Chapter 87 The Last Mission Objective

The three kept running along this road until they saw an upward drainage pipe, and Anyang stopped abruptly.

"Get up from here!"

There are many leverage points embedded in the wall on the drainage pipe, which can easily go up. Above is a circular pipe with a diameter of nearly one meter. Everything is exactly the same as in the plot.

Nadir went in first, Bauer followed, Anyang was at the back, and behind the pipe was a room full of dim light and the smell of lubricating oil.

Anyang looked at it. It was originally an oil storage tank, but it was more like a mechanical control room. It was surrounded by old metal. There were two floors. How to go up, there are many mysterious decorations on the walls, all kinds of strange murals are engraved, and the whole has an ancient taste.

It doesn't feel like being inside a giant spaceship built with cutting-edge technology, but inside a religious cave.

A figure was hiding in the upper railing, looking at them in the dark with a pair of eyes.

Anyang breathed a sigh of relief, and finally did not go wrong!

After all, it was Mann who discovered this place in the original plot, and he also made mistakes. Now that Mann is not here, he is really afraid that he will not be able to find this cunning old man.

There was a sudden roar outside, and the mutants chased after him.

Nadir hurriedly grabbed the door of the pipeline and wanted to press it down, but couldn't press it no matter what. Bauer swept his eyes and pulled down a mechanical gate next to him. The door of the pipeline closed immediately, and Nadir held the roulette and rotated it. Two turns to lock the door.

Kaka!

Bauer was not at ease, grabbed another steel pipe and stuck it in.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and began to look around the room.

There was a table in front with a notebook and a pen on it, and it was obvious that someone lived there.

Nadir found the old man and pointed upwards. Bauer immediately turned to look at him, Anyang also raised the muzzle, and several people tacitly did not speak.

The old man immediately raised his hand and shouted, "Relax, relax, okay? I don't have a weapon, I don't have a weapon!"

Anyang didn't put down his gun. As for why, um, because that's what Ball was like in the original plot.

The old man quickly reacted and said while walking to the right: "Please forgive me, please forgive my untimely response, come..."

Anyang's muzzle moved with his figure, although in his opinion, such behavior was completely meaningless, perhaps it was a bad taste.

The old man swiftly pulled down several mechanical brakes in a row, and with the sound of clicking, the xenon lamps began to light up, and the bright light suddenly filled the entire room: "Okay, you can treat this as your own home. "

The xenon lamps are getting brighter and brighter, making the room look like daylight, but it looks older, especially the walls that are rusted and even covered with moss.

Bauer stared at all this, and a chill rose in his heart. This is a spaceship famous for alloys. How could it be so rotten?

After a long silence, he glanced at Anyang again, and then asked the old man, "Do you live here?"

"Who's talking? What?" The old man looked around with a blank expression. He hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time.

Bauer tried his best to remain calm, his expression unchanged, and repeated: "You live here?"

The old man just saw him and said quickly, "I know, I know this place doesn't look good, but...they can't get in! Unless I want them in!"

Ball asked, "Why would you want them in?"

The old man shrunk his head behind the railing, a series of behaviors that were almost neurotic, and said in a low voice: "Because I don't know if anyone else is alive..."

Ball looked up at him and asked, "Have you seen any other pilots?"

The old man said, "No... I haven't seen you for a long, long time."

Ball said suddenly, "Why don't you come down and have a good chat?"

The old man's face suddenly sank: "Do you think I live by trusting others?"

"Wait..." He turned around and didn't know what to do, and said, "I want to ask you a question, where do you want to go?"

Ball replied, "Reactor rack, do you know how to get there?"

"Yes, I know." The old man started walking to the left. "Why would you want to go there, oh...I see, I know, you just woke up, huh? Are you hungry? I will cooking!"

Anyang listened to their conversation silently, as well as his demeanor and actions. He didn't feel like a normal person's logic at all, but the two of them had a lively chat.

Or in this spaceship, either they just woke up because of the aftermath of deep sleep and their nerves were affected, or they lived too long and were suppressed abnormally!

Anyang could actually use a gun to force the old man down, but he didn't do it, because he wanted to use the old man's words to make Ball understand something completely, and the task was not everything, he still needed to get more in this world.

"Hoo, chi chi..."

A faint blue flame rose, and the room was also connected to a gas pipeline. A pot was hung on several iron chains above, and the sound of oil boiling came from it.

"I really want to treat you guys well, but when you only have motor oil available, it's hard to make anything delicious, but if we can use our imaginations... lo and behold, it's delicious, and it smells a bit like... plants and Butter, crap..."

Nadir looked around, while Ball walked to the corner and touched the moss on the wall, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

"How long have you been awake?"

"Oh...let me think...what day is it today? Tuesday? I don't know! It's delicious, let's eat, it's healthy food."

The old man put two iron cups into a box, hung them on the ground with ropes, and greeted the three of them at the same time.

Anyang sat on the side unmoved. In the original plot, Ball, Nadir, and Mann ate the old man's food, and were finally hung up and tied up in a daze, almost becoming the old man's meal.

In fact, it's not his fault.

Human beings have instinct and reason, one corresponds to survival, the other corresponds to thinking. This spaceship is too dark, full of panic and death, but there are always contradictions in the world, especially when the nerves are tense and depressed. This contradiction is magnified even more.

Some people will do whatever they can to survive, and some people will give up themselves for their mission. The old man is the former, and Ball is the latter, so he can become the protagonist.

Ball took the water and put it to his mouth, hesitantly put it down, and asked Nadir, "Is this safe?"

Nadir glanced at him: "relative to what?"

Ball said, "That group of monsters outside...isn't something crawling out of your warehouse or lab or something?"

Nadir shook his head firmly: "No! Impossible!"

Bauer added, "That's some kind of life-like material being carried on the ship, and so on..."

Nadir shook his head slightly: "Maybe some things were on the spaceship from the beginning, and we entered the deep sleep chamber together..."

"What's the meaning?"

Nadir took a deep breath: "I believe it's because of some kind of catalyst, some kind of artificial synthetic enzyme that exists in our energy supply pipeline, it can help us adjust our body to adapt to the climate on the planet Tanis. From what I can see, those things have adapted to this ship."

"You mean they're actually mutated passengers?"

"Yes, some of the original genes in them have mutated!"

"Okay, so why did they change and we didn't?"

Nadir glanced at Anyang: "I don't think he lied to us. Those things take a lot longer to wake up than us. You must know that they are very different from humans. This is a long process!"

The old man had been watching them, and couldn't help but feel anxious, because the two had no plans to eat, so he interrupted them to reduce their attention: "Don't you know what happened to this ship?"

Ball raised his head: "You know what?"

The old man nodded, his voice hoarse and low: "Of course, I've been here for a long time, and I know everything I've seen."

Ball raised his head in surprise.

The old man grinned and walked to a mural in which a crude spaceship was inscribed flying toward a planet made of messy lines. He pointed at the picture, breathing quickly, and his eyes widened.

His expression gradually became crazy, but he was suppressed, suppressed.

"Bang! Celebrate the whole world!"

"The greatest invention in human history took off, the spaceship Elysium, and the spark of the stars ignited the heavenly road for the heroes of the earth! Go to the depths of the starry sky that no artificial machine has ever reached before..."

The old man moved to another place. The metal walls were engraved with numerous dense rectangular lines, with a small figure drawn in the middle, and he could vaguely tell that this was a dormant warehouse.

"Then we fell asleep, and slept so deeply. This was something that had never been challenged before. Only three Indians were left to control the ship..."

"After flying for a while, the flight system was all normal. This big guy was moving fast in the universe. The three Indians had the aftermath of deep sleep, but they were only benign symptoms. They didn't care until they got the news..."

Ball immediately asked, "What news?"

The old man stopped, as if he didn't hear what he said: "By the way, do you know what the sequelae of deep sleep is?"

Ball lowered his head and thought, opened his eyes and said, "Orbital Dysfunction Syndrome!"

"What a qualified pilot, but you must have never seen it before, let me tell you, if you have this disease, at first you will be itchy, shaking, then your body will slowly boil, and finally you will have paranoia, Nervousness to madness!"

The old man almost shouted after saying this, but suddenly calmed down again, turned around and took out a gramophone, and began to shake the hand-cranked generator violently until a vague sound came from it.

"You are the only human beings left, I wish you good luck, God bless you, and a smooth journey..."

"Huh? The last message from Mother Earth, with a few words of encouragement, telling them that all things are extinct!"

Nadir and Ball's eyes widened!

Only Anyang sat still. He had heard this sentence countless times at home, especially from the perspective of a bystander, his heart had long since stopped.