Alien Relic Hunter

If this world were a novel, then the "Memetic Crisis" could only be regarded as an unexpected episode... However, this episode almost ended the main plot, and Ke Lan also Gain some very important information... and power through it.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be called an episode. It’s more appropriate to compare it to a side mission independent of the main characters. It’s also a challenge-level mission that is mandatory and impossible to give up. It has extremely high difficulty and failure penalties. , but at the same time, you will also receive extremely generous rewards after completing the task.

The bright red blood seeped out from the pores on the back of Ke Lan's hand, and instantly condensed into a pair of exaggerated gauntlets. As Ke Lan thought, the gauntlets quickly melted like ice and snow, and he retracted his hand along the original path. in vivo.

This "living armor" should be regarded as the most important "reward" he received from this side mission, but what made him a little uneasy was... no one knew what this "reward" came with. What kind of side effects does it have.

Even the Undead Crew Association has extremely limited information about this living armor.

Ke Lan believed that Pan had not concealed the information related to the living armor from him - according to the style of the Undead Crew, if they could not let themselves know those things, then they would either choose to be the Riddler, or directly tell themselves "authority" "Insufficient" rather than making up a false story to excuse oneself...

This approach may seem a bit "pretentious", but there is really nothing they can do about it. Ke Lan even has a feeling that the organization of the Undead Crew has been separated from the entire human race on the Ark. They have jumped out of the "Ark" chessboard... Although from a macro perspective, they are still part of the chessboard. But for the people on the Ark, they already have the ability to control everything.

With the original technological level and development speed of human beings, they should not have such abilities... Even if the technology of Alpha Civilization is included, Ke Lan still feels that it is not enough.

It has only been a short fifty years since the Ark landed on Alpha. Counting the early stages of exploration, it has only been nearly seventy years since humans came into contact with the legacy of Alpha civilization.

Seventy years is almost a lifetime for a person, but for a civilization, it is like a fleeting moment.

An idea suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's head that he himself couldn't believe: Is there anyone among the Undead Crew who has obtained the complete inheritance of Alpha Civilization? Or maybe even bolder... they found the surviving Alpha and through some means, let him join the crew?

An indescribable weird feeling occupied Ke Lan's heart. In the dark, he felt that he was very close to the truth.

Ke Lan opened the notebook on the table. It was Zofia's personal computer, but she didn't know when the eldest lady included her facial password. Ke Lan's face just flashed in front of the camera. Originally, The locked computer screen suddenly lit up.

The window at the top of the screen was a plan for exploring Yagunaktor. It seemed that the eldest lady was having a headache about this matter before she arrived.

Ke Lan had previously notified Zofia through Fleet Zero's network, asking her to prepare for the development of new ruins. However, judging from this almost blank plan, the actual progress is better than "New Folder" So a little bit.

After all, the business of the Soma Consortium originally hardly involved the field of ruin exploration, and the few employees of the consortium with field experience were all wiped out in the "Leviathan Incident". Even those who were lucky enough to follow Ke Lan Supervisor Manstein and his female secretary, who escaped, failed to escape the assassination of the heretical sect.

Such a large Soma consortium, at this moment, cannot even provide a few highly qualified and trustworthy expatriates.

The Soma Consortium is not as wealthy as the Ye family and can directly rent a complete consortium-level hunting group. This kind of "industry miracle" achieved by throwing money at it can only be achieved by a behemoth like Ye's.

Although the total assets on the Soma Consortium's books are very large, in fact, the liquidity is not abundant - a qualified businessman will not keep money in the bank... they will only use the money to invest and use it. Use this money to earn more money and keep growing the snowball of capital. Instead of acting like a miser, guarding the pile of gold coins that can never give birth to babies.

Even if the board of directors is willing to release all the liquid assets in the name of the consortium to Zofia, it will be difficult for them to pull together a qualified exploration team before the official opening of the "Aguna Kotor" ruins - starting from scratch. , if you want to create a hunting group with the ability to explore S-class ruins, the three elements of funds, time, and resources are indispensable, but the Soma Consortium failed to pass even one of these elements.

According to Zofia's original idea, she planned to hand over all the business of exploring the ruins to Ke Lan, and let the God Hunting Group fill the shortcomings in the bucket. In view of the relationship between the two, even if the God Hunting Group The group is not an asset belonging to the Soma Consortium, but as long as Zofia can inherit the family and the consortium, her and Ke Lan's children will naturally become the common owners of the two families.

This was also the main purpose of the marriage between the royal families of Europe in the old era - since it was impossible to annex each other's country through war, then the two countries had the same master in the name of blood.

This idea is very good, and Ke Lan will not feel repulsed... But the problem is that although their hunting group is a consortium-level hunting group in name, its actual scale is not as good as those of the old company-level hunting groups.

To put it nicely, they are following the cutting-edge route of "fewer but better"; to put it worse, it is simply because they are "poor".

But this is also a time when there is no choice. After all, Ke Lan and the others started from scratch. Even the deposit for registering the hunting group had to be "borrowed" from Zofia. The problem of the headquarters building was even more "half-sold and half-given" by Ye. It has to be solved that there is no complete training system for newcomers, and there is not enough capital to poach recruits from other hunting groups - just as Zofia's uncle Lu Che said at the beginning: Don't look at Ke Lan and the others who are in the limelight now, as long as they If an accident occurs to this main force during a certain exploration, this consortium-level hunting group will collapse in an instant.

The Hunting God Hunting Group is not so much a hunting group, but more like a "fixed team" composed of Ke Lan and the others. Although this kind of fixed team is very strong, it does not have any risk-taking ability - those who have a profound background For the veteran hunting group, if the main team is buried in the ruins, although it will inevitably be injured, there is a high probability that it will be able to recover. But for Ke Lan and the others, one mistake may lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

"There are few people... there are still too few people." Ke Lan was thinking and tapping the table gently. It has been a while since the God Hunting Group was established. During this time, it has also completed several high-level missions. , the ranking is soaring all the way, but looking at the size of the hunting group, apart from the logistics staff, there are only two more people, Qin Zhao and Valentina.

The guy nicknamed Thirty-Three was quite capable, and his personality matched Ke Lan's temper... But Ke Lan was not sure whether he could be brought into the group.

This kind of person seems to be very talkative on the surface, but in fact he is extremely stubborn on the inside - in this regard, he is quite similar to that guy Lao Gou.

"Yes, there are too few people." Zofia's voice came from behind. Ke Lan turned his head and realized that just when he was browsing the files, the eldest lady had woken up and was wrapped in a thin as Cicada Wing's nightgown was sitting on the edge of the big bed in a somewhat strange posture.

Her shoulders, arms and chest were full of traces of the "fierce battle" just now, which made Ke Lan feel a little embarrassed - was she really that rough just now?

However, the eldest lady did not seem to care about this, and continued to talk about the topic just now: "I supported you in establishing the hunting group precisely to fill the gap in the Soma family in this field... But now the problem is that you There are really too few people, Yagunaktor is a very big cake, and the Hunting God Hunting Group alone cannot eat it."

"You're right, that's why I want the Soma Consortium to get involved..." Ke Lan glanced at the clearly visible red tooth marks on Zofia's snow-white neck with some guilt, and moved away embarrassedly He lost his sight and said, "At least, the good news will not go to outsiders."

"But the problems we encounter are the same as yours... Yagunaktor appeared too suddenly. Even if the Soma Consortium now tilts all its available resources in this direction, it will be difficult to reach the level of Ye's Level." Zofia sighed.

"It seems that you can only be responsible for the preparation and logistics work, and I'm afraid there will be no chance of front-line exploration work." Ke Lan shook his head, "Although the main control of Yagunaktor is in my hands, after all, this is An S-class ruin, the various mechanisms and traps inside are unimaginably complicated, not to mention the 'foreign residents' like mutated lava canthaphias... A rookie hunter who makes up the numbers is probably just delivering food. ."

"But if we participate in the logistics preparation work, the Soma Consortium will only get the leftover leftovers from the first-line exploration team." Zofia smiled helplessly, "I'm not complaining about this In the distribution system, the risk that the front-line exploration team needs to take is the greatest, so naturally they have to take away the biggest piece of cake... But if we can only get the remaining soup, the extra main course will definitely cause trouble. Everyone is jealous.”

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded with deep understanding. There are many main dishes that the Soma Consortium cannot eat, but there are many people on the Ark who can eat them. If other forces are blindly refused to participate, it will undoubtedly greatly slow down the progress of the exploration. The undead crew They should and would not be happy to see this kind of situation of occupying the toilet and not taking a shit.

Although Demeter said nicely and let Ke Lan decide everything by himself, at that time, whether to take back Ke Lan's authority was just a matter of a few words from the crew.

"I'm afraid the Soma Consortium won't be able to participate in the first phase of the exploration operation, but..."

"Actually, I have a backup plan." Zofia suddenly interrupted Ke Lan and said.

"back up plan?"

"The people at Leviathan Base are actually not the only people in the Soma Consortium who have field experience." Zofia said seriously.

"You mean... the crew of the Pioneer?!" Ke Lan reacted immediately. He and Zofia met on this icebreaker. At that time, Zofia had been the captain for two years. And the crew members under her will probably only stay on this ship longer than she does.

Not only that, the Pioneer icebreaker has also participated in the exploration of more than a dozen ruins, including the "Undersea City". Each of these crew members can definitely be regarded as experienced veterans.

"I actually forgot about this!" Ke Lan patted his forehead lightly, "It's just... if you transfer these people over, what will the Pioneer do?"

"Just leave it in the port." Zofia said indifferently, "You may not know that the Pioneer icebreaker has been sailing in the middle sea for so many years, but it has not actually created much value for the Soma Consortium...especially It was after the 'Undersea City' was officially blocked. In the past six months, not only have we not gained any income, but we have also spent a large amount of money on the budget. There have been many objections from the family."

"You can't say that. Being able to train this group of crew members is the greatest value of the Pioneer... This kind of 'wealth' can't be bought even if you have money." Ke Lan laughed, "If it were them If so, you only need two weeks of targeted training, and you can directly use it as the main force in exploration!"

"One more thing." Zofia looked at Ke Lan and said.

"What's up?"

"I also want to participate in the training."

"You?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, "You want to go to the ruins?"

Zofia nodded.

"No." Ke Lan flatly refused, "It's too dangerous."

"Do you think I'm like a weak vase character? Will I hold you back?" Zofia glared at Ke Lan with some dissatisfaction and asked.

If we talk about physical fitness alone, Zofia is indeed not weak... It is impossible for such a weak daughter to last two years on the Pioneer icebreaker. Moreover, as far as the "battle process" between the two of them was concerned, the eldest lady's tolerance and physical strength were far beyond Ke Lan's expectations - if his body hadn't experienced "crystallization" and "living armor" successively, With this strengthening, I am afraid that the person who just lost the battle will be Ke Lan.

"That was not what I meant……"

"Then what do you mean?"

"There is an old saying in China, which is called 'concern leads to chaos'. You should have heard of it, right? I don't want you to get hurt in any way, so I will rest assured only if you stay in a safe place." After saying this After saying this, Ke Lan immediately gave himself a big thumbs up in his mind - if he were the straight man here, he would never be able to say these words... It seems that his progress is still very obvious. of.

At least he no longer feels nauseous about such words... Thanks to the "strategy" that the hound sent to him before, although Ke Lan only glanced at it a few times in his spare time, he really benefited a lot.

However, what he didn't know was that when Hound sent him the guide, he deliberately deleted the title of the guide - in fact, the guide was a paid tutorial posted on a social networking site, commonly known as "Cheats for Scumbags" "...

"..." Zofia looked at Ke Lan, with a hint of complicated emotions in her eyes. After a few seconds, she said, "Well, let's do this. I won't enter the ruins and let me take care of the logistics. That's alright, right? ?”

[P.S. Thanks to Tian Qingse and others for the 1,500 starting coins. 】