Chapter 952: Only children
Hao Ren walked forward along the long bridge in the sky and came to the suspected console. He saw that it was a clean and new device with no buttons on it, only a whole piece of silver-white metal panel that was as bright as a mirror. He reached out and touched the edge of the panel and found that it was not contaminated with dust.
Not only this control panel, in fact, there is no dust in the entire cylindrical space. The last gate that everyone passed before should have strict dust-proof isolation, and this space itself should also have dust-removing devices, no doubt, this place Convenience is the real storage location of the “final vault”.
"What is this?" Lily asked, curiously.
“It should be the manual controller 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 robots that connected those things, while reaching out to touch the control panel. A striking pale green indicator line, "According to the experience in the control room, this touch screen should be activated here... Oh, it’s correct."
Under his touch, a series of complex geometric shapes emerged on the silver-white metal plate, which then slowly stabilized to form an initial interactive interface. Unsurprisingly, the operating system is locked and requires identification to enter, but this controller does not seem to be the kind of mechanical key that Captain Ark carries with him. It requires a password.
Such a password can hardly hold the data terminal. The latter floats to the console and connects itself to the control panel with a blue light beam. The screen on the panel immediately reveals a lot of interference spots, which is within a few seconds. The system is cracked and jumps out of an easy-to-understand window of operation. Hao Ren tried to activate some of the above functions. The neatly arranged containers in the cylindrical space immediately moved. One row of brackets was lowered from the sky and steadily parked next to the long bridge in the sky, and the rectangular metal boxes suspended above. Then follow the slide on the groove next to the long bridge railing, and with a few “clicks”, these containers are opened.
Lily immediately ran over to check. She saw that the inside of the metal box was empty, and there were only a few unplugged ducts and a viscous liquid left in the empty container.
"What are these?" Vivian also went to see the condition in the metal box, she felt a bit inexplicable.
"I guess the sleeping cabin, but it is not far from the ten." Hao Ren said slowly, "These are all dormant cabins, the total number reaches 150,000."
"Dorming cabin?" Vivian is no stranger to the word, but she looked at the models of the metal boxes, and it always feels a bit wrong. “Is this volume small?”
"Because these are all for children." Hao Ren walked over with the data terminal. The latter had already synchronized the data with the console on the long bridge, and easily took over all the functions of the console. Open the holographic projection, which shows the data read from the console.
A list is opened, hundreds of avatars are on the projection, and scrolling down quickly, every avatar is a child.
"The biggest is no more than thirteen, the youngest is only three years old," Hao Ren pointed at the projection above the data terminal and was extracted along with the list of people. There is also some basic information about this vault, such as the system log. "This final vault keeps the children in a dormant state. The completion time is 892 years ago, and the last time it was opened is 815. Years ago."
“That is to say, the middle has been frozen for decades.” Nangong pokes the sticky liquid in the metal box with the tip of the tail in May, confirming that it is a substance that can maintain the biological activity at low temperatures. The key is why only children and adults go there?"
“Remember the last captain I saw in the control room?” Hao Ren raised his eyelids. “He died of a chronic disease that caused his skull to slowly eclipse. I suspect all adulthood. People are dying under this disease, leaving only children."
"But we only found that bone." Nangong's tail in May was sharply bent. "How do you know that other adults have also encountered the same thing?"
Hao Ren just thought about this problem and speculated: "Do you think that a person with this terminal illness can continue to serve as the captain of the Ark? And the disease is very slow, and the people on the Ark have plenty of time to choose. A healthy new captain. But they didn't, the last captain was sick and dead in the post. There is only one explanation: they have no choice, there are no healthy candidates, and everyone is sick. And here..."
Hao Ren pointed to the numerous silver and white metal boxes that were neatly arranged in the air: "Children are not sick. This is the reason why the last ark was civilized."
He knows that he has more than half of the speculations in these claims, but these speculations are fully valid. And he can't think of other more reliable reasons. It’s just that he still can’t explain the more fundamental question: How did this weird to suspected terminal illness come from? Why are the children only alive? When the squadron's Ark captain led all the subjects to death, the other arks were still normal. Did the disease come out of thin air?
And there is a problem that is more skeptical than the bizarre disease: how these highly technologically advanced humans got the artifact of the goddess of creation, and designed a simple but effective enlargement for it. system?
“Is there anything else in the database?” Hao Ren knocked on the outer casing of the data terminal. “The diary of the personnel, recording, video, everything.”
The data terminal is communicating with the host of the "final vault". It does its best to extract the remaining things in the old system, but this is only a warehouse, and there is not much useful information. Finally, the data terminal found the most valuable information, which is a few pieces of broken image data.
"There are some things that the surveillance system took, and the video left at the two points when the facility was turned off and on." The data terminal began to play the information it found while talking.
The content of the first video is the scene when the children enter the dormant cabin. On the screen, you can see that the children are neatly lined up on the long bridge. Some children who are too small are even held in the arms of the older children. The older children seem to know what is going to happen, so they can occasionally see their brothers and sisters comforting them. No one was crying, no one was timid, and all the children stood quietly in the team, waiting to enter their own dormant cabin. Beside these teams, you can see the sparse adults, who wear unusually heavy isolation suits, and every inch of the skin is wrapped under white protective clothing, as if afraid of transmitting the virus to children. These adults are probably the last operators of the entire ark. Their health status is obviously very poor. Some people even stagger when they walk, but there are not enough people in the ark to do these jobs, so these faltering The sick number can only be adhered to to see off the civilized fire.
After the last batch of dormant cabins were sent to the stand, the adults in the isolation suits left the place, the doors closed, and the last generation of the Ark began their seventy-seven years of ice.
"The next step is that the facility's record was taken 815 years ago by the monitoring equipment." The data terminal said, releasing another video.
At the beginning of this video clip, Hao Ren saw a mess.
It is still a long bridge in the air, but at this moment the situation on the long bridge is out of order. A burst of red light flashed at the edge of the picture, and continuous alarm sounds came from outside the picture. The dormant cabin was released by batches to the long bridge and several additional “unloading points” around the cylindrical space. The children awakened from the dormant cabin panicked and guided the lights and some of the older children. Escape from this place. This video is much shorter than the previous one, and there are almost only a few messy shots. After the image was finished, Lily asked subconsciously: "What happened behind?"
"I am afraid this facility is accidentally activated. They should have been sleeping for a longer time!" Hao Ren frowned. "The result was awakened in advance!"
Lily's eyes wide open: "An accident? What an accident?"
The answer to her is not Hao Ren, but the data terminal: "Reactor failure! Also remember the radiation in the outer layer of the ancestral furnace? Those radiations were almost eight hundred years ago when the reactor suddenly broke down!" (^ )