Chapter 314 Containment Control and Protection
A cryogenic sleep box that was still in operation appeared in the Forerunner ruins. To be honest, Amber was stunned on the spot after hearing this voice broadcast.
Because if the cryogenic sleep chamber is in normal operation, it means that the thing dormant inside will not at least be a shriveled corpse
With the technical level of the Forerunner civilization, it is still possible to It will not make a cryogenic dormant chamber unable to figure out whether the creature inside is dead, nor will it waste energy by maintaining a dead creature in a low temperature state.
But if this is the case, it means that there is very likely a living Forerunner sleeping in this cryogenic sleep chamber
Sleeping for a million years in one breath? This seems even more outrageous.
Amber tried his best to recall in his mind, because in his memory, no Forerunner ruins had ever been 'unearthed' with a living Forerunner.
Judging from the events he has witnessed over the past year since he traveled back in time, the direction of the 'plot' in this world is basically the same as in the game, and the locations of various resource points, 'dungeons' and ruins are also different. All remain consistent.
So Amber believes that as long as the world line is not changed due to his actions, many things can continue to be applied to the experience of the previous life.
Just like the current Forerunner ruins, Amber feels that no matter how many things she and Atlas do, it will not affect this place, so what is happening now should be in line with the plot trend in the game. Consistent.
If that's the case, that leaves only one possibility.
That is the Quest for Truth Foundation, which really dug up a living forerunner in this ruins.
But for some unknown reason, the Foundation eliminated all records of this operation, and the whereabouts of this forerunner are also unknown
“There is something fishy here”
thought Here, Amber immediately decided to follow up to see the situation.
A forerunner from millions of years ago who seems to be still alive? You must be lying if you say Amber isn't curious.
Ahead, under the command of the Puppet Master, the support troops of the Quest for Truth Foundation completed their formation with the survivors of the original team.
After confirming that all Annihilators were completely ‘annihilated’, this large group of people began to walk towards the depths of the 0th floor of the base area.
After the HCP in charge of the rear and some Foundation soldiers also left, Amber appeared sneakily from the shadows.
Although the style of sneaking wearing a set of more than 5 tons of power armor can be said to be quite strange.
But Amber didn't follow him directly - he didn't want to be exposed now, and wouldn't it be a good thing to have people from the Foundation 'opening the way' in front of this dangerous ruins?
After confirming that the other party would not find her, Amber came to the corpses of the Annihilators lying on the ground.
These hill-like corpses are more shocking than they look in the game.
Of course, the taste is also greater.
If the game simply simulates the smell to give players the 'experience' of conquering these forerunner behemoths, then Amber is experiencing an immersive experience now.
He had just opened the helmet, but he was so smoked that he immediately closed it and turned on the internal circulation mode.
"Why is this thing so mean? It's not the exquisite style of the Forerunners."
What Amber is thinking in her heart is not just a complaint, because the creations of the Forerunner civilization have always been They all appear in front of players with a refined, highly sophisticated, and 99-new style for their own use.
Even if it was the Annihilator with his head shot in front of him, when Amber encountered it in other ruins, although there was no difference in appearance, it was obviously better maintained than here.
Yes, it is maintenance. Or maintenance and repair work. One of the reasons why the Forerunner civilization is recognized as having strong technological capabilities is because their relics have been left quietly for millions of years and their internal facilities are so well maintained.
It even feels like the forerunners inside seem to have just left.
Even biological combat weapons like the 'Annihilator', which are modified from some ancient creatures, usually sleep in a dedicated closed cabin and undergo regular maintenance to ensure that they can attack the enemy at any time. .
But the Annihilator in front of Amber obviously has nothing to do with 'proper maintenance'.
The external armor appears to be complete but is actually severely eroded internally, as well as the atrophied muscles and shriveled skin of the 'ancient giant salamander-like creature' as its main body.
In addition, many of the weapons added to the external armor, including the energy fighting claw blades on the forelimbs, are in a disabled state.
Amber finally understood why this thing was as brittle as a piece of paper when faced with the not-so-strong armed force of the Quest for Truth Foundation
“There is nothing at all Is there something wrong with the energy supply of this facility?"
Amber came up with this idea that seemed a little outrageous to him. After all, it was 'Forerunner Technology', and it was considered alien in the eyes of many players. The realm of science has entered the realm of magic.
But combined with the voice broadcast he just heard, he felt that there might be something wrong with the energy supply.
When the energy supply was insufficient to meet the normal operation of all areas in the facility, the control center of the facility focused all its efforts to ensure that the entire dormancy area did not go wrong in order to prioritize the cryo-sleep cabin.
This has also led to a lack of energy supply and daily maintenance in other areas, which ultimately led to the situation Amber sees now.
As for biological combat weapons, which are full of slots, they can be regarded as one of the characteristics of the Forerunner civilization. Players even wonder if this civilization is collectively a "collector"?
A large number of ancient creatures that human civilization has never seen, or that have only seen fossils, have become guards in the forerunner ruins.
Even the ‘Star Dragon’, the symbol of the Planet Dragon Empire, which has not appeared in the universe for a long time, has ‘served’ in several ruins.
One can imagine how wonderful the expression on the face of the Star Dragon Empire royal family was when they heard the news
The national totem and spiritual symbol is the 'watchdog' of another civilization.
This news soon became an absolutely forbidden topic within the empire.
The kind that asks who dies.
Now, after the Quest for Truth Foundation has excavated many ruins of the Forerunners, they don’t know if they were ‘infected’, but they have started to contain the combat weapons of these ancient creatures.
And they often combine humans with ancient creatures, or conduct genetic pollution to try to create new creatures.
The foundation's external statement will naturally not say that these are inhumane and physiologically disgusting experiments, nor will it say that they try to control these biological combat weapons to fight for them.
According to the introduction on their official website, the Quest for Truth Foundation provides protection for these extremely precious ‘prehistoric creatures’ so that they can survive in this new era.
‘Contain, control, protect.’
“You are not afraid of others coming to accuse you of infringement when you use external propaganda slogans like this”
(End of this chapter)