Although it's unreasonable to say so, Hao Ren really thinks that Vivienne is the most versatile of all the monsters in his family. Lily can only do physical work (not necessarily reliable), May can only wash things, Lao Wang can also be useful when the gas tank is used up, roll... the only function of roll is to take care of the fish, compared to Weiwei An is simply an all-rounder. He can go to the living room and go to the kitchen. He is proficient in doing laundry, cooking, sewing, and cleaning. He can also be used as an air conditioner in hot weather, and a power supply in a power outage, especially a power supply. This function was given by Lily a while ago. I found it, and everyone in the family said that it is very practical. Now everyone does not bring a power supply or charger with them when they go out. Every time the phone runs out of power, they just put it in Vivienne’s hand. It has become a habit. .
Hao Ren handed the cable to Vivienne, who pouted immediately, "Why do I always do this kind of thing?"
But complaining is nothing more than complaining, she habitually conjured up a little bat with electricity, stuffed one of the cables into the little bat's mouth, bit the other cable by herself, and rolled her eyes helplessly: "The door is open, Stay away, watch out for the draft..."
The others immediately found protrusions on the bulkhead next to them that could fix themselves or simply ran out of the ramp, while Hao Ren grabbed the cut steel frame behind Vivian and stabilized Vivian's body with the other hand. Arms, to prevent people from being blown away by the airflow ejected from the gate when the gate is opened (because looking at the state of the spaceship, it is difficult to determine whether its airlock is still functioning normally). After confirming that everyone was ready, Vivienne and her little bat made a vigorous effort at the same time, and a string of tiny sparks burst out from between her teeth.
Immediately afterwards, something like a relay bounced on the substrate connected to the other end of the cable. Hao Ren felt a slight vibration from his hand, and then the unusually thick gate opened tremblingly.
A large number of complex mechanical locks were operating, and the gate was slowly divided into multiple thick steel plates and receded to the surroundings. However, as the gate opened, no air flow gushed out from inside. Hao Ren saw a dim space opposite the gate, with only a few incomplete lights flickering in the darkness, outlining some weird silhouettes.
Accompanied by a stronger shock. The gate had just been opened to one-fifth of the way before it suddenly got stuck. Vivien squeezed her bat hard. Tried sending the door open signal again, but nothing happened.
"Mechanical failure, it looks like this is the only way to go with this door," Hao Ren stopped Vivienne's attempt to increase the voltage. He walked carefully to the gate to make sure that the door would not suddenly close again, and then poked his head in. look away. "Well, the width is enough, everyone, go in, move quickly, and try not to touch things."
A group of people entered the dark space inside through the gap of the gate. Although there were only some incomplete lights behind the gate (and these lights did not look like they were specially used for lighting), fortunately, the people present had special eyesight and could It is not impossible to see things. After entering the gate, Hao Ren immediately looked deeper, as expected. About a few tens of meters away he saw another gate, and what was worse: that gate was open.
"There isn't any airflow," Vivienne released a little bat. The little bat flapped its wings in the air but couldn't fly out, "unless the people in this boat don't need to breathe."
"They must need to breathe. Because this is an air-tight chamber, look at the structure of the two gates," Hao Ren pointed to the opposite door that seemed to be kept open due to a mechanical failure. "The air-tight chamber has failed, just opened it." I didn’t feel any airflow at the outermost door, and I’m worried that this place has completely lost pressure, and I’m afraid there is a relatively large leak point elsewhere.”
As he spoke, he took the lead to float forward. Of course, he knew that the situation might not be so bad: this is a huge ship with a length of more than 100 kilometers. It can almost be said to be a mini artificial planet, and it cannot rely on this air-tight chamber to communicate with the outside world. Maybe everyone just happened to come in from one of the failed air-tight chambers, and you should encounter other containment facilities ahead. If so, there might be someone on the ship who survived.
But as they went deeper into the giant ship, the situation became more and more pessimistic.
They moved forward in the huge and old steel passage, and all they saw along the way were old equipment and broken things that had seriously exceeded their service life. Occasionally flashing emergency lights like will-o'-the-wisps, they found some terminal-like devices on the road, but because the total system power was paralyzed, even using Vivian's external power supply to activate these devices was useless.
"Wouldn't all the people inside be dead?" Nangong Wuyue carefully crawled along some huge pipes in the passage, using her long tail to wrap around the protrusions that can be seen everywhere to ensure that her body is in contact at any time It can give her a great sense of security. "I can't feel any living water. Within a few kilometers, all I can feel is ice, ice that doesn't contain any breath of life."
Hao Ren didn't say a word, but felt the gloomy and oppressive atmosphere here more and more. He kept the data terminal sharing his senses, so that he could see the situation in the depths of the surrounding steel tunnels at any time, but all he saw were various shutdowns. The electronic systems and mechanical devices of the ship, it seems that except for the thrusters of the ship itself, all the internal devices of the spacecraft are down.
Finally, after passing through countless faulty gates and forks, they came to a fairly wide place, which seemed to be a transportation hub, shaped like an oval monster, where passages from all directions converged to form a The same place as the "waiting hall". The lighting situation here is slightly better than other places, maybe the backup generator is still running, and a third of the lights in the hall are working normally.
There are many huge vertical pillars in the center of the hall. At first, Hao Ren thought they were the supporting parts of the building, but when he walked over, he found that these were like elevators: they seemed to lead to the inner space of the spaceship.
"It's all broken... Maybe it's because of a power outage," Nangong Sanba stepped forward and patted the operation panels at the door of several "elevators", "but it seems that we can only go down from this kind of place."
Hao Ren thought for a while, then patted Lily on the head: "Cut this up."
Lily immediately stepped forward happily holding the torch, but turned her head to confirm the moment before she started cutting: "Are you sure?"
"After scanning, there is no life response below." Hao Ren pointed to the data terminal beside him. "At least there is no life response within a few kilometers."
Lily had no doubts, and immediately waved her paws and slashed at those "elevator pillars" with sparks splashing, and quickly cut off the door of one of the elevators, exposing the dark passage inside. Hao Ren looked down and found a dim shaft below, but he couldn't see where the elevator car was.
Vivian took out a small bat to explore the way. Considering that there was no air here, the bat couldn't fly down by itself, so she took out a slingshot by the way, and after roughly aiming, she used the slingshot to collapse her bat clone. down.
After a while, a ray of blood flowed up from the dark shaft, and Vivian absorbed the blood back into her body: "Safe, there is a very long elevator shaft below, and there is a gap in the middle of the shaft, you can go out from there."
Hao Ren checked the shield and entered the shaft first.
He kept going down the shaft, only the dim lights around him gave off some half-dead lights, but after going deeper for a while, he saw some brighter lights coming from below, which shocked him. , Immediately speed up and move closer to the past.
Just like what Vivienne said, there are several cracks beside the shaft of the elevator. These cracks seem to be torn open due to the twisting and deformation of the surrounding old steel supports. Some light shines in from the cracks, and the outside seems to be a Brighter places.
Hao Ren gestured to his companions behind him to signal everyone to be more vigilant, and then he was the first to get through the crack that was wide enough for adults to pass through.
He couldn't help being stunned by the sight outside.
He sees a city.
A silent city in the twilight.
"Landlord, landlord, what do you see?" Lily's bluffing voice came from the communicator, and Hao Ren felt a hairy head hit him from behind, and Lily crawled through the crack in the elevator shaft. After that, the husky girl stayed on the spot with Hao Ren.
"Wow! Battlestar!" (To be continued.)