Alien Relic Hunter

Compared with when they explored Passage No. 1 before, the two of them were more cautious this time - because Ke Lan saw some disturbing pictures in the "sense of sight":

It seemed to be a routine maintenance of the passage. Four armed personnel wearing protective suits that looked like powered exoskeletons and holding guns in their hands walked at the front. Behind them, there were six people carrying various tools and equipment. staff of.

The protective suits worn by these staff members were several sizes smaller than those worn by armed personnel. Not only were there no armor plates, they did not even have power modules. Coupled with the heavy maintenance equipment, the pace of the six people seemed extremely strenuous, and soon they were separated from the four armed men in front.

The four armed men in front stopped and urged impatiently... But when they came back, no one among them was willing to reach out to help the stragglers. They just stood there with indifference. A few complaints came out of his mouth from time to time.

This is a very standard ten-man team. The one at the front obviously has the status of captain. In addition to firearms, the weapon in his hand also has a sword-like melee weapon - but these people Their figures were all shrouded in a thin layer of mist, and Ke Lan could only roughly see an outline, but could not clearly see the details of their appearance or equipment.

Ke Lan tried his best to maintain the same forward speed as the ten-man team, "following" behind them unhurriedly, and moved towards the depths of the passage.

"Hurry up! Don't waste time!" The leader of the four armed men, the "captain", turned around and shouted to the six panting staff behind him, "There are still two hours. It’s almost time for dinner, and if we miss the time, those bastards won’t leave food for us!”

After hearing that they might not eat, the six people moved faster obviously... but it didn't take long before they returned to their original slow pace... After all, the physical exertion was real, even if they wanted to If you go faster, you will have more ambition than strength.

Finally, amidst the complaints and curses of the armed men, it took the ten-man team a full hour to reach the first "one-way valve" - ​​according to the conversation between the team members, Ke Lan knew that there was It was the first "one-way valve" that failed. Their mission was to find the cause of the failure and repair it.

"Work quickly!" The captain put the long knife in his hand on the ground and shouted loudly. The other three armed men dispersed with their guns in hand. They each found a direction to stand and looked around cautiously.

The one-way valve is much dirtier in the "instant sense" than in reality. All kinds of garbage fill every gap in the mechanical structure. Even the hatch used for maintenance is covered with a large piece of black. The filth was stuck in it. If the staff wanted to open it, they could only use a hammer to break up the hardened filth, and then use a shovel to scrape it off bit by bit.

"Hurry up, time is very tight!" The captain knocked the ground with the blade of the knife, and a dull sound suddenly spread deep along the metal passage. The sound waves bounced back and forth between the walls of the passage, making a "Gudong Gudong" sound. The sound sounded like a huge monster swallowing something, and the passage they were in now was the giant monster's esophagus, and the deep darkness was connected to a wriggling stomach. bag……

This imagination made Ke Lan feel slightly uncomfortable. He withdrew his gaze from the darkness deep in the passage and focused on the workers who were working.

Two people were still prying the deformed and stuck access hatch, while the other four were using special tools to clean out the garbage stuck in the gaps and corners of the valves. At this moment, a bright flash of light suddenly flashed under the beam of the flashlight. Orange, a staff member immediately squatted down and stretched out his hand towards the orange thing.

It was a whole orange, not even the skin had been peeled off. One side of the orange was slightly dented due to the collision, but it was not rotten, and there were no visible mold spots on the surface... This was a very fresh orange. A fruit of this quality, even on the Ark, was not Ordinary residents can afford it every day, let alone a hive city that is extremely short of resources.

As for why a fresh orange appeared in this channel dedicated to handling hazardous waste, Ke Lan can only think that there was a mistake in the garbage classification in Shangcheng District. The oranges that were originally supposed to be domestic garbage and those hazardous wastes were Mixed together.

Ke Lan clearly heard the sound of swallowing saliva coming from the throat of the worker who picked up the orange. He looked around and saw that no one noticed his actions, so he quickly wiped the orange with his palm and planned to Stuff it into your own pocket.

At this moment, another staff member suddenly flashed behind him and grabbed his arm.

"What are you doing?!" the man who picked up the orange asked in shock and urgency, but had to keep his voice low to prevent more people from discovering what was going on here.

"I still want to ask what you are doing?" The voice of the worker who held him was also very low. As he spoke, he also tugged the former's wrist forcefully.

"This is what I picked up! Don't grab it from me!" The man who picked up the oranges was eager to stuff the oranges into his pocket, but his hands couldn't hold them back at all. Under the latter's clamping and pulling, the whole person collapsed. He couldn't move his arms at all.

And he didn't dare to struggle much - if he attracted the attention of those armed men, not to mention the oranges would definitely be gone, and he would inevitably get a severe beating.

"Are you fucking stupid? I didn't say I wanted to snatch this crappy orange from you!" the latter cursed in a low voice, his tone full of annoyance.

"Then let me go! Just pretend you didn't see anything and do what you should do!" The man who picked up the orange immediately answered.

"I said, you guys don't want to live anymore? You don't even think about where this is...can you still eat the oranges picked up here?" The latter did not let go, but continued to maintain a stalemate. .

"This orange is not rotten, and there is no dirt on the surface. Why can't we eat it?" The man who picked up the orange said confidently, "At worst, I will rinse it with water later to wash away the radioactive dust on the surface. Just drop it... Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve eaten this kind of fruit?”

"Are you really not afraid of death? You -" Before the latter could finish his words, he stumbled and fell to the ground - the "captain" of the armed men had already walked behind the two of them without knowing it. He lowered his head and stared at the man squatting on the ground, holding an orange tightly in his hand.

"Bring it here." The captain said in an extremely impatient tone.

The worker who picked up the orange hesitated for several seconds, and then reluctantly handed it over.

"Huh?" The captain took the orange and let out a puzzled sound in his nose. He seemed to be wondering why an intact orange appeared in this hazardous waste disposal channel - but doubts were still doubts, and he did not He forgot to give the worker a kick and kicked him to the ground like the other worker.

The strength of his kick was not small. The first worker who was kicked couldn't get up after five or six seconds. As for the second person... Ke Lan clearly heard the crisp sound of his bones being broken by the kick.

The "captain" didn't seem to care that the worker's injury would slow down the progress of the work. He seemed to have determined that the team would miss the meal they were waiting for... However, he was still quite satisfied with the unexpected discovery of "oranges".

Although Ke Lan couldn't see his face clearly, he could more or less feel part of the emotions of the characters who appeared in the "Sense of Immediate Sight" as long as he stared at them for a period of time.

Just like the worker who picked up the oranges, his current mood is full of resentment, while the captain has a hint of joy in his irritability.

Ke Lan didn't know whether the pleasure came from the violence or the orange, but in short, the captain did not throw the orange away, but carefully put it into a pocket.

"Boss, what did that kid pick up?" an armed man who was closer asked. "Isn't it some kind of glowing radioactive waste? Last week, an idiot secretly took out the radioactive waste he picked up. , causing more than a dozen workers in an entire dormitory to suffer from acute radiation sickness... If this happens again, we will definitely be criticized to death by the people above."

"Don't worry, it's just an orange." The captain waved his hand, indicating to his subordinates not to worry.

"Oranges? Why are there oranges here?" The subordinate was obviously a little confused.

"Maybe there was an error in the garbage disposal equipment in the uptown area... It's a pity that it happened to be in this damn passage No. 4. Even the inside of the outer skin is definitely full of radiation." The captain patted his pocket, " But with a little processing, you should be able to sell it for a good price on the black market in the lower city, and those gangs might even fight over this thing..."

"Boss, you have made a fortune." The armed man said with some envy, "Why don't you treat me to a nice meal?"

"Hmph, how much do you think an orange can be sold for?" The captain, who was still saying "it can be sold at a good price" a second ago, suddenly changed his face, "I'll have to pay a lot of money to treat you losers to dinner. , you kid really dare to say that?"

"Boss, you are as stingy as ever..." Halfway through the word "door" in "stingy", a black shadow suddenly passed over his head - the armed man's words stopped abruptly, and then Also disappearing was the upper half of his head.

The body with the Tianling Cap cut off fell straight down. The captain was stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly: "Under attack! Everyone, move closer to me immediately! Execute response plan No. 1!"

Ke Lan didn't see the shape of the black figure clearly, and couldn't even see its general outline - Shi Zhan could only stop reality, and Ze Luo shared with Ke Lan the "sense of immediate sight", even in a stagnant state. The black shadow is still in that blurry state and will not become clear due to the freezing of the picture.

Ke Lan feels that these "senses of instant vision" are most likely derived from the memories of those who have seen these scenes. There is no true appearance of the black shadow in their memories, and Ze Luo and Ze Luo who "read" these memories Naturally, it is impossible for Ke Lan to see things in these memories that even the creator of the memories has not seen.

The remaining two armed men quickly picked up their guns and ran towards the "captain", but the staff were in a mess - Ke Lan couldn't help but shook his head after just one glance... "Captain" The so-called No. 1 response plan should be some kind of plan that has been practiced in advance to deal with emergencies. However, judging from the performance of these staff, either there has been no actual practice at all, or the quality of the personnel is too low. Too bad...

It was only then that the worker who picked up the oranges climbed up from the ground unsteadily... But before he could stand still, the black shadow passed directly through his chest, and the hot blood suddenly shot out more than ten meters away.

"Fire! I tell you to fire!" The captain held up the tactical flashlight and swept the beam of light around randomly. The other hand held the sword and waved it nervously in front of him.

At this time, Ke Lan discovered that the sword seemed to be a chain sword driven by an engine. As the captain waved, the friction sound of the chain saw continued to come from the sword shrouded in mist.

"But... that thing... we can't lock the target... if we fire randomly, we will hurt our own people!" Another armed man holding a gun said urgently.

"It's already this time, why do you still care about this?!" The captain inserted the flashlight into his waist, picked up the gun hanging on his chest with one hand, and fired at the high-speed moving shadow... However, , none of the bullets fired from the gun could hit the black shadow that was only the size of a palm. Instead, it knocked down three or four staff members who were unable to dodge.

"Open fire, you guys! Cross fire and block the movement path of that thing!" The captain cursed while firing. "Have you forgotten all the things I taught you in the training camp?!"

[P.S. Thanks to bare-hand respecting the years w for the 200 starting coins; thank you to sd for the 100 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. I would like to add that the residents of the nest, including the "second-level manager Nieto", use a language developed based on their unique writing. When Ze Luo deciphers this After learning the language, he completely mastered the language after just a brief exchange with Nieto. Therefore, there is no communication barrier between Ke Lan, who is now mentally connected to Zeluo, and the nest civilization.

As for language logic, idioms and some specific vocabulary, it is purely for the convenience of reading, so the novel is directly presented in Chinese. Please do not pick out the words. 】