Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

In the scientific research center, there is a special biological cloning laboratory.

This place was specially built by Chen Xin when he was studying the genetic improvement of wolves, and the biggest research results here are the big wolf dogs that played an important role in the previous Southwest Earthquake.

They are all bred here.

However, after a sufficient population was cultivated, these wolf dogs were transferred to other places for breeding and training. The research center was only responsible for follow-up research, as well as the cultivation and improvement of a small number of individuals.

So when Chen Xin came to this laboratory, most of the incubation cabins in the laboratory were empty, and only a few of them were hatching new embryos.

"Academician, why are you here?" The researchers who were working saw Chen Xin coming and hurriedly greeted him.

Chen Xin nodded his head as a response, and then said: "The Dome New City said that building an ecosystem requires animals to join the ecosystem, so we need to breed new animals here, so I'll come and have a look."

Hearing what Chen Xin said, the researchers nodded clearly: "A city-level ecological system is indeed inseparable from the participation of animals. When Professor Li was studying the ecological agriculture system, he considered letting us breed a group of animals to participate in the ecological agriculture system." in the ecosystem.

However, the result of the calculation at that time was that if animals were to be cultivated to join the ecosystem, because the scale of the ecological agriculture system was not large enough and the number of animals was too small, it was not only difficult to maintain, but also the cultivation of animals was troublesome and costly, so in the end we chose to use automatic machinery Or artificially maintain the ecological agriculture system.

Now to build a city-level ecosystem, the participation of animals becomes very necessary! "

Hearing what the researcher said, Chen Xin couldn't help touching his chin and asked him, "I understand the importance of animals in the ecosystem, but it's not impossible without animals, right?"

In Chen Xin's opinion, the scale of the dome city is not particularly large. Although it is necessary to build the largest artificial ecosystem in history, but with the research foundation of the previous ecological agriculture system, it is not impossible to build an ecosystem consisting only of plants. , the participation of animals is not particularly necessary.

"Although it is possible to do this, the cost of maintaining the entire ecosystem will be too high." The researchers naturally considered similar issues, so they replied to Chen Xin: "It is not just the pollination of plants. , and the animals themselves are part of the ecological cycle. If this part is missing, the loss outweighs the gain if it is maintained by external forces alone.

Moreover, the addition of animals can also make the entire ecosystem more complete and stable. After all, we are only imitating nature, and only the ecosystem formed by nature itself is the most stable and perfect. "

Chen Xin can only partially agree with the researchers' remarks.

Animals, as part of the ecosystem, can make the entire ecosystem more complete. It is true that it can make the entire ecosystem more stable and less prone to collapse. However, the ecosystem formed by nature itself is not stable.

Because with the changes of the natural environment, animals and plants are constantly evolving, and the natural ecosystem itself is not static.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many ecological niche replacements in the history of natural evolution, the old overlords would be eliminated, and new races would have climbed to the top of the food chain.

However, Chen Xin would not say these words. After all, he was only here to confirm the status of the biology laboratory and whether the follow-up animal breeding work could be carried out here, not to discuss the theory of biological evolution with the researchers.

"How many cultivation cabins can we use now?" Chen Xin glanced at the empty cultivation cabins around and asked the researchers.

"There are a total of 120 cultivation cabins here, and only 20 are currently in use, and the rest can be activated at any time." The researchers are naturally very familiar with the situation here, so the answer is also open-mouthed.

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction, and said to the researchers: "In this case, you should prepare to breed animals. As for which animals are needed, I will confirm with the project team of Dome New City, and then obtain from the National Seed Bank Bring in embryos and genetic samples."

"Good academician, we will make preparations." The researcher promised, with an excited look on his face. After all, there is nothing to do in the biology research room now, and it is undoubtedly a joy to have a new job. things.

And the researchers can also hear that this is a big research project. After all, humans have never tried to build a city-level ecosystem before this. of great significance.

Compared with the Ecosphere No. 2 experiment built by the Federation back then, it is undoubtedly much larger in scale and more meaningful.

After all, the Ecosphere No. 2 experiment conducted by the Federation was nothing more than a few scientists and a few simulated ecological environments. They did not build a complete ecological system, nor did they try to make humans and the ecological environment work together. get along.

Most critically, their experiment ultimately failed completely for various reasons.

As a researcher from the field of biology, he is naturally familiar with this period of history. He sincerely hopes that Yan Kingdom can achieve satisfactory success in this aspect, and really build an urban ecological system that can operate effectively and smoothly, and realize human Live in harmony with the nature of the environment.

This is an epoch-making research even before the disaster, not to mention that the external ecological environment has been completely extinct and collapsed, and only human beings can rebuild the ecological system in a greenhouse environment.

If the harmonious coexistence between human beings and the environment cannot be realized, it means that human beings cannot rebuild the ecological environment of Blue Star, which is nothing less than a huge disaster for human beings.

Although Blue Star itself does not need human beings to rebuild the ecological environment, the mass extinction of species has occurred more than once on this planet, and the death of animals and plants in the world has occurred more than once, and the natural environment will restore itself, but This will take at least tens or even millions of years.

For Blue Star itself, this may be just a flick of a finger, but for human beings, this is a long time scale that exceeds the entire human development process from the initial evolution to the current civilization.

Humans can't wait that long. Similarly, it is impossible for human beings to allow the natural environment to evolve naturally, because no one knows whether human beings can still adapt to the natural environment evolved naturally.