Alien Relic Hunter

According to the original design intention of the space station, Area B was originally a large hangar, specially used to park aircraft entering and leaving the space station. If the partition between Area B and the unloading area is opened, even smaller ones can Transport ships can also be docked inside the space station.

But now, after reconstruction, the originally empty hangar has been filled with cabins that are even smaller than a "capsule hotel".

After all, each bunk in the capsule hotel has a space of more than one meter high. Although it is easy to touch the head, it can at least allow people to sit up on the bed. And the height of each cabin here is not more than fifty centimeters - if not The entire area B is in a state of microgravity, and even those with no skills may not be able to get into the higher-level cabins.

Ke Lan felt that using capsule hotels to describe these cabins was not appropriate. In his opinion, these cubicles were more like refrigerators used to store corpses in hospitals.

Probably to save energy, the gravity simulation device in Area B was adjusted to the lowest power level. The gravity here is only about one-fifth of that on Alpha Planet. The new miners have not adapted to the gravity here. , as soon as they stepped into it, they started to float one after another because they couldn't control the power of their steps.

But the residents of the sick village seemed to have expected this. The miners were dragged down by them as soon as they floated up, and they themselves reached out and grabbed the steel pipe that was close at hand.

These steel pipes are not handrails specially prepared for weightless conditions, but scaffolding that has not been removed outside the capsule cabin. These scaffoldings made of welded steel pipes are almost everywhere, extending from the ground to the top wall of more than fifty meters high. .

Many scaffoldings are wrapped with intricate wires. The insulating rubber layer on the outside of these wires has seriously aged and even fallen off. In addition, the scaffolding itself is made of metal. I think it is easy to get an electric shock in this place, but I don’t know why. , the residents of the sick village seemed to have no intention of repairing these circuits.

"Strange... why is there so much scaffolding here?"

Logically speaking, when rebuilding a cabin in a gravity-free environment, the necessity of scaffolding is not as obvious as on the ground. Except for a few places that need to be fixed with frame structures, in most cases, construction workers and building materials can "float" to high places. When working, only a safety rope is needed. Making people hover in mid-air... It can be seen that these frames should have another purpose.

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this, "Father" had already brought them to a scaffolding set up in the corner. There were many shelves fixed between the crossbars of this scaffolding. The shelves were about one and a half meters long and half a meter wide, covered with a tarpaulin covered in stains of unknown origin. Most of the shelves had holes punched around the edges and were covered with dirty ropes.

Before he even got close, Ke Lan could already smell a very strong smell.

"Newcomers, this is your temporary residence." The "priest" said to Ke Lan and the others, "Someone will bring you bedding soon, and food and drinking water will be distributed on time. If no one informs you, None of you can leave this place before you do, otherwise it will be a violation of the rules.”

Ke Lan's previous problem was immediately solved - the construction team thought that building the capsule cabin was a waste of materials and time, so they simplified the second half of the project into this: a scaffolding with dozens of shelves , which is equivalent to dozens of beds... This cost-saving ability has reached its peak. Even the deceitful and black-hearted real estate developers in the old era can only bow down to this construction team.

On the scaffolding in front of Ke Lan and the others, one-third of the bunks were already occupied by people. They were covered with what could barely be called bedding, and their dirty clothes were placed on the steel pipes of the scaffolding.

Most of them were curled up and sleeping soundly on the shelves. The ropes on the shelves fixed the people and the bedding to the bunks to prevent them from floating outside when they turned over in their sleep. Only a few people were awakened by the noise here, turned their heads, and looked at this group of newcomers with indifferent eyes.

"As long as there are unoccupied beds, you can choose whatever you want, but only in this building... If someone performs well in the future, they can live there." "Father" said, pointing to the capsule in the distance. cabin.

In the concept of local people, a scaffolding is equivalent to a dormitory building, and the partitions on these scaffoldings are equivalent to "economy class", while those capsule cabins with slightly better conditions than scaffolding can probably be regarded as "business class" "Well, as for the place where people like "Priest" live, it should be "first class".

But Ke Lan had no idea where the "first class cabin" was and what the conditions were.

After the "priest" told them some "rules" that they should abide by, he led the people away. Then, the new miners began to choose their favorite bunks.

In comparison, the bunks on the upper floors are definitely cleaner than those on the lower floors, and the smell is relatively less. However, most of the bunks on the upper floors are already occupied, and the highest ones left for them are only four or five liang. bunks on the first floor.

The miners immediately started fighting for the few high-rise bunks. If the "priest" hadn't said that fighting was strictly prohibited, they would have all been fighting in a ball by this time.

In the end, the two strongest miners squeezed out the others and occupied the last two empty beds on the fifth floor. Those who were squeezed out could only settle for the next best thing and choose the ones that were relatively clean. of bunks on the third and fourth floors.

Ke Lan and Asano Akira did not participate in the fight. They waited for most people to confirm their bunks before choosing two bunks on the third floor and got in - the angle of these two bunks was just right. Observed the bunks of the two "missionaries" diagonally opposite. Due to the height difference and the obstruction of other bunks, when looking from the "missionary" side, most of the bunks of Ke Lan and Akira Asano were covered. In the blind spot of vision.

With the excellent observation position, coupled with Asano Akira's terrifying hearing, every move of the two missionaries was basically under the surveillance of Ke Lan and the others.

At this moment, the man lying on Ke Lan's upper bunk suddenly put his head down, looked at Ke Lan, and asked in a low voice: "Are you all new here today?"