Hao Ren walked forward along the long bridge in the air and came to what seemed to be a console. He saw that it was a device that was as clean as new. There were no buttons on it, just a silver-white metal panel that was as bright as a mirror. He
I reached out and touched the edge of the panel and found that there was no trace of dust on it.
Not only this control panel, but actually the entire cylindrical space is free of dust. The last gate that everyone passed through should have strict dust-proof isolation performance, and the space itself should also have dust removal devices. There is no doubt that this place
Convenience is the true storage location for the "ultimate vault".
"What is this?" Lily came over and asked curiously.
"It should be the manual controllers of those robotic arms." Hao Ren looked up at the neatly arranged metal brackets and rectangular containers in the cylindrical space, as well as the slides and robotic arms connecting those things, and at the same time reached out to touch the
A striking light green indicator line, "According to experience in the control room, this kind of touch screen should be activated by touching here... Oh, that's it."
Under his touch, a series of complex and changing geometric figures emerged on the silver-white metal plate. Then these geometric figures slowly stabilized and formed an initial interactive interface. As expected, the operating system was locked.
Identification is required to enter, but this controller does not seem to use the kind of mechanical key carried by the Ark Captain. It requires a password.
Such a password couldn't stop the data terminal. The latter floated to the console and connected itself to the control panel with a blue beam. A lot of interference and noise appeared on the screen at once. Within a few seconds, this set of
The system was cracked, and a simple and easy-to-understand operation window popped up. Hao Ren tried to activate some of the above functions, and the neatly arranged containers in the cylindrical space immediately started to move, and one row of brackets was lowered from high altitude, stabilizing the system.
It stopped steadily next to the long bridge in the air, and the rectangular metal boxes hanging above were stuck on the grooves next to the railings of the long bridge along the slides. With a few "chichi" sounds, these containers opened.
Lily immediately ran over to check. She saw that the metal box was empty. Only some unplugged catheters and a viscous liquid remained in the empty container.
"What are these?" Vivian also went to check the situation in the metal box. She felt a little confused.
"I guess it's the sleep pod, but it's close to ten." Hao Ren said slowly, "These are all sleep pods, the total number reaches 150,000."
"Hibernation cabin?" Vivian was no longer unfamiliar with this term, but she looked at the models of the metal boxes and felt something was wrong. "Isn't this a little small?"
"Because these are prepared for children." Hao Ren came over with the data terminal. The latter had already synchronized data with the console on the long bridge and easily took over all the functions of the console.
Turn on the holographic projection, and what is displayed above is the data read from the console.
A list was opened, with hundreds of avatars popping up on the projection, and scrolling down quickly. Every avatar was a child.
"The oldest is no more than thirteen years old, and the youngest is only three years old," Hao Ren pointed to the projection above the data terminal, which was extracted together with the photos of the personnel list. There was also some basic information about the vault, such as system logs.
, "This final vault stores dormant children. It was built 892 years ago and was last opened 815 years ago."
"Does it mean that it has been frozen for decades..." Nangong Wuyue poked the viscous liquid in the metal box with the tip of his tail to confirm that it was a substance that can maintain biological activity at low temperatures. "The question
The key is why are there only children and where have all the adults gone?”
"Remember the last captain we saw in the control room before?" Hao Ren raised his eyelids, "He died of a chronic disease that caused his skull to slowly wear away. I doubt that all adults
Everyone died from this disease, only the children were left."
"But we only found that set of bones." Nangong Wuyue's tail curled up, "How can we be sure that the same thing happened to other adults?"
Hao Ren had just thought about this issue and speculated: "Do you think a person infected with such a terminal disease can continue to serve as the captain of the Ark? Moreover, this disease is very slow, and the people on the Ark have enough time to choose.
A healthy new captain. But they didn’t. The last captain died of illness on the job. There is only one explanation: they had no choice. There were no healthy candidates at all. Everyone was sick. And here..."
Hao Ren pointed to the countless silver-white metal boxes neatly arranged in the air: "The children did not get sick. This is the reason why the last ark caused the end of civilization."
He knew that more than half of his statements were based on speculation, but these speculations were completely valid. And he couldn't think of any other more reliable reasons. But he couldn't explain the more fundamental problem: this kind of weirdness was so weird.
Where did the suspicious terminal illness come from? Why did only the children survive? When the Ark Captain of the Qunluan led all his subjects to death, other Arks were still normal. Did this disease appear out of thin air?
?
And there is another question, which is more doubtful than the bizarre disease: How did these humans with low technological level obtain the artifact of the goddess of creation, and also designed a simple but effective amplification device for it?
system?
"Is there anything else in the database?" Hao Ren knocked on the shell of the data terminal, "Staff diaries, audio recordings, video recordings, anything."
The data terminal is communicating with the host of this "final vault". It is trying its best to extract all the remaining things in this old system, but this is just a warehouse after all, and there is not much useful information. Finally, the data terminal is found
The most valuable information was obtained, which were several pieces of fragmented video data.
"There are some things here, which were taken by the surveillance system, and were recorded at two points when the facility was closed and opened." The data terminal said as it began to play the information it found.
The content of the first video is the scene when children enter those sleeping cabins. On the screen, you can see those children walking in neat lines on the long bridge. Some children who are too young are even held by older children.
In their arms. The older children seemed to know what was going to happen, so they could occasionally be seen comforting their younger siblings. During the whole process, no one cried or was timid. All the children stood quietly in the line.
Inside, waiting to enter their own dormant cabins. Next to these teams, you can see a few adults. The latter are wearing unusually thick isolation suits, and every inch of their body is wrapped under a white protective suit.
As if they were afraid of transmitting the virus to children. These adults are probably the last operators of the entire Ark. Their health is obviously very poor. Some of them even stagger when walking, but there are not enough people in the Ark.
To do these tasks, these faltering patients can only insist on seeing off the sparks of civilization.
After the last batch of dormant capsules were put on the supports, the adults wearing isolation suits left the place, the door was closed, and the last generation of the Ark began their seventy-seven-year freeze.
"Next is a record of the opening of the facility that was captured by surveillance equipment 815 years ago." The data terminal said and played another video.
At the beginning of this video clip, Hao Ren saw chaos.
It is still a long bridge in the sky, but the situation on the long bridge is disorderly at this moment. Bursts of red lights are flashing at the edge of the screen, and continuous sirens are heard from outside the screen. Sleeping capsules are released to the long bridge in batches.
As well as several additional "unloading points" around the cylindrical space, the children who woke up from the dormant cabin panicked and fled the place in a hurry under the guidance of the guidance light and some older children. This video is much better than the previous one.
It was much shorter, almost just these few messy shots. After the video was played, Lily subconsciously asked: "What's going on behind the scenes?"
"I'm afraid this facility was activated accidentally. They should have stayed dormant for a longer time!" Hao Ren frowned, "but they were awakened early!"
Lily's eyes widened: "Accident? What accident?"
The person who answered her was not Hao Ren, but the data terminal: "Reactor failure! Do you still remember the radiation in the outer area of the ancestral furnace? Those radiations were almost the same as those that appeared eight hundred years ago when the reactor suddenly broke down!" (~^