Chapter 56: The first signs of crisis
With one technical difficulty being overcome, the industrial capacity on the Noah is increasing exponentially, and the task of doubling every six months is being accomplished step by step.
Super excavators and cutting robots are everywhere in the mines and on the ice lakes, and huge super trains are transporting back and forth to obtain huge amounts of material resources for mankind.
They work tirelessly and never get tired ...
On this day, several staff members started the routine record check in the machine room, which has become a customary thing. There is basically no big difference between each record and the previous day's comparison. If there is a difference, it means that there is something unexpected or there is a machine failure that needs to be dealt with in time.
After many bug corrections, the related intelligent program also tends to be perfect, and the number of errors is getting less and less. So several people were in a relaxed mood, and all were talking and laughing as they checked the data.
"The rest is not much, just the extraction of uranium resources decreased by 7%, according to the feedback from the program, it said that it encountered a large amount of hard ore ... no malfunction as well as feedback in terms of bugs."
"Hard rock? Then let's get some bombs to blow it up." A supervisor nodded and didn't really care.
This kind of thing happens all the time, if you encounter a large amount of hard rock, the excavator has no way to do it, just blow it up with bombs.
He pressed a few buttons and took over an excavator remotely, wanting to do manual control. He turned on the view monitor to see how big the rocky area was so he could estimate the bomb yield used.
Suddenly, he froze, as if in disbelief, and remained frozen for several days before finally shouting, "Look! What is this?"
Hearing this shout, hooting and hollering, all colleagues gathered around, and one by one they were all stunned by the image on the screen: on the screen was a large area of excavated metal, a metal that had been reported up by the excavator's program as an unusually hard stone!
An unnatural, silvery-white metal created by civilization!
...
This report soon reached Oliver's hands, he just glanced at it, his heart began to beat wildly, the sense of crisis, if any, instantly rose to the extreme, and even the sweat on the back of the hair stood up one by one!
Is this the sense of crisis that has been lingering in his heart for a long time? He carefully examined the image on this report, like an alien ship!
There was the Noah on the moon, how come there was one on Mars? Is there alien life inside? A series of questions surfaced in Oliver's mind.
"Call an emergency council!"
"Recall all the excavators from the uranium mines! No ... leave a few for surveillance!"
"And ... get Calvin here too!"
A series of three orders, Oliver only gradually calm, holding the chair slowly sit down. Afraid of what, uranium has been extracted two-thirds, less mining does not matter ... really can not, then give it a nuclear bomb!
The human escape engine, nuclear bombs are ready, and then can escape from Mars ... thought here, his mind finally stabilized. He as the backbone on the Noah, is absolutely can not panic.
Not long after, the crowd arrived at the captain's room ...
"Opportunity, this is definitely a big opportunity for us! A wrecked alien ship, I think its level of science and technology should still be within the range of our perception. We can definitely crack a lot of science and technology, superconducting materials, anti-gravity, controlled nuclear fusion and even sublight engines! We ..."
A physical scientist hissed vociferously, his hands clenched into fists and waved them high in unusual emotion.
The big screen in the captain's room was showing the relevant report. Because during the night, the intelligent program had dug up a mess, the alien ship had been dug up without people's knowledge!
It was shaped like a large flying saucer, and seemed to have received a devastating blow, covered with dense cracks, and the exposed metal surface was pitted.
Calculated from the parts that have been dug out, it is at least 5 km in diameter. Such a volume compared to the Noah is much smaller, but it is not what human technology can build.
Related physics, astronomy, biology, and even materials science experts all gathered in the captain's room. At the same time, Oliver and Wade, James, members of the security department, even Calvin were all together. It was an emergency meeting!
"We must get this ship, it's too important for humanity!"
"With the Noah, we can't do anything about it because it's too high tech ... but with this ship we'll definitely find a way!"
Some of the scientists were already going crazy, especially with the ship's crumbling gaping holes, if anything revealing the mechanics ... Damaged or intact, the humans could definitely get something out of it!
Just when the scientists kept yelling, sitting at the end of Calvin suddenly rolled out the whites of his eyes, beans of sweat rolled down from his forehead. He was the second person to feel the crisis besides Oliver.
But what exactly is the crisis, he also do not understand, is this alien ship?
Now he was in a peculiar state of precognition. Endless dots and lines wove through his mind, interweaving into an abstract picture that he was trying to understand.
"Light? Infinite light?" Calvin felt very puzzled. But what he saw did seem to be this ... He was afraid that he had misunderstood, and foresaw several more times. Each time it was an endless light that seemed to cover everything.
Calvin doesn't know what to say, he has this kind of "garbage" like prophecy ability, not once is reliable ...
But he still put his ear to the "foreknowledge" and Oliver said, listened to Oliver straight frown, what do you mean endless light?
"Oliver Captain, no matter what, I feel that this ship is very dangerous, must be careful ah! Calvin said in a divine voice.
Oliver nodded, he himself also have this feeling, of course, believe in the heart of the sense of crisis. As for the "endless light", could it be a nuclear explosion?
Oliver kept frowning and began to make up the results of Calvin's prophecy, did people find some crisis and detonated the nuclear bomb? Or did this alien ship just explode?
Looking at the frenzied crowd of scientists, he was suddenly a little distracted and did not know how he should persuade these crazy humans ...
At this time, Dr. Felix who was sitting on the side suddenly stood up, he coughed his throat and said seriously, "Everyone, please be quiet, you should know that this spaceship is not only an opportunity, but also may be a great danger!"
"I don't know if the Martian virus was brought by an alien ship or is native to Mars. But the discovery of this alien ship may have to re-write our perception of the universe."
"A small Martian virus can bring such a big disaster? Let alone a high level civilization, we must be careful!"
"We haven't had contact with an alien civilization, we can't be more careful, we simply don't know if there is life inside, or something else very dangerous ... like artificial intelligence, as long as there is enough energy, it can totally last for a long time! We can't risk exploring, we must be cautious!"
"How small and ignorant we are in the whole universe. And the other side is most likely a very advanced civilization, the kind that can directly destroy a planet. Maybe any little bit of the defense mechanism of the flying saucer can wipe us out completely!"
These words were like a pot of cold water splashed on the hearts of many scientists. Many of them grabbed their hair, and each one of them fidgeted, wanting to refute but having no way to do so.
"Yes! Is it possible for alien life to be alive? Is it possible to launch an attack on us humans? This question is the most urgent, we need to figure this out first!" Oliver's expression took on a scowl, just now, he informed Wade to enter the emergency state of readiness, a billion tons equivalent nuclear warhead has been aimed at the alien ship!