Alien Relic Hunter

"Twin ruins? So someone has already gone down there?" Ke Lan asked.

"Not yet, it's the result of the laser detector analysis. How about it, are you interested? You know, this kind of virgin land is the richest in oil and water - if you want information, I'm the first one here. First hand!"

"I'm not interested in twin ruins." Ke Lan knew clearly that whether it was the A-087 ruins or the newly discovered twin ruins, they were probably not as simple as they seemed on the surface. The last time they were able to come out alive was purely because of their Luck - Old Dog has a saying that there is nothing wrong with it: That damn place is full of evil.

"However, if you have Leviathan's information, you can sell it to me. Whether it's old secrets or gossip, I want it."

"Isn't it? We haven't seen each other for a few days, but you've been in such a miserable state recently? Are you reduced to becoming a miner?" The other party seemed a little surprised, "Being a miner is better than being a dog for rich people. "

The dog the other party refers to is of course not the kind of canine mammals that are often used as pets on the earth, but the hunters who work for large consortiums, like Benson and others who had conflicts with Ke Lan and the others before... It's ugly to say that Dian is actually a group of "dogs" raised by the Aurora Consortium.

Ke Lan remembered that he once read in a book that there was a word in the old era to describe this kind of people: "social animals".

Even... in the eyes of the top management of the Aurora Consortium, their lives may not be as valuable as real pet dogs...

"I'm not a miner. I just took a security assignment and worked part-time as a security guard for a few days."

"That's not so bad. Besides, aren't these menial jobs done by mercenaries? If you do this kind of thing, you are overqualifying yourself."

"It's a waste of time... There are no suitable ruins to explore now. If we don't take on some part-time jobs, we'll have nothing to eat." Ke Lan replied.

"Okay, okay, seeing how miserable you are, I won't charge you for the Leviathan information. The information itself isn't of much value anyway, so just treat it as a gift in return for taking care of my business... Get ready Receive files."

Just as the other party said, most of the transmitted information can be found in the official database. Apart from this part, it is all gossip and myths and legends that have little credibility. This information, It takes a little time to search every nook and cranny of the Internet... No wonder this guy who has always been stingy is so generous this time.

Even so, Ke Lan still sent the other party a "thank you" emoticon, but the other party did not reply. It seemed that he was busy looking for other people to discuss business.

Ke Lan opened these files one by one and filed them into categories. At this moment, a photo caught his attention - it was a huge black stone tablet with a long list of alpha civilization words engraved on it. The caption under the photo reads: "When Leviathan's remains were first discovered, the stone tablet found thirty kilometers away from the body was identified by scholars as the tombstone set by the Alphas for Leviathan. Based on this judgment, The remains of Leviathan existed before the disappearance of Alpha Civilization. The stele is currently stored in the Ancient Document Research Branch of the Core Research Institute, and the relic grade is classified as A."

"Tombstone... This is really a tombstone." Ke Lan said to himself. Although others could not decipher the words on the black stone tablet, he could understand it. The main meaning was "The Giant Who Rules the Sky" The place where the beast rests”.

Of course, this is the result of paraphrasing it in Earth's words, but if you analyze it from the semantics and context, it won't be too far off.

"The giant beast that rules the sky..." Ke Lan imagined a huge whale as majestic as a mountain range floating in the sky, and suddenly felt an indescribable shock in his heart... Sure enough, a prehistoric-level creature, originally It is an existence that is completely contrary to human conventional cognition.

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As the largest carbon-based creature that humans have ever seen, the existence of Leviathan has overturned many classic theories passed down from the old era. No one knows where this creature came from - whether on earth or in the world. No race with similar characteristics to it can be found on Planet Alpha, nor can it be embedded into the evolutionary lineage of any kind of creature.

The existence of Leviathan itself is a paradox: just the materials needed to maintain cell metabolism are an astronomical amount, and to drive such a body, the energy consumed is equivalent to turning an Alpha I am afraid that the hollowing out of the ruins of civilization will not last long - unlike the Ark, Leviathan is a living thing. As long as the living thing is alive, this process of consumption is going on all the time.

Ke Lan dragged the cursor and pulled the biologist's paper to the bottom——

"All in all, I think that given the natural conditions of Alpha Planet, it is impossible to birth or support a creature like Leviathan. So among the many speculations from many sources, there are only two most likely ones: one, Leviathan, like us humans, is not a native species of Alpha Planet, but an outsider; secondly, it is not a creature bred in nature, but an artificial creation of Alpha civilization or a higher level civilization. At the same time, guess one and The second guess is not conflicting in principle, that is to say..."

Most of the information related to Leviathan is speculation and inference, but no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that there are abundant crystallized resources in the body of this ancient beast. Moreover, compared to the complex Alpha Civilization ruins, the risk of mining the crystals from Leviathan's remains is almost negligible... As for the high-intensity magnetic field in Leviathan's body that causes frequent malfunctions of autonomous mining robots, this is even less true. The problem... For the capitalists who hold the mining rights, human labor is far cheaper than those precise mechanical instruments.

"The miners are missing... I have no clue at all..." Ke Lan stretched out, leaned back, and leaned on the back of the chair, "Could it be that the structure of Leviathan's body is too complicated, and these miners are lost? "

"That's not right..." Soon, Ke Lan denied his conjecture. In the mine, any mining point is connected by cables and ventilation pipes. Even if the miner gets lost, he can follow the cable fixed on the shaft wall. If you go back, you can always return to the safe house located underground...

As for those undeveloped areas that have not yet laid cables and ventilation pipes, they are strictly prohibited areas for miners. To put it in perspective, even if there is a "black sheep" among the crowd, the number of missing people will not be As for reaching twenty-eight people.

Or is there something in the depths of the mine that is tempting the missing miners, causing them to plunge into the darkness one after another?

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[P.P.P.S.] The "black sheep" mentioned in the text is a metaphor, referring to the "restless" and "eager to jump out of the fence" sheep among the sheep. In some contexts, it also refers to the "black sheep" meaning, this article adopts the first meaning.