There were originally heavy defenses around the nuclear reactor, but the heavy defenses in the cold weapon era were of limited use to real experts. Even without borrowing high-tech equipment such as night vision goggles, Llano could easily escape from the blockade.
shuttle through.
After entering the gate, he immediately felt that the temperature began to gradually increase, and there was a sultry feeling at the same time. Even through the gas mask, he could feel how bad the environment here was.
Lan Nuo chose an internal circulation gas mask. In this way, he would basically not have any material exchange with the outside world. Sodium peroxide is a very good source of oxygen. The jar on Lan Nuo’s body contains
When filled with this substance, it can absorb the carbon dioxide it exhales and generate oxygen.
In this way, even if there is a large amount of radiation dust in this harsh environment, it will not cause fatal harm to him. There is no way, he is just an ordinary person now, if he is directly exposed to the radiation environment, no matter how hard he is,
No matter how powerful his survival experience and fighting instincts are, no matter how many levels of his genetic lock he unlocks, he still cannot avoid the outcome of genetic collapse.
Fortunately, the internal passages of the reactor are well preserved. Lan Nuo only needs to activate the manual valves of various gates here according to the rules to open passages one by one. At least there is no need to clean up the ruins.
The hot and humid environment inside the reactor gave him a rather bad premonition. This harsh environment was probably caused by the leakage of cooling water, and such a violent radiation environment proved that it was not just the cooling water that was leaking. Fortunately, the reactor
It seems that there are insurance measures in place to prevent the contaminated nuclear sewage from flowing to the outside world. If this sewage enters the water cycle of the outside world, then people outside may not be far from extinction.
In order to save time for exploration, Lan Nuo directly started the rehearsal, exploring the nuclear reactor from different routes to understand the working principle of this nuclear reactor.
After walking around the reactor, Lan Nuo roughly understood the working principle of the reactor. This is a relatively primitive nuclear fusion power generation facility. It can be seen that the civilization was actually quite reluctant to move this thing onto the spacecraft.
The power generation facility is divided into two parts. One part is a huge magnetic confinement ring, and the other is an ordinary fission reactor to provide energy to the magnetic confinement ring.
This design sounds a bit like taking off your pants and farting. The nuclear fusion reaction itself can produce huge energy. Extracting a little bit of this energy can provide energy for the magnetic confinement device. Logically speaking, there is no need to waste resources on construction.
A nuclear reactor.
But the actual situation is not like this. Major accidents are not allowed during long space voyages. Even a short-term interruption of energy supply may bring catastrophic consequences, and if there is only a nuclear fusion reactor, once for some reasons
It will cause a stall and it will be very difficult to restart the reactor. Even if the technology has developed to their level, it will be very difficult to rely on equipment such as batteries for energy storage. If you want to restart the magnetic confinement ring, it will be necessary
A large amount of energy often requires the help of other spacecraft, and the time difference in between is enough to cause a large number of casualties.
For this reason, they designed the spacecraft like this. Ordinary fission and reactors provide energy to maintain the existence of the magnetic confinement ring, ensuring that no matter what kind of accident occurs, the magnetic confinement ring can always exist and can be re-ignited at any time. This is also the reason why the spacecraft
The reason why power outages are often short-lived is that just after an unexpected power outage, the reactor is restarted under the influence of the program, and it may only take a few hours or even minutes for the power supply to be restored.
According to the current investigation and judgment, the problem should be the fission reactor. To some extent, this is good news. After all, the technology required to repair a fission reactor is much lower than that of repairing a fusion reactor. As for the bad news, it is the fission reactor.
Reactor leaks often cause severe radiation, which has great damage to the physiological health of repair personnel.
During the investigation, Lanno had found several major safety hazards and equipment that had suffered serious malfunctions. These included a leaking fuel rod and a partially damaged cooling tower. These things were not his
It can be repaired by one person. He does not yet know whether there are other hidden dangers in the reactor. The only good thing is that most of the faults can be repaired using existing equipment. After repairing these faults, the spacecraft can still
You can survive in the starry sky for a long time.
"In addition to the conventional power generation facilities, there seems to be a facility under the reactor that is not for power generation. It feels like a shelter or something like that. However, there are multiple layers of gates blocking it. Previously, it would be wasteful to open multiple gates during the exploration process.
I didn’t take a closer look at the time. I have to go down and see what’s going on this time. Maybe I can find information left by people from the previous era and figure out what happened.”
When Lan Nuo explored before, he chose roads that were relatively easy to pass. Opening a series of gates in succession would waste a lot of rehearsal time, so Lan Nuo only took a cursory glance at the series of gates on the opposite side.
There will be so many gates for isolation. Obviously, there is a great risk in this area. Lan Nuo opened the rehearsal at the last gate. Although no danger was found after opening it before.
The dangers inside may be invisible types. For example, poisonous gas, viruses, curses, ghosts, or even subspace may be on the other side as soon as you open the door.
He was very careful about this door. He pushed it open and entered. Lan Nuo couldn't help but frown. What came into view were abandoned culture cabins. He was familiar with this kind of thing. They were basically used for treatment.
Or they are genetically modified, and can sometimes be used for dormancy.
After Lannuo dismantled and analyzed several of them, he roughly judged that the functions of these things were closer to dormant warehouses. Although they had medical and transformation functions, they were relatively weak.
There are a lot of these dormant chambers, and they are densely packed, just like the eggs left after breaking out of the cocoon. Looking at them makes people's scalp numb, and they feel like they are about to suffer from trypophobia.
Lan Nuo felt creepy about the environment here, but still moved forward slowly to explore deeper inside.
Continuing forward, he encountered a blocked gate, and it was quite thick. After groping for a long time, he found the mechanism to manually open the door. The heavy gate could only be opened slowly under his own strength, and it was half a meter thick.
The metal gate slowly rose. If it weren't for the effort-saving pulleys and levers, Lan Nuo's strength would never have been able to open the gate.
At this time, as the gate opened, what Lan Nuo saw was an even more horrifying scene. In this warehouse, there were mummies lying one after another, and they were neatly placed one by one like a stop time.
There are so many people in the grid that you can't see the end at a glance. There are probably tens of thousands of corpses in this room. Just seeing the scene in front of you is enough to scare people who are not mentally strong enough to go crazy.
"Hiss... how many people have died? I'm afraid ancient civilizations only appeared because of this mass extinction death, right?" Although I guessed this in my mind, I still need evidence to confirm this guess. After all,
The reason for the lack of preservation is that ancient people had different funeral customs, and they liked to put the corpse like this. There are still people on earth who like to dig out the internal organs of the corpse and make them into mummies. More abstract ones even stuff their own corpses into Buddha statues.
, things like cultural differences when made into Buddha statues are like this on a planet, let alone in the universe.
Lan Nuo has a strong ability to accept these weird scenes. He chose a very well-preserved corpse. He pulled her out of the cabinet and started the dissection with the leak-picking knife he carried.
According to observations, the vast majority of corpses have no external injuries, and judging from the bones, skin, etc. of the corpses, most of them were not particularly old when they turned into mummies. A more accurate statement is that among these corpses,
There are old and young, which is basically in line with the age distribution in a normal society, but the age distribution among the corpses is not normal.
The corpses of normal deaths should usually be relatively old. Only a small number of accidental deaths are young people, and this discovery basically refutes previous speculations about special funeral customs.
The blade cut through the shriveled skin. Lan Nuo began to examine the internal organs inside the corpse one by one. The environment inside this isolation room was cold and dry. The internal organs of the corpse had a very low degree of decay and dehydrated rapidly in a short period of time. Therefore, they were relatively intact.
, judging from the preservation of the internal organs, it does not appear to be a serious disease. Of course, it may also be because Lan Nuo does not have a detailed enough understanding of the physiological state of this race.
As the dissection continued, Lan Nuo soon found the most likely cause of death. Extremely unnatural cracks appeared in the skull of the corpse, and crystallization appeared in the cracks. The abnormal growth of crystals has already
Invading the interior of the skull, the cause of death is likely to be caused by the abnormal growth of these crystals. Even if the growth of the crystals is prevented through technical means, the cracked skull may still cause fatal injuries.
Lan Nuo also specially dissected the heads of several corpses and found that their heads all had similar injuries to varying degrees. Moreover, after classifying the corpses based on their age, it was obvious that the older corpses at the time of death had better skull health.
The more cracks there are, the more serious the problem of intracranial crystals will be.
It is common for elderly people over 60 years old to have all the crystals in their skulls, which means that the cause of the large number of deaths among these people is probably a disease that commonly occurs in them, perhaps an epidemic disease, or some kind of infection.
Disease, or some special curse that is not a disease.
"If we say that the older we are, the more serious the condition will be, can we conversely infer that the younger the age, the milder the condition. The youngest among these corpses may only be sixteen or seventeen years old, and the degree of disease in their brains is indeed relatively high.
Low, even the cracks on the skull are barely detectable.
If this is the case... the dating of civilization seems understandable. And I seem to have seen a similar situation in a book." Lan Nuo tried hard to search the memory in his mind. The brain of the carbon-based creature asked him to sort it out.
It is quite difficult to recall these memories that exist in the soul. After recalling some things, you must forget other parts.
After a moment, he remembered a work with a very similar plot. This work was called "Supernova Era" in that world. The background of the story took place on the earth at the end of the 20th century. At that time, all adults on the earth were caught in a countdown to death.
Underage children will not be affected, and after all the efforts of the world, it was finally found that even adults who have become sick have exhausted all means and there is still no possibility of saving them.
Eventually adults have to give up hope of continuing to live and find ways to pass their hope to the next generation, those children who are not affected by the disease.
It's just that the eldest of these children are only in their teens. Even if they are selected, forcibly instilled with a lot of knowledge, and appointed as future rulers, it is still difficult to maintain the operation of society.
Before they died, the adults left a lot of wealth for their children, produced a large number of food tools, and left a large number of complete factories, for fear that the children would not survive in the future.
At first, these children barely maintained the functioning of society, but the repetitive tasks day after day were not something that the children had the patience to complete. Soon they discovered that adults had left them a lot of food and endless candies. And now
No one controls them.
So they opened the warehouse and consumed and accumulated unscrupulously. They could eat whatever they wanted and play whatever they wanted. When they got tired or bored, they started to sleep. They could eat or sleep anytime and anywhere, but no matter how much they wanted,
Supplies will always run out one day.
For that planet, in the era after the massive consumption of materials, it is possible for people to reunite, and there is a large enough industrial base to feed these children and maintain the survival of civilization.
But for this spacecraft, all this is not feasible, because this spacecraft is too small. It does not have a huge fault tolerance rate like an entire planet. If you want a society composed of children to develop again, just
It is necessary to ensure zero mistakes and ensure that every step will not go wrong.
Thinking of this, Lan Nuo realized something: "If you want the civilization in this ecological roller to develop normally after losing its adults, then there must be a key figure, that is, a guide.
Whether it is an adult or an artificial intelligence, it must exist, and it is probably because of the lack of such a guide that the people on this spacecraft have experienced an unprecedented decline in civilization."