Chapter 11: No Choice at All
As the ostensible head of the Prometheus, overseeing a group of scientists' expeditions, Meredith Vickers has a number of privileges on board.
It has a separate sleeping pod, a separate deluxe cabin, and a separate escape pod.
David takes Ethan to Meredith's dormant chamber, and then wakes up the person in charge - Meredith's dormant chamber is equipped with a special 'wake-up' program, which will wake Meredith directly when the ship arrives at its destination.
In the original plot, when David was notified that he was about to arrive at his destination and was about to wake her up, he found that the person in charge had woken up and began to do simple exercises to get his body back to normal as soon as possible.
The dormant device on the Prometheus is not very high-end, and there seems to be a certain risk when sleeping, and it is likely to die directly, and after waking up, it will also fall into a state of spasms due to long-term hibernation.
From these circumstances, it can be seen that these dormant chambers are not many levels behind the one Betty used in the first place.
Seeing Meredith's pale face when he woke up, Ethan decided to tear it all down, and it would be much more useful to convert the entire dormant warehouse into a chess and card room.
Ethan's ship didn't need much of that kind anyway.
Meredith glanced at David and then at Ethan a few more times, but she didn't ask too much, but naturally asked David to get her clothes.
Looking at Meredith, who was still calming down the spasms in his body, Ethan admired this woman - not everyone could remain calm in the face of this situation.
Just because he didn't jump up and shout, "Who are you!" is worth a few glances at Esengaard.
"Meredith Vickers, the head of the Prometheus?"
"Yes. ”
"My name is Ethan, I have something to talk to you about, I can wait for you to change your clothes first...... Or maybe a little more time for you to recover?"
Meredith stood up, tall enough for her to look at Ethan 'equally'.
"No, I'll change my clothes and come. ”
The subtext was that it didn't take extra time to recover, and after taking the clothes from David's hand, Meredith began to 'call the shots' like a real hostess.
"Take the guests to me. ”
David is still very 'obedient' robots, and although he is not sure if Ethan will be willing to follow this arrangement, he still makes a move to lead the way.
Ethan wasn't here to spy on Meredith or anything, because there wasn't a need for that.
The Prometheus is so big, the Prometheus is a research ship, and this is a completely unknown space far away from the earth.
Meredith had no choice at all, and perhaps she was acting so calmly to understand this - if the sudden appearance of Ethan really wanted to do something, she had no room to resist at this time.
Now he said he wanted to talk to her to prove that things were not going in an irreparable direction.
Meredith quickly got her groomed, including a simple shower, and then changed into her own special suite, which had a spacious living room for entertaining guests.
When she arrived, Ethan was sitting in the place where 'she was supposed to be the master', drinking juice with his legs crossed.
Meredith looked at the other two women and a man, who didn't care about her coming, and it seemed that the 'leader' of the other party was this young man.
"What are you going to talk about?"
Meredith sat down across from Ethan, and then took the high-heat shake from David - it was specifically designed to restore the body so that the body could replenish enough calories to return to its normal state more quickly.
"Talk about the troubles you're about to face. ”
"What's the trouble?"
Meredith's gaze turned around Logan and the others, from the outside, Logan was undoubtedly the most deterrent, she was thinking about how these people appeared on the ship, could it be the people secretly arranged by Wayland?
Thinking of this, she glanced at David next to her again, if it was Wei Lan's arrangement, then David must know the situation.
To Meredith's surprise, David dismissed her speculation.
"These guests suddenly appeared on the ship, and there is no record or information about them on the ship, so I don't think these people should be earthlings. ”
Meredith's eyebrows furrowed, she wondered if David was joking, although she knew David was a robot, this guy was a highly intelligent bionic robot, maybe something went wrong with some of the program during the long voyage?
Ethan did not refute David's speculation, strictly speaking, he is indeed not an earthling.
However, although Logan and the others are earthlings, they are not earthlings in this world, so it is not wrong to treat them all as 'aliens'.
"No need to guess, we are not earthlings. ”
"So what do the alien guests want to talk to me about when they come to the Prometheus?" Although Meredith was not very convinced, she was not prepared to question the other party for now, she wanted to find out what the purpose of these people was.
"As I said, you're going to get into big trouble. Seeing Meredith's suspicious eyes, Ethan spread his hands: "Don't look at me, the trouble I mean is not myself, and these words are not threatening you." ”
Meredith's mind was racing, and although she didn't believe Ethan's words, she decided to follow the other party first.
"So you're here to remind us, what do you want us to do? Order the ship to turn around?"
"It's going to keep you out of trouble, but you're not going to do it, are you? ”
As an existence who understands the plot, Ethan certainly knows that although the person in charge on the surface of the Prometheus is Miss Meredith Vickers, the real owner is Mr. Pete Wellan, who is hiding in the depths of the ship for hibernation.
That is, the boss of Wilan Enterprise, who sponsored the whole process of this scientific expedition.
Meredith was now more and more suspicious of Ethan's true identity, she didn't think that these people were sent by Wayland, she began to suspect that these people were sent by rivals.
At this point, Meredith finally couldn't help but ask the question, "Who are you?"
"In a way, I happened to see you preparing to die, so I wanted to see the lively passers-by?"
Ethan thought about it and felt that he had summed it up very well, he was indeed here to see the excitement and pick up the spaceship by the way.
"Why do you think our actions are...... To die?"
Meredith noticed that the person on the other side had mentioned more than once that they were going to be in trouble, that their action was actually an act of death, and that it was obvious to the other party what they were going to do?
"Is there something terrible on that planet?"
Regardless of whether the other party was well-intentioned or malicious, these people suddenly appeared on the spaceship, and she was still curious about what they wanted.
If it was just a passer-by who kindly reminded him, now that he had finished speaking, shouldn't he have left?
"I'm going to join your team. ”
"Why?"
Ethan spread his hands: "I said, I'm just a passerby who wants to see the excitement...... To see the excitement, of course. ”
"Why should I promise you?"
"Because you don't have a choice. ”
Ethan moved his finger slightly, and the pistol hidden under Meredith's clothes slowly flew into the air, and then flew into Ethan's hand under Meredith's incredulous gaze.
I looked at this pistol over and over again, this is a weapon that uses electromagnetism as a power to launch projectiles, and the design idea is still very advanced, but it can be seen from the performance in the plot that the power of this weapon is ...... It's really not that good.
I don't know what the idea is, the weapons carried on the Prometheus are not very strong, even if it is an electromagnetic rifle, it can't cause heavy damage to the parasitic crew.
With Ethan's current physical strength, even if they were directly hit by this weapon, they would not suffer any serious damage.
It's such a thing that Ethan doesn't care about at all, but it's the only thing Meredith can rely on now.
was easily taken away by the other party by magical means, and at this time she finally understood why David would tell herself that these people were not earthlings - this is definitely not the ability that earthlings can have.
"You...... Is it an 'engineer'?"
"Engineer?" Ethan shook his head, "No, there's still a big difference between me and those guys, and you'll know when you see them." ”
"You mean, there are ...... on this planet"
The 'Engineers' were the real goal of their trip, but Elizabeth Shaw's group of scientists wanted to explore the origins of humanity, while Meredith and Pete Welland had other, more personal ideas.
"Yes, there are surviving engineers on the planet you're going to. After fiddling with the electromagnetic pistol a few times, Ethan made a suggestion to Meredith: "You can wake up Pete Wellan as soon as the ship lands, doesn't he want to meet the 'Creator of Humanity'?"
Even without careful observation, Meredith could detect the strong mockery in Ethan's words.
At that moment, the ship emitted a chime, telling everyone that they were about to arrive at their destination, which was the planet where the Engineer was located.
This means that the story is about to begin in earnest.
Looking at Ethan, who was still playing with the electromagnetic gun in front of him, Meredith thought for a long time, and found that he really had no choice at all, as the other party said: no matter what Ethan wanted to do, she was powerless to stop it.