Alien Relic Hunter

"Share the last updated location of the tracker with me." Ivan shouted.

"I've already sent it to you!"

"Let's go!" Ivan glanced at the coordinates displayed on the screen inside the helmet, and ran out in that direction first.

The trackers carried by Ke Lan and Akira Asano are small and easy to hide. They do not send out radio signals themselves. They will only passively feedback when receiving special frequency radio waves emitted by the high-power mother machine. This tells the mother machine the location of the slave machine.

The working principle of this equipment is similar to the active sonar on the ship. The mother machine is the sound wave transmitting device on the ship, and the slave machine is a "stone" with a very special shape and material, which can allow the mother machine to operate in a lot of complicated and complex situations. Identify meaningless feedback messages.

The main advantage of this thing is that it can ensure the concealment of the slave machine to the greatest extent.

For example, the set of parent-child trackers equipped by Ke Lan and the others has a signal refresh frequency of once every sixty seconds. The effective tracking distance without interference is more than three thousand meters. If it is in an open area, the furthest or even It can receive signals fed back from the handset five kilometers away.

But the last time the mother machine carried by Layton received feedback from the two of them was three hours ago.

The straight-line distance between Ivan and Layton's current position and Ke Lan and Asano Akira is 160 meters. With the output and maneuverability of these two powered armors, it only takes one injection to complete the task in less than three seconds. Time can span the distance of 160 meters - but the problem is that there are a large number of capsule living cabins and simple scaffolding separated in this 160 meters of space... It's like a maze , even though they know that there is only a wall between the exit of the maze and them, but to reach that exit, they still need to go around countless circles in the maze...

"No, it's impossible to get through like this!" After turning two turns, Ivan also realized the problem - not only were they unable to get close to the coordinates, but they were getting further and further away.

"Leyton, is this thing anti-electricity?"

"What did you say?" Layton obviously didn't understand the purpose of Ivan's question.

"Let me ask you, are we afraid of electric shock in this suit of armor we are wearing?"

"I don't know. I didn't design this thing, and the young master from the Ye Family Group didn't mention this to me... But I think that equipment of this level should not be affected by voltages of less than 10,000 volts. What impact will it cause... Wait a minute, doctor, why are you asking this too? What are you planning to do?" Layton looked confused.

"There's no time to go around the maze, let's go from above!" Ivan expressed his thoughts.

"Above?" Layton subconsciously raised his head, "You mean, moving along the top wall of the space station?"

"Yes! Anyway, the gravity of this place is negligible. If you walk from above, your vision and movement route will not be interfered by these 'illegal buildings'! I will jump up first, you follow closely, and be careful not to be affected by the wires above your head. Get entangled!" After Ivan finished speaking, he squatted down, kicked his legs hard on the ground, and with the help of this accumulated strength, he jumped into the air with his armor on.

Ivan wielded the standard fighting dagger and cut off the wires blocking the jumping path. The broken cables emitted blue-white sparks, crackled across the power armor, and fell to the ground - this Most of the residents in the residential area had fled away, leaving only those who followed, monitored or even attacked them, so he didn't need to worry about accidental injuries at all.

But before Ivan could cross the dozens of meters high scaffolding, several figures jumped down from the top of the scaffolding. These figures slammed into the power armor flying upwards - because they were worried about hitting the space station. The top wall, so Ivan did not activate the thrusters and relied entirely on inertia to move. After being hit by the opponent, he was directly pressed down and hit the ground heavily!

"Ivan!" Upon seeing this, Layton rushed over, but as soon as he got close, he was suddenly hugged by several locals who rushed out from the corner - these people were all radiation mutants with surprisingly strong strength. . Among them was a guy with four arms, sitting on Layton's shoulders, digging hard at the instruments on the outside of the helmet.

"Damn! Bastard! This surveillance camera is worth 160,000 credits!" Layton shook his body vigorously and opened the hands and feet of those holding him. But the four-armed mutant in front of him wrapped his legs tightly around his neck and couldn't shake him off.

After discovering that it was difficult for his nails to damage the outer armor of the power armor, the mutant took out a sharp blade from behind and poked it randomly at the joint between the helmet and the breastplate.

"Damn, this life-threatening lunatic!" Leighton stretched out his hand, but could only grab the opponent's two arms. The remaining two arms were still attacking him crazily, "Ivan? What am I going to do? What to do? I can only fight back, right?"

"Just subdue the opponent... try not to kill anyone." Ivan replied. At this moment, he was already wrestling with several mutants. Ivan threw him over the shoulder and directly threw a strong man nearly two meters tall. After getting out, the man fell right next to the pile of broken wires and suddenly let out a shrill scream.

"As long as you don't kill him, right?" Layton glared at the mutant riding on him fiercely. He grabbed the opponent's arm and exerted force at the same time. Under the huge shearing force generated by the hydraulic device, he only heard " With two crisp sounds, the two arms immediately hung down limply, and the mutant's face also showed a look of pain.

"You bastards, do you really think I don't dare to take action?" Layton growled, and followed the same pattern, crushing off the mutant's four arms, then grabbing his legs and tearing him off his body, and swung him Madoka hit the ground hard.

"Bang-ka!"

The first part of the mutant that hit the ground was the neck. With the crisp "click" mixed in with the loud noise, the mutant's head tilted directly to one side, and the expression on his face was also frozen in the previous moment. .

"Sorry, I struck too hard." Seeing that the other party was dead, Layton felt a little relieved, "But you can't blame me, you brought this on yourself."

"Didn't I tell you not to kill people?" After noticing that Layton had beaten the four-armed radioactive mutant to death, Ivan said in the team communication channel with some complaints.

"It's impossible to only injure but not kill in this kind of melee. Look at the guy you just threw out. Isn't he about to be electrocuted to death now?" Layton said, "Besides, don't you think Is there any possibility for us to reconcile with this group of people? It’s clear from their appearance that they want to kill us, and whether we kill them or not, their attitude will not change.”

"Well, if this can serve as a deterrent..." Ivan said, hitting a mutant's face with a swinging fist, directly breaking the opponent's cheekbone on one side. It sunk down, and the affected eyeball exploded completely, and a mixture of blood, water and saliva shot out more than ten meters away.

"That's right." Layton kicked a mutant away and said to Ivan, "When we first met, weren't you quite happy when you shot that Jiang Lian? Why have you become a mother-in-law now? Already?"

"The reason why I didn't hesitate at that time was because I knew that she was already dead before I shot. I checked the body of the previous person. That kind of parasite can completely destroy the human brain..." Ivan said , "What's more, the situation at that time was different from now. Under the glacier, all our equipment was lost, and a corpse parasitized by an unknown object posed a huge threat to us... But now, the attacks of these people It won’t cause us any real harm.”

"Then you might as well think about it, if we hadn't worn this armor now, wouldn't we have been dismembered by these madmen long ago?" Layton knocked down the last mutant who rushed out and retorted, "Between them So they can't cause harm to us, not because they don't want to kill us, but because they can't kill us."

Layton glanced at the mutants lying on the ground. There were sixteen people who rushed out to stop them. At least four of them were confirmed to be dead. The rest either fainted or had their limbs broken and were lying on the ground. Groaning in pain.

"When I was in the army, a captain who led us on field missions said something to me." A mutant struggled to crawl towards Leighton, but its outstretched hand could not reach Leighton. Leighton's calf was kicked in the head by Leighton, causing his whole neck to bend back.

The death toll from the conflict increased by one.

"He said: 'Don't be kind to any creature that wants to kill you, that thing will kill you sooner or later.'" Layton continued, "This should be what the Chinese call 'women's kindness'... Although I don’t quite understand how this thing has anything to do with the female gender, but you must have heard the story about the farmer and the snake, right?”

"The captain is right." Ivan nodded silently, "I just... once treated a miner who suffered from radiation sickness, but I failed to cure him within the two-week stay permit period, and finally he He was sent here anyway, and I don’t know if he is still alive now.”

"I remember that your clinic charges a lot of money, right? Where did the miners get the money to treat you?" Layton asked with some confusion.

"He didn't come to me on his own, it was his girlfriend... The girl is very young and good-looking. As for where her money comes from..." Ivan did not continue, but opened the power armor The two compressed air valves on the backpack accelerated upward again, "We should go, otherwise we will be entangled by these people again later."

The mutants who were just dealt with by Ivan and Layton should be all the extra manpower sent by the other party. As for the remaining people who were still monitoring them, they probably did not belong to the "combat unit" and did not jump out to stop them.

"To be honest, the strength of these mutants is actually quite strong." Layton muttered, "I estimate that at least they are at the level of two to three levels of biochemically modified humans. The conscience mutation produced by radiation alone can really reach this level. To this extent? And more than a dozen of them jumped out at once... Ivan, don’t you think this is a bit strange? "

"It's indeed strange. The strength of two to three levels of biochemically modified people is still within the normal range. The strange thing is the quantity. I have checked the information published by the institute and found that only 20,000 cases of this kind of benign mutation that can increase strength will appear. In one case, only ten thousand residents in this space survived. Even if you include the group of people who died after arriving here due to various reasons, this ratio is still too high."

"It's more than just a little higher." Leighton couldn't help but speak faster, "It's impossible that the entire 'sick village' only has a dozen mutants, right? These guys may just be the vanguard of the opponent. If If you take this into consideration, the mutation ratio is simply ridiculously high - hey, do you think they have any means to stabilize mass production?"

"Hard to say."

At this time, Ivan and Layton had already crossed the highest point of the scaffolding. After locking the coordinates of the tracker, they flew straight towards the residential area with the help of the thrust generated by the compressed air injection. past.

This residential area is filled with the recent batches of sick miners who were sent to the space station. They have not yet been "integrated" into the local residents. In workplace terms, they are still in the inspection period. Therefore, these People were not prompted to evacuate.

Two avant-garde powered armors suddenly landed in the aisle between the scaffolding, immediately attracting the attention of many people.

"These people all came here with us." The moment he landed, Layton had already used the monitor to scan the facial data of those who stuck their heads out. Some of the data coincided with the The photos on the "list of goods" provided by the Mitsui Foundation match perfectly.

"It seems that Ke Lan and the others were brought here." Ivan looked around cautiously, "Have you found them?"

"Not yet... Wait a minute, I found that the signal of the tracker carried by Asano Akira is less than twenty meters away." Layton said, although there is interference, as long as the distance between the two is close enough, there will be no What was too affected was the team communication channel used between Layton and Ivan.

"Only Akira Asano? What about Ke Lan?"

"...No, not found. There is only Asano Akira's signal here. So do we want to contact him?" Layton asked, "If they have other plans, by doing this, are we causing trouble for them? ah?"

"...No matter, let's meet up with Asano Akira first." Ivan hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and made a decision, "Then we'll go find Ke Lan... I really don't know what he was thinking, that he would choose to act alone? "

"It's not necessarily his choice, maybe he was forced?" Layton said as he floated towards Asano Akira's tracker coordinates.

However, when he floated to the bunk, no one saw anyone. Under the tracker, which was faked as a button, there was a thin piece of iron with tiny fonts engraved on it: "Ke Lan was taken away." It’s already past the agreed time and he hasn’t come back, so I’ll look for him.”