Just as Hao Ren was seriously pondering the possiblity that all the arks' inhabitants had perished, an unexpected good news came his way. A group of probes deep in one of the arks had managed to detect life signals, and they were very strong.
The Petrachelys' thrusters immediately lit up as it glided serenely across the space and arrived above the ark which had the signal. The silver frigate landed slowly on the ark's darkened hull, almost like a sthetoscope listening to the ark's heartbeat.
"So, this is the one?" Hao Ren looked at the image from the sensors outside. The ark itself was no different from the rest, old and torn. In fact, the damage on the hull was even worse than the rest. It was hard to imagine that there were survivors beneath its massive armored hull.
