Alien Relic Hunter

"So you acted in advance?"

"Yes." Park Sangwoo nodded, "We simply modified the vehicle prototype built in the first plan, and then selected four people from the expert group who voluntarily entered the magma channel, plus one The driver and a level-7 cyborg temporarily formed an exploration team. They rode the vehicle and entered this narrowing passage..."

"I knew it..." Ke Lan sighed softly, "Although there are some differences between my previous speculations, they are pretty much the same..."

"What speculation?" Park Sangyou showed a look of doubt.

"Right! It's all fucking right!" Hound whispered, "Ke Lan said before that the person who caused the earthquake may have been tempted by an irresistible temptation... They can't hesitate, as long as they slow down for a moment, The opportunity will be fleeting. Isn't this the lava channel I'm talking about? Haha, a valuable relic, an ancient warship made entirely of Nino alloy and left behind by a more advanced civilization. This is too much It’s fucking valuable…”

"And the inscriptions on the scraps should come from the civilization that built this ancient battleship." Layton added on the side.

"Scrap? What are you talking about? And the inscription... what is that?" Park Shangyou looked at Hound and Layton, and then at Ke Lan.

"Don't worry about this for now. Go on, what happened after those six people entered the lava channel?"

"The lava channel is roughly at a 45-degree angle to the ground. Two small anti-gravity devices were installed inside the vehicle, which slid into the channel in a suspended position... When the vehicle reached a depth of 600 meters, they and we Communication between them was suddenly interrupted.”

"Was the communication suddenly interrupted instead of gradually weakening?" Ke Lan asked.

"Because the channel is nearly straight, the vehicle and the people on the ground use laser communication. Laser communication is not easily interfered by radiation, and there will be no obvious attenuation even at a distance of tens of thousands of meters... plus that By that time, the diameter of the passage had shrunk to half of its original size, and many people who stayed on the ground thought that the advance team had been killed."

"That's not necessarily the case." Layton said, "The laser communication was suddenly interrupted. Either the second half of the passage suddenly turned and blocked the laser, or they passed through a barrier that could block the laser. A minimally powered energy shield will do."

"Some of us thought so... We were still hopeful at first... But just four hours later, the contraction speed of the lava channel suddenly accelerated, and at the sixth hour, the entrance to the channel completely disappeared." Park Sang-woo Said, "Even if they are still alive, they can't come back... and based on the speed of movement of the vehicle, they are still quite far away from the depth of 'Aguna Kotor'."

"Isn't that the same as being buried alive in magma..." The hound shuddered involuntarily, "Damn... thinking about this kind of death makes me panic."

"We thought so too. After waiting for another two hours, we made a new decision: leaving some people to guard the place where the lava channel disappeared, and at the same time sending more people to use drones to control the magma No. 1 Patrolling around and above the lake, looking for new lava channels." Park Sangwoo said, "And I followed the expert team back to the base to prepare a report to be submitted to Ark..."

"Wait a minute, I have a question - didn't you ask Ark for instructions before taking action?" Hound asked.

"I asked for instructions, and the reply I received was 'action approved'. In addition, the reply also mentioned that the convoy transporting supplies encountered a rare sandstorm and will be delayed for about a week." Park Sangyou said, "Now that I want to come, reply to us. It should be the heretical sect that intercepted the communication..."

"I guess you didn't expect it at that time. It was not the Ark's support convoy that arrived, but the monster army of the heretic sect... This is so damn ironic... Sigh! Fuck!" followed by a soft "pop" sound. , the hound spit inside the helmet again.

"What about the earthquake?" Aya Breya, who had been lowering her head to take notes, suddenly asked.

"Not long after I returned to the base, and before I even had time to take a shower and change clothes, I received a communication with a special identification code... In order to keep it confidential, everyone involved in this project will be Everyone has an exclusive special identification code. The sender of this communication is one of the four experts who entered the lava channel in a vehicle! And the content of the communication only has two words... these two You should all know the word, it's the 'escape' in the emergency evacuation notice..."

"Fuck, these people are actually still alive? But... how did he contact you? No matter how you think about it, this is wrong. Could it be another heretical sect?" Hound said.

"I don't know...but the next second, the main control system of the base suddenly went out of control, and then the emergency evacuation notice was issued on the channel shared by everyone." Park Sangyou said.

"It seems that they successfully entered Yagunaktor... This message was sent with the help of the equipment on this ancient battleship... A civilization whose technological level is still above Alpha Civilization wants to I think it should be possible to communicate with the outside through several kilometers of magma."

"I can't be sure about this, but out of caution, I decided to act according to the content of this communication... Although many people thought it was a bad joke or a staff error, more than 90% of the people in the base were Unmoved, only a few people ran out with me, most of them were participants in the 'Restart Project', and they all received communications with the expert's special identification code."

"However, after leaving the base, we had differences." Park Sangyou continued, "Some people planned to go to Magma Lake No. 1 to check the situation, while others felt that we should evacuate the mining area first... We were divided into two groups, and I Joined the evacuation team."

"You may laugh at me for being timid, but at that time, my inner uneasiness had almost reached its extreme. Although the terrible disaster had not happened yet, I could feel that it was coming to me quickly - not long after, My idea was confirmed.”

"'Yagunaktor'... It was a silver-gray shuttle-type battleship. Almost everyone in the mining area could see it... It floated up from the bottom of the No. 1 magma lake and flew into the air. ."

"Then, it fell down——"