Alien Relic Hunter

"Is the class system of Alpha civilization so strict?" Thirty-three said in surprise, "Or is it limited to the era when this 'sanctuary' was used?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head. "Although some of the sealed memory fragments were unlocked after entering the nest, the content is too small, and a lot of key information is missing."

"Then what you're saying is that as long as we follow this lifting platform and keep descending, we can reach...well, the noble area?" Thirty-three asked.

"Theoretically, that's the case, but I don't know what the third level of the nest looks like."

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Noah's Ark, core area.

When Roronoa, the only Level 9 enhanced agent of the Security Bureau and the leader of the fifth field team, fell down, both of Zeus's arms were cut off by their roots, and there were also signs of damage to his chest and abdomen. After opening several deep gaps where the bones were visible, the internal organs and intestines that had lost their support had also been hung outside the body, and some were even dragged to the ground, leaving dirty blood stains.

Around Zeus, there were piles of corpses like mountains, including Security Bureau agents, garrison soldiers, and even more clone troops in black clothes and black armor.

"So strong... Are every member of the Undead Crew Association such a monster?" Lin Qiming's subordinate took a deep breath and murmured.

But when he looked at his boss, he found that his boss frowned and shook his head, saying: "No...no, it's not strong at all, but too weak...there's something wrong."

"What's too weak? Boss, who are you talking about...Roronoa?"

"No, I'm talking about the target." Lin Qiming said.

The subordinate was stunned for a moment. If the timing hadn't been wrong, he really wanted to touch Lin Qiming's forehead to confirm whether his boss had a high fever and was confused.

"It's true that Roronoa is a level 9 enhanced person, but in front of the target, the strength of the level 9 enhanced person is far from enough... According to my expectations, his ability to meet the target is already the limit, but the problem is Not only did he successfully hit the target, but he also severely damaged the target before dying... This is not right." Lin Qiming said solemnly.

"Isn't this a good thing?" The subordinate asked puzzledly, "Maybe the target is just a powerful one... According to this trend, there is no need for the following blocking lines of defense. We can stop the target alone - no, more than just stop it. , we may be able to kill him!"

"Did you notice one thing..." Lin Qiming held the sniper rifle, and the crosshair in the center of the scope was locked on Zeus's head, but he still did not pull the trigger.

"What's up?"

"Roronoa almost cut off the target's neck with his first blow, but now there is only an inconspicuous white mark left on the target's neck. The horrific wound that almost decapitated him has long since disappeared... I don't know. Since when did the target lose that amazing ability to recover? Not to mention the rebirth of a broken arm, even the fatal wounds on the chest and abdomen have not recovered. They just let the blood flow... Now there is no blood. The bleeding was not because the wound had healed, but because the blood in his body had dried up."

"Then it...the target...is dead?" The subordinate glanced at Zeus standing in the center of the battlefield in the distance. He had not moved more than ten seconds ago, but the casualties on the blocking position were equally heavy. It was difficult to organize another wave of attacks.

No one dares to rush forward... Anyway, the order from above is to stop the target. Since the target has stopped advancing, their mission is completed... Although the soldiers will not resist the order, it does not mean that they can do it completely. No fear of death - except for the replicants.

However, the clone troops, as the first batch of cannon fodder to enter the battle, had already been exhausted by this time. Looking around, there was not a single soldier in black clothes and black armor still standing.

"I don't know." Lin Qiming took a deep breath and tried to pull the trigger several times with his fingers, but failed in the end - the trigger of the firearm that had just been maintained yesterday seemed to be rusty and motionless.

It's not that Lin Qiming doesn't dare to shoot... but that he is worried that if he really blows the target's head, something unexpected will happen next, causing the situation to get completely out of control - from a certain perspective It seems that maintaining the current stalemate can be said to be the most ideal state.

As for how the incident will end, this is something that the people above need to consider. They just need to execute the order.

But just when Lin Qiming was thinking about whether to send a report message to his superiors for instructions, the order from the Undead Crew Association came first, and it was a direct communication from Demeter.

This shocked Lin Qiming. A formal member of the Undead Crew Club bypassed the chief of the crisis management section and gave an order directly to him, the deputy section chief. This was the first time, and he knew with his heels that it must be a very important and urgent order.

"This is the first line of defense, Crisis Management Section, Lin Qiming, the target has stopped moving at the moment -"

Before Lin Qiming finished his report, he was interrupted mercilessly by Demeter: "The target has been moved, and what is left in front of you is a stand-in. According to the last photos taken before the monitoring equipment throughout the ship was destroyed, Based on the images below and the route predicted by the computer based on the target’s movement trajectory, the target’s new target should be the underground icehouse located at the former site of the West 1st District Research Institute.”

"Is that a substitute? When was it replaced... Why didn't we notice it at all?" Lin Qiming's communication equipment was turned on to the outside. Naturally, the subordinates on the side heard Demeter's words and exclaimed.

"It's not important. The key point is...the underground ice warehouse." Lin Qiming's face was ugly. As the deputy chief of the crisis management department, he naturally knew what incredible things were stored in the underground ice warehouse - compared to only hard drives and core master brains The dark well and underground icehouse are the real threat... If the contents inside are released, whether they are living or dead, it will be a disaster.

A disaster with unpredictable consequences.

"That's right, the underground ice bank is the real target of Zeus. Black Well and the core mastermind are just a fake shot. We were all deceived by him." Demeter said quickly, completely out of touch with her usual attitude. Regardless of the elegant lady's temperament, "I have urgently dispatched troops to intercept him, but compared with here, the defensive force in the underground icehouse is too weak. From now on, all crisis management officers will guard the black well. The order is changed to rush to the underground icehouse. If you can catch up with Zeus, hold him back at any cost... If Zeus has already entered the underground icehouse when you arrive, seal the entire underground icehouse. We must not let him come out!"

"Yes!" Lin Qiming responded immediately.

After the communication ended, in addition to the Crisis Management Section, people from several other units on the defense line also began to commotion - it was not just Lin Qiming who received the order, but also the leaders and guards of the field teams who were still alive in the Security Bureau. All military officers above the school level received the same order.

A roar came from above his head. Lin Qiming raised his head and saw several transport planes flying over the battlefield close to the dome and flying towards the west area - these transport planes were carrying soldiers belonging to the following lines of defense. Troops, after Lin Qiming's line of defense was breached, it would be their turn to face the rebellious crew member.

They had been on standby and moved much faster than Lin Qiming and his disabled troops. The positions of the defenders and forwards were suddenly switched.

"Let the medical soldiers stay, and the lightly wounded will take care of the seriously injured. Others, look for vehicles nearby and prepare to rush to the West District 1!" Lin Qiming said to the subordinate operator, "As for those clone troops... there is no need to waste medical treatment. The resources are on them, their brains have been burned out by the control chip, and they will just be in a vegetative state after being revived."

"Then... what about the substitute? How to deal with it?" Lin Qiming's subordinate pointed to the "Zeus" still standing in the center of the battlefield and asked.

Without thinking, Lin Qiming picked up the sniper rifle and pulled the trigger that he had never pulled before——

"Bang!"

The clear sound of sniper rifles resounded throughout the battlefield. "Zeus"'s head exploded like a watermelon. The headless, arm-broken body fell straight backwards, mixed with the mutilated corpses on the ground.

"Let's go!" Lin Qiming put away his sniper rifle, turned around and ran quickly to one side. There were two bulletproof air-cushion vehicles parked at the entrance of the passage on the right hand side. They were the vehicles they took when they came. There were piles of equipment boxes on the roof. It is full of weapons, ammunition and medicines, and there are even many heavy fire weapons that are "forbidden to be used inside the Ark".

Lin Qiming opened the car door and jumped into the driver's seat. He glanced in the rearview mirror and saw that sixteen members of his team had filed into the trunk, many of them - compared to the heavy losses of the Security Bureau and The casualties of the garrison and crisis management section were almost negligible.

"The next step will be a hard battle, so be prepared...be prepared." Lin Qiming originally wanted to say "be prepared to sacrifice," but after thinking about it, he swallowed the word "sacrifice."

Although he and these operators knew very well that the survival rate of this mission would be very low, they still held a glimmer of hope in their hearts... If something was unlucky, they might as well not say it.

People who often experience life and death, even if they are atheists, are still somewhat "superstitious".

It’s just that they don’t believe in God, but in fate.

Lin Qiming's thumb passed over the fingerprint lock, and the engine of the bulletproof hovercraft suddenly roared.

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Nest City, second floor, "Industrial Area".

The lifting platform stopped.

"Why is this? Why is it not moving?" Thirty-three asked in confusion, and did not leave the lifting platform immediately.

"I used my blood to activate this lifting platform... probably because my blood is only enough to take us to this level." Ke Lan speculated, "Going further down, it should be the dignitaries and management in the hive city. The place where the person lives.”

"If I remember correctly, the undead crew will call you 'symbionts' for people like you, right?" Thirty-three suddenly changed the topic to Ke Lan.

"To be precise, the term symbiote comes from the Alpha Civilization, not the Undead Crew Association." Ke Lan corrected.

After all, he heard the word "symbiote" spoken by the Alpha remnant in the ruins of Engine 92 "with his own ears".

"It's all the same. What symbionts mean is that a piece of Alpha's gene is embedded in your genes, right?"

Ke Lan nodded.

"It seems that the Alpha gene fragment in your body does not come from a noble, and the blood level is not high enough." Thirty-three shrugged, "But at least it is better than those who live on the first floor, which is probably considered The…working class in Alpha society?”

"Maybe." Ke Lan was noncommittal, "Since the lifting platform can only take me here, let's start exploring from this level. As of now, there seems to be no danger in this hive."

"That's right, even Hruni's gang can return to the battleship safely... For us, the biggest threat in this place should be the 'forbidden knowledge', right?" Thirty-three said and suddenly stopped. , and then waved to Ke Lan, "Ke Lan, come quickly, there are words carved on the ground."

Ke Lan immediately walked to Thirty-Three's side and saw a series of inscriptions carved on the ground on the edge of one of the tracks on the lifting platform. The inscriptions were very worn, but fortunately they were incised and were not damaged. Completely worn off.

"You should be able to understand it, right?" Thirty-three asked eagerly, "What's written on it? Apart from the 'nest city' on the lifting platform, this is the only text we saw after we came in."

"I...can't understand." Ke Lan shook his head.

"No way? There are times when your ability is not useful?" Thirty-three said in astonishment.

"These characters don't seem to be the characters of the Alpha civilization... but I feel a little familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere..." Ke Lan muttered in a low voice.

"Isn't it the writing of the Alpha civilization?" Thirty-three breathed out from between his teeth and made a "hissing" sound, "Isn't this hive city built by the Alpha civilization? You said you feel familiar, could it be that you Have you seen such writing in other ruins before?”

"Other relics..." Ke Lan's pupils suddenly trembled, "I remembered, I saw this kind of writing in the molten mine area, on a scrap of Nino alloy."

"The scraps?" Thirty-three was even more confused, "What scraps?"

“It’s the scraps left over from the rough processing of Nino alloy raw materials in the molten mine area… But now we all know that these Nino alloys, whether they are standard finished materials or scraps, actually come from Yaguna Kotor , then the inscription on this scrap should also have been engraved on Yagunaktor."