Alien Relic Hunter

"I...I don't remember..." Park Sang-woo said at a loss, "But, but...that security guard is the seventh-level reformer I mentioned...he should have a gun... As for the model of firearm I carried, I didn’t pay much attention.”

"Damn it, it seems those three people really came out of this place." Hound cursed secretly, took out a compressed biscuit from his pocket, tore open the package and stuffed it in whole. Mouth - While performing this series of actions, his eyes were always staring at the front of the tunnel, and the assault rifle was tightly held under his arm, maintaining a posture ready to shoot at any time.

Everyone immediately stood up and grasped the weapons in their hands - no one spoke anymore, which made the sound of hounds chewing biscuits very clear in the tunnel.

Ke Lan raised his palm and made a "slowly advance" gesture, letting Valentina control the machine and slowly walk forward.

"Leiton, go check this shell." Ke Lan said softly.

Layton nodded, jumped off the back of the mecha, landed on the ground, bent down and picked up the bullet casing.

"It is indeed a ten-millimeter caliber Ark series full-power bullet. The inscription on the bottom is that it was a new product produced by the military arsenal in 1948..." Layton said, "Furthermore, judging from the propellant residue, the deformation of the shell and the firing pin, Judging from the collision marks, this bullet should have been fired in fully automatic shooting mode...at worst, it was a long burst of more than five rounds."

"Can such a thing be seen?" Zhuo Ligetu asked in surprise.

"Well... I have touched many guns and bullets, so I can still see some differences. What's more, the big guy's original occupation is dealing with weapons, so his judgment is still very reliable." Hound explained that in this situation , he had no intention of joking anymore.

"But the problem is that if it was fully automatic shooting, this should not be the only bullet casing left behind...could it have been picked up by someone?" Ivan asked.

"Everyone get out of the car." Ke Lan said solemnly, "Change to the No. 4 advancement formation and continue to move forward."

The No. 4 advancement formation is a team-sized infantry-tank coordination formation. It is generally used for frontal assaults on local positions that have been washed away by artillery and missiles. Although the reconnaissance team does not have tanks or armored vehicles, it uses mechas to replace combat vehicles. It is also completely feasible.

Valkyrie One was at the front to clear the way, with Zhuoligetu and Layton in heavy armor on both wings, responsible for fire containment. The others used mechas as cover to quickly follow up - everyone put their own His index finger was pressed against the trigger guard, ready to fire at any time.

After advancing fifty meters along the tunnel, they picked up a dozen more almost identical bullet casings, which made everyone's nerves even more tense.

The area where the battle took place should be not far ahead.

"There seems to be something on the ground in the distance?" Layton whispered, turning the searchlight beam.

It was a gun, a gun with an exploded chamber. The barrel opened like petals. The torn steel bars were tangled together. There were still traces of the metal melting and then solidifying again on the surface.

A large-capacity C-Mag drum magazine lies quietly not far from the rifle.

"It's the Ark-199 squad-level light machine gun... Judging from the length of the barrel, this one should still be a carbine type with the barrel cut off." Layton said, "Because the caliber of the ammunition used has not changed, it is still a 10mm full-power bullet. Therefore, the recoil of this thing is much greater than that of the Zero-1 rifle. Without a bracket, only enhanced people or modified people can control the gun in fully automatic shooting."

"My troops never choose this thing. Among squad-level light machine guns, there are many better choices than this thing. This thing has no merit except that it is easy to carry and can be interchanged with the Ark rifle." Hound said. .

"There is still a difference between the Ark-199 and the Zero-1 rifle... In order to support long-term continuous shooting, the barrels of the original Ark-199 have been specially strengthened. The content of the Nino alloy is around 8%, which requires The barrel is much more resistant to grass than the Zero-1 type... To be honest, this is the first time I have seen an Ark-199 with an exploded chamber." Layton shook his head, "Although it is a machine gun, the method of use must be long burst shooting. For short-burst shooting, there will be no problem with the performance of the original barrel. Unless the user empties four or five drums in one go, and there is almost no gap in between, there is a possibility of the chamber exploding."

"Then maybe it's not the original barrel?" Hound said.

"It's almost impossible. I think... their project shouldn't be short of such funds, right?" Having said that, Layton still stepped forward and picked up the exploded machine gun.

"It's the original barrel... Hiss, I'm afraid it fired at least a thousand rounds in a row..." Layton pulled out the "Blooming" barrel and took a look at it.

A large-capacity C-Mag drum can only hold 80 rounds of 10mm caliber Ark series full-power ammunition, but who would carry a dozen heavy and obstructive C-Mag drums on their body?

Even the ammunition chain box weighing tens of kilograms carried by a heavy-armed fireman can only hold 500 rounds of ammunition.

"Look, there are blood stains on the grip and receiver of this gun." Hound said, "Could it be that the gunman was injured when he exploded the chamber? Didn't he even wear armor or protective clothing?"

"It's not like that." Layton shook his head, "If the man was really injured by the explosion, the blood would not have reached the handle."

"It's not just the explosion of the barrel. If he didn't take off his armored gauntlets and gloves, there shouldn't be any blood stains on the handle." Ivan said sharply, "But this is good news for us. Apart from these blood stains , there are also a lot of muscle tissue fragments left in the anti-slip groove, at least we can use these clues to determine the identity of the gun owner."

There are two most accurate ways to determine a person's identity: bone scans and DNA information. Unlike the old era where DNA information was only collected from people with criminal records, on Ark, when everyone is born, their DNA information will be entered into the archives and tied to their personal files.

The blood stains and muscle tissue were carefully scraped off with steel needles and put into glass tubes containing reagents, and then the glass tubes were inserted into the detection equipment. Fortunately, the reconnaissance team's mission this time was to search and rescue survivors in the mining area. And to determine the identity of the victims, so these devices are almost all available...but what people didn't expect was that they would come in handy in this situation.