Alien Relic Hunter.

There are a lot of traces of vitrification on the ground around the hole, which should be the traces of the heavy battleship's plasma main cannon bombardment - before the undead crew will completely fall, the last members who remained awake should have fought... ...Unfortunately, their struggle failed.

The first to fourth floors of the underground ice storage are all exposed to Ke Lan's vision. These places once sealed up the most dangerous things on the ark. The power outage time of the last meme crisis was not too long, only a small part The "collection" successfully broke through the containment, but even so, the army and the crisis management department who followed up to clean up the battlefield still paid a huge price.

If all the "collections" in the entire underground freezer were released...

That destructive power is almost equivalent to detonating all the nuclear weapons stored on the ark at the same time... even more terrifying.

But now Ke Lan doesn't have to worry about these dangerous collections coming out to make trouble - the roots of the giant tree have spread to every corner of the underground ice storage, so that Ke Lan can't even find a foothold, let alone those All the collections that have been blocked by dense roots have been blocked.

All biological collections in the underground freezer have become the nourishment of the giant tree, without exception.

Although the giant tree grows from the core area, the root system in the underground ice bank is obviously thicker than that in the power furnace in the first area of ​​the north... This means that this place is already very close to the tap root of the giant tree.

"But the question is... how to get down?"

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Skadi heavy cruiser, bridge.

Major General Alexander stood up from his seat, paced left and right, made three circles under the adjutant's puzzled eyes, and sat back on his seat...but within a few seconds, he stood up again.

"General?" the adjutant asked suspiciously, "Is there something..."

"Don't disturb my thinking." Rear Admiral Alexander prepared the adjutant's question, walked straight to the big screen at the front of the bridge, and looked down at the ark diagonally below.

The battle between the Survivor Alliance and the Ark came to an end temporarily. After the explosion of the electromagnetic pulse bomb and the retreat of the third and fourth batches of airborne troops, both sides chose to die down... Those who attacked Yagunaktor The swarm penetrated into the canopy of the giant tree, and the bombers and fighters of the Survivor Alliance also returned to the hangar of the mothership.

This is a very precious respite time. At this time, the busiest places on the Skadi are the hangar and the infirmary. As for the bridge, it has become quiet. Send it back and put it on the holographic screen.

The gap in the Ark's energy shield has not disappeared - to plug the gap, the shield generators that have been blown up must be repaired, and now the undead crew will connect the group of "corrupted" men in black on the platform If they didn't deal with it, naturally they wouldn't send someone to repair the shield.

What made Alexander a little puzzled was that the Ark, or the undead crew, always reacted as if they didn't care about the Survivor Alliance at all—they had always chosen to defend passively instead of taking the initiative as last time attack.

If there was one word to describe the attitude of the Undead Crew, it would be "perfunctory".

They have dealt with this battle to the point of being perfunctory - the men in black who were in charge of blocking the attack did not appear until after the airborne tribe landed, and the swarm was aware that Yagunaktor was going to launch an electromagnetic pulse He was sent out when the bomb exploded, and immediately chose to retreat after failing to prevent the launch...

No... no, this doesn't seem like perfunctory...

The corners of Major General Alexander's eyes twitched, and he suddenly realized that the opponent was using the lowest level of resources to defuse his own offensive methods—whether it was the men in black or the swarm, they were all worthless "mass-produced units" ", and their task is not to eliminate the Survivor Alliance and Yagunaktor. In Alexander's view, this level of counterattack can only be regarded as "harassment"...

"They are delaying time!" Major General Alexander took a deep breath, "The Undead Crew should have concentrated all their resources on supplying this giant tree, so they have no spare power to deal with us! They just need to Hold back our attacking pace, and wait for the roots of the giant tree to go deep into the land of Planet Alpha! Time is not on our side... No, no, we can't wait any longer, even if Ke... Even if the Hunting God Hunting Group Someone has already entered the ark, we shouldn't just wait outside!"

Major General Alexander, who had made a decision in his heart, walked back quickly, and raised his hand to his adjutant: "I'll leave for a while, you help me keep an eye on it, and if anything happens, contact me immediately!"

"Yes!"

Rear Admiral Alexander walked out of the bridge and turned into a small room that only the captain had the authority to open.

After thinking for a moment, he took off the communicator on the small room and entered a string of passwords.

"Skadi, Alexander calling for Yagunaktor."

"Got it. I'm the Hound, what's the matter?"

"I would like to ask for instructions on the next action plan." Alexander said, "All officers and soldiers on the ship are ready and ready to attack at any time."

"The next action plan?" There was a trace of doubt in the hound's voice, "Isn't the plan already made? When the sharp soldiers who broke into the ark give a signal, Yagunaktor will directly bombard the ark with the Star Destroyer Cannon The core area and the roots of the giant tree, when the time comes, we will dispatch the whole army to escort Zelo and the annihilation bomb to the main root system of the giant tree..."

"Mr. Nick, please tell me the truth... Ke Lan, Ze Luo and the annihilation bomb, have they entered the ark?" Alexander said in a deep voice.

The other end of the receiver was silent for a few seconds before the hound asked in an unusually serious voice, "Why do you ask that?"

"I carefully read the combat report submitted by the airborne troops, and there are many unreasonable things... The retreat order was issued by the first batch of airborne troops, but none of these people has the authority to match the order level In addition, there is one of your female pilots who was picked up by the transport plane of the third batch of airborne troops. If I remember correctly, her name is Valentina, right?" Alexander asked.

"Does anyone else know about this?"

"No for the time being. And I have already deleted the combat report... But this loophole is too obvious. I was in the midst of a fierce battle just now. Perhaps most people would not care about such small details... It is hard to guarantee There will be dark people from the undead crew meeting who will find something abnormal. If they send this information back to the ark, Ke Lan and the others will be in danger."

"Whether Ke Lan entered the ark or not is aside, why are you so anxious to take the next step?" The Hound asked again, "Assuming that, as you said, Ke Lan and Ze Luo They have all entered the ark, then you should know that in the entire survivor alliance, no one can match the two of them in terms of individual combat power, and if neither of them can send out a signal, then no one can complete this task."

"The undead crew will be delaying time! The best proof is that they don't have the extra strength to take the initiative to attack us... They have invested all their resources on the giant tree. They may be more anxious than us. If we continue Wouldn't it be in their favor to stand still?" Major General Alexander's tone was filled with a hint of urgency.

Being selected as the commander of Fleet Zero means that Alexander is a very good soldier, but no matter how good a soldier is, in the face of this kind of situation where the fate of all mankind is on the line, and there are only a few dozen soldiers left in the final time limit. It would be a lie to say that you are not nervous when you are in a war where you will face extinction if you cannot win.

"I know, we have to be patient...but it's easy to miss our only chance!" Alexander continued, "Nick, have you ever thought that if Ke Lan, if those people who entered the inside of the ark, they failed ,what to do?"

"If you attack rashly, you will miss the only chance. Don't forget that Yagunaktor's Star Destroyer can only be fired once." The hound said word by word, "As for Ke Lan... I believe him, he Will not let me down. If he fails, it means humanity fails."

"Agunaktor's Star Destroyer can't move, but the Naskadi should be able to move, right?" Alexander said, "I plan to use the power of a ship to launch a surprise attack on the Ark... Even if I can't tear a gap, at least It is also one of the few mobile forces that can hold back the undead crew!"

"Wait a little longer!" The hound emphasized again, "Wait a little longer!"

"Wait for what?"

"Ke Lan's signal." The hound no longer concealed Ke Lan's whereabouts, and said bluntly.

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Inside the Ark, the West District [-], the ruins of the research institute, and the underground ice storage.

"Zero, can you use the space barrier to push away these roots and create a passage?" Ke Lan asked.

The first to fourth floors of the underground ice storage have been empty, but the fifth floor buried deep in the reactor coolant is still unknown... It used to be the place where the eggs of Yinglong were stored. After Ke Lan tore Seraph After that, the place should have been empty.But for some reason, Ke Lan always felt that there was something there, and it was very important.

"It's difficult." Ze Luo shook his head, "Direct contact will cause a strong reaction from the roots, and these roots have a very special power attached, which seems to come from the consciousness absorbed by the giant tree... ...In the face of this force, the space barrier can't last long."

"How long can you last at most?"

"It's hard to say, six seconds... maybe shorter."

"Then count it as five seconds." Ke Lan stared at the abyss below. Starting from the second floor, the density of the roots was so dense that even a fly could not pass through them. He wanted to use the space barrier to squeeze the roots away. Xu, if you go deep into the fifth floor, five seconds is really too much.

And the premise of doing this is that the fifth floor of the underground ice storage is not invaded by roots, which can give Ze Luo a buffer space... If the fifth floor is like the above, then there will be no chance of turning back.

Ke Lan had no doubts about the power of these roots, even the giant knight couldn't resist, let alone him and Ze Luo.

Space power also has limits. Zelo is only a "test product" produced by the Alpha civilization after a rough study of space weapons, and it is far from reaching the level of a "weapon"... The space barrier is far from reaching the real meaning "Invincible".

In particular, the roots of the giant tree are still attached to the mind power of those who have been swallowed. This power can be said to be "same source" as Ze Luo's power... They can compete with each other, and they can also dissolve each other, just like The two energy shields with the same frequency are the same, not only will they not explode when they collide, but they will fuse together.

Once the space barrier is assimilated by the opponent, it is basically equivalent to disappearing—the armor of the giant knight can't protect against these roots, and Ke Lan doesn't think he can find any physical armor that can resist the roots.

Perhaps, Yagunaktor's star destroyer should be called to strike, and a hole should be made directly in this pile of roots?
With the help of Ze Luo's ability, Ke Lan did have a way to send the signal, but doing so would create two problems he had to face: First, Yagunaktor could indeed receive the signal when it was sent, but this The signal is equivalent to a plain text chat on the public screen, the hounds can receive it, and the undead crew can also receive it.Secondly, assuming that Yaguna Ketor successfully fired the Star Destroyer and blasted a passage for Ke Lan, what if there is nothing on the fifth floor of the underground ice storage?
When they wanted to throw the annihilation bomb into the taproot of the giant tree, Yagunaktor couldn't fire a second star destroyer.

"Maybe...should we give up?" Ke Lan couldn't help becoming hesitant in his heart, "The valuable things in the underground ice storage have been emptied... Maybe the undead crew will attack the underground ice storage for those collections, for the giant tree These are all 'high-quality' nutrients. Now that the giant tree has devoured all the collections in the underground ice storage, it makes sense for me to stay here...Since the taproot of the giant tree is not here, maybe I should Go directly to the core area..."

Just when he was thinking of quitting, a tattered mobile phone rang suddenly at his feet.

Looking at the model, it seems to be a multifunctional personal terminal equipped for soldiers to use in battle, commonly known as a "military mobile phone".The owner of this mobile phone has long since disappeared, the touch screen is also covered with cracks, and several function keys at the bottom have also collapsed and flew away somewhere, and the dark green circuit board is directly exposed to the outside.

"Who is calling this... No, maybe I should ask why there is a call coming in?" Ke Lan bent down and picked up the phone.

The communication base stations on the ark have stopped working, and a strong electromagnetic interference field has enveloped the entire ark. This kind of military mobile phone has now become a waste product. Logically speaking, it is impossible for a call to come in.

Ke Lan glanced at the screen, there was no number displayed on it, only two Chinese characters: "The Fool".

[PS Thank you for the 5000 starting coins rewarded by the roaming DNA vest; thank you Wenyue Quzhang for the 500 starting coins. 】