Chapter 953 A Different World
Hao Ren asked everyone else, including Vivian, to wait behind him, and then he held the data terminal and walked towards the golden disk. He knew that this thing was the most bizarre and strange creation in the Dream Plane, so it was always right to be cautious.
He came to the artifact without any danger.
The gold disk is set on a huge metal pedestal, and around the metal pedestal you can see many pipes, cables, steel columns and the like. These debris extend all the way to the floor, making the entire device look like a A weird altar in a scientific style. A faintly glowing metal ring could be seen around the golden disk. When Hao Ren came closer, the metal ring seemed to shine, but there was no further reaction.
"It seems to have been broken." The data terminal checked the energy flow in the pipes and cables around the metal circular platform. "This thing was supposed to be an amplifier-like thing that could broadcast the information of the golden disk to the entire fleet - but The entire installation is now silent."
Hao Ren nodded slightly and carefully reached out his hand to the surface of the disk.
But nothing happened.
A warm, non-metallic touch came from his fingertips, but he did not read any information from the artifact like last time. It seems that the disk this time is just an ordinary creation of the goddess, and it does not carry any extra information.
The data terminal flew around the disk and checked several times, confirming that there were no dangerous factors before declaring that everything was safe. Nangong brother and sister and Lily came over curiously. Lily pulled Hao Ren's sleeve with a happy look on her face: "Is everything okay? Are we picking up the treasure again?"
Vivian shouted from a distance: "What, can I go there now?"
Hao Ren slightly looked back and found Vivian standing at the door of the hall from a distance, with an expression on her face that she wanted to watch the fun but was afraid of getting into trouble. He waved at the door: "Come on, come on, it's best not to touch this thing, be careful of sailing a thousand-year-old ship."
Vivian happily trotted over, folded her arms and murmured: "So it was this thing that protected the Ark Fleet from being chased all the way? So, the breath of the golden disk can drive away those crazy guardians?"
"Hmm..." Hao Ren agreed casually and began to curiously examine the metal pedestal under the disc, wanting to know what other functions this device had besides using the disc as a signal source. However, before he could find anything, the data terminal He suddenly found something: "Wait a minute, partner, there is something famous down here."
"Down there?" Hao Ren was stunned.
The data terminal fluttered to the corner of the pedestal and slammed into a protruding metal pole. At first, everyone thought it was a decoration, but the data terminal knocked it down, and then there was a slight mechanical friction sound. Came from under the round platform!
"Creak-", accompanied by a series of friction sounds of gears and motors, the golden disc slowly stood up, while the black metal pedestal below cracked a gap in the middle and slowly opened to both sides. Hao Ren stared at all this with his mouth open. When the ancient mechanical device finally calmed down, a passage about five or six meters wide and sloping downward appeared in front of him.
There is a hidden world down here!
Vivian habitually threw a small bat down the passage to explore the way. After a moment, she nodded: "Safety, it's a corridor, there are no traps."
"Everyone, be careful." Hao Ren said as he opened the shield and walked forward. Before entering the passage, he looked at the golden disk and hesitated, but because he was not sure whether this thing also affected other sensitivities of Ark. system, so he did not recycle it rashly, but left an autonomous machine here to protect the site.
The team walked down the ancient stairs and walked a long way before reaching the end of the stairs. In front of them was a wide corridor with dim lights, but as Hao Ren stepped onto the corridor floor, the lights beside him suddenly started, illuminating the entire corridor as brightly as day.
Compared with the shelter city on the surface that is about to become a garbage dump, this corridor in front of everyone looks brand new and unusual. There is no garbage, no damage, no scars. Except for the thick dust, everything here is in perfect condition. There is no doubt that the residents on the surface do not know this place at all. I am afraid that no one has visited this place for at least hundreds of years.
"There shouldn't be this facility on other arks." Hao Ren muttered. Because the builder of this place used a golden disk as the entrance to the entire facility, this place probably has extraordinary significance. As he walked along the corridor, he suddenly felt something stepping on his feet. When he looked down, he found that it was a palm-sized plastic card.
He picked up the card and saw the words "Final Depository" written on it, as well as his name and position. It turned out that it was a staff identification tag.
"'Final Vault'?" Vivian came over to take a look, "What is it for safekeeping?"
Hao Ren shook his head: "God knows."
At this time, Lily, who was running in front, suddenly called out from a distance: "Hey! Come and take a look at this, everyone!"
Hao Ren hurried over and saw what Lily found: it was a small skeleton, lying face down in the corner. The clothes the owner of the skeleton was wearing had been reduced to several pieces of rags. You can vaguely see that it was once a white garment.
This was the second set of "prehistoric remains" he had seen in the Ark, and it was obviously that of a child.
"Child?" Vivian frowned, "How could a child die in such a confidential facility?"
The data terminal floated over to check the condition of the skeleton, and quickly analyzed a lot of information: "According to Ark human standards, the age of death should be between twelve and thirteen years old. The cause of death was a large dose of radiation in a short period of time."
"Radiated to death?" Hao Ren's first thought was the adult human skeleton found in the control room. He remembered that the Ark administrator died of a chronic disease that would slowly corrode the skull. "Not a disease?"
"Are you talking about the strange disease that the man in the control room had?" The data terminal knew what Hao Ren was referring to, "No. The child died about eight hundred years ago, and the death of the 'captain' in the control room The time was about nine hundred years ago, and there was a hundred years difference between the two people. Hmm... The people in the control room did not have any traces of radiation to death, but the one in front of me did. This machine estimates that the radiation leakage from the reactor reached eight hundred years ago. It happened nine hundred years ago.”
"The one in the control room should be the last captain of the Ark." Hao Ren frowned slightly, vaguely feeling that he had caught something. "After he died, no one should have entered the control room. But One hundred years after his death, a child died in this place..."
After checking the little body, the group continued to walk deeper into the corridor. They passed through several doors in succession, passing through some structures like disinfection rooms, inspection passages, and isolation rooms. Finally, they came to Arriving at a special gate. This gate is wider than every previous gate, and has an exquisite and complex locking device. There is no doubt that this is the deepest part of the entire facility.
Hao Ren vaguely judged the distance he had traveled and believed that this location had already passed far beyond the outer shell of the shelter city, and might even have passed through the Ark cabin where the giant fusion furnace was located (the evidence is that there is no longer any radiation here). This should be an empty cabin hidden between the city inside the ship and the outer shell of the Ark. Judging from the newness of the various facilities here, it was rebuilt many years after the Ark set sail - its construction history is probably no more than a thousand years old. Year.
The locking mechanism of the gate can still be used, so with the help of the data terminal, Hao Ren opened the gate in front of him normally. As the two thick metal plates slowly retreated to both sides, a huge silver-white space appeared in front of everyone.
This is a large cylindrical cabin, probably up to a hundred meters in diameter, and its height is difficult to judge with the naked eye. In this cylindrical cabin, there are a large number of silver-white metal boxes fixed with brackets and no more than 1.5 meters in length, neatly arranged. All these metal boxes and brackets are secured by a complex set of robotic arms. Hold on tightly and hang in the mid-air of the cylindrical cabin. A wide long bridge runs through this cabin section, and Hao Ren and the others are now standing at the starting point of this long bridge.
"Let me choke..." Lily looked up at the countless metal boxes neatly arranged and said in a long, drawn-out voice, "Wow..."
Hao Ren looked around. He thought that the metal boxes hanging in the air were definitely not fixed. Sure enough, he soon discovered a device that looked like a console not far away.