Chapter 80 The Captain's Authority on the Starship
"Should the environmental circulation system send out an alarm? I remember clearly, the information said, 'It can give you a hot shower in an environment where the air is frozen.' Is there anything this new starship can't handle?
?"
While complaining, the captain obediently took the elevator to the lower warehouse. He had just finished four hours of training and was very tired both physically and mentally, so he talked a lot more than usual. On the other end of the communicator mask, all day long "
The first mate, who was full of energy and was leaning back comfortably on the chair with one foot on the console, listened to Alex's complaints. One of her eyes was looking at the environmental circulation system.
report, the other eye can't help but drift to the screen next to it.
"When her engagement was annulled, there were 100,000 starships waiting outside."
If Alex knew that she liked reading such books, she would definitely be laughed at. But since finding these weird novels in Alex's "Language and Emotion Compression" database, Amy can't help but think about it.
The desire to read is like a symptom of addiction. The plot in the book lacks logic, and there is no necessary connection between the previous things and the following things, but it is very easy to arouse emotions when reading. Once she starts reading, she can read for a whole day, even if
The brain-controlled body has been able to accurately calculate the plot behind it, and she can't stop it.
"Amy? Amy what are you doing? Give me system readings."
"Oh, I thought you didn't want it!" Amy's cheeks blushed slightly, then she cleared her throat and said: "According to the system log, the first alarm signal was generated by probe No. Ba036, and then Ba041. Their locations are...
"
Alex turned on the respiratory filtering function of the communicator mask and walked out of the elevator. This was the first time the elevator had been activated since the voyage. Normally, access to the lower cargo hold is prohibited, and monitoring probes are relied on to observe the condition of the cargo. Just half an hour ago,
The environmental circulation system generated an alarm and found a yellow abnormal alarm of "harmful fungi and polluting gases." The yellow alarm indicates that the impact of the situation on the starship is controllable, or that the possibility of subsequent harm is small, or it is just a false alarm. Moreover, after three minutes, the environmental circulation
The system shows that the problem has been solved and the yellow alert has been lifted.
If you are not a very meticulous captain, you can ignore this matter. The system has already taken care of it. But Alex is worried. He feels that his newly repaired Liuma should be the best in all aspects.
Status, the environmental circulation system doesn't lie, the problem may be caused by the goods being transported. With two weeks left on the journey, he decided to proceed with caution.
Find the Ba036 probe, then find the nearest air duct, refer to the operation log to calculate the wind direction at that time, and then find the shelf against the wind direction. The more accurate the calculation of the air flow path in this process, the easier it will be to locate the source of the problem. Eric
Si quickly locked onto three rows of shelves, all of which were goods consigned by the three Fulner brothers.
They were square sealed metal boxes. The boxes were made the same size as standard containers. There was an interface for connecting the auxiliary power supply on the outer shell, which could only be opened with a password lock. Alex climbed up the shelf from the side, and then put the mask on
The air filter was adjusted to the data state. Soon, the air composition information near the mouth and nose was displayed on his retina.
"Trace amounts of mold are far from harmful, but they shouldn't appear here." Alex used the filter data like a dog's nose and quickly locked a container where the concentration of mold was the highest.
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"Sister Amy, ask Funa and the others to come to the warehouse. It is certain that their goods are polluting the environment." Alex said: "I suspect that the things they packed in the container are moldy. Do you think you should open them for inspection or throw them away?
Is it better to drop it?”
"If it were on my starship, I would conduct a thorough investigation, find the person responsible, and teach him a lesson so that he would not make the same mistake again." Amy turned off the screen she was reading the novel on and stretched out.
, said: "I will notify Fulna right away and accompany him to take a look. I will be armed, don't worry."
Bringing weapons? Alex felt it was unnecessary, but it was even more unnecessary to stop her. After a while, the three brothers Amy and Fulner took the elevator to the warehouse. The three people stared around and looked around with unhappy expressions on their faces.
"Captain, what happened to the cargo?"
"There is mold." Alex said: "Air pollution may become a serious environmental hazard on the starship. I must eliminate hidden dangers. What do you have in it? Are there any subsequent dangers?"
"Mold?" Fulner and his two brothers looked at each other, and the confusion in their eyes didn't seem fake. He walked quickly to the shelf where Alex found it, and suddenly pinched his nose with his fingers. "Evil."
...There is something wrong, I can smell it."
"Stink?" Alex was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that his breathing filter would block the smell, and the detector inside could only analyze the ingredients and could not describe the smell. Anyway, the concentration of the detected mold was very low and harmful.
At a very young age, Alex turned off the filtration mode. He immediately smelled a foul odor, which was not high in concentration but strong, coming from inside the container.
Fuller raised his left arm, searched for a moment with his right hand under the thick black fur clothes, and took out a small box with a screen and buttons from the inner pocket. He pulled out the data cable located on the edge of the box and plugged it into these containers.
On the auxiliary power supply. Soon, a lot of data flashed across the screen. Funa watched intently, then his face changed, he slapped his companion with his backhand, and said angrily:
"Idiot, you didn't connect the lines properly! And you didn't check their status before leaving! I told you more than once that these things are very old and must be checked, must be checked! This oversight is worth thirty computing power coins.
Loss! Thirty!”
He angrily came under the shelf, climbed up from Alex, found the wiring, and pushed the loose interface in with force. There was a low buzzing sound, and some kind of equipment in the container started. Alex
Notice that the container immediately tightens inward, eliminating all gaps and re-sealing it.
"That's enough." Funapi said to Alex with a smile: "The container has its own environmental circulator, which will handle it well and there will be no more problems. It's a false alarm, it's a false alarm.
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"What's in it?" Alex asked.
"Biological products are the best-selling ones on Beolo. Captain, there is a smell here. Let's leave and let the environmental circulation system complete its work?"
Alex was about to nod when he suddenly remembered the moaning and knocking sounds he heard a few days ago. No, it shouldn't have anything to do with it. Those were all auditory hallucinations. No one else on the starship heard it, and it only happened
When you are particularly tired, it would be too far-fetched to connect it with the containers on the shelves.
But just because of this question, Alex became more thoughtful. He ignored Fuller and did not leave the cargo hold. Instead, he went directly to the external auxiliary power supply of the container. Ignoring Fuller's urging, he carefully
After looking at it for a while, he said: "This equipment is marked as a product of Beolostar. Why does the nameplate of the data module here say "Compound Evolutionary Product"?
"When the equipment is faulty, as long as it is compatible, there is no way to piece it together. Moreover, the data module of the Composite Evolutionary Man is very easy to use. Others more or less refer to the Composite Evolutionary Man's standards, so it is easy to install.
.Captain, is there a problem with this?"
Alex put his hand on the nameplate of the data module and rubbed it gently. A piece of information hidden in the nameplate that could only be received by the brain-controlled body was transmitted from his fingertips.
---Hibernation cabin indicator controller, communication standard V7e.x34. Status: overdue operation, please replace and eliminate as soon as possible.---
Hibernation capsule? Isn’t that used to freeze people to reduce consumption during long-distance interstellar voyages? This technology still had a market in the distant past, but as the speed of starships becomes faster and faster, civilizations continue to cross the curve.
Once the threshold of a high-speed engine is reached, decades-long dormancy seems unnecessary and too dangerous. Composite evolutionary humans no longer use hibernation chambers. Where did this antique come from?
In the past, Alex was a researcher who stayed at home. He didn't know much about the world outside the Evolution starship, but he knew about the interstellar slave trade. The hibernation capsules that were once used to spend long travel times are now in all likelihood
All of them are used to load slaves for sale. The biotechnology of Beolo is very advanced. If these dormant capsules are transported there, the fate of the people inside can be imagined.
Thinking of his own experience, coupled with his disgust for the previous behavior of Alex, he already had murderous intentions towards these slave traders. But he needed a good reason, not to convince himself, but to make friends.
To Sister Amy. The Composite Evolutionary Man has no ill feelings toward the slave trade, but he does not want to expose his unique moral values.
"What kind of biological products are contained in the container?" Alex deliberately asked for trouble: "Open it, I want to take a look."
"This is completely unnecessary, Captain. Our goods are sealed in the container. If it is opened, it will affect the quality of the products inside. You see, it is just not sealed tightly. If it is just a little crack, the goods will be damaged. Let these boxes
Keep it like this!"
Alex squinted his eyes, and he noticed that Fulner's two brothers were making small movements. Their hands, which were usually folded under the thick fur cloaks, were moving behind their backs. So he said: "Sister, this thing uses V7e.
X34 standard, I saw this thing in the Starship Exhibition Hall, and said it is very unstable and can easily interfere with communications, right?"
"Ah... yes, that's right." As Amy spoke, there was already a small laser gun in her hand. Even though it was simply held in her hand and not aimed at anyone, it already showed a deterrent attitude.
"That standard equipment will interfere with communications, and starships have been banned from using it for a long time."
"The container you brought up is a potential threat to the starship. Open it and I want to inspect it," Alex said loudly.
"Captain, are you bored now? We are all working under the Star Governor. Just do your job well. Why bother to get involved? If your hand is stretched out, it may be chopped off."
"Wait, who is it? Who is the Star Governor?" Alex scratched the back of his head, then scratched his lower back, secretly holding the computing stick.
"Surrounded by three stars, the sky is full of daylight, and the purple light radiates vitality."
"What are you talking about? Some kind of secret code?" Alex laughed twice and said, "Do you think I am someone else?"
Funa was also a little dazed. He looked back at his brothers, and then frowned hard. "It's impossible. We're just going to Beolo. It's a non-standard spaceship. It's shaped very much like a horse on our planet, but it doesn't have a tail.
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"But I don't know the Star Governor." Alex pointed to the container and said: "When a starship sails, transportation charges are not based on weight. Living things are ten times more expensive than dead things. When you boarded the ship, you said there was
Electronic products. I'd love to see what electronic products get moldy and smelly! If you don't do this, get off the ship now and you can choose whether to experience warp speed when you are ejected."
Amy raised the gun, aimed back and forth at the Funa trio, and said: "If you hit the warp-speed space transfer force field without protection, you will be torn into molecular-level fragments. In comparison,
Being hit by my laser gun will only make a hole and the internal organs will be burned, but at least the whole body will be left behind."
Fu Na gritted his teeth, winked at his brothers, stamped his feet and shouted: "You are breaking the rules! But pretending not to know the Star Governor is a more serious crime than robbing his things! We will not feel better.
, you will be even more miserable! Why lose-lose situation? Why..."
Chapter completed!