Chapter 507: Underground Facilities
"Watch out for those rocks! Don't bump into it! ”
Several of the divergent gatherers are speeding on the surface of the water, allowing them to quickly shorten the distance between themselves and their destination, but this adventurous behavior also comes with danger, and if such a high speed hits the rocks in the water, it will inevitably cause serious damage.
For this reason, gatherers must be vigilant.
In the distance, the metal structure, which appears as small as grit, is magnifying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"We're almost there!"
As the distance closed, the gatherers became excited.
It didn't take long for the gatherers to end this dangerous ride on the water, re-altering the creature's body structure and returning to its original canvas-like flat form.
The gathered gathered who stopped looked at the massive metal structure in front of them.
The appearance of a quadrangular platform, the volume is equivalent to a stadium, some Mayan pyramid feeling, the whole is completely made of metal, the surface is very smooth, but inlaid with a large amount of coarse sand, it seems to have withstood the baptism of the Mach tsunami many times, the rapid water flow is the surface of the metal body has always remained smooth, but the huge force has forcibly embedded the coarse sand mixed in the waves into the surface of the metal body, and it has become the current appearance.
"What kind of metal is this?"
Hearing this, one of the several gatherers stepped forward and tentatively tapped the surface of the metal structure with its tentacles, making a crisp sound of gold and iron clashing.
Charge the electrical energy to activate the monomolecular blade, and swing it hard.
Boom!
With a flash of sparks, the monomolecular blade scratches a shallow scratch on the surface of the metal structure, and the collector places the tentacles that have been disconnected from the electrical energy into his mouth.
"The main body is a carbon-iron alloy, but it is mixed with other impurities, and it should be directly smelted and cast by the minerals, and the impurities in the minerals are not removed."
"It's a man-made object, but what does it do? A simple transmitter? Or is it a spaceship? ”
"It doesn't look like it, there are too many metal impurities in this quadrangular platform, it is obvious that it was cast under shoddy work, and the possibility of a spaceship can be ruled out first."
"Considering the complex and dangerous environment on the planet's surface, combined with the rough machining of metal, this thing should be something like a shelter."
"Let's look for it first, if it's really a shelter, there must be a gate connecting to the inside, and if this thing is really a shelter, then the probability of discovering other intelligent species other than the Serens is almost inevitable."
They surrounded the metal body of the quadrangular platform, and after searching around, they found something suspected to be a gate on the top of the quadrangular platform, and the reason why it was suspicious was because the collectors were not very sure, and after a long time of the Mach tsunami, even if it was really a gate connecting the inside, it would inevitably be distorted and deformed by the manic current like this.
"Break it directly."
The Gatherers showed their monomolecular blades, and after the charged cut, the gate was forced to break a hole by the monomolecular blades, for which the hardness of these metals was far from comparable, and breaking through the metal gate at the top of the quadrangular platform was as easy as breaking through a piece of pudding.
Several gatherers entered the inside of the quadrangular metal structure through the breached hole, and then repaired the hole in the gate from the inside, so that the manic water would not pour in through the hole when the next tsunami hit.
"It's so dark"
There is no light source, and in order to solve the vision problem, several collectors replace the infrared vision ability, relying on the subtle heat radiation emitted by the substance itself to observe the environment.
The inside of the gate is a shaft-like walkway, and a metal ladder is used on the wall to maintain the upper and lower levels.
However, the gatherers did not step on the ladder to descend, relying on the tentacles of their bodies to gradually descend in support of the walls of the shaft.
After descending about two kilometers, the gatherers reached the bottom of the shaft.
"Be vigilant, don't let the intelligent species inside this metal building discover us, or something may happen, and don't use visible light unless necessary."
"Understood."
The gatherers scattered in all directions, their speed and agility, but at the same time, they were extremely quiet, and even if someone was close to the scale of half a meter, it was impossible to hear their footsteps.
The underground space is not huge, just 10,000 square meters, two tables, one for a dining table, one for a desk, and then a simple water filter.
"Look what I found, a blueprint for the structure."
The collector retrieved a drawing from his desk.
"Quadrangular structure, somewhat familiar"
"Familiar with what? Didn't we still come into contact with it not so long ago? ”
"Well, so these are the structural drawings here."
After being reminded by his fellow clan, the gatherer reacted in hindsight.
"I also have a new discovery here, you see, it is a bowl for consumption, and judging from the traces left on the bowl, this bowl was still in use a few months ago."
"There is only one bowl, which means that the number is one."
After exploring the entire space, the gatherers found four doors, which were connected somewhere.
"There are four doors here, which one shall we go to first?"
The gatherers were undecided, a little worried that the haphazard choice would alarm the intelligent creature here.
"Don't be in a hurry to make a choice, I have a structural blueprint here, okay, the language is not understood, let's choose one and open it first."
Although I have the drawings in hand, I can't understand the notes on them, and it is difficult to discern what is behind the four passages just by relying on the geometry on the drawings.
So in the end, the gatherers still chose a random door and opened it carefully.
"It's glaring."
As soon as the door opened, a dazzling light reflected on the collectors, and after adjusting to the light, the collectors saw an extremely bright plasma.
This plasma exists in a ring-shaped structure, most of which is transparent, and is a transparent tunnel body constructed by a hafnium compound, which is connected in series with a ring composed of metallic hydrogen to constrain the plasma inside.
"This is a magnetic confinement fusion furnace."
Gatherers can recognize the device for what it really is, and they've seen something like it before.
"It seems that this area is responsible for the energy supply, let's go look elsewhere."
After a brief search, they found nothing more, and there was only one connection in the room except for the fusion reactor, and they chose to leave.
Opening the other door, there was also light shining at the gatherers, but unlike the fusion reactor, the light in this room was not harsh, it was soft.
The space of the room is very large, and after a simple ranging analysis by the collector, it is about 25 square kilometers.
There is a large amount of vegetation arrayed in this huge space, and above the vegetation is a lighting device, and the soft light in the room is released by this large number of lighting equipment.