The area inside the spaceship is so small that there is not much room for error in rebuilding civilization. Once the new generation makes mistakes during the rebuilding process, it will naturally lead to the regression of civilization.
In this case, a leader is indispensable. The most likely possibility in the current situation is that the leader failed to successfully guide the development of civilization for some reason, or did not appear at the corresponding time point at all.
, causing the civilization that was supposed to be rebuilt to develop to this point.
"It seems like I need to search deeper. There may be other survivors. If not, there may be artificial intelligence that can help me better control the spacecraft."
Lan Nuo continued to explore deep underground. He had to open many gates once in the rehearsal before actually opening them in reality. The environment full of radiation is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you may be exposed to strong radiation.
died in it.
Lan Nuo was very vigilant about this, maybe one of the isolation doors was the gate to isolate the radiation.
Facts also proved that his vigilance was meaningful. During the exploration process, there were indeed many gates that were closed urgently after radiation leaks. And the environment inside those gates was simply unstoppable with the rudimentary protective equipment he had on him.
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If it were anyone else to explore, it would definitely be a narrow escape. Only he, who had many opportunities for trial and error, could roughly figure out the environment here.
In addition to a shelter located underground, there are also a large number of redundant modules for the reactor. It is precisely because of the existence of these redundant modules that the reactor can still be transported out even if most of the main body is damaged.
But similarly, during the operation of the reactor using the spare module, the running-in was quite poor without manual debugging. A large number of problems appeared during the operation, and it was falling into a vicious cycle.
Almost at the bottom of the entire facility, Lan Nuo finally found a shelter.
The area of the entire shelter is very small. It can only accommodate a dozen people at most. However, if you want to get to the shelter, you have to go through a passage filled with radioactive vapor. Lan Nuo's protective clothing is not enough to withstand this kind of radiation.
degree of radiation.
Lan Nuo forced his way through the rehearsal and opened the gate. Only then did he see the old man lying in the dormant cabin behind the two-layer isolation door.
After he appeared in the room, the dormant cabin started the automatic wake-up process. The old man lying inside opened his eyes and saw the person in front of him. He was still in a daze for a while. It took a long time to come back to his senses and let out a cry in his throat.
A hoarse and bitter voice: "You are finally here!"
The protective equipment leaking from Lan Nuo's body has made him think a lot. If civilization is properly preserved and develops normally, a complete radiation protection suit can be produced in the factory, and this set of equipment on Lan Nuo's body is obviously
Self-made, this alone is enough to prove that today's civilization is in a very bad situation.
When Lan Nuo saw the old man waking up from the dormant cabin, he had already realized something. However, it had already taken a long time to open the gate. Lan Nuo had no chance to talk to him more unless he was in reality.
within a timeline. He also passed through the gate and entered the dormant cabin.
Before, he not only had to go through the radiation tunnel, but also had to find ways to open the gate. The gate seemed to be due to a circuit problem. There was no way to open it automatically. It can only be said that the facility for manually opening the gate seemed to have been destroyed due to the previous accident.
Fortunately, hydraulic facilities for emergency use can be found here. Relying on these facilities, the gate can be pushed up again.
It was too long a waste of time to use the jack to open the gate. This was why he had no time to say a word after meeting the old man in the dormant warehouse.
"Fifteen minutes of working in a radiation environment is enough to kill me. We need to find a way to reduce the radiation index here. It seems that we need to find ventilation facilities here."
Llano has extensive experience in the standards for spacecraft design, especially for this kind of nuclear reactor. Even in different worlds with similar physical laws, similar standards must be followed. Otherwise, serious safety hazards will arise.
Ventilation of key areas in nuclear reaction facilities is a must-have facility. Without the existence of these ventilation facilities, once a nuclear leak occurs, there is almost no possibility of survival for the people trapped inside the facility.
Lan Nuo relied on his rich experience to find the control room. Although there was a lot of damage to the electrical equipment inside, this level of damage was not beyond repair.
Like starting an old car, Lan Nuo directly opened the cover of the dashboard, found the recommended wires inside, and put them together. In the flash of electric sparks, a buzzing sound gradually sounded, accompanied by
If there is a sound of bubbles, it should be that some liquid filtration equipment is starting up and filtering gases containing radiation, thereby ensuring that the filtered environment can allow people to survive. It also ensures that the gases discharged by the ventilation facilities will not pollute the external environment.
This also made Lan Nuo breathe a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was the damage to these filtering facilities. Once the ventilation facilities discharged the radiation steam inside to the outside and caused pollution to the ecological drum outside, then even if he could repair the nuclear reactor,
The damage caused by radiation cannot be undone. When the ecological roller lacks clean water and clean food, there will be only a dead end.
After a lot of trouble and exhaustion of the radiation vapor in the passage, the crude protective equipment on his body was finally able to work, ensuring that he could still ensure his own safety while working in this radiation environment.
Get a hydraulic jack, insert it into the gap of the gate, and open the gate little by little. Push the support column in little by little, so that the gate is large enough to pass a person, and then you finally completely open the inner room.
Lan Nuo can probably guess why the old man inside has stayed until this age. If he is trapped inside, there is probably no way he can leave. After all, this is a nuclear facility, and the materials used during construction are definitely the most solid.
If both the manual and electric valves are damaged, it will be almost impossible to break through the gate. Relying on daily necessities, even if you want to grind an iron pestle into a needle, ordinary spirit will grind a hole in the door.
It's almost impossible to come.
Even if it takes a lifetime, it may not be possible to grind a hole in this high-strength alloy material, not to mention that the external environment is likely to be very bad. Once the gate is damaged, it is likely to be self-destructive.
"You are finally here!" The old man still uttered the same sigh after waking up from hibernation. The old man, wearing a hospital gown-like clothing, climbed up from the hibernation warehouse with difficulty.
The two sides looked at each other in silence, and finally the old man broke the silence: "I have been waiting for this day for too long, and I have too many things to tell you. But I'm afraid it's too late."
The old man did not ask about the situation outside. He seemed to be worried that his body could not support him and that he would not be able to explain everything to his descendants in time. He staggered and used a cane to pull Lan Nuo to the room that belonged to him. In this room
Among them, papers were piled densely.
Those piles of paper were piled up like a mountain, densely packed with something recorded in the words of this civilization. The piled up paper was carefully organized by the old man into a book, neatly stacked on the bookshelf, and carefully wrapped and kept.
On the desk, you can still see the unfinished manuscript.
"These...if anyone is still alive, please be sure to pass these on to them. This is the only thing I can do for you."
The old man panted rapidly and was about to take out a dozen manuscripts from the front cabinet, but was stopped in the end.
Lan Nuo stopped him: "Old man, please have a good rest first. Even if you are old in your current state, you will not die suddenly immediately. Before you give these manuscripts to me, can you tell me what happened in the past?"
It seemed that he finally thought that he should introduce his identity and experience. The old man took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "Our hometown... was destroyed. It is said that it also happened on other planets.
The same thing, a terrible ecological disaster. We received a warning from a higher civilization before the end of the world. We built an ark and escaped from our hometown at the cost of most of the population...
I was born on a spaceship and grew up on a spaceship. My father, grandfather, and ancestors have been like this for generations. Our ships are getting fewer and fewer, and there are fewer and fewer people, but we have been working hard to live because we don’t want our bloodline to be cut off.
However, contrary to expectations, after we wandered in the starry sky for countless years, a terrible infectious disease suddenly came to us.
No one knows what's going on. It appears suddenly, without warning, and there is no way to treat it. With our medical technology, we can't find the cause at all. We only know that it can infect adults, but its impact on children gradually weakens with age.
The younger the child, the less susceptible they are to the disease, but the mortality rate for adults after being infected is almost 100%..."
Lan Nuo nodded thoughtfully: "Almost 100%, which means there are exceptions."
The old man raised his hand, looked at the ravine lines on his skin, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes. I am the only exception, because I was very young at the time, oh, very young. It was probably because of this that the plague opened its doors to me.
On the other hand, many people my age are not so lucky."
"I only remember being locked up in a white house. Training, studying and brainwashing day and night to master those knowledge and skills... Because when the disease spread, we found that it was irresistible, just like the ecological disaster that happened in our hometown.
Again, this was a super disaster, so we started to prepare for the aftermath. We spent several years modifying the Ark and building the final vault, and more than half of the people died in the process. The project almost ended up being understaffed in the end.
And failure...we put healthy children into hibernation facilities and try to teach the older children as much as possible because they will need it in the future, but it is not enough, very not enough...the oldest of them only
Thirteen years old, and these thirteen-year-olds only account for less than one percent of the total population."
"That's why we got you?" Lan Nuo had roughly guessed the full story of what happened that year.
The old man's head trembled slightly, as if he nodded up and down: "Oh, yes, I want to guide them... After the children fall asleep, the adults will fend for themselves, and the shelter will be closed for a hundred years until the ecology
The system can only be restarted after it completes a thorough internal cycle. When everything is ready, the children will wake up and start their lives again under the leadership of 'parents'. But originally, I was not the only 'parent'. We had many candidates, and each one
They were all tough-minded, capable of learning, able to lead a team, and most importantly, had a certain resistance to the plague. But then the other candidates died one by one. The plague only weakened on them, and they had no real resistance.
.In the end, I was the only one coming out of the training facility. The children had already lined up to enter the hibernation cabin. The last few dozen dying people in the Ark gave me a small farewell ceremony. From then on, I have been here.
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Because of safety concerns, the children and I were placed in different rooms, because there was no way to be sure until they all died that I was truly safe, but it turned out that I was indeed healthy. Every time I went to sleep for a period of time, I would
I would wake up, do a physical check on myself, and then go back to sleep, day after day..."
"Through a small glass window next to the door, I looked at the 150,000 little cradles outside. Knowing that the blood of my family is still frozen in the ice waiting to be continued, this gives me enough courage. Every time from
When I woke up in the ice, I was counting the number of times I had to "get up". I told myself that if I counted to ten times, everything would start again... Until one day I suddenly found that I wrote 11 in my notebook and kept it in the vault.
The host is uncharacteristically silent."
"You have been forgotten by the system."
"More than that, because even if I tried to open the valve manually, my attempt still failed. For a long time after that, I still repeated the steps of sleeping and waking up to check the body. I hypnotized myself and the children just encountered
For some accidents, I didn’t wake up on time, so I just have to wait until they wake up.”
"But you eventually realize it's just self-deception."
"That's right, I can't remember how many times it was the first time I fell asleep and how many times I woke up. The only thing I know is that a long, long time has passed. If the children haven't woken up yet, the dormant cabin will not be enough to sustain them.
of survival.
It was then that I realized that I had wasted too much time. Even if I could never leave this room again, I should leave something behind...
As you can see, this is what I want to leave to my children no matter what.
