Alien Relic Hunter

"This way of dying seems to be too cheap for you." Ke Lan sighed and sheathed the sword.

Of course, Ke Lan also wanted the prophet to be tortured before death, but considering the special characteristics of this guy, if he kept it, it would lead to long nights and dreams... Who is not sure that after it recovers from the near-death state, it can still take out the money? What's the trump card? What's more, even if he is made to endure the most painful punishment in the world, it cannot offset the evil deeds it has committed.

Tens of millions of people died because of it, a blood debt that can never be repaid.

"Please send a plane over, bringing enough flesh-eating worm active cells and napalm." Ke Lan said to the people of the Undead Crew Association, "Clean up this battlefield and remove all remaining biological tissues. Burn it, don’t spare even a single cell.”

Remember that last-hitting is a good habit. This is a valuable experience Ke Lan learned from countless movies, TV series, and novels.

"The team responsible for the aftermath will arrive in three minutes." Demeter replied, "Now we need you to return to the Ark immediately -"

"Control me?" Ke Lan asked casually.

"You can understand this, but our original intention is to protect you." Demeter said, "The person who killed Pan, his next target is probably you."

"No, I don't think so. I think you are more dangerous than me." Ke Lan sneered, and then said, "If he wants to kill me, he will have countless opportunities during this combat operation... On the other hand, You guys, you didn't even realize that Pan was poisoned to death, so how can you talk about 'protecting' him. If that person wants to continue killing people, the target is more likely to be one of you here, not me. This dispensable... 'chess piece'."

"Actually, the main reason why we asked you to come back is to let you officially join the Undead Crew and become the new fifth member 'Pope'." The old voice said before, "Because of Pan's death, now the crew will The number of members became an even number...According to the regulations at the founding of the Crew Association, when a resolution results in a tie vote, all votes on that resolution will be ineffective."

"An even number of members? A tie vote does not take effect? ​​But you originally had twenty-two seats, so how did you vote in the first place? Now that Chiron is dead and Pan is dead, there are still twenty seats left. How could you have voted? Why don't you invest now?" Ke Lan said.

Although he is also very eager to join the crew... After all, after joining, those secrets that he had "no right to know" will be opened to him, but now that the other party is urging him so urgently, it is obvious that there are some unreasonable reasons. Known motives.

"Because in all our previous votes, there has never been a tie between the two parties." The other party replied very simply.

"Then it appears now?"

"That's right."

“What is the resolution that needs to be voted on?”

"'Revealing the true information of all members within the crew association', one vote abstained, and one vote was invalid because it was the sponsor of the resolution. There are eighteen seats left, nine votes in favor and nine votes against." The old male voice said .

"Abstaining? Can you still abstain from voting?"

"The one who abstained was Dionysus the Fool... This is his privilege as the 'Zeroth Seat' and the only unique privilege among the members of the entire Undead Crew."

"Although the seat numbers of the Immortal Crew Association have no practical meaning, seat zero is an exception." Demeter added.

"Privilege? Exception?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment. For some reason, he suddenly recalled what the "false information dealer" said to him -

“I prefer to be an observer rather than a participant in events.”

Could it be that the "Fool" at Seat Zero is the person pretending to be an intelligence dealer? But why did he want to kill Pan? Judging from this privilege, Seat Zero is obviously very different from other members, and may even be the founder of the Undead Crew Association... With his transcendent status, why would he use Pan's name to mobilize the army? Woolen cloth?

He could even exclude Pan from this matter and come to have a conversation with him in person, and the other members of the crew meeting would not have any objections.

As for the motive of "The Fool" Dionysus to kill Pan, that's something Ke Lan can't figure out... After all, all he knows about these people in the Undead Crew is a seat number and a god borrowed from ancient Greek mythology. The code name is almost unknown.

"It seems that the people who want me to join the crew association should be the ones who voted in favor, right?" Ke Lan asked.

After all, the people in the Crew Association knew his own information even better than Ke Lan himself. Ke Lan himself did not feel any pressure to make the information public... and the purpose of joining the Crew Association was to learn more. There are many secrets related to it. If he is allowed to participate in the vote, there is no doubt that he will stand in the camp of voting in favor.

"Then I have a question... We are all smart people, and we all know what choices I will make after joining the crew meeting. Why was this resolution passed? Shouldn't it be a tie between nine votes and nine votes? ?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

"Because...'After this operation is over, let you become a full member.' This resolution was proposed before Pan died." Demeter said, "In that vote, Pan voted in favor."

"So that's it... So, Pan's position is in favor of everyone being open and honest with each other? Is this one of the reasons why he was killed?" Ke Lan speculated.

"We can't be sure about this," Demeter said, "because he was still alive at that time. From a causal perspective, if it hadn't been for his death, maybe we wouldn't have initiated the current resolution."

"It seems to be the case..." Ke Lan scratched his head in embarrassment. At this time, a high-speed transport plane hovered above his head, and a large number of soldiers wearing the highest-standard protective clothing descended and began to deal with it. A messy scene.

"By the way," Ke Lan said, "can you tell me who voted for it and who voted against it?"

No matter what, at least he had to first figure out the factional issues within the Undead Crew, and he had to know who were his "allies" and who might become his "enemies" - even if it was only on the surface. relationship... If you can't even see clearly the faces painted on other people's masks, how can you confirm whether the person under the mask is a friend or an enemy.

"I can't tell you this until you officially join the Undead Crew." Demeter replied.

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Two hours later.

Ke Lan did not return directly to the Ark, but took a transport plane to the frontline temporary headquarters located at the foot of the White Ridge Mountains.

The remaining warships of the three fleets gathered the surviving officers and soldiers here, but even so, the troops gathered in the camp still did not reach even 10,000 people.

There were 160,000 people when the war started, but now there are only a few thousand... Using the word "tragic" to describe this war, Ke Lan felt that it was a bit too light.

Hundreds of medical cabins were put together to build a temporary field first aid center. Soldiers with minor injuries were transported here, while those with more serious injuries were left on the battleship— —Without the support of the medical cabin, many people would not be able to survive being sent back to the Ark.

However, the losses of the three major fleets are not small, and there are also a large number of wounded people... In fact, only about one-fifth of the seriously wounded people can be allocated to the medical cabin, and the remaining ones can only end up on the ground. Emergency center for rescue.

When Ke Lan entered the camp, he happened to see a trailer full of body bags coming from the opposite side of the road. When these hundreds of soldiers in body bags were brought here, , are still alive, but now, they have turned into cold corpses.

A lieutenant colonel wearing a white coat and disheveled hair was talking on the phone in front of the tent. He was very excited. On average, nearly half of the ten words in a sentence were curse words: "What the hell does it mean that everyone needs to be rescued?" , Damn it, do you know how many seriously injured people there are, and how many fucking doctors we have who can do surgery?! There are still many people who waited for surgery, but died because of lack of medicine and massive bleeding. On the operating table... Your mother (beep——), let me tell you one last time, either you send me medicines, equipment and plasma as soon as possible, or I have no choice but to abandon those wounded who are dying and go Save those who have greater hope of survival!”

His eyes were bloodshot, with heavy dark circles around his eye sockets, and his white coat was stained with caked blood stains.

"That's Director Liszt of the temporary emergency center. He has been operating on the wounded from the beginning of the attack to now..." The soldier on the side told Ke Lan in a low voice, "Every medical staff in the emergency center is working continuously... But there are still not enough manpower, many injured people are queuing up for surgery, and brothers who cannot survive the treatment die every minute..."

"What about the medics in the army?" Ke Lan asked, "Every soldier should have taken a field first aid course, right? By cooperating with each team's own medics, they should be able to save a large number of people, right?"

"The wounded brought back this time...most of them are seriously wounded, and the medical soldiers can only take care of those with minor injuries." The soldier sighed, "In the past two hours, almost 30,000 people have been brought back. There are people...but the number of people sent out is at least 20,000."

What he said "sent out of the camp" was naturally referring to dead people.

Even though the situation here has gotten so bad, no one in the camp criticized why support from Ark has not arrived for so long. Even the director of the emergency center, who was full of fragrant words, only said to ask the logistics to send more The medicines came over, but there was no mention of the dispatch of additional manpower.

Everyone knows that the current situation in Ark will only be worse than here.

Even if these wounded people can be transported back to the Ark in time, they may not be able to obtain better treatment conditions.

"I'll try my best to ask the people above to send more supplies." Ke Lan sighed, "But don't have too much hope, because now the Ark side is also..."

"We all know." The soldier nodded and looked in the direction of the Ark silently.

From this position, the line of sight could just pass through the "gap" in the White Ridge Mountains, and vaguely see the Ark standing on the distant plain... and the shocking and huge wound on one side of the Ark.

Ke Lan did not stay near the emergency center, but quickly walked to the temporary headquarters, where other members of the God Hunting Group were waiting for him.

…

"The old dog who stayed behind at Yagunaktor returned to the Ark first. His mood was very unstable. I asked Qin Zhao to follow him and help keep an eye on it. In addition, Leiton will also go back. With him here, old dog Nothing should happen." Ivan said to Ke Lan, "The other thirty-three also went back first... He has several comrades who also live in the East District on weekdays..."

"Why didn't you go back? Na...Natasha, she..." Ke Lan hesitated.

"Natasha is fine." Ivan smiled reluctantly and patted Ke Lan on the shoulder reassuringly, "When the disaster happened, she happened to go to the West Fourth District to purchase supplies and escaped. "

"That's good." Ke Lan responded, "By the way, how is the situation with Yagunaktor... Ye Yan."

Ivan had a sullen face, pursed his lips and shook his head. He was silent for two or three seconds, and then said: "It's not good... Almost all of the Ye family's roots are in the East District. This time... except for a small number of Ye people who hold positions outside. Except for family members, almost all of them... In addition, all subsidiaries and industrial lines under Ye's family were also destroyed, with countless asset losses."

The image of the fat little fat man with a pale face suddenly appeared in Ke Lan's mind, and he couldn't help but sigh: "When I go back to persuade him... at least he is still fine, and the Ye family will have a chance to rise sooner or later. As for this incident, The victims and their enemies have been reduced to ashes, and those of us who are alive can only choose to accept the facts."

"Also, the dead rest in peace, the living work hard... I have heard this sentence many times, but this is the first time I feel that the comfort in words is so feeble."

"By the way, what are your plans next?" Ke Lan asked.

"The emergency center here is very short of manpower. I will stay here to help. In addition, it is said that the Mitsui Foundation will send assistance here... Well, I think Miss Sakurai is coming, so Asano Akira had better stay Here, we don’t want other girls to come over and catch us in vain." Ivan said, "Zeluo and Valentina plan to meet Yagunaktor, sort out their equipment, and then return to the Ark to participate in the disaster relief work... What about you? "

"As for me... there are a lot of troubles waiting for me to deal with. First of all, I have to go back and talk about my job..."

"Reporting to the immortal crew?"

"Well, they said they planned to make me a regular employee, but I don't think it's that simple."

"Be careful."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded.

[P.S. Thank you for everyone’s red envelopes and blessings, thank you everyone~~]