Alien Relic Hunter

"As for logistics work... it's okay." Ke Lan nodded, and according to the original plan, he explored Yagunaktor's frontline supply base, which was set up in the core power room of the battleship.

The teleportation array in the core power room connects various areas on the battleship. It can be said to be the transportation hub inside Yagunaktor. The civilization that built this ancient battleship seems to have completely different ideas from humans. In large human vehicles, the core power structure has always been a top priority. Not only will it be placed in the safest corner of the vehicle, but ordinary crew members are not allowed to even get close, let alone enter.

The design idea of ​​Yagunaktor is exactly the opposite. People in the ship must pass through the core power room wherever they want to go. This is like the designers of the Ark directly building the main reactor of the Ark at the end. At the intersection with the largest flow of people in a bustling neighborhood.

As if afraid that others would not know that this is the most important place in the whole ship.

But then again, Ke Lan still knows nothing about the civilization that built Yagunaktor. The only thing that is certain is that their technological level is higher than that of Alpha on this planet. Civilization is much more powerful.

If this is a bee colony civilization, then this design style seems to be explained - anyway, all "worker bees" are controlled by the "queen bee", and they are just extensions of the "queen bee" body and mind , does not have independent self-awareness. For a swarm civilization, this battleship layout is actually the best choice.

For humans, the only two threats to the core power room are the mutated lava cantharis in the crystal pit and the high-intensity radiation released when the crystal array is activated. However, the former has been crushed to pieces when the battleship restarts. The latter will only appear briefly when the crystal array is activated. As for the maintenance stage, there will be no radiation overflowing from the crystal pit.

"I'm going to transfer the crew of the Pioneer back to the Ark. I'll leave it to you to arrange the daily training!" At this point, Zofia immediately wanted to stand up from the bed, but she was only halfway done. , and sat back down with a cry of pain.

"Uh...was I that rough just now?" Ke Lan scratched his head and asked.

The eldest lady's face was red, but her eyes stared at him relentlessly, and she nodded vigorously: "Like a wild beast."

"...Do you want some medicine or something?"

"The medicine box is in the second drawer from the left under the wardrobe." Zofia bit her lip and said, "I can't walk through..."

"Oh." Ke Lan quickly stood up and walked towards the closet.

After completing the indescribable process of applying medicine, Ke Lan carried Zofia to the table. He originally wanted to put the eldest lady in his arms on the chair, but after thinking about it, he sat down first. Then he let Zofia sit on his lap.

"Don't move around." After warning Ke Lan, Zofia stretched out her hands and tapped quickly on the keyboard - the crew of the Pioneer from Lao Gai, first mate to Bartelty There are two to three hundred people in total at the lowest level of mechanics. The transfer of these two to three hundred people cannot be done directly with just one order...

Changes to personnel files, various construction periods, leave adjustments, salary and benefit settlements, follow-up placement plans and the drafting of new contracts, all these tasks must be completed by Zofia herself - since the last spy incident, Zofia has Fiya chose to do many things by herself, which also increased the workload on her shoulders several times in an instant, and she had to work late every day before she could rest.

Seeing that Zofia was already working seriously, Ke Lan didn't want to disturb her anymore, so he gently held her slender waist with one hand, picked up the phone with the other hand, and opened the news page of the browser.

As Ke Lan had expected before, after the ship-wide blockade ended, the officials would always give a "relatively reasonable" explanation... But this time the officials did not blame infectious diseases or the like, but It is to announce to the public that due to the institute's work errors, a highly dangerous indigenous creature broke through the containment device. The creature has been killed and the body has been properly disposed of.

Although this statement will cause dissatisfaction among some people at first, after all, bringing dangerous indigenous creatures onto the ark is a very irresponsible thing for the safety of people's lives. Curses and complaints are definitely inevitable... General Ke Lan The announcement page was scrolled down to the comment area at the bottom. As expected, less than ten minutes after this announcement was released, there are already people below who are not afraid of death "charging the tower".

"These people are really brave..." Although most of these guys who rushed to the tower used "floating IP addresses", this kind of crude concealment method can be used by even Ke Lan, let alone official network security personnel. He locked the original IP of those people through the traceability program he wrote himself, and even found out the chip serial number of the machine he used to send the comments.

The reason why the Immortal Crew Association chose this rhetoric is probably because the impact of the ship-wide blockade is too great. It is obvious that the concept of infectious disease cannot be covered at all. It is better to put the blame directly on the head of the institute - -Anyway, the "meme incident" was originally caused by people from the institute, so this doesn't mean they were wronged.

After closing this announcement, the second news was "Yip's Foundation announced that the rematch of this mecha competition will be postponed indefinitely."

"Oh? Even the rematch has been cancelled?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart. From the perspective of the official statement, indefinite postponement is basically equivalent to canceling the game. He just said this to save some face. That’s all.

Ke Lan didn't even need to call to ask, he knew that the cancellation of the rematch must be related to the accident - even the research institute was almost blamed by the "meme", so the development of the virtual immersion system and new mechas was naturally also It will come to a standstill.

With the capabilities of the Ye Consortium, without the support of the equipment department of the research institute, it is difficult to develop a new body every year. Even the toothpaste-like iterative update is difficult to achieve... Ke Lan felt that if they failed to gain anything from Yagunaktor's exploration, not to mention that the rematch would be postponed indefinitely, it would even be uncertain whether the next Mecha Competition could be held as scheduled. It's an unknown number.

After all, without the release of new models of mecha skeletons, it would be difficult to recoup the huge expenses of the game by selling tickets. In a game where old models of mechas are on stage, no matter how exciting the fight is, it will be of no use to the Ye Consortium. Meaningless.

The so-called mecha competition is actually just to build momentum for new product launches. Businessmen are chasing profits, so there is nothing wrong with delaying or even canceling the competition.

Just when Ke Lan was about to check out other news, his mailbox prompted that he had received a new email—general spam emails would not prompt, only emails marked by Ke Lan as "Important Contacts" , to enjoy this treatment.

Ke Lan opened the email and saw that the sender was an intelligence dealer who had been cooperating with him before. Although after Ke Lan's identity was exposed, he rarely bought information from the other party, but the other party would provide him with some "tattletale information" from time to time, and most of this information was of great interest to Ke Lan.

In terms of user service, this guy is at least much better than those stupid "AI big data push".

The first line of text in the email immediately made Ke Lan's body tense up, so much so that Zofia, who was sitting on his lap, noticed something strange and turned her head to look at him.

"Dr. Renee of the Institute has defected."

Renee? Defect?

What is going on?

"What's wrong?" Zofia asked softly.

"Renee ran away." Ke Lan held the phone screen in front of Zofia's eyes.

"Renee...Doctor? Who is she?"

"It's Dr. Renee from the institute who sent someone to monitor you. She was originally the head of the resident group of the Zero Fleet Research Institute... But this guy didn't study this ancient battleship properly, so he came to study it instead. My body has been damaged, and you have been implicated in it."

"What she wants...is this, right?" Zofia lowered her head slightly and pressed lightly on her lower abdomen with a few jade-like onion-like fingers, "But if she wants to clone your body, she shouldn't It has to be germ cells, and the complete genes should be extracted from ordinary tissue cells, right?"

"Who knows what she wants to do..." Ke Lan said, "If this crazy woman really succeeds, I'm afraid things will be even bigger this time."

"Then why did she run away? If that's all she did, with her background in the institute, she shouldn't be punished too severely, right?"

"I don't know...I don't even know what the definition of 'defection' is. Could it be that she has joined a heretical sect?" Ke Lan muttered, swiping his thumb lightly on the screen.

There is no text below, but a video. From the perspective of the video, it should be an interception of the in-ship surveillance camera footage of the Zero Fleet's second flagship "New Dawn", and it is also a video edited from multiple cameras. It is almost You can see the entire conflict process clearly.

The video ended when Dr. Renee and another "surviving" researcher boarded the transport plane. Seeing this, Ke Lan couldn't help but wonder-did this allow her to escape?

With so many large and small battleships in Fleet Zero, it can't be that they can't even catch up with a transport plane, right?

Even if they have the task of guarding "Aguna Kotor" and cannot act rashly, can they just fire a few cannons to bring down this transport plane? Based on what these research institutes have done, even if Renee and her plane are blown to pieces with main guns, the fleet will never have to bear any responsibility afterwards.

Not only do they not have to take responsibility, they can even slap the shit basin on the institute's head with their backhand... But in the current state of the institute, even if they don't hold the shit basin, it is already miserable enough. According to the way Ark officials have always dealt with it , it is estimated that this matter should be characterized as Dr. Renee’s personal behavior.

Fleet Zero was a legitimate counterattack, while the institute headquarters was considered an "uninformed person" outside the incident.

But the problem is that this intelligence dealer said "defection"... not "killing".

Ke Lan wanted to reply to an email immediately and ask him what was going on, but after thinking for a while, he still called the person in charge of Fleet Zero - the person whose status was second only to Ke Lan but who controlled The commander who holds the true command of the fleet.

When the "beep" reached the sixteenth time, the phone was finally connected, but the person who answered the phone was not the commander of Fleet Zero himself, but his secretary, a man with a poker face all day long. Iceberg beauty.

If Ke Lan remembers correctly, the name of this secretary with the rank of captain seems to be "Sophia", and there is only one letter difference between her and Zofia. (Note: Sophia is Sofia and Zofia is Zofia)

However, I heard from the soldiers below that this Sophia is actually not as difficult to get along with as she seems. The reason why she always has a stinky face seems to be because she was injured in her early years of service and damaged her facial nerve. Even after repair surgery, she still remains. It left sequelae similar to facial paralysis.

Of course, these are just rumors. Ke Lan only stayed on the "New Dawn" for a few days in total, and the total words he said to the secretary did not exceed 20 sentences.

"Commander, isn't he here?" Ke Lan asked - Logically speaking, Fleet Zero has no mission at the moment, and the fleet commander shouldn't be so busy that he doesn't even have time to answer a phone call.

"Commander, he is not on the ship right now." Sophia replied.

"Okay, is he going to deal with the defection of Dr. Renee from the institute?"

"You already know?" Sophia's tone was a little surprised, but she quickly regained her composure, "Yes, he did go to deal with this matter."

"Did that guy Renee really escape from under the noses of so many battleships?" Ke Lan asked again.

"The transport plane Dr. Renee was on did not escape, but was shot down by us, but..."

"Just what?"

"After our troops found the wreckage of the transport plane, they only found the body of one of the researchers, but not the body of Dr. Renee."

"That means...she's not dead yet, right?"

"It is currently classified as MIA (missing in action), but we found Dr. Renee's blood stains at the crash site. She was seriously injured and had a lot of blood loss. According to the judgment of the team doctor, if she cannot be treated, she will He won’t survive twenty-four hours.”

"Has the nearby area been searched?"

"searching."

"Besides the two of them, have you found any traces of a third party? Whether it's a human or an indigenous creature." Ke Lan immediately realized the problem - if Dr. Renee was seriously injured and on the verge of death, it would be impossible for her to do it on her own. forces left the crash site, then a third party must have been involved.

She was either snatched away by a wild beast, or someone took her away ahead of the fleet.

[P.S. Thanks to Zhu An for the 1666 book coins. 】

[P.P.S. Regarding the plot of extra meals, I wrote an introduction today and posted it to the group. However, a reader complained that "I couldn't stop thinking about it after reading it." I was immediately shocked...]