Warren Field was a thinner man than we imagined. He was already a hundred years old when he died of natural causes, and his body was shrunk almost out of shape. The old starship commander sat quietly on the only chair in the small warehouse, his body was covered with hoarfrost; his beard and hair were white, his face was wrinkled, and his skin was dark, like an old farmer who had been working in the fields all year round , the only thing that can still prove his military status is the stiff officer's uniform on his body: this uniform is put on him meticulously, it looks a little loose, but still majestic.
The old man's hands were frozen stiffly on his chest, and under the hoarfrost was a small data terminal he was holding tightly.
Sandora stepped forward, but hesitated when she took off the data terminal, then she carefully put her fingers on the terminal shell, and used an unusually precise space teleportation to directly teleport the small palm-sized machine Out: I can see that this is to protect the fragile body, although the environment in the small warehouse makes the remains of Warren Field so lifelike, but he is not immortal like the ancestor after all, maybe just a light touch , that body will be wiped out.
"It can still be used." Sandora roughly checked the working status of the data terminal, and said with a slight nod. After completing the initialization authentication, the small device that had been shut down for tens of thousands of years turned on again. She found the special code used to wake up the shipboard host, activated it and waited quietly. About a minute passed , We heard what seemed to be a faint sound coming from the depths of the spaceship, and then the low-to-high buzzing sound when various devices were activated and the high-power line was re-connected began to come from all directions, and the shipboard main engine was restarting , the redundant equipment and radar devices in the spaceship that had been shut down for a long time also began to activate, and we suddenly received a report from the fleet outside: "Your Majesty! There is movement on the ghost ship, and its peripheral equipment seems to have awakened!"
"I know that Sandora is starting the ship," I replied casually. "Just keep suppressing it. Its engine hasn't shut down yet. In addition, notify the follow-up personnel to come in in fifteen minutes. The spaceship is safe."
I hung up the communication on my side, and Sandora looked at the empty cabin and said suddenly: "Master, can you hear the sound from here?"
"The main engine responds," a soft electronic female voice sounded from all directions, "The self-test of the whole system has been completed, the main engine is working normally, the damage to the spaceship exceeds 90%, and the whole system is in standby mode."
"I'll talk about these reports later," Sandora waved her hand, "Do you know who we are? Is your authority authentication system still working?"
The soft voice sounded again: "Authentication is normal, Her Majesty Sandora Kelvi Ulasses, emperor's authority, unrecorded individual, emperor's authority, others are unidentifiable unrecorded individuals, including a protoss."
Ding Dong was sticking her head out of my pocket and looking around, such a small Douding has been recognized, it seems that the shipboard main engine is in good working condition, she can recognize Sandora and my authority level, everything It's all easy to handle.
"What's the matter with this ship?" Sandora said while looking at Warren Field's body, "What's the matter with this awakened human being? Which sky region are you from?"
"This ship does not belong to any independent sky zone. It is a non-organized unit arranged and produced by a special authority in the last era. The mission of this ship is to escape from the collapsing empire and continue to wander in the void, looking for possible routes according to the predicted route. The new fire, that is, other survivors who escaped from the Empire area. Warren Field’s awakening was due to an accident, force majeure, the spaceship was injured during the escape, and the awakening procedure can only be performed.”
The situation is consistent with what was mentioned in Warren's diary and what we guessed: this exiled spaceship was intercepted by the crazy imperial army shortly after it set sail. Although it was in a highly silent state and looked like a dead ship, those who had lost their judgment The powerful Imperial Army severely damaged the spaceship, and the dormant facilities malfunctioned, and most of the spaceship's functions stopped. The hapless starship commander began his decades of solitary life. Sandora thought for a while, as if she suddenly found something wrong: "Master, why didn't you let this human go back to sleep? Could it be that the sleep system of the spaceship is completely stuck, and even you can't solve it?"
As soon as I heard it, I became curious: Warren Field's decades of lonely life can actually end with one thing, and that is to return to the hibernation cabin. But Warren mentioned in those diaries that the hibernation system refused him to return to that cabin. His explanation for this was that the hibernation system had completely failed. Due to a hard logic error, the hibernation cabin refused to be turned on again. It seems that this explanation is a bit untenable: the shipboard mainframe is a semi-personal AI with rational thinking ability. Except for the lack of a regular body, you can basically see any shipboard mainframe on the imperial starship. To be a special Xiling apostle, although these hosts are limited in their duties and weak in personality, they at least have the ability to correct logic bugs in other devices, and even actively avoid self-logic loopholes.
In other words: the main engine of this spaceship is not stupid, she should be able to tell at a glance that Warren Field's awakening was a mistake, and even she herself admitted that the human's awakening was caused by an accident, so she is completely right The ability to actively undo the endless loop of the dormant system, as the control center with the highest authority on the spacecraft, the shipboard main engine has the ability and responsibility to troubleshoot—but she didn't do it.
The shipboard host seemed to pause for half a second this time before answering Sandora's question: "The dormant cabin has been damaged."
The few of us were stunned for a moment, and even the little crow couldn't help but groan: Although this bird is not very clever, it is also surprised at this time, which is enough to show how unexpected the words of the shipboard host are.
"What does it mean that the hibernation capsule has been damaged?" I recovered from my surprise and immediately asked loudly.
"The first round of attack destroyed the outer defense circle of the spacecraft, the second round of attack hit the No. The dormant areas have been severely damaged, and psionic energy has infiltrated and contaminated all facilities, killing nearly all occupants. Warren Field is the only survivor, but he himself does not know this."
Sandora's eyes fell on the remains in the middle of the room: "That is to say... he was not awakened naturally?"
"Indeed," the shipboard main engine replied with the usual peaceful voice, "After discovering that the dormant area was polluted by a high concentration of psionic energy, the ship sent out the remaining self-discipline machines to search for the wounded, and finally found that only one person survived, Warren? Field was taken to the medical room for rescue, and the ship completely locked the dormant area to prevent the contamination from spreading to the final clean cabin.”
"Then you lied to him that he was woken up early because of a malfunction in the hibernation facility, and you forbade him from approaching that compartment on the grounds that the hibernation system was stuck." The world is different, "Actually, there is nothing behind the isolation door, right? Are you afraid that he will collapse?"
"This ship made the above decision based on the Hykona psychological template input before departure. Based on logical analysis, this ship believes that Warren Field needs a psychological support and a relatively mild accident reason to have a chance of surviving. Continue to work with a normal mentality, the psychological support is that the compatriots in the dormant area are still alive, and the reason for the relatively mild accident is a system failure. This logical judgment showed shortcomings in the later stage, and Warren Field was still in chaos for several years. It worked as it should in terms of direction.”
The matter is all clear now: why the shipboard mainframe with self-correction ability and high authority can't deal with a small dormancy system bug; why the shipboard mainframe will completely close the dormancy area, and we didn't even find that cabin ;Why when Warren Field tried to wake up other sleepers to join him, the shipboard host would stop him with such a lame reason as "the spaceship's supplies are insufficient"-this reason is simply untenable, because We know how powerful the information-entity transformation equipment of the Empire is. If it can feed and air one person, it can supply a thousand more.
There is only one real reason why the ship's main engine forbids Warren from accessing the dormant compartment: it's long overdue.
Perhaps it should be attributed to the alienation and disregard of the servant army by the old empire. Warren Field did not know the technical details of this ship. From what he mentioned in his diary, we can clearly judge that he is familiar with most of the imperial equipment. It’s very strange. They only know how to use it but don’t know the principle and specific power. This is the common point of most of the servants of the old empire. The imperial army that followed the iron-fisted policy back then only needed those cannon fodder races to know how to pull the trigger. The situation with the servants of the New Empire was different.
We can learn about Warren Field's mental state from the fragmented diaries, and we can see that the "lying bastards" in the dormant section have a huge weight in the heart of the starship commander from the beginning to the end. He envied them, envied them, missed them, hated them, and deliberately hypnotized himself to ignore them—no matter what kind of psychological state, the "crew in the dormant area" was the thing that the old captain couldn't let go of during his lifetime, precisely because Only when there are people on the spaceship can he maintain a minimum working motivation. If he knows that what he is driving is actually an empty ship, maybe he really collapsed from the very beginning.
"I have roughly understood the situation," Sandora looked at the data terminal in her hand, "You did the right thing, although not completely right, but you did the right thing."
"Wait!" Lilina jumped out suddenly at this moment, "Wait a minute, I still have a question!"
"The shipboard host needs to confirm your permission to ask questions."
"She has the authority to let you answer all questions." I patted Lilina on the head and said to the shipboard host, which is isolated from the authority network of the New Empire. Of course she doesn't know Lilina, and she even recognizes me. Just like Gaia back then, he is a "stranger who does not know but has the authority of the emperor of the 15th heaven area", so it needs to be explained.
"The shipboard host understands, please ask."
"According to what you said, everyone in the dormant area of the spaceship is dead, right?" Lilina took out Jingdong from my pocket and put it on her head, "That means there should be no life on this ship at all, but My Lady Goddess and I both feel that there should be life here, what's going on here? Are there other living people on the spaceship?"
"This ship has interception interference, you should not be able to sense these situations."
"Don't ask why," Lilina waved her hand, "Are there any other living people on this boat?"
Sandora and I couldn't help pricking up our ears at this moment, Lilina's question is really curious. The on-board main engine paused for an obvious time, and she stayed for a second or two before answering: "Please prepare for teleportation, this ship will guide you to the ecological zone."
There was a flash of light and shadow in front of us, and we found ourselves in a place we hadn't found before. It seemed to be another large cabin in the core area of the spacecraft.
This place is as vast as the event hall, but there are fewer furnishings in the space, and there are no equipment, instruments and control seats related to spaceship navigation around. The ceiling above the hall seems to have been remodeled, with some messy pipes and nozzles hanging from it, which I think are a bit messy, but these are not things that attract attention. What really attracts attention is the ground in the center of the hall:
There was a nursery there!
That's right, there is a vibrant green space in the center of the hall!
"Long time no see. It seems that the automatic system left at that time took good care of this place, and now it's the harvest cycle again."
The voice of the shipboard host came from all directions, I don’t know if it was an illusion, but I could hear a hint of emotion and nostalgia from this synthetic voice that should have no emotional fluctuations.
"This... is the vegetable garden mentioned in Warren's diary?" I suddenly thought of the diaries I saw before. In the second half of Warren Field's life, he basically relied on tending a vegetable garden to keep himself Concentrated, if I remember correctly, this solution still comes from the suggestion of the shipboard main engine—I never expected that this vegetable garden has been maintained until now!
"That's why, this ship comprehensively analyzed the psychological template of the Hykona people, compared it with Warren Field's mental state, and finally found a way to keep their mentality stable for a long time."
"Is the automatic system taking care of this vegetable garden after that human died?" Sandora asked suddenly, "Is it his last words or did you arrange it yourself?"
"This decision made by this ship has nothing to do with Warren Field."
"You shouldn't have this logic, including your psychological analysis of carbon-based organisms and various 'treatment plans' should be beyond your preset database. Did you learn these by yourself?"
"That's right. The original mission of this ship was to take the exiles out of the Empire area safely. After the accident, Warren Field became the only guardian of this ship. This ship adjusted the work weight and will protect the Hikona people. It is the top priority item. This ship tracked and studied Warren Field's behavior patterns and tried to analyze his psychological changes, and finally established a monitoring tool library that is more complete than the preset database."
"It seems that the life reactions sensed in my intuition are this vegetable garden," Lilina muttered next to me, "The ecology here has remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years, even the automatic system is exaggerated enough .”
I quietly looked at the square vegetable field with a side length of less than ten meters. It seemed that Hykona was a planet with a height similar to that of the earth. Green plants are very similar. Now they are growing vigorously, and it seems that they have just been watered not long ago, and some shiny water droplets can still be seen on the edges of some leaves. I imagine tens of thousands of years ago, a lonely commander of a starship quietly plowed, harvested, and recorded here, ignorant of the fact that he was the only living person left on the spaceship, spending time for an already illusory mission goal. For a lifetime, he was accompanied only by the not-so-intelligent main engine on this ship...
Now the commander is gone, but the vegetable garden he left behind has been taken care of by the automatic system to this day, and it still maintains the same appearance tens of thousands of years later.
This automatic system for tending the vegetable garden is actually not needed at all. If it is a shipboard main engine that has just left the production line, it will definitely not waste the energy on the spacecraft in such a meaningless place for the mission. At least one normal Yes, the shipboard main engine of the old empire should not do this, but the shipboard main engine of the Xiling VI ship did so.
This console boils it all down to logic, but I think it's more than just logic.
I looked at Lilina, and Lilina was looking at Dingdang. Finally, the two of them shook their heads with regretful expressions: Not all lives can be resurrected. Mortals who enter the immortal state like their ancestors are just a special case. Len Field couldn't possibly be coming back.
"At least he calmed down when he left, and you stayed with him to the end," Sandora should have thought the same thing as me, so she actually comforted a spaceship control system unprecedentedly, and then she mentioned the ship's original Task, "Master, you should have the mission details of this spaceship and the final information of the sky area it belongs to, please upload it to me."
"The host understands that the ship's initial mission log and information sent to other survivors will be uploaded to your data terminal, and the ship's construction information will also be uploaded, please pay attention to receiving it."
Sandora confirmed that she had received these materials, but she didn't rush to read them, but continued to say to the shipboard host: "Can you return to the team?"
The shipboard host was silent for a while, while Sandora waited patiently. We heard some deep voices coming from the depths of the spaceship. It seemed that some new large-scale equipment was coming online. Then the lights in the hall dimmed. The indifferent electronic synthesizer sounded again:
"Shield No. 6, the main engine N-CCER-06 is fully activated, the core is ready, and the ship is on standby." RS