Chapter 955 "Father"

Reactor failure! Just because the reactor is malfunctioning!

A glorious civilization, an exile without return, and a final struggle. Who would have thought that all of this would be destroyed by a machine failure? This dormant facility should have continued to operate for many more years as planned, but due to the sudden damage to the Ark's fusion furnace, the host of the dormant facility was affected and all dormant cabins here were activated in advance. Hao Ren didn't know what logic the vault host made this decision on, but he knew that it must have exceeded the designer's original expectations. Even for a person like Vivian who is used to seeing life and death, she could only sigh quietly at this moment: "What a trick of fate."

At this time, the data terminal suddenly seemed to have discovered something: "Wait a minute, there seems to be another room in front of here."

As it spoke, it flew quickly towards the other end of the long bridge. Hao Ren didn't know why, but he still followed closely. A group of people ran across this wide bridge that was 100 meters long and came to the opposite side of the cylindrical space. There is a small door here with no sign on it.

The data terminal invaded the access control system and quickly opened the small door.

Behind the door was a smaller room. At first glance, Hao Ren saw that this room was obviously not as tidy as other parts of the vault. Countless clutter can be seen on the floor of this room. Empty food cans and cardboard boxes fill almost half of the space, while the rest of the room is occupied by various cables and equipment. The moment he saw the scene in the room, he realized one thing: someone once lived here!

"There is also a sleeping cabin here!" Lily's eyes were sharp, and she was the first to find something behind the clutter. Others went over to take a look, and sure enough they saw a silver-white metal box placed in the corner. But unlike those small sleeping cabins outside, the metal box in front of you is significantly larger.

It's for adults.

The data terminal floated over to check it, and suddenly let out a surprised voice: "There is still life reaction inside!"

Hao Ren was shocked when he heard the news, but at this time he couldn't care less about the details: "Hurry up and activate this thing!"

The data terminal has just figured out the working principle of this low-tech dormant cabin. It connected itself to the control circuit of the dormant cabin, determined the vital characteristics of the personnel inside and the normal biomass in the cabin, and then started the activation process. . A few small lights lit up on the outer shell of the dormant cabin, and then a blast of cold air came out from both sides of the container. Accompanied by a subtle mechanical friction sound, the lid of the dormant cabin slowly slid upwards, revealing the sleep inside. The true appearance of the person.

An old, thin, beard-haired old man.

Hao Ren was in a daze. He didn't expect the people inside to look like this. The old man lying in the hibernation cabin looked like he was dying, with wrinkles covering every inch of his skin. The dark age spots and skinny head made him look like a terrifying mummy. His long and messy hair and beard It also seemed that it had never been tidied up. It was messy and dirty and stuck to the old man's chest, like a bird's nest.

After the dormant cabin was activated, the viscous liquid that filled the cabin slowly faded to both sides under the influence of a certain magnetic field. The old man lying there twitched all over, and then slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at Hao Ren with blank eyes, and there was no movement for two minutes. It wasn't until Lily accidentally touched something and made a noise that the old man's eyes suddenly opened, and a strong look of shock and excitement appeared. The violent mood swings on his face even made his expression look a bit ferocious. This old man, as skinny as a mummy, suddenly grabbed Hao Ren's sleeve, his hand was incredibly strong, and he made an unexplained "scared" sound in his throat, as if he couldn't speak at all.

"Calm down, calm down," Hao Ren struggled to free himself from the other party's wrist and supported his arm with his backhand. "Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath first - okay, don't get excited. It's safe here now. You have time to slowly explain the situation to us."

The old man was trembling all over. He slowly scanned the strangers in front of him with doubtful eyes, and then struggled to climb out of the dormant cabin. Seeing this, Lily hurriedly stepped forward to help, and together with Hao Ren, helped the old man. Go to the chair next to you.

The old man seemed to be deliriously mumbling something during the process. After he sat down, Hao Ren could barely understand what the other person was saying. He kept repeating a few words: "You are here, you are finally here. , I have been waiting for hundreds of years...I almost thought you were all dead..."

"Waiting for us?" Hao Ren's first reaction was to be stunned for a moment, but he soon came to his senses: the other party didn't know where they came from. What the old man was waiting for was actually the people in the shelter city. people.

"I'm afraid you are mistaken," Vivian also heard the old man's mumbling, and she subconsciously explained, "We are not from the Ark, we are passing by, and our spaceship is parked outside your spaceship."

"You... aren't you?" The old man's thinking was a little slow after waking up from hibernation. It took him a while to realize what Vivian meant, and he looked at the strangers in front of him with disbelief, "But you..."

His words stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, because he finally noticed Nangong Wuyue, a half-snake, half-human creature coiled up in a large group not far away - he realized that these people really came from outside the Ark.

"I..." The old man opened his mouth, not knowing how to organize his words in the great confusion. Finally he sighed, "Is there anyone alive in the boat?"

"There are many survivors. Although the conditions are not very good, we arrived in time." Hao Ren grabbed the other person's skinny hand to keep him calm. "Can you tell us about the situation of this ship? ? Who are you? Why are you frozen alone in this room?"

"My..." The old man shook his head up and down, trying to remember some things, "I... forgot what my name was. I should have a name, but I forgot..."

Vivian held the other person's shoulder: "It may be a short-term memory impairment caused by sleeping for too long. Don't worry, maybe it will recover later. Besides the name? What else do you remember?"

The old man frowned and said slowly: "I remember that I am going to... Oh, by the way, I am 'Father', and I am going to teach the children. Oh, by the way, by the way! I remembered, I I am leading those children to rebuild society, and I am the last adult who is not sick!"

"Are you not sick?" Hao Ren suddenly became serious, "Terminal, check."

The data terminal flew around the old man's body: "Aging, but healthy, incredible."

"What happened in the spaceship? Where did you come from? Why did the plague happen? This disease only affects adults?" Hao Ren's questions came one after another, "And that golden disk in the spaceship... you Tell us about it from the beginning.”

"Our hometown... was destroyed," the old man held Hao Ren's hand. In the first minute, he just kept repeating these words, and then organized more words, "It is said that it also happened on other planets. The same thing, terrible ecological disaster. We received a warning from a higher civilization before the end of the world. We built an ark and escaped from our hometown at the cost of most of the population... Do you know? Do you know? This You must have experienced what happened in the universe, but you are definitely more advanced than us, and you even have time to investigate other people's spacecraft... But we have to do our best just to survive."

The old man's mind was sometimes confused and sometimes sober, and his words were agitated and confused. However, Hao Ren did not interrupt him because he knew that if he did, this waning man would not know how to speak.

"...I was born on a spaceship and grew up on a spaceship. My father, grandfather, and ancestors have been like this for generations. Our ships are getting fewer and fewer, and there are fewer and fewer people, but we have been trying to live because we don't want to let The bloodline is severed... There is an artifact protecting us. Oh, you seemed to have mentioned it just now. The golden disc was brought by the higher civilization that warned us. They also taught us how to use the artifact. Power evades pursuit...but it doesn't always work, it can only slow down the pursuer..."

The old man was breathing heavily. He needed a break before he could continue speaking. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hao Ren immediately asked the data terminal to bring up the image of "People of the Starry Sky".

He pointed at the amorphous light groups for the old man to see: "Do they look like this?"

"...Yes, that's it."