Chapter 951 Actions Inside and Outside the Ark

Since they had already explored the central control station there in the Ark of the Qunluan, Hao Ren and the others found the control center here without much effort. At least in the outer area, the central control station structures of the two arks are similar.

The control center is in a dilapidated and old state. The ancient machinery and equipment are covered with dust, and some trivial objects are scattered all over the floor: this should be the result of the failure of artificial gravity every time. Next to the main console of the control center, Hao Ren found a corpse. Unlike the Qunluan, the shelter still maintained a normal temperature and atmospheric environment, so the body he found had decomposed and only a skeleton remained. .

The deceased was wearing the same clothes as the old man on the Qunluan. Due to multiple gravity abnormalities, it is now impossible to determine the captain's position and state when he died. Hao Ren carefully pushed the skeleton to the side, and then restarted the main console in front of him according to experience (the console key was inserted on the machine panel). As expected, there was backup power here, and the ancient The control terminal was still barely usable. Along with the hum of the machine, lights lit up on the main console, and other nearby equipment also started running.

Considering that the ecosystem of this Ark has been running for the past few hundred years, before the explosion of the reactor, there should be some servo terminals here that maintained unmanned operation. Now Hao Ren wants to check these machines. It is best to find the damage report of the reactor and the emergency response plan. After opening the database, he quickly called up the structural diagram of the entire central control station, which clearly marked the various areas of this giant facility.

According to the structural diagram, the entire central control station is composed of four parts: Located in the center is a huge fusion reactor. This fusion reactor is buried in the deepest part of the facility. Its structure cannot be seen from the city inside the ship. This The reactor provides powerful raw energy to the Vault City, but it does not supply power directly, but transfers the energy to the second part of the facility, a series of giant generators. Those generators can be seen from the city inside the ship. Under the shell of the Ancestral Forge, the third part of the central control station is the smaller cylindrical metal pillars around the Ancestral Forge, which are some components related to the life support system.

Needless to say, the fourth part is the control area of ​​the entire facility, where Hao Ren and the others are currently located, at the very edge of the Ancestral Furnace.

After carefully analyzing the functional divisions on the structural diagram, Hao Ren was relieved: what had exploded before was the main shell on the front of the ancestral furnace, and that was the location of the main generator set. Although the scrapping of the main generator was a huge trouble, it was The explosion of the fusion furnace in the depths is already a great blessing among misfortunes.

"Here," Hao Ren pointed at the facility shell on the screen, "below this is the coil of the main generator. If this is repaired, the shelter will be able to last longer. I have brought a lot of autonomous machines to repair this kind of Simple stuff should be fine.”

"What happens after it's repaired?" Nangong Sanba asked casually, "The most important thing is how to solve the problem here in the long term."

Hao Ren nodded slightly: "Yes, we can't let these spaceships drift in space, so we have to find a place for them in the end. I have ordered Nolan to dismantle the Qunluan Ark on a large scale, and We are asking her to try to crack the navigation systems of several other scrapped arks. If everything goes well, she will be able to gain control of these spacecrafts and then... drive them to a more suitable planet."

"Io or Tanagus?" Lily answered.

"The atmosphere of Tanagus is poisonous to the humans in the Ark, and not only the atmosphere, the ecological environment of that planet is completely unsuitable for the survival of the people on this ship, and Io has no land..." Hao Ren scratched his head. Hair, "Let's put this aside for now. I think it's more important to repair the reactor here first."

As he spoke, he looked outside through the thick glass window of the control room. From here, you can see many of the internal structures of the central control station. The ancient pipes and machinery reflect the faint light in the dim light, and the dust in the air makes everything seem to be shrouded in a dirty mist. He opened his personal space and released several round and tentacled autonomous machines. After handing over the structural diagram of the generator set to these little guys, the autonomous machines made a series of cheerful chirping sounds and rushed out, rushing towards the direction of the generator set along the dirty old pipes.

Then he looked at Vivian: "Can you still sense the location of the 'artifact' now?"

"There has been no response since just now," Vivian frowned slightly, "I can only judge based on the previous feeling that the artifact is probably at the deepest level of this facility, which is... this location."

As she spoke, she pointed to the screen of the main console, which displayed the structural diagram of the central control station, and where she pointed was the junction of the generator and the fusion furnace, the core of the entire facility.

Hao Ren searched on the facility structure diagram and finally determined a feasible route: "Then let's go over there and have a look... What are you doing at the terminal?"

He saw the data terminal flying to the side at some point, floating around the dead captain's skeleton, and constantly scanning the opponent's skull with a blue beam, so he asked curiously.

The data terminal checked while talking: "Oh, it's nothing. I checked the cause of death of this person by the way. This person should have died of illness. His skull showed signs of chronic corrosion, which should have been caused by some chronic disease during his lifetime."

"Chronic disease?" Hao Ren glanced at the skeleton lying on the ground, and was vaguely concerned: the last commander of the Ark died of chronic disease, not an accident or other accidents as he had guessed before. There seemed to be a hidden meaning in this. some kind of information.

But there was only such a skeleton here, and the information available was really insufficient. Even if he cared about it, he couldn't think of any clues.

"Leave him here first," Hao Ren nodded slightly to the skeleton, and then walked towards the exit of the control room, "The autonomous machine is repairing the generator. Let's take this time to see what happened to the artifact that Vivian sensed. What the hell is that?"

The group of people left the control room and continued toward the reactor. At the same time, in the space outside the Ark, large-scale engineering operations were being carried out nervously and orderly.

After receiving Hao Ren's order, Nolan took over some engineering drones from the fleet, and now she is sending these extremely efficient "workers" to those arks. Silver-white drones emerged from the dark space one after another, turning into streams of light and rushing towards the huge ark ships like a colony of ants rushing towards their prey. The drones began to cut the shells of those old spaceships. , the latter's dark and thick armor plate continuously burst out with bright light like starlight, which looked like a weird fireworks show in space.

The spacecraft that are currently undergoing cutting are confirmed to be lifeless. Because there is no need to worry about causing casualties, Nolan can safely and boldly figure out the structure of these arks through brute force. As the first of all the arks to be explored, the Qunluan was the fastest and most thorough to be dismantled.

Now this giant interstellar ship with a length of more than 130 kilometers has changed greatly. Under the cutting of hundreds of mining drones, one-third of the outer shell of the Qunluan was peeled off. The front end of the machine exposed some complex mechanical structures, and you could also see a series of neat chambers: those chambers were connected by corridors and seemed to be for human use. Judging from these structures, the "bridge" of the Ark was also manned during the voyage, but perhaps this too long journey finally destroyed the confidence of the navigators, and finally the crew of the Ark all hid in the shelter, and All the upper-layer systems are handed over to the intelligent host.

The Giant Turtle Yantai curiously circled around the bow of the Qunluan, taking photos while circling it. On the bridge of the Giant Turtle Platform, the little devil Elizabeth was tugging on Gun's tail out of boredom, ignoring the cat girl's weak counterattack and muttering: "Sister Nolan, what are you doing?"

"As a souvenir," Nolan replied casually, "As a ship, I dismantled all similar ships that were so many times larger than mine. Don't you think this is worth commemorating?"

Elizabeth thought for a while; "...but don't you think you are like a pervert who strips people naked and then takes nude photos?"

Nolan: "..."

In this way, whether inside or outside Ark, Hao Ren's team is taking action.