Starting My Treasure Hunting In England - Chapter 1006

c1006 Door

Svalbard’s name means cold coast if directly translated. It is a polar natural archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean and whose sovereignty belongs to Norway.

The Svalbard Archipelago consists of West Spitsbergen Island, Northeastern Island, Edi Island, Barents Island, etc. It is located within the Arctic Circle, between the Barents Sea and the Greenland Sea. The capital Longyearbyen is located The west coast of the island.

The island has many mountains, fjords, cold climate, white and moving polar scenery and diverse polar creatures. These are the reasons why tourists come here. This climate is also suitable for the name of the island.

The Svalbard Islands were first discovered by the Norwegians in the 12th century. According to the Chronicle of Iceland, the specific time was 1194. It was not until 1596 that it was named Svalbard by the Dutch navigator William Barentsz, which means ” Cold Coast”.

Barents here was one of the earliest Arctic explorers of mankind, and the famous Barents Sea was named in commemoration of his expedition achievements.

In 1611, whaling ships from the Netherlands and Britain came here, followed by whaling ships from France, the Hanseatic League, Denmark and Norway, and they had disputes over the whaling rights. Finally, the conflict was ended by dividing the spheres of influence on the coast.

Among them, the Russians, who are now the most populous among non-Norwegians here, arrived the latest and did not arrive until 1715. Therefore, there was not much share left for them, so they could only go to the island to make a living, which also resulted in the current population distribution. .

After the decline of the whaling industry in 1800, the islands were mainly engaged in coal mining. But it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that companies and individuals from the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Russia began to survey coal deposits and claim ownership of the minerals.

So on February 9, 1920, the Treaty of Svalbard was signed, which assigned sovereignty over the entire archipelago to Norway.

However, according to the treaty, citizens of all signatory countries have equal business rights in Svalbard; at the same time, the islands maintain a state of armament, and Norway is obligated to protect the safety of the islanders and the unique natural wilderness landscape.

Interestingly, the Chinese government became a party to the Treaty of Svalbard on July 1, 1925, and accordingly established the Chinese Arctic Scientific Research Yellow River Station in 2004.

In the early days, mining and fishing were the two most important economic pillars of this island. However, as time changed and countries paid more attention to environmental protection, these industries began to decline, and tourism gradually became the new economic core of the island.

Now, an average of about 50,000 tourists visit the island every year. There are more than 4 hotels or hotels on the island, including a modern Radisson Hotel, as well as a post office and supermarket open all year round, which are enough to meet the needs of island residents and tourists even in the darkest night.

In addition, the art galleries and churches in Longyearbyen, the capital of the archipelago, are also good places to travel. Various activities are often held to bring vitality to the town.

Another important attraction is the Svalbard Seed Vault, a high-level shelter building located in the mountains of the Arctic Circle more than 1,000 kilometers away from the pole.

The building was started by the Norwegian government on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean as a repository to preserve crop seeds from around the world, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The “Seed Vault” is located only more than 1,000 kilometers away from the North Pole. It is a natural refrigerator that can keep seeds in a low-temperature environment, which is very suitable for long-term storage of seeds without being affected by temperature changes.

When building the “seed bank”, scientists carefully considered the worst possible dangers that may occur in the world now and in the future, and made corresponding preparations.

If the “Seed Vault” is located about 130 meters above sea level, even if the Greenland ice sheet melts or the Antarctic ice sheet completely melts, and the sea level rises a lot, it will not be submerged.

In addition, Norway has established 3 national parks, 3 nature reserves, 3 plant reserves and 15 bird sanctuaries on the island. Nearly 60% of the island is protected.

164 species of plants, 4 species of mammals and more than 160 species of birds have been discovered on the island. Not far from the city, you can often see polar bears, arctic foxes, reindeer and other animals walking leisurely.

It is also because of this special customs that Svalbard is able to attract so many tourists, and because of this, Mary can more smoothly go to the predetermined location to light up the space coordinates.

To be honest, Liang En was a little worried when he first calculated the latitude, because this latitude has a large number of military restricted areas in Russia, the United States and Canada. It would be very troublesome to move in the restricted area. Fortunately, this is not the actual situation.

A week later, Mary completed her trip and marked the spatial coordinates of all important locations. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En also completed the manufacturing of the space gate recorded on the Mithril disk.

“Is this the thing that can travel between different worlds?” Looking at the metal door frame about three meters high that was placed in the garage, the three historical attendants had curious faces on their faces.

Because although the door frame of this metal door looks full of mystery, it is full of modern and simple style. In any case, it does not look like something designed so long ago.

The most important thing is that this thing does not have any abnormal sound or light reaction when placed in the room. No matter how you look at it, it is just an ordinary metal door frame. At most, it has some strange patterns on it.

“Theoretically, it should be able to open a door.” Liang En’s expression was obviously helpless at this time. “It’s just that everything here must be able to function normally after feeling the weak points of space, so I haven’t put in the energy gems yet.”

“After all, if you activate this door, the energy gems are purely consumables, so it is unlikely that I will consume some gems specifically for display.”

“But I have already understood the clues inside the other party’s space door, and I can basically confirm that the next action will go smoothly. As long as the data at that location given by the other party is correct, everything should be smooth. smoothly.”

For Liang En, he doesn’t ask for anything else but for everything to go well. Because during the previous construction and analysis, he found that there were many holes left in the design drawing.

The most terrible thing is that the coordinates on the other side of the space door are fixed. Obviously, this is the last trap designed by the person who left this drawing before, hoping to send the coordinates of the current world back to his hometown.

The reason why he judged that the other party was intentional is very simple, because after analyzing the time and space gate, Liang En found that the other party did not directly fix a target location, but chose to block other locations and simply pointed to another location.

Obviously, this is not the kind of extraordinary power or materials that may be consumed in order to save, but only a one-way channel is set up to try to transmit information.

As for why the other party didn’t just create a clearly pointed design, the reason is very simple, because the design of this kind of space door is very complicated, and it doesn’t mean that just anyone can do it.

So even if the person trapped here was indeed a spell caster, for this spell caster, he obviously did not understand the core technology of this kind of space door, so the result was that he could only complete his design mechanically.