Chapter 80: The Exploration Team is Formed!
“Breaking News: The Fog Sphere surrounding the Floating Continent is rapidly expanding outwards!”
“It has been confirmed that 48 passenger planes have been involved in the incident, with the specific flight numbers and contact information as follows!”
“The expansion of the suspended Fog Sphere has damaged warships of various countries; coastal cities need to strictly guard against tsunamis and strong winds!”
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“Breaking! It is confirmed that Land Chunk Fragments have fallen from the Floating Continent; this newspaper will continue to track the situation!”
“The falling speed of the Land Chunk Fragments is extremely slow; does the surrounding mist contain anti-gravity substances?”
“The Land Chunk Fragments successfully fell into the Pacific Ocean; a reporter photographed a sperm whale being crushed to death on the spot.”
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“Shocking Change! The Land Chunk Fragments merged with the seabed rock peaks; will a new island be formed?!”
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From the moment the Fog Sphere surrounding the Floating Continent began to expand outwards, major media platforms immediately released related reports. The official authorities did not impose news censorship, but instead emphasized that coastal cities needed to enter a disaster relief mode.
For areas and people that were prone to encountering dangerous situations, large-scale evacuations and transfers were carried out in advance.
Many netizens, who originally thought the Floating Continent was far away, felt a real sense of crisis for the first time. Coupled with the dense release of news reports, it was simply a shock every day.
Fortunately, nothing particularly major happened in the end.
The sky is still blue.
The clouds are still white.
The college entrance examination still needs to be taken.
It’s just that when the netizens learned that the fragments that fell from the Floating Continent were going to turn into an island, everyone was stunned:
“Really? Land Chunk Fragments turning into an island? Could it be that the thickness of those fragments is deeper than the water of the Pacific Ocean?”
“Well, you can’t say that, after all, the news said that the diameter of the Land Chunk Fragments is about thirty kilometers, so it’s normal for the thickness to reach five or six kilometers. The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is only about four kilometers.”
“I heard from friends abroad that the thickness of the Land Chunk Fragments is estimated to be only about two or three kilometers. Under normal circumstances, it would definitely be completely submerged in the sea, but the seabed seems to have risen up a bit, directly supporting it, turning it into a Land Island.”
“What the hell?! How big is the mass of a Land Chunk Fragment with a diameter of thirty kilometers and a thickness of three kilometers? It’s good enough that the seabed isn’t being squeezed down, but it’s actually rising up? Do you think the seabed is a spring?”
“Although it is indeed a bit bizarre, the seabed at the point where the Land Chunk Fragments sank did indeed rise up a lot. This has been monitored by monitoring teams from multiple countries, and it’s impossible to fake it.”
“On-site photo, click to view—”
“Damn, you guys make it sound like the seabed has its own consciousness? Then if I spend all day staring at the toilet, won’t I make the seabed pregnant?”
“Plane-bro is thinking about nonsense again. You’ve been staring at planes for so many years, and the seabed hasn’t moved at all. But when the Land Chunk Fragments came down, the seabed actively rose up. Isn’t that enough to explain the problem?”
“You are not worthy of raising his child.”
“Hahaha, shrimp-hearted pig heart! But, speaking of which, since the Land Island has already formed, shouldn’t we start exploring it next?”
“The changes around the Land Island haven’t completely subsided yet. There are all sorts of troubles, such as whirlpools, strong storms, and a whole bunch of other problems. Not to mention warships, even fighter jets can’t fly in right now.”
“Are we just going to wait outside? If we don’t go up there sooner, what if the resources on the island are taken by others? This isn’t the Floating Continent hanging in the sky, which directly eliminated those small countries. Everyone can go to the island.”
“Wait for the announcement.”
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While the netizens were chatting, the official authorities also promptly issued an announcement:
“According to 《 the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 》 and international practice, the new Land Island appearing in the Pacific Ocean belongs to the common inheritance of mankind. No country may claim sovereignty and exclusive rights to resources. For subsequent island exploration, various countries will further negotiate and formulate corresponding exploration rules.”
After the announcement was issued, the online turmoil goes without saying. The landing affairs coordination group, led by Liu Wang, was already extremely busy.
Not to mention that landing on the Floating Land became landing on the Land Island, many tasks had to be prepared again. The most troublesome thing was actually the division of interests related to the Land Island.
The real situation was not as simple as the announcement stated; various countries almost quarreled over the Land Island.
There were island countries in the Pacific, such as Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, who, as geographically adjacent countries, strongly demanded priority rights to benefits and prohibited armed destruction of the Land Island.
There were countries like Spain, Korea, and the Island Country, which suffered huge losses in the Fog Sphere expansion storm, demanding that the resources extracted from the island be given priority compensation, and then distributed.
There were also some small countries that proposed the establishment of a multinational joint scientific expedition team and restricted the number of large countries in the scientific expedition team.
There were also some representatives who strongly demanded that at least half of the members of the landing exploration team be female.
Then the representatives supporting LGBT began to object.
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In short, the entire meeting was a mess.
But in the end, it still depends on who has the bigger fist and the heavier voice.
After preliminary discussions, it was decided that various countries would send exploration teams separately, to enter and explore under the supervision of the United Nations Interim Management Committee.
The number of people in the exploration teams of various countries, including logistics, was limited to within one hundred people. The use of large-scale destructive heavy weapons was prohibited. Very detailed regulations were made for exploration areas, exploration time, and information sharing, and other aspects.
In fact, many countries expressed opposition to this exploration policy, but the leading countries, whether it was the Lighthouse, Da Qian, or Britain, all defaulted.
The reason was also very simple. The resources on the island were limited. If each country explored separately, even with the big premise of information sharing, even if the exploration time was limited, they could still steal a bite or two. Moreover, the countries leading the exploration were mostly equipped with very sophisticated equipment, and the harvest would definitely be more abundant.
In addition, they had reasons to explore first. The exploration teams of many countries were near the Land Island and had suffered huge losses in the Fog Sphere expansion. Now the changes around the Land Island were still continuing, and they could still wait.
But when the changes were completely over, and the countries that still couldn’t arrive, would they still have to wait?
We all drive Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royces, and you drive a Mazda, no wonder you’re late.
What’s more, some don’t even have a Mazda.
Then it’s no problem for us to go in and wait, right? It’s not like we’re not allowed to explore the island.
It’s like exploring the moon. The moon is right there, and the resources of the moon belong to all mankind, but first of all, you have to land on the moon.
However, this kind of thing can’t be done too aggressively. After all, it’s not the real moon. After the first wave of exploration is over, the subsequent development will still be mainly based on multinational joint development, and the wishes of other countries cannot be completely ignored.
In short, no matter how the outside world disputes, Da Qian has firmly obtained a spot for the first exploration of the island. As for those detailed conditions, they are more to restrain their exploration teams, who are the first to land on the island, and prevent them from causing too much damage after landing.
“Now it depends on when the surroundings of the Land Island can calm down.”
Looking at the real-time monitoring screen transmitted by the Satellite, Liu Wang was full of confidence.
At this moment, Little Li suddenly walked up quickly:
“Leader, a new report has just been submitted, regarding the Heavenly Palace phantom above the Fog Sphere.”
