Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 262 Stone Chamber and Stone Platform (4000-word chapter)
"That is to say, if something finds our body now, we don't even have the ability to resist... Fuck, just thinking about it makes me feel terrified," said the hound.

"Even if there is no external threat, our bodies will go into shock due to dehydration after a long time, and eventually die of organ failure." Ke Lan added, "So, the most urgent thing is to find a way to get out of this dream world."

"Shouldn't we be awakened by thirst?" asked the Hound.

"Probably not, even if the body sends a signal to the brain to lack water, this thirsty symptom will only appear in our dreams, and will not prompt us to wake up... You just drank a whole bottle of soda, Do you feel your belly swell from the carbon dioxide escaping from the soda?"

"From what you said, it doesn't seem to be true... I felt my throat was a little dry just now, and it's still very dry..."

"Then how do we get out?"

"I have a way," Ke Lan glanced at the gun in the hound's hand, and said, "You kill me, try it."

"Kill... I shouldn't kill you in reality too?" the hound said worriedly.

"Then try to shoot the leg first?"

"...Okay, get ready, I'm going to shoot." The hound nodded, raised the gun in his hand, and pointed it at Gates—that is, Ke Lan's leg, "Three, two...one !"

"Bah!"

The [-]mm caliber armor-piercing projectile tore open the polymer armor on Gates' leg with ease, and spun into the leg muscles. Immediately afterwards, the deformed projectile began to roll, forming a huge hole in the flesh. Cavity - From the front, there is only a bullet hole the size of a coin, and behind the bullet hole, several kilograms of flesh have been torn off, and the blood has been splashed more than ten meters away.

If a normal person had received such a shot in the leg, he would have fallen to the ground long ago, but Ke Lan just felt that he could not stand still...

"You...can't you feel pain?" The hound also noticed the abnormality and asked.

"I can feel a little bit...but only a little bit, like the dull pain of being bitten by a bug through the clothes...I think maybe it's because this body doesn't belong to me." Ke Lan replied road.

"Then even if I shoot you in the head, it will only kill Gates, not you, right?"

"Theoretically so."

"Then I really shot." The hound didn't say anything more, and directly aimed the sight at Gates' head, and pulled the trigger.

"Bah!"

At the moment when the bullet pierced Gates' head, Ke Lan only felt a whirlwind, and the scene in front of him began to gradually distort - through the perspective of Gates after he fell, Ke Lan could see that the hound was grabbing his His shoulders shook vigorously, his lips opened and closed quickly, as if he was speaking loudly, but Ke Lan could no longer hear anything.

……

There was only darkness left in the field of vision.

After an unknown period of time, Ke Lan regained consciousness again. Although the surrounding area was still dark, he could vaguely smell a faint sour smell.

Sour?

This is the unique smell of a high-efficiency oxygen generator after it reacts to generate oxygen, and Ke Lan and the others explored the deep pit this time, and the equipment they carried included a high-pressure tank containing this oxygen generator.

"I'm... back to the real world?!"

Ke Lan's first reaction was to stretch out his hand and grope around his body—he first touched the hard powered exoskeleton on his chest, and then the cold and anti-gravity suit worn inside the exoskeleton.

He poked his hand down. Fortunately, the equipment bag hanging around his waist was not lost, and all the contents were still there.

Ke Lan found a cold light lighting stick, gently twisted the metal cover at the end of the lighting stick, and the dark green light immediately dispelled the surrounding darkness.

This is a small stone room. The architectural style is very similar to the one in the A-087 ruins. In the center of the stone room is a rectangular stone platform with a height of more than one meter. Ke Lan is on this stone platform. wake up.

He turned over and jumped off the stone platform, drew out his pistol, and loaded a bullet into the chamber.

"How could it be such a ghost place..."

When they explored the glacier ruins last time, they encountered a powerful monster like a flesh-and-blood centipede in the stone room. If Akira Asano hadn’t appeared suddenly, Ke Lan and Layton would have to confess that they were there... and in the stone room right now, It gave Ke Lan a very familiar feeling - if a "big guy" jumped out at this time, it would be a lot of fun.

Ke Lan knew that the gun in his hand could not pose a threat to that kind of thing, but holding it in his hand could somehow strengthen his courage...

Holding the gun in one hand and the lighting stick in the other, he walked around the stone platform. There is no secret passage below the stone platform, and the ceiling above is also intact. The only entrance and exit is the one at three o'clock on the stone platform. Fan Shimen.

And what puzzled Ke Lan the most was...why did he wake up in such a stone room after falling into the tiankeng?
Could it be that something moved itself here?

He looked back at the stone platform behind his eyes... A very uncomfortable feeling came to his heart: this stone platform is like a dissection table, and the self lying on it is like a creature waiting to be dissected specimen.

But fortunately, when he woke up, there were no missing parts on his body. In several horror movies that Ke Lan had watched, those unlucky protagonists woke up and found that they were given The belly was disembowelled, the lucky one just lost a kidney; and the unluckiest one not only lost one, but also had a lot of things in his body...

Ke Lan subconsciously pressed her stomach...well, there shouldn't be an extra arm or anything else...

The stone platform is solid, and there are no alien technological devices left over from the Alpha civilization in the stone room. The only thing with some technical content is probably the stone door opened with energy crystals. On this stone door, there is a warning written in Alpha characters. Slogan: "Experimental center, non-personnel with authority level [-] or above are strictly prohibited from entering."

"The experimental site... Is this a laboratory?" Ke Lan said to himself, "But the problem is that there is no experimental equipment here... Could it be that this is an observation room, and I am the experimental sample being observed?"

He raised his head again, his eyes swept across the corners of the ceiling, but like the result of the first inspection, he did not find any surveillance devices.

But Ke Lan knew in his heart that with the technological level of the Alpha civilization, even if a monitoring device was installed in this stone room, it would be difficult to find it with his own eyes.

The gap between human civilization and Alpha civilization is too great... It's like throwing a chimpanzee into the ruins of a human city... Chimpanzees can't understand how humans built such a magnificent city. And human beings can't understand what kind of height the Alpha civilization has developed to.

……

Ke Lan opened the equipment bag and checked everything in it.As he expected, all electronic equipment has failed - this is another manifestation of technological crushing: in most of the remains of Alpha civilization, human technological equipment is difficult to play its due role , while the things of Alpha civilization itself will not be affected in any way.

It is said that the research institute has made a major breakthrough in the research of the crystal structure in the past few years. If the technology of this Alpha civilization can be transplanted into human electronic equipment, the electromagnetic interference in the ruins will no longer interfere with these equipment. ...But to really reach this step, I am afraid it will take an extremely long period of time.

However, apart from this method, hunters have another method: directly use the things excavated from the Alpha ruins as their own equipment. Among these things, there are also some practical but not technical What a tall thing, such as the chip that Ke Lan took out of his bag.

This is a diamond-shaped chip, the material of which is similar to energy crystals. Inside the chip, there are two dots of light, one red and one blue. The blue dot will always point to the north pole of Alpha Star, while the red dot is just the opposite.

This thing is the compass used by the Alpha people, but it will not be disturbed by any magnetic field, so its versatility is far greater than the compass made by humans.

In order to take pictures of this gadget, Ke Lan spent a full 68 credits, but the money is worth the money - if he had this thing on the desert island last time, he would not be in the underground labyrinth Lost.

According to the guidance of the blue light spot, the side of the stone gate is the north direction.

"Anyway, there is no other way to go..." Ke Lan walked to the stone gate and stuffed a few energy crystals into the groove on the gate.

There was a teeth-stinging grinding sound, and the stone door slowly moved to one side, and behind the stone door, there was still an identical stone room.

However, on the stone platform in the middle of this stone room, lay a person Ke Lan didn't know at all!

He stepped forward and carefully looked at the person who was in a "coma"—the other person was wearing an old cold-proof suit with a set of safety belts on the outside of the winter-proof suit, but the shoulders and back The buckles at the top have been broken, and even the surface layer of the winter clothing inside has been torn off, exposing the stuffing inside.

There is also a hexagonal armband on his right arm. Although Ke Lan has never seen the emblem on the armband, he still recognizes the following Chinese characters: "Polaris Hunting Group Fourth Division Trainee Hunter Cao Feng blood type: O type"

This guy is that Dana's subordinate, one of the unlucky ones who were tricked into being a tool miner by the Polaris hunting group.

This person is obviously immersed in the dream world. Judging from his pale face and sweat on his head, his situation may not be optimistic.

If this continues, there is a high probability that he will become a lunatic who has lost his mind just like the group of patients in Nottingham Hospital.

Just when Ke Lan was about to try to wake him up, the stone door on the other side of the stone room suddenly opened!
"Who?" Ke Lan raised his gun, just in time to see the hound pointing the gun at him.

"Ke Lan?!"

"Are you awake too?" Ke Lan put down his gun and asked.

"Well, I don't know what's going on, after you...or, after Gates died completely, my dream world stopped...even the bullets fired froze in mid-air, and then It was suddenly dark, and when I realized it, I found myself lying in this stone room." The hound put the pistol back into the holster, pointed to the stone room behind him and said.

Hound, Ke Lan, and Cao Feng of the Polaris Hunting Group, the stone rooms of the three of them are exactly the same, the only difference is that there are stone doors on the four walls of the stone room where Cao Feng is located—if these stone rooms are shaped like ten In terms of the distribution of the characters, Cao Feng's room is exactly located at the intersection point of the cross shape.

"This guy... from Polaris?" The hunting dog looked at Cao Feng lying on the stone platform and asked.

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded, "His condition is not very good, I want to try to wake him up."

Although forcibly waking up a person immersed in the dream world may cause unpredictable consequences, if he is left alone, he will only sink deeper and deeper until his self-consciousness is completely swallowed by nightmares—in layman's terms, it is completely insane Lose.

"It's okay to try...but you have to move faster. Apart from us, other people may be trapped in that damned dream world just like this guy."

"I know." Ke Lan moved Cao Feng off the stone platform and laid it flat on the ground, then took out an injection and a few small medicine bottles from his bag—most of these medicines were psychotropic drugs. Ke Lan specially prepared for this exploration operation, including a sedative named "WAKE116", which can quickly calm down people with unstable mental states.

He mixed the medicine powder with normal saline, and then pumped it into the syringe, while the hound beside him cut open the sleeve of Cao Feng's cold-proof jacket with a dagger, and briefly sterilized the surface of the skin with alcohol cotton balls.

Ke Lan found the blood vessel and stuck the needle in. As the medicine was slowly pushed in, Cao Feng's body twitched slightly.

"What's the situation? It seems to be getting worse?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head, "WAKE116 is a powerful sedative, but it doesn't have the effect of relaxing muscles. Logically speaking, there may be such a special drug reaction..."

"But this guy's convulsions seem to be getting worse!" said the hunting dog. He had already pressed most of Cao Feng's body on Cao Feng's body, and his hands were grabbing the opponent's wrist vigorously. Even so, Cao Feng's body Still shaking like an electric shock.

"That's the only way to use it—"

Ke Lan took out an injection in a sealed package, and injected it into Cao Feng's body together with another medicine——finally, Cao Feng's convulsions stopped, and his breathing gradually became calmer.

"I just injected him with Mengzao preparation and neutralizing agent... Although this thing can calm him down, he must sleep for at least twelve hours now..."

(End of this chapter)