Sword of Daybreaker

Along with a low buzzing sound, some ancient equipment in the depths of the cabin was activated. The gravity that was weak to almost disappeared before returned to its normal strength. Ashalena once again felt the sense of solidity with her feet on the ground. In her field of vision, Cassandra, who curled herself up on a nearby pole with her tail to prevent it from drifting away, fell to the floor with a snap, while Ironman Commander Alice-RS6 calmly closed the limbs. The magnetic lock jumped from a nearby wall to the ground.

"Artificial gravity is restored," Ashalena stomped gently, and looked at the engineering commander Mr. Nicholas, who was floating not far away, with a surprised expression. The "iron ball" with a funny smiling face was slowly moving. Moving in the room, the nearby lights and the sunlight coming in from outside the viewing window left a dazzling glare on his billowing surface, "How...how did you do it?"

"It's very simple. Just take a look at the energy pipeline buried in the partition and find that there is an abnormal cutoff or disturbance to dredge it," Nicholas floated slowly in the cabin without looking back. Checking the equipment here, he said casually, "It's like this-snap it."

As his voice fell, Athalena heard a slight sound of a mechanical device locking from somewhere nearby, followed by the sound of something starting, and a fan at the end of the room was half-open and stuck. The state gate then slid open to the sides gently, and the dark corridor opposite the gate was also brightly lit for an instant.

The commanders of the engineering team in the room were stunned-they now understand deeply why the Cecil Empire should send this chubby gentleman to take on this important task...

But then Nicholas Egg always added another sentence: "But my ability is not omnipotent. I can directly'see' the structure behind the metal and see the faulty energy line, but I actually don't understand the sailor's. Technology-The lighting circuit and the energy path of the gravity generator were available in the previous cabin. I will know how to adjust it by comparing it. The other parts are not so simple to operate."

"This has brought great convenience," Alice RS-6 walked over and said blankly. "You can complete the non-destructive scanning of the metal structure and energy pipelines of the entire cabin in a short time. This will solve the problem. The most difficult step in the restoration project."

At this moment Cassandra, the siren who fell to the ground with a snap a while ago, also crawled over, and said as he moved, "We must be more careful if we go further. This is the first time that the gravity imbalance has appeared in the cabin. We are moving away from the "safe areas" of the space station. After this, it may be the "death chambers" where the energy has been completely interrupted and the system has been shut down for many years. These malfunctioning areas are no less dangerous than the exposed outer space."

Listening to the reminder of the Miss Siren, Ashalena nodded lightly, and at the same time raised her gaze again, her gaze swept across the unfamiliar cabin that had just been explored.

This is an area that looks like a rest area or "connected section". There are not many devices in the open rectangular space, but there are extremely open viewing windows facing the space, and there are things like benches placed in them. Near the viewing windows, beside the walls and gates, strange cylindrical crystal containers can also be seen. The remains of dead plants and water delivery structures are faintly visible in the containers.

This made Ashalena couldn’t help but have some imagination. She imagined that period of 1.87 million years ago, and imagined that when the voyager stayed on this planet for a short time, at that time, the space station must have not. It’s as dead and cold as today—the various intelligent races in the sailing group come and go here, staying in this temporary "travel home", they will rest here, talk here, and observe this little place here. Small planetary system, observe the creatures on the surface, and the giant gaseous planet in space.

They may also talk about the future, about their "deep space expedition" that seems to never end-1.87 million years, the creatures that once stopped in this space station may have already died, but Are their descendants still on that long voyage like their ancestors? That ancient and mysterious ship group... is it still wandering among the stars?

Ashalena turned her head and saw that the following sea monsters, dragons and iron men were carrying in a batch of equipment and supplies. Alice-RS6 was instructing the soldiers to carefully inspect and record the strange things in the cabin, Cassandra Swinging a long snake's tail, he crawled to the viewing window that occupies almost the entire wall, looking out into the outer space with some wonder.

Outside the viewing window, a magnificent, radiating arc is slowly drifting from the side-it is the "sun" shining on the land of Loren, an amazing gas giant planet.

"What are you looking at?" Ashalena came to Cassandra's side. She saw a serious and slightly melancholy expression on the face of the Siren Lady, which surprised her-you know Under normal circumstances, it is like dreaming to see this expression on the face of the sea monster. This group of salted deep-sea fish are as happy as they are taking medicine. "You look a little...sad?"

"I'm just thinking, our Siren should almost recognize reality..." Cassandra said softly, her eyes falling on the magnificent sea of ​​luminous clouds slowly moving from the darkness, even though it was so far away. The turbulent cloud crown of the gas giant planet is also enough to create a shocking sense of oppression, "After all, this thing has been hanging above our heads for so many years, and now it is even closer..."

"Karen? Recognize the reality?" Ashalena was a little startled, "What does this mean?"

"Have you seen that bright and hot sea of ​​clouds?" Cassandra raised the tip of his tail slightly and pointed to the "corona" outside the viewing window. "This gas giant planet is shining on the planet we live on now, everything Everything depends on its light and heat."

"Of course," Ashalena was a little confused by the abnormal behavior of Miss Siren, but she nodded subconsciously, "This is a matter of course..."

"Of course..." Cassandra sighed softly, as if talking to herself, "But in our'knowledge system' and'natural common sense', gas giant planets are'cold celestial bodies' that don't glow or glow. 'what……"

Ashalena was stunned for a moment, and just about to ask something subconsciously, Miss Siren in front of her had already changed the subject: "How far have we left the traffic section of the rail elevator?"

"Roughly it is more than ten kilometers, and there is a terrifyingly large'open belt' in the middle, but compared with the entire sky, our current range of activities is still only a small part of it. "Ashalena put away the thought of continuing to ask questions, and turned her attention to the business in front of her, "This space station is really scary."

"Yes, this scale is really scary...not to mention our current manpower, even if all the deep sea witches and deep water technicians on Antavien are sent over, it is impossible to repair such a large-scale space giant. ," Cassandra thought seriously, "What's more, the cabins further ahead seem to be getting more and more unsafe. Now it is only gravity failure. Then if there is a leakage of toxic substances or mechanical out of control, it will be a big problem. Fun, as I just said, the danger is no less than facing the outer space...even more dangerous than the outer space. After all, the protective equipment we bring can still be useful if we are only exposed to the universe. But if you encounter an out-of-control sailor machine, it will not be able to resist it with a layer of protective clothing and a fragile single shield."

Listening to the serious analysis of the "Witch of the Deep Sea", Asha Lena was also stunned.

She knows that the views of the Krakens must be respected during the entire restoration project. Although this group always gives people an illusion of being too happy and unreliable, it is undeniable that they are the only ones in the entire world that truly master. People who have experienced aerospace technology and built "big spaceships"-even if their spaceships are now grounded, their technology has undergone a certain decline and failure, but as an interstellar civilization in the past, their accumulated experience and knowledge are still Far superior to other races.

Ashalena looked back at the entrance through which the previous team came.

From the advance team boarding the Sky Station, to the subsequent arrival of large forces in batches, waves of materials were sent from the planet's surface into space, this joint project has been going on for dozens of days, during which the engineering team was divided into several teams. The team explored around the rail elevator traffic hall, and then under the guidance of the commander-in-chief Mr. Nicholas Egg, they found a way to the adjacent compartment. So far, they have moved away from the initial traffic compartment and entered this giant In an unfamiliar area of ​​the space station.

And as it continued to penetrate into this huge icy steel behemoth, the real situation everywhere in Cangqiang Station gradually appeared in front of everyone.

The "assembly hall" directly connected to the orbital elevator and the entire "traffic compartment" can be regarded as a "safe area" in this space station. In that area, the energy supply is stable, the artificial gravity is normal, and the entire life support system is in place. In a state of orderly operation, the engineering team has set up the most important supply and research base there.

But as they moved to the other belts of the Sky Station, the team led by Ashalena and the others began to see the real "disabled compartments"-completely interrupted energy supply, uncontrolled gravity environment, and dark connections. Corridors and isolated rooms that are as cold as a tomb and have obvious problems with air circulation.

These dangerous areas are frightening.

More than a dozen sea monsters serving as pioneer expedition members gave cheap lives in the process of exploring these disabling compartments, and some even sacrificed several times.

Facts have proved that Cassandra's choice to set up a large water element pool near the rail transit cabin is the most correct decision-this greatly saves the time required to supplement the pioneers during the exploration process.

Fortunately, at least so far, the entire exploration and restoration work is still going on without risk. Under the command of Mr. Nicholas Egg and the efforts of other engineers, the stalled cabins along the way restored energy supply one by one. As the exploration is gradually deepening, considering the astonishing scale of the entire Cangqiang Station, it is difficult to say whether the subsequent operations of the cabin will continue to be so smooth.

"I want to hear your opinion." Just as Ashalena was thinking about it, she heard Cassandra's voice ring again, "We have been active here for dozens of days. The explored range is only a small section of the entire orbital station, and according to Mr. Nicholas’ perception, even these areas that we have explored have a large number of unexplored complex structures in their deep layers—"

The deep-sea witch paused, thinking while earnestly saying: "Those enclosed machinery compartments, pipeline compartments and energy centers will obviously not be open to'visitors'. Forcible disassembly may cause unpredictable consequences. After all, Although His Majesty Gawain Cecil helped us solve the problem of access rights to the space station, many of the systems in it may still have the setting of "automatic counterattack", and it is impossible for His Majesty Gawain to control everything."

Facing the serious gaze of Miss Siren, Ashalena immediately thought about it-in fact, she was not without thoughts after she had been active on this for so long, so she simply stated her point of view at this moment: " I think maybe we don’t need to repair the entire space station-this was not realistic from the beginning."

Cassandra raised her eyebrows and tail: "Oh?"

"Such a huge space building, and it is still a'permanent facility' left by the sailors to monitor the operation of the planet, and it has been operating unmanned for more than 1.8 million years. How can I think it should have some kind of... The function of'self-repair', isn't it?" Ashalena said while thinking, "Even the mage towers of the wizards will have magic puppets and tower spirits that are responsible for cleaning and checking the magic nodes, let alone set sail. The space station left by the actor-but we have been active here for so long, what about these things?"

Cassandra nodded slightly: "...The entire space station is in a deep sleep state. Except for a small part of the area that was'externally activated' by us or His Majesty Gawain, most of the things here have stopped working. I'm afraid it also includes what you call a "self-repairing" system."

"That's the case," Ashalena said, "Think about the situation we have seen along the way. A large number of cabins are in a state of energy interruption, but in fact the'hardware' of those cabins does not seem to be damaged much, as long as we find a way The energy supply in the corresponding areas was restored, and those places came alive-I didn’t think it was anything unusual at first, but now I think about it... Except for the area we saw near the view window of the traffic cabin. Outside of the big hole that knows who was knocked out, this huge space station... is it really broken?

"And even that'big hole' has the same scale compared to the entire sky station. It doesn't even have a span of a cabin, and there are hundreds of similar cabins on the entire sky station as a starting point. If you stay in one of the largest facilities on the planet, this space station will really be shut down for so many years because a cabin is crashed? Even the things we built won’t have this kind of defect..."

"Indeed... I don't think the dormant state of Cangqiang Station will be related to that'big hole', although it did feel spectacular when I saw it from the traffic cabin observation window before," Cassandra said. Said thoughtfully, "So according to what you mean, we should find the self-healing system of this space station and find a way to wake it up?"

"This sounds more reliable than taking hundreds of people to repair a giant space station that can orbit the planet synchronously, and the hundreds of us don't have blueprints, experience or even corresponding knowledge," Ashalena spread out. Hand, "Of course, just looking at my proposal is a bit like trying our luck, but we are exploring this place, aren’t we? It’s not good to say what happens during the exploration, so I think we can pay more attention in this direction. ."

"...I agree with you, Ms. Ashalena."