When Hao Ren came out of the crack in the elevator shaft, he saw what kind of situation was inside the hundred-kilometer-long starship, and the scene was amazing.He saw a vast, far more than the eye could see, and in that space there was a starship city.Countless buildings spread out on the earth, and the earth gradually rose and warped in the distance, and finally closed on the other side of the sky, and the whole city was built in a closed, oval-shaped container like an eggshell, on which all the artificial earth and buildings were affixed to the inner walls of this layer of eggshells.He looked in all directions, and a strange sense of vertigo was dazzling: there was no sky, no strict distinction between up and down, and the closed earth formed a spherical shell, and in every direction he could see rows of buildings and large, strange mechanisms.Hao Ren glanced back at the elevator shaft he had passed through when he came down, and he realized that it was originally a metal pipe that ran through the entire spherical space, and there were more than a dozen such metal pipes arranged in parallel behind him, protruding from a large building in the city inside the ship, and finally disappearing into another large upside-down building opposite.In the semi-middle waist of these parallel metal pipes, you can see many platforms suspended in the center of the space and horizontal pipes, which are obviously traffic arteries.And this "parallel metal tube cluster" is not the only one, when he looked into the distance, Hao Ren saw from the faint shimmering silhouette that there were other metal tubes standing in the distance, they crisscrossed the giant ship like bones in the body of a monster, maintaining the transportation path between the city inside the ship and the outside world.Vivien was the last to come out, looking curiously at the spherical city and muttering, "There is no air, there is silence......
But there is light. ”The city is not dark, but it is not bright either.Between the silent buildings, you can see the remnants of the lighting system still working, countless sparkling lights flickering in every corner of the closed earth, placing the whole city in a shimmer, and at the end of this oval spherical space, you can also see an extraordinarily large thing, which is a cylindrical "mountain", it is like a huge machine, with a complex structure, the outer edge of the machine is a circle of orange-red shimmering, like a radiator circle, This light is like the sun in the twilight, bringing some light to this city of glimmers.But all of this light was far from bright - there must be something wrong with the ship's internal systems, whether it was the remaining lighting in the city or the huge machine at the end of spherical space, it was clear that it was not running at full capacity, but more like it was in some kind of standby state."
There is no life reaction," Hao Ren glanced at the readings sent by the data terminal, although the terminal did not have too strong scanning ability as a portable personal data assistant, but looking at the cold and dead place in front of him, he didn't think that he could find any survivors from the city with a larger radar, "There is no atmosphere, no moisture, almost as cold as the space outside, and there is also excessive radiation......
It seems that everyone is dead. ”Nangong May suddenly floated over and poked Hao Ren's arm with the tip of her tail, and she pointed in a certain direction: "People are indeed dead." ”Hao Ren looked in the direction of Nangong May's finger, and suddenly saw the corpse of a humanoid creature floating in the air in the distance.And when he looked closely, he found more remains, floating in the cracks of the city complex, some of which had floated to the heights of this spherical space—in this place where there was no distinction between upper and lower, the "high place" in the strict sense was the center of this enclosed space, which was far from every outer wall.Countless corpses floated in the air, mostly mutilated, and the ultra-low temperature made them vulnerable, and the slightest collision would shatter the corpses like ice cubes.The remains of these should still be relatively lucky remains, and more of them may have been turned into dust in countless collisions over a long period of time.Hao Ren turned and floated towards a complex of buildings closer to him, and "landed" on the roof of a tall building.When you don't look up at the upside-down buildings, the weird illusion of being upside down is less obvious.He noticed several bodies floating around the building, and went to them to check on the situation."
The facial features are close to those of standard Type I humans, with light skin tones, long ears, slender bones, and tall stature, which cannot be ruled out as the result of long-term space survival," Hao Ren examined the biological features of the body like a professional coroner and compared it with the biological lineage on the data network, "It is well preserved." ”"There is no air here, and it is extremely cold, so the corpse will not rot and dry up, and it can almost always remain the same as when it was dead after turning into an ice sculpture," Nangong Sanba said as he took out a few delicate knives and metal needles from the toolkit, cut and examined the corpse, "I'll see if there is any residual information." ”Hao Ren looked up at the silent city of shimmering light and guessed the reason for the tragic death of all the crew members on this ark: "Is it an air leak that caused the death of the occupants?"
Or is there something else that is causing the life-sustaining system to shut down?
”"The airtight cabin was found to be faulty, but the outermost gate of the airtight cabin is still closed, and the control system is functioning normally," the data terminal said, "The ship is so large that it may require a detailed scan of the entire hull to determine the cause of the accident."
And there are a dozen other ships outside, and the machine probably thinks that their situation is probably no better than here. ”Hao Ren nodded and connected the communicator: "Nolan, release the detector and test the shell of the giant ship we are in to see if there are any air leaks or other fatal wounds." ”"Nolan understands."
At this time, Nangong Sanba had already finished examining the first body, and he seemed to have found something, so he floated to the side of several other bodies to check it, Nangong May asked curiously: "Brother, what did you find?"
”"The cause of death of these people is not suffocation and hypothermia," Nangong Sanba put away his tools, "Their death is very peaceful, there are some residual chemicals in the frozen blood vessels, very similar to ......"
Lily asked urgently, "What is it like?"
”"It's like inhaling a lot of hallucinogens......
Or something else," Nangong Sanba pointed around, "every corpse is like this. ”"Hallucinogens?"
Hao Ren looked surprised, "These people died of drugs?"
”"Although that's pretty much what it means, I think your choice of words is a bit wrong," the corners of Nangong Sanba's mouth twitched twice, "At present, I have only examined a few corpses here, I'm afraid it can't be used as evidence, let's go find a place farther away." ”Hao Ren hummed and turned his head to drift into the street in the distance.Although this city inside the ship is deep inside the spaceship, due to the huge size of the spaceship itself, the scale of the city is naturally unparalleled.With a large number of buildings and facilities, wide streets and tall buildings, if you don't look up and see the closed artificial land, you may forget the city for what it really is.The crowd traveled to the depths of the city, and soon found more remains, as well as ......
Something even more wrong.They found a building with a beautiful circular glass dome and a wide interior, which, judging by the décor, should be a special venue for some kind of gathering.Because of the large hole in the outer wall of the building, Hao Ren and the others went directly into the hole, and saw a shocking scene: it seemed that a banquet was being held here, and in the huge meeting room, you could see countless neatly arranged tables with sumptuous food on them, although everything had been covered with a layer of frost, it could still be seen that it was a grand feast.A large number of corpses littered the place, still as if they were at the moment of death: sitting at the table, the men were dressed in neat little dresses, and the women were dressed in bright and beautiful new dresses, and although they had frozen into ice corpses, they still attended as if they were at a banquet.In the corner of the hall, Hao Ren also saw the bodies of several men in long black dresses lying on the small platform over there, frozen into the surrounding things, holding what looked like musical instruments in their hands: it seemed to be a small band.With sumptuous tables, accompanying bands, men and women in gowns, there was a feast here – before everyone died."
I feel hairy."
Nangong May rubbed her hands."
I feel furry."
Lily wagged her tail.
(To be continued.) )