Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 424 Before Departure
As Ke Lan expected, Aya's superiors did not hesitate too much, and agreed to this seemingly outrageous request, agreeing to reduce the original investigation team of nearly a hundred people to a dozen or so.

After this requirement was met, the rest of the matter went much smoother. After a brief meeting with everyone in the hunting group, the list of participants for this mission was finalized.

In addition to Ke Lan, Hound, Layton, Asano Akira, Ivan, and Zoligetu, the original six-member group, Valentina also participated in this operation.In order to fully display her strength, Layton and the staff of the logistics team worked overtime to produce a "Valkyrie One-Type Molten Mine Ver" for her.

Although it still uses the Phoenix prototype skeleton developed by the Yip Consortium, this new mecha has completely abandoned the flashy humanoid appearance.After obtaining a part of the prototype design provided by Ye Yan, Layton drastically transformed the body into a four-legged all-terrain mecha.The idea of ​​the change is to refer to the animal-shaped mecha that was encountered in the mecha competition before.

In order to conceal, the original eye-catching black, white and orange three-color painting was changed to a desert camouflage mixed with khaki and gray. Not only that, Layton also added a Many black and red irregular stripes.

From a distance, this mech looks like a giant steel beast that just climbed up from the lava river.

"In order to reduce the weight and reduce the chance of being detected by the detection device, I replaced 80.00% of the alloy armor with a shell made of reinforced carbon fiber. Except for the armor directly in front of the cockpit, do not use any part to Harden an attack with an equivalent vertical penetration of more than [-]mm." Layton urged Valkyrie.

"Understood." Valkyrie nodded, the equivalent penetration is [-] millimeters, which means that the outer armor of this mech can't even prevent the direct fire of a [-]-inch caliber heavy machine gun, but this What the price paid was that the weight of the whole machine was fully doubled compared to the original one, and the speed and flexibility were even more incomparable - as long as it missed, the enemy's attack would be meaningless.

As for Ze Luo, Ke Lan sent her to Zofia and asked Zofia to take care of her——In order to explain the origin of Ze Luo, Ke Lan spent a lot of time to convince Zofia that this seemingly Some "weird" girls are descendants of the residents of the sick village. Their parents died shortly after they were born. I took her back to the ark because I saw her pity.

"Her body has undergone some very special mutations, and she is naturally immune to radiation, so she has not contracted those diseases. It is best not to let her be seen by outsiders, lest the research institute come to ask for someone." Ke Lan told Zuo Fei Ya said, "The other thing is that this girl has lived in a distorted environment since she was a child. She has a relatively withdrawn personality and cannot communicate with people normally. Her only hobby is reading. All kinds of books are fine."

"Well, I'll take good care of her." Zofia nodded. "This is the first time you've asked me. Of course I won't let you down."

"First time? I wasn't—"

"The previous few times, in your opinion, were deals, right?" Zofia squinted her eyes slightly, propped her elbows on the desk, and looked at him with her head tilted.

"You can't say that... After all, after all... I always feel that I owe others too much debt, and I'm afraid I will pay it off in the future." Ke Lan scratched her hair and reluctantly found an excuse.

"Do you like to calculate everything so clearly?" Zofia stood up and walked out from behind the desk. "Then why are you willing to come to me this time? Is she important to you?"

"How should I put it... She is indeed very important to me, but not as important as you think." Ke Lan quickly explained.

Zofia's ability to detect words and emotions is very good. Ke Lan only occasionally glanced at Ze Luo sitting on the sofa from the corner of his eyes, and Zofia realized that this girl has a lot of weight in his heart. , even no less than those teammates who have fought with Ke Lan many times.

"What kind of importance is that?" Zofia walked up to Ke Lan, stretched out her hands, put a pair of white forearms on Ke Lan's shoulders, and gently wrapped them around his neck. Looking directly at him through the plain glasses, said in a volume that only the two of them could hear: "If your explanation doesn't satisfy me, I will be jealous."

"She... is actually a very dangerous biological weapon." Ke Lan paused and said in a deep voice.

This time, he was telling the truth, but he didn't make it clear to Zofia what level Zero's "dangerousness" had reached.

"If it gets out of control, it may lead to a disaster, so I keep her with me all the time." Ke Lan continued.

"Then you can rest assured that I will take care of her?"

"Because among the people I know, you are the most trustworthy, so I decided to entrust her to you—as far as the current situation is concerned, her safety is still very high, as long as she is not subject to too strong outside pressure If you are stimulated, you will always maintain this state." Ke Lan originally wanted to say, "Except for the hound and others, you are the most trustworthy of the rest", but after thinking about it, it seems too straight to say so. Some, so the prefix was deleted.

"Then you have to remember to come back alive and take her away. I don't like to carry a time bomb with me all the time, even if the chance of her exploding is almost zero." Zofia said with a smile.

"Don't set a flag for me, what you said made me have some bad premonitions." Ke Lan couldn't help showing a wry smile.

"Then why don't we get married when you come back?... Anyway, as long as you participate, no matter how small things can become big events, I'm used to it." Zofia said in a half-joking tone, " In fact, not only me, but those friends around you, they should feel the same way, right?"

"..."

"But they are still willing to stay by your side, which means they are willing to share that risk with you..." Zofia let go of Ke Lan and took a step back, "I am willing too, so I will help you take care of this The child's - even if you tell me, she is a dangerous item that may get out of control at any time."

"...Thank you." Ke Lan was stunned for a few seconds, and then he choked out a slightly blunt "Thank you".

"It's too natural, don't say the word 'thank you' to me in the future, I don't like to hear it." Zofia pretended to be angry and said, "However, if you come back alive, I will forgive you."

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