Alien Relic Hunter

"Forget it..." Black Braised Dan shook his head repeatedly, "The original body is more reliable... Those with prosthetic bodies and artificial organs will have to take anti-rejection drugs for life, and they are also prone to death from various causes. This kind of inexplicable mechanical failure...compared to this, I still believe in my own original parts."

Cyborg modified humans were gradually accepted by the public after the Ark landed on Alpha Planet and engaged in a bitter battle with the indigenous creatures on the planet to continue to improve their combat power. In this era, human body modification surgery is still in a gray area, and not only is the technology not very mature, , the success rate of the operation is low, and it is easy to be criticized by others...especially the kind of modified people who have more than half of their bodies made up of prosthetics. In the eyes of many people, they can no longer be regarded as human beings.

Basically, only people with severe disabilities or terminal illnesses would choose to undergo reconstructive surgery. A healthy person who undergoes reconstructive surgery would most likely be considered mentally ill.

Ke Lan walked to the console. The layout of the console of this shuttle was very "retro" - but Ke Lan was not unfamiliar. Although this kind of vehicle produced a hundred years ago has long been discontinued, it is still available on the black market. It is still common to find some rusty parts... Some illegally modified vehicles that look like they will fall apart at any time use parts that can even be traced back to the last century or even the last century.

In the year 840 of the New Era, this type of shuttle was still a high-precision equipment that ordinary people had no access to. But by the year 900 of the New Era, this type of shuttle was as ubiquitous as taxis on the road. .

Especially in the twenty years from New Era 880 to New Era 900, after the United Council Group, or in other words, the undead crew behind the Council decided to land on Alpha Planet, they mobilized almost everyone who could be mobilized on the Ark... The profession of "Relic Hunter" was also born in that era.

If Noah's Ark wants to land on Alpha Star, it must come up with a way to resist the gravity of Alpha Star. Otherwise, based on its own weight, I am afraid that the Ark will fall apart under the force of gravity before it stops...

Coincidentally, the advance team sent in the early stage discovered anti-gravity devices in the ruins of the Alpha civilization, and there were quite a number of such devices. They were found in many different types of ruins - although with the technology of the Ark civilization, It is impossible to imitate the anti-gravity device, but the anti-gravity device left by the Alpha civilization is enough to support the entire ark.

In those twenty years, the main target of the ruin hunters was the anti-gravity devices scattered in the ruins.

At that time, Ark was still in the low-Earth orbit of Alpha Star, orbiting the planet. If you wanted to go from Ark to Alpha Star, you could only take this kind of shuttle... just like Ke Lan and the others took the transport plane.

According to non-conservative estimates, nine hundred years ago in the new era, at least 30,000 shuttles of this type were manufactured, and the number of round trips between the Ark and Alpha Star exceeded one million.

After being decommissioned, some of these shuttles were dismantled and recycled; others were sold to various consortiums, and after repairs and modifications, they were given a second life as commercial vehicles... But there were also thousands of shuttles that flowed into the private sector and fell into disuse. In the hands of all kinds of people.

Ke Lan was once very familiar with a dealer who purchased relics of the Alpha civilization on the black market. In this dealer's warehouse, there was a rusty shuttle - but the electronic equipment on this shuttle contained rare metals. All the parts have been removed, leaving only an empty iron shell, gradually decaying under the erosion of time.

"This thing...how to operate it?" Ke Lan tried to recall the relevant knowledge in his mind - this type of shuttle was more common, but no one used it after New Era 950. Although Ke Lan has seen these antiques, he has absolutely zero practical experience.

Others say, "If you have never eaten pork, you must have seen pigs running." But Ke Lan has not only never eaten pork, but has also never seen a live pig that can run. In front of him, there are only a bunch of broken pigs. Pig skeleton.

"Tsk." He took a deep breath and put his fingers on the touch screen. The moment his fingertips came into contact with the touch screen, a lot of operational knowledge poured into his head in just half a minute. In seconds, he went from a newbie who didn't know where to start to a big boss who was extremely familiar with this shuttle... Now even if he dismantles this shuttle into its most fragmentary form, he can still dismantle it. Completely assembled.

Ke Lan took a cursory glance at the mission log left by the previous batch of "rotators" and was disappointed to find that there was no valuable information in it... Even if there was, I'm afraid it had been "forgotten" by The Fool.

Immediately afterwards, he focused on checking the physical examination reports of everyone in the advance team, including the unlucky guy who died suddenly due to sudden heart failure. Based on the contents of the report, he could basically confirm that everyone on the shuttle was still alive. It has not been eroded, and there are no modified people or clones.

Compared with the subsequent batches of advance teams, the "gold content" of this first advance team is definitely the highest. Even though the probability of this advance team being able to return to the Ark alive is extremely low, its members are still the only elites in the world - the black braised egg looks like a stupid guy, but he is actually a master of mechanics. He is a super academic in the fields of biology, radio and radio, holding four doctorate degrees. As for the female doctor who spoke a little harshly, in addition to being a team doctor in the advance team, she was also a geological expert and a fighting expert. In terms of close combat, the "Braised Egg" who was over 1.9 meters tall was not even this one who was only 1 meter tall. The opponent of a petite woman in her early sixties.

Each member of this advance team has at least two or more specialized skills. This kind of compound talent, in the circle of ruin hunters, every one of them is a hot commodity...even if they like freedom. , unwilling to join those hunting groups controlled by large consortiums, will also be hired as consultants with high salaries...

Talents like this, as the first advance team, are really... a waste.

When exploring the ruins, the first advance team actually had an alias called "Death Squad"...or to put it more bluntly: "Death Squad".

There is no other reason, simply because the mortality rate is too high.

"We will make a circle in the low-Earth orbit of Alpha Star. After determining the landing site, we will then pass through Alpha Star's atmosphere." Lu Dan said while putting a three-dimensional model on the big screen. "Four days later, Everyone will be awakened, and the first Alpha Planet exploration operation will officially begin."

"The last batch of rotations were really unlucky." A female teammate who looked like an underage girl, but was actually nearly thirty years old except for hibernation time, laughed, "I just lay down for less than a month. If I were to pray, I would be called up to work again... If I were them, I would just stop sleeping."

"Then you have to be able to bear it." The team doctor glanced at her, "Are the orbit calculation results out? Check it again to make sure there are no errors. If we are pulled down by the gravity of Alpha Star, we will not be able to do it. No more logging in in advance.”

"I've checked it seven times. I guarantee there will be no problem." 'Little Lolita' pushed up the pair of oversized black-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose that were in obvious contrast with her small face. A flash of blue light flashed on the inside of the lens of her eyes. If you look carefully, you can still see densely packed characters like little bugs in the blue light.

These black-rimmed glasses are not used to correct vision, but a portable AR display - those with vision problems cannot pass the rigorous selection process of the advance team, even those who have undergone laser correction surgery.

"It's not a big deal to land in advance. If you're afraid of falling into the lair of some indigenous creatures, that would be the end of it." Lu Dan shrugged and said.

Although this advance team was the first group to land on Alpha Star, before them, unmanned explorers—sixteen wheeled exploration vehicles and thirty-two unmanned aircraft—were sent to Alpha Star. Including the sixteen underwater detectors that were dropped into the ocean, 80% of these detection equipment lost their audio, while the remaining 20% ​​sent back a message: there is life on this planet.

This did not surprise the advance team members. Before they set off, the scholars on the Ark had unanimously concluded that there must be life on Planet Alpha - this is a planet with conditions very close to those of the Earth in all aspects. In other words, this is an extremely rare planet in the universe suitable for human survival. A planet like this, as long as it is given enough time, will inevitably give birth to life.

But another piece of news brought back by the probe shocked the advance team.

There is not only life on Alpha Planet, but also traces of the existence of civilization.

Judging from the scale of those ruins, the technological level of this civilization is far higher than that of humans.

The only good news is that this civilization seems to have died, and the detector has not found any surviving individuals of this civilization.

Shocked, the person on duty at the time immediately sorted out the information and sent it to the Ark, which was tens of thousands of light seconds away.

But Ark's reply seemed very bland, as if the higher-ups already knew about the existence of this civilization in advance.

The plan to explore Planet Alpha remains unchanged, but the mission of the first advance team is still to conduct the most basic testing of the planet, such as soil quality, water quality, atmospheric composition and other data. As for those ruins, they were not included in the first within the scope of exploration.

"What if there are still surviving individuals of this civilization on Alpha Planet and discover us?" This was the message sent back to the Ark by the person on duty at the time.

"Try not to have contact with this civilization as much as possible. If the civilization attempts to take the initiative to make contact and it is unavoidable, do not show hostility, let alone conflict with the other party." This was Ark's reply.

From the perspective of the members of the advance team, this was probably a sign of "sincerity" by Ark's senior management - after all, their technological level was much higher than Ark's. Even if this civilization was already declining, they were not enemies that Ark could contend with.

Not to mention, the human civilization on the Ark itself is on the verge of extinction.

But as an "insider", Ke Lan can read a lot of special information from this reply.

Obviously, the undead crew would already know the existence of Alpha Civilization by that time. Not only that, I am afraid they also already know the secret of traveling through wormholes and parallel universes... They may even know that all this is the doing of Alpha Civilization. .

The "life-saving" resource asteroids after passing through the wormhole, the technical difficulties that were inexplicably broken through... these clues may not matter to ordinary people, but as an undead crew member who is in a high position and overlooks the entire ark, this will All kinds of signs, none of them indicate one thing——

There is a being who secretly "helps" Ark to overcome various difficulties - of course, a large part of these "difficulties" are actually created by the Alpha civilization.

These are the information Ke Lan obtained from the master of the nest, the origin of Alpha civilization, the plan of the Night Watch...the master of the nest has already explained these things in detail. But the hive master knew very little about the Undead Crew and the Fool. These things can only be explored by Ke Lan himself.

The most critical event was the first contact between The Fool and Alpha Civilization.

In the year 859 of the New Era, The Fool was just a member of the first advance team. Although he could be regarded as an amazing genius among ordinary people, looking at the history of human civilization, he could still only be regarded as an average person. No wonder people.

There have been many geniuses in human history, but geniuses who can truly accomplish great things only account for a very small part of the total number of geniuses.

This action was a turning point in the Fool's fate. Although Ke Lan didn't know what happened after the Fool returned to the Ark, after that, he became a member of the Undead Crew and became the Fool with the serial number "zero" .

It is no exaggeration to say that this was not only a turning point in his destiny, but also a turning point in the destiny of human civilization.

During this period...what happened?

What kind of communication took place between the Fool and Alpha Civilization...and the Night Watch, and what kind of agreement was reached between the two parties...

All this is what Ke Lan wants to know.

Another question is why this memory was unlocked at this time. This was also planned by the Fool... Did he intend to hint to himself?

Ke Lan couldn't help but fell into deep thought, but his hands did not stop, as if controlled by muscle memory, he skillfully operated the console.

The job assigned to him is simple, but also very important - Ke Lan needs to control the eight robotic arms equipped with laser cutting machines on the outside of the shuttle. If there are any meteorites or space debris in low-Earth orbit, they will hit the shuttle. If they cannot be avoided, they must be cut with a laser cutting machine into a size that will not threaten the safety of the shuttle.

The advance team named this job "Space Scavenger", and the three words "Scavenger" also became the "code name" of the Fool in this memory.