Chapter 271 Entering the Titan Clan Base
After supplementing with fluid food, the crew rested for several hours to recover their strength.
The girl Vickers, with these elite crew members recruited from all over the world, went to a relatively empty conference room in the spaceship to announce the mission of this space voyage.
Except for Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, the initiator of this mission, and Holloway, the archaeological couple, many experts on the spaceship who were hired with a lot of money did not know the details of their boarding the Prometheus modified battleship. Purpose.
Most of them were attracted by the lucrative commission of Wieland Enterprises.
In the cabin of the empty conference room, several rows of metal back chairs were placed, and the dozen or so crew members took their seats.
The girl Vickers stood in front of these crew members, and once again introduced her identity as the general manager of the voyage.
And began to play a virtual stereoscopic projection video recorded by the suspended father Peter on June 22, 2091, before entering the cryogenic hibernation chamber more than two years ago.
Rick sat on the metal seat below, watching the speech and performance of 'sister' Vickers at this time.
After more than five years of training in the career of leading the iron-blooded mercenaries, although he is still a little younger than most of the crew members present, the unnatural majesty and cold-bloodedness in his speech suppressed him in terms of momentum. For many crew members, it felt like they were attending not a pre-scientific meeting but a pre-war rally.
The virtual stereoscopic projection of the old man father Peter Wieland soon appeared in this cabin.
In this video, Peter said that when everyone saw this video, he was already dead. He hoped that the pair of archaeologists, Elizabeth Shaw and Holloway, would lead the people present to solve the mystery of life.
The couple Elizabeth Shaw and Holloway stepped forward and began to speak.
Lake sat on the seat and watched. So far, there has been no abnormality. It is just that the original No. 1 David, a high imitation robot, has closed his eyes and looks contemplative. Regarding the current situation of No. 1 David , Lake is also a little unpredictable.
"It is estimated that this David has been alone with me for more than two years, and he has been consecrated, and he has broken away from the original category of evil robot David!" Lake thought with a smile.
The crew members present didn't quite believe Dr. Elizabeth Xiao's words, but no one objected to the generous remuneration provided by Wieland Industries for this space mission.
The small meeting ended soon. The young girl Vickers stepped forward and announced that she would take a day off to let everyone recover. Tomorrow, the Prometheus spacecraft will enter the atmosphere of the 'Paradise' star for scientific research.
Now the galaxy where their spaceship Prometheus is located also has an environment similar to the solar system.
Gravity, oxygen, and nitrogen also exist on the 'Paradise' star, and there may also be intelligent creatures. However, the specific air composition ratio can only be analyzed after the spacecraft lands on the Paradise star tomorrow.
"Elizabeth Xiao and Holloway, please come with me!" The girl Vickers sent an invitation to the two doctors who led the team this time.
Vickers himself is not optimistic about this mission to find the human creator of the Titans, but he has no way to convince his father Peter.
But now, as the top person in charge on the spaceship this time, Vickers is going to talk to these two bold doctors and explain some precautions when he enters the "Heaven" Star III.
Lake also got up and followed. Vickers did not stop Lake from accompanying him, but nodded to Lake and acquiesced in following.
The four of them came to the independent ecological escape cabin that came with the Prometheus spacecraft.
This escape capsule, when the Prometheus is in danger, can choose to separate from the spacecraft and let the two survive for decades.
The escape cabin is equipped with a separate ecological circulation system and a very high-end medical cabin.
Of course, the girl Vickers is still on the Prometheus spaceship, and has installed an escape pod that belongs to her.
The defense level there is higher than this escape cabin, and the surrounding metal walls are made of special combination,
In her exclusive escape cabin, there are also two cryogenic hibernation cabins and a high-end medical cabin that is the same as this escape cabin.
This high-end medical cabin is the Pauling medical cabin, which is the highest-end medical cabin of human technology today.
The price of a medical cabin could not be afforded by the total income of the mercenary corps that Lake and Vickers had gradually accumulated for several years. It was because Vickers secretly mortgaged part of the assets of the Wieland Enterprise that he finally bought it.
When Elizabeth Xiao entered the escape cabin, she found the "Pauling Medical Cabin" that she had only seen on the news before. She walked over and unconsciously reached out to check the procedures of the medical cabin.
"There are only twelve Pauling medical cabins in the world!" Elizabeth Xiao sighed with a surprised expression.
"Miss Xiao, please don't touch it, this is a very expensive instrument!" The girl Vickers knew how expensive the medical cabin was, and stopped it aloud.
"It's okay, Vickers, don't be stingy, Miss Elizabeth Xiao, if you want to see it, just watch it, and the medical cabin is not bad!" Lake came over with a smile, and handed it over to his sister Vickers and the two couple doctors. A few glasses of wine.
Lake thought, first let Elizabeth Xiao familiarize himself with the working procedures of the medical cabin. It is estimated that in a few days, if the original plot can be developed, Elizabeth Xiao, a female doctor, will use this medical cabin to do it herself The cesarean section took out the abnormal shape in her stomach.
Lake remembered that when he watched the Prometheus movie, he admired the ruthlessness and reaction of Dr. Elizabeth Xiao Nu.
After knowing that there was an unknown life form in her stomach, this Elizabeth Xiao Neng came to the medical cabin alone, and with the assistance of the medical cabin, she completed the cesarean section and took out the alien, and even sewed up the wound by herself. Forgot to close the medical cabin for disinfection procedures.
It's a pity that the alien's vitality produced in her stomach is too tenacious, and the disinfectant gas can't kill the alien in a short time, and the glass cover of the medical cabin can't shut the alien.
"Okay, Miss Xiao, be careful when you read it! Don't mess with programs you don't understand!" Vickers glared at Reck who handed her the wine glass, and said to Elizabeth Xiao, the female doctor.
Dr. Xiao didn't take the drink that Lake handed over, and checked the procedures of the medical cabin to satisfy her curiosity.
After a few minutes, Dr. Xiao got up and left the medical cabin. After all, it's not good to keep Miss Vickers waiting too long!
Vickers was in this room, sitting on a swivel chair, with his legs crossed, the couple doctor said: "After going to Paradise Star tomorrow, although the landing exploration team is led by you.
But you need to be aware of the risks of contact with non-human beings.
When exploring the heavenly planet, if you really find a living thing, please don't try to go up to contact and communicate, and watch from a distance, it is best not to be discovered.
Even if the creators of the Titan race really existed, they had the technology to navigate freely in the universe at the beginning of our human existence.
If the Titan civilization is not extinct or faulty, their civilization is not something that we humans, who have just explored the universe for less than half a century, can fight against. "
Hearing Vickers' advice, the couple Elizabeth Shaw and Holloway nodded in agreement on the surface, but they didn't take it seriously at all.
For doctors of archaeology like them, the temptation to study unknown civilizations is no less than the obsession of Peter, an old guy, who pursues eternal life.
Looking at the expressions of these two people, Lake also knew that he did not see any aliens. Before death appeared, this couple would not listen to any words of persuasion and warning.
After all, these two doctors dared to come to this distant planet for investigation only based on the discovery of a few ancient relics on the earth.
It's strange that this daring couple can be persuaded.
"I hope they don't get killed by them!" Lake thought to himself.
After the crew rested for more than 20 hours, the Prometheus spacecraft was already orbiting the star "Heaven".
In the main control room, the captain began to control the spacecraft, preparing to enter the atmosphere of the "Paradise" star.
The spaceship deviated from its original orbit and entered the dark cloud layer similar to thunder and lightning first.
Lake sat on the seat in the main control room and fastened the safety belt that fixed his body. Through the special synthetic glass in the main control room, Lake could see the thick black clouds and lightning outside.
His spaceship was constantly shaking with the external airflow.
Lake couldn't help being a little nervous. At this altitude, once the spaceship crashes, even if he has a red levitation magic cloak, he won't be able to fly continuously. If he falls to the ground, he will not die or be disabled.
Fortunately, a few minutes later, under the manual fine-tuning control of the captain, the Prometheus spacecraft successfully passed through the black clouds filled with thunder and lightning, and flew into the sky above the planet "Paradise".
The scene outside the main control room became normal again. On Paradise Star, there are many mountains and peaks. The detection instruments on the spacecraft also started to work immediately to analyze the data on this planet.
"Decelerating 100 knots" the captain took control of the spacecraft and began sailing above the mountains.
Everyone, including Lake, looked at the naturally existing mountains outside. This place is different from the earth, covered with some green plants, but these untouched mountain peaks make people feel like returning to ancient times, like Be in the palace of nature built by the gods.
"It's over there, God can't build this kind of building!" Holloway excitedly pointed to a hemispherical building that just appeared on the right side of the monitor, and shouted in the main control room.
Holloway unbuckled his chair and ran straight to the right of the main control room.
Looking from the air, Lake saw a hemispherical building upside down on the ground. Surrounding the hemispherical building, there was a large ring with a gap around it. This ring looked like a city wall guarding the hemispherical building. Same.
"Captain, can you dock there?" Dr. Holloway returned to his seat and asked the captain who was controlling the flight of the spaceship.
"No problem!" The captain replied confidently.
As the Prometheus spacecraft gradually lowered and approached the hemispherical building, Lake discovered that the building was several times larger than he had expected before.
Compared with the volume of the Prometheus spaceship and this spherical building, it is like a small car and a small town.
I didn't feel that the earthy yellow hemispherical building was huge in the sky before, because the spaceship was too far away.
As the Prometheus spacecraft gradually lowered its altitude, sixteen thick metal cylinders with trays popped up under the spacecraft to assist the spacecraft to land when it landed.
The spaceship flew in from above the ring of the gap in the outer wall of the building. The height of the yellow wall was higher than the stacking of three Prometheus spaceships.
The experienced captain, controlling his baby spaceship, stopped at a distance of about a kilometer from the hemispherical building.
After stopping, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that they have successfully landed on the 'Paradise' star and discovered the buildings of alien creatures, they are waiting for their investigation team to investigate inside.
"There are still six hours, and it will be dark, how about doing it tomorrow!"
"Go now, we are about to witness the alien civilization, which may be the creator of the Titans and our humans. How can we wait for such an exciting moment!" Dr. Elizabeth Xiao, who is in charge of leading the team, said excitedly.
The girl Vickers looked at Lake, and Lake nodded. He had already arrived at the hellish Titan hunting test site on Paradise Star.
After more than ten seconds, the scientific research personnel began to wear protective clothing with a large glass helmet.
The spacecraft has already obtained the air detection report of this heavenly star.
Although the air on the surface of Paradise Star contains oxygen, the content of other gases is different from that of the earth. Human beings cannot live directly on this planet without filters. .
The girl Vickers, who is the leader of the Prometheus, chooses the spaceship, and Lake follows the original No. 1 David robot, and more than a dozen scientific research personnel began to wear protective clothing, preparing to enter the alien hemispherical base. Probe.
Both Lake and No. 1 David took a flamethrower as a weapon. Lake wrapped a large long whip made of anti-corrosion materials specially brought from the earth around his waist and shoulders. In an emergency, this The big long whip can also be used as a rope.
In this scientific expedition team, there were two recruited mercenaries who also brought detection equipment and machine gun weapons.
"David, your type of robot should be able to survive in all kinds of harsh environments. You don't need to breathe at all. Why do you wear protective clothing like us." An hired worker who was wearing a thick synthetic glass hood on his head Bing, asked No. 1 David.
"Based on your human behavior and habits, if I wear the same protective clothing as yours to perform tasks together, it will make you feel more comfortable and accept me as a robot teammate." David No. 1 replied.
Lake also put on the protective suit. The Titans' hemispherical base that is about to enter contains all kinds of alien biochemical weapons developed by the Titans.
Although most of them were sealed in containers without activation, a small number survived.
Lake didn't want to be infected by accidental parasitism in this dungeon. Even if he survived to complete the mission, he would be forcibly imprisoned in this dungeon world by Zhutian Online, unable to leave.
A scientific expedition team of more than ten people boarded two special off-road vehicles and several motorcycles.
This off-road vehicle is also equipped with an armor-piercing heavy machine gun, which was suggested by Lake before.
Lake, No. 1 David and Dr. Elizabeth Xiao are a couple sitting in an off-road vehicle, and No. 1 David is in charge of driving.
With a distance of a thousand meters, the people driving the vehicles quickly arrived at the entrance of the extraterrestrial building in the hemisphere, a tall gate that looked like the entrance of a cave. There are also some ancient carvings on both sides of the gate.
After everyone parked their cars at the door, they entered on foot.
A mercenary took out several flying inspection sphere drones from his back and threw them into the air.
The sphere drone quickly flew towards many routes in the base, driving the scanning infrared device to draw a three-dimensional topographical map of the alien base.
In the main control room of the Prometheus spacecraft, together with the data on the metal table in the middle, it specially accepts the scanned images sent back by these sphere drones for summary.
A huge three-dimensional topographic map of the interior of the alien base was gradually drawn and transmitted to the receivers on the protective suits of Lake and others.
"With this equipment, tomb robbery is much easier!" Lake lamented the convenience of high technology, and he also activated the skill of sharp eyes. In order to prevent the aliens hiding in the base from attacking him suddenly.
After so many experiences in the dungeon world, Lake knows that the plot in the movie can only be used as a reference. If you completely believe in the plot in the movie and perform tasks in the dungeon world, you may end up dying without even knowing how you died. dropped.
A group of people continued to go deep.
According to the information sent back by the spherical drone, this alien Titan base has many internal passages, and the passages are very crowded. In a short period of time, the spherical drone cannot finish drawing the topographic map here.
Fortunately, according to the known topographical map, everyone came to a cave like a central hall.
In the center of the cave, there is a deep pit, and water mist appears beside the pit.
"Air detectors show that the proportion of air in this alien base is the same as that on Earth.
Moreover, the air here is not polluted, and human beings can breathe normally! " Holloway, a male doctor of archaeology, said in surprise.
"Look, there are murals on the surrounding walls!"
Lake also turned his head to look at the stone paintings on the wall. They were all abstract paintings. Lake didn't understand anything from these abstract paintings.
However, many experts in this team, after reading it, concluded that the big pit in the middle of the cave they are in is a natural air conditioning filter, which can convert and filter the air outside the base into something suitable for human breathing. air ratio
"Titans and humans need the same ratio of oxygen to breathe. Are they really the creators of our humans!" After finishing speaking, Holloway was about to remove the synthetic glass helmet on his head. , breathe the air here.
"No, stop!" Dr. Xiao stepped forward to try to stop it.
But Holloway didn't listen at all, and took off the synthetic glass helmet, and then took several deep breaths.
"Very fresh air, fresher than the air on Earth!" Holloway said with a smile.
After waiting for a few minutes and seeing that Holloway was fine, the team members also began to take off the synthetic glass helmets on their heads.
After all, wearing this bulky helmet is too heavy, and the oxygen provided in it also has a smell of disinfectant, which is very unpleasant.
"No. 2 David, why don't you take off your helmet!" Dr. Xiao found that everyone took off their helmets and continued to explore the environment here, except for the high imitation robot, Leike, who was still wearing a bulky glass helmet. 1 No. David robots have taken off their helmets.
"I'm wearing a helmet and I feel comfortable!" Lake replied with a smile. Lake couldn't tell them that it was because he was afraid of death, afraid of being infected by the possible leakage of alien black water or the presence of unknown alien parasites. After all, this base is a Alien Proving Grounds on the Titan Frontier.
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