Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 218 The Lighthouse Crashes (Part 2)

"what happened!"

"Damn it! It's an engine failure in mid-air!"

"Help!"

"I don't want to die yet!"

What should we do now?

The staff were terrified.

They all felt their bodies were light and airy, as if they were walking in space, and that they could fly away with the slightest effort.

The phenomenon itself is not scary.

What's frightening is the reason behind the strange phenomenon.

Although they were in the experimental base and could not see what was happening outside, they all understood what had happened.

In-flight parking!

The lighthouse's levitation function has failed, and the entire lighthouse is now in freefall from a height of several thousand meters!
The reason they were still able to stay on the ground and barely maintain some mobility was because the lighthouse was subject to enormous air resistance, and its acceleration during descent was less than theirs.

But this situation will not last.

In just over half a minute, the lighthouse will fall from a height of more than 4,000 meters to the ground, smashing everyone inside to pieces!
Everyone was panicked, immersed in fear and despair.

At that moment, there was nothing they could do but silently accept their impending fate.

Amidst the immense chaos, only Bai Yuekui remained completely still.

A faint halo of light enveloped her toes, firmly holding her body in place.

She remained in the same position, gazing up at the Clotho system, as if looking into the eye at an invisible force.

"What should we do now?"

Bai Yuetian squatted on the ground, gripping the railing beside him, and shouted loudly to Bai Yuekui.

"Let's go." Bai Yuekui turned around, his eyes calm.

She glanced at Mark, then grabbed Bai Yuetian and leaped to the end of the corridor without the slightest hesitation.

Behind them, the tentacles of the giant brain swayed silently.

The lighthouse accelerated its descent.

The jets at the base of the lighthouse have stopped firing.

These thrusters are connected to a navigation computer and can dynamically adjust the thrust based on the lighthouse's mass distribution, helping the lighthouse maintain balance at an altitude of 4,000 meters.

When they went out, the entire lighthouse tilted.

The suspended areas, large and small, were the first to be affected. Countless suspended containers swayed to one side, a large number of unsecured objects floated into the air, and some even fell out of the lighthouse and scattered to the distant ground.

The workers who were working in the suspended area were caught off guard.

Those who are lucky manage to grab onto something and save their lives, while those who are unlucky are thrown out and begin freefalling, falling faster than a lighthouse.

“4068!” 4277 was filled with panic. Her body was floating in mid-air, and her hands and feet could not touch the ground.

4068 gripped the railing with his left hand and stretched his right hand toward 4277, shouting anxiously, "Grab me!"

Their fingertips were only a few centimeters apart.

However, no matter how hard 4277 tried, those few centimeters were like an insurmountable chasm, and she could never reach 4068.

"Damn it." 4068 gritted his teeth.

He released the railing, grabbed 4277's hand, pulled 4277 toward the railing, and floated in the opposite direction himself.

Blinding sparks flew from the joints of the lighthouse's various structures. Gravity, like an invisible hand, gripped the lighthouse fiercely, causing weakly welded or dilapidated structures to break off and detach from the main body of the lighthouse.

The urgent alarm sounded throughout the lighthouse.

"warn!"

"Pay attention immediately!"

"Thruster malfunction!"

"Please proceed with the emergency evacuation procedures quickly and in an orderly manner!"

"warn!"

"Pay attention immediately!"

"Thruster malfunction!"

"Please proceed with the emergency evacuation procedures quickly and in an orderly manner!"

"warn!"

"Immediate alert!" "Thruster malfunction!"

"Please proceed with the emergency evacuation procedures quickly and in an orderly manner!"

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The deepest fear buried in the hearts of the lighthouse residents has come true—the fall!
Inside the navigation control room, the operators reacted quickly, methodically pulling on various levers and pressing various buttons in an attempt to restart the engine.

Lighthouse had a contingency plan for parking in the air.

Simply follow the steps to troubleshoot the problem and restore the lighthouse's levitation capability.

At that moment, a man covered in sweat said, "Attitude control engine locked!"

"Anti-gravity engine malfunction!" another person exclaimed anxiously.

"An unknown command has infiltrated the central control system!"

"Backup navigation system disconnected!"

None of the operations performed according to the plan were successful.

What does "unknown instruction" mean?
Could this mid-air parking incident not have been an accident, but rather something deliberately done?

What should we do now?
The operators were drenched in sweat.

They have done everything they could according to the plan, but nothing has worked.

Falling from a height of over 4,000 meters, the lighthouse would instantly come to a standstill upon impact with the ground, collapsing into a solid iron disc and crushing everyone into a bloody pulp!
"Don't panic, everyone."

At that moment, a calm voice rang out.

It is Jingnan.

She had just returned to the flight control room when the in-flight engine stalled.

"Manually activate the backup levitation system. Once the helium is filled, the buoyancy will barely be enough to keep the lighthouse afloat." Jing Nan's voice was calm and composed, and everyone could hear it clearly.

An operator opened the communication system: "Everyone in the gas supply room, open the gas supply valves immediately!"

"Hurry!" she urged anxiously.

Inside the gas delivery room, workers used their hands and feet to leap across the floor.

"Open the emergency pipes!"

"Hurry up!"

If we don't give it our all now, we'll never have a chance to fight!
The workers approached each pipe valve, gripped it with both hands, and turned it frantically with the strength they would use to eat an insect cake.

At this moment, they are racing against death!

A large amount of compressed helium was released, passed through pipes, and poured into the giant dome at the top of the lighthouse.

Helium is about one-seventh the density of air, making it much lighter than air, while the volume of the lighthouse's giant dome is greater than the total volume of all other structures in the lighthouse.

As helium is released, the dome begins to provide buoyancy to the lighthouse.

The lighthouse's descent speed began to decrease.

Jingnan sat in front of the screen, watching the rapidly changing data on the sensor, especially the drastically decreasing altitude. His fists clenched, and his palms were covered in a fine sweat.

800 meters!
700 meters!
600 meters!
500 meters!
400 meters!
300 meters!
200 meters!
100 meters!
boom--

With a loud metallic roar, the lighthouse stopped tens of meters above the ground and then began to rise.

The height reading on the sensor increases slowly.

"call--"

Jingnan let out a long sigh, leaned back in her chair, and belatedly realized that her undershirt was soaked with sweat.

Through the window, the things on the ground were clearly visible, as if they were right next to each other.

In any case, it has finally come to a stop.

"Commander-in-Chief Jingnan, the dome was damaged during the recent crash, and helium is leaking," an operator said.

Jingnan calmly replied, "Have the engineering department expedite the repairs."

It's perfectly normal for a megastructure to break during a violent plunge and sudden stop; timely repairs are all that's needed.

Helium is only used in emergencies.

The next urgent task is to restore the lighthouse's power.

The orders from the navigation control room were quickly relayed to the engineering department. The surviving workers climbed onto the dome with their equipment to check and repair the leaks.

Ultimately, the lighthouse hovered at a height of 242 meters.

It neither rises nor falls.

(End of this chapter)