Alien Relic Hunter

The high-speed transport aircraft equipped with battleship-level thrusters is very fast. Even if it is equipped with such a big thing as the Blasphemer mecha, it is still much faster than the "Amran-class transport aircraft" that Ke Lan and the others boarded. It’s also much more stable.

In just seven hours, this high-speed transport aircraft sent them to the edge of the Great Basin, one hour shorter than expected.

Ke Lan and others, who were accustomed to seeing hellish starts, felt a rare sense of relief - saving an hour on the road meant that the hour earned in vain could be used for various emergencies. In terms of processing, there is no need to race against time for every step of the action as in the original plan.

"Arrived at the scheduled location one hour in advance." Ke Lan raised his head, looked at the high-speed transport plane that took off vertically, and said, "There is more time than expected, but we still have to cross the Great Basin in three hours - in Before entering the gray mist forest, the undead crew may send people to intercept us at any time."

"Three hours, as long as there are no obstacles on the road, it should be fine." Thirty-three said, jumping into the passenger seat of the armored off-road vehicle.

This armored off-road vehicle is the only vehicle they carry besides the Blasphemer mecha. It is customized by the "Ji Steel Industry" under the Soma Consortium. It has a full Nino alloy frame and is powered by a quadruple crystallized engine. It can operate in It can maintain a cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour on flat unpaved roads. If necessary, it can even "fly with great force" - relying on the rocket thrusters and folding gliders hidden in the chassis to fly for short distances. Flying at low altitude over a long distance... Of course, these magical modifications were completed independently by Leighton and Chi Hanfeng. If the engineers at Jishan Iron and Steel Industry knew that these two people had changed their favorite work to look like this, I don't know what kind of expression he will show.

The short-distance flight function looks stupid, but it is definitely not useless - there are many fissures and rifts with unknown depths in the Great Basin, and the largest rift can even reach more than fifty meters. The Blasphemer Mecha naturally You can jump over it with the help of thrusters and anti-gravity devices, but ordinary ground vehicles can only choose to take a detour when encountering this kind of terrain.

For Ke Lan and the others, taking a detour was a waste of time - if they wanted to cross the Great Basin within three hours, they could only choose the straightest route.

Ke Lan got into the cockpit - this armored off-road vehicle uses an independent cockpit similar to that of a mecha, and the driving method is almost the same as controlling a mecha. If it weren't for Valentina's need to drive the Blasphemer , it’s not Ke Lan’s turn to take the driver’s seat.

"Are you all seated firmly?" Ke Lan adjusted the inclination of the driver's seat to an angle between upright sitting and semi-lying, raised his hand to preliminarily debug all the devices in the cockpit, and then started the engine. .

Compared with the roar and vibration of a traditional engine, the crystallized engine is much quieter, but the moment Ke Lan steps on the accelerator, he still feels a full sense of push.

The armored off-road vehicle rushed out in an instant, and the blasphemer who used an air cushion to glide closely followed the side of the vehicle.

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Although the Great Basin is named "Basin", it is actually a huge crater on Alpha Planet. The core located in the center of the crater has long been lost, leaving only a crater with a depth of more than 100,000 meters and a diameter of 20 Many kilometers of inverted conical deep wells.

The crossing route of Ke Lan and others is actually the tangent line at the edge of this deep well. It spans about 850 kilometers. According to the cruising speed of the vehicle, they can pass through it in three hours.

Of course, the premise is that there are no obstacles throughout the process.

But anyone who knows something about the ecological environment of the Great Basin knows that this is almost impossible to do.

Although the Great Basin is a barren land without any large-scale vegetation or water sources, and everywhere you look is a desolate scene of khaki and marl, there is no lack of traces of indigenous creatures in this place.

At the beginning of the formation of the Great Basin, the meteorite from the distant universe slammed into the surface of Alpha Planet. While creating this super crater, it also incorporated some of the rare elements carried by the meteorite into fragments. into this land.

In the long years that followed, with the erosion of wind, sand and rain, these meteorite fragments that were originally buried deep in the ground were gradually exposed on the surface of the basin... These rare elements with strong radiation must be kept away from humans. It is a deadly thing, but for some indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet, it is a "necessity" for growth and development.

These meteorite fragments attracted a large number of indigenous creatures to eat the soil and gravel in the basin, and these indigenous creatures looking for radioactive materials in turn attracted a group of predators that preyed on them... In this way, a somewhat A deformed, but very reasonable, ecosystem appeared in the Great Basin.

However, these indigenous creatures attracted by radioactive materials will not live in the Great Basin for a long time. After all, there is nothing in this place except meteorite fragments and sand... Humans cannot live without eating and only rely on vitamin supplements. This is also the case for indigenous people. Creatures cannot rely on a few meteorite fragments in the sand to satisfy their hunger. It is for this reason that the ecosphere of the Great Basin has a strong "seasonality".

Just like the migration of migratory birds and fish on the earth, those indigenous creatures will regularly come to the Great Basin to ingest the radioactive elements necessary for survival. At this time, the Great Basin will start to become lively.

Based on this characteristic, experts on the Ark divided the ecological environment of the Great Basin into two stages: the "active period" and the "dead period."

However, at first it was called the "active period" and the "quiet period", but later some scholars felt that it was more appropriate to use the word "dead silence" to describe the lifeless Great Basin, and this second term gradually became popular. Kailai, and replaced the first name, became the mainstream.

Unfortunately, the period when Ke Lan and the others chose to cross the Great Basin happened to be the "active period."

There is nothing that can be done about this. The alternation between the "active period" and the "dead period" in the Great Basin lasts for three months. Ke Lan cannot wait until three months before taking action.

By then, the Undead Crew should have already discovered the clues that he had found the Gray Mist Forest... If he wanted to sneak out again, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy.

"Five kilometers ahead, there is an indigenous biome." While the off-road vehicle was moving forward at high speed, the released reconnaissance drone also followed up in the airspace above, transmitting the surrounding situation to the vehicle in real time.