Alien Relic Hunter

Akira Asano's combat knife was forged from pure Nino alloy. Although Layton later melted some stalagmite fragments for him, resulting in a slight decrease in the strength and toughness of the blade, the proportion of Nino alloy remained at 100%. More than ninety points... If you don't have a clear idea of ​​the ratio of Nino alloy, you can refer to the material of the bridge armor of the Ark Fleet aircraft carrier battleship - it is the strongest defensive force on the entire battleship except for the engine hood. In this place, the Nino alloy content in the materials used is only 40%.

What's more, the war blade in Asano Akira's hand was cracked instead of twisted. It's hard to imagine what kind of battle he went through in the gray mist forest.

The last batch to be teleported to the top of the Babel Tower were the Hounds and others. When they appeared, they even maintained a climbing posture, fell directly from the air, and fell on all fours on the ground.

"Ouch! What's going on! Ouch!" The familiar scolding voice of the hound suddenly sounded, "What happened? Why the hell did it suddenly become so bright?! Where is this?"

He blocked the mask with one hand, and picked up the weapon with the other hand. The four mechanical arms behind him simultaneously supported the ground, exerted force, and directly bounced the hunting group lying on the ground, and then straightened it in mid-air. Body.

The jet pack behind the hound sprayed out flames several meters long. Although this set of powered armor did not have the ability to fly, it could still levitate briefly.

It has better vision and attack angle at a high place, but it is also easier to be selected as a target by the enemy... When the hound decides to "fly", he is already ready to be focused on by unknown enemies.

As long as he can buy time for others, he believes that with the strength of the other people, even if they cannot fight back, they can at least protect themselves in the first place. As for himself...

"Huh?" The expected violent attack did not come. The only gunshot that sounded in this bright space was the hound himself pulling the trigger...but the bullets fired from the gun muzzle were all strangely frozen in the air. It's like a frozen photo.

"Stop? No, no..." The hound found that he was not "frozen" at the same time. His brain could still think normally, and bullets were still pouring out of the gun chamber. However, when these bullets entered a certain area, area, it will suddenly stop, as if being pinched by an invisible hand.

"Sky, space..." Only then did the hound notice that besides them, there were several other familiar figures in this place.

"Ke Lan?! Ze Luo?! Uh... why are there Ivan and Qianye? Why are you here?" The hound's mouth was so open that it could fit two - no, three eggs. He was even surprised. I forgot to release the trigger of the weapon. Even after all the bullets in the magazine were fired, the trigger of the gun was still clicking.

"Old dog, if you look back, you can find something even more shocking." Chi Hanfeng's voice came from below.

The hound twisted its stiff neck with some effort until the huge teardrop-shaped battleship came into view... "Yagunaktor?! Is this our battleship or another of the same model... "

"It's our Yagunaktor. Didn't you see that there are still remaining engineering bases on the outer deck?" Chi Hanfeng said.

"This is impossible! This is definitely an illusion!" The hound shouted in shock, "Lao Chi! Valentina! You all must be careful. That Ke Lan may be a fake. Maybe the enemy wants to look like this. Come to deceive us, don’t fall for it!”

"Old dog, your vigilance is quite good." Ke Lan applauded, "But remember to hide those Playboy books under your bed better next time, so that they won't be opened by Ze Luo who is looking for books everywhere. Out."

"I bought it casually to use as a cushion for the foot of the bed!" Hound immediately retorted, "One of the feet of my bed is rotten and uneven. What's wrong with me getting something to cushion it?"

"Prices of paper magazines are so expensive. How stingy are you willing to use them as a foothold?" Another familiar voice appeared in his ears. Layton led a group of people on a suspended platform from Yaguna Koto. Flying over from Er's deck - when Ke Lan teleported the hound and others here, he had already lifted Yagunaktor's one-way space barrier.

"Leiton... No, this is all false! This place is very evil. Those things can read my memory, so you can tell these things, so you give me the feeling that they are real. ..." The hound shook his head repeatedly, "What is your purpose? Let's be honest, I have nothing to be afraid of, the worst I can do is to fight!"

"Uh, old dog, do you really think you can beat me?" Ke Lan tilted his head and stared at the hound in the sky, laughing, "Let alone Yagunaktor, even Ze Luo You can’t even pass it, right?”

"There are three seconds left, three..." Ze Luo imitated Ke Lan's example, tilted his head and stared at the hound, stretched out three jade-onion-like fingers, and lowered them one by one.

"What are you counting--" Before the hound said the word "what" in "what", the injector behind him suddenly made a slight crackling sound. The tail flame that was originally several meters long suddenly misfired, and he suddenly lost thrust. It fell from the air and hit the ground hard.

"Fuck--" The hound struggled to get up from the ground. Fortunately, this power armor is the crystallization of the advanced technology of the hive civilization, and the protection for the wearer is sufficient. Otherwise, just falling from this height would be enough to The hound broke eighty or ninety bones.

"What...what did you do to my armor?"

"I didn't do anything. This injector can only provide an instant burst of thrust, but it cannot maintain this output power for a long time, otherwise the safety valve will melt and cause the four energy converters to be overloaded... But its safety measures Well done, the explosive destructive power of the converter has been controlled to a minimum. If this is a piece of power armor produced on Ark, overloading the energy converter is basically a prelude to self-destruction." Ze Luo's tone was very calm, Although she spoke for a long time, there was not even a trace of emotion audible, as if a robot was introducing the performance of a certain weapon to a hound.

"You..." The hound patted his butt through the armor. Although the bones were not broken, the whole body was in excruciating pain as if it was falling apart. Although the armor had the function of automatically injecting analgesics, the hound did not feel it at all. Don't dare to use it - who knows if the analgesics produced by the hive civilization can be used by earthlings like them? What's more, after so many years, even if this medicine can be used, it has already expired.

"Are you really Ke Lan?" The hound's eyes stayed on Ke Lan, looking up and down, "To be honest, I still can't believe it..."

Before Hound finished speaking, the suspended platform driven by Layton had already lowered next to the altar, and a moving figure jumped directly from the suspended platform and threw herself into Ke Lan's arms.

"I knew you would be fine." Zofia wrapped her arms tightly around Ke Lan's neck and buried her cheek into Ke Lan's neck.

Ke Lan put his backhand around the beauty's slender waist. He could feel that there seemed to be some moisture in the hollow of his neck. Warm tears flowed down his collarbone. This slight touch made him feel fuzzy in his heart. An inexplicable urge surged up from the waist down.

Ze Luo seemed to feel something. He turned his head and glanced at Ke Lan, then moved his gaze downward a few degrees. His expressionless face seemed to show some imperceptible unhappiness.

Of course, Ke Lan has not yet reached the level where X-worms have taken over his brain. After a brief moment of tenderness, he let go of Zofia, walked quickly to the side of the hound, patted his mask, and said, "Why are you changing now?" Do you have to be so cautious?”

"Fuck you, I've always been so cautious, okay? If I wasn't careful, I would have died countless times." Hound scolded angrily, "Also, don't fucking slap me in the face, I'm so old It’s two rounds bigger than you, not too big or too small!”

"This is not a face, it's just a helmet mask." After saying that, Ke Lan smiled and flicked it again, hitting the mask with his nails, making a crisp sound.

He was in a particularly good mood at this time. Although there were still many troubles that had not been resolved, and although the road ahead was still dark, it was a joyful thing for everyone to be able to get together again.

"Old dog, where did you get these armors?" Layton stared directly at the powered armor on the hounds and others from the beginning, "This thing doesn't look like the model we made... …Could it be a custom-made one? No, no, I definitely know if there is such a thing… Could it be the legacy of the Alpha civilization that you found in the undersea city?”

"To be precise, it's the hive civilization." The hound rolled his eyes at Layton "out of habit", "I just learned that in addition to the Alpha civilization, there is also a hive civilization on Alpha Planet, which created the Yaguna Thor's is this hive civilization. It's just that this hive civilization doesn't know why... Well, I think it's probably related to something great or something, or something like erosion. In short, this civilization has already Destroyed. Most of their heritage was inherited by the Alpha Civilization. Even the core mastermind of the Undersea City was dug out from the nest... It sounds like the Alpha people had done something like us before. The job of a ruin hunter.”

"Hive Civilization...?" Layton glanced at these power armors whose design styles were completely different from those of Ark's standard equipment, then turned back to look at Yagunaktor, his mouth opened slightly, and for a moment, He was speechless - it wasn't that he couldn't think of anything to ask, but there were so many things he wanted to ask. A lot of questions were crashing in his head, and he didn't know which one to ask first.

"Ke Lan, judging from your expression, you don't seem surprised at all. You should already know all this, right?" Zhuo Ligetu raised his chin in greeting to Ke Lan.

"Well, I know everything." Ke Lan nodded.

"Let's not talk about Alpha Civilization and Nest City Civilization for now. We can discuss these things later." Chi Hanfeng intervened, "What I want to know most now is how we got to this place... Ke Lan, now we He should still be in that hive, right?"

"No, this is the Tower of Babel in the heart of the Gray Mist Forest, the top of the tower." Ke Lan said, "But then again, if you want to regard the nest as part of the Tower of Babel, there seems to be nothing wrong with that."

"The Nest City is part of the Tower of Babel? Isn't the Nest City under the Undersea City? How are the Undersea City and the Gray Mist Forest connected together? Space passage?" The hound raised his eyebrows and also asked.

"City No. 1 and City No. 2 of the Undersea City are indeed connected by space channels, but City No. 2, including Hive City No. 97 under City No. 2, are 'stored' in a In the artificial folding space, the precise coordinates of this folding space are in this Tower of Babel."

"I...I feel a little bit confused..." Ivan was still covering his cyborg prosthetic limb with his hands, stretching his legs flat and sitting on the ground. His chest was still heaving, but he was breathing It finally became calmer, "It sounds... phew... just like our Russian matryoshka dolls."

"Absolutely, the folded spaces are nested layer by layer, just like a Russian matryoshka doll. But it's more complicated than the matryoshka doll." Recalling the mind-numbing space fragments in Genting, Ke Lan still couldn't help but feel a little scared. Thanks to my luck, I only "traveled" a few times before bumping into the consciousness of the hive master, otherwise I would have been trapped in it for who knows how many years...

If he had been locked up for tens of thousands of years like the master of the hive, everything would probably be over by the time he came out.

Of course, it is also possible that when he finds the exit by himself, this folded space will be discovered by that entity, and then the person and space will be lifted up together...

"By the way, that thing called Christine said that the cloud top of the hive city is very dangerous. It has the power left over from that god Laushizi, which can turn people into monsters. That's why we plan to go down and save you...but we still have You were teleported here without passing through that passage... So it seems that you have already been to Yunding?" Hound asked.

"I've been there. Genting is indeed very dangerous, especially for you. Fortunately, you were a step slower... If you fall into Genting, it won't be so easy for me to get you out." Ke Lan Said, "Christine has been corrupted by that god, and it is deceiving you... Actually, the key to breaking the situation lies in Genting, where I met the consciousness of a hive controller..."

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