Alien Relic Hunter

"Can you let me take a look?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"Of course, but I hope you don't have too high expectations..."

"Why?"

"The reason why the diving cabin is still on the ship is because it is too heavy and heavy to be carried by the Security Bureau's plane. However, they have removed all the equipment and lining inside the diving cabin, leaving only an iron Shelled." Caroline answered for Zofia.

"...Even if it's an iron shell, I still want to see it."

"Since you are so insistent, let First Officer Caroline take you there." Zofia handed the key card to Caroline, "I still have to deal with the aftermath of the battle just now, so I won't accompany you for the time being. ”

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Cargo hold No. 9 is located at the bottom of the Pioneer icebreaker. There are completely sealed drainage compartments at the front and rear. There is only one lift freight elevator that can reach it. However, what makes Ke Lan speechless is that even this freight elevator has been stopped. After using it, they can only climb down step by step along the elevator shaft...

"It was people from the Security Bureau who did it. Not only did they dismantle the power supply system, they also sealed the entire No. 9 cargo bay. This key card was also the captain's secretly hidden backup card," said Caroline.

She has not taken off her power armor until now. Fortunately, in order to transport goods, the elevator shaft was originally designed to be very spacious. Not to mention the power armor, even a small mecha can easily pass through it.

"Just for such an iron shell?" Ke Lan couldn't help but complained in his heart: These people from the Security Bureau are too cautious, right?

"That's not all... There are also a lot of rock samples collected from the seabed by the Security Bureau's robots in the No. 9 cargo hold. But I really don't know what the use of those things is. They are heavy and take up space. I really want them. Send a transport ship over immediately to take away all this garbage." Caroline inserted the card into the slot on the cargo door, and the three red indicators on the side turned green one by one. Amidst a harsh sound of metal friction, The thick hatch slowly rose - fortunately, the people from the Security Bureau were not so crazy as to weld the entire cargo hatch shut.

"Didn't you say there is only one diving cabin? What's going on with those rocks?" Ke Lan was a little confused. Just now in the captain's room, Zofia didn't mention these rocks at all. There was no mention of these rocks in Caroline's mouth. In the eyes of knowledgeable people, garbage that has a useful purpose is considered a precious environmental specimen!

"Oh, those rocks were not collected on the seabed of this sea area. They should have nothing to do with the ruins of the underwater city... Of course, if you are interested in these things, you can take them as you like. Anyway, there are a lot of them. A few are missing. Those people from the security bureau won’t find out.” Caroline said as she took the lead into the cargo hold.

The large space in the cargo hold is about the size of two basketball courts, and the air is filled with a strong smell of rust and engine oil, mixed with a hint of the fishy smell unique to Alpha Star seawater.

"Then were all the seabed rock samples around the Undersea City transported away by the Security Bureau?"

"It's not that they transported it away," Caroline shrugged, "It's that they never got that thing at all. This ruins is very evil. As long as the robot gets close, various malfunctions will occur, such as sensor failure, engine stalling, etc. It's all relatively light, and some simply interrupt the signal and disconnect the cable, making it impossible to recover even if you want to... As for the living people... Alas, no one can return to the water alive. ."

"This is not considered evil," Ke Lan explained. "Many of the Alpha civilization ruins will have abnormal magnetic fields around and inside them. This will have a great impact on precision electronic equipment. Otherwise, at least 80% of the hunters' jobs will be lost. The robot robbed it."

"Huh? What about the remaining 20%?" Caroline asked with interest.

"There are some ruins of mechanical robots that cannot be dealt with. They are dead objects after all, even if there are people behind them. There is another aspect, and that is the cost issue... In many cases, human life is much cheaper than those top-level robots." Ke Lan replied.

"That's right. Otherwise, all the sailors and boatmen on our ship can be replaced by robots, which will save me from shouting at the top of my voice all day long." Caroline nodded in agreement.

As they chatted, the four of them had already walked to the middle of the cargo hold. On one side was the almost completely deformed spherical diving cabin that Ke Lan had seen in the video, and on the other side was the pile of deep dive tanks piled up like a hill. black rocks.

"Be careful." At this time, Asano Akira suddenly took a step forward and protected Ke Lan.

"What's going on?" Ke Lan frowned slightly, but out of trust in Asano Akira, he also pulled out the pistol inserted under his ribs and turned on the safety.

"There's something moving inside that pile of rocks." Akira Asano had already pushed the sword out of its sheath three inches.

"How is that possible? Those people from the Rock Security Bureau have been screened several times!" Caroline shook her head repeatedly, "This... could you be too nervous and read it wrong?"

"I heard it." Asano Akira replied.

"Then... did you hear that wrong?" Caroline's smile was a little stiff. She suddenly discovered that the three people she brought down had already entered a fighting state just because of such a sentence. Another hunter with a Chinese appearance even They already had impact grenades in their hands.

"Don't be impulsive... don't use weapons here. If the sealing partition of the drainage compartment is damaged, the entire Pioneer will be in big trouble." Caroline dissuaded.

"Ms. Caroline... you'd better put on your helmet." Ke Lan said to Caroline without looking back, because he noticed that Asano Akira's war blade had been unsheathed to five inches. This was The starting move of the improved version of Iai Slash.

"There's nothing there!" Caroline said with a hint of sullenness in her tone, "My power armor has a biological scanning device, and there's no sign of life in that pile of rocks!"

"Just because it can't be scanned doesn't mean it's definitely not there." Ke Lan pulled the slide and loaded the bullet.

"But those stones were all looked through by people from the Security Bureau one by one. If there was something inside, it would have been discovered long ago!" Caroline shouted.

"What if they were negligent?" Ke Lan's first thought was of flesh-eating worms. When he saw the priestess for the first time, he couldn't see anything abnormal at all. The flesh-eating worms parasitic in her body As long as the flesh worms have not yet begun to devour the host's flesh and blood, it is difficult for outsiders to detect them - in the same way, if there are some inconspicuous little things embedded in the cracks of a rock...

"Come out!" Before Akira Asano could finish his words, he had already rushed forward with a single lunge. At the same time, the sword was unsheathed, and an arc-shaped crescent formed by the sword's light appeared in front of him.

"Qiang!" The sound of metal and stone clashing echoed in the cargo hold. A gray-black shadow that was almost the same color as the rock quickly retracted after colliding with Asano Akira's war blade and hid behind the pile of rocks.

"Then...what is that?!" Caroline looked in disbelief.

"It was too fast, I didn't see clearly." Ke Lan shook his head.

"It seems... it seems to be a person," Liao Zilang said with some difficulty, "but... it seems to only have the upper body..."