Chapter 66: Restart
A large amount of collapsed debris blocked the crack, but not completely. There are a few places where it still seems to leak.
Andy looked up and saw that there were no more rocks that could easily be blown down as blockages, and this time they needed some hard objects that weren't that big to seal the remaining holes.
"Even if we make a patch, we won't be able to install it..... So what's next? Xian looked down with a little headache, she still thought that this problem should be solved safely, and rushing to achieve it not only did not completely solve the problem, but made the situation in front of her more complicated.
Just when everyone was at a loss, several Swiftfoot robots appeared nearby, their detectors detecting an anomaly at the bottom of the pool after the water had emptied.
Andy glanced at them and asked in a loud voice.
"Shouldn't you go down and fix this place?" The robots looked at each other for a moment.
"No, this unit lacks the ability to fix this problem and is reporting to the upward line..... Wrong...."Andy thrust his back as he watched the robots stand there as if they were stuck in some kind of dead loop, and suddenly had a whim.
"You can jump in and plug those holes, can't you?" The robots froze for a moment, flashing the light on their foreheads a few times, and finally rejected the outrageous proposal.
"No, the procedure requires that the unit cannot carry out actions that destroy itself." The Tank Brain was a little speechless, because it was tantamount to asking the robots to sacrifice themselves to plug the hole, which was a bit shocking, but it didn't seem impossible when you think about it.
He turned his tracks to look at the fast-legged robots, which seemed to be almost enough if they all climbed down to plug the holes.
"What are you working here for? Isn't it just to maintain the facility and keep it running smoothly forever? Now it's up to you to contribute, you don't want to go against your program, do you? Know that you should be programmed to do your best to keep the equipment running! He yelled that the robots seemed to be really moved.
Moments later, the robots jumped from the edge of the cistern, and one by one crawled into the cracks in the rocks, using their metal feet to grasp the stones and act as fillers.
"That's it?" After seeing that the robots were all in place, he went to a nearby terminal and entered the program to restart the pump.
A large amount of water poured into the reservoir from the inlet pipe again, and due to the blockage of the rocks and the robots, this time the reservoir did not have the large whirlpool that absorbed the water, and the water level rose steadily until nearby sensors determined that the water level was back to normal.
The suction on the side of the reservoir quickly drains the entire reservoir, and the water is quickly transported down the pipes to the heat exchanger area, where it is instantly converted into steam due to the high temperature in contact with the ground, and the large mass of steam is transported to the turbines to power these huge generators.
The three watched as some steam surged out of the somewhat broken pipes, and in the distance there was the thunderous sound of machinery restarting, the sound of three large turbines at a geothermal power plant.
The nearby lights gradually returned, and the darkness was dispelled by light. [New Mission: Restart the Geothermal Power Plant] [Hint: Discuss with Akisha about restarting Diana]
"Great, now the nursery's energy is restored.... We'll have to go to Akisha and ask us what to do next. Andy cheered, and climbed up the shaft with the strings and the Hammer, which had been left behind at the rear, and which he had dragged up with a rope after they had both gone up.
It didn't take long for Akisha to rush over with excitement on her face.
"You succeeded?! I can see from the terminal that the energy coefficient of the nursery is returning to normal, so that the seed bank no longer needs Diana's backup energy to maintain, I can manipulate the energy valve to change the energy transmission path to reawaken Diana, and the nursery is finally saved! She was happy like a child, and then she quickly pounced near her terminal and started to do something quickly.
A moment later, Aquisha stood up again.
"You come with me!" Andy and the others immediately followed Akisha out of the narrow room, and after a while, they found an elevator door in a corner, which looked more advanced than usual, and seemed to have been specially reinforced, so it was not destroyed in the earthquake.
Akisha came to the door and was pleased to see that the elevator had also been restored.
"This is a special magnetic elevator that connects directly to the most important area of the nursery, the central control tower... We need to take this elevator to get there, and then we will be there to witness Diana's restart. The four of them walked in, and the cylinder brain was amazed at the surrounding electronic operation interface, which was quite complicated and there were a large number of dense buttons nearby, but they didn't need to worry about how to operate it, because there was a robot with no upper body fixed there as a professional operator to help passengers operate, as if it had been modified from a protector robot.
"It's starting to sink." The arms and fingers of the robot are flying up and down. The elevator moved rapidly downward, stopping after a moment, and then the robot continued to operate for unknown reasons, and with a burst of clicks, the elevator seemed to be connected to something.
"Let's get going, please hold on to the handrails." Under the leadership of Akisha, several people grabbed the handrail next to them, and before they could figure out what was going on, suddenly the whole box changed the direction of movement, from the vertical movement just now to the horizontal movement, and they moved forward quickly in the ground as if they were sitting in a car without windows.
"We're almost there, it's the center of the nursery, all the important facilities are in that clearing, and in the middle is the central control tower we're going to go by, and you'll know when we get out..."
The "elevator" stopped.
"Start going up." With a brief prompt from the robot, they began to move upwards again, this time for much longer than when they came down, which Andy guessed must be because they were being transported directly to the area above the so-called central control tower.
"Ding-" A crisp sound came from the speaker, and the elevator finally stopped.
"Passengers, you have arrived in the high-security area, please pay attention to your words and behavior, if the computer determines that your behavior or words violate the SA security law, the automatic security system will determine the way to deal with it at its own discretion." The robot said the set goodbye, and several people got out of the open elevator, although the journey was less than ten minutes, but the multiple changes of direction and a few terrible accelerations along the way, as well as the relatively claustrophobic environment, still made the strings have a very uncomfortable feeling, which felt like motion sickness.
Akisha took out some strange medicine and handed it to the strings, which looked like a brown powder made from a mixture of milled plants from several plants.
"Eat it, it will relieve you a little." The tank brain glanced at the plant powder twice.
"You figured this out yourself?" Akisha shook her head.
"This is all what Diana taught me at the beginning, and after communicating with her, I realized that the wasteland is full of medicinal herbs, and it is not just the formal medicines left over from the pre-war period that can be called medicines, these simple medicines have similar effects." They entered a somewhat narrow hallway, and after walking around the curvature for a while, they opened a security door under the leadership of Akisha, and behind the security door was a wide space, and this floor was surrounded by a circle of floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sunlight from outside shone in without reservation.
In the middle of this level there is a space obscured by a blue standing wall, I don't know what is inside, and it is surrounded by a circle in the air, and from the edge it looks bottomless, and it is impossible to get close to the enclosed place.
"Now we are on a high vantage point, and from here we can see the whole nursery." Akisha introduced them to everyone, gesturing to the ruined building that looked like a little distance to the southwest.
"That's the factory area we came over, do you see that facility?" Akisha pointed to a strangely shaped building, at which height the overall appearance of the building was revealed, which was divided into two parts, the front and back, the latter part consisting of a horizontal structure, divided into two halves from the middle.
The tops of both transverse structures are designed to be spherical, similar to those of the giant greenhouses that preceded them, and somewhat like the design of large domes.
The middle part is actually a longitudinal building, which runs north-south and presents a gradual upward trend, the higher it goes, the wider it becomes.
The three of them looked at it for a while, and always felt that the appearance of this building was a little wrong, although the material it used was a metallic silver-gray and the details were treated with a very sci-fi sense, but in general, the unknown architect before the war seemed to have some deliberate elements in the overall appearance design of the building.
"If we've seen enough, let's meet the owner here." Akisha walked over to a console and pressed her palm against it, something activating with her actions.
The blue wall of stance vanished in an instant, replaced by something that seemed to work together as a bridge connecting the inside and outside, and under the guidance of Akisha, Andy cautiously walked up the bridge that appeared out of thin air as if it was made of light, towards the unidentified area at the top of the central control tower.
As they walked across the Stand Bridge to the platform in the center, a large illusory figure appeared before them.
A pair of eyeless eyes opened, looking at the people who had come to her.