Mickey shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "See, this is the greatness of this seed bank!"
A group of people stood in front of the seed vault. Across the road at the foot of the mountain was Svalbard Airport, and to the east of the airport was the bay. Longyearbyen was southeast of the seed vault, and many residents and tourists were walking around the town.
A mother bear with two cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed bank. Perhaps they had just had a big meal, so the mother and her two cubs just stood on the top of the mountain and stared at these people silently, then shook their heads and turned away. The two cubs behind them happily followed their mother, running and playing.
Further away, the glaciers on the other side of the bay emit an almost golden color under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a scene more beautiful than a painting.
The air is filled with the smell of the sea, mixed with a hint of the fragrance of flowers and plants. Although this place is already within the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that take advantage of the warm and short two or three months of summer to grow, bloom and bear fruit.
No matter which aspect you look at, this city is not glorious. Bad weather, inconvenient transportation. Even food cannot be self-sufficient and can only be transported in from outside.
But it is such a small city that contains a kind of greatness.
That’s right, it is because of the existence of this “Doomsday Seed Vault” that makes this northernmost city in the world great.
Perhaps in some future year, a nuclear war like the one in the movie "Terminator" will occur on Earth, or a biological war like the one in the movie "Resident Evil" will occur, or a disaster like the one in "The Day After Tomorrow" or even "2012" will occur.
If mankind wants to stand up again after a disaster like that, this seed bank hidden deep in the mountain and the seed banks currently being secretly built in other countries will become mankind’s last hope.
This city uses its weak body to tenaciously carry the last hope of mankind all over the world. Just for this reason, this city deserves to be called "great".
As if sensing Yang Jing's thoughts, Dabai came over, stuck out his tongue and licked Yang Jing's hand, making Yang Jing laugh. The idea that Dabai conveyed was very clear - I am still here, and I will guard this city.
At this time, a group of tourists came up from the bottom of the mountain. They were big and small, and they looked like a big family out for fun. Of course, these people were also led by a local tour guide.
Mickey and the tour guide were obviously very familiar with each other. After the two greeted each other and said a few words, Mickey took Yang Jing and the others away from the seed bank.
Walking down the mountain, Mickey said, "In fact, there is not only the seed bank we just saw in Longyearbyen. There are two more seed banks on this mountain and the other one. One is the seed bank built by the Norwegian government on behalf of Iceland, and the other is the Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the scale of those two seed banks is not this large. They store plant seeds owned by Iceland and Norway respectively."
It took less than two hours for the group to tour the town. Led by Mickey, the group came to a restaurant on the bay for dinner.
The arrival of Dabai made the restaurant owner very happy. It was obvious that the owner watched the live broadcast on TV yesterday. However, because there were many people dining in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his group were guided to a separate room on the east side of the restaurant to eat. No matter how much the restaurant owner liked Dabai, he would not let Dabai appear in the restaurant.
The food for lunch was very rich, mostly local specialties, such as whale meat and seal meat.
It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, he directly spent two thousand US dollars to buy a freshly caught seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a cart, letting Dabai enjoy the seal there alone - Dabai's meals are very bloody, and it certainly cannot eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and the others would not have any food.
Although polar bears like to eat meat, they prefer to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, polar bears often do not eat seal meat after hunting seals, but only eat the fat.
As for the remaining seal meat, it will be taken by the Arctic foxes following the polar bears...
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