Chapter 931 The City of Shimmering Light in the Eggshell
When Hao Ren emerged from the crack in the elevator shaft, he saw what the scene inside this hundred-kilometer-long interstellar ship was like, and the scene was amazing. △,
He saw a huge internal space that was far beyond what he could see. There was a starship city in this space. Countless buildings spread out on the ground, and the ground gradually swelled and warped in the distance, and finally...
When the other end of the sky is closed, the entire city is built in a closed, oval container like an eggshell. All the artificial earth and buildings are attached to the inner wall of this eggshell.
He looked in all directions, and felt a strange dizziness that was dazzling: there was no sky here, and there was no strict distinction between up and down. The closed earth formed a spherical shell. No matter which direction he looked, he could see row upon row of buildings.
and huge and weird mechanical devices. Hao Ren looked back at the elevator shaft he passed when he came down, and he realized that it turned out to be a metal tube that ran through the entire space of the spherical shell. There were more than a dozen such metal tubes.
The tubes were arranged in parallel behind him, extending out from a large building in the city inside the ship, and finally disappeared into another large inverted building on the opposite side. Halfway through the middle of these parallel arranged metal tubes, you can see
There are many platforms and horizontal pipes suspended in the center of the space, which are obviously transportation thoroughfares.
And such a "cluster of parallel metal tubes" was not the only one. Looking far into the distance, Hao Ren saw from the faint silhouette that there were other metal tubes standing in the distance. They were like monsters inside the body.
Like skeletons, they crisscrossed throughout this giant ship, maintaining the traffic paths between the city inside the ship and the outside world.
Vivian was the last one to come out. She looked curiously at the city in the spherical shell. She murmured to herself: "There is no air, there is silence...but there is light."
The city is not dark. But it cannot be called bright. Between the silent buildings, you can see that the remaining lighting system is still operating. Countless lights flicker in every corner of the closed land, lighting up the entire city.
Placed in a dim light, at one end of the oval spherical shell space, you can also see an extremely huge thing, which is a cylindrical "mountain". It is like a huge machine with complex functions.
structure, the outer edge of the machine is a circle that emits an orange-red shimmer, like a heat dissipation ring. This layer of light is like the sunlight at dusk. It brings some light to this shimmering city.
However, all these lights are far from bright. There must be something wrong with the ship's internal system. Whether it is the remaining lighting in the city or the huge machine at the end of the spherical space, it is obvious that it is not operating at full capacity.
More like some sort of standby state.
"No life response," Hao Ren glanced at the readings sent by the data terminal. Although the terminal did not have strong scanning capabilities as a portable personal data assistant, looking at the cold and dead place in front of him, he did not find it useful.
A larger radar can find survivors in the city. "There is no atmosphere, no moisture, it is almost as cold as the outer space, and there is excessive radiation... It seems that everyone is dead."
Nangong Wuyue suddenly floated over and poked Hao Ren's arm with the tip of her tail. She pointed in a certain direction: "Everyone is indeed dead."
Hao Ren looked in the direction of Nangong Wuyue's finger and suddenly saw the body of a humanoid creature floating in the air in the distance.
And when he took a closer look, he found more corpses floating in the cracks of the city buildings. Some of them had floated to the heights of the spherical shell space, in this place where there is no distinction between up and down.
The "high place" in the strict sense is the center of this enclosed space. It is far away from every outer wall. Countless corpses are floating in the air, and most of them are incomplete. The ultra-low temperature makes them fragile and slightly injured.
A collision will break the body into pieces like breaking ice. The remaining remains should be relatively lucky, and more may have been turned into dust in countless collisions over a long period of time.
Hao Ren turned around and floated towards a group of buildings relatively close to him, and "landed" on the roof of a tall building. When he didn't look up at the upside-down buildings, the weird illusion of being upside down was not so obvious. He found that
There were also several bodies floating near the building, so they came to them to check the situation.
"The facial features are close to those of standard type I humans. They have light skin, long ears, slender bones, and are very tall. It cannot be ruled out that they are the result of long-term space survival," Hao Ren inspected the biological characteristics of the body like a professional coroner.
, and compared it with the biological genealogy on the data network, "it is well preserved."
"There is no air here, and it is ultra-low temperature. The corpse will not rot or dry out. After turning into an ice sculpture, it can almost keep the appearance of death forever," Nangong Sanba said while taking out several exquisite knives and metals from the tool bag.
He used a needle to cut and examine the body, "Let me see if there is any remaining information."
Hao Ren looked up at the silent city of gleaming light and speculated on the cause of the tragic death of all the crew members on the ark: "Did air leakage cause the death of the crew members? Or did other reasons cause the life support system to shut down?"
"The previously discovered airlock is faulty, but the outermost gate of the airlock remains closed, and the control system can operate normally," the data terminal said. "This ship is too big, and it may need to be inspected once."
Only a detailed scan of the entire hull can determine the cause of the accident. And there are a dozen other ships outside, and I feel that their conditions may not be better than here."
Hao Ren nodded and connected the communicator: "Nolan, release the detector and inspect the shell of the giant ship we are on to see if there are any air leaks or other fatal wounds."
"Nolan understands."
At this time, Nangong Sanba had already finished checking the first body. He seemed to have discovered something, so he floated to the other bodies to check. Nangong Wuyue asked curiously: "Brother, what did you find?"
"The cause of death of these people was not suffocation or hypothermia," Nangong Sanba put away his tools. "Their death was very peaceful. There were some residual chemicals in the frozen blood vessels, very much like..."
Lily asked anxiously: "What does it look like?"
"It's very much like inhaling a large amount of hallucinogens... or something else," Nangong Sanba pointed around, "Every corpse is like this."
"Hallucinogens?" Hao Ren looked surprised, "Did these people die of taking drugs?"
"Although that's pretty much what it means, I think there's something wrong with your choice of words," Nangong Sanba's mouth twitched twice, "I've only examined a few corpses here so far. I'm afraid they can't be used as evidence. Let's go look for ones farther away.
place."
Hao Ren hummed and turned his head towards the distant street.
Although this on-board city is deep inside the spacecraft, due to the huge size of the spacecraft itself, the scale of the city is naturally unparalleled. There are a large number of buildings and complete facilities here. The streets are wide and the buildings are tall. If you don't look up, you can see
Seeing the closed artificial land, people living in it may even forget the true face of this city.
Everyone went deep into the city and soon discovered more bodies and... something even more wrong.
They found a building with a beautiful round glass dome and a wide interior space. Judging from the decoration, it should be a special venue for some kind of party. Because there was a big hole in the outer wall of the building, Hao Ren
They drilled directly through the hole and saw a staggering scene:
It seems that a banquet is being held here. In the huge venue, you can see countless neatly arranged tables with sumptuous food on them. Although everything has been covered with a layer of frost, you can still tell that this is a banquet.
A grand banquet. A large number of corpses filled this place. They still maintained the appearance of the moment of death: sitting at the table, the men were wearing neat little dresses, and the women were wearing bright and beautiful new dresses, even though they were frozen.
They were turned into ice corpses, but they were still dressed up as if they were at a banquet. In the corner of the hall, Hao Ren also saw the bodies of several men in black gowns lying on the small table over there. They were already mixed with the things around them.
Frozen into one body, holding something like a musical instrument in his hand: this seemed to be a small band.
With sumptuous tables, accompanying bands, and men and women in formal attire, there was a feast here before everyone died.
"I feel hairy." Nangong Wuyue rubbed his hands.
"I feel furry." Lily shook her tail. (To be continued...)