Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 40 The Investigator

Several DAS agents stepped forward, controlled Ke Lan and the others with extremely rude movements, and then neatly searched for all their weapons.

"Not an exile?" A female agent with a height of more than 1.8 meters stepped forward and asked with her almost indistinguishable rough voice.

Judging from the positions of the agents, this woman is obviously the highest-ranking person here.

"we are……"

Layton was about to explain, but the female agent suddenly interrupted him: "Leave these words to the people in the investigation department. Our field department is only responsible for carrying out tasks, not for interrogating prisoners."

She waved her hand, and several agents immediately put smart shackles on Ke Lan and others, even Layton and Ivan, who were seriously injured.

The essence of this smart shackle is a bomb. If they leave the key holder more than 150 meters or attempt to dismantle it violently, the bomb will be detonated immediately.

"Report, sir, we found traces of the sacrificial ceremony in the house." An agent hurriedly ran out of the room where Ke Lan and the others fought against the Seed of Erosion, and said to the female agent's ear. .

"Sacrificial ceremony? What kind?" The female agent was stunned for a moment, then suddenly took off the helmet on her head.

She has a face that is more angular than a man's, her complexion is an abnormal grayish-white color, and several terrifying wounds have modified her originally unattractive face to be extremely fierce, from the chin to the neck. It is a high-level bionic prosthesis, which is no wonder she is not afraid of the hypnotic gas that permeates the air - the artificial respiratory system will filter and purify the air inhaled in the body many times, remove the toxins and pollutants in it, and ensure that they do not. into the blood through the lungs.

"The prosthetic body she uses is a high-end 'Maya creature'... This thing is worth half of my body..." Layton whispered.

The Corrosive Seeds of Death, the flesh-eating worm shells, the priestess who were sucked into mummified corpses, and the people in black who were killed were all moved out of the house by the agents one by one and lined up in the open space outside.

Ke Lan noticed that when she saw the Seed of Erosion, the female agent's eyebrows jumped involuntarily... Obviously, she knew this thing and seemed to be very afraid.

"Has there been any contamination?"

"Not found yet."

"How many of them? Have you checked?" She pointed to Ke Lan and the others.

"Checked," said an agent standing behind Ke Lan and the others, holding an instrument that looked similar to a thermometer.

"Process the sample, place the laser beacon, and prepare to evacuate."

Ke Lan and the others were taken directly into a light armored vehicle. Through the window, a green laser could be seen piercing the sky—it wouldn't be long before a ground-to-ground missile would raze the settlement to the ground.

……

"To be honest, I've thought about many scenarios of returning to the Ark. The only thing I haven't thought about is being escorted back by DAS as a prisoner." The Hound moved his butt with some effort, wearing both wrists, neck and ankles on his hands. Wearing smart shackles, the green light of the detonator flickered.

"At least we don't have to bother to get a car by ourselves." Ke Lan said helplessly. He reclined on the seat and pressed his shoulders against the inner wall of the carriage. The space inside the armored car was very small, and the road was very bumpy. If they can't find a way to fix themselves, every time the car runs over a pit, their heads have to make a close contact with the cold and hard roof.

"呲-"

The harsh brake sounded, and the inertia made Ke Lan slammed into Leighton's arms directly, and the hound fell all over the place. Fortunately, Ivan wrapped himself on the seat with a bandage, which was not because of this. Sudden braking and injury after injury.

"Get down, hurry up." An agent opened the door and urged.

"I haven't arrived at the Ark yet..." Layton glanced outside the car, "Isn't this a sudden plan to execute us?"

"Probably." The Hound nodded. "They can do anything."

"It's not so, we killed so many monsters, and finally died in the hands of DAS..." Layton was a little unwilling.

"Cough cough... You guys are not going to work hard, are you?" Ke Lan almost choked on his own saliva. "Please turn your head and look to the other side. There is a plane over there, it should be here to pick us up."

There was an "Amran-class" transport plane parked on one side of the convoy, but this Amran and the Amran that Ke Lan and the others were riding on had completely changed except for the number of skeletons and rotors. A large number of weapons have been installed, and even the model of the external engine has been changed. In terms of performance, it is far from the broken thing that crashed under the glacier.

A man wearing a simple protective suit over a suit greeted him from the plane. He waved his hand, and the DAS agent standing on one side released the smart shackles for Ke Lan and the others.

"I am a staff member of the DAS investigation department. I am in charge of the second half of this trip. The identities of the four have been confirmed, but due to the special circumstances, your personal freedom will still be restricted during the next period of time. Please do your best. May cooperate."

Compared with those field agents who only know how to fight and kill, the investigators' attitude is much gentler. As soon as the four of Ke Lan boarded the transport plane, he pushed over a tray. Inside the tray were four paper cups filled with hot air. Spicy coffee.

"Isn't it poisoned? Or is there something like 'Veritaserum'?" The Hound glanced at the investigator suspiciously.

"No, no." The latter shook his head with a smile on his face. "It's just instant coffee. If there was such a thing as 'Veritaserum', I'm afraid people like me would have lost their jobs long ago."

"Who knows?" The Hound pouted, but he took a sip from the glass anyway.

"'Veritaserum' is not a virtual drug in the novel. As early as the old era, there were records of interrogating prisoners with anesthetic preparations. In an unconscious state of sedation, people will subconsciously answer many questions." Ivan was lying weakly. In the seat, although DAS agents had given him two bags of plasma, his face was still very pale.

"For hunters, the interrogation effect of narcotics is not good." The investigator's face has always maintained the original smile, as if wearing a mask that is always smiling.

"Illusions will affect the outcome of the interrogation, right." Ivan asked.

"Yes, according to the survey, 60.00% of the seven relic hunters have fallen into hallucinations in the relics of Alpha civilization, and about two-thirds of them will leave sequelae of varying degrees. In addition, due to various reasons 80.00% of the [-] hunters have been emotionally unstable for a long time, for such a group, we would not choose to use anesthesia as an interrogation method." The investigator replied.

"You said that we hunters are like a bunch of lunatics."

"Superconscious and subconscious are different, Mr. Nick."

"It seems that you have quite a lot of things?" The Hound snorted coldly. The "Nick" in the investigator's mouth was obviously his real name.

"This is not difficult to check." The investigator glanced at the watch in his hand, "Okay, the greeting is over, now I need to make some simple notes—"

He suddenly turned his eyes and stared at Ke Lan without squinting - since boarding this DAS transport plane, Ke Lan has not said a word. Judging from the information revealed in the staff's eyes, his target was Ke Lan from the very beginning.

"Mr. Ke Lan, are you the only one of them who has been in contact with flesh-devouring worms? We found your fingerprints and a small amount of DNA on it. Please describe your motive or purpose for doing this. Are you out of What's the reason for throwing the flesh-eating worm at... er... at that 'mutant'."

"Flesh-eating worms? What flesh-eating worms?" Ke Lan began to play stupid.

"You know what I mean. It's not good for you or us to hide or lie. I hope you can understand this." The investigator still smiled when he said this.

(End of this chapter)