"New Kyoto is good! New Kyoto is perfect!" Academician Liu Chengen rubbed his hands excitedly.
"The research facilities there are the most comprehensive. We can build an Around-the-Tree Laboratory right there!"
Qian Zhenhua had already begun pulling up New Kyoto's structural diagrams on his tablet terminal, muttering to himself:
"A central hemispherical structure, ten kilometers in diameter and three hundred meters high, with water, mountains, and an ecosystem. More than enough for the initial stage!"
"And we can keep expanding upward and downward. There'll be plenty of room for the mature World Tree!!"
Everyone immediately got to work, launching into an urgent discussion of the transplant plan.
Finally, a bold yet meticulous plan took shape-multiple heavy-lift helicopters would carry it together at night!
This would avoid the jolts of prolonged ground transport while reducing travel time, improving the World Tree's chances of survival, and even greatly reducing the likelihood of enemy interception.
"Communications! Get me the Expeditionary Force quarantine zone!" Lin Mo picked up the radio and gave the order.
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, over a hundred soldiers who had just returned from the expedition and were resting in quarantine received a new assignment.
They entered the ecological park in formation, looking at the small tree glowing softly green before them, then at Lin Mo, their faces full of curiosity.
"Your mission!"
Lin Mo pointed at the ground beneath the World Tree.
"Is to dig it out for me, intact, along with all the soil beneath it!"
"There's only one requirement: don't damage a single root! Work as delicately as if you were embroidering!"
"Yes, sir!"
The soldiers answered in unison and immediately spread out.
The World Tree might have stood only three meters tall, but once the digging began, everyone sucked in a sharp breath.
Its emerald-green roots intertwined underground