Just when Hao Ren had already begun to seriously think about whether all of these arks were out of life, the unexpected good news suddenly came: a group of probes caught a life reaction when they penetrated into the depths of one of the arks, and it was a very strong life reaction.The Giant Tortoise Rock immediately lit up its thrusters, and it glided silently through space, quickly reaching the sky above the ark that had sent the signal for life.The silver-white ship descended slowly over the black shell of the ark, reading the messages coming from the depths of the ark like a delicate stethoscope."
Is this the ship?"
Hao Ren looked at the picture from the external monitor, at the moment this ark is no different from other spaceships, it looks equally dilapidated and old, and even the armor is even worse, it is difficult to imagine that its kilometer-thick shell "There is indeed a life reaction, the detector has captured it, the engineering drone is on," the detector did not find a normal way to open the door, it was drilled into it - now the air leak point has been automatically plugged. ”"The automatic blocking system is still working, and it seems that there are indeed survivors," Hao Ren exhaled, "What about communication?"
Is there anyone on this ship who has responded to your call?
Would anyone be willing to respond to our contact?
”Nolan shook his head slightly: "There is still no response, this is the strangest."
In addition, the detector came back with some images that were not quite right. ”As she spoke, she turned on the holographic projection, and Hao Ren saw a dilapidated city illuminated by lights appear on the screen, everything looked old and decayed, and the city inside the ship stretched out in front of his eyes like some kind of ruin, and then the picture shook for a moment, and a man in ragged clothes with strange lines on his face appeared in the corner of the picture, which was obviously an Ark resident.The ragged man staggered out, then knelt down in the street, as if to curtsy some great man, and then remained in that position.Hao Ren was so baffled by the endless video clip that he glanced at the others and decided that it would be better to go over and check the situation himself.He still took Vivien and Lily with him, as well as the Nangong siblings, while the others continued to stand by aboard the Giant Tortoise Rock.The engineering drone that had previously cut through the shell of the ark and burrowed into its depths had prepared the passage, and Hao Ren and his party entered through the normal surface airlock as usual, and joined the drone after passing through the long corridor.They weren't going to enter the ship's city through the broken elevator shaft this time - the ship's ecosystem was intact, and opening the door from the outside could trigger some sort of alarm or the ship's automatic stress response.Instead, the drone drilled an elongated hole in the shell of the ship's city and installed an airlock device at the hole.The drone was fast, at least it didn't set off the alarm while it was working on it.The "dive in" process went very smoothly.Hao Ren walked into the airlock and passed through a passage hundreds of meters long, the outer wall of which was still a little hot, and the high temperature generated by the drone's cutting had not yet dissipated.Halfway through the passage, gravity kicks in: it wants to throw them out of the passage, but it's a good thing, because it means that the city inside the ship is indeed functioning properly.They emerged from a dirty, uninhabited old neighborhood.Hao Ren was the first to emerge from the "Invasion Hole", and as soon as he entered the city, he felt a damp, cold, and strange smell of air filling his nostrils, which could be smelled in the passage, but even more pronounced when he came to the surface.He subconsciously frowned: although it was good to finally find a city inside the ship where the atmosphere existed, the state of the atmospheric circulation pump in this place must not be good enough."
Ahem......
Lily coughed softly as she came out, her frowning and her tail tightened behind her, "It feels like you're following a garbage dump." ”"This ark's air purification machine may be too old," Nangong Sanba exhaled after climbing to the ground, "It's better than no air at all."
Anyway, this place looks ......
I don't think it's as good as the abandoned Vault Cities before?
”The surrounding buildings are in a very bad condition, and although the probe has sent back some images before, those images are not as real as the actual ones you see.As far as the eye can see, there are crumbling city buildings, their facades mottled and peeled, roadside facilities covered in rust and dirt, flower beds that have long since lost their original appearance and turned into dirty mud pits, and in the distance, collapsed bridges and power towers can be seen.Some of the scattered lights are the biggest source of light in this dilapidated city, and these lights that have been in operation for an unknown number of years are hung haphazardly on the roofs of power lines and buildings, casting strange shadows in all directions with bad lighting.It looks like after a world war, and then it was abandoned for another three hundred years.Lily wagged her tail, "Did we just get into the demolition area?"
”"No......"
Hao Ren raised his hand and pointed above everyone's heads after looking around at everything he could see, "the whole city is in this state. ”The others looked in the direction of his finger and saw that on the other side of the land, far away and closed, was also a dilapidated gray, and the other end of the city, like this one, had been abandoned for years.“…… It looks terrible, I can't believe it's inside a starship that can travel faster than light," the data terminal commented, "After the other ships are down one by one, the ship's people will probably have a hard time finding materials to repair their shelter." ”A small silver-white device came out of the ruins of a nearby building and landed lightly on Hao Ren's shoulder, it was a life detector that had been drilled in to check the situation before, this little guy had been hiding here since completing his mission to prevent accidents, and it was time to apply for recycling.Hao Ren put the detector in his pocket, turned his head and reminded Lily: "Put away your ears and tail - we have to deal with 'people'." ”Lily snorted, changed her ears and tail back, and was a little curious, "Do you think we'll be able to blend in with the locals when I become human?"
”"I didn't plan to sneak in - I was just worried that you would scare them," Hao Ren waved his hand forward, "They rejected all of Nolan's requests for communication, and I had a hard time analyzing how the inhabitants of this ship perceived outsiders, so I didn't want to make a bad start." ”The group walked out of the deserted and dilapidated street and into the depths of the city: another, even more deserted and dilapidated place.Hao Renlu thought about how to greet the first person he met, and after Nolan's stylized communications were denied, he had to run out and become a diplomat on his own, and the bad thing was that he was not a skilled diplomat, so he began to think of all kinds of opening lines in his mind, and whether he should go directly to the ship's "central control station" to meet the commander of the city.However, his thoughts only lasted for a short moment before he was suddenly interrupted by a faint voice in front of him.It sounded like someone was fighting and shouting to kill, and there was a crunch of steel clashing in between.Vivien also touched his arm: "There is a smell of blood in front, fresh." ”Hao Ren immediately quickened his pace: "Go over and see the situation!"
”They scurried through the shadows of the buildings around them, swiftly past some of the dilapidated streets and crumbling old houses, the shouts of slaughter coming from the front finally became louder and louder, and the mixed metal slammed in between was like an ancient battlefield of cold weapons.Lily, who was finally running at the front, suddenly stopped next to a low wall, she quickly found a place to squat, and looked out with a probe: "Landlord......
Someone is at war!
”Hao Ren poked his head out from Lily's head, and the sight in front of him suddenly shocked him, and even a sense of absurdity of time and space came to him.Dozens of heavily armed men, presumably residents of the Ark, were fighting in the square ahead, but their equipment was grotesquely outfitted.Clad in armor made of iron plates and reinforced plastic steel, strips of colourful cloth fluttering between the gaps in the armor, these warriors wielded glittering swords and battle axes in their hands, and charged and fought together with an earth-shattering roar.The blood splattered from the wounded stained the floor of the square, and the smell of blood in the air made Vivien's eyes glow slightly red in the darkness: "It's like a medieval battlefield. ”"How did this come to be like this......
Hao Ren muttered to himself in surprise, the picture from the previous detector did not have these details, but before he could think about anything, he suddenly saw a young warrior with a bloody face rushing out of the crowd of those desperate people, this soldier staggered, his eyes were full of horror, as if he was about to flee from the battlefield, and the direction of his escape was where Hao Ren and the others were hiding.
(To be continued.) )