Alien Relic Hunter

"Safe? If it is so safe, why is it rated as an S-class relic?" Ke Lan asked.

If it were just because of the high rate of return, then this bottomless sinkhole would never be rated S-level, just like Leviathan before he woke up - although the total value of the huge energy crystals stored in Leviathan's body is very terrifying , but because there were basically no threats found in the Leviathan area at that time, when this "remains of the ancient beast" was initially rated as a relic, those experts did not consider the S-level rating at all.

"Ha... I was just joking. In fact, the word safety should be enclosed in double quotes." ACMS_0420 replied.

"I knew it wasn't that simple."

"Indeed, although only two people died, more than half of the hunters who came back from the sinkhole were crazy."

"Are you crazy? Did you see something weird...or did you suffer some kind of mental attack?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"I don't know...because they didn't go crazy immediately, but a few days after leaving the sinkhole, some people even returned to the Ark and started taking vacation, and then they suddenly had an attack. The most serious one was a 32-year-old A female relic hunter who was shopping with her boyfriend, who was also a hunter, suddenly pulled out the gun from her waist. She first shot her unsuspecting boyfriend to death, and then started shooting randomly at passers-by, causing a total of Four were killed and six were wounded. When the garrison rushed over, she kept the last bullet in the pistol for herself... If you subscribe to the "Ark Hot News Current Affairs Electronic Edition", scroll forward a few days, You should still be able to find this news.”

"Is there an autopsy report on this huntress?"

"That's something ordinary people can't get."

"I know you are not an ordinary person."

"Hehe... for the sake of what you said, this information is free: I read the autopsy report, and the forensic doctor concluded that no abnormalities were found."

"Nothing unusual?"

"Except for the brain - because she committed suicide by drinking a bullet, the bullet penetrated directly into the skull cavity from the roof of the mouth, and the entire brain turned into a ball of mush. With the current level of technology, it is difficult to restore it, let alone Not to mention tracing the brain wave changes of the deceased during his lifetime."

"What about the other people? Where are the other crazy hunters? Ark should have checked all of these people, right?"

"Yes, everyone's situation is different, but there is one thing in common - after these people went completely crazy, they all expressed to their friends more or less that they had been having nightmares recently. , and because of the torment of nightmares, the mental state of these people is already very bad before they completely fall into madness."

"...Then why do you say the average casualty rate is less than 1%? Are these crazy people not counted among the casualties?"

"Because there is no definite evidence, it is not included in the casualty rate statistics for the time being... However, at the strong request of the rating meeting and the hunting groups participating in these three exploration missions, the S-018 ruins 'Bottomless Sink' was still designated as S-class ruins.”

"How could there be no evidence? Anyone with a discerning eye would know at a glance that there is an inevitable connection between these crazy people and this ruins!" Ke Lan wondered.

"First of all, not all people who have been in the tiankeng are crazy; secondly, everyone who has come out of the tiankeng said that they did not feel any physical or mental discomfort during the operation, and did not see any Any illusion or anything like that... They all have vital signs monitoring equipment on their bodies. Even if what they say may not be true, it is impossible for their heart rate and blood pressure to lie, unless each of these hundreds of hunters He has the psychological quality of "Taishan collapses but his appearance remains unchanged", but how can a person with this kind of psychological quality easily go crazy? Thirdly, everyone who returns to the Ark has undergone strict inspection. From physical to psychological... you are more familiar with this process than I am, so I won't go into details. In short, except for the 'nightmare', there is no abnormality in anyone."

"As for nightmares, normal doctors will think that they are caused by their own factors such as excessive stress and anxiety. The treatment plan given by the doctors responsible for physical examination of the hunters is also very normal: a small amount of sedative drugs that can improve sleep, and then Plus a period of leave..." ACMS_0420 continued, "At that time, no doctor would think that the hunters' nightmares were related to the bottomless sinkhole, because there was no observable stimulus source in that place... The monitoring equipment worn by the hunters also proved that they had not suffered any mental attacks in the sinkhole. To be honest, I felt like they were cursed."

"Those people who are not crazy..."

"Everything is normal. For them, going to the bottomless sinkhole is like walking around the commercial street." ACMS_0420 said.

"Are there any personal reports from these hunters after completing their missions? The content of the official reports is really lacking, and a lot of important information has been deleted."

"I have collected a total of 57 personal reports. The authors of 29 of them have gone crazy, while the other 28 are normal. I have studied each one carefully and there is nothing abnormal...or rather, each one is normal. The portions are all abnormal.”

"Are they all abnormal?"

"The biggest abnormality is the absence of abnormalities... Even the workers who mine in Leviathan's body will always encounter things like rats and insects, right? But these hunters who enter the sinkhole, except for those sealed on the walls of the sinkhole, Apart from the things in the ice, I encountered nothing else... Even the indigenous creatures that were supposed to appear in the glacier area seemed to have completely disappeared."

"...Besides these, is there any more information?"

"No, the current exploration progress of the bottomless sinkhole is very slow. No one has been to places below 500 meters, and above 500 meters, there are only the things you see in the photos... and those close to Hundreds of crazy hunters who were sent to special hospitals." At the end of this paragraph, ACMS_0420 also added a helpless expression with hands spread out and shrugging.

"By the way, those crazy hunters...are there any clues worthy of attention from their actions and words?" Ke Lan asked. If they can find out the reason why these hunters are crazy, maybe they can find a solution. This "curse" can be prevented.

"Some patients have become very aggressive, some have become very depressed, and some have symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and mania at the same time... Everyone's performance is different and is not representative at all. As for speech... they rarely speak human words when they go crazy. They basically just murmur meaninglessly or howl like crazy, and no valuable information can be analyzed from them."