Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 780 Recording Files
Ten seconds is neither short nor long, and everyone was just ready to bear the shock, when a shock wave with terrifying power swept in with scorching heat waves, and at the same time there was a sound that was enough to knock the The loud noise of a person's eardrum shattering.

The entire hull of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate shook violently, stirring up the surrounding thick fog into waves, and the flames mixed with metal fragments shot out from the middle of the hull and slapped on the inside of the energy shield , turning into dots of flashes in the sea of ​​mist.

Ke Lan understands why the damage to the middle and rear sections of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate is so serious. Except for the hardest main frame, almost all of this part of the hull has been hollowed out, and it is all done by thick vines. Filled, it seems that it is not so empty.

Just like when Ke Lan and the others eat grilled fish for dinner, the fattest and meatiest fish belly is usually the first to be snatched up.A few old men went down with chopsticks one by one, and the middle part of the grilled fish was basically only bones, but the head and tail of the fish were relatively well preserved.

The "Shaojiang Kai" at this time is like a grilled fish whose middle part has been eaten up - when Ke Lan saw the damaged state through the surveillance camera outside the ship, Ke Lan knew that Hruni had lost the bet.

The surveillance cameras inside the hull were all destroyed in an instant, and nearly [-]% of the combat videos divided into dozens of screens turned into snowflake screens. Only a few surveillance cameras far away from the nuclear explosion site, such as the bridge, were preserved. , but the picture has also been extremely seriously affected.

From the few remaining surveillance cameras, it can be seen that the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate has lost its balance, and the entire capital of the ship has been submerged in dense fog and into the canopy of trees.

In the next second, the battle video stopped abruptly.

Ke Lan knew that at this time, the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate had already crashed into the ground—he knew the ending from the perspective of God: Heruni Yang and the officers and soldiers on the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate did not perform miracles , they only lasted a few minutes longer than another high-speed support ship that crashed.

"The combat record has been played." As the picture on the screen returned to darkness, the AI's voice sounded from the bridge.

"What happened after that?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"Due to the excessive damage caused by the nuclear bomb, the ship lost its balance during the flight. The bow of the ship touched the bottom first, the anti-gravity device failed, and all the remaining main propellers were turned off... At [-]:[-] am on the third day of combat operations , crashed in the depths of the foggy forest, nineteen kilometers away from the red line."

"After the battleship crashed, are there any survivors on board?"

"During the crash of the ship, the safety measures of the central control computer were triggered, and the AI ​​also fell into a dormant state, and the data after the crash was not recorded in time."

"Then when did you wake up again?"

"This part of the data has been damaged and cannot be recovered."

"..." Ke Lan exhaled heavily, and then changed the question, "After this battleship crashed, you saw the captain himself, I mean...Heruni Yang himself, not what he called himself' Corruption' monster."

"Yes." The AI ​​replied with certainty, "Captain Hruni Yang has been trying to repair the ship after he returned to the ship. In addition, there are another group of officers and logistics personnel assisting him. "

"Aren't there survivors here? Why didn't you answer when I asked you if there were any survivors after the battleship crashed?" Ke Lan asked with some doubts... Logically speaking, the thinking logic of military AI should be very clear , it is impossible for artificial intelligence to become artificially retarded.

"Because I can't judge whether the captain Hruni Yang and others are still human, and I can't judge whether they are still alive, so I can't define them as 'survivors'." AI narrated a matter in a very calm tone. Just the sound of it can't help but make people feel creepy, and it has the taste of a stream-of-consciousness horror movie.

"why?"

"The data detected by the vital sign detection equipment has exceeded the numerical range of normal human beings. According to the emergency regulations, they should be judged as 'contaminated' rather than 'survivors'." AI replied.

"Wait... You just said that Hruni has been trying to repair the ship after returning to the ship. Did he leave before? Where did he go?" Ke Lan asked.

"Hrouni himself did not store this part of the information in the ship's database."

"That line, from the time you were awakened again, as long as the recorded data is not damaged, call me all." Ke Lan said angrily...Facing an AI with severely damaged data, it seems to be Talking to someone with intermittent memory loss is just as maddening as it gets.

It's better to let this AI say everything it knows, and then analyze it slowly.

"When the central control computer was restarted, Hruni Yang and others had returned to the battleship and were repairing the power part of the ship. According to my analysis, they should have restarted the ship's central control computer. But the specific restart time and engineering files have been damaged, so the event cannot be traced back." AI continued to say in a tone without any emotion.

"Since Hruni and the others were already in the battleship when you woke up, how did you know they had gone out?"

"The external hatch of the ship showed signs of being forcibly opened, and the protective suits they were wearing were all exposed to severe radiation, and from the conversations between Hruni and other people, it can be determined that they have left the ship. "

"Is the record of the conversation between Hruni and others damaged?" Ke Lan took a deep breath, staring at the virtual screen in front of him with fiery eyes.

"Partially damaged."

"Release the undamaged part!"

"Yes."

One audio file after another jumped out on the virtual screen. Ke Lan counted, excluding those files whose data was damaged and could not be played, there were a total of 160 seven files left intact, with a total duration of less than two hours.

"There are only two hours of audio files left?" Ke Lan frowned, "How long is the damaged part?"

"The length of the damaged part is only one-third of the entire audio file. Hruni Yang and other people on the ship rarely talked, and most of the time they were silently working on the restoration."

"What about the others? Where did they go?"

"Except for Hruni Yang, the health of the others is very poor... According to human standards, they should have died long ago, but they dragged a corpse that should have died for a long time...Record The person with the shortest active time stopped all activities after 41 hours, and the data of physical function returned to zero. The person with the longest active time persisted for a whole year."

AI uses "activity time" instead of "survival time" here, because in its logical cognition, these people are all judged as "dead people" polluted by unknown things, although they still have the ability to move, But in the eyes of AI, they are just walking dead.

"But Hruni Yang has survived until now?"

"No, Hruni Yang is the person who has been active for the longest time. From the recorded time point, he didn't stop all activities until the eighth thousand and 760 five hours."

8765 hours, that is exactly one year and five hours...

"But he just woke up again. He had a conversation with me not long ago, and his body was lying here just now!" Ke Lan asked, pointing to a place on the bridge.

"Sorry, there is no record of this in the database."

"Are you sure there are no records and not data corruption?" Ke Lan narrowed his eyes.

"There are no records." The AI ​​repeated.

After a little thought, Ke Lan understood the problem.

In fact, Hrooney has stopped life activities for more than ten years. Until the second crash of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, he remained in that "fake death" state...until Ke Lan and the others approached the bridge, he Life activities are revived again.

During this period of time, the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" was turned off, so it is completely logical that there is no record.

Could it be that his own arrival...awakened Hruni who was in a state of suspended animation?

Ke Lan forcibly suppressed his urge to continue asking AI questions, reached out and clicked on the audio file ranked first.

The size of this file is small, and its duration is only 5 minutes, but it does not prevent it from containing an explosive amount of information.

"Recording file 01001025, recording time: unknown."

After the unique mechanized voice of AI, there came a voice that was somewhat familiar to Ke Lan.

"We must repair the Shaojiang River, otherwise, we will never be able to leave this forest."

Ke Lan quickly recognized that it was Hruni's voice. Compared with the "erosion" state, Hruni's voice at this time was more powerful and full of energy.

"But our time...cough...I'm afraid...cough...not enough." Another strange voice sounded, this voice sounded very weak, and it was mixed with fragmented coughing.

"But we must announce to the world what we found in the depths of the forest..." Hruni said in a deep voice, "I know that there are some things that we soldiers should not worry about, but I can't just watch the people above Keep everyone in the dark."

"But, Captain, have you ever thought..." This is the third voice, which is also weak, but better than the second person, "If... I mean, if, we can go back to the ark , to be able to announce these things... Take another ten thousand steps, even if people are willing to believe us... What will happen after that, have you considered it?"

"The ark will fall into chaos." A fourth voice sounded, this voice sounded very vague, like a mouthful of thick phlegm in his mouth, or a wriggling tentacle stuck in his throat, "Perhaps... Some people do this because ordinary people cannot accept such a desperate reality... Once we make these things public, the order of human society and the Ark will collapse overnight..."

"But the people above didn't take any positive measures. What they have been doing is to constantly send people like us to erase the traces related to these things... They just want to maintain their rule and power. They Never thought about the future of mankind!" There was a hint of anger in Hruni's tone.

"Captain, look at my current appearance... have you ever wondered why I have become like this?" said the fourth vague voice, "And old Zuo, Cliff... do you think , can we still be considered human beings now?"

These two names, Ke Lan, are no strangers. They are both officers and soldiers on the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate. According to the description in the file, the full name of "Old Zuo" is Zuo Jie, the logistics supervisor on the ship, and the rank of major; Cliff is an ordinary soldier in the Marine Corps, with the rank of corporal.

"We are just infected by the toxin in the mist... As long as we can return to the ark, we will be cured with the medical treatment on the ark!" Hruni said, but even Ke Lan who was listening to the recording could recognize him Lack of confidence in tone.

"Is it really just a toxin infection?" The ambiguous voice said with a hint of smirk, "Little Jack who stayed behind in the 'Shaojiang Reform', we all came back from that place in order to prevent him from being 'infected'." All people are forbidden to contact him, but he has been locked in the cabin just because he saw my appearance through remote communication, and his forehead grew tiny tentacles... And after listening to our previous conversation After reading the content, his body's degree of variation suddenly deepened... The doctor said that he probably won't be able to survive these two days."

There are four people named "Jack" on the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, but they can be called "Little Jack". It should be that he had just graduated from the Air Force Academy and was deployed to "Jack Garcia" on this frigate, his military rank is lieutenant, served as an electrical engineer on the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate.

"He...he..." Hruni didn't continue talking, obviously, he couldn't even convince himself.

"Captain, you should know better than any of us that this thing is like a plague... However, the way it spreads is more terrifying than the plague... Seeing, hearing... and even knowing these things through certain carriers things, the body will mutate... If we bring this information back to the Ark, it will be a disaster."

The ambiguous voice paused, and continued: "Of course, I don't think the people above will let us have a chance to enter the ark."

At this time, a second voice spoke: "Ahem...I guess...also...cough cough...I can't hold on for long...I feel...as if something has grown out of my lungs... ...Ahem... This 'infection' is very strange, its severity seems to be random, obviously you are the one with the most contacts, Captain, but your condition is obviously the best among us... If we say that If anyone among them has the chance to return to the ark for treatment, it should be you."

(End of this chapter)