Alien Relic Hunter

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Passing through the fan-shaped square is the entrance to the Arasaka Foundation Central Industrial Park.

There were still some fleeing rebel skirmishers here, but they were quickly cleared away by Victoria - she seemed to be venting her anger, and her fighting method became extremely rough: first, she relied on her high mobility to quickly approach the target. , and then fired with a large-caliber hunting pistol at a distance that was almost against their heads... As each head was exploded, Victoria's brand-new prosthetic body was soon covered with red and white filth... …

"Prepare to explode, countdown to ten seconds, ten--" Ke Lan fixed a time bomb on the main gate of the Central Industrial Park, and then quickly ran back to the building behind the bunker.

"Nine, eight, seven...two, one."

"boom!!!"

There was a loud noise, the electronic lock of the gate was blown to pieces, and the piercing alarm sounded... If this warning sound had been the same in normal times, a large number of security personnel would have rushed out of the park long ago, but now , looking at the entire industrial park, there is no one at all. The sound of sirens continues to echo in the empty and silent park, but it seems a bit out of place.

"It has been confirmed that all automatic defense systems have been disarmed and you can continue moving forward." Victoria walked out of the guard post where the security guards were stationed. She had just directly used violent means to invade the industrial park's defense system, but found that the park's backup energy had not been activated. , when the power outage occurred, all monitoring equipment and automatic defense weapons in the entire park had stopped operating, and they have not been restored until now.

The entrance to the industrial park is two technology companies wholly owned by the Arasaka Consortium. The R\u0026D and production departments are all located in the same factory. One specializes in the production of computer chips, and the other is renowned for its Nino alloy applications. .

"The security bureaus of these two companies have checked dozens of times and found no problems," Victoria said.

"Of course there won't be a problem...Whether it's computer chips or alloy materials, these things are basically produced for export. If there were any problems, they would have been noticed long ago...On the contrary, it is a security company like 'Rangers' , is the problem.”

"Indeed... every time the 'Rangers' are investigated, the person in charge will always shirk the blame on the grounds that most of the staff are performing tasks outside the Ark... Even if we insist on investigating, those who are left behind are They hired low-level employees specifically to deal with inspections. These people do peripheral work that has no access to company secrets, and they can't find anything at all." Regarding Ke Lan's words, Victoria quite agreed with Ke Lan this time.

"But no one thought that these mercenaries would actually become believers of a heretical sect... Maybe their 'mission' outside the Ark is to disguise themselves as exiles and attack transit stations and field troops. Do you still remember how we did it back then? Are you living in an exile settlement?"

"I know that the 'exiles' who attacked the battleships should be these mercenaries. Moreover, they were specially selected gangsters who did not keep files inside the Ark. Even if the bodies of the attackers were brought back, they would not be able to find out. Their identity.”

"By the way, all the top executives of the Arasaka Consortium should be in that tower now, right? Don't tell me that they have escaped from the Ark... I want to tear these people alive now." Ke Lan said bitterly—— If the attack on the battleship was also the work of the Arasaka Consortium and the heretic sect, then it is almost certain that the transport plane he, Hound and others were on crashed. The culprit of everything that happened from the glacier ruins to now is actually the same family. If someone with the bad temper of the hound knew about this, he would definitely be jumping to greet the ancestors of the Arasaka family by now.

"As the key surveillance targets of the Security Bureau, the board members of the Arasaka Foundation and important members of the Arasaka family, except for the number two figure Arasaka Ryuichi who disappeared two years ago, all of them live in the residential area around Arasaka Tower. Up to the time of the power outage, there was no record of any outings,” Victoria said.

"That's good..." Ke Lan touched the holster on his waist, but at this moment, the Geiger counter on his body suddenly beeped.

"There is radiation here." Ke Lan reacted immediately. He glanced at the counter screen. Fortunately, the radiation intensity was not high, and it did not reach the level where protective clothing must be worn. Things like anti-radiation agents, etc. It's always in a relic hunter's small bag.

"I also detected it, the direction is there." Victoria said, pointing to the chip company not far away.

"Is it a leak?" Ke Lan swallowed two pills. "But... there shouldn't be a radiation source of this intensity in the factory that manufactures calculator chips, right?"

"Go over and take a look... If the radiation intensity continues to increase, don't follow us, just stay where you are." Victoria said, taking the lead to walk towards the factory.

It didn't take long for the two of them to determine the location of the radiation source - Workshop 3 of the chip factory - based on the intensity of the radiation.

The radiation intensity here was already three times that detected at the beginning, and Ke Lan had to take two more anti-radiation pills.

"There are no protective measures on the factory structure. It doesn't look like a place specially used to handle radioactive materials..." Ke Lan walked around the workshop and said.

Victoria, on the other hand, had used a robot to forcefully open the fire door on one side and walked in with her gun raised.

"There's a situation here."

Hearing Victoria's voice, Ke Lan quickly followed in, but as soon as he stepped into the factory, he realized... this was not a building used to produce calculator chips at all.

The exterior structure of the factory is a rectangular parallelepiped, but the interior is a circular hall. On the edge of this hall, dozens of tall glass jars are displayed. These jars are filled with orange-yellow turbid liquid. In these liquids, Soaked in remains that look like humans but not humans, their limbs are extremely distorted - let's just talk about the remains in the jar closest to Ke Lan: this remains has a human-like torso, but the ribs in the chest are arranged in a very precise way. Chaos, these bones are intertwined with each other, and some even pass directly through the shriveled organs. Just looking at it is enough to make people feel numb... The upper limbs of the remains are very short, as if they are not fully developed. It was a deformed fetus, but its lower limbs were abnormally enlarged and swollen, like cancer cells that grew uncontrollably and took up more than three-quarters of the volume of the entire remains.

Even the elephant leg syndrome that Ke Lan had seen in medical literature was not so exaggerated.

"These people... are they all the product of the failure of 'that experiment' mentioned by Arasaka Yui?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

But Victoria shook her head solemnly: "These remains... are probably more than a thousand years old..."

"Thousand years?! Are these things... left over from the old era?" Ke Lan was a little stunned. Following Victoria's gaze, he noticed a brass nameplate embedded on the ground in front of each glass jar. Recently, This piece reads: "Ghoul sample No. 1332, collected in the area around Fukushima in 2147 of the old era."

Ghouls are the collective name for people who suffer from severe radiation sickness but do not die, and eventually mutate into terrifying monsters... As for the name of Fukushima, it is a long story.

In the year 2111 of the old era, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant suffered an earthquake and a leakage accident occurred... This was originally an accident that could be controlled, but due to the extremely irresponsible attitude of Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the nuclear power plant, the accident occurred in a very short period of time. It rose to Level 7, the highest level of nuclear accidents... Ten years after the accident, due to a series of problems such as the cost of aftermath, Tokyo Electric Power Company and the shameless Japanese government colluded and decided to discharge millions of tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater. into the ocean…

[P.S. I included some personal information. I was afraid that Harmony would change a few words. Everyone knows that a certain country is Cancer of Asia...]