Alien Relic Hunter

Exclamations came from Leiton - after getting closer, they also saw these giant crystal pillars erected in the pit.

"These pillars... are they made of energy crystals??" Layton had difficulty controlling his facial expression. "Look, look at the color... they seem to be ninth-level energy crystals!"

"The volume and number of these crystal pillars, if converted into standard-sized crystal blocks, would be in the millions, right?" Zhuo Ligetu said in a daze.

"More than that! Just one stone pillar is estimated to contain hundreds of millions of energy crystals! With so many crystal pillars gathered together, the energy contained in them is more than enough to blow up the planet!" Leiton said quickly, At the same time, the laser ranging equipment was started again.

"The cross-section of each crystal pillar is a square of fifteen meters by fifteen meters. The depth of the bottom of the pit is the same as the height of the dome, which is also 350 meters. If the base is not considered, if these crystal pillars are solid..." Lei There was a brief pause in his words. From Ke Lan's perspective, he seemed to have taken several deep breaths before continuing, "The energy crystal reserve in this pit alone is the largest amount that has been proven in all Alpha ruins so far." More than two thousand times the total amount of crystals.”

"Including Leviathan?" The hound couldn't help but ask.

"Including Leviathan."

"Then aren't we rich?" After Hound said, even he was stunned for a moment, and then he spat hard, "Damn, I almost forgot, we can't take anything out of this place at all. "

If the only way to enter and exit the ancient battleship is to rely on teleportation, then these crystal pillars may only sleep in this giant pit forever - if you want to teleport objects with such a large mass to other places, just turning on and maintaining the insect The energy required for the hole is a number that is difficult to calculate...

What's more, with human technological standards, it is impossible to create artificial wormholes.

"The arrangement of these crystal pillars here must be intentional, right? This space can't be some kind of storage room, right?" Hound held his chin and pondered.

"It's the power room." The speaker was Leighton. "I think this big pit and these crystal pillars are the core energy supply array of 'Yagunaktor'... And this space we broke into, This is the power room of this ancient battleship!”

"Power chamber? Then the energy required for this thing is too scary, right?" The hound licked his chapped lips with his tongue, "Even if the density of Nino alloy is higher than that of many metals, the size of this thing is not the only one in the Ark. Is it one-sixth of that? I feel like Ark’s main reactor is not that exaggerated..."

"It can't be calculated like that." Layton shook his head, "The Ark is essentially a colonial ship, and this thing is a battleship... This is a weapon. This energy supply array is not only its power room, but also It’s also its ammunition depot!”

Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at Aya Breya standing aside, whose eyes were full of solemnity. Ke Lan immediately guessed what she was thinking - if this ancient battleship fell into the hands of the heretic sect, the end of the Ark would not be far away.

Nothing on Alpha can compete with this battleship.

Ke Lan suddenly squatted down. He found that there were some inconspicuous wear marks on the edge of the giant pit. It seemed that someone had installed some heavy equipment on the edge of the giant pit.

Are they the traces left by the construction of this "power room"? Or was it left behind by the Alpha civilization that later explored this ancient battleship? Ke Lan stretched out his hand and gently touched the signs of wear and tear - whether these marks were left by the civilization that built "Aguna Kotor" or by the latecomers like the Alphas, they have existed since the present. With a history of thousands or even tens of thousands of years, one can imagine how difficult it is to find any clues from these traces.

"Even if these traces are left by the Alpha civilization, for some reason, I can't activate the corresponding memory fragments inside 'Yagunaktor'." Ke Lan thought, "But there is a way that may be able to temporarily We might as well give it a try to lift the third civilization’s suppression of memory fragments.”

Ke Lan did not hesitate. He sat cross-legged on the ground and locked the joints of the power armor to prevent himself from falling due to the sequelae of a headache or making some actions that might make Aya suspicious. Then, he started directly Time to stop.

The picture freezes, and the surrounding scene once again turns into black and white.

Ke Lan subconsciously glanced at Aya Brea out of the corner of his eye. At this time, the agent leader happened to be walking forward. Her figure was frozen in place, and her upper body leaned forward slightly.

"It's a pity that with the heavy armor, you can't see such a good figure at all." Ke Lan complained silently in his heart. Team leader Breya, like Zofia, is a young white woman with a proud figure. Her figure is slender and tall, and her two long legs with golden proportions are even more eye-catching.

In fact, they are not very thin, it's just that the fat grows where it should.

If this kind of figure were placed in the old era, some people would definitely say that it is inseparable from their natural genes, but in this era, as long as you have money, no matter how ugly a woman is, you can transform her into a stunning beauty.

Moreover, this kind of transformation interferes at the genetic level, and is not the kind of plastic surgery in the old era that only uses a knife on the skin. Therefore, if you marry an artificial beauty and go home, you don’t have to worry about the offspring being born into crooked melons and cracked jujubes. appearance.

Unless the man's genes are too crotch-stretching-but, a man who can afford to marry such a beautiful woman will not be stingy about investing in himself.

I don’t know why, but this time out, Ke Lan suddenly missed the eldest lady of the Soma Consortium.

Such a stunning beauty was offered to her for free. To say that Ke Lan had no feelings for her would be a lie - but he couldn't accept a marriage relationship bound by interests in the upper class. He is a person with a slight mental mysophobia. He doesn't like Zofia to be with him purely for profit. This makes him feel that he is more of a tool than a partner.

Ke Lan originally wanted to refuse righteously, but in the end he agreed half-heartedly - this was not because he was dazzled by the beauty, but simply because the other party gave too much.

As a relic hunter, he needs money; and as a person carrying a heavy secret to survive in the cracks, he needs more money, and there are many things that are difficult to buy with money.

Not only him, but the rest of the hunting group were also short of money.

Hound needs a lot of money to support the families of his fallen men; Layton needs a lot of money to pursue better equipment and machinery; Ivan also needs money, he wants to open a larger clinic for Nata If possible, he would also like to take the exam to become a researcher.

Talking about money is cliché and sentimental, but in human society, no one can survive alone without the economic system. Even in the wilderness, gray potatoes and slaves in exile camps are clearly priced.

There was probably no love between the two at the beginning. The so-called engagement was essentially more like a cooperation and a transaction.

Or to put it another way, an investment.

But as their contact with each other gradually increases, the relationship between the two is also undergoing subtle changes. At least now Ke Lan is not very opposed to this engagement.

It's just that things like love and marriage are a bit too low priority in front of what he has to do.

…

These messy thoughts flashed across Ke Lan's mind, and his attention once again stayed on the traces on the ground.

In the time-stop state, these traces emit a faint gray light, and there is a white outline around the outer edge, which looks extremely eye-catching.

This can't help but remind Ke Lan of the game "Gwent 3: Gamble" that was just released last month. Although this is a card game, it also comes with some RPG content. The glowing traces on the ground look like The scene after the protagonist in the game turns on "Witcher Vision".

But in order for a witcher to gain this ability, he needs to drink a special decoction in a ritual called the "Trial of Green Grass." The process of this ritual is as cruel as the sacrifices of heretical sects. The survival rate of those who participate in the trial is only about one-third, and among these one-third, very few will eventually become demon hunters.

But then again, the experience of this ability in the game is that it can highlight clues that are usually difficult to find with highlighted outlines. It is especially useful in some "case-solving" tasks. Players only need to You need to follow the clues discovered by the witcher's vision step by step, and you can easily find the culprit.

"Could this gray light be regarded as a disguised form of 'mission guidance'?"

In the time-stop state, Ke Lan could no longer feel the suppression of the memory fragments in the ship. Almost the moment he cast his sight on these traces, a large amount of information poured into his mind. mind.

“Record of the first energy storage crystal imitation test:

We have analyzed the specific composition of the crystal pillar. As an energy carrier, it is undoubtedly an excellent object, but it does not seem to be a pure crystal. We decided to start with the shell..."

"Records of the 16th energy storage crystal imitation test:

It still failed. Although the crystal was successfully condensed and formed, it exploded during the injection of energy. Seventeen people lost their lives because of this - next time we make experimental models, maybe we should make smaller ones, but if they are too small, it will be inconvenient for subsequent operations..."

“Records of the 19th energy storage crystal imitation test:

...We finally figured out the reason for the previous explosions. There was something wrong with the proportion of the crystallization formula! We overturned the proportioning formula obtained in the fourth experiment and started over from the first step. "

"Record of the 75th energy storage crystal imitation test:

Finally, sixty units were successfully injected into this trial product. There was no explosion or energy leakage, but the state of the crystal was very unstable. Violent shaking or bumping could lead to unpredictable consequences. This trial product was undoubtedly a failure and had no practical value, but it was also our first step on this path. "

"Record of the seventy-sixth energy storage crystal imitation experiment:

A true success! We have created energy storage crystals that can be used for practical purposes!

We reduced the amount of energy injected and added more metal materials used as stabilizers and structural strengtheners inside the crystal. It is no longer a bomb, but a reliable and convenient energy storage device.

But it still has very obvious shortcomings: the production cost is too high, but the energy it can store is not much..."

"Record of the 113th energy storage crystal imitation experiment:

We took over this task from the previous research team. Just yesterday, the last researcher in the first research team also passed away. This project has been spent sixty-five years, one year away from the above requirements. There are only the last thirty-five years left in the century-old time limit.

First-class energy storage crystals have been put into mass production. They can be used in many small devices that do not consume a lot of energy. However, compared with these crystal pillars, they are still far behind.

Under the same volume, the energy storage efficiency of samples cut from crystal pillars is 256 times that of first-level pure energy crystallization..."

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This time, the pause only lasted for half a second and ended. In this half second, Ke Lan read the "Energy Storage Crystal Imitation Experiment Record" written by several generations of Alpha people until the end. Chapter one hundred and thirteen.

Energy storage crystals are what Alpha Civilization calls energy crystals, but this name is limited to the energy crystals created by Alpha Civilization itself. As for the irregular crystals in Leviathan's body and these giant crystal pillars in front of you, they have other names. .

"It turns out that energy crystals were not invented by the Alpha civilization itself, but were copied from these crystal pillars." Ke Lan secretly said, "Until the 113th test record, they could only create one Super energy crystals. But before the Alpha civilization disappeared, energy crystals had become popular in this civilization and became their main energy storage device."

"It seems that the imitation process of energy crystals is relatively smooth, as long as the Alpha civilization has created ninth-level crystals that are equivalent to these crystal pillars. Unlike Nino alloy, it has never been possible to produce it by itself, and it can only rely on dismantling Come get this ancient warship."

"In other words, this battleship may have crashed on this planet much earlier than I first thought?"

Ke Lan raised his head and looked forward. There were still some cutting marks on a crystal pillar not far from the edge of the pit, but these marks were almost too faint to be seen clearly at this time.

If Alpha Civilization wants to conduct experiments, it will definitely need to collect a large number of samples. It is possible to dig out an entire crystal column, but the crystal column array in front of Ke Lan and the others does not seem to have been too damaged.

Judging from the faded traces on the pillars, could it be that...these crystal pillars still have the ability to repair themselves?

Ke Lan thought about it... It seems that in the Alpha ruins, no one has ever found a defective energy crystal. Every "newly unearthed" energy crystal is intact, with at most the remaining amount of energy inside. It’s just different.

Those broken energy crystals were all smashed artificially after the energy was exhausted.

"It is basically certain that this thing has the ability to repair itself, but the repair speed is very slow. The traces on these crystal pillars are at least ten thousand years old and have not completely disappeared..."

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