Hao Ren walked forward along the long bridge in the air, and came to the thing that looked like a console. He saw that it was a clean and new device, without any buttons on it, only a whole silver-white metal panel that was as bright as a mirror. He reached out and stroked the edge of the panel, and found that there was no trace of dust on this thing.
Not only the control panel, but in fact, there is no dust in the entire cylindrical space. The last gate that everyone passed through should have a strict dust-proof isolation performance, and the space itself should also have a dust removal device. There is no doubt that this place Convenience is where the "ultimate vault" is truly stored.
"What is this?" Lily leaned over and asked curiously.
"It should be the manual controllers of those robotic arms." Hao Ren looked up at the neatly arranged metal brackets and rectangular containers in the cylindrical space, as well as the slides and robotic arms connecting them, and at the same time reached out and touched the area next to the control panel. A striking light green indicator line, "According to the experience in the control room, this kind of touch screen should be activated by touching here... oh, sure."
Under his touch, a series of complex and changing geometric figures emerged on the silver-white metal plate, and then these geometric figures slowly stabilized to form an initial interactive interface. As expected, the operating system is locked and requires identification to enter, but this controller does not seem to use the mechanical key that the captain of the ark carries with him, it requires a password.
Such a password can't help the data terminal. The latter floats to the console and connects itself with the control panel with a blue beam of light. A lot of interference spots immediately appear on the screen on the panel. Within a few seconds, this set of The system was cracked, and a simple and easy-to-understand operation window popped up. Hao Ren tried to activate some of the above functions, and the neatly arranged containers in the cylindrical space immediately started to move. A row of brackets was lowered from the sky and stopped firmly beside the long sky bridge. The rectangular metal boxes suspended above Then it stuck on the groove next to the railing of the long bridge along the slideway, and with a few "chi chi" sounds, these containers opened.
Lily immediately ran over to check. She saw that the metal box was empty, the empty container containing only some removed catheters and a viscous liquid.
"What are these?" Vivian also went to check the situation in the metal box. She felt a little baffled.
"It's the hibernation pod—I guessed it, but it's more or less the same," Hao Ren said slowly. "These are all hibernation pods, and the total number reaches 150,000."
"Hibernation cabin?" Vivienne is no stranger to this word, but she looked at the models of those metal boxes and always felt something was wrong. "Isn't the size a little smaller?"
"Because these are for children." Hao Ren walked over with a data terminal, which had already synchronized data with the console on the long bridge, and took over all functions of the console with ease. Turn on the holographic projection, and the information displayed on it is the data read from the console.
A list was opened, and hundreds of portraits jumped on the projection, and scrolled down quickly—every portrait was a child.
"The oldest is no more than thirteen years old, and the youngest is only three years old," Hao Ren pointed to the projection above the data terminal. Along with those list photos were extracted, as well as some basic information about the vault, such as system logs. "This final vault keeps children in a dormant state. It was built 892 years ago. The last time it was opened was 815 years ago."
"That is to say, it has been frozen for decades..." Nangong Wuyue poked the viscous liquid in the metal box with the tip of his tail, confirming that it is a substance that can maintain biological activity at low temperature, "What is the problem?" The point is why are there only children—where are the adults?"
"Do you still remember the last captain I saw in the control room?" Hao Ren raised his eyelids, "He died of a chronic disease that slowly eroded his skull. I doubt that all adult People die from this disease, only children are left."
"But we only found that set of bones." Nangong Wuyue's tail curled up. "How can we be sure that the same thing happened to other adults?"
Hao Ren thought about this question just now, and speculated: "Do you think a person with this terminal disease can continue to serve as the captain of the Ark? And this disease is very slow. People on the Ark have enough time to choose A healthy new captain, but they don't have one. The last captain died in line of illness, and there's only one explanation for that: they didn't have a choice, there were no healthy candidates, everyone was sick. And here..."
Hao Ren pointed to the countless silver and white metal boxes neatly arranged in the midair: "Children are not sick. This is the reason why civilization breaks down in the last ark."
He knew that more than half of his statements were guesses, but these guesses were completely tenable, and he couldn't think of any other more reliable reasons. It's just that he still can't explain the more fundamental question: How did this strange and suspicious terminal illness come about? Why did only the children survive? When the captain of the ark of the Qunluan led all the subjects to die, the other arks were still normal. Did this disease come out of nowhere
And there is another question, which is more doubtful than the bizarre disease: How did these low-tech humans obtain the artifact of the goddess of creation, and design a simple but effective amplification system for it? system
"Is there anything else in the database?" Hao Ren knocked on the casing of the data terminal, "Diaries of personnel, audio recordings, video recordings, whatever."
The data terminal is communicating with the host of this "final vault", and it tries its best to extract all the remaining things in this old system, but this is just a warehouse after all, and there is actually not much useful information. In the end, the data terminal found the most valuable information, which was a few pieces of broken video data.
"Here are some things, which were captured by the monitoring system, and are recorded at the two time points when the facility was closed and opened." The data terminal began to play the information it found while talking.
The first video is of the children entering those hibernation pods. On the screen, you can see those children walking on the long bridge in neat lines, and some children who are too young even have to be held in the arms of older children. The older children seemed to know what was going on, so they could occasionally be seen comforting their siblings. During the whole process, no one cried, and no one was timid. All the children stood quietly in the line, waiting to enter their own dormant cabin. Next to these teams, you can see a few adults. The latter are wearing unusually thick isolation suits, and every inch of their skin is wrapped under the white protective clothing, as if they are afraid of infecting children with the virus. These adults are probably the last operators of the entire ark. Their health is obviously very poor. The patient can only insist on coming to see off the tinders of civilization.
After the last batch of hibernation pods were sent to the stand, the adults in isolation suits left the place, the gates closed, and the last generation of the Ark began their seventy-seven years of ice.
"Next is the record of the opening of the facility—it was captured by surveillance equipment 815 years ago." The data terminal said, and released another video.
At the beginning of this video clip, Hao Ren saw chaos.
It is still the long bridge in the air, but the situation on the long bridge at this moment is out of order. Bursts of red lights flickered at the edge of the screen, and continuous sirens sounded from outside the screen. The dormant pods were released in batches to the long bridge and several additional "unloading points" around the cylindrical space. The children who woke up from the dormant pods panicked and panicked under the leadership of the guide lights and some older children. Get away from this place. This video is much shorter than the previous one, almost only these few messy shots. After the video was played, Lily asked subconsciously: "What happened in the back?"
"I'm afraid this facility was activated by accident. They should have slept for a longer time!" Hao Ren frowned, "They were awakened early!"
Lily's eyes widened: "Accident? What accident?"
It was not Hao Ren who answered her, but the data terminal: "The reactor is faulty! Do you still remember the radiation in the outer area of the ancestor Hong furnace? Those radiations appeared almost eight hundred years ago—the reactor suddenly broke down!" (unfinished To be continued~^~)