[Mechanical Core: The activation key of the deep-diving exploration spacecraft numbered EX-00121245, which can obtain the highest authority of the spacecraft after activation]

[The spaceship was attacked by unknown forces while exploring the Verne star field with the fleet and crashed into the Blue Star]

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[This mechanical core is glowing, take it out, and you will get an unexpected harvest]

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Perhaps because of the ship's proximity, the description of the core has changed.

Before Su Xia could take out the mechanical core, the nanobots in the depths suddenly sent him a special picture.

【Special Energy Fluctuations Detected】

In the darkness deep in the chasm, a red dot slowly lit up.

It was like an eye, like a lamp, slowly turning from light red to dark red, and began to move, like a ghost floating in the abyss.

Xiong Wei and Zhang Fang, who were on the ground, also noticed that something was wrong.

"What's that?" Xiong Wei was alert, "Mr. Zhang, you have been here for the past two days, have you ever seen anything like that?" ”

"Nope."

Zhang Fang was vigilant, looked at Su Xia, and said, "Commander, we should step back a little and leave a few robots here to shoot." ”

"Good!"

In the face of the unknown outside civilization, no matter how cautious it is, it is impossible to be too cautious.

Su Xia got up from the edge of the rift, patted the dust on his body, and glanced down by the way.

As the nanobots had reported, the red dot that suddenly appeared was very conspicuous in the abyss below, and was gradually moving upwards, as if it was about to fly out of the rift.

"That thing is coming up!" Xiong Wei's face changed sharply, he took out his weapon, and prepared to face the enemy.

The rest of the researchers at the scene had retreated to a few dozen meters away, all looking nervous, holding firearms, and watching the situation here.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the crack.

"Is it the maintenance staff of the Oloch Company, please?" It was a gentle male voice, "We crashed on an unknown planet, the captain died, the dormant pod and escape pod were destroyed, and we were in urgent need of rescue. ”

"Orox Corporation?"

Su Xia's heart moved, and she thought of her nanobot.

These little robots are the products of the Orox company.

This company also seems to be famous in the starry sky, and it is said in the description of the nanobot that this robot with attack, defense, reconnaissance and other functions has been widely praised in major star fields once it was launched.

The red dot in the crack is because of his own nanobots?

As soon as he thought of this, Su Xia stretched out his hand to signal Zhang Fang and Xiong Wei to remain calm, and replied tentatively: "No, I'm just a user of the product of the Olok Company." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Fang and Xiong Wei glanced at each other, both a little confused.

None of them had heard of the Eurock Company, and they were puzzled, guessing that Su Xia was talking nonsense.

After a while, the red dot in the rift spoke again: "Hello, can you send us a distress signal for us?" The Imperial Patrol should be at the edge of this star field. ”

Su Xia didn't answer directly, but asked, "Are you the intelligent system of this spaceship?" ”

"Yes." …

He replied, "My name is Hal." ”

"Hal, can I trust you?"

"Absolutely."

"Turn on the restrictions below, and I'd like to come in and talk to you."

"I'm sorry, but my authority doesn't allow me to do this." There was a little more apology in Howl's voice, "Before the ship crashed, my clearance was locked to the 'Everyday Class', and the captain died due to the explosion of the living module before I unlocked it. ”

"Is there any other way?"

"Yes, the ship's mechanical core should have crashed on this planet as well, and if you want to, you might be able to find it."

"Okay......

After a short chat contact, Su Xia had a bottom in her heart.

He has activated the mechanical core, passed the certification, and is now the new captain of this exploration ship.

"Mr. Xiong and Mr. Zhang are waiting for me here for a while, I need to go down." Su Xia turned to the two of them and said.

"Commander, be careful."

"Don't worry."

Su Xia nodded, turned around and jumped down, taking out the mechanical core in the storage compartment.

He fell rapidly, the mechanical core in his hand glowing, like Prometheus making fire, drawing a burning light in the dark chasm.

The countless nanobots in the deepest part quickly changed, turning into slender translucent strips, and then intertwined to form a large soft net that accurately caught the falling Su Xia.

"Commander!"

When Xiong Wei and Zhang Fang ran to the edge of the rift in surprise and looked down, Su Xia had already reached the deepest part of the rift.

"Commander, are you alright?" Xiong Wei asked loudly.

"It's fine!"

Su Xia raised his head and waved his hand to the two of them, the core of his hand had gradually darkened.

Neither of them could see what was in his hand, and thought it was just an ordinary glowing object used to illuminate the darkness below.

At the very bottom of the fissure, there is a long corridor of alloy.

This corridor is not flat, but arc-shaped, with a deep center, bending upwards and forwards, like a missing disc, and the left and right sides are covered with various complex lines and pipes, as well as some broken display screens and sensors, projection and other equipment.

At this time, you can see that the floating red dot you see is projected.

"Hello."

The red dot hovered in front of Su Xia, flickering and dimming, like an eye that kept blinking.

Red always represents danger, and as an entity of the ship's system, it looks a bit sci-fi horror.

"Looks like you've found the mechanical core and activated it." Hal said calmly, "Next, you will be the temporary captain of this exploration ship. ”

"Where's the entrance?"

"Right in front of you, please come with me."

Hal slowly drifted forward, and as he moved, the emergency lights on both sides of the arc corridor also turned on, flickering and dimming, all dark red.

The cold metal walls around it reflected a blur of light, causing the entire corridor to turn a dark red, and the broken wiring and equipment around it looked oppressive.

Susha followed Hal to a small heavy alloy door.

There was a dark red manual valve on the door, but it looked like it was damaged and could no longer be opened. …

"Place the mechanical core or ID card you have on the sensing device, and once verified, you will be able to enter the interior of the ship."

Hal hovered in front of the door, beside him was a long, dark black oval metal pillar with a smooth surface and a sensing device above it.

Su Xia took a closer look, then placed the mechanical core on it.

I only heard a "buzz" sound, and there was no other prompt, but the indicator light changed color, indicating that the verification was passed.

The mechanical lock turned, the cylinder exited, and the heavy alloy door slowly opened a gap, and a peculiar smell of gas erupted from the gap.

"Be prepared to have the bodies of a clergyman and a writer right behind the door, who died in the crash and are now completely ossified," Hal said. ”

Su Xia asked, "Why are there clergy on the spaceship?" ”

"Because most of the members are religious, many ships depart with a clergyman." Hal elaborates, "The long starry sky exploration is very boring, most of the time is spent driving in the dark and deep unknown, and the members need spiritual help. ”

He continued: "It's the same thing with writers, books, music, games, paintings, etc., all of which can help members out of boredom. ”

"Without these things, over time, the psychological condition of some members may become worse and worse, with symptoms such as irritability, irritability, depression, and even visual and auditory hallucinations......"

"Many catastrophic accidents in the starry sky are caused by internal causes, in which the personal factors of the members account for the majority, and there were once people who went crazy in hallucinations and slaughtered the members of the entire ship......"

“……”

In Howl's explanation, Su Xia slowly pushed the door open, and the emergency lights in the cabin behind the door lit up in turn, illuminating the surrounding area.

Behind the door, there were two skeletons.

The skull, sternum, leg bones, ribs and other bones of the two corpses have different degrees of fractures, and it is likely that they were hit like this in the process of crashing.

Hal explained: "This is the cabin in the living area, which used to be a rest area for all kinds of training equipment, and the curved corridor outside is one of the passages leading to the cooling cabin, and the top of the rift you see was originally closed, but it was later broken in the crash. ”

The cabin wasn't huge, and through the flashing dark red emergency lights, it could be seen that there was indeed a lot of loose exercise equipment on the ground.

The exterior of this exploration ship seems to be a ring, which can be rotated to simulate part of gravity, slowing down the crew's bone loss, muscle atrophy and other symptoms, so the metal corridor outside is arc-shaped, and it is only a part of this huge ring.

But the ship wasn't big enough to be poorly simulated, so it was necessary for the crew to keep up with the long-term training.

"You seem to be an indigenous inhabitant of this planet?" Hal questioned.

"Yes."

Susha didn't deny it.

Hal was not disappointed by this answer, as an AI, his priority now is to keep the rest of the crew alive before making contact with the outside world. …

"This planet is backward and primitive, and at the time of the ship's downfall, humans here did not yet have the ability to explore extraterrestrial planets."

Hal said: "If it is discovered by an extraterrestrial civilization with bad intentions, this planet is likely to be occupied and colonized and become a resource star...... I can understand that you don't want to get in touch with the outside world for the sake of the humans on this planet. ”

Su Xia asked, "When did this exploration ship crash?" ”

"9885 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 56 seconds ago." Hal replied truthfully, "It's 58 seconds." ”

"It's been more than twenty years."

Su Xia made a simple calculation, and then asked, "Is there still a crew member alive?" ”

"There are also two engineers who are sleeping in the hibernation pod, and they will sleep for about twelve years."

"Will this exploration ship still fly?"

"There is little hope."

After Hal answered, a three-dimensional overall structure of the spaceship slowly appeared in front of him.

Similar to what Su Xia had imagined, the outer side of the ship was indeed circular, with a circular passage in the middle of it in the shape of a cross and a sphere in the center.

The entire structure is blue, with only one-sixth of the area below the outer ring marked in red.

Hal explained, "This red part is the wreckage of the spaceship that crashed in this area, and you are in the middle of the spacecraft's partial cultivation module, living module, dormant module, escape cabin and other compartments. ”

Su Xia asked, "The spaceship disintegrated in the air?" ”

"Yes, the rest has fallen in different parts of the planet, and maybe some have already been discovered." Hal calmly recounted, "If those wreckage are intact, the humans of this planet should be able to explore extraterrestrial planets by reversing them, do you have this ability now?" ”

"Nope."

"It seems that you are a person of great luck to be able to obtain the products of the Euroque Corporation on a closed planet, and you must have a high status among the humans on this planet."

"It's okay."

Su Xia thought about his status, he didn't care much about this thing, he only valued ability.

In the Oasis camp, he never wanted to fight for power, but because he showed outstanding ability over time, the camp members relied on him more and more.

Even if he wanted control of the camp now, Xiong Wei would not hesitate to give it to him.

"Although this exploration ship can't set sail again, it's not impossible if you want to explore the extraterrestrial world." Hal said to Susha, "Now that you are the captain of the ship, and I have stored a lot of information about the ship, which is enough to make the human technology of this planet evolve rapidly. ”

"There's no urgency here, and the human situation outside is terrible right now."

"Is there a civil war in the Terrans?"

As an artificial intelligence, Hal actually thought of the civil war in the first place.

This word seems to have been deeply imprinted in every human being, even in the intelligent products created by human beings.

Su Xia asked, "Why do you think so?" ”

"Because the resources of a planet are finite."

Hal replied: "If the development of science and technology is bottlenecked, the problem of non-renewable existing resources cannot be solved, the demand and supply cannot be balanced, and the contradictions between countries are deepening day by day, war is only a matter of time, and this kind of thing happens on many planets...... Many civilizations, before they could fully grow, destroyed themselves because of civil wars. ”…

"Can it be avoided?"

"Of course, the most realistic way is to explore the starry sky and carry out interstellar colonization."

Hal has a lot of data here to prove that the starry sky is always the best channel to vent contradictions to the outside world.

If this step is not taken, internal contradictions will become more and more agitated, and war will break out sooner or later.

The existing peace is only a glittering and fleeting dream of mankind's long years of war.

Susha pondered for a moment and discovered that Howl's theories were similar to those of many science fiction works on Earth in the last century.

However......

On the other side of the earth, landing on the moon now is an extravagant hope.

Hal looked at Susha and said, "Of course, in addition to the information I have here, there is also a possible method that allows you to explore deep space. ”

"How?"

"Inside this ship, there are twelve small planetary survey ships, and if there are any of them that haven't been destroyed, you can drive them away from this planet."

"Is there anything in this wreckage?"

"No, the survey ships are all in the compartments in the center of the ship." Hal said in a regretful tone, "Maybe you need to keep searching on this planet, and one day you will find it." ”

"Hmmm......"

Su Xia nodded slightly, he was not in a hurry to fly out now, he was just curious about the world outside the planet.

The top priority is to strengthen your own strength, stabilize this planet as soon as possible, and then make a city lord for several roommates to stabilize the channel for long-term money.

"I need to get stronger fast, do you have a way here?"

"Yes."

Hal's red light flashed, as if he was nodding.

"Captain, you can go to the hell battlefield to train."

"Hell Battlefield?"

Su Xia's heart moved, this name was too familiar to him.

Wang Teng's guy also had a battle temper in a virtual space called Hell Battlefield.