Alien Relic Hunter

"That is to say, if something finds our body now, we don't even have the ability to resist... Damn it, it makes me panic just thinking about it." Hound said.

"Even if there is no external threat, our bodies will go into shock due to dehydration over time, and eventually die of organ failure." Ke Lan added, "So, the top priority is to find a way to escape from this dream world."

"Shall we not be awakened by thirst?" asked the Hound.

"Probably not. Even if the body sends a signal to the brain that it is dehydrated, this thirst symptom will only appear in our dreams and will not prompt us to wake up... You just drank a whole bottle of soda, Do you feel bloated in your abdomen from the carbon dioxide escaping from the soda?”

"When you say it like that, it doesn't seem like it's true... I felt my throat was a little dry just now, and it's still very dry now..."

"Then how are we going to get out?"

"I have a way," Ke Lan looked at the gun in the hound's hand and said, "Kill me to death and give it a try."

"Beat to death... I won't kill you in reality, right?" Hound said with some worry.

"How about a shot in the leg first?"

"...Okay, get ready, I'm going to shoot." Hound nodded, raised the gun in his hand, and pointed it at Gates, Ke Lan's leg, "Three, two... one !”

"Bang!"

The armor-piercing bullet with a caliber of 10.5 mm easily tore through the polymer armor on Gates' leg and rotated into the leg muscles. Then, the deformed warhead began to roll, forming a huge hole in the flesh. The cavity - viewed from the front, there was only a bullet hole the size of a coin, and behind the bullet hole, several kilograms of flesh had been torn off, and blood was spattered more than ten meters away.

If a normal person had received such a shot in the leg, he would have fallen to the ground long ago, but Ke Lan just felt unsteady...

"You...can't you feel pain?" The hound also noticed the abnormality and asked.

"I can feel a little bit...but just a little bit, like a dull pain like being bitten by a small insect through my clothes...I think maybe it's because this body doesn't belong to me." Ke Lan replied road.

"Then even if I shoot you in the head, it will only be Gates who is killed, not you, right?"

"That's the theory."

"Then I really shot." The hound said nothing more, pointed the crosshair directly at Gates' head, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

At the moment when the bullet penetrated Gates's head, Ke Lan only felt a spin, and the scene in front of him began to gradually distort - through the perspective of Gates after he fell, Ke Lan could see the hound grabbing his own His shoulders were shaking vigorously, and his lips were opening and closing rapidly, as if he was saying something loudly. However, Ke Lan could no longer hear anything.

…

Only darkness remained in his field of vision.

It took an unknown amount of time before Ke Lan regained consciousness again. Although the surroundings were still dark, he could vaguely smell a faint sour smell.

Sour?

This is the unique smell of a high-efficiency oxygen generator that reacts to generate oxygen. This time Ke Lan and the others explored the deep pit, and the equipment they carried included high-pressure tanks containing this oxygen generator.

"Am I... back to the real world?!"

Ke Lan's first reaction was to reach out and fumble around on his body - he first touched the hard powered exoskeleton on his chest, followed by the cold-proof and load-resistant clothing worn inside the exoskeleton.

He reached down and found that the equipment bag hanging on his waist was not missing, and everything in it was still there.

Ke Lan found a cold light lighting rod and gently twisted the metal cover at the end of the lighting rod. The green light immediately dispersed the surrounding darkness.

This is a medium-sized stone chamber. The architectural style is very similar to the one in Ruins A-087. In the center of the stone chamber is a rectangular stone platform over one meter high. Ke Lan is on this stone platform. Wake up.

He turned over and jumped off the stone platform, pulled out his pistol and loaded a bullet into the chamber.

"How could this be such a ghost place..."

The last time they explored the glacier ruins, they encountered a powerful monster like a flesh centipede in the stone chamber. If Asano Akira hadn't suddenly appeared, Ke Lan and Leighton would have had to explain where it was... But in this stone chamber now, It gave Ke Lan a very familiar feeling - if a "big guy" jumped out at this time, it would be great fun.

Ke Lan knew that the gun in his hand would not pose a threat to that kind of thing, but holding it in his hand would give him some courage...

He held a gun in one hand and a lighting rod in the other, and walked around the stone platform. There was no secret passage under the stone platform, and the ceiling above was also intact. The only entrance and exit was the one at the three o'clock direction of the stone platform. Open the stone door.

What confused Ke Lan the most was...why did he wake up in such a stone room after falling into the sinkhole?

Could it be that something moved itself here?

He looked back at the stone platform behind him... and a very uncomfortable feeling came over him: the stone platform was like an anatomy table, and he lying on it was like a creature waiting to be dissected. specimen.

Fortunately, when he woke up, there were no missing parts on his body - in several horror movies that Ke Lan had watched, the unlucky protagonists found themselves being raped as soon as they woke up. After being disemboweled, the lucky guy was only missing a kidney; but the unlucky guy was not only missing a kidney, but also had a lot of stuff in his body...

Ke Lan subconsciously pressed his belly... Well, there shouldn't be an extra arm or anything else inside...

The stone platform is solid, and there are no alien technological devices left behind by the Alpha civilization in the stone chamber. The only thing with some technological content is probably the stone door opened with energy crystals. On this stone door, there is a warning written in Alpha text. Slogan: "This is an important experimental site. Personnel with non-level six permissions or above are strictly prohibited from entering."

"A place of experiment... Is this a laboratory?" Ke Lan said to himself, "But the problem is that there is no experimental equipment here... Could it be that this is an observation room, and I am the experimental sample being observed?"

He raised his head again and scanned the corners of the ceiling. However, just like the first inspection, he did not find any monitoring devices.

However, Ke Lan knew that with the technological level of Alpha Civilization, even if a monitoring device was installed in this stone room, it would be difficult to find it with his naked eyes.

The gap between human civilization and Alpha civilization is really too big... It's like throwing a chimpanzee into the ruins of a human city... The chimpanzee simply cannot understand how humans built such a magnificent city. And humans cannot understand how far Alpha Civilization has developed.

…

Ke Lan opened the equipment bag and checked everything inside. As he expected, all electronic equipment has failed - this is another manifestation of technological crushing: in most of the Alpha civilization ruins, human technological equipment is difficult to play its due role. , while Alpha Civilization’s own things will not be affected in any way.

It is said that the institute has made major breakthroughs in the research of crystal circuit structures in recent years. If this Alpha civilization technology can be transplanted into human electronic equipment, the electromagnetic interference in the ruins will no longer interfere with these equipment. …But to really reach this point, I’m afraid it will take an extremely long period of time.

However, in addition to this method, hunters have another way: to directly use the things unearthed from the Alpha ruins as their own equipment. Among these things, there are also some that are highly practical but have low technical content. No matter how high-end it is, such as the chip that Ke Lan took out from his bag.

This is a rhombus-shaped chip made of a material similar to that of an energy crystal. Inside the chip, there are two light points, one red and one blue, swimming around. The blue point will always point to the North Pole of Alpha Star, while the red point will be exactly the opposite.

This thing is the compass used by the Alpha people, but it will not be interfered by any magnetic field, so its versatility is much greater than the compass made by humans.

In order to take a picture of this gadget, Ke Lan spent a total of 680,000 credits, but the money was worth it - if he could have had this thing on the desert island last time, he wouldn't have been underground Lost in the maze.

According to the guidance of the blue light spot, the side of the stone gate is due north.

"There is no other way to go anyway..." Ke Lan walked to the stone door and stuffed a few energy crystals into the grooves on the door.

There was a tooth-wrenching friction sound, and the stone door slowly moved to one side. Behind the stone door, there was still an identical stone chamber.

However, on the stone platform in the middle of the stone room, there was a person Ke Lan didn't recognize at all!

He walked forward and looked carefully at the "sleeping" person - the other person was wearing an old cold-proof suit. There was a set of safety belts on the outside of the cold-proof suit, except for the shoulders and waist. The buckles at the top have been broken, and the outer layer of the cold-weather jacket inside has been torn open, exposing the filling inside.

There is also a hexagonal armband affixed to his right arm. Although Ke Lan has never seen the emblem on the armband, he still recognizes the Chinese characters below: "North Star Hunting Group·Fourth Division·Intern Hunter·Cao" Feng·Blood type: O type”

This guy is one of Danner's men, one of the unlucky ones who were deceived by the Polaris Hunting Group into working as mining tools.

This person is obviously immersed in the dream world. Judging from his pale face and beads of sweat on his head, his situation is probably not optimistic.

If this continues, there is a high probability that he will become a lunatic who has lost his mind like the group of patients in Nottingham Hospital.

Just when Ke Lan was about to try to wake him up, the stone door on the other side of the stone room suddenly opened!

"Who?" Ke Lan raised his gun, but he happened to see the hound pointing his gun at him.

"Ke Lan?!"

"Are you awake too?" Ke Lan put down the gun and asked.

"Well, I don't know what happened. After you... or rather, Gates died completely, my dream world stopped... Even the bullets that were fired froze in the air, and then in front of my eyes It suddenly became dark, and when I reacted, I found myself lying in this stone room." Hound put the pistol back into its holster and pointed to the stone room behind him.

The stone chambers of Hound, Ke Lan and Cao Feng of the Polaris Hunting Group are all exactly the same. The only difference is that the stone chamber where Cao Feng is located has a stone door on all four walls - if these stone chambers are in the shape of ten In terms of glyph distribution, Cao Feng's room is exactly at the intersection of the cross.

"This guy... from Polaris?" Hound looked at Cao Feng lying on the stone platform and asked.

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded, "His condition is not good. I want to try to see if I can wake him up."

Although forcibly awakening a person immersed in the dream world may have unpredictable consequences, if left alone, he will only sink deeper and deeper until his self-consciousness is completely swallowed up by the nightmare - in layman's terms, he will become completely crazy. Lose.

"It's okay to give it a try...but you have to move faster. Besides us, others might be trapped in that damn dream world just like this guy."

"I know." Ke Lan moved Cao Feng off the stone platform and laid it flat on the ground. Then he took out an injection and several small medicine bottles from the bag - most of these drugs are psychotropic drugs. Ke Lan specially prepared for this exploration operation, including a sedative named "WAKE116", which can quickly calm down people with unstable mental states.

He mixed the medicinal powder with saline, and then pumped it into the syringe. The hound on the side used a dagger to cut open the sleeves of Cao Feng's cold-proof clothes, and simply disinfected the surface of the skin with alcohol cotton balls.

Ke Lan found the blood vessel and inserted the needle. As the medicine was slowly pushed in, Cao Feng's body twitched slightly.

"What's going on? It seems to be worse?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head, "WAKE116 is a powerful sedative, but it does not have the effect of relaxing muscles. Logically speaking, it is possible to have such a special drug reaction..."

"But this guy's twitching seems to be getting more and more severe!" Hound said. At this moment, he had pressed most of his body on Cao Feng's body, and was grabbing the opponent's wrist with both hands. Despite this, Cao Feng's body It was still trembling like an electric shock.

"That's the only way to use this -"

Ke Lan took out a sealed injection and injected it into Cao Feng's body together with another medicine. Finally, Cao Feng's convulsions stopped and his breathing gradually became calmer.

"I just injected him with Mengzao preparation and neutralizing agent... Although this stuff can calm him down, he will have to sleep for at least twelve hours..."