Alien Relic Hunter

Currently, in Alpha Planet and nearby planets and space, humans have discovered a total of more than thirty super creatures that can be classified as "prehistoric species". Most of these thirty prehistoric species have died. , leaving only corpses like magnificent ruins.

The remaining small part that survives is basically in a dormant or dormant state and will not pose a threat to the Ark for the time being.

None of these thirty or so prehistoric species have a similar appearance. Each one of them is a unique individual. Therefore, it can be said that more than thirty "prehistoric species" creatures have been discovered so far.

But no matter how different their shapes are, whether they are alive or not, these prehistoric species all have this common characteristic.

That's big.

All creatures that can be called prehistoric species are extremely large...the kind that are far beyond the scope of normal creatures. With the current level of human biology, it is impossible to explain how such a huge creature can exist in this universe. survive in it.

A whale-shaped behemoth like Leviathan with a body length of 80,000 meters can only be ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the more than 30 "prehistoric species".

Those creatures that live in the gravity-free environment of space are easy to say, but those living in the prehistoric species on Alpha Planet are difficult to explain - let alone the atmospheric oxygen content of Alpha Planet and the Earth's Cenozoic Era, including Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus. It is difficult to breed creatures of this size. The weight of these prehistoric species alone is enough to crush the organs in their bodies to pieces.

Unless these super creatures can be like the Ark, with tens of thousands of anti-gravity devices installed on the entire ship, they can barely gain the ability to move around on this planet.

Ke Lan searched in his memory. As far as he knew of the prehistoric creatures, none seemed to have a body length less than 10,000 meters... If such a behemoth wanted to be sealed in an icehouse, then Schroeder How big should the "sealed container" in your mouth be?

"Tell me first, is this prehistoric beast... dead or alive?" Ke Lan took a deep breath and asked.

"...alive." Schroeder hesitated for half a second and said.

"Damn it!" After hearing the other party's answer, a curse word immediately jumped out of Ke Lan's mouth, "A living-primordial species! How did you get this thing onto the Ark?!"

"I don't know." Schroeder answered honestly - he really didn't know that the contents of the fifth floor of the underground icehouse had been sealed there before he joined the crisis management department. When he learned the news, he was even more shocked than Ke Lan.

"Which prehistoric species is in the icehouse? Is it one of the more than thirty that have been made public... or is it a secret species that has not been disclosed?"

"It's 'Ying Long'."

"'Yinglong'?!"

The name Yinglong first came from a book called "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" during the Warring States Period of China. In this book, many bizarre mythical creatures are recorded, and "Yinglong" is the more famous of these mythical creatures. A sort of.

The shape of "Yinglong" in ancient books and oral myths is very close to the extremely famous fantasy creature "Chinese Dragon" - antlers, a bull's head, a snake body and five sharp eagle claws. This fantasy creature is a fantasy creature that every Chinese person Even today, many companies or organizations founded by Chinese descendants on Ark often use dragon-shaped totems as their trademarks or emblems.

And Yinglong, compared to the common Chinese dragon, has a pair of huge colorful wings.

As for the prehistoric species "Yinglong", it is a prehistoric species found deep in the "Ultra Sea" in the south pole of Alpha Star.

It was a snake-like creature with a body length of more than 20,000 meters, entrenched in the deepest part of the Great Trench in the center of the polar sea, the "Eye of Hell" abyss.

When this prehistoric species was first discovered, a Mexican expert proposed to name it "Kukulkan" - this is the name of Quetzalcoatl in Mayan mythology, but more than half of the exploration team at that time The experts were all Chinese. After several discussions, they finally gave this ancient species "Yinglong" a name that is very Chinese mythological.

This prehistoric species is covered in huge scales, but on its back about one-third of the way from its head, a pair of huge wings grows - the exploration team once made a rough measurement of the size of the wings. , the conclusion is that if this pair of wings is fully unfolded, the area on one side is equivalent to the size of three East Nine Districts put together!

At first, the exploration team thought it was just a pair of fins, the external movement organs of Yinglong. But when the unmanned submersible equipped with a visible light camera approached Yinglong, it was discovered that the wings were actually covered with things that looked like bird feathers - although each fiber of these feathers was as thick as a human's arms, but From a distance, its shape looks exactly like a bird's feather.

A giant beast that lived in the abyss of the deep sea actually had feathers on its body - if you told this, it would be like a joke.

Experts from the exploration team immediately came up with two conclusions: Some people believe that the pair of wings may not be a locomotive organ, but a feeding organ. The ones on them are not feathers, but an organ that can filter seawater like gills. The fish and plankton caught and intercepted by the "feathers" will become the food of the dragon.

Others believe that Yinglong is not a marine creature at all, but its body happened to sink into the "Eye of Hell" abyss.

That's right... the Yinglong discovered by the exploration team was actually a corpse.

This corpse has been sinking in the abyss for tens of thousands of years, but there is no sign of decay at all... Not only that, Yinglong's corpse has been releasing toxins to the outside world, so that the "eye of hell" The abyss became a sea area without any signs of life.

This is truly a "death place".

"Isn't Yinglong dead? And its corpse should still be in the 'Eye of Hell' abyss in the extreme sea. How could it end up in the underground icehouse of the institute?" Ke Lan and Akira Asano continued while continuing He asked as he hurried on.

"I'm requesting permission from the crew...please wait." Schroeder replied.

"Fuck you, if you delay it any longer, I'll probably see that thing appear in front of me with my own eyes! It's already here, and you're still hiding it. Are you seriously ill?" Ke Lan couldn't bear it. He cursed.

"Sorry... because the confidentiality level involved is too high, I can only... eh?" Schroeder was stunned for a moment. Before he submitted the application for opening permissions, he suddenly received a message from the Undead Crew.

The content of the message was very brief, with only two words: "Approval."

Schroeder couldn't help but beads of sweat broke out on his forehead. He subconsciously looked up at the surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling - it seemed that at least more than half of the members of the Undead Crew were watching everything that happened here. Every move he makes is probably seen by them.

Schroeder knew in his heart that if he could not handle this matter well, it was still unknown whether he could continue to sit in the position of chief of the crisis management department, and whether his life could be saved, not to mention whether he could continue to sit down.

Although he was not afraid of death, when he thought that the "big men" who controlled the fate of the Ark and all mankind were staring at him, an inexplicable sense of nervousness could not help but surge out of his heart.

Even when he faced off against the SP-type mutant that killed half of the team, he had never been so nervous.

"The application has been approved." Schroeder said. He couldn't help turning his head and glanced at the other people who were still standing not far away.

Although the faces of the experts on the countermeasures team are still very pale, their mood has eased slightly - most of them are people who know the secrets of the underground icehouse. Only the students from the newly promoted research institutes and affiliated colleges are still at this moment. In confusion and fear, but due to authority issues, they did not dare to ask questions to their division commanders. (The division commander here refers to "teachers and elders", not the division commander in the army, please note.)

As for the Hunting God Hunting Group, except for the middle-aged man named "Hound", who was leaning on the back of the chair with a solemn expression and meditating, the others were discussing something in a low voice - the main thing they discussed The thing is the name of the "Undead Crew Club".

The name "Immortal Crew" has appeared twice in the phone calls between Ke Lan and Schroeder. Even if they knew nothing about it at first, they have already smelled the unusual meaning behind the name. Significance: When it comes to the top secrets of the prehistoric species, he did not even mention the United Parliamentary Group, the highest authority on the "surface", but said that it needed the approval of the "Undead Crew Association". This is already very revealing.

Judging from the attitude shown by the undead crew, it is obvious that they have no intention of avoiding this group of "civilians". They do not mind at all that their existence and the secrets of the underground icehouse are heard by these "unrelated people".

Perhaps the crew intends to use these people to contain Ke Lan, an important figure. After all, according to the intelligence collected, Ke Lan seems to attach great importance to this group of companions who have been with him through life and death... Schroeder thought .

Not only Schroeder is thinking about this problem, Hound is also having a headache about it - he knows very well that if everyone in the Hunting God Hunting Group knows about the existence of the "Undead Crew", it will inevitably involve a series of troubles in the future. during the incident. The reason why Ke Lan wanted to hide this matter from them before was also based on this consideration, but now, these mysterious guys are obviously planning to show off their cards...

No, this can't be considered a showdown. To be precise, it should be the entire God Hunting Group tied to a chariot that will never turn around.

This is a life-saving job, and it is a life-threatening job.

In fact, Hound knew in his heart that as long as Ke Lan was still a member of the Hunting God Hunting Group, this day would come sooner or later, but neither he nor Ke Lan expected that it would come so quickly and so unexpectedly.

A few hours ago, he had just promised Ke Lan to keep the related secrets. But now, the core members of the entire hunting group already know about the existence of the "Undead Crew Association".

"It's so damn... interesting." The hound put his little finger into his nostril, dug it hard, and then flicked the pulled thing towards Schroeder's back.

"Damn it...is this guy named Schroeder deliberately trying to drag us down?" He thought to himself, "Does he want to use us to tie up Ke Lan?"

Just when he was thinking this, Ivan and Layton had already approached Lin Qiming, and the latter explained to them in a low voice.

Lin Qiming didn't reveal much to them, but it was enough for Ivan and others to digest for a while. They first looked at each other with complicated eyes, and then fell into silence in unison.

"Any ordinary person living on the Ark would have a similar reaction when they hear the news." Hound curled his lips, "After all, no one would have thought that the person who truly holds the highest authority on the Ark is not the United Council... but They are a group of things that have lived for hundreds of years, and it is no longer certain whether they are even considered 'human beings'."

Of course, he did not say this thought out loud, but stared at Schroeder without saying a word.

Schroeder was leaning forward at this moment, putting all his weight on his hands that were supporting the edge of the console. His brain was running rapidly, thinking about how to convey the information to Ke Lan in as concise and concise a way as possible.

"What is sealed in the fifth floor of the underground icehouse is not actually Yinglong, but a living egg - Yinglong's egg."

"Yinglong's eggs?" Ke Lan's footsteps paused briefly, "Didn't you say that the breeding behavior of prehistoric species has never been discovered?"

"So this is top secret... If the public knew that the wild species could reproduce, do you know how much panic it would cause?" Schroeder said.

"I don't think so. The incubation period for a creature like the prehistoric species is probably longer than a human lifetime, right? I even doubt whether human civilization can persist until the day when this 'egg' hatches successfully. "Ke Lan's tone became slightly calmer, "Let's continue talking about how this thing came about."

"The exploration team that discovered Ying Long unexpectedly discovered signs of life activity when they went deep into the 'Eye of Hell' abyss for the fifth time - that time, the unmanned submersible approached an unprecedented two hundred meters. The dark green venom secreted by the dragon corpse has almost blocked the entire field of view of the visible light camera...but the sonar of the deep submersible heard a weak, but very stable heartbeat."

"Is this the egg?"

"Yes... when this egg was discovered, it was attached under a scale on Yinglong's tail, and was wrapped in white fascia. At the bottom of the fascia, there were three tough fleshy umbilical cords and Yinglong's Physically connected.”

"This doesn't mean that the egg must have been laid by Yinglong, right? It could also be some kind of parasite, right? As for the three meat tubes, they are not necessarily umbilical cords. Maybe they are used by this kind of parasitic organism to absorb The feeding organ that nourishes the host.”

"But radiographic imaging found embryonic larvae that were very similar to Yinglong's corpse inside the eggs." Schroeder concluded.