Alien Relic Hunter

"Ke Lan, wait." Asano Akira suddenly stood up and turned his ear to the door, "There is someone outside."

"It's a corridor outside, isn't it normal for people to come and go?" Layton said subconsciously, but he soon realized, "You mean, someone is eavesdropping at our door, right?"

"Not at the door, but not far away... They stayed for several minutes." Asano Akira said.

"I'll go take a look." Ke Lan pulled out a pistol from the tool bag on the side, stuffed it into the inner pocket of his clothes, and then walked straight towards the door of the box - although the Ye Group promised to ensure that every audience and every gun The personal safety of the participating teams, but in Ke Lan's view, this promise is just an empty talk...

For those who are concerned about the power of the Ye Consortium, even if the Ye Consortium does not say this, they will not disrupt the order of the mecha competition... And those who don't care about this at all, let alone on the "Ancestral Dragon" , even at the gate of the headquarters of Ye's consortium, they dared to commit murder.

And those guys Ke Lan provoked happened to be just such people.

Whether it's the fanatical believers of the heretical sect or the dead soldiers bribed by the Morgan family... they don't even care about the Security Bureau, so how can they care about a word from the Ye Group.

Ke Lan opened the door and took out a cigarette that came from the dog's pocket. He pretended to smoke in the corridor and at the same time used the corner of his eye to glance in the direction Asano Akira said. Go - sure enough, three or four meters away from the box door, two men wearing light gray mechanic's uniforms were standing there, one of them was tinkering with something like an antique radio.

Ke Lan was no stranger to that thing. Although the casing was indeed an antique radio in the style of the old era, inside the casing was a sophisticated eavesdropping device. This eavesdropping device was very concealable. As long as it used that "metal The "antenna" is in contact with the wall and can record the sound in the room on the other side of the wall. The first time Ke Lan saw this thing, it was from the sales email of the information dealer on the forum, but it was just because of its low cost performance. It was terrible and of no practical use to him, so Ke Lan didn't spend the wasted money to buy this "toy".

But Ke Lan was still very impressed by the antique shape of this eavesdropping device, so he recognized it at a glance.

"Hey, buddy, what is this? Does it look cool? Where did you buy it?" Seeing that the other party had noticed him, Ke Lan took the initiative and walked towards the two of them.

"Ah... this, this is just a retro radio." A trace of panic flashed in the mechanic's eyes, "I found it on the second-hand market."

There was nothing wrong with what he said. The casing of the bug did have very serious signs of wear and tear, and it looked like it had been frequently picked up and played with.

"Radio? Is there a radio channel on this ship?" Ke Lan asked pretending to be surprised. In order not to alert others, he did not directly ask to take a closer look at this "radio".

"No." Another mechanic shook his head, "Well, that's actually the case. My buddy heard such a rumor from somewhere, saying that this old-fashioned semiconductor can be used to receive information from Alpha Civilization in the wasteland. The radio signal was sent thousands of years ago, so we will take this opportunity to take this thing out and try it..."

"Oh, did you hear anything?" Ke Lan pretended to be very interested.

"Nothing... We have tried several places. It seems that the legend is just a rumor... Haha..." The man smiled dryly, "We have to try other places, let's go first Yes."

After saying that, the two people quickly disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

…

Ke Lan returned to the box. At this time, Akira Asano, the humanoid eavesdropping device, had recited the conversation he had with the two people outside to everyone.

"That radio bug, I have a friend who resold it. The price is not cheap." Ke Lan said straight to the point as soon as he sat down.

"Eavesdropping device?" Hound took out a tissue from the table and blew his nose vigorously. "So, are you really here to spy on the military situation?"

"Not sure, but I have an impression of these two people. After the three of us returned to the empty ship from the arena, they appeared around us more than once... One of them, I saw him at least four times... At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seems that he was following us consciously," Ke Lan said.

"Only following us, not other teams?" Chi Hanfeng asked.

"They only stay near our box." The person who answered was Asano Akira. There are six similar boxes in this corridor, but these two people did not eavesdrop on the conversations in the other five boxes. This question is It's obvious.

"Something's wrong. Even if they are spying on military intelligence, there is no reason to pay special attention to us." The hound crossed his fingers and put them under his chin. He bent down and put his elbows on his knees. "Even if our performance is very impressive, but In terms of hard power, we are not considered a strong team at all, and we are not a favorite to win the championship... There is no reason to come here to inquire about our news. Is it possible that these people also want to learn from us... dig a tunnel? "

"Could it be aimed at me? But...but in the knockout stage, I didn't bet on you?" Ye Yan said in confusion.

"Probably not. You can rest assured about this, Mr. Ye." Ke Lan said, "But I just caught a glimpse of the trademarks of several sponsor manufacturers on their uniforms... Just check which team those manufacturers co-sponsored. Team, you will know the identities of these people.”

"What are they?" Layton had already opened the laptop, pulled out a data cable from the robotic arm, and plugged it into the interface on the side of the computer.

This is also one of the advantages of cyborgs compared to ordinary people: when operating computers, they can directly connect their prosthetics to the equipment, without using physical input devices such as keyboards and mice.

"Let me think about it... there is 'Bianca Chemical', the most famous manufacturer of mechanical lubricants on the Ark; there is 'Norma Technology' that you like very much... Well, it seems that every wealthy and powerful team has With their sponsorship; and the 'Fine Steel Smelting' under the Ye Family Group, which specializes in manufacturing mecha melee weapons... Tsk, even though I remember the remaining trademarks, I can't name them..." Ke Lan rubbed his forehead depressedly. For these famous brands in the field of mechas, he might have had a glimpse of them in advertisements, but he had to match the trademarks in his memory with the names of the manufacturers one by one. It's still quite difficult to get up...

"You can try to describe what those trademarks look like. As long as they produce mecha accessories, I know most of them." Layton said.

"If it is a company under our Ye family, I will definitely recognize it." Ye Yan also said at the side.

"Well... let me start with something simple. There is a trademark that consists of two letters, an A and an E, and then there is a circle outside, with white letters on a blue background..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, Layton interrupted him: "It's AE Club."

Ke Lan: "AE Club?"

"It's Anaheim Electronics, an all-in-one mecha manufacturer under the Bister Consortium. Of course, they also produce household electronic products, but they are still most famous for their mechas." Ye Yan said, "It is the largest company in our Ye family. There is no other competitor."

"Well, there is another trademark for propellers..."

"Propeller? Is it a three-blade or four-blade propeller? Is there a white dotted circle outside?" Leighton asked immediately.

"It's four symmetrical paddles with a dotted circular frame."

"It's Bucher Aerodynamics Company, a subsidiary of the Jupiter Consortium... This company originally manufactured aircraft and spacecraft, but in recent years it has taken a fancy to the potential of the mecha competition field, so it began to expand its business in this direction... They We have not released a complete machine or a complete frame, but the accessories produced are all aerospace standards. They are a bit expensive, but the quality is really unparalleled," Leighton said.

"I know this company, but what's the use of only producing accessories? The skeleton is the core technology of mechas... Of course we, Ye's, can also produce aerospace standard accessories. Which high-end products are not better than Bucher's?" Ye Yan said somewhat unconvinced.

"Master Ye is not bragging about this. The quality of Ye's high-end accessories is indeed better than Bucher's, but the price is too expensive... Bucher is taking the route of combining high cost performance with high-end. In one and a half years, they have The increase in market share from 0.83% to 4.95% shows that this road is feasible..." Leiton stared at the computer screen, and the analysis engine continued to filter out keywords related to the massive data. That part will be manually classified by him - for the sake of commercial interests, no companies or manufacturers other than the Ye Family Group will appear in the promotional materials for the mecha competition, and the wealthy Ye family will not accept any In the advertisements of the same industry, the only way for the sponsors of each participating team to promote themselves is through the pilots' driving uniforms and the painting of the aircraft. If you want to find out which teams these manufacturers sponsor, you can only look at the old news media pages. And search in game videos.

"Found it!" Just when Ke Lan was recalling those trademarks, Layton suddenly waved his fist vigorously, "These companies only sponsor two teams, and one is a wealthy and powerful team. 'Dark Crow Professional Club', and the other is the quasi-rich team 'Titanium Steel Pioneers' with an ace pilot and a quasi-ace pilot."

Layton continued: "The 'Titanium Steel Pioneers' are not very lucky. Although they have quasi-rich-level strength, they were drawn into a 'death group' with five rich-level teams, and they did not even qualify for the group stage. They have returned to the ark and are not on this ship at all.”

"Then there is only this team." Ke Lan looked at the black crow head emblem on the screen, "The one who has set up 'special attention' for us is the 'Dark Crow Professional Club'..."

"I can't guarantee anything else. If those two guys are wearing their own uniforms, they must be from the 'Dark Crows'... Of course, it's also possible that they are moles bribed by other teams, then... It’s not information we have any more,” Layton said.

"Dark Crow...sounds like the name of a villain." Hound complained, "It's still the kind of villain who immediately thinks he's a scumbag."

"On the contrary." Leighton raised his head from behind the computer screen and looked at the hound with some seriousness. "This 'Dark Crow Professional Club' is not only not weak, it is also a super strong team. Not only are the four starters and substitutes Ace pilots, their coach is also an old ace who retired from the army——"

As Layton spoke, he glanced at Chi Hanfeng, "That kind of real ace."

The real ace naturally refers to the pilot who has won the "Steel Blade" medal in the army. As for how difficult it is to obtain this medal, probably no one present knows better than Chi Hanfeng.

"If we are really targeted by such a team, we will be in trouble..." Chi Hanfeng lowered his eyelids and stared at his insteps, his face so gloomy that it seemed like he could drip water.

"But one thing makes me confused." Ke Lan said, "This 'Dark Crows Professional Club', in the group stage and the first stage of the knockout stage, they are not in the same group as us, and there is absolutely no intersection between us and them. ...Why would they want to come and inquire about our information?”

He continued: "If they are competing for first place, they should also focus on those strong teams that are also favorites to win the championship...Compared to us, these teams are opponents worth studying."

I don't know why, Ke Lan always has a strange feeling, which makes him very uncomfortable... It's like a field mouse running across the floor is stared at by a poisonous snake coiled in a dark corner—— Abbreviated into four words, it is "like a light on the back".

You know, right across from their private room is the "Glugugu Professional Mecha Club", the favorite to win this competition and one of the top wealthy teams. But according to the footsteps Asano Akira heard, those two people are not at all. Didn't eavesdrop on the conversation between the "Glugugu" people.

"Could these people have something to do with the Morgan family, right?" Ke Lan thought to himself, but the Angres Club, which is affiliated with the Morgan consortium, has been eliminated by them in the first stage of the competition. Is it possible that this " "Dark Crow Professional Club" is also owned by the Morgan Consortium?

"Leiton, check the background of this 'Dark Crow Club'. Who is their boss?" Ke Lan said while sending the same email to the intelligence dealer.

five minutes later.

"I can't find it. There is no clue on the Internet. In addition to knowing that the club itself is very strong, there is no indication at all who the investor is. I am afraid that this thing can only be known by finding the internal account sheet of their club. ..." Layton said helplessly.

Another two minutes passed before Ke Lan's cell phone rang. He opened it and saw that the information dealer's reply was very brief, only four words -

"Military background."

[P.S. I watched the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics today. The BGM when the delegations from various countries entered the venue made me stupid. The Neon Man was too two-dimensional... At that time, my mother just turned on the TV and heard Monster Hunter. "Proof of Heroes"...I'm still wondering if it's a conspiracy...

In addition, thank you to book friend 20210516095524941 and book friend 20181108002303013 for the 100 starting coins. 】