Chapter 104: The Strange Room
After the robot stopped at the foot of the minaret for a while, Atlas began to report the results of his observations, "Brother Captain, the bottom surface of this tower in front of the camera is a standard perfect circle, with a diameter of about two hundred meters, and a height estimated to be around five hundred meters. The entire tower appears to be made entirely of metal elements, with a completely hollow interior and a hollowed-out bevel made of metal elements. In addition, the minaret is not a standard cone, but is gradually retracted upwards according to the degree of inclination from slow to abrupt, which makes the shape of the entire inclined plane seem to conform to some mathematical law. β
"Who would build such a huge minaret in such a place?" After the little girl finished her introduction, Zhou Xin looked at the spire in the picture that could not be seen at a glance because of the angle, and asked suspiciously.
"Whoever it is, I don't think it was built by the Norsans anyway." Dart replied without thinking.
"I think if you want to know who built this tower, maybe you just have to go there and investigate." As he spoke, Spred pointed to what looked like a room in the center of the tower. Before he could finish speaking, the robot began to move in the direction that Spred was pointing.
In the process of the robot moving, Zhou Xin and the others had already begun to observe the building in the center of the tower. It was a standard cube-shaped building, small in scale compared to the massive minarets that loomed over it, with only a dozen meters on its sides, and made of the same metal as the surrounding minarets. Since no entrance was found, it looked more like a giant metal box than a building from this direction.
In less than a minute, the robot moved from the edge of the spire to the "box", and after searching around the small building for nearly a circle, Zhou Xin and the others finally found a small entrance on the last wall.
Manipulating the robot to the entrance, Atlas observed it for a while and said, "Brother Captain, it looks like we need to wait a while. The door is locked with an electronic combination lock, which may be a bit insufficient to crack by relying solely on the computing power of the robot, and I am afraid that the detector will need to be used. β
"In that case, let's wait a while." Zhou Xin said.
While waiting for the probe to arrive at the spire, Atlas did not sit idle, but manipulated the robot to make a detailed survey of the spire's perimeter. Looking at the diorama of the spire, which was constantly being perfected, Dart casually asked, "What do you think this spire was built for on this planet?" β
"Judging by the shape and material, I think it's very likely that this is a communications tower." Spred thought for a moment, then speculated in an uncertain tone.
"Communication Towersβββ?" Zhou Xin said thoughtfully, "If it is really a communication tower, then it was built on this marginal planet, probably not to communicate with the Noshan civilization." Following this thought, he quickly fell into deep thought. After a few minutes, Zhou Xin came back to his senses, shook his head, and subconsciously said to himself: "It seems that this place has brought us more and more mysteries. β
By this time, the probes who had arrived from not far away had arrived at the foot of the minaret. Without Zhou Xin's order again, the probe moved straight to the entrance of the central building and began to work.
"Huh?" The probe had only stopped at the entrance for a few seconds when the little girl's astonishing voice rang out in the command module. With this sound, the door to the entrance in the picture opens.
"It's too easy, isn't it?" Seeing this scene, not only Atlas, but most of the people in the command cabin were also quite surprised, and Dart even screamed out in a lost mouth.
"Haha, haha, it seems really, really a little simple." Atlas, who had just judged that it would take some time to open the door, smiled awkwardly.
"Actually, it's not hard to explain." At this time, Spred analyzed in hindsight, "After all, the location of this building is remote enough, and we wouldn't have found it if we didn't happen to it." In this case, it is less important whether the entrance is well guarded. β
"Anyway, now that the entrance is open, let's go in and have a look." Dart is more concerned with the interior of the building than with Spred's analysis. Therefore, as soon as Spred finished speaking, he couldn't wait to urge.
Soon, at Dart's urging, the probe flew in after confirming that there was no danger behind the door. The moment you enter the door, the entire shot turns white due to the bright light in the room, and it is not until a few seconds later that the screen returns to normal. When they clearly saw the scene in the room, everyone in the command cabin was stunned by what they saw.
No one expected that behind the door, there was a narrow walkway no more than a meter wide. Of course, if it was just an ordinary walkway, it wouldn't surprise everyone, but it wasn't an ordinary walkway. Why, because the walls that make up the sides of the walkway are not walls in the actual sense of the word, but "walls" made up of countless devices stacked on top of each other. What's even more exaggerated is that when Zhou Xin and the others first saw it, all the equipment was obviously working, and the flickering lights on it converged to form a light denser than the stars in the sky.
While everyone was surprised, the probe had already entered the room and began to investigate. By the time Zhou Xin recovered from his surprise, the detector had already walked from the entrance to the other end of the room. Next, after the initial investigation of the probe, Zhou Xin and the others found that the entire building was completely unlayered, and there was only one room that looked about the same size as the outside. The room was densely packed with rows of shelves that were close to the ceiling, and apart from the passage leading to the doorway, the distance between the shelves did not allow even a normal person to pass sideways. Not only are the shelves very densely arranged, but all the shelves are lined up with a variety of equipment on each floor, and there are hardly any gaps at a glance. It can be said that there is nothing in the whole room except for the equipment that is working and the shelves used to put it.
"Brother Captain, it seems like a room for servers now." After searching the entire room, Atlas spoke......