Alien Relic Hunter

Valentina is still familiar with the operation of the Blasphemer mecha, while Ke Lan has already made a list of those who participated in the infiltration operation - except for Valentina, Zeluo and himself. , the names of Akira Asano, Ivan and Layton are also on this list. As for the "Augustus" that Valentina replaced, it was handed over to Leighton to drive.

But just when Ke Lan was about to finalize the list, Thirty-Three suddenly stood up.

"I'll go too." He said to Ke Lan.

"This operation is very dangerous. I can't guarantee that everyone can come back alive." Ke Lan said. It was for this reason that he did not let the hounds and others go with him - small teams are involved in infiltration operations, and soldiers are valuable but not expensive. Many, and Hound and the others are self-aware people, and they have no opinions because of this.

"This is a war, not an exploration of ruins... You see, although I am very worried about these bastards, I know that if I follow them, I will only be a burden to them, so I will neither force myself nor them." The hound also looked at Thirty-Three, "What's more, you are not a member of the Hunting God Hunting Group. There is absolutely no need for you to take this risk with us."

"I've thought about it clearly. I want to join the God Hunting Group, so am I obligated to go with you?" Thirty-three said calmly, "In addition, I feel that with my ability, I should not Become a burden."

Upon hearing that Thirty-Three was going to join the God Hunting Group, his companions suddenly looked surprised. The female military doctor even stepped forward anxiously to stop him, but he stopped him with his eyes.

"I should have told you that the mission record of the Velociraptor Team has been modified." Thirty-three looked at Ke Lan.

"Yes, you said it." Ke Lan nodded, "You were not surrounded by indigenous creatures. The real enemies you encountered were a group of monsters created by the Alpha civilization."

"But what I didn't tell you is...the people who drove those monsters were heretical sects." Thirty-three continued.

"So, you are doing it for revenge?" The hound's eyes changed slightly, "Then we can't let you go. People who participate in actions for revenge are prone to impulsiveness when their brains are hot... Can you guarantee that you are seeing Can you stay sane when those damn guys are around?"

"That's right, as the saying goes, it's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge..." Leighton immediately agreed, "Anyway, we have already come into conflict with the heretical sect, and there will be plenty of opportunities to seek revenge from them in the future. There is no need for you at all. I’m obsessed with this action.”

"I'm sure I can maintain my sanity, otherwise...the ending of the Velociraptor team should be total annihilation." Thirty-three said, "I have lived a comfortable life for too long, and this is a very rare opportunity...I I am very worried about whether I will have such an opportunity in the future if your action fails."

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, don't talk nonsense -" the hound spat on the ground several times, "We haven't set off yet, so I'm just saying that if the operation fails, it would be too unlucky!"

"Sorry." Thirty-three bowed slightly to the hound, "But my meaning has been made very clear. I want to participate in this operation."

"Yes, you can join." Surprisingly, Ke Lan did not refuse Thirty-Three, "But you must strictly obey orders - even if the culprit who caused the Velociraptor team to be almost wiped out is stationed In front of you, you are not allowed to touch a hair on it without my order."

"Okay." Thirty-three responded.

"I want to go too!" As soon as Chapter 33 was finished, the female military doctor immediately rushed forward and said to Ke Lan, "Take me with you. The medical license I hold is Class B... If I If I remember correctly, the doctor in your team has a C-level license. In addition, I have six years of practical experience in the field corps. I am proficient in field first aid and can complete multiple surgical operations under various extreme conditions. ——If the team candidates are decided based on their own skill level, I think I should be qualified——"

"Shut up." The female military doctor was halfway through her words when Thirty-Three interrupted her with an indifferent expression.

"Why?!"

"It's decided that you stay here with the others. If you don't obey this decision, don't team up with me in the future." Thirty-three said, "But before you quit the team, you must listen to me. of."

"you--"

"Uh... Actually, Ivan's level should be more than C-level, but he hasn't had time to take the higher-level license test during this period." Ke Lan looked at the two of them helplessly, "And... said It’s a bad thing to say, I think you are more emotional than Thirty-Three, so I can’t take you to participate in the operation.”

…

After nearly a few twists and turns, the candidates for the team to participate in the operation were finally decided. At the same time, the main force of the ground troops of the Field Corps had been assembled on the north side of the White Ridge Mountains and were ready to launch an attack on the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City at any time.

According to the secret message sent from the field corps, they will launch a feint attack on the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City in six hours to cover the infiltration of Ke Lan's team. However, in order to control casualties, the intensity of the feint attack will not be very strong and the duration will only be four. Hours. Ke Lan and the others must open the last eleven kilometers of tunnels and enter the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City in four hours.

If this mission goal is achieved, the feint attack will immediately transform into a real all-out attack. The main force will continue to put pressure on the heretical sect defending the city on the frontal battlefield, trying to buy time for Ke Lan and the others to seize control of the ruins.

It is no exaggeration to say that every second that the main force on the frontal battlefield fought for Ke Lan and the others was filled with a large number of lives...

This style of play is similar to stud... Whether it's the field corps or Ke Lan and the others, they only have one chance.

If this operation fails, it will be difficult to conquer the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City in the future.

Of course, this does not mean that the success rate of this operation is high... According to the calculations of the Field Corps Staff Department, even if Ke Lan and the others sneak into the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City on time, the chance of seizing control of the ruins is less than 30%.

The first difficulty before them was how to eliminate the enemies in the tunnel and get through the remaining 11 kilometers within four hours.

According to the original digging speed of the Gopher Team, it would take at least a day and a night to dig these eleven kilometers... Even if the Ke Lan Team has bug-level equipment like "blasphemer" and bug-level characters like Ze Luo, it will take twenty The four-hour project was compressed into less than four hours, which still seemed a bit reluctant.

But this does not mean that this is an impossible task at all - since the gopher team and subsequent reinforcements were attacked in the tunnel, it means that there is another entrance and exit in the tunnel, and the people or monsters who attacked them, It's through this entrance and exit.

And this entrance and exit is most likely inside the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City... Even if it is not within the ruins, it should be in the same direction of the ruins.

If they want to reach their destination on time, their only option is to "borrow".

…

The high-speed transport ship Ke Lan and the others boarded stopped over a mine 25 kilometers north of the White Ridge Mountains. On the outskirts of the mine, a temporary military base has been established with about two thousand soldiers from the field corps. Guarding this base that was just built less than an hour ago.

Their mission is to prevent the heretical sect from emerging from the tunnel dug by the Gopher Team and sneaking into the rear flank of the main force.

This mine was discovered in the early days of Ark's landing on Planet Alpha. It was rich in aluminum ores and some associated minerals. At that time, Ark, which was in urgent need of resources, immediately sent a group of engineers to develop the mine, but before it could be put into production, people discovered that this mine Although the mine is rich in reserves, the ore contains a lot of impurities and is difficult to smelt. In layman's terms, it means there is a lot of ore, but the quality is very poor.

As several other aluminum deposits of better quality were discovered, the mine was abandoned by Ark, leaving only a few unfinished shafts.

The excavation point of the Gopher Team is the end of the main tunnel of Well No. 4 - this tunnel points almost straight to the ruins of the ancient copper city located northwest of the mine. From this starting point, it can save at least five kilometers of digging. .

At this moment, due to the loss of contact between the Gopher Team and the follow-up reinforcements, the wellhead of Well No. 4 has been heavily surrounded by the field army. Four fortress-like "Mammoth Tanks" formed a circle fifty meters away from the wellhead. Circle, various heavy weapons relied on these four tanks to set up a tight fire blockade - Ke Lan, who had just stepped off the suspended platform, noticed that the materials piled behind this blockade, except for those In addition to conventional ammunition boxes made of plastic steel, refrigerated storage boxes with white buffer shells, self-contained power supplies and password locks can be seen everywhere.

These refrigerated storage boxes contain active ammunition specifically targeted at Seeds of Corrosion. According to military standards, a one-meter-square refrigerated storage box should contain four thousand rounds of general-purpose rifle ammunition or six thousand rounds of pistol ammunition. ...and wherever Ke Lan could see, he saw at least fifty refrigerated storage boxes.

In order to fight this battle, the immortal crew may have invested all the wealth they have saved for several years...

Although one round of active ammunition only requires one unit of flesh-eating worm cells, and a mature flesh-eating worm can produce at least tens of thousands of active ammunition, every time a mature flesh-eating worm is cultivated, a living person must be consumed. "Feed"... If the active ammunition ration of the frontal troops is so abundant, then the "feed consumption" of producing this batch of active ammunition is at least several thousand people.

All the death row inmates on the Ark in recent years are probably not even close to this number.

Ke Lan once used the highest authority of the Security Bureau to access information related to the production of active ammunition. The institute has long tried to use cloned organs and tissues of animals or humans to cultivate flesh-eating worms, but the experiments failed without exception. , even human corpses that have been preserved in cold storage and whose body tissues have not yet become necrotic cannot allow the eggs of flesh-eating worms to hatch successfully.

Only living people, and those in good physical condition, can successfully hatch these eggs and allow them to parasitize in the body.

In this case, "people" naturally become a resource, a resource that can be used to produce "ammunition".

Ke Lan didn't want to think too much about the origin of these active ammunition - being used as feed for flesh-eating worms. Even for death row prisoners, it is an unbearable torture. What's more, using all death row prisoners as feed, the output There are still huge gaps.

There is no doubt that the production method of active ammunition is extremely inhumane, but if this is not done, more people will only die fighting against the Corrosion Seed.

In addition to the active cells of flesh-eating worms, the stalagmites that Ke Lan found in the "Nameless Island" cave can also restrain the seeds of erosion. However, compared to the seeds of erosion, the difficulty of obtaining stalagmites is more than one level higher. ——If the shadow that looked like Liao Xing hadn't pushed Ke Lan into the abyss, he wouldn't have known how he could have returned to the Pioneer.

If there is a chance in the future, Ke Lan will definitely go to explore that unnamed island... But now, now is not the time to consider such a thing.

The troops stationed at the wellhead had already made way for the passage, and they watched Ke Lan and others silently... From their eyes, Ke Lan could clearly see a hint of sympathy.

These ordinary soldiers obviously did not know the identity of their own team. Perhaps in their view, their team, like the two groups of people who disappeared before, were just there to kill people...

Of course, the essence of this task is indeed no different from giving away someone's head...

"By the way, does this scene seem familiar to you?" Augustus's cockpit was open, and Layton, who was sitting inside, said while looking around.

"What's the feeling of déjà vu? Have you been to this place before?" Thirty-three turned to look at Layton and asked a little strangely.

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about a mission we took over before." Layton shrugged, "But now the person who issued the mission has almost become our leader's wife."

"You mean the time with Leviathan?" Ivan answered, "It's different, it gives me a completely different feeling."

"Why? It's obviously very similar -" Leighton said again, "I remember that at that time, the Soma Consortium also used four tanks to block the entrance to the mine, but they used Hammer-class siege tanks, which were smaller than the Mammoth. It’s better to grow a behemoth smaller.”

"No... in my eyes, Leviathan is a living thing... no matter whether it is dead or alive at that time." Ivan shook his head, "The mines on Leviathan's body are actually its blood vessels and body fluid channels. , in my eyes, it is completely different from the manually dug tunnels."

Ivan paused and continued: "It's like in the eyes of an old dog, you are just a big guy with a brain full of motor oil, but in my eyes, there are fat, blood vessels and muscles under the skin of your head, and below that It’s the skull…”

"Uh, do you doctors see people this way?" Layton instantly felt his scalp was a little chilly, and couldn't help but reach out and touch it twice.

"That's me anyway." Ivan replied casually, then turned to look at Ke Lan, "It's almost time to send it out."