Alien Relic Hunter

"Then besides ores and veins, what else is there in Leviathan that is worthy of these miners risking their lives to enter those unexplored areas? I don't know anything about this, but I believe that you must know something. No more than me, otherwise, there would be no need to hire me and my teammates to handle this matter.”

"Mr. Ke Lan, your analysis... is correct." Yui said with a smile, but she smiled very reluctantly, "But this is a win-win thing, isn't it? Moreover, you are also the special consultant of the consortium, you are We ourselves, our interests should be in the same direction..."

"But the content of such a commission should be revised," Ke Lan said. "If you want us to hunt for treasure, just say so. The reward you give is not small, and it is fully worthy of the corresponding difficulty and risk level... But, why? What about hiding it from us?”

Ke Lan stared at the other party's beautiful big eyes and said word by word: "You also said that I am 'one of your own'... But why do I feel that you don't seem to treat me as one of your own?" Woolen cloth?"

Unknowingly, Laogou had slowed down and put some distance between himself and other vehicles in the convoy.

"Miss Yui, don't be nervous, we are not bad people." Ke Lan said with a smile, glancing at the "Tarantula" mecha running parallel to Junius not far away, "We are just a little angry, why were we not willing at first? Tell us the true contents of the commission?”

"Actually...this is what Miss Soma meant."

"Miss Soma...Captain Zofia?"

"Yeah." Yui nodded.

"Why?"

"I'm just a secretary. I don't know about this kind of thing." Yui suddenly spoke faster. "But I can guarantee that Miss Soma has no ill intentions towards you. Otherwise, she would not leave the base behind." Temporary control is transferred to you."

Ke Lan carefully examined the other person's face, not even missing the involuntary small twitching of facial muscles - analyzing whether a person is lying based on her facial expression alone is far more difficult than what is shown in those movies and TV series The level is much higher. Moreover, Ke Lan is not a professional interrogator and does not have electronic monitoring equipment specially used for "lie detection".

But Ke Lan knows that the greater the psychological pressure she puts on the other person, the more nervous she will be and the easier it will be for her to reveal her true thoughts...

Ke Lan took out his gun, pulled out the magazine, unloaded the bullets one by one, and pushed them in one by one.

"Miss Yui, you know... we are all a bunch of vulgar people. I know how those big conglomerates describe us independent hunters... they call us paupers, bandits, wild dogs, garbage pickers... …”

"Click", the magazine was inserted into the pistol's handle again.

"Things like wild dogs have basically nothing except their lives... Therefore, when we do things, we don't have as many scruples as people from big conglomerates."

"Crack." Ke Lan pulled the sleeve of the pistol and loaded the bullet.

"You...you should know the consequences of breaking up with the Soma Consortium..." Yui said calmly.

"Well, I know, so can I think that Miss Yui is threatening us?" Ke Lan turned on the safety of the pistol.

"This cannot be considered a threat. Mr. Ke Lan, please calm down. This is not good for anyone. You must know that the Soma Consortium has no ill intentions towards you or your companions. We are just..."

"There is no malice at all, so why did you use deception to trick us into accepting this commission?" Ke Lan put the muzzle of the gun on Yui's chin... I have to say that this woman not only has a perfect face, but also a fair and long neck. It's very tempting, and there is really a desire that makes people want to destroy it.

"Can you put down the gun first?"

"Of course." Ke Lan said, "But you have to answer a few questions first."

"Just ask."

"If...I mean if...we encounter some kind of powerful indigenous creature, and the entire supply transport convoy is almost wiped out, leaving only me and my companions lucky enough to escape, how will the Soma Consortium handle this matter? "

Yui was about to speak, but Ke Lan continued to answer his own questions: "Of course the Soma Consortium will doubt us, but if we just deal with it more cleanly, they won't do anything to me. I am still a member of the Soma Consortium. Special consultant, Zofia's guest... But, Miss Yui, isn't it a pity that such a young and beautiful woman like you was buried in the desert like this?"

"Mr. Ke Lan, please believe us... We actually do this for a reason... We don't intend to deceive you..."

"Are you scared?"

"I……"

"You may not have noticed it yourself. Your fingers have frozen, and you didn't even notice that the tablet slipped under the seat. It seems that your loyalty to the Soma Consortium is not enough. You should not be ready to serve the interests of the consortium at any time. Are you ready to die?" Ke Lan bent down, picked up the tablet, put it back into the other person's hand, and then suddenly laughed——

"Just kidding, actually we just played a little joke with you." Ke Lan and Lao Gou looked at each other and smiled, "We are not dissatisfied with the remuneration of the commission. In fact, we knew from the beginning that the content of the commission could not be that simple. …And now, this commission is truly worthy of his value, so let’s get back to the topic now.”

There was a trace of confusion on Yui's face. Obviously, she didn't quite believe Ke Lan's words. This guy who was considered a normal young man to her seemed to have completely changed in the past few minutes... … Could it be that he was just pretending to be like that?

Or...is this his true character?

As Ke Lan's full-time secretary, she has read through the consortium's internal analysis report on Ke Lan many times, but she now feels that the report, which is more than thirty pages thick, is just a pile of waste paper...

This guy is clearly a lunatic, and cannot match the "sane" and "calm" descriptions described in the report!

But no matter what, work must continue. Since the other party seems to be back to "normal" now, then...

"Mr. Ke Lan, in this case..."

Just as Yui opened her mouth, she was interrupted again by Ke Lan.

"If I remember correctly, the number of missing miners is twenty-eight, right?"

"Well?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ke Lan suddenly leaned forward, and his face almost hit the tip of the other person's pretty nose: "What's the name of the thing found in the mine?"

"What...what are you talking about?" As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Yui's expression changed drastically. When she realized that she had spilled the beans and quickly changed her words, it was already too late.

"Hey, this trick really works." The old dog gave Ke Lan a thumbs up.

"Indeed." Ivan, who was sitting in the back, pushed up the goggles on the bridge of his nose. "From a psychological point of view, this is a very common but tried-and-tested trick. Everything in front of it is just for setting the stage..."

"..." Looking at the group of people in front of her, the expression on Yu Yi's face changed rapidly. She bit her lower lip tightly and hesitated for more than a minute before spitting out something Ke Lan had never heard of before. noun--

"Ultra-pure crystallization".