Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 135 I'm Just a Dog
The old laptop still looks brand new, in stark contrast to Yao Wei's weathered car.

Not to mention the computer in Mengxin City.

Under the sunlight, the back of the notebook reflected a dazzling dot, and from the dot spread out, circles of halos and rays of light seemed to spread out from the back of the solar panel.

This way, it really looks like it is charging.

"Finally, we have an appliance that doesn't rely on a dog."

Lu Xian sighed, "It would be great if your car was also solar-powered.

"When I was a kid, I often read science lessons and science fiction articles that talked about solar cars with rows of solar panels on top. They seemed really impressive."

Yao Wei imagined her car being loaded with rows of laptops, so she wouldn't have to refuel anymore. She felt a little envious and said, "Yeah, that's really impressive."

After the computer was exposed to the sun for a while, Lu Xian turned it on and took a look. After pressing the switch, the dark screen lit up.

"It works!"

Lu Xian was delighted.

"Ah."

Yao Wei was very happy that the things she saw could be used and not waste.

The light on the screen seems to seep in from the four sides of the frame, and it can be seen when the screen is still black.

However, after the screen flashes, the backlight is no longer visible.

Lu Xian had never seen the symbol that lit up on the screen. After the symbol appeared and disappeared, a password box popped up.

There is indeed a password.

But it doesn’t matter. The dog is not responsible for power supply this time and is not in standby mode. He can come over and unlock it immediately.

"Dog."

Lu Xian called the dog over and arranged things. The mechanical dog immediately connected the data cable to the jack on the side of the laptop.

The cracking begins.

Lu Xian glanced at the working mechanical dog and thought that the back of the laptop cover was actually a solar cell, which was really convenient. It saved Yao Wei the trouble of taking her charger.

I guess I won't be able to use that charger anymore.

He guessed that this laptop might have been specially developed before the end of the world to deal with energy shortage scenarios.

Look at the charger. It took a while to charge a little bit. Gouzi just cracked the password and made the screen jump to the desktop. Before Lu Xian had time to see the icons on the desktop clearly, the screen suddenly went black again.

In a living environment with sufficient electricity, this solar panel is actually not very practical.

"What's wrong? Is it broken?"

Yao Wei asked worriedly.

Lu Xian said: "It's okay, it's out of power. The power I just charged was only enough to light up the screen, so it turned off again."

"sure?"

Yao Wei was still a little worried.

"Of course."

Lu Xian gave Yao Wei a comforting smile, "I just noticed the lower right corner of the screen. There is a rectangular icon there, which represents the battery level.

"After I turned on the phone, the icon only had a border and was empty inside, which means the battery is seriously low. Did you see it?"

Yao Wei said: "No, I was just paying attention to the desktop."

She also learned the word "desktop" from Lu Xian when they were at the gas station outside Mengxin City.

Lu Xian said: "Wait until it is fully charged and then turn it on, and I will show it to you."

"it is good."

Yao Wei nodded, glanced at the laptop, frowned, and seemed a little dissatisfied, "It's charging so slowly..."

Lu Xian said: "It's pretty good, at least it can be charged by solar energy.

“I turned it on this time just to check if it works.

"It's good enough to prove it works now. Let's charge it for a while longer. When it's fully charged, turn it on in the evening. By then, it should be able to last for a long time."

"Ah."

Yao Wei responded and said, "I was just thinking that if the car had a solar panel like this on the roof, I wouldn't have to refuel anymore. But it charges so slowly, how can the car run?"

Lu Xian laughed: "Why are you thinking about this? Isn't our current car pretty good? We can add oil and it will run well.

"Besides, compared to a solar car, I would rather have a pure electric car, and the electric car's motor can also connect to the dog.

"If that's the case, we really won't have to worry about going anywhere, and we can completely get rid of the restriction of refueling!"

"Ah."

Yao Wei imagined what Lu Xian said and immediately felt that it was great. She glanced at the dog that had retracted the data cable and felt that the dog was still better and much better than this laptop.

She carried the dog to the roof of the car, took the laptop up there too, and said, "Let's keep going. I'll be watching the laptop from the roof, and it can charge up here, too."

Lu Xian said: "Okay. Then let's walk slowly and see if there is any place worth searching here."

Yao Wei agreed on the roof of the car.

However, there are still enough supplies in their car, so there is no need to go to the county center of Niutou County. They can just drive along the outer ring road. Occasionally, if they come across a few houses, or factories or yards built on the edge of the county, they can stop and take a look.

They passed two rows of abandoned houses and stopped to look, but found nothing.

Later, there was a sewage treatment plant and a large yard was built next to the outer ring road.

However, the offices of the sewage treatment plant were empty, and the huge tanks and pipes used to treat sewage in the yard were rusted and unusable.

The screen embedded in the wall of the control room was pitch black, having not been turned on for who knows how many years. The screen of the computer embedded in the console had also been black for who knows how many years.

No other findings...

But when Lu Xian looked at the computer screen on the console, he suddenly had an idea.

At this time, after the drone's advance exploration, he explored the office alone, while Yao Wei was still guarding the car and laptop outside.

It was confirmed that there was no one around, but Yao Wei wanted to charge her laptop as quickly as possible, so she needed to put the computer in the sun.

She was mostly looking at her laptop.

Lu Xian squatted down and opened the bottom of the console. He saw two mainframes underneath, both of which were already covered with dust.

Pull out the keyboard drawer, and the keyboard and mouse are also placed inside.

All parts are available, you can try it.

Lu Xian thought.

This computer is specially used for sewage treatment work, and there is probably nothing he can use.

Lu Xian wanted to install the hard drive he removed from the Mengxin City outdoor gas station into the computer here, and then transfer the music and videos in it to the laptop.

——Of course, this assumes that the computers here can be used and that the laptop has enough memory space.

Also, can the dog act as a data cable connecting the laptop and the desktop computer in this control room, and take the lead in transmitting data?

Back then, at the "Mengxin Petroleum" gas station in the wilds of Mengxin City, Lu Xian also tried to instruct Gou Zi to save the data in the computer.

Then the dog's eyes flickered twice, indicating that I'm just a dog. Being so smart and able to do so many things already takes up a lot of memory. Please don't make things difficult for me when it comes to storing data. That's why Lu Xian had to dismantle the hard drive.

This sewage treatment plant has three floors, and the control room is on the third floor, facing the main entrance.

So Lu Xian walked to the window, opened it, and could see the car parked below, as well as Yao Wei sitting on the tire on the roof, staring at her laptop.

He called downstairs, "Yao Wei."

After Yao Wei looked up at him, she said, "Bring the dog up here."

"Where's the laptop?"

Yao Wei asked.

"Take it with you too."

Lu Xian replied, and added, "Also bring up the power strip in the car and the hard drive we brought from Mengxin City.

"Hmm... Let's bring the tools we used at the Mengxin Petroleum gas station, as we might need to disassemble the computer later.

"Oh yeah, and your power bank. I might need to use the doggy app to transfer data later, so I need to plug it into a power source."

"Okay. You watch the car over there."

Yao Wei and Lu Xian said. Lu Xian had always told her about a power bank, and she knew what Lu Xian meant by "power bank".

She then jumped out of the car, went in to get the power strip and hard drive, found a small screwdriver, took out the car keys, locked the door, and ran quickly into the sewage treatment plant's office building with her dog and laptop.

I also found the power strip at the Mengxin Petroleum Gas Station, and it’s now useful.

Lu Xian stood by the window and watched the car below. Yao Wei had already given the order, so how could he dare not obey?
However, this is indeed a good place to watch cars. The view is wide, and you can take in the cars and the surrounding environment.

Yao Wei quickly went up to the third floor and entered the control room. She must have run up there at lightning speed.

She put the robot dog down, and placed the laptop and other things on the console. She said, "Here." Then she reminded Lu Xian, "This laptop is a little hot, be careful."

"Ok."

As Lu Xian spoke, he exchanged places with Yao Wei.

Yao Wei stood by the window, paying attention to the situation of the car below while also watching Lu Xian's movements.

She saw Lu Xian busying himself, plugging the power strip into the back of the mechanical dog, then squatting down and rummaging under the console to find the plugs for two computer hosts and two monitors, and plugging them into the power strip respectively.

Press the switch.

One console remained silent, while the other began to hum. However, the monitors on the consoles remained black and did not light up.

Referring to his experience at the Mengxin Petroleum Gas Station, Lu Xian was not in a hurry. He thought that this computer could be called up by another computer, and since it had not been used for so long, it would probably take some time for it to react.

It’s better to be patient and wait.

While waiting for him, his eyes fell on the keyboard drawer.

There are two keyboard drawers on the console, one containing a keyboard and the other a mouse. They look like very common general-purpose items, and I wonder if they can still be used.

In one of the drawers, there was a thin notebook under the mouse. Even without mentioning the dust that had accumulated over time, it looked like it would have been used frequently in the old world.

Lu Xian took out the notebook, patted the dust off it, and then opened it and took a look.

"What does it say?"

Yao Wei asked by the window.

After flipping through a few pages, Lu Xian replied, "It should have been used to keep records of sewage treatment back then. I see words like citric acid written on it, and there are even numbers and symbols on it."

Apart from that, there is nothing else.

There was a date on it, with each page of records marked at the top with 4/7, 5/7, etc., but there was no specific year, making it impossible for Lu Xian to determine the exact time.

After flipping through it briefly and making sure it was useless, he asked Yao Wei, "Do you want to see it?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded.

So Lu Xian threw the notebook to Yao Wei.

Yao Wei took it and glanced through it briefly before saying, "It's really useless..."

“It’s still useful.”

Lu Xian said with a smile, "It can be used to light a fire."

"Correct."

Yao Wei then put the broken notebook away.

Waste paper is much more useful for starting a fire than corn husks.

After waiting for a while, the two computers still did not respond. The "buzzing" sound of one of them also weakened, but the monitors were still black.

Seeing this, Yao Wei asked, "Why don't you bring your laptop over so I can continue charging it?"

Lu Xian sighed and said, "I'll take another look. If there's really a problem and it can't boot up, I won't wait any longer and will just leave. I'll find another computer later."

Yao Wei shut her mouth and waited quietly so as not to disturb Lu Xian.

Lu Xian checked up and down for a while, then touched the signal cable connecting the monitor to the host computer, unplugged and plugged it in, and when there was no response, he tried to plug the signal cable into another monitor.

The display suddenly lit up.

"All right."

Lu Xian breathed a sigh of relief. After all the trouble, he found out that the monitor was broken.

I can handle this simple little problem myself.

"It's fixed?"

Yao Wei looked at the lit screen in surprise and exclaimed, "You are amazing."

"Okay……"

Lu Xian couldn't help but smile.

Well... although it was just a small problem, I was able to solve it in the end, and I feel a great sense of accomplishment.

He first checked the computer that was lit up, and sure enough, there was nothing on it except a software called "Sewage Treatment Control Center".

I opened the computer's memory, but there was nothing there. The sewage treatment data wasn't stored locally, so I wonder if it's on a cloud server?
After checking and confirming that there was nothing valuable, Lu Xian asked Gouzi: "Gouzi, can you connect this computer and the laptop with a data cable? Can you transfer data?"

The dog's eyes are bright, indicating that you should not look at me as just a dog, this little thing is not a problem.

Lu Xian was very satisfied, and immediately turned off the computer, moved the host out from under the console, removed the case cover, cleaned the dust, then removed the original hard drive and installed the one they brought.

After installation, I connected the power bank to a power source and tried to turn it on. There was no problem.

Lu Xian felt a sense of accomplishment again.

Why didn’t I realize in my previous life that I was so good at installing computers?

Then things are simple, turn on the laptop and connect the data cable through the dongle.

Video, music, send.

From now on, they can listen to music and watch videos freely in the car!

(End of this chapter)