Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 360 Unloading Area (4000 words chapter)
"You wait here, I'll get the food." Ke Lan said to Akira Asano, then got up and walked over to the end of the line.

The speed of distributing food is not too slow, less than 2 minutes, it has already been queued to Ke Lan.

"Two servings of food." He gestured to Asano Akira who was sitting over there with his eyes, and said to the crew.

After seeing Ke Lan, the crew member's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then he silently took out two bags of food from the inside of the trolley and handed them over.

After receiving the food, Ke Lan returned to Asano Akira's side, but just as he opened the bag, he discovered the problem.

The captain took it upon himself to replace their food with something else.

What other miners eat is a kind of synthetic nutritious meal similar to batter. The taste of that thing is like a semi-finished product after simply mixing flour and water. The seasoning is limited to a few grains of salt, and even the salty taste may not be tasted. come out...

However, although the contents of Ke Lan and Asano Akira's bags look similar to the nutritious meals eaten by other people, they are actually white porridge made from polished rice. Those ingredients: shredded poultry meat, delicious scallops and bird's nest melted into glue...

This bag of porridge is estimated to be several grades higher than the standard meals of the crew.

"..." Ke Lan sighed helplessly in his heart. Although the captain also had good intentions, the risk of doing so was a bit high... If those two heretic sects noticed, Ke Lan and Asano Akira's The identity will be revealed in an instant.

Moreover, no matter how delicious this bag of porridge is, Ke Lan can't arouse his appetite at all at this time-in such a cabin filled with all kinds of disgusting smells, no matter how amazing the food is, I'm afraid it will be confused. There is a shadow on it... What's more, the sticky taste of chicken shredded bird's nest porridge can't help but remind him of excrement running on the ground, which makes Ke Lan feel nauseated. Without a strong enough heart, he can't swallow it at all. No less porridge in a bag.

And in order not to leave traces, he had to eat all of them...

Fortunately, the hunting dog did not participate in this operation. Considering his sense of smell, he probably collapsed before reaching the destination.

After distributing the food, the two crew members left. The whole process was relatively natural. Except for the slight change in facial expression when they met Ke Lan just now, they didn't even look at them more. Well done.

Due to the emergence of heretical sects, the purpose of Ke Lan's trip was to find someone, and an additional task was added-after all, the relationship between him and the heretical sects was already in an endless situation. If there was a chance, Ke Lan would Happy to "add a little trouble" to them.

Although he didn't bring the stone awl that can restrain the seeds of erosion, Akira Asano's war blade has already melted a lot of stalagmite fragments. They can be easily killed in seconds.

Suppressing the nausea in his stomach, Ke Lan finished eating the bird's nest porridge in the plastic bag, then rolled up the plastic bag and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

……

Two and a half days, whether it is long or short... When the transport ship finally docked at the unloading area of ​​the space station, three more corpses of miners were added to the airtight cargo hold.

These three people didn't die due to accidents like the first person before, but died simply because their illnesses were too serious and their bodies could no longer support them.

The reason why people suffering from severe radiation sickness in the documentary can survive for several months is purely because various medical methods are hanging on the patient's life: drugs, blood transfusions, nutritional supplements, artificial organs and even stem cell transplantation... …Although it is difficult to bring patients back from death, it is not a problem to keep the brain alive for a while.

If there were no such means, if only some glucose and electrolytes were supplemented through intravenous infusion, it would not take more than 15 days for a person suffering from severe radiation to experience nausea and vomiting until death.

When the three people died, the muscles and skin in the abdominal cavity had begun to dissolve, and the pus and blood mixed with the feces in the digestive tract dripped out of the dissolved opening—these things themselves were high-intensity radiation sources. Although Ke Lan's body is immune to a certain degree of radiation, his skin exposed to the air can still feel subtle tingling.

As for the crew members, they were even less willing to come into the cargo hold—even if someone was found dead, they had no intention of restraining the corpse at all, they just came over and sprinkled some disinfectant before leaving.Fortunately, the temperature in the cargo hold was kept at about ten degrees Celsius, so the corpse did not rot.

Accompanied by the ear-piercing "click" sound, the hatch outside the cargo hold slowly lifted up. The first thing that entered Ke Lan's field of vision was a confined space about 50 meters wide and more than 200 meters deep—here is The unloading area of ​​the "sick village", and the airtight valves at the entrance and exit of the unloading area, may be the only facilities that the Mineral Mining Alliance will spend money on maintaining in recent years.

The transport ship of the Mitsui Consortium hovered horizontally on one side of the space station, and the cargo hold was directly docked with the unloading area of ​​the space station. Several crew members held anti-riot steel forks and drove the miners in the cargo hold off the ship like driving animals.

Ke Lan noticed that at the edge of the unloading area, there was a group of people wearing tattered cloaks. Most of them were stooped, and their bodies exposed outside the cloaks were covered with shocking proliferative tissues... and the most special one was a A person lying on all fours lying on the ground, the cloak on his back is stretched high, as if a child is riding on him.

But from the corner of the cloak, it can be seen that there is a huge sarcoma growing on the man's back. This sarcoma is covered with thick blood vessels. These blood vessels are connected to the bony body below, which has obviously become An inseparable part of him...

With such a degree of alienation symptoms, even if the giant sarcoma is surgically removed, the person will probably die immediately... It is impossible to tell whether there is a tumor growing on the human body, or a person growing on the tumor...

These are the residents of the "sick village". They kept a distance of about more than 200 meters from the transport ship, watching Ke Lan and the other "newcomers" driven off by the crew with cold eyes.

Although he has not formally contacted these locals, the first impression he made after seeing them with his own eyes made Ke Lan feel a burst of physical resistance.He always felt that these residents could no longer be regarded as human beings, even though they still retained their human appearance...

"This place...is far more uncomfortable than those described in those records..." Ke Lan thought in his heart, and they glanced at the miners around them. These people didn't seem to notice the danger, and they were confused. There was a trace of curiosity in the eyes, looking at the surrounding environment, and at the same time looking at the locals who were watching them.

"The eyes of these locals... No matter how you look at it, it feels weird, as if they are sizing up their prey..." Ke Lan moved closer to Akira Asano, and said in a voice that only the other party could hear.

"I didn't feel the murderous intent." Akira Asano said lightly.

"Of course there will be no murderous intent. The eyes of these people looking at the miners are not the kind of 'I'm going to kill you' eyes, but the kind of eyes that study the meat of this creature's body is more delicious... I think waiting Conflicts may break out, so be prepared." Ke Lan continued.

"With me here, no one can hurt you." Akira Asano uttered a line that has appeared in many novels and film and television works... But Ke Lan also understands that he is definitely not pretending to say this, even in the unloading area. Every one of those locals has the strength of the radiation monsters in the East Ninth District. If Akira Asano wants to kill them all, he won't waste too much time.

This guy is a "monster" that is difficult to explain with common sense.

Speaking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help thinking of the purpose of their trip - that guy named "Marshall". According to Asano Akira, when this person was in the secret experimental force, his ability was one of the best among all experimental subjects.And now that the tail of a crane like Akira Asano is so perverted, how strong would this Marshall be if he hadn't been backlashed by his ability?
It's hard for Ke Lan to imagine.

No way, can someone really fly with a sword?
Before setting off, Ke Lan asked Akira Asano this question, but Akira Asano himself didn't know Marshall's strength... To be precise, he didn't know the specific abilities of other experimental subjects except himself.

Although the experimental subjects live together on weekdays, they are all carried out in separate rooms when conducting tests, and it is strictly forbidden for the experimental subjects to fight with each other. The reason why Akira Asano can know his own crane tail is completely Because his number was at the bottom of the list—the test subjects were all numbered according to their abilities tested. This point was told to them by the head of the experiment himself.

About 500 people participated in that experiment, but less than [-] people passed the preliminary screening and got numbers.

Akira Asano's ranking number is "No. 159", and that Marshall is...

No. 2

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At this time, the crew on the transport ship had already moved the cargo boxes containing protein blocks, water recycling equipment and medicines to the unloading area, which was different from what Ke Lan expected—the locals who were watching from a distance did not come up to loot. Even if a cargo box accidentally tipped over during the handling process, and the protein cubes wrapped in plastic film were scattered all over the ground, those people were still indifferent.

On the contrary, it was the miners who came here with Ke Lan and the others on the transport ship. Several people couldn't hold back and started to pick up the protein lumps on the ground, but soon, the steel forks in the hands of those crew members hit them——

"Go away! You've run out of food rations for today!" The crew member sternly cursed, pushed a miner to the ground with a steel fork, then raised his feet, and stepped on the protein lumps that fell out of the miner's arms. gotta smash.

"As for... Anyway, these things were originally sent to them." A familiar voice came from behind, and Ke Lan turned his head, only to see that Layton, Ivan and the captain had already stepped off the transport ship. Standing not far away watching the unloading process.

"Why bother, there are more than a dozen pieces of egg whites trampled by your men, so what's the point of asking them to pick up a little?" Layton continued to say to the captain, "Or, there is a certain management organization in this space station , you need to hand over this batch of supplies to the managers, and you can't let these people get involved?"

"Uh... There is no official designated manager here. After we unload the cargo, we will leave directly." The captain replied.

"Then why don't you let them touch it?"

"This... This is the alliance's regulations. The unloading process must be recorded, and it is not up to us." The captain pointed to a crew member who was videotaping and said, "In order to prevent corruption, the entire unloading process They must be photographed and uploaded to the alliance database for filing. Before the transport ship leaves the space station, everything must be done in accordance with the rules set by the alliance. As for what they will do with these materials after we leave, it has nothing to do with us gone."

"It's really rigid." Ivan said in a complaining tone, "If this kind of video is made public, it will be very detrimental to the alliance, right?"

"It won't be made public, it's all internal data." The captain lowered his voice slightly, "And, even if it is made public, no one will believe it."

The entire unloading process took about an hour and a half. The crew on the transport ship checked the airtight valve of the docking channel for the last time and returned to the transport ship. Afterwards, the hatch closed and the docking channel in the unloading area was closed. Amidst the noise, the transport ship quickly left the isolated space station.

Twenty or so miners, including Ke Lan, Asano Akira, and the three corpses, were left behind. Layton and Ivan, who were fully armed, stood a little further away from the cargo box, back to back , Watching the locals on the periphery very vigilantly.

Finally, these people came towards them.

They were divided into two groups, some walked towards the cargo box, and the other surrounded the new miners. As for Layton and Ivan, they completely ignored them.

When he was still more than ten meters away from these people, Ke Lan could already smell the unbearable smell on their bodies, but what was more disturbing than the smell was the weapons these people took out from under the cloak.

Their weapons were mainly irregular concrete blocks and rusty steel pipes, and a few of them were holding very sharp metal pieces, and the front of the metal pieces seemed to be stained with blood that had dried up for a long time.

"There are 35... No, 36 people approached, holding simple weapons in their hands." Ke Lan whispered to Akira Asano.

At this time, Asano Akira had already clenched the saber disguised as a blind guide stick, and his thumb had already lifted the cloth strip wrapped around the handle, and the sharp blade could be unsheathed at any time... But in the next second, Ke Lan But he grabbed his forearm and shook it a little harder, signaling Asano Akira not to act rashly.

"Their target...is not us."

These local people came closer, but they did not shoot at the standing miners, but found the dying critically ill patients lying on stretchers.

The concrete block was lifted high, then fell, and the lifeless screams stopped abruptly.

(End of this chapter)