Alien Relic Hunter

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the next day.

The reception was held in the "Empire Ballroom" on the top floor of a five-star hotel owned by the Morgan Group in the West Third District.

As soon as Ke Lan got out of the car, a well-dressed waiter came to guide him and Zofia until they were in front of the VIP elevator located in the center of the building.

The Morgan consortium's hotel has a total of ninety-six floors. The height of the main building is more than one thousand meters. It has completely broken through the dome of the inner wall of the Ark and is nested with an outer tower.

On the sixty-sixth floor, there are two layers of windows on the outside of the hotel. In addition to the glass curtain wall of the hotel itself, there is also a layer of extremely defensive Ark portholes on the outside. Look out through these two layers of windows. Go, hotel guests can not only see the towering buildings and suspended airport of the Ark's superstructure, but also the horizon of Alpha Star in the distance, and the scenery on the wilderness is even more panoramic.

In stark contrast to the desolate and rough exterior landscape, is the luxurious and exquisite decoration inside the hotel - the warm jade-like marble floor covers almost every inch of the ground, and all aisles and corridors are paved with thick and soft pulleys. Velvet carpets, precious metals and solid wood decorations can be seen everywhere... These things may have been standard features of every five-star hotel in the old era, but in this era of scarcity, it is no exaggeration to say that if you want to do this To this extent, the cost is definitely a hundred times that of the old era.

The "Empire Ballroom" located on the ninety-sixth floor is even more gorgeous. Especially the giant crystal ceiling that covers the entire ceiling can be regarded as a priceless work of art. ——As a hotel owner, I absolutely disdain to use cheap products produced by industrial assembly lines. Every light tube in this crystal ceiling is polished by hand by craftsmen. On the inner wall of the inner tube, It is also engraved with fine reliefs. When light passes through these reliefs, due to the angle of refraction, these lamps will emit a dazzling brilliance.

The production of these crystal lamps alone is a huge project. However, in Ke Lan's view, apart from showing off their skills and wealth, they have no practical effect at all.

When Ke Lan and Zofia entered the Imperial Banquet Hall, there were already many brightly dressed young people gathered here. They were holding goblets and gathered in twos and threes, talking about some important or unimportant things. ; Waiters carrying trays shuttled between the crowd and the wine tables, and white air-conditioning filled the air above the ice buckets containing wine bottles - for these people, the monthly alcoholic beverage limit set by the Ark managers did not exist Yes, whether by paying high taxes or directly purchasing quotas from ordinary people that the other party cannot use, they have countless ways to bypass the shackles of the rules...

The vast majority of ordinary residents don't even know that there is such a hotel on the Ark - even those who go out to work will subconsciously think that these are the towering buildings on the upper floors of the Ark when they see them. Military buildings, they simply could not imagine the luxurious life in these towers... A glass of wine taken from the waiter's tray can be worth as much as the miners' labor for several months.

Ke Lan couldn't help but frowned.

He didn't feel disgusted, but instead felt a little ridiculous... For some reason, an image of a group of ants happily holding a banquet around a piece of carrion discarded by humans suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Zophia, is this the fiancé you chose for yourself?" Just as Ke Lan was looking at the layout of the banquet hall, a voice came from behind him.

Ke Lan turned his head. It was a tall and thin man wearing a light beige suit. His hair color was the same light blonde as Zofia's. He must be from the Soma family.

"Ke Lan, this is my third uncle, Luche Soma; third uncle, he is the person you mentioned, Ke Lan." Zofia introduced the two of them.

Third uncle? Ke Lan was slightly startled. Didn't it say that only the younger generation could attend this reception? But judging from his appearance, Zofia’s third uncle looks to be in his early thirties... But then again, for a wealthy family like the Soma family, an old guy in his fifties or sixties marries a second-year-old. It is not uncommon for a young wife of ten years old to have a child later in life - unlike a woman who will go through menopause at the age of fifty, a man can still have children even in his sixties as long as he takes proper care of himself.

Ke Lan noticed that when Lu Che looked at him, there was a trace of contempt in his eyes that was difficult to hide, but he did not express this contempt directly. After Zofia completed the introduction, he still took the initiative to reach out to Ke Lan Handed.

"I heard that your hunting group is developing well and even found the core center of an S-class ruins. It's really a formidable future."

"It's just good luck." Ke Lan said modestly, and the two shook hands. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Che took a step closer, lowered his voice and said to Ke Lan: "Then I hope you can have something like this every time. good luck."

Lu Che despised the high-risk industry of relic hunters from the bottom of his heart - it was undeniable that the top elites in this industry had high incomes. It could be said that the people at the bottom wanted to transcend classes and change against the odds. The best way to live. However, no relic hunter can guarantee that he can complete every mission alive... In Luche's view, Zofia's choice of a relic hunter as her fiancé was obviously a very irrational move.

Unless the guy named Ke Lan in front of him turns to behind-the-scenes operations after accumulating enough funds, no longer explores the ruins, and at the same time expands the size of his hunting group and uses capital operation as the main means of profit, what will he do to this young man? Only then will the views change... Of course, the premise is that this young ruin hunter has the ability to survive until that time.

For a hunting group with only six hunters, even if it is a consortium-level hunting group, it would take too long to develop into a behemoth with the qualifications to talk to the Soma Consortium on an equal footing. Lu Che felt that this It is simply an impossible task.

In this competition, Zofia herself is at a disadvantage. It is reasonable for her to want to take a gamble, but it is too risky to place her bet on a relic hunter... Risk It is completely out of proportion to the income. This is definitely a stupid move.

"I'd like to lend you your kind words." Ke Lan was not angry at all. Instead, he smiled at Lu Che, turned around and called a waiter, took two glasses of champagne from the tray, and handed one of them to the person beside him. Zofia.

Lu Che, on the other hand, chose whiskey with a much higher alcohol content. The clear brown liquid swayed gently in the footless whiskey glass, and the ice cubes collided with the thick wall of the glass, making a crisp sound, but before he could After taking the first sip, there was a slight commotion on the other side of the banquet hall.

"What's going on?" Lu Che frowned, with a look of displeasure on his face.

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