate should also be very elegant.

“Didn’t Professor Xia say earlier that the seed bank was built inside the mountain, and that what you saw there should be only the entrance to the channel into the seed vault, so it’s not surprising that it’s like a box.”Chen Bin explained.

The convoy went up the mountain road, the city of Longyearbyen at the foot of the mountain looked very hazy under the night, and the city without lights was like a lifeless body, giving people a cold feeling.The light on the mountain is the direction of the convoy, but the mountain road is covered with ice and snow, and there is a lack of manual cleaning for a long time, and the road is long and long at this moment, it is very difficult to do.

Having arrived here, no one will choose to give up, in order to avoid unnecessary accidents, Xia Yunli let the fleet slow down the speed, in the safest and most secure way to gradually move towards the destination.

“Agitated?“Brother Zhang,” Chen Bin asked.

"Agitated, my fucking hands are shaking," Zhang Cui grinned, "I don't know if there will be an answer here, those alien words on the information guide me to come here, I believe there is a God's will."I'm not superstitious, but there are some things that are really amazing, especially access to higher civilizations, and I don't know how to describe that feeling, because there's never been that before."

“Like the first love?”Fly asked.

"One thing, haha, of course you're not an appropriate metaphor, but I can't think of a better metaphor than it."Zhang could calm down the excitement and collect his thoughts from the distant mountainside.The information he deciphers from the extraterrestrial text has only one time and one coordinate, and there are no other clues, so whether there are new discoveries here will directly determine the success or failure of the trip.

Zhang can be under a lot of pressure, because the government has invested huge human and material resources in his plan, and a team of nearly 100 people has gone with him to the poles and deserts thousands of miles away, just for a possible hope.This is a gamble, and it is a gamble on the future of the country and the future of mankind.

“Do you see what that is?”Da Fei suddenly pointed to a colored light belt under the sky curtain and shouted in surprise.

“The light?”Chen Bin suddenly remembered the name.

"Yes, it's the aurora," Zhang could reach for a nod, and the mood that had just calmed down was excited again.

At this time, the communicator in the car also came from Xia Yunli's voice, "in our northwest direction of the sky appeared aurora, the opportunity is rare for everyone to observe for a while."

"If only I had brought a camera," Da Fei wanted to take this strange natural landscape back to Chongming to Chen Cailing, because the polar trip is too far away for ordinary people, many people may have difficulty stepping here in their lives, and the aurora is a rare sight, which is produced by the flow of high-energy charged particles from the Earth's magnetosphere or the sun to excite the upper atmosphere molecules or atoms, and will not always hang in the polar sky.

“Xiang Rui, Zhang brother, good sign,” Chen Bin said.

"I swear to you, brother."Zhang can reach the inner fiery, only feel a cavity of hot blood in the chest boiling.

More than half an hour of mountain roads makes the convoy walk miserable, so that the destination is in front, and the rare polar natural landscape in the sky is also timely - the aurora, this scene for almost everyone in the caravan is the first time in their lives.

The door of the seed bank was covered with ice and snow, and as Xu Yihang cleaned up the ice on the door, Xia Yunli began to find the one that could be locked in the pile of keys that had been pulled out of the town hall building before.According to the lock eyes on the door, Xia Yunli tried all the keys of the right size, and sure enough, one of them could open the door.

There was nothing special about the outermost iron door, for there was nothing in the long passageway after entering it except the lights and some exhaust pipes.When people walk through this more than 100-meter-long tunnel, they will find a blast door, after the explosion-proof door has an antechamber, from which you can lead to three more than two hundred square meters of constant temperature warehouse, the warehouse uses air conditioning to maintain a constant temperature of -18 °C, the surrounding walls are more than one meter thick concrete, these walls can be insulated, but also protect these houses against the possible attack outside.

Because the power has just been restored, the temperature in the seed bank is not very consistent with the outside, and it has not remained at the original -18 °C constant temperature state.When a group entered and entered, the iron door was closed, the lights in the tunnel were on, and the ground was slippery, and the walls were covered with snow-white frost.

Last summer because of the local high temperature caused by snowmelt and precipitation increased, the entrance of the tunnel was flooded in, the water accident did not cause any substantial damage to the inside, the melting snow into the position is not deep, the temperature inside is maintained relatively good, so the water into the tunnel soon frozen, the inside has not yet been able to install waterproof and drainage equipment, because the deepest three seed warehouse security has not been affected.

The tunnel is very quiet, can only hear the footsteps of everyone, into the inside of the people with a sense of awe, no one loudly clamor, everyone quietly followed Xia Yunli and Zhang can reach behind.

Zhang could walk slowly in the tunnel, and he kept watching all around him, leaving the walls and the ground without leaving.The information deciphered from the alien text has only the coordinates here and a time, and he does not know where the clues will appear in the seed bank.

The walls are concave outwardly to a curvature, some places retain the rocks in the mountains, some places are filled with concrete, lighting is spread across the sides and tops of the tunnel, and some pipes are also arranged above the top of the head.

When we went further in, a explosion-proof door appeared on the side of the tunnel, and Xia Yunli went over to press the switch on the door, and the door that was connected to the power slowly opened.

Inside is the control management room of the "Doomsday Seed Vault" and the room where the refrigeration equipment is placed, and Xia Yunli once visited here, so he knows its role.