Chapter 931: The city of twilight in the eggshell
When Hao Ren got out of the crack in the elevator shaft, he saw what the interior of the 100-kilometer interstellar ship had, and the scene was amazing. △,
He saw a huge, far-reaching interior space in which there was a star-ship city. Numerous buildings spread out on the ground, and the land gradually bulged in the distance, warped, and finally closed at the other end of the sky. The whole city was built in a closed oval like an eggshell. Inside the plant, all the artificial land and buildings are attached to the inner wall of the eggshell.
He looked in all directions, a strange vertigo feeling dazzling: there is no sky here, there is no strict meaning of the top and bottom, the closed earth forms a spherical shell, no matter which direction you look at, you can see the buildings of the row And huge and weird mechanical devices. Hao Ren looked back at the elevator shaft that he passed down when he came down. He discovered that it was originally a metal tube running through the entire spherical shell space. There are more than a dozen such metal tubes arranged in parallel behind him. A large building in the ship's city stretched out and eventually disappeared into another large inverted building opposite. In the middle of these parallel rows of metal tubes, you can see a lot of platforms and horizontal pipelines suspended in the center of the space. Obviously this is the main thoroughfare.
Such a "parallel metal tube cluster" is not the only one. When looking far and wide, Hao Ren saw from the vague silhouette of the faint light that there are other metal tubes standing in the distance. They are like monsters. The skeleton runs through the huge ship in a criss-cross way, maintaining the transportation path between the city and the outside world.
Vivienne came out last, and she looked curiously at the city in the sphere. Muttered to himself: "There is no air, there is silence... but there is light."
The city is not dark. But it is also not bright. Between those quiet buildings, it can be seen that the residual lighting system is still operating. Countless stars flash in every corner of the closed earth, placing the whole city in a shimmer, and at the end of this elliptical spherical shell space, you can see an extraordinarily huge thing, that is a cylinder The shape of the "mountain", it is like a huge machine, with a complex structure, the outer edge of the machine is a circle of orange-red shimmer, like a heat-dissipating structure, this layer of light is like the sun when the thin. Bring some light to this shimmering city.
However, all these radiances are far from being bright. The internal system of this ship must be a problem. Whether it is the remaining lighting in the city or the huge machine at the end of the spherical space, it is obviously not full operation. More like some sort of standby.
“There is no life reaction,” Hao Ren glanced at the reading from the data terminal. Although the terminal as a portable personal data assistant did not have a strong scanning capability, he did not feel that he was using this cold and dead place. Larger radars can find survivors from the city. "There is no atmosphere, no water, almost as cold as outside space, and there is excessive radiation... It seems that everyone is dead."
Nangong suddenly floated in May. With a tail tip poked Hao Ren's arm, she pointed to a certain direction: "People are indeed dead."
Hao Renshun looked at the direction of the Nangong May finger, and saw the body of a humanoid floating in the distance.
And when he looked at it carefully. More remains have been discovered, which are floating in the cracks of urban buildings. Some of them have already floated to the height of this spherical space in this place where there is no upper and lower points. In the strict sense, the "high place" is the central part of this closed space. It is far from every outer wall. Numerous corpses are floating in the air, and most of them are incomplete. Ultra-low temperatures make them vulnerable. A slight collision will break the body like breaking ice. The surviving ones should still be lucky bodies, and more I am afraid that they have been turned into dust in the numerous collisions of long time.
Hao Ren turned to a group of buildings closer to him and “landed” on the roof of a tall building. When you don't look up at those buildings that are hanging upside down, the strange illusion of upside down is not so obvious. He found that several bodies were floating around the building and came to them to check the situation.
"The characteristics of the facial features are close to the standard i-type humans. The skin color is shallow, the ears are long, the bones are slender, and the heights are high. It is not the result of long-term space survival." Hao Ren examines the biological characteristics of the body like a professional coroner. And compare it to the bio-lineage on the data grid. "It's a good save."
“There is no air here, it is ultra-low temperature, the body will not rot and dry up, and it will almost always die when it becomes an ice sculpture,” said Nangong Sanba, while taking out a few delicate tools and metal from the kit. Needle, cut and check on the body, "I see what residual information."
Hao Ren looked up at the quiet city of low light and guessed the cause of the tragic death of all the occupants on the ark: "Is the air leak leading to the death of the occupants? Or is there another reason that caused the living system to stop?"
“The air locker that was previously discovered is faulty, but the outermost gate of the airlock is still closed and the control system is working properly,” the data terminal said. “This ship is too big, maybe it needs a The fine scan of the entire outer casing can determine the cause of the accident. There are more than a dozen other ships outside, and the machine feels that their situation is not better than here."
Hao Ren nodded and connected the communicator: "Nolan, release the detector, and inspect the shell of the giant ship we are in to see if there are any leaks or other fatal flaws."
"Nolan understands."
At this time, Nangong Sanba had already inspected the first body. He seemed to have discovered it, so he went to another side of the body and checked it. Nangong asked curiously in May: "Brother, did you find it?"
"The death of these people is not suffocation and low temperature," Nangong Sanba put his tools away. "They are very serene, and there are some residual chemicals in the frozen blood vessels, much like..."
Lily asked anxiously: "What is it like?"
“It’s like sucking up a lot of hallucinogens... or something else,” Nangong pointed out around the house. “Every body is like this.”
"The hallucinogen?" Hao Ren looked surprised. "Is these people dead?"
"Although it is almost the same meaning, I think your choice is a bit problematic." Nangong Sanba’s mouth is shaking twice. "At present, I have only checked a few bodies here. I am afraid I can’t use it as evidence. Let’s go further. local."
Hao Ren snorted and turned his head to the street in the distance.
Although the city inside the ship is deep inside the spacecraft, the size of the city is naturally unparalleled because of its large size. There are a large number of buildings and complete facilities. The streets are wide and the buildings are tall. If you don't look up, you can see the closed artificial land. People who are in it may even forget the true face of the city.
The crowd came to the depths of the city, and soon found more remains, and ... something more wrong.
They found a building with a beautiful round glass dome and a wide interior, which, depending on the decor, should be a special venue for any gathering. As the outer wall of the building broke a big hole, Hao Ren went straight into the hole and saw a staggering scene:
There seems to be a banquet here. In the huge meeting place, you can see countless neatly arranged tables. There are plenty of food on the table. Although everything has been covered with a layer of frost, it can still be seen that this is a field. A grand dinner. A large number of bodies were filled in this place, and they still kept the moment of death: sitting at the table, men dressed in neat little dresses, women dressed in bright and beautiful new dresses, although frozen into a corpse, Still as if it was dressed as a banquet. In the corner of the hall, Hao Ren also saw several male bodies in black long dresses falling on the small table over there. They had frozen together with the things around them, and they held something like a musical instrument in their hands: this It seems to be a small band.
A sumptuous dining table, an accompanying band, men and women in dresses, there was a feast before everyone died.
"I feel hairy." Nangong smashed his hand in May.
"I feel furry." Lily shook her tail. (To be continued...)