Alien Relic Hunter

A puff of smoky gray turbid gas was seen escaping from behind the door. Ke Lan quickly turned off the air filtration system on the mask of the protective suit and held his breath.

Then, he took out a test paper from his pocket, wetted it with water, and carefully put it on.

As soon as the smoky gray breath came into contact with the moist test paper, the front end of the test paper turned black. However, within a few seconds, the ink-like black faded away, leaving only a faint gray-white stain.

"It's poisonous...but it's not very toxic..."

Ke Lan then opened the filter valve again and tried to take a breath of air mixed with this gas.

In addition to the pungent smell of the disinfectant in the filter box, there is also a fishy-sweet smell that is a bit like copper rust in the nasal cavity.

Soon, a feeling of nausea and vomiting came over me, and there was also a sour and numb feeling in my throat.

Fortunately, no more intense poisoning reaction occurred, and it was only slightly uncomfortable.

The 776 Special Forces Team was equipped with an old-fashioned protective suit without gas storage bottles and oxygen generators. Ke Lan could only bite the bullet and continue to breathe the smelly air.

However, he still injected himself with two broad-spectrum anti-venom serums and one hormone in advance... After all, even if the toxicity in the air is very weak, as time goes by, the toxins will continue to accumulate, and quantitative changes may also lead to qualitative changes.

"No wonder we need an airtight door... Could it be a gas chamber behind this door?"

Ke Lan inserted a crowbar into the crack of the door, used the door frame as the fulcrum of the lever, and pressed down hard.

"Squeak--" The heavy airtight door was "propped" open little by little. Ke Lan didn't stop until the crack in the door was big enough for people to enter sideways.

"What kind of design is this?!" Ke Lan looked at the scene inside the door with a look of astonishment on his face, and even subconsciously took two steps back.

The door was opened, but Ke Lan could not walk in because there was a cliff behind the door. As long as Ke Lan stepped over the door frame, he would immediately fall into the abyss below.

The other side of this door actually opens on a vertical cliff.

Ke Lan raised the flashlight and shined it into the distance - this was a huge underground space. The light of the flashlight dissipated after traveling nearly a hundred meters, and there was no way to reach the other side.

On this scale, even the giant stone door under the glacier was far from comparable.

"Such a big space...are the Alphas going to build an underground city in it..."

The flashlight could not shine directly in front or on the left and right sides. Ke Lan could only point the light beam under the cliff, but such a pointing almost shocked him so much that he fell down——

It should be the back of some kind of creature, with its well-jointed spine arched high, just like the top of a roller coaster's loop track...

Ke Lan has seen this kind of entertainment facility from the old era in the information. The largest roller coaster ever built by mankind is the Jindaka roller coaster located in the former Six Flags Amusement Park in New Jersey, USA. The highest point is 139 meters. From a distance, it looks like a roller coaster. , just like a giant snake made of steel. For this reason, this roller coaster is also known as the "Snake of the World".

But if the "Snake of the World" is placed in front of this thing, it will just be a... slightly larger insect.

Ke Lan couldn't see the whole thing clearly. It was too big. Except for the top of the arched back, the other parts were hidden in the darkness that light could not penetrate.

It's like a mountain, a mountain sinking into the ground.

It had iron-gray skin, and its surface was covered with shocking scars. Around the scars, something like blood formed large black scabs.

Countless stalactite pillars penetrated its skin and were nailed deeply into the gaps in its spine. Each of these stalactite pillars was more than one meter in diameter, but compared with this spine, these stone pillars were as small as one. Like slender steel needles, they were densely pierced on it.

There is no description of such a creature in any information... or even in any fantasy novel... Ke Lan's lips moved unconsciously. He wanted to find some words to describe this huge creature, but found that the language was not there. It looked so pale at this time.

"...It's the new 'prehistoric species'."

The prehistoric species, also known as the "prehistoric epic", is a very special indigenous creature on Alpha Planet. Each prehistoric species is basically a unique individual. They have no ethnic groups or similar species. On the ranking list of biological evolution Their close relatives and ancestors cannot be found either... These prehistoric species seem to have the same age as this planet, and a way of survival that is simply difficult for humans to understand.

Even the only "unnatural satellite" of Alpha Star is a prehistoric species called "Kaz". It lives in an orbit of 550,000 kilometers from Alpha Star, and relies on absorbing energy from the star. energy to sustain life...

Someone once said that if the myths and stories on earth are true, "mythical beasts" such as the Suzaku Xuanwu are almost on the same level as these "prehistoric species".

Regarding what was behind the door, Ke Lan thought of countless hypotheses before opening the door, but he never guessed that there would be a "prehistoric species" imprisoned in the underground space of this desert island!

He took out the camera with trembling hands, trying to capture this scene, but when he looked at the screen, he found that there was nothing under the cliff... nothing.

"?!"

The next second, Ke Lan realized that this was an image from his memory, just like the city sinking into the sea!

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"So...at least, there was once such a huge creature imprisoned here..."

Ke Lan looked at the abyss below. The mountain-like back had disappeared, leaving only boundless darkness.