Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 492: Start the Console
"How do I use this thing?" The hound's vision had finally recovered. He squeezed forward, patted Ke Lan's arm, and winked, "Why do I feel that the method of using this thing is the same as the direction ball... Can I push this ball upwards and the battleship will fly up directly?"
"The steering wheel should be on the bridge, and here is the power room..." Before Layton could finish his words, the hound jumped up and hit him on the helmet with a slapping sound.
"Idiot, your head is full of oil and fat, right? Did the aliens tell you by name that this place is the engine room? Who told you that the design of alien warships must follow the ideas of Earthlings? Maybe their cockpit and engine room are integrated into one!"
"What the old dog said makes sense, otherwise, the 'Aguna Kator' wouldn't have rushed out of the magma pool before." Ivan nodded in agreement, "However, this control console should be specially designed for the race that built this battleship. Even if the Alphas have modified it, it is modified according to their operating habits... Can humans operate this thing?"
While they were talking, Ke Lan had already completed a 360-degree inspection of the console. To his disappointment, the surface of the stone pillar and the metal ball were very smooth, without any characters or marks. The material of the top of the stone pillar was exactly the same as the side. Without destroying the stone pillar, there was no way to detect the internal structure of the stone pillar.
"I've tried it." Just as Ke Lan was about to speak, Aya had already learned to answer, "Neither the metal detector nor the X-ray could see what's inside the stone pillar. The material wrapped around it is not ordinary rock."
"Yeah, it's very hard." Ke Lan straightened up and raised the object in his hand. "I just scratched the surface with a tungsten steel probe. There was no mark left, but the needle tip was slightly worn... If this material can be developed, I'm afraid its value will be no less than energy crystals and Nino alloys."
"Then it seems that this console should be an original product of the Third Civilization. The Alphas can't even make Nino alloy, let alone this kind of stone that is harder than tungsten steel." The Hound said, "By the way, have you checked the metal ball floating above? It looks like it is made of Nino alloy... but it seems to be mixed with some impurities..."
The hound narrowed its eyes and stretched its neck straight, almost putting its head right on it.
"The main material of the metal ball is indeed Nino alloy, but it is hard to say what kind of metal elements are mixed into it." Leighton shook his head. With the control console destroyed, there was too little information that could be detected.
"It's no use guessing here, why don't we just put our hands on it and try it? If you don't dare, let me be the guinea pig." The hound said as he rolled up his sleeves.
"Old dog." Ke Lan stretched out a hand and stopped the hound. He looked at him meaningfully and said, "Let me do it."
"You come?" When he looked at Ke Lan, Hound was stunned for half a second, and then he immediately took a half step back, "Okay, if you want to come, then come. Be careful."
Ke Lan took a deep breath and walked to a place less than half a meter away from the control console.
Based on the intelligence that has been collected so far, one thing is certain: Park Sang-woo's main purpose in deceiving them was to lure himself into "Aguna Kotor".
He did this with a very clear purpose...
For the heretic sect, in their reconnaissance team, only they, as the "heirs", have irreplaceable value.
Park Sang-woo's goal is himself, not others.
If this ancient warship is a lock, then among all humans, the only two people qualified to be the key are probably Ke Lan and the "Prophet".
But the "prophet" was too cowardly to let his real body go deep into the danger zone, so he only sent out Park Sang-woo, a substitute who could be sacrificed at any time.
When Park Sang-woo first entered the "Aguna Tor", he apparently tried to start the ancient battleship, but he failed - the battleship rose into the air, then fell down and sank once again into the depths of the magma pool.
Ke Lan didn't know the reason for his failure, but it was definitely related to his identity as a "stand-in".
Even if the "substitute of the heir" and the "heir himself" are similar, there will still be some differences... Perhaps the control system of this ancient battleship discovered this slight difference and judged Park Sangyou as a " fake ", so it failed to start...
Then the "prophet" would decide to let himself, the "genuine one", try to start the warship - but what puzzled Ke Lan was that didn't the "prophet" worry that after he started the warship, it would turn around and attack the heretics?
With the power of this battleship, it might be possible to destroy Alpha, not to mention a group of exiles who armed themselves with the remains of the Alpha people and have not even completely solved the basic problem of food and clothing.
Why does he dare to do that?
Ke Lan thought so and slowly placed his hands on the metal ball.
“…”
And nothing happened.
The Hound, Aya and the others stared at each other in confusion.
If this way of control is wrong, what is the right way?
Although Park Sang-woo failed, he at least made the battleship fly. But now, the console did not respond at all.
"Wait, I know what the problem is..."
Ke Lan smiled at everyone awkwardly, then took off her gauntlets and gloves and put her hands on it again.
In an instant, a circle of dazzling white light appeared on the surface of the metal ball - completely different from the soft fluorescence that Ke Lan saw in the memory fragments!
"Fuck! There's a reaction!" The hound had just exclaimed when bursts of loud noises came from the direction of the huge pit.
Everyone quickly turned around and saw that all the giant crystal pillars had sunk to the bottom of the pit, replaced by dark green light pillars connected to the dome!
The dark green column of light continued to expand until it filled the entire giant pit, but at the edge of the giant pit, there seemed to be an invisible wall that restrained the light column and prevented it from crossing the boundary.
"Resonance force field! This is what I mean by resonance force field!" Layton shouted excitedly -
