Alien Relic Hunter

"Put down the computer!" Seeing Ke Lan flipping through the accounts in his notebook, Hinata Yuji suddenly became anxious. He didn't even care that he had not yet put on his pants, and rushed towards Ke Lan.

But before his hands could catch Ke Lan, Ke Lan was kicked hard in the stomach. His whole body flew back several times faster than when he rushed towards him, and slammed into the desk. There was a loud noise from the cabinet shelf at the back.

Hinata Yuuji suddenly let out a scream. He felt as if his spine had been broken. The barbs formed by the broken wooden cabinet directly penetrated the skin and fat, and blood flowed down along the folds between the fat. .

"Oh..."

Hinata Yuuji struggled to sit up, but found that his lower body was completely unresponsive.

His heart suddenly felt cold - was he paralyzed? Could it be that the spine is really broken?

Damn damn damn damn! He cursed crazily in his mind. Although with current medical technology, this kind of injury can be restored to its original state with just a few minor surgeries and a week in the medical cabin, the suffering during the treatment will definitely be inevitable. ——Especially when it comes to nerve connection surgery for a broken spine, even if you take anesthesia, you can't completely block out the "sour feeling" like an electric shock...

Although he himself has not undergone this kind of surgery, he once accidentally injured the spine of a female secretary because she was having too much fun with her. The scream she made when she was treated is still remembered by this fat man. Still new.

"This bastard, I must kill him..."

Just when Hyuga Yuuji was thinking this, Ke Lan's expression became more and more gloomy as he was looking through the accounts - he closed the notebook, turned his gaze to Hyuga Yuuji, and asked coldly: "Why? Will materials worth 460 million credit points be transferred to the East Fifth District for rescue operations? Hasn’t the East Five District completely disappeared? There are not even victims. Who are your disaster relief materials distributed to? Also , why are all the emergency fireproof materials shipped from the North Seventh District stuck at the checkpoint? Shouldn’t the priority of these things be the highest? Don’t tell me you don’t know anything..."

Hinata Yuuji's heart skipped a beat, and his expression suddenly changed. He seemed to have forgotten the pain in his body for the time being. He pointed at Ke Lan and asked tremblingly: "You... you are from the Security Bureau?!"

"Now I'm asking you a question, don't do it the other way around."

Hinata Yuuji's chest heaved greatly, and cold sweat trickled down his forehead. He stared at Ke Lan, and suddenly let out a loud roar. He took out a pistol from the ruins of the cabinet shelf with his right hand and raised it towards Ke Lan. At gunpoint!

If he wanted to kill Ke Lan just now, he was just out of anger, but when Ke Lan pointed out the problems in the accounts of disaster relief materials, he had already really wanted to kill him.

This matter must not be leaked. Once it is leaked, he will not be the only one who will be implicated - if he kills an investigator from the Security Bureau, maybe the person above him can still save himself, but if the secrets in the computer are exposed If exposed, not to mention him, even the person above him will probably be killed.

But before he could point the gun at Ke Lan, Ke Lan had already picked up several signature pens on the desk and threw them out hard.

The pen instantly penetrated Hinata Yuuji's palm, nailing his hand to the ground.

A louder howl echoed in the huge office.

"Let me ask you again, what are these anomalies in the accounts?"

"I...I don't know..." Hinata Yuuji shook his head.

"You won't tell me even if you die, right?" Ke Lan picked up the pistol that fell on the ground - only then did he realize that the pistol's safety was not turned on and the bullets were not loaded... In other words, even if Ke Lan had just If he didn't take action, no matter how Hinata Yuuji pulled the trigger on him, the bullets in the gun would not be fired at all.

Pulling the slide, loading the bullet, and then opening the safety... Ke Lan deliberately completed this series of actions in front of Hinata Yuuji's eyes, and then put the muzzle of the gun against his head, "I'll give you one last chance. "

"You can't kill me! Even if you are an investigator of the Security Bureau, you have no right to accuse me without having conclusive evidence and going through a legal trial process -"

"I know the process by heart, but you really don't want to talk about it?"

As soon as Hinata Yuuji's mouth shape for "no" appeared, Ke Lan pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang!"

The bullet penetrated from the forehead, directly smashing the entire brain. This guy's gun was a nine-millimeter pocket pistol, which was very weak. The bullet stayed in the skull cavity and did not penetrate from the back of the head. In this way, it was not possible. Eliminate those disharmonious images of red, red and white.

"Those people at the door, come in." Ke Lan shouted outside. When he kicked Hinata Yuuji away, the loud noise he made attracted the footsteps of several people, but these footsteps The sound stopped at the door of the office, and no one dared to open the door and come in.

After a few seconds, the office door was carefully pushed open, and several beautiful young women dressed as secretaries walked in with frightened expressions.

The first thing they saw was Hinata Yuuji lying behind the desk, and the bullet hole on this guy's head - although these women had roughly guessed what happened inside after hearing the gunshot, but when they saw Hinata After Yuuji's body, several people still let out ear-piercing screams.

"Please be quiet, please." Ke Lan said in a deep voice. A secretary who looked relatively calm pulled his companion hard, and then asked Ke Lan in a trembling voice: "Please, who are you?" …”

"I am the person sent from above to take over the office." Ke Lan said, "Are you all this guy's secretaries?"

He pointed to the body on the ground.

"Yes...no..." The woman nodded, then shook her head.

"Yes or no?"

"We are all Mr. Hinata's secretaries, but I am the only one who is really responsible for the secretarial work. Everyone else is..." the calmest woman replied.

"They are all playthings he found specially, right? I understand." Ke Lan nodded in understanding, and then waved to the "real secretary", "Then the accounts and lists of these disaster relief supplies should be Was it passed down through your hands?"

"Yes..." The secretary nodded with a complicated expression.

"I have some questions to ask you, and you must answer them truthfully. Do you understand?" As the number of accounts Ke Lan flipped through increased, he found that there were more and more problematic entries.

"Three days ago, four batches of 60,000 emergency rations were shipped from the Hongshun Food Factory in Beijiu District. According to regulations, these emergency rations should arrive in the most severely affected areas within 24 hours, but why haven't they waited until now? , are still stranded at a distribution point less than fifteen kilometers away from here? Don’t tell me it’s because of traffic jams or insufficient transportation capacity. I know what’s going on outside now than you guys sitting in the office.”

"Yes... Mr. Hinata withheld the emergency rations..." the secretary said hesitantly, "He, he said that the damaged areas are now in a power outage... the cold storage has basically been deactivated and cannot store such a large amount. If the supplies are sent at this time, this batch of emergency rations may spoil due to improper storage..."

"Fart!" Ke Lan was so angry that he kicked Hinata Yuuji's body again, "Emergency rations, explain, explain - explain to me what the hell emergency rations are! These things are either sealed Dry powder preparations stored in polyethylene and aluminum foil bags, or simply sealed cans, will not deteriorate even if they are thrown into the wilderness for five or six years. You actually told me that they cannot be stored without cold storage?!"

"This...this is what Mr. Hinata said..." The female secretary's head suddenly shrank, her eyes drooped, and she did not dare to look at Ke Lan at all.

"So what did he say about you? Don't you have the ability to think of your own? Even a child knows that canned food will not spoil easily. You senior secretaries don't even know this common sense? Are you really ignorant or are you? Pretending not to know, I guess you don’t need to say more, right?”

"..."

"Taking a step back, even if these emergency rations really spoil, why were the fifth to seventh batches of materials destroyed directly after they were delivered to the distribution center? What do you mean?" Ke Lan sneered, "Even if they have to be destroyed, , the batch that was delivered first should also be destroyed, right?”

The female secretary was completely speechless.

At this moment, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and a group of dog-like people in suits and leather shoes broke in. Although the leader, Ke Lan, had never interacted with him before, his face was familiar to him.

It was Sean Williams, the member of the Joint Parliamentary Group.

This man was just over 40 years old and was considered one of the youngest members of the joint parliamentary group. He was very active after taking office and often appeared on various TV programs. It was hard for Ke Lan not to think that he looked familiar.

He first looked at Hinata Yuji's body, and then turned his attention to Ke Lan.

The bodyguards following him put their hands into the inner pockets of their suits and held their pistols. However, Sean Williams just frowned and waved his hand, indicating to his men not to draw their guns.

"Are you... Ke Lan?" Although he has never met Ke Lan, Ke Lan, as the direct person in charge of "Aguna Kotor", can definitely be regarded as an important figure to the members of the United Parliamentary Group. The above is a figure worthy of special attention... What's more, Ke Lan's position was directly given by the people of the Undead Crew Association, and did not go through the hands of their joint parliamentary group, which is even more concerning.

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded.

"I just received an order from above, saying that you are coming to take over the Disaster Relief Office...but you don't have to kill people, right?" Although Shan En's tone was calm, his dissatisfaction was clearly revealed.

"Since you know that I was sent down by someone from above, you should also know what Hinata Yuuji did, right? Or...what did he do for you?"

"Mr. Ke Lan, to borrow an old saying from you Chinese people - you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Hyuga Yuuji may have made some small mistakes in his work, but the crime will not lead to death, right?"

"A small mistake? Are you sure it's just a small mistake? Neglect of duty, embezzlement of money, destruction of materials...all in all, which one is not a crime worthy of being shot?" Ke Lan asked.

"But Hyuga Yuuji is a candidate for the next parliament... Even if he really committed these things, only people who are not... and only those above are qualified to execute him."

"Then I happen to be the person qualified to execute him." After Ke Lan finished speaking, he raised his gun and pointed it at Congressman Williams, "And you..."

"Are you crazy?!" Williams' eyes twitched and he took two steps back without leaving a trace. The bodyguards on the side immediately stepped forward to protect him behind him.

"The fifth seat, the Pope."

"What?!" Williams was startled, and for a moment he didn't realize what Ke Lan was talking about.

"The fifth seat of the Immortal Crew Association...is this identity enough to execute Hinata Yuuji...and you?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Williams' eyes widened and he shouted loudly, "It is impossible for the crew to accept new people to join... You are lying!"

"You might as well make a call and ask...if you can get in touch with one of the members."

…

Regarding the issue of the Immortal Crew Association, Ke Lan specifically asked Demeter and Poseidon after the meeting, and the answer he got was not beyond Ke Lan’s expectation—the organization of the Immortal Crew Association is actually the Ark Kaisha. It evolved from the "ten-person decision-making seat" at the beginning of the voyage.

As the name suggests, there are only ten people in this ten-person decision-making seat at the beginning. They represent the highest will of Ark. As time went by, the size of this organization gradually began to expand, and until later, the number of people had more than doubled than at the beginning.

The ten-member decision-making seat adopts a recommendation system to attract new members... But soon, the members discovered that the more people there were, the more bloated the organization would be, and the more problems it would cause. After several discussions, , the maximum number of people in this ten-person decision-making seat was fixed, and twenty-two seats were established using the serial numbers of the Major Arcana cards. This is the prototype of the current Immortal Crew Association.

At that time, they would only look for new candidates after the old members died - until the technology called the "Coffin of Immortality" appeared.

This technology can seal the human body in an ice coffin and then connect the consciousness to the virtual world. This technology allows humans to survive for more than five hundred years in a state of physical dormancy and conscious consciousness... Soon, after this technology passed clinical trials, the members of the ten-person decision-making seat used it on themselves.

And the organization was renamed "The Immortal Crew".

Of course, in order to prevent public panic and dissent, their presence has also been moved from the front to the background, and they have controlled various affairs on the Ark through the hands of the new organization "United Parliamentary Group".

It has been more than two hundred years since the last member of the Immortal Crew was sealed in the "Coffin of Immortality".

Demeter told Ke Lan that they did this not for the so-called immortality, but so that the decision-making and direction of the Ark could always remain consistent during the long interstellar journey... This was for the continuation of the race and was a last resort. means.

As for the beta-type clones, Demeter and Poseidon did not deny it, but they did not tell Ke Lan any more inside information - the people who proposed this plan were basically in the "opposition" camp. , the details of which they knew no more than the prophet did.

Ke Lan originally wanted to ask about the identity of himself and the prophet, but Demeter said that he should solve the urgent needs first and then deal with these matters - and the so-called urgent needs naturally refer to the aftermath of the Alexander incident.

Ke Lan originally thought that there would be no trouble if these matters were left to the joint parliamentary group, but he never expected that these high-level officials of the joint parliamentary group would be corrupt to such an extent.

It's pretty much rotten inside and out.

What the undead crew would throw at him was indeed a veritable... "mess".

[P.S. Thanks to Silence of Thorns for the 1,500 starting coins. 】

The plot of this book is purely fictitious. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Please do not take it personally.