Alien Relic Hunter

"We are lucky. Alpha civilization ruins of this size are usually full of traps, but here there seems to be no trap..."

"Maybe it's because of the existence of that kind of monster that Alpha has relaxed its defenses here..."

After about two minutes of silence, an exclamation suddenly sounded——

"Jesus!...What...what is this?!"

The recording ends here, and the color of the indicator light changes to orange.

Ke Lan's cheeks twitched slightly, and a classic Chinese curse was stuck in his throat - there are two types of people he hates most in his life, the first is people who only speak half of their words, and the second...

"What a mess! Why are all these pieces of information missing?"

The information Ke Lan wants - including how this team came to the island, how they discovered that the stalactites in the cave can restrain the seeds of erosion, and why they chose to commit collective suicide - these things are in There was not a word mentioned in the recording, and even if Ke Lan didn't get the black box, he could basically guess about the information mentioned in it...

Not only that, there is no clue at all about the underwater stone pillar with the giant eye carved in Collins's diary, the same sentence "leave the bed" that appeared in three different places at different times... even if Ke Lan wanted to investigate. , and he didn’t know where to start.

"I have no clue at all..." Ke Lan squatted down in frustration, but when his eyes swept over the bones again, he discovered an anomaly that he had not noticed before -

Ke Lan suddenly jumped up from the ground and subconsciously pulled out his gun!

Among this pile of bones, there is a skeleton... Its ribs and ribs are completely black!

Although the toxic side effects of some drugs can also cause the bones of the deceased to turn black, the blackness is not so complete...the black bones seem to be leached from ink...

Ke Lan had only seen the same black skeleton in one place, and that was in the bottom cargo hold of the Pioneer icebreaker!

But the black skeleton was just lying on the ground quietly - it didn't "come alive". This made Ke Lan relax a little, but he couldn't help but feel a little scared: If this black skeleton was different from the one he encountered in the cargo hold, The tools are the same, I'm afraid he has been killed by a sneak attack long ago.

The black skeleton...the city under the sea...the secret words with unknown meanings...these visions were connected together by an invisible thread. Ke Lan felt that he was getting closer to the truth...but the closer he got, the more... The feeling of biological instinct becomes stronger...

He walked to the side of the black skeleton, put the flashlight in his mouth, put on a pair of gloves, and carefully pulled the skeleton out of the pile of bones.

Only the sternum, ribs, and two-thirds of the spine of this skeleton turned black. Its skull, limbs, and pelvis all remained pale, and the finger bones did not mutate into the terrifying bone claws.

"Why does it feel so similar to the second remains on the coastline...the mutation process was also stopped halfway..."

Ke Lan checked the scene several times, but found nothing similar to stalagmites.

"It is different from the cell assimilation mechanism of the Seed of Erosion... This mutation should be interrupted by the death of the infected body. It does not have a 'core' as the body like the Seed of Erosion... only However, the black skeleton we encountered before was also incomplete - the head was cut in half. As a human being, it must be completely dead, but why is the situation of that skeleton completely different..."

Ke Lan rubbed his temples vigorously.

"Is it because of individual differences? Or is it that the black skeleton was damaged after it completed the mutation and became like that?"

"It feels like the second possibility is more likely..."

"It would be nice if there were analytical instruments like those in biological laboratories..." However, Ke Lan thought about it again, and it seemed that even if the instrument was given to him, he wouldn't be able to use it - that kind of high-tech precision instrument is not something he has been trained for many years. Professionals, most people may have to figure out how to start it for a long time.

He used a knife to cut off several sections of bones as samples, and put them away together with the black box. Then he walked around the camp twice more, and after confirming that there were no new discoveries, he continued walking deeper into the cave.

Due to the sudden interruption of the recording, Ke Lan is now unable to determine whether the cave leads to the remains of the Alpha civilization that is suspected to be a biological laboratory... After all, judging from the information revealed in the recording, the rock well they discovered is not there. This end of the island... If the ruins and the cave are connected, then the length of this cave is too exaggerated.

If calculated based on the distance on the ground, it would be at least twenty kilometers.

And this is still a straight-line distance. If the underground situation is a little more complicated, this number is far from enough...

Finally, what Ke Lan was most worried about happened - more than 300 meters away from the camp, four forks appeared in his field of vision.

Underground maze... This is very common in karst landscapes, but it is also the last thing Ke Lan wants to see...

He walked through the four forks one by one, but he did not find any sign like the entrance to the cave.

If this was an ordinary cave, he might be able to judge from the traces that the entrance of the cave was where the team walked through, but this is a karst cave. After decades, the surface of the rock formation has long been eroded. It was so changed that even if there were any traces, it was impossible to tell.

Getting lost underground is no small matter. The dark and cramped space will greatly weaken your sense of direction, and at the same time eat away at your physical strength, patience and sanity bit by bit... As time goes by, you will soon... You will fall into an atmosphere of anxiety and fear...the more this happens, the harder it will be to find a way out.

Even the most experienced relic hunters would never dare to take it lightly when facing the underground maze.

Many hunters enter the maze and never come out.