"Survivor?" Hao Ren looked at it in surprise after hearing the words from the data terminal.
The data terminal floats next to a control device, and its blue light shines on the cables and extension accessories around the device, pulsating slightly as if breathing, and in this way, it finally reads the depths of these vicissitudes of life. A bit of data that has not been completely wiped out: "This machine is connected to the navigation intelligence brain deep in the ship, and roughly grasps the navigation method of this fleet—its navigation method requires someone to be alive."
Hao Ren looked at the data terminal and motioned for it to continue.
The data terminal opened a set of holographic projections, above which was a fleet of thirteen ellipsoidal ark giant ships, and some complex lines extended radially around each fleet: "These are the laws detected before. Repeat the signal. According to what is known here, the operator of the ark is dead, so these ships are relying on automatic system command, so the signal transmission between them is this mechanical. According to their navigation mode, these ships There is no fixed flagship, they rely on the Internet to connect all the navigation brains together, and build a unified, virtual navigation program. This machine guesses that this is because the designer has considered that any ship including the flagship All ships may suddenly disappear, so they gave the highest navigation authority to a ghost host active on the network, so that as long as the fleet maintains a certain size, it can continue to sail without considering the issue of flagship changes... "
Hao Ren waved his hand: "The important point, let's talk about the important point."
"The point is, such a ghost host is not installed on any one ship, and considering that each ship's host is not necessarily reliable on such a long journey, this navigation program is not controlled by any specific terminal .It automatically monitors the fleet, relying on certain conditions to determine whether its navigation mission is still to be continued," the data terminal floated up and down, "Its detection rule is 'life is still going on', this machine found this from the bottom of the database information."
The arks built by each civilization operate differently, and this time these. They only continue to sail as long as the life inside them is still alive. Their thrusters are still on, so unless there's something wrong with the navigation programs these ships have formed. Then there is only one explanation:
"There are still living people on a certain ship..." Hao Ren muttered to himself, then frowned, "But they didn't respond to Nolan's call."
"Maybe it's a system failure, maybe it's because they can't understand Nolan's high-level language, or it's more likely that they were frightened. They might think that we are with the 'Guardian'," the data terminal said with all the light. "Of course there is a worse possibility, that is, there are not many survivors left, and there are no people who know how to operate the radar. In short, they did not respond, so we can only check every ship."
Hao Ren was startled, and looked up at the console in front of him. On one of the screens of the console, a scene in the vast space was being displayed, and some dim lights were shining in the darkness, which were the figures of the other twelve giant ark ships in space.
"I hope every ship has the same structure as here..." Hao Ren muttered, and got through the communication with Nolan. "Nolan, you've heard what's been said here. Summon the engineering drones and cut open the hull of each ship. Drive the life detectors in—until you can scan for the deepest signal. And don't Interrupt comm requests to these ships, if anyone will volunteer to answer back. We don't have to punch holes in their ceilings."
"This machine thinks that drilling a few small holes in these 100-kilometer-long behemoths won't break down their entire system," the data terminal swayed and muttered, "unless you accidentally dig them Atmospheric pumps or reactors."
Hao Ren sighed slightly: "You still believe in my luck after following me for two years?"
The terminal froze for a moment, and called the giant turtle rock platform: "Nolan, tell those drones to be careful, it's best to scan at least three times every time you hit the drill... Oh no, let's scan four times."
A group of people left the central control station and looked at the whole picture of this huge facility from the outside. Now that its core reactors have been reactivated, the once-dim glowing grids and heat sinks are glowing brightly. However, since most of the important equipment of the urban ecosystem has been removed, the control station is like the only remaining head of a giant, which can no longer play any role. It just revolved silently in a vacuum, shining on the lifeless shelter like a round of artificial stars in this icy world. Hao Ren looked at the frozen and dilapidated city around him, and knew that there was nothing worth exploring in this ship, so he left some self-disciplined machines here to study the city structure, and he himself led the people back to the giant ship. On the Turtle Rock Terrace.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace slowly left the huge ark ship named "Qunluan", and then some silver-white light spots flew from a distance. They have a square shape and some sharp-edged engineering arms. It was a swarm of drones that responded to the call. The fleet flew to the silent arks in space, and then some dots of light burst out from the shell of each ark.
Drones began cutting up these eerie, silent steel domes and placing small probes inside.
"I've figured out how to make the first modification to the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace," Hao Ren stood on the bridge and knocked on the console in front of him, "I need at least a high-power life-sensing radar, or a A new type of detector honeycomb. Now these devices are becoming less and less useful. It is difficult for the general-purpose basic model to detect life reactions through several kilometers of steel plates and energy fields, not to mention that in most cases what I want to detect is Those weird species created by the goddess of creation."
"With all due respect, partner," the data terminal said in a deliberately serious tone, "according to your work history, your life detector rarely has a chance to come in handy."
Hao Ren: "... It's not my pleasure to go everywhere!"
Thirteen giant ark ships, each with a size of more than 100 kilometers, they have outer protective layers several kilometers or even tens of kilometers thick, complex shallow pipelines and corridor systems, and a thick steel shell surrounding them. The spherical city, and all these things have been in disrepair for a long time, tens of thousands of old airlocks and exhaust pipe air pump systems maintain the fragile internal balance of these spaceships, which have brought a lot of trouble to the work of drones. But everything went according to Hao Ren's plan. After a few hours, the data from the detector group was continuously transmitted back to the Giant Turtle Rock.
Hao Ren stood in front of the console, and the more important images sent back by the detector were sorted out by Nolan and projected onto the main device. Hao Ren saw the interior of the remaining twelve arks—some of them had just penetrated the surface, but some had already penetrated into the core.
The conditions inside these arks were varied, and although they were structurally similar, they had different defects. In one of the arks, you can see a frozen city similar to the situation of the "Hills", but in another ark, there is only a huge and terrifying hole inside: the city itself has been dismantled and returned to the furnace, turned into part of another ship, which was probably lost hundreds of years ago.
"The situation is getting worse and worse... No life reaction has been found so far, only various wreckages have been found," Nolan's voice sounded from the side, "Their shells are complete but the insides are riddled with holes. For thousands of years, they relied on eating each other to survive. There may have been hundreds of them at the time, but now only thirteen ships are still sailing... These thirteen ships look like floating corpses to me, dry and empty inside .”
"After becoming a ship, you have become more emotional than before," Hao Ren smiled. "Have any arks answered your call?"
"No, there is no echo in any frequency band, but I can confirm that my signal has been sent to the interior of these ships," Nolan nodded slightly, "The shallowest detectors drilled have already penetrated into the cables of those arks, if In this case, if no one responds, then I'm afraid it really is 'no one'."
Hao Ren didn't say a word. He looked back at the holographic projection. A small probe was drilling into the spherical city dome of the sixth ark. From its constantly shaking perspective, darkness flashed past, followed by In a cold and dead silence in the twilight, a deserted city appeared under the lens of the detector, and other data sent back by the detector showed that there was no life here.
Hao Ren began to seriously think about whether these arks were really extinct. Maybe there was something wrong with the navigation program, so they continued to operate under the condition of extinction. But just as this thought popped into his head, a message jumped out from the holographic projection.
Nolan and the data terminal said at the same time: "There is a life response!" (to be continued~^~)