The thick dust on the ground reminded everyone that there had been no signs of human activity in this place for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Xin turned his gaze to the sub-lenses of several detectors next to him, and saw a large screen-like object appear in one of the screens, and there was a small half-human-high operating table directly below the screen. However, not only did the large screen not show any information, it looked pitch black, and even the light of the detector could be seen covering the entire screen when it was shining on it. When the camera zoomed over the console, there was little difference in what everyone saw, and the buttons on the console were almost impossible to read under the dust.

Looking at the console in the picture, Zhou Xin asked curiously, "Is there a way to start this thing?" ”

"I think we can find a switch, and someone will try the detector." Atlas's tone was a little uncertain, "But this console looks like it hasn't been used for a long time, can it still be used even if it finds a switch?" ”

After listening to the little girl's words, Zhou Xin's face also showed a hesitant look, obviously he didn't think that this operating table could still work in his heart, with the mentality of trying it out, he said: "Just try it, anyway, the focus of our current investigation is not here, it can run the best, and it doesn't matter if it can't run." ”

As he spoke, the detector had already found a red button on the side of the console, "This should be it." Atlas glanced at the button, then spoke, and the probe had already pressed the button as she spoke.

When I first pressed it, there was no response on the console, and even the screen in the screen was still black, and nothing happened. Zhou Xin couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, and just as he was about to let the probe leave the vicinity of the console and continue to investigate the rest of the building, something surprising happened to him.

In the footage of the probe, the large screen suddenly lit up, and at the same time, the console also emitted a bright light, compared to the screen used on a normal spacecraft, the bright light in the screen appeared a little faint, but the device was running after all.

"It still works?!" Zhou Xin's tone looked a little surprised, at this time, the big screen had moved to the middle of the picture, and he saw that a lot of text appeared on the big screen covered with dust, and as time went by, the text on it was still moving upward, "Atlas, what does it mean?" Zhou Xin asked.

At this time, several probes flew over, and in front of the camera, they cleaned up the dust on the big screen a little, and the text on the screen became clearer. Atlas then replied: "The above shows the progress of the inspection, and it looks like it should be a pre-boot check." After a pause, she continued, "It seems that although this device is covered in dust, it seems to be well preserved, and its self-test results are actually normal. ”

Nearly a minute has passed since the device was turned on, and suddenly, a large section of text on the screen disappeared. Then, a list of more than a dozen options will appear on the screen.

After a few seconds, Atlas spoke again: "Brother Captain, this console seems to control the power system of this space building, and the options that appear on it are all related to power. Wait a moment and see if you can find any useful information in it. As soon as she finished speaking, a red box popped up on the screen, and in the middle of the red box was a large line of text, which seemed to be some kind of warning.

"What's wrong? Did something go wrong? Zhou Xin's mood suddenly became tense.

"No big deal." Atlas reassured, "It's just a sign that the powertrain is running out of energy." Then her brow furrowed slightly, "And it seems that the energy of this device itself is not very sufficient, and it seems that people need to speed up a little." With that, the detector pressed on the console, closed the window, and after turning it off, it started to operate directly.

While controlling the operation of the probe, Atlas explained what he saw to Zhou Xin, "According to the information, the last time this device was used was three months ago, and the instructions executed by that use were - throw away all the fuel in the fuel tank?!" The little girl's tone became very surprised.

"What? What are you talking about? At first, Zhou Xin thought he had heard it wrong,

"Brother Captain, you heard you right, all the fuel in the power plant was emptied three months ago." Atlas affirmed.

"What are they doing?" Zhou Xin looked incredulous,

"I don't know." Atlas shook his head, the device hadn't been turned on since the fuel was thrown out, and to this day.

"Can you find out the specific reason in it?" Zhou Xin continued to ask.

Next, the probe continued to operate, and the text on the screen was constantly changing, looking at the changing text, Atlas did not explain. Five or six minutes passed, and the words on the screen suddenly began to flicker. Within a few seconds, the flickering text was gone, and the screen was once again plunged into darkness.

"There's no energy." Atlas's tone looked a little regretful, and then she began to explain what she had just seen, "What people just saw is basically some past operation records, as well as the operation interface of the power system. Just now, people have tried to do some operations on the power system, but the response is that there is no energy. The most regrettable thing is that there is a whole piece of content that people have turned off before they have seen it, and the title seems to introduce the power distribution of the entire space building. ”

"I didn't see such important information." After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin also felt regretful, "Maybe we can find this important location in the space building directly from the power distribution." ”

"This is someone's mistake." The little girl said with an apologetic tone, "People thought this device didn't turn off so quickly, but I didn't expect—"

"Forget it." Zhou Xin waved his hand, "It's just to spend a little more time investigating here, let the probe continue to investigate." ”

Next, the probe examined the room for all the devices that could be operated with screens. However, it seems that the energy systems in the entire room are connected, and no matter how the detectors operate, the devices do not respond at all.

"Looks like there's no need to investigate this room." Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and said, "Let the probe go to other rooms to investigate." ”

"Hmm." Atlas nodded, and then gave new orders to the probe.

At the time of the previous investigation, the probe had already found the exit to this room. At the same time as Zhou Xin opened his mouth to order, he was still a little worried in his heart, afraid that there would be no way to open the exit gate after losing power, but fortunately, it seemed that the gate was using another independent energy system, and the detector successfully opened the gate and flew out.

After the probe flew out, the scene seen on the screen was no longer pitch black, and the light was finally visible. In the lens, Zhou Xin saw that the location of the probe should be a corridor now, and there were flat, triangular lights hanging on the ceiling of the corridor every ten meters or so, and the light emitted by each lamp was very weak, making the whole corridor still look a little dim. Moving along the dimly lit hallway, one or two doors appear in the camera from time to time, some of which can be easily opened, and when they see an open door, the probe will always go in to investigate, but most of the doors are locked and cannot be entered. In the rooms that can be entered, there are basically places such as workshops, except for all kinds of strangely shaped tools, there is no useful textual information, and one or two of the offices that can be entered are also unable to operate the devices inside because of the lack of energy.

However, one thing that all the rooms that can be explored, including the hallways, have one thing in common, that they haven't been used for a long time, and that every tiny flat surface is covered in a thick layer of dust. There was already air in this place, and under the disturbance of the flying probe, these dusts that had accumulated for an unknown amount of time flew up, and a scene similar to a foggy one after another appeared in the lens of the probe.

After observing the picture on the screen for a while, Zhou Xin found that what could be seen in the lens was almost the same scene, so he no longer continued to pay attention to the big screen, but asked suspiciously: "Strange, why is there no sign of human activity in such a large area, it stands to reason that there shouldn't be an important area near the power control system?" What's going on? ”

"It's a bit unusual, indeed." Spred agreed, "It may make sense to say that this place is empty because most of the people died in previous fleet accidents." But—" he glanced at the screen, "but even if it were, there would have been no one here for half a month at most, but if you look at it now, there will be far more than half a month of no one here." After a pause, he continued, adding, "And why did they throw away all the fuel in the powertrain three months ago?" What does this mean? ”

"Atlas, how long has it been since no one has moved in these rooms?" Zhou Xin didn't answer Spred directly, but asked.

"Judging by the dust on it, it ranges from a month to two and a half months." After a while, Atlas gave a conclusion.

"In other words, there was no one here at least a month ago?" Zhou Xin's brows furrowed.

"Now it seems, that's how it looks." The little girl nodded.

"How so?" Zhou Xin's tone became strange, "The accident in the fleet has only happened for a few days, and the people here have already shown signs of leaving three months ago. As he spoke, he was still thinking, "Is it? The departure of the people here has nothing to do with the accident that happened in the fleet? And why did they leave? ”

"Or—" Dart suddenly thought of a reason, "the people here had already thought that such an accident would happen next, so they left early?" ”

As soon as Dart said what he thought, there was silence in the command module.

"No, it would be terrible if it were." After a while, Spred retorted, "Aren't people from the same country living in the entire space city?" If these people who are leaving know what is going to happen next, then why not stop it and let it go in the worst direction? ”

"It's just my guess." Dart continued, "And, the same people from the same country, why did the aircraft fire mercilessly at the entire fleet?" Under normal circumstances, this doesn't make sense. ”

"All in all, I think your idea is outrageous." Spred had no way to refute Dart's remark, and replied with some paleness, "If it's really what you say, it's a big conspiracy." He shook his head vigorously, "Impossible, I don't think it's possible." ”

While listening to the discussion between the two, Zhou Xin observed the picture on the screen. As they discussed, the probe had already walked around the corridor, and by the way, since gravity in the building was simulated by centrifugal force, the floor and ceiling were all designed to be in a ring parallel to the outer surface of the building, so if you walked in one direction along the corridor, you would return to where you had started. As the probe progressed, they surveyed nearly twenty rooms, but as at the beginning, they still found no information. Zhou Xin's heart was slightly disappointed, but he didn't say anything, but let the probe continue to investigate, and along the stairs found, the probe flew up to the second floor.

Over the course of the day, the probe conducted a detailed survey of the space structure. At first, the probe was a little cautious in the process of investigation for fear of being discovered by aliens that might exist inside, but later, seeing that no one had been seen for so long, the probe couldn't help but speed up the search, but even so, at night, they only searched a small area.

After analyzing the results of the probe's investigation throughout the day, Atlas concluded, "The corridor that was first investigated was probably related to the power control of the entire building, and the next area that the probe investigated was probably the industrial area of the building, where the probe photographed a lot of large production lines and many other industrial-related equipment." ”

"That's not the point." Zhou Xin shook his head, "What I'm concerned about is, during the investigation, has the probe found the existence of aliens......?" ”