Alien Relic Hunter

A dull explosion came from the six-winged gray mosquito's body. Ke Lan and Asano Akira picked up the equipment that fell on the ground and continued to move forward.

"The storage area for the six-winged gray mosquito samples is Area G on the first floor of the underground icehouse. When the underground icehouse loses power, the refrigeration equipment in this area is indeed the first to stop operating." Schroeder said on the communication channel Li said, "As for highly threatening experimental samples such as erosion seeds, they are all sealed in the three zones A, B, and C on the fourth floor. These three zones have their own power generation equipment. Even if the power is cut off, the power generation equipment will The fuel stored inside can also last for more than twelve hours, ensuring that the temperature of the fourth layer will not rise."

"That means we have to solve the problem within twelve hours after the incident?"

"It is best within ten hours... We have to reserve time for secondary cleaning and repair of the circuit." Schroeder said.

"Okay, I understand... Is the fourth floor the deepest floor of the underground icehouse?" Ke Lan asked casually.

However, Schroeder's answer made him feel the urge to curse again——

"Actually, there is a fifth floor..."

"Fifth floor? Monsters such as erosion seeds are sealed in the fourth floor. So what kind of monsters and monsters are hidden in the fifth floor? Is it an SP-type mutant? Or is it the remains of a prehistoric species?" Ke Lan couldn't help but feel. With a big head, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Are these lunatics really not afraid of death...Bringing everything to the Ark? They have not considered what if one day...the things in the underground icehouse break through, Who will end them?"

"The crisis management department was set up for unexpected situations like that." Schroeder replied immediately.

"Then can you tell me what collections are on the fifth floor? If they really escape, I can be prepared."

"I'm sorry, the contents of the fifth floor are the highest-level secrets of the Ark. Without the authorization of the Undead Crew Association, I cannot reveal any relevant information to you." Ke Lan did not expect that Schroeder would reject his request this time. Requested, "But I can assure you that the containment objects on the fifth floor will never be awakened."

"What guarantee do you have?" Ke Lan asked with some dissatisfaction, "The entire institute is dead and there are less than a hundred people left. Do you think I will still believe your words that 'there will never be any problems' Are there any safety measures? This is simply outrageous. Opening the door to outrageous people is outrageous!"

"Do you know the 'Heinrich Safety Law' of the old era?" Ke Lan continued, "Behind every major accident, there are at least twenty-nine minor accidents and three hundred potential accidents. Hidden dangers...and each of these 300 potential hidden dangers has the potential to turn into the major accident we encountered today! As a member of the crisis management department, it is impossible for you not to understand this truth!"

"Actually... the fifth floor of the underground icehouse is independent of the first four floors." Schroeder hesitated for a moment, then spoke, "The so-called 'fifth floor' is actually a completely sealed alloy container. It was settled into the cooling pool of the Ark's main reactor. The surroundings of the container were filled with a large amount of flowing liquid nitrogen, and the interior maintained a low temperature of minus 200 degrees Celsius all year round... It was impossible for anything to escape in that state. come out."

Schroeder paused and added: "In fact, you can completely exclude the fifth level of the underground icehouse from the action plan..."

"If I were you, I wouldn't say it so absolutely." Ke Lan sighed helplessly. He couldn't help but think of the "Experimental Subject No. 1197" imprisoned by the Alpha Civilization under the "Bottomless Sinkhole". "Fortunately, the Alphas had already disappeared from the planet when this guy escaped. Otherwise, what awaits them would probably not be a massacre with completely unequal strength...

Ke Lan and Asano Akira turned a corner, and suddenly, dozens of autonomous robots came into their sight. These robots seemed to have been unplugged at the same time, still maintaining the same posture as when they were advancing along the street.

"Command, I found a group of lost autonomous robots." Ke Lan said, "They are in the second fork on the right side of Galileo Avenue..."

Ke Lan said as he sent the captured images back to the command center - non-living things like robots cannot be "memeified"

Risk of infection, as long as you don't check their operation records, these things are "relatively safe".

"Judging from the body number, this is the second batch of autonomous robots to be released into the contaminated area. Their original mission should be to enter the underground icehouse and repair the damaged circuits... According to the images you sent back, we Preliminary judgment shows that this robot team may have encountered a high-power electromagnetic pulse attack."

While Schroeder was talking, Ke Lan had already walked up to a robot, opened the cover at the back of the neck, and connected the data cable to the access socket.

"The chip has been completely burned, and no records have been left." Ke Lan said, "I also think it is a high-power EMP... But then again, among the indigenous creatures of Alpha Planet, there are some with similar abilities. There are quite a few species, and if possible, I need a list of the underground icehouses for comparison."

"The list of underground icehouses is in my mind." Schroeder replied. "Among all the contained objects, there are a total of twenty-seven species of indigenous creatures with the ability to create electromagnetic pulses. Six artifacts of the Alpha civilization found in the ruins Eleven types, fifty-seven of which are inanimate dead objects, and four are unnatural biological weapons."

"There should be a mutant species of erosion that can release EMP, right?" Ke Lan said as he took out a magazine with a yellow and black warning mark from his backpack and inserted it into the chest. In the magazine pouch.

"Two of the four biochemical weapons I mentioned are mutants of the Seed of Corrosion, and the other two are undifferentiated semi-finished products that are not threatening. I have already passed on the specific information to you."

Looking at the dense list that appeared in front of him, Ke Lan smiled bitterly and said: "The search range is really large. I know that the institute must have some specimens of indigenous creatures, but I didn't expect there to be so many."

Although Ke Lan said that there are many types of indigenous creatures with the ability to produce electromagnetic pulses, this "many" is only a relative term - in fact, including various rare subspecies, there are only more than thirty in total. There are several indigenous creatures with this ability. It turned out that there were twenty-seven species in this underground icehouse alone, almost all of them.

Ke Lan couldn't help but be curious about the capacity of this underground icehouse that "only heard of its name" but had never been seen by outsiders.

On the Ark, the area for human habitation and activities actually only accounts for about one-fifth of the entire internal space of the Ark. Even so, the vast majority of human beings will not be able to visit every corner of this one-fifth of the area in their lifetime, let alone the remaining four-fifths.

Ke Lan couldn't help but have a thought flash through his mind - the Undead Crew Association, the Crisis Management Department, the Underground Ice Storage... Just on this colonial ship built by humans, how many secrets did he not know?

He always felt that there was a vague answer deep in his memory, but whenever he was about to touch the answer, an invisible force would push his consciousness out, so that he would never be able to see what was hidden. The truth behind the fog.

Why do I have this feeling... Is this also due to the broken stone tablet?

However, what he glimpsed in the blurred and fragmented memory fragments... was clearly the outline of Noah's Ark, and the stone tablet was obviously made much earlier than the time when humans on earth proposed the "Ark Plan", even if Alpha No matter how advanced the civilization’s technology is, it’s impossible to predict what will happen tens of thousands of years from now, right?

wrong! Ke Lan suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding: If the stone tablet is an information storage device like a computer hard drive, then why can't it also be a recording device? When the Ark landed on Planet Alpha, this stone tablet should still be lying intact in the "sarcophagus" of the glacier ruins. With the technology of the Alpha civilization, it was completely possible to scan the entire ship without anyone noticing. Noah's Ark and record this information.

Even though the Alpha people have disappeared for tens of thousands of years, many of the automatic equipment they left behind in the ruins are still in operation. If something as massive as the Ark landed on the surface of the planet, it is estimated that the detection equipment on the entire Alpha planet will be triggered.

Although this explanation is a bit far-fetched, it is very reasonable - the function of this stone tablet is probably similar to the "chronology" of mankind.

At this moment, Akira Asano's voice came back from the front: "Did you find anything else?"

Only then did Ke Lan realize that he had stood there stupidly for dozens of seconds, and quickly responded: "No, I was just thinking about something and was a little distracted."

"Attendant? If necessary, you can open the cover on the inside of the arm armor. The control buttons of the automatic injector are hidden inside. Those drugs can help you." Schroeder immediately said in the communication channel, "Don't worry, these are all It is a clinically tested product and the side effects are almost negligible.”

"Actually, it can't be regarded as being distracted. I was just checking the information you sent me." Ke Lan said, "But I found that this is a waste of time... If the monsters that killed these robots don't appear before us In the field of vision, then this information has no meaning; and if it jumps out, then there is no need for us to guess what it is through this pile of information..."

"Uh... that seems to be the case." Schroeder was obviously stunned for a moment, "If the specimens that broke through the containment did not cause any obstacles to you, the follow-up cleanup team will be responsible for solving them... We really don't need to This is a waste of time at this juncture."

Even though there is a high probability that these biological specimens have been infected by the "meme", as long as Ke Lan and the others can deal with the main body of the "meme", then the "sub-memes" carried by these infected host carriers will naturally It will also lose effectiveness.

Ke Lan simply started running and headed straight for the experimental building in the central area.

According to conventional combat ideas, when entering such an area where dangers exist everywhere, the most correct method should be to advance step by step and slowly, cleaning and emptying room by room, building by building, and street by street. However, this requires a lot of manpower and time. , if Ke Lan and Asano Akira want to empty out the entire institute headquarters, it is estimated that a month will not be enough.

They can only choose to be reckless and head straight to the target location.

If there is something blocking the road - for example, the long-haired beast that suddenly broke through the glass wall of a restaurant and blocked the two people in front of them, well, to be precise, it should be a "meme" A long-haired beast of burden that mutates after infection.

The long-haired beast of burden is a plant-eating mammal that lives in the cold tundra of Planet Alpha. It is one of the few indigenous creatures on Planet Alpha that can be considered "docile". Many exile settlements are even partially located in cold zones. Some long-haired beasts of burden are domesticated at transit stations and military bases to be used as draft animals. They are very useful both for carrying things and as mounts. The only drawback is probably that the meat of this creature is inedible - in order to neutralize the planet Alpha. Those highly poisonous plants, the long-haired beasts of burden, will secrete a substance that is also highly toxic to humans. This substance will spread to every muscle of the long-haired beasts along with body fluids and blood.

As long as a few milligrams of this substance enter the human body's circulatory system, it can only kill a person.

However, as long as you don't think about eating meat, this animal is very safe for humans. Even if you rush up and kick it, it will not fight back.

It's just that... the long-haired beast that appeared in front of Ke Lan and Asano Akira obviously had nothing to do with the word "tame".

[P.S. A statement with a strong desire to survive: Readers of my novels, I think most people should know the origin of the concept of "memetic contagion", but I kindly ask everyone to try not to mention the S that begins with it when commenting. In the name of the foundation, this series of works has been characterized as "insole". The novels originally based on this theme at Qidian have either been renamed or removed from the shelves. I don't want to be blocked from books and chapters for this reason...

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