Chapter 850: Enter
Leo and Sylvia entered the water and dived all the way to the outside of the engine bay.
After comparing the stereogram he had obtained from the scan data yesterday, Leo quickly found a location that he had analyzed to provide access to the interior of the chamber.
Then, he pointed downward, and the two of them swam together towards the hole.
Although the engine compartment was started in time to alleviate the impact force when it fell, this abnormal landing state still inevitably caused some damage to the cabin.
If it was in the Earth Federation, such damage could be completely repaired easily, but now that this cabin is in the lake of the Velen World, it is impossible for the damage to be repaired in any way, and no matter how small the damage is, it will become a big hole over time.
The two swam to the side of the cabin, and Leo quickly followed the imprint on the exterior wall to find the emergency access interface to the engine compartment.
This emergency passage is specially prepared for the mechanic working in the lower cabin, this escape passage will not actively close or fall off, only when the cabin is separated from the other cabins, the cabin itself will be torn off by the detachment force, and then the cabins at both ends will automatically close the hatches.
This design is mainly to allow the survivor to escape even at the last moment, and the biggest problem with this design is that it will cause some damage to the hatch at both ends when pulling, but these damages are within acceptable limits, as long as there are maintenance personnel can quickly repair the damage.
However, it is obvious that there should be no maintenance personnel in this engine compartment, and when the cabin landed, the joint of this escape compartment suffered a second damage, making this part very fragile, although the metal wall does not seem to be damaged from the outside, but in fact, the ultra-high-density metal plate at the junction has been completely broken, and it has been easily found through the polymer oscillation scanning of the detector.
After Leo found the part found in the data, he pulled out the twins, turned them into the sharpest sacrificial knife and ignored it, and then directly inserted the sacrificial knife into the crack in the broken part of the metal wall, easily inserted the blade into it, and then moved the blade along the trend of the crack, and soon cut a half-human-high metal plate.
After the metal plate was removed, a hollow tunnel was seen behind the metal plate that could provide one-person access, and in the passage, there were spherical devices at intervals.
Seeing this device, Leo immediately recognized it as a force field generator.
For a combined exploration ship such as the Titan-class mothership, once it encounters an enemy ship attack, it is impossible to rely on armor to defend it, because the modular combination method is destined to make it unable to have extremely strong integrated armor. If each compartment is equipped with integrated battleship armor, the weight of the entire spaceship will increase several times, and it will not be convenient for module assembly.
Therefore, the builders at that time simply replaced the armor of all the combined module compartments except the core ship with the isolation armor commonly used by inner galaxy warships, and the defense of the spaceship all relied on the energy force field to defend, and even the outer compartment could be used as the mothership armor if necessary.
This kind of isolation armor is a new type of energy metal, when using the energy force field, the energy force field will stimulate the metal characteristics of the isolation armor, making the metal more than seventy times stronger, enough to be comparable to the armor of starships, and when there is no energy image, it is just an ordinary isolation armor.
This was a good thing for Leo, because if it was really the armor of the battleship, even if he had a sacrificial knife, he probably wouldn't be able to cut that layer of armor off in a short time.
Because of the crack in the armor just now, the equipment pipe of this force field generator was already full of lake water, Leo checked it, and after finding no danger, he motioned for Sylvia to follow, and then drilled into the pipe, and quickly swam towards one end according to some indicators in the pipe.
Soon, Leo found an abandoned maintenance vehicle in the pipeline, which was knocked off the transport track and fell to the side due to the vibration caused by the cabin falling to the ground.
Leo motioned to Sylvia to wait, then forcefully moved the maintenance car back to the track, followed by a quick inspection of the maintenance vehicle's energy system, conduction device and other components, and after confirming that it was not damaged, he manually turned on the maintenance vehicle's system.
I saw that on the display screen of the maintenance vehicle, some data start-up screens quickly flashed, and finally stayed on the operation interface.
Leo quickly pressed the indicator button on the screen, and saw a force field of energy transmitted from the maintenance vehicle, swept over Leo and Sylvia, and then squeezed all the water to the periphery, and automatically converted oxygen suitable for human breathing, forming a spherical force field.
"It's amazing!" Standing on the platform of the maintenance car, Sylvia took off her mask to breathe some of the air around her, and then reached through the water curtain above her head, feeling the cold and biting water on the other side, and when she withdrew her hand, she found that all the water in her hands was isolated outside the force field, and her hands, which were full of water stains just now, felt a little dry.
Because the repair car is in single-person mode, the two-person station is a little crowded, Leo simply hugged Sylvia in his arms, let her hold the railing next to her, and then activated the repair car's autopilot system, let it run automatically, and moved along the guide rails of the pipe, the repair shop of the engine compartment.
"You seem familiar with this place?" Sylvia asked curiously as she saw Leo expertly press the strange character on the glowing screen, and then the oddly shaped device under her feet moved.
Leo explained in a way that Sylvia could understand, "I have a lot of knowledge in my head that allows me to use these devices from the stars freely. ”
Sylvia sank for a moment, and said with a little expectation, "Is there a way for me to get this knowledge too?"
"Yes. Leo nodded and said, "As long as you can find a database import device, you can get this knowledge." ”
"Database import device?" Sylvia repeated the name in Earth Federation language with some jerky repetition, and then asked, "Where can I find it?"
"Inside the ruins of a prehistoric civilization. Leo replied uncertainly, then thought about it again and said, "Saran, the Chosen King, may have one in his hands." ”
"She?" Sylvia pouted, "I'd better rely on my luck!"
As the two spoke, the moving repair truck had slowly stopped.
At this time, a probe stretched out above the heads of the two people, and a detection grating swept over the two of them.
At this time, Leo was about to cast his psionic shield, and at the same time reached out and pressed a permission button on the repair car, and when the acceptance icon appeared, he reported a permission code and corresponding password, and then waited for the cabin's control system to respond.
Leo had many identities when he was on a mission, one of which gave him a secret permission code, which allowed him to have a fourth-level authority, under which he could obtain control of most civilian equipment, control of a small number of warships, and also be able to call on some local armies.
As far as he knew, this secret permission code is a code common to cyborg warriors, and it will not be easily canceled, and when someone uses this code to do something harmful to the Earth Federation, the system control masters of each star field can also react quickly and block the permission of this code.
He didn't know if the cyborg's common code clearance had been revoked after his death, but if not, he would have saved a lot of trouble and a lot less danger in the next exploration of the chamber.
Not long after he reported the permission code, the word "pass" was quickly displayed on the control screen of the maintenance vehicle, and then the detection probe also retracted, and an energy force field was transmitted from above, squeezing out the surrounding water, followed by the metal wall above revealing a small entrance that was just enough for the maintenance vehicle to pass through, and the maintenance vehicle also levitated, leading the two into the entrance.
After the two entered, the entrance closed again, and the surrounding energy field was dissolved, and the lake was filled again.
At this time, Leo and the two have walked out of the distance along the pipe, and after passing through a front entrance, they entered a considerable space, this space is divided into two parts, the outer is round, the inner side is triangular, the diameter is about 500 meters, and the inner wall of the circle is full of some more than ten storey houses, it seems that this should be the living area of the cabin staff, and the gravity device is also maintained here, so that even if people stand on the top of the inner wall of the ball, they will not fall from down.
It was the first time Sylvia had seen such a sight, and she was completely stunned by what she saw, and her mouth was wide open, and she didn't know what to say for a long time.
At this moment, the repair truck suddenly reversed in the air and leaned towards a small two-story building located on the ceiling.
At the moment of turning upside down, Sylvia immediately screamed nervously, turned around and hugged Leo hard, afraid that she would fall from the sky.
It's just that after realizing that what she was worried about didn't happen, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed by what she had just done, and then as if she was angry, as if complaining that Leo didn't remind her, she glared at him fiercely, and then turned around and looked at the strangely shaped buildings around her.
The maintenance car slowly docked on the platform on the roof of the two-story building, Leo walked down, saw that Leo walked down, there was no fall, Sylvia also walked down, and after stepping on the roof, he couldn't help but look up at the upside-down house overhead, and then jumped on the spot twice, picked up an item on the ground, and threw it away, like a child who had just gotten a toy.
At the same time, Leo had spread the spiritual web from here, infiltrating every building and room in this living quarter, and the result disappointed him, because he had found no living people from here, not even any dead from here, and the entire living area was empty.
Leo turned and walked down the spiral staircase next to him, and Sylviakin followed, and the two of them came to the small building.
The second-story house was very messy, with tables and chairs falling to the ground, lamps and lamps falling to the ground, and daily necessities and books scattered around it, which seemed to be the internal shock caused by the landing of the engine compartment, making it look like an earthquake had hit the place.
Sylvia casually tried to pick up some of the books on the ground and flipped through them, but when her hand touched them, the books immediately crumbled into powder and scattered all over the ground.
"What's going on?" Sylvia had a puzzled look on her face when she saw this, she had actually considered the preservation of the book, so she had been as careful as possible when she took the book, but just by touching it lightly, the book was completely broken into powder, which really made her a little puzzled.
"In the civilization of the starry sky, paper books have long been eliminated, and brain reading is the mainstream way of reading. Leo explained, "But there are also some people who like this kind of retro book, so someone has developed this kind of degradable material book." These books cannot be stored indefinitely, and after the expiration date, they will automatically degrade back to the original material. ”
After explaining, Leo carefully checked the situation of the repair shop, although there was some damage caused during the emergency landing, but because no one else has entered the place since then, the things here are still quite well preserved, especially most of the items are still in the same position as the person who lived here before they left.
Judging from what he found, the people who lived here did not appear to be in a hurry when they left, which shows that this engine compartment was not abandoned due to some accident, but was discarded on the initiative of the mothership, and the preparation time before discarding was sufficient, so that everyone had enough time to pack up their things.
It's just that he feels that something is wrong, because according to the procedures, if this engine compartment is abandoned, in addition to moving away from the people who live and work here, it is necessary to take away the energy source here, and even set up a cleaning program in the system to clear the cabin system, and then detonate the cabin after a safe distance to destroy it completely.
But now the situation of this engine compartment completely violates any of the abandonment rules he knows, not only has the extremely valuable energy source not been taken away, even the system has not been removed, but also let it emit a recovery signal on its own, especially this recovery signal is the most strange, because if it is an abandoned cabin, then the system will not be able to release a recovery signal at all.
"What's wrong?is there a problem here?" Sylvia's attention shifted back to Leo from the surrounding items at this time, and when she saw Leo frowning and pondering, she couldn't help but ask.