Since they had already explored the central control station over there in the Ark Qunluan, Hao Ren and the others found the control center here without much effort. At least in the outer area, the structures of the central control stations of the two arks are similar.
The control center is in a dilapidated and old state, the ancient machinery and equipment are covered with dust, and some trivial objects are scattered all over the ground: this should be the result of each failure of artificial gravity. Next to the main console of the control center, Hao Ren found a corpse. Unlike the Qun Luan, the shelter still maintains a normal temperature and atmospheric environment, so the body he found had decayed and only a skeleton remained. .
The deceased wore the same clothes as the old man on the Qunluan. Due to multiple gravity disturbances, it is now impossible to judge the position and state of the captain when he died. Hao Ren carefully pushed the skeleton to the side, and then restarted the main console in front of him according to experience (the console key is inserted on the machine panel). As expected, there is also a backup power here, and the ancient The control terminal was still barely usable, and with the buzzing sound of the machine, lights lit up on the main console, and other nearby equipment also started to operate.
Considering that the ecosystem of this ark has been running for hundreds of years, before the reactor exploded, some of the servo terminals here should have maintained unmanned operation. Now Hao Ren wants to check these machines, It is best to find the damage report of the reactor and the emergency response plan. After he opened the database, he quickly called up the structure diagram of the entire central control station, which clearly marked the various areas of this huge facility.
According to the structural diagram, the entire central control station is composed of four parts: in the center is a huge fusion reactor, which is buried in the deepest part of the facility, and its structure cannot be seen from the city inside the ship. The reactor provides powerful raw energy to the city of the sanctuary, but it does not directly supply energy, but transfers the energy to the second part of the facility, a series of giant generators, those generators can be seen from the city inside the ship Under the husk of the Ancestral Furnace. The third part of the central control station is the smaller cylindrical metal pillars around the ancestor's furnace, which are some components related to the life support system.
The fourth part is needless to say. It is the control area of the entire facility, which is where Hao Ren and the others are now, at the edge of the ancestral furnace.
After carefully analyzing the functional zoning on the structural diagram, Hao Ren was relieved: the explosion happened before was the main shell on the front of Ancestor Hong Furnace, and there was the location of the main generator set. Although the scrapping of the main generator is a huge trouble, compared to The big explosion of the fusion furnace in the depths is already a blessing in misfortune.
"Here." Hao Ren pointed to the outer shell of the facility on the screen. "Below here is the coil of the main generator. If this place is repaired, the shelter can last for a while. I brought a lot of self-discipline machines, and they repair this kind of equipment." Simple stuff should be fine."
"What about after it's repaired?" Nangong Sanba asked casually, "The most important thing is how to solve the problem here for a long time."
Hao Ren nodded slightly: "That's right, these spaceships cannot be allowed to drift in space forever, so in the end we have to find a place for them to stay. I have ordered Nolan to dismantle the Ark Qunluan on a large scale, and She is being asked to try to crack the navigation systems of several other scrapped arks, and if all goes well, she will be able to gain control of these spacecraft, and then... drive them to a more suitable planet."
"Io or Thanagus?" Lily answered.
"The atmosphere of Tanagos is poisonous to the humans in the ark, and it's not just the atmosphere. The ecological environment of that planet is completely unsuitable for the people on this ship, and Io has no land..." Hao Ren scratched his hair . "Let's put this aside for now. I think it's important to repair the reactor first."
As he spoke, he looked out through the thick glass windows of the control room. From here, you can see many internal structures of the central control station. Those ancient pipes and machinery shimmer in the dim light, and the dust in the air makes everything seem to be shrouded in a dirty mist. He opened the portable space and released several round autonomous machines covered with tentacles. After handing over the structural diagram of the generator set to these little guys, the autonomous machines made a series of cheerful gurgling noises and rushed out, rushing towards the direction of the generator set along the dirty old pipes.
Then he looked at Vivian: "Can you still sense the position of the 'artifact' now?"
"There has been no response since just now," Vivienne frowned slightly. "I can only judge based on my previous feelings. The artifact is probably at the deepest level of this facility. It's... this location."
As she spoke, she pointed to the screen of the main console, which displayed the structural diagram of the central control station, and the place where she pointed was the junction of the generator and the fusion furnace, the core of the entire facility.
Hao Ren searched on the facility structure map, and finally determined a feasible route: "Then let's go over there and have a look... What are you doing at the terminal?"
He saw that the data terminal flew aside at some point, floating around the skeleton of the dead captain, and continuously scanning the opponent's skull with a blue beam, so he asked curiously.
The data terminal spoke while checking: "Oh, it's nothing. By the way, I checked the cause of this person's death. This person should have died of illness. His skull showed signs of chronic corrosion, which should be caused by some chronic disease during his lifetime."
"Chronic disease?" Hao Ren glanced at the skeleton lying on the ground, feeling a little concerned in his heart: the last commander of the Ark died of a chronic disease, not the accident he guessed before or other accidents, which seems to imply some kind of information.
But there is only such a skeleton here, and the information he can get is really insufficient. Even if he cares about it, he can't think of any clues.
"Leave him here first," Hao Ren nodded slightly at the skeleton, and then walked towards the exit of the control room, "The autonomous machine is repairing the generator, let's take advantage of this time to see what happened to the artifact that Vivian sensed. What is it."
A group of people left the control room and continued to move towards the reactor. At the same time, in the space outside the ark, large-scale engineering operations were being carried out in an intense and orderly manner.
After receiving Hao Ren's order, Nolan took over some engineering drones from the fleet, and now she is sending these extremely efficient "workers" to those arks. Silver-white drones emerged from the dark space, turning into streams of light like ants pouncing on their prey, rushing towards the huge ark ships, and the drones began to cut the shells of those old spaceships , The latter's dark and thick armor plate continuously bursts with bright light like starlight, looking from space, it looks like a weird firework show.
At present, the spaceships that have been cut are confirmed to have no life response, because there is no need to worry about causing casualties, Nolan can safely and boldly figure out the structure of these arks through violent cracking. As the first of all the arks to be explored, the Qunluan was the fastest and most thorough dismantling.
Now this 130-kilometer-long interstellar giant has changed drastically. Under the cutting of hundreds of mining drones, one-third of the shell of the Qunluan has been peeled off. Some complex mechanical structures are exposed at the front end, and a series of neat chambers can also be seen: Those chambers are connected by corridors, which seem to be used by humans. Judging from these structures, the "bridge" of the Ark was once guarded during the voyage, but perhaps this too long journey finally wiped out the confidence of the navigators, and finally all the crew of the Ark hid in the shelter, and All the upper-level systems are handed over to the smart host.
The Juguiyantai circled around the bow of the Qunluan curiously, taking pictures while circling it. And on the bridge of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace, the little devil Elizabeth was dragging her rolling tail in boredom, ignoring the cat girl's powerless counterattack and muttering: "Sister Nolan, what are you doing?"
"As a souvenir," Nolan replied casually, "As a ship, I dismantled all those of the same kind that are so much bigger than me. Don't you think this is very memorable?"
Elizabeth thought for a while; "...but don't you think you are like a pervert who strips people naked and takes nude photos?"
Nolan: "..."
In this way, Hao Ren's team was in action no matter inside or outside the ark. (to be continued~^~)