When the sky was bright, the strongest human soldiers were fully armed.
A hundred years ago, when scientists and engineers evacuated the planet and buried the entrance to the earth's core, they obviously destroyed the means of transportation to enter the depths of the earth's core. After a hundred years, if humans want to enter in a short time, they can only rely on temporarily modified vehicles. Lifting instruments for geological exploration.
Zhong Yan stood straight in front of the monitor screen without saying a word. He was wearing a solemn black suit, and he has not changed it since he arrived at Xuefuxing, because it was almost a whole day and night, and he was working on the organization without a moment's rest. His skin was originally white, but now it is too pale , showing some unnatural morbidity, the two bruises under his eyes and the bloodless lips, even those who have not studied medicine think it is not good.
The command hall is in the Experimental Building of the School of Engineering. The team that assisted Adrian in the underground of the School of Mechanical Engineering sent people back. Fein said to Zhong Yan, "Your Excellency, he has passed through the dirty bomb layer and everything is going well."
Zhong Yan nodded: "Okay."
Five minutes ago, the command hall, which was monitoring the equipment on Adrian's body, had broadcast this news five minutes ago. Zhong Yan believed that Fein didn't come to him to say this. Sure enough, Fein continued: "Zhong Yan, go and rest for a while. Adrian will have to descend for a long time. This section of the road has been checked, and there is no danger. Moreover, he will not turn on the camera during this section, and there is no picture to watch .”
He called Zhong Yan's name instead of the president, indicating that this was a private conversation that had nothing to do with official business. Zhong Yan changed his expression and asked, "Did he ask you to speak?"
"Yes. He told me before going down that he was afraid that your body would not be able to hold on."
Zhong Yan shook his head and said: "There are people who are fighting on the front line to save mankind, but the president went to sleep. This is too disgraceful. Besides... I can't sleep either."
In this case, not to mention Zhong Yan, I am afraid that none of the people in Xuefuxing can fall asleep. There was a tense and busy atmosphere in the temporary command hall. In fact, only a dozen people were busy working in front of the monitoring station and the operating station. Under the premise that the people in front of the monitoring station are causing trouble, they silently watch the fate of mankind.
Fein couldn't persuade him, so he had to give up and went to his own position in the monitoring station.
The president was dressed in a black formal suit and stood behind the monitoring platform with his hands behind his back, like a statue with a cold expression. He is not only a human being waiting for fate to be pronounced like everyone else, he is also the direct person in charge of this operation, and the partner of the person who performed the task. Everyone understands his mood, encouragement is too empty, and comfort seems weak. People came forward to disturb.
It stands to reason that the president, as the highest person in charge of the operation, is naturally qualified to sit in front of the podium, but Zhong Yan declined, bluntly saying that all positions should be filled with people who play a role in the operation.
A few hours later, Adrian's figure appeared on the surveillance screen, and he released the first floating camera.
"Position, I have broken through the limit distance of the detector. There is no loss of weapons, no injuries, and everything is going well."
Everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief. The so-called limit distance of the detector is not because the detector itself cannot continue to detect downwards due to technical reasons, but is blocked by a protective identification mechanism, unable to decipher the pass code of a century ago, and can only forcefully break into the protection mechanism. The people on the ground tried countless times, scrapped many detectors, but couldn't break through. Many people in the expert team worried that Adrian would also be stuck here and return without success, or worse, he would die here directly.
Judging from the monitoring screen, there are many fresh mechanical wrecks under Adrian's feet, all of which are detectors that were scrapped yesterday and today, but he and his equipment are indeed intact as he himself said. There was a whisper of admiration.
After the limit distance, there were no lights arranged in advance by the ground team. Adrian turned on the lights on the combat cap and walked forward for a while. The icon in the picture is going deep underground. Obviously, the gravity system has been adjusted inside the planet. This is probably the adjustment made by the engineers who built the planet to facilitate their own entry.
Adrian saw the light switch on the wall, and he stretched out his hand to turn it on, and the whole passage suddenly brightened, and everyone in the command hall was shocked, and Finn, who was in charge of commanding this operation, shouted into the communication: "Your Excellency, Commander! Can you tell us before you touch any switches? What if this isn't the one that turns on the lights?!"
"It says 'lighting' on it. Are you too nervous?" Adrian said helplessly, but if it wasn't written, what use could this switch be? The tense atmosphere in the command hall seemed to be transmitted from his earphones, and he suddenly thought that Zhong Yan would probably not listen to him and go to rest, and must be watching the situation at the same time, his heart softened, and he changed his words to comfort: "Okay, I Got it, next time I will tell the podium in advance."
With the lights on, it is much faster to travel. Adrian continues to go deep underground, and every few hours, he will encounter a protective mechanism, which is more dangerous every time. Fortunately, the equipment he brings out is carefully selected. The best of the best, considering the various situations that may be encountered, it is even more powerful for Adrian. After a few downs, a lot of equipment was damaged, and his people were only slightly injured.
The monitoring screen has disappeared. After two floating cameras were damaged in the agency, Adrian decided not to release the last one for the time being. Therefore, for a long time, the people in the command hall could not see him, and they did not want to talk to him frequently. For his physical strength, he and the medical officer can only judge his condition by staring at the various body indexes sent back from the detector attached to his body.
When the night came, Adrian rested for an hour at Wei Lan's suggestion.
There are hidden dangers in explosions that are too close to the dirty bomb layer. What's more, according to artificial intelligence experts, although the main server of "Butterfly" is almost all below the dirty bomb layer, if the part that is blown up is not the core of the server, it may not necessarily To "kill" artificial intelligence, it must go deep into the core position and use a small-scale bomb to detonate it.
In the middle of the night, the temporary command hall was brightly lit. Before Adrian left, he asked Finn to look at Zhong Yan. Fein saw Zhong Yan’s expression was really bad at the moment. He used the excuse that “Adrian is already close to the core area, maybe There are decisions that need to be ordered by the president." Anyway, Zhong Yan was persuaded to sit down at the podium.
But this is not a lie, Adrian has indeed penetrated into the core area. A series of room-like buildings began to appear at the end of the passage. It took Adrian some effort to break through the mechanism at the door. He simply dealt with the bone-deep injury and released the last camera.
After more than ten hours of continuous high-intensity marching, and dangerous traps every few hours, although Adrian did not show it, his physical function indexes have dropped to very dangerous indicators, and the distance from the "butterfly" Only a few hours left to wake up.
Everyone is on edge, engrossed. Adrian manually controlled the camera, and while walking, he showed the experts on the ground to take pictures of the complex machines integrated with the walls inside the room.
An artificial intelligence expert recognized those machines at a glance, and exclaimed excitedly: "Yes, there will be no mistakes! This is the outreach server structure of super artificial intelligence!"
"It doesn't look right." Another artificial intelligence researcher said, "Isn't this the classic structure two centuries ago? The diagrams in textbooks are not this structure anymore."
Adrian walked non-stop through the mechanical lair-like rooms, and stopped when he walked out of one of them.
Everyone in the command hall was refreshed and attracted attention by the picture in front of them.
This is a huge and empty passage, and at the end there is a half-person-high cylindrical platform. There is a gap in the wall behind the cylindrical platform that can barely be distinguished by the naked eye, which shows that it is a door that can be opened. Other than that, this circular passage looks like nothing, the smooth and white walls are spotless, exuding a sense of holiness.
There is no evidence, but everyone has a feeling: this is here, their destination, the core of their search, must be in the space behind the door at the end of this white passage.
The dressing on Adrian's early wounds had fallen off during the subsequent strenuous activities, and the blood flowed from his body, which had already soaked the lower half of his combat uniform. He walked to the door at the end of the passage to observe the cylindrical platform, leaving behind a The bloody footprints are especially dazzling on the white and smooth ground.
Many people gasped, Adrian had been acting normally, they didn't know his injury was so serious, Finn glanced at Zhong Yan, the latter closed his eyes, Finn was startled, thinking that Zhong Yan After being stimulated by extreme exhaustion, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and was about to faint, but it was almost the time he blinked twice, Zhong Yan opened his eyes again, and sat there with a calm expression, no matter how he looked, he was a calm person A reliable decision-maker, as if the pained look at the moment he closed his eyes just now was just Finn's illusion.
On the cylindrical platform is a slightly concave contact plate.
"Your Excellency, Decoder." The technical team reminded.
Adrian took out the deciphering equipment from the backpack that was attached to the combat uniform, fixed it on the edge of the contact plate, and then casually put the bandage that had fallen off into a ball on the contact plate.
There was no response from the pure white room, but the decipher sent back an error message to the ground.
Several people in the technical team who had been on standby for a long time quickly started to decipher the work. The working principle of the touch panel is not complicated, and its function is nothing more than the need for the correct medium to unlock certain permissions. Generally speaking, it is the fingerprint entered in advance, but look at this contact The shape of the board, the pass code should not be someone's fingerprint.
"It's cosmic matter!" After a long time, one of the codebreakers exclaimed, "The correct medium to activate this contact plate is cosmic matter!"
"Which kind of cosmic substance?" Adrian asked with a frown.
The person in charge of the technical group said with a heavy face: "Any kind of matter from the universe. It's such an ingenious idea. Except for those who already know the key, no one will carry this kind of thing with them. It's a pity that the commander-in-chief All of the objects are also endo-atmospheric artifacts."
Now it is too late to find a small piece of cosmic meteorite to send down, and there are only two short hours left before "Butterfly" wakes up.
Finn was silent for a moment, and asked, "Is it feasible to execute the final stage in that passage instead of going into the last room?"
The last stage is to install explosives and implement blasting. No one dared to say whether it was feasible. In order to ensure that the dirty bomb layer was not affected, the power of the bomb carried by Adrian was not invincible.
"That's pointless," whispered a member of the panel.
Indeed, their plan is to find the brain core of "Butterfly" and detonate it precisely. If the core cannot be found, the detonation will be the same uncertainty, so spending more than ten hours sending a person deep into the ground is meaningless.
Being stopped at the last hurdle by the protection mechanism designed by the ancestors a hundred years ago, everyone was full of unwillingness and despair. At this moment, Adrian suddenly asked: "What is the definition of matter in the universe? What is born in the universe?" Even cosmic matter?"
Although the person in charge of the technical group was very surprised that Adrian used the word "birth", he thought it might be the commander's wording error, maybe he wanted to say "born in the universe", but it didn't affect the understanding, the person in charge of the technical group affirmed: "right."
"I have," Adrian said.
There was an uproar in the command hall, and Finn confirmed inconceivably, "Do you have cosmic matter?"
Adrian didn't speak anymore. Under everyone's breathless gaze, he untied the layers of heavy combat uniforms, and took out a snow-white, slightly flattened felt circle from the innermost position close to his heart. ball.
That is the lucky pendant that Zhong Yan made for Adrian, using the fur of the giant interstellar rabbit that was born among the stars.