Alien Relic Hunter

But what Ke Lan didn't expect was that this joke would become a reality not long after.

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Ark, South 4th District, "General Office for Disaster Relief Work of the Alexandria Incident".

This place was originally the commercial expo center in the South Fourth District. Due to its geographical location adjacent to the damaged area, convenient transportation, and close proximity to several important material distribution sites, it was temporarily requisitioned and changed to the commander-in-chief of disaster relief affairs. department.

This business expo center is rarely used on weekdays. It only sees a large flow of people during the annual business expo. However, this time, a total of 3,000 garrison soldiers were urgently transferred here. In addition, With nearly 50,000 staff responsible for various affairs, the originally empty campus was instantly filled with people, and many offices could only be located in tents and temporary houses set up on open fields.

Of course, these simple offices are reserved for lower-level staff, while the offices of leaders are concentrated in the "Silver Building" in the center of the park.

The "Silver Building" is the core building of the entire South Fourth District Commercial Expo Center. It has a total of 139 floors and is even 200 meters taller than the thousand-meter five-star hotel of the Morgan Consortium. The exterior glass curtain wall of the building is covered with a layer of silver-white metal plating. From a distance, it looks like a huge silver ingot standing vertically in the park - this is also the origin of the name "Silver Building".

As one of the landmark buildings in the South Fourth District, the Baiyin Building itself is even more famous than this commercial expo center - after all, not to mention the South Fourth District itself, even the residents of several surrounding districts, As soon as you look up, you can see this building spanning three horizontal floors, as well as hundreds of suspended platforms around the building.

The property rights of the Silver Building do not belong to any private consortium, but were invested and constructed by the Joint Parliamentary Group, so the expropriation process was almost unhindered. From cleaning the room to the office leaders and superior staff moving in, the entire process did not even Over twelve hours.

"The efficiency is pretty good." Standing at the entrance of the park, Ke Lan commented silently in his heart, and then stepped forward.

He was wearing a field corps officer's training uniform. Although he did not wear shoulder and collar badges, the security at the entrance to the park was not strict. Two garrison soldiers holding Zero-1 rifles just glanced at him. , and had already looked away.

Although the main unit of the military involved in disaster relief work is the garrison, after all, it is a special period and manpower is in short supply. It is not surprising that people from the field corps appear here, plus the training uniform Ke Lan is wearing It is a style that is only issued to officers of the rank of colonel or above, and this kind of uniform is extremely difficult to imitate, and there are basically no imitations on the market - facing a mid- to senior-level officer with at least the rank of major, these two Naturally, the soldier chose to do more than to do less and let him go directly.

As soon as he entered the park, Ke Lan was almost bumped into by a person - it was a young man wearing a suit and leather shoes, dressed like a social worker. He had a mobile phone on his shoulder, two tablets in his hand, and a mobile phone under his arm. Carrying a large pile of paper documents, he didn't even have time to say "sorry" before running past Ke Lan and heading to another tent.

It’s not just this young man. There are such busy staff everywhere in the park. Some women even kicked off their high heels and tore off the side seams of their straight skirts for the sake of efficiency, leaving them naked. Feet running on the ground.

Phone rings rang one after another in every tent and temporary cabin - the damaged area of ​​​​the Ark accounted for one-third of the entire ship, and the remaining two-thirds, even if it was not damaged, was more or less affected. , it can be said that all the 50 million people on the ship were affected by the disaster... As the main office for handling the aftermath, you can imagine how big the workload here is with your heels.

"I guess I have to work overtime for several nights..." Ke Lan sighed and continued to walk forward, passing through most of the park and reaching the downstairs of Baiyin Building.

At this time, he was finally stopped by the guard guarding the door.

But he noticed that although these guards were wearing the same lightweight riot armor made of carbon fiber material as the garrison, underneath the armor was a pure black uniform - these were not soldiers of the garrison, but He is an officer on duty in an administrative department.

"Stop, which department are you from?" The two guards looked at Ke Lan's officer uniform with caution. "There is no field corps office in this building."

"I'm here to find someone." Ke Lan said.

"Please show me your ID." Another guard said to Ke Lan in a businesslike manner.

"Do you have anything like iris verification equipment here?" Ke Lan asked.

When Ke Lan left the conference room, Demeter told him that his personal biometric data had been entered by the Undead Crew, and he had been given the highest level of authority in the entire Ark - in other words, more concisely and clearly. He said that whether he was going out, eating, or going for a walk in the underground icehouse of the institute, he could directly swipe his face.

"Here." Another guard took two steps back and pointed to the electronic lock panel next to the building's glass door. "You can scan your face, fingerprints, or irises... But now is a special period. We must confirm your identity. In order to let you in, even if you are an officer, you must..."

Ke Lan ignored the guard who was still mumbling, walked directly to the electronic lock panel, and put his eyes close to the iris scanning window.

A red light swept across, the machine immediately made a soft "beep" sound, and the screen also lit up with a "passage allowed" green light.

"Huh? What's going on?" The guard was stunned, and immediately stepped forward and looked at the screen of the electronic lock.

After the office took over the Silver Building, the building's electronic security system was immediately reset. Only the identity information of people with workstations in the building would be entered into the system. In the impression of these two guards, those There is no such person as Ke Lan among the staff.

"The name is... Ke Lan... Huh? Why is there only one name? Where is your other identity information?" The guard asked in surprise. He only saw Ke Lan in the name column on the screen. Two words, and all other information was blank, but the machine's judgment was that it was allowed to pass, which made him confused.

"Is there a possibility..." Ke Lan said to the two of them with a smile, "My identity has a higher level of confidentiality?"

"Impossible! Even people from the Security Bureau will show the corresponding unit and position!" The guard suddenly became nervous and reached for the holster on his waist. "Have you hacked into the security system of the building? ?”

"You can ask the engineer responsible for the electronic security system of this building to check it carefully to see if there is any problem with the system." Ke Lan shrugged, "But my suggestion is... you'd better not waste my time."

The guard looked suffocated. After looking at each other with his colleagues, one of them stared at Ke Lan, while the other turned around and started communicating quietly and urgently into the walkie-talkie.

After more than ten seconds, the other guard ended the call. He looked at Ke Lan strangely and said, "The people from the security department said there is no problem..."

"Then can I go in?" Ke Lan pointed to the door.

The guard nodded with a complicated expression, seemingly reluctant, but had to let Ke Lan in.

As Ke Lan said, if he had an urgent task and wasted time, if they were held accountable, not only would they lose their jobs, but there would also be other punishments.

"It's strange...it's so busy outside, but it's so difficult to get into this building." Ke Lan muttered in his heart, "If everyone had to be questioned like this when entering or leaving, it would waste too much time... ...Hmm, but it’s also possible that I’m wearing the wrong clothes. If I had known better to change into a suit before coming back, these two guards probably wouldn’t have stopped me.”

Ke Lan walked straight to the elevator entrance on the side of the hall. In addition to him, there were more than a dozen young men and women waiting for the elevator. Each of them had the same characteristics - anxious expressions, and information prompts that kept ringing. Mobile phones and folders that are so thick that they can’t be fastened... Compared with the lower-level staff outside, there is no difference at all between those working in the building except that their clothes are more upscale.

Ke Lan was lucky. As soon as he stopped, the elevator reached the first floor. The car door opened, and a group of hurried-looking staff members filed out, and people waiting for the elevator poured in.

Because there are too many floors, the elevator in Baiyin Building does not have buttons. Instead, it has a touch screen that can write numbers. After everyone enters the elevator, they enter the floor they want to go to. Ke Lan was the last person. He stretched out his finger and wrote "139" on the touch screen.

The top floor of Baiyin Building is also the floor where the office of the top leader of the entire office is located.

He found that when he wrote 139, several staff members around him looked at him in surprise. When they focused on Ke Lan's clothes, the surprise in their eyes became even stronger. .

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan asked, "Why do you look...surprised?"

"Don't you know that the 139th floor is... the commander-in-chief's office?" A young man with an honest face reminded Ke Lan.

"I know." Ke Lan replied immediately.

"Only he and his secretary can enter the commander-in-chief's office. Anyone else who wants to report to work must apply in advance..." The man added, "Look at the clothes you are wearing... you are from the military. Bar?"

"So be it." Ke Lan responded. After all, he still holds the rank of major general in the field army. Although he has no troops under his command, there is nothing wrong with him being a member of the military.

"People from the military... are looking for the commander-in-chief?" This news suddenly exploded in the crowd, and many people were whispering, as if this was a very big event.

"I am indeed looking for him, but is this worth being so surprised?" Ke Lan's doubts became more intense... Could it be that these people thought that the field army wanted to intervene in the aftermath? Even if the donkey hadn't kicked the brains out, the field army now had a big puddle of shit hanging on their butts that couldn't be wiped clean. Where would they have the time, energy and manpower to get involved in the affairs of the Ark?

"Nothing, nothing." The young man waved his hands repeatedly, with a frightened smile on his face.

Ke Lan knew that even if he kept asking, this guy probably wouldn't tell him anything more.

But among the whispers of others, Ke Lan heard a very informative sentence - "Shouldn't this kind of matter be handled by the people of the joint parliamentary group? Even if it is stabbed above, then what? It should be someone from the Security Bureau...how could it be someone from the military?"

"There's something fishy." Ke Lan thought to himself, but he was not in a hurry to ask those people - he was already in the elevator anyway. What questions did the "Commander-in-Chief" have? He would know the answer with his own eyes. .

The elevator went up very quickly. When it reached the 138th floor, Ke Lan was the only one in the elevator. When the floor number jumped to "139", there was a "ding" sound and the car door slid open to both sides. On the side, an empty and neat corridor appeared in front of Ke Lan.

"There is only the commander-in-chief and his secretary on the top floor?" Ke Lan looked around. Compared with other overcrowded floors, the top floor seemed extremely quiet, and no one could be heard at all. "This is too wasteful."

He glanced at the floor map posted on the wall and walked towards the office of the "General Manager of the Office"... But before Ke Lan could reach the door, he saw a beautiful girl with messy clothes and a flushed face hurriedly leaving. Walked out of the room.

Her steps were a little hurried, but she didn't have any documents or electronic devices in her hands, and her legs and waist were in a weird posture when she walked.

The girl lowered her head and did not see Ke Lan. She turned around and walked into an office with the sign "Secretary's Office No. 4" on it, and quickly closed the door.

Ke Lan frowned.

He had vaguely guessed something, and an inexplicable anger suddenly rose from his heart.

He opened the door and strode into the office of the general manager.

There was a strange smell permeating the room - in the past, Ke Lan might not have been able to tell what it was, but now, the answer in his heart was ready to come out...

There was no one sitting behind the desk. After Ke Lan walked around the office, a middle-aged man with a big belly walked out from the lounge hidden behind the wall, holding up his pants.

As soon as he saw Ke Lan, he immediately exclaimed: "Who are you? How did you get in?"

He reached out to grab the phone on his desk, but the next second, the phone had already reached Ke Lan's hand.

"Of course I just walked in." Ke Lan replied.

"This is the general office for the aftermath of the Alexander Incident, not the headquarters of your field army!" The middle-aged man shouted breathlessly, "I ask you to leave immediately... No, no, you can't leave now!"

"Oh, you also know that this is the general office for the aftermath of the Alexandria Incident?" Ke Lan said in a weird voice, "If you hadn't told me, I would have thought you regarded this place as your home..."

"What do you mean?" the middle-aged man immediately widened his eyes and asked.

"Your name is Hinata Yuuji, right? Are you from Congressman Williams?" Before coming, Ke Lan had already mastered the identity information of all the senior leaders of the office, but what he didn't expect was that he would be greeted by Such an outrageous scene.

Fortunately, he asked the people of the Undead Crew not to notify the joint parliamentary group in advance. Otherwise, this guy would be greeting him with neat clothes and a smile on his face, right?

"Who are you?!" Hinata Yuuji asked in shock and anger.

"The people below are so busy, I think you are very free?" Ke Lan did not answer the other party's question, but dragged the laptop on the table and looked through the documents inside.

[P.S. Thanks to Sahara Scorpio for the 500 starting coins. 】