Lan Nuo looked at the excited old man and understood deeply why he valued the history in his hands so much. These things may be the only remaining legacy of this lost civilization. If future generations survive, even their own history will be lost.
Everything has been forgotten. Even the inheritance of culture has been completely cut off. So how can civilization be said to have continued?
When the pressure of inheriting civilization is all concentrated on one person's shoulders, what kind of tenacity is needed to be able to shoulder such a mission? No one knows it better than the Lannos.
So even though the old man acted rude, even though his hands were trembling, and he looked like he might be hit on the spot at any time, Lan Nuo had no intention of looking down on him, and was able to record the historical data of his own civilization alone, even if there was no escape.
He will never give up hope, and his spirit and will have surpassed that of most people.
"Don't worry, this historical material will be passed down, and the descendants of those children will also live on. I am here just for the continuation of civilization."
The old man put down the manuscript in his hand tremblingly. These manuscripts were all written by him stroke by stroke. After realizing that he might be trapped here for countless years, the old man gave up recording information on hard drives and other facilities.
The idea is that precision electronic equipment is too easily damaged.
The information on the hard drive may become difficult to read and blurry after decades, and the information on the tape will become increasingly difficult to discern as time goes by.
But information written on paper can be preserved for thousands of years in a dry environment, and information engraved on stone walls can be preserved for hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
He hopes that even if he dies, even if civilization is cut off, when someone later discovers this spaceship, they can still see from the manuscripts he left behind that there was once such a civilization struggling to survive in the universe, and in the face of despair
He is still in the universe when being chased by terrifying creatures, surviving hard and tenaciously.
This is the instinct of every civilization when it is on the verge of extinction. It is also the tenacious spirit shown when the civilization perishes and the will of the entire civilization is concentrated on the individual.
However, the old man gradually calmed down at this moment. The eyes he looked at the person in front of him became strange, as if he finally realized that something was wrong: "I haven't had time to ask you, who are you? Did the children back then still have a problem?"
Remember? Living on a spaceship?"
The old man found that Lan Nuo had no doubts about everything that happened that year. Could it be that even without his own guidance, the children still inherited the wisdom of their ancestors. They learned how to control the spacecraft and inherited the past history.
If this is really the case, that would be great. Even if he has wasted countless hours and lived in this small room of only a few dozen square meters all his life, if civilization can continue, everything will be
Worth it.
It's a pity that the man in front of him shook his head at him: "Unfortunately, they have forgotten that they live on a spaceship. In their myths and legends, they live on a big turtle. And
This giant sea turtle wanders in the ocean called the Sea of Erdos, relying on magical protection to avoid the pursuit of terrifying monsters.
You can understand me as an alien who accidentally landed on this spaceship. I lost my spaceship and my technological equipment, but at least I retained my knowledge, so I can recognize this.
A spaceship can also recognize that the sacred place they regard as the ancestral furnace is actually just the nuclear reactor of the spacecraft. And it is a nuclear reactor that has seriously malfunctioned.
This is why I came to you, I am trying to repair it, this is the effort I must make in order to survive. As for the children back then, they have now established 4 kingdoms, following the footsteps of their ancestors
They would launch small-scale wars with each other every once in a while to reduce and control the population. They learned how to use some automated factories on the spacecraft. They regarded these automated factories as gods.
of the altar.
Although they are a bit superstitious, at least they support themselves. Perhaps you should be grateful that during such a long period of time, it is precisely because their civilization has regressed significantly and the resources they consumed have been greatly reduced that your spacecraft has persisted until now."
After the old man heard this, not only did he not show a disappointed look, he actually relaxed and laughed, as if he hadn't laughed so freely in decades.
"What are you laughing at? Your once glorious civilization now only has four feudal kingdoms left. They have forgotten their history and their civilization. They regard the spaceship as the whole world. In a sense, your civilization
It’s been completely cut off, is there anything to be happy about?”
"But they survived. Not only did they survive, they also established a kingdom, and established 4 kingdoms. They still remember the myths and legends left by their ancestors. The children were still young at that time. The adults said goodbye to them
At that time, every child was very scared.
We told them fairy tales, saying that our spaceship was a big turtle, and everyone lived in the belly of the turtle. They still remember this story, don’t they? They still use the language and writing we used to have, right?
?
This is already much better than the worst-case scenario I imagined. A group of children who are only 13 years old at most, can I expect them to do more? They can survive and continue to this day. That's it.
It makes me extremely happy.”
At this point, the old man's expression suddenly became sad: "It's a pity that my body is old, otherwise I would definitely be their teacher. Tell them the true history of civilization and teach them how to operate this spaceship."
I have devoted almost a lifetime of energy to learning these things. I hope these will not be wasted. But you said that the reactor has leaked. In that case, our spacecraft may not be able to sustain it for too long. What should we do?
Is it good?"
Since Lan Nuo had already said that he had lost his spaceship and technological equipment, the old man did not expect him to be able to repair this huge spaceship. A spaceship with a length of a hundred kilometers. Let a small human being do it.
Repairing is really a fantasy.
"Even when I was young, I probably couldn't do anything when encountering a failure like a reactor leak. But no matter what, I ask you to take me away. Even if I can only see the children for the last time, it would be good." The old man was better than he expected.
More optimistic. Even though he knew that the spacecraft was about to reach the limit of its lifespan, he still did not despair. He hoped that he could spend his last time with his children.
"You'd better rest first. With your body and bones, if I let you out and expose you to radiation, I don't think you would survive more than a week.
I suggest you continue to lie down in the dormant cabin, and after I have repaired the reactor with the locals, I will wake you up to meet them."
"How is this possible? The reactor has leaked and has been damaged to such an extent that you cannot repair it by yourself. Radiation will destroy most of the chips. Electronic equipment is extremely fragile in the face of radiation. Continue to automate equipment
Assistance. Those huge components that weigh several tons are simply not something you can repair or replace."
The old man knows the details of this nuclear reactor very well. He has been instilled with this knowledge since he was a child. In order to lead the entire civilization after waking up, it is a pity that this knowledge has no use now.
"When did I say that I was going to repair this spaceship on my own? Although the four kingdoms are small, they add up to hundreds of thousands of people. With the help of these people, even if it weighs a few tons,
What equipment cannot be replaced? There are many industrial facilities outside that are not damaged. It is entirely possible to use them to produce new qualified spare equipment. How can you know that you will not succeed if you don’t try? Even if you cannot produce
Identical equipment, using limited conditions to overcome difficulties, isn't this what we, as intelligent creatures, are best at?
If we can't do this, how did our ancestors build a glorious civilization bit by bit from eating raw hair and drinking blood? Wasn't the situation of our unarmed ancestors at that time worse than ours now?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, and then a gratified smile appeared on his face: "I'm glad to see you have such fighting spirit. My old arms and legs may not be of much help in terms of strength. But if you have any questions about the spaceship
If so, you can ask me. If you need any help, you can come here to see me.
But I'm a little curious. How are you going to mobilize the power of these hundreds of thousands of people? According to you, they not only established 4 kingdoms, but also each had their own king. And because of the years of fighting between them,
There are contradictions in the war. I really can't think of how you can get everyone to listen to you and work together to repair the nuclear reactor.
In fact, I think if this place was regarded by them as a forbidden land for their ancestors, you would be caught and burned at the stake just for leaving here."
The old man is a well-informed type. He has many conjectures about how civilization will develop when barbarism grows, and these conjectures are often very close to reality.
"If I just walk out of here in a big way, I may indeed be burned at the stake as a heretic or some evil being.
However, civilizations in a relatively ignorant stage also have the benefits of ignorance. They will have fear of the unknown. As long as they make good use of this, it is actually easy to unite them. Many countries in history have created miracles. Many have exploded.
The country, whose productivity far exceeded that of the times, formally adopted a theocratic governance system.
Although such a system is ignorant and backward in most cases, we must also admit that such a state machine is quite efficient in mobilizing domestic productivity.
Since I can leave the nuclear reactor, why can't I make some changes in the nuclear reactor? With only some small special effects, I can become the spokesperson of the gods in the religious scriptures.
What's more, before I came here, I had already led troops to conquer a country through force. Although the actual area under my control was only a small area around the capital, I think this is enough."
"It seems that I have underestimated your ability, so let me wait and see. If we can survive this disaster, maybe we will become epic heroes in myths and legends who save the world in the future?" The elderly activity
Lifting his body, he suddenly felt that he had the motivation to continue living. Although this body was already very old, hundreds of years old and had almost reached the limit of his own race, but if he had the motivation to live, he would undoubtedly be better than
Lasted longer before.
"Anyway, you should live as well as possible first. By the way, tell me the detailed structure inside the nuclear reactor and the operating logic of the equipment in the central control room. It is indeed a bit troublesome for me to explore these strange equipment little by little."
The old man did not skimp on everything he knew, and taught him all the knowledge he still remembered in his mind. Lan Nuo devoured this knowledge like a bottomless pit, as if no matter how much the old man talked about it, he could still
Write it all down and understand it all in a flash.
The central control of the nuclear reactor is underground, close to the outer shell of the spacecraft. One of the reasons for setting it up at this location is to facilitate the escape of the pilot.
The designer of the spacecraft will not design from the perspective of the ecological drum, but from the perspective of the entire spacecraft. Therefore, once the nuclear reactor has a serious failure that may explode, it is impossible to escape into the ecological drum.
To escape, you should escape into the vast space, so the control room is closer to the outer shell of the spacecraft, which means it is deeper underground than the ecological roller.
Lan Nuo entered the control room and manually adjusted the operation of the spacecraft. First, he gradually started the rotation system of the ecological roller, gradually shut down the power-consuming gravity generator, and replaced it with the simulated gravity of the rotating ecological roller.
The energy consumption of the two is not of the same order of magnitude. The reason why the ecological roller is miserable like this is because the gravity generator consumes too much energy. Relatively speaking, simulating gravity by rotating the roller consumes almost no energy.
In terms of energy, the difference over thousands of years is huge.
Then he aimed his control at the lighting system of the nuclear reactor. For these ancients in the feudal era, there was nothing closer to a miracle than the power to control light.
