Alien Relic Hunter

"Dr. Park Sang-woo, you have no choice. After weighing the pros and cons, the best solution is to tell me the truth you know. In this way, not only will you not have to worry about whether your 'wife' is loyal to you, but you will also be able to Get out of here alive." Ke Lan said.

Park Sangyou was silent for more than a minute, then looked at Ke Lan and said in a tired voice: "Okay... what do you want... what do you want to know?"

"All of them." Ke Lan said.

"Where do you begin?"

"Let's start from the beginning."

"...Okay. Since you have that kind of authority, you must also know that I am a returnee, right?"

"I repeat, just say what you want, don't ask me questions, and don't test me with words." Ke Lan said expressionlessly.

"...Okay. About this matter, about this 'Restart Yagunaktor' project, we have to start from the time when I was exiled." Park Sangwoo sighed and said.

Ke Lan and the hound looked at each other, and both of them saw a little bit of surprise in each other's eyes - in their original guess, "Aguna Kotor" was most likely a wild beast that lived underground in the molten mine area. species, but judging from the name of this project, the truth is obviously quite different from the speculation.

If "Yagunaktor" is really a prehistoric species, it would be better to use words like "resurrection" or "awakening", and "restart" obviously should not be used for living things.

"You go on."

"I was thrown by a transport ship into the wilderness hundreds of kilometers away from the Ark. At this distance, it was basically impossible for me to walk back to the Ark, and my backpack only had enough food and water to last three days... I didn't even use it. When the supplies run out, the low temperatures at night alone will be enough to prevent me from seeing the sun the next day."

"I was lucky. I walked in the wilderness for four hours and finally found an exile settlement hidden in a natural cave before the sun went down. I exchanged a day's worth of food and water for an overnight stay at the settlement. Qualification... But what I didn’t expect was that the old man who collected my things and promised me that he would ensure my safety led a group of people to rob me that night.”

"Weird... aren't you an enhanced person? Will you still be robbed by those people? Do they have many guns?" Hound couldn't help but interjected and asked.

"There are only a few homemade shotguns in that settlement, and there is no accuracy beyond five meters... It's just that they have a lot of mutants, and I can't beat the kind of radiation mutants."

"Let's get to the point." Ke Lan said, "Dr. Park Sang-woo, you also know that we are in danger now, so please keep your story short."

"Okay." Park Sangyou nodded resignedly, "They robbed me, and then planned to sell me as a slave to other settlements the next day, but on the way, their convoy was attacked."

"Is the attacker a heretic?" Aya Breya asked.

"Yes. Half of the exiles in the convoy were beaten to death. Among the remaining captives, the thin ones were killed on the spot, while the strong ones were sent to be made into 'Seeds of Corrosion' Container... As people from the Security Bureau, you should know what the container of the Seed of Corrosion means."

"Go on."

"At that time, I was still wearing a white lab coat. A man in a black robe saw me and asked me if I was someone who had just been exiled. I said yes, and then he asked me who I was. I answered truthfully the reasons and my expertise. He said he could give me a chance to join the heretic sect and serve the great true god, or become a container for the Seed of Corruption like the other captives."

"I had no choice but to agree to them. In the later period, I relied on my ability to help them find several relics of the Alpha civilization buried deep underground..."

"Will heretical sects also organize an organized exploration of the ruins of Alpha civilization?" Aya asked again.

"Yes." Park Sangwoo nodded, "At first, I was only responsible for external exploration. Later, after gradually gaining their trust, they began to take me into the ruins."

Park Sangwoo paused, then looked at Ke Lan and said: "There is a person in the heretical sect who can read the language of Alpha civilization."

"I know him and have even dealt with him several times." Ke Lan looked at him and said calmly, "Very good, at least this proves that you are not fooling me."

"...That's right. Since you are a member of that organization, you must know..." Park Shangyou said, "Within the heretic sect, they all respect him as the 'prophet'. He is the most respected person in the heretical sect. Even higher than the leader."

Ke Lan's eyebrows were raised vaguely. He originally thought that the guy who founded the heretical sect was the leader himself, but now it seems that the leader is someone else.

Or is it that the "prophet" is just one of his many substitutes, and the leader is the hidden entity? Or, reverse the identities of the two?

Ke Lan didn't know.

"With the help of the 'Prophet', the difficulty for the heretical sect to explore the ruins has dropped a lot. Many ruins that can be rated at least as C-level or even B-level can be explored without any damage." Park Sang-woo said, "In He' After the prophet becomes familiar with it, he will often tell me some clues found in the ruins, hoping to use my ability to discover more new ruins related to it."

"One of the clues points to the molten mine area, right?" Ke Lan asked.

"Yes. The prophet told me that the material Nino Alloy was not actually made by the Alpha Civilization." Park Sangwoo replied, "He saw on a stone tablet that all the Nino Alloy on Alpha Planet came from the molten mine area. , to be precise, they all come from 'Yagunaktor'."

Ke Lan used gestures to stop Hound and Aya who wanted to ask questions. He suppressed the surprise in his heart and looked at Park Sangwoo: "I know this, please continue."

"Deep in the molten mine area, there is an ancient warship buried about one-sixth the size of the Ark. This warship was not built by the Alpha civilization. It came from a higher-level civilization, and the construction of this warship The material of the battleship is Nino alloy. As for 'Aguna Kotor', is that... a code name given to this battleship by 'that organization'."

"The so-called 'mining' of Alpha Civilization is actually dismantling the parts of this battleship and melting them into ingots... So isn't this similar to what the group of people stationed in the base are doing?"

"Yes... according to the information currently known, the Alpha civilization has not mastered the manufacturing method of Nino alloy. The smelting facilities in the molten mine area were also built to copy Nino alloy... just like us."

Park Shangyou's throat moved, and he continued: "At first, Ark didn't know about the existence of 'Agunaktor'. It wasn't until I brought this information back that they established this project... What they wanted It’s not Nino alloy, but this ancient battleship from a more advanced civilization.”

"My colleagues and I, our mission is to find and restart this battleship."

"It seems that you have found 'Yagunaktor'?"

"……right."

"Is this what caused the earthquake?"

"right."