When Nolan returned from Earth, she was finally free of the card and returned to her normal form."
It's still comfortable now," Nolan's life-size hologram circled around the bridge, "Kaka's before." ”Hao Ren inquired about the unloading: "Where did you throw that ark?"
Is everything going well?
”"According to the navigation signal from the Kraken, I sent that ark directly to the bottom of the sea, right next to Nasaton, and the Kraken Queen will be able to see it when she returns," Nolan nodded, "It's no problem, it just caused a little turbulence when I unloaded the cargo, but it didn't affect Nasathon."
The Krakens who are in charge of 'picking up the goods' are probably busy inspecting and waterproofing the Ark.Such a big thing......
That's enough for them to deal with for a while. ”Hao Ren nodded, and turned to look at the remaining twelve Ark giant ships.These huge ships are gradually accelerating out of the drone nest control area under Nolan's remote control, because they use relatively backward curvature engines, so they can't start the chrono jump until these ships have left a considerable distance, and similarly, when they arrive at Io, they also have to get out of the hyperspace state early and slow down, which takes three or four days.He glanced at Lawrence beside him: "You have been on my spaceship for the past two days, and I have just happened to explain to you some of the current situation in the universe, as well as more truths about the disaster back then." ”Time passed calmly, and the Ark fleet set sail to Io as planned.On the second day of the fleet's acceleration, the Ark fleet reached the "jump window" about a light-year away from the drone frontier in sub-light speed, and the Giant Turtle Rock then entered a chrono state with the entire fleet, and sailed all the way to the "out of the window" position at a distance of one and a half light-years from Io in superluminal conditions.On the third day of leaving the drone's lair, the entire fleet left hyperspace, leaving behind a distorted lens millions of kilometers long at the edge of the Io solar system.Nolan then made a final inspection of the twelve arks, confirming that the main functions of all the ships were still intact and that the mechanisms related to the landing deformation were also on standby, so she calibrated the arks one last time, and the mighty giant ship formation readjusted its course and headed towards the blue water star a little five light years away.When Io's blue sea appeared on the main projection, Lawrence didn't say a word for several minutes."
Io has no land, and your ark is the only isolated island, so you can only guard this sea for the next two hundred years," Catriana said in a good mood after getting the spaceship she wanted, and offered to introduce her tenants to the new home, "We Kraken love this kind of planet, but it's probably not very comfortable for you......
It's a place to stay, but it's not suitable if you want to rebuild civilization and develop it. ”Lawrence still didn't speak, he just stared at the blue sea on the holographic projection, still silent for a long time."
Stunned?"
Lily recklessly stabbed the old man in the back, "Still fascinated by Io?"
”Lawrence reacted suddenly, as if he had just broken free from the vast and endless sea of Ion, he gasped for breath a few times, and then whispered, "......
This is the sea ......"
"This is just a picture taken from a distance," Hao Ren smiled slightly, "You'll be even more surprised next."
Nolan, initiate the Ark landing program. ”The twelve Ark ships had slowed down to a state ready to land on the planet, and after receiving a long-range command from the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, these behemoths immediately adjusted their attitude and began to fall into the dense atmosphere of Io.The rough shell of the Ark rubbed violently against the atmosphere, gradually shining with a reddish fire, like twelve flame-encased peaks sliding from space to the planet's surface, and the Giant Turtle Rock followed in the shadow of the Throne Giantship, and entered Io's atmosphere with the entire fleet.As the altitude gradually decreased, the Ark activated a series of additional systems, and a translucent "film" appeared around each spaceship, as if distorting space, which was created by the gravity-twisting device.This massive, gravitational device that can wrap around the entire ship isolates the ship from Io's gravity to prevent these hundred-kilometer-long behemoths from being twisted into scrap metal in the planet's powerful gravity.As the gravitational pull between the Ark and Io is weakened, the deceleration of these ships is gradually coming to an end.The first ship to approach the Sea of Io was the Ark of the Mountains, an ancient ship that had saved the fleet with a spirit of sacrifice and descended in a solemn manner, and the huge air currents around the ark caused the sea to roll up waves and retreat in all directions.When the ark gradually touched the surface of the water in a horizontal attitude, the ship's built-in universal adaptive landing device was activated, only to see those heavy black armor layers slowly warped in a loud roar, and the armor belt located under the spaceship slowly opened to both sides while dropping a large number of fragments, those falling fragments were the parts that Nolan had cut and embrittled in advance, because this system was too old, and if the deformed parts were not cut off, it would be impossible to complete a series of subsequent transformations.After the bottom of the ark was opened, a large number of huge pipes, metal piles, suspension cylinders, and various immersion detection devices stretched out from the previously hidden chambers, and they were immersed in the waters of Io, these ancient devices that had been thirsty for 10,000 years were finally activated for the first time, and on this strange planet, they were hungry to collect information about their surroundings, and then reported to the main control computer of the ark.However, the data they report will not be carried out - Nolan has cut off the main control computers of the arks and replaced them with a series of simulators built by the drone swarm, so that the arks will not rush to take the preset actions after landing, but will keep the whole process under control.One by one, the twelve Ark ships slowly descended, forming a circular "archipelago" in the vast expanse of the Io, and the only intact Ark of the Throne was surrounded in the center under Nolan's control.The turbulence caused by the landing of these giant ships and the shaking of the hull when the gravitational isolation system was lifted caused huge waves to roll up huge waves on the surface of the sea, and in the vast area of water around the fleet's landing area, the wind howled like a storm, the huge waves surged, and the drifting rain poured down.The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace circled the Ark of the Throne in the midst of the storm, confirming that the most important ship had not suffered any damage during the landing.The various sensors installed inside the Ark of the Throne and the infiltration core core that infiltrated the Ark's control line also received the latest data, indicating that everything was in good condition - except for a slight water inflow into the two isolation pods at the bottom of the ship, the landing process was smoother than expected.Nolan reported to Hao Ren while reading the latest data: "The water probe and atmospheric detector have been activated, and the Ark's life-sustaining system is updating the gas pool and reservoir, and these things that have been circulating for 10,000 years can finally be replenished a little."
In addition, the ships are still using deep-water radar to detect the undersea terrain, but the Sea of Io is too deep for the undersea resources to be out of reach for the Ark civilization, so I decided to turn off those radars for the time being—I won't need them anyway. ”Hao Ren nodded: "Notify the drone group, send some engineering units over, and start repairing these spacecraft." ”Nolan issued a summoning order for the drone swarm, and remotely controlled the arks into the shutdown process.After 10,000 years of continuous operation, these ancient ships have finally landed on a planet, and their severely overloaded machines have finally been able to take a break.Of course, it is not possible to turn off all the machines in the spacecraft at once, and during the period when the drone swarm comes to repair, those devices will take turns to rest and restart, so as to provide conditions for the entire maintenance process.While Nolan was busy with these technical operations, Hao Ren turned to Lawrence: "The next most important part is to open the Ark Dome.Are you sure the people in the ship will accept what is going to happen next?
”Lawrence nodded slowly: "Sooner or later, they will have to see the sky, so they might as well do it while they are still willing to believe what I say." ”"Wait," Lily exclaimed suddenly, "you're going to open the ship's hull?!"
”(To be continued.) )