Reactor failure! Just because of the failure of the reactor!
A glorious civilization, an exile without return, a final struggle, who would have thought that all of this would be destroyed by a machine failure in the end? This dormant facility should have continued to operate for more years as planned, but due to the sudden damage to the Ark's fusion furnace, the host of the dormant facility was affected, and all dormant cabins here were activated in advance. Hao Ren didn't know the logic behind which the vault host made this decision, but he knew that all of this must have exceeded the designer's original expectations. Rao Weiwei'an, who is used to seeing life and death, can only sigh quietly at this moment: "It's really fate."
At this time, the data terminal suddenly seemed to have discovered something: "Wait a minute, there seems to be a room in front of this."
While talking, it flew towards the other end of the long bridge quickly. Hao Ren didn't understand why, but still followed closely. A group of people ran across the 100-meter wide long bridge and came to the opposite side of the cylindrical space. There is a small door here, without any sign on the door.
The data terminal invaded the access control system and quickly opened the small door.
Behind the door is a smaller room, Hao Ren saw at first glance that it was obviously not as tidy as other places in the vault. Countless sundries can be seen on the floor of this room. Empty food cans and cardboard boxes pile up almost half of the space, while the rest of the room is occupied by various cables and equipment. The moment he saw the scene in the room, he realized one thing: Someone once lived here!
"There is also a hibernation cabin here!" Lily's eyes were sharp, and she was the first to find something behind those sundries. Others went over to take a look, and sure enough, they saw a silver-white metal box placed in the corner. But unlike those small dormant cabins outside, the metal box in front of him was significantly larger in size.
It's for adults.
The data terminal floated over to check it, and suddenly let out a surprised voice: "There is still a life reaction inside!"
Hao Ren was shocked when he heard the news, but he didn't care about the details at this time: "Hurry up and activate this thing!"
The data terminal has already figured out the working principle of this low-tech dormant cabin just now. It connects itself to the control circuit of the dormant cabin, and starts the activation process after confirming that the vital signs of the people inside and the living matter in the cabin are normal. . A few small lights lit up on the outer shell of the dormant cabin, and then a burst of cold air "chicked" from both sides of the container, accompanied by a slight sound of mechanical friction. The cover of the hibernation cabin slowly slid open, revealing the true face of the sleeper inside.
An old, thin, bearded old man.
Hao Ren was a little dazed. He didn't expect the people inside to look like this. The old man lying in the hibernation cabin looked like he was dying. Wrinkles covered every inch of his skin. His dark age spots and skinny head made him look like a horrible mummy. His long and messy hair and beard It also seems that it has never been tidied up, and it is messy and dirty sticking to the old man's chest, like a nest of birds and beasts.
After the dormant cabin was activated, the viscous liquid filling the cabin slowly faded to the sides under the action of some kind of magnetic field. The old man lying there twitched all over, and then slowly opened his eyes.
He stared blankly at Hao Ren, and there was no movement for two full minutes. It was only when Lily bumped into something and made a noise, that the old man's eyes twitched suddenly. A look of intense shock and excitement appeared in his eyes. The violent mood swings on his face even made his expression look a bit hideous. This skinny, mummy-like old man grabbed Hao Ren's sleeve with incredible strength, and a sound of "scaring" came out of his throat with no clear meaning. It seemed like he couldn't speak anymore.
"Calm down, calm down," Hao Ren struggled to free the opponent's wrist and held his arm with his backhand. "Take a deep breath, take a deep breath first—alright. Don't get excited, it's safe here now, you have time to explain the situation to us slowly."
The old man was trembling all over. He scanned the strangers in front of him slowly with suspicious eyes, and then struggled to climb out of the dormant cabin. Seeing this, Lily stepped forward to help the old man, and helped the old man together with Hao Ren. to the chair next to you.
And the old man was muttering something like he was delirious during this process. After he sat down, Hao Ren could barely understand what the other party was saying. He kept repeating a few words: "You are here. You are finally here." , I waited for hundreds of years... I almost thought you were all dead..."
"Waiting for us?" Hao Ren's first reaction was to be taken aback. But he soon woke up: the other party didn't know where they came from, and what the old man was waiting for were actually those people in the refuge city.
"I'm afraid you made a mistake," Vivian also heard the old man's muttering, and she subconsciously explained, "We are not from the ark, we are passing by, and our spaceship is parked outside your spaceship."
"You... aren't you?" The old man was a little slow thinking after waking up from hibernation, and he realized what Vivienne meant after a while, and looked at the strangers in front of him with incredible eyes, "But you..."
He stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, because he finally noticed Nangong Wuyue, a half-snake, half-human creature that was coiled up not far away—he realized that these people really came from outside the ark.
"I..." The old man opened his mouth, not knowing how to organize his words in the great chaos, and finally he sighed, "Is there anyone in the boat alive?"
"There are a lot of survivors. Although they are not in good condition, we came in time." Hao Ren grabbed the opponent's skinny hand to keep him calm. "Can you tell us about the situation of this ship?" ? Who are you? Why are you frozen alone in this room?"
"My..." the old man shook his head up and down, trying to remember something, "I... forgot what my name is, I should have a name, but I forgot..."
Vivian pressed the other person's shoulder: "It may be short-term memory impairment caused by too long sleep time. Don't worry, it might recover later. Besides the name? What else do you remember?"
The old man frowned and said slowly: "I remember that I was going to... oh, yes, I am 'Father', and I am going to teach the children. Oh, yes, yes! I remembered, I am To lead those children to rebuild society, I am the last adult who is not sick!"
"Are you not sick?" Hao Ren suddenly became serious, "Terminal, check."
The data terminal flew around the old man's body in the past: "Aging, but healthy, incredible."
"What happened in the spaceship? Where did you come from? Why did the plague happen? This disease only infects adults?" Hao Ren's questions popped up one after another, "And the golden disc in the spaceship...you start from scratch. Talk to us."
"Our hometown... was destroyed," the old man grabbed Hao Ren's hand. He just kept repeating these words for the first minute, and then organized more words, "It is said that the same happened on other planets. A terrible ecological natural disaster. We received a warning from a higher civilization before the end of the world. We built an ark and escaped from our hometown at the expense of half of the population... Do you know? Do you know? This universe happened You must have experienced the same things, but you are definitely more advanced than us, and you even have enough time to investigate other people's spaceships... But we have to do our best just to survive."
The old man's mind was sometimes confused and sometimes sober, and his speech was agitated and chaotic, but Hao Ren didn't interrupt him, because he knew that if he interrupted, the old man might not know how to speak.
“…I was born on a spaceship and grew up on a spaceship, my father, my grandfather, and my grandparents. We have fewer and fewer ships and fewer and fewer people, but we have been trying to live because we don’t want blood Cut off... there is an artifact protecting us, oh, you seem to have mentioned it just now, the golden disc was brought by the higher civilization that warned us back then, and they also taught us how to use the power of the artifact to avoid Chasing...but it doesn't always work, it just slows down the pursuer..."
The old man was panting heavily. He needed a break before he could continue talking. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hao Ren immediately asked the data terminal to call up the video of "People of the Starry Sky".
He pointed to the shapeless light clusters for the old man to see: "Do they look like this?"
"... That's right, that's it." (To be continued~^~)