Alien Relic Hunter

"...Why do those bugs appear here?" Sakuraina asked, her tone finally slowing down a little.

"We don't know either." Ke Lan shook his head and said, "If Ms. Sakurai has any unique insights, you might as well tell her. We are all ears."

"I...what insights can I have? I have never even seen this kind of creature before coming here!"

"Even a talented girl like Miss Sakurai doesn't know, and we definitely don't know either." Ke Lan shrugged, "You think so, old dog."

"If we knew the origin of that thing, why would we be so embarrassed? Girl, can't you ask some sensible questions?" It may be because of what happened with Yui and the different positions of the camps. Although the Sakurai Naya in front of me She is a rare beauty, but the hound has no favorable impression of her at all.

"Hey! What's the attitude of you people?!" Sakuraina gritted her teeth and stared at Ke Lan and the hound. "We came to rescue you based on humanitarian spirit... but you actually..."

"We didn't do anything to you, either? And as you saw, if we hadn't run so fast, we would have almost died."

"But how could you leave the others behind-"

"It's not that we left the others behind, it's that we were too late to save the others!" Ke Lan's speech speed increased instantly, "I'm sorry for the sacrifices of Mr. Mitsui and other rescuers... But, Who killed them? Was it me?"

Ke Lan looked directly into Sakuraina's eyes and continued: "If I hadn't knocked you unconscious, would you have evacuated with us as soon as possible? If I hadn't used this 'rough' method, you would have been killed Do I need to add your name to the list? Huh? Miss Sakurai Na?"

"But...but..." Sakurai Naguru muttered, but after saying "but" for a long time, he couldn't say a word to refute.

"From a certain point of view, those medical staff were indirectly killed by you because you wasted too much time." Ke Lan finally stabbed the girl who was not yet twenty years old. .

"I...I..." Sakuraina's eyes suddenly turned red. She always felt that something was wrong with what the guy in front of her said, but she couldn't find out what the problem was.

This girl seems to have a very pure mind. She was deceived by herself after just a few words? Ke Lan thought to herself... Could this be the legendary "flower in the greenhouse" who has lived like a princess since she was a child and has never been exposed to the dangers of the outside world? But how could such a "treasure" be sent to a place like Leviathan's Carcass in a "bad place"?

Or is she actually acting?

Like Hound, ever since he was deceived by Yui's acting skills, Ke Lan's trust in women...especially good-looking women has plummeted - he still remembers a widely circulated emoticon on the Internet. , with the caption "The more beautiful a woman is, the better she is at lying."

It's like being bitten by a snake once and fearing the rope for ten years.

"If you don't want to kill us too, you'd better not think about causing trouble... This is not a threat, but advice. Without us, you won't be able to survive here alone." Ke Lan glanced at Ying Ina glanced at her and her tone suddenly turned cold.

"I...since you think I will drag you down, then send us back to the base of the Mitsui Consortium, and then you will have nothing to do." Sakuraina said.

"To tell you the truth, we are flying to the Mitsui Consortium's base now." Ke Lan stood up, walked to the cabin door, leaned out and took a look outside, then walked to sit next to Sakurai Na, He turned to her and said, "But you'd better not have too much hope..."

Sakurai Na moved to the other side of the seat, and after trying to distance herself from Ke Lan as much as possible, she asked, "Why?"

"Because I sent a total of twenty-seven times to the base of the Mitsui Consortium... Oh, I just sent it again, which is twenty-eight times... A total of twenty-eight communication requests, and none of them received a response." Sitting in the driver's seat Layton, who was sitting in the seat, finally said something.

"...Could it be a signal problem?" Sakuraina asked cautiously.

"Before, when I was in the Soma Consortium, you could all receive the rescue signal I sent out with the individual portable communication equipment in the base. Now the communication equipment on this plane is much more powerful than the one I used before. No. The reason for not being able to receive it...and this aircraft also belongs to your Mitsui Consortium, so there can be no problem with the frequency band and identification code." Layton replied.

"Then...then why?"

"Not only the Mitsui Consortium, but also all the mining bases on the Leviathan Remains have not been contacted... I suspect that we are not the only ones who have been attacked." Ke Lan said solemnly.

"How could it be? Everything was fine when we set off, there was nothing abnormal at all, and the dozen or so mines attached to the base were also in normal operation..." Regarding Ke Lan's statement, Sakurai Nai didn't care at all. I wish to believe, "From the time we received your rescue signal... no, it should be from the time the second batch of planes carrying engineering equipment took off from the base. Only two hours have passed. Even if we were attacked, we It’s impossible for our base to be able to support it for even two hours!”

"Ms. Sakurai Nana, how long do you think the Soma Consortium's base has lasted? We also have large energy shields, well-trained mercenaries and guards, and even heavy weapons like siege tanks... But Do you know how long the Soma Consortium lasted? Let alone two hours, not even one hour!"

Ke Lan continued: "What's more, the one that attacked the Soma Consortium base was not that kind of bug, but a humanoid monster that spits acid... I think if the attackers were replaced by these bugs, they would probably be attacked five times in a row. If it doesn’t take a minute, there won’t be anyone alive in the entire base.”

Although Ke Lan concealed the spy intrusion and the paralysis of the command system, if it was this red insect tide that attacked the Soma Consortium before and not those "sea anemone heads", even if there were no problems with the base's command system, the outcome would be Still the same.

Sakurai Na seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked again: "These bugs... you, you mentioned Leviathan in the communication before, right? You said Leviathan was going to be resurrected, then these bugs... this Leviathan Does Vitan have anything to do with it?”

"I think it is related... but I have no evidence." Ke Lan said, "Originally we cut the rock formations to find evidence, but... you already know the result: Mr. Mitsuisuke was killed, and the rescue team eliminated you There is no other life left..."

Ke Lan said and pointed at himself: "We were able to escape by chance only because the previous attack made us all frightened, so our reaction was a little faster than yours. And just this little bit is the difference between life and death." Deadly distance."

"But you must have discovered some clues, otherwise why would you insist that the giant cocoon on the Soma Consortium base is part of Leviathan?"

"I have already said that all this is just my guess. If you are so interested, I can put you down now, and you can study that thing by yourself."

"You knew I couldn't do it, so you said that on purpose!" Sakuraina said angrily, "I don't think you are a good person. Maybe those things are biochemical experiments you conducted privately, because the experiments Because he lost control, he blamed the indigenous creatures and Leviathan!"

"That's such a huge injustice!" Ke Lan almost laughed out loud at the girl's words. Even the hound beside him, who had always had a straight face, couldn't help laughing... Ivan simply covered his mouth and shoulders. He twitched moment by moment, "Please, we are just a group of relic hunters hired by the Soma Consortium. Although I have the title of a special consultant, I am actually just a non-staff member. I even just arrived here today." The base's... these things are not considered secrets. Miss Sakurai, you can find out by just searching... As for whether the Soma Consortium is conducting any secret biochemical experiments on Leviathan, you have to ask Manshi Mr. Tann."

"Ah?" Manstein, who was named, was stunned for a moment, then shook his head like a rattle, "How could there be some secret biochemical experiment? Mr. Ke Lan, you can't pour sewage on my head... ...The mining base on Leviathan's back is generally configured the same for each consortium. In addition to the ore warehouse and refining factory, there are only dormitories for personnel... Even if I want to do some biochemical experiments, the conditions in the base do not allow it. ...There are none of the equipment related to biochemical experiments. If you don't believe it, you can go and pull out the material transportation list and check it carefully...This matter really has nothing to do with me..."

Seeing Manstein's indefatigable appearance, Ke Lan couldn't help but smile and said: "I didn't say that this matter had anything to do with you. It's not me who thinks you are conducting secret biochemical experiments. It's Sakurai. Miss Nye."

At this moment, the speed of the plane slowed down significantly, and Layton's voice came from the driver's seat in front: "We are about to arrive at the base of the Mitsui Consortium... The situation seems not quite right."

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan stopped smiling and asked.

"There is nothing unusual on the radar, but there is black smoke in the airspace directly ahead that has not dissipated... there may be an explosion or fire below..." Layton said.

"...Well, it seems that something did happen...but it was expected..." Ke Lan walked quickly behind Leighton, grabbed the back of the driver's seat with his hands, leaned forward and looked forward, and saw There was still a faint trace of black smoke in the mid-air not far away, and traces of the smoke column rising vertically from the ground could still be vaguely seen.

"Tsk... now things are really serious..." The hound subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub the stubble on his chin, but the armor on his hands collided with the chin guard of the helmet, making a sound Crisp sound.

"Lean over...can the height be raised a little more?" Ke Lan said to Layton.

"We can't go any higher. If we go higher, we will enter the clouds and we won't be able to see anything." Leighton shook his head.

Their current height is calculated relative to Leviathan's back, and adding Leviathan's own height, they are now almost at an altitude of nearly three thousand meters above sea level. If Layton had just put Manstein on If he hangs out for a while outside the cabin, I'm afraid his wet crotch will freeze...

However, compared with the previous time at the glacier ruins, the high-altitude air flow here is quite stable. In order to facilitate observation, Ke Lan did not even close the cabin door.

Manstein and his secretary were both wrapped in a blanket pulled out from under their seats. The former even had to grab the oxygen mask on the side and take a few breaths from time to time. In comparison, Sakuraina's physical fitness was much stronger. There were quite a few of them, even though the white coat and shirt she was wearing were much thinner.

"Aren't you cold?" Ke Lan turned to look at her and asked.

Sakuraina shook her head.

"We will be arriving at the Mitsui Consortium's base soon. I suggest you be mentally prepared." Ke Lan added.

Sakuraina was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"We're here...hiss..." As soon as Layton said the word "here", he took a breath of cold air. Since there was a loudspeaker next to the driver's seat, the sound of gasping filled the entire cabin. They all heard it very clearly.

Everyone's hearts suddenly sank.

"Sure enough." Seeing the sea of ​​blood below, Ke Lan sighed, "I'm afraid the situation in several other bases is similar, and... there is that thing here too."

"That thing" in Ke Lan's mouth refers to the giant cocoon in the square of the Soma Consortium's base - there is also a similar giant cocoon in the base of the Mitsui Consortium, but the location of this giant cocoon It was not in the center of the square, but pushed out from the west side of the main control building, squeezing the entire building apart.

"Actually, the position is the same..." Ke Lan's finger crossed the screen. "This central axis is Leviathan's spine under the rock formation... It seems that this giant cocoon also grows from the spine."

"Then what should we do now? Shall we go back to the Ark...or?" Hound asked Ke Lan.

"Ivan is right, we can't do anything in front of Leviathan... But at least, we have to pass on the existing information to the people who are capable of solving this trouble... If we choose to take a detour, it will be just right It will be staggered with the fleet coming from Ark. Then they will need to collect information from scratch, which will waste a lot of precious time... I decided that we will wait here until the fleet sent by Ark arrives at Leviathan. "

[P.S. The circuit breaker at home tripped tonight, and the content of the code was not saved. I did not buy a WPS membership and did not have the function of cloud saving... In the end, I only found less than half of it... I was in a state of mind, so the update was even later, and This chapter was written as soon as possible. In order to secure a perfect attendance award, I frantically typed on the keyboard to collect four thousand and threw it in. I didn’t even have time to check for typos and missing sentences. I hope everyone can understand... I have to go to the hospital tomorrow. The blood test...it's almost as big as two heads...

P.P.S. Regarding why Ke Lan and the others staggered back to the Ark with the fleet, it’s because the two took different routes. Ke Lan and the others are small transport planes, the kind of scum that has low attack power and low health. They can’t pass through the dangerous forbidden area. The no-fly zone poses no threat to them, and Ark's official fleet is all large warships, so they can just take the nearest straight line. 】