Alien Relic Hunter

"Don't worry about your broken warp engine," Hound interrupted the excited Layton, "If you have time, why not think about how to solve this big hole in front of you."

Although the erosion seeds and giant centipedes that invaded the Mukach base have been eliminated, the large hole drilled out still exists. No one is sure whether the heretical sect will use this "passage" to launch a second wave towards the base. attack.

"Do you want to chase him into the cave?" Leighton was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Idiot." The hound kicked him on the butt with a very skillful movement. "Don't chase the poor guy, do you understand? Besides, if we run into this tunnel without the support of this big guy in the sky, How many erosion seeds do you think you can kill by yourself? Five? Ten?"

"Then what should we do? We can't stay here forever, can we?" Leighton muttered, raising his head and glancing at the "Aguna Kotor" floating above the base, "This battleship can't stay stationary forever. In this place?"

"Don't worry, everyone, the higher-ups have already given a solution." A familiar hound voice came from behind. They turned around and saw that Lieutenant General Maginot had already gathered dozens of soldiers from the guard camp and two Under the protection of the "Heavy Shield Iron Control" mecha, they rushed to the edge of the giant pit.

"Magino? To be honest, I wanted to ask when we were still on the battleship, why are you here?" The hound looked at the other person with some doubts.

"Nick, you are here too. This matter... is a long story..." Maginot glanced at everyone one by one. As the "connector" between the military department and Ke Lan, Hunting God Hunting He could still recognize the members of the regiment. As for the people wearing dark gray uniforms next to them, they should be from the Security Bureau.

"Didn't the Security Bureau have some friction with Ke Lan and others? How could they get involved now? Is that battleship in the sky still related to the Security Bureau?" Maginot Center murmured, regarding the Molten Fire As a senior member of the garrison, he was completely unaware of the reconnaissance mission in the mining area.

"I've told you many times, don't call that name!" the hound said angrily, "Since it's a long story, let's make it short... I'm really puzzled. You can't even run a two-hundred-meter dash like this. You fat pig who can pant, if you can't just sit in your office, why do you come to Mukach? Lose weight? "

"I don't know either!" Magino said with a grimace. "With a transfer order from above, I was directly sent to Mukach Base. Now I am the top military commander of this base."

"You? Have you been transferred to the field force?" Hound suppressed a smile and looked at Lieutenant General Maginot's figure, "This... when marching in the field, if the car breaks down, the soldiers under your command will be able to carry it. Touch you?"

"Stop mocking me..." Maginot waved his hand and said helplessly, "What can I do about the orders from above? You also know that I am neither good at running nor good at fighting. I I don’t know why I was transferred to such a strategic location. Ni... uh, Hound, I think you have a good relationship with Ke Lan. If there is a chance, can you ask him to help me ask the people above... …”

As he spoke, Maginot suddenly lowered his voice and leaned into the hound's ear: "I know that Ke Lan has a close relationship with the crew. If he is willing to speak, he should be able to ask something."

Maginot's face was full of flattery - logically speaking, given his status, there was no need to lower his posture so low.

To take a step back, even if Hound is still serving in the army, no matter how powerful he is in fighting, his stubborn temper and repeated disobedience will make him a lieutenant general. Both of them have basically the same qualifications and military ranks. They were on the same level, and Maginot didn't have to act so groveling when he saw the hound.

But things are different now. Ke Lan seems to have established a connection with the Undead Crew Association. The status of the hound, who is closely related to Ke Lan, is naturally different from the past... Maginot knows very well that the title of general, with It's okay to scare ordinary people, but in the eyes of the Undead Crew...this is bullshit.

...maybe even worse than a fart.

If he could be transferred back to the garrison in this way, let alone pretending to be a grandson, he could just let Magino lie down and help Ke Lan lick his boots.

Of course, the premise is that it must be in a place where no one can see it.

This time, he almost lost his life, and Maginot didn't want it to happen again.

But what he didn't expect was that there was a look of confusion on Hound's face: "The crew knows... what crew knows?"

"Huh? You didn't know that the crew would..." Maginot was stunned for a moment, then realized that he seemed to have made a very serious mistake, and quickly changed his words, "It is an organization formed by the joint parliamentary group and the heads of the consortium. That’s what we often refer to as ‘the people above’.”

The orders of the Immortal Crew Association are basically issued through the joint parliamentary group. Maginot’s explanation is actually correct... From this point of view, Ke Lan is probably the only one in the God Hunting Group, and he and the Immortal Crew Association will Through direct contact...

"Then I'm afraid we won't be able to help you." Hound squinted his eyes and looked at Maginot thoughtfully, "Because we can't see those big shots at all, only because they give us orders - Oh, by the way, This time using 'Yagunaktor' to support the Mukah base is also an order from above."

"Oh..." Maginot, who wanted to change the topic quickly, nodded repeatedly, "So that's it..."

"By the way, what's the solution you just mentioned?" Seeing that Maginot seemed to have lost interest in this topic, the hound tactfully brought the conversation back to the topic.

"Oh, that's right. I just received news that a transport fleet has been organized by Ark. It will transport a large amount of building materials to Mukah Base within three days to fill this big hole. So count Including the construction time, you only need to assist in the defense for about a week before you can return to the Ark." Maginot said, "Including the battleship operated by Ke Lan."

"Okay, just one week. By the way, is the base responsible for our meals?" Hound nodded.

"Yes." Levi replied from the side, "Except for food, all supplies for the molten mine reconnaissance team are provided by Mukach Base. If you have any special requirements, as long as they are within the scope of what we can meet, we will also You can bring it up to us.”

"That's good. Eat compressed biscuits every day... Now I feel sick to my stomach when I smell the smell of peanut butter. I have to get something good to comfort my stomach." Hound said.

"Uh... Hound, you probably don't know that what I, the military commander of the base, have been eating these past two days are canned synthetic meat and bean sprouts..." Maginot said with a wry smile, "Fresh ingredients delivered in the last batch It has been exhausted for a long time. Today was originally the day when the transport convoy arrived, but the convoy was attacked by the heretic sect before the base... To be honest, before the next batch of supplies is delivered, we can only rely on emergency reserves. Come to spend the day.”

"As the local emperor here, don't you have any personal inventory?" Hound looked at him suspiciously.

"Today is my second day in office, what do you think?" Maginot shrugged.

"Okay, canned food is better than compressed biscuits that are so hard that they can break your teeth." The hound nodded, "Then arrange a place for us."

"The accommodation has been arranged. Please come with me." Levi stood up.

"The intruders have been eliminated, but there are still a lot of things to deal with in this endgame, so I won't accompany you." Maginot pointed at Levi, "This is my adjutant. If you have anything, just tell him directly. That’s it.”

"OK."

The hound watched Maginot leave in the car, and then calmly retreated to the back of the team, keeping a distance from Levi and Ayala.

Then, he opened a one-to-one communication channel with Ke Lan.

"Ke Lan, I just met that fat man from Maginot. He was transferred to the field force and is also the military officer of this base. Of course, these are not the point. The point is that he said that you and a certain crew member will We have a lot of connections, and I also want you to help him put in a good word with the crew association and transfer him back to the garrison."

"The crew will...what did Magino say?"

"He said that the Crew Association is an organization created by the joint parliamentary group and the heads of the financial groups, but his eyes kept looking away when he said this, and he looked very guilty. I suspect that he was not telling the truth."

"The crew meeting he mentioned should be the immortal crew meeting." Ke Lan was silent for a few seconds and then said.

"The Immortal Crew Club?"

"Well... what I know so far is that the highest authority organization in the Ark, whether it is the United Parliamentary Group or the Business Alliance, must obey the orders of this Undead Crew Association. In other words, they are the highest controllers of the Ark."

"I knew that guy Maginot was lying to me... By the way, have you really come into contact with this undead crew member?"

"Yes." Ke Lan did not deny, "We have had several contacts. This reconnaissance mission in the molten mine area was actually entrusted by them, but it is impossible to say that we have a close relationship with them... I I haven’t even seen the true face of any of them.”

So far, Ke Lan has had several contacts with the Undead Crew, either through the Internet, or through channels such as cyborgs or remote-controlled biochemicals. The only person who has seen the "self" is "Pope" Chiron. , but by that time Chiron was no longer a member of the Undead Crew.

So strictly speaking, he had never met any member of this mysterious organization.

"Then do you know their identities? Did a few members of the joint parliamentary group with a relatively high voice create such a thing? To suppress other members who have different opinions from them? According to me, it is really possible for them to do it. Something like this happened." Hound guessed.

"If this is the case, then Maginot is not lying." Ke Lan replied, "I do not rule out the existence of members of the Undead Crew Association in the United Parliamentary Group, but I feel that the United Parliamentary Group is just A puppet they put on the outside, a vest used to give orders."

Ke Lan has also had many thoughts about the members of the Immortal Crew Association - based on the existing intelligence, in his opinion, the reason why this group of people are unwilling to stand in front of the stage may have an inseparable reason from themselves. .

Maginot once told Ke Lan that every member of the Immortal Crew has lived for a long time - although they are not "immortal" in the true sense, their life span is at least several times that of ordinary humans. Coupled with Chiron's "mountain of meat" huge and weird body and incredible special abilities, Ke Lan has every reason to believe that the members of the Undead Crew...are not human beings.

Perhaps they were once human beings, but with their current state, looking at them from an ordinary person's perspective, they would definitely not be recognized as their own kind.

Even Ke Lan himself, when he first saw "Pope" Chiron, subconsciously regarded him as a monster similar to the Seed of Corrosion, a fusion of humans and biochemical weapons.

Ke Lan couldn't help but guess what the other members of the Immortal Crew would look like...

If they were all such monsters, then everything would make sense.

Because they gave up their human bodies, they gained a lifespan that far exceeded that of humans. It is precisely because of this that they cannot walk under the light - people can accept being ruled by their own kind, but they absolutely cannot accept their own rule. It is a monster completely different from itself.

Especially when it comes to the stance against heretical sects, some people will definitely have doubts - since our own ruler has abandoned the human body and turned into a "monster", why should we suppress another one who is trying to take advantage of the Alpha civilization? What about those who allow humans to “evolve” through technology?

Various conspiracy theories and suspicions will rapidly spread and ferment among the people, order will be subverted, and rules will be broken... When the human race falls into self-doubt and madness, destruction is not far away.

No matter what the purpose of the Undead Crew is, at least they are still maintaining the stability of human society... The actions of heretical sects are obviously more likely to push mankind to the extreme of destruction.

Ke Lan is not an immature child and does not think that righteous people must be "good" and villains must be "bad". The world is not black and white... There is nothing wrong with what the prophet said. : Human beings must evolve and become stronger in order to survive in this universe.

Ke Lan did not deny this statement, but what the prophet did was too radical and too self-centered - he didn't take ordinary people seriously at all, and all he could think about was how to transcend his race. Limitation, become the kind of thing called "god".

In his eyes, the human race is not important at all. As long as he can "become a god", everything can be discarded...

Ke Lan didn't know if the prophet himself had activated the "Holy Word". If he had really been in contact with that distant line of sight, he would have discovered that his current power was far away from the "god" mentioned in Alpha Civilization. , there is a gap that cannot be described in words.

This gap cannot be bridged by individual organisms, not even prehistoric species with nearly unlimited life spans.

"Old dog." Thinking of this, Ke Lan suddenly said seriously, "Don't mention this matter of the Immortal Crew Club in front of other people in the future."

"What's wrong? Is there any danger?" The hound was startled and said immediately, "If there is any danger, you should tell us instead of taking the responsibility alone."

"This matter becomes dangerous precisely because more people know about it... The fewer people know about it, the safer it is."

[P.S. Thanks to Emperor Tujian and the sound of rain for the 100 starting coins. 】