Chapter 573: The Gift of the Ancients
The platform was very close to the large ball of light, and was directly connected by a bright glowing line. The control platform itself looks like it has been specially encrypted, and the technicians brought by Shen Chao have been working on it for a long time, basically disassembling its entire box, but they still haven't been able to unlock it.
Strangely, all the other Kongzhìtai in the ruins automatically accepted the control of Shen Chao and his party, but only the Kongzhìtai here refused their visit. It's like it's broken, and there's no response at all to their touch attempts.
This unusual phenomenon caught their attention, and fortunately, there was an inscription on the outer shell of the control zhì platform, and they could barely see the meaning of the inscription through the translation of the information collected earlier. When translated, it's quite straightforward, roughly meaning "only accept human manipulation".
The people at the scene were all humans, but a large group of people tossed around the control platform for a long time to no avail. After tossing and turning here for about half an hour, the situation in the outside world changed drastically. A large number of Stardream infantry have landed on the surface of Chamhak, many of them gathering towards the ruins where they are.
Although the Covenant's tracking fleet did not make any judgments worth mentioning during the space battle, after landing, he quickly figured out what was happening here through the traces of destruction left by the Guò expedition and the reports of the surviving Covenant personnel on the surface.
After learning that this was a human raid and that the ruins where the Shen Dynasty were currently located were the first sites on the entire planet to be conquered, he gathered his forces and prepared to enter the depths of the ruins by violent means.
As mentioned earlier, if the Covenant personnel want to enter the ruins, they will inevitably be violently attacked by the defense system. Being able to make the decision to storm with this information shows that the opposing commander is a rather perceptive guy.
However, no matter how perceptive he was, he could only create a little pressure on Shen Chao at this time. It didn't disrupt his overall arrangement. After learning of the Star Alliance's latest move, Shen Chao adjusted the access control to strengthen the defense inside the ruins. On the other hand, he hurriedly opened a space-time door to mobilize personnel and equipment from the rear.
Of the people he had transferred, except for a few who were combatants, they were used to strengthen the original defenses in the ruins. Most of the others were scientific researchers, preparing to use the work of cracking this control platform, and even Hargreff, who had been busy deciphering the previous batch of technical data, rushed over.
But. Even if they strengthened the lineup of personnel to tackle key problems, they still failed to unlock this very ordinary-looking control platform. And in the process of trying to unlock it, they also gradually realized that this control platform and the other control platforms in the ruins just looked very similar, and in fact they were not a thing at all.
This was the first thing Hargrave determined, and after confirming that he could not open the control platform, he carefully examined the control platform with a variety of instruments, and finally determined that this thing was structurally completely different from other control stations.
Except that the shell of this control is the same as the material of other control platforms, there is almost nothing else in common. First of all. The internal structure of this platform does not have any gaps or edges, and the panel is completely independent and almost indestructible.
Secondly, there are no wiring outside the control panel that is connected to any control or power supply system in the ruins. There is no way for them to access the system and try to hack through a fixed connection. This makes it completely impossible for them to hack the terminal by conventional means.
After confirming this, Shen Chao had to interrupt his earlier assumptions, and began to evacuate people and loot through the space-time gate that had been opened. In his opinion, this time it seemed that he could only choose to give up the big ball of light in front of him.
"Is there really no way to salvage some jù?" Before issuing the order to retreat, Shen Chao finally confirmed it to Hargrave.
Because they had sufficient background information to prepare, as soon as they entered, they knew that the large ball of light they saw in front of them was a neurotechnology product called a think tank. As a pioneer technology product. It's almost as dangerous as it's worth.
Its value is mainly reflected in the knowledge it carries, and even the botched neurotechnology products created by the human reverse engineering of the Plane as a reverter have advanced AI such as Cortana. It is difficult to say how much potential value and capacity a think tank can have when it is fully developed.
On the one hand, the expedition wanted to get the information from the think tank, and on the other hand, they couldn't bring it back to the rear until they figured out how it worked. Otherwise, if the think tanks are more capable than they expected or malfunction, they may even be completely powerless to respond effectively.
"Actually, there's another method we haven't tried. The inscription on the platform can be deeply understood......" Hargrave said and pointed to the Master Chief and his party not far away, and Shen Chao instantly understood what he meant.
Although he was still full of doubts, after a short period of consideration, he decided to temporarily put aside his intention to recruit the Master Chief and came forward to arrange for the Master Chief and his party to return to the Pegasus through the two space-time gates. Then he closed the space-time door.
Hargrave's conjecture was that the think tank not far away should have some sort of unknown monitoring mechanism that could monitor the halls in real time. The reason why they are not accepted by the control platform here is probably because they have a group of people with the key to the Precursor gene around them who play a role in interference.
Although he had little faith in this theory, Shen Chao carried out the arrangement, temporarily moving all the people from the UNSC, including the Master Chief, to the other side, after which they tried to activate the control platform again.
As a result, his first attempt to operate the control platform after he closed the space-time gate was successful, and the control platform that Hargrave was guarding immediately lit up! Their conjecture actually came true, this ruin is really a human act, and only when all the people who come to open it are "pure-blooded humans", it will lift all secrets and prohibitions.
"How about now, what do you say on the platform?" Seeing that the control platform lit up, Shen Chao's tone regained his vitality again, and he immediately rushed over and asked.
"We've got results, and we're showing operational guidance on this, for this think tank!" There are other ......," Hargrave explained with a smile as he looked at the number displayed on the control table.
It had taken him a few days before to restore and learn the language and writing of ancient humans through the information they had discovered, and for him at this time, operating this control platform was no more complicated than an ordinary person on the main plane groping for the use of a tablet.
However, after groping and reading the information displayed on the control table for a while, the smile on Hargrave's face gradually faded, and all that was left was blank and heavy. It was the first time Shen Chao had seen Hargrave show such a distracted side.
It turned out that there were more secrets in this ruin than anyone before them could have imagined. Just seeing the log that had just been displayed on this platform was enough to refresh all of their perceptions of the history of this entire plane.
"What's going on, what's recorded on it?" Shen Chao walked over and asked with a little curiosity. He didn't know what shocking information Hargrave saw, but he was pretty sure that the information that would shake Hargrave must be heavyweight.
"Look at this, according to the records here, this big ball of light or think tank in front of us is not a pioneer creation, but a human being!" 100,000 years ago, before their species was wiped out by the Precursors, the paleoanthropologists here finally cracked the neurotechnology left behind by the pioneers and created the prototype of the think tank. The entire ruins were built to protect the think tank prototype. Hargrave translated the transcript he had seen and gave it a brief description.
It turned out that the ruins they were in were not related to the Pioneers as they had thought, but were completely human creations. And according to the records of this control platform, they finally knew why there was a claim that ancient humans had mastered the technology to surpass the precursors before they were exterminated by the precursors.
Neurotechnology is the top technology left behind by the pioneers, and even the forerunners who built and activated the halo 100,000 years ago were not able to learn it. Mastering neurotechnology shows that ancient humans did indeed make a decisive technological breakthrough before their demise.
It's a pity that their technological breakthrough came too late, and they only had time to build this prototype, and they were wiped out by their forerunners with a hundred times their military strength before they even achieved any application results.
However, this record explains why after the Precursors wiped out the last fleet of ancient humans, all the remaining ancient humans on Chamhak committed suicide. The members of the previous expedition had always thought that this was the so-called plot killing, or that ancient humans were mentally retarded.
But now it is clear to everyone that the reason why ancient humans made such an extreme move to self-exterminate was to protect their own race. They were trying to avoid the think tank's manufacturing technology from ending up in the hands of their sworn enemies, the forerunners.
A series of previous events have proven that it is very difficult to enter this site without the guidance of a pure-blooded human. So far, at least, the Covenant forces outside, who were exploring inward, were still rambling around the ruins.
In a sense, the actions of ancient humans were successful. 100,000 years have passed, and only a group of intelligent beings who meet the requirements of "pure-blooded humans" have entered the depths of this ruin to find this think tank prototype. Moreover, even these "pure-blooded humans" can only unlock the information stored here when an external threat is not present. (To be continued......)
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A few days ago, I saw the remuneration information in May, and I was very sad, which made the whole person in a bad state of creation. It's a little bit back today.,Update a chapter first.,I'll continue to code words after a while.,If the code comes out tonight, the second chapter will be sent out directly.,If the code doesn't come out, then I'll see you tomorrow......