January 22, 2016, the countdown is 57 days.

At 8 a.m. Beijing time, when the whole of Asia began to bathe in the morning light of winter, Washington had just entered yesterday's night.

In the White House, Mr. President, who had just finished dinner, received a batch of photos of CIA. In line with this batch of photos, there was also an analysis report. In the bottom right corner of the report, Mr. President saw a regular machine signature - kl3014.

The content of the report is not complicated. Specifically, the satellite surveillance system discovered an hour ago that some abnormalities occurred in forests in Russia's Siberia. Compared with the last observation (less than a week), about tens of thousands of square kilometers of forests disappeared out of thin air.

After reading the report, the President picked up the comparison photos in his hand. These characteristics were not very obvious, but by deliberate comparison, it was easy to find the difference. In today's latest photo, there were black traces arranged in parallel, like brushes, like long strips of brushes, as if someone had used a black pencil to correct this photo. At first glance, these traces were a bit like a wide asphalt road.

The highest-precision picture shows that among these black traces, the coniferous forests that should have existed have now completely disappeared, and the ground is flat and smooth, much like the effect of a road roller press. The intelligence department initially thought this was a certain project prepared by Russia, such as what Russia had always mentioned before, to build Siberia into a large farm or an airport.

These explanations make sense, but the only thing that cannot be explained is how the Russians can complete such a large amount of engineering in one week? Because according to the information in the photo, it is necessary to prepare enough engineering vehicles and personnel in such a harsh and bad situation, but according to the satellite's monitoring of the Russian railway system, no similar traces were found.

The reason why Cia presented this report is because they suspected that Carmel might be involved. In recent times, no matter which country's intelligence system in the world has involved Carmel, it will focus on it as soon as possible. In this regard, the United States, which is the most "careful" partner, naturally cannot fall behind.

For this matter, the US intelligence officers in the Sea Cucumber Power had found a reason and set off on the train to Yakutsk. Before this, the President also approved a special fund for CIA for overseas operations. However, before the intelligence officers contacted them, the US still hoped to learn the truth as soon as possible.

A mysterious Carmel outside the earth is already troublesome enough. If even the earth starts to appear fog, it is definitely not a good thing for the United States at this critical moment.

The US government has always suspected that Carmel had an "underground alliance" with other governments on earth, and this secret cooperation will obviously threaten the status of the United States in the future. Two months ago, the US government once suspected that this country was a country Z. However, since the conflict between China and Kazakhstan at the end of October, the United States has dispelled this doubt. Since then, Russia has naturally become the biggest object of suspicion.

20 minutes later, the President called the Russian President's insider. The two sides had a pleasant conversation for more than half an hour. At the end of the conversation, the President vaguely mentioned what happened in Siberia. In response, the Russian President frankly admitted that it was Carmel who opened a new paper mill there. After soliciting approval from the Russian government and paying a large amount of special logging costs, he obtained permission to deforestate the forest. These things should have been done by Carmel and the others. Russia does not know much about the specific situation. After all, Russia's research on magic is far inferior to the great America...

"The paper mill!" The moment he hung up the phone, the President cursed in his heart.

At this critical moment, Carmel still has time to care about paper mills? Even fools can see that because more and more immigrants, what Carmel needs most now is Brazil and the United States' food, the steel production capacity and light industrial products of Country Z, Canada's freshwater, the cutting-edge aerospace technology of the United States, and the banknotes and paper mills of all countries on the earth? Such reasons are simply not even perfunctory.

The Russians must have an informal agreement with Carmel. Mr. President can confirm this, but it makes no sense... Which government on earth now does not reach a private agreement with Carmel? Isn't the United States itself yet?

Since the United Nations public statement at the end of August, these countries on earth have maintained the attitude of the United Nations on the surface, but seem to maintain the previous economic order. However, privately, no country is no longer thinking about Carmel's magic quota. Many secret transactions have now basically been semi-public. The Carmels rely on the monopoly of magic, such a unique technological resource, and the right to speak in the field of magic, allowing the earth's governments to compete with each other to undermine each other, and they have unknowingly gained the greatest benefit...

It can be said that the influence of magic on the world has unknowingly surpassed the original oil and became a synonym for a certain currency. Although the Carmels were still waving the world currency USD when they went out to negotiate terms, the Yisenshi (the basic unit of magic, similar to kilowatt-hour) magic is still worth, or whether they have the final say. As we all know, the Carmels basically do not save money now, and after all the money is received, they spend it as soon as possible to exchange it for the materials they want. In such transactions, the United States or the US dollar, there is no profit opportunity at all.

In fact, if it weren't for the "private agreement" between the US government and Carmel, Carmel could have replaced it with Carmel's official currency... And the reason why they did not do this is said to be because the coining technology is not up to standard, and Carmel did not intend to spend time on this. Therefore, Carmel's current domestic banknotes are not in the usual sense. All forms of Carmel's currency are simple and trouble-free electronic currencies.

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Soil, fertilizer, irrigation systems, sunlight, air, seeds, among these essential elements of agriculture, seeds, irrigation and fertilizers are the easiest to solve, because these are already included in the earth's industrial system, in other words, as long as Carmel can take out the money, these can be solved.

There is a saying that it is good to say that problems that can be solved with money are not problems, and those that cannot be solved with money are the key.

Irrigation systems are actually not difficult to achieve. Compared with space stations that need to meet living conditions, it is not difficult to build farmland in a gravity-free environment. It only requires some basic steel structures, and then consider some design conditions on this basis, such as an automatic drip irrigation system and a fertilizer solution spraying system. Apart from this, nothing else is needed, and even pesticides and weeding are not needed. These farmlands themselves are closed and isolated in the space. All soils must undergo strict high-temperature sterilization before entering here, and then artificially add the necessary microorganisms for cultivation of plants. All personnel must undergo sterilization procedures during the in and out of the process. The entire "farm plane" is comparable to a laboratory. Therefore, the grain produced here in the future will be the most "green" food in the world.

The air circulation is still based on the shelter standard to connect the secondary plane with the main plane of the earth. However, it is not directly extracted like the shelter. Instead, it is introduced through an air purification plant in Chad to prevent microorganisms or other plant seeds that may be mixed in the air. Considering the war that will occur in the future, Carmel is now working with the United States in space to study the self-circulation ecosystem and strive to achieve self-circulation as soon as possible. At the same time, it has also set up a spare air purification plant in Carmel. Once the Chad one loses its function, Carmel will replace it. The purpose of all this is to ensure the stability of agricultural production to the greatest extent and not be affected by the outside world.

The two biggest problems are actually soil and sunshine. However, now, the soil problem has been temporarily solved. Although it may take a few years to recover from the ground force in harmony and normal, soil solidification and yield declines will inevitably occur, but we can still hope for soilless cultivation, which is already mature technology, which is really troublesome, is actually sunshine.

The problem of sunlight is actually energy. Although it can be replaced by the space gate array at Lagrangian point for the time being, after entering the state of war, even Ivan cannot tell how long these space gate arrays can play. It is the greatest stupidity to place hopes on the enemy's stupidity. Ivan dare not expect the emperor to be so stupid that he cannot even find such obvious magic traces. Once the space gate array is destroyed, Carmel still has to use the power system to artificially create light... But the problem is that electricity essentially depends on the earth and external energy.

From this point of view, Ivan hopes that the birth of nuclear fusion technology will be more than anyone else. If this problem is not solved one day, Carmel will not be able to be truly safe and safe in one day.

In the end, the whole Carmel agricultural issue is still a question of whether a civilization can completely separate itself from nature and truly achieve the best. The earth now seems to be technologically developed, but in essence it is still relying on "heaven". This heaven refers to the innate gift of the natural environment, such as sunshine, air and ecological environment.

After entering the 21st century, environmental protection has always been a key issue for all mankind. The reason for carrying out these seemingly thankless and self-harming work is not because humans hate the smell of waste gas and because wastewater threatens health... These reasons do exist, but the most fundamental point is that humans are now replicating the current ecology, which means that once the current ecological balance is destroyed, human civilization will enter a state of no return. This is not a problem of disease caused by environmental pollution, but a problem of the rise and fall of the entire civilization.

Environmental problems cause changes in civilizations, which is no longer rare. The Sahara Desert is once a grassland with abundant water and grass. The Taklamakan Desert buried the famous ancient country Loulan. The desert in the Middle East was once the birthplace of ancient civilizations such as Persia and Assyrianism. If Egypt was not for a Nile River, its fate might be similar to that of the Sahara... In fact, if the earth follows the current development trend, environmental collapse will happen sooner or later. Global sea levels rise and climate abnormalities are already warnings that nature cannot withstand pressure.

Some people say that environmental protection is respect for nature. In fact, as a group, a arrogant creature like humans has never had real respect for anything, and the world and nature never need so-called respect. Monkeys in the forest respect nature the most, but when a tornado is blowing, a forest fire occurs, or when they are starved to death due to lack of food, they have never seen nature give back to them. Respecting this kind of thing is just a sentimental emotion of human beings. It may play a great role in maintaining the internal order system of human beings, but externally...

Therefore, environmental protection is not a noble virtue, nor has a moral commanding height at all, because environmental protection itself is just a reasonable behavior made by humans for their own interests... If the earth can rely entirely on its own industrial system to achieve a perfect ecology, it can also ignore natural disasters in technology. Apart from scientific research and the value of pleasing humans, other creatures have no need to exist at all.

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January 28, 2016, the countdown is 51 days.

After a week of hard work by thousands of people in the Carmel Agricultural Department, it turned out to be just an empty agricultural base, but now it looks quite good. Several experimental fields have begun to be debugged before formal production (planting).

As a technician in the agricultural department, Lu Bo entered here through the space door after a routine disinfection procedure, got on an aerodynamic car, and started a routine progress patrol.

From a distance, the appearance of the agricultural base actually has certain similarities with the space station, both of which are cylindrical in shape, but the size of the agricultural base is many times larger than that of the space station. Of course, the standards of manufacturing technology are far from comparable to those of the living standard space station.

Because crop growth only requires maintaining a weak gravity, the structure of the agricultural base does not need to consider the load-bearing or structural strength too much. In this way, the volume can naturally be extremely large. Because this environment does not require taking load-bearing into account, the ground here is all made of the cheapest plastic plates with small holes and a few slender steel bars to reinforce and support. The function is only to maintain a most basic "flat ground". The soil of dozens of centimeters thick is evenly distributed on these plastic plates. In the parallel defense line of the plastic plates, a pipe extending out of many small forked pipes can be seen every half a meter away. These forked pipes are used for drip irrigation and necessary nutrient solutions.

In the past few years, the entire system has been conducted in space and small-scale trial production. In terms of effect, if this artificial agricultural system is invested in large-scale planting, the yield may be a certain gap compared with that on the earth, but in terms of agricultural efficiency, it is even higher than that of large farms in the United States. Here, there is no special situation. One person manages thousands of acres of land, and there is no problem at all. It is just a computer issuing instructions, because all the processes here have basically been automated. Of course, if the management of an AI here is an AI... then there is basically no need for a human farmer to exist.

However, the only problem with this kind of agricultural system is that the construction speed will be limited. Although its construction efficiency is hundreds of times that of space stations, its area needs are thousands of times that of space stations. So far, the agricultural bases that have been built are only a few hundred square kilometers, only 500,000 acres. Of course, these hundreds of thousands of acres are the beginning.

Lu Bo's job responsibility is to check the possible mistakes in these hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural bases... If this work is really left to him alone, he might not be able to get a hundred clones out of the way. Fortunately, he has another helper, that is, the helper Yan Keshougang trained Carmel, the smart ai code-named kl1024, rigorous.

What he had to do was put on a special glasses connected to the computer, and then release a specially prepared space eye, so that the space eye would follow the established route, and patrol the entire base at a speed that the naked eye could not see clearly. The rest was just waiting for the rigorous analysis of the results, and the ability would do it by yourself, and notify the workers to handle the tasks beyond their ability.

Under normal circumstances, agricultural bases generally do not have any major problems. So far, the most common problems are pipeline blockage, foreign objects suspended in the air, and unreasonable plant growth density. Most of the problems can be solved by using the tools provided by the aerodynamic car he drove. However, Lu Bo understood that if it was the harvesting period, it would become extremely messy. The automatic harvesting system would create countless uncontrolled debris in the air. At that time, a large number of Carmel citizens may be required to participate in "voluntary labor" and drive countless aerodynamic cars with vacuum cleaners to clean... This may also be considered a modern busy farming system.

Looking at the dark land in the experimental field in front of him, Lu Bo couldn't help but start to fantasize. When the seeds buried inside turned golden, there were wheat straw flying all over the sky, countless Carmels drove aerodynamic cars, shuttled through the harvest scenes. In addition, there are thousands of small suns standing side by side that have not yet been put into operation. Each of them is a partial projection of the real sun, and each projection will bring real energy and life to the seeds in these soils and hope to this land.

That kind of scene is comparable to heaven.

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