Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 367 Marshall Taken Away (4000 words chapter)
"What about the other person? Where is he now?" Before Ke Lan could speak, Akira Asano couldn't help asking.

"He...he...he now..."

The woman didn't answer immediately, but became hesitant, Ke Lan couldn't help but "thump" in his heart, and he glanced at Akira Asano with some concern.Then he turned his head, stared into the woman's eyes, and asked in a low voice, "You tell me first, is he still alive?"

"I...I don't know."

Ke Lan noticed that Asano Akira's hand was tightly clutching the saber disguised as a blind guide stick, and the cloth strips wrapped around the scabbard were squeezed into obvious folds.

"If you say you don't know, then you didn't see him being killed with your own eyes, right?" Ke Lan grabbed the woman's shoulder with his other hand, "Then tell us everything you know. Will kill you, and give you three more painkillers."

"Let me... think about it for a while..." The woman lowered her head, covered her head with her hands, and tried hard to remember.

"Don't worry, think about it carefully and carefully, and don't miss any important details." Ke Lan said.

The woman was silent for 5 minutes, and then said: "The first time I noticed that person, it should be on the transport ship."

Both Ke Lan and Asano Akira pricked up their ears, but neither made a sound, for fear of interrupting the woman's thoughts.

"His gray hair is particularly conspicuous. When I was first brought into the cargo hold, I noticed him sitting in the corner."

Sitting in the corner?Hearing the woman's description, Ke Lan couldn't help showing a slight change in his facial expression... It seems that his previous guess was correct, and Marshall has indeed recovered from his paralyzed state.

Although Ke Lan wanted to ask a lot of details, he didn't speak, but continued to listen to the woman.

"At first I thought it was an old man. I was very curious at the time... You know, the physical work of a miner is too much for an elderly person. Moreover, the environment in the mining area is so bad, high temperature, lack of oxygen... and that The damn radiation, young people can't last for a few months, let alone old people whose physique is not as good as young people. At that time..."

As the woman spoke, her body shook suddenly, her eyes flashed a trance look, her body that was originally sitting on the bunk fell limply, and slowly turned to one side.

"It's a side effect of painkillers. Apart from painkillers, this thing can also be used as a sedative. She just swallowed three pills in one go, which is already [-] times the highest dose in a single day." Ke Lan couldn't help feeling a headache, He quickly supported the woman's body, and with his own cover, he took out a highly concentrated military stimulant from the secret bag, used his fingernails to pick off the protective cap of the needle, stuck it on the other's arm, and then crushed it A glass bulb filled with compressed air at the end of the syringe.

The medicinal liquid was quickly injected into the young woman's veins, and along with the blood spreading, she subconsciously let out a comfortable moan, and the eyelids that had begun to close slowly opened again, looking at the young woman in astonishment. Ke Lan.

"You... What was the injection you gave me just now?"

Her heart rate began to speed up, her cheeks and the front wall of her chest also turned a faint blush due to the accelerated flow of blood, and her ten fingers trembled slightly involuntarily.

"Do you still feel a slight pinprick sensation on your back, sides of your thighs and neck?" Ke Lan said, "The drug you were given just now is a military stimulant, the main active ingredients are adrenaline and glucocorticoids. These are all normal reactions... Otherwise, you would have fallen asleep just now."

"You... who are you? Why do you have this kind of thing?" The woman's throat moved, and she swallowed with some difficulty, "You probably didn't steal this thing from the transport ship, right? Those painkillers are not... and, and yours..."

Before the word "gun" in "that gun" was spoken, Ke Lan interrupted her: "It doesn't matter who we are, if you still want to get some medicine from me, you can continue to remember , tell me everything you know about that white-haired man."

"...Okay." The young woman nodded vigorously, "He...that white-haired man, I thought he was an old man at first, but when I got closer, I realized that he was only in his forties at most."

Forty years old... Ke Lan thought, the age is right. According to Akira Asano, if Marshall is still alive, he will be about 35 years old at most, plus the torture he has endured in the past few years , It is normal to look old in appearance.

"There are a lot of tubes in his arm, the transparent plastic tubes." The woman continued, "I saw something dark brown flowing in the tubes...I don't know if it's blood."

Intubation?Ke Lan frowned. This is probably part of some kind of life support device?In the early years, many biochemically modified people would have such tubes, but later because the tubes placed outside the body were easily damaged and would increase the risk of infection of body tissues, they were gradually improved into internally embedded tubes—like Layton That guy, two-thirds of the blood vessels in his biological body are artificial, and there are countless various pipes buried in his body, but from the outside, his biological body is almost the same as a normal human being.

Such an external pipeline is either an extremely ancient biochemical transformation operation, or a temporary life-support device, and such a temporary device, if it is not regularly maintained, will not last for a long time. more than a month.

And in this sick village, there is obviously no condition to maintain this thing.

If this thing is really a temporary life-support device, it has been three months now, and even if Marshall is still alive, the situation is definitely not much better.

Unless, within these three months, he can meet the conditions for dismantling the life support device.

But even if one wanted to rely on mutation to create miracles, only relying on the radiation intensity in the space station, three months was far from enough.

"Go ahead." Ke Lan said to the woman.

"Not long after I boarded the ship, all the people were there, and then the transport ship started." The woman licked her chapped lips, "The people on that ship only distributed food and water to us once, and never again. Did not enter the cargo hold before arriving at the destination."

"It seems that the Mitsui Consortium is quite kind." Ke Lan thought in his heart, probably because he was also on the ship... As for the transport ship this woman was on, the crew obviously didn't care much about them. Life and death, this not only made Ke Lan think of the stowaways under the smugglers of the old era—they were in the cabin, and the hidden plywood was full of people, like a crowded sardine can.As for how many 'fish' in the can are still alive after arriving at the destination, that's not what they need to care about.

Anyway, the so-called "immigration fee" was paid to these stowaways long before they boarded the ship.

The crew of these transport ships may treat these sick miners the same way the smugglers treated those smugglers back then... As for the rules of the Mineral Mining Alliance, they are actually just a cover to hide their ugliness.

"They gave us one day's worth of food and water at once, but the transport ship didn't arrive here until three days later." Speaking of this, the woman couldn't help but tremble, "In the cargo hold...those who are strong first kill People who were very sick died, their food and water were taken, and then they went after some people who were alone and looked weaker."

"They didn't follow you?" Ke Lan asked casually.

"I... I was in good condition at that time, I had the ability to resist, and I had a companion... Although she is dead now, those people don't want to waste energy on us... However, if the distance is longer At one point, I don't know what's going to happen."

"Those people are after Marshall, right?" Ke Lan then asked.

"Yeah." The woman nodded, "He...that Marshall, he looks very sick, he's better than those who can't get up on a stretcher, they surrounded him, and then..."

"Those people beat him?" Asano Akira's voice came lightly from the side, although the volume was low, it was full of chill.

Ke Lan felt that if Asano Akira had been in the cargo hold at that time, he would have killed those people without hesitation.

"No..." The woman exhaled, moved her body back a little, and put a little distance away from Akira Asano—although she couldn't feel the killing intent released from Akira Asano, the suppressed feeling was there. It made her afraid to look directly at the young man holding the "guide stick". In contrast, Ke Lan, who almost strangled her to death just now, is more terrifying.

"Before they did anything, that man... Marshall offered to give them his own food and water."

"Did he give them the food? He gave them all of it?" Ke Lan was a little stunned. If Marshall hadn't handed over all his share, he would have been punched and kicked. The miner's blood presumably wouldn't care about his life or death.

"Ah."

"He just didn't eat or drink, and stayed in the cargo hold for three days?"

"……Seems to be."

"Asano, is this possible?" Ke Lan turned his head and asked, his meaning couldn't be more obvious - a person may not starve to death if he doesn't eat for three days, but if he doesn't drink water for three days, even Lei A biochemical engineer like Dun might have died of dehydration long ago.

Unless it is a special modified person who has specially strengthened his physiological tolerance, or can put himself into a state similar to "fake death", it is possible to survive.

"No, at least for him at that time, it was impossible." Akira Asano replied.

At this time, the woman also came to her senses, and she murmured to herself in disbelief: "I didn't drink any water or eat anything for three days...he...how did he survive...at that time I actually Didn't notice this...he...has he already mutated?"

"Probably so, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find a reasonable explanation." Ke Lan said, "Then what happened afterwards?"

"Later... what happened later, I can't remember clearly, although my food and water were not taken away, but the amount was too small, I was hungry and thirsty... almost passed out several times past."

She went on to say: "It should be after the transport ship arrived here that the crew gave us some food and water, and then we were driven off the cargo hold."

"And what next? Did the natives, 'Father,' kill the sickest of you?"

"No, no, on our ship, the critically ill patients were killed on the way, and they just pulled out the teeth of the corpse... By the way, at that time, they took that person away, the Marshall you mentioned! "

"Marshall was taken away by 'Father'?!" Ke Lan was surprised, "How was his condition at that time? Did you pay attention?"

"I... I didn't pay much attention. He has always looked listless. When he was in the cargo hold, I thought he was dead several times."

"Then he was alive when he was taken away by the 'priest'?"

"Well...and, I remember very clearly, when 'Father' saw him, he seemed very surprised..." The woman paused, as if she was choosing her words carefully, "Surprise, no... it's a surprise,' Father ’ It was nice, and he had his men give him water... but after that, I haven’t seen him.”

"Tsk, this is troublesome..." Ke Lan smacked his lips, imitating a hound, and gently rubbed the stubble on his chin with his fingers, "The 'priest' obviously found something , Now that we are looking for someone, we will inevitably have conflicts with them..."

……

Meanwhile, Layton and Ivan are on the other side.

The two also followed the local residents into Area B. The boots of the power armor had their own adsorption function, so the two did not float due to the sudden change of gravity.

However, the moment they stepped into Area B, they felt a lot of unfriendly eyes focused on themselves. There were at least [-] or [-] people staring at them.

"I hate this feeling." Layton said in the team communication channel, "I always feel creepy."

"Didn't you make preparations before coming here?" Ivan replied, "Anyway, the task of dealing with the locals is entrusted to Ke Lan and the others. We are responsible for collecting some objective clues and providing support, and we don't need to worry about those people."

"I always think they're going to attack us," Layton muttered. "Why don't we strike first?"

"Don't do stupid things," Ivan said, "Be careful that Ke Lan scolds you to death."

"Well, I'm just talking..."

(End of this chapter)