Chapter 936 The Truth
Due to the disappearance of the artificial atmosphere, there was a vacuum here. Hao Ren could not hear the roar of the huge machines under his feet, but he saw that the indicator lights on the equipment in front of him were lighting up one by one, and those covering the roof and pipes The frost was shaken off like atomization, and he knew that the facility had been successfully activated. He pressed his hand on the icy wall and felt a strong vibration coming from the depths of the building. Then the vibration began to weaken again - a huge machine was running and slowly entered a stable state. .
"These things actually work," Lily stuck out her tongue in surprise, "I thought they were all frozen inside."
Hao Ren didn't say anything, but carefully studied the various indicators on the nearby devices and the prompts popping up from the various small displays. He knew nothing about this unfamiliar system, nor did he know that it was on this system. How much damage had accumulated during the millennium of downtime, so he was worried about any emergencies during system startup. Fortunately, it does not seem difficult to understand the prompts on these devices: presumably considering that this will be a long voyage, operators of several generations may not be able to retain complete sailing knowledge, so this giant ship The designers of the ship strive to make the spacecraft control system simple and easy to understand. Most of the machines operate automatically, and the parts that require human operation have concise and clear instructions.
As the vibrations coming from deep underground became calmer and quieter, the main power furnace and generator seemed to be operating normally. Various equipment in the control room became brighter one by one, and the busy and flashing indicator lights showed the status of various equipment. Restart and self-test progress. A rectangular silver-white metal plate slowly rose from the main console in front of Hao Ren. The operating status of all units emerged from the metal plate: "The main generator has been restarted, and the ecological computer has entered the restart process and is taking over the emergency system. Accumulated data...system error, emergency system accumulated data is deleted, transferred to special process, resets ecological host to beta mode..."
When the ecological host slowly recovered from hibernation, Hao Ren found the reset function of the local facility ecological mode on the console. He pressed the button and a new window popped up on the monitor: "Checking central control. Station status... Serious error! No atmospheric pressure was detected! Multiple leak points were found! The central control station enters the partition blockade state, and the atmosphere is being reconstructed... All personnel immediately evacuate each connection section and enter the nearest sealed cabin. Repeat, all personnel Immediately evacuate each connecting section and enter the nearest sealed cabin..."
A series of automatic programs began to be executed. From the corner of his eye, Hao Ren saw through the large glass window on the side of the control room that several gates outside were closing one by one, and then the ventilation systems of each cabin started operating. A faint draft of air and a slight pressure came from the skin: the environment of the place began to recover.
The place where Hao Ren and his party were located was originally called the "Central Control Station". Now it seems that the ecosystem of this place is independent from the outside. Therefore, even though the entire city's atmospheric environment has disappeared, the place here is still within a minute. Returned to normal atmospheric pressure. The data terminal checked the composition of the surrounding air and found that although it was different from that on Earth, a group of supermen could still breathe smoothly, so they asked everyone to temporarily turn off the function of their life-support collars.
"Huh..." Lily breathed out comfortably, "Finally, I don't have to use the communicator to talk anymore."
"I'm looking for something similar to the host log," Hao Ren muttered as he fiddled with the console, "I want to figure out what trouble happened here... but the log files seem to have been destroyed."
At this time, a soft system prompt sounded, and the ecological host finally completed all self-test processes and returned to the so-called beta mode from hibernation state. Then it began to check the status of the city inside the ship - of course, the machine immediately began to alarm frantically.
A series of red warning lights lit up in each section of the central control station, and a harsh alarm bell rang loudly in the section where the atmospheric environment had been restored. Hao Ren heard a mechanical and severely distorted synthesized voice warning: "Serious Failure! The urban ecosystem is shut down! Serious failure! The urban ecosystem is shut down! Operators of Level 2 and above immediately enter work, operators Level 2 and above immediately enter work..."
Hao Ren turned off these annoying alarm sounds and began to restore the artificial atmosphere of the city inside the ship. However, when he activated this function, an unexpected error message popped up: "Fatal error, no atmosphere found. Circulation pumps and atmospheric storage facilities.”
"What's going on?" Vivian didn't quite understand what happened.
"It seems that two very important things are missing." Hao Ren frowned and fiddled with the console for a while, and finally found the function to switch the monitoring window. Monitoring screens of some important facilities immediately popped up on the main screen. He saw a huge gap in the middle of a bunch of pipes and machinery on one of the pictures. It was obvious that someone had removed the things there.
As more surveillance footage came back, he discovered that there were more than one similar situation.
He asked the control station host to check all systems one by one, and a series of shocking error messages popped up in a queue:
"Fatal error, the water circulation purification core unit was not found..."
"Fatal error, thermostat controller and related servo units not found..."
"Fatal error, no signal from B-2 to C-12 keel machinery warehouse..."
"More than half of the important facilities have been dismantled..." Hao Ren dragged the surveillance images of the relevant areas one by one to the center of the main monitor. "The ship's life-support system has almost been dismantled into empty shells."
As he spoke, he fumbled with the operation on the console, and finally accidentally touched some irrelevant small device. A metal plate next to the main display suddenly lit up, and the sounds and images that followed interrupted his words.
An old man appeared on the small monitor. He was wearing a commander's uniform, his chest was covered with medals and emblems, and his face was calm and intimidating - it was the old man who turned into an ice sculpture on the operator's seat. This is a video record that should have been left at the last moment of his life.
"...Information code...Forget it, this is the Qunluan, and Lord Gornhilen is recording it here. The countdown for various shutdown instructions has begun, and the ship's ecosystem is expected to shut down in ten minutes. The previously agreed distribution is now repeated. Plan: The atmospheric circulation pump is assigned to the Long Night, the atmospheric storage facility is assigned to the Yonge, the thermostat and its servo unit are assigned to the Day, the water circulation purification unit and all mechanical stores are dedicated to our King, may he and his The giant ship Throne can always be healthy. According to the plan, I have blown 'gas' into the atmospheric circulation pump, so please wait twenty-four hours after this message is sent until the purification pump completes the filtration and recycling of the atmosphere... Ho..."
The old man in the video took a few deep breaths and calmed down again:
"The propulsion crew of this ship will be retained and will continue to follow the fleet until all systems are destroyed. I now declare in the name of Lord of the Mountains, Grand Duke Gornhillen: After my death, all the property of this ship will be returned to our great kingdom. , including the propulsion unit, core reactor and everything in the hull, will return to the kingdom. If the kingdom encounters a disaster, please dismantle... oh... dismantle the remaining components of this ship. To our king, the end of the message .”
The small display dimmed, and the brief message ended. Hao Ren and the others looked at each other, and Lily was the first to break the silence: "Did they dismantle the parts on their spaceship to others?"
"These ships have a limited lifespan. With their level of technology, it is a miracle that they can sail to this day," the data terminal said slowly. "The second half of this voyage will definitely be dangerous, and various system failures are the most common and difficult to solve. . And as long as the mass extinction caused by God Killing continues, there is no possibility for them to stop and recuperate, so the only solution is to continue piecing together the parts that can still be used to ensure the integrity of the ecosystem of at least a few ships. "
Hao Ren shook his head: "But the population that can be fed is getting smaller and smaller."
"So those who are selected to be sacrificed can only euthanasia," Nangong Wuyue bit her lips, not knowing how to evaluate this matter. She thought of the frozen death city outside and those who were calmly dressed in gorgeous clothes at the banquet. And the victims who died solemnly, "How long did they persist with this method?"
Hao Ren shook his head: "No matter how long you persist, it seems that you can't persist until we come. Nolan sent messages to all Arks before, but there was no response."
Everyone fell silent, feeling deeply regretful, but the data terminal seemed to suddenly discover something: "Wait a minute, there should still be survivors!"