Frozen banquet halls, men and women in fancy costumes reduced to ice sculptures, mid-course feasts and cheering bands interrupted in the middle of performances – all these are strangely goosebumps.Hao Ren couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds in the face of this situation: "It seems that he died suddenly in the middle of the party." ”Nangong Sanba stepped forward to inspect the clues left at the scene.Although the people here may have been dead for hundreds of years, because of the vacuum and ultra-low temperature, everything in the entire banquet hall has been well preserved, even the food in those cups and plates has been well preserved by the frost.Most of the things were frozen to the table or floor, and some of the debris that had fallen off the ice floated in the air in a gravityless environment, a thin particle like mist suspended in the hall, shattered ice chips and human skin fragments.In fact, the same thing floats in the space outside, only here, the levitation is exceptionally dense."
Dress, banquet, I really can't imagine that they would die in this situation," Nangong Sanba carefully separated a body that had turned into an ice sculpture from the thin ice on the table, "......
Sure enough, they also inhaled the same chemicals before they died. ”Nangong May couldn't help but swallow her saliva: "Could it be that the people in the entire city were killed by poison gas?"
”"Is there anything else suspicious besides poison gas?
Is there a problem with the food?
”Hao Ren asked casually."
There shouldn't be any problem with the food, at least it is non-toxic by my standards, and according to the situation at the scene, the problem has nothing to do with the food," Nangong Sanba shook his head, "In addition, according to the way the demon hunter perceives, there is no dark and cold negative force entrenched here, which means that these people did not suffer much before they died." ”Hao Ren nodded, bent down to carefully observe the few dead people closest to him.His attention soon fell on one of the male bodies: the deceased looked old, dressed in a dignified black gown for a high-class banquet, luxurious even compared to the beautiful clothes of the people around him, who was clearly a nobleman during his lifetime.But Hao Ren's attention was not on the gown, but on the man's clasped hands, where something seemed to be hidden.Hao Ren wanted to carefully remove the relic from the deceased's hand, but as soon as he exerted his force, the male deceased's frozen fingers turned into dust crystals in the vacuum.Hao Ren muttered sorry in his heart, and unfolded the handkerchief from the other party's broken palm, and found that there was indeed handwriting on it, and it was very neatly written, obviously the person who left these last words had plenty of time at that time.With the help of the translation plugin, the characters were quickly reassembled and parsed with the following words: "......
Roman, my proudest son and glorious heir to the Emerald Valley family, wishes you all the best on the Long Night, and remains proud to lead and protect your people.Your mother and I were attending a special party, and I think you guessed what it was about.But don't worry about it, it's a delightful event, both in terms of food and drink.It was only fitting to see us off with the sake we brought from our hometown, and to this day few people have ever tasted this plant-based rather than factory-made drink, and I'm glad I can taste it again in my life.Your mother is sitting next to me, and your Uncle Lyon is playing the Auranglock Maestro on stage, and I believe that many, many years ago, the ancestors of our family had dinner together and prayed for the blessings of our lords......
"Roman, my son, I have a lot to say to you, including about what I have been thinking about since our last quarrel, but none of that matters anymore.I heard two hollow echoes coming over the city, and I thought the two most critical devices were down, and the next time was time to enjoy food, wine, and music.Please allow your father to stop writing here and leave time for us old men."
Oh, that thing smells a bit like a blue valley chrysanthemum."
The message on the handkerchief ended here, and Vivien leaned over to take a look: "What is this?"
”"Looks like a suicide note?"
Hao Ren frowned, "An old man wrote it to his son."
It looks like the people here know what's going to happen. ”Many clues followed to prove Hao Ren's suspicions, and Nangong Sanba and Nangong May found some things with last words written on other corpses, and these words written on handkerchiefs or napkins clearly confirmed that what happened in the city was not an accident or some other sudden event.Rather, it was a well-prepared act of mass suicide.Hao Ren and his party left the strange banquet hall, and they came to the streets of the city inside the ship, and began to follow a main road that led to the end of the spherical space, at the end of this main road was the strange machine that had stopped working and looked like a cylindrical peak, which Hao Ren felt should be the control center of the ship, or at least an equally important place, where some clues should be found.Along the way, they found countless corpses turned into ice sculptures.None of the city's former inhabitants survived, and they, along with the city, were reduced to a part of the ruins in the icy vacuum.After Nangong Sanba's examination, the cause of death of all people was the same: inhalation of nerve gas.And the attentive Vivien also found some additional clues: she found that most of the bodies were dressed in brand new clothes, and the stiff ice corpses were all neatly dressed, with bright shoes and hats, and a calm and elegant expression on their faces, as if they were going to a grand banquet.Although not everyone was able to enjoy the feast and music in the ornate mansions, the residents took out as much of their best clothes and food as they could before they died, apparently for the last time in luxury."
It's like euthanasia after a carnival," Lily rubbed her arms around, "and they ate and drank and gassed the whole city, and died in their sleep." ”Moved by Lily's description, his gaze passing through the thin dust above the shimmering city and falling on the inverted buildings on the other side of the closed earth, he imagined the last moment of the place: when the system was in an emergency, the city's atmospheric system was blown into the deadly nerve gas, and when the sweet, delightful hallucinogenic gas filled the streets, people put on their best clothes and took to the streets to enjoy the last pleasure of their lives.Some people are feasting, some are drinking wine, some are saying goodbye to their lovers, and some are ......
He passed through an empty street and saw an old man sitting by a flower bed.The old man wore a top hat on his head and was covered in frost, and the flowerbeds behind him were still flourishing, and the plants had not had time to wither, frozen and now a crystal flower.With a smile on his face, the old man was reaching forward with his hand, clutching a fake flower folded with a handkerchief, as if to hand it to some child who no longer existed.There are also people who are bringing the last bit of warmth to this dying city."
The time of death is the same for all people, and the cause of death is the same," said the data terminal, which had just checked the age of several bodies, "and it happened about a thousand years ago."
The situation at that time is easy to recreate: nerve gas was blown into the atmosphere of the starship ark, killing everyone inside in a short period of time, and the dead were fully aware of it, which was probably the common will of all the citizens, and they feasted and rejoiced before they died. ”Nangong May's voice was low: "Why are they doing this?
”Hao Ren said the most obvious possibility: "Probably the spacecraft has a fatal problem that cannot be repaired, such as an air leak or a problem with the purification system, or the resources are at the bottom, and in order to avoid pain, they decided to euthanize." ”"But there's more than one ship in this fleet," Vivien reminded, "and the other ships are having the same problem at the same time?"
”Hao Ren didn't know how to answer, but he found that the giant machine that looked like a cylindrical metal peak was already close in front of him: "There should be some clues over there." ”The group stopped at the foot of the giant machine, they found that the size of this thing was larger than they had imagined, it could really be said to be a towering mountain, and looking at the appearance of this device, Lily's tail unconsciously bent into a question mark in the air: "It looks like a giant reactor, but it looks like it is shut down?"
”(To be continued.) )