Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 363 Area B

According to the original design intent of the space station, this area B was initially regarded as a large hangar, which was specially used to park aircraft entering and leaving the space station. If the partition between area B and the unloading area is opened, even smaller ones Transport ships can also berth to the interior of the space station.

But now, after reconstruction, the originally empty hangar has been filled with cabins smaller than "capsule hotels".

Each bunk in the capsule hotel still has a space of more than one meter high. Although it is easy to touch the head, at least it can make people sit up on the bed. And the height of each cabin here is no more than [-] centimeters—if not The entire area B is in a state of microgravity, and if you don't have any skills, you may not be able to get into the cabins with higher floors.

Ke Lan felt that it was not appropriate to use a capsule hotel to describe these cabins. In his opinion, these cubicles were more like refrigerators used to store dead bodies in hospitals.

Probably in order to save energy, the gravity simulation device in area B was adjusted to the lowest power level. The gravity in this place is only about one-fifth of that on Alpha Planet. Those new miners have not adapted to the gravity of this place. As soon as they stepped into it, they floated up one after another because they could not control the strength of their steps.

But the residents of those sick villages seemed to have expected this. The miners were dragged down by them as soon as they floated up, and they themselves stretched out their hands to hold the steel pipes that were close at hand.

These steel pipes are not handrails specially prepared for weightlessness, but scaffolding that has not been removed outside the capsule cabin. These scaffolds welded by steel pipes are almost everywhere, extending from the ground to the more than 50-meter-high ceiling .

Many scaffolds are wrapped with intricate wires. The insulating rubber layer on the outside of these wires has been seriously aged and even peeled off. In addition, the scaffolding itself is made of metal. It should be easy to get an electric shock if it happens in this place, but I don’t know why. However, the residents of the sick village do not seem to have the idea of ​​​​repairing these circuits.

"Strange...why are there so many scaffolding here?"

It stands to reason that the necessity of scaffolding is not as obvious as on the ground when modifying the cabin in a gravity-free environment.Except for a few places that need to be fixed with a frame structure, in most cases, construction personnel and building materials can go to high places in a "floating" way. Let people hover in mid-air... It can be seen that these frames should have another purpose.

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this way, "Father" had already brought them to a scaffolding built in a corner, and there were many shelves fixed between the crossbars of this scaffolding.The shelves were about 1.5 meters long and more than half a meter wide, covered with a tarp covered in unexplained stains, most of the shelves had holes punched around the edges, and were strung with dirty rope.

Before getting close, Ke Lan smelled a very strong smell.

"Newcomers, this is your temporary residence." The "priest" said to Ke Lan and the others, "Someone will bring you bedding later, and food and drinking water will be distributed on time. No one notified Before you, none of you can leave this place, otherwise, it is a violation of the rules."

Ke Lan’s previous problems were immediately resolved—the construction team felt that it was a waste of materials and time to build a capsule cabin, so they directly simplified the second half of the project to this: a scaffold with dozens of shelves , is equivalent to dozens of beds... This cost-saving ability has reached the peak level. Even those black-hearted real estate developers who cheated people in the old era can only bow down in front of this construction team.

In the scaffolding in front of Ke Lan and the others, one-third of the bunks were already occupied by people. They were covered with what could barely be called bedding, and their dirty clothes were placed on the steel pipes of the scaffolding.

Most of them were sleeping soundly curled up on the shelves, and the ropes on the shelves fixed the people and the bedding to the bunks in case they turned over in their sleep and floated outside.Only a few people were awakened by the noise here, turned their heads, and looked at this group of newcomers with indifferent eyes.

"As long as there is no one's bed, you can choose whatever you want, but it's limited to this building... If someone performs well in the future, they can live there." "Father" said, pointing to the capsule in the distance cabin.

In the concept of the locals, a scaffold is equivalent to a dormitory building, and the partitions on these scaffolds are equivalent to "economy class", and those capsule cabins with slightly better conditions than scaffolding can probably be regarded as "business class". "Well, as for the place where people like "priest" live, it should be "first class".

It's just that Ke Lan doesn't know where the "first class" is and what the conditions are.

After the "priest" explained to them some "rules" that should be followed, he took the people away, and then the new miners began to choose their favorite berths.

In contrast, the bunks on the upper floors must be cleaner than the ones on the bottom floor, and the smell is relatively less, but most of the bunks on the upper floors are already occupied, and the highest bunks left for them are only those located in four or five liang. Tier bunk up.

The miners immediately fought for the only few high-rise bunks. If the "priest" hadn't said that fighting was strictly prohibited, they would have already scuffled into a ball by this time.

In the end, the two most physically fit miners crowded out the others and occupied the last two empty beds on the fifth floor, and those who were squeezed out had no choice but to settle for the cleanest beds. The three or four layers of bunks.

Ke Lan and Asano Akira did not participate in the scramble. They waited for most people to confirm their berths before choosing two berths on the third floor and sneaking in. The angle of these two berths was just right. I observed the bunks of the two "missionaries" diagonally opposite, and due to the height difference and the cover of other bunks, if you look from the side of the "missionaries", Ke Lan and Asano Akira's bunks are mostly the same. In the blind spot of vision.

With the excellent observation position, coupled with Akira Ue Asano's terrifying hearing ability, every move of the two missionaries was basically under the surveillance of Ke Lan and the others.

At this moment, the person lying on Ke Lan's upper bunk suddenly poked his head down, looked at Ke Lan, and asked in a low voice, "Are you all new here today?"

(End of this chapter)