Due to the disappearance of the artificial atmosphere, there was a vacuum here. Hao Ren couldn't hear the sound of the huge machines running under his feet, but he saw the indicator lights on the equipment in front of him being lit up one by one, and those covering the roof and pipes The frost on the ground was also shaken off as if atomized, and he knew that the facility had been successfully activated. He pressed his hand on the icy wall, feeling a weak to strong vibration coming from the depths of the building, and then the vibration began to weaken again - some huge machine was running, and it slowly stabilized .
"These things actually work," Lily stuck out her tongue in surprise, "I thought they were all frozen inside."
Hao Ren didn't say a word, but carefully studied the various indicators on the nearby devices and the prompts that popped up from the various small screens. He knew nothing about this strange system, and he didn't know that it was on the How much damage had accumulated during the shutdown of the millennium, so he was worried about what emergencies during the system startup process. Fortunately, it does not seem to be difficult to understand the prompts on these devices: probably considering that this will be a long voyage, operators after several generations may not be able to retain complete knowledge, so this giant ship The designers strived to make the spacecraft control system simple and easy to understand. Most of the machines were operated automatically, and the parts that required human operation had concise and clear instructions.
As the vibrations from the depths of the ground became more and more calm, the main power furnace and generator seemed to be operating normally, and the various equipment in the control room lit up one by one, and the busy and flashing indicator lights showed the status of various equipment. Reboot and self-test progress. A rectangular silver-white metal plate slowly rose from the main console in front of Hao Ren, and the operating status of all units emerged from this metal plate: "The main generator has restarted, and the ecological computer has entered the restart process and is taking over the emergency system. Accumulated data... system error, the accumulated data of the emergency system has been deleted, transferred to a special process, reset the ecological host to beta mode... "
When the ecological host slowly recovered from hibernation, Hao Ren found the reset function of the local facility's ecological mode on the console, and he pressed the button. A new window popped up on the monitor: "Checking the status of the central control station... Serious error! The atmospheric pressure was not checked! Multiple leaks were found! The central control station has entered a state of partition blockade, and the atmosphere is being reconfigured... All personnel are evacuated immediately Link segments and enter nearest airlock. Repeat, all personnel immediately evacuate each link segment and enter nearest airlock…”
A series of automatic procedures started to execute. Out of the corner of Hao Ren's eyes, through the large glass window on the side of the control room, Hao Ren saw that several gates outside were being closed one by one, and then the ventilation systems of each cabin started to operate. A faint draft and a slight pressure from the skin: the place is beginning to recover.
The place where Hao Ren and his party were located was originally called the "Central Control Station". Now it seems that the ecosystem of this place is independent from the outside, so even if the atmosphere of the entire city has disappeared, it will still be within a minute. returned to normal atmospheric pressure. The data terminal checked the composition of the surrounding air. It was found that although it was not the same as on the earth, a group of supermen could still breathe smoothly, so they asked everyone to temporarily turn off the function of the life-support collar.
"Huh—" Lily let out a long breath of comfort, "Finally, I don't need to use the communicator to talk anymore."
"I'm looking for something similar to the host log," Hao Ren muttered while fiddling with the console, "I want to figure out what kind of trouble was encountered here at that time... But the log files seem to have been destroyed."
At this time, a soft system prompt sound came, and the ecological host finally completed all the self-test processes, and returned to the so-called β mode from the hibernation state. Immediately afterwards, it began to check the status of the cities in the ship—of course, the machine immediately started frantically calling the police.
A series of red warning lights illuminated in various sections of the central control station. The ear-piercing alarm bell blared loudly in the section where the atmospheric environment had been restored, and Hao Ren heard a mechanical and severely distorted synthesized voice alarm: "Serious failure! The city's ecological system is shut down! Serious failure! The city's ecological system is shut down! Operators above the second level immediately enter the work position, and operators above the second level immediately enter the work position... "
Hao Ren turned off these disturbing alarms casually. He began to restore the artificial atmosphere of the city in the ship, but when he activated this function, an unexpected error message popped up: "Fatal error. No atmospheric circulation pump and atmospheric storage facility were found."
"What's going on?" Vivian didn't quite understand what happened.
"It seems that two very important things are missing." Hao Ren frowned and fiddled with the console for a while, and finally found the function to switch the monitoring window. The monitoring screen of some important facilities immediately popped up on the main screen. He saw a huge gap in one of the images where there was a pile of pipes and machinery, and it was obvious that someone had taken things down there.
And as more surveillance images were sent back, he found that there were more than one similar situations.
He asked the control station host to check all the systems one by one, and a series of jaw-dropping error messages popped up like a queue:
"Fatal error, no water cycle purification core unit found..."
"Fatal error, thermostat controller and associated servo unit not found..."
"Fatal error. No signal from B-2 to C-12 keel mechanical bays..."
"More than half of the important facilities have been dismantled..." Hao Ren dragged the monitoring screens of the relevant areas to the center of the main monitor one by one. "The life support system of this ship has almost been dismantled into an empty shell."
As he spoke, he fumbled and operated on the console. Finally, he accidentally came across some irrelevant small device, and a metal plate next to the main monitor suddenly lit up, and the accompanying sound and picture interrupted his words.
An old man appeared on the small monitor. He was wearing a commander's uniform, with medals and insignias on his chest, and his face was calm and majestic—it was the old man who had turned into an ice sculpture on the operator's seat. This is a video record, which should have been left at the last moment of his life.
"... information code... Forget it, this is the Qunluan, and the lord Gon Hellen recorded it here. The shutdown orders have entered a countdown, and it is estimated that the ship's ecosystem will shut down in ten minutes. Now repeat the previously agreed allocation Plan: Atmospheric circulation pump is assigned to Long Night, Atmospheric storage facility is assigned to Eternal Song, Thermostat and its servo unit is assigned to Daylight, water circulation purification unit and all mechanical chambers are dedicated to our King, may he and his The HMS Throne may be safe forever. As planned, I have blown 'gas' in the Atmospheric Circulation Pump, so please wait twenty-four hours after this message is sent, until the Purification Pump has finished filtering and recycling the atmosphere... ho …”
The old man in the video took a few deep breaths, and he calmed down again:
"The propulsion unit of this ship will be retained and will continue to follow the fleet until all systems are destroyed. I now declare in the name of the lord of the mountains, Grand Duke Gon Hellen: After my death, all property of this ship will be returned to our great Your kingdom, including the propulsion unit, core reactor, and everything in the hull, is back to the kingdom, and if the kingdom is in disaster, please dismantle... ho... dismantle the remaining components of this ship. To our king, the message is over. "
The small monitor dimmed, and the short message ended. Hao Ren and the others looked at each other, and Lily was the first to break the silence: "Did they dismantle the parts of their spaceship to others?"
"The lifespan of these ships is limited. With their technical level, it is a miracle that they can sail to this day," the data terminal said slowly. "The second half of this voyage must be full of dangers. Various system failures are the most common and most difficult to solve. And as long as the mass extinction caused by the killing of gods continues, there is no possibility for them to stop and rest, so the only solution is to continuously piece together the parts that can still be used, at least to ensure the integrity of the ecosystem of several ships. "
Hao Ren shook his head: "But the number of people who can support them is getting smaller and smaller."
"So those who are chosen to be sacrificed can only be euthanized," Nangong Wuyue bit her lips, not knowing how to evaluate this matter, she thought of the frozen city of death outside, and those peacefully dressed in fancy clothes at the banquet hall And the victims who died solemnly, "How long have they persisted in this way?"
Hao Ren shook his head: "No matter how long we persisted, it seems that we couldn't persist until we came. Before Nolan sent messages to all the Arks, there was no response."
Everyone fell silent, feeling deeply regretful, but the data terminal seemed to suddenly discover something: "Wait a minute, there should still be survivors!" (to be continued~^~)