Under Mickey's explanation, the group came to this seed bank about three kilometers away from the city.

The Seed Bank stands halfway up the mountainside of Svalbard Mountain opposite Svalbard Airport, and has a very sci-fi atmosphere. The appearance of the Seed Bank gate is very similar to the corners of the alien spacecraft that invaded the earth in the American science fiction blockbuster "Independence Day".

Under the leadership of Mickey, everyone walked along a winding mountain road to the seed bank. After getting closer, Yang Jing felt the grandeur of this seed bank.

The reinforced concrete building exposed outside the mountain is just the gate of the seed bank. The height of this building is more than twelve meters and the width is about four meters. A thick door divides the inside and outside world into two parts.

At the entrance of the gate, there is a statue of a polar bear standing.

Princess asked Mickey curiously, "What are you doing with a statue of a polar bear here?"

Mickey smiled and said, "The reason why a polar bear is erected here is a very interesting story. The Norwegian government planned to build a seed bank here, but this place is the world of polar bears. Near this mountain and on this mountain, there are many polar bears wandering around every day. Faced with these powerful polar bears, the builders could only give their kindness and give them a favor, feed them, and defend them with guns, so they were in peace with them. Finally, after the seed bank was repaired, these polar bears became the natural defense of the seed bank. In order to express their gratitude to the polar bears, the Norwegian government erected such a polar bear statue at the door of the seed bank."

The group smiled.

Mickey continued to explain: "This seed bank is built on the hillside at an altitude of 130 meters. This height is enough to ensure that even if a nuclear war occurs in the future, all glaciers around the world will melt and the seawater will not be flooded here. Moreover, it is located in a high-latitude area and is severely cold all year round. The seed bank is built in permafrost. Therefore, even if the air-conditioning equipment inside is completely invalid, it can be in a low temperature all year round. In this seed bank, seeds such as wheat, barley and peas can be kept for up to 1,000 years, while the sorghum seeds with the longest survivability can be stored for about 19,500 years."

Yang Jing asked curiously: "What is the structure here?"

Mickey shook her head and said, "I haven't been in, but I've heard others talk about the structure inside. This seed bank penetrates more than 100 meters deep into the mountain, and is completely made of reinforced concrete that is as thick as one meter. The core area is three side-by-side independent refrigerators at the end of the passage, each 27 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and 5 meters high. The metal doors of each refrigerator are covered with frost."

"At present, only one of these three refrigerators is used, and the other two are still empty. But this refrigerator is also equipped with three keys, one of which is worn by the seed bank manager and one in the hands of the Norwegian government. I don't know who is wearing the remaining key. I'm afraid that only the Norwegian government knows the true identity of the wearer of the last key. Only when all three keys are gathered can the refrigerator be opened."

Chris smiled: "This level of security is comparable to that of Fort Knox's vault."

Miki nodded and said, "It's almost the same. Even if it's not as good as the vault of Fort Knox, it's probably not much worse. This seed bank was built according to the standards that can resist nuclear bombings and magnitude 7 earthquakes of Richmond. I don't know whether the atomic bomb can resist it, but what I know is that a week before the completion of this seed bank, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred here, and many buildings in Longyearbyen collapsed, but nothing happened here."

Chris nodded and said, "This seed bank is really strong."

Mickey said: "That's natural. In addition to having enough ability to resist external invasion, this seed bank is definitely worthy of internal security. From the door to the core area, there is a tunnel about 100 meters long in the middle, with five explosion-proof steel doors inside. Without the corresponding keys and passwords, outsiders should not even think of violently breaking there. Moreover, in this passage, people patroll with guns 24 hours a day. Especially for the three refrigerators in the core area, it is even more impossible for outsiders to enter."

After a pause, Mickey smiled and said, "Less than half a month after this seed bank was built, Norwegian Crown Prince Magnus came here in person and proposed to see the refrigerator in the core area, but was rejected. After a while, former US President Carter also visited the seed bank. He also proposed to see the refrigerator in the core area, and was also turned away."

Princess asked in surprise: "The security here is so strict?"

"Well, it's so strict. After all, the last hope of human beings is stored here, and it is not something that anyone can enter at will. There is a saying that everyone agrees with, that is, 'Where is the final word for human beings to perish,' here. There are more than 800,000 seeds of plants now stored here, and there are no seeds of genetically modified plants here at all, which ensures the purity of species. Therefore, this is a very important place for all human beings, and it is natural to be so strict."

Yang Jing asked, "Then have the seeds stored here used?"

"Yes." Miki nodded and said affirmatively, "The Syrian civil war in September 2015 killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced about 11 million people to become refugees. During the war, the main seed bank in Alpo in the Middle East was destroyed and unusable. The Syrian civil war prompted the Middle Easterners to take out seeds from the 'apocalypse seed bank' for the first time. The Middle Easterners first applied, and after the application was approved, they took out 325 boxes previously stored here, totaling nearly 130 boxes from 116,000 crop seed backups. This is the first time since the world seed bank was built."

Mickey shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands, "See, this is the greatness of this seed bank!"

The group stood in front of the seed bank. Opposite the mountain road was Svalbard Airport, and to the east of the airport was the bay. Longyearbyen City was in the southeast of the seed bank, and many residents and tourists were shuttled through the small town.

A female bear with two little bear cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed bank. Maybe she had just had a full meal. The three of them just stood on the top of the mountain and watched these people silently, then shook their heads and turned away. The two little bear cubs behind it happily followed their mother and ran while playing.

The glaciers across the bay farther away emit a strange color that is almost golden under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a more beautiful scenery than the painting.

The air is filled with the fishy smell of the sea, mixed with a hint of fragrance of flowers and plants. Although it is already within the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that work hard to grow, blossom and bear fruit through the warm and short period of summer two or three months.

In any aspect, the city is not considered brilliant. It has bad weather, inconvenient transportation, and even food cannot be self-sufficient and can only be transported from outside.

But it is just such a small city that contains a kind of greatness.

That’s right, it is because of the existence of this “domain seed bank” that this northernmost city in the world has become great.

Perhaps in the next year, there will be a nuclear war like in the movie "Terminator", or a biochemical war like in the movie "Resident Evil", or a disaster like "The Day Afternoon" or even "2012".

After such a disaster, if humans want to stand up again, this seed bank hidden deep in the mountains and the seed bank currently secretly built by other countries will completely become the last hope of mankind.

This city uses its weak body to stubbornly bear the last hope of mankind all over the world. With this alone, this city can be called "great".

As if feeling Yang Jing’s thoughts, Dabai came over, stretched out his tongue and licked Yang Jing’s hand, and licked Yang Jing’s hand. Dabai’s thoughts conveyed were very clear - I still have me here, I will guard the city.

At this time, a group of tourists came up from the bottom of the mountain. Among them, some were big and small, and it seemed that a big family came out to play together. Of course, these people were also led by a local tour guide.

Mickey and the tour guide were obviously very familiar. The two greeted each other and greeted each other for a few words. Mickey took Yang Jing and the others away from the entrance of the seed bank.

Walking to the bottom of the mountain, Mickey said: "In fact, in Longyearbyen, there are not only the seed bank we just saw. On this mountain and the inevitable mountain, there are two seed bank, one is the seed bank commissioned by the Norwegian government to build, and the other is the Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the two seed bank is not that large in scale, and they store plant seeds owned by Iceland and Norway."

In less than two hours, the group finished visiting the small town. Under Mickey's leadership, the group came to a restaurant on the edge of the bay to have a meal.

Dabai's arrival made the restaurant owner very happy. Obviously, the boss watched yesterday's live TV broadcast. However, because there were many people eating in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his group were guided to have a meal in a separate room to the east of the restaurant. No matter how much the restaurant owner liked Dabai, he would not let Dabai appear in the restaurant.

The food for lunch is very rich, mostly local specialty foods, such as whale meat and seal meat.

It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, Yang Jing spent 2,000 US dollars to buy a newly captured seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a small cart, allowing Dabai to enjoy the seal there alone - Dabai's meal was bloody, and of course it could not eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and the others would not have to eat.

Although Dabai likes to eat meat, it prefers to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, many times after polar bears hunt seals, they do not eat seal meat at all, but only eat the fat in it.
Chapter completed!