Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 458: Revival

Time slipped away bit by bit over this long journey of flight. Xiao Yu had remained on guard, but it seemed that his escape strategy was extremely successful, or perhaps the Taihao Civilization’s containment was effective enough. In any case, over the course of one hundred years, the Guardian Civilization never came in pursuit.

Yes, up to now, Xiao Yu had fled for a full one hundred years and escaped a distance of one hundred light-years. During this time, because the distance was too great, even the energy released by such a violent event as the collision of a neutron star and a white dwarf had inevitably undergone a tremendous weakening. During this period, the gamma-ray burst could be said to be unstoppable. By Xiao Yu’s direct observations alone, several hundred star systems were affected, and several thousand planets were altered to varying degrees.

Such was the formidable power of a gamma-ray burst.

“One hundred years have passed, and the Guardian Civilization has never come after me. It is likely they will not pursue any longer.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “Then it is time to awaken the intelligent beings.”

This was a vast undertaking. Back in that strange binary system, due to the influence of the Sphere of Death, aboard the Home starship all creatures other than the intelligent beings placed in deep cryostasis had died. Because of the extremely low freezing temperature, the Home starship had fallen into utter silence and had even become close to a vacuum. Various instruments and buildings had been severely damaged in the collision of the celestial bodies, and those that survived had again suffered under the extreme cold, with some damaged once more. Such an environment was clearly unsuitable for the intelligent beings to live in. Thus, Xiao Yu began large-scale repairs.

The first task was to restore the atmospheric environment inside the Home starship. To restore the atmosphere and construct a suitable gas ratio and an appropriate temperature presented a difficulty. He had to keep the deep cryostasis sites cold while raising the outside temperature to at least above zero. Therefore, before restoring the atmosphere, Xiao Yu first modified the deep cryostasis sites so that they could maintain their internal freezing systems even under higher external temperatures.

The vast deep cryostasis sites were extremely spacious, at least over one hundred meters high and covering several square kilometers. In this huge cold storage, instruments arranged like dense display cabinets stood everywhere, and the cabinets were full of drawers. In each drawer an intelligent being was frozen. The scene was quite similar to a morgue in a hospital.

Numerous robots were shuttling back and forth between these cabinets, monitoring the state of the instruments in real time and performing necessary maintenance. This was a world of low temperature where even the air had been frozen into solids or liquids. Many things like snowflakes were piled upon the ground.

“Hmm, the external temperature has already risen to minus 137 degrees Celsius. The temperature inside the deep cryostasis sites has still not increased and remains at the appropriate level. Very good, not bad.”

Xiao Yu was gradually increasing the emission power of the virtual sun. Under the warmth brought by the virtual sun, the temperature within the Home starship was slowly rising. As the temperature rose, the various solid and liquid gases piled on the ground gradually sublimated back into gases and diffused into the space. Xiao Yu’s detection instruments closely monitored this process.“Very good. At present the air pressure has risen to 0.3 percent of normal atmospheric pressure. Continue increasing the power.” Xiao Yu issued a new order. The entire warming process was expected to take three months to complete. After three months, the Home starship would have different temperatures according to the differing temperature requirements of the intelligent beings of different races.

A drastic temperature change in a very short time would severely damage various construction materials and instruments aboard the starship. Therefore, the process of raising the temperature had to be extremely slow. This was why Xiao Yu had to spend three months to complete this task.

There is a phenomenon that illustrates this principle well. On Earth, first place a piece of glass in a snowdrift to cool it, then wrap a thin thread soaked in gasoline around this piece of glass and ignite it. After the thread goes out, gently snap the glass and it will break with a very smooth fracture. This is because the intense temperature change in a short time has damaged the internal structure of the glass.

Xiao Yu naturally could not allow such a phenomenon to occur. Otherwise, the post-disaster reconstruction would become extremely troublesome.

Xiao Yu continued to slowly increase the emission power of the virtual sun, gradually raising the temperature inside the starship. Under the illumination of the virtual sun, the snow piled upon the ground within the Home starship and the various gases were steadily decreasing. As these things diminished, the atmospheric pressure inside the Home starship also rose slowly.

During this period of gradual warming, Xiao Yu did not remain idle. He had already restored various biological laboratories to normal status in advance, and in these laboratories he began the process of reproducing various wild flora and fauna.

During the long interstellar voyage, every species that Xiao Yu encountered had its genetic sequence preserved by him. Therefore, although the Sphere of Death had killed all wild organisms, Xiao Yu could still recreate them.

The development of biotechnology allowed Xiao Yu to accomplish this with ease. Thus, the vast laboratories quickly became occupied by various plants and animals. Plants of red, green, purple, and blue flourished, and animals of various sizes, whether carnivorous or herbivorous, appeared once again.

By the time the scale of these organisms reached a certain degree, three months had already passed. The atmospheric pressure, atmospheric composition, temperature, and other indices inside the Home starship had finally returned to normal. At this time, if the intelligent beings were thawed, they could already survive here. But the project had only just begun, and it was not yet the best time to revive them.

A large portion of the atmospheric circulation system, the ecological circulation system, various buildings, and various instruments necessary to sustain life had all suffered severe damage. Xiao Yu had to repair these things so that the intelligent beings could live here comfortably.

Thus, the vast undertaking began. Tens of millions of engineering robots quickly turned dozens of Home starships into a massive construction site. The ruins of buildings that had collapsed from freezing were rapidly cleared away, large quantities of brand-new and intact construction materials were transported in, and various high-rises began to be repaired.

Artificial mountains once again appeared, and rivers, seas, and lakes reappeared within the Home starship. Xiao Yu also began attempting to release some of the plants and animals into the environment, reconstructing the ecological circulation system.

The atmospheric circulation system also began repairs. Under the tireless day-and-night work of the vast number of robots, damaged instruments were repaired or directly dismantled and replaced with new ones, the energy supply modules began operating normally, and the atmospheric heating and humidification modules resumed normal operation. In coordination with the virtual sun, temperature imbalances began to appear in the atmosphere, and under the pressure of this imbalance, wind arose. The seas and lakes brought abundant water vapor, which the wind transported to every corner of the Home starship, and rainfall began to occur.

Once again, there were wind and snow, mountains and rivers within the Home starship.

Xiao Yu was like a god who creates worlds, bringing life once more to this deathly silent world.

All the busy work in every aspect lasted for more than three years. During those years, Xiao Yu personally witnessed the first batch of released wild animals reach maturity and begin reproducing the next generation. He personally witnessed the deaths of these wild animals, their rotting corpses decomposed by various microorganisms, transformed back into various nutrients returned to nature and becoming nourishment for plants. The plants gradually grew, and while providing food for herbivores, they also propagated their own offspring. Seeds drifted everywhere on the wind, took root anew in the soil, and finally sprouted tender shoots of green or purple to begin their new lives. Carnivores hunted herbivores, and there was also competition among carnivores. Injuries, bleeding, and death occurred at every moment.

Within the Home starship, a complete and vibrant biosphere reappeared.

Only now, there were still no active intelligent beings within the Home starship. There was still a little bit left to do. With just a little more work, Xiao Yu could awaken them and let them begin a new life.

Xiao Yu was carrying out the final cleanup. Although the current cities, various buildings, and municipal facilities had already been repaired, the various wastes had not yet been cleared away. A large number of robots that had completed other tasks were all thrown into this work. A great mass of debris was cleared out, and the cities began to become clean and orderly.

After completing all tasks, Xiao Yu began the first batch of awakenings of intelligent beings.

The heavy doors of the cold storage were opened. Some personal cryo-devices were transported out and brought into specialized thawing equipment. After a three-hour adaptation period, this group of intelligent beings who had regained consciousness walked into the normal environment.

What met their eyes were picturesque cities, tall and imposing buildings arranged in orderly ranks, a gentle virtual sun, a suitable temperature, and a soft breeze. Faced with this beautiful scene, they could not help but stretch out their arms, as if to embrace it all.

“The crisis has passed. You can begin to enjoy your new life, people of the Divine Ark Civilization.” Xiao Yu thought with a smile.