Chapter 954: inherited
It seems that most of the races that escaped from the Guardian's catastrophe and natural disasters have been helped by the people of the stars. , those ancient life from the depths of the stars are shrouded in a mysterious veil. So far, Hao Ren has not found any reliable historical materials or relics about the people of the stars in the dream plane. He does not know where the light creatures are from. They are born, they don’t know their social form and civilization, and even their language and words are in the clouds. The only certainty is that these creatures have extremely high technology and are quite familiar with the goddess of creation. They are also unlikely to confront the mad guardians after the goddess has fallen.
“The golden disc is what they brought?” Hao Ren touched his chin, and felt that the secrets of the people on the starry sky seemed to be more and more. “Where did they find the artifact... before the founding star exploded, the gold disc It should all be in the Kingdom of God."
“Muru has mentioned some special ethnic groups known as 'the ancients', which is said to be the ancient race that had lived in this universe before the creation goddess created the creature,” Vivienne suddenly remembered some details. At that time, we did not ask, would the ancients be the stars?"
Hao Ren snorted and turned to the old man: "After that? You are on the journey, are these star people still with you?"
“It is said that during the first few hundred years of the voyage, they were with us, and the ray creatures lived in the navigation cabin of the ark,” the old man shuddered. “But a few years later, they determined that the artifacts had worked, so Just left, perhaps to help other survivors. Our fleet continues on the road. Trying to find a safe place, but the entire universe has been polluted... Every natural planet on the planet has a natural disaster. All the ecology The system is full of lesions, huge tentacles and poisonous blood pools everywhere. Our artifacts can only protect the fleet, but can't purify the whole planet. After losing a few ships, the fleet decided not to stop, we have to wander all the time. Go on until you find a planet without natural disasters..."
Vivienne frowned and asked: "What is the infectious disease?"
The old man gasped heavily and said with a low voice: "No one knows what is going on, it suddenly appears, there is no warning, and there is no treatment. We can't find the cause with our medical technology. We only know that it will infect adults. However, the impact on children has gradually weakened. The younger the age, the weaker the impact of the disease, and the death rate of adults after infection is almost 100%..."
"Almost 100%," Nangong looked at the old man's face in May. "Are you the only exception?"
The old man raised his hand and looked at the lines on the skin. The voice was hoarse: "Yes. I am the only exception, because I was very young, oh, very young. Probably because of this, the plague opened to me. On the one hand, many people who are as old as me are not so lucky."
Wei Wei'an eyebrows slightly lifted: "How old were you when you were first frozen?"
"I... I can't remember, twenty years old. Or twenty-two years old?" The old man's eyes were again cloudy. "I only remember that I was locked up in a white house. Training day and night, learning. Brainwashing to master Those knowledge and skills... Because when the disease spread, we found that it was irresistible, just like the ecological natural disasters that occurred in our hometown. This is a super disaster, so we started to prepare for the future. We used a few In the year, the Ark was rebuilt, and the final vault was built. In the process, more than half of the people died. The project almost failed because of insufficient manpower... We put healthy children into the dormant facilities and let those years as much as possible. Long children learn knowledge because they will be used in the future, but these are not enough, not enough... The biggest of them is only 13 years old, and these 13-year-old children only account for less than one percent of the total number. ""
"So there is you," Hao Ren slowly guided, let the old man recall more things. "You are the teachers and parents of those children. After the virus in the Ark is extinct one day, will you lead them to rebuild civilization?" ”
The old man's head trembled slightly, and seemed to point up and down: "Oh, yes, I want to guide them... After the children go to sleep, the adults go to fend for themselves, and the shelters will be closed for a hundred years until the ecology The system completes a thorough inner loop before it can be restarted. When everything is ready, the children will wake up and start living again under the leadership of 'parents'. But the original 'parents' are more than me, we have many candidates, each one They are tough, have strong learning ability, can lead the team, and the most important thing is to have some resistance to the plague. But then other candidates are still dead one by one, the plague is only weakened in them, they have no real resistance. In the end, I was alone in the training facility, the children had lined up into the dormant cabin, and the last dozen dying people in the Ark gave me a small farewell ceremony. Since then, I have been here. ""
Lily curiously asked: "Why are you going to be placed here independently?"
“For safety,” the old man said slowly. “Because the day after the vault is completed, our medical scientists are not sure whether I am really sick or if I carry a 'virus', if even the last healthy person All of us are infected with the plague, then we would rather give up the reconstruction plan. So I was sealed here, I was awakened every ten years, and then I checked my physical condition. I remembered it. Those are the ones I used..."
The old man trembled to the corner of the room, and Hao Ren saw an old device there, which seemed to have been used for medical purposes.
"Every ten years, I woke up, then I took blood alone, tested and checked my skull," the old man said slowly, "through a small glass window next to the door, I looked at the fifteen outside." Ten thousand small cradle, knowing that my family's blood is still waiting in the ice, this will give me enough courage. Every time I wake up from the ice, I am calculating the number of times I get up, I Tell yourself, count to ten times, everything can start again... until one day I suddenly find myself writing 11 in my notebook and the vault host is abnormally silent."
The scene was quiet.
“System failure,” Hao Ren sighed. “The reaction furnace leaked and spread to the entire cabin. The vault mainframe urgently activated the outside sleeping cabin. Probably it felt that people were hiding in the shelter city than sleeping in the dormant cabin forever. Better. But that machine missed you."
The wrinkled face of the old man solidified on a complicated expression. I couldn't see it. It was crying and laughing, but there was no accident inside. He just sighed with Hao Ren: "I know, it must be a system failure, but now I finally know the details."
Lily feels that it is very difficult to accept: "This kind of accident should not happen, the program of the vault mainframe has a problem, and the location of this vault is also problematic. It is separated from the reactor in the shelter city. This is not a good one. Road, if you can test more... Oh, forget it."
Lily didn't say anything anymore because she knew that the people in the Ark had done their best: their people were dying every day. The only place they could choose was the few corners of the ship. They didn't know how long they could live, even every time. No one knows if he can see the day when the project is completed. When the vault was completed, the remaining adults in the ship even had dozens of them who could not test the entire system and had no chance to envision alternatives.
Everything is a gamble, and the plan to gamble will not go wrong.
But no one is the protagonist, and fate does not care for anyone.
"How have you been after that?" Vivian stared at the old man's face, the face was wrinkled, dry and thin, this face was only in his twenties when he first entered the room, youthful, but now old Nothing looks like, "How long have you been awake?"
"For a long time, I was awake intermittently. At first I forced myself to wake up every ten years. Every time I woke up, I checked my body according to the plan. I prayed that I could see the children standing at the door when I woke up next time, but then I I slowly gave up, and gave up on myself. I really want to give them enough food because I am the only person in the spaceship who wants to eat. They simply stuff the rest of the food into this. The room, they can't use it anyway," the old man showed a crying smile. "Really, I wasted a lot of time, but then I found it harder than death, so I went back to sleep and set the time as I woke up in 30 years, and it continued for many times. I found my hair gradually whitening and wrinkles on my face, so I was scared. I suddenly realized that I was wasting not only my own time, but also those outside. The children, so before the last dormancy, I did the last meaningful thing... Oh, yes, yes, I remembered, most important, the most important!"
The old man suddenly began to get excited. He lifted his finger to another corner of the room. His face was as bright as the returning light. Hao Ren rushed over. He saw a long table there, and the table was neatly packed with lots of manuscripts. .
If these manuscripts are picked up, I am afraid that they are even half a meter thick.
And if these manuscripts are not surprising enough, then the wall next to them is enough to make him stunned: I saw the walls on the long table, the nearby ground, and the furniture, almost every surface was engraved with dense handwriting and The picture, he followed the word marks and looked to the side, finally found that these things are almost half filled in the room, but the lights are dim, and most of the walls and floors are covered with debris, he did not notice these things before. .
Behind Hao Ren, the old man tried to stand up and slowly open his hands, with a proud light in his eyes: "Our...history." (To be continued.)