Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Lan Nuo looked at the excited old man and deeply understood why he valued the history in his hands so much. These things might be the only legacy of this lost civilization. If the descendants survived but forgot their own history, and even the cultural heritage was completely cut off, how could the civilization be called to have continued?

When the pressure of civilization inheritance is all on one person's shoulders, what kind of strong will is needed to shoulder such a mission? No one knows it better than Lan Nuo.

So even though the old man behaved out of control, even though his hands were shaking and he looked like he might faint at any moment, Lan Nuo had no intention of looking down on him. He was able to record the history of his civilization alone, and would never give up even if there was no hope of escape. This spirit and willpower surpassed that of most people.

"Don't worry, this historical record will be passed down, and the descendants of those children will live on. I came here for the continuation of civilization."

The old man trembled and put down the manuscript in his hand. These manuscripts were written by him stroke by stroke. After realizing that he might be trapped here for countless years, the old man gave up the idea of ​​recording information in facilities such as hard disks, because sophisticated electronic equipment is too easy to be damaged.

The information on a hard drive may become difficult to read and blurry after decades, and the information on a magnetic tape will also become increasingly difficult to discern over time.

But information written on paper can be preserved for thousands of years in a dry environment, and information carved on stone walls can be preserved for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

He hoped that even if he died, even if civilization was cut off, when later generations discovered the spacecraft, they would still be able to see from the manuscripts he left behind that there was once such a civilization struggling to survive in the universe, and that it still survived in the universe with difficulty and tenaciously in the face of desperate and terrifying creatures.

This is the instinct of every civilization when it is on the verge of extinction. It is also the tenacious spirit that is manifested when the will of the entire civilization is concentrated on an individual when the civilization is about to perish.

But the old man gradually calmed down. He looked at the person in front of him with a strange look, as if he finally realized something was wrong: "I haven't had time to ask you, who are you? Do the children still remember? Do you live on a spaceship?"

The old man found that Lan Nuo was not confused about what happened that year. Could it be that even without his guidance, the children still inherited the wisdom of their ancestors, learned how to control the spacecraft and inherited the history of the past.

If this is true, then it would be great. Even if he had wasted countless time and lived his entire life in this small room of only a few dozen square meters, it would all be worth it if civilization could continue.

Unfortunately, the man in front of him shook his head and said, "It's a pity that they have forgotten that they live on a spaceship. In their myths and legends, they live on a big turtle. And this big turtle roams in the ocean called the Sea of ​​Erdos. It relies on magical protection to avoid the pursuit of terrifying monsters.

You can think of me as an alien who accidentally landed on this spaceship. I lost my spaceship and my technological equipment, but at least I still kept my knowledge, so I can recognize that this is a spaceship. I can also recognize that the sacred place they regard as the ancestral furnace is actually just the nuclear reactor of the spaceship. And it is a nuclear reactor that has already seriously malfunctioned.

This is why I came to you. I am trying to repair it. This is the effort I must make to survive. As for the children back then, they have now established four kingdoms. Following the will of their ancestors, they launch small-scale wars against each other every once in a while to reduce the population and control the population. They have learned how to use some automated factories on the spacecraft. And they use these automated factories as altars for gods.

Although it's a bit superstitious, at least they feed themselves. Perhaps you should be thankful that it is precisely because of their civilization's great regression and the greatly reduced resource consumption that your spacecraft has been able to survive until now."

After hearing this, the old man not only did not show a look of disappointment, but instead he let go of his anxious heart and burst into laughter, as if he had not laughed so happily in decades.

"What are you laughing at? Your once glorious civilization is now reduced to just four feudal kingdoms. They have forgotten their history and their civilization. They regard the spacecraft as the entire world. In a sense, your civilization has been completely cut off. Is there anything to be happy about?"

"But they survived. Not only did they survive, they also established kingdoms, and they established four kingdoms. They still remembered the myths and legends left by their ancestors. The children were still young at that time. When the adults said goodbye to them, every child was very scared.

  We told them a fairy tale, saying that our spaceship is a big turtle and we live in the turtle's belly. They still remember this story, don't they? They still use our old language and writing, don't they?

This is much better than the worst case scenario I imagined. What more could I expect from a group of children whose oldest is only 13 years old? The fact that they can survive and continue to this day is already a great relief to me. "

At this point, the old man's expression suddenly became a little sad: "It's a pity that my body is already old, otherwise I would definitely become their teacher. Tell them the true history of civilization and teach them how to operate this spaceship.

I spent almost my entire life learning this. I hope it won't be wasted. But you said the reactor has leaked. If that's the case, I'm afraid our spacecraft won't be able to hold out for much longer. What should we do?"

Since Lan Nuo had said that he had lost his spaceship and technological equipment, the old man did not expect him to be able to repair this huge spaceship. It was really a fantasy to let a tiny human repair a spaceship that was hundreds of kilometers long.

"Even when I was young, I would be helpless if I encountered a reactor leak. But no matter what, I ask you to take me away. Even if it's just to see the children for the last time, it's good." The old man was more optimistic than expected. Even though he knew that the spacecraft was about to reach the end of its life, he still didn't despair. He hoped that he could spend his last time with the children.

"You'd better take a rest first. With your body condition, if I release you and expose you to radiation, I don't think you will survive more than a week.

I suggest you stay in the hibernation chamber until I can bring the locals to repair the reactor, and then wake you up to meet them." "How is that possible? The reactor has leaked and is damaged to such an extent that you can't repair it by yourself. Radiation will destroy most of the chips. Electronic equipment is extremely fragile in the face of radiation. Continue to use the assistance of automated equipment. Those huge components weighing several tons are simply not something you can repair or replace."

The old man knew the details of this nuclear reactor very well. He had been taught this knowledge since he was a child, so that he could lead the entire civilization after waking up. Unfortunately, this knowledge was no longer useful.

"When did I say that I had to repair this spaceship by myself? Although the four kingdoms are small, they have hundreds of thousands of people in total. With the help of these people, what equipment can't be replaced even if it weighs several tons? There are still many industrial facilities outside that have not been damaged. It is entirely possible to use them to produce new qualified spare equipment. How do you know that you can't succeed if you don't try? Even if you can't produce exactly the same equipment, using limited conditions to overcome difficulties, isn't this what we as intelligent creatures are best at?

If we couldn't do this, how could our ancestors build up a brilliant civilization from eating raw meat and drinking blood? Wasn't the situation of our unarmed ancestors worse than ours at that time? "

The old man was stunned for a moment, then a gratified smile appeared on his face: "I'm glad to see that you have such fighting spirit. My old arms and legs may not be able to help much in terms of strength. But if you have any questions about the spacecraft, you can ask me. Anyone who needs any help can come here to find me.

But I am a little curious. How are you going to mobilize the power of these hundreds of thousands of people? From what you said, they have not only established four kingdoms, but each has its own king. They have conflicts with each other because of years of war. I really can't think of how you can make everyone listen to you and work together to repair the nuclear reactor.

In fact, I think if this is considered a forbidden place for their ancestors, you will be caught and burned at the stake just for leaving here."

The old man is a well-informed person, and he has many guesses of his own about how civilization will develop in the face of barbarism, and these guesses are often very close to reality.

"If I just walk out of here in a swagger, I might be regarded as a heretic or some evil being and burned at the stake.

But there are also benefits to being in a relatively ignorant stage of civilization. They will be afraid of the unknown. As long as this is used well, it is easy to unite them. Many countries in history have created wonders. Many countries have exploded with productivity far exceeding that of the time. They have officially adopted a system of ruling that combines politics and religion.

Although such a system is ignorant and backward in most cases, we must also admit that such a state machine is quite efficient in mobilizing domestic productivity.

Since I can leave the nuclear reactor, why can't I make some changes to it? With just a few small special effects, I can become the spokesperson of the gods in the religious scriptures.

What's more, before I came here, I had already led my troops to conquer a country by force. Although the area I actually controlled was only a small area around the capital, I think this is enough."

"It seems that I underestimated your ability. So let me wait and see. If we can survive this disaster, maybe we can become epic heroes who save the world in myths and legends in the future?" The old man moved his body and suddenly felt that he had the motivation to continue living. Although this body was very old and his age of hundreds of years was almost at the limit of his own race, with the motivation to live, he could undoubtedly hold on longer than before.

"In any case, you should try to stay alive as long as possible, and tell me about the detailed structure of the nuclear reactor and the operating logic of the equipment in the central control room. It is indeed a bit troublesome for me to figure out these unfamiliar devices bit by bit."

The old man was generous with everything he knew, and taught him everything he could remember. Lan Nuo swallowed up the knowledge like a bottomless pit, as if no matter how much the old man talked, he could remember all the content and understand it in an instant.

The central control of the nuclear reactor is located underground, close to the hull of the spacecraft. One of the reasons for setting it in this location is to facilitate the escape of the operating pilot.

The designers of the spacecraft did not design from the perspective of the eco-drum, but from the perspective of the entire spacecraft. Therefore, once a serious explosion occurs in the nuclear reactor, it is impossible to escape into the eco-drum, but to escape into the vast space. Therefore, the control room is closer to the outer shell of the spacecraft, which means it is deeper underground than the eco-drum.

Lan Nuo entered the control room and manually adjusted the operation of the spacecraft. The first thing he did was to gradually start the rotation system of the ecological drum, gradually shut down the gravity generator that consumed a lot of power, and replace it with the simulated gravity of the rotating ecological drum.

The energy consumption of the two is completely not on the same order of magnitude. The reason why the ecological drum is in its current miserable state is to a large extent because the gravity generator consumes too much energy. Relatively speaking, simulating gravity through drum rotation consumes almost no energy. After thousands of years, the gap is too big.

Next, he aimed his control target at the lighting system of the nuclear reactor. For the ancient people in the feudal era, nothing was closer to a miracle than controlling the power of light.

[To be continued]

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