Chapter 2726: Star Core Rescue (23)

The vast majority of people now were organized by Parker. They gathered in the large conference room and the few small preparation rooms leading to the conference room, rather than being scattered in scattered offices like before.

Doing this had an obvious benefit, which was that people could see many people as soon as they looked up, and the vast majority of them weren't that nervous, which was the best appeasement for people.

And Parker proposed that because rescue was definitely coming, although they would have a period of vacation later, the work still had to be completed. If they still had spare energy, they could also take advantage of now to get the handover documents before the vacation done, so that people who took over from them could take over their work.

Once vacation was mentioned, people's atmosphere inevitably became cheerful. The work on the space station was still relatively heavy. Being able to have a sufficiently long paid vacation was a relaxation for everyone. Some people had already started to imagine where to go for vacation.

Of course, inevitably, they also had to consider some practical problems, such as handover documents. If they wanted to take a vacation, this couldn't be done poorly, otherwise, their previous achievements would be handed over to a greenhorn, and wouldn't the sky collapse after they came back?

Many scholars who could enter the space station to work had abnormal persistence in this regard, and could even reach the point of not changing their faces when Mount Tai collapsed in front of them. So soon, the sound of keyboards clattering sounded in the conference room again, and many people devoted themselves to work again.

So, when Beck rushed in, he saw a scene he completely couldn't imagine.

This didn't look like the last hour of the doomsday when the space station was about to fall, but more like the self-research preparation link of a global academic conference.

"There's a monster! There's a monster!" Beck waved his hands and shouted.

He aimed at the fact that without his approval, no one had the permission to go online. People on the space station wouldn't see those so-called insider effect analyses. Next, he prepared a big gift for them.

With a 'bang', the door together with the door frame was smashed, and Beck was smashed out directly. He fell heavily to the ground, and his forehead began to bleed.

Accompanied by more than half of the wall being smashed, a behemoth rushed in. It had an inverted triangle figure like a tornado, the upper body was burning with raging flames, and the lower body was thick fog that couldn't be dispersed. After smashing the wall with one punch, it roared and rushed toward the crowd.

Parker stood up with a 'swoosh', stared dead at the monster, and then roared loudly: "Evacuate! Prepare to evacuate!!!"

Parker used the word 'evacuate' instead of shouting 'run' directly, which reflected his professionalism, because humans to some extent also followed Pavlov's dog theory, which is the famous principle of conditioned reflex.

All personnel entering the space station to work had undergone very complete disaster evacuation drills. When conducting drills, no one would shout 'run' at them. Generally, they all shouted 'prepare to evacuate!'.

So in this situation, once you shout 'run', they would instinctively run, and it would be without a goal, running around like headless flies. In a situation where there were so many people in a conference room, it was basically impossible to run out.

But once you shout 'evacuate', then at least one-third of the people with pretty good psychological quality could remember the process of evacuation drills, knowing how to evacuate orderly from different safety doors according to the method of evacuation drills.

Another one-third had herd mentality. They would run wherever others ran. They might panic at the beginning, but with the lead of those rational people before, halfway through running, they could probably remember how to evacuate.

The last one-third were completely scared silly, but because the evacuation of the previous two-thirds was relatively orderly, some were carried along in the crowd and ran out. When those who were completely stunned in place and didn't dare to move reacted, there weren't that many people left, so it didn't matter if they just found a door and ran.

Parker was shouting to evacuate while reminding them how to evacuate, such as the proximity principle, the door-opening and door-holding principle, the guidance principle, and the side-by-side principle. It was simply an on-site evacuation drill class.

Under the leadership of a few relatively calm staff members, in five or six seconds, everyone was basically in place. As soon as the door opened, they lined up in two rows and ran out. Without causing congestion, they ran clean in just twenty-odd seconds.

At this time, the monster's entrance animation hadn't finished playing yet.

This was different from the script!

Sophia behind the monitor stared at the screen, dumbfounded. She said to Beck in the headset: "They all ran, boss. What should we do next?!"

"What to do? Of course..."

Beck wanted to say of course it was not to perform anymore, because their goal was to let enough people see the monster, so that they would spontaneously prove that there were indeed monsters on the space station, sitting firmly on the official cover-up of the news, and it was also convenient for them to stand out and be heroes later.

Regardless of whether these people ran or not, anyway, they must have all seen it. Beck had confidence in his technology. In order to pave the way for him to stand out later, he even deliberately used a bitter scheme, just to make these people believe that the monster was real. Otherwise, how could he bleed?

But now that people had run, there was no need to perform anymore. Anyway, the goal had been achieved, so just...

Beck originally wanted to turn his head and wave his hand to finish work, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he found that there was actually a figure in the seat.

Schiller sat still.

He just looked at the monster in front of him with great interest, and then confirmed a fact: Nick was really blind. How could this thing look like it was alive? Many curling patterns of the fog were copy-pasted. How could this compare to gray fog?

But his sitting there made things fall into an incomparably awkward situation—there was only one person left, so should Beck perform or not?

If you say continue to perform, this effect device doesn't cost no money, and it could even be said that this monster was different from the flame monster and fog monster Beck made before. This was an upgraded version he had carefully prepared for a long time, but the hardware requirements for the technology were also very high. Basically, it was burning money every minute and every second.

And the script later wasn't him hard-hitting the monster either, because he was still Beck now, and the superhero identity hadn't been revealed yet. What he should do was keep calm, organize people to evacuate, and perform as a leader who was calm in the face of danger. As a result, this job was snatched by Parker, and there was nothing to be evacuated.

Then now there was only a monster and him left in the room. According to the setting, he couldn't beat this monster, and he hadn't arranged such action performances. Then the only thing he could do was to flee in a panic.

But it would be fine if there were no people at all. It just so happened that there was someone watching. If he fled in a panic and the other party publicized this matter, then what play would he have next?

But it wouldn't work if he didn't perform either. This person stood here straight, and he turned off the machine, and the monster disappeared out of thin air. Even a fool could see something was wrong. If he publicized the matter again, this plan would still be exposed.

Schiller actually wanted to see what Beck would do. He wouldn't have prepared such a long plan without even a contingency plan, right?

As a result, Beck was really stupid there. He stared straight at Schiller with a gloomy face, seemingly wanting to condemn why Schiller didn't run.

Schiller stood up and sighed. Just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, the door was pushed open with a 'bang', and Seeing Natasha rushed in, shouting: "Where is the monster?!"

Then she turned her head and saw Schiller, as if she suddenly became anxious, rushed to Schiller's side and said: "Doctor, why are you still here? I said I didn't see you in the crowd just now. It's too dangerous here, let's go quickly!"

Schiller glanced at Seeing Natasha and found that Seeing Natasha was winking at him, so Schiller also had to make an expression of relief and said: "Sorry, this monster is too cruel, I was a bit scared silly. Fortunately, you came."

Then the two withdrew from the scene at light speed, leaving only Beck stunned there. He felt something was wrong, but couldn't say what was wrong.

As soon as Schiller and Seeing Natasha went out, Seeing Natasha complained: "Can't your acting be a bit more attentive? I haven't made such a rich expression for almost thirty years. Is this how you treat my dedication?"

"The acting is quite good, ma'am." Schiller took off the work badge hanging around his neck, shook it in his hand, and said.

"I've got what you wanted." Seeing Natasha said, "What do you plan to do next?"

"Sometimes I feel that some classic plays are a bit greasy." Schiller shook his head lightly and said, "Repeating the same old set over and over, with no new ideas, only caring about sensory stimulation, vulgar and boring, just like classic Hollywood blockbusters."

Seeing Natasha raised her eyebrows at him.

"But after watching those short video scripts that only care about gimmicks, have no substantial content, and are full of loopholes, I feel that some Hollywood blockbusters can be called classics for a reason."

"So?"

"Dealing with them doesn't require any artistic plays. Just use some classic popcorn commercial movie routines. Let's go."

Beck's team arrived at the scene to clean up the wreckage, but Beck was stunned in place looking at a certain empty seat. That kind of hateful gaze made everyone else feel a chill on their backs.

If Beck hadn't seen it wrong, Schiller looked at him specifically before turning to leave, his eyes full of contempt.

This made him furious, and endless anger and resentment almost swallowed his heart.

But at this time, the big screen in the conference room lit up. In all offices, throughout the space station, all screens that could display images lit up.

"Humans, hello." An electronic mechanical voice appeared on the screen. The screen flickered a few times and finally froze at the angle of a camera in a certain room.

Beck turned his head suddenly and saw that what appeared in the center of the screen was the suspension power engine of this half of the space station, and at this time, a row of black devices appeared under the base of the engine.

"I am the artificial intelligence butler of the space station. You can call me 'Friday'. What appears in front of you now is the power engine that maintains the flight of this space station."

"As you who participated in the design and manufacture of the space station, you must be able to see that there are extra things in this room. The black devices appearing in the center of the screen are—bombs."

Accompanied by its voice falling, a countdown of '30' appeared on a small screen in front of the black device.

"Half an hour later, the bombs will detonate. The space station that has lost its power system is expected to fall into Earth and will directly destroy the American continent. You still have 30 minutes."

"Now, humans, let's say goodnight." ===== CHAPTER 2727 =====