Finding the first and second messages means that more clues have been discovered. We walked along the corridor and successfully found the third message at the end of the corridor. There was still only one sentence on it:
"New reminder: You have completed the physical examination. If you come here, it means that the detection device has determined that your health has reached the working standard. Now move forward along this corridor and don't stop until you see the new reminder. "
Although it is not known who this ship is for, messages such as "sequelae after long-term sleep, the body needs to be checked with external equipment, and audio signals are used to stimulate the brain to regain consciousness" are obviously not in line with Xiling. The life form of the apostles, so we can boldly guess: the crew of this ship should be some ordinary "mortal races", which just confirms Lilina's previous discovery-the corridors in the outer area of the spaceship are full of microbes produced by the weathering of organic matter. Dust, these regoliths are highly likely to come from the dead bodies of the crew.
Then this ship, at least the core area of this ship is specially prepared for mortal races, which is very strange, because Sandora and I know very well that the apostles of Xiling never treated themselves in the old empire era. There have been times when the Servitors were so "gentle and caring"—the ship's design was so counterintuitive.
The corridor leading from the "event hall" to the deeper part of the spaceship is blocked by an alloy door. The third message is on the wall next to the door, but this time the door is not so easy to open. Judging from the content of the message, Behind the gate should be a place similar to an infirmary. The spaceship crew will be checked in this infirmary after being awakened from a certain state of sleep. The door will only be opened if their physical health "reaches the working standard". Only those who are awakened can see the message outside the door and go all the way to the event hall and work place, and now we seem to be unable to open the door from the outside. The energy supply in the core area of the spacecraft is normal. The door is also held securely by a closing mechanism and a power lock, though none of that is a problem. Sandora showed her claws, and tapped twice on the alloy door with black blade-like finger pricks: "Let me scratch it away."
I nodded, and the alloy gate was instantly smashed into a piece of metal by Sandora scratching and scratching, and a smaller room appeared in front of us, and the room was also brightly lit: it seems that the entire core area The lighting and other general equipment have been activated.
This room is really a "medical room". The hexagonal cabin is surrounded by a circle of square boxes similar to sleep cabins. I guess it is the scanning equipment for physical examination. The ground in the middle of the cabin is sunken, and a holographic device more than one meter high is placed there, and the device has now been activated. But it's just a jumble of lines jumping around, apparently on standby.
The first thing everyone did was of course to look for the step-by-step message. This time the message was still placed in a very conspicuous place: on the ground around the holographic device in the center of the room, there was still a passage on it:
"New reminder: You have woken up and came to the physical examination room. Your brain is still in a state of confusion, but this confusion should not affect your judgment. While the dormancy device is activated, the energy supply of some areas has been restored , the cabin can be used. Now stand in any medical cabin by the wall, and the system will automatically complete all the work. If all goes well, a new door will open in this room. Walk out of that door, and you will see the next step instructions .”
"It's getting more and more interesting," Lilina said, looking at the message. He muttered while licking his lips, "It stands to reason that the Imperial starship is so developed. But this primitive process is not needed, the dormant cabin. The wake-up program, the messages written on the wall and on the ground, and an automated system on duty throughout the process None... Boss, don't you find it strange?"
I thought about it, and admitted with embarrassment: "Actually, I haven't thought about it so much..."
Lilina was dumbfounded, but Sandora interjected beside her: "I also find it strange that these messages are obviously a set of wake-up procedures, but this method is too old. After all, this is an imperial starship, even if it is really preserved A group of dormant ordinary crew members, there should also be an artificial intelligence on duty all the time, unless... "
Sandora seemed to think of something suddenly, but there was no more after the word "unless", so I hurriedly asked, "Unless what?"
"Unless this ship is designed to achieve near-limit 'silence'," Sandora frowned, "I seem to have figured out something, this ship's 'silence' is extremely high, it only has void engines, order fields The three systems of conventional engine and conventional engine are turned on, and these three systems are the most basic requirements for a ship to sail, and they must not be turned off, and these three systems do not require too much intelligent participation. If so, it can be managed with the most 'stupid' logic program. Besides, do you see any other places on this ship that are powered on? I remembered the abnormal situation discovered in the outer zone just now. The peripheral energy supply All are interrupted, but those energy networks are intact. This means that the interior of the spaceship actively cut off the energy of its outer layer. In addition, we have already reached the core area, but we have not heard the sound of the main engine of the ship. If this ship is really There is a shipboard main engine, so it is simply too taciturn. Finally, it is the current situation: this primitive wake-up process does not involve any intelligent system in the whole process, and it is completed entirely by the most stupid messages and road signs-this is the most stupid thing. Extreme system silencing, the goal of which is to hide any sign of 'consciousness' on a ship, even artificial intelligence."
I suddenly felt something, and looked at Sandora in a daze: "This is to reduce my sense of existence..."
Sandora answered the second half of the sentence with a tacit understanding: "Then do everything possible to escape from somewhere."
A fact is self-evident, the only thing that needs an imperial starship to escape with this level of "silence" is the disaster 70,000 years ago. It was not to escape from the abyss, but to escape the crazy pursuit of former allies. Kill: It's meant to be disguised as the wreckage of a shipwreck!
"Look again, there should be other clues here," Sandora said quickly. "These medical cabins are only for physical examination, they are not sleep facilities. The place where the crew sleeps should be in another area... but the passage is hidden."
The interference in the core area still exists, and Ding Dong and Lilina still can't find where the life response comes from. Sandora can't scan the positions of other cabins, and I'm not good at fine work other than energy perception: you can ask me to blow up this place. It seems that the interference in the core area is unconditionally effective, and this should also be the means for the spacecraft to increase the "silence" level.
The little crow is the most confused of all, this is the first time for this girl to participate in such a serious activity, she seemed a bit at a loss, but she also wanted to help the adults, so she began to imitate us and move around in the cabin She poked around, and finally she came to the coffin-like medical pods by the wall, screaming "Gah Gah" and reaching out to pat the outer covers of those cabins. As a result, one of the medical compartments was actually opened in response!
Sandora and I were stunned at the same time: This stupid bird's level of luck is simply superb, regardless of its general intelligence, but this is the second time she discovered the key point by mistake today. Going to play Lianliankan is definitely a master of reckless flow.
"By the way, that's it." Sandora knew what was going on after a little thought, and concluded very afterwards, "According to the content of the message, the newly awakened crew members will undergo a physical examination here. But the newly awakened The mortal race’s brains are not very clear, so the equipment here should basically be automatic sensing, and the equipment here is in an unrestricted state, and the medical cabin senses someone’s contact, so it will naturally open itself.”
I was curious to observe the opened medical cabin. Its shape is not the same as the coffin sleeping cabin made by Tavel, but it is basically the same. Sandora came over to take a look, and made a very expert judgment: "It is indeed prepared for carbon-based creatures. It has an enhanced radiation protection layer, and the scanning devices are all low-power."
Lilina also joined in the fun and slipped in between Sandora and me. She poked her head to observe the equipment in the medical cabin, and then suddenly jumped into it laughingly: "Ha, boss, look, this is so spacious for me!"
If you don't die, you won't die is the most reasonable saying. As soon as Lilina jumped in, I found the cover of the medical compartment flickered, and before I had time to react, the sliding hatch closed suddenly, leaving only Lily Na's last surprised expression, and then the self-inflicted brat yelled inside: "Wow! Boss, get me out quickly! Why is this thing locked up!"
Of course I hurriedly tried to open the medical cabin, but I was grabbed by Sandora as soon as I started, and the latter pointed to the equipment in the center of the cabin: "Look at that."
There is a data terminal in the center of this "medical room", but when we came in, this terminal was in standby mode, but now it has been activated, and the holographic screen above the machine quickly refreshed a few rows of data, and then it appeared A light blue human figure came, and I could tell at a glance that it was Lilina's full body portrait: it seemed that the little crow and Lilina activated the medical diagnosis system here by mistake. Two seconds later, Lilina's physical diagnosis report appeared on the terminal, with only a paragraph on it:
"Diagnosis of medical cabin No. 6: The biological characteristics in the cabin are wrong, please let people in."
Lilina's muffled voice continued to come from the medical cabin: "Boss, hurry up and save people! It's dark in here! Why are things made by the old empire so inhumane!"
Sandora and I looked at each other dumbfounded. The latter operated a few times outside the medical cabin, and Lilina finally saw the light of day again. This self-indulgent brat saw the diagnostic report displayed on the central terminal at a glance, and suddenly jumped up: " What do you mean by 'please let people in'! This pope doesn't look like a human anymore! Why does this pope look like a cute little girl!"
I hurriedly pressed the little girl: "Don't get excited, don't get excited, you and this ship's default crew are definitely not the same model, and it's normal for the medical cabin to make mistakes in judgment."
At this time, Sandora was re-checking the medical cabin that Lilina got into just now, and she suddenly found something: "Ah Jun, look at this! There is a line of writing here, handwritten!"
I hurried over to check the situation, Sandora pointed to the shell of the medical cabin, and I saw a large piece of handwritten writing there, but the line of writing seemed to be ablated with some kind of hand-held tool, it The content is confusing: "Warren Field's diary, today is the eighth day of waking up. Finished the routine work, which is to observe the empty radar image. I don't know if there is any point in doing this. Schedule should start Most of the things didn’t start. I was the only one who woke up. The ship’s main engine didn’t respond to my question, and it remained silent. Something must have gone wrong. I went back to this medical room for a physical examination again. The equipment reports everything is fine - everything is fine with my body, but there must be something wrong with this ship. I will continue to watch, although it is a bit bad, but I think that training will get me through this."
"It must have been left by the ship's crew," I made the obvious judgment. "But according to the contents of the diary... He seems to have encountered a very bad situation. What happened when only one person woke up?"
"There must be something wrong with this ship," Sandora frowned. "It may be that the disaster 70,000 years ago broke the ship. But now I am even more curious why this Warren Field wants to write a diary On the shell of the medical pod, it's kind of primitive."
I looked around, and there were no traces left by other human activities here, and we didn't see the figure of "Warren Field" or any records left by him all the way in. Of course, considering that this ghost ship has been through a very long time. That crew member may have passed away long ago, but he should have left more than just this diary.
"Go back to the hall, we didn't check that place carefully just now," Sandora decided to look back. "Didn't those messages also say that there are workshops and other facilities near the hall, and there must be clues there."
I also remembered this incident. The message at the entrance of the event hall mentioned the workshop, but at that time everyone's attention was on finding the crew of the spaceship and the main engine room. The workshop mentioned in that message was temporarily put aside, and now the appearance of this "Warren Field" makes us realize that there may be important clues in those workshops.
Everyone immediately turned back to the event hall. Sandora released a bunch of smart probes, and the little crow also released her army of miniature girls, and a bunch of quick-witted investigators began to look for any suspected traces of human activities. The first one to find the clue was indeed that stupid bird with strange luck: one of her fissures flew back happily, chirping and reporting something to everyone, and we followed that little crow the size of a palm. In the corner of the hall, I found several passages on the wall, this time it was not just a diary:
"Warren Field's diary, on the fourth day of waking up, things don't seem right, the system is supposed to start the recovery protocol after the chaos is over, and when other survivors are contacted, but nothing is seen on the radar , there are no other survivors, the spaceship is drifting alone in an unknown place, the navigation device is still in an automatic state, and continues to jump to unknown coordinates: this is a major anomaly. Other than that, there is good news, The chaos does seem to have subsided, no enemies to pursue, no worlds to keep crumbling. I should get to work no matter what the situation is, and I've figured out what to do if the flow goes wrong - thought it was impossible at the time, but now it seems It seems that this has really happened, I am very grateful for the foresight before. Postscript: This diary is actually added on the fifth day."
"Warren Field's diary, woke up on the fifth day, completed the inspection of all systems, the bad news is that the spaceship seems to have been severely damaged, the outer dormant facility is unresponsive, the connecting bridge is stuck, and the transmission device is also broken, see The ship was still under attack during the slumber, the good news is that I'm alive, so are the others in the core area, and the ship is still functioning. Most of the equipment is good, just refuses to take over manually, which is normal, originally set them They shouldn't be controlled by carbon-based creatures. Carbon-based creatures don't have strong willpower and are prone to make mistakes. But I still feel a little uncomfortable. Another: Considering some bad possibilities, the diary written in the data terminal is likely to be seen by no one , so I decided to write my daily diary all over the spaceship. If I die in an accident, these records can be seen by others in a more conspicuous place. Those lucky guys, sleep well, Captain Warren Field It's time to start duty."
Seeing this, Sandora and I nodded in unison: This diary explains why these words are engraved on the wall in the most primitive way—the person who left the diary did record things in the data terminal in the first place, But he anticipated the worst on the fifth day, so he etched them on the outside in a more primitive but safer way.
"This Warren Field seems to be a strong and optimistic servant soldier," Sandora said softly, "I already guessed how bad the situation was for him, but he accepted the reality calmly and started working, even though Among the servants of the old empire, there are not many people with this kind of psychological quality."
"It doesn't have to be so perfect," Lilina pointed to the following diary, "Look, he also has complaints."
I looked at that diary entry, and the content above seemed inconsistent with the previous two entries:
"Warren Field's diary, who knows what day it is, maybe more than ten days. It's been a long time since I went to the medical room last time. I haven't written a diary. Today's work is not going well. Try to find the nearest material location. There are few such desolate places in the void. It seems that the catastrophe wiped out all the worlds. I may drift with this cursed spaceship forever. But So what? I still have to work, the observation record is the same, every day is the same thing, looking at the empty radar in this empty place, my mind is also empty, I really hope to see other signals, Even if it's clutter."
There are a total of these three diaries on the wall.
(Okay, I recommend "Rebirth: Super Battleship" for the second time, why do you say that my recommendation has no effect... People who have recommended it in the past will take it easy.) (To be continued...) RT