Alien Relic Hunter

Since the Alphas once imitated energy crystals here, this power room must have a channel connected to the outside - otherwise, the personnel and materials participating in the imitation project cannot all enter and leave this place through transmission devices, right?

The personnel and supplies were okay, but the large and heavy equipment, even if it could be dismantled, would be extremely troublesome to transport.

Judging from the indentations on the ground, the tonnage of the machinery once installed on the edge of the giant pit was obviously not small.

But what Ke Lan couldn't understand was that since the Alphas captured this ancient battleship, why didn't they incorporate it into the fleet instead of sinking it deep into the magma lake?

Apart from anything else, just looking at this power room, the combat power of this battleship can probably defeat all the combat units of Alpha Civilization. Is there no reason to leave it in this place?

Even if research is to be conducted, there will be no conflict at all. Transforming the battleship into a mobile fortress can greatly improve security and confidentiality. It is obviously a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

But not only did the Alpha people not do that, they even started to dismantle the shell of "Aguna Kotor" to obtain Nino alloy. A series of idioms suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's mind to describe this behavior. : Buying coffins and returning pearls, abandoning the basics and chasing the scraps, squandering natural resources, boiling cranes and burning harps...

Even he, a human on Earth, knew that this was a blood-losing deal. Could it be that this group of Alphas, whose civilization level was much higher than that of humans, didn't know?

This doesn't make sense...

Could it be that... they couldn't control this battleship, so they had to sink it here?

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"Leiton, Ivan, have you discovered anything over there?" Ke Lan asked in the team communication channel.

"This guy committed suicide. Just like the man in the truck, the gun was not far away." Layton replied, "The vehicle is useless. Someone shot the console with a gun, installed the hard drive and storage. The card areas are all empty, and the black box is gone.”

"This must have been done by Park Sangwoo. Maybe the driver also killed himself and then pretended to commit suicide." Hound said confidently.

"But the energy converter and engine can still be used. Using these things, I can piece together a small propulsion device, which may come in handy." Layton continued, "The supplies have not been touched, food, water and medicine. There is still a lot left, which is probably the only good news.”

At this moment, Asano Akira suddenly took a step forward, grabbed Ke Lan's wrist and pulled him two steps back: "Be careful! There is something crawling up from underneath!"

"What?!" The hound was so startled that he trembled and quickly pulled out the assault rifle hanging from his waist.

"There are a lot of them! They are climbing up the pit wall!" Akira Asano shouted.

With a "squeak" sound, the sword was unsheathed, and he stepped in front of Ke Lan.

At this time, even Ke Lan heard the sound - it was the rustling sound of countless jointed limbs scratching on the rock wall, just like the sound of holding a handful of sand and the gravel rubbing against each other... When this As the voice gradually grew louder, a tingling feeling came to my mind involuntarily.

"It seems to be some kind of arthropod creature. It doesn't seem to be large in size or mass, but there are a lot of them." Ke Lan said. He couldn't help but think of the slitjaw worms they encountered in the glacier ruins - at that time, facing the oncoming force, They could only escape from the fierce swarm of insects. But now everyone's equipment is no longer what it used to be. Layton and Valkyrie are equipped with heavy flamethrowers, which can instantly create a wall of fire nearly a hundred meters wide and more than ten meters high. This will be impossible for the swarm. The chasm beyond.

Although force cannot solve most of the problems in the ruins, it can at least alleviate the fear in human beings' hearts - at least, in the face of the coming danger, everyone's first reaction is to raise weapons instead of looking for an escape route.

Ke Lan remembered a widely circulated meme on the Internet: All fear comes from insufficient firepower.

For example, many people are afraid of the dead, especially the "resurrected" dead people - the "Resident Evil" series of movies is undoubtedly a classic in science fiction thrillers - the scenes of zombies swarming over the mountains and plains are indeed full of oppression. Feeling, but the prerequisite for this sense of oppression is that the protagonist only has two small pistols in his hand...or only one M2 Laoganma and the bullets often jam.

That's really scary.

But what if the protagonist is sitting in the cockpit of the Gundam? That probably has nothing to do with terror. Although the adrenaline is also rushing, the reason is completely different.

If the survival game becomes a lawn mowing game, then it will basically be just fun.

"Everyone is ready -" Aya said to her subordinates. The remaining three agents looked like they were old teammates who had cooperated for many years. The division of labor was very clear: one person fired three flares in the air, clearing the huge crater. The edge was reflected like daylight; a person was holding a grenade launcher, and looking through the transparent window of the magazine, it was filled with napalm bombs with orange-red shells. They were also specially supplied by the Security Bureau and elite troops, and contained concentrated fuel. A combustion accelerant that can react on its own has also been added, allowing it to burn even in places without oxygen; as for the last person, he held a shield equipped with a shield generator at the front.

The "rustling" sound became louder and louder, like countless hands scraping a blackboard with their nails. The hairs on the back of Ke Lan's neck stood up one after another. He took a deep breath and moved slightly to the right. In one step, switch the firearm's safety from semi-automatic mode to fully automatic mode.

Ke Lan was a little regretful. It would have been nice if he had installed an under-mounted shotgun before setting off. That thing was much easier to use for killing insects than an ordinary fully automatic weapon.

"It's coming!" Hound reminded. The three of Leighton had already joined them. As for the supplies and vehicle parts that had not been transferred in time, they could not take care of that much for a while.

Finally, the first bug appeared in everyone's sight.

"This is……"

The insect's body is like a louse that has been magnified tens of thousands of times. The head and torso are only the size of a fist, but behind it is a bloated abdomen as big as a winter melon. The back and lower abdomen are covered with hard The protective carapace has a layer of uneven light green crystals attached to its surface.

Ke Lan only felt that this bug looked familiar, but he could not match the appearance of any beetle-like creature in his memory - whether it was an indigenous creature from Alpha Planet, or a "cockroach" that escaped from the Ark. , the earthly creatures that have expanded their territory on this brand new planet.