Alien Relic Hunter

The entire sandstone ruined city was built around this great rift valley in the wasteland that is nearly 20 kilometers long and more than 300 meters deep. Compared with the "Suspended City of Deval", the area of ​​the ruins of this Alpha city is Much larger, but with very little of value in it.

If the "Suspended City of Deval" is a high-end residential area of ​​Alpha Civilization, the sandstone ruined city is equivalent to a large slum. The living conditions here are not good, and there are not high-tech appliances that can be seen everywhere like the former. Many The buildings are still made of rough stones. There is neither electricity nor water in the house. The doors and windows are narrow and the space is cramped. The living comfort is not even as good as the human cities on the earth a thousand years ago.

Taking the lip-shaped rift valley from south to north in the center of the city as the dividing line, the entire city is divided into three major areas - the two upper urban areas located on the east and west sides of the rift valley, and the lower urban area located at the bottom of the rift valley.

The event organizers have set up a super resource point in these three areas, but the resource point in Xiacheng District has the least number of teams. This is because the terrain in Xiacheng District is more complex, except for the flat blocks at the bottom of the valley. , there are also a large number of building debris in the vertical space. Various cableways, bridges, and aerial platforms form an extremely dangerous three-dimensional battlefield. Not to mention that there are a large number of caves dug out in the valley walls on both sides. At a glance, almost everywhere They are all locations where ambush can be set up.

As for the second reason, it is because Xiacheng District is right in the middle of the safe zone. Even if the team that falls here is killed from the super resource point, no matter which direction it develops, it will be attacked by multiple teams. If you stay in the distance and hang up, you won't be able to collect more supplies.

"I had been observing when I was parachuting before. There were only three teams that landed in the rift valley, and they were all very close to each other. They were obviously going to the super supply point... The lower city area was like a maze. The battle will not end as quickly as above, so I think that the three teams that jumped to the lower city area may not have finished the battle yet... Taking advantage of this opportunity, we can first focus on the high-level and intermediate resource points in the lower city area. Let’s loot first.” Ke Lan said to the two of them.

"But... if you want to go to the rift valley, you have to pass through these blocks, and these places are full of people. If we go from here, we may encounter them. We have no weapons. The winning rate won't be too high." Valentina said a long series of words for the first time, which made Ke Lan a little surprised.

It seems that this girl is still the kind of completely hopeless girl who has nothing to do, and normal communication is still possible.

"Let's go underground. There is a shaft nearby that can go directly to the lower city area." Ke Lan said.

"How do you know?" This time, it was Valentina's turn to be surprised, "Have you been here before?"

"Don't forget that our group's job is to be ruins hunters." Ke Lan said with a smile - but in fact, he has never been to this ruins, so he knew that there was a direct link to the ruins nearby. The shaft in the urban area, that's because a fallen street sign next to it said...

It has to be said that being able to understand the text of Alpha Civilization has a natural advantage in the ruins. Otherwise, Layton, who was originally in the starting position, would not be reduced to a substitute.

The three of them quickly found the entrance to the shaft. Due to disrepair, the anti-gravity freight elevator in the shaft was no longer usable. Fortunately, there was a purely mechanical lifting platform nearby that could be used.

The two mechas turned the huge winch together, and with the sound of the cable creaking, the lifting platform began to slowly descend.

"We have to move quickly. If the three teams in Xiacheng District finish fighting, it may not be good." Ke Lan said, however, this lifting platform seems to be equipped with some kind of limiter, no matter how they turn the winch No matter how fast it is, the rate of decline has not changed.

This was originally a design for safety reasons, but at this time Ke Lan wished that these safety devices would be scrapped due to disrepair.

There were many carving marks on the four walls of the shaft, some of which even formed complete characters. Ke Lan tried to read them in his mind, but found that they were all words that had no actual meaning and could not even be connected into short sentences. Fragmented text - In the language system of Alpha civilization, a single character has no meaning. Only when the strings are combined to form a certain vocabulary or sentence, the corresponding content will be generated... This is different from English The 26 letters in are somewhat similar... However, Alpha language has more than 20,000 basic characters of this type alone. Some characters do not even look like a word when picked out individually, but more like a random mess. into graffiti.

“I don’t know what the purpose of the Alpha people was in carving these characters on the well wall... Could it be that there is also a non-mainstream art form like ‘graffiti’ among them?”

Just as Ke Lan was muttering secretly, Akira Asano, who was sitting on the shoulder of his mecha, suddenly knocked the outer shell of the cockpit with his scabbard and whispered: "There are things under the lifting platform, the number is at least one hundred. It's just above and approaching quickly."

"More than a hundred?" Ke Lan was stunned. Since there are so many, they must not be from other participating teams... Could they be indigenous creatures wandering in the abandoned sandstone city? Didn't the event organizers clear out this ruins when they put in supplies?

"Asano, can you tell what kind of creatures these things are?"

"It's hard to tell, but there is the sound of skin vibrating, and there is also the sound of claws scraping against the rock wall... Some are flying, and some are climbing on the rock wall... They are not large in size, but they move very fast. Come on, we are less than twenty meters away now."

"I heard it too," Valentina said. "It was like a swarm of rats passing through the sewers."

"Ignore the winch for now, prepare to fight." As soon as Ke Lan said this, Valentina had already drawn her dagger and stood in front of him.

"You said it yourself, we have to hurry up... Leave these things to me and you continue to turn the winch."

"I will help you clear the surrounding area." Asano Akira jumped off the mecha and held the handle of the sword.

Two seconds later, Ke Lan finally saw these creatures coming up from below the shaft - these indigenous creatures with short gray hair on their bodies were like a mixture of bats and mice on the earth. They had a pair of slender... The thin wing membrane can glide briefly in the air. The front ends of the three pairs of short limbs have sharp claws, which can be easily inserted into the hard rock wall. The four mung bean-sized eyes exude a scarlet color in the darkness. Light - when they move at high speed, these four points of red light will drag into four streams of light.

"Four-eyed and six-legged bat rats..." Ke Lan recognized these creatures. "The individual strength is very weak, but they are gregarious creatures. Every time the group forages for food, hundreds or even thousands of bat rats will be dispatched together. Their attacks There is no threat to mechas, but be careful about the blood in their bodies. This stuff contains a certain amount of radiation and corrosiveness. Try not to let the joints of mechas be contaminated with their blood."

As she spoke, Valentina had already rushed out. She swung her two fighting daggers tightly and cut open dozens of bat rats that rushed forward. Blood with green fluorescence splashed everywhere, and the whole body was suddenly covered with blood. The platform was enveloped in a green light.

"There are more down there...more and more...there are far more than a hundred of them." Asano Akira said.