Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan did not stay longer on the "New Dawn". After eating two bags of instant military rations to fill his stomach, he immediately took the transport plane and flew to "Aguna Kotor".

It is less than a month before the first joint exploration begins. Although he has always been the hands-off boss, there are still a lot of trivial matters that must be handled by him personally.

For example, this frontline supply base built in the "Yagunaktor" power room... According to the scheduled construction period, it is almost time for acceptance.

In order to facilitate the transportation of materials, Ke Lan set up three semi-permanent transmission channels outside Yagunaktor. Of course, not everyone can use this channel. Only those with a "transmission beacon" can enter, and there are strict restrictions on the quality of things carried on them.

The so-called "transmission beacon" is actually an empty energy crystal shell that has been specially marked. Only if you carry this beacon with you will you be transported to the core power room. As for sneaking in without a beacon or simply breaking in. Those who do will be thrown into the passage that trapped Ke Lan and the others for a long time.

After gaining control of "Aguna Kotor", Ke Lan learned that most of those passages were not actually for human passage, but the cooling ducts of this ancient warship. When the battleship's engine is running, a steady stream of hot air will be discharged into these passages. If any unlucky guy is transported into these heat dissipation ducts at this time, it is estimated that he will be completely inside and outside in a few seconds. The outside was cooked.

These three transmission channels are located at the top of Yagunaktor. Fleet Zero built four aprons and a large unloading dock on this ancient battleship. The construction materials and equipment transported from the Ark will be They are transported to this platform by transport aircraft or small transport ships, and then stacked in categories. Finally, they are transported manually to the core power room of "Agunaktor".

According to the cargo throughput of this unloading dock, all the materials for building a frontline supply base can actually be in place in half a day, but these materials are stuck at the last step of the transportation process - each worker can only carry at most a load including weight and weight. A total of 450 kilograms of materials, including its own equipment, entered the transmission channel. As a result, the efficiency of transportation dropped instantly.

This is like installing a flow control valve on the mouth of a water pipe that is spraying like crazy... With the current efficiency, it is estimated that it will take more than a month just to move the materials stacked on the platform, let alone build a base. …

There is nothing that can be done about it. Only by strictly controlling access can we prevent spies from heretical sects from sneaking in. Fortunately, the training and running-in of personnel on the other side will also take a while. By the time the people from the Soma Consortium and the Ye Family Consortium arrive at "Yagunakitor", the progress of the project here should be only about 77%.

Ke Lan randomly picked a passage and entered the core power room. The first thing that appeared in his field of vision was a construction site covering an area of ​​more than 40,000 square meters.

The basic framework made of spliced ​​alloy tubes has been completed, but most of the buildings have not had time to install walls. Less than one-fifth of the houses have closed rooms, but even so, the entire The general appearance of the base has been revealed - it's like a mecha. The skeleton has been completed, and all that's left is to fill it in with various equipment and armor.

These projects were all contracted by the Ye Family Group - in order to build this base, the wealthy Ye Family even temporarily acquired a top three established construction company in the industry and six of the highest specification steel structure production lines.

Hosting the annual mecha competition has given the Ye Group a wealth of experience in base construction. Coupled with this wave of support and the almost unlimited budget given by the board of directors, the design team responsible for this project was able to take off directly from the spot. , the drawings that originally took half a month to complete, those bald guys finished in two nights... It is said that these people were so busy that they didn't even bother to eat, and they all relied on concentrated nutrient solutions and high-intensity The military uses stimulants to maintain their status.

Ke Lan has seen the drawing. Although he only has a superficial understanding of architectural design, he can also see that the design of this base can definitely be called a masterpiece - just the one that recharges itself by absorbing escaping radiation. The protective cover is an unprecedented idea in the history of human architecture.

This protective cover was the first to be built and is now in use. This is a hemispherical physical protective shield that is placed upside down on top of the entire base. The main body of the protective shield is made of more than 20 million energy-exhausted crystals, connected by a deciphered crystal circuit structure, and With eight large shield generators, the entire protective shield can provide protection to the frontline supply base that is no less than the energy shield at the institute's headquarters. Moreover, due to the use of solid crystals as the carrier of the energy shield, this protective shield has almost no "overload" problem - in other words, as long as the energy supply is sufficient, this shield can be maintained forever. The issue of battery life needs to be considered.

"Captain Ke, look here. This is the office area we have specially arranged for you. It is also the first room in the base to be renovated." A man wearing fluorescent construction warning clothing and an orange safety helmet led Ke Lan walked into a corridor.

This man is not an ordinary worker, but one of the senior engineers of the explosive design team. The two thick dark circles on his face make him look like the national treasure "Panda" of China in the old era. The layer of grease accumulated from staying up all night and neglecting to wash up is so thick that you can scrape it off with your fingers.

But there was no hint of exhaustion in his voice, and the excitement was so intense that Ke Lan even wondered if this guy was on drugs - oh, no need to doubt it, as soon as he walked into the corridor, Ke Lan I saw several engineers who looked similar to this guy arguing fiercely around a table, and on the ground at their feet were scattered a large number of empty disposable stimulant syringes.

Good guy... Ke Lan counted the number of syringes and the number of engineers in this group. If they had knocked down all these drugs, everyone had injected at least five large-dose military stimulants in two days, and one large-dose A dose of military stimulants contains four standard units. Generally, the command headquarters will distribute military stimulants of this specification to soldiers only on the eve of important battles.

"Didn't anyone among you die suddenly?" Ke Lan did not look at the design drawings on the table for the first time, but asked the engineers.

"It's not a big problem. The first responders are waiting outside anyway. As long as they rescue you in time, you won't die." An engineer said without raising his head.

"Lao Li and Tom rushed to the street yesterday and were carried directly to the medical cabin. But I heard that they have woken up today and are clamoring to come back." Another engineer took over the conversation. He just realized that Ke Lan's voice was very unfamiliar. He raised his head, glanced at Ke Lan with doubt and dissatisfaction, and shouted: "By the way... who are you? Who let you in? Didn't I say that no outsiders can enter here? ?”

"You idiot! This is Captain Ke!" The engineer who brought Ke Lan in immediately said.

"Captain Ke? Which captain? Even if he is the captain of Fleet Zero, he can't enter this place just by asking!" The engineer had no intention of giving in. "Marcus, you guy, you designed before There was such a huge flaw in the heating system and I haven’t even asked you to settle the matter yet! Now you bring people here again, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, the engineer named Marcus interrupted him: "He is the captain of this battleship!"

"This battleship?" The engineer who was still spitting a second ago was stunned for a moment, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely exciting, "You mean... he is the captain of Yagunaktor? "

As soon as he said these words, several other engineers also raised their heads and looked at Ke Lan.

This made Ke Lan feel a little embarrassed. He didn't know what to say to these bald men for a moment.

He can't just say "Hello, comrades, thank you for your hard work, comrades"...

The craziness of this group of people is comparable to that of the group at the institute, but they are not as lawless as those researchers. The name of the acting captain of "Aguna Kotor" is still enough to bring this group of people to a standstill. He was pressed down submissively and obediently.

"Is this my office area?" Ke Lan simply cut to the topic and asked, pointing to the door at the end of the corridor.

"Yes." A clear female voice responded. Ke Lan looked in the direction of the voice, but did not see anyone. It was not until he moved his eyes downward that he found a man who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old at most. The little girl was standing on tiptoes with her hands on the table, looking at Ke Lan with excited eyes.

She was wearing a construction suit that obviously didn't fit well, and a child-sized safety helmet on her head. There were also two huge dark circles hanging on her fair little face - just because of the angle of view. Because of the relationship, Ke Lan didn't notice the little girl who was blocked by others.

"You...are still recruiting child labor here??" Ke Lan glanced at Marcus next to him with some confusion.

"No, no, no... Miss Bianca is not an employee of the company, but the youngest daughter of our boss." Marcus lowered his voice slightly and said in Ke Lan's ear, "She is a genius... the one outside You just saw the physical protective cover made of waste crystals, and the original idea for that thing was proposed by Miss Bianca."

"But...even if she is a genius designer, she is still a minor, right?"

"I skipped six grades in a row and graduated from the Department of Architecture at MIT last year. It is very stupid to judge a person's ability by age alone." The little girl glared at Ke Lan and said angrily.

The "MIT" she refers to is a very famous institution of higher learning on the Ark. Its predecessor is the "MIT" on the earth. If the architecture department of this college claims to be the second in the world, then no school dares to claim to be the world's second. First, there is no need to elaborate on the strength.

The "MIT" on the Ark has completely inherited the mantle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its architecture and engineering departments also maintain the ranking of "Ark's No. 1", and students who graduated from this college are admitted to the graduate school. The proportion is as high as 27%.

You know, among the top twenty higher education institutions in Ark, the average proportion of graduates admitted to graduate schools is only 1.9%. As long as many schools can produce a talent who has entered the graduate school, they can use this amount when recruiting students in the second year. There is a lot of hype, but "MIT" will send more than a hundred outstanding talents to the institute every year.

Ke Lan couldn't help but take a closer look at this talented girl who just graduated from "MIT" last year, and sighed inwardly. Fortunately, she was not attracted by the institute, otherwise, she would be in danger now.

"That's what I said, but it is illegal for minors to use military stimulants." Ke Lan's eyes swept over Bianca's arm intentionally or unintentionally, as if he could see through the thick construction clothes. See those needle holes on the slender arm inside.

The ingredients of military stimulants contain a large amount of hormone substances. Use of these substances by minors who are still in the physical development stage will have irreversible effects on the body, especially excessive injections in a short period of time - adults with strong bodies No one may be able to bear it, let alone a child who is only eleven or twelve years old.

"I am a congenitally enhanced person, and the side effects of stimulants are basically ineffective for me." The little girl said with some pride - a congenitally enhanced person refers to a person who has undergone genetic modification during the embryonic stage and received multiple uterine uterine injections during the mother's pregnancy. Intensive surgery in infants.

This kind of people can obtain the second to third level of enhancement level as soon as they are born, and subsequent further enhancements will become easier, and the success rate is much higher than that of ordinary enhanced people.

But the disadvantage is that it costs a lot, and both the mother and the fetus need to bear considerable risks - if the enhanced surgery fails, not only will the fetus be aborted, but most adults will not be able to survive it either.

However, in the upper class society of Ark, there are not many people with innate enhancements like this... In order to ensure that their offspring have superhuman qualities, some families will let the heirs of the family give up marrying other powerful people and select outstanding girls from the civilian class as Spouse - there will never be just one spouse like this, there can be as few as five or six, as many as a dozen... After these girls become pregnant, they will undergo such innate enhancement surgery. If it fails, her native family will receive a huge compensation. If it succeeds, her child will have the opportunity to become the future heir of the family, and she will officially become the wife of the child's father.

If multiple fetuses survived the operation, the situation would be more complicated... On the Internet, there is a relatively derogatory word to describe this practice, that is... "raising gu".

Ke Lan couldn't help but look a little complicated when he looked at Bianca - could this genius girl also be a "gu" in a certain voodoo?