34 Persistence

"The Akashi Lighthouse space station has observed a large number of asteroid debris flying towards Akashi! Part of it has entered the atmosphere of the red star! ”

"God! What a strong earthquake this is! The whole earth is going to be shattered! ”

"The impact of the meteorite caused a strong dust storm!"

"! Overwhelming! Such a strong dust storm has exceeded the upper limit of the extreme disaster envisaged in the emergency plan! ”

"There is no choice! Start executing your emergency plan! ”

"The solar power area is damaged! The electricity supply is declining! Pressure is declining in Zone 1. Oxygen levels drop. Carbon dioxide is rising. The water cycle has been discontinued, and the temperature in Zone 1 is dropping. ”

"Damn it! Let Gaia One plug the gap! ”

"It's too fast! It came so fast! The emergency plan has not yet had time to be implemented! ”

"The storm was too big, and the video equipment of Gaia 1 was disturbed! Communication is interrupted! Trying to recover... ”

"Gaia II! Let Gaia Two go! ”

"Contact is lost! All the robots located outside the cabin have lost contact! ”

"Damn! Send a distress signal to the space station! ”

"Communication is lost!"

"The temperature in Zone 1 dropped to minus 30°C and the carbon dioxide content exceeded 50%. The temperature in Zone 2 dropped to 0 degrees Celsius and the carbon dioxide concentration continued to rise. ”

"Close the first district!"

"But there are still people in District 1 who have not been evacuated."

"Close the first district!"

"Hell!"

"Communication is completely cut off!"

"Another meteorite has fallen! All communications are out of order! The space station may also be unlucky! ”

"How long do we have enough food?"

"There should be enough food for half a year. However, dust storms and damage to solar panels have affected the power supply, carbon cycle, and water cycle. The biochemical raw material synthesis system has been discontinued. If the power supply is not restored, the oxygen in the cabin will last for a few days. ”

"How many days?"

"About 3 days."

"Can the dust storm end in 3 days?"

"It's unpredictable. But even if the dust storm subsides, the solar panels that can continue to be used may not be enough to provide enough power. ”

"Then we will surely die?"

"There may be another way."

"The chemical fuel reserves now should provide enough energy to start a nuclear reactor. After a successful start-up of the reactor, the power problem should be solved. ”

However, the control circuitry that connected the reactor was damaged. Unable to boot from the master system. ”

"Just wait for the storm to pass."

"In that case, I am afraid that the remaining fuel will not be enough to start the nuclear reactor."

"Hell! Such weather! The ghost has a way! ”

"I'll go wire!"

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"Mu Qi!"

"Mu Qi!"

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"Mu Qiang! It's too dangerous! ”

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"Hold on! Hold on! ”

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"! You can't die! ”

"Wake up! Wake me up! ”

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"Mu Qijun! You have to persevere! ”

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"Mu Qiang! Don't give up! ”

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"Mu Qiang! Welcome back. ”

However, just half an hour later, Etlord was awakened by an intermittent nightmare. The extreme restlessness in his heart seriously affected the effectiveness of the regular sleep agent.

"Light." Etlord subconsciously shouted, and the entire dark room turned into a tropical island where dawn fell.

"Iced tea." Etlord got up from the bed, and the bed turned into a seat in response to his movements. At his command, a bird robot flew out of the wall that covered the image of the dawn sky and delivered a cup of iced tea to Etlord.

After drinking iced tea to wake up, Etlord began to gather his thoughts. Only then did he quickly bring up the message from Lili's side when he fell asleep.

Etlord breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Lili had safely arrived at the emergency shelter for the tech summit attendees. After some thought, he made arrangements for Lili and his assistants to take the next course of action, so that they could act together and not need to ask themselves for everything.

While arranging a series of events at the scene of the explosion, Etlord also preliminarily planned the aftermath of the explosion in his mind, and asked the super artificial intelligence to start monitoring all the information related to the explosion in the relevant countries.

After laying everything in order, Etlord decided to go and see the agents who had been stunned while placing the presidents under house arrest. So he ordered: "Go to the Altar of Chaos." ”

As soon as Etlord finished speaking, the chair he was sitting in immediately flew up, speeding towards the cursor passage that had opened in the dawn sky, sending Etlord to the door of the Chaos Altar in less than a minute.

At the same time as the door of the Chaos Altar opened, Etlord stood up, and the pedals of the smart seat immediately detached from the seat, and together with a handle that flipped from the bottom of the seat to Etlord's waist, it turned into a flying balance scooter.

The Chaos Altar was actually converted from a huge cavern in the mountain. Its entrance hangs in the air dozens of meters above the ground inside the altar. Below the entrance, there is a moat-like ring that circles the entire Chaos Altar. It is not the water that flows around the river, but the liquid that captures everything that falls into it. The straight walls from the moat to the Chaos Altar gate are made of ultra-smooth material with a low coefficient of friction that even dust can't adhere to, and no known creature or machine can crawl through it to the gate.

In short, the Chaos Altar is designed to prevent unauthorized entry and exit, and the entire Chaos Altar can be seen at the entrance.

Looking into the Chaos Altar from the entrance, you can see that in addition to the dense plants at the bottom of the entire altar, there are tens of thousands of columnar fish tank-shaped biological cultivation pools dotted among the plants that seem to have a permeable pool. However, when you get closer to the culture tank, you will find that the tank is not filled with fish, but with people or other human-like objects.

The moment the couch pedals completed the transformation of the flying car, Etlord leaned forward slightly, and the flying car accurately sent him to the only human in the entire Chaos Altar who was not sleeping in the cultivation pool.

"Mary, how's it going?"

"Agents hundreds are in good shape. All physiological indicators are beyond ordinary people. All of them are handsome and have eight-pack abs. In response to Etlord's question, a red-haired beauty in a Bose lab coat turned around and replied leisurely.

"Seriously. How are their DNA and memory reads? ”

"Wow. That's all left for the last two. Unsuccessfully, the explosion of the concert made them all die. The previous plan could not be realized in any way. If you want me to say, just delete all their memories. Let them all stay here with me. ”

"Come on, you're not a woman who can read countless men and not move. None of these agents were fuel-efficient lamps. For your safety, I can't keep them here. Etlord smiled at Mary before continuing, "Seriously, what is the success rate if we modify their memories with our latest virtual mnemonics?"

"The success rate should be low. So far, problems have occurred as soon as virtual memories are inserted into the subject's brain. After being inserted into the virtual memory of artificial intelligence, people either become crazy, mentally retarded, or directly brain dead. For this reason, I have lost several handsome guys and beauties. Fortunately, they are all fast-growing clones. ”

"I wanted you to experiment with them and modify their memories of coming here to say that they went to a concert, experienced an explosion, and were resurrected by an unknown force. But for now, it seems that it is better to erase their short-term memory. Either way, these people have to go back to their old jobs. Once you're done, remember to implant invisible nanobots that are resistant to scanning in their bodies. ”

"Okay." Mary replied calmly to Etlord while patting him on the shoulder and continuing, "Looks like you've come up with a new countermeasure. ”

Etlord smiled lightly and hesitated slightly, "I don't know if it will work." This time it's really ... ”

Before Etlord could finish speaking, Mary slapped him the shoulder and said loudly, "Whatever the plan. In short, I've got your back! And we are sure that we will achieve our goal and return to that faraway land. ”

Mary's words made Etlord's heartstrings tug. It's been more than 30 years. She was the only one who had been by his side to witness everything that had happened to him for more than thirty years. She is beautiful, intelligent, and empathetic, and at times, Etlord can't help but compare her to his beloved Haruko, however, because of this, Etlord has been forcing himself not to get too close to her, warning himself not to look into her tender eyes. Declare to yourself over and over again that they are friends, partners, and like-minded people who yearn to return to Akashi. But that was all he had to do with her.