The drone swarm was a spectacular scene in space, with hundreds of silvery-white dismantlers biting and cutting at the surface of the Ark like termites gnawing at the behemoths, and the dazzling cutting beams lit up the shells of each giant ship, peeling off their 10,000-year-old heavy armor layer by layer.But this dismantling is not for destruction, but for the study and takeover of the systems of these giant ships.When Hao Ren went to repair the giant generators and find the artifacts in the depths of the ark, he also gave Nolan a series of orders, asking Nolan to figure out the navigation system of these arks as soon as possible and take over the control of each ark, at least to be able to control the ships to where he wanted them to go.To do this, Nolan first dismantled the armor plates near each of the Mountains' engines and power furnaces (engine-powered furnaces, not Vault-powered furnaces), and after figuring out how the old equipment operated, she decided that instead of tampering with the Ark's antique navigation hosts, it would be better to cut the "nerve wires" of the ships and have the drones install a new set of controls on the engines and power furnaces.Her idea was supported by the Giant Tortoise Rock Console's logic host, so she is now putting it into practice.The engineering drones flew to the Ark Giant Ship with a device called the "Penetration Core Core" between their dexterous mechanical arms, and attached these penetration cores to key positions such as the latter's engine.The core is a silvery-white, mercury-like ball with a soft surface and a beautiful shape, containing billions of tiny cells that dissolve as soon as these tiny "mercury droplets" are placed on a circuit board or switch bank, and then penetrate into the mechanism to dissolve and replace the original circuit.In this way, drones can easily control devices that are far less tech-advanced than their own - of course, this control method has great limitations and is useless against high-tech devices that don't use physical wiring or physical switches.When the golden battleship "Patian" was captured, such a gadget did not come in handy.Hundreds of small holograms appeared on the bridge of the Giant Turtle Rock at the same time, showing the information transmitted back by each drone group, and the progress bar of the infiltration core taking over the control system of the Ark Giant Ship was also displayed on it.Now that the Crowd is almost completely under control, Nolan directs the Ark to light up the lights, turn off the engines, turn left and right, and mutters as he tests the sensitivity of the newly installed control system: "This process is like controlling a zombie ship, corroding all its original nerves, and then replacing it with my circuitry......
Weird. ”Everyone on the bridge said that it was difficult to have a common language with a ship - Nolan's metaphor was too curious.While the drone swarm in space is embarking on a vast and spectacular project, the shelter of the Ark of the Throne is still immersed in calm.People don't know what is happening across the earth several kilometers below their feet, they just look at the still-dead ancestor Honglu and pray with trembling, chanting the names of their ancestors and gods over and over again, and spreading superstitious claims about the "Judge of the Ice and Flame".The group of uninvited guests had been in the Ancestral Furnace for an hour, and there was still no movement coming out, neither the frost of the end falling from the sky, nor the warm current to dispel the cold of this world, people only saw some faint flashes of light coming from the terrifying crack on the surface of the Ancestral Furnace - those flashes appeared not long ago, and they have been flickering endlessly since they appeared, and occasionally some low rumbling sounds came from the cracks, and people didn't know what these flashes and sounds meant.In fact, the autonomic machines were happily repairing the huge generator behind the crack, the flash of the welding torch at the end of their arms leaking out, and the low roar came from the depths of the Ancestral Furnace, where Hao Ren and his party were.There were countless sturdy gates between these ancient generators and reactors, as well as various protective shields and cement shells of various safety properties, most of which were designed to protect the fusion reactors deep in the facility, but due to disrepair, these doors could no longer be opened by conventional means, and Hao Ren had to use some technical means to open a way out, including but not limited to 5 kilograms equivalent, 10 kilograms equivalent, 35 kilograms equivalent, and Lily's head hammer.To be honest, these technical means are already quite mild, compared to the firepower he used to open the road.There was another series of loud bangs, a completely snapped metal door was destroyed and collapsed by a series of precise small-scale explosions, and Vivien blew the dust in the air with a gust of wind and walked forward with Hao Ren.Nangong Sanba followed behind and muttered: "To be honest, I don't think it's safe to use explosives to open a way in this kind of fusion pile that has been running for 10,000 years......
And it lacks aesthetics. ”"Anyway, with the data terminal taking care of us, we have safely avoided all the danger points along the way."
Hao Ren said indifferently, and looked up at the road ahead.This was already inside the energy center of the Vault, and with half a foot in the fusion pile, it was probably not many people who would have been around in the Ark's normal years.All he could see was all badly aged pipes and mottled walls, the narrow and cramped access passages were full of dust, and the ceiling above him could see a wide skylight every other section, through which he could see the spectacle outside: all kinds of behemoth mechanical structures and 10,000-year-old thick cables dominated all the view, these things filled around Hao Ren like the internal organs and blood vessels of a steel behemoth, always reminding everyone that this was close to the heart of the ark.Although everything here is crude and rudimentary in the eyes of the data terminal, the Ark is still a miracle, the thing the designers built has a rough and raw beauty, and no matter what, it has sheltered hundreds of thousands of people for such a long time, and those cables have the blood of the ship, and the people of the Ark depend on these things to survive to this day.But what is the problem that will make the people degenerate from the space age to the medieval dynasty all of a sudden?
The deeper he went inside the reactor, the more serious Hao Ren's questions became, and until now he had not found any clues to answer this question, the skeleton he had found in the control room was the only "prehistoric" body he had found, but the skeleton did not say anything at all.At this time, the data terminal came out and interrupted his thoughts: "Wait a minute, there was a sudden abnormal energy reading just now. ”Hao Ren subconsciously replied: "Energy?
This place is full of energy. ”"It's 'anomalous energy'," the data terminal hit Hao Ren's head, "It's an artifact!"
”Hao Ren immediately looked at Vivien, who also looked at the same time, and nodded slightly.Several people immediately perked up their spirits and trotted all the way through the narrow maintenance passage.Eventually, they arrived at a very open place, a cylindrical hall, surrounded by a ring wall inlaid with huge tempered glass windows, through which they could see the ring coil of the fusion furnace outside, and in the center of the hall was an alloy round platform with a radius of more than ten meters that was slightly inclined to the ground.A golden object is set in the center of the alloy round table, which is emitting a faint glow.Gold disc.The moment he saw the golden disc, Hao Ren lost his mind for a moment, he had imagined that the artifact that the locals said would protect the world would be this kind of disc - after all, this was the only artifact he knew of that came directly from the goddess of creation - but when he really saw that it was such a thing, he felt that everything was so logical, so logical that people couldn't believe it.This fleet successfully escaped the catastrophe of the eldest son, escaped the cosmic pursuit of the brain monsters, and what they relied on was the golden disk?
Vivien was in a trance for a moment after seeing the disc, she subconsciously walked forward, Hao Ren immediately noticed this and grabbed her: "Vivian!
”"Huh?"
Vivien woke up suddenly, "What's wrong?"
”"You seem to have lost your mind just now," Hao Ren looked nervously at Vivien's eyes, and was relieved to make sure that she had returned to normal by this time, "You stay away, I'll check the condition of the disc."
Lily, you look at Vivien. ”Lily immediately crouched down next to Vivien: "You go, go - I'm the best at seeing!"
”Hao Ren nodded, and walked towards the golden disk.
(To be continued.) )