Alien Relic Hunter

"What did you say?!" The female sniper looked at Ke Lan in disbelief, "The...core area of ​​the forest? Are you kidding me?!"

"I'm not kidding. I'm very serious, serious, and sincere in asking you to be our guides and take us to the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest." Ke Lan said seriously.

"Are you crazy? No one has ever been able to enter that place!" The female sniper glared at Ke Lan and took a few steps back. "If you are here for the mist habitat, then I can not only give you this batch of wood. , we can also take you to the area where we harvest wood...but if you want me to take you into the core area of ​​​​the forest, I'm sorry, we can't do it."

"Not only can we not do it, I don't think there is anyone or any organization on the Ark that can reach that place." The female sniper's companion, another "lumberjack" said, "There used to be an elite armored field corps. The troops, more than 1,500 people, have not been able to come out after entering the gray mist forest. The terror of this forest is far beyond your imagination."

"Then the deepest place you have ever entered is a few hundred meters?" Ke Lan asked as he looked at the group of "loggers".

"Two...two hundred meters." The man said guiltily, "You are right, this batch of wood was harvested two hundred meters away from the red line."

"Will you set the ultimate depth of your exploration as the operating area?" Ke Lan suddenly laughed, "There are loopholes everywhere in this sentence... You might as well remain silent."

The female sniper turned her head and glanced at her companion with some annoyance, and then said to Ke Lan: "Okay, I admit... two hundred meters is indeed just our daily logging depth. As for the maximum depth we actually explored, depth……"

She paused and lowered her voice slightly: "Almost...it's five hundred meters."

Ke Lan raised his eyebrows: "So, your exploration record and the expedition team that broke the record in history? It seems that you are all a group of real people, and you prefer practicality to illusory fame. Benefits."

"..." The female sniper did not answer, which was equivalent to acquiescing to Ke Lan's statement.

Making a fortune in silence is what smart people do.

"Tell me specifically about that experience of exploring a depth of 500 meters." Ke Lan stepped forward and put his arm around the other person's shoulders in a familiar manner. "During the exploration process, we encountered those dangers and emergencies. How did you deal with these things, how many casualties did you pay... I am very interested in these things."

The female sniper tried to struggle, but found that her own strength could not shake Ke Lan at all. Then she asked a little discouraged: "What you want to know is actually how to walk through the gray fog forest, right?" ?”

"Chatting with smart people saves effort." Ke Lan grinned.

"Before that, let's introduce each other." The female sniper said, "My name is Mo Jue. He guessed it right. I retired from the first regiment of the first division of ODST. The injured one's name is Mo Xin. My younger brother; the other two are named Danning, who used to serve in the field corps and is an old man in our "Lumberjack" team; and the other is nicknamed "Lone Wolf", who just joined us not long ago, and this is his first time. Second participation in logging operations.”

Ke Lan noticed that many "parts" on Mo Jue's body were replaced with cybernetic bodies... In Ark's military system, the main reason for soldiers who can retire before the age of thirty is disability. .

"I used to be a lone ruin hunter, but I was unlucky and lost two legs in the ruins... I spent nearly ten years recuperating from my injuries. I almost spent all the savings I saved in my early years, so I could only find a way to hang out. Food. A former friend of mine pulled me into this team, but it's a pity..." The lone wolf, whose legs were mechanically prosthetic below the knees, looked at a corpse next to the overturned off-road vehicle, and there was a hint of emotion in his eyes. A hint of sadness.

"We have told you our names, you should also be honest with us, right?" Mo Jue glanced sideways at Ke Lan, "Also, can you let me go? I... I'm not used to this. Being hugged by a man.”

"Of course." Ke Lan immediately let go of Mo Jue, who immediately opened a few meters away from him.

"It's just that what I said can mean letting you go. As for 'being honest'... I would like to remind you that if you know our true identity, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble for you. Trouble. Especially after returning to the Ark, you'd better pretend you've never seen us."

"Who are you?" Mo Jue's heart was raised after she had just put it down. She put one hand behind her back and gestured calmly to the others, her eyes warily looking back and forth at Ke Lan and the others. .

Ke Lan did not answer her question directly, but snapped his fingers.

Accompanied by a harsh sound of gas rubbing against the ground, Valentina appeared behind Ke Lan in a Blasphemer mecha, carrying sand and dust several meters high.

"Ahem..." The gray-headed Ke Lan wiped a handful of dust on his face... Although this way of showing off is cool, I will definitely not adopt this plan next time.

Or, Ze Luo should be asked to help block the dust in advance.

However, at this time, few members of the lumberjack team had no time to pay attention to Ke Lan's embarrassment. Their attention was completely attracted by the ten-meter-tall Blasphemer mecha, and their mouths were opened wide enough to hold a mouthful. Whole eggs.

Especially the guy named Danning, after seeing this mobile phone, the gun in his hand fell directly to the ground. With a look of shock on his face, he walked out from behind the temporary fortification built by the three off-road vehicles, a little staggering. He walked as far as the Blasphemer mecha and swallowed hard.

Danning glanced at Ke Lan and asked: "Is this... the mass-produced model of Fallen... Fallen Angel? I have been paying attention to the battle at the ruins of the Bronze City. I have seen it in the official video clip. "

The mass-produced version of the Fallen Angel, which Ark copied based on the Blasphemer mecha, does not look much different in appearance, and no one knows about the living CPU except for high-level military officials and people from the Undead Crew Association. Ke Lan He simply ignored the mistake and nodded: "Yes, that's right."

"Are you from the Ark official?" Mo Jue reacted immediately.

"That's correct no matter how you think about it." Ke Lan replied, "We are carrying out a secret mission... In fact, according to the mission requirements, we should have wiped out you and the remnants of these heretical sects together..."

"But we have no idea what your mission is!" Mo Jue took another step back, "You can't..."

"There cannot be any witnesses to this mission, especially since you now know that our destination is the core of the Gray Mist Forest."

"You told me this yourself!"

"But you already know that, don't you?" Ke Lan clapped his hands, and Thirty-three immediately controlled the black flying blades that had been buried in the sand to fly up, stopping at a few " Lumberjack's throat position.

"Are you planning to... silence me?" Mo Jue was forced to raise her head. Although she didn't understand why the black blade parked on her throat was levitating, she knew very well that she knew the other party. If you are willing, the lives of these people will be ended in an instant.

"I said that if I planned to silence him, I would launch an indiscriminate attack from the beginning." Ke Lan shrugged, reaching out and pinching the blade at Mo Jue's throat, "But I didn't do that."

"It's because we are still valuable to you..." Mo Jue's expression was a little complicated, "You want us to take you into the Gray Mist Forest, and after we are drained of useful information, you will still kill us to silence us. "

"Although I really want to say don't think of me so meanly, it doesn't seem to be convincing just by talking about it." Ke Lan "picked off" the black blade, and when he released his finger, the blade flew back automatically. Thirty-three there.

Well, the big brother Thirty-Three cooperates well and knows how to act. Let’s add a big chicken drumstick to him later...

"Well, in order to show my sincerity, I can let half of you stay outside the forest and half of you follow us into the forest. In this way, even if I really want to silence you, at least half of you can survive, right?" Ke Lan He suggested, "You'd better not bargain. You know, if we hadn't intervened just now, you would all be corpses now."

"Okay." Mo Jue nodded decisively, "My brother is seriously injured. Let him stay outside and I will go in with you."

"There is still one person left." Ke Lan raised a finger, "You can discuss who will stay to take care of the injured and who will go with us with your boss."

"I'll go with you." Danning looked at the 'Lone Wolf' and said, "Old Wolf, although you are older than me, you have just joined our team. You also know that our rule is that the veteran is responsible for breaking up the family. , you stay and take care of Xiaoxin, the boss and I will go with them."

"Remember to collect other people's corpses." Mo Jue also said to the 'lone wolf'.

'Lone Wolf' hesitated for a moment, but did not refuse. He nodded vigorously: "I will take Mo Xin and everyone else back."

But at this moment, Ke Lan suddenly pulled out his pistol and fired a few "bang bang" shots, blowing out all the tires of several off-road vehicles and the spare tires hanging on the rear of the vehicles. Valentina walked up to the trucks belonging to the remnants of the heretic sect and waved her armor-piercing sword a few times, breaking the trucks into several pieces.

"What are you doing?!" Mo Jue asked in shock and anger, "Without the car, it is impossible for them to return to the Ark alive."

"I didn't say not to let them go back, but I can't let them go back right now." Ke Lan said, "The four of you, take our car and go to the Gray Mist Forest together. When we reach the edge of the forest, I will take this car Leave the car to your brother and Lone Wolf, but by then, I will set a time lock on the car for a few hours. When we go deep into the gray fog forest, the time lock will be unlocked and they can drive the car back. Ark. This car is much safer than your vehicles. Even if you encounter indigenous creatures on the road, you will not be afraid at all. Of course, the most important thing is for the stealth of the action."

"What about you? Without a vehicle, do you plan to walk back to the Ark on your feet?" Mo Jue was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Let's wait until we can come out of the gray mist forest alive to discuss this issue." Ke Lan waved to several members of the lumberjack team, "Get in the car."

…

After two and a half hours of journey, Ke Lan and Mo Jue finally arrived at the edge of the Gray Mist Forest. After handing over the locked armored off-road vehicle to Mo Xin and Lone Wolf as promised, Ke Lan and the six of them Together with Mo Jue and Dan Ning, they walked into the dense forest shrouded in thick fog.

Mist perches all grow very tall. Even in the outskirts of the forest, the shortest adult fog perch is more than twenty meters tall. The dense canopy and the thick mist released by the fog vines make the light in the forest as dim as Like a cave.

Mo Jue and Dan Ning skillfully took out gas masks from their backpacks and fastened them on their faces, and then connected the oxygen generator tank to the breathing tube. After doing all this, Mo Jue turned around and took a look. Ke Lan and the others, who did not do anything at all, asked strangely: "Didn't you prepare gas masks? You know Wu Qi Mu so well, you should also know that these fogs are poisonous, right?"

"It's not needed yet," Ke Lan said.

"Even if all of you are high-level modified people with high toxin resistance, you must wear gas masks." Mo Jue said seriously, "Even if the toxins in the mist are not fatal to you, they will still affect the body's reaction. Ability, and making people hallucinate, this is the most dangerous thing——"

Mo Jue got stuck in the middle of her words because she was surprised to find that when Ke Lan walked into the fog, the thick gray fog actually took the initiative to avoid it, and a radius of about 100 meters appeared around Ke Lan. Two meters of clear area.

Not only him, but also several other people were exactly the same. The mist seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier. No matter how it rolled, it could not invade the two meters around these people.

"This... what kind of equipment is this?" Mo Jue couldn't help but ask.

"Don't look at what you shouldn't look at, and don't ask about what you shouldn't ask." Ke Lan smiled and touched his lips with his index finger - he finally knew why the people in the Undead Crew Club always liked to say this to him before. , although the pleasure brought by pretending to be cool is very low-level and vulgar, it is really good if you can't stand it...

Although he was extremely curious in his heart, Mo Jue still suppressed this curiosity and said to Ke Lan: "I know you are very powerful... but if you take the Gray Mist Forest lightly because of this, you will never be able to get out of it. of."

She turned to look at Ke Lan and continued: "This forest is cannibalistic, in the true sense of the word, 'cannibalistic.'"