Chapter 686 - Living Brain Cells (15)
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Hydra and Edith, just like that... died simultaneously?As his feet landed steadily due to the restored gravity, Li Cheng kicked off the ground and dashed toward the blast door.
The alarm echoed throughout the Xinxiang Base, and Out of Control, wearing a brown spacesuit and holding a wrench, popped his head out from behind the warehouse door. Seeing Li Cheng sprinting through the corridor, he was stunned, "What happened? Did someone else die?"
Li Cheng didnât stop; he rushed to the equipment room, reached out to turn the blast door, only to find it locked from inside. He then backed up a few steps, quickly located a ventilation duct, and used a magnetic wheel to enter the equipment room.
This room was similar to the engine room, a core facility of Xinxiang Base. Inside a particularly spacious honeycomb-shaped space stood transparent cabinets, each over eight meters tall.
Every cabinet was divided into six compartment drawers, with servers soaked in colorless liquid to reduce operating temperatures.
To facilitate checking and repairing the elevated cabinets, the equipment room ceiling was equipped with automated mechanical arms installed below the rails. Three elevators were parked on the ground, and in the corner, there was a desk equipped with a magnetic levitation chair, identical to those in the Central Control Hall.
Edithâs body lay behind the desk, face down on the floor, with limbs twisted and the speaker on her neck destroyed, fatal.
The entire spine was broken in the middle, crushed by the magnetic levitation chair at the lower back.
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Plop, plop.
The sound of water flowed from the back of the equipment room; Edith didnât die without a fight. She fired, but the bullets landed on the cabinets, with no blood at the scene, only coolant for the servers spilled all over the floor.
Li Cheng smacked his lips, "This gun, damn it, even Shang Yang would say itâs a good horse."
"Hey? Open the door!"
Under the urging of Dir and others, Li Cheng opened the blast door, stepped aside to let everyone see inside the room.
"Edith was armed but still died..."
Zhongli Mieingâs voice was weak as a mosquito, from the start to now, Blood Lion Roar, Valkyrie, Midnight Dad, Hydra, Edith, 11 repair workers had died, with 5 already gone.
And the simultaneous appearance of the two deceased meant that Midnight Dad, who was exiled according to the "Pottery Exile Method" in the last vote, was not the Space Alien Species,
Everyone was wrong at the time, Midnight Dad died in vain, and there were still two Space Alien Species present.
"Current time, 49 minutes and 42 seconds remain until the final deadline."
Li Cheng glanced at the smart watch, beckoning everyone to move Edithâs body onto the magnetic levitation chair.
The technology of Xinxiang Baseâs magnetic levitation chair is no less than other instruments, not only automatically adjusting armrests and backrest dimensions to fit different body shapes and postures,
The weight limit is also exceptionally high; Edith, combined with her spacesuit, weighed over 200 kilograms, comparable to Liangzi, and when placed on it, didnât even wobble, continuing to levitate at 20 centimeters above ground, easily pushed along,
When encountering metal steps or slopes, it automatically changes the direction of the electric field to flexibly elevate or descend.
From the lower level to the middle level, around two corners, Hydraâs corpse was spotted in the security room.
His chest caved inwards, dying the same way as Valkyrie.
Li Cheng repeated the process, placing Hydraâs corpse on the magnetic levitation chair too, then passing through the corridor, and around the corner, hearing a loud sizzling noise.
Only to see two Sentry Robots, at close range, bombarding the damaged Central Control Hallâs door handle with arcs,
Forcing the broken handle to melt through, clicking open automatically.
Behind Li Cheng were Su Nisheng, Out of Control, and others who simultaneously stopped in their tracks. The Xinxiang Base alarm hadnât stopped, yet the door newly opened,
This indicated that the alarm wasnât triggered by someone pressing the hall button but by the warning hand in the equipmentâwhen the owner of the warning hand dies, Sentry Robots activate automatically.
Considering Edith was equipped with an armed hand, the warning hand could only be Hydra.
More shocking for everyone was when Laughing God, clad in a white spacesuit, stood outside the blast door,
Upon seeing Li Cheng appear, pushing the magnetic levitation chair, he nonchalantly waved to greet, "Yo, isnât this Hydra and Edith? Why are they lying down to rest?"
Seeing everyoneâs silence, Laughing God smirked and tilted his head playfully, "Your next line is, âHow dare you appear here?â"
"How dare you appear here?"
Almost simultaneously, Dir voiced the same words,
Laughing God, after grouping, abandoned Dir, ran off and disappeared, never rejoining the other survivors, and was suspected of causing gravity disruption, making him the top suspect in killing Hydra and Edith.
In this situation, he didnât flee or continue controlling gravity to kill everyone but instead openly appeared in the Central Control Hall, standing in front of the Sentry Robots.
This action wasnât just reckless but akin to hiding in the bushes to surprise drivers when a heavy truck approached.
"I know my sudden disappearance looks suspicious, but Iâm not a space alien."
Laughing God strode into the Central Control Hall and calmly turned to everyone, saying, "Letâs be rational. Hear me out before voting for exile."
"Rational, how am I supposed to be rational."
Li Cheng gripped the back of a chair, turned to glance at the othersâ body language.
Hesitation, suspicion, fear, unease.
After a brief pause, Su Nisheng said, "Hydra and Edith died simultaneously; Laughing God alone couldnât have done it."
"Exactly, a space alien canât perform cloning."
Laughing God nodded, "But I have a friend who can. His daughter went abroad for studies, his wife accompanied her alone for studies, and within a year, she got pregnant."
Everyone thought Laughing God was bullshitting again, exchanged glances, and eventually filed into the Central Control Hall.
As everyone gathered, the alarm finally ceased, and the sentry robot remained loyally hovering above everyoneâs heads.
Li Cheng placed the two corpses into the rocket cargo bay, stepped back, and turned to Laughing God, "Explain, starting with why you left Dir."
"OK."
Laughing God nodded, first raising his smart wristwatch to display the time.
"The previous round of voting, we collectively decided to exile Midnight Dad, with 1 hour and 27 minutes left on the countdown.
At 1 hour and 21 minutes, we completed grouping, I was paired with Dir, heading to the middle level of Xinxiang Base for a second inspection of the management room.
While reviewing the New Hope spaceshipâs travel records, I discovered two suspicious points.
One, the spaceship uses a vector control engine.
Two, the energy line of the engine shares the same source as the shield system.
These two points are easy to explain: The New Hope spaceship traveled at 80% of light speed from Earth to HD996A, over eighty light-years away.
The speed is so fast that even colliding with a space meteorite particle the size of a fingernail could destroy the entire spaceship, hence the necessity of a shield.
The energy shields in sci-fi movies, whether a repulsion shield without substance or a membrane-like substance shield, are too difficult to achieve.
The most reasonable explanation is that the shield used by the New Hope spaceship to block meteorite particles is also generated by a vector control device.
Thus further deducing, the dome shield used by Xinxiang Base on HD996A planet might also originate from a miniaturized vector control device."
Laughing God pointed at the smart wristwatch-generated 3D projection map, "According to Chaoâs claim, Xinxiang Baseâs personnel capacity is sixty thousand, but from what we see, the living spaces on the upper, middle, and lower levels arenât enough to accommodate sixty thousand peopleâs lives.
Not to mention the embryo storage room containing countless unborn humans.
The living density is comparable to a sardine can, an Indian train.
Which means, outside of the three-level spaces, there are other regions not shown on the 3D map.
Chao hid from us..."
"Can you get to the point?"
Out of Control looked up at the sentry robot, and said in a deep voice, "We donât have much time!"
"Calm down."
Laughing God raised his hands, relaxed, "Chao hiding the existence of the vector control device is reasonable. If space aliens knew,
it could amplify gravity tenfold, even twentyfold, killing all humans except itself, causing irreparable damage to Xinxiang Base.
Hence itâs better to hide it, allowing survivors to remain in amnesia.
However, since I could see this in the management room logs, anyone who had been to the management room, namely Edith, Zhongli Mieing, Valkyrie, could have discovered the secret of the vector control device.
Back then, I already suspected, excluding the deceased Valkyrie, thereâs a high probability the space alien was hidden among Edith and Zhongli Mieing."
"What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Zhongli Mieing couldnât help but reprimand, "What does it have to do with me?"
"It actually does."
Laughing God chuckled, "Need a reminder? Midnight Dad was framed to death by you."