Hao Ren walked forward along the long bridge in the sky, and came to the thing that appeared to be the operating table. He saw that it was a sleek, new-new device, with no buttons on it, just a whole silvery-white metal panel that was as bright as a mirror, and he reached out and stroked the edge of the panel, and saw that it was not stained with a trace of dust.

Not only the control panel, but in fact the entire cylindrical space is free of any dust, the last gate that everyone passed through before should have a strict dust isolation performance, and the space itself should also have a dust removal device, there is no doubt that this place is the real storage location of the "final vault".

"What is this?" Lily leaned over and asked curiously.

"It should be the manual controllers of those robotic arms," Hao Ren looked up at the neatly arranged metal supports and rectangular containers in the cylindrical space, as well as the slides and manipulators that connected those things, while reaching out to touch the eye-catching pale green indicator line next to the control panel, "According to my experience in the control room, this kind of touch screen should be activated by touching here...... Oh, that's it. ”

At his touch, a series of complex geometries emerge from the silver-white metal plates, which then slowly stabilize to form an initial interactive interface. Unsurprisingly, the operating system is locked and requires identification to enter, but this controller doesn't seem to be using the kind of mechanical key that Captain Ark carries with him, it requires a password.

The password was hard to swallow the data terminal, which floated to the console and connected itself to the control panel with a blue beam, which immediately revealed a large number of distracting specks on the panel, and the system was cracked in a matter of seconds. And a simple and easy-to-understand operation window pops up. Hao Ren tried to activate some of the above functions, and the neatly arranged containers in the cylindrical space immediately moved. One of the rows of stands was lowered from a high altitude and rested firmly next to the long bridge in the sky. The rectangular metal boxes hanging from them stuck in the grooves next to the railing of the long bridge along the slipway, and with a few soft "snorts", the containers opened.

Lily immediately ran over to check, and she saw that the metal box was empty, and the empty container contained only a few unplugged catheters and a viscous liquid.

"What are these things?" Vivien also went to check on the condition in the metal box, and she felt a little baffled.

"It's a hibernation pod—I guess, but it's not far from ten," Hao Ren said slowly, "and it's all a hibernation pod." The total reached 150,000. ”

"Sleep pod?" Vivien was no stranger to the term, but she looked at the models of those metal cases and felt a little wrong, "Isn't this a little smaller?" ”

"Because it's for little ones." Hao Ren walked over with the data terminal, the latter had already synchronized the data with the console on the long bridge at this time, and easily took over all the functions of the console, it turned on the holographic projection, which showed the information read from the console.

A list was opened, and hundreds of avatars jumped on the projection. And scroll down as fast as you can – every avatar is a child.

"The oldest is no more than thirteen years old, and the youngest is only three years old," Hao Ren pointed to the projection above the data terminal, which was extracted along with the photos of the list of personnel. There is also some basic information about this vault, such as the syslogs, "This final vault is for dormant children." It was built 892 years ago today, and was last opened 815 years ago. ”

"In other words, has it been frozen for decades...... "Nangong May poked the viscous liquid inside the metal box with the tip of his tail. Confirming that this is a substance that can maintain biological activity at low temperatures, "the question is why only children - where have adults gone?" ”

"Remember the last captain you saw in the control room?" Hao Ren raised his eyelids. "He died of a chronic illness that slowly eroded his skull. I suspect that all adults have died from this disease, leaving only children. ”

"But we only found that one pair of bones," Nangong May's tail curled up, "how can we be sure that other adults have encountered the same thing?" ”

Hao Ren had thought about this question just now, and had some speculation: "Do you think that a person who is infected with this terminal illness can continue to serve as the captain of the Ark?" And the disease is slow, the people on the ark had plenty of time to choose a healthy new captain, but they didn't, the last captain died of illness at the post, and there is only one explanation for this: they didn't get to be elected, there were no healthy candidates at all, everyone was sick. And here ......"

Hao Ren pointed to the countless silver-white metal boxes neatly arranged in the air: "The child is not sick. This is the reason why the last ark was a civilizational break. ”

He knew that he had more than half of his speculation, but it was completely valid, and he couldn't think of any more plausible reason. It's just that he can't explain the more fundamental question: How did this strange and suspicious terminal illness come about? Why are only the children alive? While the captain of the Ark of the Mountains led all his subjects to their deaths, the other Arks were still normal, did this disease come out of nowhere?

And there is a question, which is more suspicious than the bizarre disease: how did these humans with a low level of technology obtain the artifact of the goddess of creation, and design a simple but effective amplification system for it?

"Is there anything else in the database?" Hao Ren knocked on the shell of the data terminal, "Personnel's diaries, audio recordings, video recordings, anything." ”

The data terminal is communicating with the host of the "final vault", and it is doing its best to extract everything that remains of the old system, but this is only a warehouse after all, and there is not much useful information. In the end, the data terminal found the most valuable information, which was a few fragments of broken video data.

"There's something here, it's taken by the surveillance system, and it's left at the two points when the facility is closed and when it's turned on." As he spoke, the data terminal began to play back the information he had found.

The first video shows the children as they enter the hibernation pods. The children can be seen walking on the long bridge in a neat line, and some children who are too young are even being held in the arms of older children. The older children seem to know what is going to happen, so they can occasionally be seen comforting their younger siblings. No one cried or frightened, and all the children stood silently in the line, waiting to enter their own hibernation pod. Next to these groups can be seen sparse adults dressed in unusually heavy isolation suits, with every inch of skin wrapped under white protective clothing, as if they were afraid of infecting the children with the virus. These adults are probably the last operators of the entire Ark, their health is obviously very poor, and some even staggered when they walk, but there are not enough people in the Ark to do these tasks, so these faltering sick people can only insist on seeing off the flames of civilization.

After the last hibernation pods were put on stands, the adults in isolation suits left the place, the gates closed, and the last generation of the Ark began their seventy-seven years of ice.

"Next is the record of the opening of the facility - taken by surveillance equipment 815 years ago." The data terminal said, showing another video.

At the beginning of this video clip, Hao Ren sees chaos.

It's still a long bridge in the sky, but at the moment the situation on the long bridge is out of order. Bursts of red light flickered at the edges of the frame, and a continuous stream of sirens came from outside the frame. The hibernation pods were released in batches onto the long bridge and several additional "unloading points" around the columnar space, and the children who had woken up from the hibernation pods panicked and fled the place in a panic led by the guiding lights and some of the older children. This video is much shorter than the previous one, and there are almost only a few jumble shots. After the video was played, Lily subconsciously asked, "What's going on behind that?" ”

"I'm afraid this facility was activated by accident, they should have been dormant for a longer time!" Hao Ren frowned, "The result was woken up in advance!" ”

Lily's eyes widened: "Accident? What accident? ”

It was not Hao Ren who answered her, but the data terminal: "The reactor is faulty!" Do you remember the radiation of the outer area of the ancestral furnace? The radiation was almost 800 years ago when the reactor suddenly broke down! (To be continued.) )