Chapter 7: The Ark
On the island of hatred, the members of the Extinction Team invited their families out of the shelter and gathered them all at Ma Le's house.
"Xiaole, what are you doing here?" Father Ma was a little puzzled, Ma Le smiled: "Dad, haven't you always asked me to inquire about the whereabouts of the third uncle, I found it, and now I will take you there!" ”
"Really?" Father Ma was first overjoyed when he heard this, but then he became worried: "But the battle is in full swing outside, how can we go, it's better to wait for the battle to end......"
"There's no time! I'm afraid we won't be able to survive this battle! As he spoke, Ma Le beckoned to several other households: "Everyone gather in a circle, surround me in the middle, stand up, quickly!" ”
Everyone didn't know why, but they still did it, Ma Xiaoxiao frowned: "Ma Le, ...... you?"
"Sister Xiao, believe me......" Ma Le nodded, and seeing that everyone was standing around, he took out a scroll from the space.
"That's ......" Yu Xiaoning was surprised: "The group teleportation scroll, and it is a real attribute, this thing is quite rare!" ”
"That's right, I kept it for today!" As he spoke, Ma Le raised his hand and tore the precious treasure in half, releasing powerful magical energy.
This energy wrapped around the bodies of everyone in the room, flickered a few times, and then brushed up, and then, only an empty hall was left in the room, and the twenty or thirty people who had gathered around it all disappeared.
When they came to their senses, they found themselves in a bright hall, the hall was very large, but the shelves were very low, the floor, the ceiling, the surrounding walls, were all made of metal, and it looked like the facilities of a military fortress.
"This is ......" The adventurers can still be calm, but the relatives are a little panicked, and they have found their relatives to get together. At this moment, the metal hatch on a wall opened, and a girl about twenty years old walked in, wearing a blue and white uniform, and as soon as she came in, she saw the Ma Le family in the crowd, smiling: "Brother, uncle, aunt!" ”
Ma Le stepped forward and patted the girl's head: "Long time no see!" ”
And Ma Le's parents, when they saw the girl, their eyes widened with excitement: "Xiaoling! ”
That's right, this girl is Ma Le's cousin, Ma Xiaoling. Since the three years of turmoil, the two families have been separated, and after Ma Le's family settled on Lihate Island, Ma's father has been urging Ma Le to inquire about the whereabouts of the third uncle's family. But the old man himself knew in his heart that in this chaotic era, most of the families who did not reach Lihate Island were caught or cleared......
Now, seeing his long-lost relatives here, how can the old man not be happy!
"Okay, Dad, don't get too excited, there's time to catch up!" Ma Le was in danger of his excited father: "It's important now!" ”
Then, under the guidance of Ma Xiaoling, the group left the hall and came to a corridor made of steel, with hatches every few meters on both sides of the corridor. Occasionally, I would see other people in uniform like Ma Xiaoling passing by, and when I saw these people, they would nod and say hello, looking very friendly.
Along the corridor, turn left and right, and soon you come to a more spacious hall with a lot of machinery and a lot of people working. Ma Xiaoling found a middle-aged uncle and said a few words to him, and the uncle put down the work in his hand, walked to a hatch on the edge of the hall, and after a while, took out a small notebook and a string of magnetic cards.
"305~315 These eleven rooms are still empty, they are all large rooms for four people to live, this is the key, you can take them there......"
Ma Xiaoling shook her head: "Among these people are adventurers, I want to take them to meet the captain......"
The uncle frowned, looked up and shouted, "Lilith, Terry, you two come here!" ”
Two young people, a man and a woman, came over there, and the uncle instructed them a few words, and the two of them went to Ma Le and his party to take their families to the accommodation area.
With Ma Lezuo's assurance, the family members were not so worried, and followed the two to the allocation of accommodation, while the remaining six adventurers followed Ma Xiaoling to continue walking, and soon came to a place like a reception room, and there was a young man waiting for them in the house! ”
"Welcome to the Ark!" The young man walked over: "Introduce yourself, my name is Zhou Yu, you can also call me Mo Yun, I am the captain of this ark!" ”
"Captain?!" Everyone was stunned, is this actually a ship?
That's right, the place where everyone is located today is the Atlantic Ocean, 2,000 meters below sea level. And they're aboard the Ark, the greatest submarine man has ever built!
It is 2,000 meters long and 400 meters wide, with a total displacement of 17 million tons and a maximum capacity of 30,000 people. In addition to the cabins, weapons, power facilities that ordinary submarines have, there is a whole production area in the middle and lower part of the hull. It is covered with 200,000 tons of fertile soil, with special lighting equipment to imitate sunlight, where people are planted with all kinds of grains, vegetables and fruits that people usually need, as well as a special area for storing livestock, with fish, shrimp and sea animals caught in the sea, to supplement the animal protein that people need.
Although food production is still far from self-sufficient, it has been calculated that it will be enough to feed 30,000 people for more than 20 years.
After listening to Zhou Yu's introduction to the ark, several adventurers had not yet come to their senses, Ma Xiaoxiao turned his head to look at Ma Le: "You already knew about the existence here?" ”
Ma Le nodded: "Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the island of hatred is the largest organization in the world that resists the Brotherhood, but it is not the only one. In addition to this ark, there must be people everywhere else who are fighting for survival! ”
"I have a question...... Qin Yunfeng frowned: "With such a big deal as the Ark, after the Brotherhood occupied the world, there would definitely be no chance to implement it, Mr. Zhou, you were also an adventurer before the fall of the world, did you expect the disaster to come a long time ago, and take precautions?" ”
Zhou Yu smiled slightly: "This is thanks to the advice of a certain friend!" As he spoke, he unconsciously glanced at Ma Le, "Before the fall of the world, I was also a rich man with huge capital, and at that time, someone advised me to prepare in advance for future disasters and build a shelter or something like that. ”
Ma Xiaoxiao frowned: "But the scale of this ark is not something that ordinary rich people can afford, at least it requires national financial and industrial capacity...... How did you do that? ”
Zhou Yu shrugged his shoulders: "I thought so at first, whether it was a shelter or a shelter ship, it was not something that an ordinary businessman could afford, so at that time, I just managed to acquire some industrial plants, and I didn't really put it into action." It wasn't until later that the Olympic coma happened! ”
"70% of the world's population fell into a coma, armies began to hunt civilians, world industry was almost paralyzed, and there was chaos everywhere. At this time, another friend of mine ...... Oh, you should also know this person, it is the current captain of Miracle City's Away from Hate Island (deputy), the Alien Pupil Witch. She brought with her a space orb that she had obtained by chance, a very rare dark gold item that could only be used once, and could compress an object into the orb and carry it around. As long as the conditions are met, even a building, a hill, can be compressed and taken away. ”
Qin Yunfeng's eyes lit up: "Could it be that this big ship is in there?" ”
"It's a skeleton!" Zhou Yu smiled: "The alien giant ship from the Macross world, more than a kilometer long, also carries a lot of surreal technology!" That was the prototype of this ark! ”
"At that time, although the world was in chaos, everything happened too suddenly, and the social order had not completely collapsed. I immediately contacted my business partners, especially those who had made a name for themselves in heavy industry, showed them Macross and proposed my Ark Project. Seeing the current situation in the world, these people also realized the crisis and used all the resources at hand to assist me in the transformation of the Ark. And those workers are their surviving employees, and the remuneration for their work is the ticket to the ark, that is, the right to survive! ”
"Of course, if there were only ordinary people, we would not have succeeded! The Alien Eye Witch also recruited a lot of adventurers to participate in this plan, and while providing technology and materials from the system, she also managed to get a large number of strong cyborgs to serve as labor. With these powerful helps, our Ark Project was able to withstand the harassment of the army and successfully launch three months later, carrying more than 15,000 people to the depths of the ocean. ”
Saying that, Zhou Yu showed a somewhat proud smile: "After that, we have successively contained many survivors, and now the ship has more than 23,000 people, including nearly 1,000 adventurers, 3,000 cyborgs, and nearly 20,000 ordinary people." It's not me bragging, except for Lihate Island, this should be the biggest stronghold of mankind! And we have mobility that we don't have from Hate Island! ”
After listening to Zhou Yu's introduction, the people of the Absolute Life Team couldn't help but sigh, in the last days, everyone is doing their best to survive. For the first time they heard about the Ark today, how many people were still struggling against the tyranny of the Brotherhood in a place they didn't know?
However, what surprised them was that Ma Le had always been in contact with this place, and even had the means to come here directly, but he never told them. Qin Yunfeng looked back at Ma Le and frowned, feeling that this companion who had been fighting side by side with him for three years was a little incomprehensible. He turned his head again: "Presumably, Mr. Zhou already knows the situation on Hate Island now, right?" The Brotherhood is attacking it in full force, and as the second largest rebel in the world, have you considered going to the aid of the Isle of Hate? ”
Hearing this, Zhou Yu was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "I just want to hide as far away as possible now!" ”