Alien Relic Hunter

"Even the hounds don't know?" Ke Lan asked.

"Nick's military rank before retiring was only senior colonel. To have access to secrets at this level, you have to be a general at the beginning... To be honest, even I don't know much." Maginot's tone. Quite nervous, he seemed reluctant to discuss this topic with Ke Lan.

"Then what should I do if I have trouble with them?"

"No, you must not take the initiative to go to them... If there is really a need for direct contact, they will send an 'agent' to come to you."

"'Agent'? Is it similar to the way of remotely taking over Victoria's prosthetic body? Haven't any of you seen the members of the Undead Crew with your own eyes?"

"Don't say it's me. Even my superiors, my superior's superiors, have only had contact with 'agents' at most... As far as I know, the Crew has existed for at least hundreds of years, but no one has ever I have seen the true face of any of them... Oh damn, I shouldn't have said these things to you, you'd better forget what you just said, it would be better for you and me," Maginot said.

"No one has seen their true faces? Are the members of this crew guild really immortal? If it is really as the name of this crew guild says, then they have lived for hundreds of years?" Ke Lan said with some suspicion.

"Hey, stop asking. I'm begging you..." Maginot shouted as if he was frightened. "Stop talking about this. If you keep talking, something will really happen!"

"Okay... By the way, your officer said you would call me later. If anything happens, you can tell me here." Ke Lan held the joystick of the hovercraft in one hand and his cell phone in the other. Said - In order to allow the driver to raise a gun and shoot, the military's vehicles have been specially modified, and there is no problem with one-handed operation... And this vehicle has a military license plate, even if he is captured by the camera, it will be completely Don't worry about fines.

"Ah... Actually, it's nothing. Don't worry, let's talk about it next time... I still have a lot of aftermath matters to deal with, so I'll hang up now." Maginot said as if he had been granted amnesty, and hurriedly went to the toilet Hang up the phone.

Hearing the busy beep sound coming from his cell phone, Ke Lan couldn't help but fall into deep thought - judging from Maginot's words, he seemed to be very afraid of this organization called the "Immortal Crew Association".

That's right, it's fear, not awe... Perhaps even Maginot himself didn't notice that there was this extremely obvious fear in his tone.

But if the members of the crew are really immortal, this fear is not difficult to understand. In Ke Lan's view, such creatures can no longer be considered human beings... But if this assumption is true, doesn't it mean that the supreme leader of mankind is actually a group of "monsters"?

If this news leaked out, it would definitely cause chaos. No wonder Maginot was so nervous.

But what makes Ke Lan more concerned is that Maginot mentioned that this "Undead Crew Association" has existed for hundreds of years. In other words, the Immortal Crew Association already existed when the Ark was still in the interstellar drifting stage. … Could it be that at that time, humans had already mastered the technology of immortality?

Or is it just using hibernation technology to freeze people and then revive them hundreds of years later? But if this group of people really has been frozen in the dormant warehouse for hundreds of years, the Big Three will definitely take away all the power of the crew during this period, and even the underlying programs of the core mastermind may be changed... …

However, Ke Lan thought of a possibility, which is to wake up one or several dormant members every once in a while, and let the awakened person take power as the representative of the Undead Crew Association... But the problem is that doing so Not only does it make no sense, but it also cannot be considered true "immortality".

Since the Immortal Crew Association can become the highest authority of Ark, the members of this crew association must not be ordinary people, but doing so is equivalent to using everyone as "disposable consumables". After removing sleep time, everyone's "actual life span" will not actually change much.

What's more, if it is implemented in this way, it will only take a few hundred years, when the last awakened dormant crew member dies, the undead crew will be completely extinct. If they use the method of absorbing new members To continue the existence of the Crew Association, what is the essential difference between it and the "Big Three Organizations"?

"It feels like it doesn't make sense no matter how much I think about it..."

Unknowingly, Ke Lan had driven the car to the block where the safe house was located. He stepped on the brake, and then pressed the horn several times rhythmically according to the signal given to him by the hound.

Not long after, a tall, thin man wearing a dark gray sweatshirt and a hood swung out from an alley on one side. One side of his sweatshirt was sleeveless, exposing his entire shiny metal arm. , an exquisitely crafted small wine bottle was flipped flexibly between a few mechanical fingers.

"Ivan!" Ke Lan jumped out of the car, "I've never seen you play with this hand before, but I didn't expect you to be so skilled with this new arm."

"Of course." Ivan suddenly showed a strange smile, "Natasha is also quite satisfied, but she always urges me to wrap it in a layer of bionic skin, but I feel that leaving the mechanical structure exposed That’s cool enough.”

As he spoke, Ivan flicked his little finger, and the wine bottle flew directly towards Ke Lan.

Ke Lan grabbed the wine bottle and was about to twist the cap, but he suddenly remembered something and looked up at the other person: "Isn't this still medical alcohol?"

"No, feel free to drink." Ivan said.

Ke Lan unscrewed the lid, and immediately, a mellow and fragrant fragrance floated out from inside. He took a sip - the wine was indeed good, but for him, the alcohol content was too high.

After returning the flask to Ivan, Ke Lan turned around, closed the car door, and stuffed the key card into his pocket: "Are Asano Akira and the others okay? Lao Gou said before that they were all seriously injured."

"It's all flesh injuries. It's just minor problems if the bones and internal organs are fine." Ivan raised his head and took a sip, then led Ke Lan into the alley.

The safe house that Maginot arranged for the hounds and the others is a warehouse used to store emergency food reserves. Very few people usually come here, unless there is a sudden food crisis on the Ark and these emergency food reserves are needed. The warehouse door will be opened.

The door that Ivan took Ke Lan through was opened in an abandoned underground pipe fifty meters away from the warehouse.