Ten thousand I am across the heavens

The space inside the spacecraft is so small that there is not much room for error in rebuilding civilization. Once the new generation makes a mistake in the reconstruction process, it will naturally lead to the regression of civilization.

In this case, a guide is indispensable. The most likely scenario is that the guide failed to successfully guide the development of civilization for some reason, or did not appear at the corresponding time, resulting in the civilization that was supposed to be rebuilt developing to this point.

"It looks like we have to search deeper into the area, maybe there are other survivors. If not, there might be artificial intelligence that can help me better control this spacecraft."

Lan Nuo continued to explore deeper underground. He had to open many gates once in the rehearsal before he could really open them in reality. The environment full of radiation was very dangerous. If you were not careful, you might die in the strong radiation.

Lan Nuo was very alert about this, thinking that perhaps one of the isolation doors was the gate that isolated the radiation.

Facts also proved that his vigilance was meaningful. During the exploration, there were indeed many gates that were closed urgently after the radiation leak. And the environment inside those gates was simply impossible to resist with the simple protective equipment he was wearing.

If anyone else were to explore here, it would be a life-threatening situation. Only he, who had many opportunities to try and fail, could roughly understand the environment here.

In addition to a shelter underground, there are also a large number of redundant reactor modules. It is precisely because of the existence of these redundant modules that the reactor can still be transported out even when most of the main body is damaged.

But at the same time, the reactor was operating using the backup module, and without manual debugging, the running-in was quite poor, and a large number of problems emerged during the operation, and it is falling into a vicious circle.

And almost at the bottom of the entire facility, Lanno finally found a shelter.

The area of ​​the entire shelter is very small. It can only accommodate a dozen people at most. However, to get to the shelter, you must pass through a passage filled with radioactive steam. Lan Nuo's protective suit is not enough to withstand this level of radiation.

Lan Nuo forced his way through the rehearsal and opened the gate. Only then did he see the old man lying in the hibernation capsule behind the two layers of isolation doors.

After he appeared in the room, the hibernation chamber began to automatically wake up. The old man lying inside opened his eyes. After seeing the person in front of him, he was a little dazed for a while. It took a long time for him to come back to his senses. He uttered a hoarse and bitter voice in his throat: "You are finally here!"

The leaking protective equipment on Lan Nuo's body has made him think a lot. If civilization is properly preserved and develops normally, the factory can produce complete radiation protection suits. The suit on Lan Nuo is obviously homemade. This alone is enough to prove that today's civilization is in a very bad situation.

When Lan Nuo saw the old man waking up from the hibernation capsule, he realized something. However, it took a long time to open the gate, so Lan Nuo had no chance to talk to him more unless he also passed through the gate and entered the hibernation capsule in the real timeline.

Not only did he need to pass through the radiation tunnel, he also had to find a way to open the gate. The gate seemed to have a circuit problem. There was no way to open it automatically. It can only be said that the facility for manually opening the gate seemed to have been destroyed due to the previous accident.

Fortunately, there are hydraulic facilities for emergency use here. With these, the gate can be pushed up again.

It was because it took too long to use the jack to open the gate that he didn't have time to say a word to the old man in the hibernation chamber after meeting him.

"Working in a radiation environment for fifteen minutes is enough to kill me. We have to find a way to lower the radiation index here. It looks like we have to find some ventilation facilities here."

Lanno has extensive experience in the design standards of spacecraft, especially nuclear reactors. Even in different worlds with similar physical laws, similar standards must be followed. Otherwise, serious safety risks will arise.

Ventilation of key areas in nuclear reaction facilities is a must-have facility. Without these ventilation facilities, once a nuclear leak occurs, the people trapped inside the facility will have almost no chance of survival.

Relying on his rich experience, Lan Nuo groped his way to the control room. Although the electrical equipment inside had suffered a lot of damage, the damage was not so severe that it could not be repaired.

Lan Nuo opened the cover of the dashboard as if he was starting an old car, found the recommended wires inside, and connected them together. Amidst the flashes of electric sparks, a buzzing sound gradually sounded, accompanied by the sound of bubbles. It should be that some liquid filtering equipment was starting up and filtering the radioactive gas to ensure that the filtered environment was suitable for human survival. It also ensured that the gas discharged by the ventilation facilities would not pollute the external environment.

This also made Lan Nuo breathe a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was the damage of these filtering facilities. Once the ventilation facilities discharged the radioactive steam inside to the outside and caused pollution to the ecological drum outside, even if he could repair the nuclear reactor, he would not be able to recover the damage caused by the radiation. At that time, the ecological drum lacking clean water and clean food would have no way out.

After a lot of effort, the radioactive steam in the passage was exhausted, and the simple protective equipment on his body finally worked, ensuring that he could still ensure his own safety while working in this radiation environment.

He took out a hydraulic jack and inserted it into the gap of the gate, pushing it open little by little. He pushed the support column in little by little until the gate was wide enough for one person to pass through, and then he finally opened the room inside completely.

Lan Nuo could probably guess why the old man inside had stayed there until this age. If he was trapped inside, there was probably no way for him to leave. After all, this was a nuclear facility, and the materials used in its construction were absolutely the most solid. If both the manual and electric valves were damaged, it would be almost impossible to break through the gate. Relying on daily necessities, even if you want to grind an iron rod into a needle, it is almost impossible to grind a hole in the door with ordinary spirit.

Even if you spend a lifetime, you may not be able to grind a hole in this high-strength alloy material, not to mention that the external environment may be quite bad. Once the gate is damaged, it may be a dead end.

"You are finally here!" The old man sighed the same way after waking up from hibernation. The old man, wearing a hospital gown, climbed out of the hibernation chamber with difficulty. Both parties looked at each other in silence, and finally the old man broke the silence: "I have waited for this day for too long, and I have too many things to tell you. But I am afraid it is too late."

The old man did not ask about the situation outside. He seemed to be worried that his body could not support him and that he would not have enough time to explain everything to his descendants. He staggered with his crutches and pulled Lan Nuo to his room. In this room, papers were piled up densely.

There were piles of papers, all densely packed with records of something written in the characters of this civilization. The old man had carefully sorted the piles of papers into books, stacked them neatly on the bookshelf, and carefully wrapped them for safekeeping. On the desk, one could still see unfinished manuscripts.

"These...if there are still people alive, please be sure to pass these on to them. This is the only thing I can do for you."

The old man gasped for breath and was about to take out a dozen manuscripts from the front cabinet, but was stopped in the end.

Lan Nuo stopped him: "Old man, you should take a good rest first. Even if you are old in your current state, you will not die immediately. Before you hand over these manuscripts to me, can you tell me what happened in the past?"

As if he finally realized that he should introduce his identity and experience, the old man took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "Our hometown... was destroyed. It is said that the same thing happened on other planets, terrible ecological disasters. We received a warning from an advanced civilization before the doomsday. We built an ark and escaped from our hometown at the cost of most of the population...

I was born and raised on a spaceship, as was my father, grandfather, and ancestors. Our ships are becoming fewer and fewer, and so are our people, but we are trying to stay alive because we don't want our bloodline to be cut off.

However, things went against our wishes. After we had wandered in the starry sky for who knows how many years, a terrible infectious disease suddenly befell us.

No one knows what is going on. It appears suddenly, without warning, and there is no cure. Our medical technology has no way of finding the cause. We only know that it infects adults, but the impact on children gradually decreases. The younger they are, the less affected they are by the disease, while the mortality rate of adults infected is almost 100%..."

Lan Nuo nodded thoughtfully: "Almost 100%, which means there are exceptions."

The old man raised his hand and looked at the wrinkles on his skin. He said in a hoarse voice: "Yes. I was the only exception because I was very young. Oh, very young. Maybe that's why the plague spared me. But many people of my age were not so lucky."

"I only remember being locked up in a white house. I trained and studied day and night. I was brainwashed to master those knowledge and skills... Because when the disease spread, we found that it was irresistible. Just like the ecological disaster that happened in our hometown, it was a super disaster, so we began to prepare for the aftermath. We spent several years transforming the Ark and building the final vault. In the process, more than half of the people died. The project almost failed in the end due to lack of manpower... We sent healthy children to hibernation facilities and let the older children learn knowledge as much as possible, because they will all need it in the future, but this is not enough, very not enough... The oldest of them is only thirteen years old, and these thirteen-year-olds account for less than one percent of the total number of people."

"So that's why you are here?" Lan Nuo had roughly guessed what happened that year.

The old man's head trembled slightly, and he seemed to nod up and down: "Oh, yes, I will guide them... After the children fall asleep, the adults will fend for themselves, and the shelter will be closed for a hundred years until the ecosystem completes a thorough internal cycle before it can be restarted. When everything is ready, the children will wake up and start their lives again under the guidance of the 'parents'. But originally there was more than one 'parent'. We had many candidates, each of whom was strong-willed, had a strong learning ability, could lead a team, and most importantly, had a certain resistance to the plague. But later, the other candidates died one by one. The plague was only weakened in them, and they had no real resistance. In the end, I was the only one who came out of the training facility. The children had already lined up to enter the hibernation capsule, and the last few dozen dying people in the Ark held a small farewell ceremony for me. Since then, I have been here.

Due to safety concerns, the children and I were placed in different rooms, because until they all died, there was no way to be sure that I was truly safe. But it turned out that I was indeed healthy. After each period of hibernation, I would wake up, check my body, and then continue to sleep, day after day..."

"Through a small glass window next to the door, I looked at the 11 small cradles outside, knowing that the blood of my race was still frozen in time for continuation, which gave me enough courage. Every time I woke up from the ice, I counted the number of times I 'got up'. I told myself that after counting to ten, everything would start over again... until one day I suddenly found myself writing on my notebook and the vault host was abnormally silent."

"You have been forgotten by the system."

"More than that, because even if I tried to open the valve manually, my attempt still failed. For a long time afterwards, I continued to repeat the steps of falling asleep, waking up, and doing body tests. I hypnotized myself and anesthetized myself. The children just encountered some accidents and did not wake up on time. I just needed to wait until they woke up."

"But you eventually realize it's just self-deception."

"That's right. I can't remember how many times I fell asleep and woke up. The only thing I know is that it has been a very long time. It has been so long that if the children haven't woken up yet, the hibernation chamber will not be enough to sustain their survival.

It was then that I realized that I had wasted too much time. Even if I could never leave this room again, I should leave something behind...

As you can see, these are what I would leave for my children no matter what.

Our...history!"

[To be continued]

Please add it to your favorites and vote for recommendations~ (End of this chapter)