Gaiden: Judgment Day (10)
Morey fired a shot through the sealed iron door, cleanly.
The dust came up with a strong musty smell, and Abraham looked down, and there was a black hole, the steps were lost in the darkness, there was no light, and the eerie cold wind blew up from below, making the scalp tingle, and the road seemed to lead nowhere.
The stairs down were narrow enough for one person to pass through, and Morey jumped first, followed by Abel, and the two of them leaned against the wall and descended the steps in the dark.
This staircase was left when the underground server room was first built, for emergency maintenance of repair personnel, and later built a high-speed elevator from the ground to the computer room, people go up and down through the elevator, no one uses the stairs, this passage is almost forgotten, it has been sealed for many years.
Abraham put one hand on Morey's shoulder and the other against the wall.
With a flashlight in his hand, Morey descended step by step, the machine room was thirty meters underground, almost ten stories high, and it only took fifteen seconds to go down by elevator, but it took them at least fifteen minutes to walk.
"It's dark." Able looked up, his voice was not loud, but it reverberated between the narrow walls, and it was heard far away.
Abraham's eyes gradually adjusted to the light around him, and the staircase was not equipped with electric lights, which should have been pitch black, but the walls on either side gave off a faint blue glow.
Morey pointed at the wall with his flashlight, bright spots of light flickering on the wall, "This was originally painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, which would glow in the dark, but now it's all gone." ”
"Luminous?" Able turned his head and stared at the wall wide-eyed, "It can't be radioactive, right?" ”
"It may be weakly radioactive." Morey didn't look back, "You'd better stay away." ”
Abraham was startled and quickly withdrew his hand.
The two went deep into the ground, and on the way they encountered two more iron gates, Morey blasted them open with a shotgun, and the thick smoke immediately filled the narrow passage, and Abel covered his mouth and nose and rushed out of the smoke, his feet clanging on the metal floor.
"We're here." Morey said.
Abraham looked up and held his breath...... As the head of the Omega Project, it was not the first time he had been here, but every time he stepped into the computer room, he couldn't help but marvel at the grandeur and magnificence of the place, like a mortal stepping into a stately pantheon...... To Abel, this is a temple of engineering and human technology, with thousands of server cabinets neatly lined up on both sides of the hallway, taller than two adults, fiber optic cables thicker than a person's waist, and transparent cooling water pipes emitting a faint blue light that meanders above their heads, like stars and the Milky Way shining under a dark canopy.
This is where Omega was truly born, the only supercomputer still in operation after the collapse of human civilization.
This massive array of processors is the centerpiece of the institute, consuming more than 20 megawatts of power in normal operation, enough electricity a day for a family of three to last eight years, or more than $30 million a year in peacetime.
The heat generated by the Omega system at full capacity can bake metal, and in order to cope with the huge heat production of the computer, the cooling system is also designed to be extremely large, with four cooling fans under the feet of Abel and Morey, each four meters in diameter, turning like the rotors of a helicopter.
The two of them walked down the aisle into the center of the computer room, and the Gene Plasmid Company had almost hollowed out the ground of the institute to house the thing.
"We have to shut down the system as soon as possible, otherwise no one can say what she's going to do."
Morey looked up at the server cabinet, he also felt a little tricky, the Omega system is not a personal computer, you can "snap" and press the shutdown button.
The Omega system doesn't have a shutdown button, and once a supercomputer like it is turned on, it will run 24 hours a day, unless it is commanded to stop working...... But now Omega is gone on a rampage, and no one listens.
Omega controls more than twenty combat robots in his hands, which are pure tools of killing, and the longer the time drags on, the more unpredictable the situation becomes.
"What about cutting off the power supply?" Able asked, "We can cut the cable." ”
Morey shook his head and kicked the metal floor with his foot, "The cables for power supply are under the floor, and we have to tear down the floor before we can cut the cables." ”
Abraham leaned over and pressed the floor, which was made of large pieces of metal that could not be pried open without tools.
"Hell...... Isn't there an emergency shutdown system? ”
"We have one last way." Morey said, "The real emergency shutdown is ......"
"What method ......" Abel was suddenly stunned, his face changed suddenly, and he stepped forward to cover Morey's mouth and pulled him to hide behind the cabinet.
Morey was surprised, and Abraham "booed" and whispered, "Quiet, there's something here."
Morey fell silent, neither of them daring to say anything, they lowered their bodies, hiding in the shadows behind the cabinet and listening carefully to the movements around them...... Abel was right, there was something moving in the engine room, it was not far from them, the sound came from the front, it sounded like some kind of machinery, the engine made a low roar, and the metal tracks rubbed against the floor, making a "click" sound.
The two of them were suddenly terrified.
It was a familiar voice to them, and they had heard it before.
"It's a sword! How did the sword end up here? Morey was sweating profusely, "I don't see anything following us." ”
"It didn't come down with us." Abel whispered, "It came down in an elevator, so it was faster than us." ”
Through the glimmer of the server, Abraham could see the thing...... Sure enough, it was the Sword Fighting Robot, it searched along the aisle, the camera turned around, this was not the one that appeared in the central hall, Abel remembered that the one that appeared before was numbered S12, but this one was numbered S20.
This is a brand new battle robot that Omega has sent to hunt them down.
Abraham pulled Morey back slowly, they must not be exposed to the robot's field of vision, the combat robot can search for targets in a variety of ways, visible light, sound and infrared imaging, but fortunately, the visible light in the server room is weak, and the roar of the server and fan will mask Abel's movements, as for infrared imaging...... As long as they hide behind the cabinet, the robot will not be able to detect their infrared signal.
Little by little, the two moved back, Abraham in front and Morey behind, gradually moving away from the combat robots.
S20 was still slowly moving along the aisle, and it was about to disappear from the sight of the two of them, when Morey suddenly stopped moving.
"What's wrong?" Abel asked, turning his head.
Morey pointed to the left.
Abel looked in the direction of his finger, and his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately held his breath and lay on the floor not daring to move.
More than a dozen meters away, a pitch-black robot came out from behind the cabinet, its shield marked with a code.
S22。
Another combat robot!