Alien Relic Hunter

"This joke is not funny at all..." Ivan's facial muscles twitched slightly, "Even if this thing grew out of Leviathan's spine... it might be some kind of parasite... "

"Since it is a parasite attached to Leviathan's spine, why has it never been discovered in the past few decades... If I remember correctly, every mining base is built on top of the spine. ...If there were parasites on Leviathan's spine, the construction of the base would have been stopped long ago..."

"but……"

Ivan wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Ke Lan: "Whether this thing belongs to Leviathan's body or some kind of parasite, you can find out by digging down along the root system."

"You want to dig things out? Are you crazy?" The hound grabbed Ke Lan, "I think it's better for us to find Liao Zilang first and then leave this place quickly... To be honest, although those monsters have disappeared , but I always feel that something more terrifying will come out..."

The hound's gaze also stayed on the giant bract outside: "No matter what this thing is, I don't want to stay in this place for a second longer."

"Mr. Manstein, can the communication equipment in the base still work? I'm afraid this matter cannot be solved by just a few of us. We must report it to Ark immediately... As for the ultra-pure crystals found deep in the mine... I think This will soon no longer be a secret to several other consortiums, and compared with the current troubles, the matter of ultra-pure crystals is no longer that important."

If this giant beast is really still alive, then the bracts growing out of its spine are probably a sign of its imminent awakening... If Leviathan wakes up, not only the bases built on its back will It will be destroyed instantly, and even the safety of the Ark may be threatened.

A prehistoric species with such a size would probably be difficult to shake even if all the human fleets were gathered together...

"It's all destroyed... It was the intruders who did it. All the equipment in the main control room was destroyed. I can't even send a distress signal..."

"Where's the vehicle?"

"Except for the plane they took away, everything else was blown up..."

"What about short-distance communication? There must be some portable equipment that can be used in the base, right?"

"There is only one base within short-distance communication distance...it belongs to the Mitsui Consortium." Manstein said a little feebly, "If we send them a distress signal, wouldn't it be equivalent to telling them that there are still people alive here?"

"Yes, if that bitch is from the Mitsui Consortium, asking for help from them would be tantamount to inviting a wolf into the house." This time, Hound was on the same side as Manstein.

"No, this is not to attract wolves into the house, but to drive wolves away from tigers -" Ke Lan pointed at the giant cocoon and said, "If anything happens to Leviathan, they will also suffer huge losses. From this perspective, they We are on the same side.”

Ke Lan turned his head to Layton: "Leighton, please go to the ruins of the base immediately to collect all usable communication equipment; old dog, you and Zhuoligetu immediately set up a temporary defense line with the main control building as the center. , use all the explosives and landmines; Ivan and Layton will search and rescue the survivors hiding in the ruins along the way, while Asano Akira will stay here to protect the safety of Mr. Manstein and his secretary. If Ivan finds any survivors, he will send them all here."

"What about you?" Hound looked at Ke Lan. He suddenly had a bad feeling, "Could you be planning to..."

"Well, I plan to explore the blood pool and confirm the root system of this big guy..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, the hound grabbed his shoulders angrily and yelled at him: "Are you really crazy? Do you think you can come out alive after going in? Are you too young to risk your life?"

"No, no, no..." Ke Lan waved her hands repeatedly, "Of course I know how dangerous it is under the blood pool, and I have no intention of going down there myself."

"Then how do you explore?"

"First find a water pump and try to see if you can drain the blood pool."

Ke Lan knew in his heart that any normal person...even if it were his former self, would never accept the fact that Leviathan was still alive, but he couldn't tell them the content on the black stone tablet...he wanted to prove this. One thing, if you want to make the Hounds and others... and even the people of the Mitsui Consortium believe that Leviathan is still alive, you must come up with more direct evidence.

"...Sigh, I know I can't persuade you." The hound suddenly sighed, "Then be careful, who knows if the monsters that got into this thing are still alive and will crawl out again... If something happens, send a signal immediately and we will rush over as soon as possible."

"Okay." Ke Lan patted the hound's arm hard, and there was a muffled sound between the armor and the armor.

…

In the equipment warehouse where most of the mining base collapsed, Ke Lan found two almost brand-new water pumps. These two water pumps were not comparable to the old antiques under the mine that were about to be scrapped, let alone the small blood pump in the center of the square. Even if the entire square sank underground and turned into a lake, it would not take a few hours to drain it dry.

After connecting the drainage pipes and cables, Ke Lan pushed the two water pumps to the square. He glanced at the giant cocoon that was ten stories high, raised his head, and swallowed more than a dozen anti-radiation pills in one gulp.

The cost of taking so many anti-radiation drugs at one time is that he will have diarrhea in the next week and doubt his life, but compared to suffering from acute radiation sickness, this side effect is almost negligible.

Despite the double protection of protective clothing and medicine, when Ke Lan got close to the giant cocoon, the extreme nausea and discomfort still appeared. He glanced at the screen of the Geiger counter. The radiation dose here had reached More than 7,000 millisieverts per hour. If you don’t wear protective equipment, just walk around here and your life will immediately enter a countdown... Within seventy-two hours, skin, blood vessels, muscles, organs and even The bones will rot and melt, and the body tissues of patients with acute radiation sickness will be like wax baked on a fire, gradually turning into a pool of pus that also carries high doses of radiation...

There was an extremely serious nuclear power plant explosion accident on the earth. Later generations filmed many documentaries about the accident. One of the scenes showed a firefighter lying on a hospital bed, his skin cracked and peeling like dried orange peels. Melted flesh and blood fell from his bones piece by piece... He was not dead at that time, and he was even conscious. In the last days of his life, he could only watch as he turned into a human being. With skeleton.

That kind of pain and despair is enough to shock the soul of every moviegoer. Ke Lan remembers that when he saw this scene, he accidentally knocked over a stainless steel water glass on the table.

Even with complete protective measures, he could not stay too long near the giant cocoon. After setting up the water pump, he immediately distanced himself from the giant cocoon.

[P.S. Regarding the amount of radiation and radiation dose, it may be vague in previous chapters, but in fact these two are different concepts, which will be explained a little here.

The unit of the former is roentgen, which means the amount of radiation in the environment. For example, the maximum amount of radiation on the roof of the Chernobyl reactor was said to be 20,000 roentgens. The radiation dose is the amount of radiation absorbed by living things and is used to measure The degree of harm of radiation to living organisms is expressed in units of Sievert/mSv/microSv. The measurement unit of the Geiger counter is generally mSv/microSv per hour, which means that so much will be absorbed per hour under the current environment. The dose of radiation, as a comparison, here is a reference data: a full-body CT in the hospital is about 10-20 millisieverts, which is equivalent to the amount of natural radiation absorbed by ordinary people in daily life for 4-8 years. 】