When Nolan returned from the earth, she finally got rid of the card and returned to her normal form.
"It's still comfortable in the current state," Nolan's life-sized holographic projection circled on the bridge, "It was stuck before."
Hao Ren asked about the unloading situation: "Where did you throw that ark? Did everything go well?"
"According to the navigation signal sent by the Kraken, I sent the ark directly to the bottom of the sea, right next to Nasathorn, and the Queen of the Siren can see it when she returns," Nolan nodded, "No problem. , just when the cargo was unloaded, it caused a little turbulence, but it had no effect on Nasathorn. Now the Krakens in charge of 'receiving the cargo' should be busy checking and waterproofing the ark. So big thing Son... enough for them to deal with it for a while."
Hao Ren nodded, then turned to look at the remaining twelve huge Ark ships. These huge spaceships are gradually accelerating away from the control area of the drone nest under Nolan's remote control. Because they use relatively backward curvature engines, it is necessary to wait for these spaceships to leave a considerable distance before they can start the hyperspace jump. When you arrive at Io, you have to leave the hyperspace state in advance and slow down slowly. This whole process will take three or four days. He glanced at Lawrence next to him: "You've been on my spaceship for the past two days, and I just happened to explain to you some of the current cosmic situation and more truths about the disaster that year."
Time passed peacefully, and the Ark Fleet embarked on the voyage to Io as planned.
On the second day of the fleet's acceleration, the Ark fleet reached the "take-off window" about one light-year away from the frontier of the drone in a state of sublight speed. Under the condition of light speed, it has been sailing to the position of "escape window" which is 1.5 light-years away from Io. On the third day after leaving the drone lair, the entire fleet left hyperspace, leaving a distorted lens millions of kilometers long at the edge of the Io solar system. Then Nolan conducted a final check on the conditions of the twelve arks, confirming that the main functions of all the spacecraft were still intact, and the mechanisms related to landing deformation were also on standby, so she performed a final calibration on the arks, and the mighty The giant fleet readjusted its course. Heading towards the azure water star 1.5 light-years away.
When Io's blue sea appeared on the main projection, Lawrence didn't say a word for a whole minute.
"Io has no land. Your ark is the only isolated island, so you can only guard this sea for the next two hundred years," Katrina seemed in a good mood after getting the spaceship she wanted, and took the initiative to introduce to her tenants Looking at this new residence, "We sea monsters like this planet very much, but it may not be comfortable for you... It is a place to stay, but if you want to rebuild civilization and seek development. It is not suitable."
Lawrence still didn't speak, he just stared at the blue sea on the holographic projection, and remained silent for a long time.
"Stupid?" Lily poked the old man's back recklessly, "Are you still fascinated by Io?"
It was only then that Lawrence came to his senses all of a sudden, he took a few breaths as if he had just broken free from Io's vast and endless sea, and after a while he whispered: "... This is the sea..."
"This is just a picture taken from afar." Hao Ren smiled slightly. "You will be even more surprised next time. Nolan, start the ark landing procedure."
The twelve giant ark ships have slowed down to a state where they can land on the planet at any time. After receiving the remote command from the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace, these huge mountain-like ships immediately adjusted their posture and began to fall into the dense atmosphere of Io. The olive-shaped rough shell of the Ark ship rubbed violently against the atmosphere. Gradually, a bright red fire glowed, just like twelve mountain peaks wrapped in flames, sliding down from space towards the surface of the planet. The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace followed in the shadow of the Throne, and entered Io's atmosphere with the entire fleet.
As the altitude gradually decreased, the giant Ark ship activated a series of additional systems, and a translucent "membrane" that seemed to distort space appeared around each spaceship, which was the effect of the gravity distortion device. This huge gravity control device that can wrap the entire spacecraft isolates the spacecraft from Io's gravity, preventing these giant monsters with a length of more than 100 kilometers from being twisted into pieces by the planet's strong gravity. iron. And as the gravitational force between the Ark and Io was weakened, the deceleration process of these spaceships gradually reached the end.
The first ship approaching the Sea of Io was the Ark "Cluster". This ancient giant ship that saved the entire fleet with sacrifice spirit slowly descended in a majestic manner. wave. And retreated in all directions. After the ark gradually touched the water surface in a horizontal posture, the general-purpose adaptive landing device built into the spacecraft was activated. I saw those thick black armor layers slowly rising with a huge roar, and the armor belt under the spaceship slowly opened to both sides while dropping a lot of fragments. Those falling fragments were cut by Nolan in advance, Embrittlement treated parts, because this system is too old, if those deformed parts are not cut off, it is impossible to complete the subsequent series of deformations.
After the bottom of the ark was opened, a large number of huge pipes, metal piles, suspension cylinders, and various submerged detection devices stretched out from the previously hidden dark cabins, and they were immersed in the seawater of Io. The ancient equipment of thousands of years was finally activated for the first time. On this strange planet, they eagerly collected information about the surrounding environment, and then reported it to the main control computer of the ark.
However, the data they reported will not be executed—Nolan has cut off the main control computers of these arks, and replaced them with a series of simulation mainframes built by drone groups, so that the arks will not rashly adopt the programs preset after landing. Those actions, but put the whole process under control.
Twelve giant ark ships landed slowly one after another, forming a ring-shaped "island" in the vast sea of Io, and the only intact Ark of the Throne was surrounded by Nolan's control. right in the middle. The airflow caused by these giant spaceships when they landed and the vibration of the hull when the gravity isolation system was released rolled up huge waves on the sea surface. In a large area of the sea around the fleet landing area, the wind howled like a sudden storm, and the huge waves rolled over. , the drifting rain poured down. The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace flew around the Ark of Thrones in the storm to confirm that the most important spacecraft was not damaged in any way during the landing.
And the latest data from the various sensors installed inside the Ark of Thrones and the penetration core that penetrated into the control circuit of the ark also showed that everything is in good condition—except for the slight water ingress in the two isolation compartments at the bottom of the spacecraft, this The landing process went smoother than expected.
Nolan reported to Hao Ren while reading the latest data: "The water body detection and atmospheric detection have been activated, and the Ark's life support system is updating the gas pool and water reservoir, and these things that have circulated for 10,000 years can finally be replenished a little bit. In addition, those spaceships are still using deep-water radar to detect the seabed terrain, but the sea of Io is too deep, and the seabed resources are beyond the reach of the Ark civilization, so I decided to temporarily turn off those radars—it’s useless anyway.”
Hao Ren nodded: "Notify the drone group and send some engineering units to start repairing these spaceships."
Nolan issued a summoning order to the drone group, and at the same time remotely controlled those arks to enter the equipment shutdown process.
After 10,000 years of continuous operation, these ancient spacecraft finally landed on a planet, and their heavily overloaded machines can finally rest. Of course, it is impossible to shut down all the machines in the spacecraft at once. During the period when the drone swarm comes for maintenance, those devices will take turns to rest and restart, which provides conditions for the entire maintenance process.
While Nolan was busy with these technical operations, Hao Ren turned to Lawrence: "Next is the most important part—opening the dome of the ark. Are you sure that the people in the spaceship can accept what will happen next?"
Lawrence nodded slowly: "They will see the sky sooner or later, why not do so while they are still willing to believe what I say."
"Wait a minute," Lily exclaimed suddenly, "Are you planning to open the shell of the spaceship?!" (To be continued~^~)