Chapter 937 Life Response

"Survivor?" After hearing the sudden words from the data terminal, Hao Ren glanced at it in surprise.

The data terminal floats next to a control device. The blue light it emits shines on the cables and extension accessories around the device, pulsing slightly like breathing. In this way, it finally reads the last details of the deep parts of these weather-beaten devices. A bit of data that has not been completely erased: "This machine is connected to the navigation brain deep in the ship, and has a rough grasp of the navigation method of this fleet - its navigation method requires someone to be alive."

Hao Ren looked at the data terminal and motioned for it to continue.

The data terminal opened a set of holographic projections, on which was a fleet of thirteen ellipsoidal ark ships, with some complex lines extending radially around each fleet: "These are the patterns that were detected before. Repeating signals. According to what is currently available here, the operator of the Ark is dead, so these ships are relying on automatic systems for command, so the signal transmission between them is this mechanical. According to their navigation mode, these ships There is no fixed flagship. They rely on the Internet to connect all navigation brains together and build a unified, virtual navigation program. This machine guesses that this is because the designers have considered from the beginning any navigation system, including the flagship. All ships may suddenly be destroyed, so they gave the highest navigation authority to a ghost host active on the network, so that as long as the fleet maintains a certain size, it can continue sailing without having to consider the replacement of flagships... "

Hao Ren waved his hand: "The key point, tell the key point."

"The point is, such a ghost host is not installed on any ship, and considering that the host of each ship is not necessarily reliable during such a long journey, this navigation program is not controlled by any specific terminal. . It automatically monitors the fleet and relies on certain conditions to determine whether its navigation mission still needs to continue." The data terminal floated up and down. "Its detection rule is 'life is still continuing'. This machine found this from the bottom of the database. information."

Every civilization built arks that operated differently, and in this case, they would only continue sailing as long as the life inside them could still survive. Their thrusters are still not extinguished, so unless there is something wrong with the navigation programs formed by these ships, there is only one explanation:

"There are still people alive on a certain ship..." Hao Ren murmured to himself, then frowned, "But they didn't respond to Nolan's call."

"Maybe it's a system failure, maybe they can't understand Nolan's high-level language, or it's more likely that they are frightened. They may think that we are in the same group as the 'Guardians.'" The data terminal withdrew all light, "Of course There is a worse possibility, that is, there are not many survivors left, not even anyone who knows how to operate the radar. In short, they do not respond, then we can only check every ship."

Hao Ren was startled and looked up at the console in front of him. On one of the screens of the console, the scene in the vast space is displayed. Some dim lights shine in the darkness, which are the figures of the other twelve Ark giant ships in space.

"I hope every ship has the same structure as this one..." Hao Ren muttered, and connected the communication with Nolan, "Nolan, you have heard what is said here. Call in the engineering drones, Cut open the shell of each ship and drive the life detector in - until the deepest signal can be scanned. Also, do not interrupt communication requests to these ships. If anyone is willing to take the initiative to respond, we will not have to wait for them. There was a hole in the ceiling.”

"This machine feels that drilling a few small holes in these behemoths that are more than a hundred kilometers long will not collapse their entire system," the data terminal muttered as it shook its body, "unless you accidentally dig through them. atmospheric pump or reactor."

Hao Ren sighed slightly: "You still believe in my luck after following me for two years?"

The terminal was stunned for a moment and called the Giant Turtle Yantai number: "Nolan, tell those drones to be careful. It is best to scan at least three times every time when driving the drill bit... Oh no, let's scan four times."

The group left the central control station and looked at the entirety of this huge facility from the outside. Now that its core reactor has been reactivated, its once dim glowing grids and heat sinks are glowing brightly, but with most of the vital equipment of the city's ecosystem stripped away, the control station is like a giant's remaining head. It can no longer produce any effect, it just runs silently in the vacuum, shining on the lifeless shelter like an artificial star in this cold world. Hao Ren looked at the frozen and dilapidated city around him and knew that there was nothing worth continuing to explore in the ship, so he left some autonomous machines here to study the city's structure, while he led his people back to the giant. On Turtle Rock Terrace.

The Giant Turtle Yantai slowly left the giant ark ship named "Qunluan", and then some silvery-white light spots flew from the distance. They had a square shape and some sharp-edged engineering arms. It is the drone group that came in response to the summons. The fleet flew towards the silent arks in space, and then some flashes of light burst out from the shell of each ark.

Drones began cutting into these eerily silent steel domes and placing small probes inside them.

"I have figured out how to make the first modification to the Giant Turtle Yantai." Hao Ren stood on the bridge and knocked on the console in front of him. "I at least need a high-power life-sensing radar, or a A new model of detector hive. Nowadays, these devices are becoming less and less useful. It is difficult for the general-purpose basic model to detect life reactions through several kilometers of steel plates and energy fields, not to mention that in most cases what I want to detect is Those weird species created by the Goddess of Creation.”

"With all due respect, partner," the data terminal said in a deliberately serious tone, "according to your work history, your life detector will rarely have a chance to be used."

Hao Ren: "...it's not my pleasure to explode wherever I go!"

Each of the thirteen giant ark ships is more than a hundred kilometers in size. They have an outer protective layer several kilometers or even ten kilometers thick, a complex system of shallow pipelines and corridors, and a thick steel shell surrounding them. A spherical city, and all of these things are in disrepair. Tens of thousands of old airlocks and exhaust pipe air pump systems maintain the fragile balance inside these spacecrafts, which brings a lot of trouble to the work of the drones. But everything still went according to Hao Ren's plan. A few hours later, data from the detector group was continuously transmitted back to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.

Hao Ren stayed in front of the console, and the more important images returned by the detector were sorted out by Nolan and projected onto the main device. Hao Ren saw the conditions inside the remaining twelve arks - some had just detected the surface, but some had already penetrated into the core.

The conditions inside these arks are different. Although the structures are similar, they have different defects. In one of the arks, you can see a frozen city similar to the one in the "Qunluan", but in the other ark, there is only a huge and terrifying hole: the city itself has been dismantled and turned into a He found parts of another ship that was probably lost hundreds of years ago.

"The situations are getting worse one after another... No signs of life have been found so far, only various wreckage has been found," Nolan's voice sounded next to him, "Their shells are intact but the insides are riddled with holes. These ships are in In the past thousands of years, they have survived by devouring each other. There may have been hundreds of them when they set sail, but now there are only thirteen ships still sailing... These thirteen ships look like floating corpses to me, inside Dry and hollow.”

"After becoming a ship, you have become more emotional than before," Hao Ren smiled, "Have any arks responded to your call?"

"No, there is no echo on any frequency band, but I can be sure that my signal has been sent to the inside of these ships." Nolan nodded slightly, "The shallowest drilled detectors have already drilled into the cables of those arks. If In this case, if there is still no response, then I’m afraid it really means ‘no one’.”

Hao Ren didn't say anything. He turned back to look at the holographic projection. A small detector was drilling into the spherical city dome of the sixth Ark. In its constantly shaking perspective, darkness flashed by, followed by In a cold and dead silence in the dim light, a deserted city appeared under the lens of the detector, and other data sent back by the detector showed that there was no life here.

Hao Ren began to seriously think about whether all life in these arks had really been extinct. Perhaps there was something wrong with the navigation program that allowed them to continue running even though life was extinct. But just when the idea came to his mind, a message jumped out from the holographic projection.

Nolan and the data terminal said at the same time: "There is a life response!"