Alethea has recently been working to repair the broken log information from Vault 53, and according to the records left by the main control terminal, the cataclysm occurred in 2066, and it is now 3020.

Lu Xiao couldn't be sure how far human science and technology had developed in the first quarter of Dawn of Zero, whether he had researched genetic drugs that could allow humans to survive for nearly a thousand years, or whether he had used semi-mechanized transformation to maintain an alternative longevity.

If the possibility of these messes is ruled out, Lu Xiao speculates that the person responsible for managing the cradle may not be human at all.

Faro's war machines absorb biological energy to replenish their own energy, destroying the Earth's ecosystem, sucking animals and plants to the ground.

Those crazy robots are not as "gentle" as the mechanical beasts in the wild today, and when they absorb biological energy, they can desolate entire forests in a short period of time.

Lu Xiao didn't know how the earth had recovered from a completely dilapidated ecological environment, but at least he was sure of one thing.

Even if there is an immortal human, it is impossible to return to the surface in harsh ecological conditions, which means that he, or they will be trapped in a shelter for hundreds of years.

Being confined to a cramped underground space for a long time is unbearable for a social creature like a human being.

Like the unruly protagonist in The Wandering Earth, people living in shelters will always yearn for the vast world outside, and even if they don protective clothing, they will venture to the surface to look up at the real starry sky.

In the second season, the degree of civilization development of human beings similar to primitive people also made Lu Xiao very concerned.

Whatever Elizabeth Sobek's response, they should preserve the entire history of human civilization and leave the most important technological and cultural heritage of mankind to the newly born and ignorant descendants.

These tribal primitives in the outside world obviously did not inherit the legacy of their ancestors, and it can almost be said that they are groping for development from scratch.

At most, they can obtain some high-tech raw materials from the mechanical beasts in the wild, but the level of technology contained in these intelligent machines is far beyond the limits of what humans can understand today, and a few parts will not play a role in the scientific progress of the entire civilization.

There were complicated thoughts in his mind, but Lu Xiao's feet did not stop.

He remotely connected his Personal Focus to the main control terminal of Vault 53, and Alethea could intuitively witness the entire exploration process through Lu Xiao's perspective.

The No. 9 cradle contains a large amount of high-tech equipment, and Lu Xiao is not a scientist and has no way of knowing the precise purpose of these devices.

But through those cabins that resembled cultivation tanks, Lu Xiao basically confirmed his guess when he first entered the cradle.

"Sure enough, the so-called cradle is the artificial womb that gave birth to the new generation of humans."

By scanning the remaining voice, text, and holographic records inside the cradle with Focus, Lu Xiao has a general understanding of everything that has happened in the No. 9 cradle.

Elucia is the name of the project whose purpose is currently unknown, and the Cradle is only part of the Elucia Project.

The transcript inside Cradle 9 details the purpose of the laboratory.

"Hurry! Tell me, what are these machines used for? ”

Facing Alethea's urging, Lu Xiao smiled bitterly and spread her hands: "The text message is too long, I'll use Focus to send all the documents to the base first, and then you can slowly sort out and read them." ”

"In a nutshell, the cradle holds all the biological seeds of the earth in the old days."

"Not only frozen human fertilized eggs, but also a large number of plant seeds that have grown on the earth, genetic factors of various animals, etc."

"I also read a term in the documentation that makes people care about it—Apollo."

Aletheia's face moved: "The god of light and prophecy in Greek mythology? ”

"That's right, judging by the context of the document, Apollo should also be the code name of a project, and like Lucia, the purpose is unknown for the time being."

"Hmmm......"

Alethea thought about it for a while: "No matter, you first leave the spatial coordinates in the No. 9 cradle, so that you can enter it at any time in the future to disassemble and carry the equipment." ”

"Keep exploring, and maybe our questions will be answered in the heart of the cradle."

……

Half an hour later, Lu Xiao stood silently in a vast computer room.

Hundreds of personal terminals are neatly arranged, and after thousands of years of baptism, these personal terminals can still operate normally.

But the significance of their preservation has been lost, and the Apollo program died before it could begin to be implemented.

"Hello kids."

Lu Xiao activated one of the personal terminals through Focus, and a projection recording of an Arabo woman with a white cloth on her head appeared in front of him, smiling and introducing herself in English with a thick accent.

"I'm Samina Ebaghi, the head of the Apollo project."

"Today is an important day, and you will start entering the school today."

"There is so much knowledge waiting for you to learn, and you will develop your potential here and find your own future."

The record left by the woman who called herself Samina Ebaji was all that, and at the same time as her hologram vanished, a stupid synth prompt sounded.

"Warning, malfunction, Apollo is offline."

"Ha~"

Lu Xiao patted his forehead: "Aletheia, I know why the new generation of humans is so ignorant and primitive. ”

"I guessed it too."

Althea said with a wry smile: "The Apollo project has preserved all the knowledge and cultural heritage of human civilization in the past, but for unknown reasons, Apollo was damaged, and the new humans have not been able to inherit the knowledge left by their ancestors. ”

"This is the graveyard of human civilization and the mausoleum of knowledge."

Lu Xiao held his chin and asked thoughtfully, "Why did Apollo malfunction?" Aletea, can you find out the source? ”

"I tried, and as the prompt said, Apollo was completely offline and couldn't connect to its database."

"Hey~"

Lu Xiao scratched her hair irritably: "Why hasn't the most critical information been retained?" Who is playing tricks in the plan to save human civilization? ”

"Elizabeth Sobek? Farrow Ted? Samina Ebaji? Could it be that there is a two-five boy with an antisocial personality hidden in the research team? ”

Until he got more clues, everything was unknown, and Lu Xiao could only give up this meaningless learning computer room and move on.

……

In the office in the core area of the No. 9 cradle, Lu Xiao looked speechlessly at the silver-white device in his hand, which was only the size of a palm.

“…… Altheia, are you sure you can't hack this little message logger? ”

Alethea said with some frustration: "Although it is a pity, the answer is yes. ”

"This message logger uses a special floating encryption algorithm, and the way to crack it is constantly changing."

"If I'm not mistaken, its encryption algorithm should have been designed by artificial intelligence."

"In addition to the designer himself, a specific DNA sequence must be possessed in order to unlock it."

"As a reminder, the designer is not a low-level AI that you think can only act to a given degree, but a real AI with the ability to learn and improve itself."

"Lu Xiao, congratulations on guessing right."

Alethea sighed and said, "It is indeed not humans who are responsible for managing the cradle, but advanced artificial intelligence developed by the old humans desperately under the persecution of a desperate situation. ”

"There's a portion of documentation related to it in the office, and we might call this AI Gaia."