Alien Relic Hunter

"I think you may have guessed it." Maginot picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and continued, "They implanted the biological weapons made by the Alpha people into the human body... You were in the exile settlement before. The monster we encountered was a 'container' of biological weapons, and the epidemic in the North Ninth District... is actually not an infectious disease at all."

"The man on the train..." Ke Lan suddenly took a breath of air... Although he was pretending to be surprised, there was no deliberate expression on his face.

He even suspected that he might have chosen the wrong profession... If he became an actor, he might have a better future than a relic hunter.

"He should also be a 'container.' That's why I said that your handling methods are very professional. If you accidentally kill the man or let him commit suicide, the parasitic biological weapons in his body will burst out, and the entire carriage will be destroyed." I'm afraid not many of them, including the soldiers under me, will survive."

"But the question is, what is the connection between this thing and the Undersea City and the 776 Special Forces Team?" Ke Lan asked.

This time, he was asking the question sincerely - the answer to this question was the most important missing pieces of his "puzzle".

"This is back to the relic hunter who came into contact with the taboo... Logically speaking, the biological weapons created by the Alpha Civilization are difficult to control with human capabilities - even the representatives of human beings in the Ark Research Institute It would take experts at the highest level of technology decades or even hundreds of years to figure out the mysteries, but a relic hunter with only basic cultural education can make this biological weapon 'safe' Don't you think it's strange to be implanted in a human body?"

"Indeed... this doesn't make sense." Ke Lan nodded in agreement.

"Want to know why?" Maginot's expression suddenly became extremely serious.

"think."

"The following conversation will involve the top secrets of the Ark. You must promise to 'forget' it immediately after getting off the car before I can reveal it to you."

"……I promise."

"Okay." Maginot seemed to have made a lot of determination. He stared at Ke Lan and nodded vigorously, "The real content of the inheritance that the ruins hunter received is actually the language and writing of the Alpha civilization... ...As for the biological weapon called the 'Erosion Seed', it is just a bonus in the ruins."

"...!!" Ke Lan's eyes suddenly widened - this time, his expression was not fake.

The language and writing of the Alpha civilization... wasn't that an ability that I acquired unexpectedly?

So, isn't he another human being who has obtained "inheritance"? !

make sense! It totally makes sense here!

Thinking of the strange information that emerged directly from the depths of his memory... Ke Lan immediately understood that that person must have such an ability, but compared to Ke Lan, his ambition was really terrifying... Ke Lan Lan only wanted to protect himself, but that person, after receiving the inheritance, actually wanted to use the power of Alpha Civilization to bring mankind under his rule!

"That kind of biological weapon is probably just one of the many trump cards in his hand."

Ke Lan knew that what Maginot said was by no means an alarmist - in fact, if he was given enough time and with the help of this almost incredible ability, he himself could also unearth many complete discoveries from the remains of the Alpha civilization. Items that can crush human technological level and "bug level" and use them for their own use.

But the problem now is that another inheritor has already done so, and the progress seems to be going very smoothly.

"Then how did you discover him...and his organization?"

"It wasn't us, it was the people from the Security Bureau who discovered it... But when the Security Bureau was preparing to carry out the arrest operation, the man escaped from the Ark the day before the operation."

"The Security Bureau just let him escape like that?" Ke Lan felt that the development of the matter was simply outrageous - since they were already preparing to arrest people, the target must be under the surveillance of the Security Bureau at all times. In this situation Come on, you can actually let people run away?

You know, this place is different from the scenes in those police and gangster movies of the old era. With just a few instructions, the 2.2-meter-thick alloy gate can directly separate and block various areas of the Ark, even if the person controls the Seed of Corrosion. Even with the power, it is impossible to break through these layers of obstacles in a short period of time... To arrest people in that situation, "catching a turtle in a urn" is the most appropriate description.

But if someone had to escape from the Ark and find him in the wilderness of Planet Alpha, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack...

"On the day before the operation, the headquarters of the Security Bureau was attacked. Thirty-six fully liberated Corrosive Seeds rushed in directly from the main entrance of the Security Bureau... gathered at the headquarters and prepared to participate in the arrest the next day. The agents in the operation were almost slaughtered by these monsters..."

"this……"

"The Security Bureau and the garrison paid an unimaginable price to kill all these monsters, and in order to prevent the infection from spreading, we had to deal with the injured comrades with our own hands..." At this point, Maginot's There was also a hint of sadness in his eyes, "Nick is an officer in the field force. He doesn't know about this... but I am one of the three frontline commanders in the cleanup operation. I still remember that when I signed the last order My hands were shaking all the time."

Maginot continued: "However, the Security Bureau is not a vegetarian. After the cleanup operation, they used all their remaining power to track down clues related to that person... Undersea City and 776 Special The team is just two of the clues found by the Security Bureau."

"Didn't the 776 Special Forces Team disappear forty-eight years ago? Why is the inheritor involved?" Ke Lan asked strangely.

At the same time, he was also thinking in his heart: Could it be because of the seeds of erosion?

Judging from the abyss hatchery in the Undersea City, that place is obviously one of the bases used by the Alpha people to cultivate "biological weapons", and that desert island has an inseparable relationship with the Undersea City... so Speaking of which, that person had already been to that place before me?

Ke Lan's breathing became slightly faster.

"According to the intelligence shared by the Security Bureau... the 776th Special Forces Team is probably the first group of humans to have come into contact with the Seed of Corrosion... That's why we want to know what exactly you saw on the bottom of the sea."

"A cave." Ke Lan was silent for a moment, and then said slowly.

"A cave?"

"Well, I encountered underwater turbulence after entering the water. You must know this, Lieutenant General, and then I was swept into a cave... As for the specific location of the cave, I am not very clear about it myself. ." Ke Lan said.

Ke Lan once read in a psychology book: Lies are mixed with fragmented truths, and coupled with deliberate inducements that fit the other person's expectations, the stories created in this way are actually worse than the facts. It is easier to convince the other party.

"You go on."

"Due to the structure of the cave, part of it is hollow and there is no sea water... It was in that place that I saw the remains of the 776 Special Forces Team. In addition to Liao Xing, there were Collins and Connelly... Oh yes, there was also a man named Geno Their equipment was scattered next to the corpses. In order to survive, I picked up some usable ones and took them with me." Ke Lan deliberately concealed the stalagmites. After all, they were among the things he brought back. , those antique equipment are the most eye-catching, but things like stalagmites are not so eye-catching.

"Can you tell the cause of their death?" Maginot asked impatiently.

"It's suicide."

"Suicide?...Then...did you find Squad Leader Ken's body and the black box?"

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, and at the same time he was relieved in his heart. Fortunately, when he was "washed" to the surface by the undercurrent, the black box was lost. Otherwise, this lie would probably not be able to be rounded off. .

"What happened next? After you discovered those corpses, what were your next actions?"

"I collected some usable equipment and continued to explore the cave. However, before I went far, I found that I accidentally entered a maze."

"Underground maze?"

"Yes, it's the kind of underground maze that makes all ruin hunters feel numb... When I wanted to exit, I couldn't find the way out, so I had to bite the bullet and keep walking until--"

"Until what?"

"Until I walked into a dead end, I saw this stone pillar standing in the dead end. The top of the stone pillar was carved with a pattern shaped like an eye, and in the position of the pupil, there was a piece of glowing radioactive ore embedded."

"Stone pillar...eye statue..." Maginot fell into deep thought, and the hand holding the wine glass froze in mid-air.

"Then I pried the ore off."

"Huh? Pried it off?" Maginot looked at Ke Lan in shock.

"Professional habits... After all, I am a relic hunter..."

"What happened after you pried it off? What happened?"

"Water seeped. The entire cave began to seep. Seawater emerged from every pore and rock crevice. I started to run back, panicking... but I couldn't find the exit until the seawater reached my head."

"Then how did you get out?"

"I don't know... Just when I thought I was dead, the current washed me directly to the sea near the Pioneer... But when I think about it now, I think it's quite reasonable... After all, if If there is an exit in the cave, the water will definitely go to the exit."

"However, the Pioneer has scanned the sea area where you appeared at least dozens of times with sonar, and no caves were found at all."

"Then I don't know." Ke Lan shrugged, "I have told you everything I have experienced, Lieutenant General... By the way, you won't choose to silence me, right?"

"Are you kidding..." Maginot twitched the corner of his mouth, and even the fat on his cheeks trembled, "Of course the military will not do anything against you... but the Security Bureau may not, so I I only told you from the beginning that you need our protection."

Today's chapter is quite long. I have to go out tomorrow and I'm not sure when I will come back. If I come back late, I might miss it for a day.