Arknights: Iron-Blooded Savior

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After entering this space, Rankopel immediately began to explore.

“...... This cave is supposed to be due to the collapse of faults on the surface above and the triangular conical area formed by the closure of lateral pillars after the rock formation below was moved. "

I scanned the cave with a searchlight and analyzed it according to the terrain of the environment.

Although Rankopel only had a superficial understanding of geology, after communicating with Fika and the Earth Spirit, he also learned a small amount of practical knowledge that he could also master.

Buzz....

At this moment, Rankopel suddenly held his breath - he heard what seemed to be some sophisticated instrument running... But precision instruments? here?"

Is it some kind of instrument calculating?" Lan

Koper closed his eyes this time, and the blood demon's precise triangulation echolocation began to gradually lock onto the source of this sound, and it became more and more clearly distinguishable.

"About fifty meters on my left-hand side.

After more than a dozen seconds, Rankopel opened his eyes and resumed his breathing rate, put his gaze to his left side, and temporarily turned off his searchlight.

At this time, in the darkness, there was actually another light source that was not his own in the distance.

"Over there. After

locking the position, Rankopel quickly walked towards that position.

However, the terrain of this space is extremely harsh compared to the previous space, with rugged rocks and large and small pits, as well as high and low drop slopes all over it.

Even a very professional expedition team may fall if they are not attentive - this kick is unlucky, and it is estimated that it is half unsuccessful or even lost.

But it is difficult to fail Rankopel, and the pace under his feet is fast and steady.

When encountering a ravine that is really difficult to cross, you can easily jump and step on the iron wire that is summoned instantly, and when you encounter an extremely narrow and impassable gap, you can destroy it into slag with one iron hammer.

As long as Rankopel was willing to use the Source Stone technique, there was very little terrain that could stop him.

"It's getting closer to the light source... Why is it still operating?" Lan

Kopel was less than ten meters away from the light source at this time, and he could basically see what the body of the light source was, and the humming operation sound was transmitted to his brain without any obstruction.

Duh.

But at this moment, Rankopel climbed down the last stone slope, but the feeling of stepping on his feet came from a strange and crisp sound, and he immediately withdrew and carefully observed his feet:

"... "

It turned out that what he had just stepped on was a human body that had already been highly boned, and Rankopel only stepped on it lightly and heavily, and his bones shattered.

If it were ordinary people who saw this scene, they would have been scared and cried out, but Lan Feng in Lan Kepel's previous life was the chief surgeon, and he had dealt with corpses, so he was naturally not afraid at all.

Of course, after crossing to the continent of Terra in the Ark of Tomorrow... There are also many corpses that I have created.

Lan Koper looked around, not only such a corpse under his feet, but also three or four next to this instrument next to him, and a decaying yellowed leg bone could be seen in the gap in the rock wall a little far.

Obviously, there is also a true lord in it, and the death appearance is not very good.

Maybe there are more bones like this in this interior space.

Rankopel speculated that it is likely that these people happened to be advancing on the surface, just happened to encounter changes in the earth's crust, and fell directly into the abyss, and there was basically no probability of survival.

Then, he squatted down and carefully observed the skeleton under his feet with a searchlight, just by observing with the naked eye, his professional medical knowledge allowed him to get a lot of information.

In the natural environment, within 1 year after the death of the animal, the skeleton must fall apart, which is the result of the complete disappearance of ligaments at the joints of the bones.

In a relatively humid environment, such as forest wetlands, swamps, etc., with the participation of invertebrates and bacteria, the process of decomposition and decomposition of animal carcasses will accelerate.

Animal carcasses, as soon as about 20 days, there will be skin and flesh decay, bone exposure and other white ossification phenomena, and the degree of decay in front of you can be completely spread with a flick of the bones with your feet.

It is clear that the bodies died for more than a year.

"The uniforms on these corpses ... Is it a beach umbrella?"

Lankoper stripped off the uniform on the corpse at his feet, and after more than a year of rotting in the ground and lacking maintenance, their uniform had become dull and yellow, and dilapidated.

But he could still tell the Colombian word for "Beachumbrellas" and an open white and yellow umbrella icon from the armbands of the corpses.

These people were obviously employees of beach umbrellas, but it was impossible to tell which kind of employee they were for the time being—until Rankopel dug through a yellowed and dried notebook from the inner pocket of the corpse's clothing at his feet.

There are only a few pages recorded on it, each stroke is written by trembling handwriting, and only a few can distinguish the handwriting:

[I am left... That's all I'm left with... Why didn't I fall with them and die in this [Colombian foul] ghost place...]

[The exploration process of the volcano before was extremely smooth... But why is it that it is time to return......

] [It is obviously the route given by the best geology expert hired by the company, and before leaving, we also specially asked the local natural disaster messenger of Rembiton...]

[It's just a moment... The earth opened its bloody mouth and devoured the team I led... Everyone wants to survive, and if possible, I'm even willing to sacrifice myself in exchange for the survival of the squad. 【

But... Only I... Only I survived... Others... Fenris, Philip, Jorgen, Nancy... They all died after falling into this pit. [

But I also have to report this information back to the beach umbrella headquarters, the communication terminal on my wrist is not damaged, and the source stone energy reaction detector in my backpack is also intact. [

Abominable... If only the area of updrafts erupting from the ground could be larger... Maybe none of the other members of my squad will die. [

However, desperately... I found that the refining source stones used to energize inside the source stone energy reaction detector in the communication terminal on my wrist and in my backpack were inactivated for unknown reasons. [

I helplessly searched for the bodies of other squad members... This phenomenon also occurred when it was discovered that their refining source stones appeared, and in this space, I had no way to find other refining source stones that replaced the energy supply. [

This means that I can't start them, originally as long as one of the two devices can be started, data transmission can be carried out, and the company can locate this coordinate.] [

If you immediately send a local bounty hunter to blast at the top with mining explosives... Maybe there is a glimmer of possibility of being rescued ... But now everything is doomed...]

[There is no hope... There is no hope...]

This

is all that Rankopel can make out of his own piece, and the time recorded in the lower right corner shows exactly the same as he speculated, this time last year.

"So that's the case..."

At this time, Rankopel combined with the surrounding environment, but he could be regarded as understanding what was going on.

Briefly, what was buried in front of them was a biological sampling team sent by the beach umbrella company a year ago near Mount Kinawee, which was caused by geological changes to collapse, and none of them survived.

The captain of this squad survives an unexpected encounter with an updraft erupting underground, but he will face a deeper despair -

a person is locked up in an underground claustrophobic space and consumed alive with the corpses of his team members, because their communication terminals and the refining source stones powered by their instruments are inactivated for unknown reasons.

But now it's different, there are unidentified moving high-energy stone reactions in this underground space on the edge of the volcano, and these source stone reactions even faintly form a position.

This stance is full of disordered source stone source stone energy flow, and even directly can use air as a medium to penetrate into the communication terminal that has long been exhausted, so that the refining source stone that has long been inactivated inside the communication terminal suddenly begins to recover its energy.

After the communication terminal was accidentally opened, the beach umbrella must have received this abnormal signal for the first time.

However, after repeated confirmation, it was obviously determined that the communication terminal should have been accidentally opened, and the personnel had no vital signs, but this communication channel could be accurately located.

What's more, another device was also activated – an even more advanced individual than the Source Stone Energy Reaction Detector carried by Ayafarah's team.

A large amount of anomalous data has been shown on the large screen above, basically many scattered points of light of high-energy stone reactions are scrambling around the screen.

The lower right corner of the screen reads in Colombian:

"Inreal-time transmission"

This means that the anomalous data of this source stone energy reaction detector is transmitted in real time, and the transmission object is the beach umbrella company.

So the combination of the two becomes a [coordinates in a cave where the reaction of high-energy stones far exceeds the conventional level and there are signs of scattered movement].

It was this coordinate that showed the information that led the beach umbrella company to determine that there was some kind of incredible possibility here, so it first sent a local bounty hunter from Rembito to test it.

Once you really find something, I am afraid that you will have to send professional special forces to infiltrate the operation, or use the money and use the relationship to receive an upright banner from the official Colombian government.

Rankopel can even imagine that eighty percent of it is [Colombia sent a volcanic archaeological research team to the Kinawea volcano block in the territory of Rembito and Rhode Island for friendly technical exchanges.

If Rhode Island refuses, there will be trouble ahead.

And those bounty hunters who took 30,000 Rem Bituan gold coins don't need to think that they will definitely be destroyed, let alone go to Casimir, they can't even get out after the mission is completed.

"Alas... How to say, after all, it is only a migrant worker in a large company, and the deceased rest in peace.

After all, people are already dead, and Rankopel only sighed slightly, casually dug some pits and buried these corpses around him in the ground under his feet.