Alien Relic Hunter

"This drainage tank should be specially used to let outsiders in... One thing is indeed true. This underwater city was built in the sea from the beginning." Chi Hanfeng said.

"Do you want to go in?" Ghost Owl took a deep breath and asked this question that he didn't want to ask.

"Come in!" the hound said decisively, "We are already so close. If the thing inside is conscious, it must have sensed us by now... It makes no sense that there is no reaction."

"Could they be luring us in deliberately?" Chi Hanfeng looked cautious, "There might be a trap down there..."

"Even if we know there is a trap below, we can only bravely rush in." The hound touched the holster on his waist, "The time left is not enough for us to find another valuable clue...and, very soon It's possible that what we can find here are similar things... Instead of just picking a trap and jumping in hastily when the oxygen is exhausted, I would rather search this building first when I am well prepared. "

Although Hound's words were a bit convoluted, the others immediately understood what he meant.

"My thoughts are similar to those of an old dog. If we miss this place, we may not be able to find the next 'breakthrough'." Zhuoligetu said.

"Then take a gamble!" Chi Hanfeng gritted his teeth, "No matter how bad the situation is, it can't be worse than before."

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The four of them entered the drainage cabin, while Valentina and the Blasphemer were responsible for the response and rescue outside. When the air-tight door of the drainage cabin was closed again, the four of them could not help but feel an inexplicable chill running down their spines. Climbed up.

"Old dog, I seem to see you shaking..." Chi Hanfeng whispered.

"Fart, it's all in the dark, there's no light source at all. Which of your assholes saw me shaking?" The hound immediately scolded, "I'm shaking a hammer, will shaking help? There's no turning back when I shoot, and I don't regret it now." used."

The airtight door seemed to be of semi-automatic construction. After being closed, the valve above turned on its own, locking the four of them inside.

Although Hound said he was not afraid, in fact, the moment the valve started turning, he almost called Valentina and asked her to use her mecha to forcefully break the air-tight door.

"If someone with claustrophobia and deep-sea phobia came to a place like this, he would definitely be scared to death." Chi Hanfeng joked casually.

"For people with that kind of problem, the submarine in their eyes is the same as the cockpit of a mecha in your eyes. It is basically equated with a coffin... Forget about this place, let them get into the deep submersible. I might as well kill them." Hound said, pulling out the flashlight hanging on his shoulder and turning on the light.

The sudden light source made the four people relax a little - this place is just a normal drainage cabin, with square metal walls and floors, the indoor environment is very clean, and there are no complicated equipment. The strange and unsettling thing gives people the first impression of being in the cargo hold of an old empty ship.

"Speaking of which, how are we going to drain this seawater? I didn't see any place where we could operate it. The walls and floors are all tightly connected..." Using the light of the flashlight, the Ghost Owl quickly scanned along the base of the wall. lock up.

"Look for it, there should be something there." The hound said casually, squatted down, and started groping on the floor.

The floor is very smooth. For tens of thousands of years, the highly corrosive seawater does not seem to have any impact on it - if it were an old-fashioned empty ship soaked on the seabed, it would probably be except for one in tens of thousands of years. Nothing will be left except the pitted frame.

"Could it be voice-controlled?" Chi Hanfeng suddenly asked.

"Oops, if it's voice control..." Hound smacked his forehead, "Things in the ruins of Alpha civilization must be activated in Alpha language... Damn it, none of us know how to do this!"

"In terms of Alpha language..." Chi Hanfeng turned to look at Ghost Owl, "Does it only need to be Alpha language, and it can be anything specific? Then... Just now Ghost Owl..."

"Don't look at me, don't look at me!" Ghost Owl waved his hands repeatedly, "I can only vaguely understand the meaning of that whisper. If you hadn't told me the English version of that sentence, I wouldn't even know what it was saying. What...if you want me to read it out, I simply can’t do it!”

"Then what should we do?" Chi Hanfeng knocked on the floor with his finger, "You can't use violence..."

Before the word "force" of "violence" could be said, a dark red light suddenly lit up in the water - this red light was not emitted by the equipment on the four of them, but like a piece of equipment that had been used by them before. The neglected light-emitting components floating in the water.

The first reaction of the four people when they saw the red light was to quickly retreat and distance themselves from it. When the four of them clung to the inner wall of the drainage tank, they suddenly discovered that the red light was located exactly in the middle of the drainage tank.

"What is this?" The hound couldn't help but ask.

"It's useless to ask me, I don't know." Chi Hanfeng shook his head very simply, and added, "The two of them will definitely not know."

"I didn't fucking ask you." The hound stared at the red light, "I... I was asking it."

However, the red light did not give the hound a response. After flashing twice, it spread across the horizontal plane at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye, turning into a circular halo.

This circular halo swept the four people from head to toe, then flashed twice and then went out. Only some afterimages of the red halo remained on the retinas of the four people, and these afterimages were also It faded away in just a few seconds.

Everything returns to the way it was before the red light was lit.

"What happened?" The hound touched his body blankly, and found that no arms or legs were missing. Even the deep-diving suit he was wearing was intact.

"It seems...scanning?" Chi Hanfeng said with some uncertainty, "Did that red light scan the four of us?"

Just when the four of them were in shock, a gap suddenly appeared on the ground that seemed to be one, and expanded rapidly. In the blink of an eye, a passage leading to the lower level appeared in front of the four of them.

"This...this...is it open now?" Hound touched the back of his head in astonishment.

"The more I look at it, the more it feels like a trap..." Chi Hanfeng put his hand on the holster of his gun.

Before the four people took any action, the water level in the drainage chamber began to drop rapidly, as if it was being sucked in by the passage opening, without leaving even a drop of water adhering to the ground.

The four of them waited for a while and saw that nothing came out from below. Then they took a deep breath and bravely walked towards the entrance of the passage.

But after just looking inside for a few times, they retracted their heads - there was a twist in the passage, and you could not see the scene on the next floor directly from the entrance of the passage. If you want to know what is on the next floor, you can only Taking risks...

"If only we had a drone now," Hound sighed.

Although drones are a standard tool for exploring ruins, they are not equipped on deep submersibles - for no other reason than that all current models of drones cannot withstand the water pressure of the seabed in the middle sea, plus the pressure of the seawater in the middle sea. interference, the connection between the console and the drone will be lost at any distance.

Rather than adding drone storage compartments that would affect the structural stability, it would be better to spend the budget on improving the detection capabilities of the deep submersible itself - the deep submersibles Hound and his crew are riding on were designed under this guiding ideology. of.

"It would be great if Layton was here." Chi Hanfeng said, "His robotic arm has three mini-drones hidden in it, all of which are of the highest quality."

"Well, it's meaningless to talk about this now. Let's take off the deep diving suit first." The hound said as he unscrewed the air-tight screws on the helmet and the shoulder and neck of the deep diving suit, and took off the heavy helmet. down.

Although this deep diving suit is considered lightweight, the weight of a single suit still reaches an astonishing 35 kilograms. In addition, in order to resist water pressure, the interlayer of the deep diving suit must be filled with semi-liquid to resist pressure. Liquid will cause the whole body weight to directly exceed one hundred kilograms after wearing it, and movement will also cause serious obstacles to various joints of the body.

Because of the buoyancy in the water, it may not feel too strenuous, but now that all the seawater in the drainage tank has been drained, it is simply difficult to move even in these deep diving suits.

The four of them took off their deep diving suits with some difficulty and piled them in the corner. Chi Hanfeng took one last look at these bulky equipment and said with some worry: "At the speed of water drainage just now, if seawater pours in again, , we don’t have time to put on the deep diving suit again.”

"You should say less." Hound rolled his eyes at Chi Hanfeng, "If this sentence was said by Layton's crow's mouth, even if it takes several seconds to take a step, I would have to put this thing back on again. "

"I'll take the lead, and you guys will be responsible for the fire cover." Zhuoligetu took out a foldable hand shield from his backpack, unfolded it and fixed it on his left arm. His right hand was holding his usual combat weapon. Ax, bowed his body and entered the passage. The other three followed him closely, holding guns and flashlights, aiming into the depths of the passage from both sides of the shield.

Although it is a special ammunition for underwater pistols, due to the existence of crystal energy bombs, its power in dry environments cannot be underestimated.

"The inside of this building looks much stronger than the ones that collapsed." Ghost Owl whispered, "Most of the buildings in the underwater city are made of metal frames and polymer walls... But the inside of this building It adopts an all-metal structure, completely abandoning the polymer material that will be corroded by seawater..."

"This metal is not simple." Chi Hanfeng, who is proficient in materials science, said as he touched the wall of the passage. "Looking at the luster and texture, it doesn't look like it is mixed with Nino alloy, but it can be soaked in seawater for so long without any signs of it appearing. There is only the slightest sign of corrosion or oxidation... Anyway, with the current level of human technology, it is impossible to smelt such an alloy."

"Indeed." Ghost Owl nodded, "The skeletons of those collapsed buildings have also been corroded to a disgrace, but here, it looks like new."

"Okay, everyone, keep quiet. We are about to reach the first corner." Hound interrupted the conversation between the two, and at the same time put his right hand on Zhuoligetu's shoulder, signaling him to slow down.

The four people's nerves became tense. They almost moved to the corner bit by bit against the wall on one side, and then took a big step laterally in one breath.

"Saw it!"

This is the first and last corner of the passage. After the corner, the end of the passage suddenly becomes clear... Judging from the reflection of the flashlight light, it seems to be a huge space.

The four of them couldn't help but quicken their pace, walked through the last section of the passage, and entered the "hall".

"Damn... this place doesn't look that big from the outside!" Hound murmured.

The height and circumference of this hall are at least ten times larger than the external outline of the building, but one thing is certain, the depth they just descended is not enough to enter the part below the ground.

"It's space technology..." Chi Hanfeng sighed, "It's the kind of space technology similar to that on Yagunaktor... The internal space of this building is much larger than what we see outside... No wonder Wa The life response detected by Lian Jina was blurry, and the space in the building was folded, so the information detected by the detector will naturally be interfered with..."

"But no matter what, the life reaction does indeed exist, and it is here." Hound took a step back, back to back with Chi Hanfeng, "When I think that there are living bodies besides us in this place, My back feels chilly."

The maximum illumination angle of the flashlight was only 45 degrees, and it was not possible to scan the entire "hall" at once. But just when Ghost Owl opened his backpack and searched for a lighting rod, the entire hall suddenly lit up.

"Inductive lighting? Or... was the switch turned on by something?" Chi Hanfeng was stunned for a moment, but when he cast his sight into the distance, his spine instantly became straight and the hairs on his body stood on end. stand up.

Not only him, but the reactions of the other three were not much better... because what they saw was really shocking.

That is an extremely huge...brain.

In other words, more than one brain.

Countless biological organs similar in appearance to the human brain are connected together by pipelines to form a "giant brain". This giant brain with a diameter of more than 50 meters is immersed in a transparent culture tank, and bubbles will appear from time to time. The inside of the "giant brain" emerged, slowly rose to the top of the culture tank, and was then sucked away by the ventilation device... It looked as if the "giant brain" was breathing.

"...Core, core mastermind?"

[P.S. Thanks to Lonely Desolate Country for the 1,500 starting coins. 】