Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 678: Huaxia Heavy Industry
"But I can't figure it out..." Liao Xing continued, "What is the purpose of the Alphas sealing these humanoid monsters in this ruins? What is the purpose of awakening them? As guards to resist invaders? But as a defensive force for the ruins, these humanoid monsters seem to be too weak compared to the traps and mechanisms in other ruins."
"If you can't figure it out, then there's no need to think about it." Sergeant Ken said, "Is this place the control center of this ruins? Can we use these devices to start the 'engine'?"
"Probably not... If I have to give this room a name, I think calling it 'bedroom' would be more appropriate." Liao Xing said, "All the equipment here is obviously serving these hibernation capsules. The control is not here."
"Go to the room opposite." Sergeant Ken walked towards the door without looking back.
"Wait a minute, Ken." Liao Xing quickly chased after him and grabbed Ken's shoulder. "If we can dismantle one of these hibernation capsules and bring it back, it will definitely have a huge impact on the Ark's technology. Perhaps..."
"Liao Xing." Ken turned around and looked at Liao Xing. "We are soldiers, not relic hunters... Our mission is to blow up this relic and erase all traces, including these creations of the Alpha civilization... Allowing you to take the body away is already the greatest indulgence within my authority."
At this point, Ken suddenly sighed and said, "Besides, I can't guarantee that the body can really be brought into the Ark... Perhaps, after knowing this, the people above will ask us to destroy it, just like we blew up this ruin."
"Why... Obviously everything in other ruins can be studied, but not this one... What secrets are hidden here?" Liao Xing asked.
In the "Super Dream" state, Ke Lan also focused all his attention on Sergeant Ken - the questions Liao Xing asked were exactly what he wanted to know most.
"I don't know." Sergeant Ken's answer did not change.
"Perhaps, the people above have already known the secrets of this relic...including these hibernation capsules and these humanoid monsters..." Jino pondered, "Otherwise, they would not have sent us to carry out this mission...If they knew nothing about the things in this relic, they should have sent an exploration team and relic hunters instead of us. I think the people above must have considered something before making this decision. Doctor Liao, we are just soldiers, these things...are not what we need to consider..."
Just when the atmosphere among the crowd became tense, another exclamation suddenly came from Martin's side.
"Martin, what did you find out?" Collins looked in the direction of the voice, only to see that the guy had slipped to the other end of the room at some point and was staring at the wall in a daze.
"Damn it, I must have seen a ghost..." Martin muttered.
"What is that?" Collins walked over, but when he saw clearly what Martin was staring at, he was stunned like Martin.
This is an ordinary wall, covered with a layer of alloy plate. Due to its age, the surface of the plate has been covered with a thin layer of oxide. There is no hibernation capsule under this wall, and there are no devices with flashing lights embedded on the wall...
But in an inconspicuous corner, there are four words etched with laser.
"Huaxia Heavy Industry".
Four Chinese characters.
The common languages on the Ark are Chinese characters and English. As long as you are not illiterate, you can basically understand them... But the appearance of these four Chinese characters gave the two of them a very strange feeling.
"Collins...these...these four words...are they Chinese characters?" Martin asked.
"Yes." Collins nodded stiffly.
"What...what does it say?" Martin asked again.
"Hua...Huaxia Heavy Industry."
"Then I am not mistaken...but...why..." Martin's expression was very complicated, "First there are Arabic numerals, then Chinese characters...Is this really the remains of the Alpha civilization?"
"I don't know..." Collins shook his head.
The surface of these four Chinese characters is also covered with a uniform oxide layer, the thickness of which is exactly the same as the overall wall surface. In other words, the inscription of these four characters was engraved on the wall from the beginning, rather than added later.
If the cans with Arabic numerals on them could be explained as "foreign objects", then this wall and the inscriptions on it... couldn't they have been brought in from outside by the people on the Ark?
The shock felt by Ke Lan, who was in Collins' perspective, was no less than that of Collins... Huaxia Heavy Industry, although this name is unfamiliar to many people in modern times, for Ke Lan, who likes to look through the history of the old era, he has seen these four words too many times.
"Huaxia Heavy Industry" is the most powerful state-owned enterprise in the most powerful country in Asia in the old era. Its business scope includes machinery, electronics, steel, etc. Huaxia Heavy Industry can be found in almost any industrial product produced by Huaxia.
Not only that, the main construction project of Noah's Ark was led by China Heavy Industry and completed jointly by dozens of the world's top heavy industrial groups.
However, the scale of China Heavy Industry is too large, and Noah's Ark can only take away its information and a small number of elite technical personnel. As for China Heavy Industry itself, it was "abandoned" on the earth after the Ark was completed.
But even on the Ark, those parts completed by China Heavy Industry will not have the inscription "China Heavy Industry". Even if there is, it should be "Noah's Ark Joint Engineering Group".
As for the "direct bloodline" of Huaxia Heavy Industry that was brought onto the Ark, it was differentiated into a number of famous heavy industrial enterprises during the long interstellar voyage... But perhaps out of respect for the sacrifices on Earth, none of these companies that inherited the bloodline of Huaxia Heavy Industry continued to use "Huaxia Heavy Industry" as their name.
Why would the name of a company that has disappeared along with the Earth appear in the ruins of Alpha civilization?
