Chapter 21: Awakening
Northwest of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, 60 kilometers along Highway 56 is the well-known city of Pripyat, which has been abandoned since the 1986 nuclear accident and is a dead city. Pripyat retains the Soviet-era architecture of the last century, and a monument stands here, and this one has something special about holding a flame in both hands, as if it were the last flame of humanity after struggling. Behind the sculpture is the amusement park, a huge Ferris wheel stands in front of you, the steel frame has been rusted, the bumper cars on the side of the park are at the mercy of scattered postures, it seems that every building, every object has been glued to the solid glue of time, they are placed there like rubber specimens, it looks like a city in amber.
Two men dressed in biochemical costumes appeared, strolling forward, looking at the radiation meter on their hands as they went.
"Everything is working and executing according to the original plan." One person with an internal microphone.
"It's a little too eerie here." One person answered.
They walked through the door of a hotel where the whitewashed wallpaper had long since peeled, and the half-fallen portrait of Lenin hung on the wall, and the service desk was still there, dusty on the counter. From time to time, the sound of the wind outside the window blew in through the crack in the window on one side, as if crying.
As they continued up the stairs of the hotel, the hallway was pitch black, casting a little light from the door of the room in the hallway.
"6205 will continue to move forward!"
A lot of the house numbers here have fallen off completely. In the rooms on either side, broken furniture fell to the floor, and some old-fashioned TVs were left with empty shells. Soon they came to the door of 6205, and the two carefully searched the room according to the drawings in their hands, which contained a bed, two wardrobes, and two safes. Soon they opened the safe with the code they had prepared, and the contents of the box were taken out and put into another box, and soon the two left the hotel......
In a ranch not far from Kyiv, in an underground freezer, a group of people dragged the frozen people they had transported back to a larger laboratory, numbered them in groups of ten, and enlarged them into a large circular machine.
"Turn on the centrifuge now!" A middle-aged man in his early forties with black sunglasses gave orders in a hoarse voice.
Immediately afterward, the circular machine let out a loud roar and turned rapidly, and the square ice cubes in the machine disappeared in an instant while rotating, and the human body slowly appeared, and quickly shook in the rotation.
"Activate now!"
I saw a series of electric currents shoot from the edge of the machine like thunder and lightning, which lasted for 5 seconds, and the machine slowly stopped rotating, and the people in the machine opened their eyes one after another.
"Heart rate is normal!"
"The brain is normal!"
"Breathe normally!"
"Abnormal memory!"
The machine shows the data of the body scans of these people.
The crew members in the machine looked at each other one by one, as if they didn't know anything, they seemed to have slept and looked at the equipment around them, and some of them couldn't react.
"Where is this? How did we end up here? What happened? A crew member who had just woken up said
There was nothing around them, and the voices of the crew were particularly transparent in the room.
Another crew member burst into tears, as he found his hands and feet unresponsive due to long-term freezing. Seeing this, several other crew members wanted to help the people around them, but found that their hands and feet were completely disobedient, and only their fingers could fluctuate slightly.
"Didn't we leave Istanbul for Dalian? How did it end up here? ”
"Do you remember? It was raining heavily that day, and we were sailing at a predetermined speed on the Red Sea, when suddenly there was a loud bang in our ears, and then we saw a light, and then we ...... We...... I can't remember anything. The crew reminisced as they spoke, but could not think of any memories since the light appeared.
They touched their cold bodies and looked at the electronic screens around them, which showed their heartbeats and brain waves, and the time in the corners.
"If I'm not mistaken, we've been asleep for more than five months...... said one thin, small crew member
"So, then what's wrong with us, why is this happening?" Another crew member said suddenly
"Have we been tested? Or ......"
The newly awakened crew began to notice that something was more and more wrong, and they were housed in a huge laboratory, surrounded by cameras, and their every move was monitored. They tried to get up and get out of here, but their bodies didn't listen to it at all, and a group of people began to howl and scream in the lab......
"Who are you? What has been done to us? What do you want to do with us? They shouted with all their might
Suddenly, a line of words appeared on the screen in the laboratory: "Welcome to the crew of E562!" Be quiet, you don't have much energy left. Your companions are waiting for Lu to activate, wait patiently. ”
The crew quieted down this time, and slowly some straws appeared from the machine, so they began to replenish water and energy, and after about three hours, the body began to slowly return to its normal condition, so ten people dressed in clothes that were not completely dried, began to slowly stand up on their feet, at first completely uncontrollable, like babies holding on to the side of the machine and walking with difficulty.
Ten people searched the room for a long time without finding any exit, and when they touched the wall, their shadows would be reflected on the wall, and they touched the wall with their hands, and the wall was as sticky as glue liquid, but when they took their hands back, their fingers were dry again. The two men tried to hit the wall hard, but they were bounced back and felt no pain when they fell to the ground due to inertia. The men found themselves trapped in a monitored space made up of liquids, and their only option was to wait......
"They have fully recovered and are back to normal," the machine reported
"Very well, watch them and continue to thaw the rest!"
"Obey the order, and execute it immediately!"
The rest of the ice was transported by a conveyor belt to a predetermined point and transported into three centrifuges, the machines began to spin rapidly, the roar resounded throughout the laboratory, the water outlet on one side of the centrifuge flowed out of the freshly melted ice water, and the E562 crew members, who had been frozen for five months, were activated one by one, and their reactions were the same as the previous ones, from panic to doubt, from doubt to resistance, from resistance to acceptance.
"Report X, the crew has all thawed!" The robot said
"The plan has finally begun!" X shook his lower cervical spine and said in a cheerful tone.