Alien Relic Hunter

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Yagunaktor, core power room, frontline supply base.

"What's going on? The transport plane taken by the institute's experts veered off course?" Ke Lan asked several other people participating in the remote meeting on the screen.

"According to our judgment, there is a high probability that the transport plane has been hijacked." Schroeder said with a serious face, "The situation is not optimistic."

"Who leads the team responsible for escorting these experts?" Ke Lan asked again.

"It's Lin Qiming." A familiar name came out of Schroeder's mouth.

"I remember that only you, Lin Qiming, and professors in the institute have permission to view this news... By the way, how many professors are there surviving in the institute now?"

"There are six in total. Except for Dr. Norison on the plane, the other five professors have been controlled by us." Schroeder said, "But I am basically certain that the news was not leaked from them."

"But besides us, there is another group of people who know the news..." Schroeder added.

"Don't... don't stare at me!" Ye Yan suddenly panicked and waved his hands repeatedly, "Although the transport plane is provided by our Ye family, I can guarantee that whether it is the port or airport staff or the crew, , they don’t even know the content of the mission or the identity of the passengers... They only know that they are escorting a batch of expensive equipment to Yagunaktor, and all other information is kept confidential!"

"Are you sure?" Schroeder's tone was very suspicious.

"I'm sure! The only person who knows about this is the person responsible for the contact. That person is my second uncle. He can't be from a heretical sect." Ye Yan said confidently.

Ye Yan's second uncle Ke Lan has also had several contacts with him. This person has a very high status and prestige within the Ye family, and is almost on an equal footing with the family head. If even a character like him is a pawn planted by a heretical sect, then The entire Ye family is probably inseparable from the heretical sect.

If placed in a general TV series or novel, Ye Yan's second uncle might choose to "cooperate" with external forces such as heretical sects because he is not willing to be just a second-in-command. But the problem lies in the inheritance system of the Ye family. The most outstanding thing is to select the best person among all the direct descendants to be the next head of the family, and the best among the young people of this generation of the Ye family is not Ye Yan, but Ye Yan's cousin - that is, his second uncle's son.

Ye Yan has made it clear in public many times that he has no interest in being the head of the family. He prefers to be a dandy instead of spending all day in the office reviewing documents and files that cannot be completed. His cousin became the head of the Ye family. The next head of the family is almost a certainty.

From this point of view, Ye Yan's second uncle had no motive or reason for betrayal.

"By the way, can Ye Yan contact this Hercules transport plane?" Ke Lan asked.

"Unable to contact us, the transport plane unilaterally cut off communication." Ye Yan sighed, "I have sent you the list of crew members... To be honest, I don't know who are the traitors."

"It is very difficult to rescue the plane without landing... We must prepare for the best and worst-case scenario," Schroeder said.

"What's the worst plan?" The fat on Ye Yan's face jumped violently.

"Shooting down the plane - even if it kills these experts, it is better than letting them fall into the hands of a heretical sect." The expression on Schroeder's face was very decisive.

"That is a last resort. Before that, let's find a way to organize a rescue operation." Ke Lan said.

"Ke Lan, if you have any ideas, just say it. As long as our Ye family can do it, we will fully cooperate." Ye Yan immediately agreed.

He didn't want things to really get to that point - the loss of a Hercules transport plane was probably not even a drop in the bucket for the Ye family, but the lives of those on the plane... that responsibility was not something that the Ye family could It's affordable... Although the Ye family consortium is an unshakable behemoth in the eyes of ordinary people, only they themselves know that if the people of the Immortal Crew Association want to cleanse the Ye family, the Ye family will not even have a chance to resist. There will be.

"I just looked through the crew list you sent, and I always feel that... even if the heretical sect wants to place chess pieces in the Ye Family Group, it is impossible for the entire crew to be theirs... What's more, this operation It was a temporary decision, and the Hercules transport plane happened to be available. If we happened to encounter a situation where the entire crew was filled with moles, I think we could buy lottery tickets."

Ke Lan paused and continued: "No, even buying a lottery ticket is not such an outrageous thing. After all, it is equivalent to winning 100 million in a lottery with a total prize pool of 5 million - it is simply impossible."

"The airport." Schroeder suddenly said, "Contact the airport control panel and ask them to arrange the monitoring equipment of the entire airport. Don't miss any corner. In addition, get the list of all people entering and leaving Yong'an Port today."

"Okay, okay!" Ye Yan responded.

"Chief Schroeder, do you suspect that someone sneaked into the airport and mixed up with the plane?" the representative of the Security Bureau who had been silent said.

"It's not like someone got on the plane. I think...the crew was switched." Schroeder said word by word.

"Package swap? These crew members should be familiar with each other, right? If a stranger sneaks in, he will be recognized immediately, right?" the representative of the Security Bureau asked doubtfully.

"What if the entire crew...are all switched? There are so many planes and airships entering and leaving the airport every day, and the ground staff at the airport may not necessarily know every crew member," Schroeder said.

Before the person from the security bureau could say anything else, Ye Yan, who had disappeared from the screen for a few minutes, hurried back and said, "The inspection results are out! Six cameras outside Yong'an Port have been vandalized. The monitoring room The computers inside were also found to have been implanted with Trojans. In addition, the cameras in the bathrooms and locker rooms on the first floor of the airport were also destroyed, and the security inspection equipment at gates 4 and 5 had inexplicable malfunctions!"

"Where's the list of people entering and leaving?"

"I haven't figured it out for a while. Yagunakitor just delivered supplies today. The number of people entering and exiting Yong'an Port was not 10,000 but 8,000...Wait a minute! News just came from the airport that three people are missing. Still haven’t found it yet!”

"Three people? Which three people?" Ke Lan asked.

"Two are airport security guards, and one is a 'water supply and drainage engineer' hired by the airport..."

"Water supply and drainage engineer? Why, the airport's drainage pipes are also malfunctioning?" Schroeder asked, "Did these sneak into the airport from the pipeline system?"

"It was the autonomous cleaning robot in the pipeline that got stuck on the track, and then the maintenance robot seemed to have got stuck as well, so we had to start the manual troubleshooting process... But after entering the airport, the engineer named Jimmy Garrigan He disappeared soon after and no one knew where he went."

"Is this Jimmy Garrigan from a heretical sect..." Before the man from the Security Bureau finished speaking, Ye Yan interrupted him: "Well, when Jimmy Garrigan entered the airport, the transport plane had already left Yong'an. Hong Kong..."

"Is this Jimmy here to repair the underground drainage pipes?" Ke Lan suddenly asked.

"Yes." Ye Yan nodded.

"Where is the entrance to the underground drainage pipe?" Ke Lan asked again.

"There should be several entrances...but the most commonly used entrances are either in the water room or in the bathroom..."

"Did you just say that the cameras in the bathroom and locker room have been destroyed? Hurry, organize a team of people now, go to the bathroom where the camera was destroyed, and enter the underground pipe from the entrance there! There must be something down there!"

"I'll have someone do it right away!"

"Where is this transport plane now?" Ke Lan looked at the Security Bureau representative again and asked.

"The Ark is 1,100 kilometers due north and is still flying north. The First Fleet has sent two fighter formations to intercept... However, the other party ignored the warnings issued by the fighter jets." The representative of the Security Bureau made a bitter face. Said, "But it's impossible for us to open fire on them without permission from above..."

The above permission naturally refers to the Immortal Crew Association - until the Immortal Crew Association nods, neither the Crisis Management Division nor the Security Bureau has the right to shoot down the Hercules transport plane.

"Is there no other way to stop the plane?"

"Some people have proposed the plan of destroying the aircraft engine and then using a flying mecha to forcibly drag the transport aircraft... But we cannot guarantee whether the hijackers will take extreme actions after the aircraft loses power... such as killing the hostages... "

"But it is a solution." Schroeder added, "If Lin Qiming is not dead yet, with the help of the chaos we created outside, he should have a way to solve the problem from inside the aircraft."

"The premise is that the strength of the hijacker is lower than that of the operators of the Crisis Management Division... But judging from the clues currently available, the hijacker is most likely a member of a heretical sect, so a parasitic vessel with the seed of erosion is definitely indispensable. ...Even, the existence of the black bishop cannot be ruled out." Ke Lan pondered.

"One bishop in black is enough to eliminate Deputy Chief Lin's entire team." The representative of the Security Bureau also said solemnly, "We cannot place our hopes on a person whose life or death is still uncertain."

"Chief Schroeder, have you contacted Lin Qiming?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

Schroeder shook his head: "The transport plane has turned on the shielding device, and the personal communication equipment they carried has been disabled."

At this moment, Ye Yan returned to the screen again. Judging from his panting appearance, it was obvious that he had run all the way back.

"Ke - Ke Ke Ke Ke Lan! You... you, your guess is right! I, I asked someone to check the underground drainage system - corpses! There are corpses underneath! We found a lot of corpses in the management! "

"Whose body?" Ke Lan, Schroeder and the representatives from the Security Bureau suddenly looked at each other and asked.

"The engineer named Jimmy, and the bodies of the crew members...the entire crew of Class B were killed!" Ye Yan shouted breathlessly.

"That is to say... the entire crew on the current transport plane is disguised by the hijacker." Schroeder said solemnly, "Even if there is no black bishop among them, with the combat power of Lin Qiming's team, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it." Optimism... What's more, without their knowledge, the hijackers have absolute initiative..."

"Then what should we do? Apply to... the higher-ups..." The representative of the Security Bureau stopped talking midway through. The "application" he mentioned was naturally the action permission he applied for - an action that requires the approval of the Undead Crew Association. , must be the kind of action that will cause large-scale casualties.

There is a high chance that what they will end up with will be the wreckage of a plane and dozens of mutilated corpses.

"Okay, I'll carry out the rescue operation." Ke Lan said, suddenly standing up.

"You go...how do you go?" Schroeder was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Of course I'll take the high-speed fighter of Fleet Zero. I can't fly." Ke Lan smiled and said, "With the speed of the fighter, we should be able to catch up with the transport plane before it flies over the White Ridge Mountains."

"Then what? What are you going to do?" The representative of the Security Bureau also looked at Ke Lan with a puzzled face. "The fighter formation of the No. 1 Fleet followed the transport aircraft all the way, but there was nothing we could do against them."

"Of course, jump on the plane and kill the hijackers inside."

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At this moment, on the A-136 "Hercules" transport plane, Lin Qiming, holding two guns, was squatting in the aisle outside the bathroom, using a cart storing cleaning tools as a cover, and carefully looking into the cabin. Case.

There are six other "stewardesses" in first class, two sitting on the seat near you and three on the side near the cockpit. The eight Crisis Management Section operators are scattered in every corner of the first-class cabin. If I jump out and shoot now and issue orders to my subordinates, I should be able to cooperate with my subordinates to kill these "stewardesses" as soon as possible and control them. First class - but the problem is that his subordinates can kill the flight attendants, but they cannot kill the monsters lurking inside them.

Although each operator carried active ammunition, the barrels and magazines were still filled with conventional ammunition. Even Lin Qiming himself only changed the magazines after noticing an abnormality.

He had to let his subordinates prepare active ammunition first... Lin Qiming glanced at his communication equipment. The signal shielding device on the plane had been turned on. If he wanted to convey the news to his subordinates, he had to do it himself. OK.

But if he goes out by himself now, the disappearing "Helen" will definitely attract the attention of other "stewardesses", and maybe the other "stewardess" will take the lead in attacking.

In addition, there are people in the cockpit and cargo bay. Once a battle breaks out, the first class cabin will be attacked from the front and rear, and will be in a very disadvantageous situation.

Although these people do not have firearms, the "Seed of Corrosion" in their bodies is a fighting force that Lin Qiming cannot ignore, especially in a narrow and compact space like an airplane... If they cannot distance themselves, even if they It is also difficult to gain an advantage with active ammunition.

Moreover, Lin Qiming cannot squat in this place for too long, otherwise it will also attract the attention of those "stewardesses" - after all, if he has been killed by "Helen", it does not take too much time to hide a body.

We can't delay it any longer, we must make a decision quickly!