Alien Relic Hunter

One or two soft lights hitting the ground will not produce any change, but when hundreds of soft lights hit a location at the same time, it is like sunlight focused by a convex lens, and a coin is "burned" on the ground. size holes.

Yegel suddenly heard a "gudong, gudong" sound. Within a few seconds, dark sea water emerged from the hole. Then, the entire space began to tremble, and the ground began to appear to one side. Sign of tilt.

Yegel suddenly felt suffocated. He wanted to ask Wilson what he was doing, but he couldn't speak directly. Before he could write on the tablet, Wilson started running towards the high wall not far away.

Yeager had no choice but to follow closely.

After running a few steps, Yeager discovered something very strange - although the ground was sloping towards the side of the pool, the high wall was gradually beginning to level off, and the angle with the horizontal surface became increasingly larger. The smaller.

Assuming that this high wall is directly at a fixed ninety-degree angle to the ground, as the ground tilts toward the pool, the wall should move above Yeager's head and become a new ceiling. But now, it looks like a quilt. It was as if the cardboard that had been folded at 90 degrees was slowly flattening out.

Finally, when the angle between the high wall and the ground reached almost 180 degrees, Wilson and Yeager "climbed" up the high wall one after another. Yeager looked back and saw something emerging from the hole. The incoming seawater has merged with the seawater submerged due to the tilt of the ground, and is flowing in this direction.

As for the dilapidated "Zokok Kai", it had sunk to the bottom of the pool and disappeared.

Wilson's footsteps did not stop, and Yeager could only continue running forward with him.

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Within the Tower of Babel...or rather, in the underwater city "City No. 2".

Ke Lan and Sansan San have already searched the ruins of three medium-sized neighborhoods. During this period, they were attacked by a total of fifteen times by undersea creatures. Without exception, the genetic sequences of these creatures that attacked them were very similar to Yinglong. .

From another perspective, these creatures can be regarded as distant relatives of the prehistoric species, and they are not the type that cannot be hit with eight poles.

Humans and chimpanzees are close relatives in species science, with a genetic similarity of nearly 99%, and dolphins, which are also mammals, are also as high as more than 80%... According to Zeluo's analysis, these undersea creatures, and The genetic similarity of the monster "Seraph" evolved from the egg of the dragon ranges from 95% to 97%. Calculated according to the classification method of "phylum, order, family, genus, species" of human civilization biology, these little things who were casually strangled to death by Ze Luo's space power can at least be classified as prehistoric species like Yinglong. Within the same "family".

Of course, the premise is that a classification can be specially developed for prehistoric species in this system... But the problem is that biological classification methods generally classify organisms based on external factors such as appearance and habits. When this concept was proposed, At that time, genetics was not as advanced as it is today...

But the most important point is that generally speaking, the higher the genetic similarity between two organisms, the higher the similarity in appearance, body structure, and living habits. These two types of attributes are positively correlated. Therefore, even after the gradual development of genetics, it did not bring any huge changes to biological classification.

The problem lies in the prehistoric species - the institute has a research report. Although the authors are just a few junior researchers who have just become full-time employees, and the organizers and supervisors have the highest title of associate professor, due to the particularity of the topic, this report is confidential. The level is not low. Ke Lan accidentally caught a glimpse of it while searching for information after he became a formal member of the Undead Crew Club.

There is not much content in the report. I don’t know whether it is due to insufficient research or interference from external factors. The content of the report also seems a bit vague. In short, it can be summed up in one sentence: existing, known, and can be done. The genetic sequences of all prehistoric species with observable biological tissues are highly similar.

Ke Lan knew very well what it meant when a researcher said the words "highly similar".

The genetic relationship between prehistoric species and prehistoric species may be closer than that between humans and chimpanzees.

But this report was not made public in the end, and it was not even published on the institute’s internal public website. This is nothing. For any normal person with a little basic biological knowledge, seeing this report The first reaction was that it was nonsense... After all, the differences between the prehistoric species were so great that it would be unconvincing to say that they were close relatives at the genetic level.

What's more, this report does not record in detail which samples of prehistoric species this research team took, what the status of the samples was, and under what conditions and methods... There is no data, just There is only one conclusion, as if the students did not write down any problem-solving process during the math test, but only filled in an answer at the end.

Even if the answer is correct, it will still make people feel unconvincing, not to mention...

The answer given by the research institute team is like writing three after a question about how much one plus one equals.

But after reading this report, Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a story that once appeared in ancient Chinese myths and legends...

"A dragon gives birth to nine sons, all of whom are different."

Perhaps, these prehistoric species are really the same species... maybe.

In addition to this report, Ke Lan also discovered a brand-new term in the internal documents of the institute called "Alpha gene". This is a gene that is only found in the prehistoric species and the indigenous organisms of Alpha Planet. On Earth, There is no "alpha gene" found in the biological gene sequence.

Both are carbon-based organisms. In fact, the indigenous organisms of Alpha Planet have many similarities with the Earth's organisms, but this "Alpha gene" is unique to them.

There are many people who have tried to "hybridize" the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet with the creatures on Earth. The vast majority of people have failed, and there are only a few successful examples. But these successful examples have one thing in common, that is, the newly born " There is no "alpha gene" in the genetic sequence of "hybrid species".

As long as there is an "alpha gene" in the gene sequence, the fertilized egg cannot even form an embryo.

The only pity is that the research institute failed to obtain genetic samples of Alpha people, so it is impossible to determine whether the "Alpha gene" exists in Alpha people. In addition, the "Symbiote" experiment was completely under the control of the Undead Crew Association, and the institute was not allowed to intervene. Therefore, the institute was unable to make any breakthrough progress in the research of "Alpha Gene".

Ke Lan didn't even know if this "alpha gene" existed in his body.

There is another short paper on the "Alpha gene". The general idea of ​​the article is that the "Alpha gene" comes from the prehistoric species. The "Alpha gene" accounts for a very high proportion of the genetic sequence of the prehistoric species. As for why the Alpha star The indigenous creatures on the planet will more or less carry some "alpha genes" because the ecology of this planet has been permanently "polluted" by prehistoric species.

According to the point of view of this article, the "Alpha gene" named after the planet is not actually a native thing on Alpha Planet, but an "outsider".

Ke Lan also remembered one thing. For tens of thousands of years, the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet had not shown any obvious signs of evolution or mutation, as if their genes had been "locked". For this reason, there was once a saying that "Alpha is actually a large biological testing ground"...

Now that I think about it, this seemingly absurd statement seems to have some truth to it...

What about Alpha civilization? Assuming this statement is correct, what role do they play in it?

The creator of the proving ground? Or a manager or an observer? Or... an experimental subject?

…

Ke Lan was walking through the ruins while thinking about these things. He didn't even notice that Thirty-Three stopped at the first time.

"Ke Lan, I sensed a large amount of Nino alloy again." Thirty-three said.

"High mass? Could it be the scattered parts of those modified battleships again?" Ke Lan asked.

"No, it's much bigger than that... Unless, unless the entire battleship sinks here." Thirty-three shook his head, his facial muscles tightened, and there was a hint of excitement and tension in his eyes. look.

"Could it be that the main body of a 'Zhenhai-class' cruiser sank here?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, looked around, and then said, "With the scale of this ruins, there is no way a cruiser can be buried, right? unless……"

Unless you first remove the ruins, dig a hole under the ruins, bury the wreckage of the cruiser in it, then fill the hole, and finally move the removed ruins back to the original place...

This kind of thing feels ridiculous even when I think about it.

"Where?" Ke Lan simply stopped thinking about these possibilities and asked directly.

Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times. No matter how many thoughts you have in your mind, it is better to dig it out and see the real thing.

"It's at twelve o'clock from where I'm standing, thirty-five meters away."

The place Thirty-Three was talking about was a relatively large ruin. Although it was relatively large, it was at best equivalent to a collapsed twenty-story building. It was absolutely impossible to bury a cruiser.

Ke Lan stepped over the rubble and debris on the ground and stepped into the ruins.

"This building looks very different from other ruins." Thirty-three bent down and picked up a fragment. "Look, there seem to be many patterns painted on it, as well as the words of the Alpha civilization. This piece The fragments should have peeled off from the wall... Well, they just fit in with the gap in the broken wall... There are also patterns and words on the wall that are about to be worn away."

This building is indeed unique - the architectural style of the Undersea City, or in other words, the architectural style of Alpha Civilization, is mainly simple, especially those residential areas and functional buildings used to live in, which are extremely clean in style. It is neat and neat, and it is rare to have writing or drawing on the walls - this is why relics with Alpha civilization text can sell for high prices.

Things are rare and valuable. If relics with text could be seen everywhere in various ruins, then the research institute and various consortiums would not offer such high purchase prices.

There is one architectural exception.

"This ruins should have been an altar or a temple or something like that," Ke Lan said.

"I think so too." Thirty-three nodded in agreement, "Only in religious buildings can you find a large number of documentary relics... Such relics are the most profitable, but they are also very dangerous. They are everywhere. It’s a mechanism, and hunters who enter it often die... In my impression, those large temples are at least B-level relics."

"That's right. And the texts written on these walls are all prayers used to praise the 'great gods' they believe in." Ke Lan nodded, "This is an extremely standard religious building."

"By the way, with everything collapsed like this, there shouldn't be any danger, right?" Thirty-three whispered, "Besides, the scale of this 'temple' is not that big..."

Those large temples that "started as B-level" are usually very large buildings or building complexes where a single temple can be regarded as a ruin. This "small temple" in front of you should belong to that kind of Alpha city. of outbuildings. Compare it with the temples on earth. The former is the famous Baoshan Temple, a large temple with strong incense, while the latter is the City God Temple built next to the vegetable market.

"If there is danger, it shouldn't threaten us." Ze Luo is here, and Ke Lan is quite confident. As he walked inside, he used his big hands condensed with the power of space to level the ruins.

Soon he pushed to the position where Thirty-Three said "the massive Nino alloy was sensed", but the problem was, there was nothing here.

"Is it really underground?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of the ridiculous scene of burying the battleship in the ground that he had just imagined.

"Well, it's underground, and... it's very big." Thirty-three murmured - after Ke Lan bulldozed the ruins and the barriers were cleared, his senses became even more acute.

"Then...dig three feet into the ground!"

Just do what you said, and a big pit was dug out soon. At the bottom of the pit, about one meter deep, a round gate made of pure Nino alloy appeared in front of them.

"Is this what you sensed?" Ke Lan glanced at Thirty-Three and said.

"That's right... there is writing on this door, what does it mean?"

"Hive City."