Chapter 243 Five Hundred and Forty Years

Just when Shen Yahui and others thought it was over, nine more old people appeared in the video.

"Newly awakened gentlemen and ladies, we are the ten members of the Council of the Ark."

"It has been five hundred and forty years since the Ark flew into the wormhole. You have also seen the video of the first captain. Our Ark is trapped in the wormhole passage."

"Five hundred and forty-three years have passed since the departure of Sith. Our Ark has begun to show signs of aging. We have replaced countless parts alone. Although the old parts can be refurbished, it will be difficult to wait until the ones inside the spacecraft are replaced. When the main beams become too old and unable to support the weight of the ark, the ark will disintegrate.”

"And we all know that the food on the Ark can only be stored for eight hundred years. Beyond this time, all the food stored on the Ark will be damaged."

"But in order to cope with the increasing maintenance work, 10,000 maintenance personnel now need to be awakened every ten years or so. Even if all the newly produced food in the planting area on the Ark is stored, we will only eat the food carried by the Ark. The accumulated food will The new food that has been produced for more than two hundred years is not enough for the increasing number of maintenance personnel to consume it for more than twenty years."

"So the situation now is very pessimistic!"

"We hope that you can take on the important task of resolving the crisis, help the 20 million humans on this ark escape from the wormhole, and bring them to a place where they can bathe in the sun." As soon as the words fell, the holographic screen went out completely and took a break. The lights in the room gradually became brighter.

After a while, the door of the lounge was opened, and ten old men floated into the lounge on seats floating in the air, and came to Shen Yahui and others.

"Good morning everyone, we are the managers of the third Ark and members of the second Ark Council."

"We have been working for more than a hundred years, and our lifespan is not long enough to last until the Ark leaves the wormhole."

"So we carefully selected ten of you from 20 million people. You will be members of the new Ark Council. Your mission is to lead the Ark to escape from hyperspace!"

"Among them, we have appointed Shen Yahui as the president of the Ark Council. We hope to use his innate sixth sense to help Ark escape." One of the members pointed at Shen Yahui and said.

Shen Yahui looked surprised. He didn't expect that when he woke up, he would be responsible for the lives of tens of millions of people.

"I can't do it!" Shen Yahui quickly waved his hands and said.

"No, you just proved that your sixth sense does exist in the infirmary. There are indeed people behind the observation glass in the infirmary. We are observing you behind this single-sided glass."

"So we hope you can take over the important task of captain and speaker!" The leader of the council said as he handed the command sword to Shen Yahui.

Having said that he was no longer allowed to refuse at this point, Shen Yahui hurriedly stepped forward to take the command sword with both hands, and bowed solemnly to several members. This is what people often say about accepting orders in danger.

"Okay, we will hand over some work to you. You will have to meet the maintenance staff who woke up with you later." With that, a congressman floated out of the lounge on a suspended chair.

"Will we be alone on the Ark like them all our lives?" the only woman among the ten people said with some frustration.

"Think about it, you can still spend your whole life on the ship. Those people who are dormant may not know what happened until the Ark disintegrated in the wormhole, and they died in a daze." The person next to the woman said Someone patted her shoulder and comforted her.

"Yeah, it's better to die than to live. Let's spend the rest of our lives on the Ark." Another person also sighed.

Shen Yahui finally understood why the captains in the video were so old. It turned out that they wanted to spend their lives in peace because they no longer had much hope that the ark could leave the wormhole.

The so-called leading the Ark out of the wormhole is just an excuse for them to comfort themselves!

Shen Yahui couldn't help but clenched his fists when he thought of this. He was unwilling to give in. He participated in this voyage plan with the determination to open up territory for the empire, and he absolutely could not die in the wormhole like this.

Ten days later, the top ten congressmen who had completed the handover of various tasks returned to the dormant cabin. They wanted to try again while they were still alive. If the Ark finally flew out of the wormhole, wouldn't they be able to be "down to earth" again? "Yes!"

Shen Yahui and others, who had fully taken over the work of Ark, came to the bridge in the center of Ark.

The bridge of the Ark is not as crowded as an ordinary spaceship. The bridge of the Ark is as big as a football field. There are dozens of seats suspended in the air, and staff members sit on the suspended chairs and shuttle back and forth.

Wrapping the bridge is a panoramic holographic screen. At this time, the holographic screen displays the inside of the blue wormhole channel.

Shen Yahui and others sat on their own gorgeous floating chairs, placed their hands on the armrests at both ends of the chairs, and with a thought, the floating chairs flew towards the center of the bridge.

There is a huge semicircular conference table suspended in the middle of the bridge. In the middle of the conference table is a hologram of the Ark that is constantly flashing.

Shen Yahui came to his seat in front of the conference table and frowned as he looked at the Ark hologram in front of him.

In order to rush the work, the empire designed the service life of these arks to be six hundred years.

Because it was originally expected to arrive in more than three hundred years, even if there was some delay on the way, it would be able to reach the target galaxy within four hundred years. I never expected that the Ark would be trapped in the wormhole for so long.

The Ark, which is approaching the end of its design life, has begun to experience parts damage, but because there are not too many damaged parts now, the Ark's manufacturing center can still make new parts to make up for it in time.

However, Shen Yahui can foresee that if it has not left the wormhole in fifty-seven years, then the speed of parts manufacturing in the Ark Manufacturing Center will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of damage to the spacecraft.

At that time, with the damage of parts, the various partitions and functions of the spacecraft will probably be finished, and the Ark will eventually disintegrate in the wormhole.

The situation is more serious than expected!

"We must do something!" Shen Yahui supported his head with both hands and frowned.

"What can we do? You know, we are completely helpless in the wormhole space. We don't know when we can fly to the end of the wormhole!" A congressman was a little frustrated.

"What if we use a hyperspace jump engine in the wormhole?" Shen Yahui seemed to have thought of something.

"Two different spaces meet. We will be torn into pieces by the fluctuations caused by the space explosion!" A dark-skinned congressman answered. Before coming to the Ark, he was a hyperspace researcher in the Empire and had in-depth research on hyperspace.

"You mean if we start the hyperspace engine, there will be a space explosion?" Shen Yahui's eyes lit up!

"If we charge the hyperspace engine and launch it, and let it explode in front of us, then can we escape through the gap created by the explosion?" Shen Yahui slammed the table and said.