Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 1001 Ultimatum
"Damn it..." Soap repeatedly cursed, took several steps back, and turned around to find pale roots spreading from behind.

"This place can't stay anymore!" Noir said, "We have to get out of here immediately!"

"Run...run away! Let's run away!" Even Ulrich, who was not quite right, kept circling in circles impatiently.

"Then you are leading the way!" Soap glared at Ulrich, "Without you leading the way, let us wander around in the underground labyrinth, and we probably die faster than bumping into these ghost things!"

"I... I don't know where to go..." As if wanting to pull the non-existent hair, Ulrich's sharp nails scratched the scalp with bloodstains, "No place is safe The...danger...fear...it's...everywhere!"

"You mean, the entire underground labyrinth is occupied by these roots?" Noir raised his eyebrows, "Where is the nearest exit to the ground? Take us there!"

"I don't know...I don't know!!" Ulrich roared, he seemed to have lost the ability to detect road conditions, and it may be that the overwhelming sense of fear has suppressed him so much that he couldn't calm down to find it. way out.

"You don't need him to lead the way." The clown said suddenly, "Didn't you realize that since these roots invaded the underground labyrinth, the whole labyrinth stopped functioning?"

"It seems to be true!" Soap was slightly taken aback, and then immediately said to Noir and Ulrich, "Why are you still standing there! Hurry up! Go to the ground first!"

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Fort Mukah, General Maginot's office.

"Then what should we do now? If we want to destroy this giant tree, we can only attack its root system, but its root system is hidden inside the ark, protected by the energy shield, and this problem comes back again... ..." Magino said in a tangled manner, the fat on his face had been squeezed into a ball, especially between the eyebrows, several layers of loose skin were stacked up, and the sweat slid down the folds and dripped on his raised cheeks. Belly top.

"To put it bluntly, our strategic goal has not changed from the beginning." The hound stared at the projection screen, slightly bent his fingers, and tapped rhythmically on the back of the sofa, "Whether it is to solve the undead crew will and the Corroder, or blow up the damn tree, we'd all have to get inside the ark. Ha, it's back to square one."

"No, the situation is completely different." Levi shook his head, "Even if we successfully penetrated into the ark, we have no way to destroy this giant tree... If according to Mr. Ke Lan's description, this alien star The vitality of plants may be far more tenacious than we imagined, and the total yield of nuclear warheads we have alone may not be able to destroy it even if it is detonated at the root system."

"Annihilation bombs... the Alphas used the annihilation bombs to destroy the Crown of Ashes." The hound murmured, "But we have no place to get annihilation bombs now... Wait, I have an idea!"

"What idea?" Maginot and Levi's attention was immediately attracted by the hound.

"Is the annihilation bomb essentially releasing the antimatter that was originally restrained by the gravitational field... In short, I don't know much about this, just tell me, if you are given enough antimatter, you Can you create an annihilation bomb? It doesn't need to be too precise, as long as it can be detonated smoothly, it will be powerful enough when it explodes!" The hound said quickly.

Ke Lan looked at Ze Luo.

The three-no girl nodded lightly: "Theoretically, yes. It's just that with the existing technology of human civilization, it is impossible to create a container for storing antimatter. Therefore, it is impossible to create a portable annihilation bomb like the Alpha civilization."

"However," Zelo changed the subject, "my space manipulation ability can create such a container. As long as I can find antimatter, I can bring it to the roots of the giant tree and detonate it."

After Ze Luo finished speaking, the words "human bomb" popped up in the minds of the elders present... let such a girl who is too beautiful to describe in words act as a human bomb, The eyes of Machino and Levi couldn't help showing a trace of unbearable, the latter's lips squirmed a few times, but he didn't speak after all.

"If you detonate the antimatter, you...you should be able to escape alive?" Magino asked.

Both of them knew that Ze Luo was very powerful, but the annihilation bomb was not an ordinary thing. The energy released when positive matter and antimatter interacted could destroy almost everything... The space barrier can support pure antimatter, but when there is positive When substances are mixed into it and start to "react", even the space barrier may not be able to block it.

This is like a bottle of soda, which is very stable when placed in the bottle, and the soda itself will not damage the bottle.But if you throw in a few Mentos mints and give it a good shake...it's a different story.

"Fatty man, why have you learned to worry about other people's safety? I remember that you used to be the kind of person who would do whatever it takes to achieve your goals." The hound gave him a strange look, "Do you still remember the blocking battle at 963 Heights? ? At that time, you left a whole battalion of troops behind, and they fought until there was only one person left, but they did not receive your retreat order. Although you wanted to ensure the safety of the supply troops, if I changed It is the battalion commander of that battalion, even if I am a ghost, I will come back to find you, and kill you."

"It's just a drill! A drill!" Magino stammered angrily, "You know, before I was transferred here, I had no actual combat experience at all! The drill is just a game of chess to me. When you play chess, you will Do you give up winning or losing the whole game because you care about the life and death of individual chess pieces?"

"The current situation, isn't it a game of chess?" Ke Lan sighed in a low voice, "Everyone here is a chess piece in the game, no one can jump out of this chessboard... If I can, I really want to play now The chess player sitting on the edge of the board was slapped."

After Ke Lan finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Ze Luo again, and said, "If this is the only way to break the situation, then we have no choice."

Everyone seemed to see Ze Luo smiling, but it seemed to be just an illusion. Ze Luo still maintained that expressionless iceberg appearance. She turned her head, looked at Ke Lan and said, "I am reading a book about Chinese chess. I saw a sentence in the book, 'Crossing the river, there is no retreat, there is death but no life'."

"But there is another old saying in Huaxia, which is 'put it to death and then live'." Ke Lan said, "The choice is yours. You can go or not."

"Go." Zelo nodded.

"But now there is still a problem before us, where are we going to find so much antimatter to make this 'annihilation bomb'?" Magino said with a worried face.

"Antimatter, there is ready-made." Hound and Ke Lan glanced at each other, and then snapped their fingers, "Chief of Staff, please mark all the proven and well-preserved 'Death Ray Cannons' on the surface of Alpha Planet on the map .”

Back then when they came out of the glacier ruins, the battleship carrying them was hit by a death ray cannon, which is still fresh in the memory of Hound and the others... But then they realized that it was just the "preview" mode of the death ray cannon, not a real one at all. fire.

The real power of the dead light cannon, which uses antimatter as the cannonball, is far above that cannon.

In fact, that shot was only used to lock the target—just like a laser sight hung on a firearm, the temperature released by the laser sight has already It's like burning the target paper.

More than a dozen red dots are marked on the global map of Alpha Planet. As an important part of the Alpha civilization's "planetary defense system", there are more than 600 dead light cannons installed in all corners of Alpha Planet. On the islands in Zhonghai, offshore platforms, and the ice caps of the polar sea, the bases of death beam cannons have been built.

It’s just that until the Alpha civilization disappeared, this defense system was not fully completed. Among the more than 600 bases, less than a hundred were equipped with the death ray cannon body, and most of them were damaged, and the well-preserved death ray Pao, counting the one that Ke Lan and the others "experienced", now there are only the last seventeen.

"These dead light cannons should still be able to fire, but the amount of antimatter stored inside is uncertain..." Levi said.

If you want to measure the amount of antimatter in the dead beam cannon, you must dismantle the core components of the cannon. For the Ark civilization that has no space technology, this is undoubtedly a very dangerous job... No, it is dangerous To put it mildly, to be precise, this is a matter of courting death.

There was once a research team from a research institute who tried to disassemble a death ray cannon in the wilderness. As a result, the research team was gone, and the death ray cannon was gone, and there were more dead ray cannons in the place where there were originally death ray cannons. A very regular hemispherical pit with a depth of 2000 meters and a radius of 2000 meters.

According to the later estimates of the research institute, the amount of antimatter left in the dead light cannon should be very small, otherwise, even a military base fifteen kilometers away might not be spared.

"Then the task is now divided into two parts." Ke Lan turned and said to everyone, "I took Zeluo to the dead light cannons in various locations to collect the remaining antimatter, and the others tried to find a way to tear open the defense gap of the ark and create a A passage for Zelo to enter."

This sentence sounds light and light, but in fact, everyone here knows how difficult it is... none of the scouting teams sent to the ark before came back, not only the energy shield outside the ark is difficult to break through , the interior of the ark is probably already full of murderous intentions at this time.

"We will do our best." Magino gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Even if we use corpses to pave, we must pave this passage!"

Levi wanted to say something at first, but suddenly some news came from the earphone he was wearing, which made his expression change several times one after another.

"What's the matter with you, Levi?" Machino immediately noticed the expression of his very new subordinate, and asked, "Is there any bad news from the forward observation post?"

"I... I don't know if this news is good or bad..." Levi shook his head. He first looked at Maginot, and then focused his gaze on Ke Lan. There is a piece of ciphertext sent from the inside of the ark, using our internal secret frequency band."

"What's the content of the ciphertext?" The hound jumped up from the sofa in an instant, and asked excitedly, almost rushing up and grabbing Levi's collar to force him to ask.

"I can't...can't read it." Levi said with embarrassment, "Our intelligence department has been busy for half an hour, but we haven't been able to decipher this ciphertext... Its encryption method is not any kind we know... ..."

"Damn, what do you mean to say, the frontier observation post received this ciphertext from inside the ark half an hour ago? Then why didn't you report it? If you find that you can't decipher it, you should report it immediately. Those idiots in the intelligence department don't even have this reason Don't you even understand?" The hound immediately cursed angrily.

"Send me the ciphertext." Ke Lan was not as angry as the hound. He sat down on the sofa and moved the laptop on the coffee table to his lap.

The content of the ciphertext was quickly sent to Ke Lan's computer. Ke Lan only hesitated for a few seconds, and then quickly tapped on the keyboard with ten fingers.

In less than 5 minutes, the content of the ciphertext was deciphered...it was a picture, a picture full of strange characters.

"This is... the text of Alpha Civilization?!" The hound only glanced at it, and immediately whispered.

"What's the content?" Magino stared at Ke Lan with burning eyes. Of all the people present, only Ke Lan had the ability to decipher the text of Alpha Civilization.

"It's a warning, or a reminder." Ke Lan said, "Someone told me that the root system of the giant tree has begun to spread, and it will penetrate the bottom of the ark and drill into the land of Alpha Star within twelve hours. By then, the giant tree will be integrated with the entire Alpha Star, and the only way to destroy it is to destroy the entire Alpha Star."

"What does this person mean, we only have the last twelve hours?" The hound was taken aback, and then he punched the sofa cushion hard, "Damn it, I almost forgot, wasted by those idiots It took half an hour, and the time left for us now should be eleven and a half hours."

"Is this...an ultimatum?" Magino murmured, "Is this the undead crew announcing victory to us in advance?"

"No, this news should be sent by one of our own." Ke Lan shook his head, "On the ark, there are our friendly troops."

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