Alien Relic Hunter

But Ke Lan always felt that he seemed to have missed something...

"Manstein! I forgot about Manstein! He was also one of the survivors who came back alive from Leviathan, but after leaving Maginot, he separated from us... If things As we expected, he should also be one of the targets of the Arasaka Consortium!"

"I will send someone to find him immediately..." Zofia quickly walked to the communication terminal in the safe house, and her ten slender fingers quickly tapped on the virtual keyboard formed by the holographic projection.

But just when Ke Lan put his head over, Zofia's movements froze. After a few seconds, she sighed softly and said, "It's too late. Half an hour ago, Manstein Because he was killed in his residence, besides him, there were also his wife, eldest son Martin and the personal secretary who was also a survivor. As for his kidnapped youngest son Andrew, the body was also in the east It was found in the sewage pipe in District 10.”

As soon as Zofia finished speaking, there was a harsh sound of brakes above her head, and then a large number of footsteps rushed into the garage. These footsteps stopped outside the secret door, and a man with a A panicked voice shouted outside: "Is Miss Soma inside? I am Anthony, director of the security department of the consortium..."

"I'm inside." Zofia replied, nodding to Ke Lan, who put away the assault rifle pointed at the door.

"We rushed over as soon as we received the distress signal, but we were attacked by a madman with a bomb strapped to him halfway... That's why we were delayed... Miss, are you not injured?"

"I'm not injured." Zofia said to the people outside, "but there may still be remaining attackers inside the villa. You should lead someone to clean up the villa first."

"Okay, I'll leave the first group here to protect Miss. They are all people you know, Miss. There will be no problem with their loyalty." Anthony said.

"You also know the captain of the first team." Zofia turned to Ke Lan and said, "That's First Officer Caroline. She is actually from the security department of the consortium. She followed me to the Pioneer to protect me. of."

"Well, we're old acquaintances." Ke Lan nodded, and then pushed the big bed blocking the secret door a crack.

Just as Zofia said, Ke Lan saw Caroline with an anxious look on her face at first sight. She was wearing a lightweight power armor and carrying a gun that probably came from somewhere on her shoulders. A large-caliber Vulcan cannon removed from a vehicle - as soon as she saw Ke Lan push the bed board open, she directly inserted an arm in.

"Ke, Mr. Ke Lan? Why are you here?" Caroline's tone was full of caution.

"Zofia came to me to talk about something, and then she was attacked by an assassin. It's that simple." Ke Lan simply pushed the entire bed board aside and let Caroline get in.

"Talk about something..." Caroline seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and her expression suddenly became extremely strange, "Is it true that you and the lady are... engaged...?"

"I don't know, you ask her." Ke Lan shrugged and stepped away.

"It's true," Zofia said.

"Even...even if you hate the Arasaka family, Miss...then why did you choose him? He..." Caroline thought for a long time before finally finding a not-so-bad statement, "He...what does he have?" Any advantages?"

"I think he looks very pleasing to the eye. Is this such an advantage?"

"Does this count..." Caroline looked at Ke Lan with a very unkind look.

"By the way, can you tell me the specific situation at Manstein? Your first group should be the first to get there, right?" Zofia changed the subject calmly.

"Manstein..." Caroline's face froze slightly, "My team members and I have indeed just rushed over there. The situation there is very bad, the scene is a mess, and almost all the bodies are badly damaged. It’s powerful, and it seems that he was cruelly abused during his lifetime..."

"Have you noticed anything unusual..." Ke Lan asked in a deep voice, "Especially with Manstein and the female secretary."

"The abnormal thing..." Caroline recalled, "The female secretary died of suffocation. There was nothing abnormal except for the obvious marks on her neck... On the contrary, Mr. Manstein, His entire abdomen was cut open, and the medical examiner responsible for the autopsy told me that a high level of radiation seemed to be detected inside Manstein's abdominal cavity..."

"Not low radiation dose? What do you mean?" Ke Lan's eyes lit up, and he felt like he was about to grasp the key point of the matter.

"That's what it means... Maybe he accidentally swallowed a piece of radioactive mineral... But how could he swallow this thing by accident? Mr. Manstein is not a child..." Caroline muttered.

"Could it have been stuffed in by the person who killed him?" Zofia asked, "For example, this method was used to extract a confession..."

"No, it won't be to force a confession." Ke Lan suddenly said, "The purpose of these people is not to get something from our mouths...otherwise, the people who attacked us would not kill us directly..."

"Yeah." Caroline nodded in agreement with Ke Lan's statement. "The medical examiner also said that Mr. Manstein suffered from a chronic radiation disease. Suppose he really swallowed a piece of radioactive material. If it’s ore, then the ore will have to stay in his body for at least several days.”

"In other words, this stone was already in his stomach when he was at the Leviathan base..." Ke Lan suddenly had a very bad premonition...

He vaguely remembered that when the survivors returned to the Ark, during a routine physical examination, Manstein seemed to have found an excuse to skip the radiology examination items...

"Zophia... was it Manstein who reported the ultra-pure crystal to your consortium, right?" Ke Lan turned around and asked.

"Yes, as the top person in charge of the mining base, he did report it. Is there any problem?" Zofia's expression showed some slight changes at this time - from Ke Lan's words, She had also noticed a hint of something amiss.

"Manstein, I'm afraid he found something even more incredible than ultra-pure crystals inside Leviathan... But the greed in his heart made him decide to take this thing as his own... and use this extremely He hid it in his body in an adventurous way..."

"Something worse than ultra-pure crystals?!"

"Although I don't know what that thing is, but now, it has probably fallen into the hands of the Arasaka Consortium... and into the hands of that heretical sect."