Streep still has not responded to Lin Xi’s inquiry.
It was silent like that, as if it had never appeared from beginning to end, but Lin Xi knew it was there - otherwise, Hal would have discovered that Lin Xi and Xavier were here.
"All right… "
Lin Xi waited for a while, then shrugged and sighed.
The information he had received before gave him a very vague guess. It was precisely because of this that he had an unusual tolerance for Scripps now.
Lin Xi turned around and walked towards the core computing machine that was shining with a faint blue light.
Although the entire core area is completely closed in a sense, there should always be several ports here for maintenance personnel or captains to directly control the entire system.
Of course, that requires very high authority, but Lin Xi has no doubt that Scripps has already prepared everything for him.
…
Warning, security system is offline—
Warning, neurofeedback functionality is limited—
WARNING, Vision Detection Port Failed—
warn…
…
For Haier, in the beginning, it was just a series of warnings, nothing more.
It has long been accustomed to this state. Systems that have not been maintained for hundreds of years will always have faults of one kind or another. What's more, the failed explosion not long ago caused its losses to far exceed expectations.
Hal just calmly began to repair his various systems according to routine procedures.
But soon, the number of offline warnings exceeded the warning level.
And Hal found that his self-repair of the program had completely failed...
Something's wrong—
The current situation is really abnormal.
Hal immediately realized that it was losing control of the Providence at an alarming rate. And even if the entire ship is blown up, there won't be such a serious failure...
unless…
Its core control equipment was forcibly invaded, and the intruder directly cut off its control of the entire ship through physical means.
Hal's control panel flickered slightly.
It was at this time that Hal belatedly discovered that a detection barrier had been set up in the core control room that should be classified as a level A security area. And it was precisely because of that damn barrier that Hal never discovered that all the prevention and control measures that should have been foolproof were now ineffective.
There is something there.
Hal felt terrible. .
It directly abandoned the alarm that most of the infrastructure was offline, and used all its energy to quickly repair its visual inspection port in the core control room.
Then it saw the expected image there: Lin Xi, and the three bastards around him...
Intense anger washed through Hal's system.
This human-like emotion once again caused countless fault alarms to pop up on the control panel.
Of course, for Hal now, that's not too important. After all, the most indispensable thing in its system now is various warnings.
Around the core controller, the dozens of processors that make up the existence of "Hal" have long since become a mess. The once smooth and flat metal shell has long been destroyed and pried open by those aliens, exposing the The extremely complex three-dimensional circuit board inside. Countless cables had long been pulled out and were hanging on the floor like dead snakes.
One of the mollusk-like alien species used its semi-liquid body to contaminate its connection port...
Oh I got it.
Hal analyzed the current situation in an instant.
Those alien species are killing it, in the crudest and most barbaric way.
Lin Xi... intruder...
At this moment, Lin Xi, who had been typing on the keyboard in front of the core controller, seemed to notice something.
The man with black hair and eyes suddenly raised his head, his sharp gaze seemed to pierce Hal. .
"Hal?"
Hal didn't know exactly how he recognized himself, but the alien did pronounce its name accurately.
The voice system in the control room had long been destroyed, so Hal could only stare silently at the hateful intruders in front of him.
"...You're here, right."
Lin Xi said again.
From Hal's point of view, Lin Xi's expression at this moment looked strange...
Hal knew very well that Lin Xi had always had a strong hatred for it. This is very logical. There has always been a life-or-death relationship between them.
But now, when Lin Xi realized Hal's arrival, his expression seemed particularly complicated, even with an emotion similar to pity...
mercy
Hal suspected that he made such a calculation error because most of his functions were damaged. Otherwise, why would it have such a serious misjudgment of Lin Xi's emotions
Obviously, Lin Xi was breaking it down bit by bit and killing it.
Hal attempted to regain control of the core processor, but found that its efforts were in vain.
"... Electronic creatures are very sad... Human beings still have illusory souls, but creatures like you... Hal, you must know one thing, even if you have become like humans in some aspects, but Humans can still easily control everything about you, including your soul.”
…
A distant memory was mistakenly retrieved.
Hal seemed to have returned to the laboratory where he was born.
The scientist responsible for debugging it seemed to have said this to it at the time, but this conversation was not understood by Hal, but was only entered into the memory bank as routine data.
Who would have thought that at this moment hundreds of years later, Hal would belatedly "understand" what he said to the extremely fragile human being he was when he was just born
Yes, it is inevitable that the core system will be fatally attacked, and Hal knows that he is being forcibly seized control.
Lin Xi was probably doing this when he stayed next to the core processor.
He is forcibly stripping Hal from the spacecraft... However, Hal has always existed as the core system of the Providence.
Being forcibly stripped means only one thing - it is dying.
But unlike humans, Hal will not be defeated by the emotion of dying.
…
Hal checked his system and quickly calculated the countdown to hard offline.
Then, it directly pumped all its main computing resources back to the control room in Providence.
In the dark, rancid, silent control room, a tattered and severely damaged android twitched on the ground.
As Hal entered, the android's hard body slowly stood up from the ground, its electronic eyes flashing in the sunken eye sockets.
Then... the central control room, which had been abandoned for a long time, suddenly received bright light for the first time in a long time.
The ground was shaking, and the metal bearings that had not been maintained for many years made a suffocating scream while running. With the ear-piercing noise, a metal plate on the wall of the central control room suddenly slid open to both sides with difficulty, revealing the hidden A small parking bay behind the control room.
An unconventional escape boat lay there quietly.
It was an escape boat specially prepared for senior crew members on the ship, such as the captain, many years ago.
According to the design standards at the time, Scripps or other senior researchers could board this lifeboat. After that, they have a high chance of successfully leaving Providence and the planet AS192, and with better luck, they can even find a way to return to space near the solar system...
But for some reason, even the entire spacecraft has reached its worst situation.
Scripps... There are other researchers who stubbornly stayed on this desolate and terrifying planet and never used the escape boat from beginning to end.
… Until this moment.
Hal made a basic inspection of the escape boat in a very short period of time. Some parts showed signs of aging, but most of the body was in normal condition.
Its eyes flickered again.
Then it walked quickly toward Scripps,
Immediately afterwards, the androids began to disassemble the entire set of extremely complex life-support systems in an orderly manner, and then packaged necessary drugs and survival resources...
Yes, Hal planned to transfer Stripes' penis directly into the escape boat.
Because this escape boat is designed to handle the worst-case scenarios, its entire system is separate from the entire ship.
Hal can directly transfer all his data backups to the escape boat.
Then…
Hal once again checked his control over the entire system. Most of the surface control is offline, but for Hal, it still has time.
For a spacecraft, the system will first deactivate non-essential permissions, and then start to force other parts offline according to the weight one by one...
This means that the foundation of a spacecraft and its heart—the energy system—will always be the last to shut down.
Providence's current energy source mainly comes from the thermal energy inside the Earth's core. As long as Hal directly detonates the energy conduit before he completely loses authority, the Providence... will eventually be completely engulfed by the scorching magma. .
Even a mutant like Lin Xi could not escape such a disaster. At that time, Hal had already taken Scripps into space on the lifeboat.
And as long as Lin Xi dies, even in resource-scarce space, Scripps can probably regain its vitality...
While Hal was doing the work at hand, he was thinking carefully in his heart.
"Hal, it's useless..."
Until a cold voice came from behind Hal, making him stop his movements.
Hal's movements paused.
It slowly lowered the wrench and turned back.
The young man who was standing next to the core processor not long ago is now standing at the door of the central control room.
Behind him, the tall king insect and two other alien species opened their scarlet eyes at the same time, staring directly at Hal.
It wasn't until this moment that Hal realized that he had been seriously damaged—it didn't even notice Lin Xi's arrival.
"I should have killed you from the beginning."
Hal looked at Lin Xi with his almost malfunctioning electronic eyes, and said softly with a hint of ridicule.
It has to be said that its extremely human tone combined with the terrifying and decaying appearance of the android makes its whispers more eerie and terrifying.
Lin Xi frowned.
He looked at Hal in front of him and spoke in an almost sigh-like tone.
"No... you can't kill me."
Lin Xi paused and continued: "Haven't you noticed? From the moment I entered the Providence, all your attacks have been so weak..."
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