Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 333 Fierce Fight in the Abandoned City (4000-word chapter)
"Could it be your illusion?" the hound rubbed the stubble on his chin, frowned, and asked in a tentative tone.

"I'm not sure..." Ke Lan shook his head.

"The thing in the Iron Maiden was bombarded head-on by the main cannon of the Ark... With such destructive power, even the wild species would absolutely not be able to survive," said the Hound.

"Maybe..." Ke Lan nodded and waved at the hound, "Old Dog, come with me."

The two walked around to the foyer, and after making sure that Chi Hanfeng couldn't hear their conversation at all, Ke Lan said to the hound seriously: "Suppose, I mean suppose...assuming that thing is still alive, it came from the owner of the Ark. survived the bombardment, so what do you think it will do?"

"Tsk...if that thing is really still alive..." the hound rubbed his temple vigorously with his index finger, closed his eyes and muttered, "then I think...it has to survive first."

"Survive?"

"Yes." The hound opened his eyes and looked straight at Ke Lan, "Even if it is still alive, it cannot be unscathed... Just like a seriously injured beast, it must find a place that is safe enough to Healing injuries, accumulating strength... But what it wants to do next, it must first survive."

"Nearly two months have passed since the East Ninth District was destroyed...Combined with my own self-healing ability, even if the thing is seriously injured, two months is enough to restore it to its original state."

Ke Lan went on to say: "My ability comes from it...and the calling sound that appeared in my nightmare last night should be the connection between me and it."

The hound's face turned slightly pale: "You mean...that thing, after recovering from its injuries, wants to come to find you and take back your abilities?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head, "But it seems to want me to go somewhere..."

"The coordinates?"

"Hmm... I just can't remember at all..."

"Don't worry about this, don't you Huaxia people have a saying that 'there must be a road before the mountain'... Even if you are thinking about it now, it's useless, but you can't sleep well... Let me tell you, last night Such a rare opportunity, what a pity." The hound took out a cigarette case, "Would you like one?"

"No, after everyone else has finished their breakfast, get ready to go to the arena. Today we have four games." Ke Lan said.

Facing this unknown existence, he decided to admit it once: until he figured out the true meaning of that coordinate, he would not accept any missions to go out and explore for the time being... If that thing came to him on his own initiative, Ke Lan would not I don't mind letting it suffer another close-range bombardment from the Ark's main gun.

……

At exactly nine o'clock, everyone came to their floating viewing platform again... But what surprised Ke Lan was that Ye Yan came earlier than them, sitting on the seat next to him , still sitting the girl who dragged him away yesterday.

Ye Yan's childhood sweetheart, if Ke Lan remembers correctly, should be called Song Shiyun.

She is wearing a cheongsam-style dress in the color of "blue and white porcelain" today, with smooth black straight hair draped over her shoulders, and a hairpin decorated with pearls and gold leaf leaves in her ears... But she is holding a She was playing with something that didn't quite match her attire—a .0.44-inch Magnum with a beautifully carved barrel and black walnut grip, though it could be considered a It is a rare work of art, but what attracts everyone's attention is its terrifying destructive power and lethality.

Seeing Ke Lan and others coming up, Song Shiyun first greeted with a smile, and then quickly stuffed the pistol into her cosmetic bag.

Fortunately, this is a short-barrel version of the Magnum pistol, otherwise this exquisite cosmetic bag really can't fit this thing.

"To be honest, I won't be surprised to see women take out any weird things from their cosmetic bags in the future." The hound complained to Ke Lan in a very low voice.

But what I have to say is that Song Shiyun's appearance is definitely one of the best among the women Ke Lan has ever seen, and she can be regarded as a stunner at the same level as Zofia.It's just that the two belong to completely different beauties, so it's hard to compare them with one another.

With such a beautiful girl by his side, and going out to make trouble, Ke Lan only felt that Ye Yan was really not wronged at all for being electrocuted.

Not only Ke Lan, but even the hound, when he saw Song Shiyun and Ye Yan sitting together, he had a sense of sight that flowers were stuck on it.

"Young Master Ye came so early, did you come to us for something?" Ke Lan glanced at Song Shiyun beside Ye Yan and asked.

As for the deeper meaning of this sentence, he believes that Ye Yan must have understood it: when he ran here yesterday, he wanted to "avoid the limelight", but now the "lime limelight" that he wants to avoid is right next to him, so what? He also ran to his place, obviously there was something else.

"Hey." Ye Yan smiled, "To tell you the truth, I bet money on you."

He stretched out five fingers, and Layton subconsciously asked, "Did you bet 500,000?"

"No, it's [-] million." Ye Yan still had that hippie smile on his face, "This is all the funds I can mobilize. I also borrowed a lot from the group of buddies I made friends with on weekdays. I hope I can get it today." It’s a big deal.”

Five hundred million...Even Ke Lan and the others already have a certain amount of net worth, but when Ye Yan said this figure casually, everyone was shocked.

"...If we lose, Young Master Ye, you won't find someone to buy our hands and feet?" Layton subconsciously said.

"No, no...but if you lose, I'm afraid I'll have to go to the Song family for dinner in the next year." Ye Yan pretended to be pitiful, and at the same time glanced at Song next to him with aggrieved eyes. rhyme.

"It's okay to come to my house for a meal, but you can eat whatever Tom eats."

"Who is Tom?" Ke Lan asked.

"The kitten I raised is very good, at least much better than someone else."

"...Shi Yun, you wouldn't be so cruel, would you?" Ye Yan's face suddenly changed.

"I'm ruthless, don't you know?" Song Shiyun said with a smile, which made Ye Yan's expression even more embarrassed...

"See...Brother Ke Lan, you must win today, otherwise I will have to eat cat food for a year."

Leaving aside the issue that the cat food that Song Shiyun’s cats eat may be better than the food of most commoners, what Ke Lan wondered most at this moment was why Ye Yan would suddenly bet a huge sum of [-] million yuan on himself. Money... You know, in terms of strength, among the many participating teams, they can only be regarded as mid-level - what's more, what's more, what they are facing today is a strong team with the strength of a quasi-rich family.

"Why bet on us? Instead of betting on those rich clubs? In my opinion, betting on those popular teams is safer?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"Well... I want to beat those strong teams, but their odds are too low, the rate of return is less than one-thousandth, and even the strong teams have their failures... If you really let me hit Come on, then the [-] million is nothing to lose, it would be more cost-effective to suppress you - anyway, what you draw today is the SOLO match, this kind of competition system can erase the gap between the rich teams and the ordinary teams to the greatest extent. The gap between them is trump card versus trump card, in comparison, I am more optimistic about Miss Valentina's performance."

As Ye Yan said, among all the competition systems that can be drawn in the mecha competition, one-on-one solo matches account for more than 70.00% of the total. This setting is mainly to take care of those who only have one ace machine An ordinary team from the division can also have the strength to fight against the rich and powerful teams.

Otherwise, if the three ace pilots fight together, there will be almost no suspense about the outcome... In this way, the competition between those powerful teams and ordinary participating teams will not be much to watch... In terms of the crushing battle situation, it may be very refreshing to watch it once or twice, but if you watch too much, the audience will still feel fatigued.

There are two hours of preparation time before the game. Chi Hanfeng and Layton are in full swing to replace Valkyrie with new equipment - the long-range railgun and the retractable physical shield have been replaced. The map of the abandoned city is It was built on the basis of the cities destroyed by nuclear wars on the earth in the old era. The entire site is full of building ruins more than ten meters high, coupled with the intricate urban underground pipeline system, it will only explode on this map. Close encounters or ambushes of patience, like the long-distance shootouts of the first game, simply don't happen here.

At the same time, it is precisely because of the complexity of the abandoned city map that the collection and analysis of information has become one of the important factors affecting the outcome of the game. Ke Lan and others outside the field cannot communicate with the next players. All judgments and decisions It must be done by Valentina herself, which also has extremely high requirements for the pilot's own tactical skills.

Valkyrie's new armament is a pair of small arm shields fixed on the outside of the arm armor with a cutting chain saw on the edge, plus two short-barreled rapid-fire shotguns-this combination of equipment is entirely for melee combat Designed, especially the gun barrel of the shotgun, which is less than one meter long, even if the opponent's animal-shaped mecha pounces, Valentina can completely turn the muzzle and fight back in a close-fitting state.

"Remember, don't force yourself. If you can't, admit defeat." Before departure, Chi Hanfeng patted the cockpit door heavily, "Put your own safety first."

"I know." Valentina's calm voice came from inside the mecha, which seemed very dull. Then, she controlled the mecha to turn around and walked towards the entrance of the competition venue.

The second group match of the Hunting God Hunting Group has officially begun!
As soon as she entered the venue, Valentina found a building that had collapsed to only one third of the building as her hiding place, squatted down in the right-angle area formed by two ruined walls, and put the camouflaged cannon The mouth is framed at the window on the second floor.

Not only the muzzle, but the body itself has also been replaced by a grayish wasteland-style urban camouflage from the eye-catching black-and-white-orange painting. When you squat in the ruins, it blends in with the environment.

Because there are no equipment restrictions, the participating aircraft basically carry anti-detection devices, such as thermal infrared detection devices, metal detection equipment, etc., the detection range is very limited, facing a person who is 20 meters away and keeps still An opponent who is immobile can basically only rely on the pilot's own eyes.

"We can see that Valentina changed her previous aggressive style and chose an ambush tactic..." The commentator of this game is still Alex, but the difference is that the entire game field is in a state of chaos. Under the soundproof enclosure, no matter how loud the commentary was, the players in the arena would not be able to hear it at all.

"If Wolfgang of the 'Lightning Wolves Club' also chooses to stop with silence, then this will be a competition that will test the patience of both sides..."

Choose a suitable location, lie in wait, and wait for the opponent to step into the ambush area. Although this tactic seems very insignificant, but in this kind of urban battlefield with complex terrain, once the battle is fought, the side that sets up the ambush has an extremely huge power. Advantage--

In the ninth competition, there was an upset: on the same map of the abandoned city, three ace pilots from the famous club, Tuo Da, strayed into the opponent's ambush circle, and were attacked almost instantly. The opponent destroyed one machine body, and in the ensuing battle, the three non-ace pilots fought and retreated. With the help of pre-set traps and favorable terrain, they all wiped out all three at the cost of losing one machine body. famous ace.This is also the only time in the group stage that a powerful team was defeated by a "make-up" team.

Although it seems to the outside world that this giant team lost to their own arrogance, it also proved that in this kind of venue, the advantage of setting up an ambush is enough to smooth out the hard power between aces and non-aces The gap... It is precisely because of this that the organizers of the competition have designed more maps of this type to enhance the unpredictability of the competition.

"Let's shift the camera to Player Wolfgang...wait! Player Wolfgang didn't choose to set up an ambush, he... he dug a collapsed sewer entrance - he is now in the abandoned city The underground part of the arena! And it is rapidly approaching where Valentina is!"

"I'm in trouble..." Chi Hanfeng crossed his arms and frowned, "This Wolfgang seems to be very familiar with this map... especially the underground part, you can see that his moving route is almost chosen The shortest path did not stray into any side roads or dead ends... For other contestants, it is not easy to understand the structure of the upper part of the city, let alone the maze-like underground pipeline system. "

"And he also guessed Valentina's hiding place... The building area formed by those buildings is almost the best ambush location in that block." The hound added.

"Impossible...Although there will be a map of Abandoned City in each competition, the details of each map are different. It is impossible for him to have the opportunity to familiarize himself with the map!" Ye Yan said in amazement.

"Maybe someone provided him with some help." Ke Lan whispered, "It's like Ye Shao told us the content of the knockout round in advance."

(End of this chapter)