Gate of Apocalypse

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Chapter 494 [Stopping]

Chen Xiaocai's first reaction, this is definitely not a system prompt!

Because… First, this is Zero City.

Zero City is a completely shielded space that completely blocks the main system of the world. There is no message from the main system here.

As for the second, nature is the prefix to the message “????” Such a strange string of symbols.

Chen Xiaolian's heart rate began to accelerate.

hesitated for a moment and then hesitated, choosing “YES”!

“ : Connection request accepted, initial module retrieval in progress... Retrieval complete, Fit value 99.86%, Fit degree [perfect], Permission granted. ”

Chen Xiaolian sat on the bed, in the dark, and his eyes were glowing.

“ : Safe Mode ON! Auto Shield On! Auto Hide On! Automatic Screening ON! Environmental retrieval, hidden hazard removal in progress... Exclusion complete, current environmental safety 100%, entering connection mode. ”

“ : Permission granted, access is allowed. ”

“ : Access Mode: Free. ”

“ : Unlocking in progress... ”

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At the same time, in the senate, in the monitoring hall of the Zero City main control system, several rotating knife and mountain fire personnel, as well as the Angel Corps, were all stunned, looking at the display on the virtual projection screen!

On the virtual projection, all the surveillance scenes in the original Zero City were emptied, and all the surveillance scenes in the common area turned black screen!

All real-time detection of Zero City Master Control System is disabled!

“Exception! ”

“Abnormal! ”

“Abnormal!! ”

People sitting in surveillance positions report their regional indices with trembling sounds.

The hall door was opened and a middle-aged man in an Angel Legion uniform rushed in like a wind. His collar button was loose and his hair messed up, apparently waking up and running in the middle of the night.

“What exactly happened? ”

This middle-aged man is clearly a very senior member of the Angel Corps with a face of anxiety and anger: “Who can tell me exactly what happened? Report! I need to report what's happening! Report to each position!! ”

After a few seconds of silence, someone finally started talking.

“Post one, real-time surveillance of public areas all over the city is closed. ”

“Post 3, Love Sea artificial sea area control system off zero, wind speed zero, hydraulic power zero... Love Sea circulation pump system off. ”

“Post 6, Zero City Ecological Circulation System Master Program enters sleep mode. ”

“Post nine, the security system is forcibly turned on, the security level is raised to the highest, all temporary passages are forcibly closed...”

“Post number two, the resource space belonging to the resident team, is closed... the reopening time is unknown. ”

“Post 11: industrial energy supply cut off, all furnaces stopped, all factory instruments automatically switched to manual operation... damn! ”

“Post number eight...”

“Post seven...”

“Post 13...”

A trembling, confused, nervous, anxious, or frightened voice reporting.

In the lobby, this kind of debriefing sounds fluctuating, and the debriefing of the inspectors in each position leaves everyone with a harsh twist.

Everyone's heart sinks so hard when they hear it!

The middle-aged man in this legion of angels has a pale face with a dead-eyed eye!

His throat was dry, his mouth bitter, his voice extremely harsh, and a hard word came out of his teeth.

“So... the Zero City system... is on strike?! ”

His eyes were as if he were going to kill a man, sweeping the whole scene harshly, but no one could accept such eyes, and everyone's face was full of fear.

There's no way to be scared!!

This is Zero City! This is the Zero City where everyone here depends on survival!

It gives them all hope, all the living space, all the resources of the Zero City!

And now... the Zero City system, the strike! Stop!!

Silent.

death-like silence in the hall!

Ten seconds later, a voice had some fear and some hesitation.

“That, my lord, is not a complete strike, the external defence procedure has been activated automatically and the level of security has been raised to the highest level. ”

“…” the middle-aged man looked at the voice, a man of swords and flames, licking his dry lips and hoarseness: “You mean… the Zero City system, in…”

“in self-closing.” This watchman in the Blade Mountain Sea looks even worse: “It… seems to have woken up, then deprived us of all control, stopped all internal work, and then raised the external security system to the highest level. It...”

The middle-aged took a deep breath: “Like a city, everything stops in the city, but the gates are closed, is that what you mean? ”

“… yes. ”

All work stops, but the defense system and security level automatically mention the highest?!

No one in their hearts understands what this is all about.

Zero City has always been a self-conscious program, but it has never done so, and it has always been under the control of several resident teams of the Presbyterian Church, and the Angel Legion, who use themselves to manage Zero City.

And tonight, Zero City suddenly... takes back all the management!

“In other words, as a permanent team in Zero City, are we now… exactly the same as the outsiders, the visitors who entered on Open Day? We have no control over Zero City?! ”

“… to put it this way. ”

At this very moment, the entrance to the hall was pushed open again.

He walked in with a uniform, his face full of killing gas, and a huge martial angel of great stature. He was beside him, following three men who were also wearing Angel Corps uniforms.

The arrival of Wu Angel gave everyone a thrill, and the middle-aged man immediately greeted him with a salute: “My lord, the situation...”

“Wait a minute.” Wu Angel's voice is thick and full of temperament, his hair is scattered and he looks like a lion who will be furious at any moment: "Mr. Blue Sea will be here shortly, when he arrives, we will listen to you together. ”

The Blue Sea arrived less than half a minute later than Wu Angel, with only Guanshan alone beside him. After walking into the lobby, the blue sea appeared to be very complex. After a glance at Wu Angel, they both looked at each other and saw a long-overdue emotion from each other's eyes.

A trace of fear!

Yes, just panic.

Even before walking into the Blood Refining Arena, there was no such fear in the eyes of the Blue Sea!

Even if he once led the team against the thorn blossom masters, Wu Angel's eyes did not have such fear!

“Report!” Wu Angel took a deep breath.

A few minutes later, after listening to the debriefing, the two giants looked at each other and saw incredible things in each other's eyes.

“... has this never happened?” Blue Sea looked at Wu Angel and asked.

After all, Knives and Mountains of Fire are “newcomers” in the seven permanent teams in Zero City.

Wu Angel's expression was ugly: “No… from what I know of Zero City history, this has never happened. ”

The Blue Sea silenced for a moment and asked: "Have you notified everyone? ”

Though he didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood who Blue Sea meant “everyone”, no doubt referring to the head of the other permanent team of the Presbyterian Church! Presbyterian giants.

“Already, notified.” A member of Knife Mountain Fire immediately replied with a nervous voice: "However, due to the stoppage of the Zero City system, normal means of communication have been shut down and we can only notify them in other ways. Four teams have been notified and the team leader is on his way. But..."

“But what? ”

“His Excellency the Commander of the Knights of Darkness, who is in the resource space to which he belongs, now stops in Zero City, where he is confined and unable to come out.” The voices of the people of the Blade and Fire are trembling: “Also, the people of the Rodria Regiment reported that their leader was not in Zero City, but went out on business, and now all the corridors outside Zero City are closed, so... so we lost contact. ”

Bang

Wu Angel punched him on the table, and the metal table was punched out of a deep pit by him. This brilliant middle-aged man, like a furious lion, walked back and forth in the room for a few steps: “Are all the passages cut? So we're locked up in the Zero City now? Can't even get in and out? ”

“… Yes, Lord Wu Angel, the emergency backup channel has also been cut off. ”

The blue sea glimpsed and suddenly came out of nowhere: “Can I understand… Zero City, now it's like a computer, entering… security mode?? ”

The person in the room stood still, and then there was a bold one, trying to answer: "Yes, my lord... your metaphor is quite appropriate. Indeed, it seems to be entering a safe mode. ”

“What about evaluation? Now the assessment, the best and worst possibility.” Wu Angel snorted.

Everyone in the room was white, but soon, a man with glasses stood up.

Obviously this guy is one of those "tech houses" type of people who took a deep breath: “The best result is… this stop, it will automatically recover, then everything will return to normal, but during the stop, there is no doubt that there will be losses in the Zero City, and those working factories, workshops, instruments, production line pauses will cause losses to your team, and the data is not currently available. ”

“Say the worst!” The Blue Sea interrupted this man's words.

“Worst result…” The forehead of this tech house is sweating cold: “As both adults know, Zero City is the main control system, it is ubiquitous, our team depends very heavily on it, almost 80% of the equipment in Zero City is connected to the main system, controlled by the computing power of the main system, only a small number of machines are manual, not affected by this stop, but our energy comes from the Zero City master system. So...

Now all automated systems in Zero City have been shut down, and even… many hotel guests have been locked up in their rooms without access. In addition to those who are still on the streets at this late hour, my estimate is that more than 80 per cent of the people in Zero are currently confined to their rooms. ”

“In other words, now Zero City has become a huge prison, and every room in this prison has become a cell?” The Blue Sea tone is a bit absurd.

“… you can understand this, but as far as I know, the home base of the permanent team is basically manually controlled and unaffected, so…”

“So we're not in a state of despair.” Blue Sea sighs: "Otherwise, if there is a riot on the street, the fighting power of our permanent teams will be confined to their home camp? ”

The technical house pushed the glasses, he was wearing the uniform of the Angel Corps, not one of the Blue Sea's men, so faced with Blue Sea's questioning, he was not nervous, took a deep breath: “My lord, the worst is not this, the worst is much worse than we thought! ”

“… you say. ”

The voice of the glasses man is vague: “Here we are, all our energy is supplied by the Zero City Master System, whether it's the oxygen we breathe, the water we drink, the sunlight we accept, everything is provided by the Eco-cycle System, which has always been operating using the energy provided by the Zero City Master System. Including everything in the Zero City, the respective production plants, instruments, production lines, maintenance equipment of each resident team are the Zero City owner system that supplies energy and runs, even every street lamp on the road, the power of the coffee maker in the tavern comes from the Zero City main system!

Of course, we have built a backup power supply, but… "

“But what?” Wu Angel felt the apparent smell of despair in his subordinate tone, aggravating the tone of the question.

The glasses shocked the man, speeding up the speech: "But, as I said, we've always been too dependent, too trusting in the Zero City Master program! It never disappointed us, never stopped, never had any problems! So, no one's paying much attention to the preparation of backup energy equipment. Because the main system in Zero City provides almost endless energy. So..."

“So our alternative energy work is so-so.” Wu Angel chuckled coldly.

“… yes.” The glasses man's voice began to hoarseness.

“We have state-of-the-art technology, and we have over a hundred years of technology in the outside world! We have mastered the miniaturization of the nuclear furnace... you tell me now that we do not have backup energy equipment?! ”

“... not without, we have.” Glasses man smiles bitterly: “But not as well prepared as adults would expect. ”

His voice began to tremble!

“But standby energy equipment… The energy available is very limited and we only have four sets of standby energy equipment, the energy supplied is not enough to sustain the full power consumption of Zero City! If maintained by force, the standby unit can only last up to 48 hours… even shorter, and will run into energy shortages. ”

The more excited the glasses man said: “Adults may not be aware of the problem… Maintaining the energy of everyday spending in small cities is not just the water we use, electricity, not the beautiful sea of love, not the lights in our rooms right now, not the production line in our factory… Most of the energy consumption is spent on space technology!

That is, the ‘zero-city resources’ to which each resident team belongs, such as the resource space, minerals, etc. owned by each resident team, created by those zero-cities, similar to the 'space’ of a small copy of the game world, created by the Zero City Master Program, similar to the small world created by space technology alone! In order to sustain these worlds, let us continue to exploit minerals in the world of resources, get resources… sustain these small worlds, small spaces, energy consumption is enormous!

And of course, before that, all this energy was supplied by the Zero City Master system, and we didn't have to worry… and we didn't have to worry about it, because we thought it was so huge that we couldn't make energy sources to sustain it.

But now, Zero City stops. Stopped all energy supply, so... "

“Then the resource space to which our resident teams belong, the 'welfare’ of these zero cities, and the mineral world, will all...”

“Those little spacey little worlds, like tiny copies, lose their energy connections, collapse completely, and disappear!” Eye Man Shakes Head: "Our standby energy unit lasts up to 48 hours, or less. ”

Blue Sea and Wu Angel exchanged a brief look at each other and Wu Angel whispered: “The leader of the Knights of Darkness is in the small space of their team! ”

“…” blue sea surface skin twitch: “If the small world collapses and disappears, the people inside...”

The question was asked to the man with glasses, who was pale, silent and unanswered.

But the answer, everyone understands!

In the room, everyone sucked in a cold breath of air.

Drop a giant!

This is definitely a huge loss in Zero City!

But……

“My lord, I am not finished.” The voice of the man with the eyes rang again.

This time, everyone looked at his eyes and was a little... desperate

“Is there any more bad news, you can finish it all.” Wu Angel shook his head.

“Eco-cycling systems.” The glasses men's foreheads are sweating cold: “The oxygen we breathe, the fresh water we drink, the sunlight we accept, the day and the night in the zero city… are all provided by this ecological circulatory system. ”

“You won't tell me we only have one ecosystem!” Blue Sea Frown: “Although the Knife Mountain Fire Sea is a new team, I don't believe in the old Senate, I wouldn't have thought to get a backup circulatory system, so simple things wouldn't have been done?! ”

“There is a backup system.” Glasses Men Dry Tongue: “What we're using now is a backup ecological circulatory system. ”

“… standby? Are we using backup now?” The Blue Sea stared wide-eyed.

Guanshan immediately lowered his voice and added: "Yes, my lord, what we are using now is a backup. The team took over the rotation a few days ago, it was already written in the memo. ”

“What about the original ecosystem?” asked the Blue Sea.

“… broken, under repair.” Speaking here, the glasses man hesitated for a moment and did not seem to know what to say.

“Tell me straight! Don't worry!” The Blue Sea drank aloud.

The man with eyes sighed: "Because… the repair of the ecological circulatory system was submitted to the Congregation a long time ago, but… because the Congregation's conference services had been too busy for some time before, the approval process had been delayed, so it was not finally passed until the previous few days to carry out the repair, so now we are using a backup ecosystem, the original system has been damaged in the repair. ”

These words are vague and obscure, but everyone here understands them.

The congregation has been busy for some time now and has repeatedly postponed the review process...

In fact, everyone's heart is bright!

The senate was busy a while ago. What was it?

Busy is how to disqualify the resident team of Knife Mountain Fire!!

The senator will be caught in a civil war! And there were a lot of delays in approving and approving important daily matters!

The Blue Sea naturally knows that it doesn't make any sense to say this now, and he simply asks, "Let's just say it, now we only have one ecosystem, so what's the situation? ”

“This ecosystem was shut down by Zero City.” Glasses men's trembling channels.

“Stopped?” Blue Sea Frown: “Can't we turn it on manually? ”

“No. It was completely locked out after being shut down by Zero City, because the eco-cycling system consumed enormous amounts of energy, had always been directly connected to Zero City, and it needed enormous computing power, calculating immediate ecological values, oxygen levels, temperatures, ecological costs due to population and production increases and decreases, and so on. So this system has always been connected to the Zero City Master System, and now... Zero City is stopping it and locking it down!” The voice of the glasses man is almost hopeless: “If, as usual, an ecosystem is locked down, we can choose to manually open the backup ecosystem to sustain it, but now...”

“Now we only have one set that's good.” Blue Sea wave: “You've made it very clear, I know what you mean. So... just say the results! ”

“As a result… after the ecosystem was locked down, we are now entering a period of no ecological cycle.” Glasses Man Bitterly Laughs: “Zero City is a space where the sun, day and night rotation, is made of an ecological circulation system. During downtime, it is dark outside and there will be no more sunlight. And... our oxygen, fresh water... all of it..."

This time, everyone changed colour!!

Freshwater is a good problem, and every awakener is accustomed to storing large quantities of food and water in their own storage equipment, which will not be too abrupt for a short time.

But there is no way to get oxygen!!

No one's gonna be all right. Store a bunch of oxygen tanks in their storage gear!

“I need specific numbers.” The majestic voice of the martial angels overwhelmed the noise in the lobby.

“…” The glasses man picked up a little bit of the same thing as a calculator and quickly entered several sets of numbers: “At present, we have plenty of oxygen in the air, and the circulatory system, although losing its energy supply, is still running slowly, depending on the inertia of the system, for a while, but according to the current consumption figures in Zero City, after about nine hours, the system will stop producing oxygen altogether, and then, from now on, about sixteen hours later, hypoxia will gradually start to occur in Zero City.

In up to 24 hours, we'll start suffocating! ”

The man with eyes said this and added the last sentence:

“And now the situation is that we, everyone, cannot leave Zero City! We're locked up here. ”

Wu Angel whispered: “Can't we make oxygen? Making new equipment? ”

“Yes, we have this technology.” The glasses man said the most desperate sentence: "But our factory, the production line, no energy, it all stopped. You said oxygen manufacturing equipment, miniature, supplied for one or two people, can do it.

But only a workshop can supply the kind of large equipment in Zero City. ”

Blue Sea suddenly walked to the console without a word and entered a few numbers quickly.

Soon, a row of countdowns appeared on the screen.

“23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds. ”

Time is still decreasing every second of every second.

“Gentlemen!” The Blue Sea drinks out loud: “This may be all we have left! Now, everybody start thinking, do something!! Any idea, any way, any way!! If you don't want to die here! ”

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