Chapter 90: The Locked Place
Hearing this, Zhou Xin couldn't help but shake his head again and again, and at the same time, before Tate's words fell, Prom became angry directly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Just a few of us, where do you want to run?!" His voice became louder, but then he reacted, subconsciously glanced at the door, his voice decreased, "Let's not talk about whether we can survive in the end, just the four of us, how do you want to operate the spaceship, let the spaceship run on its own?" Taking a deep breath, Prom continued to say angrily, "Besides, do you think we can really leave the rest of the crew behind?" If the ban is lifted and everyone here survives, will we be able to go back? Do you still have the face to face these people again? Zhou Xin saw that every time he spoke, the expression on Tate's face became more and more embarrassed.
"Thisβthisβ" At the end, Tate scratched his head very unnaturally, "Don't be angry, Captain, it's just a joke, a joke. He also laughed symbolically twice.
"It's not light, it's not heavy, it's still making such a joke at this time." Even his brother was accusing him twice, and when he saw that his younger brother bowed his head and stopped talking, he turned to Prom and said, "In this situation, we can't go, we can't go, don't go, captain, do you have any good ideas?" β
"Nope." Prom replied with a slight frown, and then he sighed, "You must understand that now, the lives of a boatload of people are in my hands, and I have to be cautious. Let me think about it for a while. β
"Time waits for no one, please hurry up and make a decision, otherwise it will be too late." Fidel reminded.
"Don't worry, I understand, I'll make a decision in a day or two at most."
Next, they discussed for a while, and in their conversation, Zhou Xin learned that it seemed that several of them also vaguely felt that everything that had happened recently was a little unusual, but the four of them also did not find anything specific about the strangeness. Even Tate's very unreliable idea didn't know where it flew, he actually thought that something was wrong with the top of the government, of course, as soon as this idea came out, he couldn't help but be reprimanded by Prom again.
While listening to their conversation, Zhou Xin's eyes kept staring at the footage that the detector continued to capture on the screen. After most of the people left, many of the probes followed, and then they came to a new level. As soon as they came to this level, just staying in the middle of the corridor, everyone saw a clear difference, compared to the layers they had investigated before, the doors on both sides of the corridor on this floor were obviously much denser, and there was a small door almost every meter. For the next period of time, the aliens who had finished their meals began to open some of these doors to enter the room. Taking advantage of the opening of the door, several probes slipped inside, only to find that the room was only extremely simple - a bed and a table, almost no different from the rooms in the vault in the space city seen in the video earlier. Seeing this situation, although Zhou Xin was a little surprised, he then understood their method of saving space in the space building, and didn't see that even the corridor was less than a meter wide, only enough to accommodate two aliens passing side by side.
It is worth noting that not every door has been opened, and the doors of some rooms have been tightly closed from the start, and no one has ever tried to open it. At the same time, not everyone stayed on this level, more than half of them did not even stay on this level at all, but walked directly from the central passage to the new level.
Although Zhou Xin thinks that as long as there is one floor, I am afraid that it will be able to accommodate everyone now, even if one layer is not enough, two floors will be more than enough. But they were actually divided into four groups, which occupied four different places.
"It seems that the contradiction between them is indeed the same as what those four people said, not light." Spred began, "Not only do they not eat in the same room, they don't even live on the same floor. β
"If for some reason a lot of people come out to grab your food, there will always be people who feel unbalanced, and that's fine." Zhou Xin said calmly, "I'm curious, seeing that there is nothing in this room, all of them will return to the room after eating, what is this going to do?" β
"I'm curious when these groups will be able to fight." Dart interjected.
Ignoring Dart's words, because the next actions of those people undoubtedly answered Zhou Xin's question best.
It can be seen in the room where the probes sneaked in, and after entering the room, the aliens in the camera closed the door directly, and then lay down on the bed, and after a while, they fell asleep. Seeing this situation, many people in the command cabin immediately looked at each other.
"W-that's going to sleep?" Spred's tone was a little incredulous.
"Maybe it's because it's nighttime to eat? So they finished eating and went to sleep? Dart's tone was hesitant.
Zhou Xin shook his head, "This shouldn't be possible, this civilized person, we have seen and heard a lot before." According to their current situation, they can only eat one meal a day at most. If that were the case, the meal would have been at noon, not in the evening. Then his tone became very puzzled, "Why don't they think about how to survive in this building a little longer, but they are all like this, are these people ready to give up a long time ago?" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel some regret in his heart.
Spred thought for a moment before he said thoughtfully, "They're not necessarily unreasonable. Seeing Zhou Xin looking at him curiously, he explained in detail, "When they ate before, wasn't someone already assigned a searcher?" Judging from what we have detected during this period of time, the internal structure of this space building is not very complicated, and it should be enough to rely on a dozen people to search floor by floor. And if more people join the ranks of searching for food, it will undoubtedly be a waste of physical strength, in this case, the remaining people naturally have nothing else to do, and it is undoubtedly a wise choice to let these people sleep to reduce energy consumption. β
"There's some truth to that." After thinking about it, Zhou Xin nodded.
"They can hold on for a little longer, but for how long?" Dart looked skeptical.
"An extra day is also good." This time, it was Zhou Xin's turn to explain, "Maybe on the last day, they will be allowed to return to the planet." As he spoke, his brow furrowed, "But looking at the current situation, I'm afraid it's whimsical." β
While they were talking, the probe did not stop investigating the building, and after searching a total of five floors of residential area-like places, the probe's progress was blocked.
Looking at the gate that blocked the passage and was connected to the surrounding passage walls, Zhou Xin felt a little curious, "How can there be a door here?" What's up ahead? It actually needs to be locked. β
At the same time as Zhou Xin spoke, the probes had already begun to try to touch the gate, they first hit the gate a few times, but except for a few clanging sounds, the gate in front of it still did not move. The probe then tried to pull the door open, which was obviously unsuccessful. Then they searched the vicinity of the door, trying to find the switch that opened it.
Moments later, the probe found a control panel somewhere on the wall of the passage near the gate. This panel has a small display with several rows of buttons underneath the screen, which looks like a very ordinary code door. Fortunately, this control panel did not lose power, just after the detector casually pressed a button, the small screen lit up, and Zhou Xin saw that a few strange words were displayed on the screen.
"Please enter the password, Brother Captain, this is a password door." Before Zhou Xin could ask a question, Atlas translated the above text.
"What's the password?" Zhou Xin asked subconsciously, and then he reacted, so he laughed and said, "Also, how do we know the password, Atlas, try to see if there is a way to find the correct password." β
Next, Atlas controlled the detector to operate on the panel for a while, trying to enter the password several times, and after getting a hint that the password was wrong, the detector's movement stopped.
At the same time, the little girl's brows on the screen furrowed, "Brother Captain, I'm afraid this is difficult, if there are no clues, it is difficult to guess the password to open the door by guessing alone." β
In the previous attempt, Zhou Xin saw that the password that needed to be entered on the screen should be seven digits, but more than twenty buttons appeared on the panel, that is, there were nearly a billion password combinations. Thinking of this, Zhou Xin didn't continue to think about it, and he asked, "Atlas, based on all the information you were able to obtain before, can you guess the most likely combination of these seven-digit passwords?" β
At this moment, the little girl's frowning face showed an uncertain expression, "This-let the family try it." Maybe Zhou Xin's request really stumped Atlas, and then, the little girl on the screen didn't say a word, and the expression on her face became serious. Minutes passed, and neither Atlas nor the detectors on the screen did anything, and at the same time, the atmosphere in the command module was quiet, and everyone was watching the little girl on the screen. A full five minutes passed, and the little girl still had a serious expression on her face, but the probe went into action, and it began to press the first button on the control panel. However, after pressing the first button, the probe's action stopped again, and after dozens of seconds, the probe finally pressed the second button. Next, basically at this frequency, the detector pressed the button on the panel, and it took nearly five minutes for this short seven-digit password to finally be all lost.
Sadly, just after the probe pressed the last button, it was greeted with a cold and ruthless voice prompt with the wrong password, followed by a sentence, "Warning, the user has entered the wrong password seven times, and if the next three times are still the wrong password, the door will be completely locked and the defense will be activated." β
Hearing this, Atlas showed a hint of hesitation on his face, but after a while, the detector pressed the button again. Another five minutes passed, and this time, however, the password entered was still incorrect. But this time, the little girl didn't bother with the prompts, and started the process of entering the password again. Unfortunately, all they got in the end was a harsher last warning from the system.
After hearing the last warning, Atlas finally asked, "Brother Captain, there is only one last chance, do you want to continue?" β
Looking at the schematic diagram on another screen, Zhou Xin found that there was still about one-seventh of the unexplored area behind this door. This time it was Zhou Xin's turn to hesitate, because he didn't know what the final result would be, and he was more worried about being afraid of attracting the attention of aliens, after thinking for a while, he finally chose to give up.
"Is there anything else in the area that has been explored before that hasn't been investigated?" Zhou Xin asked, "If not, let the probes get out, and let them look outside to see if there are any other passages that can enter the space behind the gate." β
The process of getting out was much easier than when I came in, and after dodging a few wandering aliens on the way, in less than ten minutes, most of the probes had left the building and returned to space. The probes then flew straight to the other end of the cylindrical space structure. During their flight, Atlas explained, "Since there is a vent for adjusting attitude on this end, there is no reason why there is no other side." If you go through those vents, you might be able to reach the other side of the door. β
Unsurprisingly, at the opposite end of the pair, Atlas suddenly spotted an identical vent. With a smug countenance, the little girl controlled the probe and entered the vent.
This time, however, it was apparently not so lucky, and after passing through a much longer passage than before, the group found that the probe had emerged from a familiar place. That's right, this is the same space that the probe visited before, and it looks like an engine.
"It seems that all the attitude control of the building is based on the same engine." Zhou Xin's tone looked a little disappointed, and then he said to himself, "But also, this kind of building really doesn't need to install an engine at both ends, not to mention that it takes up limited space, and it is a waste." β
After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Xin finally decided to leave a few probes to monitor the building and supplement the investigation, while the large army flew towards another building......