Hao Ren asked everyone else, including Vivian, to wait behind, and then he walked towards the golden disc holding the data terminal. He knew that this thing could be called the weirdest creation in the Dream Plane, so it was always right to be cautious.
He came to the artifact without any surprise or danger.
The gold disc is inlaid on a huge metal pedestal, and around the metal pedestal, many pipes, cables, steel columns and other things can be seen. These sundries extend all the way to the floor, making the whole device look like a A weird altar in a scientific style. Around the golden disc, a faintly glowing metal ring could be seen. When Hao Ren approached, the metal ring seemed to flicker, but there was no further reaction.
"It seems to be broken," said the data terminal, examining the flow of power in the pipes and cables surrounding the metal disc. The whole installation is silent."
Hao Ren nodded slightly, and cautiously reached out to the surface of the disc.
However nothing happened.
A warm and non-metallic touch came from his fingertips, but he did not read any information from the artifact like last time. It seems that Yuanpan this time is just an ordinary creation of the goddess, and it doesn't carry any extra information.
The data terminal flew around the disc several times to check, and after confirming that there were no dangerous factors, it declared everything safe. The Nangong brothers and sisters and Lili approached curiously, and Lili tugged at Hao Ren's sleeve with a happy face: "Are you all right? Are we picking up treasures again?"
Vivian yelled from a distance: "Then what, can I go there now?"
Hao Ren looked back a little dumbfounded, and found that Vivienne was standing far away at the entrance of the hall, with an expression on her face that wanted to come and watch the fun but was afraid of getting into trouble. He waved at the door: "Come on, come on, it's best not to touch this thing, and be careful when sailing for ten thousand years."
Only then did Vivienne happily trot over, crossing her arms and muttering: "So it was this thing that protected the Ark fleet from being chased all the way? According to this, the breath of the golden disc can dispel those crazy guardians?"
"Hmm..." Hao Ren casually agreed, and began to check the metal pedestal under the disc curiously. Want to know what other functions this device has besides using the disk as a signal source, but before he finds out. The data terminal suddenly found something: "Wait a minute, partner, there's something famous down here."
"Next?" Hao Ren was taken aback.
The data terminal fluttered to the corner of the pedestal, and slammed into a protruding metal pole with its body—at first everyone thought it was an ornament, but the data terminal knocked it down, and then a slight mechanical friction sound came from It came from under the round platform!
"Crackling—" accompanied by a series of grinding sounds of gears and motors. The gold disc unexpectedly stood up slowly, while the black metal pedestal below had a gap in the middle and slowly opened to both sides. Hao Ren watched all this with dumbfounded. After the ancient mechanism finally calmed down, a passage about five or six meters wide and sloping downward appeared in front of him.
There is no hole in the sky here!
Vivian habitually threw a little bat down the passage to explore the way, and she nodded after a while: "It's safe, it's a corridor, there are no traps."
"Everyone, be careful." Hao Ren opened the shield and walked forward while speaking. Before entering the passage, he hesitated while looking at the golden disc. But because he wasn't sure if this thing was affecting other sensitive systems of the Ark, he didn't take it back hastily, but left an autonomous machine here to protect the scene.
Everyone in the team walked down the ancient staircase. It has been a long way to come to the end of the steps. Before them was a wide corridor, dimly lit. However, as Hao Ren stepped onto the floor of the corridor, the light beside him suddenly turned on, illuminating the entire corridor brightly, as bright as day.
Compared with the refuge city on the surface that was about to become a garbage dump, the corridor in front of everyone looked brand new, with no garbage, no damage, no scars, except for thick dust. Everything is fine here. There is no doubt that the inhabitants of the surface do not know this place at all. I'm afraid it hasn't been visited by humans for at least hundreds of years.
"There shouldn't be such a facility on other arks." Hao Ren muttered, because the builder of this place used a golden disc as the entrance to the entire facility, so this place probably has an extraordinary meaning. He walked forward along the corridor, and suddenly felt something stepped on under his feet. When he looked down, he found a plastic card the size of a palm.
He picked up the card and saw the words "Final Vault" written on it, as well as his name and position. It turned out that this was a staff identification card.
"'Final Vault'?" Vivienne leaned over to take a look, "Storage of what?"
Hao Ren shook his head: "God knows."
At this time, Lily, who was running in front, suddenly greeted from a distance: "Hey! Everyone, come and see this!"
Hao Ren ran over quickly, and he saw what Lily had found: it was a small skeleton, lying face down in the corner, and the clothes worn by the owner of the skeleton had rotted into a few rags. It can be vaguely seen that it used to be a white dress.
This was the second "prehistoric remains" he saw in the ark, and it was obviously a child.
"Children?" Vivian frowned, "How could a child die in such a secret facility?"
The data terminal floated over to check the condition of the skeleton, and quickly analyzed a lot of information: "According to the standards of Ark humans, the age of death should be between 12 and 13 years old. The cause of death was a short-term exposure to a large dose of radiation."
"Radiation to death?" Hao Ren's first thought was the adult human remains found in the control room. He remembered that the ark administrator died of a chronic disease that would slowly corrode the skull. "Not a disease?"
"You mean that person in the control room got a strange disease?" The data terminal knew what Hao Ren was referring to, "No. The child died about eight hundred years ago, and the death of the 'captain' in the control room The time was about 900 years ago, and there was a difference of 100 years between the two. Hmm... The people in the control room did not have any traces of radiation to death, but the one in front of them did. This unit estimated that the radiation leak from the reactor was between 800 and 900 years ago. Happened hundreds of years ago."
"The one in the control room should be the last captain of the Ark." Hao Ren frowned slightly, feeling vaguely grasping something, "After he died, no one should have entered the control room again. But A hundred years after his death, a child died in this place..."
After inspecting the small corpse, the group continued to walk toward the depths of the corridor. They passed through several doors in a row, passing through some structures like disinfection rooms, inspection passages, and isolation rooms. Finally, they came to In front of a special gate. This gate is wider than every previous gate, and it has an exquisite and complicated locking device. There is no doubt that this is the deepest part of the entire facility.
Hao Ren vaguely judged the distance he had traveled, and thought that this location had gone far beyond the outer shell of the city of refuge, and might have even passed through the ark cabin where the giant fusion furnace was located (the evidence is that there is no radiation here), This should be an empty cabin hidden between the inner city of the ship and the outer shell of the ark, and judging from the newness of the various facilities here, it was rebuilt many years after the ark—its construction history probably does not exceed a thousand years.
The locking mechanism of the gate can still be used, so with the assistance of the data terminal, Hao Ren opened the gate normally. As the two thick metal plates slowly retreated to the two sides, a huge silver-white space appeared in front of everyone.
This is a large cylindrical cabin, with a diameter of perhaps a hundred meters, and its height is difficult to judge with the naked eye. In this cylindrical cabin, a large number of silver-white metal boxes with a length of no more than 1.5 meters are neatly arranged. Grab it firmly and hang in mid-air in the cylindrical cabin. And a wide long bridge runs through this section. Hao Ren and the others are standing at the starting point of this long bridge.
"What the hell..." Lily looked up at the countless metal boxes neatly arranged, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Wow..."
Hao Ren looked around. He thought that the metal boxes hanging in the air must not be fixed. Sure enough, he soon found a device that looked like a console not far away. (to be continued~^~)