The Record of Unusual Creatures

The frozen banquet hall, the Chinese men and women who turned into ice sculptures, the mid-course banquet and the band of the singer who interrupted during the performance were all surprised and couldn't help but goose bumps. Hey, Hao Ren couldn’t help but wait for a few seconds in this situation: "It seems that the party suddenly died halfway through the party."

Nangong Sanba went to check the clues left by the scene. Although the people here may have died for hundreds of thousands of years, because of the vacuum and ultra-low temperature protection, everything in the entire banquet hall was well preserved, even those in the cups were well preserved by frost. Most of the things are fixed on the table or the ground because of icing, and some debris falling off the ice layer floats in the air in a gravity-free environment. A thin particle like mist is in the hall. Suspended, it is broken ice and human skin fragments.

In fact, the same thing floats in the outer space, but here, the suspended matter is extraordinarily dense.

"Fashion, banquet, I really didn't think they died in this situation," Nangong Sanba carefully separated the body of an ice sculpture from the thin ice of the table. "... sure enough, they also inhale before they die." The same chemicals."

Nangong couldn't help but swallow his mouth in May: "Is the people in the whole city killed by poison gas?"

"Is there any other doubts besides the poisonous gas? Is there a problem with the food?" Hao Ren asked casually.

"Food should be no problem, at least according to my standards, it is non-toxic, and depending on the situation, the problem has nothing to do with food." Nangong Sanba shook his head. "In addition, according to the way the demon person perceives, there is no dark and cold. Negative forces, that is to say, these people did not suffer too much pain before they died."

Hao Ren nodded and bent down to observe the few dead people closest to him. His attention quickly fell on one of the male bodies: the deceased appeared to be old. He wore a black dress that was solemn and used in high-end banquets. This dress is also luxurious even if compared with the beautiful costumes of the people around him. Obviously this man was a nobleman before his death. But Hao Ren’s attention is not on the dress, but the man’s hands clasped together, and there seems to be something hidden there. Hao Ren wants to carefully remove the relic from the deceased, but he just tried hard. The male deceased finger that has been frozen into ice is turned into a dust crystal in a vacuum.

Hao Ren sighed with a sigh of relief, and pulled a piece of cloth like a handkerchief out of the broken palm of the other hand.

He unfolded his handkerchief and found that there was a handwriting on it, and it was very neat, and the people who apparently left these last words had plenty of time. With the help of the translation plugin, these characters are quickly reorganized and parsed. The content is like this:

"...Roman, my most proud son, the heir to the glory of the Emerald Valley family. I hope that you will be well in the long night and still proudly lead and protect your people. My mother and I are participating once. Special banquet, I think you also guessed the content of this banquet. But don't worry about us, it is a pleasant event, both in food and on drinks. Satisfied with the wine brought by the hometown. It’s a good time to send us a trip. So far, few people have tasted this kind of drink made from plants instead of factory. I am very happy to taste this kind of thing in this life. Your mother is sitting next to me. And your uncle Lyon is playing the famous song of Master Oranlock on the stage. I believe that many years ago, the ancestors of our family also had dinner under such circumstances and prayed for our people...

"Roman, my son, I have a lot to say to you, including what I was thinking about after our last quarrel, but these are no longer important. I heard two empty echoes coming from the city. Come, I think the two most critical devices should have been shut down. The next step is to enjoy the food, wine and music quietly. Please allow your father to stop here and leave the time to us.

"Oh, the smell of that smells a bit like blue gerbera."

The message on the handkerchief ended here, Vivien took a look and said: "What is this?"

“Looks like a suicide note?” Hao Ren frowned. “An old man wrote to his son. It seems that people here know what is going to happen.”

Many of the following clues have proved Hao Ren's guess. Nangong Sanba and Nangong found some words on other bodies in May. These words written on the handkerchief or napkin clearly confirmed that there was no accident or other sudden event in the city. .

It is a thorough preparation of collective suicide.

Hao Ren and his entourage left this strange banquet hall. They came to the streets of the ship's city and began to follow a main road leading to the end of the spherical shell space. At the end of this main road is the stop operation. Going up like a huge, bizarre machine like a cylindrical mountain, Hao Ren thinks that it should be the control center of the spacecraft, at least an equally important place, where you should find some clues.

On this road, they discovered countless bodies that were turned into ice sculptures. None of the city’s former residents survived, and together with the city, they became part of the ruins in the cold vacuum. After the Nangong 38 check, the cause of death for all people is the same: inhaled neurotoxic gas.

And the careful Vivian also found some extra clues: she found that most of the remains were wearing new clothes, and the stiff ice corpses were neatly dressed, the shoes and hats were clear, and the face was calm and elegant, like Go to a grand banquet. Although not everyone can enjoy the meal and music in the gorgeous big house, but these residents still try to take out their best clothes and food as much as possible before the end, it is obviously the last time to be extravagant.

"It’s like euthanasia after a carnival," Lily said, holding her arms and squatting. "They ate a big meal and then poisoned the whole city, so they died in their sleep."

Hao Ren was motivated by Lily's description. His gaze passed through the thin dust over the twilight city and landed on the inverted buildings at the other end of the closed earth. He imagined the place ushered in the last moment: When the system was in a hurry, the city's atmospheric system was blown into a deadly nerve gas, and when the sweet, refreshing hallucinating gas filled the streets, people dressed in the best clothes and took to the streets to enjoy the end of the life. A joy. Some people are having a big meal, some people are drinking fine wine, some people are saying goodbye to their lover, and some people are...

He passed an empty street and saw an old man sitting next to the flower bed. The old man wore a high hat on his head, covered with a layer of frost, and the flower beds behind him were still lush. The plants were frozen when they had not withered, and now they are crystal clear crystal flowers. The old man with a smile on his face is stretching his hand to the front. He is holding a fake flower folded in his hand. It seems to be handed over to a child who has no longer existed.

Others are taking the last bit of warmth for this dying city.

"Everyone's death time is the same, and the cause of death is the same," the data terminal said. It has just checked the age of several bodies. "Things happened about a thousand years ago. The situation at that time was very easy to restore: In the atmosphere system of the Starship Ark, it was blown into the nerve gas, killing everyone in a short time, and these dead people are fully informed about this. This is probably the common will of all citizens, and they are still dead. Feast and have fun."

Nangong’s voice was low in May: “Why are they doing this?”

Hao Ren said the most likely possibility: "Probably the fatal problem of the spacecraft can not be repaired, such as air leakage or purification system problems, or resources bottomed out, in order to avoid suffering, they decided to euthanasia."

"But this fleet can have more than one spaceship," Vivian reminded. "Is the other ship having the same problem at the same time?"

Hao Ren didn't know what to answer, but he found that the giant machinery like a cylindrical metal mountain was close at hand: "There should be some clues."

The group stopped at the giant mechanical foot. They found that the size of the gadget was bigger than previously thought. It was really a mountain. Looking at the appearance of this device, Lily’s tail was unconsciously bent into the air. A question mark: "Looks like a giant reactor, but it seems to be down?" (To be continued...)