Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 788 Manual Emergency Procedure
"Your plan is crazy..." Thirty-three looked at Ke Lan with a complicated expression, "but I don't know why, I actually think it seems to be feasible... I think I must be crazy too."
"It doesn't just seem to be feasible, it is feasible." Ke Lan snapped his fingers. "It has come to this point. Even a dead horse can be treated as a living one. What's more, this 'horse' in front of us is not dead yet."
"Then tell me, what do you need me to do?" Thirty-Three clapped his fists hard.
He suddenly felt that all his concerns were ridiculous... The meaning of his life was to explore those secrets, and now, the truth of this planet was only a dozen kilometers away from them... It was no exaggeration to say that it was "within reach". If he retreated at this time, he felt that he would probably spend the rest of his life in regret.
Thirty-three knew very well that the rest of his life would not be too long... This special ability to manipulate Nino alloy gave him powerful combat power, but it also seriously overdrawn his body. Instead of dying painfully after a period of lingering life, it would be better to ignite the rest of his life completely... Even if he could only turn into ashes, it would be a good ending.
But if you are lucky, you might be able to ignite a prairie fire.
Faintly, he could feel that a "cold winter" that could destroy everything was gradually approaching...human civilization needed such a "fire" very much.
"I need you to go to the engine room before the thick fog completely submerges it." Ke Lan threw a walkie-talkie with an obviously aging plastic shell to Thirty-Three. "This is the ship's communicator for the Genoa. You only need to stick the signal receiver with a magnet on any exposed metal structure on the inner wall of the battleship to establish a crude wired communication circuit."
"Understood." Thirty-three put the communicator on his shoulder, made an OK gesture to Ke Lan, turned around and ran towards the power cabin.
"What about me?" Mo Jue's voice came out from an old-fashioned power armor. Because the microphone was not activated, it sounded very dull.
Even if military AI exists, it is still very difficult for one person to operate a warship. Ke Lan must use all the people who can be used - even if they have never been exposed to this kind of thing before.
Ze Luo has also separated from Ke Lan. Not only that, she has also split into two clones that look identical to her original body... According to herself, controlling her original body and two clones at the same time is her current limit. Otherwise, she alone would be able to take care of all the work.
After joining the Undead Crew, Ke Lan reviewed the combat report of the Leviathan assault. The First Fleet's flagship "Qilin" dismissed most of the crew before the collision, leaving only the captain of the ship, the commander of the First Fleet and a minimum number of operating personnel... Excluding the pilots who died in the previous battles, a total of forty-seven people died in the collision.
Even without counting the captain and the commander, the minimum number of people required to operate a Yao-class aircraft carrier battleship like the Qilin is forty-five.
Of course, the "Genoa" is just a Exocet-class high-speed support ship, and its operation complexity is definitely not comparable to that of a behemoth like the Yao-class aircraft carrier battleship... But it is still a big challenge for the six of them to start this battleship.
"Come with me to the bridge." Ke Lan said to Mo Jue.
Although the data stored in the central control computer of the "Genoa" may deepen Mo Jue's corruption, in this case, Ke Lan can only try to minimize Mo Jue's exposure to some "forbidden knowledge".
The bridge and the engine room are the two most important parts of an airship. They are like the brain and heart of a human being... As for the CIC, although it is equally important, its priority is not that high when the necessary operating personnel on the bridge cannot be guaranteed.
Because many operations of CIC can actually be handled by AI, which is very similar to the human body. The brain is only responsible for thinking and issuing commands. As for the detailed control of every muscle and every bone, and even breathing, heartbeat and other actions that are performed all the time, they only need to be handed over to the brainstem and spinal cord.
The reason why the CIC of a battleship needs to be equipped with enough personnel is that the intelligence level of AI is actually far less sophisticated than the human body that has evolved for millions of years, and many operations must be manually analyzed and corrected.
But that was under a combat situation where the amount of information was exploding. If it was just a simple matter of making the warship fly, the AI of the central control computer would still be fully capable of doing this job.
…
But when Ke Lan arrived at the bridge, he found that the airtight door leading to the bridge was locked.
The red indicator light on the unlocker was still flashing rhythmically, which meant that the airtight door was not stuck due to damage, but someone on the other side of the door manually activated the battleship's emergency procedure and actively locked the airtight door.
This emergency procedure is usually only activated when the warship is invaded and the bridge control system fails. It is the last means of life-saving for the bridge crew. After activating this procedure, not only will all the hatches and pipes leading to the bridge be sealed, but four and a half meter thick alloy isolation walls will be lowered behind the doors, turning the entire bridge into an airtight iron barrel.
After this program is activated, the people in the bridge cannot cancel it. They can only choose to wait inside... There are only two possible results of waiting: one is that the Ark's search and rescue team arrives and opens the hatch through special verification methods; the other is that the enemy invading the ship forcibly breaks down the hatch and the isolation wall behind the door by brutal physical means.
When the second situation occurs, the bridge will become the last battlefield for the survivors on the battleship.
However...if the enemy is able to destroy the hatch and all four walls, with the firepower of the self-defense weapons equipped by the bridge crew...the outcome of the battle can be imagined.
Ke Lan is not a professional rescue team, and he does not have any special verification means to open the door. As for the authority of his Undead Crew, he must contact the battleship's central control computer before he can activate it. Faced with an unlocking device that can only read palm prints and irises, it is of no use at all.
"Be careful, there may be... 'living people' in there." Ke Lan protected Mo Jue behind him, pulled out the engineer shovel inserted in the side of the backpack, and with a "snap", unfolded the folded shovel head.
"'Living people'? Impossible..." Mo Jue glanced at the unlocking device with a flashing red light. Although she didn't know how to operate a battleship, as a former Hell Paratrooper, she had spent a long time on a battleship. Of course, she could see that the hatch was locked by the manually activated emergency procedure.
"When the emergency procedure is activated, the hatch cannot be opened from the inside... Even if there were survivors in the bridge at the time, after such a long time, they would have starved to death without supplies..." Mo Jue continued.
"Do you think that this hatch was locked when the Genoa crashed for the first time?" The solemn expression on Ke Lan's face did not diminish at all.
"What else?" Although Mo Jue did not agree with Ke Lan's statement, she still picked up her TAC-50 anti-material sniper rifle and pointed the muzzle at the hatch.
The power armor she was wearing was found by Ke Lan in the armory of the Genoa, but those armed combat models needed to be verified before they could be activated. The only armor Mo Jue could wear was the operational armor provided to the hangar ground crew, and the weapon she could only use was her own sniper rifle.
"Zeluo." Ke Lan did not directly answer Mo Jue's question, but gave Ze Luo a look.
The clone on Ze Luo's left hand side immediately stepped forward and placed his white palm on the hatch door that was covered in peeling paint.
"This hatch fell down twenty-five minutes and forty-two seconds ago." Ze Luo said to Ke Lan and Mo Jue expressionlessly.
"That is to say, the manual emergency procedure was activated 25 minutes ago." Ke Lan showed a half-smile, "Calculating the time, it should be exactly when we broke into the battleship and subdued the corpse. Obviously, the guy in the bridge saw our strength through the monitoring equipment in the corridor, and he... or 'it', was scared..."
Mo Jue curled his lips and whispered, "Okay... But even if that's the case, I don't think there are any 'living people' on the bridge... It would be more accurate to describe them as 'living monsters', right?"
"Don't just call others monsters... They are our compatriots, and they were once the same as us. Even after his 'humanity' was completely eroded, the eroded corpse still had the obsession of not letting the pollution return to the Ark and the human world. He was a respectable soldier... Moreover, we have not been attacked by the ship's defense weapons since we entered the battleship, which shows that the other side does not want to harm us."
As he spoke, Ke Lan glanced at Mo Jue's forehead which was covered by the power armor helmet: "Even if you really become those strange appearances, I will still remember what you looked like as a human being... As long as you still think of yourself as a human being in your heart, no one has the right to call you a monster."
"Are you trying to comfort me?" Mo Jue glanced at Ke Lan with a complicated look on his face, but his tone was slightly slower.
"I'm actually comforting myself. Do you believe me?" Ke Lan smiled and shrugged. "Besides, do you think Ze Luo is a 'monster'?"
"I just think she... is a cheater." Although Mo Jue had not been in contact with the members of the God Hunter Group for too long, this widely accepted statement within the group had successfully assimilated her - Ze Luo's ability could no longer be described as a monster, and only those cheating players in video games could possess similar powers.
And it has to be an unreasonable and violent cheat. As for things like perspective, headlock, etc., they are not qualified.
"Okay, that's enough small talk." Ke Lan swung the engineer shovel in his hand slightly in the air. "We are running out of time, and I am too lazy to find other ways to enter the bridge."
"Are you planning to break in the door by force?" Mo Jue had just asked when Ze Luo's clone's palm on the hatch "pressed" down without warning.
The airtight door made of high-strength alloy seemed to have turned into soft mud and was immediately pressed into it...
“Wait a minute! Breaking the door by force will trigger the automatic defense device!” Mo Jue couldn’t help but warn, “Retreat quickly! There is no cover here…”
As she reminded, dozens of holes had opened in the ceiling of the corridor, and dozens of fully automatic machine guns and laser cutters protruded from these holes. Dozens of red aiming lasers instantly stopped on them.
Mo Jue subconsciously wanted to raise her shield, but the moment she raised her arm, she realized that she was wearing only a work armor that had no weapons and not even armor covering the entire body, instead of the kind of cutting-edge power armor that was once equipped to the Hell Paratroopers.
The anti-material sniper rifle in her hand can destroy a fully automatic machine gun, but this cannot resolve the current crisis at all.
"We don't need cover." Ke Lan raised his hand, and his movements were as if he was commanding these automatic defense devices - those machine guns spewed out long tongues of fire at the same time, and dense barrages poured down on them.
But an invisible umbrella was held above their heads. No matter how fierce the rain of bullets was, they could not break through the barrier formed by the umbrella.
"Don't forget that there are cheaters among us. You just said it yourself." Ke Lan turned and smiled at Mo Jue, "This thing is much more useful than the energy shield."
The next second, all the automatic machine guns that were firing disintegrated, and metal parts of all sizes clanged and scattered all over the ground. As for the laser launchers, their charging devices were destroyed from the beginning, and they were unable to emit the lasers at all.
Ze Luo's clone began to move forward. Her body seemed slender and weak, but the hatch made of high-strength alloy appeared even more fragile in front of her - Mo Jue even had an illusion: she felt that the door was not made of alloy, but rather of chocolate.
The process of printing patterns on chocolate using heated metal molds is exactly the same as this.
A small human-shaped passage soon appeared on the hatch. Ze Luo waved his hand again, and instantly expanded the passage to a size large enough for Ke Lan, Mo Jue and others to pass through.
