Chapter 30 900 Years_1

After some rummaging, he actually found a red button under the control desk that looked like a switch.

Cao Ge didn't hesitate and immediately twisted the switch.

"Snap!"

Cao Ge looked at the space that remained pitch black and knew he had failed.

"Sigh," Cao Ge couldn't help but sigh.

But Cao Ge didn't give into despair right away; instead, he twisted the switch back, and then tried to turn it on again.

"Snap snap snap!!!"

Cao Ge repeatedly twisted the switch several times, but nothing in his surroundings changed.

"Damn!!!"

"Bang!"

Cao Ge punched the metal plate not far from the switch.

"Clang~"

Due to rusty screws, the metal sheet was knocked loose by Cao Ge's punch, revealing a steering wheel-like ring inside.

Cao Ge crouched down immediately, examining this unexpected discovery with his glow stick.

Reading the English letters around the ring, Cao Ge slowly read, "Backup power."

Seeing these letters, Cao Ge's mood improved slightly. He put down the glow stick and immediately grabbed the ring and began to turn it.

"Hum hum hum!!!"

Twisting the ring felt good; there was a certain resistance, which seemed to be the counterforce coming from the large equipment connected to this ring, making Cao Ge feel that the backup power was still usable.

As Cao Ge twisted the ring, a "humming" noise could be heard in the space.

Cao Ge guessed that there must be some large equipment nearby.

As time passed, the dark space began to light up, with the overhead tubes flickering on and off before finally stabilizing and glowing steadily.

Then, the computer console in front of Cao Ge also began to boot up and resume operation.

Cao Ge stopped turning the ring and sat back in his seat.

Looking at the rebooted computer, a smile finally appeared on Cao Ge's face.

Cao Ge tried briefly; the buttons on the console had returned to normal functionality and could be operated.

Suddenly, Cao Ge looked back at the password hatch leading to the outside world before returning his gaze to the metal console in front of him.

Although this space had returned to normal, he was completely ignorant of the situation outside. It would be best not to venture out recklessly.

Given his current environment, the presence of a hibernation pod implied a high-tech locale; it could be a ship, an underground research facility, or a spacecraft.

Considering the current state of this space, something uncontrollable might have happened outside, resulting in him not being awakened in time.

It had been over two hours since Cao Ge had woken up, and although he still couldn't remember why he was here or who he was, his thinking had returned to that of a normal person.

This oppressive space was all visible at a glance, which for someone who had lost their memory, was actually the safest place to be.

Outside, however, was the unknown, and hence more dangerous.

Looking through the transparent glass window of the hatch that isolated him from the outside, it was also pitch black; it did not look like there were any signs of life.

Now that the power in this space had been restored and the computer was back to normal, he could access much more information.

Cao Ge could wait until he understood the situation before going out.

Cao Ge started to operate the keys on the console with proficiency; he might have forgotten everything, but these actions felt etched into his bones.

So Cao Ge began to suspect that he was some sort of research personnel.

After some searching, Cao Ge finally found the personnel data for this cabin in the computer...

Name: Walker John

Age: 35

Military Rank: Colonel

Occupation: Head of Armed Forces on "Elysium Space"

Status: Awakened

Assigned Cabin: Advanced Cryogenic Sleep Chamber

Cao Ge stared at the information about himself on the screen, lost in thought.

As Cao Ge was deep in thought, an email suddenly appeared on the screen.

The moment the email appeared, the computer suddenly emitted a buzzing alarm sound.

Cao Ge immediately operated the computer to turn off the alarm, then clicked on the email.

"This is the AL Control Room of the spacecraft, a rebellion has occurred. Please, Colonel Walker, immediately organize the guards to suppress the rebellion, immediately organize the guards to suppress the rebellion!!!"

"A rebellion?" Cao Ge read the information on the screen out loud.

Cao Ge glanced around, then chuckled and shook his head, closing the email and starting other operations.

"There might have been a rebellion here once, but definitely not now."

This email had clearly just been received by the computer when the power went out, preventing the computer's wakeup program for Cao Ge from being initiated.

With the computer rebooted, the email could finally be opened again.

Cao Ge attempted to connect to the intelligent assistant system but received feedback from the computer that it was disconnected from the main computer and could not use the intelligent assistant system.

After a check, Cao Ge roughly figured out his current location: he was on a spaceship.

Because the cabin's computer had gone offline and could not connect with the ship's main computer, he couldn't find the precise time on the computer.

On the computer, he found only the destination of this spaceship and its mission.

The reason for the voyage was because Earth's resources were severely depleted, causing widespread warfare. In search of a new planet, humanity launched the spaceship named "Elysium Space," aiming for a planet that may be suitable for human habitation.

Without the exact time, he could not judge their current position in the universe, which could affect a series of his subsequent plans.

Cao Ge leaned back in his swivel chair, staring at the screen in front of him, pondering.

Suddenly, he thought of a solution and quickly turned to look at the cryogenic chamber.

The reason he had survived until now was that the cryogenic chamber had never lost power, maintaining his life functions all along.

If it weren't for this malfunction in the cryogenic chamber, he wouldn't have awakened.

The cryogenic chamber had a small computer responsible for maintaining the life functions of its occupant, which held the record of Cao Ge's cryogenic sleep duration.

Cao Ge immediately got up and approached the cryogenic chamber, tinkering with a small control panel on its cover.

The core of this computer consisted of only a small screen and a string of numeric buttons.

Cao Ge tried it, but the fingerprint and facial recognition had already failed. So, he had no choice but to use the password.

As he was annoyed by not remembering the password, fragments of memory suddenly appeared in his brain, containing a string of numbers.

Without hesitation, Cao Ge entered the numbers immediately, and to his delight, the manual operation system of the cryogenic chamber started.

Seeing that the password was correct, Cao Ge's mood immediately improved because this meant his memory was slowly recovering.

Cao Ge suspected his memory loss was related to the excessive duration of cryosleep. By the thickness of the dust accumulation, he knew just how long he had been asleep.

Cao Ge began to search for the cryogenic sleep record in the chamber's computer.

Persistence pays off, and after a few minutes, Cao Ge found the record of this particular episode of cryosleep.

The message on the screen indicated that he began his sleep in 2180; the program was set to wake him up every twenty years, but from the subsequent records, it was clear he hadn't woken up, and he had slept for 2403 years.

"2403 years!" Cao Ge couldn't believe the record in front of him.

Even if no one woke him up midway, the total duration of the mission was only supposed to be fifteen hundred years, which means he overslept by 903 years.

Where was he during these nine hundred plus years? Drifting in space?

Cao Ge felt the world spin around him as a startling truth confronted him.