Alien Relic Hunter

"From a certain point of view, we... should be considered safe for the time being." Ke Lan said, "These monsters have focused their attack on the human base on the ground. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we must get away quickly."

"Hey... the old man still wanted to trap us in the mine, but unexpectedly these monsters went to his lair instead... Haha..." the hound said with a sneer, "This is called the damn world reward. , it’s so damn satisfying!”

"Leyton, how long will it take you there?"

"Twenty minutes. This water pump is too old and has a lot of problems. It was probably left here because it was about to be scrapped." Layton said while using a welding gun to cut open the entire casing of the water pump. Come on, "It seems I can only transform this thing into a disposable item."

"As long as you can hold on until the tunnel is dug." Ke Lan nodded to him and walked over, "I'll help you."

"Okay, then help me fix the rotor, be careful not to make direct contact with the skin, or you will get burned." Leighton said, bent down, tilted his head, and inserted the front end of the welding gun into the inside of the machine.

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At the same time, inside the Soma Consortium mining base, on top of the sixth sentry tower——

"Karen! Fire, fire! Those monsters are coming soon!" An officer covered in blood rushed up from the bottom of the tower and shouted at the shot behind the heavy machine gun.

"But...but our people are also there. If we shoot, we will..."

"They are all dead! They are all dead! Do you understand the current situation?! Idiot! If you don't open fire, we will die too!" The officer roared with red eyes, and then he simply kicked the man named Karen's machine gunner kicked to the ground, grabbed the handle of the heavy machine gun, and started shooting at the bottom of the sentry tower.

With the roar of the heavy machine gun, hundreds of bullet casings fell at the officer's feet...

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Karen is a young mercenary employed by the Soma Consortium. He used his savings for five years to bribe an executive of the consortium and was assigned to the Leviathan base with the highest commission. Here, he has been a machine gunner for two full years. However, in these two years, he has not even pulled the trigger once.

There is an old saying in their profession: If there is any safest place on Alpha, apart from the Ark, it is Leviathan.

There is no harsh natural climate here, and there are no indigenous creatures that are powerful enough to require a fleet to contend with. Even except inside the mines, the radiation in other places is much lower than the average on Alpha Star, except for the normal once-a-week descent. In addition, they don't even need to wear bulky protective clothing.

Eating, sleeping, standing guard, playing cards or watching TV, this has been the life of Karen and his teammates for the past two years. Although it is a bit boring, it is better than leisure, and their income is not less than those of their colleagues who have been through life and death.

Karen once thought that if Planet Alpha went to heaven, it would probably be here.

But heaven can turn into hell in just a moment.

"Karen! Karen! Reload!" the officer shouted without looking back, but he shouted several times without getting a response. When he turned around, he saw that the usually honest machine gunner was now It has disappeared.

"Bastard! Coward! Coward! Damn deserter!" Curses came out of the officer's mouth one after another. Just when he was about to move the box of ammunition next to him, a sea anemone head appeared. He had climbed along the vertical wall to the top of the tower and had a face-to-face encounter with the officer.

"What the fuck!" The officer subconsciously went to pull out the pistol stuck in his waist, but Haikuotou's movements were much faster. In the blink of an eye, the thick forearm had penetrated from the officer's back, and five sticks had penetrated the officer's back. In the middle of his fingers, he was still tightly grasping a beating heart.

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As for Karen, who disappeared, he had already escaped from the guard tower and ran towards the main control building in the center of the base.

"It's over...the base is over...everything is over...I don't want to die..."

He threw away all the equipment on his body, just to run faster - he knew that those things were a complete burden. He saw with his own eyes that even the soldiers in power armor could not withstand an attack from those monsters; and the officer who grabbed the machine gun killed all those who had not had time to retreat. As for the monsters... 12.7 mm caliber armor-piercing bullets cannot even tear their skin...

He didn't know where those monsters came from... The defense outside the base was breached almost instantly. Although the energy shield covering the base burned the monsters to pieces, it was unable to cause enough fatal damage. , counting from the time the alarm sounded, in less than twenty-five minutes, those monsters had already entered the inside of the wall.

Karen remembered that there were several vertical take-off and landing aircraft parked on the roof of the main control building all year round. This might be his only means of escape.

The gunfire from the No. 6 sentry tower had stopped, but Karen did not dare to look back... He knew that this meant that the entire team he belonged to had been wiped out except for him...

Everyone died, but at least he was alive now.

"As long as we can escape to the apron on the roof of the general control building, we will definitely be able to get out of here!"

It is less than a hundred meters away from the general control building. Usually, this place is full of guards. Those guards are different from the mercenaries who have signed the contract. Those guys are the direct armed forces of the Soma Consortium. Not only The equipment and combat effectiveness are far superior to those of mercenaries, and their loyalty to the consortium cannot be compared to those of them who work for money.

In the past, if Karen dared to approach the main control building, the guards would have been beaten out with rubber sticks. But now, the guards around the main control building have disappeared, and all the sentries are in a state of confusion. Fortified status.

"These guys...shouldn't they let us mercenaries stay and die, and escape first?" Karen thought to herself.

"Almost there, almost there... As long as I can catch up..." Karen kept recalling the vertical lift driving tutorial she had learned before - although this is an elective course that most mercenaries will take, but it can There are only a few people with actual driving experience, including Karen.

But no matter what, as long as the plane can be started, it will be fine. In the worst case, you can abandon the plane and parachute after flying away from Leviathan.

Just as Karen climbed over the railing, a group of soldiers wearing purple and black combat uniforms suddenly ran out of the main control building in a panic. These people were the direct troops of the consortium mentioned before. At this time , many of them were stained with blood, and they had obviously just experienced a tragic battle.

Seeing these people, Karen quickly hid behind the guard box, and couldn't help but secretly thought: "Could it be that...those monsters have already entered the main control building?"

If that were the case, wouldn't it be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth if he entered the building?

Or should I say, wait until these people lure the monster away, and then go in? But what if there is more than one monster in the building?

Karen was still struggling, but a dark figure suddenly burst out of the window of the general control building and fell right into the middle of the consortium guard.

This is a man wearing a black robe. Half of his exposed chest and right arm are embedded with cybernetic biochemical armor. There are flowing purple light paths on the surface of the armor. There are no eyes on his face. It is a linear electronic eyepiece - making people confused for a moment whether this is a completely simulated robot or a highly modified bionic.

The man in black robe had already pulled out the long knife from the sheath before he landed, and pulled out a circular knife light of exactly 360 degrees in mid-air!

When the long sword was returned to its sheath, the Soma Consortium guards who were frozen on the spot fell to the ground one after another, and blood spurted out.

"This guy is so strong!" Seeing this scene, Karen didn't even dare to express her anger... Although the ones chasing these guards were not the kind of monsters with tentacles, the man in black robes in front of him was stronger than those monsters. The monster is still scary.

"It's better to wait until this guy is gone before taking action." Karen thought so, but after the man in black robe finished killing the people, he walked directly towards him.

Damn it! This guy's electronic eyes have heat-sensing vision, and he was discovered!

The hair on Karen's head suddenly stood up. The feeling of being treated as prey made him want to run away... But reason told him that human legs alone would never be able to outrun the opponent's high-level robot. body...

"Hey! Hey! Don't do it! Don't do it!" Karen was heartbroken and simply walked out of the hiding place with her hands raised. "I'm not the same as those people. Please don't kill me. I'm with The contract with the Soma Consortium has been terminated. Just now, the contract has been terminated. I am not from the Soma Consortium... Of course, if you need me for anything, please feel free to ask... But don't kill me... …”

The man in black robe did not speak. A flash of purple light flashed in his electronic eyes, and then he rushed towards Karen quickly.

"Oops!" Karen reached out to pull out his gun, but found nothing - his weapon had been discarded when he ran away just now!

He didn't even see the opponent's action clearly when he felt his body suddenly lighten, and then his vision began to blur... He felt as if he was flying. He moved his eyes with some effort to look down, but saw that he was standing there. The headless body on the ground, blood is gushing out from the broken neck...

Vaguely, he seemed to see a emblem on the back of the opponent's neck. It was a white diamond printed on a black piece of armor. In the center of the diamond, there were three equal-length horizontal lines.

"Three...the emblem of the Mitsui Consortium?" This was the last thought that flashed through Karen's mind.

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Inside Leviathan, Mine No. 7.

"Okay, it's finally done." Leighton clapped his hands excitedly. Placed in front of him was a tractor-like thing - in order to make this machine move, Leighton even equipped it with A pair of large wheels with a diameter of one meter were mounted.

Where the water pumping port should have been, a thermal epee used as a drill was welded on. The energy of the epee was provided by the crystallization engine of the water pump itself. When the water pump's engine was started, the heat energy epee was welded on. The epee will rotate at high speed driven by the rotor, and the high-temperature blade will cut rocks, just like cutting tofu.

"Can this thing... really dig a tunnel?" The hound looked at the water pump that was completely unrecognizable at the moment, and asked with some doubt, "Would it be too thin to use a sword blade as a drill bit? "

"Absolutely not!" Leighton said, patting his chest. "The thermal epee cuts things not by its sharpness, but by the high temperature attached to the blade. Even if the blade breaks, the efficiency will not drop significantly. This is the only time. If so, it’s completely enough.”

As he spoke, he pushed the "tractor" to the area where the tunnel was blocked, and stuffed two crystals into the entrance of the converter.

The blade of the epee turned dark red again, and then began to spin.

"It feels good." Leighton pushed the "tractor" forward one meter, and there was almost no obstruction. The rocks blocking the tunnel were cut into fist-sized pieces, and the holes reserved along the sides of the drill bit The passage rolled to the ground.

"Help me clear the cut gravel to the back! Be careful! Don't get hit on your head!" The drill bit made a lot of noise, and Layton almost shouted at the top of his lungs.

"You don't need to say it! He's doing it right now!" The hound replied with a roar of the same volume.

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As the drill continued to advance, they were getting closer and closer to the entrance. When there were only about three meters left, Ke Lan walked forward, patted Leighton on the shoulder, and asked him to turn the machine on. stopped.

"What's wrong? We can go out soon. I can even feel the fresh air coming through the cracks in the rocks." Layton said with some confusion.

"It's the last few meters, don't worry." Ke Lan said, "The situation outside now... is much more dangerous than in the mine."

"Ke Lan is right. You said you felt the fresh air outside, but I smelled a trace of blood in the fresh air." The hound frowned and said, "Just go out like this, in case you happen to bump into a few Monster, it’s all over.”

"The sound of gunfire nearby has stopped. It seems that the battle outside the mine has ended." Ke Lan said. As for the outcome of the battle, you can guess it without further explanation... If the "sea anemone head" If there are really hundreds of them, they will only be slaughtered based on the little defensive power in the camp.

"It's a pity that Asano Akira hasn't woken up yet. His ears are much better than those of us who are not blind." The hound glanced at Asano Akira, who was still in a coma and was being carried behind Zhuoligetu, and said.

"Leiton, can you control the size of the hole drilled by this machine? We can make a smaller observation port first and make sure there is no danger outside before going out." Ke Lan said.

"It should be possible. Just remove half of the heavy sword's blade." Leighton nodded and immediately started working.

[P.S. (I can’t help but complain) The updates have been relatively late in the past few days... Because the upstairs was being renovated during the day, and the electric drill made my scalp numb and I couldn’t calm down to code. Every time they started work, I It felt like the whole building was shaking, and I couldn't even put on my headphones... The laptop I used when I was in school broke down a long time ago and has never been repaired, so I couldn't go to the library or Starbucks to code, or in an Internet cafe. Due to health reasons, I can’t go to crowded places... Alas, I work until very late every day, and I don’t know how many more days the restaurant upstairs will work...]