Chapter 953: "father"
Reactor failure! Just because the reactor is malfunctioning!
A brilliant civilization, an exile in a disaster, a final struggle, who can think of all this was destroyed by a machine failure? This dormant facility should have been running for more years as planned, but due to the sudden damage of the Ark's fusion furnace, the host of the dormant facility was affected, and all of the dormant cabins were activated in advance. Hao Ren did not know what logic the vault host made based on this decision, but he knew that it was definitely beyond the designer's original expectations. Rao is Wei Wei'an who is used to life and death. At this moment, he can only sigh and sigh: "It is true fate."
At this time, the data terminal suddenly found something like it: "Wait a minute, there seems to be a room in front of it."
As he spoke, he quickly flew toward the other end of the long bridge. Hao Ren did not know why, but he kept up. The pedestrian ran across this wide, long bridge of 100 meters and came across the cylindrical space. There is a small door here, and there is no sign on the door.
The data terminal invaded the access control system and quickly opened the door.
Behind the door was a smaller room, and Hao Ren saw at first glance that it was not as clean as the rest of the vault. There are countless sundries on the floor of the room, empty food cans and cartons almost half of the space, and the rest of the room is occupied by various cables and equipment. In the moment he saw the scene in the room, he realized one thing: someone once lived here!
"There is also a dormant cabin here!" Lily pointed her eyes, and she was the first to find something behind those sundries. Others used to look at it and saw a silver-white metal box placed in the corner. But unlike the small dormant cabins outside, the size of the metal box in front of it is significantly larger.
It is for adults.
The data terminal drifted over and checked it, and immediately gave a pleasant voice: "There is life reaction inside!"
Hao Ren was shocked when he heard the news, but at this time he couldn’t care about the details: "Hurry and activate this stuff!"
The data terminal has just figured out the working principle of this low-tech dormant cabin. It connects itself to the control circuit of the dormant cabin, determines the vital characteristics of the internal personnel and activates the activation process after all the biological properties in the cabin are normal. . A few small lights were lit on the outer casing of the dormant cabin, and then a burst of cold air was slammed from both sides of the container, accompanied by a slight mechanical friction. The lid of the dormant compartment slowly slides upwards to reveal the true meaning of the sleeping person inside.
An old, thin, old-fashioned old man.
Hao Ren is a bit worried. He did not expect that the people inside would look like this. The old man lying in the dormant cabin seems to be on the wood, the wrinkles fill every inch of his skin, the dark age spots and the thin head make him look like a terrible dry body, long, messy hair and beard It also seems to have never been sorted out, messy and dirty, stuck to the chest of the old man, like the nest of birds and beasts.
After the dormant chamber is activated, the viscous liquid filled with the cabin slowly fades to the sides under the action of a certain magnetic field. The old man lying there twitched and then slowly opened his eyes.
He looked at Hao Ren with a hollow look. There was no movement for two minutes until Lily accidentally touched something and made a sound. The old man’s eyes suddenly slammed, and a strong shock and excitement appeared. On his face, too much emotional volatility even made his expression look awkward. The skinny old man like a corpse grabbed Hao Ren’s sleeves at once, his hands were incredibly big, and his voice was intimidating in his throat. I can't say anything like it.
"Calm, calm," Hao Ren struggled to break his opponent's wrist and then held his arm back. "Deep breath, take a deep breath first. Don't be excited, it's safe now, you have time to tell us the situation slowly."
The old man trembled, and he slowly swept over the strangers in front of him with a stunned line of sight. Then he struggled to climb out of the dormant cabin. Lily rushed to help him and helped the old man with Hao Ren. Go to the chair next to it.
In the process, the old man always seemed to mutter something unconsciously. After he sat down, Hao Rencai barely understood what the other person was saying. He repeated several words: "You are here. You are finally here. I have been waiting for hundreds of years... I almost thought you were all dead..."
"Wait for us?" Hao Ren's first reaction was a sigh. But I quickly woke up: the other party did not know where the few came from, and the old man was actually waiting for those in the city of the refuge.
"You are afraid that you made a mistake," Vivian also heard the old man's jealousy. She subconsciously explained, "We are not the people in the Ark, we are passing by, our spaceship is stopping outside your spaceship."
"You...but?" The old man was a little slow after he woke up from hibernation. He reacted to understand what Vivienne meant and looked at the strangers in front of him with incredible eyes. "But you..."
Half of his words came to an abrupt end, because he finally noticed the Nangong May, which was not far away, a half-snake creature. He realized that these people really came from the ark.
"I..." The old man opened his mouth and did not know how to organize the language in the midst of great confusion. Finally he sighed. "Is there anyone still living in the boat?"
"There are a lot of survivors, although the situation is not very good, but we are still in time," Hao Ren grabbed the other hands, so that he could stay calm. "Can you tell us about the ship?" Who are you? Why are you frozen in this room alone?"
"My..." The old man swayed his head and tried to recall some things. "I... I forgot what I called, I should have a name, but I forgot..."
Vivian held down the other's shoulder: "It may be a short-term memory disorder caused by too long sleep time. Don't worry, maybe you will recover. Besides the name? What else do you remember?"
The old man frowned and said slowly: "I remember that I want to... Oh, yes, I am a 'father', I am going to teach the children. Oh, yes, yes! I remember, I It is to lead those children to rebuild society. I am the last adult who is not sick!"
"You are not sick?" Hao Ren suddenly became serious. "Terminal, check it out."
The data terminal used to fly around the body of the old man: "Aging, but healthy, incredible."
"What happened in the spaceship? Where did you come from? Why did the plague happen? Is this disease only affecting adults?" Hao Ren’s question went one after another, "The golden disc in the spaceship...you Tell us from the beginning."
"Our hometown...destroyed," the old man grabbed Hao Ren's hand. In the first minute he just repeated these words and then organized more words. "It is said that other planets have also happened. The same thing, terrible ecological natural disasters. We received a warning from a higher civilization before the end of the last days. We built the Ark and escaped from our hometown at the cost of most of the population... Do you know? You know? You must have experienced the things that happened in the universe, but you must be more advanced than us. You even have the resources to investigate other people's ships... but we just have to work hard to survive."
The old man's mind was sometimes confused and sober, and the language was excited and confused, but Hao Ren did not interrupt the other party, because he knew that once interrupted, I am afraid that people who are dying will not know how to speak.
"...I was born on a spaceship and grew up on a spaceship. My father, grandfather, and my generation have been like this. We have fewer and fewer ships, and fewer people, but we have been working hard because we don't want to let The blood is cut off... There is an artifact to protect us. Oh, you just mentioned it. The golden disc was brought by the higher civilization that gave us the warning. They also taught us how to use the artifact. Power to avoid chasing... but it doesn't always work, it can only delay the pace of the chaser..."
The old man gasped heavily, and he needed a break to continue, and with this opportunity, Hao Ren immediately asked the data terminal to bring up the image of "the people of the stars."
He pointed to the unshaped light groups and let the old man see: "Are they long?"
"...Yes, that's it." (To be continued.)