Chapter 459: Sweep
Because the immigration ship needs to sail in a vacuum environment, all cabins can be independently sealed. This is mainly to prevent the entire ship from suddenly losing air pressure if the hull is damaged. Setting up independent sealing devices for each room is equivalent to designing waterproof compartments for surface ships. In this way, as long as most cabins do not have problems, it will not affect the safety of the entire ship, and the reliability is much higher than that of the integrated hull.
Although there is nothing wrong with this design itself, the problem for those people is that these sealing devices are completely controlled by computers. Of course, this actually has a manual release device, but not everyone knows where this release device is.
The immigration ships built by various countries around the world are actually derivatives designed based on the same blueprint. In other words, the main structure of each immigration ship is actually not very different. Only certain specific designs are completed independently by each country. In the original design blueprint, all immigration ships had only a small number of personnel activity areas. In order to maximize the carrying capacity, in addition to necessary control and maintenance personnel, most immigrants need to hibernate in coffin-like dormancy chambers for a long time. And precisely because these people don't actually move around, there aren't many things on the spacecraft designed for ordinary people.
In fact, the immigration ship completely carries civilians as cargo rather than passengers. Of course, this is not to say that the designers are insulting, but a compromise that has to be made in order to increase the number of immigrants. After all, if passengers can move freely, the space required by each person will increase a lot, and if everyone lies in the sleep cabin, then one person will only need less than two cubic meters of space, which saves The space can carry more people. And because everyone is lying in a coffin-like sealed sleeping cabin, the loading of people on the spacecraft is more like loading a large amount of cargo than passengers.
So. Since the passengers themselves will not move around at all, there is no need to design simple and easy-to-use operating devices for passengers. Instead, the main design ideas are to save space, save costs, and be safe and reliable. Under this idea, although each cabin has a manual device, the design position is not conspicuous, and the starting method is not too simple. After all, in the original plan, the people operating these things were professional astronauts, so there was no need to operate them like fools.
Although these people's spaceships have been significantly modified, the basic structure of the hull still adopts the original design. Only the functions and basic decoration of the internal cabins have been changed. There are actually very few modifications to the main body of the spacecraft. And precisely because there are so few modifications, the manual opening device of the airtight cabin on the spacecraft completely retains the previous design. All manual devices are designed to be in fairly concealed locations. Even because these spaceships have some special designs for enjoyment, the air-tight devices of some cabins are completely covered by decorative materials.
These modifications are actually illegal according to the standards of immigrant ships in various countries, but because these people just want to live their own luxurious life, they don't pay attention to these details at all. In fact, they don't even know these details exist.
Space migrant ships are not surface vessels. Even the complexity of aircraft carriers that sail on the water makes it impossible for many countries to build them independently. This requires a migration ship that conducts deep space voyages, which is naturally more complicated. Not only do you have to design various devices and rough functional modules, but you also have to consider whether these things will interfere with each other when installed together. Once problems are found, adjustments need to be made. This workload is actually so huge that no country dares to complete it independently. Instead, everyone worked together to come up with a set of basic blueprints, and then everyone built their own immigration ships according to this blueprint. And in order to avoid problems, these blueprints also come with a large number of documentation and technical standards. The purpose is to prevent the later construction of assisted living facilities from affecting the main structure of the hull and important functions such as flight and life support.
However, those people's immigration ships were not completed openly. They have been building the spacecraft in a secretive state, so they need to minimize the number of insiders when designing and building it. This has resulted in too few experts being invited. There may be no problem with the professional knowledge of these people, but they lack coordination personnel, so their designs may not have any problems if taken individually, but there will be problems when integrated together.
Now the spacecraft is taken over by Nuwa, and the airtight cabin needs to be closed as soon as possible when the pressure is released, so everything is controlled by the computer by default. After all, computers must react faster than people, and people need to rest, but computers can be on standby 24 hours a day. This determines that all air-tight devices are controlled by the central computer by default. When Nuwa successfully hacked into the central computer on the spacecraft, these air-tight devices were effectively in Nuwa's hands. When Nuwa closed these devices, the cabins inside the spacecraft that were originally sealed immediately became completely sealed environments.
These closed environments cannot exchange gases with the outside world. If there are no living things in the cabin, it's okay, but if someone is in the room, he will continue to consume oxygen, and because there is no oxygen supplement from the outside, the oxygen content in the room will become lower and lower. Of course, this decline rate mainly depends on the size of the room and the number of people. A place with a large space like a storage area is okay. If there are only one or two people inside, the oxygen in that kind of place is probably enough for the people inside to last for a few days. However, in places such as some operating rooms and rest rooms, even if there is only one person inside, the oxygen can only support two or three hours at most. This must also be a state where the people inside can calm down and wait for rescue. If the people inside are excited and shouting, they may not be able to survive for half an hour and will suffer from coma and shock due to lack of oxygen. .
Of course, a standard immigration ship will have emergency oxygen supplies in all cabins that may be occupied, and even simple space suits in some cabins, but there's still the problem. This spacecraft has been modified too much, and many spaces have been penetrated. As a result, many emergency devices in the originally designed cabins have been removed. Therefore, many cabins here now do not have oxygen equipment.
Although these people's designs are flawed, it is a good thing for us. They all fainted and our job was easy.
Let Scott and the others stay to guard the central computer room, while I led the others and started moving to the engine room according to the drawings. There is an emergency manual device in the engine room that can switch the entire spacecraft to manual mode when necessary. However, this device requires three people to operate it at the same time to open it, and there is an identity verification process so only those with permission can use it.
We don’t know if anyone here has this authority to enable manual settings, but just in case, the easiest way is for us to go there first, and then decide whether to dismantle or destroy the device depending on the situation.
Return to the previous vertical passage. Then we started moving downward, towards the stern of the ship. But it is different from when we came here. The long and straight passage that was originally like a deep well has now become one section after another.
There is an airtight door every twenty meters in this main passage, and now these airtight doors are completely closed, but these doors are under the control of Nuwa, so whenever we approach a door. Nuwa will help us open this door in advance, so we don’t have to go to any trouble at all. Moreover, Nuwa can not only open the door for us, but also tell us the situation behind the door in advance. For example, now. There are three and a half people trapped behind the hatch in front of us.
Why do you think there is half a person? This is Nuwa's problem. Because if an airtight door is operated alone, the central computer can control the opening and closing degree and speed of the door. But in order to take over the system as soon as possible, Nuwa directly forged a hull pressure relief signal and sent it to the emergency processing units of all air-tight doors. These processing units are subordinate branches of the central processing unit. Their function is to share the computing pressure of the central computer and at the same time ensure that the most basic control functions are maintained after a problem occurs in the central computing processing center.
Because Nuwa was transmitting a hull pressure relief signal. Therefore, these emergency response units directly activated the emergency plan, which was to use maximum force to close the hatch as soon as possible. Because the faster the closure, the more secure the safety of people in other cabins. Therefore, according to emergency procedures, these doors do not return to consider whether there is anyone standing under the door during emergency pressure relief. It will use maximum pressure to cut through anything that is blocking the door. Unless the thing is too hard and the hydraulic device on the door is not powerful enough, this situation will occur.
The unlucky guy couldn't dodge when the gate came down, so he was cut in half. The lower body is on the other side of the door, but the upper body remains here.
Of course, this guy is not dead yet, but death is only a matter of time. After all, there is only half of him left. This guy is not our dragon clan. If he loses so much blood, he will be finished soon.
Although this guy was dying now, the other three people who were sealed with him didn't care about him at all, because they couldn't see what was going on.
Nuwa closed all the airtight doors and also cut off the lighting system. Except for the cabin we were in, the other cabins were dark, and the lighting would only restart the moment we entered. Now the three intact guys could only hear the screams of their companions, but because they couldn't see, they didn't dare to move at all.
This place is not flat ground, but the main channel of the spacecraft. If the spacecraft was lying flat, of course it would be fine, but now that the spacecraft is on the launch pad, it is upright, so the passage becomes a vertical shaft, and the ground under their feet is actually an airtight gate.
Now that the spacecraft has not taken off at all, how could there be a pressure relief on the ground? Therefore, the activation of the airtight door was definitely an accident such as a malfunction, and these people were all engineers. They were responsible for maintaining and building the spacecraft themselves, so they knew the structure of the spacecraft very well. Now they don't know why these doors suddenly closed, and they are also not sure whether these doors will suddenly open in the next second. Once these doors are opened, people standing on them will fall directly, just like falling from an elevator shaft without an elevator.
Because of this concern, these people did not dare to get off the ladder at all. Although there are flat air-tight doors below them, they don't know whether these doors will suddenly open, so they can only stand still on the vertical ladder. At least this way they won't fall even if the door opens again.
They didn't dare to touch the airtight door below, and the surroundings were pitch black. These people didn't dare to move at all. All the people in the group were breathing rapidly, and they felt like they were beating drums in their hearts. However, their fears were soon put to an end. Because the airtight door above the head suddenly opened without warning.
The moment the airtight door opened, the cabin they were in suddenly became bright. They had already adapted to this completely dark environment for several minutes. These people's eyes couldn't adapt to the sudden light at all. The result was that when we jumped down, these people Everyone instinctively covered their eyes with their hands, but they all lost consciousness before they could figure out what was going on.
Of course we didn't use guns, but directly used electric shock to make all these people unconscious. They wouldn't wake up for at least a few hours. And even if they wake up, excessive electric shock will put these people in a state of muscle spasm all over the body. They will act like newborns and cannot control their muscles accurately at all. Let alone escape, even crawling is harmful to them. It's a very difficult sport.
The reason why these people were not killed was mainly due to two reasons. First. They are all engineers and can build immigration ships. They are precious human resources that cannot be wasted casually in the current period. Second, these are all ordinary workers, not evil in any way.
After Nuwa occupied the central computing center, she obtained the information of all the personnel here. So we can accurately screen everyone. If it's useful, but not the most evil, just stun it, and a recovery team will clean it up later. As for those who are useless, or those who actively participated in this incident... keeping them is a waste of precious resources. It would be better to directly destroy them humanely.
While stunning the three people, Xiaochun also touched up the half-dead guy on the ground. There is no way this guy can be saved anyway. Instead of making him suffer like this, it would be more humane to just end his life. So Xiaochun directly used electric current to scorch his entire brain. The whole process took less than 0.01 seconds. He would not feel anything at all and would die immediately. A similar principle is used before slaughtering cattle in automated slaughterhouses, where three discharge cones are instantly inserted into the cow's brain. Then it is electrocuted to death. The whole process only takes 0.03 seconds. The cow will die without feeling any pain or fear at all.
After ending the life of the guy on the ground, we asked Nuwa to open the air-tight door, and then continued downward. After moving about five or six cabins, Nuwa suddenly prompted that there were armed personnel in the cabin below.
This is the first time we have actually encountered armed men in such a long time of invasion.
In fact, the number of armed personnel in this spaceship and the entire base is very sparse, because this is simply not a problem that can be solved by more people. From the moment these people decided to abandon all mankind and run first, their enemies became all mankind. Although it is impossible for people all over the world to come together to attack them, the US government's troops who bear the brunt are definitely not something they can handle. Therefore, these people designed the previous insurance to threaten the US government and other countries from taking action against them. This is their only guarantee. As for force guarantee... How many troops do you think are needed to confront the U.S. government in the United States?
Therefore, if the U.S. government is intimidated and does not dare to take action, they do not need the protection of armed personnel at all. And if the U.S. government dares to take action, then it will be useless no matter how many armed personnel they have. Because of this, there are actually very few armed personnel here. After all, it is almost the same whether there are any, so naturally it is better to have as few as possible. After all, there are not many places on this spaceship, and no one wants to waste it on a group of muscular men. After all, once they are in space, these people have no value at all. Even if you encounter all kinds of dangers, do you still expect these bodyguards to fight alien creatures or natural disasters? Therefore, it is enough to have a few of these armed personnel, but having too many is not good.
Of course, their idea is now advantageous to us. Although we are not afraid of these armed men, the purpose of this operation is not mainly to counter the rebellion, but to seize the spacecraft. Siran may not have enough time and manpower to change this spaceship back to its previous design, but even if nothing moves, this ship can still take away at least 10,000 people, right? So, this thing is actually quite important.
Precisely because the spacecraft itself is very important, we try our best not to engage in firefights. After all, if you shoot inside the spacecraft and you don't know what has been damaged, subsequent maintenance will be very troublesome. The best way is not to destroy these things and minimize losses.
We had never encountered armed men along the way before, but we suddenly encountered a group during this scene. Of course, we all became cautious.
Nuwa directly displayed the picture captured by the infrared monitor in the cabin below in our minds through the internal network of the electronic computer. We can see that there are about eight armed personnel in the cabin below, but in addition There are six other ordinary people.
It seems that these people were not originally in the main passage. There was an open door in the wall to the side of the main passage, which had apparently been opened from that side using a manual mechanism. These people were originally supposed to be in the side room and came here after it was sealed.
What is strange is that the composition of this group of people is relatively complex. Except for the eight armed men who were clearly bodyguards at a glance, among the remaining six there were not only two young women, but also two children.
The two children are not particularly young, the older one is about eleven or twelve years old, and the younger one is at most eight years old, but at this age he already has some mobility.
"Attention, there are children, prepare to use non-lethal weapons." (To be continued ~^~)