Chapter 57: Betty's Dilemma
"How is that possible!"
Betty looked at the data with a look of disbelief, and after a moment of froze, she immediately performed a series of operations, and re-examined the data, but finally showed the exact same number as before.
"Eight hundred and seventy-three years?"
Laura looked at Betty in a daze, but instead of feeling 'this girl is so pitiful', she complained to Ada next to her about the device in front of her.
"It can actually make people sleep for more than 870 years without problems, and the quality of this dormant warehouse is really good. ”
Ida also nodded, indicating that the lifespan of this device was really amazing, and then looked up at Ethan.
It just so happened that Ethan also glanced up at her, and the eyes of the two of them revealed the same meaning: they must take this thing back and study it well!
"Ahem!"
He coughed lightly, alerting the girl named Betty.
"It looks like you've been dormant longer than expected......"
Betty was stunned for a while, and finally relieved herself, she performed some operations again, and a string of data appeared on the hologram, but this time it no longer gave all kinds of information as quickly as before, but kept displaying the words error, data loss, system damage, etc.
"It seems that I was boasting too soon. ”
In such an enclosed space as the cave, Laura did not deliberately lower her voice, so Betty was able to hear what she said.
"Eight hundred and seventy-three years, it is normal for all kinds of problems to arise. Betty was busy for a while, and finally found that the only data she could get was that she had slept for more than 800 years: "Although this dormant bin claims to be able to operate normally for more than a thousand years when it is advertised, everyone just takes it as a propaganda slogan, and no one thinks that this thing can really make people sleep safely and unharmed for a thousand years without problems." ”
Betty finally gave up on continuing the operation and loaded all the equipment she could get out of her body: including a waistcoat-like tunic with some armor pieces hanging from it.
A belt, gloves, bracers, and finally a long and short firearm.
Although the appearance is a style that Ethan has never seen at all, whether it is Ada or Ethan, it can be seen at first glance that this is a firearm, and according to some of Betty's inspection actions, both of them are energy weapons.
"According to the self-test just now, most of the various systems in this dormant bin have been broken, only the life support device is still barely running, and even the automatic wake-up device is broken...... If it weren't for your arrival, maybe in a few years I would have died in my sleep......"
After Betty finished checking her gear, she and Ethan thanked her again.
"Thank you so much for saving me. ”
"You're welcome, we didn't actually do anything. ”
Ethan and the others just came to inspect the island to see if there was anything special here, but they didn't expect to find a big living person, or a man over 800 years old...... A little girl who is close to 900 years old.
"Anyway, it's a fact that you saved me. ”
Betty sighed helplessly, perhaps wondering what had become of the outside world, or what had gone wrong, why had Ethan and these 'outsiders' appeared in this place where no outsiders would ever enter.
"I want to make sure, you're not students at the Imperial Military Academy, right?"
"It's not. Ethan shook his head, and he didn't think there was any point in making up the identity of a cadet casually: "And we don't know what that academy you are talking about." ”
"Don't know the Academy?"
Betty's brow furrowed even more, and she realized that the situation seemed worse than she had imagined.
"How is this possible, the Imperial Military Academy is the most famous academy in the Empire, and it is the academy that countless young people in the Empire want to enter the most......"
Betty suddenly thought of something, and then looked carefully at the costumes of the crowd, as if a possibility suddenly came to mind, but she quickly dismissed her own idea.
"Impossible, how can it be 'aborigines'. ”
Betty just muttered softly in her mouth, barely making a sound, but it didn't escape Ethan's ears, his eyebrows raised slightly, the message behind this sentence was not very pleasant.
It was at this point that Laura began to get bored, after all, there was nothing here: "Is there anything you can talk about going out about? Do you like this dark and damp place?"
Betty turned her head to look at Laura again, and then she noticed Xiao Ou lying on Laura's shoulder, at first she didn't pay much attention, but then she looked at it carefully as if she remembered something, and then looked around the crowd with an expression of disbelief.
"I don't know exactly what you came up with, but I want you to explain it all in a moment. ”
Ethan already had some guesses, and he felt that his guesses were probably true.
"But for now, as Laura said, let's get out of here first. ”
I don't know if it's because of the cold air exhausting from the dormant chamber, or maybe it's a normal temperature change, anyway, the temperature in this cave is getting lower and lower.
"Okay!"
Betty thought about it, no matter what, getting out of here first was the most important thing at the moment, and she still had some things she wanted to be sure of, and she also needed to ask Ethan.
Although she felt that asking these people about those things might not be the right choice, she had no other choice now.
"Wait, I'll put this thing away first......" Ethan asked Betty again, "Do you still want this dormant chamber?"
"No, but there's no way to change back into this dormant chamber after it is unfolded...... And it simply can't be ...... without lifting equipment"
Before Betty could finish speaking, she felt a flash of blue light in front of her eyes, and then the dormant chamber she had just laid down disappeared.
"What just happened?"
Betty walked back and forth three times in the place where the dormancy chamber had been placed, and crouched down to touch the ground that was obviously a little different from the one next to her.
Except for one visible trace, the huge, heavy dormant chamber was as if it had never existed.
"What did you do?"
Betty guessed what Ethan had done, because it was the man who asked if she didn't want it before the dormancy chamber disappeared, and she replied that she didn't want it, and the dormancy chamber was gone.
"Just put it away, what? What else are you going to take?"
"No, I'm just curious where you put that big dormancy chamber?" Betty circled around Ethan three more times, and found that Ethan didn't seem to have any special equipment on him: "Is it some special space technology?"
"Pretty much. ”
Before figuring out Betty's situation and affirming his speculation, Ethan didn't want to reveal too much, and after signaling to Ada and Laura, Ethan reminded Betty to follow along.
Betty was standing in a daze, waiting until the light above her head moved with Ethan and the environment around her began to darken before she reacted and hurriedly chased after her.
At this time, she noticed the ball of light that had been floating above, just now she thought it was just an ordinary lighting device, but now after looking at it for a long time, she found that it seemed to be a pure energy aggregate.
The device on her wrist gave the same conclusion, but she couldn't figure out how the energy was controlled by Ethan and the others.
She found that these suspected 'natives' were completely different from the ones she was used to.
"But is this detector broken? Why does it keep prompting a high-energy response?"
Betty scratched her head and finally turned the alarm off.
sighed helplessly, it is not surprising that after sleeping for more than eight hundred years, there are all kinds of problems with various devices, and it is already worth thanking that it can still be used.
For example, the short gun worn on his waist has actually lost its function, and the long gun on his back has only very little energy, so he doesn't know how many more shots he can fire, and even if he can shoot, there is a danger of exploding at any time.
She also carried these weapons with her only as a deterrent, and she could not count on them to protect herself in case of real danger.
The only thing that can still be used is a short knife - and what is even more sad is that all the high-tech functions on the short knife are broken, and can only be used as the most ordinary short knife.
If it is to deal with the aborigines in the past impression, a short knife...... It can also be used as a protective weapon.
But in the face of Ethan and others, she felt that she had no sense of security at all.
"Hopefully luck won't be too bad, this guy named Ethan seems to be a good guy. ”
Betty didn't feel uncomfortable wading through the cold water, and the clothes on her body could keep the cold water and the chill in it out, ensuring that she would not be affected in any way, and this was the only functional equipment on her body.
So when she came out of the cave, she didn't feel any discomfort.
Looking up at Ethan and the others, the girl named Laura was taking off her shoes and socks, wring out the water in the cotton socks, tying them to her arms casually, and then putting them back on with her bare feet.
The woman in red was wearing a combat suit, which should also be waterproof, so she didn't make a similar move.
As for the man named Ethan, he didn't care that his pants and shoes were soaked with water, and he stood there as if thinking about something.
"Are we going to go back to the mountains?"
Laura tied up her socks, took a magic stone from her pocket, and handed it to Xiao Ou on her shoulder, but Xiao Ou rejected it with a disgusted face.
"No, let's go back to the beach. ”
Ethan glanced at Betty, who was standing there looking at him and the others, and he felt that Betty's information was more important than figuring out the secrets of the island - it was likely that Betty knew what was going on on the island, and perhaps after asking about it, all the questions would be solved.
In this case, there is no need to continue to wander around the island.