When Chen Chen reappeared in his Eco Science City, he immediately attracted the attention of countless "eyes".
Back then, among the upper echelons of the Earth Federation, there was a rumor that the chairman of Blacklight Biotechnology was also infected with the fusion virus and might not be able to hold on for long.
When this news reached the ears of the major forces and even some hidden forces, they did not believe it too much at first.
After all, Chen Chen had the ability to turn something rotten into something magical. He was a legend since the beginning of his business and life science was his forte. It was almost impossible for such a person to be infected with the fusion virus.
However, later, with the sudden disappearance of the Consciousness Stealer virus, even Chen Chen did not show up and did not even participate in several Lilith meetings. Suddenly, many rumors floated around.
In fact, long before entering the consciousness battlefield, Chen Chen had instructed that if he did not appear for a long time, they could use the clones first. After all, there were still several clones of Chen Chen in the Spire laboratory.
However, Little X was not willing to give up. She firmly believed that Chen Chen would win, so she did not do so.
However, now that Chen Chen appeared in his home, this rumor was dispelled. Many forces that had begun to stir retracted their claws and fangs, quietly waiting for the next opportunity...
If it were not for the fear of the civilization-level weapons of mass destruction in Chen Chen's hands, how could the countries tolerate Blacklight Biotechnology constantly eroding their interests and still greet him with a smile?
A few hours later, Chen Chen said goodbye to his parents and walked out of the house. He glanced around his parents' house and the smile in his eyes gradually dissipated, replaced by an inexplicable coldness.
"X, it's time to clean up this group of 'eyes' near my parents."
Chen Chen said.
"Understood, please rest assured. Before the sun rises tomorrow morning, I'll clean up this group of spies who dare to approach your parents."
X's voice came from the headset and replied.
A seemingly casual conversation between the two of them easily determined the life and death of hundreds of spies.
"Oh, right!"
Little X's voice suddenly sounded again. "While you were asleep, the Earth Federation has established a department that liaises with the Blacklight Foundation. It's called the Federal Special Task Force. This department is divided into the Mainland China branch, the Northern American branch, the North Sea Continent branch, and the European branch.
"This department is equivalent to a fast track that can accelerate the operation of the Blacklight Foundation. If there are any more incidents like 'wormholes at sea', 'Weeping Angels', 'Consciousness Stealers', or other threats to human civilization, this department will immediately contact the local government so that the local government can provide the greatest convenience to the Blacklight Foundation."
"Not bad. The Federal Special Task Force?"
Chen Chen nodded with satisfaction. "With this official federal department, the Blacklight Foundation will have the right to operate globally..."
"Also."
Little X continued to report. "The construction of the Blacklight Foundation's main base in the South Pole is about to be completed. The current progress has reached ninety percent. The engineers we've sent are sending back updates every day. It should be completed by the end of this year."
"Very good."
Chen Chen nodded. "I plan to go there myself tomorrow and take a look around."
"You want to completely dispel the unfavorable news of your disappearance."
Little X inquired. "No problem, I'll make an appointment for you now."
"Okay."
Next, Chen Chen returned to his office in the Blacklight Building and sat there for a while. Then he returned to the Spire and began to disassemble the time machine with Little X.
The next day, Chen Chen got on a plane again and flew in the direction of North America. He transferred to a military plane in the Washington area of North America and flew to the South Pole.
It took more than ten hours. As the plane landed, it was already a dark world of ice and snow outside the window.
The polar circle was divided into polar day and polar night. The current date was April 1, 2029, which was the polar night of the South Pole.
The so-called polar day and polar night were actually due to the deflection of the Earth's rotation. There would be a fixed period of time when the sun would not shine or shine all day. Every year from September 23 to March 21, the South Pole was shrouded in darkness. Even during the day, no sun could be seen. It was the opposite at the North Pole.
Chen Chen took a C-17 military transport plane and came together with the flight from Northern America to the South Pole. When he stepped off the plane in a down jacket, the highest leaders of the four continents immediately came to greet him in person.
"Your Excellency Chen Chen."
The respective leaders of the four continents stood in a row. Chen Chen walked forward and shook hands with the four of them.
"Welcome, Your Excellency Chen Chen, for coming to inspect in person. I'm the main escort this time. My name is Zhao Xi."
Because of the best relationship with Mainland China, the main escort this time was the highest person in charge of the main base in Mainland China. Zhao Xi was a middle-aged man who looked older, about fifty years old, and Chen Chen could see that he had not undergone age-reversal treatment and still maintained his true age.
"Mr. Zhao Xi, you've never used the age-reversal treatment?"
Chen Chen could not help asking.
"It's mainly because this technology still has some risks."
Zhao Xi smiled. "Although the success rate of this treatment method you created is very high, once the treatment fails, I'm afraid I'll have to rest for several years to recover, so I've never done it. However, I've made an appointment with the Blacklight Fully-automated Medical Platform you gave us. In the second half of next year, I can directly use that machine to restore my body."
Chen Chen nodded. He followed Zhao Xi to a deep and huge hole in the ground. Beside the hole was an astonishing amount of goods. At this time, dozens of cranes were constantly transporting the goods down.
"As you can see, this is the headquarters of the Blacklight Foundation."
Looking at the huge deep pit in front of him, a touch of emotion appeared in Zhao Xi's eyes. "Construction here has been going on for four years and it's a joint development of the four continents, using hundreds of billions of dollars of manpower and material resources. Even if it's the Great Pyramid of Giza, dozens of them should've been built by now.
"Until now, the headquarters has built a large framework, and all that's left is to fill in the details. I can't imagine how we've survived these four years..."
Zhao Xi could not help sighing.
"All of this is for the continuation of human civilization."
Chen Chen nodded. He knew that even the Spire Experimental Base was like a child's play compared to this base in front of him. After all, this was built as the last fortress of civilization.
Whether it was the amount of work invested or the manpower and material resources invested, it could not be compared.
While talking, Chen Chen and the few accompanying people had walked to an elevator located at the edge of the big hole and then walked in.
As the elevator door closed, without the need to press any buttons, the elevator began to descend sharply.
"At present, we only need two minutes to reach the base two kilometers deep."
Zhao Xi reminded.
Chen Chen only felt a sense of rapid fall. The elevator began to accelerate continuously, from a speed of two or three meters per second until it accelerated to more than twenty meters per second. This speed was close to the speed of free fall. If they fell to the ground at this speed, even the aliens would not survive.
However, when they were about to reach the ground, the elevator began to slow down slowly, followed by a sense of rapid gravity. If it was someone with poor physical condition, they might have vomited at this time. It was only because everyone's physical fitness was good that they could persist.
"Ding!"
As the elevator arrived at its destination, there was only a soft sound and the elevator door opened again. This time, what was revealed in front of Chen Chen was a huge hall.
The hall now seemed to be unfinished. There was a large hole with a diameter of more than fifty meters in the center. At this time, goods were constantly being transported down and there was also a turbulent flow of people here, but most of them were not living people, but androids and XTN engineering robots.
"It's your first time here, so I'll give you a more detailed introduction."
Zhao Xi reminded. "This is the first floor of the main base and the largest activity venue in the main base. The area of this floor alone reaches one million square meters, which is the size of hundreds of football fields. In the future, this place will be transformed into an activity square and pedestrian street, where everyone can exercise and spend money."
Chen Chen nodded. Indeed, this floor alone had exceeded the area of the Spire Experimental Base.
"This is the pedestrian street..."
"This is the shopping area..."
"This is the stadium. Whether it's track and field events or football and basketball, you can find a venue here..."
Several people accompanied Chen Chen around. In Chen Chen's view, this was like a miniature city and the dome above his head was also extremely high, more than twenty meters. If optical equipment was laid to create the appearance of a blue sky and white clouds, many people would not be able to tell the real from the fake.
It was not until more than half an hour later that they finished touring the first floor. They came to the elevator in another corner and prepared to go to the second floor.
"The entire base is like a gyroscopic structure. The area will gradually shrink as you go down. The second floor is only two-thirds of the area of the first floor. It's the living supplies and warehouse area, which is used to store the daily supplies used for daily life."
Zhao Xi emphasized with some pride, "The supplies loaded on the second floor can allow 30,000 people to live for a hundred years without leaving home."
"A hundred years isn't that much."
When Chen Chen heard this, he could not help frowning.
"Of course."
Zhao Xi nodded. "But if it really comes to that, we'll transform the first floor and transform those gardens and green areas into soilless cultivation experimental fields. At that time, we'll naturally be able to obtain more supplies."
With that, they had reached the second floor.
Chen Chen noticed that it took a full twenty seconds to go from the first floor to the second floor.
"This is because the first floor and the second floor aren't next to each other."
Seeing Chen Chen's doubts, Zhao Xi continued to explain, "The distance between the first and second floors is hundreds of meters. Even if the first floor is lost, we can blow up the first floor and retreat to the second floor to continue defending. Strictly speaking, each floor in the base can abandon the previous floor and exist independently. This is the function of a Doomsday Fortress."
"That's a good idea."
Chen Chen nodded and agreed.
Then they descended again and came to the third floor.
As the elevator opened, what Chen Chen saw was a fortress-like columnar building. These buildings stretched all the way to the top of the third floor and there were about a hundred of them.
"This floor is the staff dormitory."
Zhao Xi continued to explain, "We've calculated for a long time. At first, we wanted to fill the third floor with conventional rooms like the conventional design, but in the end, we gave up because that kind of dormitory is still too depressing. It's difficult for people who don't see the sun all year round to bear this kind of pressure, so we chose this kind of unit building similar to the structure of a community.
"There are about a hundred unit buildings here, each with four floors. The inside is divided into one bedroom and one living room and two bedrooms and one living room. This floor can accommodate a total of 20,000 people. When they look out the window, they also see greenery and parks all over the ground, not cold metal passageways."
Several people led Chen Chen into one of the buildings and visited the layout of the rooms inside. In Chen Chen's view, these were indeed very lively. He even saw ponds and artificial rivers in the distance.
The dome could simulate normal sunlight and night, making people feel as if they were on the ground.
"From the fourth floor onwards, it's the work area."
After visiting the third floor, Zhao Xi led Chen Chen to the elevator to the fourth floor, then the fifth floor, the sixth floor, until the ninth floor, which was the lowest floor.
If the entire main base was arranged in the shape of an inverted pyramid, the lower the area, the smaller the area, but the ninth floor broke this arrangement.
The area of the ninth floor was even larger than the first floor. There were not only various production workshops, but also the main control room that controlled the entire main base, as well as a nuclear fusion reactor.
"At the bottom floor, we want to build it into an industrial center. Here, we can produce the daily necessities that everyone needs, even military supplies. At the same time, this is also the power core area, providing electricity and air circulation for the entire base. Unless the first eight floors are lost, this place is impregnable in any case."
Looking at the vast ninth floor in front of him, Chen Chen could not help showing a look of admiration. He suddenly looked at the rails and the trains next to the ninth floor, then raised his eyebrows. "This is?"
"This is a mine cart."
Zhao Xi explained, "The ninth floor doesn't exist out of thin air. We used a shield boring machine to dig several underground mineral veins more than 3,000 meters deep, and these mine carts are connected to them. If we really want to close the base in the future, then those resources will naturally have to be excavated from underground.
"Even, some mine carts can go to underground lakes and collect underground freshwater resources..."
Chen Chen was even more amazed when he heard this. He continued to tour for more than an hour before returning to the ground.
This tour lasted for nearly eight hours, exhausting the rest of the people in charge. Only Chen Chen's expression was as usual, without any change at all.
It was not until they sent Chen Chen off that they exchanged a few words with each other, then said goodbye and left.
They had to report Chen Chen's attitude throughout his visit to the main base, without missing a single detail.
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