Alien Relic Hunter

Even the reconnaissance team can see the enemy below, and Ke Lan, whose mind is completely connected to the battleship, can naturally see it too.

Not only can he see, but he can also use the battleship's own auxiliary devices to lock on all targets at the same time - a total of 2,615 enemy units, including 1,190 humans, 1,421 "containers" and mature seeds of erosion... and , four "unknown targets".

The "operation manual" of this battleship seemed to have been input into Ke Lan's mind along with the huge flow of information, although he was still in a state of knowing nothing about this battleship before connecting to the console. But when he started to actually operate it, everything became easier.

It was as if he had been operating this battleship for years.

It's as if this is not a battleship, but a car that he has personally assembled and driven countless times: the tightness of the accelerator and clutch, the angle and number of turns of the steering wheel, the gearbox of the gearbox and the speed of the engine... everything He doesn't need to think about everything, or even pay attention to the readings on the dial. He can complete a series of extremely difficult operations just by relying on muscle memory.

If the integration of man and sword is the highest state of swordsmanship, then "the integration of man and ship" is probably the highest state of ship maneuvering, right?

Of course, the ship maneuvering mentioned here refers to "controlling the battleship", and it is definitely not what players are thinking about in those games with human-like battleships.

Although Ke Lan's five senses have been completely isolated from the surroundings, he can hear what the hounds and others are saying through the observation perspective inside the battleship. If possible, of course he also wants to annihilate these enemies in the molten mine area.

There are no innocent people in heretical sects. Whether they are those who join voluntarily or those who are forced to join under coercion and inducement, since they have become a member of this organization, their hands must be stained with the blood of the same kind—— Ke Lan saw a piece of information in the archives of the Security Bureau: if ordinary people want to join a heretical sect, after passing the preliminary review, they must submit a "voucher" in order to officially obtain the status of a "congregant".

The weight of this "letter of surrender" also determines the person's high status after joining the heretical sect.

The basic surrender certificate is to hunt down an exile who is unwilling to "convert" to the great god. The simplest one is to capture slaves who go out to collect food... Of course, if you have sufficient resources, you can even go to a certain place. In the exile camp, people "spend money" to buy a slave back, and then offer it as a "human sacrifice" to the great god.

As for the more advanced certificates of surrender, they are to attack various strongholds and transfer stations of Ark, and use the "kills" obtained in the battle as their own certificates of surrender... As for the most advanced certificates of surrender, they naturally have to be those who are lurking. Those important characters who are at the top of Ark and carry out the conspiracy secretly, but the identities of the latter are rarely disclosed. Even if some exposed chess pieces are cleared by the Security Bureau, they will arrange other charges for these people.

Killing these people will not make Ke Lan feel any guilt in his heart.

"Weapon system...poof...why it's all gray..."

When the idea of ​​"attack" came to Ke Lan's mind, a dense list appeared in front of him instantly. Although the names of the weapons on the battleship were automatically translated into human languages, they were all Ke Lan's names. The names were incomprehensible, but just by looking at them, he knew that these things were real "big killers."

For example, the "Star Splitting Position Generation Device" ranked first and the "Gravity Distortion Anchor" ranked second. Although Ke Lan had no idea what the actual effects of these weapons were, he followed the association of these unclear names. A large amount of cold sweat broke out on his back instantly.

The "astral disintegration stance"... sounds like it should be specially used to deal with planets? Then this thing should be similar to the "Star Destroyer Cannon" commonly seen in science fiction works, right?

I just don’t know what level of stars this thing can “annihilate”…

During the trial in the bottomless sinkhole, Ke Lan knew that the Alpha civilization was equipped with "star-annihilating weapons" - if Ke Lan's "trial mission" failed, the star-annihilating weapons would be activated and destroy the "Crown of Ashes" "Destroyed together with the asteroid.

The asteroid "Ashes" is not an ordinary asteroid. After being devoured many times, its size and mass are already very close to the threshold of a dwarf planet. To destroy such a star is as difficult as destroying the Earth. The satellite moon had one-third of its volume blown away.

(The dwarf planet data here are based on Pluto, which is one-sixth the size of the moon and one-third the mass of the moon.)

But the civilization that built this ancient battleship is obviously stronger than the Alpha civilization. Their "star-killing weapons" should not only be used on asteroids or dwarf planets.

Ke Lan feels that this thing must be able to blow up a planet like Alpha Star. If it can even kill stars, then this thing should be regarded as a strategic weapon even for this third civilization. .

However, there are 45 weapons in the entire list, and each weapon's name is gray - that is, none of them are in a usable state.

After digesting part of the information flow, Ke Lan has already guessed why the Alpha civilization "soaked" this battleship in the magma pool - all the weapons on the battleship require a massive amount of energy to activate, and they can be charged in a conventional way. , even if the entire civilization's wealth is wiped out, the battleship's energy cannot be fully charged. The "Astral Splitting Stand Generation Device", the number one weapon, requires 90% of the energy in the full state to activate once...

So Alpha Civilization simply sank the battleship into the magma pool and let it absorb Alpha Star's geothermal energy... But what made Ke Lan a little speechless was that this thing had been soaked in the magma pool for 10,000 years at least. , the charging progress is only a pitiful 6%...

Based on this efficiency, if you want to launch a "Star Destroyer Cannon", wouldn't you have to soak in a magma pool for 150,000 years?

But then again, compared with the lifespan of a planet that can easily be billions of years, 150,000 years can only be regarded as a passing time... But for a civilization, 150,000 years is too much. A little longer.

At least the Alpha civilization could not wait until the battleship was fully charged.

Ke Lan looked at the weapon with the smallest energy consumption on the list, which also required 10% of the energy. He always felt that even the least powerful weapon on this battleship would be enough to uproot the entire molten mine area.

"There are no usable weapons... Then we can probably only use the hull of the battleship as a weapon and use physical attacks... Then triggering a high-intensity earthquake should be able to kill all the heretical sects in the mining area... But this way First, the old dogs and the others without the protection of the light curtain would probably be shocked to death inside the battleship..." Ke Lan quickly thought about the countermeasures, "If weapons are not effective, then other things..."

Ke Lan focused on another "tool list" that popped up.

A name caught his attention - "Bio-Organic Matter Extractor".

Although Ke Lan couldn't determine where this thing came from and what it did, he found that this thing could actually lock on 2615 targets at the same time...

Taking it literally, it seems that organic matter can be "collected" from living organisms... So if the collection efficiency is maximized, can people be sucked into a skeleton instantly?

Moreover, the energy consumed to activate this thing is almost negligible for ancient warships. The only limitation is that the extractor only has three storage units. That is to say, before the organic matter extracted last time is "digested" , he only had three engine sessions.

"Anyway, there are three chances, let's just treat it as an experiment..." With this idea in mind, Ke Lan started the extractor for the 2516 targets that were locked. As for the power of the extractor, for insurance purposes, he directly set it to the maximum...

In an instant, 2516 "threads" invisible to the naked eye were "shot" from the battleship, connecting all the locked targets and extractors - the next second, these invisible dotted lines were already covered with crimson Replaced by a solid line!

At that time, the extremely fine flesh and blood was transported to the storage unit along these lines, and the targeted target had all the blood drained from his body before he could even cry out before death. "Organic matter"...

Human beings or "vessels" can still more or less have a broken skeleton riddled with holes, while those boneless eroded species are like slugs that have been evaporated by high temperatures, leaving only pools of clear water. The liquid was vaporized by the hot rocks in the blink of an eye and mixed into the rising smoke.

Although Ke Lan had been mentally prepared to a certain extent, the actual effect of the extractor still made him lose consciousness for a moment - this thing, used to deal with living creatures, is clearly a super killer weapon that cannot be defended. None of the exiles wearing power armor survived... They were like a can that had been cut open from the inside. The flesh and blood pulled by an unknown force directly drilled a hole in the surface of the hard composite armor!

As for the rest of the reconnaissance team, they fell into unparalleled shock. The silence lasted for a full two minutes before Layton asked in a difficult voice: "What just happened... did anyone see clearly?"

"I'm not sure..." Ivan whispered, holding the wrist of his other hand tightly with his prosthetic limb, "I seemed to see a thin red line appearing on those people... and then, Their skin, hair, flesh, and internal organs all disappeared...only their skeletons remained..."

"Only the skeletons of humans are left, and those monsters don't even have any scum left..." Zhuoligetu added.

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When Ke Lan came to his senses from his brief absence, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief - only 2,512 of the 2,516 targets were eliminated, and four "unknown targets" escaped.

But even though these four unknown targets are not dead yet, their bodies have been shattered and can no longer maintain their original shapes. Ke Lan noticed that one of the four unknown targets was actually wearing the elite weapon. The squad's standard armor.

Did he accidentally injure a friendly force? No, no, it's not a friendly force - the body of the "soldier" has been broken into two parts, including the armor and body. All the organic matter in the lower half of the body has been lost, and only the upper body still retains a part of flesh and blood. …

A normal person would be dead long ago after being seriously injured by this, but the upper body of this "soldier" is still struggling and twisting, and fleshy tentacles stained with blood and filth are constantly growing out of the sections of the body. Trying to fill those shocking wounds.

His upper body was like wood eaten by termites, covered with dense holes, and the right side of his chest collapsed completely. A large amount of blood flowed out of the broken body, and was then covered by the ground. evaporation.

He was indeed one of the soldiers left by Ke Lan on the outskirts of the mining area, but he was no longer a human being at this moment... Ke Lan couldn't help but feel sad: It seemed that the support base had fallen.

Just when Ke Lan focused his attention on the mutilated body, the other party's head turned slightly to one side, and his eyes behind the transparent mask met Ke Lan's gaze.

"Can you feel my sight?" Ke Lan asked tentatively. You must know that he is currently using the battleship's external observation system to peer into the entire mining area. If the other party can feel his sight, then his consciousness You should be able to communicate with it too.

As expected, the "soldier" also used his consciousness to say to Ke Lan: "Why... your consciousness was not swallowed up by the battleship?"

"Are you... a prophet?" Ke Lan felt that he could basically determine the identity of this guy. "You are his substitute, right. There are three other people, and they are all the same... You are really willing to give up. It’s expensive, we only sent out one stand-in during the trip to the Sick Village, but this time we sent out four at once.”

However, the person on the other side did not take Ke Lan's words, but said to himself: "You can't survive... If you want to completely restart the system, even if you drain all your mental power, it won't be enough. You should now He is a living dead person..."

The prophet's stand-in suddenly paused, and after two seconds, he suddenly said: "You must have integrated the complete 'holy object', otherwise, there is no reason for you to still maintain your own consciousness!"

"What exactly is the holy object?" Ke Lan asked. He didn't intend to tell the other party what happened on the Greek ship. Since this guy likes to guess, let him guess. He is not the kind of chatty villain in movies who has to tell all his secrets before taking action - most of those people have an almost perverted desire for expression, and now, Ke Lan just wants him to die. .

"Where did you find the complete sacred object? Hasn't the semi-finished product been destroyed?" The substitute's consciousness was filled with anger and confusion.

Hmm... It seems that this guy's stand-in does not have the ability to share information in real time. Otherwise, before the stand-in was killed last time, the prophet should have known that the half-finished product was still alive and above the sick village.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the special environment of the sick village, or the abilities of Chiron, Zeluo, and the puppet individuals interfered with the avatar's information sharing ability... You should be able to find out this by asking Zeluo after you return.

As for the pile of rotten meat in front of me, I probably can't ask anything more.

For their sake, it was not worth wasting another opportunity to use the extractor. Ke Lan thought about it and began to slowly lower the floating height of the battleship.

At the same time, he reminded the entire reconnaissance team to be prepared for impact through the sound transmission device in the battleship.

"Ke Lan, you...what are you going to do?" Hound asked with some horror.

"If it just wipes across the ground, it shouldn't cause a high-intensity earthquake, right?" Ke Lan said to the stand-in.

"Wait a minute! I want to make a deal with you. Even if you want to destroy my substitute, let me say something first-"

Before the prophet's substitute could finish his words, the bottom of the battleship had already touched the ground.

A huge roar suddenly sounded.

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