Chapter 26: Water
The skeleton was dressed in gray worker's clothing, with heavy gloves on his hands, a torn goggle on the ground that should have been on his head, and a tool kit around his waist.
On the ground was a newspaper and an empty bottle of sunset salsa.
"Pleasant, man!" The tank brain glanced at the dead man who had been dead for many years, walked over casually, crushed the bottle of Sunset Sarsafrost with his tracks, and scraped down the chair on which the skeleton was sitting, making the deceased who had been sitting upright turn around.
"It's just a pity that the taste is not good enough." When Andy and the others followed, they noticed the skeleton at first sight, because the skeleton was now lying on the ground, revealing the pattern on the back of his overalls, which was a bit out of place in the dilapidated and gloomy surroundings, and it was even more eye-catching.
That's one
In the image of the "carrot man", you can imagine a fresh carrot with hands and feet and facial features, its green hair leaning back slightly along with its healthy stride.
The carrot man's expression is positive and sunny, without any negative elements. It's too normal, it's too cartoonish .... Too... It's healthy.
"Hmm...."Andy Chord couldn't help but look twice.
"I thought that before the war, those companies would only design the kind of stiff, industrial, metallic logo, but I didn't expect that there was such a clear stream, and this pattern should be one if you look closely at the one that is not clear on the outside wall, so the company responsible for the renovation and renovation before the war is this one? It may seem strange, at least I've never seen anything like it in New California. The string seemed to like the pattern, and Andy looked at the pattern and suddenly remembered that he had seen it somewhere........
"It's not the first time I've seen it." He stepped over the bones and looked around, and soon found a poster in a corner, and when he wiped the dust off the surface, he could see that it was still this mysterious carrot man, this poster seemed to promote some kind of automated organic farming farm, but with an extra line of company signatures underneath.
Green-Channel-Water-Hydroponics. Andy looked at the poster and fell into deep thought, the surname Greenway is not the first time he has heard of it, it was first mentioned by Odysseus, the scientist who participated in the development of the main program of the supercomputer AI, Mr. Derek Greenway, one of the founders of ZAx and the subsequent series of super AI births, and after that, the unknown brain of the big dome also mentioned this person.
Could it be that he is still a boss?
"Nothing." The tank brain came out of the innermost part with some cobwebs wrapped around it.
"Keep going inside, there's just useless rusty iron and pathetic sunset SARS lovers, and we'd better not waste any more time in this abandoned maintenance room." Andy looked over, and he thought that there was a pre-war person in front of him.
"Tank brain, I want to ask you one thing, do you know the name of the boss of this company? Is he surnamed Greenway? He looked back at the poster for a while, as if he was digging into his long-sealed memories, which was a bit difficult for him.
After all, the time spent in the jar is too long, and it has long exceeded the theoretical appropriate time, and it is already relatively lucky to be able to think normally, although the personality has become a little eccentric.
"I guess you're right." He pointed to the carrot man.
"I didn't really pay much attention to these things before, but I was impressed by the mentally retarded vegetative sign, which was said to be one of the strongest defense contractors in Colorara before the war, even though they couldn't match the big dome in terms of technology... They are said to have signed agreements with the SA Environmental Protection Agency for projects to renovate some of the region's old national parks and build some green energy facilities. ”
"I don't know much more... I just think that the company promotes some primitive ecology, environmental protection and other things all day long, and if I want to say that the CEO of the company must have all the water in his head, as if he wants everyone to become a group of wild people in the end, that is absolutely original and pollution-free! They eventually left the room and continued down the road into the depths.
About half an hour later, not only Andy, but also Xian noticed that something was wrong.
"Why is it getting hotter and hotter?" The two of them were almost a little stuffy and couldn't breathe, and they couldn't imagine that such a place without sunlight would be hot.
"It's about four degrees higher than outside." The tank brain obtained the data with a built-in thermometer.
"If this trend continues, it will probably be hotter in the future, and I advise you to dress cooler." There was no way, the two took off their protective clothing and changed into light clothes, although this would make them less protected, but it was better than being dizzy from the heat.
"Hell.... The water down here is almost always hot. Xian saw that there was even steam escaping from the water beneath the railing, and the temperature raised around it was all due to the heat carried by the water flowing from an unknown location in front of him.
The three of them looked at the water and couldn't help but wonder why.
"The hot water that comes out of it..... Isn't this a spillway? It should be all superfluous floods, right? There's no reason for them to heat up and drain the useless water, right? Could it be that this is also the implementation of some kind of environmental standards by Greenway Hydroponics? How much energy does this consume? Andy scratched his head, puzzled.
"Hot springs in nature are springs that flow through hot areas underground.... The formation of these mountains must have been the result of a rather violent geological movement here in ancient times, which may not have stopped to this day. As soon as the cylinder brain said this, the string immediately agreed.
"Indeed, is this place specifically designed to drain excess hot spring water?" The two of you said a word, and Andy was stunned for a while.
As they talked, the topic of discussion deepened.
"If there really is a whole large scientific research facility built before the war, then it must have to take into account the problem of energy, and the energy required to maintain the operation of such a huge facility is also huge. If nuclear reactors are installed to generate electricity, at least dozens of special reactors rated by the military at level 8 or higher are required, and if there is active geological movement underground, these generators will be in danger at all times, and it is easy to cause nuclear contamination due to serious nuclear leakage caused by accidents. ”
"You're right, in that case, the greenway hydroponics advocates will definitely not choose to use the usual super-nuclear reactors to generate electricity, they are likely to use more local materials, not only get enough energy for them to squander energy without the danger of damaging the environment, in that case, whether this water is natural hot spring water is debatable." The more Andy listened, the more he couldn't understand, so he simply gave up and continued to listen, and walked forward, and after a while, he saw what seemed to be a few things walking in front of him on the dark wall, and he quickly went to lock it in V mode.
【Xunzu Robot】【Description: One of the special-shaped robots produced by Akme, it is good at carrying out activities in complex terrain, moving very quickly, and is equipped with small arms slots suitable for reconnaissance and protection, facility maintenance and other purposes.
Andy could tell that it was the robot that had stunned him and taken him to Tibbetts Prison in the first place, and that it was the same thing he had seen on the outskirts of Blackfoot Village
The "Iron Bug", which looks like a mechanical spider and is equipped with two small automatic weapons in front of it, or a small codE brainwave gun like the one used in Tibbetts Prison.
Those nimble metal feet allow them to walk freely on the walls at such an astonishing speed that they are almost fleeting.
The time Xian was scared before, it is estimated that he saw a robot like this. But this thing doesn't seem to be hostile, and the V mode shows that this guy isn't aggressive.
As soon as he unlocked the lock, the iron bugs crawled away and disappeared from his vision. But soon he saw more of them, and the cave pipe came to an end.
In the light of the light, there was the mouth of a large number of huge pipes, and the dull sound of mechanical operation came out, and those pipes were scattered everywhere, some sinking underwater and some hanging above.
Numerous Swiftfoot robots climb up and down here, in and out, not only climbing high places or hanging forward, but also swimming into the water to check everything without dead ends.
"Oh..... Feeling a little nauseous. The cylinder brain complained, but suddenly a loudspeaker came out somewhere in front of him, and the voice was cold and full of disgust.
"Then you'd better tell you what you're here for, or you're going to be in close contact with something you feel disgusting, you know? Answer my questions as quickly as you can, answer me, what are you here forbidden? According to the SA Defense Law, the Black Canyon National Forest Park has been designated as a military restricted area in 2065, and I have the authority to dispose of you daredevils at will! ”