Alien Relic Hunter

The reconnaissance team was lucky. After walking less than a kilometer along the new route, they found an overturned heavy truck on the edge of a cliff.

The bed of the truck had rolled off the cliff, leaving only a trailer head lying there alone.

Compared to the guy in the tracked armored patrol car who didn't even have time to put on his shoes, the truck driver's situation was slightly better - at least he was wearing a complete set of high-temperature protective equipment, which was just a broken metal frame. It penetrated his abdomen and pinned him to the seat.

Although the improved airbag can protect the driver's head, it cannot block sharp metal sections.

There is a heavily armed soldier sitting in the passenger seat of the truck. From the logo on his armband, we can tell that he is an escort belonging to the 3rd Transportation Squadron of the garrison base. His legs are completely deformed by the console. Stuck inside. The blood that oozed from his thigh dyed the fabric under the rubber layer of the insulating suit purple-black, and there were a lot of scratch marks on the fabric of his pants - he had tried to pull his leg out from under the console many times. But obviously, they all failed.

The visor of his helmet was open, and the moisture in the entire facial tissue had been evaporated. The twisted and shriveled face looked a bit scary. A small amount of congestion overflowed from the nostrils and condensed into a dark brown lump.

The cause of death of this escort was a bullet that entered from the mouth and penetrated the palate and skull. A nine-millimeter self-defense pistol fell into the cab. The muzzle of the gun was stained with a few strands of oral cavity that had been carbonized by the high temperature. The tissue was in pieces, and the deceased's right hand was hanging in the air less than ten centimeters directly above the pistol.

"It's suicide," Ivan said.

"I can tell." Ke Lan nodded.

No one could find any valuable clues on the truck - the truck received an "emergency evacuation notice" while performing a transportation mission, and they knew nothing about what happened at the base.

However, it can be seen from the driving records that after receiving this notice, the truck first turned around and drove towards the base, but after traveling less than two kilometers, it turned back again and started running at full speed on the road.

"They were obviously skeptical about the emergency evacuation notice at the beginning, otherwise they would not have turned to the base... But they realized the seriousness of the problem before they drove far, and began to follow the requirements in the notice to the mining area. Fleeing, I think they must have seen some horrific scene..." Ke Lan analyzed.

"Is it an earthquake?" asked the hound.

"possible……"

As soon as he said the possible word "can", Ke Lan's brows suddenly frowned. As if he thought of something, he patted his helmet hard: "No! We missed a very key element. ! This mistake is too low-level and we shouldn’t have made it!”

"What?" Hound looked at Ke Lan confused.

"Time difference! We ignored the time difference between this emergency evacuation notice and the time of the earthquake!" Ke Lan said quickly, "According to the data observed by Ark, the time when the earthquake occurred deep in the molten mine area was 9:30 a.m. that day 10, but this emergency evacuation notice was sent at 9:22 a.m., a full eight minutes earlier than the time of the earthquake. Even if the transmission of seismic waves takes a certain amount of time, there is no possibility of an error in the monitoring data. It’s so big.”

"You mean, the garrison base predicted the earthquake in advance?" Aya Breya confirmed to Ke Lan in a very serious tone.

"It can be understood in a literal sense, but my subconscious has been telling me that things may not be that simple." Ke Lan shook his head.

"Is there something wrong with this?"

"The earthquake was predicted eight minutes in advance, and then an emergency evacuation notice was issued to all personnel and units in the molten mine area. Logically speaking, there is no problem... But the wrong thing is the time difference - eight minutes. This emergency evacuation notice was eight minutes in advance!" Ke Lan said.

"Ke Lan, when have you ever been able to talk without telling others? Can't you explain the problem clearly in one breath? Tell me, is there anything wrong with these eight minutes?" Hound complained.

"Isn't that what I was talking about? You interrupted me, okay?" Ke Lan complained smoothly, and continued with the previous topic, "The problem lies in these eight minutes, although eight minutes does not count It’s so generous, but it’s not that stressful, but the entire emergency evacuation notice only has two words, doesn’t the person who sent the notice even have time to type an extra line of text to explain it?”

As soon as Ke Lan said this, everyone else in the team, including Aya, fell into brief contemplation.

Indeed, from the content point of view, this emergency evacuation notice is completely inconsistent with the regulations. Even if the person responsible for sending the notice is in a hurry to escape for his life, the entire notice should not contain only the words "Escape quickly."

As Hound said earlier, this is really remiss.

It doesn’t take much time to explain the cause and effect. It only takes two sentences. For people who type quickly, it only takes less than ten seconds... Even if you really don’t have time to enter text, use the voice input method. , or simply calling the emergency command template is much more reliable than this mindless sentence of "run away".

Just like the "Emergency 039" and "Emergency 000" that Ke Lan once asked Layton to send in the Leviathan incident. Although these codes are equally simple, at least you can understand them immediately after comparing them with the code book. meaning.

Ke Lan and the others also saw the result of the illegal editing of the emergency evacuation notice - after receiving the notice, the truck not only did not evacuate outside the mining area immediately, but also turned around and wanted to return to the base for verification... ...This kind of announcement that is not edited according to the regulations is completely unconvincing!

Even if the person who edited this emergency evacuation notice escaped from the mining area alive later, he would probably be sentenced for dereliction of duty...

"There is another place where the timeline does not match up. Look at this driving record - at 9:22 minutes and 3 seconds, the truck received an emergency evacuation notice, and the driver stopped the car; at 9:23 At 15 seconds, the truck began to turn towards the garrison base; at 9:25 and 40 seconds, the truck changed direction for the second time and increased the speed to the limit." Ke Lan continued, "At this time, the distance It was nearly five minutes before the earthquake broke out. Then, the truck ran wildly on the road for more than ten kilometers at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour before being caught up by the earthquake... So what did the truck driver see before that? , will make him change his mind about returning to the base?"